Story: Evangelion, The Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel
Chapter 12: Violation of the Mind, The Fifteen has Come
Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own Evangelion and its characters. All I own are my own characters and the plot. I'm just a fan ok? Not making any profits here so don't sue me!
A/N: Here's chapter twelfth.
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SEELE 7: Ikari! What is this!?
SEELE 3: Only the prototype should have an S2 Engine! We did not allow the creation of this god! This is blasphemy!
Gendo: It was unexpected.
SEELE 1: Humans held the Fruit of Wisdom, Angels, the Fruit of Life. Evangelion Unit-01 now possesses both. Therefore it has achieved the ultimate life form. Ikari, this is unacceptable.
Gendo: What of Unit-U?
SEELE 9: That was an experiment carried out under our orders. Furthermore Unit-U lacks the Fruit of Wisdom.
Gendo: I see, is that because the pilot is not a human?
SEELE 1: Not your problem Ikari. Just do what we tell you to do.
SEELE 4: The price of betrayal is death Ikari!
SEELE 8: Do not fail us.
Gendo: Understood.
They fade, only Gendo remains.
Gendo: Fools...
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Asuka and Shinji sat in the hospital room that looked over the room of their friends. Their vitals have improved and there were currently doctors checking over them. The two watched, hopeful that their friends would wake. The doctors left moments later and informed them that they could expect their friend s to revive within these two days. They were heartened by this news and continued their wait.
Back at central command, the entire staff was running hundreds of tests on Eva Unit-01 and its newly acquired S2 organ. While most of the crew concentrated their efforts on this, a small team led by Kasuragi took up the task of regenerating the few Units that were still capable of functioning. Units-00 & 05 were heavily damaged and would take a while before they would be operational again. There was no hope for Unit-04, the infected unit. It was completely destroyed by Unit-01 and the pilot was permanently crippled. Even without those problems the commander would have ordered it to be destroyed just in case the Angel still existed. Units-02 and U just needed a day of recovery before they would be at battle condition. Unit-01 was placed under heavy lock and quarantined.
"So only two Evas to work with." Misato said. "If the last three Angels are anything like the past few ones we will not last."
"True, Asuka and George won't be able to hold them off if they are." Hyuga said from his station.
Misato looked over the Eva units from the control room, the red and black units looked fine, the others looked like they'd been bashed around with by a giant kid with anger problems. Sighing, she went to consult Ritsuko on how to proceed with Unit-00 and 05's regeneration.
George stood on top of a building looking over Tokyo-Three, the wind swept his coat and hair around but he did not move. He continued to scan over the city.
"Soon, three more, then it will begin. I must find a way to prevent it." He said to himself.
He turned and jumped down from the high-rise building and landed on his feet in the street. There was no one around, the last two fights had decimated the city and most of its inhabitants had moved away. George walked the lonely streets, wondering when the last three of his kind will show.
Back at the hospital, Asuka and Shinji were in the same place they were in since this afternoon. Asuka had fallen asleep in her chair but Shinji was wide awake, and think about that last fight. He had felt it again, that rage, as if there was something inside him...inside him and the Eva, that was out of control. And it scared him, on many occasions it had manifested itself and proved to be a terrifying force to reckon with. He thought about when it caused his Eva to rip Unit-04 apart...no. He didn't want to think about that. He got up and left for the lounge to get a soda and take his mind off that. He stood in front of the machine and made his selection. Rather that go back he decided to stay in the lounge for a while. He sat on the couch sipping his drink and staring at the TV but he was not taking any of it in.
"Shinji? Are you ok?" He turned and saw Asuka standing at the door. She sat down next to him.
"Yeah, I just wanted to stretch my legs." Asuka put her hand on his leg and asked him if he would like to go back now. He went with her. They returned to their seats and looked at their friends for signs of consciousness. They found none so they made themselves comfortable and fell asleep in their chairs. Shinji could hear people talking and was still semi-asleep. He stirred for a while but finally got up to see what was going on. Through the glass he could see a bunch of doctors and nurses checking over his friends, two of whom were awake!
"Asuka! Wake up!" he yelled shaking her. "Asuka! Rei and Hikari are awake!"
Asuka mumbled something and rolled over to the other side, then suddenly, as if she realized what he had said, she jumped up.
"They are!?" she yelled, running to the window.
Shinji came up next to her and they both looked at the room. Rei and Hikari were sitting up on their beds and were being mobbed by the nurses in there. The doctors were checking over the two other children and one injected a vial of yellow liquid into Kensuke's arm. Rei noticed their visitors and smiled at them. She motioned to Hikari and pointed at the glass, Hikari looked and she too smiled and waved at them. They waved back and laughed, delighted. The medical staff came out and said that the two girls were cleared for release that day and Toji would be taken out of intensive care. Kensuke however, was still unconscious and his situation did not improve. Everyone's mood darkened at the news but at the same time, also happy for the girls. Rei, Hikari, and Toji were transferred to a room for normal patients and the two visitors, with a last look at Kensuke, Shinji followed.
"Rei! Hikari! Oh we missed you! How're you two feeling?" Asuka yelled and gathered them in a hug.
"We're ok. How are Toji and Kensuke?" Rei asked.
"Toji is improving so the doctors put him here instead, but Kensuke...last we heard he wasn't doing too well."
Rei looked saddened and turned away. The others didn't say anything, what could they say? Hikari decided to change the subject.
"How come I don't see George?" she asked.
"You're right! I haven't seen him since Shinji got back!" Asuka exclaimed.
"Back? From what?" Rei asked.
Asuka and Shinji filled them in on the last Angel attack. The two recently awoken girls were surprised that one would appear that fast, the very next day in fact!
"So is another one coming soon?" Hikari asked.
"Don't know." Shinji said.
He was at the next bed seeing how Toji was. His neck had come purple bruises but other than that he just seemed to be asleep.
"But they are speeding up. One could hit within today."
The alarms went off.
"Damn! I'm cursed!" Shinji yelled.
He and Asuka headed for the command center after telling the two girls not to worry.
"Where the hell is George!?" Misato demanded when the two pilots arrived.
Panting, Asuka told her she had no idea. The computer could not locate him either.
"What the fuck!? Target Missing!? Where is the Fourth Child!" Misato raged.
"We have no choice, until he is found, launch Eva Unit-02." Gendo said.
"I-" Shinji began.
"Eva Unit-01 will not launch for now. However, get suited up just in case."
The pilots left for the lockers. The bridge turned its attention to the Angel on the screen, a large bird shaped light that floated in orbit.
"How will the Eva fight that?" Makato asked.
"Let Asuka try a long range Positron rifle." Misato instructed.
Eva-02 launched and grabbed a rifle from an armament building. She crouched behind another building and took aim, before she could fire a beam of light shot down from the Angel in orbit.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Asuka screamed.
She fired wildly, doing damage to the city rather than the Angel.
"ASUKA!" Shinji yelled, hearing her scream. "Damnit, father let me go!"
Gendo remained silent.
"Please father! I beg you, let me help Asuka!" he cried.
Gendo knew he had no choice. 'Damn, where is George?' he thought.
"It seems we're out of options. Unit-01, launch and retrieve the Lance of Longinus from Terminal Dogma." He ordered.
The bridge crew, or rather the ones that knew about the lance looked at him.
"Sir! The lance? Are you positive?" Misato asked.
"Do it." He said.
Fuyuzuki leaned down. "The old men will skin you for this."
"I'm not bothered by the ideas of those old fools." He retorted.
"I have a plan."
The sub-commander stood up. "Don't you always..."
Shinji and his Eva were lowered into Terminal Dogma, all the while Shinji tried to reassure Asuka that he was coming.
"SHINJI! AHHHH! ITS....AHHHH!!! MY MIND!!" she screamed. "HELP ME SHINJI!"
"I'm COMING ASUKA! HOLD ON!" he yelled back. "HURRY MISATO!" he yelled to the Colonel.
His Eva reached the bottom and he hopped off the crane and headed towards the giant figure.
"What the hell is...father, what have you done?" he said as he saw the form of Lilith impaled on the cross.
But he had no time. Seizing the shaft, he pulled it out of the giant's chest and hurried back to the launch pad. Asuka was in intense pain, not physically, but from the flood of memories going through her mind. She yelled and cried and was shaking uncontrollably. Shinji yelled franticly over the com that he was coming.
"SHINJI! HELP ME! IT HURTS!!! MAMA!!!" she yelled as the images of her mother's suicide surfaced. "FLUCH, DEN ER VERLETZT! ER RAUBT MEINEN VERSTAND!!!"
"What the..." Aoba said from his consol, "Ma'am! There is another pattern blue heading straight for HQ at 120mph!"
"WHAT!?" Misato yelled and looked at the screen.
Shinji and Unit-01 arrived soon and he aimed and threw that lance at the Angel with all his might. It escaped earth's atmosphere and shot through the Angel, destroying it. Just then both pattern blue targets on Aoba's screen disappeared.
"Must have been a malfunction..." the Colonel said. Shinji ran to the red Eva on the floor.
"Asuka! Speak to me! Are you all right!?" he yelled picking her Eva up.
"S..Shinji..." he heard, and then crying.
Shinji cut everything off from Nerv and left his plug to get Asuka out of hers. He manually ejected her plug and opened the hatch.
"Oh god...Asuka!" he yelled as he saw her in a fetal position in the pilot seat. Shaking and crying. He climbed in and lifted her up and out of the plug and onto the street. He held her head against his chest and let her cry into it. At command central, the staff was stunned by the attacks employed by the latest Angel. None of them did anything when Shinji cut the feed off, and let the two pilots have some time. They put their efforts into calculating where the lance had shot off to or if it was possible to retrieve it. Shinji sat there on the pavement, with Asuka holding on to him like a drowning person would life buoy. He did what he could for her but he knew that when it came to the mind, she was on her own. But she had been there for him when he was dealing with emotional difficulties, if nothing else, he would at least keep her company. He looked up and saw...George?
George was on a hill overlooking the city when he heard the alarms and was rushing towards Nerv when he froze.
'This...I can feel it.' He thought.
He turned around and felt a presence in the shadows of the night.
"You're here Michael, as expected." A voice said.
A boy around the other pilots' age, with white hair and dressed in a school uniform stepped out from behind a tree. George looked at him.
"Tabris, what a surprise." George said.
The boy smiled. "Michael! Dear friend, where have you been these last eighteen years? Chasing after little brats again?" he asked, his grin widening.
"No, I have come to protect those children. For almost two decades I have been waiting for this time to come. I won't allow you or SEELE to get their way!" George said clenching his fists.
"Oh yes, I almost forgot! Michael, the great Guardian Angel of Children, Angel of Miracles." The boy sneered "The one who is like God, patron angel of policemen, guide for souls seeking heaven, the chief over the dominion order of virtues, angel of repentance, righteousness, ruler of the fourth heaven and conqueror of Satan!" George remained silent. "What's wrong Michael? Forgetting your past exploits?" the boy mocked, then it dawned on him. "Oh, I see. You are worried about the Children aren't you?"
George continued to stare at the boy, "Are you the fifteenth?"
The boy smiled. "No, that would be Arael. He should be in orbit right now."
George looked up and saw a beam of light shoot towards the city. He saw a glimpse of a red giant, his heart jumped.
"Asuka!" he turned and was gonna fly towards it when a AT Field appeared in front of him.
He looked behind him and saw Tabris zooming at him, he shot to the side and kicked him in the back as he rushed past.
"Heh heh heh, you think you can defeat one of the seventeen divine messengers of God that easily?" the boy said, recovering in mid air.
"What? But you said-" George began.
"I am the seventeenth. The Angel of Free Will." He said grinning at his opponent's shock.
An Eva roared.
"Asuka!" George tried to head the other way again but Tabris extended his AT Field again.
"Damn you!" George yelled, unleashing his own AT Field.
Tabris was throw back and George sped out of there. Tabris got up and brushed the blood on his mouth off. He looked at the retreating form of George.
"You will not succeed Michael, defy heaven's will and your fate is sealed."
George flew towards Nerv as fast as he could but he saw Shinji in Unit-01 appear with...the Lance of Longinus!?
"What? Ikari has the scared lance!?" George gasped.
Eva-01 aimed and threw the lance, George watch as the lance broke through the sky and impale the Angel. It exploded and the lance kept going on and on. George realized that with the Angel gone, Nerv might notice his pattern blue signal so he quickly landed. He ran the way to where he though the Evas were and finally found them at last.
Shinji saw George running towards him, "George!" he yelled.
George reached their position and knelt down to see how Asuka was.
"Shinji, oh I'm sorry! How is she?" he asked.
"I don't know." Shinji said looking at her face. Asuka was staring ahead of her with a blank look, her arms still around Shinji. "She went through a lot, that last Angel used a psychic attack on her. She had relive some pretty bad memories I think."
George sank to the floor next to the two. "Shinji...I'm really sorry." He said, his head towards the floor. "I should've been there."
"Where were you?" Shinji asked, he didn't sound angry.
"I heard the sirens and was rushing here, but I was detained for a while." George answered.
"By...?" George looked up, he didn't know how he could explain to Shinji.
"Shinji...do...you, believe that there are many kinds of Angels, and that not all of them are out to destroy humanity?"
"I haven't thought about it before, why?" Shinji asked.
George looked at Asuka, then at Shinji.
"Shinji, I..." he told Shinji the truth about himself.
"WHAT!? YOU'RE AN ANGEL!?" Shinji shrieked. Asuka rolled her head to the side and looked at George.
"Shinji I'm sorry for not telling you but-" George began.
"You are one of them!? Those monsters!?" Shinji continued to yell.
George looked back down to the floor, "We're...not all the same Shinji."
Shinji set Asuka aside and stood up, he glared at his guardian, then he swung a punch at him. George fell back from the blow and looked up at the child's face, full of anger.
"Shinji...don't..." Asuka said putting a hand on his leg.
"Asuka!" Shinji said and turned to the redhead on the floor. "How do you feel now?" he asked.
"Shinji...I...please...don't fight with..." she mumbled. Shinji bent down and picked her up in his arms. He glared at the man in front of him. He turned and ran towards Nerv with Asuka in his arms.
George lay on the floor next to the two Evas, he looked up at the stars and sighed. "Somehow, I don't think I deserved that..."
A/N: Chapter 12 is here now, enjoy. The end is at hand. By the way, what Asuka said in German during the attack was: "Damn it hurts! It's raping my mind!" Next Chapter: Rei's passion and the death of the sixteenth.
Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own Evangelion and its characters. All I own are my own characters and the plot. I'm just a fan ok? Not making any profits here so don't sue me!
A/N: Here's chapter twelfth.
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SEELE 7: Ikari! What is this!?
SEELE 3: Only the prototype should have an S2 Engine! We did not allow the creation of this god! This is blasphemy!
Gendo: It was unexpected.
SEELE 1: Humans held the Fruit of Wisdom, Angels, the Fruit of Life. Evangelion Unit-01 now possesses both. Therefore it has achieved the ultimate life form. Ikari, this is unacceptable.
Gendo: What of Unit-U?
SEELE 9: That was an experiment carried out under our orders. Furthermore Unit-U lacks the Fruit of Wisdom.
Gendo: I see, is that because the pilot is not a human?
SEELE 1: Not your problem Ikari. Just do what we tell you to do.
SEELE 4: The price of betrayal is death Ikari!
SEELE 8: Do not fail us.
Gendo: Understood.
They fade, only Gendo remains.
Gendo: Fools...
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Asuka and Shinji sat in the hospital room that looked over the room of their friends. Their vitals have improved and there were currently doctors checking over them. The two watched, hopeful that their friends would wake. The doctors left moments later and informed them that they could expect their friend s to revive within these two days. They were heartened by this news and continued their wait.
Back at central command, the entire staff was running hundreds of tests on Eva Unit-01 and its newly acquired S2 organ. While most of the crew concentrated their efforts on this, a small team led by Kasuragi took up the task of regenerating the few Units that were still capable of functioning. Units-00 & 05 were heavily damaged and would take a while before they would be operational again. There was no hope for Unit-04, the infected unit. It was completely destroyed by Unit-01 and the pilot was permanently crippled. Even without those problems the commander would have ordered it to be destroyed just in case the Angel still existed. Units-02 and U just needed a day of recovery before they would be at battle condition. Unit-01 was placed under heavy lock and quarantined.
"So only two Evas to work with." Misato said. "If the last three Angels are anything like the past few ones we will not last."
"True, Asuka and George won't be able to hold them off if they are." Hyuga said from his station.
Misato looked over the Eva units from the control room, the red and black units looked fine, the others looked like they'd been bashed around with by a giant kid with anger problems. Sighing, she went to consult Ritsuko on how to proceed with Unit-00 and 05's regeneration.
George stood on top of a building looking over Tokyo-Three, the wind swept his coat and hair around but he did not move. He continued to scan over the city.
"Soon, three more, then it will begin. I must find a way to prevent it." He said to himself.
He turned and jumped down from the high-rise building and landed on his feet in the street. There was no one around, the last two fights had decimated the city and most of its inhabitants had moved away. George walked the lonely streets, wondering when the last three of his kind will show.
Back at the hospital, Asuka and Shinji were in the same place they were in since this afternoon. Asuka had fallen asleep in her chair but Shinji was wide awake, and think about that last fight. He had felt it again, that rage, as if there was something inside him...inside him and the Eva, that was out of control. And it scared him, on many occasions it had manifested itself and proved to be a terrifying force to reckon with. He thought about when it caused his Eva to rip Unit-04 apart...no. He didn't want to think about that. He got up and left for the lounge to get a soda and take his mind off that. He stood in front of the machine and made his selection. Rather that go back he decided to stay in the lounge for a while. He sat on the couch sipping his drink and staring at the TV but he was not taking any of it in.
"Shinji? Are you ok?" He turned and saw Asuka standing at the door. She sat down next to him.
"Yeah, I just wanted to stretch my legs." Asuka put her hand on his leg and asked him if he would like to go back now. He went with her. They returned to their seats and looked at their friends for signs of consciousness. They found none so they made themselves comfortable and fell asleep in their chairs. Shinji could hear people talking and was still semi-asleep. He stirred for a while but finally got up to see what was going on. Through the glass he could see a bunch of doctors and nurses checking over his friends, two of whom were awake!
"Asuka! Wake up!" he yelled shaking her. "Asuka! Rei and Hikari are awake!"
Asuka mumbled something and rolled over to the other side, then suddenly, as if she realized what he had said, she jumped up.
"They are!?" she yelled, running to the window.
Shinji came up next to her and they both looked at the room. Rei and Hikari were sitting up on their beds and were being mobbed by the nurses in there. The doctors were checking over the two other children and one injected a vial of yellow liquid into Kensuke's arm. Rei noticed their visitors and smiled at them. She motioned to Hikari and pointed at the glass, Hikari looked and she too smiled and waved at them. They waved back and laughed, delighted. The medical staff came out and said that the two girls were cleared for release that day and Toji would be taken out of intensive care. Kensuke however, was still unconscious and his situation did not improve. Everyone's mood darkened at the news but at the same time, also happy for the girls. Rei, Hikari, and Toji were transferred to a room for normal patients and the two visitors, with a last look at Kensuke, Shinji followed.
"Rei! Hikari! Oh we missed you! How're you two feeling?" Asuka yelled and gathered them in a hug.
"We're ok. How are Toji and Kensuke?" Rei asked.
"Toji is improving so the doctors put him here instead, but Kensuke...last we heard he wasn't doing too well."
Rei looked saddened and turned away. The others didn't say anything, what could they say? Hikari decided to change the subject.
"How come I don't see George?" she asked.
"You're right! I haven't seen him since Shinji got back!" Asuka exclaimed.
"Back? From what?" Rei asked.
Asuka and Shinji filled them in on the last Angel attack. The two recently awoken girls were surprised that one would appear that fast, the very next day in fact!
"So is another one coming soon?" Hikari asked.
"Don't know." Shinji said.
He was at the next bed seeing how Toji was. His neck had come purple bruises but other than that he just seemed to be asleep.
"But they are speeding up. One could hit within today."
The alarms went off.
"Damn! I'm cursed!" Shinji yelled.
He and Asuka headed for the command center after telling the two girls not to worry.
"Where the hell is George!?" Misato demanded when the two pilots arrived.
Panting, Asuka told her she had no idea. The computer could not locate him either.
"What the fuck!? Target Missing!? Where is the Fourth Child!" Misato raged.
"We have no choice, until he is found, launch Eva Unit-02." Gendo said.
"I-" Shinji began.
"Eva Unit-01 will not launch for now. However, get suited up just in case."
The pilots left for the lockers. The bridge turned its attention to the Angel on the screen, a large bird shaped light that floated in orbit.
"How will the Eva fight that?" Makato asked.
"Let Asuka try a long range Positron rifle." Misato instructed.
Eva-02 launched and grabbed a rifle from an armament building. She crouched behind another building and took aim, before she could fire a beam of light shot down from the Angel in orbit.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Asuka screamed.
She fired wildly, doing damage to the city rather than the Angel.
"ASUKA!" Shinji yelled, hearing her scream. "Damnit, father let me go!"
Gendo remained silent.
"Please father! I beg you, let me help Asuka!" he cried.
Gendo knew he had no choice. 'Damn, where is George?' he thought.
"It seems we're out of options. Unit-01, launch and retrieve the Lance of Longinus from Terminal Dogma." He ordered.
The bridge crew, or rather the ones that knew about the lance looked at him.
"Sir! The lance? Are you positive?" Misato asked.
"Do it." He said.
Fuyuzuki leaned down. "The old men will skin you for this."
"I'm not bothered by the ideas of those old fools." He retorted.
"I have a plan."
The sub-commander stood up. "Don't you always..."
Shinji and his Eva were lowered into Terminal Dogma, all the while Shinji tried to reassure Asuka that he was coming.
"SHINJI! AHHHH! ITS....AHHHH!!! MY MIND!!" she screamed. "HELP ME SHINJI!"
"I'm COMING ASUKA! HOLD ON!" he yelled back. "HURRY MISATO!" he yelled to the Colonel.
His Eva reached the bottom and he hopped off the crane and headed towards the giant figure.
"What the hell is...father, what have you done?" he said as he saw the form of Lilith impaled on the cross.
But he had no time. Seizing the shaft, he pulled it out of the giant's chest and hurried back to the launch pad. Asuka was in intense pain, not physically, but from the flood of memories going through her mind. She yelled and cried and was shaking uncontrollably. Shinji yelled franticly over the com that he was coming.
"SHINJI! HELP ME! IT HURTS!!! MAMA!!!" she yelled as the images of her mother's suicide surfaced. "FLUCH, DEN ER VERLETZT! ER RAUBT MEINEN VERSTAND!!!"
"What the..." Aoba said from his consol, "Ma'am! There is another pattern blue heading straight for HQ at 120mph!"
"WHAT!?" Misato yelled and looked at the screen.
Shinji and Unit-01 arrived soon and he aimed and threw that lance at the Angel with all his might. It escaped earth's atmosphere and shot through the Angel, destroying it. Just then both pattern blue targets on Aoba's screen disappeared.
"Must have been a malfunction..." the Colonel said. Shinji ran to the red Eva on the floor.
"Asuka! Speak to me! Are you all right!?" he yelled picking her Eva up.
"S..Shinji..." he heard, and then crying.
Shinji cut everything off from Nerv and left his plug to get Asuka out of hers. He manually ejected her plug and opened the hatch.
"Oh god...Asuka!" he yelled as he saw her in a fetal position in the pilot seat. Shaking and crying. He climbed in and lifted her up and out of the plug and onto the street. He held her head against his chest and let her cry into it. At command central, the staff was stunned by the attacks employed by the latest Angel. None of them did anything when Shinji cut the feed off, and let the two pilots have some time. They put their efforts into calculating where the lance had shot off to or if it was possible to retrieve it. Shinji sat there on the pavement, with Asuka holding on to him like a drowning person would life buoy. He did what he could for her but he knew that when it came to the mind, she was on her own. But she had been there for him when he was dealing with emotional difficulties, if nothing else, he would at least keep her company. He looked up and saw...George?
George was on a hill overlooking the city when he heard the alarms and was rushing towards Nerv when he froze.
'This...I can feel it.' He thought.
He turned around and felt a presence in the shadows of the night.
"You're here Michael, as expected." A voice said.
A boy around the other pilots' age, with white hair and dressed in a school uniform stepped out from behind a tree. George looked at him.
"Tabris, what a surprise." George said.
The boy smiled. "Michael! Dear friend, where have you been these last eighteen years? Chasing after little brats again?" he asked, his grin widening.
"No, I have come to protect those children. For almost two decades I have been waiting for this time to come. I won't allow you or SEELE to get their way!" George said clenching his fists.
"Oh yes, I almost forgot! Michael, the great Guardian Angel of Children, Angel of Miracles." The boy sneered "The one who is like God, patron angel of policemen, guide for souls seeking heaven, the chief over the dominion order of virtues, angel of repentance, righteousness, ruler of the fourth heaven and conqueror of Satan!" George remained silent. "What's wrong Michael? Forgetting your past exploits?" the boy mocked, then it dawned on him. "Oh, I see. You are worried about the Children aren't you?"
George continued to stare at the boy, "Are you the fifteenth?"
The boy smiled. "No, that would be Arael. He should be in orbit right now."
George looked up and saw a beam of light shoot towards the city. He saw a glimpse of a red giant, his heart jumped.
"Asuka!" he turned and was gonna fly towards it when a AT Field appeared in front of him.
He looked behind him and saw Tabris zooming at him, he shot to the side and kicked him in the back as he rushed past.
"Heh heh heh, you think you can defeat one of the seventeen divine messengers of God that easily?" the boy said, recovering in mid air.
"What? But you said-" George began.
"I am the seventeenth. The Angel of Free Will." He said grinning at his opponent's shock.
An Eva roared.
"Asuka!" George tried to head the other way again but Tabris extended his AT Field again.
"Damn you!" George yelled, unleashing his own AT Field.
Tabris was throw back and George sped out of there. Tabris got up and brushed the blood on his mouth off. He looked at the retreating form of George.
"You will not succeed Michael, defy heaven's will and your fate is sealed."
George flew towards Nerv as fast as he could but he saw Shinji in Unit-01 appear with...the Lance of Longinus!?
"What? Ikari has the scared lance!?" George gasped.
Eva-01 aimed and threw the lance, George watch as the lance broke through the sky and impale the Angel. It exploded and the lance kept going on and on. George realized that with the Angel gone, Nerv might notice his pattern blue signal so he quickly landed. He ran the way to where he though the Evas were and finally found them at last.
Shinji saw George running towards him, "George!" he yelled.
George reached their position and knelt down to see how Asuka was.
"Shinji, oh I'm sorry! How is she?" he asked.
"I don't know." Shinji said looking at her face. Asuka was staring ahead of her with a blank look, her arms still around Shinji. "She went through a lot, that last Angel used a psychic attack on her. She had relive some pretty bad memories I think."
George sank to the floor next to the two. "Shinji...I'm really sorry." He said, his head towards the floor. "I should've been there."
"Where were you?" Shinji asked, he didn't sound angry.
"I heard the sirens and was rushing here, but I was detained for a while." George answered.
"By...?" George looked up, he didn't know how he could explain to Shinji.
"Shinji...do...you, believe that there are many kinds of Angels, and that not all of them are out to destroy humanity?"
"I haven't thought about it before, why?" Shinji asked.
George looked at Asuka, then at Shinji.
"Shinji, I..." he told Shinji the truth about himself.
"WHAT!? YOU'RE AN ANGEL!?" Shinji shrieked. Asuka rolled her head to the side and looked at George.
"Shinji I'm sorry for not telling you but-" George began.
"You are one of them!? Those monsters!?" Shinji continued to yell.
George looked back down to the floor, "We're...not all the same Shinji."
Shinji set Asuka aside and stood up, he glared at his guardian, then he swung a punch at him. George fell back from the blow and looked up at the child's face, full of anger.
"Shinji...don't..." Asuka said putting a hand on his leg.
"Asuka!" Shinji said and turned to the redhead on the floor. "How do you feel now?" he asked.
"Shinji...I...please...don't fight with..." she mumbled. Shinji bent down and picked her up in his arms. He glared at the man in front of him. He turned and ran towards Nerv with Asuka in his arms.
George lay on the floor next to the two Evas, he looked up at the stars and sighed. "Somehow, I don't think I deserved that..."
A/N: Chapter 12 is here now, enjoy. The end is at hand. By the way, what Asuka said in German during the attack was: "Damn it hurts! It's raping my mind!" Next Chapter: Rei's passion and the death of the sixteenth.
