AN: Hello again. I'm finally able to post my fifth chapter to my story, after five or so days since I wrote it, so I hope you all enjoy it. I'm having a fun time on my trip, but I kinda want it to end (I'm getting bored). Oh yeah, and remember those randomly placed 3's in the last chapter after the non-existent breaker (after the footnotes)? Those were supposed to be hearts (you know, with the carrot and then a three? Corny, but efficient), and I might go change them (they were supposed to show the voice's extreme enjoyment with playing with Shinji; the voice doesn't have a face, so there's no other way to express it other than a heart symbol), so from now on, just know that (heart) equals heart symbol.

Disclaimer: Wow, I forgot about this. I do not own NGE, but I do own this plotline which I wrote on pieces of paper that took a hell of a beating to get here, so you better not steal it, or I'll…I'll…I'll bitch and rant to you!

Warning: I never thought about this before, since I'm Atheist, but I am sorry if any of the religious bashing of my story hurts your feelings. I mean no harm, and if you are religious, proceed with caution.

Ch 5

Do you like the change of scenery, my Shinji-kun?

Is this…Terminal Dogma? (1)

Oh no, this is the North Pole, at the site of the first impact. Actually, I quite like the crimson red water, the giant icicles that stick out of the water, and the giant cross in the very middle of the only piece of land (AN: it's a crater) in this entire region. It gives the place an eerie sort of feeling, don't you think?

You promised you would help me; shut up and help me!

Ooooh, touchy! (heart)

If you don't want to help me, then I no longer have any-

Come now, Shinji. Don't be thinking suicidal thoughts this late in the game. I'm having too much fun to let you just die on me. (heart)

Talking about death, what do you think of Death, my Shinji-kun? Your ancestors seemed to think that Death was the key to some sort of paradise in the clouds. How stupid. Didn't they realize that the Gods' powers are limited to the universe that they exist in? Not even the Gods can beat the Laws of Physics.

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What do you think of Heaven, my Shinji-kun? Do you consider it a paradise where angels fly around on white wings, the sky is always blue, and your deepest and darkest dreams and desires are fulfilled, and you can do anything you want? Or, do you think that there is no Heaven, and you just die and waste away? To me, both options seem boring.

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A paradise where you have nothing to do but what you want, no necessity, no pattern, no culture, no pizzazz from living life; if it were me, that would be a life sentence of boredom. I'd want to kill myself; oh look, I just made a pun. Don't you think that that sounds more like Hell?

So, what is Death, my Shinji-kun? A tool used to give false hope to people who lived their lives in search of hope to live their pathetic existence; a tool used to brainwash children into believing the most ridiculous things, and hindering the development of what you humans call Science? Or, do you think it is simply a way of life?

Death is Existence. To exist is to live, and to exist is to die. Death is the end of the beginning, and the beginning of the end. You-(dramatic pause)are-(dramatic pause)Death.

AN: Oooh, did anyone see that coming? Stay tuned for the next chapter (seven in total), one which, hopefully, I will not have to type out with a friggin foreign keyboard! Please, please review! Come on! I spent all this time just to get my work to my precious readers, and I get barely any reviews? It doesn't take that long! Just click the button, and give me the reassurance that you actually exist, and read my story. It doesn't have to be long!