As Reverse Shinji listened to Shinji and thought of the beam Shinji had fired at him, he gradually began to find peace.
"It looks like you really are different from all of us..."
More importantly, he had discovered ways in which Shinji's past differed from theirs...
"You really do want to change things, and you have the power to do it."
Shinji reached out his hand to Reverse Shinji, who was still on the ground.
"This time, I'll seize the future with my own hands."
Reverse Shinji took his hand and slowly stood up. Tears began to trickle down his face as he pleaded, "Then I'm really counting on you..."
"If you can, apologize to everyone for a lousy guy like me..."
"You have to save that light and change this world's fate..."
Shinji nodded, his eyes shining. "I'll defeat fate. I swear!"
Reverse Shinji smiled as he faded away-or rather, merged completely with the real Shinji.
After Shinji gained those memories, the dark space around him gradually crumbled.
He gazed at the Palaj Bracelet on his wrist.
"Zero, this time, I'm going to save you..."
"You have to win your battle against fate..." Suddenly, a solemn voice came from the depths of that dark space.
To Shinji, the voice sounded almost exactly like Zero's.
"I'll win. I promise, Zero..."
Before Shinji awoke, everyone at NERV realized they could no longer sit back and wait.
As things stood, merely holding out for six hours would no longer be enough to deal with the crisis.
So, after going through the historical records that had arrived alongside Meteor Technology once more, Ritsuko arrived at the only possible plan.
They would revive Zero with humanity's own power!
Ritsuko pulled up the records and presented her plan.
"I think you all still remember Magnalium