[Warhammer returns from the light.]

<And Lurker and Hikaru return from the lavender mist.>

[Chris and the Goddesses pop out of 1) Nowhere, 2) A convenient TV, 3) A
mirror, and 4) A puddle]

Skuld: We have now sunk to a new low.
Urd: 'Niichan, MSTing an MST?
Chris: HEY! Lurker does it to us, and besides, I wanted to do something to
encourage WarHammer.  It doesn't seem right MSTing the original work.
I've tried for the past 3 chapters.  But this, I can do.
Bell: Oh, just get it over with.

	He hung up the phone and laid back on his bed. He saw the faces of

his 

adversaries. Then he saw the face of that same boy whom he bumped

into. 

He reached up to try and touch the image he made with his mind, but

found only empty air. 

Lurker: Does that mean he's an airhead?

Hikaru: <giggle>

Skuld/Bell: <giggle>
Chris: <snicker>
Urd: <sigh> We're being juvenille today, I see.

	Touji winced and realized that he never should have asked that.

What 

neither boy knew was that Rei Ayanami was not staring outside the

window 

like always. Instead, her attention was focused on the younger

Ikari. 

Her eyes shifted to the doorway when Asuka stepped through. 

Lurker: <Rei voice> Oh Shinji. Oh Asuka. I cannot choose. I must have
them both.

Chris: HEY! That's....that's....I don't even WANT to go into that one.
Skuld: [Chris voice pretending ot be a Kuno voice] Rachel, Ami, I cannot
choose, I would have you BOTH!
Chris: It's NOT MY FAULT!
Bell: Yes, Ranma.

Hikaru: <sweatdrop>

Urd: I agree. <sweatdrop>

	"Baka Shinji. What were you doing all that time in the EVA? Doing 
something perverted I'll bet." She continued to playfully torment

him, 

stepping up to Shinji's and Touji's desks. Just as Touji was about

to 

tell her off, someone grabbed Asuka's shoulder from behind, turned

her 

around, and a resounding slap was heard throughout the whole

classroom. 

The hand which slapped her belonged to none other than Rei Ayanami.

Lurker, Hikaru: O_O

Chris: YAAAAAAY REI!
Urd: [to Bell] Is it just me or does Chris really like forceful women.
[Bell blushes]
Skuld: [scandalized] Urd!
Chris: [despairing] Why me?

Asuka would have said before they ever came from her throat. With 
Asuka's silence, Rei turned around and walked back to her desk. 
Surprisingly enough, the rest of the class went without incident. 
Everyone else who witnessed the event made a mental note NOT to

cross 

Rei. 

Lurker: This sounds familiar. <munches on an Evanjellydonut>

Chris: Actually, After the 16th Episode, when Rei gives Asuka the
glare-o-death when Shinji's suck in the 12th Angel, it was pretty clear
Rei was not a woman to mess with.
Urd: Woman? She's 14!
Chris: One word, Urd, one word: Gainax.
 

	After school, the synchro tests for the children were to commence

once 

more. After Touji and Asuka had left the change room, Shinji turned

to 

see through the curtain to see Rei's shadow. Looking at him from

what he 

could tell. He was about to put his other arm through the sleeve

when he 

saw Rei step out, dressed in her plug suit. Not wanting to prove

Asuka 

right, he turned away from Rei.

Hikaru: Okay, the plug suits are tight, but they're not *that* tight.

Chris: Actually...[whacked by Skuld]
Skuld: Hentai!
Chris: What are you hitting me for?  I didn't draw them!
Bell: [watching the screen carefully] Hmm...I wonder how Keiichi would
look in that thing. [pause] I wonder how I would look.
Chris/Urd/Skuld: <sweatdrop>
Chris: That was NOT an image I needed at this time. [pause] Hmm..I wonder
if I could convince Rachel...nah...Ami would..[whacked by Skuld again]
Urd: THAT you deserved.

	In the same near emotionless tone she whispered, "Ikari-kun…" he

turned 

and stared at her straight in the eye. "May… may I ask you

something?" 

He never remembered a time when she had ever asked for anything

before, 

so he nodded. This time, he could tell she was starting to get 
apprehensive as she continued. 

	"Would… would you touch me?" 

Lurker, Hikaru: O_O

Lurker: <smirks> Well, which one's the pervert now? <takes another
Evanjellydonut from the box>

Chris: <sigh> Am I the ONLY one in the entire FFML who didn't put the
worst connotation on this when I read it?
Urd: I agree with Lurker.
Skuld: You would. [blushes] But I thought that way too.
Chris: [looks at Bell, who blushes hard] I see. [sighs]  And you have the
gall to call ME a hentai.

	Instead of anything that Asuka or anyone else for that matter

would 

have labeled perverted, he felt the curve of her cheek instead. He 

Lurker: That's even more perverted!

Hikaru: <blinks, frowns> Not *that* kind of cheek, baka! 

Chris: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Bell, Skuld and Urd watch Chris ROFTLing.]

Urd: Let me field this one: [exasperated tone] Men!

	"I do not know what to say either. But… let's just have this

moment to 

ourselves. Just for a moment." With that, she rested her head on

his 

shoulder. He turned to her slightly and a small smile grew from his

lips. She was right, just for this moment. With that, he wrapped

both 

arms around her and felt as if he were a child once more. Enjoying

the 

feeling of being with another whom cared for you and you for them. 

Hikaru: Awwww...<reaches for another Evanjellydonut, only to find the
box empty> Darn!

Chris: Nice scene.
Bell: Very sweet.
Urd: Very romantic.
Skuld: Bleah...

 

	<Well, at least she gave me ample warning this time.> the woman,

Nodoka 

Saotome, thought. Bringing the glow about her to as little power as

possible, she flew up to the roof of the building she hid beside.

In the 

distance, she saw the enemy that was going to be next to try and

find 

Adam.. 

Lurker: <wince> Still too close to a Third Impact reference, as
Huang-san pointed out to you earlier. You *really* need to find a way
of expressing this that doesn't make it look like the Angels are
waving signs: "Look at us! We want to cause a Third Impact! Aren't we
just terrible?"

Chris: I REALLY need to see the rest of this series.  Ep 16 and spoilers
just aren't doing it.
Bell: Patience.  You can only see it as fast as they show it at the anime
club.
Chris: [sighs] In other words, I might manage to see them all by X-mas.
 

Lurker: Didn't we already establish that Ninohi is female? Keep the
pronouns consistent.

Chris: It's Jusenkyo cursed! Spring of Drowned Neuter!
Skuld: [blinks] Can souls be Jusenkyo cursed?
 

Everyone watched in despair as the only weapon that could hope to

beat 

the angel was lost. Yet, regained that hope when the light took

hold of 

the spear, turned around and threw it with more force than Asuka

did. 

The spear tore through another shot from the angel and through the

heart 

of it's body as well. The resulting explosion created a flash so

great, 

nobody noticed where Seraphim came from landed on the ground by the

shelter.  

Lurker: Uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

Hikaru: <winces> That last sentence is *really* funky looking.

Lurker: <puts on some shades, and sings> "Kill that funky sentence
light boy..."

Hikaru: <falls over> Anou...was that *really* neccessary?

Lurker: <points up at the sentence> You tell me.

Hikaru: <looks up, winces> Point.

Chris: SKuld, if you would?
Skuld: [pulls out the BFH, whacko] LURKER NO BAKA! [instant pancake]
Bell: [primly] Really, Lurker, show SOME class.

	"I saw here again. That thing was inside my mind. I saw my mother 

Lurker: I saw here, I saw there, I saw everywhere but where I wanted
to see. Who am I?

Hikaru: Hibiki Ryouga!

<a bell dings, and a canned audience cheers>

Chris: [tries to imagine Asuka in travelling clothes and a yellow and
black bandana.  Fails miserably]  The mind boggles.  However, I CAN image
Asuka in Ukyo's outfit...
Bell: She seems more like an Akane type to me.
Chris: [considers that] OK, then who'd be Ukyo?
Skuld: Rei!
Chris: [mind does a core dump on that one] NO WAY! [waves hind hands in
the air] Lets leave this tain of thought, it's giving me a headeache.
[looks around] Where'd Urd go?
Bell: She said something about wanting to change clothes. 

Lurker: You might as well get smacked for the title of this one. VIZ
doesn't even come up with worse stuff. Did it ever occur to you to
make a pun on "atom"?

Chris: I quote: "Back to the Happosai."  'Nuff said.
 

Lurker: I'll let Huang-san take most of the credit for helping you on
this one. He took care of the more important fixes. <waves to
Huang-san> Hiya.

Hikaru: <thinks> [I've got to keep him from doing this at 4 in the
morning anymore...]

Skuld: Better than Oniichan here, he does it at work.
Chris: ON MY LUNCH HOUR!
Bell: Really? Since when is your lunch hour at 10:00?
Chris: [weakly] Would you believe my coffee break?
Urd: [walking into the theatre] You don't drink coffee.

[Chris, Bell, Skuld turn and look at Urd, who's wearring a dark blue
version of the Plug Suit.]

Urd: [twirls] What do you think.
Chris: [shading his eyes] Indecent.
Bell: Urd, put something on!
Skuld: [looks Urd up and down with a calculating look.] I WANT ONE!
Chris: When your older. [Eeps as Skuld gives him a deadly glare.]
Skuld: [threatening voice] And why is that?
Chris: [sweating] I decline to answer that on the grounds that it may
incriminate me.
 

[Warhammer returns to the light.] 

<and Lurker and Hikaru return to the mist...>

Chris: Good stuff, WH!

[Skuld hops in a puddle, Belldand walks through a mirror, and Urd, dives
into the monitor.  Chris mops up the puddle, pickets the mirror, and turns
off the monitor, then disappears.]

Christopher 'God-boy' Angel