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A/N here's the first and 2nd redone chapters of Battlemech Evangelion. Like I said I removed all of the custom Mechs and added only real Mechs now that I have the Innersphere and Clan mech packs as well as mek tek mech pack 3.

Timeline to date (note Yui and Gendo in this story are older, Yui was born in 3037 and Gendo in 3035)

3035: Gendo Rokubungi born on Terra

3037: Yui Ikari born on Terra

3066: Ceasefire between Draconis March and Combine. Formation of Fronc Reaches and Calderon Protectorate. Fighting continues in the former Federated Commonwealth, including battles on Tikonov, Tharkad and New Avalon.

3067: Peter Steiner-Davion kills Nondi Steiner in combat, ending hostilities on Tharkad. Ardan Sortek dies in the fighting on New Avalon. Katherine Steiner-Davion surrenders. FedCom Civil War ends. Peter named Archon of the Lyran Alliance, Yvonne Steiner-Davion named Regent of the Federated Suns. Alys Marik begins the Great Debate in the Free Worlds League Parliament. Fourth Whitting Conference held on Tharkad

3068: Second Impact occurs on Terra (earth) Terran Wars begin. Shinji Ikari is born. ComStar off branch group Word of Blake annihilated

3070: New Terran Government forms and swiftly gains control of Terra. Terran agency NERV formed.

3071: Terran Unity Government admitted to Star League. Clan Jade Falcon destroyed, survivors flee into Chaos March

3072: Yui Ikari killed in lab accident. Shinji Ikari sent to live with uncle on New Home

3078: Remnant Jump ship of Clan Jade Falcon jumps into New Home space. Most of the Jump ship is nothing but survivors of the clan's destruction and take up residence on New Home and blend into its population. Remaining Jade Falcon Mech Warriors create the New Home Planetary Militias to defend the survivors and planetary population along with the New Home Defense Forces

3079: After proving he can handle a Mech, Shinji Ikari is accepted into the New Home Planetary Militia as a Mechwarrior

3081: Scattered militia groups through out the Chaos March join with the Jade Falcon remnants to form Clan Snow Leopard to ensure security from bandit raids through out the Chaos March

3082: Present

Battle Mech Evangelion

Chapter 1

Young Mechwarrior

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Earth Calendar year 3082

Shinji Ikari sat back in command couch of his Battle Mech which sat in the Mech bay of the Overlord class drop ship Ragland. Which itself was descending toward Earth. He couldn't for the life of him understand why after 10 years his father would call him back to Terra. Especially not after he had just found what he believed to be his calling. He worked for the New Home Planetary Militias.

As a Mechwarrior.

Shinji had originally gone to New Home to live with his uncle after his mother had died and his father had abandoned him. After proving he could handle a Mech at age 11 he joined up with the planetary militia and acquired his first Mech, a light Mech called an Owens.

At first Shinji had piloted the Owens and then an Urbanmech, but had traded it off for a salvaged Cougar. A few months later in an engagement with Revolutionist forces on New Home, which is in the disputed Chaos March region, Shinji's Cougar was heavily damaged when the Mech lance he was assigned to was ambushed by Mechs which Revolutionist Forces on the planet had raided from the Planetary Defense Forces. They had captured a pair of Fire Ants, a Hellspawn and a Cyclops. Shinji and the rest of his Mech lance had managed to destroy the stolen lance of Mechs.

Destroying the Fire Ants had been rather easy for the lance of 4 Mechs. But then the Hellspawn arrived with the Cyclops. One of Shinji's Lance mates, an Owens, had gone down almost immediately to Autocannon 20 and PPC fire. The two then vectored in on him and started to pick his Mech apart. Fortunately he had managed to tag the Hellspawn in the cockpit with his Autocannon and remove the canopy. The pilot ejected, leaving the Cyclops alone, which Shinji and his remaining 2 lance mates, a Raven and another Owens, managed to take down but not before Shinji's Cougar had lost both legs and had its upper arms pretty much melted by large laser fire.

Fortunately, there were some useable parts available at the time to repair the Cougar. Shinji however had amassed enough C-Bills to buy a Mech of his own, an older redesign, a Hollander II. It didn't have any weapons when he first acquired it, so after trading in his Cougar he bought a clan make LBX AC20 to sit in the place of the Gauss Rifle the Mech should have had, a pair of Medium Lasers on the right arm and a medium and a small laser for the left arm. The Hollander and the other Mechs Shinji had piloted had been painted base gray with red details.

He had received the message Via ComStar, informing him that Misato Katsuragi and a Ritsuko Akagi were to pick him up at the spaceport just outside of the city of Tokyo 3. He looked at the picture of the two that had been sent along with his message.

One of the women had long purplish hair while the other had shoulder length blond hair with a birth mark below one eye. Obviously the blond's hair was a die job, but a good one. But why were they holding hands…old friends perhaps.

He slid the picture back into his pocket as the drop ship lined up for landing.

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Misato leaned back against her car hood, she looked over at Ritsuko who still sat in the passenger seat, both watching the drop ship land.

"What do you think Ritz?"

Ritsuko looked down at the profile in her hand.

"Well according to his profile he has Mech experience. Seems both the Star League Defense Forces and the Eridani Light Horse made a few passes at him so hopefully he will be able to do what we need"

Misato looked back to the drop ship.

"Can we really do this?"

"Do what"

"Ask him to do this, he's just a kid"

Ritsuko got out of the car and walked over to Misato, she rested her hand on her shoulder.

"You know we don't have a choice. I know how bad you want to pilot it, but you can't. Anyway, I wouldn't want you to, it's dangerous. Though I do seem to remember someone who never let age stop her"

Misato smiled at Ritsuko's concern, she looked around to see if anyone was watching, and then planted a rather heated quick kiss on her lips.

"Thanks love"

Ritsuko returned her kiss with a quick peck.

"Don't worry about it"

She looked back to the papers in her hand.

"According to this the boy has had experience with Mechs since he was 11 and had made 15 confirmed Mech kills. He also has experience fighting both against and with former Clan forces and actually owns his own Mech, should be a perfect candidate for unit 01"

Misato nodded.

"If he can use it, you remember what happened to Rei when she tried the Zero"

Ritsuko's expression became sullen.

"Yes I remember, poor girl"

"How is she?"

"Recovering, very slowly though. It could be weeks before she can even walk without someone helping her"

"So what's the commander saying about it"

"He wants the Zero dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up, and as for Rei, I doubt very much she will ever be able to use it now, not in time anyway. Don't get me wrong, she will be able to walk around on her own before long, but not use a Mech. The muscles in her legs took too much damage, it will be at least 2 years and god knows how much muscular therapy before she would be back to normal. Knowing that, he turned her over to me"

"So you're her guardian then"

"Yes, for the foreseeable future most likely"

Misato nodded, both turned their attention to the drop ship which had just touched down and opened its Mech bay doors. Misato looked down at her watch.

"Well here he is"

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The bay doors on the drop ship folded open into a ramp, Shinji powered up his Mech and waited, and then he heard the drop ship captain's voice over the comm.

"Ikari this is Lt Renner, your go for departure"

"Roger that, tell Karas I'll be back as soon as I can, and tell her I'll miss her"

"Confirmed, good luck Mechwarrior, with what ever it is they want you for"

"Thanks, I'm moving out"

Once the lock bolts that held his Mech in place were released Shinji moved his Mech to the edge of the hatch, after looking around the space port he stepped out of the drop ship and onto the tarmac of the Spaceport.

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Misato looked at the Mech that had step out of the ship and gave a slight whistle.

"A Hollander, vintage"

Ritsuko looked over at her.

"What"

"Oh nothing, I guess go ahead and contact him"

Ritsuko plucked her portable radio from the cars dashboard and keyed it in to Shinji's com frequency.

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Shinji turned his Mech to face the parking area of the space port, looking for the two women who were suppose to pick him up when his radio crackled to life.

Shinji Ikari?

"Confirmed, who is this?"

This is Ritsuko Akagi, Misato Katsuragi and I are at the far end of the space port, meet us at the Mech bays

"Alright, on my way"

Shinji turned his Mech toward the large structure at the end of the spaceport which housed the facility's Battle Mechs.

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Shinji met the two women at the feet of his Mech which he had stopped next to the Mech bay. The purple haired one spoke first.

"Nice Mech"

"Thanks, Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi I take it"

Ritsuko nodded.

"That's right; you're Shinji Ikari I presume"

"Yeah, so where's the old man"

"We were asked to bring you to him"

Shinji crossed his arms over his chest, suddenly becoming impatient.

"What exactly does he want from me anyway? I was quite happy where I was and would like to go back to it soon"

Misato looked up at the Gray and red Mech.

"I can see that, where did you get this anyway"

Shinji looked at his Mech, the memory still fresh in his mind.

"I was working with my Mech Lance trying to hunt down some stolen Mechs when we were ambushed, we took the stolen Mechs down but my Mech got trashed, I was in a Cougar. The Militia's Mechanics managed to fix it but it wouldn't have been for a while so I traded it in and had enough for this, its just a Hollander II but I'm use to light Mechs and it has enough firepower to go toe to toe with some heavy Mechs"

Misato nodded, she could easily see what Shinji was talking about.

"Yeah a Gauss Rifle has a tendency to let you do that, plus its mobility"

"Actually I switched to a Clan LBX AC 20; let me up my armor, mobility and up the small lasers on the arms to mediums"

"Nice, sounds like it would stand up in a fight, so you ready or what"

Shinji looked back to Misato and raised his eyebrow.

"Ready for what"

"To go see your dad of course"

Shinji narrowed his eyes.

"Do I have a choice?"

"Well…."

Shinji turned around to face the city in the distance.

"I see…"

He turned back around to face the purple haired woman.

"I'm taking my Mech then. Frankly I don't trust the guys here to take care of it and I want to be able to leave as soon as I can"

Misato looked at Ritsuko, she just shrugged as if to say 'let him'. She turned back to Shinji.

"Alright, but stay off of the road, and keep your radio on so we can talk to you"

Shinji turned to walk toward his Mech the turned around.

"You two are taking the car I take it?"

Both nodded, and got in. Shinji climbed the rope ladder into his Mech's cockpit and began his startup. He then followed the two as the made their way towards the city.

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As they traveled toward Tokyo 3 with Shinji's Mech behind them Ritsuko contacted Nerv's command over her radio while Misato dialed her cars com over to Shinji's frequency.

"Maya…yes its me…get cargo elevator 9 ready for us…yes I know its outside the city but its closer to our position…alright, and inform the commander that the third child refused to come unless he could bring his Mech…I understand"

Ritsuko sat the radio back in its cradle on the dash and sighed, Misato looked over at her lover.

"What's wrong?"

"The commander isn't happy about Shinji bringing his Mech and will only allow him to put it in our Mech Bay"

"Well he is the one who told us to get him to come 'no matter what' it's not our fault we obeyed orders"

Ritsuko sighed again.

"I guess, Maya will have the cargo elevator ready for us when we arrive"

Misato nodded and kept driving, she looked back over her shoulder every so often to make sure Shinji's Mech was still there, it always was.

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Peter Steiner-Davion, Archon of the Lyran Alliance sat back in his private quarters looking over a set of documents given to him by one of his agents.

"So it's true then, Melissa Steiner did have an older daughter"

"Yes Archon, apparently the whole incident stemmed from a one night stand with a Com Star diplomat"

Peter nodded.

"So naturally the family would keep this secret, adultery or not. What happened to the girl?"

"She was sent to the Terra to live with her father, a man named Yoshio Ikari. The girl herself, Yui Ikari, went on to become a brilliant Bio-engineer and married a man named Gendo, who took her family name. She then died in 3072 in a Laboratory accident on Terra while working for a Terra Unity Government organization called Nerv"

Peter looked back to the report, then to the agent.

"So that ends that then"

"Not quite Archon, there's more"

Peter sat forward a bit.

"How so"

"Yui and Gendo Ikari had a son named Shinji, who upon his mothers death was sent to New Home in the Chaos March to live with his father's brother. He's become a rather accomplished Mechwarrior with the New Home Planetary Militia. According to the documentation both the SLDF and Eridani Light Horse tried, unsuccessfully, to tap him as a resource"

"New Home…the remnants of Jade Falcon fled there"

"Correct sir, at last report he was on his way to Terra, his father has called him back for some reason. Our agents on planet have been unable to determine why"

The Archon nodded.

"I've never been to Terra before; I think I would like to see it. And maybe meet this nephew of mine Shinji Ikari"

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Shinji followed Misato and Ritsuko's car, being careful to stay off of the road. They turned off the main road and after about a mile came to a stop in front of a set of large shutters built into a mountain side. Misato contacted Shinji over the radio.

"Ok here's the deal, you can't take your Mech into the base so this is the best we can do. This is Nerv's Mech bay; put your Mech next to my Mech. Just look for the blue Centurion"

Shinji sighed; he had hoped to take his Mech all the way to facilitate a quicker exit, oh well. He found the blue Centurion easily enough and parked his Hollander in the empty bay next to it. He removed his Neural Helmet and Cooling Vest and hoped out.

The other Mechs in the bay were mostly classic inner sphere Mechs like Centurions, Victors and Hunchbacks. Only one or two Omni-Mechs could be seen, all of which were painted in the brown and dark blue color of Nerv…except the blue Centurion belonging to Misato and another blue Mech, a Cyclops. Shinji met the two women outside next to the car.

"So now what"

Ritsuko spoke up.

"There's a cargo elevator which will take us directly into Nerv HQ, just follow us"

Shinji followed the two women toward the elevator at the back of the Mech Bay. He gave his Hollander a side glance as he passed it. Misato noticed and stopped in front of the Elevator doors to ask.

"What's up, why the long face"

"Nothing, I just got a funny feeling, like I'm not going to see it again"

Misato motioned for him to get in.

"Come on, it'll be fine"

Shinji climbed into the elevator, he had no idea what awaited him.

A/N this is the first finished Redux chapter.