Disclaimer : I do not own Evangelion, although like many others I wish I did. I own none of the characters. This is a normal Eva fic, not sure about Eva battles because I am trying to focus on Shinji's torment and hopeful revenge, hehe. Read and Review, I need criticism and I need to know people are reading this garbage. Anyhoo, on with the show!

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'Thought'

"Speech"

"(Actions in speech)"

Radio

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(4:05pm)

"Sir, Shinji Ikari is here to see you."

"Yes send him in."

The agent moved away from the door as a still moist (with LCL) Shinji entered the doorway, his hair black as night and his focus on the man in the corner. He slowly walked across the great tree of life painted on the floor, Gendo looked up at his old teacher and with a nod the elder man began to make his way towards the door. As Fuyutsuki and Shinji passed there was an exchange of glances but Shinji was focused on his goal, there were no greetings or acknowledgements, only one man passing another. As Shinji approached the table, Gendo stood and moved towards the window, looking out over the Geofront. Shinji noticed this, and in a move he thought would be of great spite to his would-be father, he sat in his chair, spun it around and placed both feet on the desk. With a smirk he addressed his father.

"Yes Father, you wished to see me?"

After a few moments, Gendo's hands began to fidget behind his back, although he was still facing out of the window.

"You did well today Shinji… I'm glad you made it back…"

"Why? Would you're precious scenario be ruined if I died?"

"Sigh… you still don't understand do you?"

"Understand what, might I ask?"

"That you are my scenario."

Gendo turned to Shinji, he had brought one hand up to his eyes and brought his tinted glasses down from his face. Shinji sat in utter shock as his father looked back at him with bright blue eyes.

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(3:35pm)

"I'm dead anyway, I might as well cause you as much pain as possible."

Oh Asuka…

Asuka pulled the trigger on the rifle, she wanted to cause Shinji and ultimately Gendo, as much pain as possible before Shinji killed her, as she knew he would. She watched as the finger on Unit 02 pulled the massive switch on the positron rifle, the beam leaving the rifle and causing a blinding flash that she knew would kill her target. Before her vision had returned she felt her Eva receive a massive blow to the head and soon after she passed out.

-

(3:59pm)

Above ground the remains of the various Eva's were recovered, Asuka's unit 02 retrieved on the whole in one piece, although it still badly damaged, missing a large amount of armour and flesh. The collection crews moving the spent particle rifle from its final resting place after Unit 01 finally unarmed the enemy.

-

(Unknown, assumed to be several years ago)

Wherever it was, it was dark. She didn't like it. As the girl sat on the bed in her hospital gown she surveyed what she could see of the room, she was a big girl, so she wasn't afraid of the dark. Although slight movements in the curtains and hanging lab coats were putting her slightly on edge, hopefully this was the last time she would have to be here. Even though her mama wasn't around anymore, she was a big girl and a pilot, an elite! She could handle big scary rooms on her own. That was when the door opened. With a small squeal and a shudder, she watched as two figures entered the room, one taller than the other although both hidden by the dark. She could only see a small reflection in the glasses of the short man, who proceeded to approach her. She addressed him and asked what she was there for but soon she didn't care anymore, she felt only fear and pain. She wondered what was happening, she could only see the taller man to one side, attempting to ignore the scene before him, why wasn't he helping her? She felt like screaming but she couldn't, she felt like crying but she wouldn't, she just let him finish what he was doing to her and soon it would all be over.

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(4:10pm)

In NERV medical centre, Misato was sat outside a locked room, on the other side of the room was a bed, and on that bed sat one Asuka Langley Soryu. Ritsuko approached the stoic Major from down the corridor, slowly coming up on her friend she rested a single hand on her shoulder.

"She's exhausted, I'm not sure how long it will be before she wakes up."

"I know… how is Rei?"

"Some minor bruises, she's resting in the normal ward… I suppose she'll be visited by Shinji soon."

"Which one? Rei or Asuka?"

"Both."

Ritsuko turned and faced Asuka, her face was distorted as she slept, she was definitely dreaming and probably a very bad nightmare at that. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence with her old friend Ritsuko cleared her throat and began to speak.

"The other two… we've checked them for injuries but they seem fine, we have them locked up downstairs for the time being."

"Heh heh, they put up quite a fight until Shinji came along, I don't think they expected Shinji to be as strong as he is."

"That's for sure, they seem quite content to sit in their cell for the time being, I'm pretty sure they're scared we'll call Shinji back if they start anything."

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(3:45pm)

"Unhand us! We know our rights!"

"They know pretty good Japanese."

"Yeah, probably trained to infiltrate as well as pilot."

Misato and Ritsuko watched from a distance as the two captured entry plugs were opened, the two pilots forcibly dragged from their cockpits. The guards pulled guns on the boy and the girl and they both went silent, they struggled slightly as they had their handcuffs put on but beyond that they simply let it happen.

"We should be careful, they are still quite strong, they might overpower the guards."

No sooner had Ritsuko uttered her musing had the two kicked the guards that held them, quickly sprinting towards the nearest doorway. The guards brought up their weapons but noticed Shinji walking through the same entrance that the prisoners were heading towards. As Misato and Ritsuko yelled out, Shinji brought his head up and saw the two heading towards him, their plug suits being a dead give-away to their identities. With a smirk Shinji let the two approach him then just as the boy got his hands free and held out a knife, they both stopped dead and fell to the ground. A low level hexagonal field appeared before Shinji, he stepped towards the two and admired the large red lumps forming on their foreheads. He also noticed that the female pilot was quite cute under her light brown hair, even if her forehead would soon be large and red. He smirked again and walked past them, he headed towards his Guardian and her friend.

"Shinji… you can…"

"How else do you think I survived the explosion?"

"That's amazing, how long have you been able to do that?"

"About an hour I think."

"An hour?"

"Erm… I have just spent the last year focussing AT fields from inside the Eva, I know all the thoughts necessary to do it."

"That's amazing! I need to study this mor…"

Will Shinji Ikari report to the Commander's Office, Immediately.

With a smile and a wave, Shinji left the two, before Ritsuko could even finish her sentence, he once more headed past the prisoners, who stopped struggling entirely as he passed them.

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(4:07pm)

"What do you mean, 'I am the scenario?'"

Gendo looked at Shinji through two sky blue eyes, although after a few seconds their returned to the same colour that Shinji usually sported.

"Shinji as you may have noticed… I too have the ability to change my eye colour with my emotions."

"Yes, I noticed that, it explains the glasses…"

"Not only that! But my emotions and my actions of late… unlike you Shinji I cannot control my emotions, I had to send you away at such a young age to protect you!"

"PROTECT ME? FROM WHAT?"

"SEELE…"

Gendo's eyes quickly began to fade into a sort of yellow focus, he looked up at a confused Shinji and then turned to the door that usually led to the holographic chamber he communicated with the Committee and Seele from.

"You see Shinji, SEELE is in command of NERV, they organise our resources and they have amazing control over the UN. It is also their intention to unite the human race into a single being, another human angel."

"A human angel?"

"Yes, every soul in a single body… Yui and I however saw a different path, one that meant that human beings would be able to solve their problems because they would stop hiding their feelings from the world."

"Is that what is happening to me?"

"Yes, you see Shinji, by eliminating the walls that bind us within ourselves we can obtain a higher power alone, by releasing your emotions you have gained the ability to use your AT field, a feet never before performed by man!"

"That is all well and good… but I need something answered before I will believe any more of this…"

"Soryu?"

"Yes… did you…"

"Yes…"

-

(3:35pm)

I'm dead anyway, I might as well cause you as much pain as possible.

"Oh Asuka…"

As Shinji watched Asuka move into a firing position he gripped the sword as tightly as he could, he then forced his arm down so far that he began to spin in midair. Once he was spinning he got ready and waited, he saw Asuka go to pull the trigger and he released the sword. The anti-AT sword opened and flew down, directly in the path of the beam, Shinji's perfect timing saw the particle beam hit the sword dead on and cause a blinding flash for all those staring directly at it. Once the light dissipated the sword continued through the hole towards the geofront, Shinji continuing towards Unit 02 held out his arm ready to punch. As he hit the ground he hit Unit 02 with all his Eva's strength. Unit 02 hit the floor, hard, Shinji was ready to do more to incapacitate the Eva but he saw the light go from its eyes and he simply stood above it.

-

(4:20pm)

"Do you know how we're going to move this without the Evas?"

"Nope, you?"

"No idea."

Two NERV workmen stood looking up at the massive anti-AT buster sword stood blade down in the ground, the blade must have been buried at least six or seven metres down and the whole thing stood almost vertical in the ground.

-

(4:10pm)

"Kisama!"

Before Gendo could finish he found himself held up against the window by his throat, the otherwise small teenager finding it easy to lift his father above his head.

"Let me finish… in her mind…"

"What?"

With his grip loosened Shinji waited for his father to explain what he had said.

"SEELE have probably had her programmed from the beginning, I had always known they would have the ability to program the Second Child, I just didn't know how… and I suppose by sending her back I gave her on a silver platter."

"So you didn't do it?"

"No… the only woman I have ever touched in that way is your Mother… oh and the Akagis… but they don't count… I would never touch a child…"

Shinji lowered his father to the ground, he took a few steps back and retook his position on the chair, although this time not perched so triumphantly with his feet on the desk.

"So has Asuka been raped?"

"Most likely, whether it happened over the last few weeks or years ago, they needed the event to occur in order to make her believe I did it. It is easy to make a person relate an action to a specific person, it's just harder to do it without the event happening at all."

"She needed to know the memory of pain and fear, who that memory was of is immaterial…"

"Correct."

"Okay… tell me more about myself…"

-

(4:59pm)

"LET ME OUT! I'LL KILL YOU!"

Misato sat with her head against the wall of the corridor, inside the padded room, Asuka had woken up and immediately began thrashing around. She had destroyed almost every item in the room and she wasn't stopping any time soon. Misato was crouched on the floor, she had her knees brought up to her chest and she simply sat listening to her former charge. Asuka had woken up a short time ago, Ritsuko had immediately gone to find some porters to help her restrain the would be-enemy, Misato however simply couldn't take the image of Asuka in so much pain. It reminded her so much of her own pain that she simply couldn't take it, she just tried to block it out.

"Misato?"

Misato's head raised and tilted upwards to see who was addressing her, she followed the black trousers up to the dark t-shirt and the blue eyes that stared back at her. After a second she recognised she was looking at Shinji and behind Shinji was a fully dressed Rei, who was in turn still holding Shinji's hand.

"Shinji?"

"Here, let me help you up."

Shinji dropped his bag and with his free hand then pulled the woman to her feet, she stared at him for a second before she hugged him and broke down.

"I thought you were dead… then you weren't and Asuka was… and now she's… Shinji!"

"I know Misato… don't worry, I'm fine, Asuka's fine everything will be okay."

"But Asuka… is not the same…"

Shinji looked through the window, it was impossible for Asuka to simply forget her problems, it would take months, years to get her through this. The thought that she may never believe that Gendo is innocent crept across Shinji's mind, as much as he wanted to go in and be the knight in shining armour… he couldn't. In Asuka's mind he was little more than accomplice to rape, even though he had no part in the memory, false or otherwise, he was still his father's son. Shinji went up to the window and looked inside, Misato and Rei could both see the reflection of his deep pink eyes in the glass. He continued to stare through the window for some time, neither female was willing to pull him away, he just watched Asuka roll around screaming. At one point Asuka jumped at the window, causing it to shudder violently, Rei and Misato both jumped backwards, but Shinji just remained still. A few seconds after that Ritsuko had managed to round up some strong looking porters, they entered the room and converged on Asuka. After a couple of porters took furniture and limbs to the head, they manage to hold the girl down long enough for Ritsuko to sedate her. The entire time Shinji just stared through the window, his gaze fixed on the fiery-haired girl. Once she passed out, Shinji's right hand formed a fist and he turned to head down the corridor.

"Rei, stay here with Misato."

"Shinji…?"

"Just do it."

-

(5:05pm)

"What do we do? They never briefed us on what we should do if captured…"

"They briefed me… take this…"

In the NERV jail, the two enemy pilots had been placed in adjoining cells, the girl was the first to speak, her demeanour was very much like the old Shinji, the boy seemed the older of the two and he sat more like the new Shinji. The boy held out his hand to the girl, he had removed something from his mouth and split it in two, she looked and saw a small tablet. She stared at it quizzically for a moment, totally unsure of what the tablet was.

"What… is that?"

"What does it look like? It's cyanide… my brief was to ensure if we were captured to make sure none of us can be interrogated or tortured."

"Would they really torture us?"

"Yes, from what they said… I would rather die."

The girl reached out for the boy's hand, also she was unsure of her willingness to die, she would rather she had the option, should worst come to worst. As the boy's arm stretched closer to her she watched the tablets begin to move, before she could grab one she watched them fly off the boy's hand.

"I'll take them, if you don't mind."

"What… hey!"

The two tablets flew into a shadowed figure's hand, having heard a large portion of the conversation, the figure held out his hand once more. This time his free hand caused the boy's mouth to open, pulling the jaws wide there was a small squeal as a further, final tablet dislodged from a tooth and flew through the air. The figure held all three tablets and continued his approach to the two children.

"Dum dum dum dum de dum dum de dum…(Imperial march ;P)"

The two children moved to the back of their cells, the shadowed figure imposing an air of evil to them, once he reached the cages however he held out his hand and turned on the lights.

"Booo!"

"Who… what are you?"

"Who me? I'm just a pilot, like you… and you and Ayanami… and Asuka."

"You're the third child?"

"Sorry if you feel cheated, I'm sure your information is a little outdated, I'm not depressed, dead or comatose, I am however, upset at the current mental state of my ex-girlfriend."

Shinji looked between the two, he could tell from the sheer defiance that the male was the leader of the two, he opened the door with a simple twitch of his head. He moved into the cell and it shut behind him.

"Name."

"No."

"Name, now."

Shinji held out his hand once more, this time the boy was raised from the ground by his throat, an invisible hand holding him up, Shinji looked focussed but also quite tired.

"…my… name… Musashi…"

"Musashi, huh… maybe you would like to tell me all that you know about the second child."

Shinji released the boy from his forceful (bad bad bad pun) grip, moving back, it evident to the girl that Shinji neither enjoyed the experience or found it easy to perform. Although she had heard stories of Shinji the helpless child, she had also heard that he was a kind and gentle person, something she had been told by one of her friends. After a few moments of heavy breathing, Musashi rose to his feet, he looked Shinji in the eyes, then turned away.

"She… was the first pilot to be selected by Germany Branch… she beat me and she beat Mana."

The boy motioned towards his silent partner, who was still sat in the corner of her cell, although she seemed much less scared than before.

"So you are all prospective second children?"

"Yes in a way… the children designation was just something NERV created, even though Asuka was chosen to be pilot… it didn't stop them training us to be just as strong."

"That is all well and good, but I want to know what your superiors did to her."

"Oh that…"

At this point the girl gave a sort of gasp, she looked at her comrade with a sort of anxiety that made Shinji think she too knew very little of what had happened to the second child. Both remained silent, waiting for the apparent leader of the trio to explain everything.

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Author note : Okay, I did like this disjointed style of writing, although it probably got quite confusing it did allow for you to still question whether or not Rei lived until a few paragraphs in. I know this story has so far been mostly full of turmoil as its darkest factor and added the whole Asuka rape bit in has probably sent it well into evil, but it is a necessary factor to her behaviour. I would like to make the following points however:

A) Yes Gendo is good, get over it.

B) Yes Mana is in it, no she is not becoming a major love interest.

C) No the comparison between Shinji and Darth Vader will not be ongoing, it was just added for fun in this chapter.

Anyway, next chapter soon… oh shit… bollocks, forget what I said about this story ending soon, I've just thought of how to make it go on… and on… I'll never revise at this rate! Sigh please review and let me know what you think of the story,

Waya