Chapter 19

The Last Angel

Shinji was sitting in the employee lounge, so he could be alone with his thoughts. Shinji was trying to figure out how could Sephiroth Junior pilot Eva unit 01 which was originally thought that only Shinji himself could only pilot. He would like to also know how his father knew he could pilot it, but it seems to him that his father only allowed him to pilot the Eva so he could see if Sephiroth JR could pilot it or not. "It was some kind of test. I am sure of it, but why did he do?" Shinji thought. Suddenly the alarms went off and the announcement came over the loud speakers saying that another Angel was approaching the installation.

Shinji got up and he ran to join the others to prepare themselves for their coming battle with the angel.

Meanwhile back at the ancient city Cloud, Misato and Fuyutski were running as fast as their legs could carry them since they had no way of knowing how much time they had before the bombs left here would go off. They had just exited the temple and they were running through the streets.

Fuyutski pulled out his radio and he called to the helicopter saying "lock on my signal and pick us up immediately!"

"Shit how much time do you think we have left?" Misato asked Cloud.

"Knowing Sephiroth we don't have very long." Cloud answered as the three noticed the helicopter was quickly approaching them. It was over them within seconds and it was slowly descending to the ground. "We don't have time for that thing to land." Cloud said as he threw Misato and Fuyutski over his shoulders. Then Cloud jumped up into the helicopter and he shouted "Go damn it! Fly like hell. This place is about to blow so hurry up!"

The pilot didn't waste a heartbeat doing what Cloud commanded him to do. He flew the chopper away from the city as fast as the engines could carry them. The pilot was literary putting the pedal to the metal as the chopper flew away from the city. Suddenly a series of explosion could be seen erupting from the city. The bombs were about to go off.

"Damn it we're too late. No matter how far we get now the shockwave will kill us." Misato informed everyone.

"Then maybe this can help...Shield." Cloud said as he covered the helicopter in a powerful energy shield.

At that moment all of the N2 bombs in the city went off and the whole floating city was reduced to dust. Just as Sephiroth predicted the explosion combined with Mako energy there created the world's biggest shockwave. The shockwave flew straight at them.

"Brace yourselves!" Cloud warned.

Misato and Fuyutski held on tight to whatever they could find as the shockwave hit the energy shield hard. The aircraft was shaken up pretty hard, but it would have been a lot worse without the shield. The aircraft just barely managed to survive the shockwave. Meanwhile NERV was felling the shockwave as well. The resulting shockwave only caused a small earthquake that was felt throughout NERV.

"What the hell was that?" Sephiroth Junior asked as his entry plug was being inserted into his Eva.

Gendo noticed the shockwave as he sat in his office. He decided to call Fuyutski to see if he knew what caused that earthquake. On the aircraft Fuyutski was thankful that they survived, but a few seconds later he was receiving a signal from NERV. He pulled out his radio and answered it. "Fuyutski here." The vice commander answered.

"Fuyutski NERV detected a shockwave. Do you know what caused it?" Gendo issued to his co-worker.

"Then the facility must have felt the shockwave caused by the explosion Sephiroth set off at the ancient city." Fuyutski answered.

"Explosion?" Gendo asked as one of his eyebrows went up slightly.

"Sephiroth rigged the entire city with N2 bombs. Combined with the explosive properties of the Mako energy that was kept there it amplified the explosion. We're just lucky to have survived." Fuyutski informed the commander.

"I see. Did you find anything at the city?" Gendo replied coldly showing no concern for the fact that Fuyutski and the others were almost killed.

"We discovered a library full of information concerning the Ancients and the angels I think you should hear about when we return to the facility." Fuyutski said to Gendo.

"I shall be awaiting your arrival then." Gendo said as he cut the transmission.

Meanwhile somewhere inside of NERV Hojo was sitting in front of a wall of monitors while Jen stood next to him. "Hojo give me a status report." Sephiroth commanded as he and Ritsuko appeared behind Hojo from the shadows.

"The last angel is about to attack NERV. Once the last angel is destroyed reunion can begin." Hojo answered.

"Excellent...after reunion I can finally prepare for the completion of all that I have worked for during these past fifteen years." Sephiroth said with a dark smile.

EVA units 01, 02 and 016 were launched to confront the Angel. Shinji grabbed a Positron rifle, Asuka seized a Bazooka and finally Sephiroth Junior drew out his sword.

"The angel should appear soon. We don't have any data on what this Angel is. Heck we don't even know what it looks like. All we know is that it is heading towards your location so be ready for it." Maya informed the pilots.

"I am ready to send that angel to hell that's for sure." Asuka said with a cocky attitude.

"Don't get cocky Asuka...we don't know anything about this angel. It might be the strongest of all of the angels yet." Sephiroth Junior cautioned.

"Bah...Bah...Bah. I don't care if the angel was huge or really powerful. I will take them out just like any other angel. I'll take it down." Asuka replied.

"Someone is overconfident today." Shinji muttered under his breath.

"Get ready guys here it comes!" Maya announced.

The ground started shaking and something erupted from the ground. Everyone who was in the command center and in an EVA eyes went wide when they saw the Angel. The angel itself was looming over the EVA's. The angel was some kind of gigantic snake like creature with a dragon looking head with a black mane on the back of its head going down its neck. Its red eyes were glowing. It was the biggest ground based angel they had every seen. It was so big that it could probably eat one of the EVA's whole.

"Ok it's a big dragon-snake looking thing. That anti so bad." Asuka said while being a little nervous in the presence of shall a huge angel.

Suddenly the ground started shaking again and another creature that looked like the angel popped right next to its twin.

"Ok two of them we can still beat that." Asuka boasted.

Yet again seeming like Asuka was jinxing the situation the ground started to shake and another head popped up from the ground. The angel's body moved up and it revealed that the angel they were dealing with was a three headed angel. Shinji and Sephiroth turned to Asuka with eyebrow twitching expressions.

"Well three heads anti so bad right." Asuka said as a large drop of sweat fell from her head.

"Asuka....shut the hell up." Sephiroth Junior shouted.

"Asuka seems to always jinx the situation." Shinji muttered to himself.

"Ok I guess I could take one head, Asuka takes one and Shinji can have one head to deal with as well." Sephiroth junior said to his fellow pilots as a plan of action.

"Fine then. Say good bye to the middle head!" Asuka shouted as she blasted a few rounds of the Bazooka into the left head's neck. The bullets hit their mark as the head was blown clean off. "That was easy!" Asuka said to herself feeling proud. Suddenly the neck started to shake and spasm as something emerged from the neck. Two new heads erupted from the neck to replace the one that was lost.

"God Asuka if you say anything else that could jinx the situation I am going to shoot you." Sephiroth Junior muttered to himself.

One of the heads lunged forward towards Asuka. Shinji started shooting the angel, but it's AT field blocked all of the bullets. Sephiroth Junior jumped into the air to attack one of the attacking head at close range, but another head moved in to attack him. Asuka tired to fight back, but one of the Angel's heads scooped her up and ate her whole.

"Asuka!" Shinji screamed as jumped to the side to avoid one of the angel's heads.

Sephiroth junior attacked one of the other heads and he stuck his sword into its neck. He flew around the neck until the head came off then he jumped to work on another one. Within seconds he had taken out another head. Meanwhile the head that ate Asuka couldn't completely swallow her because when she got half way down its throat Asuka blasted her way out with Bazooka. Taking out another head. At that moment Sephiroth Junior took out the last head, but before any of them could declare victory. The angel started moving again. From each stump where the angel lost a head it was replaced with three more heads. Now the angel had a total of twelve heads.

"Maybe you should quit with the head slicing already!" Maya shouted at the pilots.

"It's a little late for that Maya." Shinji said sarcastically.

"We need a new plan here!" Sephiroth shouted as he flew around evading three of the new heads that started to chase after him.

"I think the only way to kill that angel is to take out its S2 engine, but I don't know where it is." Maya suggested.

"I think what we need is a way to nullify that angel's ability to regenerate a head. I think I have a plan." Sephiroth Junior said as he took off into the sky. He was flying high into the sky and it looked like he was going straight up.

"Running away is your plan...oh that's a good plan, but some of us can't fly!" Asuka shouted.

"Just keep the angel busy until I get back with something that should even our odds." Sephiroth Junior said as his EVA disappeared above the clouds.

"Uh I don't know if we can keep this thing busy for every long." Shinji said with signs of doubt on his face.

"Sephiroth Junior! What the hell are you doing?" Maya shouted.

"Cleary Maya you don't understand the big picture do you." Gendo said as he adjusted his glasses.

"Huh." Maya was left confused by the commander's reply.

"Junior is a clever boy. There is only one reason he is flying up so high into the air." Gendo informed Maya.

Maya still couldn't understand what the commander meant; but whatever Sephiroth Junior is planning he better hurry up before the other EVA pilots are eaten alive.

A/N: Gendo has a point there is only one reason Sephiroth Junior is flying so high up.