during the battle against the tenth angel, when EVA unit-01 was pierced by the EVA Mk.6. shinji ikari was sent to an alternate universe via the temporarily opened gate of guf to protect him from the backlash, shinji is now an admiral, in command of the SDFN-class ship, specifically the SDFN-13: serenity, it has a new mission following the battle against the protoculture it leads of fleet of varying classes of macrosses, into an alternate universe, this will intern lead shinji and his ship, through a journey that may seem him returning to his homeworld