Although Shinji Ikari had the determination to fight, the objective conditions were... he simply couldn't win.
That was right. Against the Fifth Angel, which excelled at both offense and defense and possessed overwhelming strength, Unit-00 and Evangelion Unit-01 were like rats trying to bite a turtle—there was nowhere to start. They couldn't get close in melee; the moment they approached, it blasted them with a beam. At range, they couldn't break through its defenses either. After struggling for quite some time, Misato Katsuragi could only reluctantly order a temporary retreat when she saw there was no way to win. There was no point wasting any more time.
After driving back the EVAs, the Fifth Angel extended a drill and cheerfully started boring into someone else's basement. Everyone was furious, but there was nothing they could do. They could only watch helplessly as it drilled holes through the ceiling of their own home...
What followed was more or less the same as in the anime. Misato Katsuragi, driven to anger, came up with the idea of borrowing the secret weapon, the Positron Cannon, and blasting the bastard to death from a distance. Since Shinji Ikari had undergone Fang Zheng's training and hadn't been traumatized into shutting down by the Fifth Angel's surprise attack, he naturally didn't agonize over whether he should continue fighting. Instead, he eagerly waited for the chance to get revenge...
Hm? Why did this feel like the tone had somehow gone off?
Forget it. This was better. Compared to a shut-in boy like Shinji Ikari, wasn't a hot-blooded Shinji Ikari more fun to watch? Frail pretty boys had gone out of fashion long ago. A real man needed to train up eight-pack abs and face Angels head-on!
Next, Fang Zheng simply took Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari to