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A/N: Remember guys (and girls), motivation plays a pretty big part in this, so the less reviews I have, the longer it would take for me to update! Also, I still haven't received ANY German words yet, so I won't be able to introduce Asuka, leaving this story at a complete stand still... unless you want a German-less Asuka... Remember, my e-mail is:

Note: This fanfiction will ignore the fact that Rei can be considered as Shinji's 'sister.' This fiction will also be Shinji/Rei. The other pairings have not yet been determined.

Go demonsaint and Whispers of Death! These two had provided me with the most encouragement so far! And hola to all my other reviewers.

Chapter 3

Shinji was mad. He was mad at his father, he was mad at Katsuragi, he was mad at Ritsuko Akagi. But most of all, he was mad at himself for getting himself outwitted into this. It doesn't matter what he was mad at however, the point was... well... he's mad. You see, never make an archangel mad, because if you do, give it a target and consider it dead. Usually, that target is YOU, but any other will do fine.

Right now, he is in the plug without a clue about what to do.

"Filling plug with LCL"

"LC- Whaaat?!" Shinji yelped as the plug began to fill with the said liquid. "HEY! Are you trying to drown me?!" He took a deep breath and held it.

"Seriously, Shinji, we are about to be squashed under some creature's foot why would we drown our last hope?" Dr. Akagi inquired.

"Cause my 'father' told you to?" Shinji answered back, letting go of the breath he was holding.

Akagi didn't have an answer for this, so she simply used the universal reply of all irritated adults: "Don't talk back to your elders!"

"Elder? I never knew you were so old!" Shinji heard Katsuragi tease Akagi.

Akagi answered with yet another favorite: "Shove it"

Shinji listened patiently as Dr. Akagi went over the controls and the technology used to create the EVA, something about how the body works with the core or something. In other words, Shinji did not have a clue on what to do.

"Come again?"

"I told you, the brain wav-"

"In Japanese. Please."

"I told yo- Oh. In other words, just concentrate on what to do and it will do it."

"Coulda just said that"

"We have no time, launch!"

A whole week of preparation wouldn't have readied him for what happened next.

"GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

The machine suddenly came to an abrupt stop, nearly dislocating his kidneys. Shinji looked forward, straight at the looming behemoth of hell.

Why hello there Scion, my, my, now haven't you grown a bit?

Who are you? What are you doing in my mind, useless human

What?! You don't remember me? I was the one who sliced you from head to groin, you couldn't have forgotten me that easily!

Fefnir?! What are YOU doing here?

I can ask you the exact same question.

"Why aren't they moving?" Maya Ibuki asked her mentor.

"Reminds me of those old samurai movies were they see who goes first." Misato Katsuragi pondered. "Maybe that is what their doing."

"No." Ritsuko stated. "More like, conversing"

"Yo! Little kid!" Shigeru yelled. "Kill that thing already"

Shinji's EVA charged at Scion, but was stopped when the demon whipped out an arm and gently shoved him away.

Aren't you forgetting something?

Wha-oh.

Shinji said over the communication link. "Hey Shigeru? Does this thing have weapons?"

"Left shoulder has a dagger, right shoulder has a short sword."

"Thank you." Shinji said as he drew his weapons. One problem, they were hilts.

"How-"

"Squeeze the hilts to activate them."

"Oh"

Why didn't you attack me? Shinji asked. I was vulnerable

Exactly, I wanted a fair duel after what you did with me

With this, the demon charged at full speed at Shinji. When it almost got to him, it swept its arms forward, attempting a clothesline. Shinji manage to duck the attack and made a leg sweep. The demon simply jump-tackled Shinji.

Shinji fell, landing on a couple of buildings, demolishing them in a second. The power supply line was severed

The Demon wasn't done however, it grabbed EVA- 01's head and lifted it, then preceding to lash out over and over again, whipping the machine with its long arms. It then threw the EVA far, far away.

Shinji attempted to get up.

Fate had different plans however...

EVA Unit-01 shuts down.