In the Katsuragi residence , sad times were coming

Shinji and Asuka were on the living room , Shinji was watching the news for any word of the reptiles and Asuka was reading some fashion magazine.

Shinji had a bag on his lap , tapping his foot impatiently on the floor.

Asuka's small tolerance was wearing thin , there was a loud ruckus in the kitchen between Misato and Bebeal as silver wear , plates , food , cans and even furniture flew in all directions.

"LEAVE PEN PEN ALONE !" Misato trashed from the kitchen , a plate of leftover rice crashed through the window.

"NO WAY I WANT THAT CUCCO !" Loud running echoed across the house , something ceramic fell and broke on the floor.

"MY FLOWERS !" flapping , loud kwarks , and a flock of dark blue feathers ran quickly through the living room , "KWAAARK!" Pen pen ran for his life to hide behind the couch .

"COME BACK HERE YOU STUPID CUCCO !" Bebeal jumped out from under the table .

"ASUKA CLOSE THE DOOR !" Misato shouted from under a mountain of old fridge snacks.

"Yeah whatever" Just as Asuka was about to close the door ! WAAM ! the door slammed on her face , squashing her on the wall "My nose..."

Pen pen hid behind the couch Shinji was on " Slow down Bebeal your going to hit MEEEEE!"

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" A painful blow struck Shinji on the neck and suddenly he was flying across the room , slamming his back on the wall.

"I think I broke my ass" Shinji felt something rustle in his shirt and out popped Pen pen . Shinji grabbed the poor penguin by the neck and pointed to the door.

"Hey were's the cucco ?" Bebeal searched behind , under , and somehow inside the couch , not realizing that her prey was right behind her.

'Sorry about this Pen pen but its for your own good" Shinji stared out the door and span Pen pen around like a baseball "MISATO CATCH!" He threw Pen pen across the room into the kitchen.

"KWAUAUAAAARK!" Pen pen fell into a baseball glove Misato got out of God knows where.

" CLOSE THE DOOR ASUKA !"

"NNOOOO!" Bebeal jumped in a last desperate attempt to reach the door.

"I have a hamburger !" Shinji pulls out a hamburger out of his bag.

"Give me !"

Asuka closes the door in the distraction "JAH ! Now your stuck here with us !"

Bebeal had stripped the hamburger of all the condiments and bread , leaving only the beef patty "You chay chomeching" She said in between bites.

"Nothing you just keep eating" Asuka grumbles , there was no way to get into her head . Shinji mouths the words "Come over here" mutely to Asuka .

"Wha..mmmh !" He rapidly covers her mouth with his palm "Shush , I finally got her to eat her greens , that's a veggie burger she's eating."

She slaps his hand away not too loudly "You really are bored aren't you." She whispers watching Bebeal gulp down the veggie burger happily.

"Yeah...besides its not healthy to only eat meat."

Bebeal licks her fingers hungrily , pats her belly and lets out a loud burp .

"Gross !"

"Yummy ! Thanks Shinji , that was the best beef ever ."

"So...you liked it ?" He accidently arched a brow .

"Didn't you see anything strange in it ?" Asuka asked but all she received was a grunt from her.

"Bebeal ?" Shinji steps back a little when she bends down holding her stomach.

"I feel funny." A disgusting gurgle came from her throat.

"Duck for cover !" Asuka yelled dramatically , she threw herself behind the couch as if someone had just thrown a grenade in the room.

BARF ! she threw up on the floor and on something else.

"My shoes !" Shinji jumped back in one foot , the other one in the air with vomit dripping down.

"Oh...my belly feels better now."

"Shinji what did you put in that burger !" Asuka grabs Shinji by his collar , Bebeal behind them was on a fetal position.

"Nothing , its just a normal veggie burger."

Bebeal heard him from her fetal position on the floor "Are you crazy ! You know I don't like plants !"

"Why ? Are you allergic to vegetables or something." Shinji said.

"Allergic ? I mean YES I'm that thing , allergic."

"I'm so sorry Bebeal , I could have killed you , please forgive me." he helped her stand up , she was a little wobbly and had trouble standing still. "Please forgive me Bebeal , I didn't know , I was just trying to help you."

"Some help you are Baka , you didn't even bring her a towel or anything...here I already brought one." Asuka gave Shinji an old dried up kitchen towel.

"Bebeal let me clean you up." He wipes the vomit of her chin and notices that her school clothes are covered in vomit too."Your going to have to take a shower after this."

Bebeal managed to realize that this was a bad idea , she didn't have anymore clothes , the only way would be to materialize new clothes but she couldn't do that in their house.

"That's...ugh...okay Shinji...and why don't you guys just call me Beb , that's what my brother calls me." She sat down with her dirty and smelly clothes on the couch and switched to the 'Food Network'.

"Look...Beb , you can't walk around all night smelling like vomit , and I take it your sleeping with me so you better take a shower or else." Asuka pulled her by her feet but she wasn't going to give up so easily , so she clinged on to the sofa's feet , but Asuka's grip made it that the whole couch was dragged along.

"NO ! I don't wanna !" She was really insistent , she locked on to the sofa like her life depended on it , witch in some ways it really did."Baka stop drooling at Beb's legs and help me out here !"

Shinji had been watching the cat fight in some sort of fantasy in his mind ,it was too much for a 14 year old kid , Asuka was pulling Bebeal by her legs , and because she didn't let go of the sofa she was upside down , her skirt almost inches away from that 'area'.

Asuka managed to see the nosebleed he had "Don't...STAY STILL !...get any ideas Baka , I meant that you...OW !...slip her hands away from the couch."

At that moment the phone rang

"I'll get it !" Misato yelled from the other room. The distraction gave Bebeal the perfect chance to escape , so she freed herself from Asuka's grip and with incredible speed and strength she dragged the couch into place and kept watching Food Network.

"Hello this is Misato speaking...

"Hey Rits what's up...

"Rits are you okay ? You sound nervous...

"Yeah what about her...

"Speak up I didn't quite catch that...

Misato's face was starting to get serious. Shinji and Asuka were curious about this.

"Rits if this a joke it isn't funny..." She said with lower tone of voice.

"What ! Are you sure she's just not in a coma...

"Wha-what do you mean you can tell by just looking !...

Her face was instantly turned pale , and a slight shine appeared in her lower eyes. Asuka and Shinji were also beginning to get worried , something had happened.

"Oh my God..." She shuttered as tears began to form in her eyes.

"But...no person could do that...

"Do you think it was 'them'...

"Please investigate this Rits...

"Okay I'll only tell Shinji and Asuka...but I don't know how...

"Tomorrow , okay I'll go first thing in the morning...

"Be careful , it might still be close by...

She hangs up and drops to her knees , not yet aware that Shinji and Asuka heard everything.

"God what has become of the world." She mumbles to herself. Shinji taps her shoulder gently.

"Misato what happened ?" He whispers.

"Shinji...Asuka..." She stares up to the ceiling , thinking of some way to tell them.

"What is it Misato ?" Asuka asks , seeing the tears in her eyes.

"Its Rei...she's...dead..." She lets her tears run out free.

Asuka gasps covering her mouth , Shinji felt like a thousand daggers had stabbed him the chest . He didn't want to believe those words , he hoped that this was some nightmare and that he would wake up any moment.

"What..." Shinji finally says , he wanted to cut himself to see if it was real.

"Rits found her...dead in her room..."

"WHY ? Why would she kill herself over Shaktoo !" Asuka cries , she knew that Rei was worried about Shaktoo disappearing but she didn't know she cared of him that much...or so she thought.

"Why would she do that Misato ? What if Shaktoo was all right !" Shinji couldn't help it , he thought that Rei killed herself for Shaktoo , he hated him so much right now.

"Shinji...she didn't kill herself..." Misato gattered all her courage to say those words , she had to say it and she had to say it now.

"She was...mauled to death by 'something'...I'm sorry..."Misato runs to her room and locks herself in.

Asuka was still trying to understand what happened , Rei had died mauled by 'something' . She sort of got the hint of what Misato tried to tell them .

Shinji on the other hand was in the most painful moment of his life , Rei was dead , it wasn't a dream he could feel the warm tears drip down his chin.

"Why ? why does this have to happen now...everything was finally alright...she was happy...why GOD WHY !" He screamed at the ceiling.

He punched the dinner table as hard as he could , this got Bebeal's attention.

"Hey guys what's going on ?" Bebeal saw Shinji punching the table , he didn't hear her , Asuka was the only one concious enough to explain what happened to her.

"Damn it Beb why do you have to come now !" Asuka stood up , wiping her tears.

"Why what happened ?" She asked happily.

"Won...Rei ! She's dead okay ! ." Asuka shouted , Shinji stopped punching the table , crying on the floor in silence.

Then Bebeal said the worst thing in her long life " So , you never liked her anyway." Asuka got enraged by this and punched her in the nose.

Asuka screamed , the punch broke the skin of her wrist pushing Bebeal's head back and she just disgustingly moved it back facing her in the eye...without even a scratch.

"What the hell is wrong with you !" She punched her again but Bebeal just blocked her punches with her index finger , Asuka didn't pay attention to her clearly super human abilities and focused on getting her to regret what she said. Shinji did in fact find this incredibly creepy , a blow like that should have broken her small Rei-like nose horribly , yet she was like nothing happened.

"Asuka what is wrong with you ? Are you hurt , you don't have any cuts or bruises ." She asked innocently.

"Leave me alone !" She ran for her room and locked the door.

"Shinji your also crying , what's wrong ?" She went to see his tears closer but he stepped back trembling.

Right now he didn't feel like wondering how she wasn't even bleeding , he was to crushed to even answer her.

"Shinji please talk to me , your making my chest feel weird." Her voice changed from happy and cheery into worry and a faint sign of sadness . She sat down beside him on the floor waiting for an answer.

"Shinji...please...don't leave me alone..." She now had Rei's tone of voice.

"I...I'm sorry...its just...Rei...I ...I don't know if I can be the same now that she's gone."

Shinji looked to her beside him and very shocked to see that she looked like she was about to cry.

"No Shinji ! Please don't change , if you change...you won't play with me anymore..." She held his hand as if holding on to him to not abandon her.

"I don't know...I don't know if I can be happy again after this." He stared at her golden eyes , she held his hand tightly , not letting go for a moment . She looked so much like Rei and the way she was speaking right now made him feel like if he was talking to her right now.

"Don't leave me...I have no one else to play with me...to care for me." Then something happened that defied the very laws of reptile physics...she cried , she felt the warm tears in her eyes , she had never cried in her millions of years of destruction.

"Bebeal...I won't leave you...I won't change if you don't want me to." Then she cried even more , but they weren't tears of sorrow ,but tears of joy.

"Thank you Shinji ! Thankyouthankyouthankyou !." She said so fast he didn't even understand , then she hugged him tightly pushing him back on the floor , crying into his shoulder. Shinji returned the hug , her blood red hair on his face.

Then she whispered the words that would change their fate forever "I'll repay you one day , I'll make sure to make you happy Shinji...no matter what." Shinji then noticed the position they were in , she was on top of him on the floor with vomit in her clothes , he prayed Misato or Asuka didn't see this.

But at that moment appeared the worst person to see them in that way , Shaktoo had barged inside like he owned the place . Shinji couldn't have better luck , it was an especially enraged Shaktoo from his talk with Lillith , now he comes in to see his sister on top of the species he hated so much.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO BEBEAL ?" He almost roared from anger.

Shinji quickly stood up but Bebeal didn't let go of him "It's not what it looks like Shaktoo ."

He gave a cold glare to Shinji and turned his gaze to Bebeal hugging him "I really don't care what you do with your friends sis , but could you at least do it somewhere private ! "

"I'm just hugging my best buddy Shinji here , nothing wrong in that." She stopped hugging him and put her left arm around Shinji , tom boyishly . Shinji of course knew that Shaktoo was angry .

"Beb were you CRYING ! " He saw the tears on her cheeks , and the tears on Shinji's shirt , they knew it was impossible for them to shed tears .

"Yeah , weird huh ." She answered perky as always.

"We will talk about this later , now let's go, we have things to do."

"All right ." She hugs Shinji once again. " See you later Shinji." She rustles his hair a bit and walks out the door doing the peace sign with her fingers.

When they close the door , Asuka steps out of her hiding place behind her door "Good riddance anymore and you two would be jumping up and down on the couch."

"Asuka ! She just felt like she needed me at that moment so I helped her." Even with that he blushes like Bebeal's hair.

"To me it looked like you helped yourself to some 'love' too ." She smirked evilly at him.

"She was the one that hugged me , I just went along. " He punches himself in his mind for saying that.

"Yeah I saw that clearly , especially when you grabbed her waist."

"It was by mistake , I didn't mean too."

"If it was by mistake you wouldn't know you did it , and you would have taken your hand away quickly instead of 'slowy' sliding to her neck." She got him there.

"Admit it , you like her because she looks like Rei." Now it was her turn to punch herself in her mind , she knew better than to mention Rei.

Shinji stopped blushing and went to watch the news."I'm sorry I said that Shinji." He didn't answer and turned on the TV. She sat down beside him on the couch.

"I really am..." He didn't answer .

The rest of the night was silent as they watched the news

Outside in the steets

Shaktoo and Bebeal were walking down the streets in their reptile forms.

((So Beb what was the deal with you and Shinji there .)) He growls in their own language.

((He was sad about Rei dying and I wanted to cheer him up.)) She said weakly.

((Ah yes Rei , she tasted very good for a half Angel-Lilim creature.)) He rubbed his stomach.

((I sort of knew it was you .)) She sounded angrier now.

((Yeah I said too much so I had to kill her.))

((I guess your right , but that was mean .)) She stopped walking.

((Yeah so , their all going to die anyway , even your friend Shinji.))

((You hurt my friends , they were sad because you killed her.)) She hissed violently.

((Do not worry , I made a mistake in killing Rei , I need her for my plan so I am bringing her back.))

((How ? You've never tried to bring someone back from wherever they go when we kill them.))

((Remember that I have powers that you do not have.)) The yellow stripes on his back begin to glow gold.

((That's only because you stole them from that other world.))

(( I guess , now let us go to our next step in destroying this world.))

They sprout their wings and fly toward their next destination.