Alright, little note here concerning the "---". I use these to separate scenes in a chapter. and "" are used to brake a scene for a flash back. Thats it. Thanks, now, get to reading!

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Chapter Two
Genesis
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32 days after 3rd Impact
NERV Headquarters Gendo Ikari's office

Commander Kouzou Fuyutsuki was sick and tired of all the reports. Gendo didn't seem to be bothered. Then again, he never did. He stud there, lost in thought as some NERV equivalent to an MP gave a report on the security of the 3rd Chiled. After the guard left the sound of the pencil in Gendo's right hand snapping drew him back to reality. Gendo opened his hand and what had been the pencil fell to his disk. He terned in his chair to face the window, leaning back in his chair. He suddenly looked very old, and very tired.

At that moment however, Ritsuko steeped in, with Maya just behind her. They stopped in the normal place, about 10 feet from the Commander's desk.

"Report." Gendo ordered. Strait to the point.

Maya started them off, reading some of the information off her clip board. "Reconstruction is nearly complete. Considering we had to grow most of the Eva's organic parts from the bits and peaces we recovered from battle with the 15th Angel."

"I thought that the MAGI had estimated it wold take 79 days to regenerate enogh cell's just to begain work on the reconstruction of Unit 0?" Commander Fuyutsuki asked. He thought it was ether remarkable that they had managed to pull this off, of horrifying that the MAGI had been so far off the mark.

"It wold have." Maya stated. "But Dr. Akagi came up with an idea that sped it up nearly 300 ."

Ritsuko tuck over from here. "We have emplimented a new system of repare that increases speed of recovery a grate deal. e submurge the Eva in a tanke of our manufactured LCL and then increace the presure 20 while inroducing a low level electrical charge."

"Very good. Contenue." Gendo said in his normal tone.

Maya looked back down to her clip bord and began to read from it. "We estimated it will be 17 more days before Unit 0 is compleat. Restoration on Unit 2 will take another 9 days. We reseved the replacement parts for it yesterday, and once instaled we can finish regenoratig its organic parts."

"And Unit 1?" Gendo asked.

"Checks out." Ritsuko stared. "Aparently all damage done to it during the battle was some how repared. including the none organic parts. Unseteling, but conveanyent."

"Good." Gendo spoke up rather loadly. "The pilots?"

"Rei checks out. Once Unit 0 is operational, she can retern to active duty. Asuka needs a full mental work up"Are the new upgrades underway?"

"Yes." Ritsuko said. "We have begun work on modernizing of headquarters. Central Dogma is the first place we've started. We will begin upgrading the Eva facilities when the new equipment arrives from the United States."

"That may be a while." Kouzou said looking uneasy. "They wont send it unless they send Unit 9 with it. They want to send it all at one time,and with one of our Eva's guarding it. So that once its all here, its all here. After the incident with Unit 3, they don't want any liability."

"Hmmm... That may set us back a while." Maya said quitly...

"We cant a ford set backs at this time..." Gendo said quietly.

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Asuka sat on the bed. It wasn't her room. She was in Shinji's.

Asuka's eyes shot open. She began screaming. Yelling as if she could still feel the "Saints" riping into her, tearing her apart. Shinji raped his arms around her and held her tight as she screamed and hit, kicked, and even bit him in the ear tring to get away.

"Asuka! Asuka! Its safe! Your ok! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I wasn't there! I'm sorry! I'm Sorry!" He yelled over her screams as they died into shots. Inaly she was just sobbing in his arms. He didn't seem to realize this as he kept speaking. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'M SORRY! ASUKA I'm-I'm-sa-sare-" She felt his dead wait come onto her. After a momant...

She was in a was so mad at him. He didn't help her. He wouldn't help her. She called out for him and he didn't help her.

"Asuka! Asuka! Its safe! Your ok! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I wasn't there! I'm sorry! I'm Sorry!" He yelled over her screams as they died into shots. Inaly she was just sobbing in his arms. He didn't seem to realize this as he kept speaking. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'M SORRY! ASUKA I'm-I'm-sa-sare-" She felt his dead wait come onto her.

The Invincible Shinji could stop the 3rd Impact. Save her life from the destroyed Eva's plug. Cold save the damned world again. But wouldn't left a finger to save her.

"Asuka! Asuka! Its safe! Your ok! Im sorry! Im sorry I wasn't there! Im sorry! Im Sorry!"

She shook her head and tried to block out that memory as she began to cry over the boy who wasn't there.