Acknowledgements:
Well, first there is the Literal Translation Project, without whom this fic would be quite different, and take a lot longer to write.
Next we have the FFML, who provide a much needed outlet for this, so that I can know that other people have at least read whatever it is before I send it to RAAC.
Next, we have ADV, who pressed my Eva DVD box set.
Next, we have Mangle, who pressed the Eva movies.
Next, we have my fans (all four of you) who occasionally asked if I'd ever finish this . . . Thanks.
And, last, but definately not least, we have Gainax, and Anno-san, without whom I'd've never started this mess.
'Nuff of that.
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Shin Seiki
Evangelion
Chouchuanshan
Episode Five.
'Nice outfit,' Asuka lears at Misato.
I blush.
Misato looks at me, then blushes, too.
'Kaji will be here to listen—' Misato cuts herself off, blushes even deeper, then continues, 'Watch—' flustered pause, 'Look after you this evening, and while I'm out of town.'
'Yes, Ma'am,' Lantis-chan tells her.
'At the activation test?' I ask.
'Yes. Sangouki will undergo startup tests at Matsushiro. Yongouki is gone, lost with the second branch during testing of the S-2 engine.'
I smile, 'I thought you weren't going to tell me.'
'I just hadn't found a good spot. I'll be gone for about four days.'
The doorbell rings. I center, then feel. Kensuke.
I open the door, 'Major Katsuragi, I'd like to volunteer myself as pilot for Evangelion Sangouki.'
'Too late,' Misato tells him, 'The pilot has already been chosen.'
SSEC
The three of us arrive at school at the same time, Lantis-chan in the middle, Asuka and I slightly back to either side.
The whispers are soft, but rather distracting. We're compared to the Furies, fairies, and Ranma-sensei's family. Most of them are appreciative this time. A smile forms on my face, and I let it stay there.
SSEC
'Lunchtime!,' pause, while Kensuke looks around, 'Where's Touji?'
'Gone. You should be able to guess where.'
'The activation test,' Kensuke pouts.
SSEC
'Hey, I'm going to walk home with Hikari-chan,' Asuka tells us, with a final caress of Lantis-chan's cheek.
'Have fun,' I tell her.
'I will.'
'Not too much fun,' Lantis-chan tells her.
A pause, then Hikari blushes a bright red.
'Of course not,' Asuka says.
SSEC
Asuka's watching something horrible on TV.
I've got my headphones on, hooked to Misako, playing music from my archive server, over my little wireless net.
Lantis-chan is flopped over us, in a slightly uncomfortable manner. Uncomfortable for me, anyway, I don't think Lantis-chan minds it, or she'd wiggle more. I can hear pages turning as she reads.
'That was nice,' Kaji says, about his bath. He's toweling off, 'Everyone in a pile again? Is that how you always are?'
'Pretty much,' Asuka smiles at him, 'I'm a little worried about Suzuhara, but Akagi-hakase and Katsuragi should take care of him.'
'They should. No point worrying, anyway. I'm heading to bed, and I suggest you do too.'
'We'll go to bed in a little bit,' Lantis-chan tells him.
'OK,' and Kaji wanders into the room that used to be Asuka's.
Lantis-chan shifts, lying just across my back, then starts to nibble on my neck. With a little squirm, I pull my headphones off, 'Lantis-chan,' I manage, not too loudly.
'Not here,' Asuka says, then kisses Lantis-chan on the lips, pulling her head up to do so.
'You're right,' Lantis-chan says, then grabs Asuka by the hair. Without releasing her hold, she stands, then draws the other girl into our room. She beckons imperiously, and I follow.
SSEC
Touji isn't here at school today. Must have already left for the test. I hope — with a shake I stop that train of thought, and rap my knuckles against my temple.
We'll find out soon enough.
SSEC
Three phones ring at once. I answer mine, already worried about who it is.
Magi's synthesized voice confrims my fears, 'Ikari Shinji-kun, report to NERV headquarters for immediate deployment.'
Asuka shares a grim smile with me, and Lantis-chan actually looks worried. That's almost enough to make me panic.
SSEC
'Who are we fighting?'
'Pattern is Blue,' my father's voice says, 'the target is confirmed as the thirteenth Angel.'
'Suck,' Asuka deadpans.
'Is he still alive?'
'Unconfirmed,' Maya answers.
'Pilot recovery is a priority,' my father's voice says, 'but stopping the Angel is foremost.'
'Ryoukai,' Lantis-chan answers.
'Target spotted, aiming for the head,' Asuka says.
I reach, calming, centering, feeling everything go strange, then normal again.
'Oh no-' Asuka is cut off, mid-yell.
'Nigouki silent, pilot ejection confirmed,' Maya's calm voice says.
'Engaging,' Lantis-chan says, then screams.
I tune out the radio, draw my prog knife, wish, just for an instant, for a halberd, and charge towards where I can feel her, in pain, but safe, the Angel moving towards me.
Before I can get into range, its arms lengthen suddenly, wrapping around my throat. I cut one off mid-forearm, and the other at the elbow.
They start to grow back instantly, going boneless and trying to grapple me as I charge close.
A dangerously high kick breaks its neck, nearly tearing its head off, and I shove the prog knife into its core.
It goes limp, and I cut the entry plug free, then leave it for the recovery team, and go to Lantis-chan.
'Miyuki-chan,' she says, when I get commo established with Zerogouki. Her voice is shaky, hiding most of the pain I can feel flowing off her in waves.
'Are you OK?' I ask, kneeling next to Zerogouki, who's arm wasn't torn off, but blown, deliberately, to prevent the angel from spreading deeper.
'I feel like I just had my arm blown off, but other than that, I'm good,' She giggles, just a little, 'Asuka?'
'Asuka is fine. The recovery team has her right now, and they're coming to pick you up.'
'Good,' and with that, Lantis-chan passes out.
SSEC
'The bunker was destroyed, but casualties were light. No fatalities, and only a couple maimings,' Misato tells me cheerily, her head still bandaged, and the demerol still dripping fast into her IV.
'That's good,' I tell her, 'I'm really glad you're OK.'
'Yeah, you've got me trained.'
'Yes,' Lantis-chan, a tiny smile picking up the corners of her lips, answers, then gives her hand a squeeze, 'Come home soon.'
'I'll do my best,' Misato smiles back.
SSEC
We stop by Ritsuko's room. She's awake, but Maya's asleep, her head resting on Ritsuko's thigh. Ritsuko holds one finger to her lips, the other hand continuing to softly stroke Maya's hair.
Lantis-chan nods, and pulls us from the room. I give them a parting smile.
SSEC
Suzuhara is asleep, an oxygen mask hooked over his ears. I close my eyes and feel for his injuries, 'He'll be OK.'
'Mou,' Asuka whines, 'Why wasn't I Dark Kingdom trained?'
'Because we,' Lantis-chan says gently, 'being NERV, are in a state of hostility with the Dark Kingdom, and don't allow them official access to our assets.'
'Shinji-chan is an asset, too,' Asuka whines, leading us down the hall.
'Yes, but Saotome Ranma is a Japanese citizen, and my guardian,' I tell her, 'So I'm not actually Dark Kingdom trained.'
'You were trained by the person who trained the Dark Kingdom. Not much difference, there.'
'Legally, a lot of difference.'
SSEC
Boredom. Eva practice. Target practice. Tests to try and establish how I beat the last Angel so easily. Of course, we don't display even close to the same power during the test as we did against the Angel, but the reason for that is rather obvious.
'Of course not,' I say over the mike, 'I'm not nearly as keyed up, no one's been hurt, and I'm not pushing as hard.'
'What do you mean?'
'Fighting a tough opponent, Ranma-sensei or Usagi-sensei, I move faster and hit harder. I've put my hand through sixteen inches of concrete sparring with Usagi-sensei.'
'Sixteen inches? That's what, forty centimeters?'
'About that. Right now I'm not as focused, not as far into the _now_ as during a real fight.'
'So any data we take now isn't going to be of any help?' Maya asks.
'It won't represent actual combat, and most especially won't represent the others being in danger.'
'We'll continue anyway,' Ritsuko says, 'Since we'll at least have some baseline data this way.'
'OK.'
SSEC
'No,' I tell Asuka, 'Like this. Feel the heavy, flowing energy, feel it move within you, and then strike, gathering it to your fist as you do.'
She punches the bag with perfect form, but her ki is still all over the place.
'Let's try the steel bar again,' I tell her, and fold her fingers around the two-centimeter thick cylinders, each almost six centimeters long.
I step back. 'Feel how it makes your hand heavier. Punch the bag. Again. Again. Feel the flow of energy, how it's gotten stronger. Again.'
She's almost got it. Her ki's shifting, flowing with her punches, separating from the ambient.
'Again?' she asks.
'Again,' I tell her.
She strikes hard, one, two, three, the bag of sand taking the hits easily.
'Again.'
Harder, this time, her ki shifting to power the blows. One, two, three. The wallboard dimples a little, the bag sagging into it.
'Drop the bars. Again.'
She opens her hands, then clenches them back into proper fists, and strikes harder still, her ki slipping into her fist at the last instant, her whole body driving it forward. The wallboard collapses, and the bag falls off, leaving a hole about the size of a textbook in the wall.
'Wow.'
'Good job,' I tell her, 'We're now ready for the first stage of your training.'
'First stage!' she whines, 'We've been practicing for weeks! And I already know how to defend myself!'
'Against humans. Normal humans, at that. One can't pretend that that is enough,' I smile, 'But you've done well. Most people take another couple weeks to get this far. After this, we teach you how to heal yourself, and then the real training begins.'
'Uuaa,' she says, pulling a face, 'I'm tired. Carry me home,' and she sags dramaticly against me.
'If you really want me to. It'd be easier to ride, though.'
'Carry me to the bike, then,' she says.
'OK,' I tell her, and pick her up in a fireman's carry.
'This isn't what I meant,' she says.
'Oh?' I ask, bending my knees to pick up my punching bag. I stash it, and straighten up.
'Saddleback carry,' she says.
'OK,' I let her down, and kneel. She wraps her hands about my neck and her knees about my waist. I support her with my hands under her knees, and stand back up.
'Let's go,' she says, sounding sleepy, and nuzzles against my neck.
I have to wake her up to get her into the sidecar.
SSEC
'Kiss me,' Lantis-chan tells me.
I blink.
'Kiss me. Now.'
I look around at our class, and the teacher tapping his papers together as he gets ready to leave.
'Miyuki,' her voice is _very_ flat.
I lean over, place my hands flat on her desk, and brush my lips lightly over hers. Dropping back into my seat I can feel my cheeks heating.
'Properly,' a tiny hint of amusement, with, I glance over, a tiny smile to go with it.
Calm, center, hands flat on her desk, and lean in. Her lips, as always, are warm and soft. Her tongue flickers over my lips, and I open them.
Her hands ruffle my hair as she holds me in place, and her tongue dances with mine. I moan, low in my throat, and she pulls me even closer.
After a few minutes she breaks the kiss, and I collapse back into my seat. Someone claps. I drop my head onto my desk, and cover it with my arms.
Asuka laughs.
SSEC
'Suzuhara!' Hikari greets him, without any honorific. Her lips twitch, and she glances away.
'Incho,' Suzuhara almost smiles.
Suzuhara sits down, a little gingerly. His adventure with Sangouki had left him bruised, but he's back after only a few days in the hospital. He smiles at something Aida says.
The teacher clears his throat loudly, 'Suzuhara-kun! If you would.'
SSEC
Lantis-chan is sitting, full-lotus, in the middle of the living room, scowling. Outright, brows pinched, scowling.
I sit down, pull my knees up under my chin, and feel for what she is trying to do. Her ki all swirly, rising up the center of her body, and flowing back down the outsides. I've no idea what she's trying to accomplish, but it doesn't seem to be working.
'How does one do this?' she asks, startling me.
'Um, what?'
'Levitate?'
'I don't know. I think one lightens one's ki, so that one is less dense than the air around one, and then it pushes one up. I've never seen anyone do it, so . . .'
'You don't know,' she unfolds herself with a tiny wince.
I gather her up in my arms, rest my head on her shoulder, 'How long were you working on it?'
'A few hours,' she smiles, I can feel it, 'But now I've something better to do,' and she presses me flat on the floor, and shoves my shirt up.
'Oh?' I manage to gasp.
'Yes,' she says, then takes one already-hard nipple between her lips.
SSEC
'You really shouldn't fall asleep naked in the middle of the room. Misato-san is hiding in her bedroom,' Asuka tells me as I wake up, gathering the blanket a little tighter around Lantis-chan and I.
'Um,' I hold up a bit of the blanket.
'I put that over you when I got home. Misato-san says she's not coming out until dinner, and I promise her that you are both dressed.'
'Oh,' Lantis-chan says.
I hadn't realized she was awake.
'So, that means it's my turn,' Asuka says, unbuttoning her blouse.
'I thought,' I start, but Lantis-chan has already wrapped her fingers in Asuka's hair, and pulled her close. I lean up, and nuzzle aside her shirt, getting a happy groan from the girl as my lips meet flesh.
SSEC
Zerogouki and I are circling, slowly, power cords twining together. My mouth falls open in a little grin, and Zerogouki braces herself, her stance a little twisted to adjust for her newly re-attached left arm, which isn't fully healed yet.. I shift the other way, pulling myself into a full Jeet Kune Do ready stance.
Zerogouki also starts circling the other way, and I spin, slamming a full-force back kick into her belly.
Lantis-chan gives a little grunt over the comm, and Zerogouki slides backwards, keeping her feet, our twisted-together powercords drawing her to an awkward stop.
'You never kick me that hard,' Asuka complains.
'That kick should have shattered armor and bones,' Maya says, 'I'm surprised Zerogouki kept her feet.'
'You'll get there,' I tell her, 'But you don't have enough control yet.'
'Whine,' Asuka whines, 'When?'
'Soon,' Lantis-chan tells her.
'Pattern blue. ETA twenty minutes,' Ritsuko interupts.
'Shitsugeki junbi!' Misato orders.
The three of us start for the elevators.
SSEC
We arrive at the surface almost simultaneously, grabbing weapons and spreading out.
'It is fortuituous that the Angel arrived during our training time,' Lantis-chan says.
'Yeah, the author must be looking out for us,' Asuka says.
I bow my head, and hope that Eris finds Asuka's current religion amusing.
Then we settle down to wait.
It isn't long, about five minutes, before the Angel appears over the horizon.
The Angel looks like a play-doh admiral, black with round little feet that don't touch the ground, a white face mask over deeper black, white epaulets with little mylar sleeves dangling.
Red lights glitter behind its face-mask, then an energy beam strikes the geofront. The smoke and fire mushroom up into the typical cruciform cloud, and once more I wonder why they bother.
'That cut through 19 levels of armor!' someone, Makoto, I think, declares.
'Stop it quickly!' Misato commands.
'Asuka! Distract it,' Lantis-chan orders, 'Miyuki, you're the second attempt, get into position.'
I grab the halberd, and watch as Asuka shoots it with a pallet rifle. It shifts towards her, bullets, weakened by passing through the Angel's partially-neutralized AT field, bouncing off of it.
With a bright flash, Lantis-chan fires a positron cannon. The beam cuts through the Angel's AT field, and carves one of the epaulets off, along with the dangling sleeve.
The Angel spins, and a red glitter appears behind its mask.
Before I can think, the halberd is flying through the air, aimed straight that mask, and I'm right behind it.
Its AT field has collapsed, and Asuka's still shooting it.
It collapses to the ground, the halberd buried to the shaft in its flesh, fluid leaking from bullet-holes in its side.
I feel a few rounds hit me as I dig my fingers into the Angel's flesh, reaching for its core. My arm is buried almost to the elbow by the time I find it, and I rip it out, shreds of the Angel's flesh clinging to it as I slam it into the ground.
The Angel's body is motionless as I hold the core with my left hand, and draw my prog knife with the right.
I drive it home, shifting my weight to force it into the tough material.
'Miyuki! Are you OK?' Asuka asks, jogging up.
I stand, twist a little side to side, 'Fine, I think,' I tell her.
SSEC
I stare at the gaping holes in Shougouki's armor. The right shoulder panel is gone, and the bare arm and shoulder shows through the holes in the armor. The right side armor is mostly gone, shredded, from the front to the back, and a few of the almost intact panels have holes in them. Both gloves are missing, bare skin showing through the shreds remaining at the wrists.
'And you didn't even notice healing all that?' Ritsuko asks.
'I barely noticed the hits. I had to stop it.'
'Why,' she starts.
I point my chin in the direction of Zerogouki's cage.
She nods. Turning back to Shougouki, she says, 'The damage is going to take a couple days to repair.'
'I thought so.'
SSEC
Asuka drops onto my back, startling me a little, even though I knew she was behind me.
'Whatcha doing?
I tap the shard of glass in my left hand with the rock in my right. A nice flake pops off, joining its friends on the floor of the storage room I've commandeered for training Asuka. I turn the shard a moment, then set it in the finished pile, 'Making drill bits.'
'Um,' she says, 'Those are glass,' she points at the meter square sheet of 5 mm thick steel, 'That's steel.'
'Yep. Makes things a little difficult,' I tell her. I count the sharp-edged points, eight and nine. Good.
I pick one up, and a straightened 30 cm long stick with a notch cut in it. I position the point, make sure it it is straight, then tie it in with a length of artificial sinew. I set it aside to dry.
'Isn't an electric drill easier? I'm sure NERV must have a lot of them.'
'Easier, yes, but not better.'
'Oh?'
'This is training. Usagi-sensei said to practice reinforcing inanimate tools, so I might as well do something useful with it.'
'So you're going to drill a steel plate with glass bits.'
'Yep.'
Asuka just watches as I tie the other eight drill bits, then holds the dustpan while I sweep up the scrap. I place the bits in my tool box, and lock it.
'Let's go. Can't do anything more today.'
SSEC
I pull the drill back from the wall, the masonary bit flashing a little as it spins down. I press the metal anchor into the block wall, then go to the next spot.
'I thought you weren't going to use an electric?' Asuka asks, stepping into the room.
'Not for the plate. This is just because,' I turn and smile at her, 'I'm feeling lazy. I'm gonna have to drill six holes in that plate, so I don't want to drill six in the wall as well. Besides,' I turn back to the wall, 'The wall anchors need holes the same size.'
SSEC
'Asuka said you'd be down here,' Lantis-chan says, dropping into seiza beside me.
'Un,' I grunt around the mouthpiece holding the butt of the current drillbit, not pausing the back and forth motion of my hands, twisting the drill back and forth quickly, fine flakes of steel rising from the plate.
'How much longer?'
I shrug.
Lantis-chan picks up one of the dead bits, the soft soda-glass point worn quite away, down to the wooden shaft, 'How many more holes?'
I sit back, take the mouthpiece from between my teeth, 'One and a half.'
'So each bit lasts about two holes?'
'No, the first three didn't even drill one hole. So far, I've managed to keep this one going.'
'Ah,' Lantis-chan draws the dead bit across her palm, slicing it open, deep red blood welling out and dripping on the floor. She blinks at it, then beckons me close. I set the drill kit aside, and lean in. She smears my face with her blood, then kisses me, 'Mine.'
I wait a moment for the bleeding to stop, a warm, sticky drip down my face, then remember, and take her hand, brushing the blood away. The wound is shrinking, faster than a normal person's, but not as fast as a Competent martial artist's. I apply pressure, and feel, following her ki as the wound closes and the skin knits back together.
'What was that about?' I ask.
Her lips quirk up just a tiny bit, 'Maybe something is only really, only really belongs to someone after they've bled for it, on it,' and she kisses me again.
'So I'm an it?' I ask, lightly.
'It applies to anything.'
SSEC
'Again!' I say, and she hits the plate, *thump**thump*.
'Harder!'
*Thump**Thump* The thick steel dents slightly under the impact of Asuka's delicate fists.
'You're not trying.'
*THUmp**THUmp* One can make out the outline of her knuckles where she hit.
'You're hitting like a girl.'
*THUMP**THUMP* Fine dust trickles down the wall from the pulverized concrete, the dents cracked at their deepest point, the steel stretched beyond its limits.
'Good.'
*THUMP!**THUMP!*
'Stop.'
*THUMP!* I wrap myself around her from behind, and she stops, turns to look at me.
'Look at the target.'
She does, and I can feel her surprise, and smile as she fits her fist into the centimeters deep mark she left in the thick metal, 'Wow.'
SSEC
Kaji left a weird message on the machine, 'This will be my last job,' he continues with, 'Katsuragi, it's me. I'm sure you are listening to this message after I have made more trouble for you. Sorry. Please apologize to Ritchan for me,' he paused again, 'And there's one more thing to ask you. I've been growing watermelons. I'd appreciate if you water them for me. Shinji-kun knows where they are. Katsuragi, the truth is with you. Don't hasitate. Go ahead. If I can see you again, I will say the words that I could not say eight years ago. Bye,' another pause, then, 'Just like the red of blood.'
SSEC
Things are just a little . . . troubled. Someone's borrowed Fuyutsuki, without asking, so we're all on standby until he turns back up again. Seele is moving, again.
'Do we have power budgeted for training today?' I ask Maya.
She starts, then turns to me with a smile, 'Yes, we do.'
'Good,' Lantis-chan smiles at her, 'I owe Miyuki-chan a beating.'
'Mou!' Asuka whines, 'Why do you always train Lantis-chan?'
'This,' Lantis-chan says, and raises her unblemished left palm.
Maya blushes.
Lantis-chan looks confused, then smiles, 'Not what you think,' and flips her pocketknife open with a *snick* of the blade locking back. The steel glimmers dully, and she draws the serated edge across her other palm.
Several people gasp at the welling blood, and Maya starts from her seat, then relaxes as Lantis-chan wipes her knife on the back of her hand, folds it, pockets it, and draws her thumb across the closing flesh, smearing the blood away.
'Oh,' Makoto says, just a little pale.
'Asuka?' Lantis-chan beckons her close, 'Follow,' she says, starting out the door.
We do. Just a little down the corridor Lantis-chan turns, and presses her bloody palm to Asuka's cheek, tilting her head down as she leans up to kiss the taller girl.
Asuka leaves the blood as we continue down the corridor.
SSEC
Someone plays Kaji's message, then there's a *thump* and rattle of moving furniture, then someone's sobbing. I lever myself out of the tub, grabbing a towel as I head out the door. Asuka's only a little behind me.
Misato's the one crying, and Lantis-chan has an awkward grip on her, trying to be comforting. We join them, wrapping the sobbing woman in our arms.
SSEC
Lantis-chan is rubbing Asuka's belly, and Asuka's hands are lightly stroking Lantis-chan's hair. The content look on Asuka's face as Lantis-chan tends to her almost make me wish I got menstrual cramps. I drop to my knees next to the two beautiful girls, and watch awkwardly for a moment before Asuka grabs my hand, and sets it on her belly, her fingers twined with mine.
SSEC
The alarms blare, 'All Personnel, go to first stage alert! Prepare for anti-air operations!'
The three of us wake, Lantis-chan and I curled about Asuka. I roll off the futon, rising to my feet as Lantis-chan helps Asuka up. We quickly strip out and pull on plug suits before Lantis-chan unlocks the door and we slip out of the small room, flipping off the single bare bulb before locking it again.
SSEC
Lantis-chan goes out first, with a long-range positron cannon. The bipod goes on a building, and the little foot at the action goes on another. She aims, firing once.
'Insufficient force at this range,' Maya says.
'Can we deploy a second positron cannon?' Misato asks.
There's a pause, 'We'd need at least four,' she breaks off as Zerogouki is bathed in brilliant white light.
'The enemy has a particle beam weapon?' Misato.
'No, we're not getting any themograph reactions," Makoto.
'Abnormal psychograph readings,' Maya starts, 'Mental contamination is starting.'
'Ow,' Lantis-chan interrupts softly, 'Ow. Ow.'
'Lantis!' I call, desperately worried.
'Rei! Retreat!'
'Ryoukai!' she leaves the positron cannon in position, taking just enough care that it won't fall over, then heading back for the lift at a run. 'Ow,' she mutters, the frame in front of me showing the positron cannon, still bathed in light.
'Lantis-chan,' Asuka says, 'Are you OK?'
'Yes,' a little pause, 'Ow.'
'The geofront is preventing further attack,' Maya says, 'but some damage has already been done.'
'Damage?' I ask.
'Very minor, so far.'
'Rei,' the commander says, 'Get it from Dogma, and use the spear.'
'Longinius's spear? Ikari that's —' Fuyutsuki starts.
'It's the only way we can attack an orbital target that's out of range,' he pauses just a moment, 'Hurry.'
'Commander, if Adam and Eva come into contact, it could cause third Impact,' Misato says, 'Please stop this.'
A female voice reports on Zerogouki's progres into the bowels of Central Dogma, and her return to the surface. The commander and Fuyutsuki argue quietly in the background, but all I catch is something about the old men not being pleased.
'That's Longinius's Spear,' Misato says.
'Zerogouki is in position.'
'Target sighted, error corrections have been made.'
'Starting countdown from ten.'
The white light bathes Zerogouki. Lantis-chan says, softly, 'Ow.'
Asuka and I whimper.
'From five,' says the commander.
'Four,' Maya counts, and Zerogouki quickly changes her grip.
'Three,' Zerogouki rocks back, the spear held in both hands.
'Two,' Zerogouki draws the spear back.
'One,' and holds.
'Zero,' the spear writhes, wrapping itself into a single point, and Zerogouki throws it.
'Ow,' Lantis-chan says.
'Target annihilated,' comes from the control room.
'Ow,' she repeats.
'Redeploy,' Misato orders her.
'Ryoukai,' Lantis-chan acknowledges, 'Ow.'
SSEC
Once more, all three of us are curled up in Lantis-chan's hospital bed. Even sound asleep, she holds us close to her, our heads pillowed on her breast, her fingers wrapped through our hair.
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log:
2002 November 11: Started, beginning of ep18.
2002 November 25: more
2002 December 6: more
2002 December 14: logged Dec 6 . . .
2002 December 16: more! finished ep 18
2003 March 23: Watched ep19 and ep20. Continued.
2003 March 29: Continued.
2003 May 30: little bit more
2003 June 16: Tiny edits :(
2003 September 12-14: Finished Eps 21 and 22.
2003 October 3: Title block and acknowledgement.
2010 July 10: Tiny edits, mauled for ff.n
