Story: Evangelion, The Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel
Chapter 15: ...and ends
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 fifteen, the final chapter of this story. Thanks to all my readers. Enjoy the ending.
"So all the Angels have been defeated?" Makoto asked.
The three bridge bunnies were enjoying a little snack and talking.
"Yep, at least I think so. There are seventeen right?" Aoba said.
"What of the other pattern we spotted so many times?" Maya asked.
"Nothing, scanned the complete city and found not a trace of it."
It was late, and the night shift was al that was left.
"What will they do with the Evangelions? Or us?" Makoto wondered.
Aoba looked at the computer that was used to monitor the status of the Evangelions.
"Five Evangelions, more than enough to conquer the world." He said. "I'll bet anything that someone in the UN is thinking of that."
Maya sighed "With the Angels gone, man will use the power used to defeat them on his fellow man. Only humans could sink to that level, perhaps we deserve Third-Impact." The three fell silent.
Rei awoke in a hospital room, the last thing she remembered was being in her Eva and fighting the sixteenth Angel. 'I'm still alive?' she thought astounded. The Eva's self destruction should have killed her. 'I suppose I'm lucky to have survived but...' she thought for a moment. 'Could I be the third one? But no, the Commander would not have allowed the downloading of all my memories, especially those between me and Kensuke...'
"Kensuke!" she gasped and got up out of the bed.
Her left arm and stomach areas have been wrapped in bandages. She felt no pain and tore them off. She knew that her S2 organ, though inefficient as she was only half Angel, would have taken cared of that. She walked outside her room and went in search for the room Kensuke was in. She found the room she had shared with Hikari and peeked in. Asuka was still lying there and Hikari was sitting on her own bed with her back towards the door, reading something. Rei knew the way from there and found her way to Kensuke's room. She peered into the room through the glass and saw Kensuke still in a coma-like state. She felt pain in her heart and feared that he would not awaken. But he seemed to have heard her thoughts as his head started to roll to the sides. Rei was surprised, but regained her composure and quickly dashed to the wall and pressed the button to summon the doctor. A man in a white lab coat appeared and demanded to know what was wrong. Rei described to him what happened in the last two minutes and he rushed into the room through the 'Doctors and Nurses only' door. She watched through the glass as he examined Kensuke and talked on a walkie- talkie. Several more doctors came into the observation part of room and then entered the other room and joined the first doctor in his examination. Rei stood there, hoping for the best. The doctors seemed to be upbeat about something and they all seemed to debate on a course of action. Finally one doctor left and returned with a small bottle of yellow fluid and a needle. This they injected into Kensuke's neck and they watched. It seemed to have no effect but then Kensuke started to cough and his eyes opened slowly. His mouth opened and he seemed to be saying something. The doctors all looked at the girl through the window, this surprised her. One of them opened the door and asked her if her name was Rei. She nodded and the doctor motioned to the others. They filed out of the room and into the room Rei was in.
"First word he said when he woke up was your name little girl." The first doctor said with a grin. "You can see him for a little while."
They left the room to give them a little privacy and Rei ran into the room Kensuke was in. "Kensuke!" she cried and kissed him on the lips as soon as she reached him. Kensuke's eyes bulged.
When Rei parted he smiled, "Just for waking up?" he asked. "Wonder what you'll do when I get up and walk."
Rei gave him a look that said he was pushing it and he quickly apologized. "I'm glad that you're all right though." She said and held his hand the way she saw Auska and Shinji do all the time.
They talked a bit and kissed again before the doctor came back and asked Rei to come back again later. That night, Kensuke was out of intensive care and stationed in the room with the others, Rei was also transferred into the room again. Toji had awoken and the experience he shared with Hikari when he woke up was no less romantic than Rei and Kensuke's, or so Toji claimed. Hikari and Rei filled the two boys in on what has been happening lately and they now had three things to worry about. Asuka, and the location of Shinji and George...
Asuka was back in her nightmares, but this time she could no longer feel the comfort of Shinji's grip. 'Shinji, where are you?' she thought. 'How long does it take to fight an Angel?' But in truth she had no idea how much time has passed since she had Shinji leave. She whimpered as she relived the moment of the Angel's mind rape and screamed inside her head. 'I'm alone,' she thought. 'In the end, it's just me against these memories...' Suddenly she felt two pairs of hands gripping her hands, one pair for each one. She could tell they weren't Shinji's but they felt familiar somehow. Two pictures shattered the image of the bird-like Angel in front of her. Two pictures of people she knew. 'Hikari? Ayanami?' she wondered at the smiling images of her two friends. She heard words of encouragement from them and she felt clam replace the fear and anxiety. She felt her awareness heighten and the view of a ceiling came into focus, as did four heads peering down at her.
"Hikari? Rei? Kensuke? And Toji?" she whispered.
"Holy crap! She's awake!" someone yelled.
They were sitting around Hikari's bed discussing where Shinji could have gone off to when they heard Asuka whimper. They looked at her and saw her head covered in sweat and her hands gripping the sheets on her bed. Rei and Hikari, who was closer to her, as far as their relations went anyway. Rushed over and grabbed a hand each.
"It's ok Asuka, we're here for you!" Hikari said.
The two boys looked on from the foot of the bed and were worried about their fellow friend and pilot.
"Asuka, Ikari may be absent but we are also your friends." Rei said. "We also care for you, though maybe in a different way than he does."
She opened her eyes slowly. "Hikari? Rei? Kensuke? And Toji?" she whispered.
"Holy crap! She's awake!" Kensuke yelled. Rei told him to be quiet and turned back to Asuka.
"You're awake." She said.
Asuka opened her eyes fully and blinked a few times. "Oh...Shinji?" she mumbled.
Hikari laughed a little, "No Asuka, it's us. He err...stepped out for a minute." She lied quickly.
Asuka woke up fully and sat up in her bed. She scanned their faces. "You're lying." She said.
"Alert! Magi systems being invade!" Makoto yelled.
"Is it the Japanese Government's computer!?" The sub-commander demanded.
"No! I have identified three of the five Magi systems hacking ours. They are the U.S., England, and China! Other two are still unknown, but are for sure another Magi system!"
"So, it is SEELE's doing. It has begun." Fuyuzuki said.
"They've taken Balthazar and Melchior! Casper is-" he stopped in mid sentence. "Casper is unaffected, it is fighting the invasion off of the other two systems." He turned to Maya, she knew more about the Magi systems, being Akagi's first assistant. She looked at him and threw him a disk.
"Sempai's notes," she said sadly. "I found them when the commander ordered me to clean out her office and throw everything away. I took it home and studied it, I learned how to install the 666 type firewall." She burst out crying. "The doctor...is..." she sobbed.
The screen showed that the invasion has been halted for the next 64 hours. Fuyuzuki looked at Gendo.
"Good thing you had Ibuki clean her office Ikari, or the Magi would be under SEELE's control." He whispered.
"Indeed." Gendo replied.
"But that's just the start." The Sub-Commander continued. "They take this base by force."
"Of course, deploy the defense units." He ordered.
"That last Angel took out more than half of them Commander..."
Gendo was silent, "Send whatever's left."
Colonel Kasurigi was alerted and recalled to Nerv immediately.
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SEELE 7: Damn Ikari! He has installed a type 666 firewall. We cannot bypass that for some time.
SEELE 1: We have no choice I had wanted to settle this peacefully, but... Launch the JSSDF forces! Take Nerv by force!
SEELE 3: It has been done.
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Outside in the GeoFront, in the forest surrounding Nerv HQ. The JSSDF's entire force lay in waiting. Their commander received the call.
"Roger that." He said and hung up. "All right men, it's show time!"
The force came out of hiding and launched a full-scale attack on Nerv. They used the VTOL fighters to destroy the outer defenses and then their ground troops marched towards Nerv. Misato came onto the bridge and was told of the situation.
"If they invade us and try to take the Evas, they're going to go after the children first! Have them taken from the hospital and brought here!" she ordered.
"Shinji and George are missing!" Aoba yelled.
"What!? Now Shinji too!?" she exclaimed, making a quick decision. "Get the others to the bridge, I'll find Shinji."
"What of George?" Aoba asked.
"He's gone missing for some time now, I doubt we'll find him anyway." She muttered, she pulled out her Colt-45 and checked the clip. Then she ran out the door.
The children were in the hospital room talking, Asuka had told them what George had revealed.
"He's an Angel!?" Toji gasped.
"I can't believe it." Hikari said, shocked.
Rei said nothing for a minute, then, "I knew."
The other four looked at her. "How!?"
"When we were still in that intensive care ward, I woke up for a second and saw George through the window. He had his shirt and coat off and he was examining a wound on his chest." She explained. "I then saw it fade right away and heal. Only an S2 organ is capable of that. Like Evas and Angels."
They thought about that. "So...was he one of the seventeen?" Hikari wondered aloud.
"All seventeen angels have been defeated already." They looked at the door and saw Makoto.
"What!?" they yelled. He related recent events and told them of the emergency.
"What about Shinji!?" Auska demanded.
"The Colonel has gone looking for him." He answered. "We must hurry to the bridge, there's no time!"
They heard an explosion from far away and they hurriedly followed Makoto. They arrived at the bridge and were ordered to go change into plug suits and pilot the Evangelions to fight off the invaders. Kensuke was to remain on the bridge.
"Rei, come with me." Gendo ordered. So Asuka, Hikari, and Toji launched out to confront the air, sea, and ground forces. Gendo had Fuyuzuki take command of the bridge.
"Yes, of course. Give my regards to Yui." He said.
Kensuke looked over at them. 'Where's he taking her?' he thought.
Aoba handed a handgun to him, "Here kid, if they get all the way into here..."
Kensuke nodded, but he snuck out while the crew was preoccupied with the Evangelion's launch sequence. Gendo led Rei down the way to Terminal Dogma. He then turned and asked her.
"Do you remember your purpose?"
"Yes." She replied.
"Then are you ready?" he asked.
"I am not your doll, I will not do this." She said.
Gendo smirked, "I didn't think you would."
With that he smacked his hand across her head. She was knocked out. He undressed her and carried her body in front of the giant Lilith. He placed her on the floor and took the glove off his right hand, he looked at the embryo of the Angel known as Adam embedded in his palm.
"At last, Yui and I can be together." He lowered his hand towards Rei but he heard something and his right arm was in pain. "Arg!" he looked and saw blood all over his shoulder, he looked behind him and saw Kensuke running towards him, a gun in his hand.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" he yelled.
"Foolish child!" Gendo screamed and whipped out his pistol.
He fired but Kensuke, who has played war games for half his life, instantly rolled to the side and dodged it. Gendo aimed again but someone grabbed him from behind and pulled at his arm. "Rei!" he gasped and she clawed at his face.
"AHH!" he yelled and smacked her again with the butt of his handgun, she collapsed once again.
"Bastard!" He turned and looked down the barrel of Kensuke's gun.
'So Yui, I've failed.' He thought.
Kensuke fired. He looked down at the body of the commander of Nerv. 'Oh boy...I killed the Commander.' He thought. He shoved that aside and ran to Rei's side
"Rei..." But because of the long-term effects of the injuries from his last Eva fight, his body couldn't handle the stress from run down here and then the 'battle'. He collapsed next to his love.
Meanwhile, the three Evangelions launched and fought furiously against the JSSDF forces. Toji and Hikari's Evas still weren't fully recovered and were a little clumsy in their movements. Asuka's piloting ability and synch ratio were a bit low because her mind was still effected from the fifteen Angel attack and her worrying about Shinji. They still however, managed to destroy the air and sea forces but most of the ground troops had stormed inside Nerv already.
"Shit!" Asuka said.
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SEELE 6: Accursed Evangelions, they are not worth the trouble.
SEELE 10: We only need the purple one...the others are irrelevant.
SEELE 1: In that case, have the Eva series dispose of them.
SEELE 9: Yes.
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An N2 mine was shot towards the GeoFront from the JSSDF's fleet on the coast of Japan. It blew in the top of the GeoFront and a rain of Missiles rained on top of the GeoFront, Nerv HQ, and the three Evangelions. The pilots were not worried about that, they had 200 plates of fortified armor protecting them. What did worry them were the things they saw in the sky above the hole. Nine black planes flew over the new open top of the GeoFront, from the bottom of each plan, a white, winged creature dropped down and flew towards Nerv.
"Holly shit, those are Evas!" Toji yelled.
"Well then, each of us will just have take down three of them." Asuka said counting the number of Evas descending.
"Be careful, we only have five minutes of energy left..." Toji warned.
"Plenty." Asuka said and pulled out her Prog. Knife.
The solders have penetrated six of Nerv's levels and have slaughtered everyone in those levels, resisting or not.
"Sir!" Aoba said. "They have reached-"
The left side of the command center exploded in and troops poured in.
"-The command center!" Aoba finished, and hit the floor along with Maya and Makoto.
The two men pulled out their Ak-47s while Maya continued with the Evas' operation controls. Sub-Commander Fuyuzuki ducked along with them and he too pulled out a handgun.
"Well, it's been a while." He said as he cocked the trigger and fired from behind the consoles the three bridge bunnies usually worked. Aoba and Makoto followed suit.
The troops just inside the entrance of HQ were scanning the area when they saw a figure approach the entrance.
"Sir!" a soldier said to his partner and they fired on him. Orange hexagons appeared where the bullets hit and ricocheted off. "What the hell!?" they gasped.
The figure in the long black coat was holding a giant weapon, a spear or something they thought. The figure approached and they fired again, it did nothing. The boy slashed and they fell to the floor, missing their heads. He continued on and annihilated every solder he met the same way, sometimes killing whole groups with his AT-Field.
"Sir! Mega AT-Field energy level and blue pattern detected!" Maya said from her place on the floor." She had pulled one of the laptops down and did her part on that.
"It can't be an Angel?" Makoto said looking from behind her shoulders and reloading his rifle.
"I don't know," she said and patched up the cameras in that sector. "It's George!" she yelled.
"No...he's the blue pattern we detected all those times!?" Aoba yelled as he pulled down to reload also.
"Looks like it," she said. "It also looks like he's fighting the solders with us."
"Well then I don't give a damn what the hell he is!" Aoba said and he jumped up and fired.
George slashed his way through the corridors and met up with Colonel Kasuragi, who was pinned down by a squad of troops. She was shot in the shoulder and thigh and had loss a lot blood. After George killed the solders he rushed over to her
"Colonel?" he asked picking her up with one arm. "Are you going to make it?"
She looked at him; she was very weak. "You...Angel?"
He nodded.
"You...on whose side?" she asked.
"I just want to protect the children." he said.
"You want to help...Shinji?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Good..." she said "Then go find him...I've already checked the upper levels..." she gave him a communicator and then fainted. He laid her down and covered her with his coat.
"Yes Colonel, rest assured, I will." He went on his way. Killing more troops as his rage intensified.
Shinji had heard the gunfire and explosions. He curled up into a ball and waited for death to come. He was not kept waiting for long, a band of five solders came in the storage room.
"We've found the third child, commencing execution." one solder reported into his com-link. "Sorry kid. Just doing my job." He said, aiming his Desert Eagle. Bullets whizzed by and the solder jerked and dropped dead.
His four companions turned. A boy dressed in black had two MAC10 Ingrams in his hands was standing in the doorway. They brought up their M-16s but he killed them before they could fire. Shinji looked up.
"What the hell are you doing here!?" he yelled at him.
George stowed his guns and picked up his Dragon Blade from the floor. He grabbed the boy with his other hand and dragged him out with the intention of taking him to the Eva cages.
"Hey! Let go of me!" Shinji yelled.
"We are going to the Eva cages." George said, still dragging him along.
"I don't want to pilot Eva!" he yelled and struggled.
George slammed him against the wall. "Look at this hallway Shinji!" he yelled.
Shinji looked, it was covered in blood and there were bodies everywhere.
"This is the final fight! If SEELE gets their hands on Unit-01, they'll start Third-Impact!"
"And wouldn't you like that!" Shinji yelled. "I know you're an Angel! Of course you want Third-Impact!"
"The reason I've come here is to try and stop Third-Impact!" George shouted.
"Liar! That's what Angels want! To kill us all!"
George let him go, "I told you, you cannot judge us all based on a few examples." He said. "SEELE has probably deployed their Eva series! Toji, Hikari, and Asuka are fighting them now! But are going against three to nine odds."
Shinji looked away. "I won't be much help." He said. "I can't help or protect others. Since you say you want to help, why don't you go."
George smacked him across the head. "Where do you think I'm going!?" he yelled. "You are hopeless, fine! Sit here and watch everyone die, including Asuka!" He turned and ran down the hallways. Shinji slumped on the floor and looked at the blood and bodies.
George ran towards the cages but some of the routes were blocked off or destroyed. He called up the bridge on the communicator Misato gave him. Maya answered.
"Lt. Ibuki! I'm cut off from the cages! I need to get to Unit-U!"
"Did you find Shinji?"
"Yeah, he's safe, but he won't do anything. I need to go help Hikari and the others!"
"You're right, the SEELE Evas have taken Hikari out already! Asuka and Toji won't last too much longer."
"Shit!"
"Oh right, about the route...it's no good!. The only way is to head to the command center and go from here!"
"Then that's what I'll do."
"We have a large force at the bottom level of the commander center pinning us down! You can't get through!"
"Hell yes I can!"
Maya's computer showed a large At-Field outside the commander center. They heard the solders scream and the gunfire stopped.
"Oh my god..." Makoto said as he looked down from his firing position.
Aoba looked and gasped. They stood up.
"What are you two doing!" Fuyuzuki yelled, "Get down or you'll be shot!"
Aoba turned his head to look at the Sub-Commander, "Sir, all the enemy solders are dead. They're a mess on the walls and floors now..."
Kozo stood up and looked. The scene was horrific, George stood in the middle of where the solders had been and there were body parts and blood spreading out in a circle pattern around him. He looked up at them and flew up to them.
"Which way?" he asked. The men were shocked to see him first kill of that many people in such a gruesome fashion, then fly up in front of them. Maya pointed to the door George had used before with the other pilots.
"The locker room? That path is still open?"
She checked her computer. "Yes."
Without another word he flew towards the door and went right through it. The three men looked after him and then at each other. "B...back to ...work." Fuyuzuki said.
Asuka, Toji and Hikari were battling the Eva series. As soon as they landed the Evas attacked with their double bladed weapons. The three pilot were unarmed except for their Prog. Knifes. Asuka had pulled hers out and stabbed it into one of the Eva's head. It screamed and Asuka took the blade it dropped and fought with that. Hikari was slashing with her knife and had slashed a deep cut across the chest of one of the Evas. It roared and swung its blade up and cut her Eva's left arm off. She screamed and another Eva came behind her and changed its blade into a Lance of Longinus.
"What?" Asuka said noticing it. "That thing looks fami...OH SHIT, HIKARI!" she yelled.
Too late, the Eva pierced Hikari's in the back and threw her away. She landed in a lake far away from the base.
"Hikari!" Toji yelled and he charged at the Eva that did it.
He came up behind it and grabbing it's upper and lower jaws forced it to split open. It slumped and dropped its weapon, Toji picked up the replica lance. He stabbed the Eva Hikari had slashed and kicked it off the lance. Asuka tried to change her blade into its lance form but she didn't know how. An Eva came up in front of her and thrust its blade at her face. She held hers up and the blades were locked. They pushed but another Eva came up to her side and slashed, forcing her to let go of the blade and roll to the side. Toji came up next to her and the remaining Evas circled them.
"Six against two, not good." Toji said to her.
"Where the fuck is that useless baka Shinji!?" she yelled.
"And George." Toji added.
The Evas flew up into the air and all six of them dived at Toji's Eva. He held his lance up but the six lances the Evas had was too much and Toji's Eva lost its head and arms in the ensuing slaughter.
"Toji!" Asuka yelled.
The green Eva was down, Asuka was on her own.
"Oh...not good." She said. The Evas circled her again and they grinned with their nasty looking red lips. The ground opened up in front of the pyramid and a black Evangelion shot out, Dragon Blade in hand.
"About time..." Asuka said.
George got to the cages and found his Eva. He boarded and activated it.
"Maya, could you-" he began.
"Done." she said.
The giant version of the Dragon Blade was lowered by a crane to the Eva and George took it. The Eva was then moved to catapult 1 and launched, right in front of Nerv. George shot out and saw Asuka trapped and the other two Evas destroyed.
"Bastards." He said and landed slashing down one of the Evas and splitting it in half.
He killed another one and they backed down few steps. George rushed to the red Eva.
"I'm glad to see you." Asuka said.
"Really?" George said with a grin.
"Yep, we'll deal with your heritage later, it's kick ass time!"
"Then come and take the two Ingrams from my Eva's thigh armor."
She took the guns and cocked them.
"Let's rock!" She said.
Unit-U dashed forward and applied its blade, taking three Evas at once. Asuka took on the other two and fired the automatics at them.
"Go for their S2 engines!" George yelled.
"OK!" Asuka answered and fired at their chests. They staggered.
George blocked a lance from one of the Evas and knocked it away, slashing at another right after. One of the Evas broke off the attack and joined the two that were attacking Asuka.
"Oh no you don't!" he said and fired his thruster, he flew at the Eva and grabbed it by the neck and threw it at the two Evas he was fighting a moment ago.
He landed in front of Unit-02. One of the Evas threw its lance at Unit-02, George saw it coming, and he dashed in front of her and threw up his field.
"Asuka, tell the others I'm sorry for not telling them." He said and pushed her out of the way as the lance broke through his AT-Field and pierced his Eva's head.
"GEORGE!" she screamed. The Dragon Blade fell from his hands and Unit-U fell backwards.
The defeated Evas reactivated and regenerated the damage done to them. The Evas then lifted up and threw the other eight spears at it, piercing the rest of Unit-U, and its S2. Asuka lay on the floor stunned. They then landed and tore Unit-U apart, each trying to get at its S2 engine. One Eva got to it and tore it out with its teeth and swallowed it. The other Evas continued to tear the dead Eva apart and devoured it.
"Oh god..." Asuka whimpered and crawled backwards, away from the feeding frenzy. The Evas grinned as they licked the meat off the bones and skull of Unit-U. Then they remembered about Unit-02 and they turned towards it.
The four bridge officers, the only ones left alive at Nerv except Shinji, and they promptly threw up at the scene. The three bridge operators had reactivated their normal consoles and were working as usual.
Maya yelled into the P.A. system, "Shinji! Ge...George is dead!" Shinji snapped up as he heard the words. "He died fighting to help us! He, an Angel! What's your excuse for sitting here on your cowardly ass!" she yelled. "Toji and Hikari are have also been defeated, if you do nothing Asuka is finished!"
Shinji's mind was going fast, 'He..? He couldn't have! He was a Angel, he wouldn't die trying to help us.' But his mind flashed with images of the past two months with George. Since their first meeting in the alley, the school, Nerv, their new home, and all the good times they've had. And he thought, 'never once did he do anything accept try and be a good caretaker and friend. 'and Shinji realized his mistake.
"I'm the worst of scum." He said and got up and ran towards the cages. He didn't even have to go far, Unit-01 activated and punched through the walls and smashed its way to where Shinji was.
"Again?" he said. "How does it keep doing that?" the hatch opened and he climbed into the entry plug. He felt a strong presence in the plug. And the smell...it was familiar. A memory of a brow haired women picking him up flashed. "Mother!?" he yelled. He heard her laugh.
[Yes my child, I have been with you all along.]
Mother...I missed you.
[Don't worry, I'm here. You want to save your love? That red headed girl?]
Yes, I do.
[Then let's go, I will help you...]
The Eva series advanced on Unit-02. Asuka saw no reason to resist, her power reserves were at 25 seconds, even George had been slain, and that Shinji still wasn't here. She sighed
"Where are you when I really need you?" she said and closed her eyes.
The ground rumbled and she opened them again. The Nerv pyramid exploded in a wall of light and Eva Unit-01 emerged from it, with a pair of orange and gold wings. The Eva series growled and turned to face this new opponent. Eva-01 looked at the remains of Unit-U and the bodies of Unit-03 and 05. Both it and its pilot roared and it raised its right hand.
"Shinji...you've come..." Asuka said.
"Sir! A large object approaching from outer space!" Makoto announced.
"Oh lord...the original Lance of Longinus!" Fuyuzuki gasped.
The lance shot towards Unit-01 and stopped in front of it. It took hold of the lance and looked down at the Eva series. They bared they teeth and flew up at it.
"You will pay." Shinji said. Eva-01 spun the lance and engaged the nine Evas in midair.
"Shinji!" Asuka yelled. "You're here!"
"That's right," he said grinning despite the fighting he was doing at the same time. "Not going to let these bastards eat my girlfriend and then destroy the world now am I?"
She laughed. Shinji saw an opening and struck at one of the Evas, the Lance went through its chest and came out the back, its S2 stuck to the prongs. The Eva went silent and Shinji flung it and the destroyed S2 to the ground below. He continued to fight the eight Evas. They broke off and flew some distance from it. They turned and threw their replica lances.
"Not me," Shinji said. "Not going to work on me." He put up his AT-Field. The Evas grinned. But the fake lances couldn't get through. "These fakes..." he said and expanded it even more. "Are no match." The lances dissolved into dust.
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SEELE 1: NO! THE REPLICA LANCES! THEY WERE NECESSARY FOR THE CEREMONY!
SEELE 8: We have failed...
SEELE 6: The Human Instrumentally Project is wasted.
SEELE 4: Keel, it is finished. Over, the chance is lost.
SEELE 9: Mankind is doomed.
SEELE 12: Let us dissolve, there is no purpose to SEELE anymore.
SEELE 10: Yes, we'll return to our countries and live however long we can.
SEELE 2: All that consent, say aye!
All SEELEs except SEELE 1: AYE!
SEELE 1: NO! WE CAN NOT, WE HAVE-
SEELE 3: Failed.
SEELE 5: The dream is over Keel.
SEELE 7: Perfection is out of our reach, we have no choice. It's been a pleasure Keel.
All SEELEs except 1 fade.
SEELE 1: NO! COME BACK! WE CAN STILL... The black monolith disappears and an old man with some crazy headgear appears.
Keel: Fools! They give up too easily! Eva series, my faithful servants! DESTROY UNIT-01!
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The Evas reengage Unit-01 and bit at it. It easily punctures all of their S2 engines and slashes their bodies to pieces. That done, he flew over to Units-03 and 05 and picked them up. He brought them before Unit-02 and landed. Shinji and Asuka exits their Evas and rescue Hikari and Toji from their mangled Units. They lay their two friends on the ground.
"Hey guys, how are you?" Shinji asked.
Hikari opened her eyes "Is it over?"
"Yeah, Shinji kicked their ass." Asuka said.
"Oh man...I feel horrible." Toji said.
"Well, it's over. You can relax now." Shinji said.
"What's that?" Toji asked pointing at the Lance of Longinus. "Looks like the things those Evas used."
Shinji told him that it was the original one. Hikari looked to the side and gasped. "And what's that!?" She pointed at the bones and remaining pieces of armor of Unit-U.
"That's...was...Unit-U." Asuka said quietly.
Toji's eyes widened. "Was George in it?"
Shinji nodded. "And was he with us, in the end?" Toji asked.
"He died defending us against the Eva series." Asuka said angrily at him.
"I thought that he was-"
"You cannot judge all based on a few examples." Shinji said. "I learned that too late..."
They fell silent. Hikari looked up at the Evas. "What will they do with them?"
Asuka looked at what she was staring at. "You're right, that's a lot of power..."
Shinji looked at Unit-01 and climbed inside. "Shinji?" Asuka asked.
Mother, I-
[I already know.]
I'm sorry, but-
[I understand Shinji, don't worry. I'll always be inside your heart.]
Goodbye...mom.
[Goodbye Shinji, take care of her.]
I will...
Unit-01 rose and threw the Lance of Longinus into space once more. It then took the other three Units and threw them into the lake.
"Shinji!" Asuka yelled. "What the hell!?"
Hikari grabbed her arm. "Asuka, even if he doesn't destroy it, the government will just take it from you and use it to wage wars on other countries."
Asuka gritted her teeth and turned away. Shinji climbed out of Unit-01 and ran towards his friends.
"DOWN!!" he yelled.
Unit-01 jumped in the lake along with the other three Evas and the lake exploded.
"I'm sorry about Unit-02 Asuka..." Shinji said.
She lay her head against his shoulders, "Don't be."
Rei woke in a large carven, surrounded by LCL.
"Huh...?" she got up slowly, pain racked her head.
She looked around and saw the bodies of Commander Ikari and Kensuke.
"Kensuke!" she gasped and rolled him on his back.
He had blood all over him and she was terrified. She checked him but found no holes or any kind of injury. She then looked at Gendo's body, he had been shot twice. One of those was at point-blank range to the head. It was his blood on Kensuke's clothes. Rei shook Kensuke but he was out cold. She went to put her clothes back on and then remembered that the Commander had a phone on him. She rummaged through his pockets and found it. She dialed the number that would be answered by the command center.
"Nerv." Aoba answered.
"This is pilot Ayanami." Rei said.
"Oh Rei!" he said. "Where are you? Where's the commander?"
"The commander is dead, and both the Sixth Child and I are wounded."
"There's no one left except the other pilots and four of us at the bridge. The fighting is over, we won." He said. "But Makoto will come over with a medical pack, where's your location?"
"Terminal Dogma." She said.
"He's coming."
The four bridge officers watched as Shinji destroyed the Evas series. They cheered went he broke the replica lances and killed the rest of them.
"He did it!" Maya yelled. "Its over at last!"
They then saw him rescue the others, then he did something weird. He reentered Unit-01 and had it return the original Lance of Longinus into orbit. Then he disposed the other Nerv Eva units in the lake. The pilot exited and Unit-01 jumped in the lake by itself.
"What's going on?" Maya asked. The lake exploded and the computers monitoring the Evangelion units shut down.
"Why did he..." Makoto began.
"He knew what would become of them once this was over." Aoba said. "He did not want them used for war."
"In that case..." Maya said and looked at the Sub-Commander, he nodded. "Yes sir," she said. "Deleting all files on the Evangelion on the Magi and back- up drives. Also, the storage locker for spare parts for the Evas will self- destruct in one minute."
"Are there any files on paper?" Makoto asked.
"In Dr. Akagi and Commander Ikari's office yes."
Aoba was about to go and destroy them went the phone on the consoles rang. He picked up. "Nerv."
"This is pilot Ayanami."
One week later...
"Hurry up Shinji." Asuka yelled. The Children were back at their house. The attack on Nerv had been all SEELE's planning and the Japanese Government had made a pubic apology to Nerv and the families of the victims. The U.N. had blamed everything on Commander Ikari and the SEELE comity. Since Gendo was dead, the official story being that he was killed by one of the JSSDF solders. (Fuyuzuki had kindly left out the actual death cause and the boy who had fired the killing shot.) They tried to track down the members of SEELE but found only one. Keel was mentally disrupted when they found him and he spent the rest of his days in a mental institute. It was also decided that the Children were to be given the house they had shared with George as a gift for their troubles, as well as a nice paycheck for their services. At the moment they were changing into their black suits to go to a funeral ceremony for all who died in the battle. Everyone who was killed by the JSSDF was named and had their name engraved on a memorial wall, the JSSDF solders themselves were also remembered as just doing what they were ordered to. Most of them had met their fate at George's hands. George himself was also named as a pilot who died in combat. Shinji and the others had found the entry plug still embedded in the spine of Unit-U. They found what was left of the body inside and had it buried in another cemetery, this was only visited by the six children and the four officers that witness his death. Unexpectedly, Colonel Kasurigi had also turned up at his grave; they had thought her dead. All of the children had scars from the Angel Wars, physical or psychological. Nerv was disbanded and the Remaining personnel were transferred to other Japanese organizations, all except Kozo Fuyuzuki who had retired to his home out in the country. The world never learned the truth about how close they all came to total destruction, had it not been for the desperate defense put up by the men and women at Nerv, and the children that saved mankind, at cost to their peace of mind. Thus, the world remembered the young heroes of the Angels War, as the Children of Humanity.
A/N: Chapter 15 is completed, thus the end of this fiction. Some of you hated it, some of you liked it. Please drop a kind word and I might see you again. Good-bye.
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 fifteen, the final chapter of this story. Thanks to all my readers. Enjoy the ending.
"So all the Angels have been defeated?" Makoto asked.
The three bridge bunnies were enjoying a little snack and talking.
"Yep, at least I think so. There are seventeen right?" Aoba said.
"What of the other pattern we spotted so many times?" Maya asked.
"Nothing, scanned the complete city and found not a trace of it."
It was late, and the night shift was al that was left.
"What will they do with the Evangelions? Or us?" Makoto wondered.
Aoba looked at the computer that was used to monitor the status of the Evangelions.
"Five Evangelions, more than enough to conquer the world." He said. "I'll bet anything that someone in the UN is thinking of that."
Maya sighed "With the Angels gone, man will use the power used to defeat them on his fellow man. Only humans could sink to that level, perhaps we deserve Third-Impact." The three fell silent.
Rei awoke in a hospital room, the last thing she remembered was being in her Eva and fighting the sixteenth Angel. 'I'm still alive?' she thought astounded. The Eva's self destruction should have killed her. 'I suppose I'm lucky to have survived but...' she thought for a moment. 'Could I be the third one? But no, the Commander would not have allowed the downloading of all my memories, especially those between me and Kensuke...'
"Kensuke!" she gasped and got up out of the bed.
Her left arm and stomach areas have been wrapped in bandages. She felt no pain and tore them off. She knew that her S2 organ, though inefficient as she was only half Angel, would have taken cared of that. She walked outside her room and went in search for the room Kensuke was in. She found the room she had shared with Hikari and peeked in. Asuka was still lying there and Hikari was sitting on her own bed with her back towards the door, reading something. Rei knew the way from there and found her way to Kensuke's room. She peered into the room through the glass and saw Kensuke still in a coma-like state. She felt pain in her heart and feared that he would not awaken. But he seemed to have heard her thoughts as his head started to roll to the sides. Rei was surprised, but regained her composure and quickly dashed to the wall and pressed the button to summon the doctor. A man in a white lab coat appeared and demanded to know what was wrong. Rei described to him what happened in the last two minutes and he rushed into the room through the 'Doctors and Nurses only' door. She watched through the glass as he examined Kensuke and talked on a walkie- talkie. Several more doctors came into the observation part of room and then entered the other room and joined the first doctor in his examination. Rei stood there, hoping for the best. The doctors seemed to be upbeat about something and they all seemed to debate on a course of action. Finally one doctor left and returned with a small bottle of yellow fluid and a needle. This they injected into Kensuke's neck and they watched. It seemed to have no effect but then Kensuke started to cough and his eyes opened slowly. His mouth opened and he seemed to be saying something. The doctors all looked at the girl through the window, this surprised her. One of them opened the door and asked her if her name was Rei. She nodded and the doctor motioned to the others. They filed out of the room and into the room Rei was in.
"First word he said when he woke up was your name little girl." The first doctor said with a grin. "You can see him for a little while."
They left the room to give them a little privacy and Rei ran into the room Kensuke was in. "Kensuke!" she cried and kissed him on the lips as soon as she reached him. Kensuke's eyes bulged.
When Rei parted he smiled, "Just for waking up?" he asked. "Wonder what you'll do when I get up and walk."
Rei gave him a look that said he was pushing it and he quickly apologized. "I'm glad that you're all right though." She said and held his hand the way she saw Auska and Shinji do all the time.
They talked a bit and kissed again before the doctor came back and asked Rei to come back again later. That night, Kensuke was out of intensive care and stationed in the room with the others, Rei was also transferred into the room again. Toji had awoken and the experience he shared with Hikari when he woke up was no less romantic than Rei and Kensuke's, or so Toji claimed. Hikari and Rei filled the two boys in on what has been happening lately and they now had three things to worry about. Asuka, and the location of Shinji and George...
Asuka was back in her nightmares, but this time she could no longer feel the comfort of Shinji's grip. 'Shinji, where are you?' she thought. 'How long does it take to fight an Angel?' But in truth she had no idea how much time has passed since she had Shinji leave. She whimpered as she relived the moment of the Angel's mind rape and screamed inside her head. 'I'm alone,' she thought. 'In the end, it's just me against these memories...' Suddenly she felt two pairs of hands gripping her hands, one pair for each one. She could tell they weren't Shinji's but they felt familiar somehow. Two pictures shattered the image of the bird-like Angel in front of her. Two pictures of people she knew. 'Hikari? Ayanami?' she wondered at the smiling images of her two friends. She heard words of encouragement from them and she felt clam replace the fear and anxiety. She felt her awareness heighten and the view of a ceiling came into focus, as did four heads peering down at her.
"Hikari? Rei? Kensuke? And Toji?" she whispered.
"Holy crap! She's awake!" someone yelled.
They were sitting around Hikari's bed discussing where Shinji could have gone off to when they heard Asuka whimper. They looked at her and saw her head covered in sweat and her hands gripping the sheets on her bed. Rei and Hikari, who was closer to her, as far as their relations went anyway. Rushed over and grabbed a hand each.
"It's ok Asuka, we're here for you!" Hikari said.
The two boys looked on from the foot of the bed and were worried about their fellow friend and pilot.
"Asuka, Ikari may be absent but we are also your friends." Rei said. "We also care for you, though maybe in a different way than he does."
She opened her eyes slowly. "Hikari? Rei? Kensuke? And Toji?" she whispered.
"Holy crap! She's awake!" Kensuke yelled. Rei told him to be quiet and turned back to Asuka.
"You're awake." She said.
Asuka opened her eyes fully and blinked a few times. "Oh...Shinji?" she mumbled.
Hikari laughed a little, "No Asuka, it's us. He err...stepped out for a minute." She lied quickly.
Asuka woke up fully and sat up in her bed. She scanned their faces. "You're lying." She said.
"Alert! Magi systems being invade!" Makoto yelled.
"Is it the Japanese Government's computer!?" The sub-commander demanded.
"No! I have identified three of the five Magi systems hacking ours. They are the U.S., England, and China! Other two are still unknown, but are for sure another Magi system!"
"So, it is SEELE's doing. It has begun." Fuyuzuki said.
"They've taken Balthazar and Melchior! Casper is-" he stopped in mid sentence. "Casper is unaffected, it is fighting the invasion off of the other two systems." He turned to Maya, she knew more about the Magi systems, being Akagi's first assistant. She looked at him and threw him a disk.
"Sempai's notes," she said sadly. "I found them when the commander ordered me to clean out her office and throw everything away. I took it home and studied it, I learned how to install the 666 type firewall." She burst out crying. "The doctor...is..." she sobbed.
The screen showed that the invasion has been halted for the next 64 hours. Fuyuzuki looked at Gendo.
"Good thing you had Ibuki clean her office Ikari, or the Magi would be under SEELE's control." He whispered.
"Indeed." Gendo replied.
"But that's just the start." The Sub-Commander continued. "They take this base by force."
"Of course, deploy the defense units." He ordered.
"That last Angel took out more than half of them Commander..."
Gendo was silent, "Send whatever's left."
Colonel Kasurigi was alerted and recalled to Nerv immediately.
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SEELE 7: Damn Ikari! He has installed a type 666 firewall. We cannot bypass that for some time.
SEELE 1: We have no choice I had wanted to settle this peacefully, but... Launch the JSSDF forces! Take Nerv by force!
SEELE 3: It has been done.
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Outside in the GeoFront, in the forest surrounding Nerv HQ. The JSSDF's entire force lay in waiting. Their commander received the call.
"Roger that." He said and hung up. "All right men, it's show time!"
The force came out of hiding and launched a full-scale attack on Nerv. They used the VTOL fighters to destroy the outer defenses and then their ground troops marched towards Nerv. Misato came onto the bridge and was told of the situation.
"If they invade us and try to take the Evas, they're going to go after the children first! Have them taken from the hospital and brought here!" she ordered.
"Shinji and George are missing!" Aoba yelled.
"What!? Now Shinji too!?" she exclaimed, making a quick decision. "Get the others to the bridge, I'll find Shinji."
"What of George?" Aoba asked.
"He's gone missing for some time now, I doubt we'll find him anyway." She muttered, she pulled out her Colt-45 and checked the clip. Then she ran out the door.
The children were in the hospital room talking, Asuka had told them what George had revealed.
"He's an Angel!?" Toji gasped.
"I can't believe it." Hikari said, shocked.
Rei said nothing for a minute, then, "I knew."
The other four looked at her. "How!?"
"When we were still in that intensive care ward, I woke up for a second and saw George through the window. He had his shirt and coat off and he was examining a wound on his chest." She explained. "I then saw it fade right away and heal. Only an S2 organ is capable of that. Like Evas and Angels."
They thought about that. "So...was he one of the seventeen?" Hikari wondered aloud.
"All seventeen angels have been defeated already." They looked at the door and saw Makoto.
"What!?" they yelled. He related recent events and told them of the emergency.
"What about Shinji!?" Auska demanded.
"The Colonel has gone looking for him." He answered. "We must hurry to the bridge, there's no time!"
They heard an explosion from far away and they hurriedly followed Makoto. They arrived at the bridge and were ordered to go change into plug suits and pilot the Evangelions to fight off the invaders. Kensuke was to remain on the bridge.
"Rei, come with me." Gendo ordered. So Asuka, Hikari, and Toji launched out to confront the air, sea, and ground forces. Gendo had Fuyuzuki take command of the bridge.
"Yes, of course. Give my regards to Yui." He said.
Kensuke looked over at them. 'Where's he taking her?' he thought.
Aoba handed a handgun to him, "Here kid, if they get all the way into here..."
Kensuke nodded, but he snuck out while the crew was preoccupied with the Evangelion's launch sequence. Gendo led Rei down the way to Terminal Dogma. He then turned and asked her.
"Do you remember your purpose?"
"Yes." She replied.
"Then are you ready?" he asked.
"I am not your doll, I will not do this." She said.
Gendo smirked, "I didn't think you would."
With that he smacked his hand across her head. She was knocked out. He undressed her and carried her body in front of the giant Lilith. He placed her on the floor and took the glove off his right hand, he looked at the embryo of the Angel known as Adam embedded in his palm.
"At last, Yui and I can be together." He lowered his hand towards Rei but he heard something and his right arm was in pain. "Arg!" he looked and saw blood all over his shoulder, he looked behind him and saw Kensuke running towards him, a gun in his hand.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" he yelled.
"Foolish child!" Gendo screamed and whipped out his pistol.
He fired but Kensuke, who has played war games for half his life, instantly rolled to the side and dodged it. Gendo aimed again but someone grabbed him from behind and pulled at his arm. "Rei!" he gasped and she clawed at his face.
"AHH!" he yelled and smacked her again with the butt of his handgun, she collapsed once again.
"Bastard!" He turned and looked down the barrel of Kensuke's gun.
'So Yui, I've failed.' He thought.
Kensuke fired. He looked down at the body of the commander of Nerv. 'Oh boy...I killed the Commander.' He thought. He shoved that aside and ran to Rei's side
"Rei..." But because of the long-term effects of the injuries from his last Eva fight, his body couldn't handle the stress from run down here and then the 'battle'. He collapsed next to his love.
Meanwhile, the three Evangelions launched and fought furiously against the JSSDF forces. Toji and Hikari's Evas still weren't fully recovered and were a little clumsy in their movements. Asuka's piloting ability and synch ratio were a bit low because her mind was still effected from the fifteen Angel attack and her worrying about Shinji. They still however, managed to destroy the air and sea forces but most of the ground troops had stormed inside Nerv already.
"Shit!" Asuka said.
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SEELE 6: Accursed Evangelions, they are not worth the trouble.
SEELE 10: We only need the purple one...the others are irrelevant.
SEELE 1: In that case, have the Eva series dispose of them.
SEELE 9: Yes.
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An N2 mine was shot towards the GeoFront from the JSSDF's fleet on the coast of Japan. It blew in the top of the GeoFront and a rain of Missiles rained on top of the GeoFront, Nerv HQ, and the three Evangelions. The pilots were not worried about that, they had 200 plates of fortified armor protecting them. What did worry them were the things they saw in the sky above the hole. Nine black planes flew over the new open top of the GeoFront, from the bottom of each plan, a white, winged creature dropped down and flew towards Nerv.
"Holly shit, those are Evas!" Toji yelled.
"Well then, each of us will just have take down three of them." Asuka said counting the number of Evas descending.
"Be careful, we only have five minutes of energy left..." Toji warned.
"Plenty." Asuka said and pulled out her Prog. Knife.
The solders have penetrated six of Nerv's levels and have slaughtered everyone in those levels, resisting or not.
"Sir!" Aoba said. "They have reached-"
The left side of the command center exploded in and troops poured in.
"-The command center!" Aoba finished, and hit the floor along with Maya and Makoto.
The two men pulled out their Ak-47s while Maya continued with the Evas' operation controls. Sub-Commander Fuyuzuki ducked along with them and he too pulled out a handgun.
"Well, it's been a while." He said as he cocked the trigger and fired from behind the consoles the three bridge bunnies usually worked. Aoba and Makoto followed suit.
The troops just inside the entrance of HQ were scanning the area when they saw a figure approach the entrance.
"Sir!" a soldier said to his partner and they fired on him. Orange hexagons appeared where the bullets hit and ricocheted off. "What the hell!?" they gasped.
The figure in the long black coat was holding a giant weapon, a spear or something they thought. The figure approached and they fired again, it did nothing. The boy slashed and they fell to the floor, missing their heads. He continued on and annihilated every solder he met the same way, sometimes killing whole groups with his AT-Field.
"Sir! Mega AT-Field energy level and blue pattern detected!" Maya said from her place on the floor." She had pulled one of the laptops down and did her part on that.
"It can't be an Angel?" Makoto said looking from behind her shoulders and reloading his rifle.
"I don't know," she said and patched up the cameras in that sector. "It's George!" she yelled.
"No...he's the blue pattern we detected all those times!?" Aoba yelled as he pulled down to reload also.
"Looks like it," she said. "It also looks like he's fighting the solders with us."
"Well then I don't give a damn what the hell he is!" Aoba said and he jumped up and fired.
George slashed his way through the corridors and met up with Colonel Kasuragi, who was pinned down by a squad of troops. She was shot in the shoulder and thigh and had loss a lot blood. After George killed the solders he rushed over to her
"Colonel?" he asked picking her up with one arm. "Are you going to make it?"
She looked at him; she was very weak. "You...Angel?"
He nodded.
"You...on whose side?" she asked.
"I just want to protect the children." he said.
"You want to help...Shinji?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Good..." she said "Then go find him...I've already checked the upper levels..." she gave him a communicator and then fainted. He laid her down and covered her with his coat.
"Yes Colonel, rest assured, I will." He went on his way. Killing more troops as his rage intensified.
Shinji had heard the gunfire and explosions. He curled up into a ball and waited for death to come. He was not kept waiting for long, a band of five solders came in the storage room.
"We've found the third child, commencing execution." one solder reported into his com-link. "Sorry kid. Just doing my job." He said, aiming his Desert Eagle. Bullets whizzed by and the solder jerked and dropped dead.
His four companions turned. A boy dressed in black had two MAC10 Ingrams in his hands was standing in the doorway. They brought up their M-16s but he killed them before they could fire. Shinji looked up.
"What the hell are you doing here!?" he yelled at him.
George stowed his guns and picked up his Dragon Blade from the floor. He grabbed the boy with his other hand and dragged him out with the intention of taking him to the Eva cages.
"Hey! Let go of me!" Shinji yelled.
"We are going to the Eva cages." George said, still dragging him along.
"I don't want to pilot Eva!" he yelled and struggled.
George slammed him against the wall. "Look at this hallway Shinji!" he yelled.
Shinji looked, it was covered in blood and there were bodies everywhere.
"This is the final fight! If SEELE gets their hands on Unit-01, they'll start Third-Impact!"
"And wouldn't you like that!" Shinji yelled. "I know you're an Angel! Of course you want Third-Impact!"
"The reason I've come here is to try and stop Third-Impact!" George shouted.
"Liar! That's what Angels want! To kill us all!"
George let him go, "I told you, you cannot judge us all based on a few examples." He said. "SEELE has probably deployed their Eva series! Toji, Hikari, and Asuka are fighting them now! But are going against three to nine odds."
Shinji looked away. "I won't be much help." He said. "I can't help or protect others. Since you say you want to help, why don't you go."
George smacked him across the head. "Where do you think I'm going!?" he yelled. "You are hopeless, fine! Sit here and watch everyone die, including Asuka!" He turned and ran down the hallways. Shinji slumped on the floor and looked at the blood and bodies.
George ran towards the cages but some of the routes were blocked off or destroyed. He called up the bridge on the communicator Misato gave him. Maya answered.
"Lt. Ibuki! I'm cut off from the cages! I need to get to Unit-U!"
"Did you find Shinji?"
"Yeah, he's safe, but he won't do anything. I need to go help Hikari and the others!"
"You're right, the SEELE Evas have taken Hikari out already! Asuka and Toji won't last too much longer."
"Shit!"
"Oh right, about the route...it's no good!. The only way is to head to the command center and go from here!"
"Then that's what I'll do."
"We have a large force at the bottom level of the commander center pinning us down! You can't get through!"
"Hell yes I can!"
Maya's computer showed a large At-Field outside the commander center. They heard the solders scream and the gunfire stopped.
"Oh my god..." Makoto said as he looked down from his firing position.
Aoba looked and gasped. They stood up.
"What are you two doing!" Fuyuzuki yelled, "Get down or you'll be shot!"
Aoba turned his head to look at the Sub-Commander, "Sir, all the enemy solders are dead. They're a mess on the walls and floors now..."
Kozo stood up and looked. The scene was horrific, George stood in the middle of where the solders had been and there were body parts and blood spreading out in a circle pattern around him. He looked up at them and flew up to them.
"Which way?" he asked. The men were shocked to see him first kill of that many people in such a gruesome fashion, then fly up in front of them. Maya pointed to the door George had used before with the other pilots.
"The locker room? That path is still open?"
She checked her computer. "Yes."
Without another word he flew towards the door and went right through it. The three men looked after him and then at each other. "B...back to ...work." Fuyuzuki said.
Asuka, Toji and Hikari were battling the Eva series. As soon as they landed the Evas attacked with their double bladed weapons. The three pilot were unarmed except for their Prog. Knifes. Asuka had pulled hers out and stabbed it into one of the Eva's head. It screamed and Asuka took the blade it dropped and fought with that. Hikari was slashing with her knife and had slashed a deep cut across the chest of one of the Evas. It roared and swung its blade up and cut her Eva's left arm off. She screamed and another Eva came behind her and changed its blade into a Lance of Longinus.
"What?" Asuka said noticing it. "That thing looks fami...OH SHIT, HIKARI!" she yelled.
Too late, the Eva pierced Hikari's in the back and threw her away. She landed in a lake far away from the base.
"Hikari!" Toji yelled and he charged at the Eva that did it.
He came up behind it and grabbing it's upper and lower jaws forced it to split open. It slumped and dropped its weapon, Toji picked up the replica lance. He stabbed the Eva Hikari had slashed and kicked it off the lance. Asuka tried to change her blade into its lance form but she didn't know how. An Eva came up in front of her and thrust its blade at her face. She held hers up and the blades were locked. They pushed but another Eva came up to her side and slashed, forcing her to let go of the blade and roll to the side. Toji came up next to her and the remaining Evas circled them.
"Six against two, not good." Toji said to her.
"Where the fuck is that useless baka Shinji!?" she yelled.
"And George." Toji added.
The Evas flew up into the air and all six of them dived at Toji's Eva. He held his lance up but the six lances the Evas had was too much and Toji's Eva lost its head and arms in the ensuing slaughter.
"Toji!" Asuka yelled.
The green Eva was down, Asuka was on her own.
"Oh...not good." She said. The Evas circled her again and they grinned with their nasty looking red lips. The ground opened up in front of the pyramid and a black Evangelion shot out, Dragon Blade in hand.
"About time..." Asuka said.
George got to the cages and found his Eva. He boarded and activated it.
"Maya, could you-" he began.
"Done." she said.
The giant version of the Dragon Blade was lowered by a crane to the Eva and George took it. The Eva was then moved to catapult 1 and launched, right in front of Nerv. George shot out and saw Asuka trapped and the other two Evas destroyed.
"Bastards." He said and landed slashing down one of the Evas and splitting it in half.
He killed another one and they backed down few steps. George rushed to the red Eva.
"I'm glad to see you." Asuka said.
"Really?" George said with a grin.
"Yep, we'll deal with your heritage later, it's kick ass time!"
"Then come and take the two Ingrams from my Eva's thigh armor."
She took the guns and cocked them.
"Let's rock!" She said.
Unit-U dashed forward and applied its blade, taking three Evas at once. Asuka took on the other two and fired the automatics at them.
"Go for their S2 engines!" George yelled.
"OK!" Asuka answered and fired at their chests. They staggered.
George blocked a lance from one of the Evas and knocked it away, slashing at another right after. One of the Evas broke off the attack and joined the two that were attacking Asuka.
"Oh no you don't!" he said and fired his thruster, he flew at the Eva and grabbed it by the neck and threw it at the two Evas he was fighting a moment ago.
He landed in front of Unit-02. One of the Evas threw its lance at Unit-02, George saw it coming, and he dashed in front of her and threw up his field.
"Asuka, tell the others I'm sorry for not telling them." He said and pushed her out of the way as the lance broke through his AT-Field and pierced his Eva's head.
"GEORGE!" she screamed. The Dragon Blade fell from his hands and Unit-U fell backwards.
The defeated Evas reactivated and regenerated the damage done to them. The Evas then lifted up and threw the other eight spears at it, piercing the rest of Unit-U, and its S2. Asuka lay on the floor stunned. They then landed and tore Unit-U apart, each trying to get at its S2 engine. One Eva got to it and tore it out with its teeth and swallowed it. The other Evas continued to tear the dead Eva apart and devoured it.
"Oh god..." Asuka whimpered and crawled backwards, away from the feeding frenzy. The Evas grinned as they licked the meat off the bones and skull of Unit-U. Then they remembered about Unit-02 and they turned towards it.
The four bridge officers, the only ones left alive at Nerv except Shinji, and they promptly threw up at the scene. The three bridge operators had reactivated their normal consoles and were working as usual.
Maya yelled into the P.A. system, "Shinji! Ge...George is dead!" Shinji snapped up as he heard the words. "He died fighting to help us! He, an Angel! What's your excuse for sitting here on your cowardly ass!" she yelled. "Toji and Hikari are have also been defeated, if you do nothing Asuka is finished!"
Shinji's mind was going fast, 'He..? He couldn't have! He was a Angel, he wouldn't die trying to help us.' But his mind flashed with images of the past two months with George. Since their first meeting in the alley, the school, Nerv, their new home, and all the good times they've had. And he thought, 'never once did he do anything accept try and be a good caretaker and friend. 'and Shinji realized his mistake.
"I'm the worst of scum." He said and got up and ran towards the cages. He didn't even have to go far, Unit-01 activated and punched through the walls and smashed its way to where Shinji was.
"Again?" he said. "How does it keep doing that?" the hatch opened and he climbed into the entry plug. He felt a strong presence in the plug. And the smell...it was familiar. A memory of a brow haired women picking him up flashed. "Mother!?" he yelled. He heard her laugh.
[Yes my child, I have been with you all along.]
Mother...I missed you.
[Don't worry, I'm here. You want to save your love? That red headed girl?]
Yes, I do.
[Then let's go, I will help you...]
The Eva series advanced on Unit-02. Asuka saw no reason to resist, her power reserves were at 25 seconds, even George had been slain, and that Shinji still wasn't here. She sighed
"Where are you when I really need you?" she said and closed her eyes.
The ground rumbled and she opened them again. The Nerv pyramid exploded in a wall of light and Eva Unit-01 emerged from it, with a pair of orange and gold wings. The Eva series growled and turned to face this new opponent. Eva-01 looked at the remains of Unit-U and the bodies of Unit-03 and 05. Both it and its pilot roared and it raised its right hand.
"Shinji...you've come..." Asuka said.
"Sir! A large object approaching from outer space!" Makoto announced.
"Oh lord...the original Lance of Longinus!" Fuyuzuki gasped.
The lance shot towards Unit-01 and stopped in front of it. It took hold of the lance and looked down at the Eva series. They bared they teeth and flew up at it.
"You will pay." Shinji said. Eva-01 spun the lance and engaged the nine Evas in midair.
"Shinji!" Asuka yelled. "You're here!"
"That's right," he said grinning despite the fighting he was doing at the same time. "Not going to let these bastards eat my girlfriend and then destroy the world now am I?"
She laughed. Shinji saw an opening and struck at one of the Evas, the Lance went through its chest and came out the back, its S2 stuck to the prongs. The Eva went silent and Shinji flung it and the destroyed S2 to the ground below. He continued to fight the eight Evas. They broke off and flew some distance from it. They turned and threw their replica lances.
"Not me," Shinji said. "Not going to work on me." He put up his AT-Field. The Evas grinned. But the fake lances couldn't get through. "These fakes..." he said and expanded it even more. "Are no match." The lances dissolved into dust.
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SEELE 1: NO! THE REPLICA LANCES! THEY WERE NECESSARY FOR THE CEREMONY!
SEELE 8: We have failed...
SEELE 6: The Human Instrumentally Project is wasted.
SEELE 4: Keel, it is finished. Over, the chance is lost.
SEELE 9: Mankind is doomed.
SEELE 12: Let us dissolve, there is no purpose to SEELE anymore.
SEELE 10: Yes, we'll return to our countries and live however long we can.
SEELE 2: All that consent, say aye!
All SEELEs except SEELE 1: AYE!
SEELE 1: NO! WE CAN NOT, WE HAVE-
SEELE 3: Failed.
SEELE 5: The dream is over Keel.
SEELE 7: Perfection is out of our reach, we have no choice. It's been a pleasure Keel.
All SEELEs except 1 fade.
SEELE 1: NO! COME BACK! WE CAN STILL... The black monolith disappears and an old man with some crazy headgear appears.
Keel: Fools! They give up too easily! Eva series, my faithful servants! DESTROY UNIT-01!
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The Evas reengage Unit-01 and bit at it. It easily punctures all of their S2 engines and slashes their bodies to pieces. That done, he flew over to Units-03 and 05 and picked them up. He brought them before Unit-02 and landed. Shinji and Asuka exits their Evas and rescue Hikari and Toji from their mangled Units. They lay their two friends on the ground.
"Hey guys, how are you?" Shinji asked.
Hikari opened her eyes "Is it over?"
"Yeah, Shinji kicked their ass." Asuka said.
"Oh man...I feel horrible." Toji said.
"Well, it's over. You can relax now." Shinji said.
"What's that?" Toji asked pointing at the Lance of Longinus. "Looks like the things those Evas used."
Shinji told him that it was the original one. Hikari looked to the side and gasped. "And what's that!?" She pointed at the bones and remaining pieces of armor of Unit-U.
"That's...was...Unit-U." Asuka said quietly.
Toji's eyes widened. "Was George in it?"
Shinji nodded. "And was he with us, in the end?" Toji asked.
"He died defending us against the Eva series." Asuka said angrily at him.
"I thought that he was-"
"You cannot judge all based on a few examples." Shinji said. "I learned that too late..."
They fell silent. Hikari looked up at the Evas. "What will they do with them?"
Asuka looked at what she was staring at. "You're right, that's a lot of power..."
Shinji looked at Unit-01 and climbed inside. "Shinji?" Asuka asked.
Mother, I-
[I already know.]
I'm sorry, but-
[I understand Shinji, don't worry. I'll always be inside your heart.]
Goodbye...mom.
[Goodbye Shinji, take care of her.]
I will...
Unit-01 rose and threw the Lance of Longinus into space once more. It then took the other three Units and threw them into the lake.
"Shinji!" Asuka yelled. "What the hell!?"
Hikari grabbed her arm. "Asuka, even if he doesn't destroy it, the government will just take it from you and use it to wage wars on other countries."
Asuka gritted her teeth and turned away. Shinji climbed out of Unit-01 and ran towards his friends.
"DOWN!!" he yelled.
Unit-01 jumped in the lake along with the other three Evas and the lake exploded.
"I'm sorry about Unit-02 Asuka..." Shinji said.
She lay her head against his shoulders, "Don't be."
Rei woke in a large carven, surrounded by LCL.
"Huh...?" she got up slowly, pain racked her head.
She looked around and saw the bodies of Commander Ikari and Kensuke.
"Kensuke!" she gasped and rolled him on his back.
He had blood all over him and she was terrified. She checked him but found no holes or any kind of injury. She then looked at Gendo's body, he had been shot twice. One of those was at point-blank range to the head. It was his blood on Kensuke's clothes. Rei shook Kensuke but he was out cold. She went to put her clothes back on and then remembered that the Commander had a phone on him. She rummaged through his pockets and found it. She dialed the number that would be answered by the command center.
"Nerv." Aoba answered.
"This is pilot Ayanami." Rei said.
"Oh Rei!" he said. "Where are you? Where's the commander?"
"The commander is dead, and both the Sixth Child and I are wounded."
"There's no one left except the other pilots and four of us at the bridge. The fighting is over, we won." He said. "But Makoto will come over with a medical pack, where's your location?"
"Terminal Dogma." She said.
"He's coming."
The four bridge officers watched as Shinji destroyed the Evas series. They cheered went he broke the replica lances and killed the rest of them.
"He did it!" Maya yelled. "Its over at last!"
They then saw him rescue the others, then he did something weird. He reentered Unit-01 and had it return the original Lance of Longinus into orbit. Then he disposed the other Nerv Eva units in the lake. The pilot exited and Unit-01 jumped in the lake by itself.
"What's going on?" Maya asked. The lake exploded and the computers monitoring the Evangelion units shut down.
"Why did he..." Makoto began.
"He knew what would become of them once this was over." Aoba said. "He did not want them used for war."
"In that case..." Maya said and looked at the Sub-Commander, he nodded. "Yes sir," she said. "Deleting all files on the Evangelion on the Magi and back- up drives. Also, the storage locker for spare parts for the Evas will self- destruct in one minute."
"Are there any files on paper?" Makoto asked.
"In Dr. Akagi and Commander Ikari's office yes."
Aoba was about to go and destroy them went the phone on the consoles rang. He picked up. "Nerv."
"This is pilot Ayanami."
One week later...
"Hurry up Shinji." Asuka yelled. The Children were back at their house. The attack on Nerv had been all SEELE's planning and the Japanese Government had made a pubic apology to Nerv and the families of the victims. The U.N. had blamed everything on Commander Ikari and the SEELE comity. Since Gendo was dead, the official story being that he was killed by one of the JSSDF solders. (Fuyuzuki had kindly left out the actual death cause and the boy who had fired the killing shot.) They tried to track down the members of SEELE but found only one. Keel was mentally disrupted when they found him and he spent the rest of his days in a mental institute. It was also decided that the Children were to be given the house they had shared with George as a gift for their troubles, as well as a nice paycheck for their services. At the moment they were changing into their black suits to go to a funeral ceremony for all who died in the battle. Everyone who was killed by the JSSDF was named and had their name engraved on a memorial wall, the JSSDF solders themselves were also remembered as just doing what they were ordered to. Most of them had met their fate at George's hands. George himself was also named as a pilot who died in combat. Shinji and the others had found the entry plug still embedded in the spine of Unit-U. They found what was left of the body inside and had it buried in another cemetery, this was only visited by the six children and the four officers that witness his death. Unexpectedly, Colonel Kasurigi had also turned up at his grave; they had thought her dead. All of the children had scars from the Angel Wars, physical or psychological. Nerv was disbanded and the Remaining personnel were transferred to other Japanese organizations, all except Kozo Fuyuzuki who had retired to his home out in the country. The world never learned the truth about how close they all came to total destruction, had it not been for the desperate defense put up by the men and women at Nerv, and the children that saved mankind, at cost to their peace of mind. Thus, the world remembered the young heroes of the Angels War, as the Children of Humanity.
A/N: Chapter 15 is completed, thus the end of this fiction. Some of you hated it, some of you liked it. Please drop a kind word and I might see you again. Good-bye.
