Story: Evangelion, The Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel Chapter 10: Of Music and Angels Part 2

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A/N: Here's chapter ten.

George found the other children in the cafeteria with some friends, he quickly told them to come with him at once and they headed out of the school. He called Shinji's cell and told him to take Asuka and meet them at the front of the school. The pilots gathered at the entrance and looked at George for an explanation.

"I just got a call from Colonel Katsuragi." He said, "She says that they have detected a faint pattern blue and are unable to get a lock on it. Just in case she wants all pilots on standby at Nerv."

"An Angel? Why aren't the sirens blaring?" Shinji asked.

"I don't know, might be that Nerv doesn't want a panic yet since the signal was weak at best. All right, let's go then."

They quickly drove to Nerv and reported to central command. The bridge personnel were trying hard to locate the source of the pattern and were having little success.

"We are currently on high alert, but since there is no confirmation if the signal was anything more than a glitch we have not alerted the population yet. However, the commander has ordered that all pilots suit up and prepare for launch at anytime." The Colonel said.

"Yes, ma'am." they went to their lockers to change and sat around waiting for the announcement to go to their Evas.

They waited for half an hour without word from anyone, since the pilots were changed the girls came over and sat with the boys in their locker. Then they heard the all too familiar sounds of the Angel sirens. The door opened to revel a harassed looking Dr. Akagi,

"The Angel's presence has been confirmed, but its whereabouts remain unknown, all pilots are to launch and be prepared for battle."

The pilots ran out the door and all the way to the cages, they all inserted themselves into the plugs and then the Evas. The bridge operators performed the launch sequences and one by one the war machines blasted out o the underground structure. Once on the surface they got into formation and scoured the area looking for signs of an attack. They had each been supplied with a riffle and were lock and loaded. The Evas fanned out in a circle and were scanning the horizons when a clang was heard behind them. They turned and aimed their riffles only to see Kensuke's silver Unit-04, it had dropped its weapon.

"Kensuke! What are you doing?" Toji hissed.

He didn't respond, his Eva was immobile. Toji got closer to see what Kensuke was doing when Unit-04's arms reached out and grabbed Unit-03 by the neck.

"KENSUKE!?" Toji yelled.

"Kensuke! What are you doing!?" Rei yelled.

They heard Kensuke scream from inside his Eva, but could not raise him on the com-link.

"Toji!" Hikari screamed and ran to free him from the chock hold but Unit-04 Kicked it in the stomach and sent her flying to the ground. "Urg..." she mumbled and stayed on the floor.

"Ken...su..ke.." Toji gasped, his air was running low and he was close to passing out. George, Asuka, and Shinji came up behind the renegade Eva and grabbed it by the shoulders. It released Toji and turned and punched the three Evas in the chest. They went down.

"Urg, damn! What the hell is wrong with Kensuke!?" Asuka said, trying to shake off that last blow, which had been really hard.

"PILOTS! BLUE PATTERN HAS BEEN AQUIRED! IT'S UNIT-04! EVA-04 IS THE 13th ANGEL!" The Colonel's voice boomed over the com.

The other pilots were stunned, first was how it could've happened, second was what could they do? Trash the Eva? Possible, but the problem was that Kensuke was still trapped inside it.

"Eject the plug!" Rei yelled at the com.

"We're trying!" Akagi answered. "But it rejects all our signals!"

Rei ran over in Unit-00 and tried to pull the armor over the plug off but the Angel/Eva threw her back the other way. It then ran towards Hikari's Unit-05 and punched it in the head and clawed at the chest armor.

"You bastard! Leave her alone!" Toji yelled, getting back up he pulled out his Prog. Knife and charged.

Unit-04 looked up and reached for the oncoming Eva's head and crushed then tore it off. Toji's screams echoed around the other Eva's plugs and the command center. After that it returned to the job of trying to force open Unit-05's armor, it was a good thing Hikari had passed out from the earlier blow, or she would have joined Toji in his screaming.

Left with no choice, the others attacked the reclassified Angel. Shinji and Unit-01 however, stayed put. Asuka leaped on the Angel's back and tried to pull the armor off the plug and was almost successful when she was throw off. The Angel crouched and jumped up, with the intention of landing on the red Eva and crushing it. Unit-U jumped up and grabbed its feet and pulled it back down and pulled the armor off. He tried to hold it down while Rei was trying to pry the plug out of the spine of the Angel but it was stuck. It finally elbowed George in the chest, right in the S2 and then tossed him aside, then he reached around and lifted up the blue Eva over its head. It smacked her down and kicked her in the stomach causing the Eva to roll over several streets. It continued to trample the downed Eva-00 and now Rei's scream filled the air.

Asuka tried to get up and saw Unit-01 just standing there. She yelled at Shinji, "Why aren't you doing anything!?"

"I...I...can't, t..that's a human! One of my best friends in there!" he said, backing off.

Asuka looked over the others, Hikari was still out and her Eva's chest was badly disfigured. Toji's Eva would not be able to operate without it's head and Toji himself had passed out from the pain as the technicians weren't able to severe the nerve connections fast enough. George was lying face down on the ground, nonmoving. Rei was still getting a beating from the Angel, which now was trying to rip the arms off the blue Eva.

"Shinji! You're the only one who can stop him! Toji and Hikari are already badly wounded, George looks like he didn't like that elbow to the S2 very much. My Eva isn't exactly in battle shape! So why don't you help!? You say you don't want to hurt your friend, but his Eva's hurting your other friends! Can't you understand that!? Where's the Shinji that saved me three times from danger!?" she admonished

Shinji stood there frozen as he absorbed her words, Asuka yelled in frustration and rushed the Angel despite her injury and received a blow to the head as her reward. The Angel turned from Rei and decided to tear Unit- 02's leg off. Asuka felt the searing pain as it pulled but suddenly she felt it release her. Raising her head was all she could do, but she still managed to see what was happening. Unit-01 had seized the Angel by the head and thrust it into a building, it's mouth opened to reveal rows of blood red teeth and it released a terrifying roar.

The Angel extracted itself and turned only to meet a punch to the face by the raging purple Eva. He kept up a barrage and finally smacked it to the floor. The Angel groaned and tried to craw away but Unit-01 seized it by the shoulder armor blade and ripped the attached arm off. The Angel cried out and Unit-01 continued to dismember it and finally put its foot through the Angel's head. The surrounding ground ran red with the Eva/Angel's blood. Unit-01 stopped its rampage and slumped down. Shinji stared to cry in his plug. Asuka, as well as the command center heard it, but no one else did. They were all unconscious. Asuka was too weak to do anything and put her head back down and she too, fainted.

"Sent out seven rescue teams, get the pilots of all other Evangelions to the hospital wing. And see if the Sixth Child survived, leave the Third Child be for now." Akagi ordered. Lt. Ibuki confirmed that the Sixth Child's life signs were weak, but still present.

All the pilots except Shinji were rushed into the hospital, Asuka and George managed to recover in a few hours since they had no penetrating injuries and only passed out from shock. They left the hospital despite the doctor's request to stay for twenty-four hours until they could run more through tests. They went to the commander center to ask for Shinji's location, the Colonel had already left but Akagi was still there.

She sighed when they asked her, "He stayed in his Eva for some time, then without a word, he exited and headed straight home. I don't think he even showered or changed out of his suit."

At this Asuka and George rush to the van, and then home, they found the front door unlocked and there was a puddle of orange liquid on the steps. They went in and followed the trail of LCL to Asuka and Shinji's bedroom. They stood outside the door and heard crying within, Asuka was reaching for the doorknob but hesitated. She instead turned and sat down in front of the door with her back against it.

George looked down at her, "What's wrong? Aren't you going to go in?"

She stared at the space in front of her. "And do what?" she said.

"Shinji is in need of someone close to him to comfort him and help him sort out his feelings!" he said, one hand on the bandages around his chest.

"How can I do that? I don't know what I can do to help him..." she said miserably.

"He is in there Asuka, brewing over the idea. That he just tore an Eva apart, one which had one of his best friends trapped inside! And you said it yourself, because if he didn't, all his other friends, and you, his most loved included, would have been killed by the Eva in its infected state!" he yelled. "And after going through that decision, he is obviously going to have a major nervous breakdown! And I'd expect, that he'd want the person he loves most, the most important reason he made the decision in the first place, to be there to comfort him! There is no need for words, don't you think your company alone would help?"

Asuka looked into the angry face of her guardian. "If you won't even try to go in there to help him in his darkest hour, then perhaps you do not deserve to be called his girlfriend." He turned and swept out of the house with the intention of seeing how his other kids were. Asuka stared after him and watched him descend the stairway to the lower story, then out the front door. She turned and looked at the door to their room. The crying had subsided somewhat, perhaps Shinji had heard them talking. She hesitated, then got up and opened the door.

"Shinji?" she asked quietly.

The room was dim, the lights were off and the sun outside had set. He was sitting in a corner, still in his plug suit. His eyes were blank and his face looked old. She entered the room and kneeled down next to him and looked at him for a while. He didn't look back, but after a while he leaned his head on her shoulder and continued to cry. She held his head gently with her hand and let him cry it out. In between sobs, he confessed to her the cause of his sorrow. As George had said, he was feeling guilty for almost killing his friend, and was felling even guiltier for almost doing nothing and simply watched as one by one his other friends were beaten down. She ran her hand down his cheek and told him in no uncertain way that she believed he did the right thing and that no one would blame him in the slightest.

"It's ok, Kensuke's fine. So is everyone else! You did what you had to save everyone, Kensuke would agree, he didn't want to watch, helpless as his Eva thrashed his friends! And your initial reaction was understandable, your friends will not criticize you for it. In fact we thank you Shinji, for saving us."

She kissed him on the lips, got up and led him to the bathroom where she helped him take a bath, now was not the time to worry about modesty, nor did either of them care. Shinji wanted Asuka with him and she was not about to leave. After he was done she got him something from his drawers and helped him to the bed. She tucked him in and without undressing herself, slipped in with him and held him. He was still shaking a little from the intense crying he did but had clamed down somewhat.

"Thank you Asuka." He whispered. She smiled and held him tighter to show she heard.

At the hospital wing of Nerv HQ George looked into the room through the fiberglass window. The remaining four pilots were in intensive care, Rei was badly bruised internally from the kicking the rouge Eva had done. Toji's neck muscles and nerves were damaged from the chocking then decapitation of his Evangelion. And Hikari, the forced opening of her Eva's chest armor plates caused the nerve links from the Eva to send massive pain to her system. With her weaker frame the doctors said that it was fortunate that her synch rate was so low or she would not have survived. As for Kensuke, he was not so lucky, the link between him and his Eva had stayed connected throughout the ordeal and he felt every bit of the beating Eva-01 gave him. Most of his joints were severely damaged and it was decide that he would never be able to pilot again, or do anything that would strain his body. George stood at the glass watching his children's chest rise and fall with each breath. None had yet regain consciousness and they were not expected to for a few days. George checked to make sure that there were no people or cameras around. He threw off his coat and shirt and examined the wound on his chest. He concentrated and it healed at a accelerated pace, more like three seconds. This done, he put his clothes back on and sat in a chair next to the window. Back in central command, a pattern blue signal blinked for a second and then disappeared but no one saw it.

A/N: Chapter 10 is here now, enjoy. Ha ha ha, bet most of you can guess what he is by now? Then again, maybe not? DIE FLAMERS! DIE! BURN IN THE FLAMES OF HELLLLLLL!!!!!! YOU AND YOUR STUPID FLAMING REVIEWS! BUUUURRRRNNNNN!!!!!!!! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

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