Disclaimer: I own nothing. Everything state below belong the Gainax or Luis Bujurd Macmaster, BUT I RULE THE WORLD! MUHAHAHA! OUCH! PEORTH! LEAVE THE WHIPS AND ROSES ALONE! I will be good…

"PERSONAL reminder: In the event of trapped on a tenth floor balcony with a sex-starved-angst-half-angel-clone-who-is-having-an-personal-crisis,

1.Let her do whatever she wants.

2.Resistance is futile. (just picture Rei say it with her-pre-Prozac-look-author)

3.Resistance in fact, can be VERY painful.

4.If I try to do resist her advances again, refer to #3.

P.S An Average angel, even a half-angel-clone, have waaay more energy than the average human, (at least of the average Otaku), and she will NOT allow you to pass out.

 

-Kensuke's copy of art of war, footnotes

Chapter 12: The night Tokyo-3 stood still

Reminder: Tsuka=Post-third Impact Asuka, Gerald Ion Rush/Simon Illyan= Post-Third Impact Shinji, the other Asuka and Shinji are themselves from the series. In theory, Tsuka is about six months older than Asuka.

Katsuragi residence

Tired and exhausted from the fruitless search for the First Child, Shinji Ikari walked into his room with his SDAT in his hand, listening to what he usually listens to as he brought his futon out for another night of sleep.

The Shoji screen behind him slide open noiselessly as Tsuka walked in. Unaware, Shinji continued to listen to the music just as Tsuka reach out and put her hands over his eyes.

"Guess who?" Tsuka whispered.

"Misato?" Shinji responded playfully, although some of it was lost by the hissing sound of his Re-breather.

Delivering a glare that has zero effect since Shinji's eyes were cover up by her hand, Tsuka decided to give the third boy (as she affectionly call him lately) a second chance:

"Guess again, baka."

"Asuka?" Shinji replied with a small hiss.

"Close, but you are getting there."

Perhaps the music induced a fresh wave of courage, or Tsuka's recent hot actions toward him, Shinji decide to be brave and uttered the unthinkable, "hemm? Rei?"

"heyyyy…what did I say about dolls?"

"You want be friend with Rei so she would not start the third impact but you don't share EVAs, clothes and boyfriend with her?"

"Exactly, good third boy." Tsuka turn Shinji around and give him a light kiss on the cheeks.  With a smile, Shinji replied: "I am not a dog you know."

With a mischievous glint in her eyes, Tsuka countered: "I know, you are my boyfriend, now be a good boyfriend and make the bed, maybe I will give you an extra treat tonight."

Tempting at he was to say "woof" in response to Tsuka's comment, Shinji decide to shut off his SDAT and did what he was told, and a minute later, he got into bed with the red-haired girl.

"You sure what are we doing is um, right?" Shinji asked tentatively.

"Well, like Misato said, no pregnancies, no foul. Now shut up and kiss me."

Before Shinji could do so, the Shoji panel that separated his room and hallway opened again. Turning around, Shinji's heart sank while Tsuka begin to curse in German under her breath.

For Asuka is standing by the hall.

"Annoying brat..." Tsuka cursed, but Shinji put his arms around her to prevent the fiery redhead from decking her younger sister. Before the German girl can ask why, Asuka collapsed in front of Shinji.

"She shares your case of sleepwalking when stressed, remember?" Shinji replied.

Tsuka relaxed, then lay back as she watch the third child put a blanket over her time-sister. But the unexpected happened. Instead of just sleeping, Asuka suddenly start crying and latched on to Shinji's neck like a vise.

"Onii-chan, don't leave me!"

"Eep?" Shinji screeched in surprise.

Ignorant of everything going on, the younger redhead continued: "Oh onii-chan, why did you have to die? I love you so…" the rest of her words were broken down into tears, it was not until a full five minutes later when the girl stopped crying.  But regardless, Asuka still refused to let Shinji go.  Sweat dropping in fear, Shinji crane his neck around, only to find Tsuka staring laser beams at him.

"This is not how it should have happened." Tsuka comments as her eyes seem to bore through the third child. But thankfully, it is not rage but curiosity that now radiate through her eyes. "I don't remember having a brother." 

"Um…Tsuka? I can't get free." Shinji crooked.

Tsuka first thought was to order Shinji to wake up her sister…then she saw how the drying tears on Asuka's face. While the redhead is not exactly the most empathic people around, she is extremely sensitive to her "own" suffering. Sighing loudly, Tsuka replied: "Just move her over here a little bit, I guess I don't have the mood for it anymore."

When Shinji did what he was told, in a comical reminiscence of her first night here, Tsuka took her place and burrowed into his back his back while Asuka still had herself vise-locked to the third child's neck.

Shinji, of course, was slightly embarrassed at the situation, but the experience of the past week allowed him at least to avoid another nosebleed (or, in his own private thoughts, he is convinced he is going crazy). Within moments, he fell asleep…with some interesting dreams. Tsuka, on the other hand did not sleep, instead, she reach into her mind and call out the XIA-implant.

-Yo! You there?

-No, I am off cybering the Magi system, of course I am here, although did you know Casper is an screamer? And oh my god, next time I am going to logon I am going to have a four…

-Your sex life does not concern me, just don't get caught. Do you still have that NERV personnel file? Because I am beginning to have doubts about my own memory.

-Accessing, done.

Within seconds, the XIA-computer brought up the requested files, within its bland text traced Asuka's sync scores (a few month old), her education, her life in the German university, the life and death of her mother (which surprise Tsuka greatly because as far as she can remember, her mother wasted away after an botched EVA test instead of dying in a accident) …and in exesiquite detail, the "spy suspect" known as Simon Illyan, adapted by her mother in the final months of her life, who died mysteriously on the same night as Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu.

This must be it, Tsuka thought.

-Do you have a picture of Simon Illyan?

-Yes…accessing…

Tsuka's heart sank at the image of the "spy suspect."

No, it cannot be, it is impossible.  

The picture, although a bit grainy since it came from a spy camera, clearly show a fifteen years old Shinji Ikari, holding an five-years-old Asuka.

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Japanese Internal Affairs, Tokyo-3 Branch, later that night

[Ok I cheated and did a short But NOT overpowering self-insert scene, but every futuristic story fan-fic author give in to this megalomania now and then right ;) ]

Being a field operative for so long, It had been years since Gerald [future Shinji] stepped in to the confines of the JIA Office. So when the summons came asking him, not Kaji, to report to the Tokyo-3 branch office, he quickly dressed up in something discreet and headed there.

Like he guessed, the man he is suppose to see worked, or in Gerald's words, laired in the sub-basement-2 of the building. A uniformed Private waves a scanner in front of him and allowed him to enter the office of Colonel Xin.

The Office is cleared in utilitarian bareness, with Colonel Xin sitting behind the only desk in the room, typing away furiously at something. From the surface, the man appear to be in his mid-20s, with a silver rimmed glasses covering his face and a conservative hair cut that remind one of those 90's dot-com hippies in uniform, a sight that would be completely comical if he did not sit behind a Japanese Internal Affairs desk.

Without looking up, Colonel Xin waved a hand at the guard, who bow and left silently, closing the door behind him and leave the two men alone.

Gerald push his glasses up a inch, "Good evening, Colonel, agent Kaji told me you want to see me."

Xin look up, "Captain, I am not a mushroom."

To be fed with horseshit and kept in the dark, right. Gerald silently complete the sentence for him.

"Do sit down, captain," When Gerald [older Shinji] done so, he continued: "It has come to my attention your hand was part of a order that start a 'long term war-game maneuver' that put four Regiments of JSSDF within a thirty minutes strike radius from the city itself."

"Yes sir."

"Captain Gerald Ion Rush, last time I checked, you are part of the Japanese civil security corps, specialize in breaking up Yakuza and other illegal cartels that threaten the peace and security of the emperor's citizens. Nothing, barring death, keep them from doing their job."

"Yes sir."

"An interesting organization, loyal, down to earth with the code of Bushido in their hearts, carry out their mission without a second thought, 'protect peace and keep harmony' is their motto. However, to a man, their power is limited to cracking down criminals and maybe the fate of their own department. With one exception, you, who seem to have the army in your back pocket, how do you explain it?"

"How do I explain it?" Rolling his eyes backward, Gerald [future Shinji] thought of replying: " I never explain anything", but that was already 1) evident, 2) Not exactly the answer Xin is looking for.

Gerald smiled blandly and manufactured some lies on the spot, "Nepotism, clearly. I am a distant relative of the Imperial family, third Generation removed, I use to play baseball with the Emperor and he introduce me to the chief of staff of the military a few years before."

"Hm," Colonel Xin sat back and start staring at the ceiling "Barring your gajin name, Now, if you are an Covert OP agent here on a mission to save the world, you should arrived with some sort of render all due assistance order, so a local man would not be surprised. AND Mr. Gerald, Internal affairs HATE surprises."

"Yes sir," Gerald [Future Shinji] returned it with a razor thin smile, " So would anyone who see it."

Xin rip his eyes from the ceiling at that remark: "Does the Headquarter suspect a leak in my communications?"

"Not I know of, of course, being a civil cop, I can't ask this kind of question can I."

By the alarming expansion of his eyes, it would appear Xin caught the joke.

"NERV is more than what it appear to the eye isn't it?"

"Humm…?" Gerald gives an innocent smile.

The line "we are not mushrooms" hovered heavily between the two men.

Biting his lips, Xin added: "I could add a philosophical observation."

"Please do, sir."

"You do not hire a genius to solve the most difficult problems, then stick him with a lot of rules, and MM him from hundred of miles away. You set him on fire and turn him lose. If all you need is someone to follow orders, you can hire an idiot, in fact, idiots are MUCH better at those kind of jobs."

In a tone that would made lesser men's skin crawl, Xin asked: "Do you consider yourself to be a genius? Mr. Gerald?" In a rather freighting way, the image of a certain redhead asking the same question suddenly appear in Gerald's [future Shinji] head, usually the start of a nasty verbal trap.

"My Intelligence evaluations are in the files, sir."

"I saw it, that is why we are having this conversation." Xin remove his glasses and begin to massage his eyes: "No rules AT ALL?"

"Well, there is one. deliver or have you butt kicked by an EVA."

The second reference to NERV was not lost to the security officer, but at the same time, Gerald [future Shinji] shivered; the quote is too true, for if he fails, it is the third impact all over again.

Not while I still breath, DAD. Gerald thought.

"You have held your post for what? Six years? Your butt is still intact right?"

"Last time I check behind, sir." For the next six months anyway…if the world ended, it would hardly matter…

"This suggests astonishing authority and autonomy."

 "Not astonishing at all. The troops I command are the bare minimum of what I needed for this job. The rest is just responsibility."

"Oh dear, well," Pursing his lips, Xin replied: " you have my sympathy captain, and um, when those troops actually go into operation, let me know ahead of time so we would minimize the butcher's bill, NERV certainly keep forgetting there are other people living in this city."

"Sir, if I do not have utmost secrecy and freedom to deal with this problem, there wouldn't be anyone left to hold the butcher's bill."

Eyes ballooning like saucers, Colonel Xin uttered: "Is it truly that bad?"

"What I am aiming at is to an stop is a disaster that mankind have not seen since the Antarctica incident." Yea, front row seats to the end of the world tend to make good evidence.

"Is that so…" It look the good Colonel is fully aware of the truth behind THAT incident, at least, the non-official one. " I will see what I can do to help, the very least, I will make sure my boys will get out their way to avoid YOURS."

"Thank you sir, I will let you know if I need any help." Standing up, Gerald shake Colonel Xin's hand, pick up his coat and begin to walk out the door, as he reach the door, Xin cock an inquiring eyebrow at his guest: " I have one more question through, why Rouji Kaji? I read the files of your other agents, and they are quite…impressive, but Kaji-san is a low level insert to SLEELE, aim to discover what the organization is really doing behind that mulit-national budget, but if you think you know what is going on, and if it is that dire…there is no real reason to use him."

"Well sir, sometimes, even a genius need someone who can follow orders."

And that is when power all over Tokyo went out…

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NERV HQ

The normally brilliantly lit commander center is dark tonight as the city's primary power supply is mysteriously shut off. Except for the bridge crew, everyone already left for the night, leaving three men and two women huddled in a dark corner, busy looking for ways to get the Magi back online.

"Gah! Power failure at the worst moment, just when I needed to go home and get my beauty sleep." Ritsuko complained to no one particular.

"Well, it could be worse…" Maya Ibuki answered palatably as she typed away on her computer.

"How?" Ritsuko asked in frustration.

"We could have a power failure and an Angel attack at the same time…" Shigeru Aoba

added from one of alcoves under the Bridge, a spanner and screwdriver in hand.

"Hold on, I am picking up something from the short range censors, it is coded blue!" Makoto Hyuga, the other bridge bunny, shouted from his place in the computers. Cursing in languages too colorful for a G-rated fic, Ritsuko toss her notepad on to one of the comm consoles then reach for the phone.

"Comon…Misato…pick up…"

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Kaji's apartment

The smell of sex, booze, and cheap cigrrate flood the air as two bodies entwined on the queen size bed. The sound of their last…exercise slowly dying away, Misato reach out for another can of Yeshibu…but the phone rang instead.

"Good graces, who the heck is calling you at this ungodly hour?" Kaji complained groggily as he reaches for Misato's…um, never mind. {The author blushes}

 "Must be Shinji complaining about fights with Asuka again." Misato replied; not exactly true of course, since Shinji rarely complain about anything, if anything, he would keep it to himself rather than blurt it out, especially when it involved the second child(s). But his recent actions suggest there may be more to the boy than what meet the eyes, so without thinking, the drunk major grab the cell phone from the desk (after she mistaken the alarm clock and the beer bottle for it)

"Moshi, Moshi.." the woman on the other side call out.

"Oh cripes! Asuka, not you too! If you really want have fun with Shinji-kun, my condoms and birth controls are on in my bedroom, under the third drawer, I am working late night at NERV doing Ka…I mean the budgets, good night."

And she proceeded to slam the phone down.

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NERV HQ

Maya Ibuki's eye widen as Ritsuko, normally a bastion of unshakable serenity, slam the phone down. While her sempai is too cooled and controlled to actually turn purple or anything, but Maya would bet if she rig a blood pressure monitor on her Sempai, the device would be beeping in plaintive alarm right now.  

After several long and deep breaths, Ritsuko murmurs: "Call Shinji…"

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NERV hangar, an hour later

"I can't believe I end up in the doll's EVA! And You! SHINJI! Tried to take advantage of me again!" Asuka screamed over the radio as Rei's EVA powered up.

"Hey it is not my fault you forced me to sit in an EVA so you can go diving! And you know what? I have a better sync score than you." Tsuka retorted as she finish her EVA's startup procedure, reaching out with one giant hand, she pat Unit 00's blue head as if it is a little kid.

"I am not a kid!" Asuka screamed, and if she were not immersed in LCL, there would be tears bursting from the corners of her eyes.

"ALRIGHT YOU CHILDREN!" Ritsuko screamed over the Comm channel before the two redheads start the third Impact all by themselves, "Get to work, you are to recon in force for the Angel, Careful where you aiming, because the city cannot secure itself without power and that means a stray shot might injure or kill dozens of innocents right now. Our diesel generator will provide enough power for you to climb out, after that, you have…"

"Five minutes, yes we know." All three children replied in unison.

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The Streets

3:00

"See anything?"  Asuka ask her co-pilots as her EVA clear the giant passage.

"Nope, it is pitch dark around here." Shinji replied: "Switching to Mag-scan…ick!"

"Let me guess, the baka blinded himself because he forgot we are in a city full of metal." Tsuka add in.

"Hey Tsuka, do you…" Shinji tried to ask the older girl's experience, but instead a screeching sound flood the speakers, forcing everyone who is in hear range (include the NERV command personnel ) to throw their headphones in pain.

"What did you that for?" Asuka and Shinji yelled in unison, then they saw Tsuka's mini-image appear on one of the comconsole, tapping her right ear. Both the second and third child got the message:

We are being bugged, right.

2:20

"I got it on Thermos-" Tsuka turn around to look at the street map from one of the side monitors, " it is between 35th st and 19th , flank maneuver from three sides?"

"Nope! IT is MINE!" Asuka shot back, pulling her EVA to an high speed burn, she fire the EVA's jump jet and sent the blue-monstrosity flying onto one of the buildings. In a maneuver that remencient of her first EVA battle, Unit-00 leaped off the skyscraper and launch a diving attack at the Insectoid angel (who is busy spraying acid at a open manhole, just like last time).

Just like the battle with the seventh. The overconfidence let to disaster as the Progressive Knife stuck the 9th Angel's AT field. Like a spring being compressed, the Blade press in, in…until it reach a critical point and sent the EVA flying backup, soaring over 01 and 02 until it landed heavily on its rear with its foots in the air, several hundred yards behind her companions.

"Ok here is what we are going do.." Tsuka's voice bleed over the Com-channel: " You stay put, I am going to the other side, with my war lance, I will use it as a lever, and flip that bug over. It is A.T field cannot possibility cover its belly too or it wouldn't be able to spit all that gunk."

"Right." Shinji quickly brought his EVA to a kneeling position, just as Tsuka made her EVA (well it was her EVA anyway) dash through the urban forest until it reappear several hundred feet away behind the Angel.

2:14

"Ready hon?" Tsuka whisper through the Com channel.

Smiling broadly, Shinji brought his right hand to his solar plexus and saluted.

2:12

The Red EVA dash forward with its lance drawn, just as the eight-legged angel turned around. 

2:10

The Angel raise its chest and launch a stream of acid at the incoming EVA, but Tsuka made her EVA dive to one of the side streets, escaping most of the blast in the process, but the complete dissolution of her right arm's armor remained a testament of the 9th angel's strength.

2:05

Seeing the Angel distracted, Shinji order his EVA to use its Sandalphon-improved right arm to throw a cone of flames at the angel, just as Asuka got Unit-00 back up. The spray of atomized heat wave splattered against the Angel's weaker AT field, shattering it from behind and dug deeply into its back.

2:02

Unit-00 dash past Unit-01 at maximum speed, using the cover provided by Shinji's open volley, the Blue EVA swing its progressive knife at the giant bug. Unused to Rei's controls, Asuka made the EVA trip but manage to slash off more than half of the Angel's legs on the left side just as her EVA collapsed on the ground.

1:55

Howling in pain, the 9th angel redouble back, using its remains legs to propel its chest into the air, the Angel open its chest cavity for another acidic splash, but Asuka manage to roll her EVA to the Angel right. Overreaching itself, the splash of acid missed, but back blast propelled the bug-angel into one of the buildings, belly up.

1:50

Before anyone can react, Unit-02 charge into the scene with and plunged its war lance right into the opening cavity in the EVA's chest…screaming in pain, the Angel tried to flail free, but Tsuka order the EVA to hold on. And predictably, the Angel exploded.

1:30

Asuka, Tsuka and Shinji respectively brought their EVAs' back online, looking around, they see only a smoking crater remained where the 9th angel was. All the glass within three miles are shattered and several buildings nearby were destroyed, but thankfully non of them were residential buildings.

"Well, we manage to get another Angel." Shinji commented as he shut off everything except the life support systems of his EVA.

"With a minute and half to spare too." Asuka added.

"So what we do now?" Tsuka asks.


 Shinji opens his palm at the Comm channel at the two sisters, "we wait for the rescue crew?"

Asuka, impatient as ever, screamed out: "If you think I am going stay in this tube until the morning, then you are crazy, third child."


Without another word, she press a button on her control panel, ordering the EVA to eject the entry plug…the device hummed…then stop working.

"Damnit! You piece of crap! Stupid doll's stupid EVA!!" Asuka screamed out in fury, again.

Shinji thoughtfully frowned, " You know, does that entry plug ever eject correctly?"

Tsuka simply shake her head, after a brief pause, she added: " So what are we going to do until the morning? They don't have Internet or the TV on this tube."

 "I suppose I can tell some jokes, hey God, an Angel and a EVA walk into a bar…"

"SHINJI! BAKA!" Both girls shouted, one jokily, on angrily at the third child.

And that end another Angel.

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School next morning

It is lunchtime in for the 9th graders inTokyo-3 district high school, which is filled with the aroma of Government issued lunch and speculations of last night's power failure and the night battle that result in the destruction of the new shopping mall that was suppose to open up later this month. Toji, bored as usual, spent his time eating the lunch Hikari made for him, until he saw a vision of someone familiar trying to sneak pass him.

Toji raise his arms and wave at his friend, who desperate tried to hide amount the sci-fi otaku crowd,"Hey Kensuke, you are right on time! Come over here and sit with me."

Noticing his plan to remain anonymous failed, Kensuke sighed and gather his tray and did so. As the Otaku came closer, Toji realize there is something different about his friend. The boy appeared to be limping a little as he approached him, and there seem to be a few marks on his neck. After some closer observations…

"Is that a bite mark?" Toji exclaimed as he fought to hold of a bout of laughter. 

With an icy glare that could freeze water, Kensuke replied: "No it is not a bite mark, I just had a nasty accident with a flight of stairs…repeatly." (with the last word murmured under his breath)

Toji's voice begin to breakup as he put the 2 plus 2 together, "You mean! You and her! Did it! OH my F****ing god!"

Kensuke blush until his faced turned redder than Asuka's hair: " You really need to get your mind out the gutter you know. Nothing happened, I swear," Looking around for a distraction, he found it in the form of the third child (still wearing his plug-suit) walking through the door, "Hey look! Is our friend Shinji!"

Hearing his voice been mentioned, the third child walk over to join his fellow stooges.

As he approached the table, both boys wrinkle their nose.

"Geez man, I am not picking on you or anything," Toji complained, "But you smell as if you just walked out a slaughter house."

Regardless Toji's aforementioned disclaimers, Shinji blushed and start apologizing, "Sorry, sorry, so sorry, I just spent my last eight hours or so in a bottle of uncirclated LCL, so it smells after awhile, they just got me out the entry plug like thirty minutes ago and just started to work on breaking Asuka and Tsuka free, I went on ahead but the traffic still made me miss the morning lectures."

Kensuke, glad the attention is now off him, push his glasses and replied: "Well friend, you really didn't miss much. The sensei was teaching about the second Impact again, and some basic physic premiers."

Unfortunely, the comment brought Shinji's unholy attention upon the otaku. Looking down at his friend, Shinji's eyes slightly widened at the sight bite/nail marks on his friend's neck, "I was not aware Rei kept her nails long."

Toji smiled sagely at Kensuke, "If Shinji said it, then it must be true, so fess up."

Blushing near the point of going purple, Kensuke manufactured a new lie on the spot hoping to distract his two friends, "Well when I got back, Rei found my pictures of Asuka in the showers, and she thought I might actually like the devil, so she started a fight with me." Pausing to collect his breath, "Let me tell you, it is always the quiet ones."

But the other two stooges remain unconvinced. Shinji, of all people, dismiss Kensuke's words out right, "Girls may claw you if they get mad, heaven, I know Asuka enjoys making a scratching post off my back," smiling slyly as if to recall certain pleasant memory," but they don't bite, not over there any way…SO Fess up!"

Sweat dropping furiously, the boy Otaku did what is the only thing reasonable to preserve his Prozac-deprived sanity…run. Smiling to each other, the other stooge left their trays aside and started the pursuit.


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Misato's car (a hour or two later)

As Misato got out the car to explain to the traffic officer that it was the school bus driver that was traveling on the wrong lane, Tsuka whispered to her sister, "Hey, when we get home, do you want take a shower together?"

{Boy, the Lemon writers could have a field day over this-Author}

Normally, this would invoke a verbal firestorm from Asuka that would be able to peel the bark off a tree, but since this is really herself speaking, Asuka decide to give the other girl the benefit of a doubt (after all, Tsuka did save her), "why?"

 "I am too tired to get this LCL gunk out of my hair alone. And also," reducing her voice to the point of whispering, "Do you remember the one who was named Simon Illyan?"

"Onii-Chan! How did!" but Tsuka was a step quicker and put her around her younger version.

"Be quite! I will explain everything," tapping her right ear with the familiar signal to show that they are not alone, Tsuka smiled and said: " MY Sync score is better than yours! And for that I am getting the cute red EVA!"

Catching cue, Asuka playful jab the other girl on the shoulder and pouted: "No you are not! And don't call my EVA cute!"

And outside, Misato screamed something to the effect that she is a Government official and normal traffic laws don't apply to her…

t.b.c

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At this point I have a serious issue for the readers.

I have reach the crossing point that I don't know what to do next…I mean, there are two scenario in my mind (excuse the pun), one would involve an accelerated series of events, and end this fic in five chapter or less but provide an resounding ending because I don't have to drag my foot all the way through the 17th angel. The other Senerario is that it will continue all the way through the 17th angel to provide a longer story for more fan-fic material (I may think up interesting things as I go along), but the drawback it may appear that I am doing a story drag (DBZ, Keshin and the various Gundam spawn are good example of over story drag, i.e screwing up the original characters to make more money, or in this case, more reviews).

What do you think, as readers want? Short or Long? Sent me a review or Email with your opinion so I can decide before the next update.

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Notice in chapter 10, I had only 8 reviews, with four of them from my inner circle of supporters (I.e folks who get my Email about this fic on a daily basis), and I updated in five weeks.

Yet in chapter 11 I got 16+ reviews, and I updated in less than one week….hint, hint.