Shinji leaves on a rainy afternoon to place flowers on Yui Ikari's grave, while Asuka fumed at him for all the wrong reasons. Rei meets Shinji out in the rain, while Ritsuko runs standard tests on the MAGI. A new Angel attacks and the MAGI mysteriously go dead. Asuka and Shinji suit up in their EVAs as Rei remains behind. Just as Units 01 and 02 are about to go into the depths of Terminal Dogma, the power to Unit 01 is cut off. Asuka is forced to go on alone. In the meantime, Gendo finds Rei at Heaven's Gate. There, he sacrifices himself for her and faces the Angel alone.

Unit 02 arrives in time to find Gendo wounded on the floor. There, Asuka fights the new Angel with less than ideal results. Unit 01 goes berserk and attacks the Angel, only to come within a second of losing it all. Asuka regains control of her Evangelion to save the day. In the hospital, Shinji reveals some of his truth feelings for the Second Child. Misato, of course, came in at the worst possible moment. Chapter One ended with Gendo Ikari in a coma.

 Gendo Ikari found himself faced with demons of his past, pushing his mental barriers to the limits. In the meantime, Asuka came home from the hospital, wounded, but unable to stand being in that place a moment longer. Unable to face Asuka's bitterness, Shinji fled the apartment, using the excuse of buying more ingredients for dinner. The Second Child is strangely quiet as he leaves her behind.

At the grocery Touji and Kensuke try to get Shinji to stand up to Asuka. Under the constant pressure, the young Ikari flees to the foothills that surround Tokyo 3.

In this chapter, we are shown what happened to Yui on that fateful day that changed Shinji's and Gendo's life forever. In a moment of berserker rage, the frail life of Yui is wiped from this plane…all before the horrified gaze of the remaining Ikari.

In the foothills of Tokyo 3, Shinji meets the sweet, young Hikaru Sohma…the Sixth Child. The girl listens to Shinji as he explains his inner conflict to her. This internal battle seems so clear to the Sixth Child and Shinji is somewhat taken by her clear vision.

As it turns out, Natasha Karpov, Hikaru's guardian, clashes with Misato for the first time over the fact that the woman let Hikaru go on to school without even meeting the Major. Misato was anything, but pleased. Thus, began the conflict between the women that would continue from that day forth.

At school, Shinji finds out about a new EVA moments before Hikaru comes strolling into the classroom. Hikaru's bright smile of greeting is an utter contrast of Asuka's furious scowl. Shinji, caught in the middle, bows his head and prays that it would all pass over swiftly.

Gendo's mind, at its limits, almost collapsed, but was rescued by the vision of a young girl with dark hair and her mother's eyes. Startled, Gendo follows the child back to the world of the living.

A full out battle at the school was halted only by Shinji's clumsy intervention. Asuka, shocked by her actions, allows Shinji to walk Hikaru home.

When Shinji finally heads him, he finds Asuka waiting up for him at the kitchen table. He walks her to bed and is shocked to his toes when she kisses him tenderly…

On a topical morning in the Katsuragi apartment, Shinji found himself in the middle of a test of wills as Asuka and Hikaru clashed again. No clear victor came from the battle. As usual, Touji and Kensuke don't understand the young Ikari's plight. When things didn't seem like they could get worse, Hikaru offered her smile to him again. This did nothing to tame Asuka's anger.

In the meantime, a distracted Ritsuko tried to report to Commander Ikari on the new EVA in their ranks. Words Gendo murmured during his delirium in Chapter Two come back to haunt the doctor at strange moments. In the end, Ritsuko was left unsure where she stood.

Hikaru was introduced to Rei, who bore the Sixth Child's curiosity indifferently. However, when she met up with Shinji later, a bit of warm was in her voice. She shocked the younger Ikari by her words and left him to consider them alone.

Misato has a nightmare which shook her confidence in the EVAs. Gendo was questioned by SEELE and while he was gone, a new Angel approached Tokyo-3. NERV dispatched the Evangelions and for the first time in this fanfiction, the OSPE were used. [On-Site Power Equipment]

Shinji and Asuka moved in to take a closer look and the Angel attacked. Shinji and Unit 01 are dragged into the Angel's body and the boy was attacked by the stresses within the Entity. Unit 01 retrieved the Lance of Longeius from within the Angel and was able to defeat the Entity using the destructive tool.

In Chapter Four, Shinji was released into Misato's tender, but carefree hands. In her mind, what was a better way of celebrating the most recent victory over the Angels than with a nice, friendly party out in the country.

Shinji's weak objections not withstanding Misato's determination, the Third Child found himself at a party with the other Children and several of the key personnel from NERV. Unfortunately for Misato and Asuka, Lieutenant Karpov discovered the party and invited herself and Hikaru. Sparks soon flew between Asuka and Hikaru, driving Shinji to seek some peace and quiet elsewhere.

Out in the forest, a recovering Ritsuko found Shinji and the two end up having a heart to heart. It is then that Shinji learned of Ritsuko, her relationship to his father, and her somewhat dark genesis with NERV.

While shocked by all that was being told to him, Shinji comforts Ritsuko with a gentleness that surprises the doctor. All was calm before Shinji's friends found him and dragged him back to the party, a silently amused Ritsuko in tow. On the way back, Touji's big mouth got him and his fellow males in trouble with the girls in the group. The resulting Volleyball game was anything but friendly...

In the meantime, Rei Ayanami found herself learning about the art form called music. Guided by the local musician, Shigeru, Rei learned to play the guitar well, far too well for her first time.

It leaves off with a dark shadow was moving toward the modern-day fortress of Tokyo-3.

It all began with Shinji being caught in a dark padded room, seemingly alone and naked. In response to the boy's confusion a Voice came to him and informed him that Shinji had tried to destroy all that was important to him and NERV had abandoned him to the darkness.

As it turned out, during the most recent Angel attack, Unit 01 was absorbed by the Entity leaving the EVA team to believe the boy dead. Asuka was comforted by Hikaru, while Rei felt the silent need of revenge.

Unit 01 came back, but not in the form it had left. Possessed by the Angel, Unit 01 had been used as a tool of destruction against the remaining three EVAs. Through luck, skill, and the desire to protect those things and people that are most precious to the Third Child, Shinji had managed to spare his fellow teammates at the cost of his own body and mind.

When all seemed lost, so far lost that Ritsuko set things into motion to kill Shinji, Rei appeared and destroyed the Angel, allowing Shinji Ikari to survive.

Things exploded in the Katsuragi apartment when Asuka found out that Shinji was going out on a "date" with Hikaru to a local museum. Despite Shinji's claims that it was only a friendly outing, Asuka didn't believe him.

At school, things went from bad to worse when Asuka insulted Hikaru, creating a potentially dangerous situation. Due to Hikari's quick thinking and Shinji's concern for both girls, the Third Child managed to sneak Hikaru out of the school without Asuka realizing until it was too late.

While Shinji was sure that Hikaru would be furious with him, he was surprised that the Sixth Child believed him sweet for choosing to steal her away. They went to the Museum of Traditional Arts and the trip was uneventful.

That is, until Hikaru found herself remembering a horrible nightmare that has been haunting her for some time. Shinji's kindness shines through once more and is there for the Sixth Child. Asuka makes it to the museum in time to find Hikaru kissing Shinji.

This is a devastating blow to Asuka's ego and heart. Torn, the Second Child runs away. The terrible shock did more than simply hurt Asuka's spirit, it also blocked her as a pilot. Before she can even begin to deal with this loss, another Angel attacks.

With the Second Child unable to function as an EVA pilot, Misato puts Unit 02 on stand-by and sends the other Children up to do combat with this new enemy. Shinji suffered a vicious attack by the Angel while the other Children are held helpless by the Angel's power. Asuka's "Pilot Block" was broken and the EVA team was victorious once again.

However, Natasha, realizing that she had let her "obligations" to Seele go for too long, moved to take information to them. That is, until she is savagely attacked by a young boy in Terminal Dogma.

Chapter Six ended with Shinji holding an unconscious Natasha in his arms, waiting for death dealt from this mysterious boy.

Chapter Seven started out with Hikaru finding a picture of Natasha and Ryo, her brother, while the Lieutenant was recovering from her attack. The revelation was too much for the girl and Lieutenant Karpov awoke in time to see a torn Sixth Child run out of the apartment.

Later, Shinji is summoned to NERV HQ on for a mission shrouded in secrets. A very worried Misato saw Shinji off while the Third Child found himself drafted for a mission with his father.

Hikaru begged Natasha to tell her of her past, but in the end, Natasha couldn't bring herself to tell the girl the full truth.

In the meantime, the NERV transport carrying Shinji and Gendo mysteriously went down in the middle of the Alaskan Wasteland. There, they were hunted by a squad of soldiers sent by Seele. Somehow, the boy who had attacked Natasha was connected to all of this and confronted Gendo and Shinji just before they were about to escape from the hellish land.

Chapter Seven ends with Gendo missing his glasses and Shinji in Misato's care, however with a bullet wound to the stomach.

In the beginning of the Chapter, Shinji found out that Rei had been missing a great deal of school without his conscious knowledge. Concerned and a little guilt-stricken, the Third Child sought out Ayanami.

In the meantime, the mysterious Child of Seele was questioned for his failure to eliminate the remains of the Ikari family. When proving to be less than polite, Seele dismissed him from their presence, his future in the balance.

Back in Tokyo 3, Shinji comes to Rei's apartment, only to find the girl on the roof of the apartment building. She is playing the flute given to her by Misato, oblivious to the world around her until Shinji approaches her. Her sudden resistance to the idea of staying at the apartment any longer pushed Shinji to offer to have her moved to a place where she "belonged."

We were suddenly shown Touji and Hikari on a date of sorts. As beautiful as the park was around him, Touji could not bring himself to enjoy it. In his mind, he was at war with a past that had been beyond his control.

Once again, the Children are summoned to face an Angel. In flight, Shinji can't help but feel unsure of himself and his abilities. He feels that there will come a time when his luck will just run out.

Natasha meets with Gendo, expecting to be tried and excluded for her obvious, covert connections with Seele. To her surprise, Commander Ikari comes up with an…alternate course of action.

On the battlefront with the unbalanced appearing Angel, careless decisions and assumptions cause NERV to lose all four active-duty EVAs in an instant.

New plans shift into motion and Unit 03 is pulled out of stasis and its pilot was ripped from his young sister's arms.

Chapter 8.1 ends with Shinji trapped within his plug as it sunk toward the bottom of a lake.

In Chapter 8.2, Asuka and Hikaru are forced to join forces in the wilderness as they attempt to reunite with their fellow EVA pilots.

In the meantime, Misato, after barely surviving a crash-landing, makes her way to a town that has a perticular meaning to Asuka.

Back in Tokyo-3, Touji is faced with a demon from his past: Evangelion Unit 03, regenerated and prepped for combat against this new Angel. Ritsuko finds herself dealing with the guilt of Touji's pain and safekeeping.

Back on the battlefront, Shinji finds himself beside the lake, under the care of Rei and the two begin searching for the others.

The Children regroup a town near an automated dam. A plan is formed and the Children launch a combined attack against the Angel.

The battle ends with Unit 03 killing the Angel and the EVA team is picked up by NERV transports.

The CHAPTER ends with Rei being moved into a new apartment, far away from the constant sounds of construction and she feels…content.

Asuka and Hikaru are forced to join forces in the wilderness as they attempt to reunite with their fellow EVA pilots.

In the meantime, Misato, after barely surviving a crash-landing, makes her way to a town that has a particular meaning to Asuka.

Back in Tokyo-3, Touji is faced with a demon from his past: Evangelion Unit 03, regenerated and prepped for combat against this new Angel. Ritsuko finds herself dealing with the guilt of Touji's pain and safekeeping.

Back on the battlefront, Shinji finds himself beside the lake, under the care of Rei and the two begin searching for the others.

The Children regroup a town near an automated dam. A plan is formed and the Children launch a combined attack against the Angel.

The battle ends with Unit 03 killing the Angel and the EVA team is picked up by NERV transports.

The Chapter ends with Rei being moved into a new apartment, far away from the constant sounds of construction and she feels…content.