Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or any of the things I want to in this world of ours. The only thing created by me on the NGE area is this fanfic series. If you sue, I'll sue back.

Misato crushed something that she held in her hand.

"What!"

'You heard me correctly. You are to make sure that 1. Pilot Soryu Asuka Langley gets as little contact with Pilot Ikari Shinji as possible. And 2. That Pilot Ayanami Rei and Pilot Ikari Shinji are spending as much time together as possible. This is because of the success in their synchronization attacks against Israphel. The commission were so impressed that they decided that the Pilots should continue the synchronization training. And I also have personal interests in seeing Pilot Ayanami Rei and Pilot Ikari Shinji working together. These actions will take place after the vacation of yours is over. I count on you, captain Katsuragi.' Misato sighed and hung up.

'This is one fine mess, I wonder what will happen now, and I wonder if the commander knows about this relationship between Rei and Shinji-kun.' She was being sickened tired by the fluffy stuff going on between Shinji and Rei.

'It's all –kun here and –kun there, I'm getting fed up with it. And now I'm supposed to encourage it? It's too much.' Her thoughts were interrupted by a series of laughter from behind a closed door. Misato went for another beer.

'Well, it's good that Shinji-kun can make Rei loosen up, she's always been too tense, but with Shinji-kun, she talks, laughs, cries, anything that she didn't do before. But then there's the romance factor. Is this really good? And if they are going to spend more time together, who knows what might happen?'

"Bulls eye!" Misato sighed; they had been playing video games in the hotel room all day since it's been raining since breakfast.

'And where the heck did they find an Eva video game?' She opened the door a crack and peeked in. Shinji and Rei were sitting on the bed, eyes glued on the screen where something vaguely looking similar to Unit 01 where jumping around, shooting at something that with some good imagination might look like Sachiel. She pushed the door open and cleared her throat. They didn't hear it over the video game. Misato cleared her throat exaggeratingly loud. They didn't hear it.

"Hey!" Shinji and Rei jumped and looked wild-eyed around the room until they found the source of the sound. It was a quite annoyed Misato.

"How about you two turn that thing off and come out here? I've got news from NERV HQ." Shinji and Rei almost fell out of the bed when they tried to get out in the living area first. They rammed Misato in the doorway and they all fell in a big heap on the floor. Shinji and Rei muttered and excuse and ran over to the couch, fighting over the most comfortable place, namely the other ones' lap. When Misato had gotten up and fetched another beer for herself as a replacement for the one she recently had dropped she sat down on a chair opposite the couch. Misato looked at Rei with a raised eyebrow; Shinji had lost the wrestling for the most comfortable place and ended up with Rei in his lap, not that he complained though. Misato pinched her nose-bridge. This was going to be tough, explaining something for a pair of love-sick teens in each others' lap. They had already started hugging like mad, and before Misato could stop them, a tickling fight had erupted. Misato downed her beer instantly.

When Misato had explained it to them, it was three hours later than when they had started. Before Shinji and Rei could run off into their room again, Misato pulled up an old package. It contained the miserably beaten pieces of a game of monopoly. But it worked, and they soon sat arguing whether you should pay the rent if you just passed ones' property or not.

"Ha! Pay up Shinji! I've got two hotels and three houses on this one, this is gonna sting in your wallet!" Shinji sighed and gave Rei the last of his bills in big numbers. Now he only had a few monopoly dollars left. Misato had once tried to cheat by sticking in some of her real dollars she had gotten somewhere. But the moment Rei had won them; Misato had snatched them back and ran off to hide them again. As the situation was, Rei was clearly in the lead with Misato close after and Shinji sadly far behind. Then good luck struck Shinji for once like a baseball bat. Misato rolled the right numbers. And she landed on his only property left. The biggest one with four hotels. Misato handed the money over and Shinji sat a good five minutes just laughing like a maniac. Then he landed on another one of Rei's properties and lost all of his money, the property he had left and he was out of the game. Shinji sat in the couch and watched the rest of the game cursing lady Fortune.

Rei won the rest of the game and spent the rest of the day mocking losers until their patience broke and Shinji, Misato and Rei fought a tickling war. Unfortunately as always, room service walked in and announced;

"Your laundry has been done to your specifications…" More than that the maid did not say, since she was quite stunned by the scene. Shinji and Rei in night clothing that were half-unbuttoned and Misato in her usual revealing outfit in a wrestling pile on the floor, hands under each others clothes. Misato glared a 'thank you' at the maid who scurried out of the room, noticeably redder than before.

Two months later, the trio returned home to spend some time in Tokyo-3. Well, spend some time with each other and at home and waste some time in school. Needless to say, when they returned home and Touji and Kensuke found out about Shinji and Rei, they went almost berserk with different feelings. The minute Shinji told them, Touji locked Shinji's head in a neck-lock under his arm and started shouting either in Shinji's ear or to Kensuke.

"You lucky son-of-a-…! Hey Kensuke! You heard the news?" Kensuke looked up from his laptop.

"What?"

"About Shinji and Ayanami!" Kensuke jerked and fixed his glasses at Shinji. Then he grinned.

"You lucky son-of-a-…!" By now, the class representative had stomped over to Touji and re-directed him from Shinji's to his own bench by the ear.

"You shall sit down quietly during class!" Touji grabbed his now red ear with tears in his eyes and a grinning Kensuke by the neck the moment Hikari turned around.

"And what the heck are you smiling at, eh?" Touji whispered.

"The lovebirds, the lovebirds, I swear." Kensuke panicky stuttered, trying to escape Touji's firm grip.

"Suzuhara! You are on detention!" Touji let go of Kensuke's ear.

"But, but…" He cried in dismay throughout the whole class. Kensuke, Shinji and Rei shook their heads and continued to ignore the teachers' unending blabbering about the second impact.

The remaining three months passed without anything worth memorizing happening. Shinji and Rei cuddled on, Misato was just sickened by the fluffy stuff all over the apartment, Kaji visited a couple of times, but Misato did her best trying to get him to realize that she was over him. She even shot at him a few times until he scurried off and hid somewhere. But he's a stubborn guy, and he kept coming until Misato chased him with her car through five blocks and locked him into a garbage can with too many chains and locks to be opened even by Houdini. After that, they didn't see him for a while. The school went on and on as usual with Touji and Kensuke as the class' clowns and they kept pinning Shinji down for details about him and Rei. Then the time for the mission came.

Shinji and Rei stood in one of the cages of NERV, in which the new units they should be piloting stood. They were almost identical to the units they already had piloted with a few exceptions. The bodies were like it always had been on the units. The arms, legs and heads also. The differences lay in that instead of the usual battery packs on their back, sticking up a couple of metres over the heads, there were large, not to say huge, something like backpacks on the units backs. These backpacks had big jet exhausts on the bottom, and the majority parts of the pack were fuel tanks. All in all, it looked like if someone had put a jetpack on its' back. Ikari Gendo smirked. He thought quite highly of himself for figuring this modification plan out.

'It's a great thing I figured out, putting jetpacks on the backs of the Eva units. And the commission thinks I needed to build all new units, now I can use the spare money for improving the units we already have.' Fuyutsuki Kozo sighed. The commander was quite stupid sometimes he had noticed.

"They look like our ordinary Eva's, only with jetpacks." Rei nodded.

"Sure does." They looked at the Eva units with doubt shining through in their eyes. Then they noticed something strange. A red Eva unit next to the purple and the blue one.

"I wonder if Asuka-san is coming on this mission too." Shinji said, mostly thinking loud.

"I think she does." Rei's voice was suddenly filled with something Shinji thought sounded like…fear? Shinji looked at her. Then in the direction Rei was facing. And he reeled back a step. Asuka stood at the entrance of the cage, shouting at a security guard who pressed himself against the wall, trying to get as far away from the redheaded girl as possible.

"What do you mean with 'not authorised in another five minutes'! Five minutes here or there! Baka!" Shinji and Rei closed their eyes as a slap echoed through the cages. When they looked again, Asuka was storming towards her red Eva unit.

"If someone as much as scratched it I'm gonna rip their heads clean off…"She muttered, sending shivers down Shinji's spine as he remembered the nightmare. He put a protective arm around Rei's shoulders. Asuka screeched to a halt in front of them as she saw this. She slowly and threatening turned to face the couple. Her face took a slightly redder colour.

"Well, hello…Shinji…and wonder girl…" Then she spotted the arm around Rei's shoulders. Rei scooted a little closer to Shinji under the murdering glares Asuka's eyes shot out randomly now. Asuka leaned a little closer and the yelled on the top of her lungs.

"What the hell do you think you are doing to my baka Shinji! Get the hell away from him you slut!" She pulled back her right arm, ready to slap, but Shinji glared at her.

"What did you say, Soryu Langley?" This frosty addressing made Asuka drop her arm and reel back a few steps.

"I…I…" Shinji glared even angrier at her.

"If I hear you say something like that to or about Rei-kun again, I won't be responsible for my actions." And with those words Shinji led Rei to the briefing room, leaving Asuka dumbfounded in the cage. The security guard smiled and nodded at them as they passed.

"When you destroy an angel, the AT field developed by that angel implodes and further increases the power of this destruction. The angels exist in a parallel dimension, an unseen dimension that the angels have found a way to escape from. They can break the barrier between the dimensions and travel into this, our dimension. However, the portal between the dimensions is hard to raise for a longer period of time, and thus, only one angel at a time can travel to this dimension or back to their own. We will launch a counterattack on the angels' dimension to once and for all get rid of the constant threat of the angels'. Getting to the dimension will be tricky, since we don't have the energy to open the portal on our own. As you might have guessed, the AT field is the key to open that portal. We will commence the attack as soon as we have an angel that can get us through that dimension. This is how it will work. We have an angel in our final dogma, Lilith, and this is the key to the third impact, if an angel makes contact with Lilith, the third impact will occur and the angels can rule this dimension as well. Lilith is restrained by the Lance of Longinus; Unit 000 will retrieve that lance and bring it up to the surface when the time comes. We will then use other means to restrain Lilith, but you don't have to worry about that." Ikari Gendo inhaled and exhaled a few times.

"When the angel then attacks, we will destroy it using the Lance of Longinus, since we cannot risk a close encounter. When the angels' AT field implodes, a tunnel, the portal will open for 3.5 seconds. During this period of time, you will fly in and travel to the dimension of the angels. There you will annihilate any angel you might encounter and/or destroy the source of the angels. There is no need to worry about the limited time of operation for your units. The jetpacks also contain batteries that guarantees several hours of operating time. Is the mission clear to you pilots?"

"Hai."

"Hai…"

"Hai, Otou-san…"

"Then the attack will commence as soon as we have an angel, Ikari Shinji, you will work as the offensive, Ayanami Rei, you will work as the defensive to protect the offensive, Soryu Asuka Langley, you have one of the most important tasks, you are the backup, and you will aid and/or replace any of the two others if necessary. You are dismissed."