Chapter Twelve: Asuka Strikes!
Attention! Achtung! This chapter is not for those who can not stand the sight of blood or heavy gore. You have been warned.
"What do we do?" interrogated Osaka, looking hopelessly up at her friend. Time stood still. Minutes slowly paced along like hours. A huge humanoid, scarlet in color, tackled Unit 06 to the ground. It slammed its fist into the white EVA's head, reducing it to bloody chunks of muscle and bone. The defeated EVA's hand went limp, releasing Asuka, who was still alive.
"Momma! You saved me!" rejoiced Asuka, staring up into her EVA's green eyes. Then, the EVA scooped her up into its hands, and placed the pilot on its shoulder. Asuka looked around at the remaining Evangelion.
"Well, I guess the job isn't done yet," Asuka said. She flipped open a panel on her EVA, and the entry plug popped out.
"What are you doing Asuka?" Ritsu shouted from the ground, "You can't possibly defeat them all!"
"We'll see about that," she replied, climbing into the entry plug. And with a whoosh, the entry plug reinserted itself into the EVA's back.
"Smells like blood, like usual," mumbled Asuka, the stench of LCL filling her nostrils, "I wonder what tools I have to work with today." She pressed a few buttons on her entry plug controls. The monitor displayed the progressive knife, which was in the EVA's left shoulder armament and a positron pistol (this weapon appears in the fight against Leilel, for those who do not know), in the right shoulder armament.
Back on the ground, the three remaining contestants stared up at the sanguine Evangelion. Hands sweating, Ritsu muttered, "I hope she'll be all right."
"Taco teleport taco," peeped GIR, surrounding himself in a blue bubble.
"No GIR! Don't go!" whined Osaka, reaching out her hands to grab GIR. The green doggie robot made a humming noise, and then disappeared, blue bubble and all.
"GIR…" sniffled Osaka.
"Wait! That's it!" Ritsu gasped, "We don't have to die! We can escape in a space ship! Call NASA!"
"But my cellphone ran out of minutes. Darned Cingular…."
"Die you dumkopfen!" shouted Asuka at the top of her lungs, plunging her progressive knife into the abdomen of EVA Unit Twelve, strong spurts of blood issuing from its wound and mouth. EVA 08 attacked from behind, but was hastily terminated with a positron blast to the neck. She ripped off the Evangelion's head barehanded, chunked it at Unit Ten, causing it fall over and impale itself on a pointy boulder. A dizzying, splitting pain ripped through EVA 02's left shoulder, and Asuka saw one of her EVA's arms was lying on the ground.
"SHEIBE!" she cursed, firing the last positron blast at Evangelion Unit Five, the severer of her arm.
"Auxiliary power has now expired. Zero minutes of activation time left," said the electronic voice, hollow and stygian. The Evangelion crashed to the ground.
"NO! NO MOMMA! I'M NOT GOING TO DIE! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE MOMMA!" shrieked Asuka. She heard a thumping noise off in the distance, the sound of feet. And then, there was the dreaded thunking noise, a double bladed lance sinking itself into Unit 02. "DON'T LET ME DIE!" Another spear came flying down, embedding itself in the EVA.
"DO NOT LET ME DIE!"
Next on Shreenan Island:
Asuka may have got herself out of the last pickle, but will she be able to rise again? And what of Osaka and Ritsuko? Will they meet their doom? Please continue to read and review to find out!