0147 hrs. Undisclosed Date

Just Outside of NERV Headquarters

The thirteen men of N-FOG are camouflaged in the brush.

"You really think we can take NERV headquarters? I mean, they have a lot of guards." Sonoda said.

"That's the point of this drill." Lampright says.

Lampright continues to look at the two surface guards, before turning to Jackson and nodding. Both men pull out their paint sticks sneak towards the guards, Lampright taking the left one and Jackson the right one. They both come up behind their guard, and jab the paint stick into the side of his neck, leaving a bright orange spot on the side of his throat.

"Dead." Lampright says as him and Jackson drag the bodies off into the brush.

Lampright makes a hand gesture and Howard speeds out of cover, moving to the surveillance camera's electronic box on the wall of the elevator housing. He jacks in a small, handheld computer and goes to work, eventually turning back and giving a thumb-up.

Lampright motions and the other eleven rise from the brush and the thirteen board the elevator. Lampright inserts his access key and they begin their journey downward.

"What did you do?" Lampright asked.

"I dug into their archive, pulled up footage from before you and Jackson made your move, and set about an hour's worth of it in a loop. Kid's stuff." he said

"Uh, yeah. Everyone clear on their duty? Command element take the control center. Carey, take the Eva pens. Sonoda, make a run on pilots Ikari and Soryu. Avoid firing if you can, but once the fire-fight starts, shoot everyone. Hu-ah?"

"Hu-ah." Everyone answers.

"Alright, let's show'em what a REAL attack would be like."

Lampright and Jackson take positions at the sides of the elevator, and as soon as the doors open, jump out and repeat their actions with the two guards waiting there. Lampright then uses an elevator key to lock the surface elevator at ground level. The groups split up and go their separate ways.

0150 hrs. Undisclosed Date

Outside Eva Pens, NERV Headquarters

Paint rounds fill the air as Carey's team makes a move to secure the Evas.

"Carey to all units, we are engaged. Repeat, we are engaged."

"Roger that." Lampright replies.

0151 hrs. Undisclosed Date

Residential Area, NERV Headquarters

Maloy and Herford run down to the end of the empty hall while Sonoda covers Jackson while he picks the electronic lock. Jackson suddenly gets the door open, and the two sneak into the darkness of the quarters, immediately pulling down their NOGs. Sonoda signals that he'll take the main bedroom, and Jackson takes the side room. Jackson gently makes a mark on each of the children's necks with his paintstick, while in the other room, Sonoda's doing the same to Captain Katsuragi. After which he awakens her, explains the situation, and tells her that she's dead.

Herford calls the elevator, and Maloy stands by with his M-249. The elevator arrives and the doors open revealing seven or eight NERV guards. Maloy opens up on them as soon as the doors begin to open, and kills them all within a second. Herford mimes shooting a rocket into the elevator, then takes an elevator key from his pocket and locks the elevator at it's current level.

"Sonoda here, primary objective complete, we also got the head of Ops. We are currently moving to secondary objectives."

"Roger that." Lampright said over the radio.

0152 hrs. Undisclosed Date

Command Center, NERV Headquarters

Lampright and his command element move down the hall using bounding advance, coming to the entrance to the control center. They all take up positions to cover Denisovich as he spends about thirty seconds in front of the door, about the time it would take to place explosives. At that point, everyone folds back to the door, and Lampright opens it with an override card. Lampright and Denisovich throw dummy grenades into the door, wait for the small pop of their detonation, and then storm the room, shooting all of the staff.

"Howard, can you undo what you did to their surveillance?" Lampright asked.

"Sure." Howard said as he sat at the console and began typing. Within seconds the surveillance system was running again.

"Alright. Smith, Jaeger, and Denisovich, watch the door. Howard, help me out with this. We're gonna find their troop deployments and radio them in to our HK team."

"Lampright to Carey and Sonoda. Sitrep."

"Carey here. Meet resistance. Cleared area and are currently holding objective."

"Sonoda, reporting in. All three marks have been eliminated. Moving to secondary objective."

"Outstanding. Carry on. Sonoda, stand-by for information regarding enemy force deployment."

"So what is the status of NERV, captain?" Gendo Ikari asked from the wall, where he was sitting with all the other 'dead'.

"Your main surface elevator is destroyed, as is at least one of your internal elevators. You are dead, as is your entire command staff, your operations chief, and both pilots Ikari and Soryu. Access to you Evas has been cut off, about two dozen of your security guards are dead, and the rest are being hunted. At the beginning of the exercise, we simulated cutting your means of external communications. All of your combat capabilities have been removed. All in all, you have done a miserable job defending NERV headquarters."

"The exercise is complete. Have your men report to the briefing room to debrief on the specifics of the assault, captain." Commander Ikari said.

"Yes sir."

"Lampright to all units, 'the cow is out to pasture'. Report to briefing room immediately. Out."

0256 hrs. Undisclosed Date

Briefing Room, NERV Headquarters

"And so, NERV is completely unequipped for an intrusion of any force or skill." Lampright finished his debrief by with that statement as he looked around, noticing that all but one the personnel present in the room bore one or more kill marks.