Author Notes: Thanks for the reviews everyone! I think this is a good time to mention that there will be some OOC of some characters. But it won't be instant change! You'll probably see it around the end. Well, anyway on with the story. Oh and.....

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Sorry for the delay!

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Chapter 3-The Power of Twilight

Kite ran though the streets, toward the noise of the destruction caused by the Angel. Kite headed around a corner and comes face to face with the Angel towering above him. "What the hell!? Helba want's me to drain this thing?! Is she nuts?!" The Angel's eyes glow and Kite acts on instinct, hiding behind a corner as a beam goes flying over the building, over his head, and onto the ground making a huge cross-like impact on the ground. As Kite looks on to the impact, he is reminded of a familiar cross staff wielded by his most hated enemy. "Skeith...damn you." Kite flashbacks to a time when he first started playing the world.

Flashback.

Kite and Orca head though a dungeon with orca showing the ropes of the game, as they headed though the dungeon, the have an encounter with a weird creature chasing a girl in white. Orca's turns to kite with a surprised look. "Did you see that?"

Kite nods, "Yeah, what was that?"

"It looked like a powerful monster, but a monster at this level? It makes no sense!"

They head into the room where the monster had chased the girl but to their astonishment, the girl and the monster was gone. They decide to head down a level and continue their adventure. After heading though a few rooms, they find the treasure room and take all the treasure in the chest they had out, but when the head out of the treasure room, the room they walk in becomes all static and the room changes. They find themselves on a floating isle in the middle of nowhere. Kite shouts out, "Where are we?!

"I don't know! This is strange. Wait look!" Orca points to a girl in white floating in front of them. Orca walks up to her, "Or....were the rumors true?"

The girl creates a book to appear in front of Orca, "Here take this..."

Orca takes the book and looks at it, "What is it?

"A great force. The power it holds will either bring salvation....or destruction, at the whim of the user." The girl looks around and the static increases. "It's coming! Please hurry!"

The girl vanishes and in it's place, a huge creature appears in it's place. It wealds a huge cross staff, looks like a stone creature with a circle connected to its head and it points its staff to Orca. It is Skeith, The Terror of Death. Orca shouts out back to Kite, "Run! It will kill you! Orca charges at Skeith and strikes it with many attacks but it seems not to notice any of the attacks. Orca shout out with is teeth gritted, "What?! Why isn't it working?! Nothing works!" Skeith then swings his staff and strikes Orca back down the ground, when that happens, a weird barrier shatters around Orca and he is risen up by Skeith's staff, Skeith raises his arm and a bracelet appears on Skeith's arm, it powers up, data streams go out and hit Orca. Orca collapses to the ground and kite runs over to his fallen friend. Ocra speaks softly "no...it wasn't supposed to be this for it Kite!" Orca disappears and the book floats out. Skieth then points his bracelet to Kite and it starts to power up. Kite's eyes widen at the sight of Skeith. "No..." Skeith is about to drain Kite when a staff slams to the ground and warps Kite away. Kite lies on the ground and the book floats into Kite's body. Away in the distance, Helba watches him; a small smile appears on her face.

Kite clenches his right fist and the bracelet glows. "These...these angels are like the phases, they want destruction. They will hurt others, I won't let them....I won't let them!!!!" Kite heads around the corner and raises the bracelet up towards the angel, the bracelet glowing intensely. "Data Drain!!!" The Bracelet shines and crystalline columns emerge and crystalline streams go out and head towards the Angel. As the streams are about to hit the Angel, an octagonal field emerges and blocks off the Data Drain. "What the?!" The Angel turns it's attention to Kite and the AT field flexes, sending a backlash though the streams, sending extreme pain to kite though the bracelet. Kite screams out in pain and the shockwave sends him flying into a nearby alley knocking him completely out.

Meanwhile, Helba headed into the command center after making stict orders at the hospital not to come into Kite's room. Ritsuko looks over to Helba as she came in.

"Hilda, you're late."

Helba walks over to her position and looks over to Ritsuko, "I had to make sure no one interrupted Kai. How is the Third Child?

"We are about to launch the Eva, his synch ratio is above 45 %..." Ritsuko answered.

45 %? That's quite amazing, even with no training. Where is the angel's position Hyuga?

Hyuga looks over his screen before answering, "The angel in within the city, near the center. Wait.....I'm picking up an odd energy signal....what the?"

At that moment, the screens in the command center starts going static, computers going haywire, the whole center just crashing and an odd note rings in the command center.

"What the hell is going on?!" Misato shouted.

"I don't know! Something is crashing the system!" Hyuga shouted out

Maya shouted out, "All the controls are frozen! We can't do any-"

At that moment, all the controls then came on-line as if nothing was wrong at all, the technicians become baffled.

"All the controls are back online!"

"How?!" I thought everything was frozen!"

Helba turned to Ritsuko. "What do you think happened?"

"I don't know, but we can't worry about that, the angel is our highest priority."

Misato turns to Commander Ikari, "Should we continue?"

Commander Ikari looks at her with his normal stare. "A glitch is of no concern. The Angel must be defeated, or humanity has no future.

Misato then shouted, "Eva unit-1 Launch!"

Helba stood there thinking, "This wasn't some random glitch. This was something....related to twilight."

Kite laid there in the alley completely unable to move and as he lay there, he began to dream. When Kite opened his eyes, he was in a white space, a familiar white space. A place that he has been to a couple of times in "The World", he got up and walked around looking around. As he took a few steps, he starts to hear singing, a gentle, light, kind voice that only fits on person. "Aura." Kite then ran in the direction of the singing to find Aura, floating above him, singing her sad song that she sang during the time of the phases. Aura stops to look at him and float down to Kite. She speaks in her gentle voice, "It is good to see you again Kite...."

Kite smiles and runs over to her, "It is wonderful to see you again Aura. I was worried that I would never see you again.

Aura nods her head with her hair waving with no wind. "Kite, we must be fast...I can only be here for a short time..."

Kite looks worried and asks with a concerned voice, "What do you mean?"

"I am not really here as you see me....this is only a dream....when you wake, you must drain Shachiel...."

"Shachiel?"

"The being you know as an Angel....."

"But Aura, I tried draining it and it didn't work! I think they are invulnerable to them."

"They are not invulnerable; you just need to have the right power to drain them...." Aura then takes a hold of Kite's arm and the bracelet begins to shine brightly as the bracelet arcs begin to shine different colors.

"The bracelet..." Kite says in awe.

"It has evolved, now you hold the power of Life Drain..." Aura says.

Kite looks at the bracelet curiously, "Life Drain?"

"Life Drain is a new power that allows you to drain the Angels; Data drain is too weak to drain the angel of that size. Life Drain allows you to drain the large angels, weakening them...."

The bracelet shines and disappears on Kite's arm. "Aura..."

"Kite, drain the Angels....help others....and bring peace to this world..." After saying these words, Aura begins to glow and in a flash of light she disappears.

"Aura!" Kite's eyes shoot open and he sits upright looking around, however, Aura is nowhere to be seen. He gets up, brushing off the dirt off his clothing and he looks himself over and finds that he is perfectly fine. "I'm fine? I would have thought I would have broken something." Kite heads out of the alley to find Unit-1 charging at the Angel. The Angel takes the Eva's arm and begins twisting it. Kite stands there watching the whole seace played out in front of him. "Why won't the robot fight back?!" Is something wrong?!" The Angel stretches the arm until there a bone snapping break. It then takes the head and arm spear begins to glow and it continually begins to stab Unit-1's head until the arm spear goes right though Unit-1's head and pushes it back all the way to a nearby building. Blood then goes rushing out of the Eva's head and kite's eyes widen. "...holy...How am I supposed to take on that?!"

In the Eva, shinji floats in his mind, thinking he's floating in space. "Am I dead?.......huh... just as I thought, death isn't such a big deal...Wait...what's this feeling?...Warmth?..." Shinji looks up and sees a girl of white, "It's that girl......"The girl speaks to Shinji with a calm voice, "You are safe here.....just leave it to her..." The girl vanishes and Shinji looks to a bright light..."Mother?"

Kite watches as Unit-1 reactivates and lets out a huge roar. Kite stands there in awe as Unit-1 gets up and charges at the angel until it hits the Angel's A.T. Field. "That's the force field that blocked my Data Drain! How is it going to get though?!" Unit-1 then forms it's damaged arm and regenerates it. It then heads forms it's A.T Field, neutralizing the Angel's. "It's working! It's getting though!" But then, the angel then blasts unit-1 back and into a building. "Damn... It's still strong!" Then at that moment Kite hears a voice, "Now....use the bracelet....drain the angel and save this world Kite....." Kite with a sure face, looks up to the angel and raises his arm and the bracelet shine bright. "Life Drain!" The bracelet expands, covering over Kite's hand, it extends its arcs, a circle forms in front of Kite and Streams come out of the bracelet and strikes the Angel's core.

Meanwhile, back at the command center,

"Unit-1 is also deploying an A.T. Field! It's neutralizing the Angel's plane space!" Maya shouted out.

"It's ripped open the Angel's A.T. Field?!" Misato shouted.

Then at that moment, Hyuga shouts out from his console, "There is an unidentified Energy Signal near the Angel, it's the same one as earlier!"

At that moment, the whole command center screens become static and the controls freak out again.

"What's happening?! We can't see anything!" Misato shouted.

"All our controls have been frozen! The sensors aren't responding!"

Helba looks on to the chaos and smirks a little. "The powers of the bracelet... Hmm-hmm-hmm..."

As the streams hit the angel, the arcs shine and start draining the Angel. The Angel flails about, but it is of no use, the bracelet does its, job draining its core and the Angel's strength. The streams come right out of the core, cracking some of the core. When the Steams return the bracelet, kite feels a little burn around his wrist but ignores it and goes running back to the elevator. When he reaches the elevator, to his horror, the elevator is closed. "Crap! I can't get in! Damn!" Kite looks for a button to open the elevator but only finds a card reader. "........I guess I could try it." Kite puts his hand over the card reader and two bracelet arcs swarm over the card reader, overriding the security and letting him in. Kite runs into the elevator, hits the button to the hospital. When the elevator doors start to closes, he sees Unit-1 tackles the angel, bringing it down. As the elevator goes down, kite feels the explosion of the Angel's death.

"Unit-1 is has emerged form the explosion! Confirmed life-signs of the pilot!"

"Get a clean up crew up there; get the pilot out of there! Misato shouted out fanatically.

"I will go notify the hospital to ready for the pilot. Helba then took her leave and headed towards the hospital. On the way she makes a slight turn to the elevators and waits for the elevator to stop and she comes face to face with Kite. "So how did it go?"

"I don't know why you wanted me to do that, it didn't do anything.

"On the contrary, look in your hand, it has something."

Kite looks to his hand and relises that he was holding something without him noticing. He opens his hand and finds a red orb in his hand. "What the....what's this?"

"Like monsters that you drain, you receive virus cores from them. That is an Angel core." Helba takes the orb from Kite's hand and smiles. "Just what I needed for my research."

Kite looks confused. "Research?"

"There is nothing to worry about; however I think I better warp you back to your room." Helba raises her hands and the last thing kite remember is thinking. "What?

Kite wakes up staring at the ceiling. He gets up and heads out of the room. Kite heads towards the window and notices something in the refection on the window. "My tattoos are gone...there aren't anything on my face." Kite stares out the window until he hears a hospital gurney going down the hall. He looks over and sees Rei going by him. As the gurney goes by, Kite thinks of one thing. "She looks so familiar..." Kite then starts walking down the hall and heads into the waiting room. There he sees the TV talking about the angel attack, with no mention of the angel. "They're covering it up? How do they cover up something like that?"

"They just want to calm everyone down to avoid chaos."

Kite turns to find Helba right behind him. "Helba."

Helba expression becomes serous, "Kite, if I may ask, call me Hilda. And you will refer to me as your Aunt.

"What? Why?"

"Kite, if you are going to get out of here alive, you had better do what I say."

Kite expression becomes shocked, "W-what do you mean!?"

"Kite, you are in the middle of a huge organization, and it is being controlled by someone even more pig-headish then Lois. It would be wise to do what I say." Helba then went over and sat over in a chair. "I think we better go though your history Kite. Or should I say...." Helba smiles, "Kai."

Kite sits down by Helba. "This is going to be a long day...."

Helba simply laughs.

A few hours later, Misato comes walking into the hospital to come check shinji out. When she walks past the waiting room she sees Helba and Kite talking to each other. "I never really apologized for what happened the other say. I should check." Misato walks over to Kite and Helba. "Hello Hilda.

Helba looked over to Misato. "Hello Misato, how are you?

"Better. The paperwork is hell to go though.

"Hmm-hmm-hmm. I'll bet. Oh, I'll think you would want to meet my nephew, without the whole panic of the Angel and the running over objects at high speed." Helba smirks.

Misato sweatdrops and walks over to Kite, "Hello Kai."

Kite looks to Misato, "Hello Miss Misato. How are you?"

Misato sighs and scratches her head, "Tired, but overall just fine. I was coming to pick up Shinji. How are you? Is your head alright?

"Yeah, it's ok. Nothing bad I'll just have to wear the bandage for a bit." Pointing to the bandage around his head, "Even though I already have been healed all the way."

"So Kai....why were you in the streets when the alarm went off?" Misato looks at him with a stern look.

"Well Miss Misato, I was on the bus heading to Tokyo-3 from a cos-play fair at Tokyo-2 and well, I got off one stop too soon and then I left my bag on the bus and then the bus went off. So, I was stuck in my costume, about 5 miles from the city, and was feeling down. When I came into town, I heard the alarm but I didn't know a thing to do. Then you came out on to the road and um... nearly hit me. Heh-heh!" Kite smiles trying to brighten the mood.

Misato sweatdrops and laughs nervously, "Ha-ha...yeah...so Hilda's your aunt?

"Yeah, I've been living with my grandparents for the last few years, but they pasted away a few weeks ago...."

"I'm sorry."

"It's ok...it helped me find the Aunt I didn't know I had.

Helba decided to step in, "He is my brother's son, and child services called me and said that I had a nephew that had no home. So naturally I decided to be his guardian.

Misato turns to Helba, "So what happens to him now? Will you be able to take care of him?

"Well....I have a problem, you know how they are having problems with Unit-3?

"Yes, they were having problems with the core.

"Well, I've been called there. I need to leave tonight. you take care of Kai until I get back?"

"What?!" Misato and Kite exclaimed.

"It will only be for a few weeks, or until I fix the problem."

Misato leans against the wall, "......I don't know...."

"Please Misato. I'm in a rut as it is. Not only do I have to get new clothing for Kai, I need to refinish my apartment, and...ugh, so much more....

Misato folded her arms in thought, "........oh alright, he can come and live with me for a bit, but you better hurry your help on Unit-3 and get back!"

"Hmm-hmm-hmm....I'll try Misato. So Kai, I had better go get ready for my trip, so have fun with Misato." And with that Helba left a very shocked Kite.

Kite just sits there in shock "ah....how wa..."

Misato couldn't pass an opportunity to tease, "Oh, is little Kai flustered to live with me?"

Kai looks to Misato a little red, "I am not!

Author notes: SO SO SO SO SO SORRY!!!! Moving really sucks, I'll try to make it up. (Somehow)....anyway, Kite get's a new power, can use the bracelet to gate hack locks, and.....is easily teased. please review!