Chapter 13
Death and the loss of a love one
Sephiroth junior was going all out against the Jenova-Angel hybrids as he was literately tearing apart the Angel hybrid that looked like Jenova Death. While he was cutting off many of the angel's appendages he spun around to cut off a limb of the Angel Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon. He landed on the ground as he leaped into the air to attack Loz head on. Before the enraged Eva pilot could have his revenge on Loz he was tackled by the other Angel-Jenova hybrids that attacked him as soon as their bodies were healed of the injuries inflected by Sephiroth.
Shinji was watching as Sephiroth continued to fight off the Jenova-Angel hybrids. He wasn't sure what to do, because he didn't know what would happen if one of them won. But Shinji did come to agreement with a thought in his mind, because he knew that Sephiroth junior was Kaoru's best friend and the whole reason behind Sephiroth and his brothers wanting to kill him was because of a misunderstanding. Hell if anyone killed someone important to him then he probably would have reacted in the same way, so Shinji had made his decision as he grabbed Ultimate Weapon's sword and he dived off the edge into the Geofront to do battle with the Jenova-Angel hybrids.
He landed near the Angel-Jenova Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon as he started slashing at it with his sword. He was injuring the Angel hybrid with some fine displays of swordsman technique. Inside of NERV Cloud and Misato were surprised to see Shinji helping Sephiroth junior fight the Hybrids and Loz.
"Shinji what the hell are you doing helping Sephiroth junior?" Cloud shouted out.
"Kaoru was my friend too, and I owe it to him to save his friend. I only killed Kaoru because he asked me to, so the third impact wouldn't start in the way he intended" Shinji replied as he hacked off some of the amperages that belonging to the Hybrid which looked like Jenova death off. The worm was about to attack Shinji, but Sephiroth emerged and he stabbed it in the head causing the monster to fall back.
"You are willing to save my life after all that has happened between us?" Sephiroth replied with a surprised look on his face.
"Kaoru was my friend too and if I was in your place I would have done things the same way if our positions were reversed." Shinji replied quietly as he jumped into the air and he spun around to kick two of the Hybrids in the face.
"I suppose you're right. Then you are telling the truth that Kaoru wanted to die so he wouldn't be responsible for ending Humanity. Now that I think about it...it dose sound like something he would do." Sephiroth replied to Shinji as he back handed a Hybrid that was trying to get the jump on him from behind.
"How touching...I guess since you two are going to help one another then I will have to kill you both!" Loz yelled out as he ran to attack Shinji. But Sephiroth blasted Loz in the face with an energy blast. Loz's Eva fell back allowing Shinji to stab it in the arm. Shinji was knocked back when he was hit in the face by Loz's free arm. Shinji and Sephiroth were getting surrounded by Loz and the Hybrids as the two Eva's were in the center of gathering. The two pilots went on the defensive as they were waiting for one of their foes to make a move.
Meanwhile above the armor plate was Ren. His Eva was dragging itself along the ground towards Eva 02. His Eva stood up as he turned Asuka's Eva over. He was looking down at Eva 02 as the black Eva reached into its own chest. Asuka couldn't tell what was going on, but she noticed that her Eva was moved.
"What is he doing" Maya asked herself as Unit 015 was pulling something out of its body.
The Black Eva held up a red orb in its hand as seconds later it stuffed it into Asuka's Eva and watched as the Eva absorbed it. Suddenly Eva 02 reactivated as Asuka's Eva began to stand up. She looked down to see the decaying form of Eva unit 015. "What happened why is Unit 02 active again?" Asuka asked herself trying to figure out what happened.
"I transplanted my S2 engine into your Eva. The S2 engines for the X-series EVAs were designed to be transplantable, so they could be transplanted into other Eva units if the need ever arise. Since I will be dead and my Eva will decay into nothing soon I figured you could make better use of my S2 engine." Ren replied as he started coughing up blood.
"So my Eva has an S2 engine of its own now!" Asuka replied in amazement.
"Yes it dose, but I have two favors I would like to ask of you Ms. Souryu?" Ren asked as he grew weaker.
"Sure what is it?" Asuka replied as she knelt down next to the dieing Eva.
"Give me a gun." Ren asked as Asuka gave him the assault rifle Shinji dropped.
"What else?" Asuka asked as she handed Ren a rifle.
"My brother......look after him for me. Please help him find his mother. Also please make sure that Loz dies screaming for me" Ren replied as his Eva stood up holding the rifle in his hand.
"His mother" Asuka asked with a questioning look on her face.
"He learned that his birth mother was being kept somewhere in NERV. That is why he is attacking this complex. He doesn't know who she is, but he dose know that she is being kept in some kind of hidden chamber or floor somewhere hidden inside NERV. He wants to find his mother. Please look after him...I am sorry for the things Sephiroth junior and I did, but I hope that S2 engine will help you in the future. Use it well and tell my brother that I am sorry that I wont be around for him...good bye Ms. Souryu" Ren said as some tears fell from his half decayed face. His Eva walked to the edge of the hole created by Sephiroth's Eva as the black Eva spread out its wings.
"What are you doing?" Asuka asked as the Black Eva was getting ready to jump.
"This cowboy is going for one last final ride...I have no intention of dieing on my knees, so I am going to take one of those damn Hybrids with me. I have just enough power left to carry out my...I don't plan on dieing alone!" Ren said as he jumped off and he started to dive bomb into the Geofront. As he was falling he yelled out "Hey Hybrids look up!"
The Hybrids looked up to see Ren diving towards them as he started shooting them with the assault rifle. Sephiroth looked up and asked "What the hell are you doing Ren?"
"Ms. Katsuragi I would like to offer my apologies to you and the rest of NERV for the actions I and Sephiroth junior have done against you and I hope giving Eva 02 my S2 engine will help you all in the future. I am sorry for what we have done, but I hope I may be forgiven for what I did. I will die, but I will kill some of those Hybrids before I die. I would rather die fighting than die on my knees" Ren said as he landed on the ground and he punched the worm Hybrid and the Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon in the chest. Both Hybrids were stuck on the Eva's arm like meat on a stick as the black Eva punched the last Hybrid right through the chest also impaling it on its left arm. The black Eva spread forth its mighty wings as it launched into the air with all three Hybrids in tow.
Misato and the others in NERV's operations room were speechless as they watched Eva unit 015 dragging the three Hybrids into the sky. Maya was monitoring the Eva's activity and she noticed something odd about Unit's 015's AT field. Ren was using the AT field to keep the Hybrids from escaping, and that was when she realized what Ren was going to do.
"Ren is taking the Angels into the upper atmosphere so he could... initialize the self-destruct for his Eva. He's planning to kill himself and take those Angels with him!" Maya announced as Misato and Cloud were shocked that Ren was crazy enough to do something like that.
"Ren don't do it!" Sephiroth cried hoping to stop his brother from carrying out his insane plan.
"I must brother because I will die either way." Ren said as tears fell from his face.
"Ren...I forgive you and your brother Sephiroth junior." Misato reluctantly told the suicidal Eva pilot because she knew that she would never get another chance to do so.
"Thank you...now I can die in peace." Ren said while crying. He pulled out the red switch for the self-destruct. Seconds later he pushed it down after thinking "Burn in hell you bastards!" Moments later after his Eva was drawing power from the Hybrids his Eva self-destructed destroying him and the Hybrids in a giant explosion that was seen from the ground. Both Eva unit 015 and the Hybrids were completely vaporized in the blast.
Sephiroth watched as the explosion faded. Then he turned his attention to Loz. Loz knew he was in trouble because he had two angry Eva pilots to deal with now. Suddenly Eva 02 was seen descending from above. The Red Eva dealt a flying kick to Unit 014's head knocking it to the ground. Asuka joined the other Eva's as Loz got to his feet to see his problems have multiplied because he now had three pissed off Eva pilots to deal with now. Loz was good as screwed.
"Uh...look brother it was nothing personal ok, can we forgive and forget?" Loz said as he was completely fearful of the Eva Pilots combined wrath.
"Do you want to know what was one of your brother's last request was...he wanted you to die screaming" Asuka said as she was about to charge Loz to rip him apart, but Sephiroth stopped her.
"He's mine...just make sure he doesn't try to escape" Sephiroth said as tears fell from his eyes as he charged Loz hell bent on ripping him limb from limb. Sephiroth's punched Loz in the face so hard that some of the face armor for Loz's Eva had fallen off. Sephiroth cut off the Eva's right arm with his sword as he flew pass him. Loz turned around to fight his brother, but Sephiroth cut off Loz's other arm. Since Loz had no weapon to protect himself from Sephiroth's sword Loz was an easy target for Sephiroth junior.
Although Loz was a good fighter, but most of his skill depended on his fists, but since Sephiroth junior was an accomplished swordsman he took Loz down. He kicked Loz down to the ground as he put one foot on top of him holding the black Eva down. Sephiroth junior raised his sword up ready to strike through the Entry plug killing Loz.
"Brother...you wouldn't kill me now would you?" Loz said while hoping that Sephiroth wouldn't kill him.
"I am not your brother traitor!" Sephiroth shouted as he energized his sword with his own energy as he stabbed the entry plug with his sword. The last sounds heard from Loz were his screams as he was killed and electrocuted at the same time which nullified his healing powers after Sephiroth electrocuted him for several minutes while he was impaled by his sword. Loz was dead as a door nail when it was over. Sephiroth removed his sword from Eva then he turned around and walked away from the deactivated form of Eva 014.
"I am damn glad that I had a sword to defend myself with or that could have been me" Shinji said to himself as Sephiroth's Eva was walking up to him.
"Thank you for helping me" Sephiroth junior replied to Shinji.
"You're welcome" Shinji replied quietly.
Suddenly the group heard the sound of cruel laugher as something was seen flying into the Geofront from above. The creature had seven angel wings, the creature stopped and he started to hover in front of the three EVAs. The blood from Cloud and Misato's faces drained as the two realized who it was.
"Sephiroth!" Cloud shouted as the one winged angel laughed.
"That's Sephiroth!" Maya and Asuka shouted at the same time.
"Glad to know that my name is known to you. I am Sephiroth former general of the Shinra army and soon to be god" Sephiroth told both NERV and the Eva pilots. Sephiroth was communicating with the Eva pilots and the staff at NERV telepathically.
"Why are you here?" Shinji demanded as he stood firm ready for anything the former general could throw at him.
"I am here to pay a visit to an old friend of mines." Sephiroth replied to Shinji mentally since he was able to hear his thoughts from inside the Eva. He suddenly transformed into his human form. He waved his hand as each of the three Eva's were trapped in an energy sphere. "Don't worry...I'll be back to deal with you three in a few minutes."
Sephiroth descended into NERV as he moved through the roof of the command center like a ghost. He came face to face with Misato, Cloud, Gendo, Maya and the other operators and commanders at NERV.
"Cloud Strife I am surprised to see that you are alive. I should have known that Aeris would have made certain that her love would live." Sephiroth said as he floated in mid air looking at Cloud in front of him.
"What are you saying?" Cloud demanded as he reached for his sword.
"Aeris used the power of the lifestream to place you with Jenova's remains so you would get transported to this planet with me when I called on the Lifestream to take her remains and to encase myself in materia. You never died; you were just placed in a deep sleep after the lifestream consumed you and your friends. But I can say that your friends weren't so lucky." Sephiroth said as he mocked Cloud even further by laughing at him.
"So that's what happened?" Cloud thought to himself a bit surprised by what happened.
"Then how did Cloud get separated from Jenova?" Misato shouted.
"I can only guess that as we fell down to your planet I think a part of the materia holding him broke away from the rest and he fell into the ocean" Sephiroth replied as he held his chin.
"Sephiroth you bastard what are you up to this time" Cloud shouted at Sephiroth as he held his sword up ready to strike the one winged angel.
"Oh come now...is that anyway to greet me? I was expecting more on the lines of how are you doing Sephiroth?" Sephiroth mocked his blonde haired adversary.
"Sephiroth you have killed hundreds of people why do you even bother to show your face here" Misato demanded.
"Spare me the lecture Misato Katsuragi. Lives come and go all the time. What's the big deal? People are born every day and people die everyday at the same time. Who cares if you kill someone? Because that person is being replaced at the same time elsewhere... another person is born when one dies." Sephiroth spoke while looking at his foes with a coy expression.
"You're a monster and you're nuts" Maya told the sliver hair general while hiding behind her chair.
"Oh please what gives you the right to lecture me if you won't if even have the courage to face me?" Sephiroth said as he gave Maya a nasty look.
"Sephiroth this planet has no lifestream so you can not become a God by using the black materia to call meteor." Cloud yelled at the madman.
"That maybe so, but thanks to my new power I have found a way to make my dream of becoming a God a reality." Sephiroth said as he held out his sword with his arms spread out.
"New power?" Misato said curious about Sephiroth's new power.
"I seemed to gain the ability to take all of the memories belonging to a person when they die in my presence. In other words I know everything a person knows when he or she dies by my hand or dies near me. I gain all of their knowledge and it is added to my own. That is why I killed everyone at Antarctica because I was acquiring knowledge from them and I have learned a lot of things from them. This power has proven very useful to me." Sephiroth informed NERV. Sephiroth laughed and continued saying "And thus was how I learned about the Third impact and the angels and some additional information."
"What are you planning Sephiroth!" Gendo shouted at Sephiroth.
"Why my goal is similar to the angels, but if you really want to know then take this." Sephiroth replied as he reached into his coat and he pulled out a stone tablet and he threw it to Gendo. Gendo caught the tablet as he started looking at it. Sephiroth started to float away, but Cloud tried to attack him. Sephiroth saw his blonde hair rival coming, but Sephiroth raised his hand and called out "Shadow flare!"
Cloud was hit by the full force of the spell which sent Cloud flying to the ground below. He hit the ground so hard that he left an imprinted dent of himself on it. Cloud was out cold as Misato tried to shoot Sephiroth with her gun, but her bullets didn't even touch him. Sephiroth returned to the Geofront as he transformed into his Safer form once more to confront the Eva's. He released his hold on them as the three Eva's started moving again.
"Sephiroth I am going to rip those wings off and make a hat out of them for my Eva!" Asuka shouted.
"Before we go any further there is something you should know Junior. I saw how your battle went and I am not surprised that Loz was killed. I knew the boy wasn't cut out to be a follower for me. But truth is that I never expected the boy to survive that battle. That battle's true purpose was to only allow me to see what were you're strengths and weaknesses were. This was nothing more but a mere test."
"A test" Shinji asked the seven winged angel.
"This battle was very informative for me to determine what kind of weakness you all had. Your brother was nothing more than a pawn for the test. I had him and the other Jenova-Angel hybrids fight you so I could see how powerful the Hybrids were and to seek out any weakness you and the other pilots may have. I must say the test was a complete success with excellent results." Sephiroth replied with a twisted smile.
"You bastard!" Sephiroth junior shouted as he ran towards Sephiroth to attack him, but Safer Sephiroth fought back with a flare spell knocking him back.
"You three want a piece of me eh...then come and get it. I guess I can warm up on you three before the finale of this puppet show." Sephiroth told the three pilots as he prepared to do battle with them.
A/N: ok the battle next chapter will be an appetizer to what is to come when the final battle with Sephiroth takes place. Also Rei makes her decision to join Sephiroth and a discovery about how a certain pilot gaining Jenova cells will be made known next chapter. Please read and review and tell me what you think of the pilot so far? By the way I would like suggestions for pairings to help me to determine who should I pair with who as a couple? I have an idea of what to do, but I would like to hear what kind of pairing you guys would like to see.
Death and the loss of a love one
Sephiroth junior was going all out against the Jenova-Angel hybrids as he was literately tearing apart the Angel hybrid that looked like Jenova Death. While he was cutting off many of the angel's appendages he spun around to cut off a limb of the Angel Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon. He landed on the ground as he leaped into the air to attack Loz head on. Before the enraged Eva pilot could have his revenge on Loz he was tackled by the other Angel-Jenova hybrids that attacked him as soon as their bodies were healed of the injuries inflected by Sephiroth.
Shinji was watching as Sephiroth continued to fight off the Jenova-Angel hybrids. He wasn't sure what to do, because he didn't know what would happen if one of them won. But Shinji did come to agreement with a thought in his mind, because he knew that Sephiroth junior was Kaoru's best friend and the whole reason behind Sephiroth and his brothers wanting to kill him was because of a misunderstanding. Hell if anyone killed someone important to him then he probably would have reacted in the same way, so Shinji had made his decision as he grabbed Ultimate Weapon's sword and he dived off the edge into the Geofront to do battle with the Jenova-Angel hybrids.
He landed near the Angel-Jenova Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon as he started slashing at it with his sword. He was injuring the Angel hybrid with some fine displays of swordsman technique. Inside of NERV Cloud and Misato were surprised to see Shinji helping Sephiroth junior fight the Hybrids and Loz.
"Shinji what the hell are you doing helping Sephiroth junior?" Cloud shouted out.
"Kaoru was my friend too, and I owe it to him to save his friend. I only killed Kaoru because he asked me to, so the third impact wouldn't start in the way he intended" Shinji replied as he hacked off some of the amperages that belonging to the Hybrid which looked like Jenova death off. The worm was about to attack Shinji, but Sephiroth emerged and he stabbed it in the head causing the monster to fall back.
"You are willing to save my life after all that has happened between us?" Sephiroth replied with a surprised look on his face.
"Kaoru was my friend too and if I was in your place I would have done things the same way if our positions were reversed." Shinji replied quietly as he jumped into the air and he spun around to kick two of the Hybrids in the face.
"I suppose you're right. Then you are telling the truth that Kaoru wanted to die so he wouldn't be responsible for ending Humanity. Now that I think about it...it dose sound like something he would do." Sephiroth replied to Shinji as he back handed a Hybrid that was trying to get the jump on him from behind.
"How touching...I guess since you two are going to help one another then I will have to kill you both!" Loz yelled out as he ran to attack Shinji. But Sephiroth blasted Loz in the face with an energy blast. Loz's Eva fell back allowing Shinji to stab it in the arm. Shinji was knocked back when he was hit in the face by Loz's free arm. Shinji and Sephiroth were getting surrounded by Loz and the Hybrids as the two Eva's were in the center of gathering. The two pilots went on the defensive as they were waiting for one of their foes to make a move.
Meanwhile above the armor plate was Ren. His Eva was dragging itself along the ground towards Eva 02. His Eva stood up as he turned Asuka's Eva over. He was looking down at Eva 02 as the black Eva reached into its own chest. Asuka couldn't tell what was going on, but she noticed that her Eva was moved.
"What is he doing" Maya asked herself as Unit 015 was pulling something out of its body.
The Black Eva held up a red orb in its hand as seconds later it stuffed it into Asuka's Eva and watched as the Eva absorbed it. Suddenly Eva 02 reactivated as Asuka's Eva began to stand up. She looked down to see the decaying form of Eva unit 015. "What happened why is Unit 02 active again?" Asuka asked herself trying to figure out what happened.
"I transplanted my S2 engine into your Eva. The S2 engines for the X-series EVAs were designed to be transplantable, so they could be transplanted into other Eva units if the need ever arise. Since I will be dead and my Eva will decay into nothing soon I figured you could make better use of my S2 engine." Ren replied as he started coughing up blood.
"So my Eva has an S2 engine of its own now!" Asuka replied in amazement.
"Yes it dose, but I have two favors I would like to ask of you Ms. Souryu?" Ren asked as he grew weaker.
"Sure what is it?" Asuka replied as she knelt down next to the dieing Eva.
"Give me a gun." Ren asked as Asuka gave him the assault rifle Shinji dropped.
"What else?" Asuka asked as she handed Ren a rifle.
"My brother......look after him for me. Please help him find his mother. Also please make sure that Loz dies screaming for me" Ren replied as his Eva stood up holding the rifle in his hand.
"His mother" Asuka asked with a questioning look on her face.
"He learned that his birth mother was being kept somewhere in NERV. That is why he is attacking this complex. He doesn't know who she is, but he dose know that she is being kept in some kind of hidden chamber or floor somewhere hidden inside NERV. He wants to find his mother. Please look after him...I am sorry for the things Sephiroth junior and I did, but I hope that S2 engine will help you in the future. Use it well and tell my brother that I am sorry that I wont be around for him...good bye Ms. Souryu" Ren said as some tears fell from his half decayed face. His Eva walked to the edge of the hole created by Sephiroth's Eva as the black Eva spread out its wings.
"What are you doing?" Asuka asked as the Black Eva was getting ready to jump.
"This cowboy is going for one last final ride...I have no intention of dieing on my knees, so I am going to take one of those damn Hybrids with me. I have just enough power left to carry out my...I don't plan on dieing alone!" Ren said as he jumped off and he started to dive bomb into the Geofront. As he was falling he yelled out "Hey Hybrids look up!"
The Hybrids looked up to see Ren diving towards them as he started shooting them with the assault rifle. Sephiroth looked up and asked "What the hell are you doing Ren?"
"Ms. Katsuragi I would like to offer my apologies to you and the rest of NERV for the actions I and Sephiroth junior have done against you and I hope giving Eva 02 my S2 engine will help you all in the future. I am sorry for what we have done, but I hope I may be forgiven for what I did. I will die, but I will kill some of those Hybrids before I die. I would rather die fighting than die on my knees" Ren said as he landed on the ground and he punched the worm Hybrid and the Hybrid that looked like Ruby weapon in the chest. Both Hybrids were stuck on the Eva's arm like meat on a stick as the black Eva punched the last Hybrid right through the chest also impaling it on its left arm. The black Eva spread forth its mighty wings as it launched into the air with all three Hybrids in tow.
Misato and the others in NERV's operations room were speechless as they watched Eva unit 015 dragging the three Hybrids into the sky. Maya was monitoring the Eva's activity and she noticed something odd about Unit's 015's AT field. Ren was using the AT field to keep the Hybrids from escaping, and that was when she realized what Ren was going to do.
"Ren is taking the Angels into the upper atmosphere so he could... initialize the self-destruct for his Eva. He's planning to kill himself and take those Angels with him!" Maya announced as Misato and Cloud were shocked that Ren was crazy enough to do something like that.
"Ren don't do it!" Sephiroth cried hoping to stop his brother from carrying out his insane plan.
"I must brother because I will die either way." Ren said as tears fell from his face.
"Ren...I forgive you and your brother Sephiroth junior." Misato reluctantly told the suicidal Eva pilot because she knew that she would never get another chance to do so.
"Thank you...now I can die in peace." Ren said while crying. He pulled out the red switch for the self-destruct. Seconds later he pushed it down after thinking "Burn in hell you bastards!" Moments later after his Eva was drawing power from the Hybrids his Eva self-destructed destroying him and the Hybrids in a giant explosion that was seen from the ground. Both Eva unit 015 and the Hybrids were completely vaporized in the blast.
Sephiroth watched as the explosion faded. Then he turned his attention to Loz. Loz knew he was in trouble because he had two angry Eva pilots to deal with now. Suddenly Eva 02 was seen descending from above. The Red Eva dealt a flying kick to Unit 014's head knocking it to the ground. Asuka joined the other Eva's as Loz got to his feet to see his problems have multiplied because he now had three pissed off Eva pilots to deal with now. Loz was good as screwed.
"Uh...look brother it was nothing personal ok, can we forgive and forget?" Loz said as he was completely fearful of the Eva Pilots combined wrath.
"Do you want to know what was one of your brother's last request was...he wanted you to die screaming" Asuka said as she was about to charge Loz to rip him apart, but Sephiroth stopped her.
"He's mine...just make sure he doesn't try to escape" Sephiroth said as tears fell from his eyes as he charged Loz hell bent on ripping him limb from limb. Sephiroth's punched Loz in the face so hard that some of the face armor for Loz's Eva had fallen off. Sephiroth cut off the Eva's right arm with his sword as he flew pass him. Loz turned around to fight his brother, but Sephiroth cut off Loz's other arm. Since Loz had no weapon to protect himself from Sephiroth's sword Loz was an easy target for Sephiroth junior.
Although Loz was a good fighter, but most of his skill depended on his fists, but since Sephiroth junior was an accomplished swordsman he took Loz down. He kicked Loz down to the ground as he put one foot on top of him holding the black Eva down. Sephiroth junior raised his sword up ready to strike through the Entry plug killing Loz.
"Brother...you wouldn't kill me now would you?" Loz said while hoping that Sephiroth wouldn't kill him.
"I am not your brother traitor!" Sephiroth shouted as he energized his sword with his own energy as he stabbed the entry plug with his sword. The last sounds heard from Loz were his screams as he was killed and electrocuted at the same time which nullified his healing powers after Sephiroth electrocuted him for several minutes while he was impaled by his sword. Loz was dead as a door nail when it was over. Sephiroth removed his sword from Eva then he turned around and walked away from the deactivated form of Eva 014.
"I am damn glad that I had a sword to defend myself with or that could have been me" Shinji said to himself as Sephiroth's Eva was walking up to him.
"Thank you for helping me" Sephiroth junior replied to Shinji.
"You're welcome" Shinji replied quietly.
Suddenly the group heard the sound of cruel laugher as something was seen flying into the Geofront from above. The creature had seven angel wings, the creature stopped and he started to hover in front of the three EVAs. The blood from Cloud and Misato's faces drained as the two realized who it was.
"Sephiroth!" Cloud shouted as the one winged angel laughed.
"That's Sephiroth!" Maya and Asuka shouted at the same time.
"Glad to know that my name is known to you. I am Sephiroth former general of the Shinra army and soon to be god" Sephiroth told both NERV and the Eva pilots. Sephiroth was communicating with the Eva pilots and the staff at NERV telepathically.
"Why are you here?" Shinji demanded as he stood firm ready for anything the former general could throw at him.
"I am here to pay a visit to an old friend of mines." Sephiroth replied to Shinji mentally since he was able to hear his thoughts from inside the Eva. He suddenly transformed into his human form. He waved his hand as each of the three Eva's were trapped in an energy sphere. "Don't worry...I'll be back to deal with you three in a few minutes."
Sephiroth descended into NERV as he moved through the roof of the command center like a ghost. He came face to face with Misato, Cloud, Gendo, Maya and the other operators and commanders at NERV.
"Cloud Strife I am surprised to see that you are alive. I should have known that Aeris would have made certain that her love would live." Sephiroth said as he floated in mid air looking at Cloud in front of him.
"What are you saying?" Cloud demanded as he reached for his sword.
"Aeris used the power of the lifestream to place you with Jenova's remains so you would get transported to this planet with me when I called on the Lifestream to take her remains and to encase myself in materia. You never died; you were just placed in a deep sleep after the lifestream consumed you and your friends. But I can say that your friends weren't so lucky." Sephiroth said as he mocked Cloud even further by laughing at him.
"So that's what happened?" Cloud thought to himself a bit surprised by what happened.
"Then how did Cloud get separated from Jenova?" Misato shouted.
"I can only guess that as we fell down to your planet I think a part of the materia holding him broke away from the rest and he fell into the ocean" Sephiroth replied as he held his chin.
"Sephiroth you bastard what are you up to this time" Cloud shouted at Sephiroth as he held his sword up ready to strike the one winged angel.
"Oh come now...is that anyway to greet me? I was expecting more on the lines of how are you doing Sephiroth?" Sephiroth mocked his blonde haired adversary.
"Sephiroth you have killed hundreds of people why do you even bother to show your face here" Misato demanded.
"Spare me the lecture Misato Katsuragi. Lives come and go all the time. What's the big deal? People are born every day and people die everyday at the same time. Who cares if you kill someone? Because that person is being replaced at the same time elsewhere... another person is born when one dies." Sephiroth spoke while looking at his foes with a coy expression.
"You're a monster and you're nuts" Maya told the sliver hair general while hiding behind her chair.
"Oh please what gives you the right to lecture me if you won't if even have the courage to face me?" Sephiroth said as he gave Maya a nasty look.
"Sephiroth this planet has no lifestream so you can not become a God by using the black materia to call meteor." Cloud yelled at the madman.
"That maybe so, but thanks to my new power I have found a way to make my dream of becoming a God a reality." Sephiroth said as he held out his sword with his arms spread out.
"New power?" Misato said curious about Sephiroth's new power.
"I seemed to gain the ability to take all of the memories belonging to a person when they die in my presence. In other words I know everything a person knows when he or she dies by my hand or dies near me. I gain all of their knowledge and it is added to my own. That is why I killed everyone at Antarctica because I was acquiring knowledge from them and I have learned a lot of things from them. This power has proven very useful to me." Sephiroth informed NERV. Sephiroth laughed and continued saying "And thus was how I learned about the Third impact and the angels and some additional information."
"What are you planning Sephiroth!" Gendo shouted at Sephiroth.
"Why my goal is similar to the angels, but if you really want to know then take this." Sephiroth replied as he reached into his coat and he pulled out a stone tablet and he threw it to Gendo. Gendo caught the tablet as he started looking at it. Sephiroth started to float away, but Cloud tried to attack him. Sephiroth saw his blonde hair rival coming, but Sephiroth raised his hand and called out "Shadow flare!"
Cloud was hit by the full force of the spell which sent Cloud flying to the ground below. He hit the ground so hard that he left an imprinted dent of himself on it. Cloud was out cold as Misato tried to shoot Sephiroth with her gun, but her bullets didn't even touch him. Sephiroth returned to the Geofront as he transformed into his Safer form once more to confront the Eva's. He released his hold on them as the three Eva's started moving again.
"Sephiroth I am going to rip those wings off and make a hat out of them for my Eva!" Asuka shouted.
"Before we go any further there is something you should know Junior. I saw how your battle went and I am not surprised that Loz was killed. I knew the boy wasn't cut out to be a follower for me. But truth is that I never expected the boy to survive that battle. That battle's true purpose was to only allow me to see what were you're strengths and weaknesses were. This was nothing more but a mere test."
"A test" Shinji asked the seven winged angel.
"This battle was very informative for me to determine what kind of weakness you all had. Your brother was nothing more than a pawn for the test. I had him and the other Jenova-Angel hybrids fight you so I could see how powerful the Hybrids were and to seek out any weakness you and the other pilots may have. I must say the test was a complete success with excellent results." Sephiroth replied with a twisted smile.
"You bastard!" Sephiroth junior shouted as he ran towards Sephiroth to attack him, but Safer Sephiroth fought back with a flare spell knocking him back.
"You three want a piece of me eh...then come and get it. I guess I can warm up on you three before the finale of this puppet show." Sephiroth told the three pilots as he prepared to do battle with them.
A/N: ok the battle next chapter will be an appetizer to what is to come when the final battle with Sephiroth takes place. Also Rei makes her decision to join Sephiroth and a discovery about how a certain pilot gaining Jenova cells will be made known next chapter. Please read and review and tell me what you think of the pilot so far? By the way I would like suggestions for pairings to help me to determine who should I pair with who as a couple? I have an idea of what to do, but I would like to hear what kind of pairing you guys would like to see.