In Book Three, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka at last begin to train as a team
for real combat, weapons in hand...stalking a giant gelatinous creature
with a spherical "core" they must take out. If this kind of mission
sounds strangely familiar, you're right--but if things go as usual, it's
poor Shinji who'll get called the slimeball! And even as the lab deals
with the fallout of the Jet Alone affair, can they stand the stress of a
relaxing game of company baseball with Gendo...?