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Chapter 4:

'Sir, we have a situation here!'

2300 Hours.
Perimeter Sweep.
Earth, Tokyo-3.

The Anarchist had broken of from its star-mates, scouting ahead to test the defenses of this city. It looked like it was built in the time of the Golden Age of Technology, with high concrete sky scrapers and high-wattage street lights. Avery grinned. He knew that this place would be a challenge for him. Something told him that it would be different here. He didn't understand it, but he had learned to trust this instinct he had, it had saved his life more then once. He had his scanners going, what scanners he had. His Anarchist had been made for fighting, not scouting. Let his star-mates collect the data; he would find and eliminate the threats.

A low 'beep!' sounded, alerting him to incoming weapons fire. The small-caliber machine guns from the slowly encroaching tanks pattered off the ferro-fibrous armour-plate, the small slugs stitching lines across the torsos of the Anarchist. Avery glared at the tanks. They had DARED to shoot his mech with their paltry small arms fire. The turrets on the tanks swiveled into place, locking onto their enemy.

The four tanks had primed their main gun, a large 200mm cannon, but before they could fire, two lines of white-hot laser light cut the small tanks in half, detonating their gas tanks and ammo bin. Avery grinned evilly. He enjoyed watching those asinine ground pounders go up in a flash of fire and smoke. Avery checked his radar, no more enemy tanks, but there were three unknown enemy targets coming towards him. He pitched the Anarchist into a loping run, the myomer bundles in the mech's leg working at maximum capacity to propel the 20 ton metal monstrosity at over 200 K/ph.

At this speed, he was little more then a blur. He had gotten into the city and killed four enemies before any of his star-mates had even gotten into the city. Now he was about to add three more to his kill list. He turned the corner, raising his arms to let loose another two laser bolts from his twin Heavy Lasers, but when he turned the corner, there was nothing. He couldn't see or hear anything, even with his sensors cranked to their highest level.

Sometimes he wished he had the Active Probes and ECM suites his star-mates had, but that though was replaced by the blaring of a high-pitched warning sensor. Avery wrenched the Anarchist quickly to the right, but it was too late, a large, red and orange mech was leaping down at him, a mech-sized axe in its hands. The axe, however, was true to its aim, and the depleted-uranium core of the axe slammed down with all the strength the enemy 'Mech could muster, crushing in the head and cleaving straight through into the left side of the torso.

The Anarchist fell to its knees, and then onto its chest, the fusion reactor winding down with a whine of damaged machinery. Thus ended the life of Avery De'Villar, and the chance that the Anarchist had to be made into a main-line production mech.

2300 Hours.
Defensive Patrol.
Earth, Tokyo-3.

Asuka had taken EVA - 02 out, grabbing an Axe from a weapons cache inside a building, and a large hand gun. She walked forward in the Eva, following her sensors and watching as the JNDF sent out tanks to defend the perimeter. NERV and the JNDF had come to a begrudging truce, and had begun to work together.

"I just hope they know where their doing…" Asuka muttered to herself. She moved her red and orange Eva out and began to sweep the city, making sure that they hadn't missed anything. The electronic interference had cleared a few minuets after the missile barrage, but there was no sign of their enemy. The MAGI computers had projected the enemy landing sight as off on the hill that Rei had shot down Ramiel, the 5th Angel, whom had tried to burrow into Central Dogma. The enemy that they encountered now was different from the Angels, Asuka didn't know if the enemy was human, alien, or something entirely different.

All she knew is that she would protect her home from an enemy, with her life if need be. She pushed the Eva into a loping run as she saw the JNDF tanks open up at the enemy, a large machine that had what looked like two large guns in each of its hands, and was covered in sloping armour plates that gave it a very fast, but fragile, look.

The four JNDF tanks exploded as the enemy fired, each of the pistol-shaped guns fired with an extremely bright white light beam that she could only look at because she had her light-dampening visor on. The enemy turned away from her and took off, running at high speed. Asuka smiled her little evil smile, and began to climb up the building she was standing beside, discarding her pistol. She had seen her enemy, and had decided to use a little devious plan. She had found that the buildings of Tokyo-3, since they were built to slide into the underground NERV headquarters, could easily support the weight of the Eva's.

She pushed the Evangelion into a soft walk, using care not to put too much weight on one foot at a time, so that she would not collapse the floors underneath the Eva. Asuka got into position and waited, watching her enemy like a cougar watching its prey. The enemy turned at the corner of the street, raising its guns to fire, but stopped for only a moment to re-target its weapons. Asuka took her chance.

She tromped down on the accelerator, sending the Eva off of the building, and she raised the axe. The enemy turned quickly, but not quickly enough, and Asuka brought the axe crashing down upon the head of the enemy, tearing it out and down, carving open the left side of the enemy's torso.

"Ha! I knew you weren't that tough!" she gloated as the enemy went down on its knees and then its chest, lying there, prone. Asuka kicked it once for good measure, and keyed the comms array on her Eva.

"Misato, the enemy has been dispatched, anything on sensors with you?"

"There's four more enemies out there, looks like their taking their time on getting into the city. Go and reinforce Shinji and Rei, they'll need you there."

"Ma'am! Right away!" Asuka called back, going to a weapons cache and taking out an automatic rifle with a few extra clips. She thought on that as she went to them. Shinji and Rei had grown on her over the past few months. Where she had once thought that Shinji was weak and a wimp, he had shown that he was a capable fighter and that he was truly a pacifist at heart. Asuka smiled slightly, she and Rei had become closer in peacetime.

When she had first met the First Child, she had thought that she was snobby and stuck-up. After a few months, she found that Rei was just quiet and introverted, and Asuka smiled. She, to all intents and purposes, was the so-called 'leader' of the trio, but she knew that all three of them excelled in certain things. Rei was better with long-range tactics, Shinji was more proficient with close combat weaponry, and Asuka knew that she enjoyed medium range combat the best. That was where she could use the best weaponry, especially the ones that made a lot of noise and very big explosions. She grinned, putting the Rifle down and grabbing a heavy caliber shotgun with a few reloads, and went to join her friends.