Somewhere in the darkness , a girl cried in the empty world she now lived in.

It was Rei , she was now in a new world of darkness , there was nothing to see , nothing to do , nothing to hope for , she was alone.

Where am I ? She stares into the darkness , not even a monster came for her.

What happened ? She remembers the feeling of her stomach and legs being ripped off.

Have I died ? She sees that her body is intact , but she is naked , floating on emptiness.

I have...died , I see now , I am dead , how long I wanted this , and now I am in regret.

Am I to remain here until the end of time ?

Am I alone in this empty place ? She looks around , checking for at least a demon or something , still nothing.

I am alone , what am I going to do now ?

I am not going to be here any longer. Rei tries to scratch her wrist with her nails , no blood came out of her wound , the wound regenerated quickly.

I cannot kill myself .

I really am dead then.

Am I in Heaven or am I in Hell ?

Heaven is described a beautiful place in bibles...this is not heaven.

Hell is desribed a place of flames , demons and monsters , with their leader over them , I think I am in Hell , but it is not as described.

Then Rei notices feathers come from her back.

I have wings ? She grabs the wings , they were soft and blue colored like her hair.

I am part Angel , that is true , but I have never had wings before , if this is Hell , then why do I have Angel wings ?

Because this is not Heaven nor Hell. A dark voice says from the nothingness.

Who said that ? She is somehow glad that she is not alone , she looks around but nothing is found.

I am the darkness. A black flame appears in front of Rei.

You are the darkness ? Am I speaking to the darkness around me ?

No , you are speaking to me , not the darkness.

Do you have a visible form ?

Yes , I do have what you could call a body.

Where are you ?

I am in your soul , yet you are in my soul also.

So we are one in souls.

No , we are our own souls, yet, I am in your soul , and you are in mine.

Is this darkness your soul ?

This darkness is not my soul , it is my prison.

You are trapped her like me .

Yes , but it is also I who got you here.

Are you someone the reptiles killed ?

Yes , but I was the first , it was my death that created this eternal darkness.

Where are the other souls that were killed by them ?

They are inside me , I made them a part of me.

Like I have.

No , you are not a part of me , you are free from my power.

And the others ?

They are dead , their very souls have died , they seized to exist completely.

Are you trying to kill me ?

No , you are my key out of this prison of nothingness.

Who are you ?

I am the darkness in the universe , the darkness in every living beings soul.

I do not understand , there are other intelligent life forms ?

Yes , in almost every planet actually.

If you are the darkness in the universe , does that not make you evil .

I am not evil , I do not enjoy my purpose , I do not enjoy being the third.

The third ?

I am the third "spirit world" as you may call it , there is Heaven , the destination of pure souls , there is Hell the destination of unpure souls , then there is me , the destination of souls whose lives didn't end as fate planned it.

So because those souls were not supposed to die you destroyed them ?

No , I never have to destroy their souls , it is they who ask me to kill them.

Why would they want to seize to exist ?

They could not take the pressure , they could not accept that they were going to live all eternity in darkness.

They were weak , they'd rather die than be trapped here.

I am aware that you wanted to die to find a better world , in other words , you wanted to go to Heaven.

I hated the world I lived in , I wanted to die , to go to Heaven to join my angel brothers.

Those things you fought were not Angels , you just called them that , they were simply monsters that wanted humanity to die so that they could have the Earth.

So I am part of those monsters ?

Yes , you are one of them , in reallity its just a race for them , the first Angel to reach their father wins and takes the place of the humans.

You are talking about ADAM .

The first to reach ADAM wins the Earth , yes , but they think that Lillith in Terminal Dogma is ADAM , they do not know of Gendo's hand.

I already know this .

Then did you know that every world with a soul has an ADAM-like origin , and they all have their own version of the Angels .

ADAM is the Angel of life , it is because of him that life exists , planets do not have souls.

They do , they all do , but not all of them are capable of creating life , those who can ,create a life making entity , like ADAM , and almost all of them choose to make an entity that bears a fruit of knowledge and the entrance between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

Where is our entrance to Heaven ?

Lillith is the entrance from where the Lilims pass to go to were they belong , she has a physical form because her children where able to pass into intelligent life forms , every entrance is rewarded this if their children manage this.

So every world with a soul has Angels , does every world have a Heaven and Hell ?

There is only one Heaven and Hell , but there are many of those monsters you fought.

And the Angels appear at the end of the world.

Your a fast learner , yes and no, every planet with a soul to make life has a series of trials before their end , if they pass the trials , their soul along with their children will live for all eternity...none of them have ever passed their trials and always met their end at the hands of the Angels.

The world is on the peak of its end , if we defeat the Angels , we will live forever.

Yes , your end is the same as many others , you will end up destroying yourself , but not with unification , but with your wars and corruptions.

Man is trying to end itself with Third Impact , I thought that was going to be our end.

Humanity is trying to save itself by making the process of becoming a God that you call Third Impact , if all of humanity unites , they will become a god and go to the world most fitting to them .

The world that most fits us ?

If you become one , you will be one being , that being will go to either Heaven or Hell .

Were will that being go ?

You will go instantly to Hell the moment you become one , sorry you have to hear this , but if put all the sins and all the purity of humanity next to each other , the sins would win by a landslide , this is not so bad since Hell is almost the same as Earth , only with flames and demons all over the place.

And what about the tortures for our sins ?

The truth is you can't be tortured since you are already dead , you actually just wander around for all eternity , and since when you get to Hell , humanity's union will end , you will be living with your friends and family , the only ones not there will be those pure souls that died before Third Impact happens.

If we do not cause Third Impact and defeat the Angels , is that not better.

When you defeat the Angels , Shaktoo and Bebeal will destroy humanity shortly after , that is why you must cause Third Impact before they decide to attack , truth is they can do it right now , but Shaktoo has bigger plans than just killing you.

And what if we stop them from destroying humanity ?

You can't , they are unstoppable , no world has ever managed to even scratch them.

There are other methods besides fighting.

You mean negociate with those things , there is no way to get them to listen , probably you'de be dead before you even get the chance to look at them.

You underestimate the humans , not all of them are bad , one good soul is enough to save all of the world.

Didn't expect you to say that , you have so much hope in humans , why ? All they did was bring pain to you.

There is one that cared for me , if I had opened my heart to him , I would not even be here , I betrayed him and I paid with it with death.

Rei Ayanami , that is why I let you live , I plan to send you back into Earth to continue with third impact.

I will return , but I will not help with third impact , I will find a way to stop Shaktoo , I believe that if we stop him , we will win . I do not think that Bebeal is like him.

You are wrong , she is even more deadly than her brother , he enjoys the suffering , while she enjoys the death , the blood and the feeding.

I think that she only enjoys those things because she has never known anything else , she can be teached to be caring.

You should remember that they are not human , they do not think the same way you do , I do not think it is even possible for them to feel love and caring.

You are wrong , Shaktoo told me that he pitied his sister , that means he cares for her , and that means that he is able to love.

This person you were talking about was the one called Shinji Ikari wasn't it , you expect him to do this things.

Yes.

Then I believe you can do it , but if you see that he cannot acomplish his task , you will go about with Third Impact , they are too dangerous to be kept alive.

He will not fail .

Have you not already seen that your emotions will lead you to death.

Maybe so ,but this time if I fail , I will die peacefully .

You are a strange human , few are the ones who think like you.

But they exist , souls worthy of Heaven exist , it is this souls that will save us all.

I must leave now , I cannot be like this too long , I will come back when the right question is asked.

Please stay with me. She got no reply.

I do not want to be alone. Nobody answers back.

The right question ? I must ask the right question.

Rei continued to float in emptiness , thinking of the question that the flame wanted.

She was dead , she was in darkness , she was alone...

Back on the world of the living , Dr. Ritsuko Akagi had been investigating the attacks in the past days , unknown to her , she was getting a visitor.

Ritsuko was in her office , thinking about a possible solution to the attacks on the world . And yet, she was thinking of other things as well...Gendo and Rei.

( What is it they want ? If they want to destroy the world , then why don't they just do it already instead of attacking only at night.) She observes some pictures from the attack on LA.

(This pictures are useless , I can't even see clearly what they are but I know its them , they must have regenerative abilities...why do they laugh when their killing them ?)In the picture , all that could be seen was two specks in the sky , too far away for any other person to know what they are.

( Even with all of this chaos , I can't stop hating that doll .) She grabs a control in the desk and puts it in her pocket.

( Why does Gendo care so much for her ? Why can't he care for me like that ? I am not going to loose to some doll , tomorrow I will make him pay.)She grins to herself in the dim light of the room.

The door opens suddenly , Ritsuko hears the voice she hates so much.

"Dr . Akagi." It was Rei , but it was actually Shaktoo disguised as her , and he was doing a pretty good impersonation of her.

Yes first child , what's the matter ? Ritsuko asks not being able to hide her anger.

I wish to know some questions. He says in Rei's voice , holding back the feeling to laugh at Ritsuko's anger.

Why are you asking me ? Go ask the commander. She turns her back on the Rei copy.

I do not think he will answer my questions , I trust you will know them.

Make it fast , I have a lot of work to do.

You cannot answer them here , we must go to where I was born.

Why do you wanna go there ? You hate going in there.

I have to know something...please.

Ristuko jumped a little in her chair , Rei was actually begging her to help her ( This is strange of her . She never cares about anything . Why would she want to go to the room with her sisters ? somethings not right here.) She walks out the room with Rei and heads toward the room with the Rei clones.

In the elevator , Ritsuko thought she heard Rei chuckle from behind her.

Here we are First child , now are you sure you want to do this? Ritsuko didn't really care.

Yes , I must know something I am curious about.

If you say so. She opens the giant door , they enter the all familiar room with the LCL tube in the middle.

There , are you happy , now can we go. She sees Rei close the door behind them.

I must not let you leave just yet. Rei ,( Shaktoo) goes to the middle of the room.

What are you trying to do ? Let me leave at once !

Let me see my sisters.

Is that all you want ? Will you let me go if I do that . Ritsuko pushes a button near the LCL tube .

Yes , now do it. Shaktoo Rei said very demandingly.

The walls lit up , with hundreds of Rei's floating in LCL , they all look at the Rei outside.

What's wrong with them ? Why are they looking at you like that ? She sees that they were all struck with fear , all of them were wide eyed and their jaws were dropped.

Ritsuko then gasps herself , when Rei chuckles mockingly at them.

"How delightful". Rei said with a deeper voice ,Ritsuko started to get suspicious of Rei , this wasn't like her.

They screamed loudly , all swimming away from Rei , as if they had seen the Devil himself.

Ritsuko covered her ears from the screams all over the room , one of the clones even died from fear.

WHY ARE THEY SO AFRAID OF YOU ! She screams because of the loud noise.

"Stop screaming". Rei ordered , they all stopped but they were still terrified of Rei.

What did you do to them ! They look at you as if you were death.

They fear me because I am not like them. Rei bumps into Ritsuko on the way to the door.

Ritsuko steps away from Rei's way , she had a mocking grinin her face.

Rei why are the clones so terrified of you ? Shaktoo Rei was opening the door to go.

Come over to my apartment tonight and you will see. With a horrible smile she left .

Ritsuko just stood there shocked , ( What did she mean by that ? What does she want to show me that made all of the clones scream in fear . )

Then she realized where she was , this was her chance to ruin Gendo's plan , to make him pay.

When she went to pull out the control she figured out it was gone , then she remembered that Rei was laughing when she left.

She took it! That bitch took it! Ritsuko ran out to get her , she closed the door before she left of course...she never found her.

Deep down in the bowels of Terminal Dogma , Shaktoo had found what he was looking for...the end was seconds away.

I have found you , finally after all these years . Shaktoo Rei was flying in front of the second Angel Lillith , she was moving her nailed arms , trying to run away.

What are you doing here ? Lillith spoke with a female voice.

So now your scared ! I expected that from you Angels , deep down your just cowards with the face of monsters.

Your not supposed to be here yet.

Lillith raised her head , all of her seven eyes were staring at him in utter fear , he laughed at her efforts.

AAAAHHH JA JA JA JA JA! Your pathetic!

Please...I do not want to die...Lillith said weakly.

You will not escape your fate , you will pay for what you did to me traitor!

It was your own fault that he died. Lillith said.

How dare you! Even at the end you dare stand up against me! And what makes you think that I am doing this for him ?

This is not the end , your plans have a flaw.

I am fed up with this! You WILL DIE! He digs his hand into Lillith's chest , making her howl in pain.

DIE! He lifts the entire cross into the air , with only his two tiny hands still stuck to Lillith's chest.

WHAT IS THIS! WHY DOES NOTHING HAPPEN! He bursts his hand of Lillith's chest , her LCL blood flowed freely from her wound and the cross falls back into place , creating a large wave in the LCL lake.

You...you killed the other part of me...

WHAT OTHER PART! He was in so much rage that he morphed into his real form , the two feet reptile , with red skin , yellow stripes and a horn in his snout.

My daughter, Rei Ayanami...you killed her , that is why nothing happens...

Then I will just bring her soul back here , your not going to save yourself from your fate!

You will never succeed , I am going to make sure of that...

I will return to finish you off later! He broke through the doors , disappearing into the darkness of Terminal Dogma.

That night Ritsuko did as Rei said and went to her apartment.

She stood in front of room 402 , there was nobody around , she felt somehow scared of something she didn't know.

(It is always so quiet in this part of town , how can she live like this ? Obviously she doesn't care , just like a doll...I hope she doesn't end up doing any thing "strange") She proceeded to the door , slowly turning the door knob .

First child are you here! She yelled as she opened the door .

Either she's not here or she doesn't even bother in telling me. The door creaked open.

What is that smell ? An awfull odor came out of her room .

She looked to her room , there was blood all over the walls , and what looked like pieces of flesh in the walls and floor.

What in the world happen here ? Did she finally decide to kill herself! She was only staring from the door and already the room looked bad enough...she still hadn't poked her head around the corner...

She slowly but carefully walked down the short hall , she then realized what were those things in her wall.

Oh god! Those are her intestines! She couldn't have thrown her own organs to the wall! She said quietly walking over to the room , when she looked back into the entrance of the bathroom...

REI! OH MY GOD WHO DID THIS TO HER! She threw up on Rei's blood and flesh covered bed , Rei's upper torso laid on front of the bathroom , several flies buzzed around her body , and there were rats eating her remains, her face was what scared Ritsuko most of all.

OH GOD HER FACE! She was actuallycrying for Rei , her face was lifeless , but it was looking at her with the last expression she had before she died.

WHO DID THIS TO HER ! She glanced at her face turning away , whatever she saw at her death , was something out of this world , she looked like if she had seen death in the face.

Ritsuko gained enough confidence to go inspect the body .

She was murdered , but how could she have been torn in half ? It looks like she stepped on a bomb and her legs blew up! She observed her half stomach , some intestines still connected to her body.

Then she noticed the way her body was torn ." It couldn't have been a bomb , there are no signs of an explosion anywhere , and her legs are nowhere to be found." She looked closely at the shape of the torn area.

She was...bitten in half! Something came here and bit her whole half in one bite! She saw what looked like saliva in her body , she collected a sample in a jar , and grabbed the phone , not before discovering something.

By the looks of her body , she was dead since the evening...then who was the Rei that talked to me! She got that thought out of her mind and called NERV.

In Misato's apartment , they all were hanging around , not knowing the horrible news they were about to receive.