From: "Madrene Pardue" Subject: [Eva][FanFic] A Mother's Love NEON GENESIS EVANGELION is Copy Righted by GANINAX / Project Eva. TV Tokyo and ADV Films. Other Chactors and story are Copy Righted by Author and my not be used without promission from Author. Author's notes before reading. This is my first attemp at writing a Evangelion fan-fiction and the time line and the charactors where slightly changed to fit in the story. The story takes place after episode 18 so you might need to see that episode or to that point to understand the story. There my be some wording and miss spelled words but I promise you not many. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Mother I Never Knew I Had \ A Mother's Love For Her Child By: Hyun Min Kim The morning sun rises slowly as it does everyday, as beams of light chase the darkness of the night away as calmness and tranquillity comes over the fortress city of Tokyo-3. The sun's rays penetrate the darkness as a unseen evil approuches the city. The Children sleep silently in their beds as the calm winds blow leaves from the trees to the street below. The morning sun soon rises to a beautiful dawn as the citizens of Tokyo-3 awakes from their sleep to start the morning as they always do. The subways and trains are the first to start as enginneers report in for duty. The striking of a bell can be heard in the background as school children emerge from their homes to start the commute to school. The morning sun soon reaches a young boy by the name of Shinji Ikari as he wakes to start cooking breakfast for him and his roommates and to finish the homework he did not finish last night. In the next room a tired yet cheerful Misato wakes to start the day like she always does with beer. Asuka was still alseep as she tossed and turned in her sleep dreaming about the time she witnessed Unit-1's Berserker form. The smell of food cooking soon fills the apartment as Misato walks into the kitchen and asked Shinji what he was cooking. Shinji only smiled and asked Misato to tell Asuka he was leaving early for school. Misato only looks at Shinji with a puzzled look because this was odd for Shinji. Shinji soon finished his cooking and handa Misato her plate of breakfast and started to gather his things for school and was already out the door when Asuka walked into the kitchen to see Misato eating her breakfast and her plate already on the table. Soon Asuka was sitting at the table eating her breakfast when Misato tells her that Shinji had already left. Asuka in a strange way thanked Misato for telling her and soon finished her breakfast and started to get dress for school. On the other side of Tokyo-3, Rei was already on her way to school as the early morning train from Tokyo-2 arrived at the station. On the platform a tall, dark haired boy, in a traditional Japanses school uniform steps off the train onto the platform. The boy was greeted by NERV security personal as he placed the first step on the platform. The men quickly escorted the boy to their car. Soon the car was on its way to the mountains that surrounded Tokyo-3. The car soon made it to the cliff highways of the mountains as the car quickly turns onto a side street and heads for a deserted airfield used by NERV for Evangelion deployments and deliveries of the parts for them as well. Soon the car turned into a hanger that was filled with post Second Impact aircrafts and other planes from a time long since forgotten. The car soon came to a stop as the two men quickly opens their doors and one of the men opens the door for the boy, while the other man walked to the center of the hanger. The man at the center of the hanger crouches on one knee and opens a small hidden panel as the other man waits at the boy's side. Soon the other man signals them to come over where he was at. The man and the boy walks towards the other man as a elevator rises from the dust covered floor of the hanger. Soon both men was at the boy's side as the elevator stops and the doors opens to reveal Commander Ikari. Both men solutes him as the boy looks at the Commander. Soon the Commander spoke. "I see that you brought the real 5th Child here safely." As the Commander finished his sentence the two men escorted the boy into the elevator. The doors soon closed and the elevator soon started downward towards the sub Geo-Front. The elevator stopped and the doors opens as the Commander slowly exited the elevator. "Take him to Doctor Akagi." orderd Commander Ikari "Yes, Sir !" said the two men as the doors closed and the elevator started down again. The boy looks at the two men as they stood beside him silently, soon the doors opens again to reveal a tall, slim, blond haired woman dress in a black mini skirt with a blue blouse underneth a lab coat. The woman stood in front of them as she looked at some papers in her hand and had not notice that the elevator's doors was open. The woman look up for a moment and walked into the elevator. The doors closes behind her as she turns around to look at the doors, then looks at the boy and the two men and greeted the boy with a friendly hello and how are you. "I'm fine." The boy said as Doctor Akagi looks at some papers in her hand and tells him that he is the 5th and last Child to be chosen for the special E-Project. The boy was confused as Doctor Akagi hands him a sheet of paper. On the paper was the words "EVANGELION UNIT-03 REVISED ED." and below those bold black words was the words "PILOT: 5TH CHILD SHANE PARDUE." "I see that you were not aware of the deision that you were to be a Eva Pilot." Doctor Akagi said with a sad tone of voice. Shane looks at the paper in disbelif as the elevator's doors open and him and Doctor Akagi exits the elevator. "Doctor Akagi?" "Call me Ritsuko." "O.K. Ritsuko, why was I chosen for this?" Asked Shane as they walk down together down a well lighted hallway. "The reason that you was chosen for the E-Project or Evangelion Project was the fact that you was born after the Second Impact and that you have a special purpose in your life to pilot a Evanglion to fight the creatures we call Angels." Ritsuko explained as they reached a door. Ritsuko opens the door and Shane walks in, to see rows of control panels with a huge window at the bottom of the rows. The window showed the head of Unit-3, Shane looked in amazment as the door shut behind Ritsuko. "This is the main reason that you was chosen, to pilot and fight the Angels in the newly rebuilt Unit-3." Said Ritsuko as she walked down towards where Shane was standing at. Ritsuko looks at Shane as he looked at the jet black head of Unit-3. "Ritsuko I have a question." Said Shane as he touched the glass with his fingures. "What's your question?" Asked Ritsuko as she puts on her glasses. "I was wondering why do you say rebuilt when you mention Unit-3?" "The reason is the orignal version of Unit-3 was destoryed in a battle with one of the Evangelions when it was taken over by a Angel when we where activating it with the 4th Child." Explained Ritsuko as a slight tear fell from her eye to her cheek. "I'm sorry, I should have never brought it up." Said Shane as he started from the door. "That's alright Shane." Said Ritsuko as she started to follow Shane to the door. Far above the Geo-Front, at the local school it was lunch time and everyone was having lunch except Shinji. "What's wrong Shinji ?" Asked Kensuka as he finished his lunch and placed the garbage into the plastic bag that was tied to the railing of the roof. "I have a problem that I cannot figure out." "What's the problem, Shinji ?" "The problem is that I am in love." Confessed Shinji in a regratable tone. Kensuka was stunned to hear Shinji talking about his love life, but he took the opportunity to wonder who it was that Shinji was in love with. "Let me guess who it is, is it Ayanami." Shinji only looked at him for a moment before telling him that he was wrong as Kensuka looked at him with amazement. I thought for sure it would e Ayanami thought Kensuka to himself. Kensuka began to think harder on who Shinji might love then it came to him it was Hikari the class representative, so he asked Shinji if it was her, but Shinji only again said it was not her. Kensuka once again thought and then came to the unreal and scary conclusion that it was Asuka. Kensuka trying to get the toughts out of his head asked Shinji who it was that he was in love with. Shinji only started to blush as he said in a soft tone of voice that it was Asuka he had fallen in love with. "That's great Shinji." Said Kensuka before the words hit his brain and then the name Asuka hit. "What, how can you love her, of all the people." Said a shock Kensuka as he almost fell off the roof. "I don't know why I love her, but everytime I see her my heart aches for her, even when she yells at me I still love her." Kensuka only looked at Shinji in disbeilf as he remembers that she loves Kaji. The bell soon rang to signal that lunch was over. Shinji and Kensuka started to walk down the stairs from the roof to go back to class when a black car drove up the school's drive way. The car came to a stop in front of the school and the passenger's doors opens to reveal Shane in his new school uniform. "You will report to the Geo-Front this evening for a activation test." The Driver explained as he handed Shane a small envelope with the words "Welcome to NERV" written on the front. "The envelope has all the papers to get you past security when you reach NERV HQ and a map of the facility if you get lost." Said the Driver as he closed the passenger's door. The car races off towards the city as Shane looks at his new school with a depressing look, for this was the third school he has been transferred to in a month. Shane soon walks up the stairs to the front entrance and into the looby of the school. Shane notices other students running to get back to their class before the second bell rings. Shane follows them with his eyes when a girl caught his eye. The girl was standing beside some stairs that seems to go into the main building. The girl had short light greyish blue hair that stopped a little short of her uniform's caller and she seemed to be observing him as she started to walk towards him. "Hello, my name is Rei Ayanami. What is your's?" Rei asked as she stands in front of Shane. "Shane Pardue" Said Shane as the bell rang in the background. "I was sent her to greet the new student and to show you to your class untill you are more familiar with the school's lay out." "Please follow me." Said Rei as she started to walk off. Shane followed Rei up a flight of stairs and down a deserted hallway untill they came to class 2-A. Rei opens the door as the old teacher was telling the class about the history of the Second Impact and how he had to leave his hometown because of rising flood waters. Rei walks in as the teacher notices her and the new student. "Well it's about time a new student arrived." Said the old Teacher as he stared at Shane. Shane slowly walks into the classroom as the students watches from their desk. "Class this is your new classmate Shane Pardue from the United States. I hope you will help him to feel welcome in this new country and school." Explained the Teacher as he searches for a empty desk for Shane. "You can sit behind Ayanami for now" Said the teacher as he resumed his lesson. Later in the day the last bell rang and the students were ready to leave for the exception of the students that had to stay and clean. Other students were assigned bulletin duty for the absent students. Shinji and Kensuka was on bulletin duty as Asuka and Hikari was on clean up duty for the week. Outside the school on a small beanch, Shane was sitting feeling home sick, when Rei walks up behind him. "Oh, it's you Ayanami." Said Shane as she slowly walked to the bench and sat down. "What are you thinking about?" "I was thinking about how much I miss my home in the United States, that's all Ayanami" "Please call me Rei" "Rei, do you ever have that feeling of home sickness, what am I saying you are home." Said Shane as he look up at the sky. "Home is where the soul can be at peace." "Well I just don't have one soul to think about." Shane said as he now look at the clouds that started to form above. "Do you have a brother or sister ?" Asked Rei as she started to look at the sky with Shane. "I have two older sisters, Brandy and Kim." Said Shane as he turned his head to look at Rei. Rei did the same as both of them made eye contact for the first time. Rei slightly blush as she turned her head away for a moment then look at Shane again. Rei started to get up when she asked Shane a sudden question. "Doctor Akagi is waiting for you at NERV headquarters, would you like to walk with me there?" Shane was shock be this question for he had not reveal that he was a Eva pilot, but said "Sure, Rei". In NERV headquarters, NERV Technicains and Doctor Akagi was perparing Unit-3 for its first human activation test. "Use of the dummy plug with Ayanami's and Ikari's personal data looks fine for the exception of the synchrization percentage is about five percent off the real pilots, but there seems to no problems in activating Unit-3." "Thank you Maya." Said Ritsuko as she took a sip of her coffee and looked at the head of Unit-3. "We are finished with the connections" Said a voice of a technicain over the intercom in the control room. "When is Unit-3's prolong activation test today?" Commander Ikari asked as he watched a floor video screen in one of the operations rooms. "It will be held at 19 hundred hours, Sir." Misato explained as she watches the screen as Unit-3 is moved into the Activation Chamber. "The 5th Child will pilot the Eva for the activation test and be the designated pilot of Unit-3 as well." Explained Misato as the screen switched to multiple views in the Activation Chamber. On a street close to a entrance to the Geo-Front, Shane and Rei was standing in front of a sercurity door. "Rei how did you know I was a Evangelion pilots?" "It is commone practice for NERV to send new Eva Pilot to the same school to watch over other and to keep the identity of a new pilot a secrate untill a Angel attacks." Rei explained Rei as she put her sercurity card into the card slot. The door opened as a gush of cold air escaped underneth the opening door. Rei walked though the door as Shane followed her in. A express train soon stopped in front of Rei. The train's doors opened as a woman's voice came over the PA system. "This train is for NERV personal only, any non-personal will be fined and detained for questioning." As the voice repeated itself as Rei and Shane boarded the train. A loud gushing sound was heard as the train began to move downward to the Geo-Front. Shane watched as the train moved through the red tunnel, then a bright light filled the train. Shane looked out of the window with amazement for they had reached the Geo-Front. The beauty of the Geo-Front oveer came Shane as the train headed for the pyramid shape headquaters of NERV. Soon the train reached the internal platform in NERV headquarters. The train's doors opened as Rei stepped off with Shane following behind her to another door. Rei used her key card to open the door as a cloud of mist escaped from the door. She proceeded into a brightly lit room that resembeled in size a giant mall's food court. Rei walked onto a escalator as Shane cautiously walked into the gaint room for the first time. "You need to keep up or you will get lost, for it is easy for people that has not gotten use to the lay out." Rei said as she look over her should at Shane. Shane rused to get on the escalator for that was the last thing he wanted. The esalator came to a large door that opened to reveal a smaller room. "Doctor Akagi is waiting for you in the Activation Chamber." Rei said as she steps off the escalator and waited for Shane at the bottom of the escalator. Both Shane and Rei walked through a brightly lit hallway untill they came to a door with the words "Activation Chamber Control Room" on it. The door opened as Rei approuched it. In the room stood Ritsuko and Maya as they look though the glass at the Eva. "Doctor Akagi I have brought Shane as you requested." "Thank you Rei. I see that you have to get use to the lay out of this place." Ritsuko said as she turned to face Rei and Shane. Ritsuko began to walk towards Shane and Rei when Maya handed her a high pressure storage case. Ritsuko handed the case to Shane as Shane look at it for a moment and began to open it. "What's in the case, Ritsuko?" "In the case you will find your plug suit and a set of brain transmitters and receviers." Said Ritsuko as she lend over to one of the control operators to tell the Commander that they are ready to started the test. "You can change in the next room." Whispered Maya as she smiled at Shane. Shane walked out of the control room and in to the next room. The room looked like a regular locker room for the exception of the lockers that were high pressure storeage lockers. Shane placed the case on the bench and began to undress. Shane slipped the plug suit on and pressed the wrist button to make the extra air in the suit to be vacumed out. "Shane the only thing you need to do now is board the lift on the far wall and the rest will be explained as we go." Ritsuko said over the intercom. Shane did as told and boarded the lift on the far wall. The doors of the lift closed as Shane walked into the lift. The lift started to move upward as Shane looked at his reflection in his black and white plug suit in the steel doors of the lift. Suddenly the lift stopped and the doors opened to reveal a catwalk. Shane walked out of the lift and onto the catwalk. Shane followed the catwalk untill it lead to a semi-opened room. The room was all white for the exception of a opening in the middle of the room and a entry plug command chair in a loader and a entry plug in a robotic loader. "Now Shane, all you need to do is sit in the entry plug's command chair and the rest will be handled by us in the control room." Ritsuko said over the intercome as Shane boarded the command chair. Soon the command chair placed in the entry plug and the hatch closed and the LCL entry jets filled the entry plug with LCL. "Don't worry about the liquid, for it will allow you to breath inside the entry plug." Explained Ritsuko over the external speakers. At first Shane was not sure about breathing a liquid, but she soon got use to the idea when he did not drown. "Lowing entry plug to Unit-3's neck opening." One of the control panel operators as the panels that formed the back of Unit-3's neck began to open. "Entry plug sercured and locked into place. All panels closing. No problems." Said another operator as the entry plug's hatch started to close. "Main circuits, image and pilot's statues coming in clear." Maya said as Ritsuko watched in wonder at the Eva. "Unit-3 is ready for main power to be connected Ma'am." Said a operator as his control conslue showed that everything was ready. "Don't worry about a thing and try to stay clam and concentrate. Focus on being one with the Eva." Ritsuko said over the video radio. "Pilot and Eva have made connection, ratio rising we are at boarderline, passing boaderline now." Explained Maya as the Eva's head moved and look stright into to control room. Excellent Shane thought Ritsuko as the operators looked at the syncronization ratio as it peaked at 390 percent and boarded there for the remainder of the test. "How do you feel Shane." "Kind of weird and a little nerves." "Weird in what sense?" Asked Ritsuko as she wrote in a file. "It feels like my body is not here and my left arm has something on ot that is putting pressure on it." Explained Shane as he looked at his left arm. "That is normal for your body has not gotten use to the LCL pressure and the Eva's feed back circuits that connect you to the Eva." "OK Shane you can get out now." Inside the entry plug the image flashed diffrent colors then to the greyish yellow of the internal walls of the entry plug. The entry plug was ejected back into the hand of the loader and placed back into the white room. The LCL was drained and the hatch opened as the command chair was lifted out of the entry plug. The lights of the room blinded Shane temporary as the command chair was set next to the entrance of the room. Shane walked slowly down the catwalk for he felt a little light headed from his experience. He once again used the lift to get to the locker room. When Shane reached the dressing room he sit on a bench to try and regain his composure, Shane soon regained his composure and strated to take the plug suit off. As Shane folded the plug suit and then started to put his shirt on a high pitched sound rang in his head. Shane held his head in pain when a voice suddenly started to speak to him in his head. "Remeber the truth for it will help you." The voice said as the ringing slowly went away. "What tha." Thought Shane as he finished dressing. Shane only dimissed the voice and placed his plug suit into its case and opened the door that lead to the hallway. When Shane stepped out into the hall a voice said "Hello" from the side of him. Shane turned to face the voice to see a beautiful woman with long purple hair and wearing casual clothing with the strips of major on the callor of her jacket she wore. "Are you going to stare or are you going to say hello?" "Oh, hello." Shane said as he came out of his trance. "I know it is odd for a beautiful woman to say hello to a boy she does not know, well let me introduce myself. I'm Major Katsuragi, but you can call me Misato." Said the woman as she shook Shane's hand. "Nice to meet you Misato." "I see that you have meet the Head of NERV Military Operations." Said Ritsuko as she steps into the hall way. "Hi Ritsuko." Misato said as Ritsuko walks to her side. "Shane you have a activation and sychronization test tomorrow and a basic and weapons training the day after that." Explained Ritsuko as she grabbed Misato by the arm and dragged her down the hallway. "Don't forget to check with the living director before you leave." Yelled Misato as she waved good-bye to Shane. Shane only looked at them and went off in search of the living director's office. "What is your problem Ritsuko." Yelled Misato as Ritsuko let's go of her arm. "I need to discuss a important matter with you." Ritsuko said as she took off her glasses. "Shane has the highest synchronization ratio of all the Children and I am worry about what if he reaches 400 percent tomorrow." Said a worry toned Ritsuko. "So he has the highest ratio of all the Children." Misato said as she lends up against a wall. "I worry about Shane for if he breaks the 400 limit there is no telling what will happen." "Did you say you worry about Shane?" Asked Misato as she now stares at Ritsuko. "Did I say that, I ment that I." Ritsuko said in a shock tone. "Come clean Ritsuko." Misato said as she finds out something about Ritsuko she did not know about before. "I guess it is time to tell you the truth about the connection between Shane and me." "I was Shane's adopted mother and I loved him as if he was my own son, but he was too young to remember that I was his mother." Said Ritsuko sadly as they started to walk down the hall together. I cannot believe what she is telling me. She was a mother. Thought Misato as listened to Ritsuko started to tell her the story. "I guess I need to explain what happened that allowed Shane to be my son. "It was during the beginning stages of NERV and my mother and me was working on Unit-0 and the MAGI computers systems when it happened." Said Ritsuko as she falls into a flashback. "So this what really happened in the Polor Ice Caps." A man with glasses on and in a green light surrounding him said as he flips through orbit pictures of the Second Impact. "My I ask what you call this thing in this pictures?" A man in a orange light asked. "I call the creature a Angel. For it was fore told in the Dead Sea Scrolls and it suits the creatures that will come in 15 years from now." Said a tall woman with long jet black hair. She was wearing a black dress with a white silk blouse with a lab coat that was cut to be a jacket. "Are you telling this Council that these so called Angels are the cause of the Second Impact and that they will return in 15 years to cause another impact?" Asked a much older man at the end of the Council's table surrounded by a white light. "Yes Sir, I am telling this Council that a possible Third Impact will happen if th Angels suceed in bonding with the creature in the photos, but instead of half of the world's population being wipped out, the whole human race will be completely destoryed." "What do you prepose we do about the Angels?" A man in a purple light asked. "I prepose that we build protectors to protect the human race." The woman answered. "How real is this ever happening?" A man in a blue lighr asked to his fellow Council members. "The chances of a possible Third Impact is to real for a Angel has to just come in contact with another Angel and this will create a powerful AT Field that is hundred times stronger compared to the Second Impact one." Argued the woman. "A AT Field, what is this?" Asked the man in the white light. "A AT Field or Absolute Terror Field is what the Angel used to melt the Ice Caps and cause the floods and horror of the aftermath of the Second Impact." "That does not answer are question Doctor Kim." The man in the white light yelled. "Sorry Sir, a AT Field from what little data that has been collected is a high power force barrier that can be expanded and contracted at will. The AT Field used in the Second Impact was a heat source field that when expanded would generate extreme high temperatures, in short a AT Field is much like a protective barrier that protects the host from any physical attack and common weaponry that may try to attack the host or it can be used as a weapon as seen from the Second Impact's Angel." Explained Doctor Kim. "So the AT Field is protective barrier and a weapon." Said the man in the green light as he looked at Doctor Kim. "Yes Sir, that is correct according to the data." Said Doctor Kim. "Thank you for your important information Doctor Kim. You are dismissed." The man in the white light said as Doctor Kim bowed and exited the room. Doctor Kim walked out into a hallway that was dimly lit and lights that was fading in and out or they were broken. "You know that we need to take steps to cover the truth up about the Second Impact." Said the man in the green light. "Yes I agree, she does know to much as it is and she might become a sercurity risk if she would to leak this to the public and the media." Explained the man in the blue light. "I see that SEELE has to take steps to cover up this and build the Protectors, for Doctor Kim might be right and to cover the connections that tries us closely to the Polor Ice Caps projects." Said the man in the white light as he pressed a button on the chair's arm. "I think Doctor Akagi and her daughter will do nicely for research and delvelopment of the Protectors and this man will lead the organization that will destory the Angels and protect us from any investgation in the Second Impact." Said the man in the white light as he looks at a picture of a younger Gendou Ikari. A year passed and Doctor Kim received a letter from the UN. The letter wanted her to come to the newly built Tokyo-3 with her new born son Shane. They wanted her to head a scientific research group. For the first time in Doctor Kim's life she was happy for she had a purpose in her life for she was a mother and a respected scienctist in the field of nerve impulese and the technogy to link a humen's brain to a non-living organic substance. She called this new technogy Evangelion. The train ride from her small hometown to Tokyo-3 was not an easy one for the chaos of the Second Impact had not settled down, but she did not mind for she had her son with her and that's what was important to her. It was early morning, on the third day of her trip when the train arrived at Tokyo-3's station. "So this is Tokyo-3." Doctor Kim said as she pick up her small suitcase. "Doctor Kim I presume." A man in a black suit and trench coat said as he walk up to Doctor Kim. "Yes I'm Doctor Kim, who are you?" Asked Doctor Kim. "My name is not important." The man in the black suit explained as he pick up her suitcase. "Please follow me." Said the man the black suit as he walked down the steps of the station to the street. Doctor Kim walked down the steps to see the man putting her suitcase in the trunk of a car and another man dressed the same way opening th back seat door for her. "Please Doctor Kim come with us." Said the man with the open door. Doctor Kim steps into the car with her child in her arms as the man closed the door behind her and opened the passenger's door for himself. Both men were in the car when Doctor Kim asked the man in the passenger seat. "What was going on." The car started and was on heading towards the heart of the city before the man answered her. "Doctor Kim do you remember the day ou went before the Council to report on what happened in the Polor Ice Caps?" "Yes, I do." "Good, the Council decided that the need for the Protectors that you requested to be built would help mankind avoid another Impact so they decided to make your dream a reality. A new branch of the UN had been established to settle the problem that you brought up to the Council." Doctor Kim's eyes lit up as she could not believe her ears. "So what is this new branch that you are talking about called?" Doctor Kim asked as the car reached a tunnel. "The new branch of the UN is called NERV and they are responsible for the development and maintenance of the Protectors and is also responsible for the protection of the human race from the Angels as well." The passenger explained as the car stopped in front of a large steel door with the words NERV cruelly painted on it. A man in military field uniform stepped out from a booth that had been setup on the side of the door and walked to the driver side door of the car. "My I see your ID and security clearance cards?" The man in the uniform asked as the driver rolled down the window. The Driver handed him four cards and a sheet of paper. The man looked at the cards carefully and then looked at the sheet and then looked at Doctor Kim and her baby. Soon the man walked back to the booth and picked up a black phone. The man spoke into the phone for a little while before hanging up and motioning the car ro proceed as the large steel door opened into a staircase lift. The car drove up onto the step like lift as the tires locked into place with clamps. Soon the lift started to move downward. At first the only thing that could be seen was a tube shaped passageway with red lights lighting the passageway till a bright beam of light suddenly appeared. "This is the main headquarters of NERV and the home of the first prototype of the Protectors." Explained the passenger as the sight of the Geo-Front amazed Doctor Kim. "As you can see there is some areas of headquarters still being built and sercurity here is very tight so you might need one of these." The Driver said as he turns around in his seat to hand Doctor Kim a picture ID badge. "Thank you." Said Doctor Kim as she placed it on the callor of her shirt. Soon the lift stopped in front a large door with the NERV logo and the words "God In His Heaven, All Rights To The World" written below it. The door opened and the car started to move foreward as the lights changed from red to a normal white glow. Soon the car came to a parking deck area, a man in a black suit stopped them. The man rushed to the car as the passenger reached his hand into his jacket. "Sir, the Commander wishes to see the Doctor in his office." Explained the man. "Thank you." The Driver said as the car drove off. Soon the car stopped and parked in a slot as the two men opened their doors. One man opened the trunk and the other man helped Doctor Kim out of the car. "The Commander wishes to see you Doctor Kim." Said the man with her suitcase. "I will escort you to his office, Doctor." The other man said. Soon both Doctor Kim and the man was on a lift heading downward to the operations and deployment areas of NERV headquarters The lift stopped and Doctor Kim and the man stepped out in to a hallway that was lighted by electric lamps and high power stand up lamps as they walked down the hallway to a door. The man pressed some keys on a access panel to open the door. Soon the door opened to a well lit room with a man made water fall and plants hanging from the ceiling and where a woman stood as of she was waiting for someone. "Where is she, she was post to be here five minutes ago." Said the woman as she looked at her watch, The man and Doctor Kim walked behind her and the man tapped her on the shoulder. "Oh, it's you." The woman said as she turned to look at the man. "I like you to meet the new scientist NERV had brought in to help you with the Protectors." Explained the man as the woman looked at Doctor Kim. "Hello, I'm Doctor Naoko Akagi, but you can call me Naoko since we are going to be working together and the woman running towards us is my daughter Ritsuko." Naoko said as Ritsuko stopped beside her mother to catch her breath. "I'm sorry for not being here on time mother." "It's OK as long as you got here." Naoko said as she turned to look at Doctor Kim again. "That reminds me, I did not get your name." "Sorry my name is Doctor Jessica Kim, but you can call me Jessica since we are going to be working together." Doctor Kim said in a joking tone. "And who is this, my I ask?" Ritsuko asked as she looked at Jessica's arms. "Oh, I almost forgot to introduce my only son Shane." Jessica said as she held him up to be seen better by Ritsuko and Naoko. "It looks like that the Commander is not the only one that has a child that is living in this place." Naoko said regretablely. "You mean Shinji?" Ritsuko asked as she looks at the sleeping Shane in his mother's arms. "Doctor Kim we need to be on are way for the Commander does not like to be keep waiting." Explained the man in the suit. "Will I guess I will see you later then." Jessica said as she walked off with the man. "So that when you meet Doctor Kim and Shane for the first time." "Yes that was the first time we meet and my mother and Shane's mother became close friends as they worked together to create Unit-0 and 1." Explained Ritsuko as she pressed the call button for the elevator. "So what happened to Shane's mother to cause him to be like this?" Asked Misato as they waited for the elevator. "Well is happened about two monthes after Unit-0 completion and the basic nerve connections in Unit-1 was being grown." Said Ritsuko as she slipped into another flashback. "How do you get him to sit still on our desk like that?" A woman with a baby over her shoulder asked. "I really don't know, he just sits their looking at the papers I write on and the pictures of Unit-0 when I bring him here." Jessica explained as she sat at her desk writing down some figures. "Boy, I wish Shinji would sit still for a second for the day will be here soon." "What day is that Yui?" "The day that Unit-1 will be completed and ready for its first activation." Explained Yui as the baby Shinji started to wake. "I better go for Gendou will be leaving soon for the Polor Ice Caps to see how things are going up there and I want to see him before he leaves." Yui said as she rushed out the door with Shinji. "Well I guess that leaves you and me." Said Jessica as she looks at Shane sitting on her desk. Soon there was a knock on the door. "Come in." Jessica said as she looks at Shane. "Ma'am we are ready for the test to begin with Unit-0 if you are ready?" Said a man in orange overalls. "I will be there in a second. I have to finish this last report so tell the operators that I will be their shortly." "Oh and another thing, we are having problems with Unit-1." "What problem would that be." Jessica said as she stares at the man with a evil look. "The program for the personality transfer from the pilot to the Eva has a kink in it." Said the now nervous man as he bows his head in shame. "Is that all, talk to Doctor Naoko Akagi about that." Said the now cheerful voice of Jessica. The man soon left as Jessica finished her report and her work load for the day. Jessica picked up her son from the desk and walked out of door as closes it behind her. Jessica locked the door and was on her way to the lift that would take her to the Eva test chamber when she meet up with Ritsuko. "How are you doing?" Ritsuko asked as she waved at Jessica. "I'm fine, but can I ask a favor of you Ritsuko?" Asked Jessica as Shane began to wakeup in her arms. "Sure" Ritsuko said as Shane grabbed one of Ritsuko's fingures with his small hands. "Can you watch Shane while I do the activation test with Unit-0 ?" "Sure and besides I think he likes me." Said Ritsuko as she took Shane from Jessica's arms. "I almost forgot." Jessica said as she lefts up her hair. "Since I have to wear the plug suit for the test. I cannot wear anything that might interfere with the test so I want Shane to have this." Said Jessica as she unhooked a small heart shaped locket with a small gold ring on its chain. Jessica placed the locket it around her son's neck "I want Shane to witness his mother's work in real life for he been looking at the pictures of Unit-0 on my desk for a while now. I want you to bring him to Unit-0's activation test." Jessica said before she kissed her son on the forehead and ran off towards the lift. Later on Ritsuko arrived at the control room with Shane as the entry plug was lowering to Unit-0's insertion slot. "All systems green." "Entry plug has been inserted, neck panels are locked and sercured. All systems are operational." A control panel operator said as the systems in the Eva started to come alive. "Hello, Jessica." Said Ritsuko through the video radio. "How's my baby boy, Ritsuko?" Jessica asked as she sat in the command chair in Unit-0. "He's fine, say hello to your mom, Shane." Ritsuko said as lifted Shane up into view of th video transmitter. "What tha?" Said one of the operators as his consule flashed with the red word ERROR. "What's wrong?" Yelled Jessica through the video radio. "There is a pro_in_the." Ritsuko said as the video transmission went to snow. "What's happing?" Ritsuko shouted as the lights in the control room turned red. "The Eva is breaking free." Shouted a frantic operator. "Abort the test, cut the main power feed, eject the plug now." Ritsuko ordered as the Eva broke free from its restrances and started to move towards the control room. "Get away from the window." Shouted a operator as the Eva's fist made contact with the window sending hundreds of shattered pieces of glass inward. "Eva has switched to internal power supply. Complete shutdown of Eva's systems in five mintues." Shouted a operator as the countdown raced to zero. The Eva became more aggressive as the it pounded the walls with its head and fists. "Three mintues and counting." Yelled a operator as the Eva continued its assult on the walls of the control room. "What is the status of the pilot." Yelled Ritsuko as the sound of fleash and metal tearing apart was heard. Ritsuko looks up at the Eva as the head of the Eva fell to the floor below. "My God, what have we created." Ritsuko said as the Eva dug its fingers in the opening that use to be were the head was. The Eva was acting like it was trying to rip the entry plug out when suddenly the entry plug ejected, hitting the roof of the room and sending sparks flying as it slid across the roof. The entry plug's ejection jets soon stopped and the entry plug fell to the ground with a loud klanking sound. "Filling chamber with dry coolent." Said a operator as small water jets appeared around the Eva. "Eva shutdown in 5, 4, 3, 2, , 1, shutdown." A operator yelled as the water jets sprayed a pinkish colored liquid at the Eva. The Eva slowly stopped hitting the wall, but the Eva lost its balence and fell backwards. The room was silent as the pink liquid dryed, forming a crystal like prison for the Eva. "Eva has gone silent." A operator said as the chamber's video camras slowly came back online. "Video one though five have come back online." A operator said as the video monitors came up with pictures of the Eva laying on its back. "What tha." Said a operator as he pressed the zoom button on his control consule. "Send a recovery team and call the medics to get down there now." The operator ordered as the other people in the control room looked at him strangely. "There is a medical emergency here." The operator shouted as he points at his monitor. The monitor showed a devastating sight, the Eva had fallen on the entry plug. The entry plug was crushed from the Eva's weight, as LCL and blood mixed together to form a grosom sight. Ritsuko fell to her knees as the sight over took her with emotions. She was in a state of shock for Jessica might be dead and the way she died, all the thoughts hit her as the baby Shane cried in her arms. Rescue crews and paramedic worked franticly as seconds turned to mintues turned to hour and the chances of survival became smaller and smaller. The night soon became dawn as the Eva was moved off the entry plug. "Get a board over her." A man in a white shirt and black pants on as he waved his hand frantically. The man carefully pulled a limp body out of the wreackage of the entry plug. Other people soon gathered around the seen as the man and two other men strapped Jessica's lifeless body on a flat board and rused her out of the chamber to a waiting ambulance. "Jessica was sent to NERV's special hospital where she stayed for about three monthes, then she died in her sleep right after my mother killed herself." Ritsuko said as she broke out in tears from the painful memory. "Here take it." Misato said softly as she hands Ritsuko a tissue from her jacket pocket. "Are you alright, Ritsuko?" Misato asked softly as Ritsuko wiped the last of her tears away. "I'm fine." Ritsuko said as she tried to stop crying. "You don't have to finish the story if you don't want to." Explained Misato as the elevator stopped and the doors opened to show a hallway. "It is good for me to tell you this for I need to tell someone else of my problems instead of keeping them to myself." Ritsuko explained with a smile. "OK then what happen next?" Asked Misato as they reached a sercurity card door. "It was about two monthes till I returned to NERV, but I was busy being a mother to Shane for Jessica had no living familiy and her husben died during the aftermath of the Second Imapct, so I took Shane under my wing for the time." Explained Ritsuko as she slipped into another flashback. "Let me see here if I change this and reconfiger this program here. I should get a 30 percent increase in the main power core, but the increase will cause this to generate heat." Ritsuko thought outloud as she wrote on a white board with mathematical problems and example drawings on it. "Ma, am" said a younger Maya as she sits at a desk looking at the now 1 year old Shane. "Ma, am" Maya said as she started to get up from her seat. "Ma, am" Maya started again as Ritsuko noticed Maya behind her. "What is it Maya can you see am busy working on this problem." Ritsuko said in a harsh tone. "I am sorry for bothering you, but I think you need to see this." Maya said as she points to the desk she was sitting at. Ritsuko turns towards the desk, to her surprise her adopted son was on both his feet walking on the desk. "You should have told me that he was walking instead of, oh forget it." Ritsuko said as she walked over to the desk and pick him up and told him he was a perfect angel. Happier memory came to her as she remembers Shane's 2nd birthday, then the memory of Jessica's husben's family finding out about Jessica's death and the request that they wanted Shane to return to America with a Uncle that lived in Tokyo-3. Ritsuko did everything in her power to stop them, but in the end she lost Shnae when he was three. "So what happen then?" "After the custody rights was handed over to the husben's family, Shane had to recieve a passport and a visa for he was born in Japan and was a citizen of Tokyo-3 this took a year and in that year he stayed with his Uncle at Jessica's old house. I sent him money and latters while he stayed in Japan, but that time soon came to an end for the letters and money was being returned with no address found stamped on them. I was heart broken untill a month ago when I found Shane again. Shane recently has his fourtenth birthday and he was thought out by the Marduke Institute for he was a top ranking conidate for the E-Project, so I requested him to be a Eva pilot. NERV wanted a pilot and maybe a leader, I on the other hand wanted to see him again." A confident Ritsuko explained. "So you used NERV to your advantage?" Misato asked as they entered the observatory room. "I guess in a way, yes for all of Jessica's personal files and background files had been erased from the computers for about thirdteen years and not many of the personal here remembers Jessica and Shane." Ritsuko explained as they stepped into a glass floored room. "Mr. Pardue you will be living in the military personal block untill we can find a more sercure living assigment." A man in a NERV military uniform said . "That is fine." "Hello again Shane." Misato shouted as she and Ritsuko entered the room. "No not her, anyone except her." The man in the uniform mumbeled under is breath as he sees Misato walk into sight. "Hello Major Katsuragi." Shane said as he turns to face her. "My I help you Major." The man in the uniform asked. "Yes you can, you can start by changing the housing assignment to Doctor Akagi's address and changing the records for Shane to recieve a class S sercurity pass." Explained Misato as a confused Ritsuko and Shane look at Misato. "I'm doing this for you Ritsuko." Misato whispered. "But, I." Ritsuko started when she was cut off by the man. "The records and keycard will be changed right away, Ma'am." The man said as he walks out of the room. "Thank you." Misato said as she patts Shane on the back. "So it looks like you have a roommate now, Ritsuko." Misato said as she lift Shane and Ritsuko alone in the room. "It looks like you will be staying with me at my apartment." Ritsuko as she smiled. "I guess if you don't mind having a roommate." Shane said as he looked at Ritsuko in a diffrent way. It was around midnight when Ritsuko and Shane left the Geo-Front and on their way to Ritsuko's apartment. Shane and Ritsuko walked side-by-side as street lamps lit up the sidewalk and a small park. "Ritsuko can I ask you a question?" "What is your question, Shane?" "I have this strange feeling we have meet before, but I guess its my imagination." Shane said as he started to laugh slightly. "Mybe in another live time you knew me." Ritsuko said as she tried to tell Shane the truth, but could not. Ritsuko and Shane soon reached the door to Ritsuko's apartment. Ritsuko searched her small purse for the key to the door as Shane looked around the multi-layered apartment complex. "Ah, I found it." Ritsuko said as she opens the door to the apartment and turns on the lights to see where she was going.. Shane slowly walks into the apartment for he did not want to intrude. "The place is a little messe for my last apartment was destroyed during the last attack and I have not began to unpack." Ritsuko said as she places her purse on the kitchen table. Shane looks at the mover's boxs as he slowly walks to the kitchen to see Ritsuko taking her lab coat off. "I guess it is time to find you a place to sleep." Ritsuko said as she passed him and walked into the hallway. Ritsuko carefully moved some of the boxs out of the way to reveal a door. "You can sleep here." Ritsuko said as she opens the door to show a moderate room with a window and a small bed and some shalves with dawers for clothes and other personal belongings. "I hope you don't mind this because I know that you are use to more." Said Ritsuko as she walk off. "I don't mind for I am a guest in your home." Said Shane as he did not notice Ritsuko was in the kitchen. Shane places his backpack in his room and walked to the kitchen to see Ritsuko trying to figure out what to eat for dinner. "I hope you don't mind leftovers." Ritsuko said with a smile. "I don't mind, Ritsuko." Shane said as he sat down at the table with Ritsuko sitting in front of him. After dinner Shane and Ritsuko sat silently as they drank tea. Shane was looking around the room when he saw a row of pictures frames on a shelve. Shane slowly got up from his chair and walked towards the pictures as Ritsuko finished her tea. "Who are these people?" Shane asked as he pickup one of the pictures. Ritsuko got up from her chair and walked to Shane to look at the picture with him. "This is a picture of the founders of NERV and the EVAs. Everyone is in the picture except Commander Fuyutsuki and Misato for they where not working at NERV yet." Ritsuko explained as Shane looked at the picture and spotted something odd. the picture was of Commander Ikari with a hand on Yui's shoulder as she sat in a chair with baby Shinji in her arms, Ritsuko and her mother stood beside each other as Doctor Kim sat in a chair with her son. The thing that was odd about the picture was the locket Doctor Kim wore around her neck. The locket looked the same as the one Shane wore on his dogtag that he wore around his neck. The hour became late as Shane and Ritsuko said good night to each other and eant to their bedrooms. Ritsuko slept uneasy as she tried to tell Shane the truth, but could not for she tried and could bare to tell him. Shane also slept uneasy as he tried to figure out the reason Doctor Kim had a locket like his and why Ritsuko was acting so sad around him even thou she tries to hide behind her cheerfulness. Shane soon fell to sleep thinking about this as night became day. The morning sun soon hit Shane's face as he wakes to the morning rays, Shane looked out his window to see the sun slowly rising over the mountains as hears a bell ringing in the background. Shane quickly changes his clothes to the ones he wore last night to his school uniform. Shane quitely opens his door to not wake up Ritsuko as he walks to the kitchen to get some leftover dinner and to write Ritsuko a not telling her not to worry about him for he left early for school. Shane soon walks out the door as Ritsuko wakes to find Shane's note and to call NERV sercurity to keep a eye on him. Shane walks down the street close to a park as he follows other kids in school uniforms to the school. Shane soon arrives at the school as other students start to get their. "So you love Asuka?" Kensuka asked as he walks to school with Shinji. "Yes, I do so what about it?" "Nothing, I was making sure that it was not the one day flu or a fever." Kensuka said as they entered the front gates of the school. "So have you heard the rumor about Rei and that new kid Shane?" Kensuka whispered. "No, what about them?" "I heard that they were seen leaving together and that there is another rumor that there is another Eva pilot that had been transferred to this school. Do you know who it is, Shinji?" Shinji only looks at Kensuka in amazement for he said that whole sentence in one breath. Soon everyone was in their class as the teacher of class 2-A entered the room with the morning ritural and the roll call. "Today's lesson will be on the scientific table of atoms in a one cell organ and the causes of the First Impact and Second and the problems it had on Japan's econmy." The Teacher said as a loud groan was heard from the class. The day passed slowly as the teacher pulled out over head pictures, ceiling charts, and read from the text book. The bell soon rang to signal it was lunch time. Kensuka and Shinji went to the roof to eat their lunch as Asuka and Kikari eat their lunch together as always. Shane looked around the classroom ro see everyone had someone to eat with except him. He was going to ask Rei, but she was no where to be found at the time. Shane decided to eat alone as he opens his backpack to get a small plate of leftovers he fixed that morning. Shane was putting his lunch on his desk when he heard a car come to a streching stop in the parking lot. Quickly everyone was pressed up against the window as the driver stepped out of the car. Shane looked down to see the driver was Major Katsuragi wearing a red dress with a white shirt with a tie and a red uniform jacket and to top it off she wore sunglasses. Soon all the girls were back in their seats as they mumbled under their breath about the boys looking out the window at Misato. As Misato walked away from the car a familier voice started to shout at Misato. "Are you crazy, you could have gotten us killed with that kind of driving." Argued the voice the voice as Shane looked out the window to see Ritsuko getting out of the passenger side. "I'm sorry Ritsuko, but we were going to be late if I did not run a few stop lights and have gone 60." Misato said in her defense as she turned to face Ritsuko. "You call running about 30 stop lights and going about a 100 saving time." The bell sounded again to signal that lunch was over as Misato and Ritsuko entered the school. The teacher returned from his lunch break and class was back in session when the Principal came over the intercome requesting Shane Pardue to report to the office. Shane only stood up from his desk and walked out of the classroom as e was puzzled for the reason he was asked to report to the principal's office. The first thing that came to his mind was he would be transferred to another school by the end of the week or something else like that. Shane walked down the stairs to the main floor, pass the teacher's office and pass the nurses station till he came to the Principal's office. Shane knocked on the door as a voice said to come in. To his surprise Misato and Ritsuko was sitting in the office along with the Principal. "Sit" The Principal said as she talks to Misato while flipping through a stack of papers. "I know this is odd, but I cannot refuse goverment orders or that of any UN or goverment offical to release this student to the hands of his guardian." The Principal said as she hands Misato a sheet of paper with the NERV logo on it. "Then it is settled, Mr. Pardue will be out the remainder of this month ad half of next month for goverment issues." Said the Principal as Ritsuko and Misato stood up from their chairs. Shane only stood and watched as Misato signals him to come with them. "So how does it feel to be out of school as long as you are?" Misato said as she smiled at Shane that was still surprised at the turn of events. "Fine I guess, but how did you get me out as long as you did?" Shane asked as he climbs into the backseat of Misato's car. "Simple I told NERV's Commanders and high brass that you needed training with your Eva before you go into battle and we need you to be present when we prepare the Eva for its first live walk above the Geo-Front and you might want to buckle up." Said Misato as she pops the stick shift into first and races out of the parking lot to the streets of Tokyo-3. As Misato's car races to the Geo-Front Asuka, Shinji, and Rei was walking to the Geo-Front from school. "So Wonder Girl has herself a boyfriend and all this time I thought you liked Shinji." "What, that is not true." Shinji said in his normal shock tone of voice as this was the first time Asuka has pointed the fingure at both himself and Rei. "He not my boyfriend." "So Shinji who do you like?" Asuka asked out of the blue. "Well" Shinji started as a image of Asuka beating the life out of him popped in his mind when he thought to tell her his true feelings for her but he did it anyway. "Well Asuka, I really like." Shinji started as his mind froze. "Well spit it out." Asuka ordered. "The person I truely love is you Asuka." Said Shinji softly. "What was that Shinji, that you love who?" Asuka asked as she put a fingure on his forehead. "I said, I love you Asuka." Said Shinji louder as a blood soaked scream came from Asuka. "You love me Shinji?" Asuka asked as she placed her hand on his forehead. "What are you doing, Asuka?" "I'm cheacking you for a fever because you are acting weirder then normal today." "No, I do not have a fever for I truely love you Asuka. Since the time we kissed when Misato was working late to the time we first meet on top the aircraft carrier." Shinji said as he took her hand from his forehead and placed it between his hands. Then Shinji pulled Asuka closer to him as Asuka rested her hand on his shoulder and whispered into Shinji's ear. "I know that you loved me and I you too Shinji." As Shinji and Asuka hold each other a loud crashing sound was heard. "Kensuka" Shouted both Asuka and Shinji as Kensuka satup right ways with his camra in hand. "You don't have to yell so loud for I was only recording the only thing you two have in common." Explained Kensuka in his defense. "And what would that be?" Asuka asked. "The love you two hold dear to each other and I have it right here on this disk for you two can enjoy over and over again." Said Kensuka as he ejected the disk from his camera. "Thank you." Said Shinji as he grabs the disk from Kensuka's hand and started to run to catch up with Rei. "Wait for me Shinji." Yelled Asuka as she started to run after Shinji. "Oh' well at least I have a copy in my back pocket." Kensuka said as he reaches into his back pocket for the extra disk to find nothing, but a broken disk instead. Rei was already at the keycard door when Shinji and Asuka caught up with her. "So you two have finally admitted that you are in love with one another" Rei said as she slipped her card into the lock's card slot. Both Shiji and Asuka looked at her with surprised looks when she guessed that they where in love. "How did?" Shinji started when Rei interupted. "How did I know that you two love each other." Rei said as the door opened. "It was simple really for the way you act towards Ikari and the way Ikari gets embarrased when you yell at him Asuka." Explained Rei as she walks into the doorway. "I guess she is right, since we do live together and we do see each other alot, it is common sense we would fall in love." Said Asuka as she looks into Shinji's eyes. "Asuka do you remember when I kissed you and you was sicken by it? Where you really sicken by it or was you acting." "To tell you the truth I really enjoyed it and I want to do it again if you don't mind." Asuka said as she suddenly kissed Shinji on the lips and slipped her card into the slot to open the door. Asuka slowly pulled away from Shinji and said. "Well I guess I see you later." As she winked at Shinji, that was in a dream state. Unnoticed by the three Children, in the underground combat simulator a new pilot was being born to fight the Angels. "This excercise is easy. The only thing you have to do is get to point B that is located on the map screen as fast as you can." Explained Ritsuko through the video radio in Unit-3's entry plug. "The trick to make the Eva move is to think of the Eva as a extention of your own body." Ritsuko said as Shane began to think about making the Eva walk. "OK Maya setup the image feed and connect the senors input to the Eva's video input circuits." Ritsuko said as Unit-3 walk slowly. Shane slowly made the Eva walk when the Eva tripped and fell foreward. "Are you alright Shane?" Ritsuko asked though the video radio. "I'm alright, but I cannot concentrate to goof right now." Said Shane as Unit-3 slowly got back to its feet. "Do you want me to put some music on to help you concentrate?" Ritsuko asked. "Yes please." Ritsuko walk to Shane's backpack and opens it to find his CD player she saw him with. Ritsuko hands the CD out of his player to Maya at her computer consule. Maya places the CD into a slot and typed on a key board to open the Eva's internal speakers in the entry plug. The music started as Shane ready himself for another try at walking. Shane started out with a regular walking pace as he slowly got faster and faster till the Eva was at a running pace. Ritsuko watches Shane as the memory of Shane's first steps on her desk came to her as the Eva was now running at full pace. Far above the running Eva in a obsering room Commander Ikari and Commander Fuyutsuki watches the 5th Child move the Eva with ease. "Ikari do you think the 5th Child will be ready if a Angel attacks if one does attack?" Commander Fuyutsuki asked. "A course for the 5th Child is doing better then I had planned for he has already mastered the basics for a Evangelion in a matter of seconds as it took all the other Children days to master the simple act of running in a Eva." Commander Ikari said as he pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "How about SEELE and the request to place the 5th in combat?" "SEELE is not a problem for they requested the 5th Child into battle, but this will be their undoing for SEELE does not know what they are getting into if they use the 5th's personal data in a dummy plug." Explained Commander Ikari as he places his hands behind him. On a higher level of NERV headquarters Misato was riding a elevator down to meet Ritsuko in the simulator's control room, when the doors of the elevator opens. "Hey hold that elevator!" Yelled Kaji as he ran towards the open doors of the elevator. Misato presses the door close button as Kaji runs to the doors. At the last second Kaji places a hand in between the doors to stop them from closing. Realizing this Misato gets a ticked off expression on her face as Kaji steps into the elevator with her. "So sunshine where are off to in such a rush?" Kaji asked as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "For your information I was on my way to the simulator level to meet Ritsuko." Said Misato as she lifts Kaji's hand off her shoulder. "That's great for I have not seen Ritsuko lately and I do want to say hello." Said Kaji as Misato began to think to herself about the horrible things she could do to Kaji right now. The elevator soon reached the simulator level and Misato and Kaji step out of the elevator as Commander Ikari and Commander Fuyutsuki passes then silently. Both Commanders passes them with their normal silent treatment as they board a elevator. "The next exercise will be a firearms test to see the rate of hits it takes you to disable a Angel's AT Field and to neutralize the enemy." Explained Ritsuko as a Eva's assult rifle is lowered to the waiting hands of Unit-3. "Only thing you have to do is line up the target in the center of the circle and wait for the cross hairs to turn red, but be careful for there is buildings that might get in your way and NERV and the UN does not like to rebuild buildings if they do ot have to." Ritsuko explained as Shane took the rifle with the Eva's hands and prepared to fire at the target. "Hello Ritsuko." Misato said as she walks into the room with Kaji. "Hello Misato." Said Ritsuko as she turned away from the Eva. "How is Shane doing today with his Eva training?" Misato asked as she look out the window of the control room at Unit-3. "Well he has been doing better then the rest of the Children as of basic movments and firing control, but he has not mastered holding small things without crushing it and hand-to-hand combat yet, but I think he will catch on quickly when we increase the training level to five next week." Explained Ritsuko as she looked at her notes. "So he already past the other Children when they where at this stage." Said a surpirsed Misato as she looks at a screen with a hit ratio on it and shots fired on it. "So this is the 5th Child that NERV was so desperate to get." Kaji said as he steps into the light "So you are here too." "Was there any doubt that I would be here since Katsuragi was on her way to see you Ritsuko." Said Kaji as he steps beside Misato and stands there. "Ma,am Shane is done with the simulator's program and is done with his session for the day." Explained Maya as Ritsuko looks at Misato and Kaji silently. "Tell Shane he can get out and tell him I want to talk to him about someting when he is done changing." Said Ritsuko as she signals Misato to come with her into the hallway with her. The sound of the door closing was heard before Ritsuko began to speak. "Have you told the other Children about Shane and the rebuilt Unit-3 ?" Ritsuko asked as she stares at Misato from across the hall. "No, for I was palnning to keep this to are selves for someone might use Shane to their advantage to get high sercurity files and it might cause the other Children to become stressed or feel betrayed for what happen with the 4th." Misato explained with a emotionless face. "I want the other Children to know for if something happens to Shane we will have another 4th Child incendent on our hands if we don't tell them." Ritsuko explained as she walked off down the hall. In a small break area Shane seat on a bench drinking a can of soda when Ritsuko walked in. "Hello Shane." Ritsuko said as she sat down next to him. "Hello Ritsuko." Shane said in a soft tone of voice. "So Shane how is school and have you made any friends?" Ritsuko asked with a smile. "Fine I guess and I really have not made any friends, but I meet another Eva Pilot." "Oh, who was it?" Ritsuko asked as she got up to get something out of one of the vending machine. "I meet Rei Ayanami yeasterday, but the others I think don't know that I am a Eva Pilot." Explained Shane before he tilted the can to take another drink of his soda. "I see, I guess that means you have to tell them yourself one of these days." Ritsuko said as she sits back down on the bench with a can of coffee in her hand. "I guess it is time to go home." Said Ritsuko as she got up and started to walk out the room. Shane did not notice Ritsuko was gone until she was passed the cornor and on her way out. "Ritsuko wait up." Said Shane as he through the empty can away and started to catch p with Ritsuko. Shane soon caught up with Ritsuko as she boards a elevator that lead to the office level of NERV headquarters. In a remote area of NERV headquarters, Commander Ikari and Fuyutusuki was boarding a train to take them to the surface. "So Ikari are your plans for the 5th Child coming true?" Commander Fuyutusuki asked as he sat across from Commander Ikari that was staring vacently out the window. "The plans have been changed many times, but the facts are clear. SEELE is putting their own dummy plug operations into advanced productivety for they plan to use the 5th's personal data as a test, but SEELE has forgoten the main reason the dummy plug project was created." Explained Commander Ikari as the train started to move. "What is the true reason you selected Shane Pardue to be the 5th and last?" Asked Commander Fuyutusuki as he looked out the window with Commander Ikari. "I choose the 5th Child for the purpose of using Doctor Akagi to help me build his new advanced Eva to crush SEELE when the time comes and to give her a farewell preasent before the time comes for me to take my place next to Yui in Unit-1." Commander Ikari explained as Commander Fuyutusuki looks at him with a look of fear yet clamness. At the same time in the power chamber level of NERV headquarters, Kaji was looking at a steel enforced door with the words "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CORE, ALL PERSONAL MUST WEAR C CLASS OR HIGHER BIO-HAZARD SUITES BEFORE ENTERING AREA" painted in red. Let see here if this is the door I think it is this should be the area that they bee hidding Unit-3 and its secrets. Kaji thought as he types in some numbers on a key panel. The red words "ACCESS ERROR, PLEASE TRY YOUR ID CODE AGAIN" flashes on the screen as Kaji tries again to be faced with the same message. "So you plan to find Unit-3 behind that door and expose the secrets of it as well." Said Misato as she pulls the safty off her gun and points the barrel at Kaji's head. "Well does this remind you of the time you found out the truth about LCL and NERV." Kaji said as he raises his hands in the air. "I already know all I need to know about Unit-3 and the pilot, and as friendly advice, stop any and all investigation into Unit-3 and its pilot for the sake of Ritsuko and myself." Misato said as she puts the safty back on her gun. "Now how can I do that, for you know I am a spy for the Japanese Goverment and a part time investigator." Kaji said as he slowly starts to turn to face Misato. Kaji turned around slowly to face Misato as a loud siren sounded. "What a Angel this soon." A shock Misato said as she started to run to the elevator with Kaji. On the Command Bridge, Ritsuko and Maya was perparing Unit-0, 1, and 2 for deployment when Misato and Kaji arrives at the Command Bridge. "What is the statues of the Angel?" Misato asked as she stands in the center of Ritsuko and Kaji as they all stared at the live feed screen. "The Angel is on the outskirts of the city and moving towards the city slowly, it has just passed the first sector line and is advancing." Explained Hyuuga as he watches the Angel on the 3D radar. On top of the Geo-Front, UN forces was using everything they had as the Angel slowly passed over them. The Angel looked like a dark cloud as missles and tank shells passed though the Angel's body as it slowly took the form of Sachiel the Third Angel. "What is this." Ritsuko said as Sachiel started to destory the UN forces. "I thought we destroyed Sachiel." Said Misato as the Angel transformed again in to a misshapen form that had the tentacles of the 4th Angel on its back and the head and arms of Sachiel and the body of the 13th Angel Bardiel with the gaint red orb in its chest. So it looks like this Angel uses defeated Angel's weapons instead of creating its own weapons. Ritsuko thought as UN tanks and air squadens was being destoyed by the tentacles and the cross shaped spears of the new Angel. "The UN is ordering us to deploy the EVAs to destory the Angel." Said Aoba as he hangs up a phone. "Send the EVAs to the mountain launch area to intercept the Angel before it gets any closer to Tokyo-3, no telling how much damage it will cause if it gets too close to NERV." Ordered Misato as the Bridge crew followed her orders. "Delay that order." A voice from behind Misato said. "Send Unit-1 and 2 to their main launch sites and send Unit-0 with the sniper rifle to the fall back launch site in the mountains behind Unit-1 and 2." Ordered Commander Ikari as him and Commander Fuyutsuki rose up from the floor in their Commanders post. "Sir, I highly disagree with that order for the amount of damage this Angel will cause if it gets close to the city and two we have the chance to destory it before it get close to a highly populated area." Misato said as she faces the Commanders. "Your statement has been noted and I am releaving you of your command over this operation as of now, Major Katsuragi." Commander Ikari ordered as everyone turns to face him with surprise expressions on their faces. "Yes Sir," Misato said as she mumbles words under her breath. "Order the launch crews to replace the EVAs in the back up cages and tell the pilot of Unit-3 to prepare for deployment immediatley." Ordered Commander Ikari as he began to think. "All EVAs are ready for launch except Unit-3, Sir, " Explained Maya. "Excellent, launch Unit-0 though 2 now and tell me when Unit-3's pilot is ready for deployment," ordered Commander Ikari. As Commander Ikari ordered the bridge crew, Ritsuko began to think of a reason Commander Ikari wanted Shane to go into combat now of all times, when it hit her. Ikari wanted to cause Unit-3 to go berserk or to kill him. No, he wouldn't do that or whould he for he might think of Shane as a treat to him. Ritsuko thought as Maya informed the Commander that Unit-3 was ready for launch. Everyone thought it was too soon for Shane to face a Angel alone, but the Commander only orders Maya to tell the other pilots to wait for orders from Misato and to patch him into Unit-3's video radio. In the entry plug, Shane waits for the high G-force launch of the Eva when a video radio window opens. "This is the Commander, to Unit-3's pilot." Commander Ikari said as Shane looks at the image of the Commander. "Yes Sir, what are my orders, Sir?" Asked Shane in a uneasy voice for this was the first time eh has spoken to the Commander. "Your orders are to destory the Angel at all cost for you will be the first line of defense for NERV and Tokyo-3." Commander Iakri ordered before the radio window went black and closed. "Launch Unit-3 now," ordered Commander Ikari. In a matter of seconds Shane was over taken by the high G's of the launch as him and his Eva raced to the outskirts of the city throw the launch tube. On the surface a small mountain opened and the rails of the launch tube extended and Unit-3 came to a sudden stop. "Lets get down to business." Said Shane as Unit-3 grabbed the rifle that was sent up with it. "Lets see here." Shane said as a scanning box appeared in front of him. The scanning box began to scan the area for the Angel as the Eva's head slowly moved its head side-to-side. Suddenly a warning massage appeared in the entry plug, Shane quickly noticed the warning message as the Angel fired a cross shaped spear at Unit-3. Shane quickly avoides the spear as he fires the rifle at the Angel. The Angel moved as quickly as Unit-3 did as it once again changed, suddenly a eye appeared next to the red orb. Shane tried to regain his balance in the Eva when the Angel shot a honey looking liquid at the Eva. The Eva quickly moved its left arm to cover itself from the liquid as the Eva prepared to fire the rifle again. The liquid hit the forearm of the Eva, suddenly the honey looking liquid started to melt the armor of the Eva as Shane screamed in pain for he felt the acid like liquid eating away the armor. Shane thought quickly and dipped the arm of Unit-3 into a near by river to try an stop the buring. As Unit-3 tended to its wounds, the Angel again transformed into a more misshapen form with the head of the 6th Angel and a combination of half spider legs with the arms of the 3rd Angel. Shane knew that the Angel would try an attack while it thought Unit-3 was injured so he waited till the last moment to fire the rifle as the Angel slowly walk towards Unit-3. Soon the Angel was close enough as Unit-3 fired a whole clip at the Angel at point blank range. The Angel fell backwards from the force of the bullets as the Eva slowly walks to the fallen Angel with the empty rifle at hand. Shane moved Unit-3 closer to the Angel to inspect it for movement when it happen. The Angel dissolved into a thick black cloud as Shane was taken off guard by this and tried to rememeber how to change the video feed to inferred. Before Shane could act the Angel reformed and grabbed the head of Unit-3 with one of its hands and the neck with a tentacle. Shane struggled to free himself as the Angel started to crush the head with its hand and straggel Unit-3 with the tentacle that was wrapped around the its neck. Inside the entry plug Shane held his head in pain as the sound of crushing metal was heard and the imprints of the tentacle was showing on his neck. The screams of Shane was heard on the Command Bridge as everyone watched the live feed monitor and was shocked. The Angel applied more pressure on the head as other tentacles ripped throw the stomach of Unit-3 and the other hand of the Angel grabbed the arm of Unit-3 snapping it in two. "Lower the percentage down 50 percent," ordered Commander Fuyutsuki. Commander Ikari only waved his hand to delay the order as he stared at the entry plug's onboard camera feed. Shane was in much pain as his left arm was really broken and internal bleeding began in his stomach as he coughed up blood that mixed with the LCL of the entry plug. Ritsuko could no longer stand the sight and the screams of Shane dying as she grabs a radio head set from one of the bridge operators. "Shane listen to me, you need to concentrate on expanding your AT Field to cause the Angel's AT Field to be destoryed." Said Ritsuko as clamly as she could. "The pain," screamed Shane as the Angel increased its AT Field level to apply more pressure on the head and as it ripped another tentacle into the stomach of Unit-3. "I know you are in alot of pain, but you have to try for if the head is destoryed you might die and I don't want you to die Shane, not now for all the time I have been without, so fight damit, fight for your life, fight for me Shane." Ritsuko shouted as she broke down in tears. As Ritsuko's words hit Shane's hurting body, Unit-3 grabbed the hand of the Angel. "Unit-3 is creating a AT Field." Maya explained as the tentacle around Unit-3's neck loosen when Unit-3 grabbed the hand that was crushing its head. "Unit-3 is breaking though, my God the Eva has broken though and is attacking the target." Shouted Maya as the live feed monitor of the Angel and Unit-3 showed the beams of light that made up the AT Field braking apart. Shane was injuried badly as be tried to stay awake when some blood trickled down his forehead. The Angel's AT Field was now broken as the Angel's hand snapped from the Eva's hand. The Angel quickly changed again as a eye formed in its chest. Unit-3's mouth opened as the Angel prepared to fire the acid from the eye again. Suddenly, Unit-3 grabbed the forming eye and ripped it into two as a large opening formed from the acid that was now eating the Angel. As the acid eat at the Angel, the Angel opened its mouth to use it to bit the head of Unit-3 off. But Unit-3 sensed this and punched the Angel in the mouth as it came down towards Unit-3's head. The fist of Unit-3 punched though the sharp teeth of the Angel's mouth to exit from the back of its head with blood flying all over houses that was too close to the battling gaints. The Angel tried to fight back as the sound of cracking bones and high pitched screams of the Angel was heard. Maya quickly turned her head before Unit-3 began to rip the Angel's many arms and tentacles off one-by-one, then started to rip what was left of the head off. Both Ritsuko and Misato, along with all the Command Bridge's operators watched as the carnage unfolded. "My God what have I done?" Asked Ritsuko to herself as she watched Unit-3 begin to kick the half live Angel around like a soccor ball. "Is this Unit-3's Berserker form," Misato asked herself. Commander Ikari only smiled at the scene of a Eva playing with a fallen enemy. I have done it. I have created the perfect weapon against SEELE and the Angels and this is without a dummy plug to cause the Eva to go berserk, for the pilot is in full control. Commander Ikari thought as the Angel finally dies. In the entry plug Shane came in and out of conscious as the LCL became reder and reder by the moment. Shane soon finally gave into the tiredness as he shut his eyes. The Eva slowly stopped kicking the Angel as the blood of the Angel began to fill the streams and cover the houses that was close by. The Eva fell to the ground with the sound of a large bomb going off as the pilot said his last words softly into the radio. "What is the pilot's condition?" Ordered Ritsuko as she rushes to Aoba's terminal. "Pilot statues is unknown." Aoba replied as he franticly typed on his keyboard. "Send a rescue team and a retieve team to Unit-3's location." Ordered Ritsuko as the command post of Commander Ikari and Commander Fuyusuki sank back down into the floor of the Command Bridge. "Major Katsuragi tell all other EVAs to proceed to Unit-3's location with caution for the Angel has not been destoryed." Ordered Commander Ikari as he sank with his command post. "Yes Sir." Misato said as the doors closed over command post. "All EVAs proceed to the outskirts of the city in B formation for the Angel has disappeared off radar." Ordered Misato as she watched Ritsuko race towards a emergency exit to get aboard one of the recovery crew's trucks. "Unit-1 checking in, no sign of the Angel yet." Explained Shinji as he carefully moved his Eva though the streets of Tokyo-3. "Unit-2 reporting in, no sign of the Angel or anything else for that matter." Complained Asuka as she watches Shinji from her close range video transmitter. "Rei can you see anything?" Misato asked as there was nothing but silence from Unit-0's radio. "Rei report." Ordered Misato, but Rei was too overtaken by fear and concuren to notice Misato's voice. The words from Shane before Unit-3 went silent echoed in her head as she resets her radio band. "Unit-0 reporting." Said Rei as she startes to move her Eva. "What was the problem, Rei?" Misato asked though the video radio. "It was nothing, Major Katsuragi." Rei replied as the words from Shane rang louder in her head. On the outskirts of Tokyo-3, at Unit-3's loction, emergency and recovery crews was starting to arrive at the battle zone. "Eject the entry plug first so we can see if the pilot is all right." Ordered a man in a NERV technicain's uniform. "Hook up the laptops to the external command ports at the base of the entry plug hatch." Yelled another man as more recovery and emergency crews vehicles arrived to isolate the area. "Has the entry plug been ejected?" Yelled Ritsuko as she ran from a truck to the Eva. "No Ma'am, we are in the process of ejecting it when you arrived." Explained a man with a hard hat on and red overalls that was rolled down to his hips to show his NERV shirt. "Eject it now for the pilot's life might be endangered," shouted Ritsuko. "Yes Ma'am." Said the man as he began to type on the laptop's keyboard. The neck of Unit-3 soon open to reveal the end of the entry plug. The man typed in the ejection codes as the entry plug turned counter clockwish and the plug locked into its ejection postion. On the Eva's back, NERV technicains was accessing the entry plug's emergency LCL drain commands when Ritsuko rushed to the entry plug's hatch. "Open it now and get the pilot out of there." Ordered Ritsuko as the man typed on his laptop. "LCL drain commands recevied, emergency draining commands recevied, draining LCL now," said the man. The external draining ports appeared as the LCL gushed out of the entry plug. Soon medics and other technicains rused to the Eva to see what was going on. "Hey what is that red stuff in the LCL, Ma'am?" The man asked as he watched the yellow liquid flow out of the drain ports. Ritsuko looked down at the pool of LCL that started to form on the ground below. In the pool was little traces of a red liquid tat floated in te LCL. Oh dear God thought Ritsuko as she recoqnized what the red liquid was and yells for medics. "Entry plug's entry hatch opening." The man said as the airlock pins rotated and sprang out. Ritsuko rused to the opening hatch as there was a gush of steam and then the hatch lift open. The afternoon sun slowly shines into the entry plug as the hatch opened slowly to let Ritsuko see inside it. Ritsuko was overtaken by a full range of emotions as she sees the bleeding body of Shane laying unconcious, his body limp with not signs of life as his chest slowly rises and blood slowly pours out of his mouth and nose. The medics rused up the Eva to the entry plug as Ritsuko cannot believe what is happening and tries to wake herself from this nightmare she thought herself in. On the other side of Tokyo-3, the other Children was not aware of the events that had taken place for they thought the Angel has disappeared. "Asuka, Shinji I want you to return to headquarters immediately," ordered Misato. "But, Misato the Angel is still out there somewhere." Agured Shinji as he stops his Eva. "There was no Angel to begin with. It was a deployment time drill setup by the UN to test the response time of the EVAs in a attack situation." Said Misato as she knows it was a lie and she did not want to keep secrets from them. "So I am ordering that all EVAs to return to base for debreifing and cooling," ordered Misato. "Gee they have some nerve for not telling us it was only a stupied test and I was ready to kick some Angel butt, but the stupied UN has to ruin my fun." Asuka complained as she turns her Eva around to head back to the deployment lifts. "Shinji are you coming or not?" Yelled Asuka though the video radio. Shinji did not pay Asuka any attention for he was thinking of why was the EVAs dispatched in such a rush if the UN was only testing them and why was Misato ordering them away from the loction when they had almost reached it. Is there something there she does want us to see or was it really a test. Shinji thought as he starts to head back to the deployment lifts behind Asuka. Rei on the other hand was on her way to Unit-3's loction in her Eva. "Ma'am Unit-0 is refusing orders and is heading for Unit-3's loction at top speed." Said Aoba as he pulls up Unit-0's location on the 3D map. "Rei what are you doing," ordered Misato though the video radio. "I know that Unit-3 was crittcally damaged and I am heading to Unit-3's loction on my own." Rei said as her Eva jumped over some power lines. "I am giving you a direct order to stay away from the area and to return to the deployment lift sit immediatly." Ordered Misato as Rei closed in on Unit-3's loction. "Rei did you hear me?" Yelled Misato as Rei closed the radio circuits in her Eva. "Damit, she cut me off." Said Misato as she watches Unit-0 close in on Unit-3's loction. At Unit-3's location a ambulamce crew was loading Shane's body into the ambulance when Unit-0 reached the damaged Unit-3. "Doctor Akagi," shouted a man with a portable radio in his hand. "What is it, I don't have time to take orders right now." Yelled Ritsuko as she starts to climb into the albulance's back. "Sorry Ma'am, but the pilot of Unit-0 wants to speak to you." Said the man as he hands RItsuko the radio. "Is he all right," asked a worried Rei. "It is unknown right now for he has lost a great deal of blood and he maybe in a coma." Yelled Ritsuko into the radio as a NERV hover jet landed. Rei watched from the entry plug of Unit-0 as the ambulance left the area and as Misato walked away from the hover jet. "Patch me into Unit-0's emergency radio circuits." Ordered Misato as the hover jet took off. "Rei why did you disobey a direct order," asked Misato. "I was worried for the pilot of Unit-3," replied Rei in a soft tone. "That is not a excuse for disobeying a direct order and closing the radio circuits of the Eva to avoid that order," explained Misato though a radio. "I'm sorry Ma'am for disobeying a direct order." Said Rei as she turns her Eva around to return to the deployment lift. "Rei, I know that you was worried for Shane, but I need to keep this a secerte for now and I want to talk to you when you return to headquarters." Misato said before handing the radio to a man. As Rei returns to the Geo-Front, the ambulance that was carrying Ritsuko and Shane to the hospital races though the streets of Tokyo-3 to the hospital. "This is ambulance 3 calling T3 General Hospital, we have NERV personal aboard and are requesting that NERV ER crews be ready recieve a patient." Said the ambulance driver over the CB of the ambulance. The ambulance soon came to a stop in front of the hospital's special entrence for NERV. "Get him on the express elevator stat." Ordered a Doctor as he ran towards the ambulance. The doors of the elevator closed as a doctor and nurses rushed to save Shane's life. "Give him 20cc of adrenline." Yelled the Doctor as Shane's heart began to stop beating. "Doctor we are losing him." Yelled a nurse as Shane flatlined. "Shock the flatline now," ordered the Dcoctor. "Clear!" Yelled a nurse as the padels sent a suge of eletricity though Shane to start his heart. The crew of nurses and the Doctor rushed passed the ER's doors as Ritsuko watches from the door's window as Shane is rushed into the ER. In the ER the doctor and nurses rushed to save the lif of Shane as his heart began to stop beating again. "What the hell happened to this boy?" Asked the Doctor as he began to nurse Shane's wounds. "All they will tell us is that he was in a serious accident about ten minutes ago." Explained a nurse as Shane flatlined again. "Damit, we are losing him again!" Yelled the Doctor as one of the nurses shocked Shane again to start his heart again. Time passed slowly for Ritsuko and Misato for they feared the worst for Shane as he struggled to stay alive. In the depths of NERV headquarters Rei was sitting in one of the many briefinf rooms when Misato walked in. "I am sorry for chewing you out back then." Said Misato as she walks into the room. "You do not have to apologize for I did disobey a direct order and putting the whole operation at risk from my actions." Said Rei as she looks down at the floor. Misato only looked at Rei in silence as she sits in her chair and starts to cry out of sorrow. "I have gotten word from the hospital that Shane has stabilized and is breathing on his own." Said Misato as she walks out the door of the briefing room. Tears of happiness replaced the tears of sorrow that she shed for now she knows that Shane is alive. Above the Geo-Front at Misato's apartment, Shinji was busy cooking dinner when the phone rang. "Hello," answered Shinji "Shinji, Iwill be late again for I have to finish some work here, so don't wait up." Said Misato as she hangs ups the phone on ther other end. "Who was that Shinji?" Asked Asuka as she walks into the kitchen. "It was Misato, calling to tell us that she has to work late and no to expect her till later tonight." Explained Shinji as he finishes his cooking. "Oh is that all, I was hoping that Misato would work late so we can have a one-on-one talk wih each other over dinner,." Asuka said in a seductive voice as she walks towards Shinji with a seductive smile on her face. Soon both Shinji and Asuka was seating across from each other at the kitchen table. Both Shinji and Asuka gazed into each others eyes as the lovee for each other grow. "Shinji," started Asuka as Shinji placed a hand on top of her's. "Yes, Asuka." said Shinji as he holds her hand. "I love you Shinji with all my heart and will love you till th end of time." Said Asuka as she started to blush from her confession. "I know that, Asuka. I to love you dearly for you are the only reason I pilot Unit-1." Explaned Shinji as he lends across the table and kisses her on the lips. The candles on the table flickers as their love grew stronger with every passing moment. The morning sun rises to fill the sky over Tokyo-3 with its beautiful colors. The citizens awake to start the day and to rush to work or school as they do everyday, but this day will be diffrent for the people of NERV and the Evangelion Pilots for they will be changed for life. In a darken hospital room lays Shane's seriously injured body that was placed in a life monitoring tube. A tired Ritsuko tries to stay wake for the fear of losing him my come true. Misato quitly walks into the room as a tired Ritsuko falls asleep in a chair. The thoughts of losing him forever plagues her as she closes her eyes. "So how is he doing?" whispered Misato as she shook Ritsuko on her shoulder to wake her. "Oh, it's you, Misato." "So how is he," asked Misato as she walks to the tube. Misato looks on at the lifeless body of Shane that looked like a shell of something that was once living. "It is not good, for he lost a great deal of blood ad his heart is trying to stop from the lack of blood it was without in the entry plug, but that is not the worst part. He has slipped into a deep coma last night." Ritsuko explained as she looks at Shane with Misato. "That bad." Said Misato as she placed the flowers she brought on a small table that was next to the tube. "I will watch over him while you go home and get some sleep." Said Misato as she pulls the chair that Ritsuko was sitting in closer to the tube's side. "No, I can't leave him, not now," pleaded Ritsuko. "You do not do Shane any good if you do not get any sleep for you might have a accident that could have been avoided if you have gotten some sleep." Explained Misato as she sat down in the chair. "Please Misato let me stay for I might lose him at anytime." A pleading Ritsuko said as tears started to form in her eyes. "Please Ritsuko leave and get some sleep for Shane," Misato said. "I will do it for Shane, but call me if anything happens while I am gone." Said a guilt striken Ritsuko as she slowly walks away from the tube and her child mybe forever. "I am so sorry Shane for what happen. It's all Commander Ikari's fault for putting you in here in this dame machine and for making Ritsuko worry so much about you when this could have been avoided." Said Misato as she presses her face against the cold glass of the tube and cried softly. Across the city at Misato's apartment, Shinji and Asuka wakes to face a new day together foe they have truely loved each other and cared for each other for the first time as their love grew stronger by the moments. Both had decided to tell Misato first about their love, but she was nowhere to be found in the apartment or at NERV. "I wonder were she could be." Said Asuka from behind the bathroom's curtain. "She might have gone to vist Touji at the hospital." Explained Shinji from the kitchen as he cokked their breakfast. "I was palnning to vist him today. Do you want to join me Asuka?" Said Shane as he places two plates on the table with their breakfast on them. "Well I guess we can tell Touji about us if you want to." Asuka said as she opens the curatin and walks towards Shinji to hug him around his neck. "I wonder what he whould say when we tell him?" Wondered Shinji outloud as he sat down at the table with Asuka. "He probably say it is some kind of sick joke or he having a nightmare." Said Asuka as she points a fork at Shinji. "Well I guess we have to prove it to him then." Said Shinji as he lend over the table and kisses Asuka on her soft lips. "Since you put it that way, lets do it." Said a love strinken Asuka. In the apartment of Ritsuko Akagi, Ritsuko sleeps uneasy as she is having a horrible nightmare. Ritsuko's mind influences her nightmare as images of past and present memories collided to form a hellish dream. "You killed me and took my child, Ritsuko." Shouted a voice as Ritsuko runs in darkness. "No, that's not true. I have not killed anyone and I only took Shane for he needed a mother. I was the only one that could have cared and loved him as much as Jessica could." Shouted Ritsuko as she runs endlessly in the darkenss. The darkness quickly overwlems her as the black currents of the darkness sets her on a beach shore. The sand as red as blood as the sky was a black as the sea that was in fron t of her. Ritsuko slowly looks around to see the beach and the sea and nothing else. "Hello Ritsuko." Said a voice from behind Ritsuko. Ritsuko quickly turns around to face the voice and the person that spoke it. "Mother is that you?" Asked a confused Ritsuko. "Yes Ritsuko, it is me your mother." Said Naoko as she held out her arms to hug her daughter. "Mother," said Ritsuko as she hugs her mother. The feeling of being held in her mother's arms conforted Ritsuko as she holds her mother close. "Shh, shh, I'm here and there is nothing to be afraid of, now that I am here." Said Naoko as she rocks her daughter slightly in her arms. "It was horrible, the voice shouting at me about not caring and loving Shane and for killing Jessica." Ritsuko said as tears began to fall from her eyes. "I know that you killed Jessica and took her child for you own and it is time to erase that mistake by taking your life to avenge Jessica," said Naoko softly. "What did you say?" Ritsuko asked as she slowly pulls away from her mother''s arms. "I said, I must kill you for you was a mistake and to avenge Jessica's death," said Naoko. "No, no, your not my mother," shouted Ritsuko in horror. "Your right, I am not your mother." Naoko said as she melted into the sand. "Why, why must I be tortured like this?" Asked Ritsuko to herself over and over again in her mind. "The reason is for you to see the trute and to show you a reason to live." Said a child that look like Ritsuko. As the words left the child Ritsuko's mouth, images of her and her mother, of Jessica, Misato, Kaji, and Commander Ikari, then of Shane. The images slowly stops as images of Shane and herself appear.. The images of her and Shane flashes in front of her eye as a voice spoke. "Lier, you took the child because of Gendou and Yui had a child and you know that you could not have Gendou for yourself and never have a child for no one has ever loved you in your life." Said the voice as the beach disppeared. "That's not true." Yelled Ritsuko as she now stood in drakness. The voice repeated its statement over and over, saying it faster and faster till Ritsuko screamed. "Stop it." Ritsuko screamed as she held her hands over her ears to try to block the voice as she fell to her knees. "Stop it, please stop it." Said Ritsuko as she broke down in tears. "You are the only one that can stop it." Said a voice from the darkness. Ritsuko looks up with tears in her eyes to see Shane in his plug suit.. "Shane is that you?" Ritsuko asked with tears in her eyes. "Yes Ritsuko, it is me." Said Shane as he hugs her. "Shane, I was so worried for you. I will never let you die." Said Ritsuko as she held his head with her hand to place it on her shoulder. "I know that you will never let me die, but why did you try to kill me," asked Shane. "I did not try to kill you, it was Gendou's fault for sending you out to fight the Angel alone." Ritsuko said as she held him closer to him. "Shane, Shane, what's wrong?" Ritsuko asked as she felt Shane stop breathing. Ritsuko quickly pulls Shane away from her slightly as his body went limp in her arms. "No, not him, anyone except him." Screamed Ritsuko as she held Shane's died body in her arms. "Bring him back, bring my son back to me," demaned Ritsuko. Suddenly she wakes from her nightmare as she gasps for air. Ritsuko sat up in her bed to find herself in her bedroom. The sound of rain and thunder is heard as Ritsuko brings her kness to her chin and wrappes her arms around them. Shane is dying and I cannot do a thing. Thought Ritsuko as she rocks slightly on her bed. Why must he suffer like this Ikari, for you to satisfy your thirst of power. Ritsuko thought as tears started to run down her cheeks. At the hospital, Misato watches over Shane's lifless body from the glass of the monitoring tube. Damn you Ikari, for sending Shane out to battle without telling him about the Angel's capilities when they are treaten, said Misato to herself. As Misato watches Shane, the mindof Shane wonders insode itself. Where am I? Thought Shane as he floats in a sea of darkness. "You are inside your mind." Said a voice from the darkness. "Who said that!" Shouted Shane as he floats in the darkness. "I am you in a since for there are two true Shane Pardues," said the voice. "What do you mean?" "The true selfs are you and me." "But how are you?" "I am a past version of yourself that you have forgotten and I will help you find the only true Shane Pardue." The voice said as a bright light appeared. The flash of light soon dimmed to reveal a small office. "What, where am I now?" Demaned Shane as a bright light flashed, blinding Shane for a moment. "Do you remember this office? The things on the desk, anything?" The voice asked. "No, should I?" Shane asked as another flash of light engulped Shane. "Do you remember your mother, her voice, her smile?" Asked the voice as a woman appeared at the desk sitting in a chair. "No, I never had a mother for my Aunt told me she found me abondened by the street!" Yelled Shane as he remembered his Aunt's words. "That is wrong for you had a mother and she gave you a gift when you was very young." The voice said as he woman turned her head to look at Shane. "What do you mean? I never had a mother and I never recieved a gift." Shane yelled as the woman brushed the stray hairs out of her face. "try to remember the earlist memory from your childhood." The voice said as the woman got up from her chiar and walked right though Shane to the door behind him. "I remember the day, I was five and I was at home. My Aunt and Uncle was fighting about something," said Shane. "Try to remember what they were fighting about." The voice said as the office changed into a kitchen with a den conntected to it by a doorway, with a much younger Shane staring into the kitchen. "I remember that my Uncle was yelling at my Aunt about a woman named Jessica and a woman named, Ahgg, I can't remember the other name." Shane said as he grabbed his head for there was a sharp pain when he tried to remember the name. "Try to remember the name for it is thename of someone who you loved and she loved you like a so when you was with her," said the voice. "Why do I have to remember the name for I have never had a mother." Yelled Shane as he falls to his knees in pain. "Cut the main power." Ordered a voice from the darkness. "Oh my God, send a recovery and medical teams down there now," yelled another voice. "Get a falt bed over here." Another voice yelled as a bright light flashed in front of Shane. The light revealed a room with a Eva and a smashed entry plug. "Oh dear God, call the hospital, tell them we have a body coming in." A woman shouted as she unfolded a flat bed. "Who are these people, what happened to that woman?" Shane asked before the pain hit him again. "Do you remember when I told you that you had a mother?" The voice asked as the woman on the flat bed softly called out a name. Shane watched the woman as she said the name of Shane softly before her eyes closed. "What is this?" Shane yelled as the pain in his head became more unbareable. "You remember now, good." The voice said as a bright light came over Shane. "Remeber what?" Yelled Shane as he rose from his knees. "Do remember the name Doctor Jessica Kim?" The voice asked as the room changed to a hospital room with a woman holding her child in her arms as she sits next to the window, looking out at the setting sun. "No, should I?" Shane asked as the woman spoke to where she could be heard. "My perfect little angel." The woman said as she rocks her child in her arms. "So have you chosen a name yet?" Asked a doctor as he walks into the room. "Oh it's you Doctor Bush." The woman said as she turns her head to face the Doctor. "Well," asked the tall, dark haired doctor as he looks at a chart in his hand. "Well I was thinking about the name Shane for it was the father's and it suits him," explained the woman. "Shane, that is a wonderful name for a child for it means God's greatest gift. I really think that a great name." Said Doctor Bush as he lends over to look at the child. "Doctor I need to talk to you." Said a nurse as she rushes by the door. "So she was my mother." Shane said as he was shocked to find out for the first time he had a mother. These explains the picture in Ritsuko's apartment, the woman witht he locket was in fact my mother. Shane said to himself as the room turned a bright white. "Good you remember that you had a mother who loved and cared for you as long as she was on this earth and beyond." The voice said as another flash of light engulped Shane. Shane soon found himself in a darken room with a glass floor and two people in the room that was talking about something. "So what's going to happen to him," a woman in a lab coat asked. "That is up to the orpahange," explained a man in a NERV military uniform. "So he is all alone in a strange country with no mother or father to look after him." The woman said as she held a baby in her arms. "My I have the child now?" The man in the NERV uniform asked as he reached out for the baby. "Can he be adopted by someone who knew the mother when she was living," the woman asked. "Yes, but at this time I do not see anyone here that knows the mother on a personal level and two NERV personal files shows that their are no other family that lives in the area or in the country for that fact," explained the man. "Can I adopt him," the woman asked. "Did you know the mother," asked the man. "Yes, I was her co-worker and friend when the accident happened." The woman explained as she stepped into the light to reveal her face, the face of Ritsuko. "Then I must have you fill out the papers and legel documents to have you show up as the guardian and foster mother of the child and to have legal hold of the child as well." The man explained as he walked into the shadows. "So Ritsuko was in fact my adopted mother. That's why when I was fighting the Angel she told me she did not want to lose me again and the reason she treats me like a son instead of a Eva Pilot like the others." Said Shane as the voice that has been helping him took shape. "I see you have discovered the trute behind Ritsuko's behavor towards you and the way she loves you like a son instead of a Eva Pilot like Shinji, Asuka, and Rei." The voice said as Shane turns to face it. "It was you that was the voice." Shane said as he reconized the figure as his real mother Dr. Jessica Kim. "I know that it has een hard for you though the years not knowing were you got the locket from and who was your mother, but you did well Shane, for I am very proud to have given you life and loved you when I was alive, but someone else needs you right now for the love of a mother is strong in her." Jessica said as she hugs her son for the first and last time as a flash of light broke though the darkness. "Wait mother, don't go, wait mother, I lover you always." Shane said as his body faded into light. In the hospital room, Misato watches over the lifeless body of Shane as he lays there silently when it happened. "What tha," Misato said as she looks at Shane's face to see him crying. The life monitor of the tube opened the hatch as the once lifeless body of Shane began to wake. Misato only cries out of joy as Shane starts to sit up in the tube. "Shane," yelled Misato as she hugs Shane to make sure she was not dreaming. Shane only hugs Misato back as his vision slowly came back to him from the white he first saw. "Thank you mother." Shane whispered as Doctors and nurses rushes into the room. As Shane wakes from his coma, Shinji and Asuka steps off the elevator on NERV's floor of the hospital. "So where is Touji?" Asuka asked as she watches Shinji walk to the waiting room. "Touji's room is next to his sister's room." Expained Shane as he motions Asuka to follow him. As Asuka and Shinji rounds the cornor that lead to the main hall, they heard Misato yelling at a nurse where the phone was. Misato ran out of a room to the nurse's station to use the phone there. "Hello Misato." Said Shinji and Asuka as Misato began to dial Ritsuko's number. "Oh hi." Misato said as the phone on the other end began to ring. "Wait a second, what are you two doing here?" Misato asked as she totelly forgot that Touji was at the smae hospital. "Well, I'm waiting." Misato said as she waits for the phone on the other end to be answered. "Well you see Misato, me and Asuka are in love." Shinji explained as he began to blush from the embaressment of his confession. "You are what." A shocked Misato said from the news for she thought Shinji liked Rei. "That's right, we are in love and there is nother anyone can do about it." Asuka said as she points a fingure high in the air. "I'm happy for the both of you." Misato said as the phone on the other end was answered. "Ritsuko it's me, he's awake from the coma and would love to see you right now." Said Misato as Shinji and Asuka wonders what she was talking about. "Misato my I ask you what you mean by he's awake from the coma?" Shinji asked as the pieces started to come together about Misato's secret. "I guess it is time to tell you the trute about everything." Misato said as she walks passed Shinji and Asuka to the waiting room. Shinji and Asuka follows Misato to the waiting room as Misato sits down. "Well," asked Asuka as she sits to hear a explanation when the elvator stopped on the floor and the doors opens and Ritsuko rushs in. "Where is he," a frantic Ritsuko asked. "He is in his room and the Doctors told me he has not suffered any brain damage or serious injuries fromthe battle." Misato explained as Ritsuko then rushes to Shane's room. "Well," Asuka repeated as she wanted to know. "The trute is that a Angel did in fact attack Tokyo-3 and the EVAs was deployed for no reason for the exception of Unit-3," Misato explained. "What do you mean Unit-3, I thought it was destoryed." Shinji said in a surprised tone. "Yes, it was destroyed, but it was rebuli by NERV as a safty precaution if all the other EVAs was destroyed and NERV was left defenseless." Misato said as she tries to hid her tears. "But, who was the pilot?" Demaned Asuka as Shinj tried to calm her. "The 5th Child was the pilot and when it did battle with the Angel for the first time." Said Misato as Ritsuko walk into the waiting room. "Oh Ritsuko," said Misato as she notices Ritsuko standing in the waiting room. "The Doctor said he has to stay in the hospital for another week or so and go through therapy to build back his strangth." Explained Ritsuko as she walked towards the trio in the waiting room. "Have you told them the name of Unit-3's pilot and the connection he has to me?" Ritsuko asked as she sat down next to Misato. "I was just about to tell them that," said Misato. "The pilot of Unit-3 was a boy named Shane Pardue and he was Ritsuko's son at one time," explained Misato. "You might have meet him at school." Misato said as Shinji began to remember the rumors about a new Eva Pilot being transferred to the school. Misato told more of Shane's story, about what happened to Shane during the fight with the Angel and how Commander Ikari sent Shane on a sucide mission to test his skills and training. Shinji started to fill in the missing pieces to the puzzle, to Rei's recent behavior and the recall of the EVAs during an attack and the other weird things that was going on at NERV. The day grew late, as Ritsuko was faced with the truth she held from Shane. Shane was looking out the window that was next to his bed when a nurse knocked on the door. "Mr. Pardue you have a vistor." The nurse said as she lets Ritsuko into the room. Shane looked out the window at the mountains and the sun that was falling behind them, when Ritsuko walked into the room. Ritsuko calmly sat down in a chair that was close to the bed as Shane sat up in the bed. Ritsuko and Shane look at each other silently when Ritsuko broke the slience. "Shane I have somthing to tell you," Ritsuko said in a soft motherly tone. "Yes, Ritsuko," Shane said as he reached for his dogtag that was on a little night stand next to the bed. Ritsuko watches as Shane slipped the chain of the tag around his head, then a familier sight was seen. On Shane's dogtag, next to the tag was Jessica's locket and ring. Ritsuko watched as the locket spinned slightly with the ring next to it as she started to talk. "I wanted to tell you that I was a dear friend of your mother and I know she would be proud of you, if she could see you know, a strong, handsom youngman and a Eva Pilot too, for she and I worked on the EVAs, before her death." Ritsuko said as she tries to hold back the tears of her sorrow and hardship. "I know it has been hard on you keeping my mother's death from me," said Shane. "I know my mother died in a failed activation test and that you adopted me when she died for I found the lost memories of my childhood and the memories of your kindness and love for me when we cared for me, mother." Shane said as he looks at Ritsuko with eyes of sorrow and pain. "Shane, I was too weak to tell you before, but when I was on the verg of losing you I had to tell you for if you died before you know the trute, I would have never forgiven myself for I love you as a son." Ritsuko said as she cries on Shane's chest. "I know that pain all to well for I had a feeling that there was someting you was not telling me when I forst meet you on the elevator that day." Shane said as Ritsuko hugs him for he understood the pain she went though. In the depthes of NERV headquarters, Commander Ikari is thinking of the recent problems Misato and Kaji has started and now if Ritsuko finds out about the true natrue of Shane, she might side with his problems for she knows too much about the EAV's true nature and the special projects he has been keeping from the Committee and the Children. Commander Ikari only ponders these problem as he stares vacently at his empty office and thinks of a solution to destroy his problems at once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for reading my first Evaglion fan-fiction. Comments and questions or any other things about this fan-fiction are welcomed. Please contact me at rspardue@hotmail.com if there is any. I would like to thank some people that made this fan-fiction possible. I would like to thank all my friends and all my girlfriends that told me that I would do nothing with my life. The real Rei that was in my life for a time. The people at ADV Vision that worked to bring EVANGELION to the world. The hard working people at GAINAX that made EVANGELION a reality and everyone else that worked on EVANGELION, a specially Shiroh Sagisu that composed the music that helped me write this. Thank you to the readers of the fan-fiction and to the people who posted this on their homepages.