A/N: Well, here we are! Chapter 47! So, let's make a quick recap. During the battle with the EVA Series, Unit 01 and Unit 02 merged together again. This time, a girl by the name of Ashika emerged as Unit F-01's pilot. And now, until Shinji and Asuka return to normal, she is pretty much in their place. How long will this last? Can the others deal with this? Find out!

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Ashika woke to the sun coming in through the window. She was wearing Asuka's pajamas that Misato recommended she wear. As she sat up, she quickly felt hungry. So, on the impulse, she made her way into the kitchen, and began to make something.

Zack finally felt the urge to get off the couch. It had been quite a day yesterday. The EVA Series had shown up AGAIN. Then he remembered that he got beaten by one of those stupid mass produced EVAs. And to make things even stranger, his best bud Shinji had merged with the girl Zack disliked the most, creating the brown haired babe that was in the kitchen making breakfast. Unfortunately, although Ashika carried Shinji's traits, she also carried Asuka's traits which made her a pain in the ass still. Hopefully the Shinji in her would tune her temper down a bit. To pass the time until breakfast was ready, he decided to tune in to the news.

Rei now awoke as she always did at this time. She noticed that Ivana was still sleeping. Rei figured she would awaken soon enough. Yesterday was not an easy day for anyone. With the disappearance of Shinji and Asuka, and the emergence of Ashika, a girl who resembles them both, and bases all her actions on their thoughts, Rei was not sure how this would affect things. She knew the only way to find out was to let the events play themselves out, and all would be revealed.

As she rose out of bed, she felt a sharp jab of pain course through her entire body. And as quickly as it had come, it disappeared. Once she finally got up, she proceeded to the kitchen, where Ashika was preparing a meal for everyone in the house.

Ashika quickly broke the silence. "Good morning Rei. Did ya sleep well?"

"I slept with no problems last night," was Rei's monotone answer, completely contrary to Ashika's statement, which was full of character. "Did you have any problems?"

"No I didn't," said Ashika. "Just a few thoughts about those two kids, Asuka and Shinji. I wish I could meet them. They seem like interesting people, unlike Zack!"

"Why do you hold such a hatred for Zack? You have only known him for less than a day."

"I don't know why," answered Ashika. "Something just tells me that he is bad news!"

"I see then."

Just then, Ivana came into the kitchen. "Good morning comrades," she said as she sat down.

"Good morning Ivana," replied Ashika. "Do you always call everyone comrade? Or is that a poor Russian stereotype?"

"Ah, you are indeed intelligent. But not exactly a stereotype," answered Ivana. "It's something that comes from being in a military family. It's what some Russians call their fellow soldiers. And unfortunately, it becomes a habit."

"Ah, that makes sense," said Ashika as she continued to make breakfast. Misato then came into the kitchen, and had her morning beer. Ashika was just disgusted at the sight she saw. Obviously, she had never seen Misato wake up with a hangover, and then a morning beer. "Do you have any idea how irresponsible you look drinking beer first thing in the morning?"

"Hey relax," said Misato defending herself. "So what if I love beer? I've never had one incident where I had a drunken driving incident or domestic problems."

'Thank God,' thought Ivana to herself.

"But still… do the others drink too?"

"Hell no," answered Zack as he walked into the kitchen. Everyone stopped to look at him as if what the hell was he doing there. "Uh, morning everyone."

Twenty minutes later, Ashika was wearing one of Asuka's school uniforms that she unfortunately was told she'd have to borrow until she got her own. And so the three girls and one well disliked boy went off for school.

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NERV HQ – Dr. Akagi's Office

Dr. Akagi was going over some information that she had on Ashika. The idea that Unit 01 and Unit 02 merged together to form Unit F-01 was mind boggling to say the least. The fact that Shinji and Asuka merged together into Ashika was totally inconceivable. But the information in front of her on her computer was telling her otherwise.

So Ritsuko continued her look over Ashika's information. Ritsuko learned that in a way, Ashika was like one of those unnamed elements on the periodic table. Stayed together long enough to get some information before splitting apart. They would split apart eventually, but it wouldn't hurt to know as much about her as they could, because if it could happen once, it would happen again.

But as she checked over the genetic patterns, she saw something that caught her eye. And when she saw it, she also brought up Rei patterns on screen. She looked up Rei's capabilities to project the AT Field on her own. And to her shock, Ashika could also project the AT Field without the Angel DNA! Ritsuko then rushed over to the phone to call Misato and warn her about Ashika's capabilities.

After a few rings, the doctor heard a cherry "Hello!" which could only come from one woman.

"Misato we have a problem!" said a frantic Ritsuko.

"I know that much. I have this brown haired girl instead of Shinji and Asuka," was Misato's somewhat sarcastic response.

"There's more than that!" Ritsuko was not impressed with Misato's somewhat not-caring attitude. "Do you know that she has the power to project an AT Field?"

"No I did not." It was easily apparent who was staying calm in this situation.

"Misato! If people see her using the AT Field, they'll think she's some sort of alien or something! Where is she now?"

"At school."

"MISATO!"

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Tokyo-3 High School

Ashika wasn't sure what to expect from this school. Misato had her enrolled in this school, along with the other EVA pilots who attended this school. She just couldn't grasp the reason why she was put in as an exchange student who was checking out different schools in the area to see which one she liked. Even stranger, she was put down as Ashika Katsuragi, and was given the same timetable as Shinji, according to what she strangely knew of him.

For some reason, she liked the cooking class a lot. Some of the girls were wondering where Shinji was. She quickly learned that Shinji was the only guy in the class, and was the target of all the girls' affections apparently. But that Asuka was the girl he was going out with and that she'd kill anyone who dared to get near him. The others were surprised that she already knew that without them telling her.

After that, she was to go to music class. The teacher there was okay as well. She knew how to use the instrument she was required to use, the cello, but another part of her found it incredibly boring. That class passed also without incident.

Next was math class. Ashika herself liked math, because it was one of the classes where she could prove she was beyond superior to all other students. As the new student, she was already the spectacle and so far had only been here for not even a day. Unfortunately, the one thing that offset her love of mathematics was the mega-boring teacher who ran the class.

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Gym Class – Beware big brute known as Coach Thunder (Yes he's back despite unpopular demand)

"LISTEN LADY! JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE THE NEW KID DOES NOT MEAN YOU GET TO WATCH! NOW RUN YOUR FUCKING LAPS!"

Coach Thunder was out in full force today. Rumour had it that someone had pulled some prank on him in the morning and if that was the case, he was successfully taking it out on every class he had that day. And now Ashika was the latest victim of his unrelenting fury.

While they were running their ten laps, Ashika took a moment to talk with Rei. "Say Rei, is Coach Whatshisname always like this?"

"Yes," replied Rei. "He has always been a very angry man, and no one knows why."

"Strange."

"HEY STOP TALKING AND GET THE FUCK RUNNING!" was the shout from across the gym.

After they did their twelve laps (Coach Thunder assumed they were all slacking, so they got an extra two laps), it was time for another round of dodgeball. Thunder quickly divided the class into two teams. And as usual, he wanted both teams to destroy each other.

It was bedlam as usual in a game of dodgeball. Ashika however, was on the front line, throwing the balls mercilessly. And oh boy did she have a cannon! Even Coach Thunder was impressed with how hard she could throw.

Zack and Elly were now the only ones left on their side of the gym. And he was up against Ashika, Ivana, and Toji. Just his luck. There were four balls in the game. He had two, Elly was back against the wall with no ball at all Ivana had one, and Ashika had one. He knew he had to throw a ball eventually, but then risk having one thrown at him. So, he knew he had to take a risk. To throw one at Toji and risk shots from both Ashika and Ivana, or throw one at Ashika, and risk a shot from Ivana, or vice versa. He quickly decided that Ashika was more dangerous, and she was a bitch, so she was going down as far as he was concerned.

Looking at Ivana, he shouted "Burn in hell you macho girl!" He watched as Ivana braced for his throw. Ivana noticed as his hand twisted in mid-throw. Suddenly, the ball fired at Ashika!

Ashika was totally off guard, and stumbled back, and flinched for the impact. But for some reason it never came. When she opened her eyes, she was sitting on her rear, and everyone had a look on their face that said 'what the hell'.

"What was that?"

"What the hell!"

"What the crap!"

"Did that even hit her?"

"It looked like it bounced off her but at the same time it didn't."

Coach Thunder quickly interjected. "HEY GIRL! YOU'RE OUT! GET YER ASS OFF THE FLOOR!"

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Strangely enough, the kids and Ashika had learned that the merged girl could project an AT Field. Luckily, Ritsuko who was acting quickly was able to convince the school administration that the kids were seeing things and that they required medical examinations.

Now Ashika and Rei were walking home from school, while all the others in that class minus the EVA pilots were having medical examinations to see if there was anything wrong. Ashika noticed that Rei was quiet from the start of class to the end, and decided to inquire as to why.

"Say Rei, how come you don't talk a lot?"

"I do not know. I guess I have not found the adequate moment to talk." As usual, a monotone response to a question she did not completely understand.

"Well if you feel the need to talk, you should," said Ashika. "You look like a nice girl, and you have smarts too. I bet if you opened yourself up more, some boys may find you appealing."

"Appealing?" asked Rei. Looks like she didn't understand that either.

"You know, when guys look at you, and they like what they see. Not in a perverted sense, but they can tell you are a nice girl," said Ashika.

"I see." Perhaps Rei understood somewhat of what she was talking about. Rei figured this was Shinji's part in Ashika's personality that made her tamer than Asuka would be towards her.

"There you go! Show those guys what you're made of!" yelled Ashika out loud!

"I will take that into consideration."

And so they continued on walking in silence after their brief conversation. Suddenly, Rei felt a sharp pain course through her body. Ashika could hear her grunt from the pain. "Hey are you okay?"

"I am… fine."

"Okay. You scared me there for a second." And so Ashika convinced Rei to hurry along home with her.

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Katsuragi Residence

"So that must have been quite a day," said Misato after they all were discussing it at the table. "So Ashika really could project an AT Field after all. I'm impressed."

"I never even knew I had that capability to even use the AT Field," replied Ashika. "I don't even know how I did it."

"Best of all, we got the rest of the class, including Coach Thunder, questioned to possibly be insane!" boomed Zack.

"That includes us as well you idiot," interjected Ivana.

"Yeah, it's all Ashika's fault!" returned Zack.

"Shut up you fucking Canuck!" Ashika went to punch him, but suddenly, a flash of light enshrouded the entire room. Two simultaneous thuds later, and once the light cleared, the others could see two figures on the floor where Ashika once stood.

To their shock, they realized it was Shinji and Asuka! They had separated! When Asuka opened her eyes, she looked around frantically.

"Hey! Where's my EVA? Where are those mass produced bastards?" She then pointed at Zack. "And what the fuck is he doing here?"

A/N: Sigh! That was short! But I'm glad I'm done. As for what happens in the next chapter, I hinted at it during this chapter. If you know, tell me in a PM. And Asuka and Shinji are back to normal from the looks of things. If you don't like this chapter, I completely understand. I just wanted to get something out because I haven't posted a chapter in so long. Until 48, be cool!