Hello fanfiction readers, favoriters, and alertettes! I welcome you to another update of When Two Angels of a Different Breed Meet, and I do hope everyone enjoys it! This chapter will POSSIBLY be one of the last, depending on the overall demand for this story to be continued, as I said from the first chapter. While I do like this crossover, I don't wish to pull myself in too many directions ya know? So, either way, I do hope everyone enjoys this chapter! As usual, I don't own Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, nor do I own Neon Genesis Evangelion or any references that find their way into this story.

"Normal Speaking."

'Mental Thoughts."

"Lilith/Deity."

-Chapter 5-

Shinji didn't understand why this was such a big deal. Okay, he had a feeling that the principal wanted to show off the fact that he had the mayor's daughters at his school, which was quite confusing since he was told that they were merely apprentices. Still, even with that odd fact in mind, he wouldn't have cared if he was in the crowd sitting on the bleachers watching this announcement unfold; however, this wasn't the case, as he was in a place he truly didn't want to be.

He was on the stage in between Kneesocks and Mari, while Scanty stood next to her sister with a polite smirk upon her face. Kneesocks stood calm and collective, injecting the information she was hearing into her mind, though one wouldn't know this unless they were friends with her. Mari, oddly enough, stood closer to him than he would of liked, linking one of her fingers to him and wouldn't let go. He would have jerked his hand away, and he knew he should have, but the fear in her eyes made him relax and link their hands together to hopefully ease her fear. She was more like the old him than he would have expected, but he supposed that anything was possible in this odd city.

'Still, I don't understand as to why I am here on stage next to the Akuma sisters.' Shinji thought before paying attention to the principal. There was so much he could take from a wind-bag like him, so he tuned him out every now and again, a trait he picked up from Asuka complaining about just about everything back in Tokyo-3.

"...Not only are we fortunate enough to be able to teach the daughters of our fabulous mayor, but we also have two very important guests with us as well. Shinji Ikari is the son of Gendo Ikari, who is the head of Gehirn Japan branch, and Mari Makinami Illustrious, the daughter of Marisa Illustrious, who is one of the leading biologists in the country, shall also be spending their final year here at Daten High! Lets give them a round of applause everyone!" Shinji didn't dare think of what was going to happen now that everyone knew that he was friends with the mayor's daughters, let alone the son of someone who was quite important to the world. He was confused at why the principal used NERV's old name though, considering they switched their goal, as well as the name, about a decade or two ago.

Luckily for them, the assembly didn't last much longer, allowing the four to quickly go to their second class of the day, Biochemistry, and relax for the precious moment they were granted. He had to hand it to the principal though, he was glad to have the same schedule as the three girls, as it allowed him to stick to a base group of people he knew and wouldn't be awkward with. Not only that, but their lockers were next to each other as well, which was another plus for the short man with a very unusual boil on the top of his head.

"Hey Shinji," Mari began as she pressed her chin on his left shoulder, slowly circling her arms around his chest, "do you want to go on a date after school today?"

'Okay, not too awkward with.' Shinji corrected himself before turning his head to her. This turned out to be a bad move, as his lips brushed against her cheek, causing her to pull away and develop a bright blush to match the joyful smile that now appeared. It only took him a few seconds to realize what he did and turned away with widened eyes, but it was too late, he noticed, as both Kneesocks and Scanty were looking at him with a glare that promised to melt him to a single atom. "It was a complete accident, I swear!" Was all he could say under their imposing gaze.

"I can believe that." Scanty stated, calming him down. That was, until she turned her head away from him. "I mean, who would find interest in you at all! Maybe a loser, or even someone who doesn't know the difference between value and trash." Kneesocks turned to her with widened eyes, though she placed a book in front of her mouth to muffle whatever she was saying. It wasn't long before people started entering the room, most of them either being the average student who cared for their grades or the few popular students who didn't care about being seen as "nerds" by being in such an advanced class, but neither of the classifications mattered to him since they swarmed around them, asking questions about their life and any bit of information they could pull from them.

'At least the Akuma sisters can handle talking to such large crowds with ease.' Shinji noticed as he found himself slowly responding to the crowd of classmates that were asking him what his father did. He wished that they would have taken the hint that he didn't want to talk to them like this, but he knew he shouldn't be relying on such thoughts and wishes, and began to look for any excuse he could to get these people away from him. He was fortunate enough to, while leaning upwards to "reposition" himself, which in truth he was hoping to spot something to point out, he noticed an orange afro that slowly walked through the crowd that looked familiar. He saw him right after that perverted priest tried to kidnap him, and even heard of his name thanks to that creeper, but what was it again? Boxers? Barnacle? Bewford? No, but it did start with a B and had an F somewhere in the name. Could it of been Beautifly? No, that was a Pokemon name for Lilim's sake! Great, now he was picking up on Lilith's phrases! Oh why couldn't he remember a name that was spoke for a brief moment? He could easily remember the smallest of details during his battles against the Angels, but he couldn't recall such a brief name that was so unique?

He then realized that he thought of the name not once, but twice, and nearly slapped his forehead in the process. He took a breath and stood on the seat of his desk, making sure that the bush of hair he spotted belonged to the person he was about to call out. If it didn't, he would go with plan B, and either call out that there was a Ghost or tell them to back off. Seeing his target in sight, he called him out.

"HEY BRIEF!"

And just like that, everyone around him separated, ironically giving him a clear visual of the orange haired teen who wore the green jumpsuit with the metal backpack on his back. He turned to look at him, his eyes covered by his hair but the quivering lip was free for all to see, and he wondered if the guy was nervous to talk to him.

"Y-you remember me?"

"You know him?"

"Brief, you've met Shinji before?"

Despite the sudden talking that surrounded him, Shinji managed to stay calm and walked over to Brief and smiled. A nice front and all he had to do was point at him and say something to put the guy in a good light, and he would be out of the clear. All in all a good plan, he figured.

"Brief here saved me from this creepy black priest that was trying to get close to me. He's a good guy in my book."

"G-Garter isn't that b-bad..." Brief mumbled, but no one commented on what he said. Instead, the loud gossip changed into silent whispers, allowing him to get back to his seat and, as if it wasn't ironic enough, he was placed to the right of Brief, meaning that he had all of his "friends" by him. The teacher came in not too long after that, a tall brunette of a woman who curled one of her bangs with her middle finger, a bad habit if Shinji ever saw one, and brought out his notebook and pencil, ready to take notes for the day.

"Good morning class! I am quite happy to have Shinji Ikari and Mari Illustrious, and rather than start our class with the test I was prepared to deliver, I think we all could benefit from hearing from the two who were surrounded by biology in its finest!"

'Well, there goes me being comfortable in this class.'

Third, fourth, and fifth hour followed the same route as second hour, much to Shinji's annoyance. People were constantly trying to pry him of information, the teacher would practically call him or Mari out to answer their questions, and both of the Akuma sisters would either glare or ignore him. While he could understand Scanty doing it, since she didn't care for him in the slightest, he hoped that the time he spent with Kneesocks yesterday would have warmed her up to him, allowing for them to be open friends.

Their information gather exercise (he still refused to call it a date) went well for their first trial run. The book store they went to had a fair variety of books that he decided to buy, such as the Theories and Body Structures of Angels, Second Impact and its Legacy, and a new book on meditation. The main reason he picked up the other two books was, first off, the book about Angels not only talked about Panty and Stocking's class of Angel, but had some photographs of Adam during Second Impact, which meant he had a source of information he could use to possibly defend himself against the human Angels. The second reason, the more important reason, was that the less he had to phone Misato about, the better. He knew that his father would trace and listen in on his conversations, so he knew that the only way to get around that would be by letters, but even then the information he would be asking her could only be delivered in the form of files, which she would have to get from headquarters, which in turn...

Yea, you could get the picture from here.

Kneesocks picked up several books on Demon lore, for what reason he couldn't figure, but it did inspire him to pick up a book about the humanoid Demons that sometimes came to Daten City. He hoped that he wouldn't have to fight them, but he knew it was better to be prepared just in case. Despite the hour or so they spent at the book store, they didn't wish to return to home so soon and went to several antique shops, which Shinji didn't mind going to as it made her smile. He didn't even question the old, leather bound books she bought from each place, nor did he even think of bringing up how familiar each store owner talk to her, as if she went there frequently.

"I suppose you will never have luck with girls, may they be pure human or not Shinji." Lilith said, though the sudden communication between them nearly made him drop his lunch tray. Then again, he could use the distraction, since the lunch he was given looked more like sludge with random crust in it than a mashed potato bowl with nuggets, and welcomed her.

'It isn't my fault that everyone is bipolar around me.'

"At least you have Mari if everything falls short with Kneesocks."

'Are you seriously pushing me into dating someone who has a fetish for your blood?' Shinji questioned, considering the person they were talking about had some VERY unique traits that would make others turn away from her if they ever found out. Now that he was on the topic of her, he realized he had another question he had to ask Lilith. 'Ano, did Mari exist before Third Impact?'

"...Why do you ask this now?" The hesitation in her voice was a big clue for him, but he still needed the information. He now knew that his desire to killing SEELE would have drastic consequences to the world, but Mari was someone he needed to figure out, at least in one particular sense.

'Because I need to know something. If Mari were to exist before Third Impact, then that means that my father could of chosen her as the new pilot rather than Toji when we were in need of an additional pilot.' Shinji sat down at an empty table, uncaring for the people who were hoping he would sit by them for the moment. It didn't take much for Shinji to remember Bardiel, the fungus Angel that took hold of Unit 03 and possessed not only the unit, but began to infect Toji as well. There were moments after Third Impact that he still had nightmares of what the Dummy Plug made his unit do to Toji, taking his leg in the process of killing the Angel, and yet Toji didn't blame him for the loss of his limb. He hated feeling so powerless, so useless that everyone had to do things for him, which was why, deep down, he didn't mind killing Ghosts as much as he would have if they appeared in Tokyo-3.

"If that is the reason you are asking... Then yes, she existed before Third Impact. However, she was nowhere near Toji-"

'Toji wasn't any better I bet!' Shinji declared to her, mentally knowing it was the closest equivalent to a scream he could muster for his mind. 'Toji was going to get in synch with it and then start practicing, not to mention that I bet the air current from America to Tokyo-3 wouldn't of touched her unit, meaning that we would have faced Bardiel at a later point.'

"You don't know that Shinji."

'Neither do you.'

"A-Are you okay Shinji-san. San is the common suffix for random people to use when they first meet, correct?" Shinji looked up to see Brief to his side, looking at the other side of the table with a cautious glance. Shinji motioned for him to sit, and watched as Brief did so carefully, as if he was expecting something to happen. Was he bullied by the other students here?

"I am fine, just a bit disgusted at how the food looks." He lied, taking a moment to mix up the mashed potato bowl before taking a bite of it. It wasn't as bad as he expected, but it was quite shy of the gravy, and had an abundance of cheese that wasn't needed in his opinion. "Has the food always looked this terrible Brief?"

"No, b-but one of the cooks who normally makes everything got fired recently, so everything has turned out to be less than p-perfect. This is actually one of the better dishes." Brief took several bites of his own meal, acting as if the odd taste of it didn't bother him at all, something he couldn't anymore thanks to one of Misato's legendary cooking disasters. After a moment for the two to drink some milk they returned to their conversation. "How was the food at your school?"

"Our food," Shinji began, "was normally whatever we made in our bento boxes and brought with us. If we couldn't bring our own we could buy a pre-made one from the lunch staff, but otherwise they cooked as little as possible due to the attacks that plagued Tokyo-3."

"You mean the A-Angel attacks, correct?" Brief politely whispered. After he nodded, Brief asked something that he honestly didn't expect. "So are you Panty and Stocking's younger brother Angel-san?" Shinji choked on his drink for a bit, causing him to cough until he could control his breathing again, but that did nothing to stop Brief from looking at him with an evaluating look. Don't ask him as to how he knew, but he could feel the stern look behind the bush of orange hair.

"Excuse me? I have no idea as to what you're talking about Brief-san." Brief unlatched his metal backpack, laying it on the table for him to see. He then noticed that, rather than it being a backpack, it was some type of machine with a tube that could have been used for vacuuming. Was he an inventor by chance?

"This is a PKE meter, and it allows me to, on its normal function, track any type of non-human energy signature within a certain radius. While I normally go hunting for Ghosts, considering the heavy population of them in this city, I can change the setting to its basic function of picking up ANY signature, or even specifying it to that of an Angel. After our first meeting and listening to what Garter told me, I altered the PKE meter back to its basic function and, lord and behold, I found myself witnessing an energy signal closely related to that of Panty and Stocking, but different at the same time. It could be that you're a Fallen Angel, which would explain as to why your energy signal seemed so dark and chaotic, or even have Black Matter inside you, considering the Angels you had to face in Tokyo-3 came from another galaxy or dimension.

"Either way, I must know what exactly you're doing here Shinji-san. I care too much for this city to allow something that could be a Fallen Angel to ruin its already dwindling peace. So please, tell me as to what your intentions are for Daten City." Shinji blinked at him, running everything that the teen said in his mind several times, and couldn't believe it. Not only did the boy have a form of technology that acted as a miniature sonar that was used at NERV, but he was being classified as something closely related to the human Angels. It was then that he realised something rather interesting, and smiled about it, causing a tiny frown to appear on Brief's face. "What?"

"You didn't stutter the entire time you spoke to me. Good job."

"A-A-Ah! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to sound cocky or arrogant! I'm sorry for making you feel b-bad!" Shinji couldn't hold in his amusement and laughed, making the teen blush from the reaction. It was then that he felt an odd wind hit him, and looked up to see Mari above him, grinning with the Cheshire cat grin he was used to seeing upon her face, and made eye contact.

"So boys, what are you two so involved in conversation about?" She asked, causing him to look at Brief, who began to press his index fingers together. Shinji, on the other hand, hoped to dear Kami that she hadn't heard anything Brief said, or else he would end up strapped down to Mari's table with a large syringe in her hand. She would either drain him of his blood to bathe in the LCL scent it produced, or to have sex with him and try to have the first natural Angel/Human hybrid baby.

'Then again, Mari is so obsessed with me that I think she would do anything I would ask her to.' A small, perverted thought entered his mind, causing him to shake his head and take another bite of his lunch, which he found out that it was practically cold. With no warm food to distract him, he looked up to Mari and sighed. "Brief asked me about the school I went to in Tokyo-3 and we compared lunches. Nothing special."

"Oh, you're talking about Tokyo-3 hm? I would love to hear more about it." Shinji turned to see Scanty and Kneesocks, who were lucky enough to have a salad on their plates rather than the cold sludge he now had, and gave them a polite wave. Just because both of them were being rude to him shouldn't mean he had to be mean to them to make up for it. Kneesocks wordlessly sat down next to him, making her sister glare for a moment before sitting next to Brief, who offered her several high quality napkins to use. Where he got them, Shinji would never know, but she smiled at the gesture and accepted them nonetheless.

"Well, in order to properly explain my school, I have to talk a little about Tokyo-3..." As Shinji described the city to them, from the average person to the natural defense the city had against foreign attackers, he couldn't stop thinking about Brief and what he knew. He was fortunate enough that Brief put away the PKE meter before the Akuma sisters came to the table, or else the current conversation would be about it than his previous home, but that made him think back to his newest issue. Who exactly was Brief to have such technology at his fingertips? He seemed nice, but get past the stutter and he seemed much older, no, more mature than most of the students here, and that made him ponder the possibility if he was something akin to Kaworu, a thought that made Shinji hold back a wince.

Just who in the hell was Brief?

-Author Note-

I was once asked "What would Brief's role be in this story? Would he be pushed to the side for Shinji to take the spotlight, would Brief become jealous and become an enemy, or would they be friends til the end?" My answer I believe was that they would be friends, but that is technically a lie, as you can see in this chapter. They are neither friend nor enemy at the moment, which makes the story (in my opinion at least) even more interesting than simply giving a black or white answer. Also, this was also a way to show that Brief can be the COOL/SEXY Brief without having his hair pushed back, which I always wanted to see him be, but hey at least we got to see him stand up for himself in the end right?I am unsure as to which part of the canon storyline the school will present itself, such as before Barby's destruction or after, but I can work out that tiny detail with ease.

To those who wanted to see some Shinji/Kneesocks, I apologize for not doing more than having Shinji recollect their "information gathering exercise", but there are two reasons for that, one of which should be easy to spot right away. As for the Shinji/Mari fans, I do hope you enjoyed their little hand holding moment, as well as Shinji's thoughts and accidental cheek kiss too. The main pairing(s, just to show that I am considering more than one lover), is still up in the air, but I believe I have it set out to the point where everyone can be happy. What do I mean by this, well, you'll have to read on, but now it is time for reviews!

Reality Deviant: I have the dvd movie and I didn't recall it til after I read your review, so I feel ashamed of myself. I might just get Shinji a bunny now, if only to have it have a biting issue or two with him. I do hope that you don't find this chapter to short either!

HotelKatz: You've hit it on the nail Katz, it is a seed that is now, slowly but surely, growing to the point of sprouting something left unseen. I'm quite glad to hear you liked the chapter.

Sh8ad8ow: Thank you for your review and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Snow299: As with Sh8ad8ow, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and thank you for the kind words.

The Lord Of Pages: I understand your words and suggestions, but I dislike polls to the point where it (to me) shows that the author doesn't have a concrete foundation of their own will for their stories. Sure, if it is to decide which story an author should continue or not, then that is a different story, but for romance? I see polls done mostly for harem stories, so I suppose that is where my negative thoughts come from on that particular topic, which are usually written for the lemons rather than the plot. Back to the MEAT (yes, I just stole your term), I am glad you liked the chapter, and Kneesocks may or may not have a hand at Shinji finding out something about their plans, or possibly hinting at something happening to a particular location to save or get him out of their way. That is for you to think about when the time comes.

Blood Brandy: I find Mari to be an interesting part to the new Evangelion series, which makes me wish she was at least hinted at in the old series. Either way, Scanty will eventually find out, though how is left to be seen.

Guest: Glad to hear that you enjoyed the chapter, and I hope you enjoy this one too. I doubt there will be a loss virginity to loser, realize that Shinji is the one, and they hook up or never fall for the other due to shame, but something may come up.

.Coronado72: Love your screen name by the way, it is quite unique to see on here, though I hate that the site won't allow it to show up in the document edit. I hope you like this new chapter and everything in it!

Rhynimy: Glad to see another Kneesocks fan on Fanfiction! I am hoping to eventually see more P&S fanfics of her in general, but I believe that won't happen unless someone makes a commitment to it. Maybe me perhaps? Either way, I am glad that this is now on your alerts and favs, and you're welcome for the chapter.

Farmer Kyle: I thank you for your kind words, and I can only hope that you end up liking this story. There are moments that I don't like it, to be honest, due to every bit of potential that this story has, as well as the general crossover. I mean, what if I decided that the American NERV branch was in Daten City, making Brief a pilot of Eva A.0 with his father as the figurehead but Corset as the bastard pulling the strings? If I did that, would the Ghosts stay as Ghosts, or would they become underlings of the Angels targeting that part of the world for unknown reasons, and what of Panty and Stocking if I decided to do this? So many ideas, but I must stick to this idea. At least, for a little while longer!

Zed: Thank you for your kind words, and I do hope you'll keep an eye out on this story.

Eternal Nothingness: There is a possibility of it being a multi-pairing, but of which girls I am not saying. I could simply toy around with everyone and go for a singular pairing in the end, but only time will tell.

NoirRenamon: I hope you enjoy this chapter, and enjoy the cool Brief in this chapter. Badass Shinji forever!

Again, thank you everyone who reviewed, as well as to those who have followed and have made this story one of their favorites! Happy Holidays to you all, and I do hope everyone has a fantastic day. Until next time!