Sparky Clarkson wrote:

The best NGE continuation I've yet seen. 
 

I'm working on the epilogue now. Hope you enjoy...

I have been for quite a while now.

"Can't," Makoto replied, gnawing at his lower lip while he continued
to try passwords. "A nurse found him five minutes ago, in Rei's
hospital room. He'd been shot twice."

Dead?
 

Everyone in the room turned towards the displays, then froze in
momentary horror. Tokyo-3 was covered by a scintillating carpet of
black, a surging, ebbing tide of obsidian particles that made waves in
the streets and lapped up at the edges of buildings, and around the
feet of an immense beast. It's seven giant heads were supported by
massive shoulders and a long, sinuous body that tapered to a tail with
seven curving, black spines. Five of the heads had horns, each a
different shape, and the other two heads spewed fire against the
storage buildings, detonating the weapons inside. The creature also
used its clawed feet and bat-like wings as weapons, toppling buildings
and tearing holes in the pavement.

Lord of Flies. Come get some. 
 

Kaoru closed his eyes, and said, "In the first days of the Universe,
one of the greatest of the angels attempted to raise himself above
God, and a third of the angels supported him. They were all cast out
of Heaven and fell to earth, but their power was not completely
removed." He shuddered, then continued, "The one who had led the

shuddered then continued, 
possibly ...shuddered before continuing, ?

"But how?" Makoto asked. "How do you kill the Devil himself?"

You don't. You're screwed.
 

"We don't really have any other choice," Misato said, "If that really
is the Devil out there, then we're going to need every bit of help we
can get." She considered the situation for another moment, then said,

If that is the devil out there, there's really no point in
holding anything back. Dead will rise, seas turn to blood, and
all kinds of wild shit go down. 

"As third-in-command, I am assuming control of NERV. Makoto, have the
engineers prep all the Evas for launch, and get a team down to
Terminal Dogma to help Shinji get back in Unit One. Maya, Ritsuko,
start analyzing all the data we can get from the surface sensors. We
need to have a plan of attack, and we can't make one until we know
what that ugly bastard really is. Kids, suit up, then get in your
Evas. I'll brief you before you launch."

Nice to see Misato's serious, intelligent side. That gets lost a
lot behind her drinking or charisma.
 

"You were in the Throne of the Soul," Kaoru replied, "The real one.
>From it, God rules the entire universe. Few mortals have ever seen it

the second > was in the original post.

even after their bodies perish permanently. For you to see it and
return... I have never heard of such a thing."

happened a couple of times in the OT if I recall. Elijah I think?
 

Kaoru paused in mid-stride. "I love you too, Shinji," he answered.
"But don't worry about not having another chance. We're going to win."

I'm not sure, but their simple decision to contest with the power
of Satan at all may assure victory. I got that vibe a few times.
 

"I'm not sure," Ritsuko replied, "There's not enough data to explain
it. As far as anyone knows, they just do. Like mutual annihilation of
matter and antimatter, AT field negation just happens because that's
the way the Universe works."

Actually, we've got some thoeries about that. Crude ones,
admittadly.
 

"Ever driven through an N2 explosion?" Misato asked.

"Huh? Um, no..."

"I have. How much worse than that can this be?"

The word "infinitly" springs to mind.
 

"Oh we are in some deep shit," Kensuke muttered. "Let's get the hell

"Oh, we

"That's what I was thinking," Maya said. "So I checked Sammael's 
fields. Each head is slightly out of phase with the rest, so they 
should theoretically all cancel out. The only reason they don't is 
that the *weaker* field is constantly changing phase to reinforce 
whichever one of the head fields is about to collapse."

Note on light and AT fields. Phase probably isn't really the word
you want to use here. If it was phase, then the only real
difference between the two would be where in their cycle they
are. Thus the neck's curving and the movement of the heads would
additionally change the phase. Since phase doesn't really follow
superposition, (vast oversimplification) the heads would all be
constant;y reducing each other. The fields would decay, instead
of cancel, and the weaker field wouldn't be able to reinforce
them because the phases would be interact. If the bodies field
was stronger, it could, but then all the fields would have to be
in the same phase, which is impossible, again due to movement and
such.

Frequency on the other hand, could be changed readily to support
any head that was weakening. If each head had a different freq
they would only form beats where they came together. While this
would form holes, they'd be on the order of the wavelength, which
I figured to be fairly small, and the bodies field could also
change itself to plug those. Everything else could be left as is. 

I only noticed this on the second read through, looking for
problems, and since we aren't actually talking about light is
nothing to worry about. Just for whatever it's worth. I enjoyed
it anyway.

Amid the ruined buildings of Tokyo-3 stood the largest of the 
Archangels yet. It wore a coat of steel chain mail, and carried a 
steel sword and matching shield. Steel boots and greaves protected his 
calves and feet. The armaments were all plain, simple -- objects 
designed for utility rather than aesthetics. Beauty came with the 
great emerald wings that grew from the angel's back, its bright 
emerald eyes, and saffron-colored hair. The angel took a ready stance, 
shield forward and sword raised, and once again asked, "Who is like 
God?"

It was at this point I first began grinning like an idiot.

"Exactly" Misato said.

Punctuate that.

charging towards the huge body of the seven-headed dragon. As the 
group drew closer, EVA-02 and -05 grabbed hold of EVA-01's arms, 
adding the force of their arms as EVA-01 jumped.

repetition of arms.

And thus was goodly whuppage.

Ragnarok was great, Shinji's character was as interesting as the
original series tired to make it, and Michael vs Luci was great.
I would have liked nine or ten additional pages of those two just
flailing on each other, but I'll live. Excellent fic, excellent
chapter, and excellent writing. Release the epilogue soon, or I
will be forced to eat your brain. 

Miashara

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