I don't know man, i guess it all depends on how she is on the fafner, i mean kenji is a fucking wuss normally, but it goes up to 11 when he's riding the fafner, but at least he's actually somewhat competent on it...
But yeah i don't think anything would've saved shoko to be honest, she was waaaaay too fucking lost in rage for that, i'm like 100% sure she could've ejected if she really wanted since the festum wasn't assimilating her as fast as it did with kasugai but she was like nope i must save the island, honestly, ill keep saying this, she was pretty much a sacrificial lamb to create plot, her whole character is used up in one ep, could've built her as the deus ex machina of fafner riders but i guess they didn't want to play into the whole "super weak girl suddenly is a god in a mecha" thing?
lol wait until you see what Kenji is like in exodus. You gonna be eating those words. Honestly if we take aside all plot elements Maya probably could've saved her since Maya is another fucking prodigy who's completely calm and collected while in a fafner and she could've thought of a way to save her but yeah the plot needed a sacrificial lamb to get things rolling. That's why a lot of people apparently thought the first half was extremely stupid and poorly written until this famous gundam writer came onboard for the second half. ---