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               	     Authors notes: Well so far we haven’t got any O_o

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“AAAAAHHHHHHH!!” Shinji screamed as the beam hit, the LCL boiling all around him. Just as he was about to pass out, the bubbles cleared. He found himself on a rolling green hillside nestled in a long valley. The pain was gone. Wind was bristling through his short cut hair, new scents of grass and barley reached his nose, and the melodious chirping of birds assaulted him. Shinji pondered his newfound location and began to notice that he lacked his plug suit, which seemed to have been replaced by tight breeches and a leather jerkin. However, this was just a minor point in the list of things that were very wrong at this moment.  Firstly, he was in the middle of nowhere, with no recognisable landmarks nor memory of getting there. Secondly, the angel, Tokyo 3 and Unit-1 were nowhere to be seen and thirdly there was a large rippling vortex distorting the horizon and moving rapidly towards him 
‘Wait, what!?’

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Shinji awoke to a hospital bed and the stoic first child standing over him with a food cart was at her side. She looked at him curiously.
 “Ayanami” Shinji said still half asleep, his mind a little foggy, filled with images of a strange land. Rei had started to speak. She recited from a pamphlet she was holding.
“I'm here to inform you of the schedule of Operation Yashima.  It will begin at 0:00, midnight.  The two pilots, Ikari and Ayanami, will scramble at the cage at 17:30 today.  At 18:00, ready Units One and Zero.  At 18:05, launch.  At 18:30, arrive at the Emergency Base on Mt. Futagoyama.  Wait there for further instructions. When the day changes, the operation starts” she finished, reaching towards the trolley
 “Here is the new one” she stated handing him a packaged plug suit.
The third examined the package handed to him and thought about what he would have to do, about getting back into that monster and being hurt all over again.  The first then gave him a plastic covered plate saying simply “meal.” Thinking about the impeding battle, Shinji decided he wasn’t hungry. 
“We will depart in 60 minutes.” As Rei turned to leave, Shinji asked, “Do I really have to get into Eva again?” Levelling his gaze Shinji was greeted by the usual, neutral expression of the first child as she blandly responded, “Yes you do”.

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Time 00:00, Mt. Futagoyama. It was time. Misato leaned in towards the monitors, slamming a fist down on the console. "Commence operation!"…

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The angel’s blast rocked the mobile command centre violently, knocking personnel off their feet and shattering windows. The angel remained unharmed by the glancing shot off the massive rifle, continuing it’s drilling into the Geofront and preparing a second blast.  Unit 01 quickly replaced the fuse ready for the next shot, however the angel was quicker, firing its purple energy beam directly at the prone figure of unit one. Rei was quick to dive her Unit 00 in front of the blast, wielding the makeshift shield, thus protecting the 3rd child and the command centre from another blast from the deadly beam.  Knowing the shield wouldn’t last long Shinji willed the rifle to charge faster, watching the crosshairs line up he fired a second shot directly across the angels own beam penetrating it dead centre and with the resulting explosion the angel slowly fell to the streets below, the ungodly shape crashed into buildings and parks, its form crippled, its life gone.

Shinji ejected his plug and rushed towards the bubbling mass that was Unit 00.  In some mocking repetition of his father, Shinji clenched the searing hot release handles. Fighting the pain, he twisted the metal grips with all his strength. Steadily, the plug opened. Throwing the hatch aside, Shinji leapt inside to see an almost unconscious Rei, lying in the super heated LCL. Looking up, Rei could see tears boil up in the eyes of the Third child.
“Ayanami, are you all right? Ayanami! Don’t say you have nothing else; don’t say good-bye before a mission! Its too sad.” The Third sobbed.
“Why are you crying? I’m sorry, I don’t know what to do or feel at a time like this”
“You could try smiling”
A curious expression took over the first’s face as she contemplated Shinji’s response and ever so slowly a small smile crept across her face.

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