Points of Divergence: Episode 17: Dreams and Nightmares: Part 1
After news of the loss of Unit 04 reaches the pilots, an unwelcome and all too familiar shadow passes under Shinji Ikari
He had thirty seconds of power left.
Not that it mattered.
There was less than ten seconds before he hit the circle of blackness that was spreading across the city.
Ten seconds of agonising pain.
He held on tightly to the angel as he fell.
The acid whips tore into him but he wasn't going to let go.
He wasn't going to survive this, but neither was the angel.
Unit 02 blotted out the sun as Asuka leapt off a building as it sank into the darkness.
Good, at least she was safe.
His display showed him her trajectory.
"Asuka, no!"
The expression on her face was one he'd never seen before.
He wished they were going to live long enough to see it again.
Two seconds to impact as her fists slammed through the angel's core.
One second to impact has her arms wrapped tightly around him.
"It's alright baka, I'm right here."
The mathematical singularity that five minutes ago had been Rei Ayanami wrapped them in silence.