Sorry for the delay. I haven't been paying attention. This is, apparently, the epilogue. In reality, I just got too impatient to wait for reader response, so I'm going to continue as if no one wants to find out the real ending, instead of this cop-out. If anyone does want to get more than this, write, but for now, this is it. I need to work on Mercenaries. Layra-chan needs to calm down and catch up on her…whatever she does in her free time.
Disclaimer: Shin Seiki Evangelion wa Hideaki Anno to Gainax wo zokusuru.
Fourth Impact: Epilogue:
"I'm what?!"
AN:
And that's why teenagers shouldn't have—What am I saying?!
Conflicts, Conflagrations, Confessions, and Confetti:
First off, for those of you who are worrying, there is no chapter 39. I skipped it to see how many people would notice. So far, no one's mentioned it. Is my story really that confusing?
I ended this fic because unlike my intelligence, my life progresses forward at a rate comparable to most other's. I need to fix up Mercenaries of Carraelia. I also need to figure out if I'm going to be posting my other stories. Here's the deal: I have…a bunch of stories, all of them set in the same universe. Because of this, several are linked.
They are, in chronological order:
'Fant Haven Part 1: Freedom (Unfinished): Draze Velchi leaves his home to fight for Vantor and protect his colony and his beliefs. He is assigned to the dangerous Jera Samand, a girl with a dangerous past and taste for explosives. His main concern shifts from protecting colonial rights to protecting himself from his superior officer. That is, until Vantor decides to free a suppressed group of colonies from the Earth's control.
'Fant Haven Part 2: Loyalty (Not even started): After five years with Jera, Draze feels odd stirrings within him, telling him that he has to move on. His sister, whom he left as a child, is in danger, and his ward has become the greatest of assassins, but needs help. Yet Jera is unwilling to let him go, and not just because of professional reasons.
'Fant Haven Part 3: Abandonment (Not even started): Two years have passed, and Draze finally feels that he can settled down. His youth has all but disappeared, and he wants to rest. His true masters, however, are still in need of him, and the Heir of Vantor calls on him again. A war is about to break out, and Draze is needed to spur it on. But can he leave Vantor that easily?
Diamond Shards (Finished): The Earth and space colonies erupt into war again as malcontents strive to take revenge for earlier defeat. The six young Klaidrell pilots of the Solar Protection Team must once again become war heroes. But when the best of them dies in battle…
Operation Spider (Unfinished): Corruption and abuse in the government leads the Mars First Colony to rebel. But the rebellion gets out of hand, and an army springs up to take over the entire EarthSpace system. The children of the original Solar Protection Team try to stop them, but find that they may be fighting for the wrong side…
Project Ares (Finished): Talo, the star of the Solar Protection Team, disappears, leaving the girl he loves heartbroken. She moves on, using her position as Queen of the World to pass a movement forbidding war and weapons. Years later, she finds Talo, but also finds that his long-forgotten siblings are planning to take over the world. Yet there are no weapons left in the Republic…are there?
Darkfire (Unfinished): She was the daughter of the Queen of the World and the World's Savior. She was the granddaughter of Triclaw's Soldier, and the great-granddaughter of Vantor himself. And she was not getting married! So she runs away and, following family tradition, joins the army. But her dreams of freedom are shattered when gets flung into a war against a madman, his two sons, and an ideal that could make or break the human race.
Return From Beyond (Unfinished): It was a fairy-tale ending, the War over and the two of them madly in love. But she couldn't put up with all of his missions, his constant absence. Princess Jessera married someone else, and after several botched attempts at suicide, Dalsen disappears. He reappears working for the Striker, a mysterious man who runs colony CX1-2523 and employs children, turning them into perfect soldiers. When Mars decides to attack, only CX1-2523 is equipped to even defend itself. But Jessera cannot deal with Daslen, not with her heart torn and her pride too strong to control.
Codename: Assassin (Not even started): She hated him, and though he didn't know why, he knew that if she ever caught him, she would kill him. If only she wasn't so pretty…And to make it all worse, they get caught up in corporate politics, and find themselves working together to survive against both a rogue assassination super-weapon and the company that wants it destroyed at all costs.
Drellium Virus (Not even started): With the Human Empire shattered, the Klaibeasts, the Humans, and the Cyborgs fight for dominance. When a Space Colony crashes to Earth and sends out a virus that etches itself into metal and leeches away energy, the Humans gain the upper hand. But only until a rural cyborg decides that his life is worth fighting for.
Space Phantoms (Finished): The remaining one percent of the human race left after the Great War tries to rebuild society, even as the social structure collapses. Drell technology is all lost, as is the continent Almiricla, now submerged in deadly radiation. To make matters worse, a portion of the human race that escaped into space centuries ago returns, and they haven't lost the technology at all. And they want the Earth for themselves.
Fires of Dlen (Unfinished): King Xaldur lost his four siblings in less than a minute, leaving him with only their children and a burning need for veangance. He teams up with a girl of amazing psychic abilities and sets off into space to take revenge. But the two of them find that the deaths of Xaldur's siblings was only the beginning of someone else's revenge...
Empire's Fall (Not even started): Earth had had enough. The Dlen Empire needed to be taken down once and for all, and Earth never had enough scruples to go for a frontal assault. Tali and Mesia, daughters of heroes and nieces of King Xaldur himself, set off with their fiancés to get to the center of the Empire and cut off its head. But their plan goes awry when their enemy is revealed to be their only ally…
Sky and Shadow (Unfinished): Fort Resran was a community of total tolerance. Bigotry and discrimination was unheard of except as vices of the past. But when the Fort is threatened by a potential Empire, the epitome of Resran society is forced to go out into the world, and she finds out exactly how living in a completely balanced society can skew one's ability to judge people.
Icathoril (unfinished): A prophecy with two potential candidates for its message, one good, one evil. The first is a Prince whose kingdom was destroyed. He lives only to protect a young girl who fell from the sky in a metal cocoon. The second is a Princess whose body had died years before, and whose hatred fuels her new one. She is determined to take revenge against the entire planet for her misery. Unfortunately, the prophecy is too vague to tell which one will win.
Demon's Heart (unfinished): Wind Leslan knows that Demons are evil, that the Federals run the planet, and that the rebels want to resume space travel. She knows that the Disease is ravaging the planet, stealing memories and minds. She knows that the Demons shot first, starting the war. Or at least, she knows that until a young Demon boy proves that it was actually the humans that fired the first shot…
Mercenaries of Carraelia (unfinished): He wanted to go home. He wanted to avenge his brother's death, and go home. But nothing ever went right for Cieran. Instead, he finds himself living with a girl whose sharp tongue and unending fury makes him wish that he were slightly less ethical. He finds himself trapped on a rustic planet with no hope of getting home or getting the information he came for. And he finds himself very, very annoyed as the girl does something so incredibly stupid, a word hasn't been invented for it yet.
Note: drells are big, pilot-operated, semi-humanoid war-machines. Klaidrells are bigger, humanoid war-machines, hundreds of times more powerful, but also much more dangerous to pilot. All of the stories above feature Klaidrells.
Layra-chan: Don't forget the hormones! They all feature plenty of hormones!
Continuing with the ranting,
'Fant Haven depends on Diamond Shards
Project Ares depends on Operation Spider
Darkfire depends on Project Ares
Fires of Dlen depends on Space Phantoms
Empire's Fall depends on Space Phantoms
Demon's Heart makes more sense if Icathoril has been posted.
If I post any dependent fics, I'm going to have to post the one it depends on first. A lot of fics mention the other fics, but the ones listed right above really need the others to make sense. Just to let you know.
By the way, how many people actually thought I was a girl? Not that I thought I would actually fool anyone, but…
Layra-chan: Wait, you're not a girl?
DreyonLegacy: You haven't noticed? Do I look like a girl to you?
Layra-chan: No, but…you lied to me! *tears forming*
DreyonLegacy: *completely oblivious to her tears* Why is that so important?
Layra-chan: *softly* Because if you were a girl, then, then…the words…my feelings…it might not be so difficult to say…*runs off crying*
DreyonLegacy:…?…!! Layra-chan, WAIT!