"Dr. Akagi please meet Miss Katsuragi in corridor four." said an
announcement over a P.A. system. An attractive blonde woman of about
thirty stepped out of a pool of liquid in a wet suit and snorkel and
sighed. "Is she lost again?" she muttered.
	
	Misato stared in surprise as the door of the elevator opened to
reveal an upset Dr. Akagi standing and glaring at her as she stepped in.
	"Uh, Ritsuko I uhh." stammered the woman.
	"Nice swim suit." said Shinji causeing Ritsuko to glare at him.
He backed off a bit and grinned.
	"Why are you wasting my time Captain?" growled the woman.
	"I'm sure this is all very nice but could we please stick to the
task at hand?" said Shinji impatiently.
	"What a rude little kid." snorted Misato.
	"So this is him? One of the third children?" asked Ritsuko with a
frown as she assessed him.
	"One of?" thought Shinji in surprise. He quickly dismissed it for
the moment.
	"You're late Captian, so late in fact that I was sent to find
you." said Ritsuko angrily.
	"We have to get to the cage as I'm sure that my father is growing
impatient now." he really didn't want to listen to them bicker amongst
each other.
	"What did you say?" said Ritsuko with a shocked look on her face.
Misato just stared at him.
	Shinji simply threw the unopened folder over his shoulder. "I'm
sure you are aware of who I am. I know all about this place and why I'm
here. There are only two reasons why someone of my limited technical
skills would be brought here, and my father doesn't trust me enough for
security. I'm here because he wants me to pilot an Eva." snorted Shinji
giving both of them a condensing look.
	"How does he know about the Eva series?!" yelled Ritsuko at
Misato.
	"Shut up. I was here for some of the development and testing when
I was younger." said Shinji and he began to realize that he was indeed
being very rude, not that it bothered him much. 
	"How can you remember that?! You were only three." said Ritsuko
angrily.
	"Try watching your mother die and see how much you remember."
said Shinji coolly.
	Misato and Ritsuko were silent for the rest of the trip. They
entered the room and the lights came on revealing the head of the robot.
"So there you are mother." said Shinji quietly.
	Gendo appeared in an over hanging balcony near the ceiling.
Beside him monitors showing Shinji's face could be seen. 
	"Father." said Shinji.
	"So you still remember after all this time." said Gendo with a
small frown.
	"You think I'll just come and do what you like after all this
time? You abandoned me!" yelled Shinji angrily. His gaze never wavered
from his fathers face. They stared at each other for a long moment.
	"I have a use for you now, you will do as I say." snapped Gendo
remaining cool.
	"No, you do not order me around father. If I choose to help you
it will because I want too. I could leave here and there is nothing you
could do to stop me!" said Shinji angrily.
	"If your going to stay then do it. If not then leave." shouted
Gendo angrily.
	"Why did I come here?" said Shinji as he turned and looked at the
exit.
	"Why did you come here Shinji? Were you expecting to have a
joyous reunion with your father?" said Misato with a sad gaze.
	"No, I came here to tell him I hate him and carve off his face
with this." said Shinji loud enough to know his father heard as he
produced a large knife from his clothes.
	"How did that get past security?" cried Ritsuko in shock.
	Shinji threw the knife into the ground and it stuck cutting deep
into the metal floor. "But I'm better than that. I'll see you in hell
when I die and that is enough comfort for me." said the boy as he gazed
with hateful eyes at his father.
	One of the monitors next to Gendo changed to a control room and a
gray haired man appeared on the screen looking at a larger one which
showed the angel approaching. "Fuyutsuki, wake up Rei." said Gendo
calmly.
	"Can we use her?" asked the man.
	"She's not dead yet." replied Gendo coldly.
	"No, I'll do it." said Shinji with a calm stare. "I've said what
I need to father. I'm doing this because mother believed in this too, not
because you want me to. Understand that old man." growled Shinji.
	"I don't care about your reasons." said Gendo as he turned to
leave.
	He stopped as the building shook and pieces of the ceiling fell
from above towards Shinji. The boy stood there and ignored them as they
fell around him moving only to swat away a large light that nearly
crushed him. An almost impossible feat given the size of the light.
	"Misato and Ritsuko did not see him swat it to the side. It
seemed to bounce off the ground and land in the coolant pool ten feet
away on its own. But Shinji's father saw the whole thing and his eyes
narrowed. He turned away slowly from Shinji's hard gaze and cruel looking
smile. "Assign Shinji to stay at Captain Katsuragi's home for
observation. I want reports on him daily starting with today�s events."
he said after he walked a ways. "Yes sir." said a voice from a near by
intercom.
	"Shinji are you all right?" cried Misato as she rushed over to
the mess.
	"Yea, I'm fine." muttered the boy as he walked over to them.
	"Wow, you have got some nerves to stand through that so calmly."
muttered Ritsuko after a moment.
	"It takes allot to scare me." said Shinji with a snort.
	
	Shinji found himself in the entry plug and looked around in
confused wonder. "Hey, I just realized I don't know how to work this
thing. How about some instruction?" he said sarcastically.
	"Don't worry Shinji we were just coming to that." said a voice
over the intercom.
	"I don't recognize your voice." he noted casually.
	"I'm Maya, Dr. Akagi's assistant." said the voice.
	"We'll you sound cute, you've got my attention." said Shinji with
a grin.
	"Your a bit to young for my taste." said the voice.
	"Quit flirting you two we have allot to cover." said Ritsuko.
	"Yes Ma�am." said Maya sounding embarrassed.
	"Oh, don't be such a slave driver Ritsy-pu, let a guy have a
little fun. You think I don't know I'm probably cheerfully marching to my
death?" said Shinji.
	"My god, he sounds just like..." muttered Misato to herself.
	"Well if you listen you'll have allot better chance of surviving,
so pipe down." said the woman angrily.
	"When he gets back I'm gonna have a long talk with him about how
to address his elders." said Misato hotly.
	"Yea, sticks and stones. You want to tell me what this stuff
filling up the plug is?" said Shinji still as calm as ever.
	"Don't worry that's LCL once it saturates your lungs your blood
will be oxygenated directly. We have allot to cover so pipe down." said
Ritsuko impatiently.
	"How do you feel?" asked Maya.
	"I'm gub be sick." said Shinji.
	Inside the plug Shinji felt the tingle of the liquid on his skin
and frowned as he realized that it was not the liquid that was causing
it. 
	"Quit complaining your a boy aren't you?" snapped Misato.
	"There is a slight energy reading from within the plug." said
Maya after a few moments of looking at the screen.

	Shinji cursed mentally as he realized what had just happened.
"Damn Why does this happen to me every life? The only time this didn't
happen was my last one." he grumbled. "Misato." he said quietly.
	"What is it Shinji?" said the woman a little snappy.
	"We have a slight problem." said Shinji.
	"What is it?" said Maya and Ritsuko sounding worried. A problem
now would mean real trouble.
	"I'm not a boy any more." said Shinji. He saw all three of them
look up at the screen at the girl sitting in the cockpit of the Eva and
gasped. Sitting there was a long haired red head that looked allot like
Shinji.
	"I think this is an interesting side effect Dr. Akagi." she said
jokingly to them.
	"My god, this is impossible. Is it possible they switched..."
said Ritsuko.
	"No, We monitored Shinji in the cockpit and according to the
computer he's still in there." said Maya in shock.
	"How is this possible?" said Misato.
	"I'll explain when I get back this is actually quite normal for
me. I was hoping LCL wouldn't activate it." muttered the girl. It was
obvious she was lying to all in the room. Truth was this had not happened
to her in over fifty years. It was the good old Jusenkyo curse popping
its ugly head up again at the most inconvenient time.
	"We don't have time to argue, are the connections working?" said
Ritsuko as the building shook again.
	"Yes Ma�am. Every thing appears to be normal." said Maya.
	"Then launch we'll worry about this later its not as if she can
get far out of the city with the Unit." said the Doctor. 
	"Incredible." gasped Maya and Ritsuko in unison. 
	"Syncro errors are within .03 percent." said the young woman.
	"Its going to work." said Ritsuko with hope in her voice.

	Shinji felt the Eva shake and saw the platform and walls move
away as the Eva was released from the safety systems. "Here we go." she
said as the Eva was placed on the launch pad.
	
	Gendo Ikari looked at the screen indifferently. "So my son is a
coward after all. Its to be expected." he thought coolly as he watched.
	"Can we do this?" said Misato from below him.
	Gendo gave a small laugh. "Of course, if we fail to defeat the
angels then humanity has no future." he replied.
	"Launch path clear." announced Maya.
	"Launch!" cried Misato.
	
	Shinji felt the G-force slam her into her seat on the Eva and he
grunted in pain as her crotch was pushed against the center console. It
didn't hurt quite as much in a female body but it was still enough to
make her very uncomfortable. She used the hand grips to push herself up
but it only relieved a little of the pressure. At last she came to a hard
stop as the Eva was thrown up onto the street where the rails abruptly
stopped.
	She looked out at the city and saw the angel coming towards her.
"Oh shit, I still don't know how to work this thing!" she thought
desperately.

	Inside the control room Misato stood and watched. "Who ever you
are, come back alive." she said almost in prayer.
TBC...	
		
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