Big Boss looks at the frozen forest, trees so high that they almost touch the sky, the snow dropping like rain, the temperature so warm and peaceful...its like its a dying dream. She walks towards a cliff causing her to slide and drop on what appears to be a lake of blood but its like water somehow as she resurfaces with no stains on her. Around her are dead soldiers much to Big Boss's disturbance. The soldiers rise up and they start shooting at her but Big Boss gets to cover and fires back which hits a soldier in the face causing him to disintegrate into crows much to Big Boss's shock right before she throws a grenade which makes them all disintegrate into crows.
She walks towards a path covered by tree branches causing her to throw a thermite grenade at it which causes it to burn into ashes. In front of her is...Asuka, no, another Asuka. An Asuka that never was supposed to be here in the first place. Venom Snake appears again in flames.
"Look, Quiet. I can't go further with you, you're going down a path that you can't return from and I'm sorry." Venom apologized with a warm smile causing Big Boss to push him out of the way.
"You're not Venom, Venom died a long time ago." The illusion sighs and disappears. Big Boss walks towards Asuka who looks at the tree of the frozen forest.
"Where am I?" Big Boss asks causing her to turn around.
"This...is the frozen forest. Every soul I come into contact here goes to this place...if I let them." Asuka explained as Big Boss aims her gun at her.
"Why do you continue when it will always be the same? The heroic Big Boss, the Solid Snake, and the boy who would later become Liquid Snake all work together to stop third impact. Why...can't you just let it go? Why can't enjoy this paradise I created for everyone?" She asks her.
"Because...this world maybe ending but I've been through a lot and this isn't the end...just the beginning. Which is why I can't let go, this world has so much good...and so much evil that it deserves to be protected." Big Boss replied before Asuka vanished but infects her mind with numerous flashbacks causing Big Boss to kneel on the ground.
"You still with us?" A voice asked causing her to turn around to see the Eva in the flesh.
"Eva? This can't be real...you died." Big Boss replied.
"Well I was the first person who fought back against her which makes me an exception. Come on, we got a job to do and through the power of your mind, we can beat this thing and send it back where she came from." Eva answered and picked Big Boss up.
"I just hope so Eva cause you're the best I got." Eva grabs an AK-47 as the two look at the three paths of the frozen forest but they seem to be blocked and marked by a T and A. Big Boss throws a thermite grenade at the one in front of her which causes it to burn.
Asuka walks in the house as there is nothing outside it seems and the streets are clear. The house resembles her old home, the floors and the shaking chandelier. Everything. But it feels...empty. She continues to walk and finds a basement door causing her to open it to reveal the same pathway as before thus hinting that she's going in circles. She needs to find a way out of here as fast as she can.
"In other news this morning, the mother of Asuka Langley Shikinami committed suicide in front of her daughter. Reports say that Kyoko Zeppelin used cloth on her bed to hang herself. More coming soon." A radio said causing Asuka to look at it. The radio plays again but this time plays someone saying I don't want to die on loop much to her annoyance. Asuka continues to walk towards the hall and sees someone outside...Big Boss and some blonde woman. She throws a thermite grenade at something and walks away. She's trapped here now and stuck in an endless loop.
Asuka walks to the basement path again and opens the door but this time, it looks like a military base for some reason. She hears humming now and humming is coming from the hallway causing her to pull out her pistol quickly. She spots something in the window...soldiers saluting much to her surprise.
"What the..." The first soldier drops dead with the window having a bullet hole appearing on it even though Asuka didn't fire. She walks along but more soldiers are dropping dead for no reason and she can't take it anymore.
"Stop..." Another soldier dead.
"Stop..." Yet another dead. Asuka turns around to whoever is shooting and looks to see no one right before aiming at the balcony and sees no one again. She continues to stand still since every time she walks, a soldier dies. There better be someone here to save her...
"Why do you continue to fight?"
Taisuke feels no cold at all, just warmth and some cold. Its strange since mother base is covered in snow and its devoid of life too. Strangelove is feeling it too and feels they need to get to safety real fast cause something isn't right at all. Taisuke can't tell if this is mother base...its different. The model is weirder than before and it appears there's a different insignia on the wall in front of them. He walks up to it and rubs the snow off. Militaires san frontieres...the name sounds familiar.
"MSF? That's the group the original Big Boss formed..." Strangelove observed knowing for sure that this mother base is the original one not the current one of course. Taisuke turns to her.
"Years ago in the 60's, the original Big Boss formed the mercenary unit known as MSF and helped save the US from nuclear destruction after a metal gear known as peace walker went rampant. This place...was his legacy." She observed while slowly spinning and looking at the place.
"That still doesn't explain why we're here..." Strangelove ended. Taisuke spots a frozen forest in the distance and holsters his shotgun on his back, Strangelove opens a door nearby to reveal the barracks and they go inside it. She turns on the lights with Taisuke checking his ammo on his shotgun right before placing it on the bed then laying on it.
"We rest then explore the place." The scientist stated while Taisuke turns over and looks up to see a photo tapped on the bunk above him. The photo is him and Mari. Strangelove is on the lookout for anything here and opens the drawer to see if there's any ammo. She opens it to reveal a sage bandanna much to her shock and even worse...there's blood on it. Her blood. The Joy's. Strangelove drops the object causing Taisuke to turn to her.
"What happened?" Taisuke asks.
"Lets rest somewhere else, come on now." Strangelove replied causing Taisuke to get up in confusion and holsters his shotgun. He opens the door to reveal...someone looking back. Its a large mirror.
"You ever say or do something you can't explain?" Asuka's voice asks him.
"Asuka?! Is that you?" Taisuke replied.
"Maybe it wasn't you that said-You that did it." The mirror begins to morph from Taisuke to Venom Snake as Taisuke walks closer with Venom Snake doing the same.
"Maybe it was someone else-their thoughts bleeding through into your brain." Taisuke waves his hand in front of the reflection and takes a closer look into it.
"Taisuke? You still with me?" Strangelove asks causing him to turn around as the reflection shatters. Taisuke looks at her in pure fear as Strangelove puts her hands on his shoulders.
"Listen to me, whatever this place is-its in your mind. We're still at NERV so we need to get out of here fast." She advised as Taisuke nods. The setting changes to somewhere else, the frozen forest yet again. Taisuke walks in a straight path but a tangle of trees rise up and block him causing the two to take an alternate path with more trees rising to block them. Strangelove backs away as she points to another path causing Taisuke follow her and they reach an area with soldiers spawning from crows. Strangelove goes ahead but disappears into crows much to Taisuke's horror.
"I'm still here but at the same time, not! Listen, Asuka is trying to mess with your head to stop you from reaching Shinji. Don't get fooled!" Her voice said as the soldiers begin to run towards Taisuke causing him to load his shotgun. The first soldier runs up to Taisuke and pulls out his knife but Taisuke rifle butts him in the face and shoots him thus disintegrating him as Taisuke continues to fire.
"I don't understand...Strangelove? Talk to me please! I don't know what's happening to me!" Taisuke dodges a rocket shot and jumps towards a ledge and picks up a light machine gun.
"I don't know what to do!" He kills another soldier.
"I know Asuka is inside my head. I know she's trying to take me somewhere-Somewhere I don't want to go! I want to get out!" Taisuke runs past the whizzing bullets and takes cover then fires back.
"I have to keep going. I have to finish this." Taisuke throws a grenade thus killing all of the soldiers and walks into the clearing but more trees rise up and block his path as Taisuke takes an alternate route and enters his hometown which is covered in snow.
"I'm coming for you Asuka. You destroyed my life..." He growls in malice as more soldiers run towards him but Taisuke shoots them all down with the light machine gun he picked up.
"You destroyed my friends! I'm going to find you, and I'm going to wipe you from existence! Do you hear me?!" He takes more cover and shoots back at three soldiers and one of them is hit.
"It doesn't matter what you throw at me-I am never going to stop fighting! I will not let go! Do you hear me?! I will not let go-" The setting changes to reveal Asuka on a table with her legs spread. Taisuke walks towards her.
No way I'm not doing that!
He couldn't feel his body anymore, nothing makes sense now...Taisuke gives his older a kiss on the lips. Taisuke sees himself in a stage of undress and could feel himself.
Stop...why...why does this feel good?
The two siblings begin...
Please...what...what are you showing me!? This is sick! This is sin! Why. Are. You. Showing. Me?! I can feel it...I can feel Asuka...I...I love Mari not her. This feels good and I like it, what's wrong with me?! Please don't stop. Stop this!
"Idiot." Asuka's voice said causing Taisuke to turn around.
"You can't hide from your feelings for me, you know that? All this time you used Mari as a substitute for me to block out the thoughts of the fact that you love dear older sister more than a sister." Asuka begins to undress in front of Taisuke. She's riddled in scars much to his horror.
"Go ahead and fuck me out of rage. I'll just prove you just want to love me and shame our mothers." Taisuke roars in rage and fires his shotgun at Asuka thus causing her to shatter into pieces. He finds himself in a German military base.
Big Boss enters a hospital with Eva and looks around. This looks like Cyprus...soldiers pass by them but one stops in front of Big Boss and salutes her which she does in return before he runs off. She hears gunfire now...its all coming back to her. The day she met Venom Snake. Big Boss signals Eva to follow her and they walk in the halls. Soldiers are breaching rooms left and right like as she remembers it like the back of her hand.
"Tango-9, Big Boss isn't here." A soldier said right before a nurse begs him to stop shooting but he shoots her in the head.
"Copy that alpha! Icarus is giving fire support, out." Big Boss begins to run in hurry as Eva follows her in confusion. In Bog Boss's head, she can stop this. She can stop herself from becoming the person she is...she spots herself walking towards a room and knows who it belongs to. Big Boss stacks up against a wall.
"What are we doing?! We're supposed to get out-" The woman simply kicks the door down to reveal herself strangling the doctor with an unsurprised Big Boss grabbing herself known as Quiet. Venom Snake rolls over as Big Boss knocks Quiet out and walks towards Venom Snake to pick up the gun. She looks down to see Quiet instead. Quiet shoots Big Boss in the arm as Quiet rushes towards Big Boss with Eva trying to shoot her but she can't get a shot. Big Boss throws a punch at Quiet but she gets out of the way and grabs her arm then breaks it causing Big Boss yell in pain with Eva getting a clear shot then shoots her which sends her flying against a wall then out of the window.
Big Boss readjusts her arm and gets up with Eva picking her up. She shrugs her off in response.
"You can't change what you've done..." Eva said as Big Boss turns to her. Big Boss wished she was Quiet again, silence and that's it. It was her life and she wanted it back.
"I know but...sometimes I wish I would go back." Big Boss replied as Eva pats her in the back. She feels a sharp pain on her shoulder and looks over to see Quiet again, the pain belongs to a rubbing alcohol bottle causing Big Boss to pull out her knife and throws it at Quiet but Quiet catches it right before using a lighter to light Big Boss on fire much to Eva's horror. Eva tries to put out the fire but Big Boss falls out of the window and on to a bed of white flowers. She gets up to see Solid Snake in front of her.
"You...you took my fathers name...and called yourself a snake..." Snake muttered and dashes towards Big Boss who pulls out her knife with Solid doing the same thing. There knives collide as Big Boss gains the upper hand and kicks Snake on the ground right before disappearing into crows and switches to Liquid Snake who gets up.
"Alpha, beta, maybe consider yourself the Sigma! Or Upsilon! No matter, you wanted something that everyone has!" Liquid throws a kick at Big Boss but she blocks it and grabs his leg to slam him on the ground right before changing into Huey Emmerich.
"You wanted to have a family which is why you called yourself a Snake! Cause you have nothing! You abandoned your own children to pilot monsters! And when you took them in under you're wing-you wanted them to be you! Heartless assassins!" Huey charges at Big Boss but she grabs him and throws him on the ground. Huey changes into the original Big Boss.
"You are kilometers from becoming worse than me. You should've let go of the past and went with Kyoko." Naked Snake sternly said to her and loads his handgun but Big Boss gets out of the way and shoots him. Naked Snake disappears as the Boss takes his place.
"You shame Jack's name in every way! You shouldn't be called Big Boss!" The Boss yelled and dashes then throws two punches at Big Boss's face right before throwing her on the ground. Standing over Big Boss is Otacon who loads a patriot assault rifle.
"If this is the way to save your children, then so be it-" Big Boss grabs the patriot from him then kicks him away and lands on the bed of flowers. She picks up the weapon. Rising in front of her is Venom Snake.
"Big boss! I've been expecting you...I am the supreme commander of the FOXHOUND unit...and the leader of the fortress of Outer Heaven, Venom Snake! I gave this mission to you, a rookie, thinking I could use you to fool the rest of the world...but you were too good. You went too far! Big Boss! I'm not going down alone. I'm taking you with me! Prepare to die!" Venom roared and pulls out his MRS-4 assault rifle then begins to fire at her but Big Boss gets out of the way and goes prone to avoid his sight then crawls to avoid to him. Big Boss rises and shoots him in the back much to Venom's annoyance who returns fire.
Big Boss gets out of the way and teleports in front of Venom and grabs his assault rifle right before kicking him away. Venom pulls out his knife in response to Big Boss's attack causing Big Boss to catch his knife with her hand causing her hand to bleed. The environment around them changes into mother base as blood drips from Big Boss hand with the water making the knife thrust faster than before. The two push each other back but Venom uses his pistol to shoot Big Boss in the shoulder which knocks her back on the ground. Big Boss rolls over and crawls towards Venom...and splashes blood on his face which distracts him.
She then kicks him in the face causing him to disappear into crows then reappear behind Big Boss causing Big Boss to hit him in the head with her shoulder which knocks him down on the ground then grabs his pistol while he's falling and aims it at him. Venom starts to laugh menacingly much to Big Boss's confusion.
"What are you laughing about!?" Big Boss yelled at Venom who continues to laugh. His laugh is a victorious one which annoys Big Boss causing her to kick Venom in the stomach.
"What is so funny!?" She asks again. Venom begins to disappear into red mist much to Big Boss's shock and finds herself in Afghanistan again with Eva leading her and armed wit her AK47.
"Come on, we're almost there! Once we enter that building, it'll lead us to the heart of that tree and we can burn down the frozen forest!" Crows begin to form the soldiers as the two ready there rifles.
Asuka stands there knowing if she walks, more people will die cause of her...its something she can't do. Either stay in this eternal stance or continue to walk and cause more deaths. These soldiers...they look familiar, they start not to look like soldiers anymore. But as...her friends. She then decides to stay here knowing she can't be broken...she hears footsteps beside her causing her to turn around to see Revolver Ocelot himself.
"You...I saw you on the files. Adam, right?" Asuka asks Ocelot as he smiles.
"Natalia told you about me I guess. Look Asuka...your mother and brother need you alongside Shinji. This is a trial of sacrifice." Ocelot stated and looked at the soldiers at the windows.
"These soldiers...are your mothers men who are willing to die for you. You need to let go sometimes and sacrifice a few to save one." He said to Asuka. The place begins to shake.
"You just need to step." Ocelot disappears and Asuka looks at the path. She takes her first step as a soldier behind the window falls on the ground with a bullet hole where his head was before dropping. Asuka begins to calmly walk with every soldier dropping dead and ignores them, this is war after all. People die. Its nothing common or bad. Just another sacrifice for the greater good. She stops at the basement door as the final soldier drops dead. Asuka opens it again to reveal the same hallway much to her irritation.
Asuka runs furiously in the halls expecting the same thing but stops dead on her tracks as she sees someone in the distance causing her pull out her pistol at the said person. The halls are dark with the light shining on the person and blacking her face. Its a female figure.
"Who are you?" She asks as the person turns to her...and begins to walk. Asuka fires her pistol but the person speeds towards her and goes through Asuka which startles her. She quickly turns around and continues walking in the halls of the house. Little does she know, someone from the balcony above her is looking down on her. Asuka goes down to the basement and opens it again to see the same thing. Asuka makes her way down to the hall but hall extends now with shadowy figures walking towards Asuka.
The figures begin to walk towards Asuka to reveal themselves to be faded soldiers of NERV and Ayanami units. The Ayanami unit up front tries to grab her and go through Asuka as she starts firing but the bullets whiz through them and runs out of ammo from her gun. All she needs to do is to accept it...Asuka begins to walk towards them as they pass through her. The ghosts are third impact victims, WILLE soldiers, and NERV soldiers. Finally, she stops at the basement door and opens it again.
Its a hospital room.
Big Boss takes cover and fires back at the soldiers who were made from the crows that were summoned by this Asuka. All around her is a crumbling wasteland of Tokyo-3 but she doesn't care, none of this is real and she knows it. A soldier tosses a grenade at her but she picks it up and throws it back with Eva firing at the soldier who threw it.
"Come on! Keep going!" Eva yelled and continues firing. Big Boss gets out of cover and fires while aiming her gun.
"Listen only to the sound of my voice. Let your mind relax. Let your thoughts drift. Let the bed memories fade. Let peace be upon you..." Big Boss's voice said knowing to Big Boss that it isn't her voice at all. She teleports to avoid being shot at by the soldiers and stabs one in the neck and shoots the other one in the face with her handgun. She continues making her away as a building nearby almost falls on her.
"Surrender yourself to your dreams. Let them wash over you like the gentle waves of the bluest ocean. Let them envelope you. Comfort you." She throws a soldier on the ground and shoots him in the head right before moving forward towards the building with a large blue tree branch on it. A soldier appears from a murder of crows and tries to melee Big Boss but she grabs his arm and shoots it then rips it off causing him to scream and disintegrate back into nothingness. A group of diamond dog soldiers surround her while humming the peace walker theme take aim but she leaps in the air.
Big Boss stomps the first one in the chest and shoots him in the head right before throwing her knife at his head then leaps towards the next one and unpins the grenade at his chest and kicks him away towards his comrades causing him to explode and disappear into crows.
"Imagine somewhere calm. Imagine somewhere safe. Imagine yourself in a frozen forest." A building falls in front of her revealing that its the school where Asuka and Shinji attended. Big Boss turns around to see the city being flooded with blood as she fires at at the window and rushes in the classroom while firing at soldiers along the way. She gets out into the halls with soldiers peering out of cover causing her to ready her rifle but the entire school tilts causing her to slide with the soldiers remaining in there place.
Big Boss slides while shooting with Eva and hits all soldiers right before Eva aims her gun at the window and fires at it with Big Boss readying her legs thus crashing into the window. The two fall into a river of blood as Big Boss resurfaces and looks around for anything to hang on to.
"Your standing in a clearing. Trees around you so tall, they touch the sky. Pure white snowflakes fall around." Big Boss sees a street lamp causing her to grab on to it to stop herself from being pulled by the current with Eva. She lifts herself up and jumps into another window opening and shoots a soldier along the way and runs in the building. She beginning to run out of ammo now as she takes a weapon.
"You can feel them melt on your skin. You are not cold. It cannot overcome the warmth of your beating heart. Can you hear it? You only have to listen." The building she's in is the old diamond dogs building as the personnel appear and open fire but Eva uses a rocket launcher to fire at them thus giving her a clear path and continues running. Big Boss gets out of the building and sees the building connected to the tree, she's in front of it now as she begins to run...only for someone to shoot her in the leg. She turns around to see Quiet again who aims guilty butterfly at her but Eva gets in the way and throws her sniper rifle towards the river.
"You hear it slowing? You're slowing it. You are in control. Calm. At peace."
"Keep going! I got her-" Quiet shoots Eva point blank in the head as Big Boss gets up while limping and reloading her pistol and fires at Quiet then trips on the ground right before turning around and pulls out her dual pistols at the assassin who dodges both shots. Big Boss tries to teleport but Quiet grabs her by the throat and begins strangling her...she hears her typical hum again...and a lighter flick.
"Kept you waiting, huh?" A certain voice said causing Quiet to turn around to see Venom Snake who throws a Molotov cocktail at her thus setting Quiet on fire and falling into the river. Big Boss gets up and walks towards the building.
"Finish it." Venom ordered as Big Boss enters the building. All around her is a jumbled mess of wirings and flesh...she finds a large beating heart in the center and knows what it is. Big Boss pulls out her thermite grenade.
Asuka walks in the hospital room and checks her corners. This feels...alien to her and almost unwelcoming yet familiar. She hears tapping now...no, footsteps. Whatever is heading towards her, its not good. She turns around to see her young self run past her. Asuka follows her young self as she makes a left then a U-turn at another hallway.
She remembers it all now. This is where it happened. How her mother died. Asuka rushes into the halls and goes to the same path as her young self went but the halls are getting longer and wider now to the point it feels like it will take an hour when her mother's room is half a minute away. Asuka finally makes it to her room-
"NO!" Asuka cried as her young self opened the door. She speeds towards her and sees her mother hanging from a noose made of cloth from her bed. Asuka kneels on the ground and experiences the pain she had when her mother died. This is the day Taisuke was born also...the day before her mother died. (Retake) Asuka floats in front of her.
"Don't you see it? Its all the same now, you become a pilot and forced to fight monsters with monsters cause of them. Big Boss is just another Gendo who wants to be reunited with your mother. Its all a play but this time a revised one...and I'm writing the final draft." She said. Asuka gets up with her head down...and catches her by surprise by catching her by the throat.
"You think the world centers on you so you want to make everyone hopeless...you think that everything is the same. You're wrong. You don't even love yourself cause you have nothing to fight for at all!" Asuka roared.
"Who...who is doing this!?" (Retake) Asuka yelled as the entire scene shatters to reveal a flooded Tokyo-3 with blood now and destroyed buildings. The sky is grayish blue and all around her is flooded structures knee deep in blood. Soldiers up front in the distance and appearing from crows take position as Asuka loads her assault rifle and runs towards them.
"Listen only to the sound of my voice. Let your mind relax. Let your thoughts drift. Let the bed memories fade. Let peace be upon you!" (Retake) Asuka pleaded in a tone of desperation. Asuka flanks left and guns down two soldiers behind a car and throws a grenade at one at a window opening.
""Surrender...Surrender yourself to your dreams! Let them wash over you like the gentle waves of the bluest ocean! Let them envelope you! Comfort you!" Asuka throws a knife at another soldier thus making him disappear into crows again right before continuing to shoot at the rest.
"Imagine somewhere calm! Imagine somewhere safe! Imagine yourself... in a frozen forest!" All four soldiers are gunned down as Asuka continues to make her way...wherever she's going, far from here. This other her sounds like she's about to cry now...
""Your standing in a clearing! Trees around you so tall, they touch the sky! Pure white snowflakes fall around!" Asuka stumbles on the water but gets up again to continue rushing towards a funnel of blood leading up into the sky.
"You can feel them melt on your skin! You are not cold. It cannot overcome the warmth of your beating heart! Can you hear it?! You only have to listen!" Another soldier rises up from the blood and tries to stab Asuka but she dodges and shoots him two times in the stomach.
""You hear it slowing? You're slowing it! You are in control! Calm! At peace!" She stops at the funnel causing it to take her up and into a cave-like tunnel. Asuka swims up and resurfaces to see a mix of technology and flesh. She spots a large beating heart...and stabs it.
Taisuke finds himself in the German military base again, what kind of nightmare is this!? How can he wake up from this!? This...this is hell. Wherever he is, its the repeat of the same thing as before. Emily and Taisuke are seen leaning against a railing outside of the base...this is where the outbreak happened. He remembered everything as if it happened yesterday...
"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SHOW ME!? WHAT DID I DO WRONG!?" Taisuke yelled as Emily and him are talking. This memory...is cold and hallow. Its like a horrible play he is forced to watch. But this is the extended cut now...his guardian arrives, Jaclyn Collins. Courtney Collins's sister. The woman trained the two to survive and taught them everything they need to know how to fight and use guns. She always told stories about post-second impact earth
"You two holding up?" Jaclyn asks them causing Emily to turn around.
"Yeah, just shell shock." Emily explained with Taisuke nodding at her.
"I'm so sorry, I never wanted you to be involved in this kind of war. But once WILLE gets here, we'll all be safe. I can assure you that." Jaclyn said as two smiled. Against the wall is an AK47 which belongs to Taisuke and a Steyr AUG for Emily. Jaclyn leans on the rail with them.
"Someone once said to me to keep going through the fire and flame, we can find peace through it. Don't give up guys."
"We won't." Taisuke replied. The base alarms go off causing Jaclyn to ready her pistol with Emily and Taisuke grabbing there guns.
"Come with me to the armory." Jaclyn opens the door and opens it. German soldiers are running back and forth much to there confusion as Jaclyn opens the armory door, in it are a bunch of guns on there racks and a pair of goggles that can spot parasites in case of a viral outbreak.
"Wait, we can help you!" Emily yelled as Jaclyn closes the door. Taisuke picks up a walkie talkie on the table and activates it to hear the screams of soldiers on the other side much to his terror.
"There's an outbreak in the courtyard! Infected are moving in the base, I repeat, infected are moving in the-get off me!" Gunshots are heard alongside screams too and explosions. Emily looks outside the window to see a BTR shooting a horde of soldiers coming towards it but one of the horde fires an RPG at it thus destroying the BTR. Another squad of soldiers move up front and open fire but the horde surrounds them and starts removing there gas masks. Emily backs away slowly while Taisuke keeps quiet and covers his mouth. Gunshots are heard outside as the two stay still in order not to make a sound.
Moments go by as the screaming subsided. They make silent footsteps to make some movement along the way to avoid being detected.
"I think I know what this is...shit, damn NERV." Emily muttered as Taisuke raises his eyebrows at her.
"This is isn't happening..." Taisuke sighed knowing fully that they will never be safe.
"I know what this is! Its Wolbachia! How did they even launch a vocal cord parasite at us!? Shit...everyone's infected...wait, our guardian isn't infected. I think she got a gas mask along the way. Lets move out!" Emily grabs a gas mask and the goggles but Taisuke grabs her shoulder.
"We should stay put!" Taisuke yelled.
"She hasn't come back yet so we need to find her, its only us now...and I'll be dammed if we loose her." Emily growled as Taisuke sighs and grabs a gas mask then goggles. The two open the door to reveal dead or dying German soldiers on the ground. The goggles show that they are infected much to there horror.
"Should we...?"
"I don't think so, lets keep moving." Emily replied as the two walk amongst the dead and dying. Blood is splattered on the walls of the base, personnel lying on the ground, assisted suicide victims, you name it.
WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME THIS!?
They make it to a medical room and hear specific humming. Emily is the first to breach in to reveal a soldier restraining another soldier but they let him go...all of them are infected. Including Jaclyn. The radio in the room is playing the peace walker theme.
"Its Asuka's brother!" A soldier named Micnoga yelled knowing he served with Asuka in the past alongside the soldiers here in this room.
"Hey, let a Shikinami decide." The soldiers get up alongside Jaclyn and salute the two. They begin to hum.
"We live and die by your order, private Taisuke!"
"Taisuke, Emily...if we get out into the world. We'll spread the parasite...I loved you two, taught everything you need to know...please, end this. For the sake of everyone." Jaclyn pleaded as Emily aims her assault rifle at her but Taisuke lowers it.
"Emily, we don't have the right to do this!" Taisuke negotiated with tears underneath his goggles but Emily pushes him out of the way.
"They want this so we have to do this!" Emily opens fire at the soldiers, Jaclyn included much to Taisuke's horror but gulps and joins in the slaughter. They head upstairs to find more infected and go into the halls to find the place filled with infected soldiers, most are dying.
"Please...help..." A soldier pleaded but Taisuke shoots him.
"So you ARE here to kill us!" A dying soldier pulls out a handgun and starts firing but Emily kills him. The music is playing as the carnage continues...the same scene as before but more extended. Taisuke then finds himself in a hospital room...and sees himself. He hears a flatline and Asuka crying.
"What...what is going on?"
"Don't you see it? Why everything feels so disconnected and convoluted? The brain tries to find a comfort zone before dying...all this time, this is just a dying dream. You died. You are someone else." (Retake) Asuka explained as Taisuke looks at the mirror and sees a black haired boy look back at him.
"Your name is Rook, you were the third person with Emily and Taisuke. Out of guilt, you took Taisuke's face, identity and even his memories to honor his name. Your his phantom."
"No...this isn't real! This...this isn't real! Who are you!?" His vision turns white.
"I don't even know your name! Who. Are. You?!" Someone shakes him as Taisuke opens his eyes to see Strangelove again. The area is the place Big Boss and Asuka went.
"We're here, destroy that heart! Listen, whatever she shows you, its not real! Destroy it, now!" Taisuke aims his shotgun at the heart and shoots it.
Asuka finds herself back at NERV again and looks around then sees (retake) Asuka walking towards her.
"Why do you continue to fight?" She asks but Big Boss, Taisuke, and Strangelove restrain her from her back.
"This is it, sis! Show her what your made of! Fight!...Fight!" Taisuke yelled as Asuka draws her knife and lunges towards her counterpart and stabs her in the chest thus making her explode. The three take a deep breath after what happened with Big Boss hugging Asuka and Taisuke then letting go.
"So your the new Big Boss hm?" Strangelove observed.
"Honor to meet you Strangelove, now lets find Shinji." Big Boss looks at the room nearby and kicks it down knowing its Shinji's...he's gone.
Kaworu and Shinji stand on the cockpit of unit 13 and activate there plugsuits.
"Are you sure this will work?" Shinji asks.
"Yes, releasing those spears will undo impact then you can redeem yourself of the horrors you committed."