Chapter 4: Violence
As Viking and Asuka began their attack on the Eva Series, the Marines had arrived, having a battle of their own against the JDDSF. In reality it was a route at the moment. The Marines were over running the JDDSF even though they out numbered the Marines 2:1. It looked like the German Blitzkreig of 1939. The Marines soon swarmed into Nerv with fixed bayonets and prepared themselves for close quarters combat. One of the Gunnery Sergeants particuallray had a m97 trenchgun, fixed with a bayonet. Flamethrowers were used to burn out the JDDSF set up in rooms. Weapons and warfare used in the pacific of WW2, but just now in urban area instead of the dense jungle.
Why were the Marines helping Nerv out? Grant it the UN sent them to stop the process of 3rd Impact (or that's what they were told anyways), but also the Marines on Okinawa owed Nerv a favor for 10 years ago when the JDDSF attempted to take Okinawa back. They would have suceeded too if Nerv didn't supply the Marines on Okinawa from the air during the struggle for the islands base. Now they were here returning the favor (also they decided it would give them something to do).
A squad of Marines by the name of "Red Wolves", sat outside of Nerv watching the battle between the giants outside. The leader of the squad was the same Gunnery Sergeant with the trench gun. He looked over at the private to his left as they watched Viking slam his axe into the Eva Series."Pay up" he told the pvt. as he held at his hand. The pvt. grumbled and cursed as he gave the Gunnery Sergeant $150 over losing the bet on whether Viking would use the axe or machine gun.
"Well this ought to be easy" Viking said following his 2nd kill with the great ax by knocking a Eva Series down to the ground from striking it in the gut with the butt end of the axe and then decapitating it on the ground. Viking then moved onto target #3 as Asuka went on to her second kill. She aimed the machine gun at another Eva Series on her side and pressed the trigger; nothing happened.
"What the hell!" She yelled as at the same time the gun jammed, she saw a Eva Series sprint towards her, with its giant blade over the beast head going for a downward strike upon Unit 2. She quickly raised the gun in the air and blocked the downward strike from the Eva Series blade. A quick kick to the Eva Series gut from Unit 2 got it away, and gave Asuka room as she grabed the barrel end of the gun and used it as a club, bashing the side of the Eva Series head open, but it still stood there in a haze. Again and again, Asuka bashed the Eva Series with the butt end of the gun until it was mush. She didn't quite kill it but it was incompacitated for the moment where she could move onto the 3rd Eva Series.
Asuka threw the broken gun down and pulled out the prog knife from the Unit 2's shoulder. As she turned around she saw a shadow moving towards. She looked up and saw the 3rd Eva Series in the air holding its blade above coming down for a death blow on her. Asuka immdeiatly jumped to the side, dodging onto the ground, landing on her shoulder as the Eva Series came crashing down on the spot where she just was, cramming its blade in the ground.
The Eva Series struggled trying to get its half barried blade out of the ground, giving Asuka time to get back on her feet and come behind the Eva Series. She wrapped her left arm around under its jaw and pulled the head up, exposing its throat. As the Eva Series grabbed Unit 2's left arm trying break free of its hold, Asuka slit white beast throat with the prog knife, shooting a stream of blood out, covering Unit 2's arms that matching Asuka's blood stained plug suit from earlier. The Eva Series let out a shriek, but only to be smothered by blood gargling. To Asuka's suprise, the Eva Series kept struggling to break free.
"Why won't you die you bastard" she yelled as she jabbed the prog knife into the lower section of its stomach and then arched up with knife all the way out threw the Eva Series shoulder. The Eva Series then slowly quit struggling as intestines and gore came spewing out through the giant opening she had caused. As Asuka let go of the Eva Series, it dropped to its knees and fell on its face with a splosh noise from landing on its guts. Asuka then turned around expecting to see the 4th one ready to fight, but it had vanished. She frantically looked, expecting to be followed by a sneak attack after her last kill, but the 4th Eva Series was gone.
"Where did that coward go" she asked herself in a state of confusion. "Hey woman! Could use some help over here" Viking yelled at Asuka over the radio. She looked over and saw that he was in a struggle with one of the Eva Series.
He had his axe locked in with the Eva Series blade were practically playing tug-of-war trying to dislogde eachother of their arms. Viking finally prevailed when pulled with all his might and sent the Eva Series into his shoulder and knocked its blade out of its hands, but unfortuatly the blade acted as a counter weight on its own, making Viking loose grip of his axe. The other 2 Eva Series sprinted over and surrounded Viking on his left and right flanks. As he unsheathed his shortsword, a swing from the one of the large blades on his left knocked it out of his hands. The 2 Eva Series behind him came up and grabed his arms and kicked his legs out from under him, sending the Iron Clad crashing to the ground with a thud.
As the 2 Eva Series held him down, Viking struggled with all his might but was wearing himself tired; he could have thrown 1 off him, not 2. The Eva Series that he dislodged the blade from stood up from the ground and wiped the blood from its busted mouth off. It grabbed its blade from the ground and stood over the Iron Clad, planting its foot on its metal stomach. Viking murmered to himself "I'd give anything for my fucking spear about now,or any damned spear for the matter". Viking watched as the Eva Series stood above him with a grin and held its huge blade in its right hand in the air. The cumbersome blade in its hand then metamorhed into into a grey double headed lance, as long as his Iron Clad and a half. Seeing this suddenly sent Viking into a storm of rage, feeling as if though he was being mocked and made a example of, also being that he said he needed a spear.
"Fuck you" Viking yelled at the top of his lungs and gave a great struggle for freedom, almost suceeding. The Eva Series then thrusted the lance down upon the Iron Clads chest, but to no avail. The lance glanced of Talos's armour and struck the Eva Series on Vikings left in its foot. The wounded Eva Series snarled at the lance holder, and it snarled back. Even though it didn't penetrate, Viking suddenly had chest pain as if though it did penetrate, and then the pain went away.
"What the hell" Viking exlaimed as he held his chest. It didn't make any sense to him. He thought only Evangelion pilots could only feel pain due to their nerve connections. He had none, all he had to do was strap in and place the piloters helemet on to control of Talos. He looked up and saw the Eva Series with the lance had a pissed look on its face now had both hands upon the lance and was aiming it at the Iron Clads orange eye lens. "Oh no" Viking said in a frantic voice, this time instead of being mad, he was now scared. But he was in luck.
A flash of red tackled the lance holding Eva Series to the ground and managed to knock the weapon from its hands.
"Miss me" Asuka asked in a Viking pridefull voice over the radio.
"Lady you are my guardian angel right now" Viking said with excitment for being saved, and now getting a chance to get back in the fight. As Viking mangaged to break free the grip of of the Eva Series grip on his left, Asuka had grabed his dislogded shortsword near by and stabed the Eva Series she tackled dead center in its chest. Where she had stabbed it there was a tough, which she figured was the rib cage. But out from the stab wound came a mixture of a black liquid and LCL, along with blood. She was confused at this,but didn't have time to ponder as she tore the short sword back out and went for the Eva Series on Vikings right.
As Viking had broke away from both the Eva Series, he attacked the one on his left. He grabbed the knee guard on its right leg and pulled with such force that he "accidently" tore out its knee cap as he brought it down to the ground. The Eva Series let out a shriek of pain as it grabbed a hold of its knee hanging on by a tendon and flap of skin. Viking then grabed one of his grenda axes and slammed it into its chest and pulled the pin out of it. He lept away as there was a explosion that followed him; a red mist sprayed the Iron Clad.
As Asuka charged the last Eva Series, it swung its massive blade with both its hands at her in desperation. Asuka dodged the swing at her as she ran up to its side and with a hack from the sword, severed the Eva Series hands off at the wrist. The Eva Series was now unable to defend itself as it stumbled backwards. It unfolded its wings and made a attempt to fly away, but only to be stopped by Asuka. She jumped on its back, taking it to the ground and with the shortsword, cut off one of its wings so I couldn't go anyware. She then stabed it in the skull, having the tip of the shortsword come out from under its jaw barly. She tore the shortsword back out and stabbed it in the back of the chest in the same spot as her last kill. The Eva Series went motionless as the same black mess and LCL came out its back wound.
After her final kill, Asuka took a minute to catch her breath. She looked around at the land where the dead bodies of white beast lay still. She saw Viking walk around with the grey lance spearing the fallen Eva Series to make sure they were dead. She then looked up at the sky and noticed that it had started snowing. She had a smile on her face looking at falling snow, forgeting for a moment of all that had happened, just a sense of peace in her mind for once. She then looked over shoulder and then all sense of peace was gone as if it never exsisted. It was hard to make out at first, but there was the Eva Series that had gotten away from her earlier.
"Can't even let me have a moment of peace can you" she scollded at it. As she took out the short sword. The Eva Series held up its blade and threw it at Unit 2. It bashed against her A.T. field and floated there, causing organge diamond shape disturbances in the field. It did as earlier agianst Viking. The blade morphed into a 2 pronged lance and was working its way threw her A.T field.
"The Lance of Longinus"Asuka said in a frightful voice. Her eyes were wide with fear, her body went cold. As she watched the lance float there, it suddenly pierced threw her A.T. field and came towards the left side of her face. "Mama" she called out of fear as she put her hands over her face and closed her eyes, preparing for aganizing pain to follow. She heard the sound of metal strike metal and felt herself hit the ground. She tensed up, and then slowly loosened up as she felt no pain. She looked up towards the sky where she saw a silhoulette of a woman standing above her, but then slowly disapeared and stood in over her Eva was the Iron Clad.
Viking reached down and helped her back up and said "Pay attention! Don't just stand there looking at the stupid thing ok". He then picked up the lance that deflected off the Iron Clads shoulder and threw it back at the Eva Series in the distance, missing it. The Eva Series then unfolded its wings and began to fly away, but not before giving both Asuka and Viking the middle finger as it took off.
"Ballsy Beast! Come on Asuka we can still get him before sundown and crush the remaining JDDSF, lets go" Viking told Asuka over the radio as he tossed her his great axe. Viking then began sprinting after the Eva Series with Asuka behind him when a message came over his radio.
"That won't be necessary" came through Vikings headset.
"What do you mean that isn't necessary! We have them where we can route them! Crush them! There is only one left and the JDDSF is on the run, we can win this battle before sundown if you let me go after them" Viking exclaimed over the radio.
"Well you should have hit that last Eva Series with that lance now, well why didn't you? Or how come your little red girlfriend over let it get out of her sight". Asuka then recognized this voice over the radio. "Of all people how did he get in charge" she said to herself. Viking was fixing to go nuts on the radio.
"I can't help that, I was busy with the other Eva Series on my own. Now damnit let me go after that last one, who the hell is this anyway" Viking yelled.
"The commander of the Marines on this expedition, which means that I am in charge of you pilot. Now do as you are told like the good soldier you are and return to base behind you before I loose my paitence, court martial you, and replace you as pilot over the radio" the commander told Viking. Even Asuka felt the pain of those words. She had a disgusted look on her face over how the commander was threatening the Iron Clads pilot like that. The commander then left the radio, leaving the decision up to Viking about his fate.
Asuka watched the Iron Clad looked back and forth in front of him at the retreating enemy, and the force of Marines behind him. He began to take one step foward.
"Don't do it" Asuka told him. Viking looked at her. "Let them go, we can kill them another day, it isn't worth loosing to posistion, come one lets go back" she told him.
"I could have said that to myself, got any other coneviencing words before I blow up like a nuclear reactor" Viking said threw his teeth. He was wanting blood shed now.
"Quit being stupid and stop thinking like me when I was dumbass kid. Yeah I used to be like that, go out and fight, not giving a damn about the orders, letting my pride take the charge. And you know what, all it did was bring pain without any gain. So if you wana go out there and play Mr. Hero and get killed and have them send me out there to rescue your ass then fine, so be it, but i'm heading back. Besides i'm don't trust that commander" Asuka told Viking in a low voice.
As Unit 2 headed back towards the Marine force, Viking sat there thinking about what had been said to him. It was in his blood to go out and slaughter the enemy, having just that one Eva Series get away from them ate at him the more he thought about it. He then watched Asuka walk away and realized he was alone.
"Fuck this shit" Viking said and he turned his back and followed behind Unit 2 back to base. The lands around them were white with snow by now.