I do not own Evangelion. It is the property of Gainax.

Sorry about the long delay between chapters, I'm sure you all know how life tends to get in the way. Anyway I should be putting up chapters more frequently from here on out so enjoy!

4:Lust:4

When they arrived in Bogota the heat felt like a solid wall. Toji felt stunned by it.

"Oh…man."

"That's Columbia for you," Misato said, "Don't worry we wont be here long."

Asuka had obviously come prepared. Toji studied her frame in short shorts and a tank top, sunglasses clouding her eyes. His mind flashed briefly to their first meeting, the heat aboard the super carrier over the rainbow. Toji turned his attention to Shinji who had a solemn look on face. His expression held an echo of permanence, like it was carved from stone.

"Where to now?" Toji asked Misato.

"A temporary launch base is being set up right now a few miles south of the city. The target itself is underground a few more miles west of that. Commander Fuyutski and Mr. Norita are already there with a team."

Asuka turned. "Wait you mean that they're in there with the target? Are they crazy?"

Misato nodded. "It's safe. All the data points to activation at midnight."

Asuka shook her head, "Well you wouldn't catch me in there."

"Look I know everybody is probably jet lagged so we're going to head to the temporary launch base so you guys can get some sleep before tonight."

"But I'm not tired," Asuka protested.

"It's an order, not a suggestion."

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10 hours remain

"They couldn't at least have gotten us separate rooms?" Asuka whined.

"I doubt our privacy is a top priority at this point," Shinji said, annoyance in his tone.

Toji studied the small enclosure off to the side of the launch base. "Well hey at least there's three beds right?" he said, trying to laugh.

Asuka scoffed and rolled her eyes as she plopped down on the first bed. "Just shut up so I can sleep alright?"

Shinji went to the window and pulled shut the thick black out curtains. He wanted to say something to Asuka and Toji, to tell them that they were a team and that things would be okay, but words, and his belief, seemed to fail him.

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When the infantry team finally got the last door open Norita stepped out into the cavernous chamber at the center of the South American artificial geo-front.

"There it is."

In front of him was an enormous black shoulder, and towering above that a thick neck and a bizarre white oval plate where the face should have been.

"Fuyutski can you see it?" Norita asked into his microphone.

The infantryman with the camera stepped forward to get a better shot of the creature so that Fuytuski, still on the surface, could get a look.

"Yes," Fuyuytski's voice sounded into Norita's earpiece.

"It's big."

"The writing on the shoulder. What does it say?"

Norita walked around the outside of the platform to see the complete white lettering on the shoulder.

"SP-4 / ASMODEUS."

"Understood."

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5 Hours Remain

In Toji's dream she came to him again.

"Esma."

He could see her swimming still deeper below him. He tried to reach out to her, to call out to her, but no sound came from his lips. And then he was fading. His lungs began to burn and a darkness seeped into the edges of his eyes.

"Please, come back. Please."

And then she turned and embraced him and pulled him down further until a blinding light seemed to cover him and he was in a grotto. Toji stood there soaking wet and breathing hard, waiting for his eyes to adjust. And when they did all he could see was Shinji locked in an embrace with Esma on the smooth stone below him. She was bearing down upon him, her lips grazing across his.

And there was Asuka standing on the other side staring down at the two across from him as well. Toji watched as she squatted down and pleaded with Esma.

"Please, stop it. Just, please. I can't…I won't…"

But Esma seemed to wave her away and dismiss her. Toji watched as a sudden rage seemed to fill Asuka and she dug her fingernails into Esma's back. She screamed as she did it but Esma only seemed to smile a little as she groped at Shinji's chest.

"Please," Toji said, "Shinji…let me have Esma. Please."

And then Shinji turned his head toward Toji and spoke.

"No."

And, to Toji, in that place, there was only despair.

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"Wake Up."

Toji sat bolt upright in his bed gasping for breath. He was drenched in sweat and shoving his hands over his ears.

"What?" he choked out, "Whose there?"

3 Hours Remain

Shinji was putting on his plug suit when Asuka entered the changing room. There were dark circles around his eyes and his hair was a mess, like he had been tossing and turning in bed.

"Well you look even worse than normal," she said, "If that's possible."

Asuka opened the case that contained her plug suit and examined it.

"I didn't get much sleep last night," he said. "I had this really intense dream."

"Oh poor Shinji," she said as she unfolded her plug suit, "Did a monster try to get you? Hmm? Or did you wake up all wet? Eh? Dreaming about me?"

"Nevermind."

"Well someone's grouchy," Asuka said as she began to remove her clothes, "Now you better not look!"

Shinji turned to face the other direction.

"You were in my dream, actually," he said.

"Eww gross."

"You were…watching me."

"What?" Asuka's head snapped around. She had had a strange dream the previous night as well. She had been forced to watch Shinji with another woman. She tried to tell herself that she didn't care, but deep down she had hated it. Hated having to watch him, hated that he was with someone else.

"I said…"

"What happened in your dream?" Asuka said suddenly.

"I…I don't remember," Shinji stammered out, looking embarrassed.

Asuka finished tightening her plug suit and then turned around to face him.

"What do you mean you don't remember you just said I was in your dream moron!"

"Ahh…It's…I remember it's just sort of embarrassing."

"Tell me."

"No."

"I promise I won't make fun of you."

"Why do you care?"

"Was it a…a sex dream?" Asuka asked, "Is that why you're embarrassed. Were you with some girl?"

Shinji stared at Asuka. How did she know?

Suddenly the door to the locker room swung open and Toji emerged looking almost as bad as Shinji.

"Sorry I'm late," Toji said, "I kept having this nightmare."

57 Minutes Remain

Inside of Unit-03 Toji was shaking.

"You're fine," he said to himself, "You're fine you're fine you're fine. It's okay."

He could here Misato over his comm..

"Okay our people have been completely evacuated from the artificial Geo-Front. Our estimates place activation at T-Minus 57 minutes and counting. Remember the basics. We don't really know what were going to be up against this first time out so stick to the fundamentals. Shinji and Toji stay back with the rifles, Asuka advances with the spear. The two of you cover her, and then switch to the prog knife if the thing gets in too close. We brought an N2 mine with us in case…well in case things get out of hand."

Shinji recalled Rei's suicide run with an N2 mine on an attacking angel. Can't let it get that far, he thought, can't let it slip.

"Of course it turns out that a woman yet again must do the heavy lifting," Asuka said, "Someone who can get the job done."

Shinji rolled his eyes.

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" I can feel you."

Toji snapped his head around to the left to try to pinpoint where the sound had come from.

"What? Whose there?"

Misato responded over the comm.. "Toji we're still here in command."

"No, not you," he said.

" I just can't stand it please I need you, I have to have you."

"Shinji do you hear that?"

Asuka massaged her ear. "Toji can you try not screaming into the mic?"

"Does nobody else hear that?" Toji said, exasperation in his voice.

Shinji turned inside of Unit-01 to look over at Unit-03. He's losing it, Shinji thought, this is all too much for him, the stress. And then Shinji heard it.

" I wan't you. I have to have you. Now."

Asuka's voice came through the comm. now, "What the hell?" she said, "That voice, it's that girl from my dream."

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Inside the command center Miasato turned to Fuyutski.

"What the hell is going on out there?"

Fuyutski shook his head, then Norita spoke.

"We have one scout that we left behind in the geo-front," he suggested.

Misato nodded and spoke into the comm.. "J-Twelve thirteen what's your status? What's the status on Asmodeus?"

But there was only silence.

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The attack came suddenly.

"She's there on the ground!" Toji Screamed, "The girl!"

Asuka tried to locate what Toji was yelling about when a thunderous sound echoed all around her and the great bulk of the first SIN appeared in front of her.

"Sheiss!" She tried to dodge to the left but the massive creature gripped the throat of Unit-02 and Asuka could feel herself being lifted up into the air. She screamed into the comm for someone to help and watched as she came eye to eye with the beast. There was a massive round and flat silver looking plate where a face should have been, and the plate gleamed in the sunlight over the black and red body of the almost feminine shaped creature.

"My Throat!" Asuka yelled out in pain. Suddenly she felt the force of something landing on the back of the creature. Asuka looked up to see Unit-01 standing on the creatures back and then felt the heat of Shinji's rifle firing downward into the top of the SIN's skull.

" No. We Must be...Together."

The voice seemed to be all around her as the creature let go of Unit-02's throat with one of its hands and reached up to grab Shinji by the throat as well. Asuka decided to take advantage of the loosened grip and swung her spear horizontally and up to strike the creature in its thick neck. And then again, and again.

"Toji where are you!" she yelled out.

Toji however was frozen. He watched as the SIN pulled Shinji off of its back and then slammed both Evangelions together. He could hear the screams over the comm but they sounded somehow far away. It was Misato's voice that finally roused him.

"Toji you've got to help them now!" With those words Toji began to charge with his gun firing at the right side of the SIN before he lowered his shoulder and threw all of his weight into a tackle. Toji could feel his back reel from the impact but he managed to knock the creature into a stumble as it let go of Shinji and tried to use Asuka to break it's own fall. But then with a sudden flash of red light and another thunderous crack, it was gone.

Shinji gasped as he felt oxygen flowing back into his lungs and glanced around himself to see the two other Eva's crashed among the forested battle ground.

"Where...? Misato?"

"Shinji! Asuka! Toji! Get up it's coming back!"

Shinji turned to see the creature charging toward them from what seemed like several miles away.

"How the hell did it get all the way over there?" Asuka said as she stood back up.

"It's picking up a lot of speed," Toji said. And then suddenly Toji could here Esma's voice in his head once more.

" You can have me, I'm yours."

But she wasn't just in his head now, the ghostly white girl was now straddling him in the cockpit of his Evangelion, rubbing her body up against him and touching the side of his face.

"Get the hell out!" Toji shouted, "Leave me alone!"

" Do you wan't to become one with me?" Esma whispered.

Shinji and Asuka watched aghast as Unit-03 shoved at the air around it as if it was trying to remove something invisible from an embrace.

"Toji move!" Shinji yelled.

The SIN was charging full speed right for Toji, an evil looking blade now protruding from its outstretched elbow.

"Toji get a grip!" Asuka pleaded.

"Get out of my head!" Toji wailed.

But there wasn't any time left. As the SIN neared striking distance of Toji Shinji leaped in front of him and shoved Toji away as he felt the enemies blade enter his shoulder and bear him downward into the trees. Shinji screamed as he came face to face with Asmodeus and tried to grab at his wound.

Suddenly it seemed like the beautiful girl from his dreams was lying on top of him. She caressed the side of his face and his neck and then with one swift motion tore the piece of his plug suit that covered his right arm away and began to kiss his shoulder. As Shinji felt the SIN blade pierce further into his Eva's armor he could hear Esma whisper.

" Can you feel me inside of you?"

"Yes..." he whispered back, feeling himself give in. Esma kissed his lips and then his chest and spoke once more.

" Do you want me to take the pain away?"

Asuka could here the voice of the girl over the comm.. as it whispered to Shinji. Asuka picked her spear back up and stood over the creature where it was lying atop Unit-01 on the ground and shoved the spear downward through the back of the SIN's thigh, feeling the tip go all the way through and out the other side.

"Hows that? Now whose inside of who?" Asuka asked.

The Eva children then heard a high pitched scream in their minds and with a sound like bones cracking the SIN disappeared again, this time reappearing behind Toji. The fourth child wheeled around and dodged backward to miss a sweeping kick, but then noticed something else when he did it.

"Asuka, you're spear is still stuck in her leg. I think you hurt her."

Toji, feeling suddenly emboldened by the creatures apparent weakness, removed his prog knife from its sheath and leapt onto the SINs back where it lay on its hands on knees on the ground. Toji reared up and rammed the knife downward into the top of the creature's spine as sparks cascaded around him. Asmodeus bellowed again and stood up suddenly causing Toji to fall back. It reached out and removed the knife, studying it for a moment before throwing it at Toji. The prog knife entered into his right bicep.

"Toji!" Shinji yelled as he was finally was able to draw himself back up to his feet. "Asuka, I've got a plan, can you charge at it?"

"You have a plan?" Asuka said with obvious disbelief.

"Just trust me," Shinji pleaded, "Just this once."

"...uhh mein gott."

Asuka leaped forward into a sprint heading towards the limping SIN towering over Toji. I hope Shinji knows what he's doing, she thought.

Shinji in turn unsheathed his rifle and sprinted right after Unit-02, making sure to press the muzzle of his gun into her lower back.

"Shinji! What the hell?" she said as she felt the tip of the gun. But it was too late for explanations. The SIN was holding up its right leg preparing to stamp down on the blade in Toji's arm at the moment Asuka reached it. She swung with her fist but the beast teleported once more with another ear shattering crack. But as it did this time Asuka suddenly understood Shinji's plan. Asuka could feel light explode behind her as the beast reformed itself directly at her back hoping to catch her off guard. With Shinji's gun still pointed at her back however the creature reformed itself with the muzzle of the rifle lodged firmly it its guts.

"Asuka move now!" Shinji cried out as Asuka rolled to the side and he squeezed the trigger, sending his entire clip into the innards of the beast.

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Misato Katsuragi had to turn away from her viewing screen as Shinji's bullets ejected from the chest cavity of the SIN and it crumpled, writhing, to the ground. She could hear Shinji's heavy breathing over the comm and the sound of Toji sobbing and grabbing at the blade lodged in his Eva.

"Asuka..." Misato said.

"Yah yah don't worry I got it," she said, annoyance in her voice. Asuka walked her Eva over to where Toji still lay on the ground and gripped the back of the blade. "Now don't flinch fourth child." Then with one quick pull she removed the blade and Unit-03 rolled over into the fetal position.

"Toji?" Misato said.

"Oh he'll be fine," Asuka said, "He's just in shock that's all." Then Asuka let the blade drop to the ground and the moment she did so the corpse of the SIN began to come apart like a handful of sand dropped into water, the pieces of it blowing upward in the wind. Asuka and Shinji watched as the enormous creature disappeared before their eyes, gone completely in only a matter of minutes.

"Gone..." Asuka whispered.

"No," Shinji said, walking to where the beast had finally fallen, "there's still something left."

"Shinji," Misato said, feeling frightened by the tone of his voice, "What is it?"

There was silence for a long moment before Shinji finally spoke.

"An entry plug."

Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of Evangelion: Sins of the Father

5:Better the Devil You Know…:5