Story: Evangelion, The Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel Chapter 14: With the Death of the Final Messenger, it all begins...

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A/N: Here's chapter fourteen.

Doctor Akagi stood before a giant tank in a laboratory inside Central Dogma. She looked at all the Rei clones, floating happily in the tank. She smirked and went to a console. She selected one of the clones and it was inserted into a tube connected to the tank. Ritsuko typed a command and the tube was sealed off, the Rei clone inside looked at her with a smile. Akagi laughed and pressed 'enter' on the console. All the memories of the past two Reis began downloading into the third one.

"Ikari you bastard, let see if she'll follow your orders if she remembers everything." Akagi laughed.

"So, you're the reason Rei and I have grown distant..." a cold voice said.

Ritsuko turned to face the Commander.

"That's right, that was all my doing." She said smiling insainly.

Gendo took out a pistol and cocked the trigger.

"Why doctor?" he asked.

She laughed hysterically. "Why!? Because Gendo, I loved you! I have done everything you asked. I would have endured anything you wanted me to endure, I have given you everything you wanted from me!" she raged. "But still, you choose that little bitch! That shadow of Yui over me! My mother was a fool, and so is her daughter!" she had her hand on the keyboard all this time and now she pressed another button.

All the Reis inside the tank screamed as the pressure increased and they broke apart.

"Rei!" Gendo yelped and watched as all of his clones perished.

Ritsuko laughed again, "She's the only one left!" she yelled pointing at the tube with the third Rei. "And I'll be damned if she'll go with your plan from now on!"

Gendo stared coldly at the woman in front of him. "Doctor Ritsuko Akagi, you have outlived your usefulness."

Ritsuko laughed some more. "You decided that a long time ago you bastard. See you in hell!"

Gendo raised his gun, "You go, I'll be going elsewhere with my Yui." A gunshot was the last thing Nerv's leading doctor heard before she died.

"It is time." Kawrou Nagisa said, looking up at the giant pyramid that was Nerv HQ in front of him.

He walked into the front door.

"Hey! You-" the guard said but his head was severed by the boy's AT-Field.

He proceeds through the hallways of Nerv, looking for the Evangelion cages. At the bridge, the pattern blue signal appeared and it was inside Nerv.

"Confirmed! Angel has gained entrance to Headquarters! Strong AT-Field presence detected! Strongest we've ever encountered! It is proceeding straight for the Eva cages!" Aoba said.

"Seal off routes 157 through 236!" Misato ordered. "And evacuate levels four and five of all non-combat personnel!"

'Pathetic.' The boy thought as he continued on his way, slaying anyone who challenged him. He found his way blocked off but he smashed his way through the reinforced steel doors using his field.

"Ma'am! The Angel has forced his way into the sealed off routes! It is continuing its journey to the cages!"

"Damn! What would an Angel want with the Evangelions anyway!?" Misato yelled. "Fill the hallways with bakelite! What of our defense squads?"

"Too late! He's at the end of the corridor, he's approaching the cages! All of our squads have been eliminated!"

Kawrou entered the Eva cages and looked at the machines. "Hmmm, which one?" he pondered.

He saw that two of them were damaged, he continued on to the last three Evas. Units 01, 02, and U stood there. The boy sensed a strong presence in the purple and red Evangelions and knew he would not be able to control them. He turned to Unit-U.

"I sense no soul in this one...it must be the one Michael uses." He smirked and focused. The Eva came to life and broke from its restraints.

"Emergency! Unit-Ultimate has activated!" Makoto yelled.

"George!?" Misato demanded.

"Negative! There's no pilot! Not even an entry plug!"

"What!?" she exclaimed.

After successfully taking control of the Evangelion, Kawrou turned and stepped off the bridge that ran across the Eva, "Come, shadow of Adam. Let us go and meet your father."

The Eva smashed through the walls and descended down a service tube with Kawrou.

"Report! The Angel has seized Unit-U and is descending towards Terminal Dogma!"

"It's trying to establish contact with Adam!" Misato gasped.

"We must not allow that to happen! Seal off every level in that service tube!" "No effect! The Angel has used the Eva to smash through all the doors! It is approaching Heaven's Door!"

"No...it can't be." Misato whispered. "Third-Impact..." She leaned towards Makoto, "When it reaches the final barriar..."

"Yes, I'll self-destruct the entire complex. I won't let Third-Impact occur."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, dying beside you would be an honor."

"Thank you..."

Kawrou reached the end of the shaft and had Unit-U blow open a hole for them to go through.

"Ma'am! Another blue pattern detected in Terminal Dogma! Its AT-Field level is off the charts!"

"Impossible! That would mean there are eighteen Angels!"

Kawrou felt it and looked up to see George descending the shaft and fly into the cavern.

"Have you come to stop me Michael?"

"Not yet." George responded.

"What do you mean?"

"Tabris, look behind you." Kawrou did.

"What!?" he gasped, looking at the giant white Angel impaled on the cross. "That's not Adam! That...that is Lilith!"

"Correct Tabris." George said.

Tabris looked at George and demanded the location of Adam.

"No idea. Tabris, give up."

Kawrou laughed and sent Unit-U to attack George. George's eyes glowed from behind his sunglasses. The Eva stopped and turned to grabbed Kawrou.

"Arg! Michael, you will not succeed! Mankind's time is up! You are defending an absurd cause!"

"No." George responded, landing on the Eva's head. "Tabris, I know humans are imperfect, but Instrumenty is not possible."

"You are wrong Michael, and confused too. These Lilum are an inferior, and deeply troubled race. Look at them! They would use the same power that wiped out half their species in order to save the rest of them! How hypocritical!" The captured Angel spat.

"Humans define their existence through their emotions and feelings! Happiness, joy, love, sorrow, anguish, despair, grief, hope, pain, loneness, all of that. A world without those things will not be accepted by them as reality, it will fall apart in the end!"

"No...that is not true." Kawrou said.

"Believe what you want." George said, turning away. "I have told you the truth."

Kawrou looked at him. "You...might be correct." George turned back to face him. "Their music...yes, it is true, I think I understand now. Their music is prove of what you say." George looked at him; Kawrou began to hum a tune.

"Beethoven's ninth?" George asked.

Kawrou smiled. "Michael, grant me this wish." Kawrou said.

"What can I do?" George asked.

"I want you to end my life."

George looked troubled. "I'm...how...I can't." he said. "I can't kill you in cold blood like this."

Kawrou smiled, "If you want to protect the lilum you must. For that is not possible as long as one of the seventeen Angels remain undefeated." George made no reply. "Michael, it must be this way. I am destined to live forever, if you do not do it. Your ideals are wasted."

George looked at his fellow Angel. "I'm sorry, Tabris. I have no choice it seems."

Kawrou smiled again. "Don't be, perhaps only in death, is one truly free..."

George turned away and had his Eva tightened its grip.

"Colonel, one of the blue patterns has gone silent!" Aoba said.

George looked back and saw the blood on his Eva's hands. "Forgive me..." he released his hold on the Eva and landed near the elevator. He proceeded back up to Nerv the normal way.

"Ma'am, the other signal has disappeared too, Unit-U has deactivated." Aoba reported.

"Bring us down to alert level one." The Colonel ordered. "And find out about that second signal, it has appeared too many times to be a glitch."

Hikari sat next to Asuka, wondering how Rei and Shinji were. She was getting up to get herself some soda went she saw Rei being wheeled through the hallway on a stretcher.

"Rei!" she yelled and ran to the bed but the nurses asked her to come back later and that she was being rushed for surgery at the moment. She stood there wondering what became of Ikari.

Since exiting his Evangelion Shinji has been in the locker room under the shower. He was crying but you couldn't se it, but his sobs were loud and clear. He cursed himself for his inability at helping others. He had been a weak little boy who couldn't even protect his girlfriend from a boy two years older. He thought that he had gotten stronger when he had beaten the same boy a second time but he now realized that it was just George's doing. Yes, it was his training under that Angel that helped and he was sickened by it. How many times has he received help, from Asuka, Hikari, Rei, Toji, Kensuke, Misato, and even that Angel.

"I'm a wimp..." he said bitterly with water running down his body. "A coward, a dishonest, scheming, pathetic little boy." He cried liked this for hours then dressed and went to wander the empty streets of Tokyo-Three.

Asuka had been in a semi-asleep state since Shinji carried her to the hospital, she could see flashes of her life flashing in front of her and she relived the worst moments of her life. But she could've sworn that she could sometimes feel a hand gripping hers and Shinji's voice talking to her. Whenever she felt it she would hold on to that hand as tight as she could. But there were a few moments when she was more awake. She woke up and was wondering where she was when she heard Ayanami's voice. She was telling Shinji to go fight the Angel with her. 'The idiot said no!' She thought angry and looked at him. He noticed and grabbed her hand, calling her name. She gripped his hand tight and tried to form words but she felt as if that was still asleep. So she continued to squeeze his hand. He asked if she wanted him to go and she relaxed her hand and feel back into her dreams.

Soon she awoke again and this time she saw George next to her bed. Remembering what he told them the night before, she looked at him. This time, her mouth worked.

"You..." she managed to get out.

He looked hurt but she was too angry with him. "Yeah...it's me." He said.

She glared at him and said what Shinji and her felt. "You betrayed our trust..."

His eyes widened, "Did I?"

She blinked and continued, "You kept something very important from us. How can we trust you?"

He tilted his head down, "How could I tell you?" he said quietly "I...knew what my kind has done. It was impossible for you all to accept me."

She wanted to that him that not telling them in the first place was why they were mad but she felt too tired to so she didn't answer, but looked at the ceiling once more. George looked at her and stood up, "I'm sorry..." he said and left.

Shinji did not feel like returning to the house in case he met George there so he decided to spend the night at Nerv. He couldn't go and face his friends now that he'd failed to save Rei. He didn't want to break it to them so he found a nice storage room and curled up on the floor.

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SEELE 1: Yes, at last. All seventeen Angels have been defeated.

SEELE 5: The time has come for the beginning of the end. How long have we waited for this!

SEELE 8: What of the Guardian? He has disappeared, should we be worried?

SEELE 9: Forget him! The Eva series has been completed! Now we have all the elements need to construct Third-Impact, and ascend to our final evolutionary form!

SEELE 10: But that traitor, Ikari, has lost the Lance of Longinus! We cannot achieve our means with Lilith now!

SEELE 12: First we must take Nerv out of the hands of Ikari, and acquire Evangelion Unit-01 to use instead of Lilith!

SEELE 1: Ikari, you have been a friend, a comrade, a fellow conspirator. But now is your final task, you have served our purposes.

SEELE 3: Thus mankind can merge as one single entity.

SEELE 4: Have the JSSDF prepared for an invasion of Nerv Headquarters, and inform the Nerv branches in China, America, Germany, Russia, and England to prepare their Magi systems to invade the Magi One at Nerv HQ.

All SEELEs: Agreed.

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A/N: Chapter 14 is here now, enjoy. The end is at hand. Next Chapter: ...and ends