A/N: Hello to all here we go with part three of the story. Things really starting getting just weird as hell here so enjoy the ride.
Thanks to my pre-reader Makuhari-fan01
Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or Strike Witches
Inside Terminal Dogma a woman was ready to begin her plan. Minna had waited years for this moment and now nothing could stop her.
As the naked Sanya stood unmoving a short distance away, Minna was voicing her thoughts.
"I have joined Adam unto myself. The forbidden union of Lilith and Adam is the only way I could ever see my parents again." said Minna as the pale girl's left arm suddenly fell off, "We're running out of time. This vessel won't last much longer. We must begin, drop your shield and merge all souls into one. Then, reunite me with my parents; Sayara and Ichiro Miyafuji."
Minna then reached out and grabbed Sanya with her right hand. When she did, the hand fused with Adam went through her skin into her body. Minna took no notice to the clear discomfort on the face of Sanya.
Outside, the end had begun. Realizing Hanna was dead, Yoshika has finally gone off he edge as a black cloud of nothingness had spread over the sky. A cross of light engulfed her back as she stood still in the sky.
"Yoshika." said Sanya to herself as she could feel the girls pain.
"Sir, there's an object approaching at high speed from orbit!" reported Major Enma.
"What the hell?!" cried out Marshal Aizen as she looked up from his binoculars to see the object.
"My God, the Lance of Longinus has returned." said Ferrara watching from the bridge.
The Lance shot down from orbit and headed right towards Yoshika. It got within inches of her neck before stopping in midair.
In their dark meeting room the members of SEELE were observing the events. Things were finally seeming to be headed their way.
"Finally, our dream will be fulfilled." said Chairman Maloney.
"The original Lance of Longinus has returned." added monolith-04.
"We might not have as many Warlock as planned but, we can make due." said monolith-09 who then began a chant with the other SEELE members.
"Bring forth the true form of the Striker
The true form shall save humanity
Through death and rebirth, man shall return to it's original form"
"The our souls shall be at peace. Let it begin." declared Chairman Maloney.
Outside the Warlock quickly surrounded Unit-01 and Yoshika. They grabbed the girl by her wrists and held her out as if she had been crucified then bite down on the cross of light behind her.
"Unit-01 has been taken by the Warlocks." reported Amaki.
"It's gone past 12,000 meters." added Nishiki as Ferrara walked up behind them.
"SEELE is going to use Unit-01 as a medium. Dammit." said the older woman helplessly.
In their dark meeting room, SEELE watched with excitement as what the Warlocks were doing meant their plan had finally commenced.
"The holy stigmata has been marked upon Unit-01." said Chairman Maloney.
"The Tree of Life shall be reborn." said all the SEELE members.
"This is the reason for the Striker." mused Maloney.
Outside NERV, the Warlock prepared themselves. Glowing, transparent circles surrounded Yoshika.
"Ma'am, the Warlocks have freed their cores." reported Nishiki.
"These numbers are off the chart. All numerical readings are impossible." added Amaki.
"Dear Lord, they going to negate the shield of Unit-01." said Ferrara as a Tree of Life appeared around Yoshika.
"The data from from Unit-01 matches the Sakamoto Expedition. We have entered Third Impact." said Lynne shaking.
Outside the end had finally come. The FSSDF was panicking in the wake of this development which they were clueless about and soldiers were scrambling to escape.
"I have met my Waterloo." sighed Aizen knowing it was over.
A moment later a massive explosion engulfed the area. The FSSDF were obliterated and NERV was shaken to it's foundation.
"We've suffered a direct hit!" cried Nishiki.
"Out defense have been wiped out! We're totally exposed!" added Amaki in dire stress.
"These are only shock waves. If we set our absorbers to maximum we should be okay." replied Ferrara as the explosion could now be seen from space.
In their dark meeting room the members of SEELE were so far pleased.
"It is time we begin the next step." said monolith-08.
"The Red Earth Resurrection Ceremony." said monolith-09.
"And with it the Geofront will finally be returned to-" began monolith-11.
"Original form." finished Maloney.
A massive crater has resulted from the explosion moments ago. As the smoke cleared, a red spherical object rose out as if freed from a prison.
"There it is; the Egg of Lilith and source of all humanity. The Black Moon." said Ferrara calmly as she knew the chain of events was beyond there stopping, "Whether we return in it's shell is for Lilith to decided now."
Inside Terminal Dogma both Minna and Sanya still stood before Lilith. The Karlsland girl knew what was occurring around them.
"It has begun. Now Sanya, it's time for you to reunite me with my family." said Minna calmly but, just then the body of cloned girl sealed it's around her wrist.
"I refuse to be a disposable pawn." said Sanya before her body ripped the right hand off of Minna.
"Why Sanya?!" asked Minna shocked.
"You and I are nothing alike." answered Sanya as her left arm regenerated.
"Please Sanya!" cried out Minna clutching what was her wrist.
Sanya wordless turned around to face Lilith before floating off the ground.
"I'm beginning you! Please Sanya!" cried Minna.
"I cannot. Yoshika is calling." replied Sanya as she continued to float.
"Sanya!" cried out Minna in one finally and fruitless attempt to stop her.
"I am home." said Sanya as she now faced Lilith.
Sanya then floated to Lilith and the two merged together. The Lilith began to grown in size, breaking off the cross that restricted her before becoming a massive giant. Its mask fell off, landing next to the empty clothes of Perrine, since the Gallian had been turned into LCL.
"Oh Sanya." said Minna awe-struck by the sight.
On the bridge, two of the technicians were quickly typing away on their computers. The Magi had detected the energy force and they were trying to figure out what is was.
"An unidentified high energy source is rising from Terminal Dogma!" cried Nishiki.
"Shield has been detected. The pattern is blue." added Amaki.
"An Angel!" cried out Lynne.
"No, it's-" said Amaki.
"Human." finished Nishiki as the Sanya/Lilith giant rose in front of the bridge.
"Our father in Heaven, hallowed be you name..." stammered Lynne reciting the Lord's Pray as the other three women were speechless.
Outside, Yoshika still sat in her Striker. The girl was totally unaware of what was occurring below.
"Dammit. Dammit. Dammit." said Yoshika to herself feeling helpless.
Just then the white giant rose in front of Yoshika while feet remand planted in Terminal Dogma. Yoshika looked the giant mortified as it placed it's hands around Unit-01.
"Sanya." said Yoshika having a full breakdown before letting out a terrified scream.
In their dark meeting room the SEELE monolith were chanting once again.
"Through the ultimate destruction of the ego of Yoshika Miyafuji, humanity shall be reborn"
"The third divine retribution has now begun at long last." said Maloney, "Amen."
Outside NERV, the situation was getting no better for Yoshika. Large black shadows had surrounded Unit-01 and eyes had appeared on them turning everything an orange color exactly that of LCL while the Warlock assembled around the Sanya/Lilith giant.
Those on the bridge were still trying to get some grasp of the events going on. Thus, they kept monitoring the situation.
"The Shield of every warlock is now resonating!" cried Nishiki.
"It's actually increasing!" added Amaki.
So, they've begun to merge with Sanya." said Ferrara.
Indeed that was occurring. The heads of all Warlock had opened revealing human faces. She could only freak out and scream at the events before her.
"Miyafuji can't take much more of this!" called out Amaki.
Her ego will collapse soon enough." remarked Ferrara.
Yoshika couldn't take anymore. She was in a living hell like nothing she'd ever experience before and having a complete meltdown.
"I can't take this. I can't take this. I can't take this." mumbled Yoshika to herself over again.
"You poor girl." suddenly came a familiar voice causing Yoshika to look up.
"Eila." said the girl as the second Adam/Eila giant stood in front of Yoshika.
On the bridge, the technicians and Ferrara could only look on and monitor the events. Even as they got stranger by the moment.
"Her ego is collapsing." said Nishiki as the Adam/Eila placed it's hand around Unit-01.
"Her pattern in changing to red." added Amaki as a red tree made from the Lance of Longinus surrounded Yoshika and Unit-01.
"The Angels hold the Fruit of Life while man holds the Fruit of Wisdom. Unit-01 posses both and is now God. The Tree of Life, source of all souls, has been reformed. Whether it will save humanity from Third Impact or doom us all depends of Yoshika." mused Ferrara.
"Please tell me we've done the right thing." said Lynne unnerved as she grabbed the right arm of Nishiki.
"I have no fucking clue." said the Fuso girl shaking her head.
Outside eyes began appearing on the Tree of Life. Yoshika had accepted her fate and closed her eyes waiting for what was to come. Just then, the Sanya/Lilith giant took on a new form: Sayaka Miyafuji.
"This is the Sanya that embodies your heart's desire. All of your hopes and dreams." said the giant.
"What is your wish?" asked the disembodied voice of Sanya as things became fuzzy for Yoshika.
Yoshika opened her eyes and found herself at a playground. It was sunset and carnival music could be heard in the distance. She had been transformed to the same age she was when her father and Minna left her. There were two girls in the sand nearby; Michiko Yamakawa and Shizuka Hattori. The former was a childhood friend of Yoshika and the latter the person who gave her the letter telling to to come to Tokyo-3.
"I understand. I'm trying to find what I've been looking for." said Yoshika.
"Hey Yoshika!" called Micchan.
"Help us build a sand castle!" cried Shizuka.
Yoshika nodded and began bending down began to help them. The three built the sandcastle as the kindergarten song "Close Hands, Open Hands" now played in the distance. After several minutes a pyramid had been formed.
"Mama's here. We have to go." said Micchan looking at a woman who resembled Sakamoto.
"Bye!" called Shizuka as they too left.
On her knees, tears forming in her eyes, Yoshika was thus left alone once again. The song had ended and now a haunting quiet overtook the area.
Working through her growing sadness,Yoshika managed to finish the pyramid and stand up. However, she was now too overcome with emotion, and so began smashing the pyramid with her foot until it was ruins.
After it was completely ruined, Yoshika crouched down and began to rebuild the sand castle while gently weeping.
Yoshika then found herself in a bed naked. Hanna, who was also naked, stood over her.
"You're so annoying!" cried the Star of Africa.
"I'm just like you." replied Yoshika.
Images then appeared before Yoshika: of little Hanna crying out for her dead mother, of Hanna calling for her mother before they battled the Seventh Angel and after Sakamoto was killed.
"I wasn't able to be the mother figure Yoshika needed." confessed Sakamoto.
Yoshika then found herself in a crowded and small flat. It was warm and a fan blew. On a bed near the window lay Sakamoto and Shirley nude.
"You up for another round?" asked the redhead.
"I'm tired. Besides, I gotta met Perrine today." answered Sakamoto.
"Blow her off." said Shirley seductively.
"She won't mind if I'm a little late." said Sakamoto caving.
The two then resumed love making while Yoshika watched. She could turn away as she watched the scene unfolding in front of her.
"That's just how I prove I exist." said Sakamoto.
"So stupid! It's just two depressed people licking their wounds!" spat Hanna.
"It's nice to feel like you're need even if it's only physically." replied Perrine.
"It makes me feel wanted and happy." said Sakamoto.
"That's just a pathetic excuse to make yourself feel better." said Hanna disgusted.
"Major Sakamoto, really does stuff like this." said Yoshika to herself.
"I do. This is another side of my personality." replied the Major, "This is the side I've kept from you. Reality can be really painful at times. You must accept that."
"Great, so I'll do the same crap." sighed Hanna.
"You wanna kiss me?" asked Hanna while Sakamoto and Shirley were at their friend's wedding.
"It's too mature for a first date." said Sakamoto rejecting Hanna's request for her perfume.
"Then here I come." said Hanna marching to kiss Yoshika but, instead she said her disgust, "You don't get a damn thing. Stay the hell away from me."
"But, I do get it." replied Yoshika.
"Bullshit! You could never understand!" cried Hanna kicking Yoshika, "You think you can know me or help me?! Don't make me laugh! You're an arrogant moron! You'll never understand me!"
"I can't understand you because you don't say anything. It's impossible!" cried Yoshika as images of their prior interactions flashed before her.
Yoshika then closed her eyes and when she reopened them she was again on the train car she'd been in when she talked to the Twelfth Angel. Even the background was the same. The major difference was Sanya was sitting across from her now.
"Did you try to understand here?" asked the pale girl.
"Of course." answered Yoshika.
"You idiot. I know about all your perverted fantasies. Don't it and I'll even watch." said Hanna as she now appeared in front of Yoshika breasts in the girls face, "However, if I can't you you to myself then I don't want a thing from you."
"The be nice to me." said Yoshika.
"We are nice to you." echoed Sanya, Hanna and Sakamoto as they appeared before Yoshika in rapid succession.
"Liars! You had behind fake similes and keep the truth buried!" cried Yoshika.
"The truth is painful and traumatic." replied Sanya.
"That just causes more pain." said Yoshika sadly.
"That is an excuse." said Sanya.
"It's scary. I don't know if people will turn on me." said Yoshika becoming stressed, "It makes me feel unease! Please don't leave me! Show me you care!"
Yoshika then started taking deep breaths as Sanya, Hanna and Sakamoto appeared in the rail car.
Yoshika turned but, again found herself in the kitchen the night of the kiss with Hanna. The Karlsland girl was sitting at the table with her head down.
"I want to stay with you Hanna and I want to help but, I don't know what I should do." said Yoshika approaching her.
"Then do nothing." replied Hanna weakly, "All you do is hurt me. Stay away."
"Please help me Hanna. You're the only one who can." begged Yoshika.
"You liar." snarled Hanna angrily standing up forcing Yoshika back, "Anybody will do. You're afraid of the Major Sakamoto and the First Girl! You're afraid of your parents and sister too!"
"Please help." begged Yoshika.
"Now you're running to me! It's the easiest way to keep from getting hurt!" cried Hanna as she shoved Yoshika into the coffee pot spilling hot coffee over the Fuso girl, "You love yourself! You never even learned to love yourself!"
"Ow." groveled Yoshika lying on the kitchen floor in pain.
"Pathetic." spat Hanna at the sight.
"Please. Somebody help me." said Yoshika hauntingly as she stood up and walked over to Hanna before violently flipping the table and throwing the chairs, "Help me! Don't abandon me! Don't leave me to die!"
"No." said Hanna in the same disgusted voice.
Hearing this set something off in Yoshika. The Fuso witch reached up and strangled the life out of Hanna.
Nobody understands me. They never could." said Yoshika sadly as memories of her time in Tokyo-3 flashed before her.
"You never understood yourself." replied Sanya.
"I though there'd be no pain or uncertainty in this world." confessed Yoshika.
"That is because you though everyone else felt the exact same as you did." said Sanya.
"You all betrayed me!" cried Yoshika.
"From the very start you misunderstood. You believed what you wanted to an nobody else." explained Sanya.
"Everyone can die. They all used me." spat Yoshika bitterly.
"Then what is your purpose?" asked Sanya.
"Nobody cares if I exist or not." answered Yoshika.
"What is your heart for then?" asked Sanya.
"I should die too. It'd be better if I never existed." answered Yoshika.
"Then why are you still here?" asked Sanya.
" I don't know if I should be here." answered Yoshika which was met by a silence that caused her to scream.
On the bridge everyone was still monitoring the events. But, the end had finally come.
"The pilot is approaching infinite zero." reported Nishiki.
"Unit-01 is still rising." said Nishiki.
"Their current altitude is still rising." added Lynne.
"Ma'am, the pilot's ego barrier is gone." said Amaki.
"The anti-shield has materialized and is spreading!" cried Nishiki.
"Then it's all over." sighed Ferrara.
A massive glow had overtaken the former Antarctica. Within moments the giant Sanya/Lilith penetrating the atmosphere into orbit. It then placed it's hand around the Black Moon. Wings then shot out of it's back.
"It's breached critical limits!" yelled Amaki.
"Individual beings will begin breaking down!" cried Nishiki.
"The Door of Guf has opened at last. It's over ladies. It's all over." said Ferrara.
Inside NERV a transformation was occurring. Multiple Sanya phantoms were appearing throughout the building turning all, dead or alive, into LCL so they may be included into Instrumentality.
"This is full of sorrow and the people are submerged in emptiness. They're hearts are full of loneliness.
While the phantom Sanya across NERV were turning people into LCL, on the bridge they had appeared yet again. Amaki Suwa was typing when one appeared on her station. Shaking, the phantom Sanya turned into Sakamoto as she placed her hands on the head of Amaki turning her to LCL. Nishiki was cowering under her desk as one of the phantom Sanya closed in touching her right shoulder and turning her to LCL.
"You did it Minna." smiled Ferrara as a phantom Sanya transformed into Sayaka and turned the elder woman to LCL.
"They're gone. Everybody is gone." mumbled Lynne to herself when suddenly she felt hands slide around her neck, "Perrine!"
Lynne tightly clenched "Perrine" only to be transformed to LCL.
In the nearby city of Odawara, a group inside a hospital room had heard the explosion and were trying to see anything from Tokyo-3. Lucchini and Chris were kneeling on a chair staring out the window, Elsa stood near by and Hartmann sat in a wheelchair with Trude behind her. Ursula lay in the hospital room's bed.
"I wish Maria could be here to see this." said Lucchini looking out window.
"Who?" asked Chris.
"I friend of mine in Romagna." answered Lucchini.
"I'm just glad Erica finally got her her prosthetic leg." said Elsa leaning on the wall nearby.
"Everything in Tokyo-3 was always being delayed by the Angels but, since we came here there were no more delays." replied Hartmann.
"I'm glad you're okay." said Trude who then blurted out, "Erica I love you!"
"That's great Trude. Honestly, I love you too." said Hartmann who the shared a kiss with Barkhorn while Chris and Lucchini cheered.
"Where am I?" asked weak voice belonging to Ursula.
"Sister!" cried Hartmann happily as she was wheeled to her sister's side by Trude.
"I'll be damned." said a surprised Elsa before snapping to, "I'll get the doctor."
"You're in a hospital in Odawara. You've been comatose for months." explained Erica as she took her sister's hand, "I missed you."
"I missed you too." replied Ursula.
"We'll never be apart again." said Erica but, at that moment everyone in the room turned into LCL.
In their dark meeting room the SEELE monoliths were shutting down as all the members returned to LCL. Chairman Maloney watched from his chair.
"Life and death and merely the same. This might not be exactly how I wanted things but, all's right with the world." said Maloney before turning into LCL.
In Terminal Dogma, Minna was lying on the ground as she continued to lose blood. The Commander could only try and figure out where things had gone wrong. Just then, Sayaka Miyafuji appeared standing next to Minna.
"I waited years for this. I will be you mother." said Minna weakly, "I only hurt Yoshika. Father did the same so he sent her away. I though it was best."
"Did you feel love?" asked Sayaka.
"I felt nobody could love me. Even before your death, I felt like an outsider since I was adopted. I never deserved it." answered Minna as someone else appeared above her head.
"You ran away and rejected the other around you. This way you'd never be hurt." said Eila.
"You were terrified by the bonds people can form. Just like your father." added Sayaka as Sanya III appeared naked at the feet of Minna.
"Thus you sealed your heart." said Sanya.
"This is the prince I must pay for my sins. Forgive me Yoshika." said Minna.
The redhead then closed her eyes and succumbed to blood loss. Unlike everyone else, her body didn't revert to LCL as she was denied the Instrumentality worked to achieve. From left to right, Sanya III, Sanya I and Sanya II heavily bandaged stood over her lifeless body.
A/N: We'll end there for tonight. This was the longest chapter yet due in part to the scene I added with hospital in Odawara and just were I timed things to end. Next time, the final chapter. Please review.
