Well, we've finally come to the Big Three, the last three chapters of the thirty chapter Part One. The last three chapters I'd been planning out and dreaming of writing at the very beginning of this fanfic. I remember straining about around Chapter Thirteen, wishing I could start writing Chapters Twenty Eight-Thirty already…But now I'm here…

Prepare yourself for Madness, Sadness, and Darkness, all in one.

Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or its characters. Gainax does, and they rock. Who else could create both Evangelion and FLCL!


Lyon, France

Unknown Location

Zodd rose, groaning.

Even an immortal could feel the true agony of battle.

He stared down at his raw red chest and still smoking hands and actually let out an uncharacteristic growl of pain, flinching as he finally stood completely.

Finally he peered forward, looking around feverishly for his mortal opponent. His mind was quite dulled, for in every other circumstance he would've leapt up in a berserker rage, ripping this entire building apart.

Yet now, the Apostle Zodd was almost laborious and methodical.

Then he saw it, the fool mortal who had preached of human might.

Solidus Snake was on his knees, clutching the slowly bleeding wound where his right arm had once rested snugly in high tech armor.

He slowly stumbled up to his feet, his tentacles actually hoisting him up most of the way so he was floating a few inches off the ground, and then stared wearily at Zodd, slowly drawing a single katana.

Zodd simply nodded, clenching his fists. His blade was obliterated.

They stood there, staring at each other, no longer letting out jabbing insults and foolish wordplay. Instead they realized that this was the end, the true judging chapter.

With a shared roar, they both charged at each other, a blur of rusty crimson and one of dark blue.


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Control Room

Makoto flailed down onto the ground in a rain of blood, the bullet cleanly passing through his throat and into a wall.

He landed on his back, beside Maya, who let out a bloodcurdling scream, crouching down and dropping her weapon, which she hadn't fired yet anyway.

Makoto simply stared ahead, up towards where the sky would've been, emitting a gurgling sound as his body trembled and his dull eyes dilated.

Maya sobbed, shaking her head in disbelief as the technicians around her fell one by one. Most of the minor technicians had already been killed, and she could hear that the sporadic gunfire resisting the JSSDF forces was already much quieter, and getting quieter by the minute.

Slowly but surely, the enemy troops were making their way into the control room.

Maya turned her head, gazing sadly at Ritsuko, who was still rapidly typing at her laptop, an odd remote on her lap.

Ritsuko…we're the only ones left…they're coming for us…but at least we're alone…together…

Suddenly an exploding noise came from behind her and she spun around, only to cough and gag at a great influx of smoke, no type of poison, just a great cloud of smoke, blurring the entire control room.

She could hear footsteps close by, hard commanding claps of boot against metal platform, and she crouched down, trying to hold back her whimpers and squinting her eyes through the treacherous, impassable smoke.

Slowly the smoke began to dissipate and clear, she realized she'd barely moved from her original position, instead blundering about in the murky smoke cover.

She looked down, realizing she was looking at the polished boots of a soldier, polished except for the occasional blood stain.

Maya shook, in disbelief, and slowly looked up to lock eyes with a man dressed in the uniform of a JSSDF officer.


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Unknown Location

Commander Shinji Ikari stared blankly at Rei, his hand on her shoulder while he slipped the squirming embryonic state of Adam into the hollowed out compartment in the palm of his mechanical hand and arm.

They stood there on the catwalk, directly in front of the mask of Lillith, so close they could touch it, while Amon stood unseen, even closer to the great pale monstrosity, out of their line of vision, his pistol drawn.

He had never taken his glove off that replacement arm, until then. The palm was actually made of durable glass, an odd see-through palm that now revealed the odd embryo inside of his hand.

He nodded at Rei, whose red eyes seemed to twinkle with an unknown feeling, possibly of unknown devotion.

"I am with Adam now. This is the only way for us to be reunited in the final genesis, a world of our choosing. This is the way, the unity of Lillith, Adam, and the Shikon shards. Such power cannot be repulsed even by the Hand of God Himself."

Ayanami's arm suddenly fell off, causing Shinji to wince sadly, caressing Rei's cheek. She seemed not to mind the loss of the limb greatly, instead smiling slightly at the Commander's touch.

"There is no time, Rei…I'm…sorry. Your A.T. Field can no longer sustain your shape, Let us begin, Rei. Open your A.T. Field... the barrier of your heart. Leave your now useless body, and release your soul. Merge all souls into one. And then, bring me to Asuka's side. With her, I shall create the world, the world without misery, a world of the chosen, a world where my father and mother can live together, united once more."

Shinji swung his arm of flesh towards Lillith, letting his touch hover a few inches away from her as his cold metal hand began to ease its way into Rei's breast.

He remembered, numbly, the last time he had held Rei's bosom, in a far different pretense.

Shinji Ikari let out a strangling scream; oddly like the one he had given charging at the last angel, except this time, his weapon was definitely not a precision knife.

He stared at Rei Ayanami, and then coughed, averting his eyes and placing a hand over his blushing face as she crept down silently, nude, picking up the glasses that he had dropped, which were apparently his father's.

"I…I'm sorry….Uh…um…Uh…I…Oh!"

Shinji seemed to continue to stutter and blather on meaningless noises as Rei picked up the glasses, examining them calmly, as if she had not noticed them.

The Third Child tried to keep his eyes from drifting to her cool, pale skin. It was as white as porcelain, and seemed like it would be soft and delicate to his touch, soft and delicate…

Argh! I've got to get these thoughts out of my mind! I'm not a pervert, dammit!

Pitifully but understandably unable to wrench the pale image of Rei Ayanami out of his mind, frankly because she was kneeling before him naked, he made a mad dash towards the direction he remembered, dazed, that the door had been, to rescue himself from the room pounding with teenage hormones, his teenage hormones. For her part, Rei hadn't even flinched as she stood up, just in time to accidentally trip the blindly escaping boy, her pale slender leg crashing against his clothed in black.

He winced, not because of the slight pain, but because he suddenly realized in that flash of a second as his eyes beheld the tiled floor rushing towards him, that his escape had been denied by the cruel fates.

Shinji Ikari blinked, groaning and opening his eyes, staring down directly into Rei Ayanami's red eyes. She stared back at him passively, apparently not extremely discomforted by the fact that the Third Child was now lying straddled atop her naked body.

So soft…and warm…

The same thoughts would've been going through Rei Ayanami's mind at the physical contact, but they were shut down quite quickly by the gray void of her psyche.

Shinji moved his head closer to hers; curiously, his mind slowed down and clouded by the mutual body heat and warmth of the moment itself. His lips trembled as he moved closer to her face, and although Rei's face was blank, she could indeed feel an odd warmness within her body.

Suddenly Shinji Ikari looked down at his left hand as it shook in its grasp, and noticed that it was clutching one of Rei's ample breasts.

He would've kissed her if it hadn't been for that sight, that sublimely beautiful sight, jolting him back into the reality of shame and embarrassment.

He sprang backwards, leaving Rei lying on the floor, and averted his eyes, his cheeks red.

"Ah…I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to…"

Rei simply bent her back, sitting up and then finally standing, her eyes shut.

"What can I do for you?"

Shinji Ikari would've chuckled at the irony of the memory and the sight of his hand easing and merging into Rei's bosom, but he was too numb, and the moment was too vital. The time was ripe for misery, not for laughing, he had not truly laughed for what felt like years.

Suddenly he flicked his right hand of flesh closer to Lillith, clenching his eyes tight and focusing, his left hand merging deeper into Rei.

The ground around them shook, and suddenly tiny flashing glints of pink began to appear around Lillith's body, there were exactly seven of them. Two nailed in her waist, one in each palm, and three embedded in her mask.

They slowly began hovering out of the white monstrosity and floating around rapidly in helixes and spinning circles around Shinji's outstretched right hand.

Shinji winced nervously and then smirked as the Shikon Shards floating above his right hand collided into each other, forming a single great Shard which seemed to burn and flash like a supernova, shaking the very foundations of the base with a horrendous earthquake as they united.

The time has come.


Lyon, France

Unknown Location

Solidus Snake growled as he ducked under another swooping, great swing from Zodd, more or less ducking only slightly, the tentacles that were carrying him over the ground bending and doing most of the work, so that he was floating off the ground.

He swooped forward, slashing his katana rapidly, which he held in his only remaining hand. He couldn't truly execute many moves with his remaining arm, but was content to send a flurry of diagonal slashes towards Zodd's chest, most of which the Apostle let slash brutally against him, without much apparent effect.

Suddenly a great pressure impacted him and Solidus' tentacles clamped into the ground, barely stopping him from flying back from the punch Zodd had landed, his armor already crumpling at the point of impact.

He groaned, trying to use the momentum as an advantage.

Letting himself fall back, he swung his left tentacle up to brutally clamp around Zodd's skull, while the remaining right tentacle attempted to precariously support his weight off the ground, digging hard into the roof.

Zodd let out an ear piercing roar, horrendously intense, as the tentacle's claw dug into both his eyes at the same time, letting a small flow of white and red flow down his face.

He roared and swung his fists in frenzy at the mortal who was gouging out his eyes, brutally impacting over and over into Solidus' armor, the mortal spitting out streams of blood but refusing to release his frenzied hold.

Solidus groaned and moaned, although they grew weaker as his armor shattered and even wounded him as it was slamming against his delicate human flesh, causing him to wince against the obvious cracking of bone and spit out streams of blood as he coughed and choked. Over him he could hear the dull buzz of a helicopter, but he was too weak to look up, and Zodd was too blind and frenzied to care.

Zodd launched one final punch, letting out a roar so terrifying that the ground itself shook with his passionate madness.

Solidus' right tentacle was simply snapped in half, the ultra-grade, flexible metal destroyed like a twig, annihilating his hold on the ground and sending him flying backwards with a crash and then sliding harshly across the roof until he finally stopped at the edge itself.

Zodd let out another roar, stumbling forward, swinging his great arms madly for an opponent, anything to crush.

But all he found was the cruel air in front of him.

Solidus slowly stood, staring ahead with his only eye, blurring vision as he beheld Zodd stomping about blindly, ripping up pieces of the roof and sending them flying up into the air like pebbles. He could also see the black helicopter slowly landing on the opposite edge of the roof, although he was too weak and the windows were too tinted for him to see anymore.

He smirked and coughed up a glob of fresh blood, slipping and stumbling backwards, his back to the edge, his hard metal boots already halfway off the roof, his body slowly weakening and feeling light. The wounds that had been dealt to him, he knew he would never recover from, yet he felt the grim satisfaction of someone who'd been something important in the annals of human history, someone who'd actually shown an Apostle the true fate of destruction, without a giant biomechanical monstrosity backing him.

He lifted up his remaining arm, clutching feebly and blindly at the air, whispering to himself, so quietly that it seemed like his mouth was just opening and closing mechanically, like a fish out of water.

"So…this is the end…Jack…goodbye…my kind was damned…from the beginning…the world only needed one Big Boss…and now the legacy is…"

Solidus fell limply backwards off the roof, a rain of blood flying up in the air, unsettled by his fall.

A few seconds later, there was a dull thump, and then only silence.


Unknown Location

SEELE Committee

Keele nodded and smirked to himself as the data recording that had been transmitted echoed in the ears of the council.

"It appears that the situation is over…"

"Indeed…We now have a specimen, or even perhaps hostage to utilize…I can only imagine the look on their foolish faces…"

"Yes, and we captured it at an insignificant cost."

Chirac stiffened and then smirked, nodding as a gaunt nosed man continued.

"Everything in Tokyo 3 is according to plan, I've received the communication…"

"Indeed, the Control Room has been pierced, the Evangelion and the MAGI are now ours, whatever the Ikari had planned has now been rendered irrelevant, we have the start on them, the advantage."

"Hah, there was no need to use the entire series in battle."

Keele nodded, rubbing his chin slowly.

"Indeed, all possible resistance to our plans have been annihilated, our final genesis is inevitable!"


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Control Room

Lieutenant Naota Kiriyama sighed and stared at the woman's pleading face as she raised her arms.

"Please…we…I…I have no weapons…I'm unarmed…please…mercy…for the love of God, we're both hu-"

Kiriyama simply raised his pistol and fired it once in the short-haired female technician's gut, and then simply turned around as she fell to the ground with a bloody yelp.

He holstered his pistol and peered around in numb satisfaction at the mangled control room.

Orders…are orders…


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Unknown Location

Amon's eyes widened in agony as he felt a piercing pain in the back of his neck.

It was pulsing, horrific agony, and he winced through his numb lifeless mask of a face, the hand holding his pistol trembling, although the Commander and the First Child seemed not to notice as they began their ritual.

Suddenly, the Shikon Shard in Amon's neck simply plunged straight out, escaping through his flesh and floating up to meet the pulsing Shikon Jewel floating above Shinji's right hand.

Amon's entire body screamed in the most horrible pain any human being had ever endured, and he could suddenly feel an odd pressure in his skull as the memories of decades once lost flooded back into his mind, as well as the realization of the truth.

It burned horrifically.

And then he remembered…he remembered her face…He remembered Robin…he remembered the bakelite.

He remembered. He remembered everything.


Lyon, France

Unknown Location

The odd sound of spurs hitting the ground almost musically echoed across the roof.

The dark figure stepped out of the helicopter as it landed, staring at the great monstrous Apostle as it rampaged around aimlessly on the roof, unsettling the various foundations of the building.

His long light gray hair floated behind him like his murky brown trench coat.

He continued to stroll almost leisurely, closer and closer, his spurred boots making noises as he made his way across the roof, staring at a group of three helicopters that were buzzing around Zodd, irritating the blind Apostle beyond belief as he swatted blindly at them.

Two of the helicopters suddenly, without warning opened fired with the twin Vulcan guns on either side of them, filling the flailing Apostle with heavy armor-piercing bullet after bullet, they ripped through the great rusty monstrosity, making him stumble backwards from the sheer force of the attack, the holes piercing his hide not delivering fatal blows but wounding him in agony with every round.

Suddenly the third helicopter fired a single missile towards the blind Apostle's skull.

It impacted with a great explosion that would've flattened a small building in seconds, but only caused Zodd to fall down like a toddler on his bottom.

Then they released the great nets without mercy, pummeling the blind Apostle with missile after missile as the metallic nets began taking hold around him, clenching tighter every time he tried to throw them off.

The solitary figure fingered a single silver revolver in his red gloved hand and then picked up a small black contraption that looked like a miniscule cell phone.

He spoke into it in a grim, venomous voice hinting at a Russian accent.

"Yes…the Apostle is ours."


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Control Room

Ritsuko fingered the small remote control in her hand, staring at it and then at the MAGI sadly as she sat in her hidden, secluded corner next to the consoles.

I've changed mother's program…now we can all die together…it's better than letting them get their hands on you, mother…and I have nothing left…the world has nothing left…no hope.

Suddenly she was startled as she saw a bloodied hand slump in front of her, then dig against the ground as it dragged forward a moaning young women.

Maya slowly dragged herself forward, a long path of blood indicating how she had dragged herself from the place she had fallen after the bullet in her gut.

She groaned and then stared at Ritsuko sadly, the older woman peering at her in sudden shock and horror, no longer numb, placing a hand over her mouth, her eyes widening.

"Maya?"

"Rit…Ritsuko…I…"

The young girl feebly reached out with her bloody hand, nervously resting it against Ritsuko's pale cheek, staining her white lab coat and her face with drips of blood as the hand trembled and shook weakly.

Ritsuko stared sadly and then stiffened at the contact, but instead of removing the hand, she reached out and grasped it tenderly, pressing it against her cheek.

She understood, she may not have had the same feeling as Maya, but she understood, or at least she thought she did. It was all illogical anyway.

Maya's eyes seemed to soften as tears ran down her face, and then her arm slumped limply on the ground, just as Ritsuko pressed the button on her small remote control.

"Goodbye I-"

Whoever Ritsuko Akagi was planning to say farewell to, obviously did not hear, as the great explosion that was centered at the MAGI erupted in a great flash, obliterating the control room and some of the rooms and catwalks around it in a utterly destructive flame that shook the entire headquarters, oddly enough almost coinciding with the shaking that the unity of the Shikon Shards had caused in Central Dogma, throwing the entire place into an even greater chaos.


Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Unknown Location

Shinji Ikari had not expected the second explosion, had not expected a second even greater tremor to rip through the headquarters other than the one he had created.

He stumbled forward with a gasp, managing to hold his right arm still under the pulsing pink nexus of the single Shikon Jewel, but because of this, he could not keep a hold on Rei, who stumbled backwards and landed with a grunt on her bottom, his left hand sliding out of her bosom, the merge of Adam and Lillith still incomplete.

He tried to stop the frantic nervousness from overcoming him, the madness, and stared apologetically at Rei.

"Sorry, Rei…please, get up while you can so that we may begin an-"

Suddenly footsteps on the catwalk, down ahead of them, on the opposite end as they stood with their backs to Lillith.

Misato Katsuragi stood there, more than a dozen feet away, her black handgun outstretched, pointing vaguely in their direction, but Shinji Ikari could see that it shook in her grasp, and he could see the tears running down her face.

"Please…Shinji…I can't allow you to do this…Please, come with me, you can't…you can't do this…What about Asuka, what about me? Don't you care about anyone else but yourself? What happened to you, Shinji?"

Shinji Ikari stared at her blankly and then in a flash drew his own pistol with his mechanical left hand before she could respond, aiming it at the Sub-Commander.

He responded to her questions, vaguely, his voice lifeless.

"No."


Well, that was the end of Chapter Twenty Eight, a pretty long and cool chapter as we hit the end of Part One…

Let me warn you though, when we end Part One, hitting Chapter Thirty, don't expect Part Two and new chapters to start for a while, Madness may not be included in my mass updates with my other fanfics for a while, but don't worry, I just need a little time to structure Part Two a little more concretely.

Well, hope you're enjoying it, see you next chapter.