Ever since this year began I have been writing. I do hope that I can continue this trend next year.

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Asuka got out of the entry plug of Eva-01 with a smirk on her face. She had managed to get more than double Shinji's synchronization score with her Evangelion. Forty-five was more than enough to move it without issue. In his office, Gendo watched the feed.

This confirmed that Asuka connection to Lilith was enough to allow her to pilot Eva-01. As for the other test, Shinji was just barely able to pilot Eva-02. That was actually a surprise. 'I expected him to be unable to even get an arm to move.'

Perhaps he was still underestimating his son. Already he had managed to make contact with Yui's soul, defeat two Angels, and pilot an Eva he didn't expect him too. What was going to happen next he found a way to get Yui back? 'I almost made myself laugh at this.'

He looked over the latest file he was able to get through a few phone calls. In about a weeks time he was to head to the Antarctic alongside several others. SEELE had, as he expected, listed a spy to join them. 'The same one I am had ordered to retrieve the embryo of Adam from them.'

It wasn't like he didn't expect this. Still, this could work out for him assuming he had already retrieved the embryo. He could use this as an excuse to kill him when they set foot on the continent. He pulled up a phone as he gave an order that was relayed through the building. "Ready Eva-00 and have Eva-01 on standby with my son ready for complications."

Lucy took a breath of the LCL fluid and almost gagged in utter disgust. She knew the fluid was Lilith's blood. She used to bleed the substance herself. She knew that Lilith could survive its removal, hell she herself had to bleed herself in order to help her civilization understand liquid breathing. 'The only good thing is that we don't technically need it otherwise I would be very pissed.'

She could almost feel Shinji shuddering at the knowledge that it was actually blood. Given how Eva-00 activation went last time it was decided that Eva-01 would be on standby. As the synchronization rate increased Lucy felt Yu trying to contact them again. She immediately reached out. 'Shinji Lucy…' There was a pause as Yui noticed something was off. 'Wait why is Lucy in control?'

'We don't know.' Shinji answered his mother as Lucy looked forward as Rei entered her entry plug.

Lucy while in control of Shinji's body looked at the prototype through the screens. She wondered just which soul was used within the Evangelion Unit. If they needed the soul of a relative then how was Rei even able to pilot it? Asuka was able to pilot Eva-01 due to being part Lilith like the Lilith deprived Evangelion. It was likely that Kyoko was accepting of her and Shinji as such they could barely pilot Eva-02.

As the test began Lucy decided to take no changes. 'Yui, you want to learn how to project your A.T. field into another to talk?'

Yui could tell that Lucy was planning something. She could feel it coming off of the ancient being. 'What do you need?'

'Well, I need to check something and Shinji I think this time you are coming with me.' As the test began no one notices the low A.T. field reaching out from Eva-01 and into Eva-00.

Lucy and Shinji found themselves with a dark room though this one felt off to the former. She looked around before the answer came to her. It seemed this was indeed deserving of the name prototype. "This is practically just a giant robot that has Angel flesh grafted onto it."

Shinji had a confused look at this declaration. "Isn't that what each of the Eva's are supposed to be?"

Lucy shook her head. She remembered the designs from her time within Yui. This was not like Eva-01 and beyond. "No, with Eva-01 and 02 they are more alive then this thing," Her eyes narrowed. "In fact, I think you could with a few modifications actually turn it into an automatic drone."

Finally, Lucy saw the soul that was within this Eva. Her eyes widened as did Shinji's when he saw what she was looking at. Before them was what looked like four-year-old Rei curled up in a ball and crying. The only way they could tell was because of her facial features as this girl was kind of like Lucy except that her body and even hair was a pure white in color without anything else besides having not noticeable private features. "He didn't," Lucy walked over as her eyes glowed in anger. "He broke off a piece of Rei, a piece of Lilith, and is forcing it into this?"

Once again Gendo dug himself deeper in Lucy's eyes. It made sense why Eva-00 had the potential to go on a rampage. The soul within it wanted to become whole with Rei. The younger version of Rei looked up at them. "A-are you talking about the Commander?" She immediately blinked as she shot up and moved back. "H-how did you both get into here?!"

Shinji walked up to the younger Rei as he put his hand up. "We aren't here to hurt you Rei."

The younger Rei looked at him noticing how he felt familiar. I'm fact, the lady with him also felt familiar. Lucy got down on one knee. "I am Lucifer and this Shinji and we both are two parts of the same soul," Suddenly the four-year-old Rei screamed out in pain as she clutched her head. "What is it?"

"My head hurts please make it stop!" Lucy placed her hand on the fragment head. She understood what she was getting at. The prototype Evangelion was practically torturing her as Rei synchronization score rose.

Eventually, it would rise so high that the girl would do anything to make it stop. This was the source if Eva-00 berserk moments. Lucy and Shinji held the girl in an embrace as the test continued. Shinji blinked as he saw something of a thin thread leading out from her. "Lucy, what is that?"

"I believe it's her soul trying to become whole again," Lucy touched it as she could see that this part of Rei's soul was trying to return to the other Rei. Lucy gripped it and winced in pain. This Eva was growing hostile for some reason. Rei's soul fragment had made it openly hostile to any attempt at fixing this pain. "Shinji help me now!"

He gripped the thread as the younger Rei screamed in pain. Outside Eva-00 began to thrash within its restraints. Eva-01 moved in to help restain it though Yui groaned in pain from trying to keep both her contraction up and hold Eva-00 back from going berserk. 'Hurry up!'

As the two of them tried to pull on the thread to get Rei fragment to return to them another presence joined in. The Rei fragment disappeared from the Evangelion soulscape. Lucy and Shinji caught sight of a woman standing before them with part of her body missing. "Thank you for helping her."

As soon as that was done Lucy and Shinji were violently expelled from the Evangelion as You was forced to pull back. The two of them groaned in pain as Shinji blinked a few moments. It looked like he was back in control of his body. 'This back and forth is getting ridiculous.'

Shinji gripped his head as Lucy finally pulled herself back up so to speak. 'Well, Rei's soul back in one piece though what's next did your father imprint his staff with mind control devices?'

It was sad but right now Shinji could honestly see his dad doing that. Ever since coming here he had only seen what a horrible human being he had been. At this point, he was tempted to join Lucy in breaking his father when this was all said and done. 'Why who was that woman?'

Lucy shrugged her shoulders. Before they were expelled she was only able to catch that it was part of a soul and one word. 'All I could get from her was Naoko.'

Meanwhile within Eva-00 Rei gasped as she was soon hit with a bunch of painful memories. Each one being of a dark room. The grip of her head and the thrashing about of Eva-00. The last one, however, was shocking. Shinji and some monster woman, an Angel if she could guess. 'Could this be a hallucination?'

She placed her hands on her head as the pain told her otherwise. As it subsided a question started to arise. Was Shinji like her and Asuka? 'Who is Lucifer?'

When it awoke it found itself in the ruins of a city. Something built not by its kind but by a distant relative. It was then that it sent out signals looking for anyone to talk to. The faint scream of one of its kind dying caught its attention. It screamed about an abomination that they had made. 'So they have created a means to destroy us?'

The Angel of Adam didn't know what to do. Does he go and try to find his Progenitor? If he did awaken didn't that already mean that his Progenitor should have fixed the problem? 'I can feel a Progenitor signal.'

This couldn't be its Progenitor. This signal had to be the one from the mother of life on this world. The Angel of Adam paused as he weighed his options. Perhaps they were injured and reaching out at random. If that was the case then there was a chance that it could kill her. It had no idea what would happen but it didn't care. With that, it floated up thanks to its A.T. field and headed off in the direction of the signal.

There was nothing all around on the barren soil. The water was filled with an almost red primordial fluid. Shinji looked on horrified at the only thing of note. Impaled on a floating black moon was a multiarm giant. From its wound, the last drops of LCL fluid flowed out and into the waters below. Out of his mouth, he heard Lucy's voice with horror. "Hela!"

Lucy flew up as she placed her hand on the Progenitor's face. She looked up at her weekly with tears flowing through her eyes. "Th-they…" Her voice was weak as LCL fluid flew out the corner of their lips. "I t-told th-them it wouldn't work."

With the last of her strength, Lucifer's fellow Progenitor showed her what had happened. A few of her children got too ambitious. They sneak on board her ship and learned what they shouldn't. Unable to truly translate it they ended up believing that if they could force a return and a union of souls that they would be grated godhood. Instead, all they succeeded in doing was destroying themselves and the world.

It had been days but finally the souls within the ocean, within the now primordial soup, had finally destroyed themselves. All that remained was blank slates slowly burning within a dying world. With that, Lucy felt the soul of fellow Progenitor leave its body and join the metaphysical realm. Tears fell from both her and Shinji's eyes before Lucy removed her Spear of Longinus from the corpse.

A few moments later Lucy placed her fellow Progenitor's body on to her ships cross. With her spear wrapped together and the primordial ooze floating into the ship. "I promise you that I will warn the others about this so it will never happen to anyone else."

Flying out of it Lucy looked at the now cleaned would. A testament to folly, to pride, and to greed. The ship moved its course set for the system's star. To burn its, the body of the Progenitor and finally boil the ooze away so that the unfortunate souls can find some form of rest within the next realm.

"That's Instrumentality." He could understand now how mad Lucy was to hear about this.

"This wasn't the last time either despite my efforts," Shinji turned around as he saw a saddened look on Lucy's face. "By the time I got around to it three other worlds had suffered the same fate, two being Seeds of Life and the last being a Seed of Knowledge and at least three attempts have been made since then."

That just sounded so stupid. Shinji just saw the end result of such a thing with his own eyes. "H-how can they do that?" He motioned the memory as the Seed-ship carrying the broken remains of a death world fell into the star. "It's happened four times already and it's always the same!"

"I asked myself that question after the last group nearly succeeded in causing the fifth world to die," Lucy sat down on a chair that appeared behind her as she looked down. Hell, she was lucky as when a group found the information on her ship they immediately questioned if they had it properly translated and abandoned it before the plan could begin. "They keep thinking they would do better and succeed where the others had failed."

Half of the remaining Progenitors had already abandoned their worlds because of this. Even Lucy had debated leaving her world behind in order to prevent it from happening. "My dad just wants to be with my mom and he'll doom the world just to do get what he wants."

"And your grandfather is hoping to become a god along with his friends," Shinji gave her a look wondering how she knew that. "While I was hiding in your mother I kind of learned a few things about her father and well I can say that your family is just one big mess."

At least he wasn't completely insane like either of them. Even if he was talking to the voice within his head. Shinji opened his eyes as he awoke from another dip into Lucy's memories. Turning to his clock he let out a sigh.

Keel typed away at the computer. Gendo was to head off for their latest expedition to the bottom of the world. A few of SEELE members had begun to debate to do with the interloper. SEELE Two, Four, Eight, and Ten believed they had died and was way of no threat to them. Three, Five, Six, Seven, nine and twelve believed that they were a threat that had to be delt with if they weren't dead already.

The rest Eleven, Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen, however, believed they could be of use for their plans. Keel agreed with all sides to a point. The interloper at Second Impact was a threat and an opportunity. Already, an extrasolar Angel had appeared possibly to locate them. That is if it was of the breed of Adam. If it was of Lilith's breed then they may have another way to perform for Third Impact.

Speaking of Third Impact, already Project Revelation had its first completed success. The labs in Germany were beginning to test out a few frameworks on how to develop S2 organs with tests coming in later this month. It seemed that everything was going his way regardless of the few bumps.

A call got his attention. He answered not bothering to check who it was. "What is it?"

"Tabris has left his place," Keel cursed at this. Knowing Tabris he could have hidden his form into anything making it nigh impossible to locate him. Perhaps he should have taken up the idea to freeze him until he was needed.

Within NERV everyone worked in the command center as the sensor picked up a large octahedron shape floating to the city. Maya turned over to Misato as the large range scans of the A.T. field gave them a rough image of the Angel. "MAGI confirms blood-type blue it's an Angel."

As talk continued going from the strength of the A.T. field to the evacuation orders Gendo just stared on. A visual of the Angel appeared as it neared port. "Eva-01 and Eva-02 are ready for launch," Ritsuko finished typing away. "Eva-00 Isn't finished with its fitting for combat."

"Then it looks like both Asuka and Shinji are going out on there own," Misato would have preferred it if they had all three of them. If the Angel had waited for just a little longer that might have been a possibility.

Within the Eva-02 Asuka blinked as she thought she heard something within the entry plug. Asuka looked around as she thought she felt something brush right past her cheek. 'Asuka,' Asuka thought she could see her mother for just a brief moment. 'I'm always with you.'

Asuka eyes widened as she realized it was her mother. The Evangelions had souls within them like Shinji had told her. Subconsciously Asuka reached out with her A.T. field touching her mother's within the Eva. Outside in the monitoring stations, Asuka's synchronization score began to increase until it capped at eighty percent. 'Mama, I missed you.'

'I missed you two my kleiner Engel.' It almost felt cruel to Kyoko being unable to truly hold her daughter even if she was this close to her. To her surprise, Asuka's A.T. field reached into the Eva as suddenly Kyoko was greeted with the projection of her daughter's soul.

Despite the near, all white form, her wings, and nude form without any visible privates, Kyoko knew it was her daughter. The two finally embraced after so many years apart.

Watching in the catwalk Rei felt a tear roll down her eye. She looked at the drop as she rubbed it off her check. For the first time ever Rei wondered why she didn't have a mother. 'Why am I thinking about this?' Looking at Eva-02 she knew the answer. Asuka's feelings for her parent had crossed over to her. Somehow she had talked to her. 'I…'

Rei turned away as tears continued down her face. While Asuka felt tears of joy Rei felt tears of sadness. While outwardly she continued to appear stoic inwardly she felt like she had missed out on something. The cover story the Commander used was that she was an orphan. It was only known Rei truly felt like one.

This was where the signal was coming from. There was nothing but another city a lake and some of the life descended from the rival Progenitor. There was nothing around that showed that the Progenitor was around. Still, it seemed that despite the place looking like it was inhabited there was a lack of inhabitants. 'It's a trap.'

It opened its body as its form shifted into impossible shapes. It charged up its energy and just like it thought two of the abominations appeared. "Burn on the pit!"

A massive laser was fired at both of them starting through and melting the buildings as it passed right through them. Both Evangelions didn't have time to act before both Asuka and Shinji felt the feedback as the laser struck them. When it was done they both had their armor partly melted and from the screams that the Angel had heard they were down.

"You know that was just disappointing," I had expected them to come out and put him on the defensive. A titanic fight where it did all it could in order to protect his fragile body. Instead, one blast and they are both down. "Did they both just appear from underground?"

Returning its shape back to the floating octahedron form it sent a probing scan with its A.T. field. Reaching down it first found the basic makeup the city concrete, asphalt, mental, and then several layers of armor followed by a large opening. 'So, there is a base underground that sits just on top of what I am guessing is a Seed-ship.'

Seeing how there wasn't any way to float into the underground cavern it was going to have to force its way into it. Blasting It with its laser was out as such it was going to have to dig an opening. Floating into the city. It came to a stop and began twisting its bottom point. An improvised drill touched the ground as the Angel began its dig into the hidden base. 'This is going to take a long time isn't it?'

Maybe they would try to attack it again so it can find entertainment. Because otherwise, this was going to be a rather boring next couple of hours.

Gendo looked on at the image of the Angel for a moment and then back at Ritsuko and Misato. The Geofront armor could keep it out for several hours. More than enough time for them to regroup and think of a new plan. "Is there a way for us to break through the Angel's A.T. field?"

This was, of course, the biggest problem. The Angel's A.T. field was according to scans a lot tougher than the previous two and was constantly active. "Nothing we currently have can break through Its A.T. field before it counterattacks."

Ritsuko had gone over it. By the time any of their weapons managed to break through the barrier, it would already have had plenty of time to counterattack. Misato thinking about this had an idea. "Then we will just procure one," The both of them turned to her. "The JSSDF has been testing a particle accelerator for a while now in hopes of using it in some upcoming war if we run it through say all the power in Japan we could punch through the barrier and kill the Angel."

The Commander turned his head over to Ritsuko who was looking at Misato. He took note of her expression. "I take it that Captain Katsuragi plan could work?"

Ritsuko did the math within her head. "If we have the MAGI circulate the shot such a shot could break through its A.T. field and hit the core."

That was great news. Plus, thanks to his authority when it came to dealing with the Angels they could procure the particle weapon without issue. "I want Eva-00 ready for combat and both Eva-01 and Eva-02 repaired for battle," He turned to Misato, "You can have Rei help you with moving the particle accelerator."

A hand reached out of the harbor pulling itself up and out of the water. The soulless body of Lucifer had finally reached its destination. As it walked, regaining its legs as soon as she got on land, it would feel the signal of Lilith. "Makes sense my soul would want to stay close to Lilith."

Even if the body was pretty much robotic and emotionless it did know the echo of love that Lucifer had for Lilith. Although the actions that Lucifer went about for her did seem questionable. The soulless body continued its walk as missiles were launched out from the mountains aimed at something within the city. A laser was seen passing through them as they blow up mid-flight. The sounds of artillery fired echoed through the air as and a flash of light was seen over the horizon.

Finally, after nearly two hours of walking the soulless shell could see what was the cause of all of this. One of the Progenitor of Life's creations. It seemed to be stationary while it was letting the creations of Lilith attack it. The shell turned her head down before get down on its knee and placing its hand on the ground. "The signal is underground," Looking at the Spawn of Adam and at the near abandonment of the city the shell looked around. "There has to be an entrance to whatever is underground."

Ritsuko couldn't understand how this had happened. The scans of Eva-02 yesterday didn't show any indication about this sudden development. She did a double check just to be absolutely sure about it. 'Eva-02 has begun the process of developing an S2 organ.'

Eva-01's S2 Organ was almost fully developed. It wouldn't be long before it would be able to be piloted without the umbilical cord. Having a Second Evangelion Unit developed one was just amazing. Call her curious but she had to see something. Running another scan of Eva-00 she looked for the organ. 'Well, it was a long shot given that Eva-00 was a prototype.'

Still, She had to figure out why they were developing these organs. If they could be replicated then NERV would have a huge advantage in their war with the Angels. As well as when their benefactors decide on whether to dispose of them or not.

If you are wondering it's thanks to Asuka reconnecting with Kyoko that Eva-02 is developing an S2 organ. Anyway seeing as in a few days time we will say goodbye to 2018 I would like to say this to all my readers. I wish you all a happy New Year.

Cya all next time with more.