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Shinji was a bit surprised as he was able to slowly ascend to consciousness instead of getting his dreams torn to shreds by an ear-deafening explosion. The absence of loud sounds hung in the air like a guardian angel around the small camp. Shinji shook his head o get rid of the dizziness and instantly thought:
'Have we defeated the last of them?' Then he realized where he was. Snuggled up with Rei on her futon. Before he could notice, his mind and body started reacting differently. But he got control over his different aspects of mind and body before the fight between love and logic (quite perverted logic, but still) got all messy with sharp objects thrown objects thrown at each other. The main reason of him urging to get his mind and body under control was that Rei was beginning to stir. She sat up and looked a bit perplexed at him as she thought what the hell he was doing here. Then her mind kicked in, but not before she had kicked Shinji. He lay on the ground, running the words 'why me?' through his mind over and over again. Rei gasped and bent down.
"Gomen-nasai, Shinji-kun. I didn't realize that it was you." Shinji waved off the excuse with the words 'It's okay…' wheezed between his clenched teeth as he stood up. And hit his head in the stick that held up the small tent, thus pulling it down on the two of them. Shinji sighed.
"Gomen…" Rei smiled at his sudden clumsiness and pulled him down in a tight embrace. She pressed her lips on his, and when she broke it, she whispered in his ear;
"Let's use this morning good…" Then the most unexpected thing happened. Someone ripped the ripped down tent from them and marched over to the quite embarrassed couple on the travelling futon. Shinji stood up and glared at the person who Shinji for his life could not understand was there.
"And who in the hell are you?" The pale-skinned boy looked at Shinji with fiery red eyes.
"I am Nagisa Kaoru. Pleased to meet you." Shinji looked at him with further interest.
"I am Ikari Shinji. Are you human? And if yes, how did you get there?" Kaworu smiled with a smile that made Shinji wonder what the boy really wanted.
"I wonder what you do here too. And why you eradicated the angels residing here." Shinji sighed once again and started explaining.
"I and my friends Soryu Asuka Langley and Ayanami Rei are sent from NERV to ensure the survival of humankind using the Evange…" Shinji did not get any further as something hit Kaoru. Shinji looked down from Kaoru's now pain stricken face to the boys' groin and saw a foot. A foot that belonged to Asuka. Kaoru slowly toppled over and fainted, the weird smile still on his pained face.
"Asuka, what in hell are you doing?" Asuka panted heavily and delivered another kick to the groin of the boy lying facedown.
"He ripped down my tent and peeped on me!" Rei stood up groggily.
"What's all that ruckus about you nocturnal hooligans?" She swayed a bit and then steadied herself. She looked at the boy and absentmindedly kicked Kaoru for no apparent reason. Shinji joined the group and kicked the boy too. Then they all broke the camp up and continued the journey again, leaving the boy that called himself Nagisa Kaoru who would be writhing in pain the moment he woke up. An AT field slowly developed around him and raised him into the air, only to collapse under him and slam him into the ground. This repeated itself a few times before Kaoru gave up and decided to wait until his powers had recharged.
Shinji looked at the other two units and thought about the injuries they all had suffered during the mission that soon would come to an end. Shinji had gotten half of his left arm ripped off and gotten his jetpack blown to shreds, Rei had gotten her whole left arm cut off and Asuka had gotten her right leg blown off by the knee. Shinji had dropped his rifle a few miles ago in a lake and not bothered to get it. Asuka had 'dropped' her bazooka so that it just missed Rei and crashed into a nearby mountain. Rei had responded by throwing away her rifle so it knocked the axe that Asuka used for crutch away from under her.
"Hang on, wait for me you morons!" The three Eva units stopped dead in their tracks, turned around and stared at the boy who came towards them, running in a speed greater than their own.
"What do you want? You haven't even told us what you're doing here." Kaoru smiled and developed an AT field that raised him to face-to-face levels with the Eva units.
"Surprised, are you not?" Shinji did not bother to respond but lashed out with his remaining hand at the AT field and tried to pry it open. Kaoru smiled and shook his head.
"This is an AT field stronger than you ever have encountered before…" He was interrupted by Asuka's axe that came crashing down on his head.
"AAAGH! God dammit! You crazy bitch! God that hurt! Have you got no manners!" Kaoru kept screaming and cursing for a good five minutes. Shinji took this opportunity to grab the boy and beginning to squeeze him like an orange. It took Kaoru a few minutes to notice it.
"Ouch, okay, okay, I'll talk! What do you want to know?" His voice was quite pained, go figure.
"Let's start with how you became an angel if you haven't been that all the time." Kaoru thought about this for a moment and then answered in a quite mocking tone.
"I can send people to your house, bad people…" Shinji responded by squeezing a bit harder.
"Okay, okay! I'm an angel, as you call us, and I am the one who supposedly were strongest." Kaoru blabbered at an incredible speed. Shinji looked at him with a bit of doubt.
"And to prove it, I'll go and mate…no, meet with, the angel in your basement. See y'all suckers!" And with that, he raised another AT field and broke out of the hand of the purple Eva unit and fly off into the horizon, the Eva units running after him.
After a few hours of running, they all came to a halt before a building that rose tall and mighty in black onyx a good kilometre up in the air. Kaoru flew in and an eerie glow emitted from the building. It was shaped like a pyramid with myriads of windows along its sides. The ground and trees within five kilometres radius were blackened as if an immense heat had burned it.
The next angel to appear was a being of pure light. It seemed to have been waiting for them all, hovering over the pyramid-like building, letting its light shine as a very weak sun. Shinji was so caught in looking at it, that he did not see its attack. All he heard was Asuka's scream.
"No! Don't look in there! Mother, stop it!" Shinji looked at the angel and then at the red Eva unit. A beam of light seemed to connect them. Rei immediately threw the Lance of Longinus at it, but missed the angel roughly. The Lance embedded itself in the building, near the top. Rei wasted no time and went to retrieve it. Asuka continued screaming. Shinji activated the wings in his back and flew up to the same altitude as the angel, Arael. He watched the scenario from up there for a while and noted some things down in the oral logbook.
"Log number 01267532. The angel is identified as Arael and we will intercept it in an aerial combat sequence. Asuka-san has been attacked, possible psychological contamination is in progress. Rei-kun retrieves the Lance of Longinus to then pass it onto me who then will eradicate the angel. Over and out for log 01267532. He then flew down and retrieved the Lance of Longinus from Rei who then used her jetpack to then get to the same level as Shinji and Arael. Rei caught Shinji's progressive knife as he threw it to her and proceeded to grab it by the tip and launch it at Arael. This did not hurt the AT field as much as distracting the angel and making it possible for Shinji to jet forward and embed the Lance in the angel, who exploded without too much of a struggle. On the ground, Asuka lay on the ground in a foetal position, trembling and crying in her Eva. She soon got up however as she noticed another angel approaching in the distance. Now, Asuka's eyes got hard as agates and she clenched her axe with two hands. She activated her jetpack and flew to intercept Armisael.
"Log number 01267533. Another angel is approaching; the angel is called Armisael and is a double-helix shape in a circle. Asuka-san intercepts it with her axe this instant. The angel seems to be able to change its shape, and it is trying to embed itself into the body of Unit 002. Over and out for log 01267533."
The glowing, double-helix shaped angel was not too much of a fight for the berserker-like Asuka, who immediately cut the angel up to tiny pieces with the axe before finding the core. She carefully put it down on the ground, flew a good kilometre up in the air, and the came crashing down on it with her remaining foot. The explosion threw her back to where Shinji and Rei stood waiting and all Asuka did was to shrug and then proceed to advance on the building.
Shinji crawled up to the top of the building and looked down the hole that Rei's jetpack had burned open. He jumped down and landed on the floor, it too made out of onyx. He jumped out of the way just in time not to get squashed by the other Eva's jumping down the hole.
After a good fifteen minutes of crawling and walking through the corridors fitted for something the size of something in between of humans and angels, they came to a huge room located in the middle of the complex building.
The room was huge, almost three hundred metres to the roof and almost equally wide-spaced floor. In the middle, an orb, huge and red with ten metres radius stood in a pedestal. And before it, Nagisa Kaoru floated in the air. He gently touched it and a portal spring up behind it. But before he could jump into it, something brought its fist down on the orb, smashing it into pieces. Kaoru screamed, almost as if it was he who had been shattered, and looked wide-eyed at Unit 001. The portal started shrinking more and more.
"Smooth move, moron! When the portal closes, all the energy will have to go somewhere, and you destroyed the power containing core, so this whole dimension will blow to bits thanks to you! At least you'll be left here! Sayonara, suckers!" And with those words, Kaworu jumped into the steadily shrinking portal and disappeared. Shinji reacted quickly and grabbed Rei and Asuka's hands and pulled them with him. He threw them both into the portal and followed soon after. The dimension stretched before their eyes and everything went white.
"Ouch! I've had better landings…" Kaoru rubbed his backside, stood up and looked around. He was in the outskirts of Tokyo-3.
"Very well, I'll just keep travelling and then I will mate, no, meet with Adam. What comes of Adam returns to Adam."
"And what gives around comes around." A very pissed off Shinji said as he stood fuming behind Kaoru, completely drenched in LCL as usual. Kaoru reeled back a few steps.
"Well, well, well…If it isn't the three pilots. Why didn't I hear you land by the way?" Asuka stepped forward and grinned at him with a smile that looked like she would gladly bite him in the throat.
"You were too busy ranting about your precious Adam to hear us. The units are over there." She pointed with her thumb over her shoulder at Rei in her blue and white unit grasping the red Lance of Longinus by the hilt. Shinji spoke up again.
"Who is Adam anyway? Your boyfriend? No, wait…it's that the sissy angel, right? However…you were planning on leaving us there, so…we'll give you ten seconds head start. 1…2…3…" On three, Kaoru had already dashed off into a maze of old alleyways. By the time Shinji got to ten, Kaoru was leaning against a wall, panting heavily. He tried over and over again to raise an AT field. He smacked his face. His powers were bound to the core in his own dimension, without it, or an alternative power source, all he could do was merge with Adam.
'If I'll ever get to where he is…' He thought as he watched the three Eva units walk around in the city, searching for him.
'I'm screwed…unless…' He thought as he saw three thugs with bruises, band aids and bandages everywhere limp out from a neighbouring alleyway. He cleared his throat and made the thugs jump at the sound.
"Excuse me, gentlemen. I wonder if you could help me get rid of a troublesome friend of mine, Ikari Shinji and his friends Ayanami Rei and…" He didn't need to say more. The thugs scurried off, well, limped away, as fast as they could. Kaoru sighed and kicked in dismay at a blast door. It swung open to reveal a passageway down to NERV. Kaoru smiled and entered. The door swung closed behind him and almost clipped off a toe. Kaoru scurried cursing off towards the main corridors.
"Don't you think we should lock the doors in case someone tries to get in, commander?"
"Nah, it'll be fine Fuyutsuki."
"We'd better walk from here on. I think it would be better if we would wait for him in Central
Dogma." Shinji nodded and told Asuka the plan in short. They got out of the units and walked into NERV HQ. They proceeded to the commander's office to report and gain access to the most secretive part of the whole organization.
"Konbonwa, otou-san!" The commander and his second man were quite startled by the three teens bursting in through his door while he was playing Go.
"Ah, Shinji-kun…please report." Shinji took a deep breath.
"We have not yet completed the mission. There is one angel left, and it is somewhere in Tokyo-3." The commander raised a surprised eyebrow.
"Are your Evangelion units insufficient funds for eradicating this angel?"
"We do not want to wreak too much of a havoc inside the city perimeter, commander." Rei cut in. She walked up to the commanders' desk.
"The last angel is in the form of a boy in our age, he goes under the name of Nagisa Kaoru, and…" The commander stood up with a shocked expression on his face.
"Security just reported that they had gotten orders to let a Nagisa Kaoru through as the new Evangelion pilot sent here by SEELE. He is heading to Central Dogma according to the latest reports. What do you need to stop him?" Asuka and Shinji looked at each other and nodded, and then they walked up alongside with Rei and looked at the commander.
"What kind of handheld firearms do we have in this facility?" The commander smiled.
'That's my son…' He put in a six digit code on a pad on the desk and a screen appeared on the polished surface.
"To start off with the basic handguns, we have three different types. There is the Walther P99. It is a quite small and light handgun. It is a semi-automatic pistol made in Germany. The unloaded weight is a mere 700 grams and the barrel length is 102 mm. The complete length is 180 mm. It uses the ordinary 9 mm. bullets. Its detachable magazine capacity is quite good; originally 16 rounds, now 15 rounds.
And we have the classical Luger, used during the WWII by German navy mostly. It has a magazine capacity of 8 rounds in a detachable box. The P08 Luger, which we have in the armoury, has a stock and longer barrel, and sometimes used with a 32 round magazine; this model is also known as the 'Artillery Luger'.
And to finish the handgun category off, we have the British Enfield Revolver. It is quite classical using the cylinder with a 6 round capacity. It is a quite powerful weapon with a maximum range of 200 British yards and an effectively range on about 15 British yards. Used right, it can fire up to 30 bullets per minute, considering you reload pretty fast.
Moving onto the heavier guns. The Russian developed AK-47 is gas-operated with a rotating bolt which gives it a firing rate of 600 rounds per minute. The magazine capacity is a 30 round detachable box. The barrel length is 415 mm. and the total on an 870 mm. The unloaded weight is 4.3 kg.
Then the MP5A2, with an extractable stock for further aim improvement and recoil absorbing. It has a magazine in a 30 round detachable box. It works with a roller-delayed blowback and a closed bolt, giving it a high firing rate of 800 rounds per minute. It is made in Germany.
And then the 'Tommy gun', or the official, Thompson submachine gun M1928. It has as the others a 30 round detachable box and hard-hitting .45 calibre rounds. It has a mass of 4.9 kg. unloaded and a 852 millimetres length. It has a firing rate of 700 rounds per minute.
And as for the equipment, we have the typical MkIIA1 "pineapple" fragmentation hand grenade and the standard riot police equipment, complete with shields and helmets and that. Is this sufficient? The equipment is located in the armoury." The commander now grinned openly at the thought of this action as the last image of the guns faded from the screen on the desk. Shinji and the others also grinned happily. At last they had something different than the Eva units to battle with.
"This is going to be fun…"
"Man! How many blast doors are there going to be!" Kaoru looked at the humongous blast doors that stood tall before him. With an almost nonchalant flick of his wrist, Kaoru made the blast door crumble and then shatter in a million pieces before him with the force of a nuclear warhead. Kaoru walked a few metres before sensing something in the back of his mind, more than the feeling one can get using his 'sixth sense'. Well, he also heard the cocking of a bullet. He slowly turned around and stood face to face with the barrel of a Walther P99 handgun. He peered over the dot sights and saw a grinning Shinji in a military uniform with the AK-47 rifle slung over his back. He looked to Shinji's left and saw Asuka play with a Luger and a Thompson submachine gun slung over her shoulder. He looked at Rei to Shinji's right who held the stock of an MP5A2 against her shoulder, staring intensively at Kaoru through the hair-cross scope with a British Enfield Revolver in a holster at her hip. They all had riot police helmets and hand grenades. The riot shields lay in a pile near the entrance of this corridor.
"Are we going to continue the countdown? I don't think you heard all of it. 4…5…6…" Kaoru smiled nonchalantly.
"Fools, the closer I get to the angel in the Central Dogma, the stronger my powers get. Even though I don't have the AT field, I have this ability." He flicked his wrist at them and they were flung to the floor and skidded over the floor and came to a halt next to the pile of the shields. Shinji and Asuka put their pistols in their respective holsters and Rei slung her carbine over her shoulder and they picked up a shield each. They watched in fear as they got up and saw a gaping hole in the last blast door leading to the central dogma. They rushed forward and heard a scream in dismay and then a voice that laughed out that the person in question still had enough power to eradicate the whole of NERV HQ. They arrived at the Central Dogma and saw in terror how Kaoru kept materializing a bunker and a 'shit-load of guns', as Asuka so mildly put it. Kaoru soon finished the bunker and crept inside; a lot of gun-cocking could be heard. Rei looked at the bunker with an estimating look and pulled up her hand grenade of her pocket.
"No fair!" Kaoru yelled as he darted out of the bunker before the grenade ripped itself and the bunker to shreds, sending shrapnel of concrete and of the guns everywhere. Shinji put the handgun in its' holster and took out the AK-47, looking down the barrel of the rifle and squeezed the trigger.
The bullets emerged in small explosions that echoed throughout Central Dogma and jetted at Kaoru who ran screaming through the room, waving his hands in the air. Then he remembered the AT-field and activated it just in time to make the bullets bounce harmlessly off it. He grinned and flew towards Rei, thinking she was an easy target. Then she aimed with her gun and fired off a burst of bullets at him too. He cursed and felt how every hit made it harder for him to maintain the field. Asuka nonchalantly aimed with her Luger one-handed and fired off all the 32 bullets at him in a fast series before reloading, ready for another round. Shinji squeezed off another series of shots at him when Kaoru turned and attacked him absolutely furious.
Kaoru let his AT-field down for a second and used that time to get close enough to yank the gun out of Shinji's hands and hit him in the face with the stock. Shinji wiped off the blood from under his nose and pulled out his Walther P99. Kaoru smiled and flew a few metres backwards.
"You cannot hit me with my AT-field up…" As he said that, Shinji noticed the small, pineapple-shaped metal object under Kaoru's feet. Asuka held a sprint in her hand and gestured frantically at Shinji to 'get the fuck out of the way!' as Kaoru blabbered on and on about 'what is born of Adam must return to Adam' and then was thrown off his feet with an eradicated AT-field. The grenade had exploded and ripped apart the last of Kaoru's AT-field. Shinji spun around, aimed and shot Kaoru in the elbow. He felt the recoil from the gun go up his arm and then he saw the bullet emerge from the barrel, fly at Kaoru and embed itself in his arm. The bullet easily pierced the skin, tissues and muscles and then pulverized the bone to then slash its' way out the other side, bringing the blood with it in the vacuum created from its' high speed. Kaoru was flung to the floor, writhing in pain. The gun he so boldly had snatched from Shinji lay on the floor a few metres away. He wobbled up on his feet and ran to the inner circle of the Central Dogma. He looked at the giant nailed to the cross. Then he stomped angrily on the floor, holding his crushed elbow.
"Lilith! How the hell! You bastards! You Lilim have always been decisive, I've known that, but this is taking it a step too far!" He was cut off by Rei's revolver hitting on the back of his head three times. He turned around and stared at the three barrels with their black, gaping mouths at him.
"Sayonara, sucker…" It came from Asuka. Then there were three shots simultaneously and everything went white.
They pulled the triggers simultaneously and Kaoru's head was thrown back by the force and he fell into the sea of LCL surrounding the base of the cross where Lilith hung with…a jet fighter in its' chest? Shinji shrugged and thought that his father must have had a damn good reason for doing that and left, pulling the two girls after him in the arms. The light from the rest of the base surrounding them as they got out of the elevator.
'Now I must deal with the personal problems…' Shinji thought as he saw the two girls slowly draw their guns and raising them towards each other before Shinji snatched them out of the girls hands and shoved them towards the elevator.
