"We are here to PUMP YOU UP!"
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Tuxedo Jack
~and~
Craptacularly Spignificant Productions
~present, with apologies to Anno and Akamatsu~
The End of Hinagelion
Part 1
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DISCLAIMER: Were I to disclaim that this is a disclaimer, my
disclaimer would then be disclaimed. Do the math.
* * * * * * * * * *
Special note: If you just happen to have the music named in here,
they work as background music. They tie it together pretty well,
I think.
If you don't have "Ave Maria" from Cowboy Bebop, go and get it
immediately. Make sure you get the six-minute version - be it
off the CD or off the Net, it's no difference to me.
If you don't have the Evangelion CDs, go out and import them.
There's no excuse for not doing so; Evangelion has some of the
best music _ever_ made for anime. Besides, the S2 Works CDs are
40 bucks for 7 CDs filled with music, and compared to the crap
that American artists put out, that's a damn good deal for some
damn good music.
If there's not a listed track for a section, it doesn't change
the song. Don't worry.
* * * * * * * * * *
(Background music: Forbidden Gene, track 7 on "Refrain")
Mankind has always aspired to be more than they are.
First, they created. Then came innovation. After that, mankind was
satisfied, and all was good.
Soon, though, mankind was not satisfied with their creations.
They sought more.
They sought to be unto gods.
He took offense at this, and watched as the humans unleashed the
power of the First Angel. Their world was decimated, and what was
left was barely a shadow of the former world.
But it was enough.
Mankind soon rose again, and one woman deigned to challenge the Almighty
again.
He sent His angels to combat her - fifteen in all. However, the woman
controlled the Second Angel and had the First implanted in her palm.
She also manipulated a half-human, half-angel girl, whom she used to pilot
the abominable beast Amalla-00. Her nephew piloted its sister unit, Aoyama-01,
and a third child controlled Aoyama-02.
The woman and her pawns defeated all fifteen angels.
He decided that she would be watched, for her desires were that which He
did not want, and He would have to stop her Himself.
* * * * *
(Background music: A-13 from the S2 Works series)
"She cannot be allowed to persist as she is," one elder said
from his raised monolith.
"Her pursuit of Yakusoku is endangering our scenario," another
elder said.
"Also, the First Child is growing dangerously close to the
Third," a third one said. "She must remain pure in order for our
vision to be made real."
"Then so be it," the obvious leader (he was on the largest monolith,
and he had dramatic shifting spotlights playing on him) said. "We shall
begin the process now."
"Capture ONSEN, use the SOU for our purposes, and force the First Child
to create the perfect world that we wish for!"
* * * * *
(Background music: Prologue de Refrain, track 1 on "Refrain")
Keitaro sat up straight in his bed, gasping in shock. His dream...
(DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM)
Keitaro stood ramrod-straight and stared forward. No matter what he
did, he couldn't seem to move.
"Soon, Urashima-kun, we will be One," Kanako whispered from behind him
as she draped her bare arms over his shoulders.
Keitaro still looked straight ahead, despite the fact that a beautiful
nude woman was leaning on his back. "Kanako-san, what do you mean?"
"Our souls will be joined," she said, breathing into his ear. "They
will be One, and we will make a new world... you will plant the Seed,
and the world will grow from you and me."
Keitaro blinked. "I wish you'd stop talking in riddles."
Kanako let go of him, walked around to his front, and kissed him.
"Is that enough of an answer, Urashima-kun?"
(AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE)
Keitaro couldn't get that dream out of his head. He'd had it every night
since the Fifteenth Angel - Discoel. It had done the hustle on Naru's
Aoyama-02 and wrecked it completely, injuring Naru so badly that she'd been
in a coma ever since then.
The unit had been repaired, and it was piloted for a while by a girl named
Sara, who turned out to be the Seventeenth Angel, Sammael.
* * * * *
The author turned from his keyboard. "Yes, that's the original name
of Satan." He sighed. "All that time I spent in Jesuit schools paid
off, I guess."
* * * * *
(Background music: Kibou no Sora e, track 3 on "Refrain")
A few weeks after that, Seta was found dead with a bullethole in his heart.
Kitsune mourned, and so did Su. Kitsune even gave up drinking because of
that... but she started again soon thereafter.
At the moment, Kitsune was slumbering peacefully on the couch down the
hall from Keitaro thanks to the huge amount of Yebisu she'd downed earlier.
Keitaro sighed, lay down, and tried to get back to sleep. No matter
what position he tried, though, he couldn't get comfortable. Eventually,
he just gave up and got dressed.
He slipped by Kitsune, opened the front door, and took the elevator
down to the lobby. From there, he hailed a taxi and got a ride to ONSEN.
He paid with his ONSEN expense card. Haruka was _not_ going to be happy
about that, but it wouldn't really matter in about twenty-four hours, so
it was all good.
When he arrived, he wandered aimlessly through the corridors for a while,
eventually arriving at Naru's hospital room. Keitaro knocked, and when
there was no answer, he let himself in.
Naru lay on her bed, dressed in the ubiquitous white gown (which made
her red hair look like a massive bloodstain on the sheets). She was
breathing regularly, and Keitaro watched for a few moments as her
chest rose up and down in time with her breaths.
Keitaro was turning beet-red now... and not just in his face, either.
* * * * *
The author gagged. "Look, I ain't going to write that. If you've seen
'End of Evangelion,' you know what happens there. Just fill in the blanks.
I'm only going to say one more thing about that - Thermal Expansion
and Arc Velocity."
* * * * *
(Background music: Track 1 from "Eve of the Second Impact")
Keitaro stared at the mess in his hand. "I'm scum." He sighed, and
wiped it on the sheets. "I'm absolute shit."
"Kei... taro..."
Naru's eyes blinked open slowly, and she raised her hand to her forehead -
and then stopped when she felt the gobs of sticky fluid on it. She drew
her hand back to her nose and sniffed it, trying to see what it was...
and then she tasted it. Just a lick, but enough to make Keitaro nosebleed.
Naru then took a look at Keitaro, and saw that Mr. Happy had gotten a little
_too_ happy. A slow doubletake ensued, and Keitaro sweatdropped.
It was then that Naru realized what it was.
Suffice it to say, pandemonium ensued.
"HENTAI!" Naru leapt out of her bead, tearing the IV out of her arm as
she did so, and charged Keitaro, who was running away while trying
frantically to close the lid on Mr. Happy, who was still a little
happy.
Naru-punches resounded through the halls as Keitaro kept running, and
eventually, he got to an area near the unit cages that he knew Naru
didn't know about. He gasped for breath, taking in huge gulps of air,
and then sat down and waited.
* * * * *
Klaxons rang throughout the halls of ONSEN.
"Warning, warning. Hostile entities detected outside ONSEN complex.
This is not a drill. All personnel to battle stations. Repeat, hostile
forces outside ONSEN complex. Battle stations."
The chaos that ensued was incredible. The Control Room's three bridge
bunnies were working overtime, and Su rushed in to secure the SOU terminals.
"Senpai, what's going on?" Shinobu said, her face twisted in fear.
"Someone's attacking us!" Su pulled four pistols out of a wall compartment
and passed three of them to said technicians. "You've got to hold this room.
I've got two places to go."
"Senpai... senpai, don't go!"
Su ran out of the room, and Shinobu started bawling.
* * * * *
"Where is he?"
Naru ran through the corridors of ONSEN, searching for Keitaro to beat
the living shit out of him.
"I'll KILL him!"
Okay, I stand corrected. She'll kill the living shit out of him.
Naru turned a corner, and there in front of her was her pride and joy -
Aoyama-02. She grinned wickedly.
"My baby and I will find him, won't we? Yes, we will."
She climbed in the unit.
* * * * *
Keitaro ran through the halls, knowing that he had to get to Aoyama-01 to
defend the complex. About a hundred feet from the elevator to the cages,
he turned a corner... and ran straight into a JSSDF soldier wielding
a pistol.
"Hey, it's him!" The soldier pointed the pistol straight at Keitaro's
head. "Sorry, kid, this is business," he said, pulling his radio up
in his other hand.
"Third Child confirmed. Eliminating."
The soldier pulled the trigger.
Or at least he tried to - it was kind of hard, since Kitsune's .50-caliber
bullet was lodged in the back of his skull.
His body collapsed to the floor, and Kitsune ran up to Keitaro, gripping
a Desert Eagle pistol with both hands. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah... yeah, I'm okay, I think."
She pulled him to his feet. "We've got to get you to Aoyama-01. There's
people out there who want to kill us all!"
They ran to the end of the hall, and Kitsune pushed the button to call
the elevator to their floor. They waited... and waited...
A gunshot punctuated their reverie, and Kitsune snapped off two shots
to answer it back. More shots came their way, and she fired four more
back before ejecting the clip and reloading.
The elevator door opened, and Kitsune grabbed Keitaro. "Get in!"
He shook his head. "Not without you!"
"GO!"
"NO!"
She pulled him to her and kissed him softly, but with passion. "That's
a kiss for luck. Get back, and we'll do the rest." She pushed the stunned
Keitaro into the elevator, then pushed the button for the cages, and leapt
out, firing her pistol at the troops moving down the corridor.
Keitaro tried to get out of the elevator, but the doors shut too fast...
"KITSUNE!"
Kitsune took a hit in her leg, but shot the remaining three JSSDF soldiers
cleanly through the head with one round each
* * * * *
Naru felt the elevator rising, and she and Aoyama-02 rose to the
surface. She drew the unit's - Tsuruko's - katana, knowing that
Keitaro and 01 would be up here.
She cleared the ground - and saw not one, but _nine_ Aoyama-01
clones arrayed in a circle around ONSEN headquarters. Naru grinned.
"Nine Aoyama-01s, nine dead Keitaros... I like it."
She charged them, slashing madly. Two of the units fell apart when
they were hit, and others just flew up in the air.
Naru smiled, seeing the destruction that she had wrought with
such grace and fury... and then the two units that had lost limbs
simply regenerated them.
Her jaw dropped in shock.
* * * * *
(Background music: Love Antique, track 8 on "Refrain")
Su rode the elevator down, deep down into the bowels of ONSEN.
She and the Commander were arguably the only two who knew about
her destination, and if she was right, she'd have to act quickly
to keep the Commander from stopping her.
She pulled out her pistol that she'd taken from the Control Room,
and stepped off the elevator when the opportunity presented itself.
Su checked her left, her right, and proceeded forward carefully until
she reached a massive steel door with a keycard reader to its left.
She pulled out a keycard from her pocket, swiped it, and watched the doors
open. Su quickly ran through them, letting them shut behind her, and gazed
in grim hatred at what she saw in front of her -
A tank full of Kanakos.
Hundreds of Kanakos swam in the tank. Some lounged at the bottom, some swam
around, and some just watched. All their eyes turned towards Su when she
entered, though.
"Damn you," Su whispered. "You... you turned the Commander into this...
this beast that she is. You deserve to die - no, you deserve worse than
death. You deserve an eternity of slow torture." She raised her pistol.
"This is all I can give you."
Su turned and aimed at a light fixture over the tank. She fired three shots,
and the whole apparatus collapsed into the tank, taking its power
cables with it.
The Kanakos didn't even scream while they died. They just kept staring
at Su, even in death.
The scientist shuddered and left. She headed back to the elevator,
got on, and rode it a few more floors down. This time, when she got off
the elevator, she walked forward into a sea of LCL, and straight ahead of
her was the most disgusting sight she'd ever seen -
A naked, crucified Hina-obaasan that dripped LCL into the giant pool beneath
her.
Slightly less disturbing was the sight of Haruka and a very naked Kanako standing
in the pool. Haruka's palm was glowing.
"So you've finally come here, have you?" Haruka said, her back to Su.
"You know why I'm here, Haruka," Su said icily.
"Indulge me."
"You played me for a fool!" Su screamed, tears coursing down her cheeks.
"You had Seta, my mother, me, and now _her_? A clone of Seta mixed with
Hina-obaasan?"
Haruka smiled. "What I do is my business, not yours. I suggest you
keep it as such."
"DAMN YOU!" Su pulled the trigger, but missed Haruka.
Haruka's shot didn't miss, though. She hit Su in the chest, and the
scientist fell to the floor.
"You're... not going to do it this time," Su panted through a mouthful
of blood as she drew out a remote control. "This will detonate the SOU
systems. Any hope of achieving your goals... gone." She gasped and pushed
a button on it.
She had expected an explosion.
Nothing happened.
"So you chose her over me, mother?" Su whispered before collapsing onto
her back. "Betraying your own daughter..."
Kaolla Su died.
Haruka's palm burned furiously, and the Adam embryo implanted inside burned
its way out of her to land in the LCL. It found its way over to Kanako, and
Haruka smiled, anticipating triumph...
But it touched her, and nothing happened.
"What?" Haruka gasped. "Third... It should have..."
"It did not happen because I willed it not to," Kanako said quietly.
"Damn you, Lilith," Haruka whispered. "Curse you."
"'And lo, she placed a curse on Adam, that one day she would devour his
descendants and destroy his line.'" Kanako smiled. "I am hungry."
Haruka Urashima paled as ten Kanakos rose out of the LCL and approached her.
"It is not you who will choose how humanity is made," Kanako said as the
clones began to tear Haruka apart. "It is His decision, and although He
is not Him, He still is respected."
* * * * *
(Background music: Ave Maria, from Cowboy Bebop. Use the full six-minute
version here.)
Keitaro entered Aoyama-01 and was catapulted to the surface just in
time to see Naru's unit take a massive blow from a clone's prog-katana.
She went down like a sack of bricks, and the clones closed in and started
to slash her apart.
"NO!"
Keitaro blindly charged, decapitating several units with one stroke, and
batting the rest out of the way as he got to Naru's side.
"Narusegawa, are you okay?"
"Keitaro... you pervert..." Naru sighed, a smile on her face despite
the bloodstains there. "You came... again..."
"Narusegawa, it's okay, we'll get Su to heal you or something, just don't
die!"
"Baka... it's all your fault..."
Naru Narusegawa died, and with her went Aoyama-02.
Keitaro stood up slowly, fury burning in his eyes. The clones reformed,
and they formed a circle around him. After a short but furious battle,
they had Aoyama-01 - the real one - pinned, and two clones held each of
its limbs. The last clone drew out its sword, and Keitaro gasped.
"The Hina Blade!"
They'd used that on the Fifteenth Angel, he remembered, and they'd though
it lost. If that hit him, it was all over.
"Gotta... get..."
He struggled, and threw off some of the clones, but the one with the
Hina Blade stabbed it straight down into Keitaro's unit 01.
Keitaro Urashima screamed, and at that moment, the world exploded
into a sea of white.
* * * * *
Jikai, End of Hinagelion:
SETA: God creates Man.
MUTSUMI: Man finds God.
NARU: Man worships God.
SU: Man questions God.
HARUKA: Man defies God.
KITSUNE: Man denies God.
KEITARO: Man becomes God?
KANAKO: The final episode of Shinseiki Hinagelion - "The End of Hinagelion, Part II."
SHINOBU: Or "Keitaro's in His heaven, all's right with the world."
* * * * * * * * * *
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Eew, what was I thinking? A naked Grandma Hina in exchange for Lilith?
*Shudder* Nasty. I think I crossed the line with that.
This took me about forty-eight hours to plan, write, and post. I did
everything but the disclaimer, intro text, and scene with the elders
on Sunday, and all that in two hours to boot.
Due to the RIAA's latest actions - suing each and every person who
downloads any song (and in some cases, destroying the legitimate and legal
collections of users via hackers and viruses) - I must urge my readers to boycott
buying American CDs/CDs made by groups involved with the RIAA until they relent.
I ain't buying jack from them for three simple reasons.
1: Their stars are manufactured, and the music they make is crap to appeal
to the masses (reminds me of Marx's theories on religion).
2: Twenty of my hard-earned bucks for one damn CD? Come on, that's pushing
it. You can buy one blank CD for about forty cents, and the Internet time
to download and burn songs is negligible. They've got to learn to compete
with that cost, or they're finished.
3: They're taking incredibly unethical measures against file-traders, such
as hacking their systems, planting destructive viruses on them, and in
some cases, planting keyloggers on systems (which constitutes illegal
wiretapping in itself).
You don't like it? Don't buy from them. Import your music. Listen to indie
bands. Just don't give these bastards any more ammunition than they have.
In fic-related news...
Yakusoku will be finished soon, and a new world born... but what world is it?
And if Kanako's going to let Keitao Join with her, just what the hell is she
talking about? And what will that do, come to think of it?
The Kyoto Liddo-Kun's getting a chapter update before I finish this, so
you've got about a week or so, since I just got hired by Best Buy as a
computer repair geek.
MSMT3K is slowly dying. It's not dead - far from it. It's just that people
have given me flak for my MSTings, and quite frankly, I'm sick of people
bitching and moaning over my MSTing of "Lemon Wing." It's up and it's going
to stay up, so quit carping. I'll finish this season, do five special episodes
to close it, and then it's gone for good. I may bring it back in a few special
episodes later, but there's no guarantee, since writers these days (especially
the teenagers who write the true and utter tripe that infests quite a bit of FFN -
myself included on some of my old works) are being very stingy with permission
these days.
Oh, and one last thing.
Happy birthday, Kanako. I have but three wishes for you on it:
May you age well, like fine wine.
May you be rich, like fois gras.
And may your writing always be as sinfully delicious as it is now.
Ja!
Tuxedo Jack
Tuxedojack@juno.com
users3.ev1.net/~jchiles
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Tuxedo Jack
~and~
Craptacularly Spignificant Productions
~present, with apologies to Anno and Akamatsu~
The End of Hinagelion
Part 1
* * * * * * * * * *
DISCLAIMER: Were I to disclaim that this is a disclaimer, my
disclaimer would then be disclaimed. Do the math.
* * * * * * * * * *
Special note: If you just happen to have the music named in here,
they work as background music. They tie it together pretty well,
I think.
If you don't have "Ave Maria" from Cowboy Bebop, go and get it
immediately. Make sure you get the six-minute version - be it
off the CD or off the Net, it's no difference to me.
If you don't have the Evangelion CDs, go out and import them.
There's no excuse for not doing so; Evangelion has some of the
best music _ever_ made for anime. Besides, the S2 Works CDs are
40 bucks for 7 CDs filled with music, and compared to the crap
that American artists put out, that's a damn good deal for some
damn good music.
If there's not a listed track for a section, it doesn't change
the song. Don't worry.
* * * * * * * * * *
(Background music: Forbidden Gene, track 7 on "Refrain")
Mankind has always aspired to be more than they are.
First, they created. Then came innovation. After that, mankind was
satisfied, and all was good.
Soon, though, mankind was not satisfied with their creations.
They sought more.
They sought to be unto gods.
He took offense at this, and watched as the humans unleashed the
power of the First Angel. Their world was decimated, and what was
left was barely a shadow of the former world.
But it was enough.
Mankind soon rose again, and one woman deigned to challenge the Almighty
again.
He sent His angels to combat her - fifteen in all. However, the woman
controlled the Second Angel and had the First implanted in her palm.
She also manipulated a half-human, half-angel girl, whom she used to pilot
the abominable beast Amalla-00. Her nephew piloted its sister unit, Aoyama-01,
and a third child controlled Aoyama-02.
The woman and her pawns defeated all fifteen angels.
He decided that she would be watched, for her desires were that which He
did not want, and He would have to stop her Himself.
* * * * *
(Background music: A-13 from the S2 Works series)
"She cannot be allowed to persist as she is," one elder said
from his raised monolith.
"Her pursuit of Yakusoku is endangering our scenario," another
elder said.
"Also, the First Child is growing dangerously close to the
Third," a third one said. "She must remain pure in order for our
vision to be made real."
"Then so be it," the obvious leader (he was on the largest monolith,
and he had dramatic shifting spotlights playing on him) said. "We shall
begin the process now."
"Capture ONSEN, use the SOU for our purposes, and force the First Child
to create the perfect world that we wish for!"
* * * * *
(Background music: Prologue de Refrain, track 1 on "Refrain")
Keitaro sat up straight in his bed, gasping in shock. His dream...
(DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM) (DREAM)
Keitaro stood ramrod-straight and stared forward. No matter what he
did, he couldn't seem to move.
"Soon, Urashima-kun, we will be One," Kanako whispered from behind him
as she draped her bare arms over his shoulders.
Keitaro still looked straight ahead, despite the fact that a beautiful
nude woman was leaning on his back. "Kanako-san, what do you mean?"
"Our souls will be joined," she said, breathing into his ear. "They
will be One, and we will make a new world... you will plant the Seed,
and the world will grow from you and me."
Keitaro blinked. "I wish you'd stop talking in riddles."
Kanako let go of him, walked around to his front, and kissed him.
"Is that enough of an answer, Urashima-kun?"
(AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE) (AWAKE)
Keitaro couldn't get that dream out of his head. He'd had it every night
since the Fifteenth Angel - Discoel. It had done the hustle on Naru's
Aoyama-02 and wrecked it completely, injuring Naru so badly that she'd been
in a coma ever since then.
The unit had been repaired, and it was piloted for a while by a girl named
Sara, who turned out to be the Seventeenth Angel, Sammael.
* * * * *
The author turned from his keyboard. "Yes, that's the original name
of Satan." He sighed. "All that time I spent in Jesuit schools paid
off, I guess."
* * * * *
(Background music: Kibou no Sora e, track 3 on "Refrain")
A few weeks after that, Seta was found dead with a bullethole in his heart.
Kitsune mourned, and so did Su. Kitsune even gave up drinking because of
that... but she started again soon thereafter.
At the moment, Kitsune was slumbering peacefully on the couch down the
hall from Keitaro thanks to the huge amount of Yebisu she'd downed earlier.
Keitaro sighed, lay down, and tried to get back to sleep. No matter
what position he tried, though, he couldn't get comfortable. Eventually,
he just gave up and got dressed.
He slipped by Kitsune, opened the front door, and took the elevator
down to the lobby. From there, he hailed a taxi and got a ride to ONSEN.
He paid with his ONSEN expense card. Haruka was _not_ going to be happy
about that, but it wouldn't really matter in about twenty-four hours, so
it was all good.
When he arrived, he wandered aimlessly through the corridors for a while,
eventually arriving at Naru's hospital room. Keitaro knocked, and when
there was no answer, he let himself in.
Naru lay on her bed, dressed in the ubiquitous white gown (which made
her red hair look like a massive bloodstain on the sheets). She was
breathing regularly, and Keitaro watched for a few moments as her
chest rose up and down in time with her breaths.
Keitaro was turning beet-red now... and not just in his face, either.
* * * * *
The author gagged. "Look, I ain't going to write that. If you've seen
'End of Evangelion,' you know what happens there. Just fill in the blanks.
I'm only going to say one more thing about that - Thermal Expansion
and Arc Velocity."
* * * * *
(Background music: Track 1 from "Eve of the Second Impact")
Keitaro stared at the mess in his hand. "I'm scum." He sighed, and
wiped it on the sheets. "I'm absolute shit."
"Kei... taro..."
Naru's eyes blinked open slowly, and she raised her hand to her forehead -
and then stopped when she felt the gobs of sticky fluid on it. She drew
her hand back to her nose and sniffed it, trying to see what it was...
and then she tasted it. Just a lick, but enough to make Keitaro nosebleed.
Naru then took a look at Keitaro, and saw that Mr. Happy had gotten a little
_too_ happy. A slow doubletake ensued, and Keitaro sweatdropped.
It was then that Naru realized what it was.
Suffice it to say, pandemonium ensued.
"HENTAI!" Naru leapt out of her bead, tearing the IV out of her arm as
she did so, and charged Keitaro, who was running away while trying
frantically to close the lid on Mr. Happy, who was still a little
happy.
Naru-punches resounded through the halls as Keitaro kept running, and
eventually, he got to an area near the unit cages that he knew Naru
didn't know about. He gasped for breath, taking in huge gulps of air,
and then sat down and waited.
* * * * *
Klaxons rang throughout the halls of ONSEN.
"Warning, warning. Hostile entities detected outside ONSEN complex.
This is not a drill. All personnel to battle stations. Repeat, hostile
forces outside ONSEN complex. Battle stations."
The chaos that ensued was incredible. The Control Room's three bridge
bunnies were working overtime, and Su rushed in to secure the SOU terminals.
"Senpai, what's going on?" Shinobu said, her face twisted in fear.
"Someone's attacking us!" Su pulled four pistols out of a wall compartment
and passed three of them to said technicians. "You've got to hold this room.
I've got two places to go."
"Senpai... senpai, don't go!"
Su ran out of the room, and Shinobu started bawling.
* * * * *
"Where is he?"
Naru ran through the corridors of ONSEN, searching for Keitaro to beat
the living shit out of him.
"I'll KILL him!"
Okay, I stand corrected. She'll kill the living shit out of him.
Naru turned a corner, and there in front of her was her pride and joy -
Aoyama-02. She grinned wickedly.
"My baby and I will find him, won't we? Yes, we will."
She climbed in the unit.
* * * * *
Keitaro ran through the halls, knowing that he had to get to Aoyama-01 to
defend the complex. About a hundred feet from the elevator to the cages,
he turned a corner... and ran straight into a JSSDF soldier wielding
a pistol.
"Hey, it's him!" The soldier pointed the pistol straight at Keitaro's
head. "Sorry, kid, this is business," he said, pulling his radio up
in his other hand.
"Third Child confirmed. Eliminating."
The soldier pulled the trigger.
Or at least he tried to - it was kind of hard, since Kitsune's .50-caliber
bullet was lodged in the back of his skull.
His body collapsed to the floor, and Kitsune ran up to Keitaro, gripping
a Desert Eagle pistol with both hands. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah... yeah, I'm okay, I think."
She pulled him to his feet. "We've got to get you to Aoyama-01. There's
people out there who want to kill us all!"
They ran to the end of the hall, and Kitsune pushed the button to call
the elevator to their floor. They waited... and waited...
A gunshot punctuated their reverie, and Kitsune snapped off two shots
to answer it back. More shots came their way, and she fired four more
back before ejecting the clip and reloading.
The elevator door opened, and Kitsune grabbed Keitaro. "Get in!"
He shook his head. "Not without you!"
"GO!"
"NO!"
She pulled him to her and kissed him softly, but with passion. "That's
a kiss for luck. Get back, and we'll do the rest." She pushed the stunned
Keitaro into the elevator, then pushed the button for the cages, and leapt
out, firing her pistol at the troops moving down the corridor.
Keitaro tried to get out of the elevator, but the doors shut too fast...
"KITSUNE!"
Kitsune took a hit in her leg, but shot the remaining three JSSDF soldiers
cleanly through the head with one round each
* * * * *
Naru felt the elevator rising, and she and Aoyama-02 rose to the
surface. She drew the unit's - Tsuruko's - katana, knowing that
Keitaro and 01 would be up here.
She cleared the ground - and saw not one, but _nine_ Aoyama-01
clones arrayed in a circle around ONSEN headquarters. Naru grinned.
"Nine Aoyama-01s, nine dead Keitaros... I like it."
She charged them, slashing madly. Two of the units fell apart when
they were hit, and others just flew up in the air.
Naru smiled, seeing the destruction that she had wrought with
such grace and fury... and then the two units that had lost limbs
simply regenerated them.
Her jaw dropped in shock.
* * * * *
(Background music: Love Antique, track 8 on "Refrain")
Su rode the elevator down, deep down into the bowels of ONSEN.
She and the Commander were arguably the only two who knew about
her destination, and if she was right, she'd have to act quickly
to keep the Commander from stopping her.
She pulled out her pistol that she'd taken from the Control Room,
and stepped off the elevator when the opportunity presented itself.
Su checked her left, her right, and proceeded forward carefully until
she reached a massive steel door with a keycard reader to its left.
She pulled out a keycard from her pocket, swiped it, and watched the doors
open. Su quickly ran through them, letting them shut behind her, and gazed
in grim hatred at what she saw in front of her -
A tank full of Kanakos.
Hundreds of Kanakos swam in the tank. Some lounged at the bottom, some swam
around, and some just watched. All their eyes turned towards Su when she
entered, though.
"Damn you," Su whispered. "You... you turned the Commander into this...
this beast that she is. You deserve to die - no, you deserve worse than
death. You deserve an eternity of slow torture." She raised her pistol.
"This is all I can give you."
Su turned and aimed at a light fixture over the tank. She fired three shots,
and the whole apparatus collapsed into the tank, taking its power
cables with it.
The Kanakos didn't even scream while they died. They just kept staring
at Su, even in death.
The scientist shuddered and left. She headed back to the elevator,
got on, and rode it a few more floors down. This time, when she got off
the elevator, she walked forward into a sea of LCL, and straight ahead of
her was the most disgusting sight she'd ever seen -
A naked, crucified Hina-obaasan that dripped LCL into the giant pool beneath
her.
Slightly less disturbing was the sight of Haruka and a very naked Kanako standing
in the pool. Haruka's palm was glowing.
"So you've finally come here, have you?" Haruka said, her back to Su.
"You know why I'm here, Haruka," Su said icily.
"Indulge me."
"You played me for a fool!" Su screamed, tears coursing down her cheeks.
"You had Seta, my mother, me, and now _her_? A clone of Seta mixed with
Hina-obaasan?"
Haruka smiled. "What I do is my business, not yours. I suggest you
keep it as such."
"DAMN YOU!" Su pulled the trigger, but missed Haruka.
Haruka's shot didn't miss, though. She hit Su in the chest, and the
scientist fell to the floor.
"You're... not going to do it this time," Su panted through a mouthful
of blood as she drew out a remote control. "This will detonate the SOU
systems. Any hope of achieving your goals... gone." She gasped and pushed
a button on it.
She had expected an explosion.
Nothing happened.
"So you chose her over me, mother?" Su whispered before collapsing onto
her back. "Betraying your own daughter..."
Kaolla Su died.
Haruka's palm burned furiously, and the Adam embryo implanted inside burned
its way out of her to land in the LCL. It found its way over to Kanako, and
Haruka smiled, anticipating triumph...
But it touched her, and nothing happened.
"What?" Haruka gasped. "Third... It should have..."
"It did not happen because I willed it not to," Kanako said quietly.
"Damn you, Lilith," Haruka whispered. "Curse you."
"'And lo, she placed a curse on Adam, that one day she would devour his
descendants and destroy his line.'" Kanako smiled. "I am hungry."
Haruka Urashima paled as ten Kanakos rose out of the LCL and approached her.
"It is not you who will choose how humanity is made," Kanako said as the
clones began to tear Haruka apart. "It is His decision, and although He
is not Him, He still is respected."
* * * * *
(Background music: Ave Maria, from Cowboy Bebop. Use the full six-minute
version here.)
Keitaro entered Aoyama-01 and was catapulted to the surface just in
time to see Naru's unit take a massive blow from a clone's prog-katana.
She went down like a sack of bricks, and the clones closed in and started
to slash her apart.
"NO!"
Keitaro blindly charged, decapitating several units with one stroke, and
batting the rest out of the way as he got to Naru's side.
"Narusegawa, are you okay?"
"Keitaro... you pervert..." Naru sighed, a smile on her face despite
the bloodstains there. "You came... again..."
"Narusegawa, it's okay, we'll get Su to heal you or something, just don't
die!"
"Baka... it's all your fault..."
Naru Narusegawa died, and with her went Aoyama-02.
Keitaro stood up slowly, fury burning in his eyes. The clones reformed,
and they formed a circle around him. After a short but furious battle,
they had Aoyama-01 - the real one - pinned, and two clones held each of
its limbs. The last clone drew out its sword, and Keitaro gasped.
"The Hina Blade!"
They'd used that on the Fifteenth Angel, he remembered, and they'd though
it lost. If that hit him, it was all over.
"Gotta... get..."
He struggled, and threw off some of the clones, but the one with the
Hina Blade stabbed it straight down into Keitaro's unit 01.
Keitaro Urashima screamed, and at that moment, the world exploded
into a sea of white.
* * * * *
Jikai, End of Hinagelion:
SETA: God creates Man.
MUTSUMI: Man finds God.
NARU: Man worships God.
SU: Man questions God.
HARUKA: Man defies God.
KITSUNE: Man denies God.
KEITARO: Man becomes God?
KANAKO: The final episode of Shinseiki Hinagelion - "The End of Hinagelion, Part II."
SHINOBU: Or "Keitaro's in His heaven, all's right with the world."
* * * * * * * * * *
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Eew, what was I thinking? A naked Grandma Hina in exchange for Lilith?
*Shudder* Nasty. I think I crossed the line with that.
This took me about forty-eight hours to plan, write, and post. I did
everything but the disclaimer, intro text, and scene with the elders
on Sunday, and all that in two hours to boot.
Due to the RIAA's latest actions - suing each and every person who
downloads any song (and in some cases, destroying the legitimate and legal
collections of users via hackers and viruses) - I must urge my readers to boycott
buying American CDs/CDs made by groups involved with the RIAA until they relent.
I ain't buying jack from them for three simple reasons.
1: Their stars are manufactured, and the music they make is crap to appeal
to the masses (reminds me of Marx's theories on religion).
2: Twenty of my hard-earned bucks for one damn CD? Come on, that's pushing
it. You can buy one blank CD for about forty cents, and the Internet time
to download and burn songs is negligible. They've got to learn to compete
with that cost, or they're finished.
3: They're taking incredibly unethical measures against file-traders, such
as hacking their systems, planting destructive viruses on them, and in
some cases, planting keyloggers on systems (which constitutes illegal
wiretapping in itself).
You don't like it? Don't buy from them. Import your music. Listen to indie
bands. Just don't give these bastards any more ammunition than they have.
In fic-related news...
Yakusoku will be finished soon, and a new world born... but what world is it?
And if Kanako's going to let Keitao Join with her, just what the hell is she
talking about? And what will that do, come to think of it?
The Kyoto Liddo-Kun's getting a chapter update before I finish this, so
you've got about a week or so, since I just got hired by Best Buy as a
computer repair geek.
MSMT3K is slowly dying. It's not dead - far from it. It's just that people
have given me flak for my MSTings, and quite frankly, I'm sick of people
bitching and moaning over my MSTing of "Lemon Wing." It's up and it's going
to stay up, so quit carping. I'll finish this season, do five special episodes
to close it, and then it's gone for good. I may bring it back in a few special
episodes later, but there's no guarantee, since writers these days (especially
the teenagers who write the true and utter tripe that infests quite a bit of FFN -
myself included on some of my old works) are being very stingy with permission
these days.
Oh, and one last thing.
Happy birthday, Kanako. I have but three wishes for you on it:
May you age well, like fine wine.
May you be rich, like fois gras.
And may your writing always be as sinfully delicious as it is now.
Ja!
Tuxedo Jack
Tuxedojack@juno.com
users3.ev1.net/~jchiles
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