Hello everyone!

This will be a noticeably shorter chapter in this series because I feel like doing some chapters in quick bursts. As I previously stated before in chapter 3, if I get to an action scene or one with a lot of critical plot points, then I'll make it longer. This chapter is meant to introduce Shinji to Nerv more and have him meet new people. Godzilla will also get a small cameo in this chapter.

Review time!

Hercules8: Your welcome my good friend and to be honest, it's one of the very few good Evangelion/Godzilla stories on this site in my opinion.

Thanks for the compliment and I just could not resist adding that TFS reference in! I'm going to try to think up of a good backstory for Mari, maybe one that Shinji could relate to since I made him kind of similar to her in many aspects. It's often rare to see those who support Shinji/Mana! Sorry this wasn't what you were expecting.

Thank you for the support!

Ultron Emporer: You betcha!

Ultimate-Zelda-fan: Thanks and that is exactly what they would say!

Thunder Dragon: Boy…how do I explain this? You have a lot of amazing ideas and you are the first person who has requested that I make a challenge and for that I'm truly honored. However, the rules and guidelines of this site strictly prohibit me from posting a challenge. I sincerely apologize and I am deeply sorry that I cannot post it. I hope you can understand.

Beatrider9: LOL! As the story continues, Nerv is going to research Godzilla more and the UN is still trying to figure out what to do with him.

RaptorRapist: Don't worry, I will not abandon this fic and I will continue all the way to the end. I'm happy you enjoy my story!

Gold1992: I share the exact same opinion. Misato is better off as a mother figure or sister figure.

LMFAO. I'm planning on having Nerv research Godzilla more in the future so they can get a better understanding of his nature. Browsing through the films, eh? Godzilla 2000 is my favorite!

Well…Im trying to make everyone in this story smarter.

I'm still working my hardest on his character but it's better than mopey Shinji, right?

Relax; none of that scary shit happens to that village in my story.

On the contrary, Gendo is not welcome at all in Hinamizawa and Shinji is only just starting to work at Nerv so he just assumes their here to ensure his safety. Nice Matrix reference though.

I made Shinji a little bit more aware of his surroundings a more observant than his brick brained counterpart. I am planning to have more inside thoughts of Shinji and make no mistake; he is nothing like his anime counterpart.

I couldn't resist adding that in! Im not going to add in the G-cells splicing. The Eva's are better off in their berserker modes. It's not every day you run into a Hellsing Abridged fan! High five!

Also, don't forget that I left you a reply from your private message question.

vietnamese guy: I'm…not sure how to answer that question.

Guest #1: I have seen that and yes, Mechagodzilla will appear in this fic but I won't reveal which one.

G-Matt: I tried my best. Good to know I managed to make it easy to understand.

Guest #2: You're welcome! I'd be proud to answer your questions!

Unfortunately Asuka will be exactly like her anime counterpart but this time, nobody is going to put up with her horseshit. Absolutely yes! King Kong will be present in this story and he will be based on his Skull Island version! I can't list all of them but there will be lots of Kaiju in this story.

I can't reveal what place Section 9 or the Shobijin will have in the story but it's kind of similar to what you described. Thanks for supporting my pairing!

Ani8900: Hmmm...I might actually do that!

Gustauve-Drakenhime: Thanks and Godzilla appears in this chapter!

The Imprisoned of Hell: Indeed they will!

Fan01: They do, don't they?

Junior VB: Gracias!

OMAC001: Thanks for giving my story a look!

Evangelion and Godzilla belong to their respective owners. I do not own either of them.

Chapter 5

Meet the Team

NERV-HALLWAYS

"Well, that meeting went very well if I say so myself."

"I'll say. I can't believe the Sub-Commander actually listened to your suggestion. He must really think highly of you!"

"I have been blessed with a sunny disposition. Most people seem to like it."

"Well I certainly do!"

Shinji and Misato were currently strolling through the polished white corridors of Nerv. Misato got out the map of the facility but, as usual, had a difficult time trying to figure out where they were. "Okay, I think we're on the 3rd level so I think that should put us right near the Eva cages." Misato guessed.

"You're positive that you know your way around this place? Because I distinctly remember you getting us lost several times yesterday." Shinji pointed out.

"Like I said before, I would be able to navigate this place better if this map wasn't so friggin confusing!" Misato complained.

"Do you think you should call up Ritsuko for directions?" Shinji suggested.

"Yeah." She sighed. "I hate to bother once again but it looks like I don't have any other option. Gimmie a sec." She said as she began to get out her cellphone. As she was doing that, Shinji walked over to the window and gazed at the Geofront's forest. 'Beautiful…I could look at this all day.' He thought as a smile formed on his face. The lush woodlands reminded him of home.

'I could actually get used to this place. It's good to know they're fighting to protect the human race. But then again…how do they know there will be 14 more of these so called Angels?' Shinji thought. Was there something they didn't want him finding out? He was brought out of his thoughts when he spotted something out in the distance of the Geofront. He squinted his eyes and could make out a small cabin with a watermelon field at the front. 'A groundskeeper, maybe? If he's managing this whole forest then he must have his work cut out for him.'

"ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?" Misato shrilled!

Shinji whirled around towards Misato to see her tightly gripping her phone with a look of anger and annoyance on her features. He quickly rushed over. "What's wrong?!"

Misato wordlessly held up her cellphone to Shinji. He looked closer and read the text message on the screen.

Misato,

Since you obviously have trouble finding your way around the base (Plus I'm getting tired of you calling me every time you get lost) I have recently downloaded an App that will help you navigate Nerv. I hope this will benefit you.

Your friend, Ritsuko

P.S. You're welcome.

Shinji sweatdropped. He looked at Misato whose expression of anger was slowly turning into that of embarrassment. "Thank goodness for small miracles, huh?" Shinji shrugged.

"Remind me to strangle her later." She griped as she began to activate the App. Just like the text explained, it brought up a detailed and easy to follow layout of Nerv HQ. After toying around with the settings for several seconds, Misato got a good handle on it and set up a waypoint route.

"Okay, most of the areas in this place are either offices or labs but I'll give you a tour of the Eva cages, Training rooms, Testing chambers and even the Command Center." She said.

"Sounds like plan." Shinji agreed, smiling.

"Alrighty then!" Misato beamed as she slung an arm over his shoulder. "Once we're done with the tour I'll treat you to lunch at the food court!"

Shinji raised an eyebrow. "We have a food court?"

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Godzilla slowly surged through the surface of the red stained ocean. He hated the current state of the water. Before The Great Cataclysm, he enjoyed gliding through the crystal clear sea and swimming alongside pods of whales…or eating them if he was hungry. Now the water was corrupted and bitter tasting. There were literally no sea life left anywhere. He loathed it so much and it was enraging him. He cursed his inability to stop what had been set into motion 14 years ago and he never felt so useless before in his entire life.

He set aside his thoughts to concentrate on another important matter. The Dark Ones had returned. But that didn't surprise him. He always knew that they would one day return to this world. His mind drifted back to when millions of his comrades cut a bloody warpath through their ranks when they invaded millions of years ago and eventually drove the Dark Ones away.

But the biggest difference is that none of the Dark Ones had the ability to transform back then. They had obviously gotten stronger. Godzilla knew that he couldn't do this all by himself. He needed help. He had swum through half of this world's oceans but he couldn't sense any of his allies. He began to wonder if any of them had survived The Great Cataclysm. If he could survive, then surely they must've done so as well! But deep down he knew that if any of them did survive, they would've met up with him hours ago.

For the first time, the King of the Monsters had never felt so alone.

CENTRAL DOGMA COMMAND CENTER-3 HOURS LATER

Ritsuko and the Bridge Bunnies stared at the main screen watching the ominous orange blip slowly move through the Atlantic. They had been watching over the creature's movements for several hours after it resurfaced but were unfortunately unable to get any video images of it due to its radioactive field which left some of them disappointed. The sooner they got radioactive shielding for their systems, the better.

"It appears to be slowing down…I wonder why?" Maya wondered.

"It's been swimming pretty quickly for a while now. Maybe it's just tired." Hyuga guessed.

"I hope it doesn't go belly up. I've see what that blood water can do to fish." Shigeru added.

"It's clearly a reptile Aoba. Though I'm quite surprised that it's been able to thrive in this environment for this long." Ritsuko observed.

"So this is where all of the magic happens, huh?" She heard a voice call out from behind her. Ritsuko turned around to see Shinji and Misato walking up to them. "Shinji! It's good to see up and about. How are you feeling?" Ritsuko inquired.

"I'm just fine but this goes without saying, you guys really need to install some seatbelts in those Plugs." Shinji stated as he pointed to the medical patch on the upper right corner of his head.

"We have been made aware of that and we've recently began installing safety harnesses in the seats. I assure you, nothing like that will happen again." Ritsuko reassured him.

"Good to know." Shinji said as he breathed a sigh of relief. He turned towards the expansive command center before him. "Whoa…this place is huge! Just how big is it?"

"It's approximately the size and length of a football field." A technician with glasses informed.

"Really? I'm impressed."

"Well, Most of it is for the main screen." Hyuga shrugged. He then held out his hand to Shinji. "1st Lieutenant Makoto Hyuga. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Same here." Shinji replied, shaking his hand. He turned to the screen. "I bet the definition on this thing is pretty high, eh?

"Are you kidding me? This makes Blu-ray look like VHS!" The long haired man next to Shinji laughed. "The name's Shigeru Aoba. 1st Lieutenant."

"You two share the same rank?" Shinji asked.

"I share the same rank with them as well!" Said a cheerful voice. Shinji turned to the short and youthful woman at the other end of the command bridge. "My name Maya Ibuki. 1st Lieutenant and Dr. Akagi's personal assistant." She introduced while giving Shinji a slight bow. "We're glad to see you're okay after last night."

"Thanks. I'm just glad that girl is alive." Shinji said, smiling warmly.

"We're happy that you're both alive. Everyone here saw you rescue that girl." Hyuga revealed.

"Really?"

"We have hidden cameras all over Tokyo-3. It helps us get various angles on the battle when we're in an emergency." Hyuga explained. He began typing on his keyboard and a video image popped up, showing a ruined apartment building. "Look familiar?"

"Yeah…that's the building my Entry Plug crashed into!"

"And here's the workers hauling it away." Hyuga said as he panned the camera over to Nerv crews using a crane to lift the heavily dented Plug onto a flatbed truck.

"So do all of these consoles allow you guys to monitor pretty much everything in the city?"

"Actually they aren't really used for that most of the time. Each of our consoles has their own specific function. Mine lets me monitor the Evangelions status as well as analyze the Angels." Maya explained.

"My console can let me scan the entirety of Tokyo-3 and anything surrounding it. This notifies me of any incoming Angels and it also offers me helpful tactical information during a sortie." Hyuga said.

"Mine allows me to activate the defenses for Tokyo 3 and lets me send you up some weapons when you're in a fight." Shigeru boasted while patting his console.

"Hold on…I get weapons for my Eva?"

"Yup! It's sorta like this…"

Ritsuko and Misato continued to watch Shinji intently listen on Shigeru's explanation of the Eva's armaments with Hyuga and Maya eventually joining in and giving him more info on his Eva.

"Unbelievable…he's only been in here for several minuets and he's already made friends with 3 of our best technicians."

"I can't believe it myself. He's clearly nothing like Commander Ikari and yet, I can't help but be thankful that he isn't."

"I gotta tell you Rits, he's going to make a huge difference in this fight."

"Can't argue with that, he's already skilled in martial arts and he maintained a stable 68.7% synchronization rate during the whole battle. With the right training he could be of invaluable help."

"My thoughts exactly. It's good to see him learning so much from us."

"Quite so. By the way, how did he know about our Command Center?"

"I've been giving Shinji a whole tour of Nerv! But just the important places, honestly."

"You're a tour guide, now?"

"For your information, the Sub-Commander himself requested that I show him around!"

"…I can't tell if you're being serious or not."

Ritsuko's only reply was Misato giving her a playful wink. By that time Shigeru, Hyuga and Maya had just finished their very informative explanations on the Eva as well as how their systems work. "Wow. You guys must have a really big supercomputer to process all this." Shinji commented. Unbeknownst to him, Ritsuko had heard that comment and smiled. Now it was her turn to educate him.

"On the contrary Shinji, we have three supercomputers." Ritsuko revealed as she walked over to him. She looked over the main bridge and pointed downwards. Shinji followed her finger and saw 3 blocky looking towers jutting up from the lower levels. Each had a red cover on the top with a line running across it diagonally. He could also see several technicians working around them.

"This is the MAGI. Three of the most advanced supercomputers in the world and the literal 'brain' of Nerv. It's our primary operating system and it supplies us with all the informational data we need. They are codenamed Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior"

Shinji whistled. "Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would be proud of you."

"I'm sure they would." Ritsuko replied, thankful for the compliment. Shinji's gaze then went to the big screen where it showed a large orange blip steadily moving through the Atlantic Ocean. It didn't take a genius to know what that belonged to. "I'm just taking a wild guess here but is that our Jolly Green Giant?" He asked.

"It's certainly giant and green but I would have to respectfully disagree with jolly." Misato remarked as she walked over to them.

"We've been monitoring it's movements for quite a while now. It remained in the Pacific for some time and then started to move through the Indian Ocean. After it was done, he started swimming towards the Atlantic-"

The orange blip suddenly disappeared.

"-And it's gone." Ritsuko finished.

Shinji blinked. "What?"

"Wait a minute! What do you mean it's gone?! How do you lose a frickin dinosaur?!" Misato panicked.

"Calm down. When I said 'gone' I didn't mean 'vanished off the face of the earth' gone. It simply went underwater. It does that from time to time and due to the waters' now soupy texture, it's nearly impossible to pick up on a reading on it. If the UN hadn't decommissioned submarines 12 years ago, then we might actually have a slim chance of observing it." Ritsuko explained.

"Speaking of the UN, do we know what they're going to do about it?" Maya inquired.

"For now they want to study it more and recently issued a 'do not engage' order to all known military organizations, including us. From what I've heard, they're bringing in zoologists, paleontologists and even cryptozoologists to study it. Though I'm a little bit disappointed I wasn't invited as well. I would've loved to learn more about it."

"Didn't you just brush it off as an animal earlier this morning?" Misato reminded her.

Ritsuko held up her hands in defeat. "Fine. I admit I was a little too judgmental on it but now I see that this is one of the biggest, if not greatest, zoological discoveries of the millennium."

"It should be. It's a living, breathing dinosaur!" Hyuga said.

"I don't mean to be Debbie Downer but what if this thing suddenly turns hostile?" Shigeru pointed out.

"We'll probably have no other choice but to put it down. But after it took care of the Angel and then left afterwards, I really hope it doesn't attack us." Misato said.

"You know, that reminds me. Have we ever tried to communicate with the Angel?" Shinji wondered.

"We've tossed that idea around a few times but we eventually came to the conclusion that due the Angel's unique and complex biology, our speech patterns are completely imperceptible to it." Ritsuko answered.

"Shucks." Shinji frowned. He then noticed a rather large, elevated seating area in from of them. "So what's story on this throne looking thing?" He asked.

"That's where the Commander sits. Usually jut to observe the operation and give us orders." Misato explained.

"More like look down on you guys. I always knew that jackass had a god complex." Shinji scoffed in contempt. The Bridge Bunnies mouths slowly fell open while Ritsuko and Misato visibly cringed. The Captain immediately decided to change the subject. "I…uh…think this pretty much concludes our little tour! What do you say we go get lunch?" she quickly said while clasping her hands.

"That time already? Okay, I'm down with that. Am I paying or-"

"Don't sweat it. It's on me." Misato reassured Shinji as they walked out of the command center.

"I should probably get to work on requesting our radioactive shield and notifying our tech department about the upcoming improvements to our arsenal. I trust that you three will monitor the creature and run updates for our systems?" Ritsuko inquired.

"Yes Ma'am!" They said in unison as they instantly turned to their console and carried out her request. Ritsuko gave them a polite nod and headed out the door where Misato and Shinji recently left. As soon as she left however, the trio instantly stopped what they were doing and started to converse with one another.

"You know, Shinji does have a point. It does sort of make it look the Commander really is looking down on us." Hyuga agreed, while eyeing the seat.

"I don't think I've ever heard someone talk about the Commander that way or hold that much resentment towards him. Shinji must have a lot of issues with him." Maya stated.

"From what I hear, word's been going around that the Commander abandoned Shinji for 10 years straight." Shigeru revealed.

"No! Really?!" Maya gasped. She couldn't believe that someone would even do that to their own son!

"Wait, where did you hear that?" Hyuga questioned.

"Some of the workers in the Eva cages overheard their little 'exchange' last night. Apparently, this was their first meeting in years and he just called him over to pilot Unit-01." Shigeru explained. Hyuga and Maya were stunned silent when the heard that.

"So he wasn't contacted by the Marduk Institute? They would surly let him know first before bringing him here, right? They wouldn't just dump something this huge on his lap!" Maya rationalized.

"Are you sure you're not pulling our chains?" Hyuga asked, suspicious if his friend was telling the truth or not.

"Man, when have I ever lied?" Shigeru asked rhetorically. Hyuga thought for a moment and confirmed that he was indeed telling the truth.

"I think you're right. The Commander was talking about a 'replacement' yesterday and Rei was badly injured during that time." Hyuga deduced.

"You guys don't think…" Maya trailed off as she connected the dots in her head. The trio stayed silent as they began to process this startling revelation. They weren't sure what the future would hold for Shinji but their opinion on Gendo changed.

He may be the Commander but he was a truly despicable man for putting his son through so much.

To be continued…

This was an interesting chapter to work on because I felt like canon Shinji was really didn't know a lot about Nerv. So I decided to have this Shinji actually ask how Nerv works most of the time, hence why I had Misato show him around. This chapter was originally going to have the full tour but that would take forever to do so I just had them do it "off-screen" and then let them do the most informative part of the tour: the command center.

I also greatly enjoyed introducing him to Maya, Shigeru and Hyuga. It was a real shame canon Shinji didn't get to know them better and decided to have them hit it right off the bat with him. I wanted them to be a little more aware of what happening around them so I added that little exchange they had near the ending.

One thing I also really enjoyed was getting into Godzilla's head and reveals some interesting lore I made that the main characters don't even know. I won't reveal anything huge yet but I will be adding in more plot elements around the Kaiju and you can expect a big surprise as the story continues!

Don't forget to review but please don't flame.