shinji ikari, had managed to kill his father as fourth impact had begun, but it had different consequences, as he was able to reverse the damages done from the second and third impact, hijacking the AAA-wunder, NHG-gebet, and NHG-erlösung, in the process, and fourteen years have passed, since shinji disappeared taking NERV, three of the four autonomous assault arks, the entire nemesis-series, and the EVA unit-08 to boot, now misato is out searching for shinji, to both insure he is still alive, and to insure that he isn't going to wipe out all life