This fanfic is devoted to everyone who wanted to see more secret organizations, and in general insanity and epic . . . Saganess then is in my other fanfics. If you want shear stupidity Check out neocooly, if you want to see deranged family development see a mother and a sister. For this, well, you tell me what you this of this.

Chapter One: Normality, a comforting thing.

"Shinji, wake up." A rough voice came from the hallway. Shinji Ikari turned in his bed as he remained blissfully unaware of his surroundings. Outside the room, the apartment's second occupant was slowly becoming fed up with waiting, that occupant was going to be damned if they were going to be eating instant noodles when a perfectly capable cook resided within a bedroom on the premises.
The door to Shinji's room slammed open, hands shook Shinji awake roughly. "Wake up Shinji you'll be late to school", Gendo Ikari said sternly as his son finally opened his eyes groggily, then flopped into his pillow, closing them again. The elder Ikari sighed, at least that could wake his son. Just about anything else tended to fail miserably.
'Then again I was the same way at his age, trying to just get that extra five minutes of sleep', Gendo thought as he went back to the kitchen after confirming his son would soon be awake.
Shinji trudged into the bathroom, a life sized ceramic penguin his father had received from an employee startled him fully back to the waking world, as it did every morning, and as it would probably continued to do every morning. It was odd like that, he kept expecting it to all the sudden leap back into motion.
He brushed his teeth as he looked at pictures taped to the sides of the mirror. His mother and father with him last Christmas during one of his mothers few vacations.
He hadn't seen his mother in three months now, he and his father got along fairly well but it was a lonely thing for both of them. Yet Yui Ikari had insisted on working on the Genetics project in Germany as much as she missed her family, and as much as they missed her, they did there best to make up for it when they could.
He showered as he considered his situation, his father had not been able to move with his mother to Germany due to his own job as the chief director of Gehrin, an advanced research company experimenting with new technologies. His father kept making vague remarks to super conductors, and genetic engineering projects, things that sounded like they belonged in the science fiction books his friend Kensuke Aida read.

He had continued living with his father because his mother didn't want to drag him off to Germany so young, when she would have even less free time to be with him. In that regard his father and him did keep each other company, and support one another's flaws.

Shinji walked into the kitchen slowly starting to feel alive again. His father was occupied reading the paper, while stroking the head of Mew Mew, the cat had been a birthday present from the Akagi's, his father worked closely with both Naoko and her daughter Ritsuko, all Shinji knew was that they were working on some next generation supercomputers. They seemed like nice people, and the cat was a thoughtful gift for Shinji who spent far too much time alone.

Shinji set to work making something at least edible, a talent neither his mother or his father could ever hope to aspire to. Gendo smelling the cooking food, smiled slightly behind his newspaper, at least he wouldn't be going to work hungry. He was almost willing to eat that slop the Gehrin security Captain called a meal. How she could eat instant curry over instant noodles and keep a straight face was beyond him.

"We should do something tonight, a movie perhaps", Gendo said as he lowered his newspaper. The theatre had several good movies running, corny action flicks were one of the things he and his son both could enjoy.

"Sounds good", Shinji replied as he place down a bowl of meso soup, his father insisted on what he called a 'traditional Japanese breakfast' though he skipped the saki, strangely every morning Shinji expected to hear a shouted "Yeeehhhaaaa." The cases of déjà vu had become a bit more common lately with his enrolment in a new junior high school.

Shinji frowned, "But I told Kensuke and Touji I'd go to the movies with them, we were going to go see the new Gundam anime."

His father lowered the newspaper, "Then we'll all go, unless you have a problem with your father hanging around with your friends."

"O-of course not!" Shinji said quickly, as he went back to get the rice. It was true his dad was pretty awesome by the standards of most kids. He'd even played in a simulator battle when they had been short one player at the arcade.

"Hmmmm, do you having something on your mind."

"N-no", he said shakily.

Gendo could hear the lie in his son's voice. "Has my son started to look at girls?" He asked rhetorically, the man kept his voice totally neutral, it was fun to watch his son get squirm. 'Of course he has, he's always been the kind to attract the cute ones too', he thought, amused.

"So who is it? The class representative, or maybe that nice girl you've told me about, Emi, correct?"

Shinji shook his head nervously, there was no way out of it now. "N-no actually its . . ." Shinji paused as he gathered his thoughts. "I kind of like Asuka," he said quietly.

His father blinked. "Asuka, you mean the Soryu girl. I can't tell you who to have a crush on but you should be sure you don't just pity her before you do anything." Gendo warned him.

"I DON'T, pity her." Shinji replied softly as he continued working on breakfast. 'Do I?'

"Be certain of that Shinji." His father said sternly as Shinji brought the rest of the meal in. They began eating, both of them moving quickly to finish breakfast, neither of them had much time in the morning for the little things in life.

Gendo left first leaving Shinji to lock the door behind him. On his way to school he was met half way by Touji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida, the three stooges, as the class rep called them, were once again together.

Kensuke's first words were questions to Shinji about his fathers work. "So has your dad said anything about the new UAH-12 UAV's?" He asked excited, Shinji usually answered the questions with a negative. His father was tight lipped about anything that wasn't need to know, though he did boast a little about the unclassified designs.

"Uhm, he said something about them being flight tested today." Shinji said, or was that the UGA-10?

Gehrin acted as a major weapons contractor for the UN which was still putting down rebellions and wars around the world after the 'Event', the simultaneous disappearance of half the worlds population, and the seemingly instantaneous shift in the earths stellar position which astronomers said was proof the earth had somehow been 'out of synch', for lack of a better term, with the rest of the universe for nearly fifteen years. A great scientific mystery but not really all that important to the mundane living of ones life.

"Wow really!" Was Kensuke's response, he was excited, that was for sure. Military devices fascinated him, he could recite the exact flight profile of a MIG-26/B if anyone had really wanted to hear about it. "Oh man I just gotta get pictures of this", he shouted as he waved his camera about. Both Shinji and Touji sighed, Kensuke's obsession with weapons was not shared by his two friends, but they humored him anyway. Other then his odd pastime he tended to be the wisest head amongst them.

They continued walking. "Its not like you could get out to see it anyways, I mean the testing is scheduled during school hours." Shinji said as they kept going. He thought it was anyways, sometime around twelve."

Kensuke shrugged. "Yeah, well if their flying during lunch I might be able to get some shots from the roof." Kensuke replied, patting the brand new long range optical lens safe in his bag. The main Gehrin flight test facility was a mere five miles from the school, making any aircraft easily visible.

When they reached the school there was a throng of people about, the bell had not yet rung leaving the students plenty of time to enjoy the morning. It was still a fairly warm even two months into the new school year.

Shinji headed for his seat, Ibuki sensei was already at the desk for her first class of the day like she was every morning. A young woman, she was unusual amongst the teachers in that she took a keen interest in the students. Most notably Asuka Langley Soryu, who she had taken in two years ago while the girl underwent therapy in Japan.

The bell rang just as he sat down. Ibuki sensei began explaining complex mathematical equations the second the bell ceased, already diving straight into teaching. Almost every male in the class had their attention fixed on her, though how many were actually listening nobody was really sure.

The exception to this was Shinji Ikari, his attention shifted every few minutes to a seat several rows behind him. An empty seat. He kept wondering, who was he missing, who wasn't here? He'd asked the class representative about the seat's last occupant. Hikari had just told him that nobody had ever sat there, not that she could remember anyways.

He kept trying to visualize the person who he thought sat there. Complexion pale, yes that he was sure of. Hair color, brown, no, black, no, nor was it blond or red, though red somehow tied in somewhere, he was sure. The eyes though, no color seemed right for the eyes.

The most frustrating thing was he had this perfect image that he knew the person would fit into, like the key to a lock if he could ever find them. Yet any attempt to study that image was like trying to study an individual bit of fog. It simply shifted into the background.

His entire period was consumed thus, glancing back almost exactly every five minutes as if expecting to see someone looking out the window.

But every time all he saw was an empty seat.

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The being had been alone for a long time, how long it could not remember. It still remembered a short time during which it had thought itself, or at least part of itself, it's child, free of this prison. But that had not come to be, still it had learned over the millennia to wile away its time in a trance like state nothing like a coma, for this being existed in such absolute emptiness that any change would startle it awake.

It awoke as such now.

Powers were moving, powers that it had not sensed for some time, powers that it thought its granddaughters had destroyed with the help of its daughters and sons.

It was agitated, in its ascended form it could easily have destroyed all of these beings, the ones who threatened the reborn world. It did not know why it cared so much, but it did know that it could not allow them to damage what had been made.

Yet it no longer held the power of God, even if it had only ever been power over this one planet. There had to be something it could do, one of its children had wished for this world, it could not allow that wish to be undone without a fight!

The copies of the other . . . It considered for some time, though how long it did not now. It could sense the other powers moving and spent as much time as it could in thought based on that.

Two of the copies remained, two that had not been like the others, these two were free of contamination from their progenitor. It opened itself to them quickly, caressing them like a mother would a child.

They were not it's children but they were in a way related to it. They were it's grandchildren, these two. They had held names that part of its essence had once attached a great meaning to.

Names, it remembered names, they were very important for the endeavor it faced now.

More memories surfaced, memories that added to its conviction, it would protect the world its child had wished for. It would protect . . . Shinji-kun.

EVA, Evangelion it corrected slowly, dredging up part of its mind that had been remerged with it. This part of its mind and soul also had once been an individual with a name. Ayanami, Ayanami Rei, it had sacrificed being Ayanami and being Rei to be It and to protect Shinji, losing the identity that fragment had once held.

This artificial being had lived like its children, and now it had a need for this being again. It considered as the beings known as Units 03 and 04 became fully awake in the presence of it.

These beings were powerful copies of the others, though never as powerful as its first granddaughter had been and insignificant next to the power it and its second granddaughter, the being made by its children from its own soul, had wielded.

It studied the part of its soul that had once been used to create its granddaughter. It came to a decision, a single clean strike, overwhelming pain and incompleteness filled its being, but these would be minimal problems. It would die soon to the others who were sensing its activity now.

True death, irrevocable death. But its granddaughter would live, all three of its grandchildren would live and protect her child. It still retained the power for what needed to be done. It sensed the other and its children, and their grandchildren . . . A . . . An . . . ge-ls. The Angels yes, trying to force their way into the world once more.

Those powers turned on it, slowly crushing the beings ever weakening defenses. It had only the time left to achieve its goal. It cast the fragment of its soul into the last form it remembered and placed it within Unit 04, this one it could sense, was in the best condition, the other was damaged. It considered. It could risk this as well, it imbued the power of its core upon Unit 03, it would hide it, so it had a chance to heal.

Its final defenses were penetrated and it felt its crippled soul being shredded. It was agony beyond a million hells, but it did not care as it forced a breach, releasing it's grandchildren into the world.

As death came, the being, if such things were possible in its non corporal state, smiled. The powers gouged deep and then pulled with all their force. Then there was peace.

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Gendo Ikari frowned as he watched the first of the UAV's reach their launch positions on the upper most ground level of the Gehrin research facility.

The UAH-12 was the latest generation of high tech weapon system. The designers affectionately called them Darts after their narrow central lifting bodies. Two gimbled turbofans kept the craft aloft in flight, making the unmanned vehicle highly maneuverable. The craft mounted no turreted weapons, but as it was able to fly extremely complex maneuvers, while flying horizontally, turning, flying backward forwards, left or right. The system could get by without a turret as the entire craft was essentially a flying turret for its weapons.

Now they just had to prove the design to the dozen military officers from the UN and JSDF.

"Lets see what your new toys can do Ikari", one of the officers remarked, a mix of interest and disgust in his voice. It would be nice if the system worked, but it just seemed too revolutionary for modern technology. Even knowing about the things Gehrin had made breakthroughs in within just the past eight years.

"Begin final flighty confirmation." Gendo ordered as he studied the main screen. He had an odd electric feeling that something was going to happen.

"Confirmed UAV's are ready to launch, interfaced through the MAGI system. All flight controls check out." Doctor Naoko Akagi, muttered, bored.

The looked up at Gendo Ikari who sat at the top of the three tiered command room, narrowing her eyes in irritation. Every time she made advances on him, she was either reminded of her place, or outright ignored. It made her like the man even more though, his devotion to his loved ones.

'Such a love could turn into something horrible if driven to it.' Naoko thought darkly.

"Field sensors have been deployed, radar, lidar, and radiation sensors ready for flight profiling." Ritsuko Akagi announced. She was busy typing commands into a secondary MAGI terminal placed in the tier directly below Naoko. The entire command room was space efficient using up a volume only ten by twelve meters. It had to be considering the massive difficulty in excavating a facility that could be made structurally sound in a place like Japan.

Every square inch was rationed, and the Commander allowed himself only a minimum of comforts, his office was only a little larger then those of his subordinates, with its added space coming from the removal of a janitorial closet directly next door.

"Test will initiate in thirty two seconds." Captain Misato Katsuragi announced as she confirmed the final countdown. Today's mission was a live fire, ground attack scenario against a platoon of remote operated Tunguska M-1 anti air vehicles equipped with dummy rounds.

The first flight of four lifted from the ground heading towards the targets fast and low. The testing facility was on the very outskirts of Tokyo, which had admittedly become a smaller city after the Event. With only half the worlds population intact yet the same psychology for having few children out in force the population had stabilized at a more manageable number than the turn of the century.

The military officers all nodded in approval as a tailing drone noted the tight, well maintained formation the UAV's had taken up.

"Tunguska platforms have been identified by onboard flight system."

The Military Officers all nodded slightly, Gendo just sat back further in his seat. If the system worked as planned then it would require no assistance from the ground based flight control to complete the mission. He was rather proud of the software design team that had developed the onboard AI. Now all they needed was a catchy name to sell it off to the military. He thought Dummy Plug had a nice ring to it.

"Drones are engaging the Tunguska platforms." Ritsuko announced as the first flight rose up from five to twenty meters

The Tunguska's, a squad of four Russian anti air units, blazed away with their automatic cannons, failing to score any hits on the nimble craft. Dummy missile's fired from their side launchers streaking up towards the targets. The UAV's evaded, making impossible maneuvers forcing the missiles into turns that caused them to lose their targets. The missiles exploded one by one as their onboard fuel was expended without ever re-acquiring their targets.

Now the UAV's had the upper hand, two flew in from the side, vectoring there thrust downward and flying entirely on engine power. They fired away with their 20mm cannons ruining the thin armor of their enemies. One unit brewed up as its ammunition, and missile propellant was lit off.

It was all over in less then ten seconds of intense gunfire and missile launches.

The Military officers all stared on for a few moments before a slow clapping filled the room. A cheering came from the lower rank technicians and even Naoko pumped her arm back slightly with a silently hissed 'Yes', at the performance.

Ritsuko Akagi however was frowning. "There's something going on out at the test field Sirs", Ritsuko announced as she interfaced the MAGI with the sensor data and requested a break down.

The visual and radar signatures seemed to be distorted and infrared wasn't much better. It seemed every different sensor was giving conflicting ranges on the UAV's. She paused as there was a brief radiation spike on the sensors.

"What's going . . .-" She had no chance to finish as a massive thundering rumbled was transmitted from the above ground sensors to the deeply buried Gehrin command center.

"What was that?", Gendo asked as a slight vibration filled the room.

"Seismic activity?", Naoka asked. No this wasn't a quake, the seismograph readings were all wrong.

"Bring up a UAV camera feed, I want to see what's going on now!" Gendo barked. Naoko did as her boss told her, the image from one of the UAV camera's filling the main screen . . . Nobody spoke for several moments before Captain Katsuragi broke the silence.

"You know, it kinda looks like Godzilla."

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Rei groaned slightly as her senses returned. The first question in her mind, was why she was even alive. For all intense and purposes she had sacrificed her existence to save Shinji, yet here she was, within the entry Plug of an EVA in her plug suit. She put aside how she had come to be there for the moment that was of little importance.

She could sense immediately that this was neither Unit-00, or Unit-01, yet this too was for the moment irrelevant, the unit seemed to be accepting her adequately, that WAS relevant.

There was no time for her to consider this though as she looked up. She was in a city, most definitely not Tokyo-3, the building architecture looked wrong, all of the building around her looked like normal structures, not the angular complexes Tokyo-3 necessitated in order to standardize the machinery for lifting and lowering the building into the ground.

Most disturbingly, directly down the street from her a blackness sat on the ground, something was rising from it. First a clawed hand, then dark black shoulders and a beak like mask. Rei had never felt such discomfort as that for what she saw standing before her, but it was unmistakably the form of the 3rd Angel.

Before Rei could take in any more of her environment the creature charged all out towards her. Old reflexes took hold as she shifted the EVA's weight forward at the last moment, taking the impact and skidding back at least a good twenty meters as the EVA dug its feet into the ground.

Sachiel shifted its weight, pulling buck and then driving downwards, knocking the physically smaller EVA, first to its knees, and then lying it out flat on its back.

Rei shook her head as the feedback made her dizzy. Her attention was drawn to the side view where she was eyes level with the top of a school, and three children standing there.

Rei's eyes widened coming the closest she had ever come to fear.

'Shinji, No!'

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"What the hell!" Touji screamed as he was knocked back to the ground by Shinji and Kensuke. Shinji looked back up in horror at the monstrosity laying in front of the school already pushing itself back to its feet. The creature's face seemed set in an eternal deaths head grin as it pushed off, slamming itself in low beneath it's larger opponent's arms, a massive dark green, nearly black creature.

The other being was startled, but swung its arms in low sending the smaller gray white creature flying into another building, nearly totally leveling an office block. Cars and pedestrians were running in all directions.

"Come on Shinji, we've gotta get out of here." Kensuke shouted as he dragged Touji along in his wake.

Shinji shook himself loose of his thoughts, what was he thinking staying here! He headed after his friends at a run as emergency sirens began to blare. Sure what was happening was definitely not an earth quake or a tsunami, but somebody had figured out it still wouldn't be good to have people in buildings at a time like this.

The entire school shook, students from all of the classes were running for the ground floor and the exits. He slammed face first into freckle faced Hikari who was running up from the cafeteria.

"Shinji!" She shouted as she struggled against the panicking throng of bodies.

"Wuh, Miss Horaki!", he shouted, letting the tide of people carry him along until he reached, then slammed them both into an alcove to avoid being pulled further away.

"What's going on?"

"It . . . Its monsters!"

"Monsters? Shinji what are you talking about?" Hikari asked the boy, Shinji was a sweat guy, a bit of a momma's boy but not a bad person, but she had never seen him panic like this.

"We were up on the roof, Kensuke was filming", he began quickly. "And then the next thing we knew there was some giant monster smashing down next to the school!"

"Monster?". Hikari blinked, the cafeteria was on the opposite side of the school, she hadn't seen anything. She simply shook her head.

The shacking began to rise up again. "Whatever, come on Shinji we have to get out of here before the entire building collapses.

"What about Kensuke and Touji?", Shinji asked worry in his voiced.

"They'll be fine you idiot, they have the sense to get out of here. Right now I'm just worried about us!" She pulled Shinji back out into the stream of people struggling towards the lower floors. A combination of brute determination and use of Shinji as a reluctant battering ram got them down to the second floor before the crowd started to pile up.

Hikari didn't bothering trying to go down any more stairs, she pulled Shinji into one of the now deserted classrooms and headed for the windows. One of them was already open, looking out on the school yard. She looked over the side of the windowsill before pulling herself over to sit, her legs dangling down.

"What are you doing!" Shinji asked worried.

"Relax, we're on the second floor and the only thing bellow us is grass." With that she scooted off and fell to the ground with a slight 'oomph'.

Shinji looked down, and was relieved to find the class rep was telling the truth. He followed a second later, landing heavily an falling on his face.

Hikari sighed and helped him to his feet.

"Hey Shinji, Hikari!"

Both turned, with more space out in the school grounds people were spreading out. Touji had spotted them, his eye drawn to the motion on the building side. They ran out to meet him. And Hikari got her first glance at Shinji's so called 'Monster'.

She froze still. It must have been a good two hundred meters from the school but it was gargantuan none the less. Dark and evil looking, it fought against another, smaller and white shimmering in the sun like some armored Angel fighting a demon.

Sadly it appeared the 'Angel', was losing. Its armored head had several large dents in it, and it now fought ineffectually as the second being finally moved in for the finishing blow, lifting its still feebly struggling opponent by the head, a spike of light speared back from the creatures forearm, then slammed back in.

The 'Angel' shuddered, as the process repeated several times. Finally the pile driver pierced through the armor of it's opponent's helmet.

It let the creature drop watching blood spray every where. Somehow Hikari felt that all was now lost.

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"Captain hit the gas." Gendo Ikari cursed as he tightened his iron grip on the door handle of the blue alpine.

"Sir", was Misato's only reply as her car passed the 100kph mark in the residential district. Gendo watched in horror as the smaller of the two armored behemoths collapsed to the ground spraying blood from its ruined eye socket.

'Damn it, that fighting is taking place far too close to Shinji's school' Gendo thought angrily. He had left the Sub Commander, Naoko Akagi in charge of the Gehrin facility before taking Misato up on her offer to go get his son.

She seemed almost as concerned as he about Shinji's welfare.

That was no surprise, Naoko Akagi had taken her in when she was orphaned by the Event, and living in close proximity to the Ikari residence, she had made much of her spending money as a teenager watching over the newborn Shinji. She was almost like an older sister to the boy, and had taken a posting as the Gehrin security officer to keep her job close to her extended family.

As much as she cared, it did nothing to improve her driving.

"Shit that fighting can't be more then a few hundred meters from the school!" Misato cursed, hand twitching. A flight of JSDF attach VTOL's had lifted on short notice from a nearby base and were closing with the monsters.

"Are they going to attack both?" Misato asked as she glanced up for a moment to view the spectacle, almost running down a group of onlookers in the process.

"Doubtful, they'll likely attack the one still on its feet."

As if to confirm Gendo's suspicions the VTOL's launched a full spread of rockets and missiles adding to that the fire from their chain guns.

Sachiel blinked confused at this. It was unused to the concept of déjà vu, it was no problem however as the rounds bounced harmlessly off the octagon of its AT field.

"It has a shield!", Misato gasped as the VTOL's expended the last of their armaments.

As if sensing this the creature lifted one of its arms. A blast of light caught a VTOL vaporizing a wing pod and sending the craft into a death drop into an office building.

"It appears to be equipped with a ranged weapon", Gendo muttered as they approached the school. They began to see more student mixed amongst the masses of people running the streets, Misato didn't slow down an iota as she skillfully swerved around a group of frightened students.

They were going to need a miracle to help them now.

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Rei gasped in pain, both sympathetic due to the EVA's injuries, and quite real, due to her own as she observed the Angel with her remaining good eye. It didn't help that her good eye was the one that corresponded with her EVA's ruined eye socket. Even opening it sent a lance of sympathetic pain through the socket. The Angel was distracted for a moment shooting down a JSDF aircraft.

A single tear streaked down Rei's face before falling into the LCL.

'I have failed Ikari, I was unable to protect the world you wished for. It will fall like the world it replaced. I am sorry.'

The Angel finally turned to face her for the finishing blow, bringing its massive hand down on the EVA's neck, a single good blast from its pile driver would spear all the way through to the Entry Plug.

Something deep within her finally snapped, Rei's soul was of Lilith, and just like EVA Unit-01 there was nothing as powerful as a mother protecting her children, and most importantly to the part of the soul that was Rei Ayanami, protecting the one she wanted to be with. Rei convulsed in the entry plug as the full force of her soul was unleashed.

An inhuman screamed was released as she synched perfectly with Unit 04. It was fortunate that the EVA did not hold Adam's soul or this feat would have initiated a fourth impact that would likely not have ended well for humanity. As it was, EVA and pilot went berserk.

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Shinji watched in aw as the fallen creature slammed full force into its tormenter, bodily lifting the other creature and sending it backwards.

"Oh SHIT", Touji cursed, this time it was he who had the sense to move his friends out of the way.

He was certain Kensuke and Shinji would have just stood there, Kensuke filming and Shinji starring until one of these Godzilla knockoff landed on them.

They were sent flying as the arm that nearly crushed them instead merely knocked them over with the shock of its impact.

A second Shock came and instant later as the second monstrosity landed on top of the larger pinning it beneath its own mass.

An bellowing roar irrupted from the smaller of the two as the bottom half of its armored head unhinged in a mass of blunt teeth. He slammed its fist down twice on the red gem at the center of its opponent, eliciting an unexpectedly high pitched screech from the creature.

The red core began to glow as if gathering energy for something, the creature seemed to become putty like as it attempted to rap itself around the enemy.

Sachiel would take this monstrosity with it to hell.

Rei already new what it intended, after all, she had done much the same in one of her lives, she had almost expected this. Waiting only an instant for Sachiel to wrap itself around her, she deployed unit 04's emergency close combat weapon, spearing the creatures core.

It convulsed one more, then stopped.

There was a long silence, then a slow grinding as the dead angels core slid off the slightly down turned spikes, followed by a loud, earth shacking thud as it made contact with the ground.

Rei returned to herself breathing heavily, well heavily for her. Which was to say several deep but quick breaths as she calmed herself.

Rei had never done that before, never released the true force of her soul, it was painful. She could feel every excruciating moment of her past lives and of the being she was attacking when she did it, a sure deterrent to ever using such a force. But she had been driven to it, first because she wanted to protect Shinji, and secondly to protect all of her children. 'No', she corrected, Lilith's children. Rei was of Lilith but she most certainly was not Lilith. That identity belong to another being, her grandmother.

She looked down at her own abdomen just to be certain that she was still alive.

The pain of having white hot needles slammed into her stomach reseeded as Sachiel finally went fully silent. Air bubbles streamed from her mouth as she let the EVA come to rest upon the dead remains of her opponent.

With a final bit of effort she ejected the entry plug.

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Shinji and Kensuke were the first ones to notice the sudden motion at the back of the victorious creatures neck as it slumped down on its dead opponent.

Kensuke hesitated for a moment, but his curiosity got the better of him. Shinji fallowed close behind, he felt something was driving him. He was certain now that the battle was over it was safe to approach the victor as if he had come close to, even touched a thing like this before.

Kensuke's courage gave out as he neared the dead creature the other laid on top of. He frowned as he filmed the machine. That was odd, Kensuke had this thing losing its eye on film, yet now the empty eye socket seemed less jagged as if it were healing. Cracks in the armor were missing outright.

"What do you think it is?" Shinji asked nervously.

Kensuke grinned as he put his brilliant deductive skills to work.

"I think it's a robot."

"Huh, it didn't seem like that when it was fighting." Shinji replied as he studied the evil looking skull.

"True, but look at those marking." Kensuke pointed to the arms. In large letters Shinji could read out the designation. EVA-04 MP

Then beneath that in far smaller lettering. NERV.

"So, you think that thing sticking out of its neck is the cockpit?"

Kensuke shrugged as he continued filming. "Maybe. Or it might be a battery or a heat sink or something." The military Otaku commented.

Shinji looked up determined. He was going to find out, this thing, he felt it was important, as if he had known it, or something like it once.

"Hey where are you going?"

Kensuke asked startled as Shinji began to scale the remains of the dead behemoth.

"I'm going to go see if the pilots ok." Shinji shouted as he continued his assent.

"Hey I only said it MIGHT be a cockpit." Kensuke shouted back.

"Yeah, but we can't leave somebody if it is, they might be hurt", Shinji shouted.

Kensuke sighed, Shinji sometimes managed to be too nice for his own good.

Shinji worked his way up the slumped back of the second creature, the one that held his objective. The more he moved over it, the more certain he was that thing was definitely alive, and the more certain her grew that it was also a machine. The concept of the EVA being a machine was reinforced as he get a good look at the object sticking out of the back of its neck. It had NERV written on it in large bold letters and was definitely artificial.

There was a screech and a lot of shouting beneath the him. "Shinji!" Two voices shouted.

He looked down. Captain Katsuragi and his father had arrived on the scene it appeared. "Shinji get down from there now!" His father shouted.

He paused for a moment before looking back to the entry plug, finding a handle hold he began climbing over to what appeared to be a hatch.

Gendo Ikari cursed under his breath as he pulled his silver trimmed jacket black leather jacket off and tossed it to Misato.

"Sir?" She asked, worried.

"I'm going up there", was Gendo's only response. He wasn't going to let his only son get himself killed, Yui would never forgive him if she heard of this.

Gendo made slightly better progress then his son, spending more time searching out a good path before beginning his own ascent. He reached the second creatures neck in time to see his son working on opening a hatch on the cylindrical object sticking from the creatures neck.

"Shinji what are you doing up here!", his father grunted out as he pulled himself up next to his son.

Shinji didn't answer for a second, he finally managed to release the small hatch. Both of them back away, nearly losing their balance as a coppery scent, like blood overwhelmed them.

Both gulped slightly. "I think this might be cockpit, maybe the pilots injured", Shinji finally explained. They both nodded, "On three", Gendo replied.

"One, three", they both poked their heads through the small hatch. The smell seemed to come from a liquid only a meter below the rim of the hatch.

Shinji silently hoped that wasn't the pilots remains. Their eyes slowly adjusted to the dimness until they could see a form.

There was a soft gasping coming from within. There was someone in there! Shinji threw caution to the wind forcing his way inside around his father. Gendo tried to stop him, but reacted a moment too late.

God this had to be some kind of secret organization work, it was way beyond anything that he had ever seen, and if anyone found out that Shinji had been inside he would likely be a dead man.

"Dad, get in here!" Shinji shouted. Gendo winced as the sound hit him, amplified greatly in the confined space. Nervously Gendo moved in as well, cursing as whatever liquid filled the bottom half of the space soaked his shoes and pants. He worked towards his sons voice. And paused. "What . . ." was all he said.

Laying in a semi reclined seat, slouched over in a parody of the machines position, for that was most definitely what this monster must have been. Sat a girl in a close fitting flight suit. Two small nodes like the sensors for EEG's sat on her head, partially covered in hair plastered in blood.

Shinji was working a restraint on her side nervously, it finally came free and her limp form slouched into his harms. He almost let her fall against the cockpit panel in front of her in surprise.

He almost did again as one of her eyes opened, he could see her face now in the dim light admitted by the open hatch, and a small set of pen lights built into the ceiling. Her appearance was striking, reminding him much of his mother, but most of all the eyes. Red eyes the color the blood that covered her. 'So beautiful'.

That though was not what had nearly made him drop her again. He listened softly, the words nearly made him gasp in surprise.

"Shinji", the girl whispered faintly again before losing consciousness.

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