Disclaimer: The closest I'll ever come to owning Neon Genesis are the Manga and DVDs. That right belongs to the boys at Ganiax studios alone. I do, however, own the character Noah. Review or flame, it's your choice to make. Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy the show.

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Neon: Romanization of the word Neo meaning new or recent

Genesis: Birth or beginning, the start of something

Evangelion: Romanization of the word Evangelic-meaning have to do with or pertaining to the gospels

Prologue: Silver Screens

It had begun, Third Impact had been initiated and it was entirely his fault. The fate of mankind rested squarely in his hands to do with as he wished. Granted this choice, Shinji had truly become a god, but with great power comes great responsibility. A responsibility that he could never have been able to live up to. By no right should he, or anyone else for that matter, have been granted this power, and yet here he was standing between humanity's salvation and utter destruction. And then he was among them.

"Where am I? What happened?" He wondered, opening his eyes, the fog slowly lifting from his mind. Looking about him he could see the silhouettes of others sitting in large seats around him.

"A movie theater?"

"It's a good movie, but the ending is a little sub-par," a voice beside him spoke, startling him out of his thoughts. Shinji turned in the direction of the voice and saw a man not too much older then him with short, black hair eating out of a bag of sunflower seeds.

"What movie is this?"

"You should know," the man replied, pointing at the screen. "Its your life." Shinji turned his head towards the large screen at the front of the room, his eyes widening in surprise. On the screen scenes of a giant, violet machine battling against enormous, demonic looking creatures played out.

"Who are you? How did I get here?" He questioned, turning back to the man beside him.

"My name is Noah Roth and you are here as a result of instrumentality," he replied never taking his eyes off the screen.

"If this is a result of Third Impact, then why are we not a part of the Sea of Souls?"

"This place is the home of those who have rejected instrumentality."

"Then why am I here? I'm supposed to be a part of the process."

"I have brought you here because I have a proposition for you," Noah stated, facing Shinji. He cringed back in his seat. Noah's eyes were as deep crimson as Rei's and just as dead. Even though they lay behind a pair of glasses they still seemed to peer into his very soul.

"W-what is it that you want from me?"

"You failed as a pilot and a person. It was wrong to have put that kind of responsibility on your shoulders, as it seems you could not live up to it. Because of your carelessness you allowed humanity to be destroyed. Therefore, I have decided to intervene and set things to the way they should be."

"What do you mean I failed? You have no idea what I've been through, you don't know what they made me do!"

"Actually I do," Noah stated coolly. "I've gone through many of the same problems that you have, but I faced them instead of running away and hiding behind the skirts of a little girl."

"How do you intend to change things?"

"I'm not going to do anything," Noah chuckled darkly. "I'm merely here to serve as a guide."

"You are still in control of instrumentality, you alone control humanity's fate, only you can exact the changes necessary, Shinji," a second voice to his right spoke. Shinji turned and came face to face with a white haired Rei, the second Angel, Lilith.

"Why? Why am I in control? I can't handle that kind of resposbility!"

"Why? Because only a person who has truly known suffering can ever know peace and you have suffered by far more than most people," Noah answered.

"Anyone can handle this responsibility, you only choose not to face it. If you succed where you have failed before then humanity will be redeemed and you will be given the life you were meant to have," Lilith finished.

"But, why? Wouldn't people just be happy as they are now in a world without suffering?" Shinji questioned.

"Because that is not the way humans where meant to live. Man was given free will to make his own choices even if he suffers at least he is in control of his destiny. Man cannot live how he is now. Without freewill, this godhead he has become will eventually decay into a sea of dead souls. Mankind deserves a second chance to fix its mistakes and you have been given the opportunity to give them that chance," Noah explained. Shinji leaned back in his seat contemplating the words of the two beings beside him. He regarded the screen before him once more. The scenes had stopped at the moment where Evangelion Unit-1 had become the Tree of Life. Large black spots had appeared on the screen as if the film had been corrupted. The image then blurred and disappeared like it had suddenly been erased.

"Alright, what do I have to do?" He asked Lilith.

"You must make a decision," the Angel disguised as his friend answered.

"What kind of decision?"

"Death or Rebirth," Noah stated. "Choose Rebirth and humanity will be reborn into the world as it should have been, life will start anew."

"And if I choose death?"

"Then the world as you knew it will die. Everyone will perish and their souls will merge into one singular godhead," Lilith responded.

"So what will it be, Shinji," Noah asked. "Death?"

"Or Rebirth?"

"In either choice men will suffer as it is in his nature to do so, but we all deserve a second chance. Let God be in his heaven and all be right with the world. I choose Rebirth." Noah and Lilith smiled, their crimson eyes glowing eerily in the dimly lit theater.

"You made the right choice, Shinji," Noah said, clasping his hand on Shinji's shoulder. "Are you ready?"

"Yes, but just one more question, who are you, really?"

"Me? Redeemption." Shinji's body was filled with a comforting warmth before his world went dark.

I can here what you thinking

All your doubts and fears

And if you look into my eyes in time you'll find the reason I'm here

And in time all things shall pass away

In time you may come back someday

To live once more or die once more

But in time your time will be no more

Messiah Studios Present:

You know your days are numbered

Count them one by one

Just like the notches in the handle of an outlaw's gun

In Association With Ill Breed Underground:

You can outrun the Devil if you try

But you'll never out run the hands of time

A Faux Savior Production:

And in time there will surely come a day

And time all things shall pass away

And in time you'll come back, some say

Directed by Vincent Rose and J.R Shadow:

To live once more, or die once more

But in time your time will be no more

New Genesis Gospel

I can here what your thinking