Disclaimer: No, I don't own it. Wish I did though.

Chapter 1: Is he serious?

"Excuse me... Are you Shinji Ikari?"
"Yes Ma'am." The voice was slightly mechanical, it also had an odd accent to it which was strange. I mean hes Japanese, we're speaking Japanese, whats the problem? That and the kid almost seemed to be at attention, as if she was his superior officer. How amusing, was he that scared of people?
Except he had called her 'ma'am'. She couldn't let that one pass.
"Don't call me that! You'll make me sound old!"

"What should I call you then ma'am."

She couldn't be sure, but she thought that last ma'am was on purpose. A narrowing of eyes later she replied, "How about Misato, that work?"

"Acceptable."

She was now offically sure he was messing with her.

"Anyways, have you been waiting long? I know I was a little late but-"

"Two hours, thirty seven minutes."

A stray wind blew through the station.

"...Pardon?"

"Two hours, thirty sev-"

"I know but the train schedule said that train 43 wouldn't arrive till 3:15!"

"The letter said to arrive as soon as possible. I saw the oppurtunity to arrive earlier than planned. I arrived to find, as expected, no one here. However I arrived only fifteen minutes prior to train 43. Therefore even if I had been on train 43, I still would have arrived two hours, twenty two minutes ago."

"...Sorry?"

"I assume you have transportation to NERV."

While that was phrased like a question Misato was sure that was a statement, it almost seemed a threat. Naw.

"Yeah, its that blue Alpine over there.."

She turned and walked over to the car and unlocked the driver side. Climbing she realized another thing. He was carrying all of his bags, the passenger side and trunk was still locked.

Way to go Misato, she thought as she opened the side door and the trunk, first impression the Commander's son gets of me is my being late and forgetting to help him carry his stuff. Mentally banging her head against the wheel, she started the car as he got settled into the passenger seat.

"So looking forward to seeing your dad again?"

"No." That mechanical voice was slightly spooky and still had that accent.

"Oh come on! How can you not look foward to see your own father?"

"I was left at a train station when I was four. Child Services found me and put me with a family in Kyushu. The UN then stepped in and sent me to a Kazahkstani family to help promote world peace and unification."

Damn, I knew I should have read that file Ritsuko left me!

With nothing to say to that piece of information the drive passed in silence until they arrived at NERV. When the great doors closed behind them Misato handed Shinji the pamhlet detailing what NERV did. Or so she thought.

"No dammit I don't know what the Human Genome Capablitity Committe is and I don't think I want to!"

As the ride descended past the armor of the base, a great pyramid shaped building appeared.

"Impressive isn't it, eh Shinji?"

"No, ma'am."

"What!? Why not?"

"It appears to be very hard to defend. Additionally it is very distinctive and appears to be more of a temple than say a military location. It would also not have been cost effetcive."

"...Why would you think of those things and in that order?"

"It is my job ma'am."

"What job requires that?"

Shinji looked confused at this.

"Why a soldier ma'am. Is that not what you are?"

"Yeah, but your a kid, your too young to be a soldier!"

"Not in Kazahkstan ma'am."

Misato grew quiet for a moment, then something hit her,

"Hey, don't call me ma'am!"

Moving through th halls of NERV turned out to be more of a problem than expected.

And infinitatly more irratating.

"Ma'am, we have passed by this point three consecutive times ma'am."

"Don't call me ma'am dam-"

With a swoosh, the door in front of them opened and a woman in a one piece bathing suit stepped out.

"Misato, you still cannot find your way, eh?"

"Rits-"

"Ritsuko Akagi, age 32, true hair color brown, lives at 1551 Sendo Street, Apratment C. Doctorates in Computer Sciences, Health Sciences and three other various subjects."(AN: I'm too lazy right now to think of actual things that pretain to NERV idea, when I redo this story I'll fix it.)

A solid round of blinking occurs.

"Just how do you know that?"

Shinji smiled.

"I know a great many things."

Unnerved by the boy Ritsuko bid them enter the elevator and after a short ride in which all inside (excepting Shinji) were unnerved, the elevator let them out onto a walkway. As they reached the halfway point the gloom was abruplty lifted as lights blazed on. And a massive purple head showed itself.

"Does this have a purpose to it or is this another way to delay informing me why I am here?"

the cold mechanical voice asked.

And another cold mechanical voice answered.

"You are here to pilot it boy."

Ritsuko and Misato stepped back as actual hate shone in Shinji's eyes as he turned to face the speaker. His voice coming out in a hiss.

"Father"

Author's Notes: This is the first actual chapter. Again, this is short. I did not mean it this way. I have no idea what happened. It seemed like it was going to be far longer than it turned out. I also realize how vague and odd this chapter turned out. That and to me it seemed my writing style changed. I had to stop in the middle of writing this so thats why it happened. I had a change in moods during the pause and became irratated at this story which is one of the reasons it sucks. To reveiwers thank you for the reviews. I would appreciate ideas for this story as the ones I had now seem blah. Email me with ideas you have. Also while I can enjoy writing, I also enjoy editing so if anyone wants to have something edited or knows someone who wants something edited, send me an email. All right, I'll shut up now.