The air in the Fire-Sword was electric; the whole ship was busily preparing for the impending insertion. In the crowded Hanger, Banshee Fighters were being prepped for flight, Falcon drop-ships where being loaded with mobile suits and men, and the Fire-Sword's detachment of Marines, numbering 150, hurriedly prepared their gear. The Comm burst to life with more orders, Relena's voice booming out over the hanger

Attention all combat personnel: Report to your designated squadron rally points and begin briefing

Heero nodded to the Marine Colonel and departed to his Gundam, but the Colonel, whose name was Jason Holt, turned towards his men,

"Listen up! We have fallen into an alternate dimension where earth is being overrun by fifty-foot tall demonic monsters! Now... It is our job to assist in the removal and destruction of these Demons. ... And I don't care if it's fifty feet tall or damn near five hundred feet tall, we are not going to let these pustule-birthed mucous-sucking pus-covered beasts get their claws on Tokyo... What we will let 'em have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in! We will shoot them with every thing in our goddamned arsenal, until every clip is dry! ... ... Then we will choke the life-breath out of it with its own ... living ... guts! ... And then ... we will rip its head from its spine and toss it away Laughin'! ... ... ... AM I RIGHT MARINES!?"

"Sir, Yes Sir!"

"Damn straight I am... now move out! Double time"

Attention all combat personnel: Begin final preparations for drop. ETA 27 minutes

Holt and his men rushed to board the drop-ships in the hanger bay. One by one each drop-ship was loaded with its eight marines -- each with a serpent IX mobile suit --, six standard MS rifles, one dobber cannon, one chain-gun, and a limited supply of extra ammo. Holt and his personal platoon held back, directing the greenhorns to their designated ships. Holt turned to see Duo walking towards him.

"Commander Maxwell, sir. Everything is proceeding ahead of schedule."

Duo smirked "Good, listen, when we arrive at the target zone, you and your men are to establish a perimeter, DO NOT let anything, even the Eva's out of that area, understood colonel?"

Holt saluted "Sir, understood"

Duo turned to leave, and the looking back over his shoulder called back to Holt "And Colonel, your squadron has a new call-sign for the duration of this operation..."

Holt paused in the entry of the drop-ship "Sir?! What's our number then?"

Dou turned and declared as he left, "214"

Holt's eyes went wide; they had given him the most honored call sign in the marines... the terror of the Solomon Chain, VMF-214, "The Black Sheep Squadron". His men laughed and patted him on the back as he entered the ship; soon the Black Sheep would be fighting the Japanese military again.

On the horizon the red glow of morning was building as the Fire-sword hovered in orbit above the Sea of Japan. At the first shaft of light on the bow, the ships huge hanger doors slid open.

Preparations Complete ... Begin launch now

Shinji, Asuka, and Rei had their hand full fighting the newest angel to attack Tokyo, it had seemed defenseless, little more than a Koa, that is until its ability to assimilate machinery was discovered. Every car, telephone, tank, and plane near it that could be quickly broken apart was quickly added to its "body". The fun, however, had only just begun, about fifteen minutes into the battle it had spawned extra bodies to deal with each Eva individually, and a central body to continue the infiltration of the geo-front. With four against three odds, the Eva's were fighting a loosing battle. Yet they were determined to go down fighting, the three continued to stave off the onslaught, but each second found them farther apart from each other, and their umbilical cables were close to fully extended. Shinji fought desperately against an ever-increasing number of electrical cable tentacles, Asuka was desperately trying to fend off a walking tank battalion, and Rei was frantically trying to free her Eva from a serpent of semi-trucks and gas-pumps.

Then in Central Dogma, the first signs of an anomaly appeared.

"Commander Ikari! We've lost the signal from sector five outside the city"

"Switch to blue type scan"

"No response! All forms of transmission have been jammed!"

Gendo, Misato, Ritsuko, and the entire NERV team watched dumb struck as a circle of static appeared on the map and cut a path towards the battle in the center of the city.

Shinji was loosing ground, the tentacles were everywhere! He was beginning to loose consciousness when a group of objects, like meteors appeared in the west. One hurtled down towards him, ... its wings!?! Unfolding as a large scythe arced through the cables and the angel's body. Turning towards Asuka he could see another ... whatever they were ... swipe into the beast of tank turrets and treads in a dervish of bladed fury. A third and fourth were prying apart the entity on Rei. Calling back its broken bodies to its central one the angel forged itself in to a leviathan of steel. As it brought its monstrous talons up to strike at Shinji's Eva a massive white-hot plasma fire enshrouded form burst past, hurtling into the mechanical monstrosity with such force that both went sliding several city blocks before they stopped. As soon as the Angel hit the dirt, the white shape flipped backwards and away from the accursed monster and landed in front of Shinji, Asuka, and Rei. Its gleaming wings unfurled as it landed and flared lazily in the morning sun. The Angel lashed out with its mighty claws of steel and iron, but it could not hit the dove-winged entity.

Heero ducked dodged thrust spun and kicked repeatedly -- fighting the beast with every ounce of his will. Something however needed to be added to his strength to kill that thing. As if to answer that very thought the sword the old man had given him began to glow, acting on some unknown memory he drew the ancient ensorcelled blade ... and the gundams mobile trace system reacted.

Shinji, Asuka, Rei, and all those in central dogma watched as what Gendo had called an archangel brought its hands together in a sword grip style. Then with a burst of plasmatic fire, a massive blade of pure white light erupted from its hands. With a powerful thrust of its wings it vaulted forward, bringing the blade down onto the Angel. In desperation the beast extended its AT field, but to the surprise of all, the flaming sword tore the field asunder, and piercing all it armor, rent the Koa in two. It was only then that the realization hit the Eva pilots, -- Things are about to get messy.