Here's one way the story could've taken a turn.

Again, I apologize about being so late at reviewing, but not too long after I posted part of the chapter 7, my laptop died a tragic death!(hard disk corrupted somehow) Anyhoo, all my notes and stuff were on it and I've had to read each of the chapters, and try to remember what I was thinking at the time I wrote them.(not an easy feat if you knew me! lol.)

CHAPTER EIGHT : INDECISION

DISCLAIMER: I own no one in this story as of yet, all the original characters of the series, anime, manga, movies, belong to GAINAX and the original creator of the series.

"I have not determined the cause of this particular problem as of yet, although I have reason to believe it was the meds you have put him on." Ritsuko-san told the commander as she stood in front of his desk, reading out the reports so far.

"And what of the others? What do they know of this situation?" asked the ever calm commander.

"They believe he was sent to another NERV facility. His thought patterns are currently in memory storage at the moment. Though there is a problem. It seems that finding the cause of this problem in Shinji is going to take an extended amount of time, and with something as complicated as a person's thought patterns in a computer…" Ritsuko-san trailed off.

"That it would most likely erode, or waste away. Or even worse yet, someone might be able to hack the system. We've had problems with minor hackers for the last couple of years. Although the targets have been non-consequential areas, up until now, I will not take that risk. Take his thought patterns and insert them into one of the spare Rei clones." Gendo said as he rose from his seat. Come, have lunch with me." Gendo said, his tone more of a command than a request.

"I have…" Ritsuko started, but couldn't finish under Gendo's glare, and meekly nodded her assent. Soon they were on their way to the mess hall. While on the way, Gendo asked the good doctor a question: "What reason would you have to try to sway Rei and Shinji?"

Meh, if you have to blame something blame all the Ranma .5 fics I've been reading. Just remember though, that this is only one of the ways that this story could go, and your reviews will ALL be taken into consideration.

Here's a poll on who the readers think the pairings should be.(current results are taken from past reviews.) I'll add on characters that GET votes as I get them.

Normal (sort of)

Rei - 4

Asuka - 2

Maya - 3

Weird

Ritsuko-san - 2

No-one - (believe it or not) 1

Ja ne

P. S. - To try to remedy a problem with people who are new to the fanfiction world and don't have a firm grasp on the randomly strewn about Japanese words in them here is the most common ones I've found.

Gomen – sorry

Iie – no

Ite – ow/ouch

Baka – stupid/idiot

Hai – yes

Sempai – upperclassman/ someone you look up to

????-san - sign of respect

If you find words in this story you don't understand then include them in your review/flame and I'll take care of the problem post-haste(which for me is a couple days later)