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Episode 2:19 The beast in the sea of shadow
Takes place after 1st season, and the End of Evangelion Movie.
Presumed date is August 30th, 2018
"Status Misato," Shinji said, as he hurtled upward, out of the base.
"Ten minutes ago a single Legionnaire appeared in Kyoto, Large, non- humaniod, but bipedal. It's covered in what looks like overlapping plates of metal armor, here's the visual," she said, sending it to him.
He saw it, there, all hunched over, looking very mean and nasty. If the building gave any indication of size, it was about twice his height, and maybe out massed him by six or eight times. It had nasty metallic wings, and carried a sword in one hand, and a rod in the other.
"Nasty looking customer. What's he doing now?"
"He's just standing there in the middle of the city," she said.
"Okay, we'll go ahead and take a look. C1 and C2, follow me. C3 and C4, stay here in case this is some sort of diversion."
"Roger," the Cherubs all answered.
He began to run to the southwest, Toji and Kensuke following him close, and they were soon coming into the Kyoto region. As they crested a rise, overlooking the city, Shinji saw the thing in the flesh. It's pictures did not do it justice.
"Okay, guys, spread out, let's approach this thing with caution. I've never had one of them just stand there before."
"Roger," Kensuke and Toji said, spreading out.
'Iiikaaarrriii," came a whisper in the back of his mind. Shinji wasn't sure he'd heard anything, but it was repeated.
'Iiikaaarrriii.'
"Hold up guys," he said, raising a hand.
'I'm Ikari,' he thought, focusing his concentration on the creature.
'Welcome, Iiikaaarrriii, I have been expecting you," came the voice.
'And who are you, that you know my name?'
'All of the Legion know you. You are legendary among us. No single being has ever slain so many of us, and you have done so in only a portion of your short mortal life.'
'Thank, you. You don't mind if I add another one to my list, and return home do you?'
'I have come to offer you single combat Iiikaaarrriii, will you accept?'
'You want to fight me one on one?'
'Yeesssssss,' it hissed at him.
'Why should I accept?'
'My allies stand off the coast of your city. At my word they will awaken and attack. You can not hope to defeat me, and save your city as well. Make your choice Iiikaaarrriii.'
"Kensuke, Toji, go back to Nagoya-2. This thing says there's a couple of his buddies offshore. Get the others ready, and tell Misato to bond the next 4 Cherubs NOW. We can't afford to wait until next week."
"Shinji, are you sure?" Kensuke asked, concern in his voice.
"DO IT!" Shinji shouted, in his command voice.
Kensuke and Toji, immediately turned and ran back towards the NERV base at Nagoya-2.
'Okay, they're gone.'
'Do you accept the challenge?' it whispered in its harsh voice deep in his mind.
'Yes, damn you, I accept.'
'Eeeeexcelleeennnt,' it rasped.
It raised the staff, and banged it into the ground three times. There was a small ball of black and white lines circling within the three points at the top of the staff. Shinji thought there was something familiar about it, but couldn't quiet place it. It was so weird; he knew he should recognize it.
Then he watched as the creatures shadow began to grow, and to grow, and to grow. Shinji watched as the shadow flashed out, and passed beneath his feet. Then it hit him, he knew where he'd see this effect before, and that strange black and white sphere. This looked like the shadow cast by the Angel that had swallowed him within itself, and kept him prisoner for more than a day, trapped on minimal life support.
'You have met my brother?' the thought insinuated itself into his awareness.
'And I handed him his ass,' he growled back.
'Ah. But he always deluded himself into believing that the darkness could consume all. I, on the other hand, believe that the darkness needs an ally,' it whispered back before falling into the darkness.
Suddenly he was falling, falling into an inky blackness, totally disoriented. He started to panic, remembering the last time this had happened, how lost he'd been. Instead he calmed himself, growing confident that he'd find a way out of here. He landed with a crash, and lay there for a moment, disoriented. He could see nothing, but he could hear the sound of breathing, and a soft, menacing chuckle. Wherever he was, he wasn't alone.
He gripped the Lance tightly and stood up, trying to pinpoint the source of the sound. Even his enhanced senses could detect nothing. No energy, no light, no aura, nothing.
There was a loud whooshing sound behind him, and, before he could turn, something hit him, knocking him to his knees, and there was a stinging pain in his left shoulder. He examined it. He'd been stabbed by something. He hadn't even sensed it's approach in the darkness.
'What's wrong Iiikaaarrriii? Are you injured? Are you afraid? Tell me. Where is the great warrior who has defeated so many of my Brothers?' the voice whispered.
'Come on out. He's here waiting for you,' Shinji replied.
A soft laugh echoed in the darkness from all around him, and then faded away, leaving him alone in the dark.
Something smacked into the back of his knees, and he was knocked from his feet, landing flat on his back. He could hear the whistling of an oncoming blow, and rolled away from it, hoping he rolled the correct way. A crashing sound echoed through the dark as something connected with the ground or floor or whatever he was standing on.
'Not bad, but not good enough,' it whispered again.
He stood up, and readied himself again, waiting for the next attack. He felt the displacement of air behind him, and dove forward, rolling and coming back up to his feet. He could perceive a blade of dark energy flashing through the space where he'd just been standing, vanishing again into the darkness.
'Very good, young Iiikaaarrriii. Even though you could not see where I was, you sensed my attack. It seems you are not as helpless as I first believed. How delightful,' came the whispered thought.
Shinji brought the Lance up in a defensive posture, and tried to sense something, anything. There was nothing. Or was there. Something was there, moving softly. He listened more carefully, and heard it. A soft shuffling to his left. Not much, but enough to identify where his attacker was. He hesitated, not wanting to give away the fact that he knew where the thing was. The shuffling stopped, and he carefully readied himself, taking care to make no noise, lest he give himself away. Then there came the softest of sounds.
Shinji twisted, and swung the Lance out in a double handed strike, and it connected with something in the blackness. The pressure on the Lance vanished, as the thing withdrew.
'You surprise me Iiikaaarrriii. Never have I had a foe sense my approach. Most impressive. When the Morning Star reigns in Heaven this battle will be spoken of with awe, and I shall delight in telling my brethren of your skill and defeat at my hands,' said the voice.
'Only one of us dies here, Demon, and it's not me. I beat this darkness once, and I will do it again.'
'Do you really think you can stand against me Iiikaaarrriii?'
'I know I can,' he thought back fiercely, and stepped to his right, spinning the Lance, and stabbing in the dark. He felt the Lance being parried by the dark blade, and knew he'd finally won. This place made his eyes useless, but if he paid attention to his AT field, it would guide him. Where the creature moved, his AT field strengthened, instinctively shielding him from its' evil. All he had to do was attack in the direction his AT field indicated, and this thing would soon be dead.
"There!" he shouted, and struck. He hit something, and saw a dark blade sweep up to brush the Lance aside.
The darkness roared back at him, in anger and frustration.
He felt a pressure on his AT field from above and to his right, and waited. The pressure grew and grew, until it was overwhelming, he ducked and rolled, coming up as the flashing blade swung through the space he had occupied, and he thought he saw the hint of a great metallic wing. He struck out with the lance, and felt it bite.
Hideous red ichor splattered to the ground beneath his strike, and the creature vanished again into the heights of the darkness.
'IKARI!' it wasn't hissing his name or whispering now. 'You will pay for striking me. NEVER before has any being hurt me within this place. And never again.' The voice was upset, now, no longer calm and collected.
He waited, trying to relax, even as he strained his senses for a clue as to the direction of the next attack. A few long tense moments passed, and then, not knowing entirely what he was doing, began to parry with the staff. Blow after blow deflected off of it, as he was driven back.
'You will not strike me again,' it hissed, and laughter echoed out of the dark before him.
"Oh I'll do more than strike you," Shinji said, and lashed out.
The Lance pierced the darkness, and struck something solid. Whatever it was, screamed in agony, and tried to pull itself off the Lance's tip. Shinji pushed forward, keeping the pressure up.
'Now we end this,' he thought, and lanced out with a long sweeping kick. He was rewarded by the feeling of his foot connecting with something, and the Lance nearly jerked out of his hand, as the creature fell to the ground. Instantly he was towering over it, both hands on the Lance, preparing for the killing blow.
'No. No Shinji Ikari, you cannot kill me, for if I die, you will be lost here forever,' it begged.
"I think NOT!" he shouted into the darkness, and struck, the Lance pulling out, and then stabbing back down, burying itself within the unseen flesh of the creature. Shinji concentrated. He had no way of knowing where the S2 Unit of the enemy was, so he did the next best thing. He told the Lance to alter it's shape, and send for dozens of points radiating from its tip.
Two of these points blasted out from the tip as ordered, and struck the S2 Unit, shattering it in the dark. The creature died, howling in agony, but at last it was still on the end of the Lance. Shinji withdrew the Lance with a jerk, and returned it to its' true form.
He was still there. Still swallowed by the darkness.
He gathered his strength, and focused his will upon his AT field. Soon he was able to see it glow in the darkness before him, as it pulsed. He wielded it like a beacon, now, lighting the dark around him, pushing back the dark. He tried to sense a way out, but could only sense a never ending darkness.
Wait. There. In the distance above him. He could sense... something. Nothing he could define easily, but possibly a way out. But how to get there. Maybe he could concentrate his AT field into something that would push him out of here. Kind of like a giant trampoline, that he could use to hurl himself up out of the darkness.
He closed his eyes, and he concentrated. Something was happening, he could feel it. There was a warmth spreading through his body, and he could sense the energy building.
'Wow, this is really a lot of power, but I've got to gather more. I need more energy. I must focus everything I have down to a single point within me, and then tap into that,' he thought.
Misato watched the screens. Shinji and the creature had vanished into that dark shadow, just like he had with that Angel back when he was 14, living in Tokyo-3. She couldn't believe that such a thing could happen twice, but she knew that Shinji had defeated the darkness once, and trusted that he could do so again. She saw movement and gasped.
The disk was shrinking. Quickly it was half the size it had been, and growing smaller by the second.
"Does anyone else see that?" Maya asked, pointing.
There in the heart of the darkness, a strange purple glow was coming from two thin points within the exact center of the circle. The purple grew, and became two finger like extensions. They were rising out of the darkness.
"It's Shinji, it has to be," Misato said, hoping she was right.
"The shadows closing to fast, he's not going to make it," Maya sounded panicked.
The shadow was indeed contracting rapidly, but when it reached the purple light it shook, trying to overcome their force. The light surged, and there were two more points of purple light coming through to assist the first. Now four finger like energy tendrils were pushing at the edge of the shadow, and it was slowly expanding, shaking as it did so. The Shadow suddenly flashed open, and there was a bright flash of near white light, and then both the light and the shadow were gone.
"Shinji!" Misato exclaimed.
"I'M FREE!" came an exultant shout.
"Shinji is that you? Where are you?" She cried.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said.
"After what we've all been thorough, I don't think that disbelief is something any of us will ever suffer from again. Now where are you?"
"Were you using the Surveillance Satellite to watch the battle?"
"Of course. Not that we saw anything once the two of you vanished into the shadow."
"Pull back your focus until you can see most of Honshs."
Misato motioned to Maya, who instantly told the Surveillance Satellite in orbit over Japan to pull back.
"Where should we be looking?"
"Look towards Mount Fuji. You'll see me."
Maya brought the appropriate image up on her screen, and began to scan the area, looking for the EVA. There was an odd purple glow moving rapidly in a circle around the volcano.
"Shinji what..." Misato began, not quite believing what she was seeing.
"Can you see me?"
"I think so. But are those..." the words died on her lips.
"I have wings Misato. I can fly," he stated simply.
Misato looked. Shinji did indeed have wings. Multiple wings. At least four, possibly six or more, she couldn't be sure, they were beating very fast. She seemed to recall from Instrumentality that Shinji had risen up out of the remains of NERV on nearly a dozen orange wings. But those wings were terrible, in their appearance and power. These wings were soft and elegant, glowing with an ethereal light that matched his EVA.
"Shinji, they're beautiful," Maya breathed, and Misato agreed with her.
"Shinji, return to base, the Legionnaire is finished, And Suzuhara and Aida report no sign of the other's that this one mentioned. You need to rest."
"Alright Misato. I'll come home. Be there soon," he replied, and on the screen the EVA banked, and turned west, coming home.
Next on Episode 2:20 of Neon Genesis Evangelion Asuka arrives in Germany, and discovers that NERV Berlin is the beacon for mankind in the European Theatre. But Shinji's warning is fresh in her mind, as she settles into life here. She'll discover the proof that Shinji is alive, and battling the forces of the Morning Star, but all she can do is watch his desperate struggles, as he faces wave after wave of Legionnaire attack.
It's Evangelion Episode 2:20 A home that never was.
Episode 2:19 The beast in the sea of shadow
Takes place after 1st season, and the End of Evangelion Movie.
Presumed date is August 30th, 2018
"Status Misato," Shinji said, as he hurtled upward, out of the base.
"Ten minutes ago a single Legionnaire appeared in Kyoto, Large, non- humaniod, but bipedal. It's covered in what looks like overlapping plates of metal armor, here's the visual," she said, sending it to him.
He saw it, there, all hunched over, looking very mean and nasty. If the building gave any indication of size, it was about twice his height, and maybe out massed him by six or eight times. It had nasty metallic wings, and carried a sword in one hand, and a rod in the other.
"Nasty looking customer. What's he doing now?"
"He's just standing there in the middle of the city," she said.
"Okay, we'll go ahead and take a look. C1 and C2, follow me. C3 and C4, stay here in case this is some sort of diversion."
"Roger," the Cherubs all answered.
He began to run to the southwest, Toji and Kensuke following him close, and they were soon coming into the Kyoto region. As they crested a rise, overlooking the city, Shinji saw the thing in the flesh. It's pictures did not do it justice.
"Okay, guys, spread out, let's approach this thing with caution. I've never had one of them just stand there before."
"Roger," Kensuke and Toji said, spreading out.
'Iiikaaarrriii," came a whisper in the back of his mind. Shinji wasn't sure he'd heard anything, but it was repeated.
'Iiikaaarrriii.'
"Hold up guys," he said, raising a hand.
'I'm Ikari,' he thought, focusing his concentration on the creature.
'Welcome, Iiikaaarrriii, I have been expecting you," came the voice.
'And who are you, that you know my name?'
'All of the Legion know you. You are legendary among us. No single being has ever slain so many of us, and you have done so in only a portion of your short mortal life.'
'Thank, you. You don't mind if I add another one to my list, and return home do you?'
'I have come to offer you single combat Iiikaaarrriii, will you accept?'
'You want to fight me one on one?'
'Yeesssssss,' it hissed at him.
'Why should I accept?'
'My allies stand off the coast of your city. At my word they will awaken and attack. You can not hope to defeat me, and save your city as well. Make your choice Iiikaaarrriii.'
"Kensuke, Toji, go back to Nagoya-2. This thing says there's a couple of his buddies offshore. Get the others ready, and tell Misato to bond the next 4 Cherubs NOW. We can't afford to wait until next week."
"Shinji, are you sure?" Kensuke asked, concern in his voice.
"DO IT!" Shinji shouted, in his command voice.
Kensuke and Toji, immediately turned and ran back towards the NERV base at Nagoya-2.
'Okay, they're gone.'
'Do you accept the challenge?' it whispered in its harsh voice deep in his mind.
'Yes, damn you, I accept.'
'Eeeeexcelleeennnt,' it rasped.
It raised the staff, and banged it into the ground three times. There was a small ball of black and white lines circling within the three points at the top of the staff. Shinji thought there was something familiar about it, but couldn't quiet place it. It was so weird; he knew he should recognize it.
Then he watched as the creatures shadow began to grow, and to grow, and to grow. Shinji watched as the shadow flashed out, and passed beneath his feet. Then it hit him, he knew where he'd see this effect before, and that strange black and white sphere. This looked like the shadow cast by the Angel that had swallowed him within itself, and kept him prisoner for more than a day, trapped on minimal life support.
'You have met my brother?' the thought insinuated itself into his awareness.
'And I handed him his ass,' he growled back.
'Ah. But he always deluded himself into believing that the darkness could consume all. I, on the other hand, believe that the darkness needs an ally,' it whispered back before falling into the darkness.
Suddenly he was falling, falling into an inky blackness, totally disoriented. He started to panic, remembering the last time this had happened, how lost he'd been. Instead he calmed himself, growing confident that he'd find a way out of here. He landed with a crash, and lay there for a moment, disoriented. He could see nothing, but he could hear the sound of breathing, and a soft, menacing chuckle. Wherever he was, he wasn't alone.
He gripped the Lance tightly and stood up, trying to pinpoint the source of the sound. Even his enhanced senses could detect nothing. No energy, no light, no aura, nothing.
There was a loud whooshing sound behind him, and, before he could turn, something hit him, knocking him to his knees, and there was a stinging pain in his left shoulder. He examined it. He'd been stabbed by something. He hadn't even sensed it's approach in the darkness.
'What's wrong Iiikaaarrriii? Are you injured? Are you afraid? Tell me. Where is the great warrior who has defeated so many of my Brothers?' the voice whispered.
'Come on out. He's here waiting for you,' Shinji replied.
A soft laugh echoed in the darkness from all around him, and then faded away, leaving him alone in the dark.
Something smacked into the back of his knees, and he was knocked from his feet, landing flat on his back. He could hear the whistling of an oncoming blow, and rolled away from it, hoping he rolled the correct way. A crashing sound echoed through the dark as something connected with the ground or floor or whatever he was standing on.
'Not bad, but not good enough,' it whispered again.
He stood up, and readied himself again, waiting for the next attack. He felt the displacement of air behind him, and dove forward, rolling and coming back up to his feet. He could perceive a blade of dark energy flashing through the space where he'd just been standing, vanishing again into the darkness.
'Very good, young Iiikaaarrriii. Even though you could not see where I was, you sensed my attack. It seems you are not as helpless as I first believed. How delightful,' came the whispered thought.
Shinji brought the Lance up in a defensive posture, and tried to sense something, anything. There was nothing. Or was there. Something was there, moving softly. He listened more carefully, and heard it. A soft shuffling to his left. Not much, but enough to identify where his attacker was. He hesitated, not wanting to give away the fact that he knew where the thing was. The shuffling stopped, and he carefully readied himself, taking care to make no noise, lest he give himself away. Then there came the softest of sounds.
Shinji twisted, and swung the Lance out in a double handed strike, and it connected with something in the blackness. The pressure on the Lance vanished, as the thing withdrew.
'You surprise me Iiikaaarrriii. Never have I had a foe sense my approach. Most impressive. When the Morning Star reigns in Heaven this battle will be spoken of with awe, and I shall delight in telling my brethren of your skill and defeat at my hands,' said the voice.
'Only one of us dies here, Demon, and it's not me. I beat this darkness once, and I will do it again.'
'Do you really think you can stand against me Iiikaaarrriii?'
'I know I can,' he thought back fiercely, and stepped to his right, spinning the Lance, and stabbing in the dark. He felt the Lance being parried by the dark blade, and knew he'd finally won. This place made his eyes useless, but if he paid attention to his AT field, it would guide him. Where the creature moved, his AT field strengthened, instinctively shielding him from its' evil. All he had to do was attack in the direction his AT field indicated, and this thing would soon be dead.
"There!" he shouted, and struck. He hit something, and saw a dark blade sweep up to brush the Lance aside.
The darkness roared back at him, in anger and frustration.
He felt a pressure on his AT field from above and to his right, and waited. The pressure grew and grew, until it was overwhelming, he ducked and rolled, coming up as the flashing blade swung through the space he had occupied, and he thought he saw the hint of a great metallic wing. He struck out with the lance, and felt it bite.
Hideous red ichor splattered to the ground beneath his strike, and the creature vanished again into the heights of the darkness.
'IKARI!' it wasn't hissing his name or whispering now. 'You will pay for striking me. NEVER before has any being hurt me within this place. And never again.' The voice was upset, now, no longer calm and collected.
He waited, trying to relax, even as he strained his senses for a clue as to the direction of the next attack. A few long tense moments passed, and then, not knowing entirely what he was doing, began to parry with the staff. Blow after blow deflected off of it, as he was driven back.
'You will not strike me again,' it hissed, and laughter echoed out of the dark before him.
"Oh I'll do more than strike you," Shinji said, and lashed out.
The Lance pierced the darkness, and struck something solid. Whatever it was, screamed in agony, and tried to pull itself off the Lance's tip. Shinji pushed forward, keeping the pressure up.
'Now we end this,' he thought, and lanced out with a long sweeping kick. He was rewarded by the feeling of his foot connecting with something, and the Lance nearly jerked out of his hand, as the creature fell to the ground. Instantly he was towering over it, both hands on the Lance, preparing for the killing blow.
'No. No Shinji Ikari, you cannot kill me, for if I die, you will be lost here forever,' it begged.
"I think NOT!" he shouted into the darkness, and struck, the Lance pulling out, and then stabbing back down, burying itself within the unseen flesh of the creature. Shinji concentrated. He had no way of knowing where the S2 Unit of the enemy was, so he did the next best thing. He told the Lance to alter it's shape, and send for dozens of points radiating from its tip.
Two of these points blasted out from the tip as ordered, and struck the S2 Unit, shattering it in the dark. The creature died, howling in agony, but at last it was still on the end of the Lance. Shinji withdrew the Lance with a jerk, and returned it to its' true form.
He was still there. Still swallowed by the darkness.
He gathered his strength, and focused his will upon his AT field. Soon he was able to see it glow in the darkness before him, as it pulsed. He wielded it like a beacon, now, lighting the dark around him, pushing back the dark. He tried to sense a way out, but could only sense a never ending darkness.
Wait. There. In the distance above him. He could sense... something. Nothing he could define easily, but possibly a way out. But how to get there. Maybe he could concentrate his AT field into something that would push him out of here. Kind of like a giant trampoline, that he could use to hurl himself up out of the darkness.
He closed his eyes, and he concentrated. Something was happening, he could feel it. There was a warmth spreading through his body, and he could sense the energy building.
'Wow, this is really a lot of power, but I've got to gather more. I need more energy. I must focus everything I have down to a single point within me, and then tap into that,' he thought.
Misato watched the screens. Shinji and the creature had vanished into that dark shadow, just like he had with that Angel back when he was 14, living in Tokyo-3. She couldn't believe that such a thing could happen twice, but she knew that Shinji had defeated the darkness once, and trusted that he could do so again. She saw movement and gasped.
The disk was shrinking. Quickly it was half the size it had been, and growing smaller by the second.
"Does anyone else see that?" Maya asked, pointing.
There in the heart of the darkness, a strange purple glow was coming from two thin points within the exact center of the circle. The purple grew, and became two finger like extensions. They were rising out of the darkness.
"It's Shinji, it has to be," Misato said, hoping she was right.
"The shadows closing to fast, he's not going to make it," Maya sounded panicked.
The shadow was indeed contracting rapidly, but when it reached the purple light it shook, trying to overcome their force. The light surged, and there were two more points of purple light coming through to assist the first. Now four finger like energy tendrils were pushing at the edge of the shadow, and it was slowly expanding, shaking as it did so. The Shadow suddenly flashed open, and there was a bright flash of near white light, and then both the light and the shadow were gone.
"Shinji!" Misato exclaimed.
"I'M FREE!" came an exultant shout.
"Shinji is that you? Where are you?" She cried.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said.
"After what we've all been thorough, I don't think that disbelief is something any of us will ever suffer from again. Now where are you?"
"Were you using the Surveillance Satellite to watch the battle?"
"Of course. Not that we saw anything once the two of you vanished into the shadow."
"Pull back your focus until you can see most of Honshs."
Misato motioned to Maya, who instantly told the Surveillance Satellite in orbit over Japan to pull back.
"Where should we be looking?"
"Look towards Mount Fuji. You'll see me."
Maya brought the appropriate image up on her screen, and began to scan the area, looking for the EVA. There was an odd purple glow moving rapidly in a circle around the volcano.
"Shinji what..." Misato began, not quite believing what she was seeing.
"Can you see me?"
"I think so. But are those..." the words died on her lips.
"I have wings Misato. I can fly," he stated simply.
Misato looked. Shinji did indeed have wings. Multiple wings. At least four, possibly six or more, she couldn't be sure, they were beating very fast. She seemed to recall from Instrumentality that Shinji had risen up out of the remains of NERV on nearly a dozen orange wings. But those wings were terrible, in their appearance and power. These wings were soft and elegant, glowing with an ethereal light that matched his EVA.
"Shinji, they're beautiful," Maya breathed, and Misato agreed with her.
"Shinji, return to base, the Legionnaire is finished, And Suzuhara and Aida report no sign of the other's that this one mentioned. You need to rest."
"Alright Misato. I'll come home. Be there soon," he replied, and on the screen the EVA banked, and turned west, coming home.
Next on Episode 2:20 of Neon Genesis Evangelion Asuka arrives in Germany, and discovers that NERV Berlin is the beacon for mankind in the European Theatre. But Shinji's warning is fresh in her mind, as she settles into life here. She'll discover the proof that Shinji is alive, and battling the forces of the Morning Star, but all she can do is watch his desperate struggles, as he faces wave after wave of Legionnaire attack.
It's Evangelion Episode 2:20 A home that never was.