He awoke from his deep sleep. His mind was groggy and full of unpleasant pictures. The last thing he remembered was having the Lance of Loginus pierce his throat, but then he realized that he wanted humanity to live and let them keep their AT Fields up. He awoke on a beach and glanced around him. He saw the damage he had done had been repaired and people were everywhere. Despite this fact, he felt pain in his heart, because Misato, Rei, and many other close friends were dead or gone for good. As the tears fell down his cheeks and stained the beach he was laying on, something next to him spoke. "Shinji you idiot, what are you crying about now?" Asuka had arisen and began to speak to him. He realized that there was still one of his loved ones left; and he would protect her with his life. He threw his arms around her and kissed her passionately. Asuka looked shocked, and when they broke away, she said "Why couldn't it have been Kaji kissing me right now?" Shinji felt a little saddened but he still held her tight. "Well, I suppose we had better head home and you can make me something to eat. I will be taking a bath in the meantime." Asuka stated this with her usual commanding voice, and Shinji did what he always did. "OK, Asuka, whatever you want." They traveled back home and held hands the whole way. When they got home, Misato was sitting at the dinner table with Rei and Gendo. Shinji's jaw dropped and Asuka fell to the floor out of surprise. "Well Son, it looks like you didn't do what the old men on the Committee wanted you to do. You followed your own heart, and I am proud of you for that." Before Shinji could recover, his father got up and began to leave. "Your mother would have been very proud of how well her son turned out, considering the circumstances." He left and walked to the elevator. Rei looked at Shinji, and started speaking in that soft voice of hers. "Ikari, I have begun to remember what happened to me, Doctor Akagai was able to unlock all of my previous memories. I realized that the only times I ever cried was when I saw the Angel nearly killed you, and right before I blew myself up. I wished to spend all my life with you, but you seem to have found another instead of me." She left and followed Commander Ikari. Misato looked up and said her usual thing, "Welcome home Shinji and Asuka."

After a few peaceful weeks, another part of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, predicting another Angel to attack after the attempted Third Impact. NERV personal prepared to fight some more of the Angels, but they were afraid because their Savior was still stuck in outer space. They all worked on a way to bring Eva Unit 01 back to Earth, but they were dumbfounded on how to accomplish such a tremendously difficult task. After three weeks of planning, they figured the only way was to send the pilot up to the Eva and retrieve it. They built a ship out of spare parts and sent in into space, and Shinji prepared to get the Eva. The ship had a huge compartment and was piloted by the same theory as JA had been. As Shinji got into the Eva, he realized just had much he had missed it. This was the only place that he felt comfortable. He powered everything up and began to kick his way to the ship. They got it inside the ship with no problems and brought the ship back to Earth. The Eva was received by the masses in two different ways, some cowered in fear of it and others lined the streets to cheer for the God-like creature in front of them. Shinji walked it to one of the numerous systems and had the Eva sent to the Cage to be checked out. The only real problem was that the Eva had mostly broken through all of it's restraints. They worked feverishly for one week straight, and had everything fixed and ready to go. Shinji repeated the training courses so he could relearn all of the things that he had mostly forgotten. As Asuka watched on in shock, his sync ratio stayed at a steady 80 almost the entire rime. "How is this possible??? No one except Karou was able to have something like this happen, so why can he do it now?" Asuka pouted and whined about it the rest of the day.

Rei was waiting for Shinji just outside of the door to the bath house. "Ikari, that was an excellent performance. I was also told by the Commander to congratulate you on your performance." She walked away leaving Shinji even more confused then normal. He enjoyed the bath, but heard an announcement over the loudspeaker. "All Evangelion pilots report to Terminal Dogma." Shinji jumped out of the bath and got dressed in his plug suit as quickly as possible. He ran to the elevators and bumped into Rei, who now seemed to be an entirely different person, was talking! "I wonder what they need us down at Terminal Dogma for.... could there be another Angel attack?" Shinji clenched and unclenched his left hand three times, because it had become a way for him to build up his courage. "Rei, you seem to be much more talkative and different then you used to be. How did a change like this happen? What did Dr. Akagai do to unlock these memories?" "She died. Your father shot her after saying he loved her. I think that the word is what awoke all of my dormant emotions and memories." Shinji looked like he was in shock. Did Rei just admit that she loved him? What the hell is going on, nothing is like it was before the attempted Third Impact.

End Chapter One.

This chapter is a little on the short side, but if I get good reviews, then I'll post the second chapter in a couple weeks. It'll be longer, I promise. Please be honest and give advice in your reviews.