Disclaimer: See Ch. 1
Finally! I can UPDATE in peace and harmony and make everyone happy! Where I live people always give me hell…
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The Commander growled and drew his weapon. "Akagi, this is a waste of your time and mine. With 3rd Impact in my control, I can do what I want."
Ritsuko kept her gun trained at her former lover. "And what are you going to do? Use a girl to get back to your Yui? Don't you get it Ikari, she is gone. Rei is her own person… and the only Rei I'm proud to know."
Rei ceased her struggling. To hear that from Dr. Akagi…
Gendo snorted. "She is a tool and I intend to use her as such." His finger tightened around the trigger. He noticed Ritsuko backing up. "You cannot escape your fate—"
He felt the weight on his shoulder diminish. Then pain. Pain in his shoulder. Then he heard the hissing.
Rei watched as the Commander of NERV was attacked on all sides by the Aliens. The Praetorian that had her in its grasp was pulling her away. And Dr. Akagi was nowhere to be seen. As the Praetorian and the 3 drones accompanying it dragged her away, she heard the Commander's screams of anguish and pain…
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Asuka arrived outside just in time to see a black spider-like object catch her in the face (EVA's face). She reached up to grab the enraged King, but it deftly leapt out of range.
The King was barely less than half the size of the EVA, but it was still fast. The monster scrambled onto the EVA's back and started clawing at the armor with its 6 arms. When it saw the massive hands reach for it, it leapt into the air…
…and Asuka saw it land on her EVA's face. It opened its mouth and let its second mouth arc towards the EVAs right eye. When it hit, she let out a blood-curling scream of pain.
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Ritsuko pulled herself out of the LCL. Granted, she could have stayed in there all day, but she didn't like bathing in blood. Thereby, she was thoroughly soaked.
The Aliens were gone, and so was Rei. 'They took her.' Then she caught sight of something on the floor. As she crept closer, she caught the smell of blood. The mess in front of her...
She spit on the remains of the Commander. "Serves you right."
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Asuka held the Lance that fell out of sky. The Alien King that had gouged out her eye now lay crushed beneath a Type-1 EVA that tried to ambush her, the acid blood burning away the dead EVA's armor. Now the other Type-1s were trying to kill her.
She brandished the lance. "Bring it on, you sons of bitches!"
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The door opened and Ritsuko found herself staring down a gun barrel. "Get that gun out of my face, Katsuragi."
"Sorry." Misato lowered the gun and examined her friend. "Why are you all wet?"
"None of your business. Anyway, they got him."
"They got who?"
"The Aliens got the Commander. And I know I should be depressed but I'm not."
"Well, they also got Shinji and Rei."
"Major!!" Hyuuga pointed down the hallway. The Aliens had reappeared and they had Rei. They saw her frightened eyes before she was gone. But one drone remained behind. It hissed it them and stalked toward the 6 (Maya, Misato, Shigeru, Makoto, Ritsuko, & Kozo).
"Shoot it!" Immediately, 5 gun went up and fired rapidly, only...
...the shots ricocheted off an invisible shield that become visible as an orange hexagon.
"Aw, damn. It's the drone that was inside Kaoru."
"We may have a problem." That was a severe understatement. The drone crouched, and a pair of insect-like wing spread. The Alien flew full-speed at them.
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Asuka spun and split the next Type-1 that appeared in two. These bastards were relentless! No matter what she did, they just kept coming back. She run the Lance through one and the 2 behind it, nailing their core and causing them to explode.
She checked her onboard timer. Not good. She only had 2 minutes of power left. 'Then I gotta take care of these bastards quick.' With a shriek, she run headlong into the other 4 Type-1s.
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The drone hissed at the humans that it held in its hands. Misato and Ritsuko were struggling to escape the monsters grasp, but they were unsucessful thus far. The drone's grip tightened around her throat, and it appeared to grin at her. Her vision faded, going black...
Makoto raised the bar he had grabbed and brought it down with all his might on the back of the drone's head. The drone screeched and dropped the 2 women, turning its attention to the little man that had foolishly tried to strike it down.
Maya grabbed Ritsuko and Misato over to Kozo and the 2 sucked in their breaths. "Thanks, Maya,"said Ritsuko gratefully.
"No problem, sempai."
The drone stalked Makoto like a lion, eyeing (figuratively) the man as he leapt behind a wall, where he found Shigeru holding something. "What the hell is that?"
Shigeru pointed the gun at the drone around thecorner. "Widowmaker." He pulled the trigger.
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Asuka stood among the remains of the Type-1s. She breathed heavily, resting the tip of her Lance on the ground, and just in time. The onboard clok signaled that she had 30 seconds of power left.
"Misato?"
"...Asuka! Are you there?"
"Yeah, but my power just about out. And I'm half-blind."
"Damn!We need you to save Shinji and Rei. The Aliens got them."
"I would... except..." At that moment, the power went off.
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Misato threw the radio onto the ground. "Dammit!"
Ritsuko looked up from where she was kneeling. "What?"
"Asuka just ran out of power, so she can't go after Rei and Shinji."
Makoto rubbed his ears. "My ears are still ringing." He looked at Shigeru. "What the hell is that? A cannon?"
Shigeru still held the gun. "Nope. My favorite gun."
"More like a cannon." Makoto pointed all around them. "Look at the mess it made!"
He had a point. The Widowmaker had blown out the Drone's neck and the back of it's head, leavinga messy, mutilated Alien body on the ground that was still gushing acid blood.
"Stop arguing." Kozo rubbed his head. "Right now---"
At that moment, a voice came on. "This is pilot 1. Alien nest in sight. Proceeding with payload dropping."
Misato snatched the radio off the ground. "Belay that order!"
Another voice came on. "...the hell are you? Get off this channel!"
"This is Major Misato Katsuragi of NERV! And I am ordering you to not drop those N2 Mines. We have 2 pilots the Aliens have!"
"...Understood. As you were pilot. Belay that order."
"Too late! Mines are falling!"
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Within the nest, the Aliens swarmedaround Shinji and Rei. Thetwo were being held down by the Praetorians, but they were in different locations.
Rei cried out in pain as the Queen within her struggled to get out. "Shinji!" She called him, and heard his scream of pain. That whistling... she heard a whistling over the screeching of the Aliens, over the crunching of her ribs...
Then she saw the light. Blinding white light.
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The N2 Mines exploded, annihalating the nest. The screeches and roars of the Aliens sounded, droned, then faded away...
Asuka climbed out of her EVA and saw the energy dome. "N-no..."
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By the time Misato, Ritsuko, and Kozo reached the nest, the heat from the N2 Mines had died down. The nest was open to the sky, and scorched Alien corpses littered the ground.
Misato cried out as a drone missing the lower portion of it's body grabbed her ankle, emitting a wailing screech. Ritsuko took out her gun and shot the Alien through the top of the head. The Alien screeched and she shot it again and again, 'till it moved no more.
Misato pried her ankle out of the dead Alien's grasp. "Thanks."
"What're friends for?"
The two exchanged a smile, then Kozo called out, "I've found Rei!"
The two women ran over to where the elder man stood. Within the massive dead Aliens, Misato could see a pale feminine hand. "Rei..."
The Aliens beside them began to move, and the 3 aimed their guns at them. The bodies fell to the ground, and Shinji crawled out of the pile.
"Shinji!!" Misato ran to him and wrapped her arms around him, but froze when she felt something poke into her stomach. She held him at arms length, and saw a small clawed hand sticking out of his chest.
Shinji eased himself out of her arms. He crawled over the pile of Aliens and moved them aside, until he could see her angelic face. Gently squeezing her cold hand, he uttered one phrase.
"I ...love ...you ...Rei..." With that, his already slowly beating heart stopped, and he closed his eyes.
The two of them were at peace at last.
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It broke my heart to write this chapter, but as the saying goes: It ain't over 'till it's over. Speaking of which, the story's almost done. No flames, and Review please!