Anime Exiles

Chapter 8: Nerv III The Conclusion

"2...1....Zero!" The crowd of distorted, twisted Reis reached for their detonators to the explosives hidden under their clothes. Guyver immediately leaped at Allenbee, knocking her to the floor, trying to protect her with his armored body. The rest of the Exiles cringed as the Reis stood before them, still smiling, but no longer moving.

"Ummmm...Why aren't we dead?" Ryoko asked, hovering above the crowd.

"That would be because of me." Vash stood next to one of the blue haired girls, holding a large amount of wires in his hands.

"WHAT?" Shinji cried out through one of the Reis under his control. "HOW?"

"It's ingenuity, kiddo. They don't call me Vash the Stampede for nothing. Right when you said 'zero' in your 'maniacal I want to kill everyone cause my daddy didn't love me mode' I slipped in and ripped out all the wires of each of these little girls' explosives."

"IMPOSSIBLE! NO ONE'S THAT FAST!"

"Yeah Yeah. Hear that all the time. Never gets old." Vash cracked a large smile , tossing all the wires to the side.

"Wow...who know the guy could actually be useful?" Yusuke got up from his crouched position, smiling at Vash, giving him a thumbs up.

"Uhhh sorry." Guyver got up from on top of Allenbee, scratching his mask in embarrasment. "Just was...ummm....trying to protect you."

"I appreciate it." Allenbee smiled warmly at the armored figure.

"I'LL KILL YOU ANYWAY! THROW A SEA OF TORMENT THROUGH THIS GOD FORSAKEN PLACE! I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA! I WILL....I WILL....Gen....Gendou?" Tears of blood began streaming down the faces of all the Reis as they looked toward the elder Ikari. Tears began falling from his eyes as well as he reached toward them.

"What's happening to them?" Ryoko asked, inching closer to the mob of young girls.

"I'm happening." Red energy flowed from Sazuka, filling the room with almost blinding light. In an ominous, thunderous voice, Sazuka spoke words which the Exiles had never heard her speak before, shocking and scaring them at the same time. "Saguwa Punfa...Saguwa Punfa....Saguwa Punfa...."

"Gen...WHAT ARE YOU DOING....Gendou....GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" The Reis said simultaneously, clawing at their own faces and eyes. More energy streamed out of Sazuka as the mob became more and more crazed.

"SAGUWA PUNFA! SAGUWA PUNFA! LEAVE THIS PLACE!" Sazuka threw out her arms toward the girls, the energy leaving her and flowing into them. A scream bellowed out of the Reis, in Shinji Ikari's voice. Once the screaming had stopped, the girls slumped to their knees, Gendou immediately running over to them.

"Rei! REI!" More tears flowed down Ikari's face as he shook violently at the first Rei he could find.

"...I...love....yo...." Before Rei could finish her sentence, in a disturbing scene, her head began to expand along with the rest of the crowd. In a matter of seconds, each of the girls' heads expanded to the point where they could no longer take the pressure and popped like balloons filled with too much air. The blood and gore covered Ikari from head to toe and hit a number of the Exiles and workers of Nerv who were watching the horrific display.

"SAZUKA? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?" Vash cried out, pulling at her coat. "THESE GIRLS DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE!"

"These...girls....were never alive to begin with." Sazuka smacked Vash's hands off her coat, cleaning the gore from her form. "I performed a spell in order to cast the presence controlling their minds out of their souls. Unfortunately, these girls did not have souls. They were abominations created by the younger Ikari, nothing more. They weren't alive."

"Don't...Don't you call them abominations." Gendou said in a calm, monotone voice, still sitting next to the bodies of the Reis, covered in blood and bile. "They were everything....They were my all."

"Listen...We don't have time for this." Guyver grabbed Ikari and lifted him up off the ground. "Tell us where we can find your son before he tries something else like this. We have to save this planet before this bastard can hurt anymore people."

"It is...It is easy enough to find him. We've always known where Shinji was, but never had the ability to get past his defenses. He's in the capitol of the United States. Its the first place he destroyed as the leaders of the US led the charge in destroying Nerv."

"Fine. How do we get there?" Guyver asked.

"I...I could teleport us." Sazuka stated to the group, all obviously still shaken up from the ordeal.

".....HHhrrrfff" Allenbee proceeded to vomit on the floor, so horrified at the blood and gore that surrounded them.

"Yeah, just what we needed right now." Yusuke smirked.

"Sorry." Allenbee wiped her mouth off. "Can you handle something like that Sazuka?"

"In all honesty, yes I can. However, doing something like that will deplete my magical resources for at least a day, so I will be unable to lend a hand in dealing with Shinji."

"Fine, the remaining five of us will handle Shinji on our own once we arrive in DC." Guyver took command of the team once again, proving to everyone that he truly was the leader of the team. "What can we expect when we get there."

"In a word?" Ikari composed himself, cleaning off his glasses. "Hell. Shinji has any number of angels protecting him. He lives in the now delapidated White House. I doubt you'll even be able to make it to him before being ripped apart."

"Howsabout you leave that up to us Grandpa." Ryoko growled, anticipating the fight.

"All right. You heard the man. We're gonna be teleporting into a sticky situation here folks, we need to come up with a plan." Guyver crossed his arms, trying to display the seriousness of the situation.

"Well why don't you think of the plan oh great an powerful Oz?" Yusuke walked up to Guyver, acting as stubborn and foolish as ever.

"I think I have an idea." Vash walked over to Ikari. "But for it to work, we're going to need you to come with us."

"For the good of the world....I will go." Ikari said, faking a smile. "But allow me to talk with my men before we go."

"Fine." Guyver said, walking next to the rest of his group. "We'll leave once you're done."

"I'll begin the spell now." Sazuka said as the red energy around her began to appear once again.

"Sir! Are you all right?" Misato asked as she ran up Gendou as she had been hiding behind a desk throughout the entire ordeal.

"I'm fine. I'm going to go with them to kill my son, and then...I'm going to join him. So will everyone else on this world. Are the preparations in order?"

"Yes. The nuclear armaments have been prepared that were left from every country. Give me the word, and the Final Impact will occur."

"Excellent. We'll be with our loved ones soon." Gendou smiled insanely, as he walked away from Misato, Misato saluted Gendou as he left.

"Ready to go?" Allenbee asked Gendou, trying to make him feel more comfortable in the strange situation.

"Yes, I believe so." He looked back at Misato who was sitting in the command station, as Misato gave him the thumbs up. "Let us be off."

"Very well." And with that, Sazuka waved her hands as the energy flowed around the group and transported them from the depths of NERV headquarters to a barran wasteland.

"Holy....Crap...." Vash said uneasily as he looked over the horizon. Bodies were strewn across the land as gigantic white creatures with hideous red smiles shambled near the only building left standing, the White House.

"My...God...How many people has he killed?" Allenbee asked, holding back her tears.

"Shinji has killed over 85 of the population of the people on earth, the rest are either in hiding or being tortured as we speak through Shinji's insane machinations."

"Guess the apple fell very far from the tree." Ryoko said, looking down at the creatures.

"Quite." Gendou replied.

"And those creatures? They're the angels?"

"Not quite. Those were creations of the government using Evangelion technology to destroy NERV. Shinji has apparently taken control of them and has made many more since last we saw one another. He has truly become something far more then human."

"All right enough talk, you ready to do it old man?" Yusuke asked, clamping handcuffs on Gendou.

"I believe so. You pretend that I'm your hostage to get close to Shinji and lead him to believe that you are rejected creations of Nerv. The plan has its kinks but it seems plausable." The group walked uneasily towards the White House, watching their steps as to not trip on the large amounts of bodies that were laying on the ground. Before the Exiles took too many steps, Ryoko raised her fist and slammed it into Gendou's stomach.

"AAKKK! Wha....What?" Gendou immediately fell unconcious to the ground from Ryoko's blow.

"Ryoko?? What the hell are you doing??" Guyver yelled trying not to bring attention from the behemoths in front of them.

"This jerk was planning on killing everyone on earth. I heard him talk to his subordinate back at the headquarters, telling her to fire some nukes or something." Ryoko cried out, kicking Gendou while unconcious.

"How did you hear this?"

"These ears just ain't for show hun." Ryoko flicked one of her outlandishly long ears. "I could hear a pin drop a mile away if I needed to."

"Uhhhh guys... we have a problem here." Vash pointed over to the large white creatures now staring directly at them. One of the creatures leaped over right next to the Exiles and began to hemmorage and shake. The face of the white giant twisted and changed into that of a boy, Shinji Ikari.

"Hello. I see you've come to me. No need in trying something stupid like the plan you were originally going to do, I can read your thoughts. I am, after all, a god."

"Oh crap." Guyver said, extending his elbow blades as far as they could go. "Get ready to fight guys, looks like we're gonna have to go with Plan B."

"OH YEAH! THAT's WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" Energy flowed into Yusuke's fingers as he aimed them at the monster in front of him. "I've been itching to blow this kid's face off since the second we heard about him."

"Hold on there gang. No need for animosity now. Now that my father's out of the way." Shinji said, as the monster continued to morph and change. The white behemoth shrunk to the size of the Exiles and fully transformed into Shinji Ikari. "Give him to me."

"NOT A CHANCE! WE'RE HERE TO STOP YOU!" Allenbee cried out, energy weapons forming in her hands.

"Please, it's over. No more." Shinji said, putting his hands toward the sky as if to surrender.

"What?" Vash asked. "After all the threats and horrifying things you just did to those people and to us, you're going to surrender?"

"Not exactly, but what I will do is tell you a story." Shinji began speaking and the Exiles noticed that he was much calmer and more collected then he had been when he was talking through the Reis. "It's true, everything that my father told you is true, except for one part. He forgot to mention something."

"And what's that?" Ryoko asked.

"That he's me."

"WHAT?"

"Allow me to explain. When I achieved Godhood, I tried to undo what the governments of the world had forced upon me. I tried to undo their attempts to make humanity a collective. Unfortunately, it was too late. Everyone had been formed into one collective, everyone that is except for me. As humanity moved away from earth in its new form, I found myself alone except now I had the power of God to work with. I could no longer bring humanity back to the way it was, so I tried something different. I tried to make it the way it was by creating humanity as I remembered it."

"So, what you're telling us here is that everything we've seen and everyone we've talked to while here, isn't real?" Yusuke questioned.

"Well, reality is in the eye of the beholder isn't it?"

"God, I think I'm going to be sick again." Allenbee held back the vomit in her throat.

"Can you say brain anneurism?" Vash held his head between his hands.

"My 'father' as it were, is a work in progress as is the world I'm trying to create."

"And what world is that? What do you get out of torturing all these people? Killing all these people?"

"Letting go of my pent up aggression I guess. I'll bring them back to life when I feel like it. I believe though that you've accomplished your mission and you'll be moving on."

"What?" Guyver questioned as the group began to fade away. "BUT WE DIDN'T STOP YOU! WHAT'S HAPPENING? WE SHOULDN'T BE LEAVING YET!!!"

"You stopped Ikari, you stopped my father. My world won't be destroyed and I'll continue trying to bring back humanity to its once former glory, right after I have my fun that is. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Shinji let out an insane laugh as the Exiles left the world of Nerv.

"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ALL THIS??" Guyver cried out as the Exiles landed in a new world. "WHAT THE HELL'S THE GOD DAMN POINT?? WE DIDN'T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING GOOD FROM THAT! DAMN IT!"

"Shin, stop." Allenbee said, putting her hand on his mask. "We did our best and we gave that world a chance, as horrible as that chance may be, its still a chance."

"God...I could use a drink." Vash said as he walked away from the group.

"Lead the way Bristle head, lead the way." Ryoko floated after him.

"Uhhhh..." Sazuka fell to the ground, holding her head.

"Sazuka? What's wrong?" Allenbee brought Sazuka to her feet.

"When I was tapping into my magics, I felt something....someone....Someone is following us."

End Chapter 8

Next Chapter: "The week off" and then the epic Anime Exiles story, "Tournament of the Exiles." Be there.