Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or Star Wars. Just this story.

Authors note: Okay people! A lot of you have been wondering about it, so we will now finally learn how Shinji got to be such an awesome fighter! And just as a side note, this battle comes from my experience in Battlefront I. And this strategy works!

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Shinji was sitting down in the LAAT. His was still thinking about that kiss Rei had given him. He couldn't believe it. She'd actually kissed him! But his thoughts were interrupted, as a certain clone walked up to him. "Hey Shinji," Alex said, "I got that information you wanted."

"About the LCL?" Shinji asked

"Yeah," Alex replied. "Okay, the first dose was designed to cut the aging in half. That was meant to neutralize our doubled aging. However, for you that means that you would get one physical year older in two temporal years. Now the second dose was made to enhance the original dosage by six times. That leaves the clones with six years for every one year of aging. But for you, it'll be twelve years until you age one year."

"What!?" exclaimed Shinji, "I'm gonna be sixteen for twelve years?!"

"Well," said Alex, "I hope you like being sixteen. But hey, it could be worse."

"How? I don't want to be a teenager for the next 50 years!" said Shinji.

"That's the bright side then," replied Alex. "The LCL will eventually wear off. Nothing lasts forever. In fact, it should wear off in about 30, 35 years or so."

"Well, at least it wears off," said Shinji, "I don't want to be alive forever, or even close to forever."

"Strange," said Alex, "From what I understand, most people would love to live forever."

"Well," said Shinji, "If you live forever, and other people don't, then eventually you'd want to stop making friends. Because you'd live forever, but eventually they would die. And... I just wouldn't be able to handle that. I mean, if I lived forever, all I would be able to do is look back and think, 'How many friends of mine died in the past hundred years?' I lost my mother when I was just a kid. I don't even know what happened to her. All I know was that she was working on some secret project, and there was an accident, and she got killed. Then my dad... abandoned me. He just leaves me to look after myself. If the death of my friends can cause me as much pain as losing my mother did, I don't want to live forever."

Alex sat there silently. So did the other clones, who had been listening since Shinji had shouted 'What!?' They all looked at the boy with a different perspective. The only thing they had known about him until this point, was that he was a good fighter. They looked at him now as a young boy with a tragic past, and a wish not lose anyone. They gained a new respect for him. In the last minute or so, they had learned a great deal about his character. And they looked up to him for it. Finally, after about ten minutes, Red (who was sitting nearby) broke the silence.

"So Shinji," he asked, "Where did you learn to fight like that? I saw you on Geonosia and couldn't believe my eyes!"

"Well," replied Shinji, grateful for the change of subject, "I'll tell you. If you promise not to laugh."

"Why would we laugh?" asked Red.

"Well it's a bit silly," explained Shinji.

"We promise not to laugh," said Red. The clones agreed to the oath of silence.

"Well," began Shinji, "I was on my own a lot. And on the weekends, when I was bored, I used to go to a virtual reality arcade that was a few blocks away. There was this one game there called 'Battlefront.' The object of the game was to defeat at least 50 enemies before you were killed. The high-score was 100, and no one had ever beaten it. Well, I came every weekend, trying to beat the high-score. I worked at it for a year straight. I had managed to finish high school at age fifteen, because I really had nothing more to do then study. Well, the week after ! finished school, I went to the arcade. I started playing, and not only did I get the high score, I set a new one. I managed to get 157 kills before I got a game over. Fighting on Geonosia was pretty much the same thing."

The clones sat silently. Shinji couldn't see most of their faces, so he had no idea what was going through their heads. Suddenly, one sniggered. Then, as if a fuse had gone off, the clones all started laughing! They believed him, it was just that his story was so outrageous! They had been training all of their lives to fight, and they had been out fought by a sixteen year-old with an apparent video-game addiction!

"Hey!" exclaimed Shinji, "You guys promised not to laugh!"

"I'm sorry," said Alex, chuckling, "It's just funny. Tell you what. We owe you one, alright."

"Alright," said Shinji. The clones eventually stopped laughing, and they all sat in silence, waiting to arrive on the planet.

It was almost a day before they got there. When they landed, Shinji put on his helmet and stepped out of the gun-ship. As soon as he did, he wished he hadn't. This place was freezing! He looked around, seeing a few other LAAT's landing. They also had an AT-TE, which was currently being loaded up with clones. Shinji looked at his map. They were on the west side of a large mountain. In fact he could see the mountain, it was only a few yards from the landing area. The suspected droid base was on the other side. From what the map showed, they would have to go all the way around the mountain to get there. Shinji looked at the mountain, hoping to find a faster way. He was in luck.

He saw a cave entrance. He called a clone sharpshooter over. "Could you send a recon into that cave?"

"Yes sir," said the clone. He sent the droid into the cave, and monitored it's movement with a screen on his wrist. A few minutes later, the clone saw an opening. "It goes clear to the other side sir," the clone reported.

"Thanks," said Shinji. Shinji called Red over (Alex was already in the AT-TE). "There's a cave that goes directly through this mountain," Shinji said. "I have a plan, but it's a bit risky. Get a group of jet-troopers together, and get outfitted as a jet-trooper too."

"Alright," said Red. He and Shinji went to gather up a group of troopers. Shinji grabbed an EMP launcher and a get pack, keeping his assault rifle and pistol. He still had the Precision Pistol, but he had had to return the Elite Rifle, due to the limited supply. When the group was assembled, they had sixteen troopers in all.

"Alright," said Shinji, "Let's go." They headed into the cave, using the jet-packs to gain speed. The tunnel, thankfully, was very simple. About half way through, the tunnel lead into a large cavern. Shinji got an idea. He placed a signaling beacon down, and contacted the landing area base. "Send a force of clones into the cave," he said. "Just follow the signal and you'll come to a large cavern. Set up a second base of operations there, and then proceed to move east through the tunnel. There will probably be some droids when you reach the end of the tunnel, so be ready for a fight." Shinji lead his group of troopers through the rest of the tunnel. They came to the end, and saw the droid base.

Near the cave-mouth was an AAT, which was luckily empty. Shinji could only imagine what kind of destruction the tank.. could... cause? 'That's it!' thought Shinji. "Red," he said, "Get into the tank!" Shinji rushed out of the cave mouth, and before the droids saw him, hopped into the tank. Red did likewise. The droids still hadn't seen them. Shinji sat down in the tank's piloting space and looked at the controls. 'Oops,' he thought, 'I don't know how to work this thing. Well, looks simple enough.' He examined the controls carefully, trying to determine which thing did what. Once he had figured it out (or hoped he had) he radioed the jet-troopers, who were still waiting in the cave.

"Ok guys," he said, "Wait for just a bit, and then after the droids are in confusion, attack. Okay?"

"Yes sir!" a clone answered. then Shinji made a call to the clones in the AT-TE. "This is sergeant Shinji,"he said, "I'm in the droid area. When you get here, you should see an AAT firing at the droids. Do not fire at the AAT! Repeat, do not fire at the AAT!"

"Message recieved," replied a clone voice, "We aren't to fire at the AAT." Shinji made one last call to the clones who were currently going through the cave, repeating his last message.

Shinji moved the tank forward. A nearby engineer droid looked at it. That tank wasn't supposed to be moving. The droid didn't have much time to dwell on it, because suddenly he was blasted apart by a large blast from the tanks guns. 'Awesome!' thought Shinji. The droids all looked at the tank in shock. Red started firing the main gun of the AAT, sending the droids running. Shinji kept firing, trying to find droidekas, knowing that they would be the best targets to take out. Seeing that the AAT was causing considerable chaos, the jet-troopers flew out of the cave, some firing their EMP launchers, and some firing their Commando Pistols.

As if the droids didn't have a big enough problem! Their sensors had indicated that an AT-TE was directly on course with their base! And then suddenly, one of their own tanks had started firing on them! And to top it all off, jet-troopers were swarming all over the place. The droids started blasting. Snipers took aim at the jet-troopers, and assault and super battle droids aimed at the tank. The snipers fired, taking out three jet troopers, and the assault and supers fired their rockets at the tank. Shinji move the AAT out of the way in time o avoid most of them, but a couple of missiles still managed to hit, sending the AAT rocking with the force of impact. Shinji checked the tank's status screens. 'Shields:80'the screen read.

It was just starting to look bad, when the droids got another item to add to their list of problems. Clone troopers exploded from the cave mouth, swarming into the area. They began blasting at the droids. The droids fired back. And then suddenly, the droids added item #5 to their list. A huge tore through eight droids, and a large stone pillar! The AT-TE began preparing for another shot. The droids were cut off from all sides. Shinji and Red inside the AAT, firing at any and every droid they saw, clones everywhere blasting the hell out of them, and now a giant, 5-ton mechanical turtle was attacking! The droids tried to fight back, but they were being attacked from to many places at once. The droid force soon fell to the tactics of the clones.

Once it had been confirmed that all of the droids were destroyed, Shinji and Red got out of the AAT and went over to meet Alex, who was getting out of the AT-TE. "Nice plan Shinji!" Alex exclaimed. "Using their own tank against them was genius!"

"Well I figured that they weren't using it at the time so, hey why not?" Shinji joked. They did a count to find the number of casualties. they had made it out with only seven dead and five injured. Pretty good considering everything. "Can we leave now?" asked Shinji, hoping to get off of this frozen rock that was called a planet.

"Not yet," said Alex. "We have another mission on this planet before we can leave."

"Why are we here anyway?" asked Shinji.

"This planet is important," answered Alex, "It is the only other planet in the galaxy besides Kamino with the ingredients needed to make LCL. And besides, any one planet that the Seperatists have is one too many."

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Ok! I hope that batttle wasn't to short, but it doesn't take me very long to do that battle, so i don't have a lot of differing battle experience there. Oh and Shinji's strategy is a successful strategy that I myself have used many times(the level is Rhen Var harbor, start in the Ice Cave). What's up next for Shinji? When can he get off of this frozen rock? When will he be able to see Rei again? Tune in next time for the next episode of-crash sorry about that. couldn't help it : )

I will try to update soon though.