Teknos Warhammer presents

Seraphim's Judgment:
Part 11b:
Big Trouble in Tiny Tokyo

	Nodoka folded Seraphim's limp arms across the depareted angel's stomach 
and said a silent prayer for her. Then, her head turned to the direction 
of Seraphim's killer, and her eyes began to glow red. The thrusters on 
the small of her back exploded to life as she flew straight to the giant 
EVA, screaming at the top of her lungs. 
 
	Rei was about to charge the EVA again when she saw a sparkle pass by 
her. It turned out to be an 8 foot katana, flying at a speed that most 
wouldn't be able to see. The blade landed into the virtual center of the 
white EVAs body, and settled inside to the hilt of the sword. It's 
owner, in a blue corona, flew right behind it as the EVA was distracted, 
grabbed the hilt and yanked downwards, opening up the skin to reveal the 
multiple S2 organ within. 

	Comprehending, Rei ran forward, dodged a few fists from her foe and 
stabbed her knife straight at the center. Yet, it merely bounced off as 
the only chance Rei had to beat it was lost and she was beaten away. 

	Like with the 17th angel, several plates opened up on Nodoka's body and 
a blue colored power began to developed. Yet, her time grew short as the 
wound she had inflicted had begun to close. She took the sides of the 
opened wound, ripped them apart again, and held them there. Just as the 
EVA was about to grab her from the open region of it's heart, all the 
power she had gathered exploded outward and into the mutated S2 organ. 

	The resulting explosion had the same, if not more, intensity than an N2 
mine. Rei was thrown back into one of the buildings husks and saw the 
few remaining limbs of the monster EVA fly this way and that. If she 
could see within the smoke, she would have seen Teknos Katana looking 
much worse than ever. 

	Nodoka's eyes returned to their standard blue color and when she began 
to fall. Only then did she realize her error. Her last attack had taken 
up far too much strength. In fact, she felt everything go dark as she 
plummeted to the earth. The weakened body crashed onto the husk of an 
abandoned tank, sending more debris everywhere. 

	"Nodoka-san! Nodoka-san!" Sera yelled as she ran through the littered 
battle field to where her ally had landed. Ripping apart the useless 
piece of metal, she dragged out the motionless Nodoka. Laying Nodoka on 
her back, Sera tried to revive her friend by using the same technique 
that all Teknos healers could use. Only she had no strength left to do 
so, and shook the elder woman.

	Opening her eyes, Nodoka could barely make out Seraphina's shape in 
what little she could see. Her eyes were now a much dimmer blue than the 
usual. Sera breathed a sigh of relief as she saw that there was still 
life in her. Yet, her joy was short lived as Nodoka said, "Sera... tell 
my family... that I hope to meet them again, someday..." Sera began to 
protest, but she and her words were too faint to hear. Instead, Nodoka 
saw only light and heard nothing else, it was all warm and soothing. 

	Then, darkness was all that was seen in the helmet of Nodoka Saotome, 
who died as Teknos Katana. 

	Sera shook her head, still denying that Nodoka was dead. But she 
couldn't lie to herself. In a rage, she raised her fist to the heavens 
and screamed, "HEAR ME!!! HEAR ME DARKNESS!!! HER DEATH WILL NOT GO 
UNAVENGED!!!" but knew that is was futile with her strength gone and she 
collapsed to her knees and let loose the tears she held back. 

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	In one of the darkened corners of NERV, a single figure was walking up 
to the surface. Reina had finally gotten rid of that blasted guard that 
was to take her out of here. The guard was still sleeping peacefully and 
wouldn't even notice her escape. She wanted to see the battle and none 
of these people would stop her. That was she discovered that she was 
being followed, as if she cared. Reina turned to see her stalker pull 
out a handgun. She took a single passive look at the weapon and then its 
owner.

	"You don't really expect me to follow you. Do you?"

	"Well, actually, that's why I was sent here to bring you back to my 
employers. Since the other one is out there, you might as well do."

	Reina narrowed her eyes, "I think not." And turned away. Grumbling, the 
kidnapper aimed a bullet at her foot and fired, which only bounced off 
the AT Field at Reina's back. Turning back, Reina said, "You're trying 
my patience." The man fired more shots, that met the same fate as the 
first bullet. With a single glance from Reina, the gun shattered into 
all it's basic metal components and fell to the ground. 

	Before the captor could even think about charging after her, he found 
himself beginning to lift off the ground, almost as if several hands had 
hoisted him up by the neck. Breath was suddenly hard to come by. All 
that the man could see in Reina's evil gaze was contempt.

	"Just keep in mind... yours and the lives of others mean nothing to 
me." Just as quickly as she had that unearthly hold on him, it vanished 
and she returned to her trek to the surface.

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	"Sir! We got a breach in the upper levels in the Geofront!" Shigeru 
yelled. 

	"What?" Misato almost screamed looking over his shoulder, <Great! What 
else can go wrong? >  Once she saw the current movement of UN troops, 
she nearly paled. The traps and defenses were supposed to hold them off 
for longer than this. Now, UN troops wee beginning to pour in and there 
was no way to stop them. 

	"Alright, begin the evacuation! Try and hold them off as long as 
possible!" she growled. A small voice from the radio replied,"No problem 
Katsuragi. I got a little ordinance here that might just be able to help 
out."

	"Kaji?"

	"The one and only."

	"Where'd you vanish to... you creep!"

	"After everyone found out about my little secret. I headed back to my 
employers. They weren't exactly happy to see me. So, I hid for awhile 
and now I'm back and better than ever!" 

	"Kaji..." Misato said with adoration for his courage. Yet, his rather 
sultry response changed all that. 

	"Just make sure that you'll have a drink with me when this is all over, 
ok? I got lonely and missed you. That's another reason why I'm back."

	Then, her adoration vanished like an ice cube in coffee. Gnashing her 
teeth, Misato swore underneath her breath, "Kaji no baka!" Then she took 
the mike and screamed into it, "JUST GET YOUR USELESS @$$ DOWN THERE!!"

	"Roger that... and it looks like you never lost any of the charm 
that..."

	"Just get moving or I'm gonna be the one who's gonna kill you!!"
 
*************************************************

	Outside, Rei and Touji had assisted in the assault on the final two 
deformed EVAs. Yet, Shinji and Asuka were not doing any better with or 
without them. Shinji's EVA collapsed after being struck several times to 
the small of his back. He looked up to see the blade of Touji's prog 
sword pierce the center of the main body. 

	"Shinji! Get the red thing in there! Quick!!" Touji said over the 
radio. Touji then started to attack the other arms that tried to get a 
hold of him while Shinji tore open the skin of the EVA and found the red 
multi-sphere. With what little strength he had left, he cocked his fist 
back and punched right into the heart of the S2 organ.  Then, putting 
his foot on the other EVAs knee, he yanked the organ out, killing the 
monster. 

	Looking up, Shinji couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief with the 
enemy EVA dead. Touji knelt down to help his friend up and pointed at 
the remaining mutated EVA. 

	Asuka's plea for help was answered when Rei leaped on the back of the 
remaining EVA and held back as many arms as she could. Asuka thanked the 
albino and then started to attack the body of the EVA with all her 
strength. Her attack was soon joined as Touji and Shinji also ganged up 
on the remaining white monstrosity. It would have met it's end, until it 
opened one of it's mouths and roared the same way the other EVAs did.  

	One by one, it threw its attacks off. With all the NERV EVAs out of the 
way, it stood still and spread its arms wide. Not at all knowing what 
was going on, the four Children stared as the remains of the other dead 
EVAs crawled and floated to the final EVA. 

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	From one of the few remaining streets in Tokyo-3, Reina watched the 
strange happenings with no surprise. <So, they don't give up do they? > 
She looked up to one of the few remaining standing buildings and, like 
Kaworu, flew up to the roof. 

	Staring at the last EVA, her eyes narrowed. This was not good. 

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	Everyone in NERV, as well as the Children, looked on as the last parts 
of the other EVAs fused with the only standing EVA. Gendou's eyes 
widened when he saw the dead S2 organ fly into the EVAs chest. That was 
when he realized their hesitation had caused their downfall. 

	The EVA then spasmed and fell to it's knees. The power of four S2 
organs streamed through out its body as its wings grew out of its back. 
Instantly, all of its wounds were healed. Then, the feathers of the 
usual wings fell off and revealed them to be black and leathery, more 
similar to demons than angels. 

	Its central face's smile turned upward into a hideous grin, any that 
beheld it was almost staring into the face of death itself. 

	Almost as if it just gained consciousness, it took a look at its 
surroundings. After a few seconds, it then looked downward, staring 
where its target was. Raising an arm, the EVA plunged its hand deep 
within the ground, which extended far beyond its original length. 

	By then, Rei had retrieved the Lancea and joined her companions as they 
had no clue as to what the EVA was doing. 

	Yet, within NERV, what it was doing was a little more than apparent. 
The hand pierced through the pyramid and into the deeper levels of 
Dogma. 

	Standing up, he nearly screamed to the three comm officers, "Change the 
first order to hold them off. Order all hands to drop everything at 
evacuate. Everyone get out as soon as possible!" They didn't hesitate to 
punch in the commands for the computers to order the final evacuation 
order. 

	"One more thing." Gendou said. "Get the auto-destruct sequence ready 
for delayed reaction."

	This time, it was Ristuko who spoke up, "But sir, you can't! This 
is..." Gendou stared her down and he continued. 

	"We'll set it for about a half an hour before the explosion takes place 
and set it to silence. That way, we can get away from the UN troops 
without letting them take Dogma or the Magi."

	Fuyutsuki nodded in agreement, where as Misato responded, "But do you 
know how many..."

	"Yes, I am aware that it will most likely kill most of them, if not all 
of them. But if you've forgotten, they have orders to shoot us. So we 
have no choice."

	That silenced anymore arguments against it. The four of them walked up 
to Makoto's empty console and pressed a sequence of buttons that 
revealed a secret panel with the Nerv insignia on it. 

	Misato leaned forward and spoke into the panel, "Initiate Magi/Dogma 
destruct sequence. On authorization code Mary, 527A 935B 163C." The 
panel showed the code that Misato spoke of and she stepped back. 

	[Magi/Dogma Destruct sequence, Level 1, passed.]

	Ristuko leaned forward and spoke. "Initiate same sequence. On 
authorization code Ruth, 108A 836B 524C." <Sorry Okaasan. I don't want 
to do this... but I must.>

	[Magi/Dogma Destruct sequence, Level 2, passed.]

	This time, it was Fuyustuki's turn. "Initiate same sequence. On 
authorization code Samuel, 637A 974B 153C."

{Magi/Dogman Destruct sequence, Level 3, passed. Final authorization 
required for final time setting and auto-destruction.]

The other three moved away from the panel as Gendou stepped forward.  	

"Final authorization code Joseph, 284A 489B 763C. Time index delay, 
0030."

	With that, a small screen that said 30 minutes on it replaced the 
panel. Stepping back, Gendou pulled out his gun and shot the only 
indicator of how much time they had left. 

	"Now, let's get out of here!"

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	Back up in Tokyo-3, or what was left of it, the Children attempted 
another attack on the last enemy Evangelion, but to no avail, for every 
attack was simply batted away like a fly. Eventually, It continued to do 
so, until it yanked out a giant cross from the ground and with it the 
same giant white figure that Kaworu had tried to get to. 

	The EVA put the cross on the ground and then appeared to be looking for 
something else... until its newly formed eyes saw Rei and her EVA. With 
every step, the Earth around it seemed to shake, as its new objective 
became a little too apparent to its foes.  

	Shinji, Asuka, and Touji blocked the EVAs path in response. 

*************************************************

	Back on one of the last standing building of Tokyo-3, Reina watched 
everything with definite interest. Now the EVA from SEELE was trying its 
own Impact, using Lillith and her older sister. 

	Well, it looked like she had to do something now, didn't she? 

	Taking a deep breath, her eyes changed the colors the same way Rei and 
Kaworu did when they spoke. Only this time, she was talking in the 
general direction of Lillith, who had it's face turned to her. After 
several hisses and whispers, Reina smiled. Now all she needed was her 
sisters. 

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	"Rei, get out of here. Don't worry about us, just make sure that it 
doesn't get you." Shinji cried. Rei was about to protest when Shinji 
reminded, "I promised you that I'd come back. Remember?" That silenced 
her. She nodded and ran the other way. 

	Seeing Rei safe, Shinji turned back to see the approaching demonic EVA 
and stood his ground. He wasn't going to let it hurt Rei. Then, after 
the next step it took, he charged. 

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	Rei didn't want to run and abandon Shinji, but she had no choice. It 
was after her and no one else. She never forgot the promise they made, 
but against a foe like this... they needed a miracle. 

	<I don't know about a miracle, but maybe we have the next best thing. > 

	Rei and the soul within her EVA turned to see in the distance a face 
they thought they would never see. Rei magnified her view several times 
to see her younger sister, Rei III, with a dark smile on her face. 

	Koorichi then floated up beside Rei and answered back. <What are you 
talking about? >

	In response, Reina only replied two words. <Pax Deorum. >

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	Back at the battle, hopes for victory of the Children were fading fast 
as the demonic EVA beat then at every turn. 

	Shinji was forced into the ground and the monster EVA landed on the 
small of his back, causing pain to course through his veins. In another 
pair of arms, it held Touji's EVA by the neck and began to strike the 
front of the head repeatedly. On the ground next to it, Asuka's EVA lay 
beaten, with it's umbilical cord ripped off and was almost out of power. 

	All of a sudden the wind picked up and it carried with it an air of 
power that it made the demon EVA stop its assault. That's when it began 
to hear what appeared to be a single voice. 

	~ Domineo veniteo... sacramentum eodeo ~  

	The demon EVA looked to the northern distance to see Rei III perched 
atop the only standing building, singing those same words on the same 
key at a set pace. Covered within an aura of light. 

	~ Domineo veniteo... 				sacramentum eodeo ~
			
			~ Domineo veniteo... 				sacramentum eodeo ~

	The second chant was from another voice that the EVA heard. It turned 
again to the southeast where it saw Rei II, standing on a road. Covered 
in an aura of light, she sung behind her sister at the same tone and 
pace.  

~ Domineo veniteo... sacramentum eodeo ~

Those same two small chants were repeated by the two Reis as a third 
joined in the chorus. 

~ Domineo veniteo... sacramentum eodeo ~ (Rei II & III)

~ athair arneam... athair arneam hdialinn ~ (Rei I)

It turned once more to the southwest to see a glowing blue light 
hovering above the motionless body of Unit 00. 

~ Domineo veniteo... sacramentum eodeo ~

~ athair arneam... athair arneam hdialiom ~

Then, all three chorused the first chant, only with much more power that 
began to manifest itself in a triangle of light, with the demon EVA in 
the center. The brightness only increased as the third Rei began another 
chant as the other two sung support notes to stabilize the power. 

~ Omnem crede diam tibi diluxisse supremum ~

The demon EVA released the Children and started to distort and shake 
without control. Then, the third Rei narrowed her eyes more and 
whispered the final line of the chant. 

~ Domineo veniteo ~

Then, the demon EVA screamed with a pain that no human could understand, 
expanded and then vanished into the triangle shaped pyramid of light, 
leaving the Children unharmed. Rei II and III collapsed with exhaustion 
onto their bottoms while the first simply faded back into its prison. 

By then, the personnel of NERV had come outside to witness the 
indescribable event that just occurred. Not only them, the other three 
Children had stared in awe of the three who had saved them. Shinji 
turned to where Rei was... the Rei that he knew and cared for. He 
magnified the image and saw her sitting on the edge of the road, smiling 
at him. He breathed a sigh of relief and lay back in the seat of the 
entry plug. 

	"Hey! Look!" Touji said pointing to the cross that Lillith once hung 
upon. Only, the aforementioned person was gone. All that remained was 
the two spikes that used to hold the hands of it in the cross. 

	Rei turned to her younger sister, "What happened exactly?" 

	Reina only smirked and replied, "I made a deal with Lillith. It would 
help us if it could find ANY way out of this world. Using the Pax 
Deorum, we sent it up to Heaven to face its judgment in front of God 
himself!" With that she started to laugh. Rei on the other hand didn't 
find it so funny.  

	"So, you used Lillith, giving her hope of escape, only to send her to 
her end?" 

	Reina smiled innocently, "Oh relax. Lillith was desperate, I don't 
think she even cared WHERE she went. Just as long as she got out of 
here." With that, she 'hopped' from the top of the building to the 
ground. Rei could not understand how her sister could be so cruel.  

	Just then, an explosion rocked the very ground they all stood on. 
Shinji wondered what it was until he tried to raise Central Dogma. Then 
he started to get worried that they were all gone. He began to grow 
fearful of his fathers and guardians safety. 

	Movement on his left caught his attention and he magnified it enough 
times to see most of the NERV personnel was out and all right. He 
breathed another sigh of relief and went to go pick up Rei. 

	Among the people from NERV, wounds slight and severe were being treated 
to. Among them, Maia was trying to bandage Makoto's left arm. 
Unfortunately, she really couldn't do much as Makoto started to scream 
his head off. 

	Most of the rest of the head personnel made it without too much pain, 
but there were a few casualties. 

	On a hospital cot, Kaji laid with bandages over his head and right arm. 
Misato had forgiven him enough to talk to him. 

	"For a second there, I thought you abandoned us Kaji."

	"How could I? I know I'm scum, but I'm not that low!"

	"Anyway, that was really brave of you, turning against the government 
to help us and all."

	"Ah, don't worry about it. Besides, if I was going to be killed, I'd 
rather have it be by some beautiful woman, not just some guy."

	Misato narrowed her eyes, "You know, that attitude is going to kill you 
someday," with that she kicked his cot over, "...and if THAT doesn't 
kill you, I WILL!" 

	Leaning on his good arm, he said to her, "Now I know you love me." His 
only response was her foot on his face. 

	"PUT A SOCK IN IT!"

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Then, a blinding light came from the clouds as they suddenly parted. 
Everyone who saw it had to cover his or her eyes as what appeared to be 
its source descended from above. It slowly settled in the area in the 
center where all could see it. 

	Reina was the only one who didn't have a look of awe or shock on their 
faces. In fact, she began to smirk. <Well, who would have thought? He 
really is going to descend. > 

	Seraphina held the body of Nodoka, too terrified to even care that whom 
she held close was dead. 

	The Children looked on with shock, never seeing anything of this 
magnitude before. 

	All of NERV looked on with widened eyes as God Himself decided to 
descend. 

	Seraphims eyes opened slightly and muttered a single word,

	"Father."

End of Chapter 11b

[Warhammer comes out of the light.]

	WH: And I thought that chapter 9 were draining! This one was worse! Now 
at least we know how Reina behaves and how she will probably be for a 
while. 

	Next, in order to make sure that there's no more chances for this story 
to end like the anime and movie did, I took out one of the major thorns. 
Meaning SEELE. Who'd of thought that the puppets would rebel and kill 
their master? I sure did! What? There's still the UN? Don't worry, I've 
taken care of that. 

	At first, I was considering adding an expanded ground troop war between 
NERV and UN troops, but it would just make it longer, meaning that it 
would have taken longer to finish this! Besides, some of these people 
deserve to live, even though I'd love to put Kaji through a little more 
pain for what he did in the past. Oh well, we don't get to do ALL the 
things we want to I guess. 

	If some of you have been wondering, what happened to Kaji? Well, here's 
your answer. 

	I think I just made the production EVAs only more obnoxious by the fact 
that they weren't as easy to kill at first for Asuka in the anime. But I 
know their dead, so let us rejoice! 

	Star Trek III inspired me for the Magi/Dogma destruct ordeal. And here 
I thought those movies would never inspire me. HA!

	Also, for those who don't know what Pax Deorum is... who'd of thought 
Enya's music would be so useful in this. The song is in the "In Memory 
of Trees" album, FYI. Very dark for Enya.  	

	God Himself has descended to the dead Tokyo-3, what does he want? Why 
is He there? What will become of NERV and the Children? All this will be 
answered in the finale. 

[Warhammer pulls himself back into the light to write the last chapter.]


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