The Cruel Angel Cometh (An Evangelion Fanfic)

[Crazy4Anime]

*sniff, sniff* that's great, I love it. I'm gonna thank you now for all the great work you've done Kenni, it's truely the best fan-fic I've ever read, and one of the awesomest things I've ever read...it's sad to hear it's ending soon. Please, don't leave unanswered questions like in "The End of Evangelion", or like the original "ending" to Evangelion.

[Konekone]

Chapter Five- Mysteries Unravel, Yet Deepen (Part 1)

Asuka stood by a door, looking at the ground. Her hair hung over her face, covering her dulled eyes. She refused to cry any more. At this very moment, they were operating on little Kenshi, to make him a new arm. At least, that was what they had told her. She thought about all the times she had had with the Chibi Child, and looked away, towards a window.

Shinji could see Asuka, nearby, and he felt almost heartbroken to see her this way. For the first time, it seemed that Asuka actually could open herself to someone, and now he was presently undergoing an operation, to regain an arm, among other things. The ebony-haired Third Child walked over to his companion and put an arm around her shoulder.

"Asuka? Are you okay?" Asuka jolted herself from her reverie and slapped Shinji across the face. "Don't touch me!" Shinji held the sore mark on his face, and looked at Asuka. He could see the tears beginning to reform, and watched Asuka run away.

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It had been a few weeks since the incident with the three Angels had occurred, and therefore, Kenshi had finally come out of the hospital and out of his coma. Ritsuko and Misato were currently watching the news, in Misato's apartment, both of them drinking coffee.

Misato had used to drink her beer on a regular basis- indeed, she would have beer for a breakfast drink- but after Kaji had died, she had immediately stopped and had gone sober, for coffee. Ritsuko often thought back to times when Misato hadn't been a teetotaller. They had been fun.

On the news, there were more reports on the strange miracles being performed around Tokyo-3. Operations that were thought not to have been possible were succeeding, blind people were able to see, all of a sudden, deaf people could hear, and so on.

Ritsuko mused, upon hearing this point. The operation on the Eighth Child had gone as well in practice as it had done in theory. She wondered, deeply, how this could have happened.

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The three Lieutenants at NERV- Ibuki, Hyuuga, and Aoba- were hiding away, as they had found a folder of documents with the word "CONFIDENTIAL" written on it, in black military style font.

"Aoba, are you sure we should be looking at this? This is meant to be kept secret. This was entrusted to NERV by FAUST." Hyuuga looked more than a little nervous, because he was sure punishment would come soon. "And who do you think we are?" Aoba replied, opening the folder. Hyuuga gave a sigh. "NERV personnel..." Aoba gave a triumphant smug look, and proceeded to read the information inside.

"Files of the history of the Eighth Child have been kept private, in case of scandal, that could ruin FAUST. While FAUST is said to be a peace activist organisation, it is often found to have used violence to get what it wants, including using Evangelion Units.

The Eighth Child was found in an orphanage, after it was found that his parents had died- His mother in child birth, and the father, in insanity, abused his son, before committing suicide.

FAUST personnel tried to coax the Eighth Child to join FAUST, before threatening to blow the orphanage up, with dynamite. The Eighth Child was left with the ultimatum, in which he consented to joining FAUST."

"Why do you think they're telling us this?" Hyuuga asked, curiously. "What do you think? This is an explanation to as why his Synch Ratio is so low. Mental instability on the part of the pilot..." Aoba replied, knowingly. "Remember what Dr. Akagi was said to have told Katsuragi? That Ayanami Rei had had troubles in an activation test with Unit 00, due to her own mental instability." Ibuki just looked on, before piping up with "That poor dear- He has no parents. No wonder he has so many problems."

A piece of paper fell to the floor, not stapled to the files already in the folder. "What's this?" Hyuuga scanned the loose sheet of paper, reading out loud the information.

"The organisation FAUST has received information of the Human Instrumentality Project- otherwise known as the "Third Impact"- through undercover spies from SEELE, and have come to the conclusion of using their own project, going by the name of the Fourth Impact.

It is said that NERV is continuing the plan for Third Impact, due to affiliation with another organisation, by the name of Mephistopheles. Rumour has it that Mephistopheles has FAUST under its proverbial foot, and often causes the organisation to do such violent things, such as the recruitment mission of the Eighth Child."

The three Lieutenants stared at each other, not saying a word. All this time, they had thought NERV was supposed to be preventing the Third Impact, but all along, they were to cause it. They didn't have much time to dwell on this, though, because behind them was the figure of Ritsuko. The three of them froze: Had they not heard the pneumatic doors hiss as they opened? Apparently, they had not.

"What do you think you are doing with confidential files?" She looked livid. "For now, you are merely reprimanded, but if I ever catch you three doing something like this, again... Well, let's just say Commander Ikari will hear about this."

The three Lieutenants turned pale. If Commander Ikari were to catch wind of this, not only would they be fired, but possibly killed, like Kaji.

Ritsuko merely took the folder and documents from Hyuuga and Aoba, and walked off, Ibuki following her, to give her deepest apologies, and to try and explain herself.

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[Konekone]

(Part 2)

"Is he here?!" A bemused hospital receptionist gave Asuka directions to find which ward and hospital room Kenshi was in. As soon as she was told the directions, Asuka had sprinted down the corridors.

Asuka burst through the door, and found little Kenshi, sitting in bed, with a cast and sling on his arm, and too many bandages. She raised an eyebrow, and saw the one person she didn't want to see. Wondergirl.

Rei was dressed up in a nurse's uniform, which was in fact a Halloween costume she'd borrowed. She held a tray in hand, the other hand holding a fork out to Kenshi. It didn't take long for Asuka to add two and two together, to make five.

"You sick person!" She screeched, rushing over to Rei, shoving the First Child out of the way. Rei scowled, adjusting the cap back onto her head. "And what are you talking about this time, German girl?" Kenshi just watched all this, and wondered when he would actually be able to eat.

Rei stood up, and started up a glare match with Asuka. "I was being his nurse, thank-you!" She growled, indignantly. Asuka gave a disgusted look. "You may not know about these things in Japan, but in Europe, nurses are thought of differently!"

Kenshi gave a little squeak of embarrassment, as he realised what Asuka was getting at. "A-Asuka-san? She was only really fluffing my pillow and she was just about to help me eat, that's all." Asuka gave an annoyed murmur, then beamed.

"Well, why don't I do that for you, instead?" She offered. It was then that she gave the little one a Hobson's choice. "Either I can feed you, or you don't get anything at all, because Rei dropped all your food on the floor."

Rei looked more than a little angered. "No, I haven't!" But before she could finish, the ginger-headed Second Child knocked the tray of food to the floor. "Oops!" Rei scowled, and held herself back from pouncing on her rival.

Asuka simply snatched the cap from Rei's head, and stuck it on her own head, taking out a flask from her rucksack. "I brought some soup for you. That's why I was in such a hurry to get here." This was a lie, of course, but she wanted to have an excuse, other than she wanted to see the little one.

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While all these "happy" times were being had, there was a lot more darker things happening at the same time. Deep in the bowels of SEELE, Keele- the head of the organisation- was plotting. He was thinking about "Operation Mephistopheles" and how successful it was going. But, at the moment, he was talking to the other SEELE members and Commander Ikari, but not through what had been their usual method. They had usually used holograms, but this time they were using tall obelisks with the red letters "SEELE No 1", going down to "Ikari".

"Ever since we 'disbanded' our members into Mephistopheles, Third Impact has been assured." The Scottish member of SEELE seemed to be talking, now. "And soon, we shall all be under the destruction. But, we must remember that the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth."

Gendo, on his side, was not actually surprised, but he also had not known that Mephistopheles was actually part of SEELE.

Keele took up the call now. "You must be surprised, Ikari, that we know Mephistopheles so well. Well, there is something we should tell you, before you die. SEELE is Mephistopheles."

Gendo just sat there, at his desk, trying to keep what little shock he had from his face, even if it couldn't be seen on screen. "So, you're controlling FAUST?" He asked, his voice shaking a little, but trying to sound calm.

"That is correct." The French representative replied. "FAUST is but a foolish pawn in our game. The head of FAUST thinks he is the one at the top. Little does he know that he is going to die soon." The representative looked at his watch, on his side of the conversation and smirked. "That should be happening right about now."

Gendo's expression turned firm. "You had FAUST under your foot the whole time." "But, of course we did." Keele replied. "Do you not know the legend of Dr. Faust? The man tried to make a deal with the devil Mephistopheles and paid for it. The organisation FAUST is just falling into place, like the poor doctor. We gave FAUST all of its wealth, to create the redundant Unit 08. Did you not know it was merely an amplifier for Michael to use the Sword of the Crucifix?"

Gendo raised an eyebrow. "Michael?" "Oh, but of course." The French representative sneered. "Michael is your so-called 'Eighth Child'. He is also a mere pawn in this game. If all goes to plan, he will be as useless as his Eva. However, if you are to attempt to foil our plans, we shall have to use him as our rook. But, I don?t think you should be any problem to us."

Keele pressed a button on a remote he was holding. "Goodbye, Ikari." This was the last Gendo heard, before his screen was lost, in a field of static. "What?! What do you mean?!" Gendo roared, before he heard a beeping noise. "Those sly old dogs..."

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[Konekone]

(Part 3)

The funeral had been secret, only known to those who were affiliated with NERV. The members of SEELE had not shown up. The head of FAUST also had not shown up, which could have been expected, knowing what SEELE had done.

Fuyutsuki was giving the eulogy. "Commander Ikari was a great man, and he had the best for NERV at his heart. We have no idea who killed him, but we suspect it was an assassination attempt. We found a small bomb device, which we are sure was an asset."

The pilots sat together, with Misato by their side. Kenshi was looking down at the ground, a blank stare in his eyes. Misato looked down at the little one, and her gaze softened. Children shouldn't be learning about death at his age. Therefore, she tried the hackneyed euphemism. "K-Kenni-chan, Commander Ikari is okay, you know. H-He just needs to sleep for a while, that's all."

"Misato-sensei, don't lie to me. I know the commander is dead. I've dealt with death before. I mean, my parents are dead." Ibuki, Aoba, Hyuuga and Ritsuko were the only ones nearby who had already known this. However, Asuka was in shock. She had thought that Kenshi's parents were merely back in England.

Kenshi looked to the ground again. "Misato-sensei? Why do people have to die?" Kaworu gave a small cynical smile, and casually spoke his rather harsh words. "You Lilin are very complex. You often talk about how you wish people wouldn't die, then you kill each other in times of war." Kaworu was often the harshest speaker of the group, as he only smiled when talking.

He, then, whispered into Kenshi's ear. "However, you aren't a Lilin, though, are you?"

[Konekone]

Chapter Six- Those Who Are Purgatorial and That Who Is Purgative (Part 1)

Kenshi couldn't help but think about what Kaworu had said. "However, you aren't a Lilin, though, are you?" What had he meant?

He hadn't had enough time to think about it, as the three Angels from before had arrived on sonar again. Everyone had suited up in their plug suits, even Kenshi. However, they had thought it not good for him to attempt to pilot so soon, and were keeping him as a reserve. Kaworu had been chosen to pilot Eva Unit 08 for Kenshi, instead.

Asuka had volunteered to go against the three Angels, because she hadn't wanted to endanger young Kenshi. However, she hid this behind the faûze that she wanted all the credit to herself. Her Unit 02 had just been launched, and she could see the three behemoths. "Let's go, Asuka." She muttered to herself, doing her usual psyching-herself-up act.

Hyuuga was scanning the battlefield on screen, and looked out for any massive build-ups of energy. "Ma'am, we have a critical build-up of energy, but we don't have a target from which its coming!"

Asuka cursed in German, and looked for something from which the attack could be coming. She looked to the skies, weary of the last Angel that had attacked from the sky. She didn't want to repeat the incident with Arael. However, she had no time to contemplate on this, as she heard an explosion occur in front of her.

The three Angels she had been sent out to face were gone. She gave a growl and looked up, to see a glowing white figure, of the stereotypical angel. A humanoid form with wings and a halo. This Angel was Gabriel, the Angel of the Coming. Asuka froze up, as she saw a familiar light coming towards her. She gave a hopeless smile, and muttered something barely audible, before the light came in contact with her.

Her mind was thrown into darkness, as the images from before returned to her mind. Her mother dying, through suicide, hanging herself and that cursed doll. Words flashing in front of her face. She could only manage to read them as the names of the seven sins, all of which she had committed.

"Pride." Flashbacks of the umpteen times of her gloating, boasting, bragging, trying to keep her pride and confidence came back to haunt her.

"Anger." Many other times appeared again, to her, including the time in which she and Rei II had argued about Eva Unit 02, in an elevator.

"Greed." The times in which she had hungered for glory came rushing back to her.

"Envy." All the times she had thought about how it was always Shinji, or Rei, who had defeated an Angel, while she had been sitting idly by.

"Laziness." Flashbacks of how she had always tried to neglect her duties as a pilot, if there was no ulterior motive for doing thus.

"Gluttony." She had not been a glutton for a serious amount of time, but she had, in times of deep sorrow- such as when Kaji had been killed- eaten much too much than what was good for her.

"Lust." She was ashamed to see the thoughts she had had during the time that Kenshi had been away from her, of such dark genre, something in which a small boy like Kenshi should not have been involved.

She gave an almighty scream of agony, as all these sins came back to her. She continued to scream and clutch at her head, as she was taken back into NERV HQ. As she was ejected from the entry plug, she was restrained by NERV medical personnel, who proceeded to knock her out of consciousness, to stop her from resisting.

[Konekone]

(Part 2)

Almost immediately, Kaworu was launched in Unit 08. Kaworu had been instructed to use the Sword of the Crucifix like the Lance of Longinus, which Rei II had launched into orbit, to destroy Arael.

Kaworu clutched the hilt, and attempted to make the energy blade appear. Nothing happened. The Fifth Child gave a small smirk. "Well, isn't this nice?" He muttered, with a sarcastic tone in his voice, giving his trademark smile, in the casual fashion. "Who knew Death would come for me again?"

A voice sounded in his head. "Okaerinasai, Tablis." Kaworu- or Tablis, as he was known as by what seemed to be his brethren Angel- looked astonished, then faded back into his smile, closing his eyes. "So, you know who I am, Gabriel. Then, I suppose you know why I can't use this sword."

Gabriel floated closer to Tablis, in the pictures of his mind, and in the physical realm, the energy based form of Gabriel came closer in the atmosphere, almost touching Unit 08. "But, of course. Only Michael can use it."

"So, I was right about Torashi-kun. He is in fact not of Lilin blood, but like you and I." Kaworu was so deep in reverie, that he did not notice Gabriel increase in size, and clutch Unit 08, in the fashion that Unit 01 had clutched him, before his death.

Indeed, he did not notice, either, Gabriel using the technique that Armisael had on Rei II. A long white cord, the form that Armisael had taken, was burrowing into the womb area of Unit 08. As a result, veins started to become apparent on the white Eva's body, as well as on the pilot inside.

Kaworu finally opened his eyes and saw his situation. "Unit 08 is crying." He stated, blankly, not caring about the veins popping out on his face, and arms. He was feeling no pain, at all. He had everything planned. Just like it was the situation of Rei II, with Armisael attempting to merge with her, Kaworu was also willing to use her solution to the problem. Self-destruction.

He clutched what you could call the gear stick for the Eva, and pulled it, reversing its AT Field. "Ironic that I taught Shinji-kun about the AT Field, only to have to reverse it. If you want to become one with me, then so be it." The Eva's power levels were going through the roof, as it were, and as a result, destruction was immanent.

Kaworu's last message was heard throughout NERV, before the explosion occurred. "Sayonara, Torashi-kun. Or should I say, Michael." Many were too concerned about whether the Angel Gabriel was dead, to think about what their Fifth Child had said, but Kenshi was deeply incensed by it. Michael? Was that who he truly was? He was interrupted in his thoughts, by tears falling down his face, and his voice shrieking out Kaworu's name. "Nagisa-san!" Shinji's screams of "Kaworu-kun!" accompanied his shrieks, as the two of them bawled for their comrade.

For Shinji, Kaworu had been the first person to love him. He could remember what he had done to Kaworu, and now he felt that doing nothing was the same as killing him by his own hands.

[Crazy4Anime]

Kenni-kun said:

It didn't take long for Asuka to add two and two together, to make five.

HA HA HA!!! fofl (fall on floor laughing), that's so funny.



I didn't see Kaworu dying...which reminds me: did Kaworu "love" Shinji in that he was gay...like was he "in love" with him, or did he "love" Shinji the same way someone (like me) loves their family/friends...like cares a lot about him?

[Konekone]

Chapter Seven- Air (Part 1)

Water dripped from the tap, as a figure sat by the bedside of the once proud Soryu, Asuka Langley. Now, she was in a state that she had been close to being in before. A coma, in which she was living out her worse nightmares. It pained Kenshi even more to look at her, to see her eyes were open, but showed no love to him.

He sat on a small stool, and put a small paw onto her. "Asuka-san? Don't leave me." He muttered, helplessly. "Asuka-san? Asuka!" He shook her, gently, hoping to wake her up. Seeing this was to no avail, the small one whimpered.

"Come back... Come back, and love me, please." Tears started to leak from his eyes. "You were the one who was always there for me, so be here for me now!" He knew deep inside that it was hopeless to beg her to come back to him. She couldn't even come back for herself, let alone for him.

Feeling the pain sink into his heart, like an irremovable thorn, he started to sing the song that Asuka had sung for him before: "Soul's Refrain."

He knew things were bad now. However, he did not know that there was a lot worse to come. A tray sat by Asuka's bedside. Water, five loaves of bread, and two fish. He picked up the glass of water, the liquid starting to turn red, before it touched his lips. Little did he know that this would be his last supper, before everything fell to pieces. He looked out the window, to see four people, riding on their horses.

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Hell had found a place on Earth. Like the doctor, Faust, had been plagued by the devil Mephistopheles, NERV was being plagued by SEELE and the Japan Strategic Self Defence Force. Misato had ordered for Shinji and Asuka to be placed in their Evas, for safe keeping. Rei was nowhere to be found, causing greater distress.

Many had died. Ibuki, Aoba and Hyuuga were having enough trouble, holding off whoever they could. Aoba and Hyuuga had taken up the call immediately, but Ibuki was repulsed by the thought of killing other people. Aoba had no patience for Ibuki's pacifistic views, and had snapped at her, saying that you kill or you die.

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Several armed men stood in front of a small boy, who was barring their way. "Get out of the way, child, or we shall kill you as well." Kenshi stood his ground, tears coming back to his already reddened eyes.

"No! I won't let you take Asuka-san!" The commander of the troops stepped forward. "Hold on, men. I believe this is one of those other kids we need to take. The child from FAUST." Kenshi stepped back, but kept his arms spread out. "How do you know of FAUST?" "How do we know? We're from Mephistopheles." The troop commander replied, darkly.

Kenshi's expression also darkened. "I suggest you should leave. Asuka-san is no longer here." He looked behind him, to see that some of the remaining NERV personnel had managed to take Asuka away. One of the soldiers from the troops of Mephistopheles- the group which was formed by a combination of SEELE and the JSSDF- shot a dart at Kenshi, from his tranquilliser gun.

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"I don't want to die... I don't want to die... I don't want to die..." Asuka had finally come out of her coma. Unit 02 had been submerged in water, to hide it from the JSSDF. She had been awakened by an explosion upon Unit 02. She was now whispering "I don't want to die..." over and over. Finally, she screamed the sentence, entering a sanctuary, safe in her own mind.

In her mind, she was transported to a forest, where she saw her mother. Kyoko had been talking to her, telepathically. A young Asuka ran to Kyoko, a doll in her grasp. The two of them extended hands, to touch each other. As the two of them reached each other, Asuka was awakened from her reverie.

She burst of the water, with Unit 02, to be met by a barrage of attacks from the JSSDF naval and aerial forces. However, these were no match for Asuka and Unit 02. Asuka had come out of her coma, now able to access her AT Field perfectly. The light of her soul had opened up to her, and now she felt invincible.

A shot fired out, destroying Unit 02's umbilical cable, immediately starting the five minute time limit on power. This still didn't faze Asuka's assault.

The heads of SEELE were frustrated at this new attack from Asuka, something they were surveying as well as the successful attack on NERV. "It seems we shall have to fight fire with fire." Keele muttered, dispatching nine carrier jets.

All nine jets opened a bottom hatch, letting nine white things loll about, a red entry plug with the name "Kaworu" screwing into each of the white things.

Finally, the white things were released from their jets, as they took on their form. They had a vaguely humanoid form. They looked like Evas, and indeed they were. They expanded their wings, and glided towards their brethren Eva.

Asuka looked up at the nine gliding Evas. "The Eva series has been completed?" She questioned, incredulously. She had known they were being built, but now she was facing them. The mass production model Evas, Unit 05. She felt almost in awe, as she watched them circle her, like the vultures they were.

Each Eva was large, white and rather perturbing in appearance. One of the most frightening attributes of the Evas was that they had large swollen red lips, and an always grinning mouth. Each of them had a replica of the Lance of Longinus, in order to aid SEELE in its prime objective: The Third Impact.

She then looked at her remaining time, of her five minutes. She was now down to three minutes and thirty seconds. "Fight off nine Evas? Twenty seconds per Eva? Plenty of time!" She smirked, and charged with an Amazon's style of yell.

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[Konekone]

(Part 2)

Shinji had been sent off by Misato, to aid Asuka in her fight with the mass production Eva Units 05. These white monsters had viciously torn Eva Unit 02 to pieces, with their Lance of Longinus replicas, devouring pieces of the carcass. Asuka had tried her best, and had almost killed them, but they had reactivated and healed themselves, making Asuka's use of her remaining power a waste. She was powerless to stop them, and felt every bit of pain Unit 02 did.

In a last ditch attempt to destroy the Evas, she had sworn to kill them, whimpering "I'll kill you!" over and over, before her arm had been sliced in two. It was then that the Units 05 had attacked, like buzzards on a dead body.

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Finally, Kenshi had come round. He felt stabs of pain come to the palms of his hands and to his shins. He felt like his arms were being outstretched, and he felt wood being pressed against his back. "Where am I?" He groaned, his pain so overwhelming, that his voice had been reduced to a mere hoarse whisper.

Ritsuko turned to look at him, a foul look upon her face. She did not speak, but it was obvious what had happened. The bloody hammer in her grip explained it all. Ritsuko had temporarily saved him from the troops from Mephistopheles, but was now doing this to him. Kenshi looked to his hands, and saw nails embedded into them. He realised what was going on now. He was being crucified.

"Misato and I have both been very busy, researching your kind." Ritsuko was speaking in a monotonous voice, which echoed off the walls of the room. "You are indeed the last of your kind. The second generation of Adam?s children. The Angels. You filthy beings deserve to die. And I find it fitting for you to die like this. You are Michael after all, fabled to be the Angel reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Just like the Evangelions are Man's attempt at getting close to God, and purging the world of sins, you are the Angel's attempt to do the same."

Kenshi was getting weaker now. His hands and shins were bleeding as he hung on the crucifix. He looked up to the sky, light shining down on him, on the dark room. An eerie chorus started to sing. "You should let me go." His voice was soft, and gentle again, feeling oddly better. "Asuka-san, Shinji-san and Rei-san need me." His voice was calm, no matter how urgent his message was.

He looked to Ritsuko, who just stood firmly there, a gun to her head. "There's no use trying to talk to me. I've been betrayed by a man I trusted and loved, but I'll be damned if I trust an Angel." She clicked the trigger.

Kenshi watched, tears leaking from his eyes again. "O, Father, why must you forsake humanity? All your children are about to die." He gave a mournful gasp of pain, as he felt the last of his strength disappear. "It is finished." He smiled a Kaworu-like smile, as he lowered his head, fallen dead.

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Shinji had finally come out of his despondent mood, which he had carried throughout the attack on NERV, only to be greeted with the sight of the mangled corpse of Eva Unit 02. His eyes widened, as he saw the exposed orange eyeballs, one floating about, whilst still attached to its socket.

Though he could still see the Entry Plug intact, Shinji couldn't stand it anymore. What had been merely despondency before, turned into pure insanity. As the torrential power of Unit 01 started to return once more, Shinji gave a screeching howl.

(Dun-dun-dun! Yes, I'm basing these chapters on "End of Evangelion" now, but I thought it'd be best to end it this way. Anyways, the next chapter is the LAST chapter!)

[Crazy4Anime]

I sure didn't see ANY of this comeing...except Kenshi's death. I thought you would've had Kenshi save Asuka, but do a kamikaze (sp?).

[Konekone]

Ummm... How? Unit 08 was blown up, with Kaworu. Kenshi wouldn't be able to pilot any of the Evas.

Anyway, DUN-DUN-DUUUUN! The last chapter is completed! HEE-HEE!

Ahh, here you go...

(Actual last chapter starts in next post.)

[Konekone]

Chapter Eight- Sincerely Yours (Part 1)

As Shinji continued to shriek like a banshee, strange occurrences happened in space. While the armour restraints on Unit 01 started to break away, the original Lance of Longinus had dislodged itself from orbit, and had been pulled towards the source of great power, the enraged Shinji in Unit 01. The Lance stopped only an inch away from the "Adam's Apple" at the neck of the giant purple behemoth.

"My God, the Lance of Longinus has returned." Fuyutsuki, who had managed to stay alive, along with Ibuki, Aoba and Hyuuga, was hidden away in the heart of NERV, watching all of this unfold.

The Units 05 looked towards the super-powered Unit 01, one of them dropping the piece of Unit 02 from its mouth. They had lost interest in the corpse, and were now turning their attention to this new Unit. Their real target. All nine of them charged at Unit 01, taking it higher into the air, then firing their Lance replicas into it. The result was a Unit 01, in the position similar to the crucifixions of Jesus Christ, himself, and young Kenshi.

"Unit 01 has now been stigmatised." Keele muttered, blankly, as he watched everything start to go to plan. As Keele said this, the Eva Units released the S2 engines they had been equipped with, thus reversing their AT Fields.

This was the beginning of the reserve version of the Third Impact. The joining of the Lance of Longinus and its replicas, Eva Unit 01 and the nine Eva Units.

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Rei had been found and taken to Terminal Dogma, by another member of Mephistopheles. On the hand of this member was a ghastly sight. Originally, Gendo was going to have this for his own hand, but his assassination had taken place before this. In this man's hand was the embryo of Adam, the first of all the Angels.

Rei struggled to get away, only to feel a hand, plunging itself into her back, dissolving into her. She felt something separate from the hand and stick inside of her, making her fall silent. "Adam is inside of you. You must feel compelled to go to Lillith, do you not?" The man sneered, waiting for Rei to start the Human Instrumentality Project, otherwise known as the Third Impact, or the Human Complement Project.

Rei felt herself floating up to Lillith, the giant white figure nailed to the cross in Terminal Dogma, and words came to her. She spoke them. "I'm home..." Something in her head replied. "Okaerinasai."

Thus began the second and "proper" version of the Third Impact. The joining of Rei, Lillith and Adam.

Lillith's large white form started to move, as her hands wrenched themselves free from the cross she'd been nailed to. Oddly enough, she shed no blood, and instead, her hands had a sticky marshmallow like attribute to them, as they peeled off of the cross. Finally free from her torture, she splashed into the pool of LCL below her.

As she began to rise, she took one the form of Rei, a much more detailed form than her original bland one. She ascended through the layers of NERV, before coming to the heavens, where Shinji and Unit 01 were being held.

Shinji looked on, at the approaching figure, and gave yet another scream, his voice getting hoarse. Frantically, he thrust at every single control on his Eva, trying to get it to move away, but he was still constricted by the Eva 05 Units.

Slowly, Lillith approached closer to Shinji, a manic glare in her eyes, which were looking rather inhuman, before they blinked, turning into Rei's innocent eyes. Shinji whimpered, and huddled up into a foetal position, only looking up once.

As he looked up, he saw the figure of Lillith-Rei fall backwards, to give way to Kaworu, sprouting from her lower body. The Lillith-Kaworu figure came close to Shinji, and asked in a comforting tone, "Are you alright?"

At this, Shinji smiled and closed his eyes. Kaworu... He had no care in the world, until he felt that it was not Kaworu's hands that were pulling him close, but Lillith's. He tried to resist, and gave out another shriek, bringing forth a surge of power from Unit 01. "I wish everyone would just die!" He screeched.

Since Shinji was giving such resistance, Lillith put her hands into a cupped position, and started to form a small black egg- The Egg of Lillith. This was the start of the Human Complementation.

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[Konekone]

"It's spreading the Anti AT Field!" Aoba exclaimed, before noticing the others were deathly still. Each one of them was in the midst of their Complementation. For Hyuuga, Misato was embracing him. For Fuyutsuki, it was Yui. For Ibuki, it was Ritsuko. However, they all had two things in common. One was that Rei appeared before the Complementation, turning into the person they loved most, and the other was that the results were all bursting into pools of LCL, their clothes the only trace of what was left of them.

Aoba started to hide and whimper, under his desk, covered by his coat. Many clones of Rei appeared by him, trying to begin his Complementation. It was said that once the chosen one, Shinji, had given his word, for Complementation to begin, no-one could resist it. However, Aoba did not revert to LCL, to be evolved into a higher existence, like the rest of the world had been.

The sound of all the Rei clones trying to coax him to come out of the desk ceased. A small familiar voice was now taking their place. "Aoba-san, it's okay. You can come out now."

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Lillith was feeling a disturbance, in all the souls coming to her egg. She looked around, trying to see what was going on, and felt souls being salvaged in a way different to the Human Complementation Programme, or the Third Impact.

Ergo, she decided that she should just try to absorb Shinji into herself. She did not notice her egg had a crack in it. She came closer, to attempt merging with Shinji again. However, she was barred. Something else was ascending, like her, to the heavens, where all of this was occurring. The figure was Kenshi, in the form he had taken, during the fight with Driel. His eyes softened, sadly, upon seeing Shinji constricted by the mass production Eva Units. He floated over to Unit 01, and tried to pull at the white Units, to let Unit 01 go.

It was then that an anomaly happened. A airborne Prog Knife flew at one of the mass production Units. It bounced off, showing that the assault was to no avail, but the mystery was who had thrown the Prog Knife.

Unit 02 stood tall, in perfect condition, once more. The Angel Kenshi, or Michael as he should properly be known, smiled and let his attention wander to Unit 02. He wafted over to it, and picked it up into his hands. "Asuka-san." He spoke softly, yet his voice made reverbs throughout the heavens.

Asuka looked up at the giant Kenshi in horror, and tried to move her Eva as frantically as Shinji had before, until finally, she realised this was Kenshi. He would never hurt her. She closed her eyes, in the similar fashion that Shinji had done with Kaworu, and only opened them, when she felt one of the nine Units 05 strike her, having let Unit 01 go, breaking the chain they had made.

Michael's soft gaze turned into a glare towards the rogue Unit, and with a swift wave of the hand, made all of the Eva 05 Units explode, before turning to Lillith. "Lillith-sama, please stop." He spoke, with an almost hopeless tone in his voice.

Lillith only stared at him, silently, as she could not talk, like him. She gave him a look, which asked "What are you doing?", to which the reply was "Don't your children deserve to live? I believe so. That is why I spread my AT Field, to protect them."

He turned to the overly-frightened Shinji, and spoke his voice now as soft as his gaze again. "Shinji-san, Kaworu-san wanted you Lilin to live on. That's why he sacrificed himself, for you, twice. Let his death be in honour. Live on. After all, you are the Lilin."

Shinji stared at the giant Angel child in front of him, and closed his eyes in deep thought. A silence as eerie as the chorus that had played during Kenshi's crucifixion played throughout Shinji's meditation, before a flash of light emanated from Unit 01, Lillith and Michael.

[Konekone]

Epilogue

Shinji had made up his mind. The boy had decided he would sleep in late, this morning. However, his decision was quashed, as Asuka burst into his room. "Wake up, Schleiffenkopf!" She whisked the covers off of him, and grimaced as she saw Shinji in his underwear. "Get dressed!" She shrieked, slamming the door behind her, as she left the room in disgust, as well as embarrassment.

Turning to face her new little friend, from the grade school, she smiled sweetly. "Shall we go?" "But, of course, Asuka-no-nee-chan!" The small child beamed, holding her hand with one of his own- which, incidentally, had a plaster on the palm.

Kenshi and Asuka were now in the perfect world, in which they could love each other, without anyone bothering them.

Misato had taken up a new job, along with Ritsuko, as grade school teachers, at the new grade school that Kenshi was a student at.

NERV, SEELE, FAUST and Mephistopheles had all been disbanded. After all, they all coincided with each other, and each of them no longer had reasons for staying banded together. The former employees of SEELE were dead, in their attempt to Complement the world with their Programme. The NERV employees had taken up new jobs.

Aoba, following his musical talents, had become an unsuccessful rock star, with Ibuki and Hyuuga as his back-up, with Ibuki on drums, something she enjoyed a lot, and Hyuuga being the "roadie", something of which Hyuuga was not immensely proud. Fuyutsuki was the only one who seemed to appreciate their music.

Gendo had devoted his time to fully parenting Shinji. It was unknown how he and Kaworu had come back to life, but no one was complaining.

Kaworu had devoted his time to being the fourth of the "Brain Cells", as Asuka called the group, consisting of Shinji, himself, Suzuhara Toji and Aida Kensuke.

This was the world Shinji had wanted. A world without the Eva Units in use, a world without Angels, a world where he could live normally. The Eva Units were mere fossils, floating in deep space, with the body parts of the decomposed Lillith and the original Lance of Longinus. This was a world, in which the Human Complementation was no longer needed. A world for the Lilin.

[Crazy4Anime]

I love it: you left no unanswered questions....none that I can think of anyway. But where's the connection between the end of "Sincerely Yours" and the epilogue? I guess you could've made the transition a bit better, but I won't die if you don't.



[quote author=Kenni-kun link=board=FanStuff&thread=1112470300&start=27#1 date=1114803383For Ibuki, it was Ritsuko.[/quote]

Which reminds me: is Ibuki "in love" with Ritsuko...or does she just think of Ritsuko as "family"?