Not much new, it's been a long time since I've updated…Like I said before:

Well, I hope the like zero people still reading this fanfic are enjoying it…It's a pain to write sometimes, with me having to update other fanfics with higher priority…

I should really just invest my energy in one fanfic and just stop making so many other fanfic responsibilities…

But eh, whatever, I love making new fanfics…eheeheh…

Anyway, let's start the show.

Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or its characters. Gainax does, and they rock. Who else could create both Evangelion and FLCL!

Zankoku na tenshi no you ni
Shonen yo, shinwa ni nare...

Aoi kaze ga ima mune no doa wo tataitemo,
Watashi dake wo tada mitsumete
Hohoenderu Anata
Sotto Fureru mono
Motomeru koto ni muchuu de,
Unmei sae mada shiranai itaikena hitom

Dakedo itsuka kizuku deshou
Sono senaka ni wa
Haruka mirai mezasu tame no
Hane ga aru koto...

Zankoku na tenshi no te-ze
Madobe kara yagate tobitatsu
Hotobashiru atsui patosu de
Omoide wo uragiru nara
O-zora wo daite kagayaku
Shonen yo, shinwa ni nare

Zutto nemutteru watashi no ai no yurikago
Anata dake ga yume no shisha ni
Yobareru asa ga kuru
Hosoi kubisuji wo tsukiakari ga utsushiteru
Sekai-ju- no toki wo tomete
Tojikometai kedo...

Moshi mo futari aeta koto ni imi ga aru nara,
Watashi wa, sou, jiyu- wo shiru
Tame no Baiburu

Zankoku na tenshi no te-ze
Kanashimi ga soshite hajimaru
Dakishimeta inochi no katachi
Sono yume ni mezameta toki
Dare yori mo hikari wo hanatsu
Shonen yo, shinwa ni nare

Hito wa ai wo tsumugi nagara rekishi wo tsukuru
Megami nante narenai mama
Watashi wa ikiru...

Zankoku na tenshi no te-ze
Madobe kara yagate tobitatsu
Hotobashiru atsui patosu de
Omoide wo uragiru nara
O-zora wo daite kagayaku
Shonen yo, shinwa ni nare

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Episode 36

Memento Mori

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, NERV Infirmary

Shinji Ikari fell to his knees, sobbing like a child, the feeling of that shameful substance still on his hands, almost as if were begging Asuka for mercy, begging her for forgiveness.

"Asuka…Asuka…I'm sorry…I…Please…Don't leave me! Asuka! Forgive me."

"Yeah kid, forgive me for this too. It's not personal."

Shinji stiffened at the gruff unfamiliar voice and looked out of the corner of his eyes, noticing a JSSDF officer with a handgun at his hip, reaching for his communicator and speaking into it.

"Second and Third Children found. Will proceed to eliminate."

Shinji Ikari's eyes widened, his hands reaching out behind him to grasp one of the many syringes at Asuka's bedside, the officer not looking at him, reaching calmly for his pistol as he spoke into his communicator.

Third Child! Third Child! No…no…no more of that…I won't pilot…I can't…But…I won't let them kill her either!

"Roger that, Second and Third Children located."

Shinji Ikari rose, the comatose female form behind him seeming to fuel a new fire in his soul, and his eyes, oh his cerulean eyes, now swirling with a look of defiant anger.

"Don't call me that! My name is Shinji Ikari! Don't you ever call me anything else!"

The officer turned around with a yelp, drawing his pistol just in time to see Shinji Ikari's wrathful eyes.

A scream, and a gunshot.

Unknown Location

Munich, Germany

The obelisks stood solemnly in the darkness, their voices echoing against the invisible walls of the almost pitch-black chamber, the only lights being the small flashing displays of "Sound-Only" on the obelisks as well as queer numbers and letters.

"The Children have been located."

"Eliminated?"

"Indeed, it seems so. Memento Mori, as they say…"

"Yes, give the release orders to the completed line for good measure. The base must be completely annihilated."

"Indeed…"

Tokyo 3, Japan

Above NERV Headquarters

Naota Kiriyama's eyes widened as the console in front of him began to flash, typing rapidly at the keyboard to make sure the nine other mass-produced Evangelions were still under his manual control, sighing in relief as he noticed that the alert was simply his release orders to begin the assault.

His eyes widened, and he hesitated, looking down and realizing that there weren't any deployed enemy Evangelions in sight.

What? Is this meant to be a slaughter?

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, NERV Infirmary

Misato Katsuragi approached the door quietly, her pistol raised in front of her, dreading the fact that there were no noises coming from the hospital room. All around her, dead doctors and nurses, burning medical equipment.

Those...monsters…

Suddenly, she heard a sob from behind the closed door and stiffened, not sure whether to be relieve or even more apprehensive, reaching out with her trembling hand to swing open the door and reveal what had become of her charges.

Shinji Ikari lay on his knees on the floor, a puddle of blood soaking his blank pants, and next to him lay a dead man who seemed to be wearing the clothes of a JSSDF Officer, a brutal wound on his slit throat.

"S-Shinji?"

Shinji was motionless and silent, though certainly alive, quietly clutching his stomach, revealing no looks of pain or consternation, simply staring down at the blood-soaked floor, apparently the blood of the dead officer.

Then, Misato's eyes noticed an even more startling sight.

Asuka Langley Sohryu's delicate face was turned over, staring directly at her with a clear cognizance.

Those weak blue eyes flitted from Katsuragi down to the kneeling Ikari, and back, and then closed as if too tired to digest any of it.

Misato broke the silence first, feeling the urgency of it all, the madness, and explosions shaking the base around them.

She reached forward, sobbing and embracing Shinji in a loving hug, helping the weak young man up.

"Shinji…Shinji…We need to get you both out of here…Please…Can you stand?"

Shinji simply stared down at the dead man on the floor, the man he'd killed with his own eyes, a look of child-like shock and then resignation on his face.

"Shinji…you had no choice…Please! Help me lift Asuka!"

Shinji simply complied, not speaking a word at all, helping with Asuka's legs as Misato took the Second Child's other side, the both of them beginning to slowly lift the young red-head out of the hospital room and towards the open elevator at the end of the infirmary.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Episode 36

Thanatos/Nihil

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, NERV Infirmary

They quickly made their way to the end of the hallway, Misato and Shinji hefting the light and sickly Asuka Langley Sohryu towards the elevator entrance, Shinji using his left arm and shoulder to carry her slim legs, the ones he had gawked at so many times back then, his right hand at his stomach.

Suddenly, Misato jerked back, right at the open elevator door, noticing Shinji had stopped moving forward, instead opting to lay the Second Child on the elevator floor and kiss her on the cheek.

He leaned over and whispered in her ear.

She seemed to turn her weak head over to him, her pale lips parting for a second, though Misato couldn't be sure what had or hadn't been said, her eyes widening in surprise.

"Shinji? What're you-"

Shinji smiled sadly at her, stepping out of the elevator and pressing the button to activate it.

"I'm…sorry Misato."

She had one last glance of his pained face as the armored doors shut with a crash and the elevator hurtled towards its destination.

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Control Room

Makoto flailed down onto the ground in a rain of blood, the bullet cleanly passing through his throat and into a wall.

He landed on his back, beside Maya, who let out a bloodcurdling scream, crouching down and dropping her weapon, which she hadn't fired yet anyway.

Makoto simply stared ahead, up towards where the sky would've been, emitting a gurgling sound as his body trembled and his dull eyes dilated.

Maya sobbed, shaking her head in disbelief as the technicians around her fell one by one. Most of the minor technicians had already been killed, and she could hear that the sporadic gunfire resisting the JSSDF forces was already much quieter, and getting quieter by the minute.

Slowly but surely, the enemy troops were making their way into the control room.

Maya turned her head, gazing sadly at the bodies around her.

The only one…the only one…

Suddenly an exploding noise came from behind her and she spun around, only to cough and gag at a great influx of smoke, no type of poison, just a great cloud of smoke, blurring the entire control room.

She could hear footsteps close by, hard commanding claps of boot against metal platform, and she crouched down, trying to hold back her whimpers and squinting her eyes through the treacherous, impassable smoke.

Slowly the smoke began to dissipate and clear, she realized she'd barely moved from her original position, instead blundering about in the murky smoke cover.

She looked down, realizing she was looking at the polished boots of a soldier, polished except for the occasional blood stain.

Maya shook, in disbelief, and slowly looked up to lock eyes with a man dressed in the uniform of a JSSDF officer.

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, NERV Infirmary

Shinji Ikari fell to his knees, slowly coughing and hacking on the ground, noticing the blood in his saliva.

He fell onto his side, sighing as he felt the blood from the bullet wound in his gut slowly soaking into his shirt.

The officer screamed as the screaming young man slashed at his throat, firing off his pistol once into the charging pilot's stomach, though it seemed to do nothing to stop the mad adrenaline that fueled the pilot as he leapt brutally upon the JSSDF man.

He bit his lip, feeling the pain waning and then rising in his stomach, remembering her eyes and his sin.

"I'm…sorry Asuka…"

Shinji clenched his fists, trying to drive away the pain in his stomach as he helped move Asuka with Misato, then to the older woman's evident surprise, lay the Second Child in the elevator.

He bent down, staring at Asuka's delicate face and realizing this would be the last time he'd glimpse it. It seemed impossible to him, improbable, unfair, mad, insane, but it seemed painfully true. This would be the last time.

Before he could understand what he'd done, his delicate lips had reached out to place a simple kiss on the young girl's cheek, and he turned to whisper in her ear.

"I love you, Asuka…I'm sorry…"

He heard her voice muttering something weakly in his ear, though at this point he attributed it all to hallucination

"Shinji…you…idiot…".

It sounded like Asuka as always, depreciatory, but he could feel a strong sense of caring and love in that sentence. It wasn't enraged; it seemed sorrowful and tired, but surprisingly kind.

He rose, trying to ignore Misato's puzzled face and the fact that he'd never see her again, or anyone else for that matter.

"Shinji? What're you-"

He realized now he'd never really been alone…He realized that he would miss them all, miss Misato, and that red-haired demon most of all…

"I'm sorry, Misato."

Shinji stepped clear of the elevator, slowly pressing the activation button and turning with sorrowful eyes to stare at Misato's shocked and gasping face just before the armored doors closed shut tightly.

There hadn't been any hope for him anyway.

"I'm sorry…Misato…I'd only have been…burden…"

Tokyo 3, Japan

NERV Headquarters, Control Room

Sargeant Mekira Kouzou of the JSDDF force sighed and stared at the woman's pleading face as she raised her arms.

"Please…we…I…I have no weapons…I'm unarmed…please…mercy…for the love of God, we're both hu-"

Kouzou simply raised his pistol and fired it once in the short-haired female technician's gut, and then simply turned around as she fell to the ground with a bloody yelp.

He holstered his pistol and peered around in numb satisfaction at the mangled control room.

Orders…are orders…

Fly me to the moon,
And let me play among the stars.
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.
In other words, hold my hand!
In other words, darling, kiss me.

Fill my heart with song,
And let me sing forever more.
You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.
In other words, please be true!
In other words, I love you!

Fly me to the moon,
And let me play among the stars.
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.
In other words, hold my hand!
In other words, darling, kiss me.

Fill my heart with song,
And let me sing forever more.
You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.
In other words, please be true!
In other words, I love you!

Well, hope you enjoyed Chapter Thirteen…Sorry for those few who're reading, but I take longer with updating Fate of Destruction…

But I'll try to keep this and other fanfics more updated as we reach the approaching endgame. Heheh.

Well, hope you've found it all interesting overall…See you next chapter.