Converging Fates
Chapter One: Worlds Away

	"It WHAT?", General Albert F. Leonard asked.

	"It seems to have failed. We're suspecting sabotage, the records show that
the San Francisco facility sent out a feedback loop just before the
sequence initiated.", the lieutenant informed his superior is his office at
the pentagon.

	"God damn it!", he pounded his fist on his desk. "Six damn years we spent
on this project, and we let the bad guys screw it up for us?"

	"I'm afraid so, sir."

	"Find whoever did this. I want him in this office as soon as possible."

	"We've already detained someone from the San Francisco facility. A
background check revealed his daughter was killed by Gordon Colen, the
prisoner we were using for the human test."

	"Doesn't anybody check up on these things anymore?"

	"We didn't see any need to, sir."

	"That doesn't matter. What about the prisoner? If he still alive?"

	"Hard to say, sir. After the smoke cleared, there was no sign of him.
Remains or otherwise."

	"Great, now we have an escaped convict to worry about.", he sighed, "Set
up a manhunt, I don't want him gone for long."

	"Sir?"

	"What?"

	"According to the computer readouts, whatever wasn't corrupted, his
pattern was transferred somewhere, but its hard to say where."

	"Great, with any luck he re-materialize in orbit."

	"There was also some quantum interference, sir. It seemed there were other
patterns in the buffer."

	"Other patterns?"

	"Yes sir. Seventeen to be exact. Two seemed to stand out the most.
According to the readout, an energy field of some sort and a very, very
large object."

	"What does Doctor Hanson say about it?"

	"Nothing yet, sir. She is still in the hospital, she hasn't regained
consciousness yet."

	The General leaned back in his chair for a moment. "Find out where those
patterns came from. Find the source if you have to, but keep it hush-hush.
Congress doesn't even know about this project yet, and that's the way its
going to stay, understand me?"

	"Yes Sir."

	"Give the orders."

	The lieutenant saluted the General as he nodded and left.

****

	"Ranma?", Akane asked, looking up into his eyes.

	"What just happened?", he asked her. The tingling sensation still hadn't
left him, but he noted the fact that he and Akane now stood at a lakes
edge, surrounded by hundreds of trees.

	"I don't know.", she said, getting up. The last thing she remembered was
seeing a green energy field, and then nothing but blue sky. All of a sudden
aware of her condition, she absent-mindedly covered herself up.

	"Give me your pants!", she yelled.

	"What? What about me?!", he argued.

	"That doesn't matter, you're wearing boxers! I need something to cover me
up!"

	"You're already wearing my shirt!", he yelled at her.

	"That's not going to do much!", she replied.

	Off in the distance, a deer listened to the arguing couple, and bounded
off into the woods.

****

	"Asuka?", Shinji said, shaking her, trying desperately to wake her up.

	"Asuka, wake up!", he yelled.

	In the past minute since he had been caught in the energy field, he
managed to regain his senses, and realize where he was.

	He didn't actually know exactly where he was, but that didn't matter, he
was there, with Asuka, they were alive, and there were cars. Moving cars.

	They stood at the edge of a freeway of sorts, and Shinji was busily trying
to wake Asuka up, to tell her of the news.

	A moment later, a pick-up truck pulled over, and the driver ran to
Shinji's side.

	"<Hey, is she alright?>", the man who drove the truck asked Shinji.

	Shinji looked at him, confused for a moment. It dawned on him a moment
later that the man was speaking English. Quickly trying to recall his
English lessons from school, he returned the speech.

	"<Hospital.>", he said, "<Her needs to go hospital!>", he told him. His
English wasn't that good, but the message got across as the man helped her
up and dragged her over to his truck.

	"<Hop in the bed of the truck, there's a stretcher back there you can
strap her to>", he told him.

	Shinji only understood a handful of words, but after seeing the stretcher,
he got the full idea. He hopped into the truck, and helped lift Asuka down
onto the stretcher, and tied her down.

	"<Stay back there, I'll have you to the hospital in no time!>", the man
said as he hopped into the truck.

	Shinji had no idea what he said, but managed to get the meaning after the
truck started to speed off.

****

	"This... Uhh.. Wouldn't be...", Lina gawked at her surroundings.

	"Hmm.. It would appear we've been teleported.", Zel said thoughtfully.

	"Wow, look at that bridge!", Gourry pointed at the large red wrought iron
bridge stretched across the bay in front of them.

	"Where are we?", Lina said, looking around. A group of people were
standing a few feet away from them, gawking.

	"Hmm...", Zel muttered, rubbing his chin. "Can you read these
characters?", he said, pointing towards a sign.

	Lina looked closely at them. "Nope.", she said, tracing her fingers over
the characters on the sign.

	The three of them looked about for a moment.

	"Do you notice anything?", Zelgadis asked.

	"Like what?"

	"Look at everyone. Look at the way they're dressed. They don't hold any
walking staffs, none of them are holding weapons. Yet they don't even bat
an eye at us."

	Lina looked around, everyone was indeed, ignoring them completely. "Maybe
its just the custom here."

	It was then that Gourry perked up and noticed something off in the
distance. "Hey, look!", he pointed at what seemed to be some kind of
celebration.

	"What do you suppose it is?", Lina asked.

	"I think...", Zelgadis squinted his eyes. "We should check it out."

	"I hope there's something to eat", Lina muttered.

****

	"How.. Did..", Terra muttered, staring around.

	"I have no idea."

	"That field, it was like the X-zone."

	"No. It couldn't have been.", Terra shook her head. "There is no magic
anymore."

	"But where are we now?", Celes asked, looking around. They were in a
crop-like field, which seemed to go on for miles. Strange plants grew
around them as the four of them continued to walk.

	"How did we get here, would be the better question", Sabin muttered as he
pushed another stalk out of his way.

	"This field is man-made," Locke said, "If we keep going, we'll find
someone who can tell us where we are..."

	"Or kill us.", Sabin said again.

	"That's doubtful, not with us. Even without magic, we can put up a hell of
a fight."

	Sabin smiled and nodded. "Good point."

	"Wait.", Terra stopped.

	"What is it?"

	"Don't you hear that?"

	Each of them listened closely. Locke was the first to speak.

	"It's a �swooshing' sound. It comes and goes every few seconds.", he said,
then looked to his left. "It's coming from over there!"

	The four of them pushed their way through the field until the reached the
outer edge. What they saw there, none of them could fully explain.

	"What...", Celes began.

	"Are...", Locke Continued.

	"Those...?", Sabin finished.

	Terra frowned. A deep, angry frown as she realized they were no longer in
their own world. In front of her, contraptions of metal and rubber passed
by them at blinding speed, being directed by a human at the controls.

****

	"Tifa?", Cloud asked.

	"Cloud?"

	"Where is everyone?"

	"I don't know.", she walked ahead for a moment, stepping over a log that
had fallen on its side. In the distance of the forest, they could see what
seemed to be a clearing, and a strange four-legged animal pouncing about
through the woods.

	"I think we should head over there.", Cloud said, pointed towards the
clearing.

	Tifa nodded. "Keep your sword handy."

	"I had no intentions of doing otherwise.", he said as he began to walk
towards the clearing.

	Tifa smiled and followed.

****

	"How did we get here?", Fei asked, astounded at the sights he was seeing.

	"I don't know, but that city down there.. It... There's nothing like it!
It can't be there!", she nearly shouted.

	"I don't think we're on our world anymore, Elly. It just feels different.
Almost alien."

	Elly nodded. "Should we land?"

	Fei checked the fuel gauge in the cockpit. "We've still got fuel left, but
we should land somewhere and recharge."

	"Somewhere that will attract little attention.", Elly replied, nodding.

	Fei looked at the city below him. It was vast, going as far as his eye
could see. But far into the distance he spotted it.

	"Over there.", he pointed. A patch of dark green past the city's edge, a
forest at the base of a mountain. "Those trees should be large enough to
camouflage us accurately."

	Unbeknownst to the two in the cockpit of the Xenogears, hundred of feet
below, calls were being made to the police, government officials,
newspapers and UFO researchers simultaneously.

****

	It was only disoriented for a moment. Precisely 1.385 seconds to be exact.
Wherever it was didn't matter, the fact was that he had been supplied with
a food source sooner than expected. As it spied the ground below him, he
saw the first subject.

	When it went through the process of feeding, it usually took months,
sometimes even years to feed off an entire planet. But that was usually
because it was hungry and fatigued. Now it was not. It was fully fed, but
it would still have room for more.

	*No*, it thought to itself. *This world will not take long.*, he estimated
the full length to decimate the planet of its life and resources, around
two months. A quick feeding, and then it would be off to its next meal.

	It moved itself through the oxygen surrounding it to the man below. He was
running through a grassy field, unknowing of his impending doom. A moment
later, the body was taken. The life force held within was consumed quickly
and replaced with its own.

	It accessed the memories and knowledge of his new host body. As he
simultaneously tested out his motor functions. He had been in humanoid
bodies before, but they were always the most awkward to keep balance in. He
brought a hand up to his face and stretched it outward, when the memory
came to him.

	The name of the man was Gordon Colen. A prisoner sentenced to death by the
judiciary system of this world. But he smiled as he brought up his more
recent memories, and seconds later he realized how he came to be there.

	"No.", he said to himself, using his newly acquired voice. "Not long at all."

****

	"Sarah?", James asked, sitting by the side of the hospital bed. He frowned
as he recalled the situation he had gone through after the explosion.

	He had been waiting outside of the facility when he heard the explosion.
Since the guards were mostly concerned with finding the source of the
explosion, they ignored him as he ran into the control booth to see if
Sarah was alright. After order was partially restored, they started to
collect the casualties, bringing military personnel to the medical facility
in the compound. All non-military personnel had to be taken to civilian
hospitals. James gritted his teeth at the memory.

	A moment earlier, she had stirred, it was barely noticeable to the
untrained eye, but James had become accustomed to noticing the most minute
of details.

	"Sarah? Are you awake?", he asked again.

	He had known Sarah for years. They had even gone out at one point, then
broke up a year later, but somehow managed to remain friends. He was
waiting outside of the facility for Sarah so they could go out for coffee.
He hadn't known what was going on inside, until he heard the explosion.
Then, he just didn't care, but somehow, he knew where to find Sarah.

	He found her caught under a metal beam. Not horribly heavy, but enough to
break a few ribs, or worse. Fortunately, Sarah got off with just the former.

	A low moan escaped Sarah lips as she turned her head. A moment later, to
James' elation, she opened her eyes.

	"Sarah?"

	She smiled slightly. "What hit me?"

	"A metal beam."

	She blinked at him for a moment. "How did..."

	"I was waiting for you to get off work, I thought we could go out for
coffee...", he shrugged, "Had I known something big was happening, I woulda
stayed home. I guess its lucky I was there."

	"The... The project.", she groaned as she sat up.

	"You'd better stay down, the doctor says you've broken three ribs."

	Sarah plopped back down into the bed. "What went wrong."

	"I have no idea. You're lab assistant was conscious a few minutes ago, but
now she's under again.", he pointed at the bed across from them. "She said
there was a �feedback loop' or something, whatever that means."

	"Damnit!", she yelled.

	"She also said �There were others.' She went back under before I could ask
what she meant. What are you guys working on in there?"

	Sarah shook her head. "Sorry, James. Non-Disclosure."

	James nodded in understanding. "Well, do _YOU_ know what she meant by that?"

	Sarah stared out for a moment. "I'm not sure. It could mean any number of
things.", she looked at James' face. "I really wish I could tell you, James."

	James smiled. "Me too, just lay back and relax for now. I've got to go
now. I've been with you all night, I think I'd better get come sleep."

	Sarah nodded in understanding. "I'll be here if you need me."

	James smiled as he walked out the door.

****

	"Excuse me, Mr. Ikari?", a Japanese doctor walked up to him.

	"Yes?"

	"We've taken a look at your friend. She should be fine, although there's
not much more we can do without health insurance."

	Shinji nodded.

	"There's one more thing, Mr. Ikari."

	"Yes?"

	"This hospital isn't used to taking in people with no form of
identification, even if they are unconscious."

	"I uhh.. Don't have any."

	"Indeed, and you speak limited English. The point is this, Mr. Ikari.
There were marks found on your friends throat that would indicate someone
tried to strangle her. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"

	Shinji gasped. A moment later, he nodded. "Yes sir. I know how they got
there."

	The doctor nodded. "Mr. Ikari, I'm afraid we're going to have to detain
you until your friend wakes up. You will be released if she decides not to
press charges."

	To the doctors surprise, Shinji co-operated. The hospital security guard
brought him to a small room at the end of a corridor, and sat him down.

	The doctor stared at the boy walk off down the hall and shook his head.
The both of them had been wearing some strange clothes. When he had
examined the girl, it took him a few minutes to figure out how to get her
undressed. The scissors seemed ineffective, but then a nurse inadvertently
put pressure on a small tab near the collar, and the suit was loosened from
her skin just enough that they could remove it. The boy was wearing
something similar.

****
	
	"Sir?", the lieutenant stood at the Generals office door.

	"Come in.", he said as he stared out his window.

	"We've gotten a few reports. Concerning the extra patterns."

	"Go ahead."

	"There was a mass UFO sighting above San Francisco today. The fact that it
differed from all other UFO sightings and was reported by many people in
downtown San Francisco leads us to believe it's not a coincidence."

	"What are the details?"

	"Several people claim to have seen a humanoid shaped machine flying away
from San Francisco. Our base also concedes that there was in fact,
something in the air. We lost tracking of it after it neared the mountains."

	"Check up on it.", he said. "Anything else?"

	"We're still checking on things, sir. However there was a report of
strangely dressed teens at the Cedar Grove Hospital."

	"Cedar Grove? The Facility?"

	"A civilian hospital, sir. Two Japanese teenagers were brought in by a man
who found them on the freeway. One of them was unconscious. The boy is
being detained for questioning."

	"I want a full report on the questioning. Keep looking, lieutenant."

	"Yes Sir."

****

	"I can't believe I agreed to this.", Ranma said as he removed his pants
and handed them to Akane.

	"You'd prefer me naked, perhaps?", she giggled.

	Ranma briefly paused, but then recovered, "Phfft. Who'd wanna see a tomboy
like you naked?"

	Akane paused as she put the pants on. "Ranma.", she replied.

	"What?"

	"I heard you. I just couldn't do anything."

	"Huh?"

	"Back in China. When you put your shirt on me. I hear everything you said."

	"You did?", he said. Then thought. *What the hell did I say?* "Uhhh..."

	"Hello!?", a voice called from the opposite end of the lake. Ranma and
Akane instinctively looked over. Standing on the edge were two people. A
man and a woman from what they could tell.

	"Hey!", Ranma replied, then looked at Akane. "Well, at least they speak
Japanese."

	"Maybe they can tell us where we are."

	"Maybe.", he said as he got up to walk around the lake to meet the two
people on the other end.								

****

	"Do you think they can tell us where we are?", Tifa asked.

	"I hope so. This place doesn't feel right. The air. The way the wind
blows. It just feels... Alien.", Cloud replied.

	"I know. And that animal we saw earlier."

	"Well, we'll find out in a minute, they're coming over to meet us.", he
pointed at the two forms.

****

	Ranma looked suspiciously for a moment as he started to be able to see the
people before him a bit better. What seemed to stand out most was something
protruding from the man's back. It was hard to make out at the moment, but
a few seconds later, he realized what it was.

	"It's.. A.. Zanbatou...(1)", Akane gawked.

	"What the hell does he have that for?", Ranma asked.

	"Do you think he wants to...", Akane replied.

	Ranma shook his head. "He didn't sound menacing. We should be on guard."

	Akane nodded. "Right."

****

	"What did they stop for?", Tifa asked.

	"I don't know. We're almost there, lets keep going."

****

	"Who are you?", Ranma asked, bringing himself to a defensive stance.

	The blonde one put his hands up in front of him, as a friendly gesture.
"Hold on, we don't mean any harm."

	"Then what's with that?", Ranma gestured towards the sword strapped onto
the blonde ones back.

	"It's my sword. I always carry it with me."

	"Where exactly _ARE_ we?", Akane asked.

	The woman gawked. "You mean... You don't know either?"

	"Oh no.", Akane said. "You too?"

	"We were at the northern cave a while ago, then some light came down on
us, and here we are.", the blonde one continued.

	"Northern cave?", Ranma asked.

	The blonde one shook his head. "It doesn't matter. The point is, we're
here and we don't even know where here is."

	"Me neither.", Ranma said, dropping his defensive stance.

	"Should we stick together? Try and find out where we are?", the woman
suggested.

	Akane smiled. "I think that would be best. Ranma?", she looked at him.

	Ranma nodded. "I guess that would be the best idea."

	The blonde man smiled. "Good. I'm Cloud. This is Tifa.", he gestured
towards the girl next to him.

	"Tifa Lockheart, pleased to meet you.", she said as she extended her hand
out towards Akane.

	"Akane Tendo. Likewise.", Akane smiled as she shook her hand.

	"Ranma Saotome.", Ranma greeted with a forced smile. He still didn't trust
the man with the sword completely. He would have to earn that.

****

	"So, do we have any idea where we are?", Gourry asked.

	"I would imagine we've left Seyroon. We may be outside of the barrier, but
these structures. I've never seen the likes of them. They nearly touch the
sky.", Zel commented.

	"Who cares about that? I'm hungry!", Lina said as she stopped in front of
a buffet table.

	"Lina, that food may not be..."

	Lina mumbled something as she downed the contents of the table in three
seconds flat.

	"...ours..."

	It was noticed rather quickly by several people that the food had gone.
However, they had suspected someone ran off with the food, instead of
consuming it right there on the spot. Lina was not even granted a second
look as she walked slowly away from the table.

	"It would seem there are many dressed similarly to us, however I'm not so
sure its chance. These people seem to be dressed like us for some kind of
celebration. Look.", he pointed as several people wearing clothes similar
to what the people he had seen earlier were wearing. ", they are dressed
differently. I believe if we're to look inconspicuous, we've got to find
similar clothing."

	"Do you have any money?", Lina asked, walking alongside him.

	"I've got my pouch.", he said. "There should be enough in there to buy us
some decent clothes."

	"Great, all we have to do now is find a clothes merchant."

	"Should we ask someone?", Gourry asked.

	"I doubt they would understand us, I can't for the life of me understand a
word they're saying."

	"Well, we've got to find somewhere to buy some clothes.", Lina said.

	"Like that?", Gourry pointed to a stand off to the left of them.

	"Indeed. That will do nicely, however those are merely shirts. We would
have to find a merchants stand that sells trousers.", Zelgadis replied.

	"Well, lets go!", Lina said, running towards the stand.

****

	"What do you make of them?", Locke asked Sabin thoughtfully.

	"They're weird. It's like Magitek in a way, but more... I don't know,
machinelike."

	"I can't sense any magic from them.", Terra said.

	"Have you seen anything like this before, Celes?"

	Celes stared out onto the open road for a few seconds longer. "Once. The
empire was experimenting with cross-country land transport devices that
don't rely on tracks. They made a prototype that ran the same fuel that the
Magitek armor ran on. The prototype was destroyed, and the never tried again."

	"Could we be... In the future?", Locke asked. "I mean, if there's no magic
in that, then technology could have advanced us that far, couldn't it?"

	"Look at the airship. In a way, it was far more advanced than these
contraptions.", Terra said. "If we were in the future, we'd probably see a
collection of airship traffic." She shook her head. "No. I don't even think
we're on our world."

	"Where are we then?"

	"Somewhere else. I don't know exactly, but somewhere else."

	"Should we follow the road?"

	Terra looked around for a moment. "Yes, I think that would be best. Maybe
we can find an Inn or something."

****

	"How is it?", Elly asked from below.

	In the open cockpit, Fei sat watching the fuel gauge count up. "80%.
Another half-hour should bring it up to full power."

	"Aren't you going to come down here? It's beautiful!", she said, spinning
around in the clearing they had landed in.

	Fei smiled. "I think we'd better first figure out where we are. That
city... I've never seen anything that big. Not even the capital of Solaris."

	"Where do you think we are?"

	"Me? I've got as much of a clue as you do. I suppose it may be possible
we've traveled into the future. But I doubt that."

	"You know what I think?"

	"What?"

	"On Solaris, I've seen ancient photographs excavated from the Ruins on
Ignas. They were barely visible, but some contained pictures of cities.
Cities like this one. I think we're in the past. On the planet we came from
originally."

	"That means we've not only gone to another solar system, but a whole other
time as well."

	Elly shrugged. "Fate does weird things."

	Fei smiled. He knew it did. His entire life. All of his lives have been
strange twists of fate. This one being no exception.

****

	He walked onward, continuing on the course he had selected. He hated
walking, it was so.. Inefficient. From the memories he had taken from the
man, he thought it would be best to drive in what the people of this world
called �cars'. That would be far faster. As it was, he had no idea where he
was geographically. Since he had entered the body, he had been walking on
instinct.

	The he heard it. Ever so faintly, a swooshing noise. Again, and again.
>From his hosts memories, he identified the sound easily.

	There was a road nearby.

	*Soon*, he thought to himself. *So soon.*


****									

	"Mr. Ikari?", a policeman asked as he entered the room. He was American,
that much was certain, and he spoke with a heavy American accent.

	"Yes?"

	"I'm Detective Walter Costa, I'd like to ask you a few questions if you
don't mind..."

	Shinji shuffled in his chair. "Okay."

	"Okay, first off", he began as he brought out a tape recorder, "For the
record, I'll need your full name."

	"Shinji Ikari."

	"What is your nationality, Mr. Ikari?"

	"Japanese."

	"Were you born in Japan?"

	"Yes, sir."

	"Are you a legal American citizen?"

	"No, sir."

	The man paused for a moment and continued to write.

	"How did you come to be in America, son? Vacation?"

	"No, sir. I don't know how I got here."

	The man eyed him suspiciously for a moment, then continued.

	"Date of birth?"

	"September 25, 2000.(2)"

	The man dropped his pen for a moment. "Listen son, its imperative you tell
the truth. This is after all a legal matter."

	Shinji looked confused for a moment. "I am."

	The man just shook his head. "Okay, whatever. Your friend..."

	"Asuka."

	"Full name?"

	"Asuka Langley Soryuu."

	"Okay, son. She was brought into the hospital for what reason?"

	"I nearly killed her.", he said meekly.

	The man batted his eye at him for a moment, then continued to write.

	"Why were you trying to kill her."

	"I was angry."

	"You were angry at her? What did she do?"

	"Not her. Well, not just her. Everyone, my Father, Everyone at NERV..."

	"NERV?"

	"Yes. That's the organization I work for."

	"Where can I contact them?"

	"You can't. People outside of the organization aren't even supposed to
know about it."

	"Top secret, eh kid?"

	"Yes, sir."

	"Okay, that's fine then. What were you doing at the side of the road this
morning?"

	"I don't know."

	"What do you mean?"

	"I wasn't there a moment earlier."

	"Where were you?"

	"Japan. Well, I think it was Japan. It was more of a wasteland."

	The man dropped his pen for a moment, then continued.

	"Okay. Where exactly do you live in Japan?"

	"Tokyo-3."

	He seemed to be getting annoyed, but tried his best not to let it show.
"Son, what's the date?"

	"August 16, 2015."

	He dropped his pen. "Son, what's the deal here?"

	"What?"

	"It's not 2015 son, its not even the tewnty-first century yet. Not for
another year and a half."

	"Not... 2015?"

	"No, son. Now you'd better start getting serious. This isn't a joke."

	"Not... 2015..?"

	"Now, those clothes your wearing. What are they?"

	"Plug suits.", he said absent mindedly.

	"What?"

	"Plug suits, for piloting... Eva's."

	"Eva's?"

	"Evangelion Units. You wouldn't have heard of them."

	He shook his head. "Son, whatever world your living in, it doesn't exist.
I think you've got to snap back to reality before you're committed."

	Shinji perked up. "Look, I don't know how or why this happened, but it
did. I've gone back in time, to before I was even born. I'm not lying, give
me a polygraph if you need to."

	"They don't work if you really believe all this."

	"Ask Asuka!"

	"Your friend isn't awake yet. Believe me, though. When she is, I'll be
asking her the same questions."

	"You do that."

	"Until then, you're going to remain detained until we can find your
parents." he said as he got up and left.

	A few minutes later, the report of the questioning was faxed to the
headquarters by use of a hospital fax machine, were it was in turn faxed to
a military installation in Nevada, and relayed to Washington.

	A certain General smiled after reading the fax, and picked up the phone.

****

Authors Notes: There, Chapter One all done.. :)... Since I've only recieved
*One* (yes, you read right) reply on the prologue, I wrote this to try and
get some peoples attention. Anyways, same rules apply here as in the
prologue. C&C needed, public/private replies, whatever... Give me some
feedback, will ya? :)

	(1). For those of you who don't know what a Zanbatou is, (I know some of
you do!), allow me to explain. A Zanbatou is a giant sword developed during
the Sengoku era designed specifically to kill both horse and rider when
fighting a mounted opponent. It is one of the largest and heaviest swords,
and it is said that nobody can master it.

	(2). Shinji's birthdate is approximate. All I know is that he was born
nine months after the second impact, other than that, I'm at a loss. If
anyone knows his real birthdate (as well as Asuka's and the exact date of
the Second Impact), please let me know so I can fix it up...
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|     The TydRipper     |  "Abandon all hope, ye who enter
|                       |  here."
| Master of the Tides,  |  - Dante's Inferno; Canto 3:9
| Keeper of the Old Way,|  "What really interests me is
| Writer of the Fanfic, |  whether or not God had any choice
| Baka to the end...    |  In the Creation of the Universe."
-------------------------  - Albert Einstein

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[In the year 1999 and seven months, 
the great King of terror will come from the sky. 
It will bring to life the King of the Mongols. 
Before and after, Mars reigns happily.]
Nostradamus - Century 10: Quatrain 72