[FFML] [shortfic][NGE/HS]Final Solution

Things looked grim. The battle had not gone well.
Rei and unit one were out of it, the apparent
causality of Rei�s disregard for her own life and the
N2 mine she carried. Auska was down, the arms of her
Eva sliced off, and the head as well. Shinji....well
Shinji wasn�t doing well either. The severed cord had
cut his time short, and now the batteries were about
to run out. The only thing he could do was pray for a
miracle.

�Commander!� Screamed a tech from her panel. �I have
a radar contact descending from orbit!�
Gendo Ikari looked up in surprise. �Is it an
Angel?� If it was he might just die of surprise.
Another angel from orbit right now would be so far out
of the scenario, his or SEELE�s, as to be impossible.
�No sir, no pattern blue.� The tech consulted her
instruments again. �In fact no pattern at all!
Conventional sensors show some sort of metallic mass,
nearly the size of a battleship or carrier!�
Gendo considered his options. He decided he didn�t
have any. If it wasn�t an angel, it wasn�t a problem.

Above Tokyo-3 a strange object appeared in the sky.
Though never before seen on Earth, it was obviously a
creation of man. Hundreds of feet of metal, it bore
the hallmarks of human engineering, though very
advanced human engineering. Wide ports on the
underside of the object were belching fire as it
descended. Obviously the object was some sort of
craft, having descended from orbit, it was obviously a
spacecraft of some kind, but on a grand scale.
It slowed, approaching a large park, obviously with
the intention to land. Just before the giant struck
the ground, a ramp began to lower from the front. The
moment the ramp touched the ground, massive vehicles
charged out onto the ground and toward NERV.

�Sir, the....spacecraft....has landed and deployed a
lot of land vehicles!� The tech didn�t know if she
should be frightened or not. Dying was dying, but the
thought of dying at an angel�s hand somehow seemed far
more horrific then dying at the hand of a fellow
human.
Gendo again considered it for a moment. He decided
it was of no consequence. Only the battle against the
angels mattered. A battle his son seemed to be losing
just now. �Ignore them for now. They are of no
consequence.�
Had Gendo been a bit more observant, he would have
seen Fuyutsuki smile behind him.

At the entrance to the underground highway to the
Tokyo-3 geofront, a guard looked in dismay at the
massive array of what appeared to be armored vehicles
bearing down at him at impossible speeds. Dedicated
to the NERV concept of protecting humanity at all
costs, the young, idealistic guard did what he thought
was right. He stepped out and commanded the vehicles
to stop. After all, this was a restricted area.
The lead vehicle, it�s scarred bow skirt bearing the
cartoon of a wyvern both belching and farting flame
didn�t even flex as it�s unforgiving steel met what
was left of the guard. He didn�t feel it either,
since the antipersonnel strip on the iridium hull had
fired a few milliseconds before, shredding the hapless
guard from the waist up. The air cushion vehicle and
those behind it didn�t even feel a bump from the
remains.

�Sir, vehicles from the surface have broken through
to the geofront!� By this time the tech was so
frightened of everything that she was just doing her
job until the bitter end.
Looking quickly at the situational displays, Gendo
Ikari decided that he had to act. He opened his mouth
to speak, but before he could, he felt a dull blow to
the back of his head. Had he retained consciousness,
he would have noticed Fuyutsuki standing over him with
a triumphant expression.

Shinji was expecting the worst as the angel got ready
for it�s final strike. His power was gone, and he
was no longer receiving any signals from NERV or the
other EVAs. He knew he was about to die. There
wasn�t any other outcome. Strangely the thought
didn�t bother him as much as he thought it might.
Suddenly, his situational display came alive. There
was a bright flash, and one shoulder of the angel
seemed to be devoured by the light. Shinji quickly
focused on many vehicles pouring out of the entrance
to the Geofront. They looked like tanks and armored
vehicles, but they had no tracks! They seemed to
float across the ground by some invisible means.
One by one, then in a massive barrage, the tank like
things began to fire, massive flashes of cyan light
that seemed to disintegrate whatever they touched.
The angel turned to face them, but didn�t seem to know
what to do. There were too many point sources for it
to attach them all at once. It�s massive beam and
slicing arms reached out, and destroyed many of the
vehicles. Still it wasn�t enough. Slowly but surely,
it began to slow, then topple. The invaders didn�t
stop however until the massive angel was nothing but a
cooling pool of molten...something......

Fuyutsuki looked at the massive hover tank as it
snarled up to him and slowed. The driver�s helmet was
just visible above the curve of the iridium hull. The
extra antennas marked this as a command tank, not one
of the regular line tanks. Two line tanks and a pair
of combat cars flanked the command tank. Finally it
came to a stop a mere step and a half away. The
driver�s skill was obvious. It would have only taken
a minor mistake for the 150 ton tank to smear the
aging NERV second in command across the pavement.
A hatch opened in the cupola of the tank, and a lanky
figure clambered out and down the hull. The man
dropped off the hull and on to the ground.
Straightening he turned and strode towards Fuyutsuki,
his major�s insignia flashing in the light.
�Major Danny Pritchard, reporting in sir!� The
salute that followed was text book correct, but
somehow managed to convey the mercenary�s vague
contempt for his employer.
Fuyutsuki chose to ignore the gesture. �Thank you
Major. My congratulations on a textbook attack.
Colonel Hammer promised results, and it seems he was
correct.�
Major Pritchard looked pleased. �When you hire the
best sir, you GET results! Besides, I have two
company of panzers supported by four companies of
combat cars commanded by Mad Dog, I mean Major Slade.
It was a cakewalk.�
It was almost irritating. This man was implying that
fighting angels was EASY! Still, the only reason he
had contacted them to begin with was that he wanted to
ensure the continuance of the human race. Gendo and
Seele may have had big plans, but the human race would
endure. Fuyutsuki just wondered if he would be seen
as savior or villain.
�Well, well done Major. Here is the rest of your
assignment, � he handed over several typed sheets of
paper. �I trust you can accomplish them soon?�
Pritchard seemed almost affronted. �Of course sir,
why else would you have hired Hammer�s Slammers?�

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