Chapter 20

Prelude to Reunion

Sephiroth Junior's Eva broke through the atmosphere and it reached outer space. He was on a direct course towards the one thing he believed that could take the angel down. He was going to recover the Spear of Longinus. He was flying as fast as his Eva could go, but this was the first time his Eva had been in space so he wasn't sure how fast it could maneuver in zero-gravity environment. He could only hope that he could recover the spear before the angel could kill Asuka and Shinji.

Down on Earth Asuka and Shinji were having one hell of a time fighting the angel. The two pilots were forced on the defensive as the two Eva were evaded the attacking heads of the Angel. Shinji was scooped up by one of the Angel's heads and was about to be eaten, but he pulled out the Progressive Knife and he started stabbing the mouth of the angel while he was trying to prevent the angel was eating him whole.

He redirected his stabbing efforts at the top of the Angel's mouth hoping he would strike some kind or weak point or the angel's brain. After about leaving several stab wounds inside the angel's mouth. The Angel began crying out in pain as Shinji hit the angel's brain with the Progressive Knife. The head that had Shinji died, but since if wasn't cut off it couldn't grow a new head. Shinji fell out of the angel's mouth and he landed on the ground below. Asuka was hiding behind one of the Angel's heads while one kept trying to take a bite out of her, but the Angel head she was hiding behind did prove to be a useful shield for her.

But when Asuka saw what Shinji did to the angel head that had captured him. Asuka got an idea. She got out her Progressive Knife and she jumped onto the top of the angel and began stabbing the head like there was no tomorrow. Within mere seconds she had completely disfigured the angel's head. Hell she even stabbed out the angel's eyes in the process. "Take this you son of a bitch!" she screamed as her last few strikes into the head of the angel struck the brain killing the creature instantly.

When Asuka was done she looked up and saw the other angel head that was trying to bite her early was bobbing its head downward in an attempt to devour Asuka. But the red haired pilot jumped up to evade the Angel's attack. She just managed to evade the head as it just passed right underneath her. The angel's jaws collided with the still, but dead head of the angel's body that Asuka had finished off only moments ago.

Asuka landed on top of her would-be-dispatcher's head and in the same manner she dealt with the last angel head; she cut the head up to the point where you could easily see the brain. If she was being timed, people would say that she broke the world record of cutting up and mutilating an angel's head. "Two heads down and ten more heads to go!" Shinji shouted as he ran off to acquire a more efficient tool for the task.

"Then let the heads roll." Asuka shouted as she picked up her favorite sword the Ultimate weapon blade and Shinji grabbed a Sonic Lance. Asuka ran up to a head that was moving in to attack her. The Head crashed into the ground missing her which gave Asuka the opportunity to get on top of it. What Asuka did to the angel's head with the sword was something that a small child shouldn't see. She stuck the sword into the creature's head and she twisted the blade around causing a lot of blood to pour out of the head.

Shinji barely managed to get on top of an attacking angel's head. Once he was on top he used the Sonic Lance and impaled it right thorough the creature's brain. Shinji ripped the lance right out of the head so he could leap onto the next head. The two Eva pilots were making quick work of the heads, but when they had only two left to deal with a large claw arm shot up from the ground and it seized Shinji. Then another one appeared and it grabbed Asuka.

"Shit!" Asuka shouted as she tried to struggle in an attempt to free herself, but the Angel's grip was far too strong for the mass-produced Eva to break.

"Where's Junior when you need him!" Shinji said as he tried to free himself from the angel's mighty grip, but his attempts were futile.

Suddenly more of the angel's body was exposed as more of it rose up from the ground. Shinji and Asuka were surprised to see that the belly of the angel had a face on it. It looked almost human except that it had a lot of fangs and it had a red orb on its forehead. "There's the angel's S2 engine!" Shinji exclaimed.

"No shit Sherlock! How do we take it out?" Asuka shouted to Shinji.

The Situation became even more grave when the heads Shinji and Asuka killed were getting bitten off by the heads they didn't kill allowing the Angel to regenerate new heads. Suddenly inside NERV Maya was detecting a falling object heading straight for the angel. "Commander I am detecting an object falling towards the angel. Whatever it is its coming fast." Maya informed the commander.

Gendo had a rare smile on his face as he informed her softly "He has returned with the weapon he went to retrieve."

"What?" Maya said because she was confused by Gendo's reply. Maya used her computer station to examine the falling object. She was surprised to see that it was Eva 016. The black Eva was using its AT field to protect itself from the heat of reentry. But what the Eva was holding caught Maya's eye. "Eva 016 has the Lance of Longinus!" Maya exclaimed.

"Of course he dose. What other reason would Junior have to go into space?" Gendo said as he continued to obverse the falling Eva. "But I am interested to see how he plans to slow his descent." Gendo thought to himself.

Inside the raging heat of the earth's atmospheric reentry Eva 016 raised its free arm. Junior took aim with the arm that held the lance and shouted "Take this!" He threw Lance down to earth with such speed that the lance itself was set ablaze. It was falling faster than the Eva as it getting closer and closer to its mark. The Angel looked up and saw the flaming Lance of Longinus coming down at him. Shinji and Asuka saw the lance coming as well.

"Is that the lance of Longinus?" Shinji asked himself as he looked at the raging fireball that was getting closer and closer to the angel.

"Shit we need to get out here!" Asuka said because when that lance hits. It would cause all kinds of damage. But luck was on their side as the Angel released them so it could concentrate on dealing with the lance that was flying towards its core.

Shinji and Asuka didn't waste anytime looking for shelter as the Lance of Longinus was only a mere minute away from striking the angel. The angel put all of its strength into creating an AT field in an attempt to stop the lance. But the lance of Longinus went right through the AT field and it penetrated the Angel's S2 core. The Angel died instantly after a large explosion engulfed the area and destroyed the S2 engine. And even if the angel had survived the explosion and the lost of its core the lance was so hot from reentry that the heat would have caused the Angel's blood to boil. Then the angel's body would have exploded.

Asuka and Shinji emerged from the buildings they hid behind. Where the Angel once stood there was a small crater with the Lance of Longinus stuck in the center of it. The lance was burning red from the heat of its fall. Seconds later they looked up and they saw Sephiroth Junior slowly descending to the ground. He was using his Eva's angel wings to slow his descent. He slowed himself down to the point where he stopped in mid air only a few feet away from the ground.

"Scratch one angel." Sephiroth Junior said triumphantly.

"Are you fucking nuts? You almost fried me and Shinji!" Asuka shouted while giving Junior a death glare.

"Hey you were about to get eaten last time I check, so I deserve something more on the lines like Thank you Junior for saving our sorry asses." Junior answered.

"Oh...I'll thank you alright." Asuka said with an evil glare. "After I knock all of your teeth out!" Asuka said finishing her remarks to Junior.

"Thanks for helping us." Shinji said nicely.

"See at least someone appreciates my help. Unlike some people I know!" Junior gloated as he looked at Asuka.

While Asuka and Junior were auguring with one another Sephiroth sat inside a hidden room deep within the Terminal Dogma. He was smiling darkly as he began clapping to applaud Junior for destroying the last angel. "Ha those fools never figured out that those angels were after me. They had no intention of starting the Third Impact. The new angels' purpose was to prevent any foreign life-form like myself from starting the Third impact. NERV saved me the trouble of dealing with them myself. My plan has worked out as I have foreseen. Now all that is left to do is to start the Reunion then I must eliminate Junior somehow or have him off the planet when the Third Impact begins." Sephiroth said as he rose up from his chair.

Sephiroth was disappearing into the darkness when he said to himself "He may be the only one who can stop me. Even if NERV and Gendo knew of Sephiroth Junior's real power then everything I have worked will be ruined. Thankfully no one else knows about his true power. Only I know what kind of power lurks within him."

The time for Reunion has come.

Meanwhile Cloud, Misato and Fuyutski were approaching NERV. They were surprised when they saw the Lance of Longinus stuck in the middle of a crater with the burnt remains of an angel scattered all around it.

"What the hell happened here?" Misako asked Cloud.

"An angel attacked while we were gone." Fuyutski said to point out the obvious.

Suddenly Cloud felt someone reaching into his mind. Cloud held his head as he made some grunt sounds before hearing Sephiroth's words in his mind saying "Cloud could you thank the pilots on my behalf for me? They saved me the trouble of destroying the angels for me."

"What are you talking about Sephiroth?" Cloud mentally replied.

"Fool...you and your friends had only stayed at the city a little longer you would have learned that the new angels you fought were after me from the start. Their sole purpose was to keep all foreign life-forms from causing the Third Impact. I owe them one Cloud. Now it can begin." Sephiroth answered.

"What can begin?" Cloud asked in his mind.

"Come forth children of Jenova of children of my bloodline. Come forth and join with me. Come for the time of reunion is upon us. Come and follow me." Sephiroth voice echoed through the minds of everyone who had his cells or the cells of Jenova.

"Cloud; are you alright?" Misato asked with a look of concern on her face.

Cloud looked up at her with a horrified look. His face had gone pale as he slowly answered. "All of the Angels have been slain.Reunion is about to being."

Misato and Fuyutski were worried with Cloud. Meanwhile all over the world those with Jenova and Sephiroth's cells felt Sephiroth summoning them. Rei sat in her apartment and detected Sephiroth's calling. Asuka, Shinji and Junior were the only ones who Sephiroth wasn't summoning.

Well...not yet.

A/N: sorry for the long wait, but I had some writer's block for this fic. By the way do you guys think I should try a Misato and Cloud pairing just as an experiment? It just an idea I been kinda kicking around in my head.