These episodes are going to take a while.  I spent 3 days on this one
and this one is primarily plot.  The next few should take much longer
since I'm gonna try to explore the thoughts of characters.  I finally
get to use all that info I've been reading about future episodes to be
released and some of the situations will be incorporated into my fics.
Hopefully, I can write a story as comprehensive as the original
storyline, including the exploration of what is the nature of mankind.
No small task.  This is a story I have put much thought into, unlike my
other stories.  I even have the climatic ending scene written for this
series of fics.  But beware, some of the information I am using from
unreleased episodes are simply interpretations and may not be be good
summaries, therefore ideas could be false in regards towards the
original series.

“War of Evangelion”

Author’s notes on Commander Gendo Ikari:

If you’ve seen Episode 5 of the series, you know Gendo Ikari is not a
complete cold heartless bastard.  That is one point I’d like to point
out while I write this series of stories.  He is not exactly the gallant
white knight, but he is certainly not evil.  I like to think of him as
similar to Nabiki Tendo:  hiding emotions the best she can, doing
questionable things and but not willing to put the life of her family at
stake.  In Ikari’s case, he rarely shows any emotion and is unwilling to
compromise the NERV’s goal of keeping mankind from becoming extinct.
Like Nabiki, Gendo has lost a loved one (his wife) and I feel this is
the reason he hides his emotion.  Only towards Rei Ayanami does he show
warmth, even considering her to be a daughter.  But He does not allow
this affection to cloud his judgment when NERV operations are
concerned.  In this series of stories, keep in mind that both sides are
still the protagonists, but they are fighting because they have
different views.  Before each story, I will give my thoughts of a
certain character in the Neon Genesis Evangelion world.

Episode 1:  Lines are drawn (Refer to "I'm Shinji Ikari" for the prelude
to this story)

Misato whips open the door to her apartment to see Asuka sitting on the
futon listening to music.  Asuka promptly turns off the music after
seeing the expression on her face.  The apartment is a mess since Shinji
hasn’t been home for 9 weeks.

“What’s wrong Misato?”  Asuka was quite concerned.  Never has she seen
her this angry since she had come over from Germany.

Misato says nothing and promptly goes to the closet and pulls out a
small box.

“Misato?  What are you doing?”  Asuka gets up and goes over to where
Misato is crouched, turning the key to the box.

“What am I doing?”  The box opens and she pulls out a side arm and
begins loading it.  “I’m going to get Shinji.  That’s what I’m doing.”

“Vhat?  Vhy do you need that for?”  Her suprise gives away her German
accent.

“Are you coming?  I’ll tell you on the way.  I’m going to need your
help.”

They both get up and grab a few other important things before leaving
the apartment for the last time.  In their haste, they leave most of
their belongings, including Pen Pen.  Asuka follows Misato out the door,
obviously scared of what she is unaware of.

On the drive over, Misato tells Asuka the truth about Shinji and his
mental state, but not the part involving her.  When told about Commander
Ikari’s order to execute Shinji, her eyes go wide.

“...But he can’t do that.  Even if Shinji’s a male, he still doesn’t
deserve to be killed.”  Asuka begins to let her mind wander, not knowing
why this is happening.  Insulting Shinji’s gender was just one way of
letting some of her stress go.  <How can this happen?  I don’t care
about how much I hate Shinji, what if this happened to me?  I wouldn’t
want to be killed.  Oh its all my fault...>

“Listen.  What we are going to do will have really bad repercussions.
We could be executed for pulling this.  You understand this don’t you?”
Misato is very serious about this conversation.

“Ya, I can’t let this happen.  Japanese have such stupid ideas of honor
and death and stuff.”

“This is not about any of that.  Commander Ikari is always this cold and
heartless.  Well this time he has gone too far.”  She pauses for a
second.  “What I need you to do is steal Unit 02.  We have to fight back
and the only way we can do that is with an Eva.”

“You can count on me.  Just drop me off at headquarters and I’ll ask to
do a field training exercise.  But where do you want me to take it?”
Asuka asked inquisitively.

“NERV has a secret underground auxiliary base in Tokyo 2.  You should
know where it is from learning all the preplanned retrieval stations.
Right now it is vacant and used only for emergencies.”

“Just leave it all to me.”  Asuka remarks as confident as ever.

“Good.  I’ll be going to get Shinji and I’ll meet you there.  Remember
not to let anybody know about this.  Also, once NERV operatives figure
out what’s up, they will probably inform Commander Fuyutski who will
order to have your umbilical cord ejected.  Once that happens, you will
have only 5 minutes to get to Tokyo 2 and get underground.  And
remember, it would be best if you make sure no UN security helicopters
are watching your recovery.  This way, we will have more time to...”

“I know, I know.  I can handle it.  Just make sure you get Shinji there
before all of this gets started.”  Asuka folds her arms.  <Oh well.  I
guess I owe him for saving me twice.  This one should cover it.  Maybe
now I can finally get out of that stupid Japanese school...>  She could
feel the tension inside her build.  It was something that never was a
problem for her until she joined NERV.  But now, being so unaccustomed
to high stress situations, she just didn’t know how do deal with them.

Meanwhile in Commander Ikari’s office.  Commander Fuyutski has been
summoned to be brought up to date with the situation with Shinji.

“I’d hate to say this, but it appears that pilot Ikari will no longer be
available to us for piloting his Eva.  Since we cannot afford to have
Shinji fall into the hands of STEELE, I’ve been forced to order his
execution.”  Gendo with his ever calm voice showed no feelings of
regret.

“You can’t be serious.  Your own son.”  Fuyutski was just as shocked as
Misato was to hear of this plan, but being more professional, retained
his emotions.

“It was not an easy decision.  Eva pilots are not expendable you know.
You will see to it that this order will be carried out, won’t you.”

“Of course sir.”  There had been a time not too long ago that Fuyutski
despised Ikari.  <I couldn’t possibly work with a despicable man like
that, I once said...>  But times have changed and now STEELE had to be
put in check.  In these past few years, he had grown to respect NERV’s
director.  He may have questionable morals, but it was certain he was
making the project his highest priority.  Mankind’s survival was at
stake and Ikari was not going to allow his emotions to make the mistake
that would cost the human race to go extinct.

Meanwhile at NERV headquarters, Asuka is dropped off to see if she could
get her Unit 02 out of docking.

“Listen, I need to get my Unit 02 out for target practice.  That last
fight with the angel was pathetic.  I need to work on my aim.”  Asuka
was constantly thinking <What if they find out?  What if they don’t let
me?>  She was scared, but she was able to conceal all of this.

“Huh?  You don’t need to go to the surface.  What about the simulator?
Besides, we can’t go up there with all those civilians around...”  The
technician was suprised that this child was going to come in and demand
to have a training exercise without any approval by NERV operations
planning director.

“Didn’t you hear me?  I said I want to go up.  Put me on the Mount
Yoshida practice facility.  There won’t be anyone to see me there.”

“Still, I need approval from the operations planning...”

“Then get it!  And stop wasting my time.”  Asuka was being as demanding
as always.

Over at the hospital, Misato was using forceful measure of her own.  She
walks through the front door, past the nurse’s station and up to the
security doors.

“Um...Miss.  can...I...help....”  The nurse’s voice trails off as she
sees Misato pull her gun out.

“I’m here to pick up Shinji Ikari.”  She thinks about how she was going
to get the door open with the keypad lock, but settles for shattering
the glass with a couple shots from her sidearm.  The extremeness of her
actions resulted in the nurse fleeing to get the doctor.

Misato then moves through the hole in the door and reaches Shinji’s
door.  As she looks for a way to break it down her cell phone rings.
After a sigh she pulls it out and answers it.

“Captain Katsuragi?”  In the background, Misato can hear Asuka
screaming.  “Hurry up.  I want go.  Hurry up will ya!”  The voice
continues, “Sorry to disturb you but pilot Langley-Soyuu is here and
she’s demanding a surface practice operation and...”

“Can’t you hear her?  She says she wants up so let her up.”  Misato was
obviously annoyed by the call and running around shooting down doors was
not helping her mood.

“Oh.  Ok ok.  I just had to get the operations planning manager’s
permiss...”

“Will you just shut up and do it?”  She hangs up and goes about her
business of breaking Shinji out.  In a few seconds, a doctor comes from
the door she had just shot through.

“What, what are you doing?”  The doctor is quite agitated at this
outburst.

“I am here to check Shinji out.”  Misato was now speaking with a toned
down voice, but was filled with sarcasm.

“You can’t do that!  This is a special security wing.  You have to
get...”

“In that case, with my power as operations planning manager, this
facility is now under NERV jurisdiction.  All actions including
discharging patients are now under the control of NERV authorities.”

The doctor was quick to snap back.  “Ha.  This is not a military
emergency.  Your authority does not warrant anything.”

“Well how about this?”  Misato raises her sidearm and aims it at the
doctor’s forehead.  “Now open this damn door!”

The doctor was shocked, but was still feeling in control.  “If you shoot
me, you can’t open it.”

Misato has completely lost her composure  “Ya, well if you don’t open it
right now, you won’t be the one to worry about it, doctor.”

Finally, he breaks down and punches the proper numbers to unlock the
door and slowly backs away.

Back at the hanger, Asuka gets into her entry plug which is inserted
into Unit 02.  As preparations are made for the launch, Asuka goes
through her checklist.

In fluent German, she gives her commands into the computer.  “Set
language interface to German.  Set all exterior commands to German.
Internal battery fully charged...”

Once all preparations are set, a voice comes over the radio.  “We are
having difficulties launching your Eva, Asuka.”

She allows the thought noise to lower her synch ratio by responding in
Japanese.  “Don’t worry, I’ll handle it manually.”  Back in German,
<Hah!  I love that command.  Those idiots...>  She puts on her devious
grin as she manually launches her Eva.

This does not disturb the operators, they have worked with Asuka before
and they know she can get pushy.  They also knew she preferred to
interface in German since it was her native language.  She might have
been a little encroaching when she forced the command center to work in
German, but Asuka’s need to always show off soon put away any suspicions
of what she was up to.

The door to Shinji’s room opens and reveals a confused Shinji.  He
stands up and starts to look around.

“Shinji, we’re leaving.”  Still holding off the doctor with a gun,
Misato motions Shinji to come out.

“Who, who are you?”  Shinji was even more confused when he focused on
the incident outside his door.

“Its Misato.  We’re going home.”

Shinji could not remember a Misato, but the offering to go home was
enough to get him out and listen to her.

With Shinji behind her, she backs off back through the door and by the
nurses station, still holding the gun on the doctor.  Just as she is
ready to leave the door, she turns the gun on the phone on the desk next
to her.  With two well placed shots, the phone jolts and falls to the
ground.  Running to the car, she also notices the main phone jack on a
wall 20 feet from the exit.  Again she fires and puts holes through her
target.

“That should keep us covered for a little while.  I just hope they don’t
think of cell phones.”  Not moving fast enough, Shinji get pulled along
until they reach the car.  (Misato has since gotten the car fixed and is
no longer pieced together with duct tape. {See Episode 1})

“We’re not going home, are we?”  Shinji was no longer optimistic about
his chances of going back to a ‘normal’ life.  After this lady barges in
and shoots up the place, they were likely to be wanted by the police.

“Not exactly.”  Misato does not look over toward Shinji as she speeds
through the streets of Tokyo 3 and out of the city.  “We are going to
your new home.  Where Asuka should be waiting.”

“Asuka?  Where is she?”  Shinji was quite suprised she had known of
Asuka.  <Who is this woman anyway?  Now that I think of it, she does
seem familiar...>

Asuka survey’s the land around her looking for the best way to reach
Tokyo 2.  She had chose this place to surface because it was already
halfway to her destination, therefore, less time for NERV and the UN to
react.  She looks over the preset targets on the east face of the
mountain and then turns around and breaks into a run down the west face.

The radio began screaming back at her to get back on course, all in
Japanese.

“Those idiots have no clue.”  She continues toward Tokyo 2, maintaining
her radio silence.  “They’re gonna have to speak to me in German if I’m
even going to bother to respond.

NERV was currently on standby so none of NERV’s leadership was in the
operation room.  Those who were on duty were not ready to deal with an
uncooperative pilot, and of course, none spoke German.

“What do we do?  Should we call Captain Katsuragi?”

“If she finds out, do you know what kind of hole we’d be in?  Dr. Ikagi
would be more lenient.  But first detach the umbilical chord.”

“Affirmative.”  The operator at one of the comm. stations shatters the
glass on the consul and pulls the handle out.

Asuka’s cockpit flashes red as it reports the problem and begins the 5
minute countdown.  “Aw damn.  They cut my power.  Luckily I can get this
thing there in 3 minutes.”  Now with full mobility due to the loss of
the umbilical cable, Asuka begins to make her Eva leap down the hillside
at 2 mile bounds toward the outskirts of the city.”

Misato picks up her phone and dials Dr. Ikagi’s number.  After the other
end picks up, she begins to tell her what she needs before hanging up to
avoid any possible scans.  “Ritsuko.  I need to see you at the corner of
Shinto and Foritu streets as soon as possible.”

“Shinto and Foritu?  That’s in Tokyo 2.  Why do we...”

“Listen, its important.  Get there as soon.  Its important.”  Misato
hangs up and continues driving.  Shinji remains silent.

Ritsuko sighs and gets up to leave Unit 00’s cryostasis chamber.  <Now
what’s that all about?  I’m off in fifteen minutes, whatever it is, it
can wait until I’m off work.>  Ritsuko was not too suprised by this
“urgent” call from Misato.  Ever since they became friends, she has
always needed to bail Misato out of some kind of trouble.

Misato, used to driving at high speeds lets the tires squeal as she
turns corners through the streets of the city dodging anything in the
way.  The pull into the building that makes as the surface part of their
new base of operations and begins to descend to the shelter.  Being only
an auxiliary base and not equipped to accommodate large numbers of
workers, it used elevators rather than escalators like the Geofront.  It
also was only 200 feet below the surface, making it more vulnerable to
angel attacks.

The driver leans back in her seat and takes a deep breath.  “Now how
long until they figure out where we are...”

“Where are we?”

“Your home.  Don’t worry, you’ll see Asuka soon.  Then we’ll figure out
how straighten out your brain.”

They step out to see a dark and abandoned facility.  Only the systems
needed to barely maintain it were running.  While they looked for the
computer to start up the main systems and turn on the lights, Unit 02
drops down through the retrieval elevator.

As the entry plug is ejected and the LCL drained, Asuka starts
laughing.  “Hehehe...the faces of all those people.  What’s the matter
with them?  Never seen a building sized robot walking through their
city?”  She begins to grin as she replays her navigation through the
city in her mind.

Misato looked over toward Shinji, then up at Asuka pulling herself out
of the entry plug and onto the umbilical bridge platform and start
climbing down toward them.  “Now to see if Ritsuko is crazy enough to
join us.”

TO BE CONTINUED...

Asuka finds out about Shinji’s affection toward her.  How is she going
to respond?  Obviously, she’s  not going to be in the best of moods.
And Ritsuko, will she join her best friend, or remain loyal to Gendo?
What will the UN actions be?  STEELE?  All in the next episode.

<Asuka breaks in>What do you mean Shinji’s going to show his affection
towards me?  How do you know?  Your not the great kami...

<A deep booming voice from the sky gets Asuka’s attention>This story is
written so the author has an omnipresent point of view.  I can even know
what your thinking.  And since I’ve already got the basic story line
down, I know everything in this story.  MUAHAHAHA

<Asuka narrows her eyes and thinks>Just great.  Kami really is
male...demented too...This world really is going to hell...

<Again the booming voice>I heard that!