Rei



"So you're The First Child, eh? Heh, you shall be no match to me!", the Asuka clone informed me.

She's got a hold of Unit 02. I have not fought another Evangelion since the disaster that was the activation test of Unit 03.

However, I then caught a glimpse of that Chinese developed Evangelion with tentacles heading its way towards us as well. Another screen appeared and on it was a boy who looked a lot like Asuka

"It'll be a pleasure destroying you for stealing all of my love's attention", the boy then informed me.

"Excuse me? You're taking my thunder, Oskar? How dare you. I'm far more better than you are. I am a perfect clone. You're just one of my more lowly sisters that managed to become a boy", Asuka II yelled at the boy

"We'll take The First down together!", Oskar replied

"Sounds good, but I should get the final blow", Asuka II informed the boy "And by the way, Oskar. Start calling me Aloisia"


Before I got Zero into fighting position, I turned my head around to see that Johnson has fallen asleep.


But out of nowhere, the Jet Alone Prime showed up, with Ryujin informing me "We shall take these two down together!"

"Sounds good. I'm ready when you're are.", I replied.

"Same here. How's Johnson?", Ryujin-san asked me

"He's asleep. He'll be fine.", I replied


After that, we both set ourselves into battle positions and charged towards both enemy Evangelions.

After putting the mask on Ryujins face I took off the Kiri maska nd marked it with a letter K, I also took the horse mask and marked it with a letter H and put it back inside the sack. Ryujin began changing as he got shorter blue and chubby. I soon recotgnized exactly what he was changing into.

"Wait...he's changing into Doraemon! HAHAHAHA! This is too much hehehehe..."

"You seem to be enjoying this a little too much..." Asuka commented looking a bit irritated.

"I won't deny it." I said as Ryujin slowly began to come too.

“Thank God that worked, I thought we were losing you!” Naomi said as she hugged Ryujin who was still oblivious to what he now looked like. That bastard looked like he enjoyed that a little too much, oh well he'd get his in a moment when he realized how he looked.

“What happened, who attacked you?" Naomi asked.

“Yeah…… because we’re all so very very concerned.” I followed up , damn he still didn't notice yet. But after a few moments it seemed to sink in.

“Why is my belly white with a pouch on it?! Why is my hand a simple white numb?....... Why is my skin blue?! Why….. why is my head HUGE! Why does my mouth fell like a cats? What the hell happened to me, I am destroyed!” His reaction in that body was too much to handle as the comical character had such a shocked and frightened look on his face. This was too much, as I couldn't contain my laughter. It took all of my willpower to keep from bursting out laughing.

“That’s because you’re now the great and majickal Doraemon, time traveling robo-cat from the future and friend to the children! And no Raziel, you are REBORN!” I announced after which I burst out laughing unable to hold it in anymore.

“Ok, that’s great, but why am I the great and majickal Dorae….. whatever! Even with how fucked up the world is now theses things just don’t happen!” He shouted flailing his arms about which caused me to laugh even harder. This was great, I was going tohave so much fun with these masks later!

After i managed to get my laughter under control I said “Well it appears that Masquerade, I don’t think you’ve met her yet, and the fortune teller we ran not earlier are on our side, well as far as I can tell anyways. Well it seems that Masquerades power is that she makes masks that can turn you into the last person who wore them for about an hour and I given how bad you were I figured we had nothing to lose to see how complete the transmutation was an I put one on you in the hopes it’ll patch up your wounds until we can get you some more long lasting care. Ok, now that’s out of the way, what’s going on, what attack you?”

“Ok, I’ll by that but why did you have to put me in the worst mask you could possibly find!”

“Well that wasn’t THE worst…..” I said restraining another laugh. The truth was Naomi and I had tried on most of the masks I had stuffed into Santas sack, I even had a few blank masks which I intended to use to copy some other peoples forms. I just hadn't thought to mark them all until after the fact so we had no idea which one was which aside from the Asuka, Kiri and horse masks. After Asuka and Ryujin were done with the wrestler and doraemon masks I would need to mark those as well. Ah well Ryujin didn't need to know that detail “Look I just grabbed a random mask, she gave us a lot and I haven’t been able to go through them all, now what happened to you and a thank you for saving your ass wouldn’t hurt!”

“Ok fine, thank you for saving my ass. Now after you left us Johnson and myself split up and after a while I decide to head over to the bar to find your top.” Oh yeah I had completely forgotten about that. I did want to get that back though more important things were currently happening. Naomi just looked confused about this, hopefully she didn't get the wrong idea.

“Long story Naomi, we’ll tell you later. Anyways, along the way I found Johnson laying face down in the ally completely out of it, and I ran him over to his room where I found Rei looking for him after he came to he told us he ran into some wacko with puppy-fingers…”

“Yeah we ran into that freak too.” I said remembering that guy, some people came back as some really strange things.

“Yeah, just like the Teller said we would, well he ran into him and apparently this doll like girl was with the puppy freak and stuck Johnson with some sort of toxin and after he was done explaining all that some new freak who was made of metal, had a fucking A.T. Field and wearing a hoddie and a paintball mask busted in the door and an came at us and since Johnson was still to out of it to fight so I took it on myself to by him and Rei time to get out of there and since I had a bad feeling about what was going on I told them to make their way over to Zero” I hadn't seen the doll girl, if he had freinds then that just meant there would be more we would have to deal with. But that other guy he described sounded a lot like someone else we had run into.

“You don’t think do you?” Naomi asked apparantly thinking the same thing

“The reaper, yeah. How…. how did you get away?” The reaper had been pretty persistent and we might not have escaped if it wasn't for that weird puppy freak interfering.

“I just stood my ground and fought like I had nothing left to lose, which since it was trying to kill me that was a pretty fucking true ideal. Anyway I was able to bust up one of its arm and knock it out a window and here I am now.”

“Oh God, I can’t believe you did something that stupid! What made you think you could fight it?! Look at what it almost did to you!” Naomi had a point, a point a regular guy trying to take on that thing in hand to hand was just crazy.

“I know, but if I didn’t do this Johnson and Rei would have been in my place right now so I had to do it, these guys are all my responsibility.”

“It’s just like when I met you…..You can’t keep on doing things like this, you can’t put all this on your…..” we didn't have time for this.

“Umhum!” I tried to get their attention.“I hate to interrupt this Kodak moment but he’s only got an hour left and we are under attack so can we kindly get a move on it please?”

“Oh… ummm sorry.” they both said. "Yeah you’re right Manticore. Phoenix, she already knows what’s up and is getting Shiro and Rana over to the Trident and I was heading over…. well trying to get over to Jet Alone…… Ok here’s the plan, Manticore! I need you to fly me over to Jet after which help make sure that Rana, Phoenix and Shiro make it over to the Trident safely then help round up the rest of the group and get them who ever you can into the Johnsonmobile and the rest into the Trident, try and get Kenske and Lil’ Z to help you out. Now we don’t need to worry about the flyer since it’s still strapped on the Trident.” Ryujin explained trying to look as professional as Doraemon could look. “Now for you two…..“Just who are ARE you?” he asked Asuka who just fidgited and looked extremely embarrassed.

“Oh him, don’t worry about em, that’s just El Super Muñeco! He’s down.” I said pointing at Asuka who just gave me an irritated look without saying anything.

“Oh-kay… Well I need you Mr. El Super Muñeco and you Naomi to wait here until Manticore comes back. Alright let’s get going!” I couldn't help it anymore as I began laughing at him again.

“I’m sorry, it’s…. it’s just….. seeing you try and act all professional and hardcore while looking like that… it’s just to cute!” I tried to explain, when we got out of here I would have so much fun with these masks.

‘’Righhhhhhht…. Ok, let’s go.” Ryujin said as I grabbed him and took off flying into the air with a crackle of electricity. Damn Doraemon was a chubby cat thing, he needed to go on a diet or something. On the way over I saw some sort of firefight by the hotel. Regular bullets only seemed to slow these guys down, if we didn't hurry those vampires would break through. In addition Rei seemed to be have a lot of trouble against those two evas. I still wondered where the hell they got unit 02 from


“Shit! How long until you can get Jet Alone up and running?” I asked.

“Not counting the time it takes to get to the cockpit and get the helmet on, assuming it still fits…. it’ll take 30 seconds for the reactor to get hot” Damn why does everything always need to take time?

“Crap! Why can’t we just leave it in stand then?!” I asked a little irritated.

“Because the reactors a closed system, we can’t refuel it or replace it’s neutron shielding so once it’s out of gas it dead. That’s why we grabbed as many spare reactors as we could, we need to hope this last us as long as it can” We then landed next to the hatch as Ryujin began to open the door. I didn't think there was much I could do against two evas, but I might be able to provide a distraction anyway.

“Alright, after you get in your mech I’m going to see if I can help out Rei until you can get it up and running then I’ll help get our guys over to the Trident.” I said as I watched Ryujin prepare to put in his code. Wait this could be a problem “Ummm you know since your “hand” right now is just a roundy sphere do you think you can do this?”

"I got a theory. You see every cartoon character I ever seen with nuby hands like this never have any trouble interacting with the world and given that this transformation was complete enough to fix my wounds I figured I had a good chance of having majick fingers. Though why couldn’t I have at lest been Strong Bad for this gag?” Sure enough it worked as he hit the numbers with his invisible fingers.

"Wouldve been more useful as a powerpuff girl in this fight if you ask me. Though I think if you had turned into one that would've been more comedy then I could handle so maybe it's better for you to be Doraemon."

"Errr...I really hope you don't have a mask like that." Ryujin said as he opened the door and went inside. Now it was up to me to buy a little time for him to warm it up. I kicked off flying over the battelfield. First I would help them against those vampires. Several vampires were begining to force their way towards the hotel despite the bullets biting into their bodys. As I soared over them I rained several lightning bolts down on them incinerating the vampires near the front of the advancing party.

Next I hovered behind the brawling evas. If I tried a ranged attack the AT field would block it, to get the best effect I needed to get in close. I alanded on the head of the tentacled eva as it lashed out striking unit 00 who was currently ina headlock. I then took out Issei gun and fired a number of shots directly into the evas left eye. Moments later that was a large pop as the gun caused several explosions of blood to erupt from it.

"Gah! What the hell?" Oscar shouted inside his cockpit. I cam up on the viewscreen as he glared at me, pressing his hand against his eye which was now feeling the pain from the eva. "You damned gnat!" he shouted as he attempted to swat me only for me to dodge. I then flew up behind Unit 02's head as he lashed out with one of the Evas tentacles striking the back of the evas head in an attempt to hit me.

"Oscar watch it you idiot!" Alosia shouted.

"It's not my fault! It's her!" He shouted as I buzzed around the two of them. This was enough of a distraction for Rei to take advantage of as she kicked backwards knocking unit 02 on its butt.

So let me get this straight, the pilot of that monster turns out to be one of those Asuka clones who just somehow got turned from a girl into a boy? Ok folks, that’s it! I’m done! The fact that as I speak I’m not only piloting a giant super robot, ok you fallowing me so far? BUT I also just so happen to be piloting said giant super robot while I somehow managed to get turned into some blue fucktard of a robocat (from the future!) to keep me from bleeding to death (just don’t ask) and now if that wasn’t enough I just so happen to be fighting another giant super robot, this one happens to have tentacles just to let you know for those of you keeping score, who’s piloted by a clone of a girl who somehow got turned into a boy….. I’ve either lost it folks and this is all just some sorta of fucked up delusion I’m having while locked in the loony bin or God’s gone fucking nuts and just doesn’t give a shit anymore! But I digress, none the less fucked in the head or not I got some fighting to do.

I stepped it up into 3rd gear and cocked Jet Alones torso back preparing to deliver an earth shattering blow with the Thunderhammer onto the Chinese Eva as Manticore fired off a few more pulses of ball lighting at it then broke off. I was almost within striking range when it detached its tentacle from Zero and shot them into me, good just what I wanted it to do. The tips of the tentacles pierced through Jet Alones EM Field and into its hull and a warning light went off indicating a drop in wattage, so it was an energy vampire like Manticore ……. needles to say I found this to be more then a little coincidental.

I then brought the hammer down on it in the most literal of senses with it’s A.T. Field only just barely managing to take the edge off of the strike the Field bowed under its impact smashing through its the arm it shot up to try and defend itself with and clipping it in the chest plate creaking the armor in a shower of sparks forcing it to step back to keep itself from falling over as its knees buckled! After recovering from the force of my swing and reading the hammer it was time to deal with the tentacles; I let go of the hammer with my right and grab onto the top most of tentacles dug into the same side and activated the shocker ring and with a flash it jolted the air around my hand into a crackling ball of plasma which burned right through it! I then quickly went onto the next one and as I melted though it the enemy Evas smashed arm contorted and popped back into shape apparently completely regenerated as its remaining tentacles started to spasm and shake wrenching and grinding the metal surrounding their entry wounds apart as a torrent of warning windows pop up and filled my screen each one informing of what I already knew and as I grabbed the last one on that side it decided to send pulses of electricity down the tentacles and up into Jet Alones super structure blowing out the shocker ring and locking the up the hand as the cockpit was filled with smoke and sparks form eclectically fires braking out across my mech as my screen flicked in and out of static and the damage reports started becoming overbearing. With my right hand now useless and the electrical assault continuing I was left trying to yield the Thunderhammer one handed which given its length and hath was not the easiest thing to accomplish, I reared back my left arm and spun my hand around to build up momentum before I went to bring it down on its head but my deliver was off and I only grazed its head coming down on it shoulder but that was just enough to almost bring it down to its knees which gave me the opening to deliver a hard kick to its torso sending it flying back crashing through a building knocking lose the remaining tentacles and freeing my right hand, it was burnt and heavily damage and could no longer deliver a shock attack but it was still usable enough to help guide the hammer to its target!

I pulled out the thrashing tips of the tentacles that were still imbedded in my armor then wrapped both hands around the hammers shaft to properly yield it once more as the mutated Chinese model Eva rose up from the ruble as its tentacles began to regenerate! I charged at it at top combat speed pudding the ground with the force of an earthquake kicking cars, trees and chunks of the road into the air behind me! I ducked down and swerved to the right taking out a 4 story apartment complex as I dodged the withering tentacles the mutant Eva shot out at me, I leaped into a dash clearing the distance between us as reared up the Thunderhammer to unleash my coup de grace!

Meanwhile during all that Rei was taken advantage of fact that that I had taken that freak of an Eva off of her back, literally! She twisted herself out of the head lock while grapping onto Aloisia torso spinning her around as she lifted her up and slammed her into the ground in a reverse pile-driver blasting up a pillar of asphalt and concrete sending out a shock wave that leveled several of the surrounding buildings! However Twos pilot wasted no time in launching her counter attack, grapping onto Zeros arms and taking advantage of Reis compromised posture she forced herself back up while flipping Zero over her head slamming it down on the ground with the same force that Rei just slammed her with. Rei quickly recovered twisting herself free from Aloisia grasp as she launched herself back up reading her next attack!

Over the radio Aloisia chimed in with, “So First, that’s the best you can manage?!”

“I’ve only just begun! I could handle the real deal so what chance does some copy think they can have against me!” Rei snorted back as she stared down her rival just before the launched foreword delivering a haymaker punch onto Unit Two’s face that thunderclap into a sonic boom upon impact as her helmet shattered!

Rei

After Ryuijn and Jet Alone made Unit 02's helmet crack, I then delivered the finishing blow by kicking Unit 02 right into the Vampire EVA, knocking both down

"I think we should get out when we can", I heard a voice tell me


"What! Where's Ryujin-san? Who are you?", I asked the voice

"I AM RYUJIN-SANl, Rei. I'm this bluish thing now. Like I said, lets GTFO now!", he yelled

After that minor incident, we all got our things together while avoiding a fight and got out of there as quickly as we could



Mr. Johnson


It's been about four days since we left that dangerous vampire town. So far we hadn't confronted neither Scab, that Puppyfinger wacko and just about anyone else, for that matter.

I'm feeling better now. We managed to get Rana out of there. She's recovered rather greatly and such, despite the fact that somehow, during our escape, we got split up. Sure, i'm here, Rei's here and a few others, yet some of us got into one and the others got into another group. Just, yeah.

However, we find this shrine of sorts all out of nowhere, with the doors open.

"Okay. You guys stay in here while I check this out", I tell the rest of the party.

"How about some of follow you this time so we don't get a repeat of last time, kay.", Ryujin told me

"Yeah, better do so.", I told him.

Thus me, Ryujin, Aoba and Senior Ikari all went inside the shrine as everyone else stayed put.


Inside, in the center we saw some muscular dude meditating and despite all the noise we made, it didn't even bother him at all.

"Uhhh....excuse me. You need some help?", I asked him

All of a sudden, he cocked his head up, looked at me and said "I've been expecting you all. Come inside and make yourself home."


Meanwhile, I then noticed that Rei popped out of nowhere and asked "What's going on?"

"Oh hi there. Sit down, beautiful", the guy in the shrine told Rei, only for her to blush

"Hmmmm....", I thought to myself "Since Shinji got cut off from the rest of us and stuck with Ubermensh bitch Asuka, making friends with this guy could help."

Rei then sat down and the two began to converse, to the point where he handed out a drink to her. He then asked me "Hey Mr. Gas Mask! You and the others want some drinks as well?"

"Sure thing", I replied.

As we sat down, he told Rei his name.

Spike Sen, eh? Interesting.

“O-oh uh... thank you.” Rei said to the laid back mystery man.

“There's some drinks on the table over there, please drink and refill all you want. You need it.”

Rei raises an eyebrow.
“What do you mean “we need it?”

The man looks Rei dead on and says “To be honest, you all look like shit. I'd say if I didn't know any better, you all have had better days.”

Dead silence...

Then laughter.

“Well I guess you could say that.” Rei chuckled as she realized the man's dead on, stern look from before was him playing.

“Well that's all right, i've had better days myself.” the man laughed. “Then again, that's what life is right? Full of hardships? If you don't any, well... aren't you a lucky son of a bitch.”

The laughter continued.
After a long, hard and may I mentioned quite painful day, this is pretty much what everyone needed.

Rei then suddenly stopped and realized something.

“What's the matter?” The man asked.

“I'm sorry sir, we never asked your name.” Rei replied as there introduction was cut off by laughter.

“Spike Sen.” the man replied.
“And you are?...”

“I'm Rei Ayanami, first child and pilot of Unit 00.”

“And i'm-” before Ryujin could finish his sentence, Spike tackled them all to the ground...
for good reason.

The ground began to shake and rumble like a fury of no other.

“Come on.” Spike replied to everyone as he helped them up.” “Let's get to a safer place of the shrine. Things out there seem to be getting a little bumpy.”

As Ryujin joined the frey I figured it was time to get out of there as I wouldn't be much use here as more then a distraction. After sending several parting shots of lightning at the enemy evas I descended, firing another storm of lightning bolts down on the advancing vampires. It was a good thing I got there when I did because inside Phoenix and the others were running out of ammo as bullets were only good for slowling down most vampires.

"Manticore, it's about time..." Phoenix said as she fired off a couple more shots into the advancing horde.

"I'll hold these guys off, you guys head over to the trident." I said to her.

"Are you sure? This isn't the same as when we were fighting the zombies, these guys are a lot stronger." Phoenix said looking a bit worried.

"Don't worry, I won't lose to a bunch of glitter covered punks like this!" I said as all my tentacles extended growing from my back.

"Right, lets go then!" Phoenix shouted to the others as they ran off following her.

"You think you can take us on alone? You just dug your own grave woman! We'll rip you apart!" A man dressed in black shouted as he leapt at me. But before he could even land a blow my tentacles speared his body before ripping him in half sending his two flailing halves flying in either direction. The other vampires all stepped back in surprise of this display.

"Holy shit! Look what she did to Lestat!"

"Sh-She's strong enough to kill us...oh man I didn't think anyone would be around who could kill us that easy..."

"N-Now don't get scared we've got superior numbers afterall! We can take her!"

"What's the matter? Whose going to get ripped in half next?" I asked them ready for any who dared attack.

Of course, they may be a lot stronger then the zombies, but before 3rd impact most of these guys were a bunch of pathetic pale emos who lived in the basement cutting themselves. With a bit of training they could have easily overtaken Phoenix and the others given that bullets couldn't kill them. But the fact that the bullets caused them pain had been enought o hold them at bay. Such weak mineded opponents wouldn't beat me even with superior numbers!

But then as the sun set some of their confidence seemed to return, on the eastern horizon I could see a dark swarm gathering as thousands of bats took to the air heading right for me. Below them other figures began emerging from the darkness. The rules weren't the same for all of them. Many of them came back unable to walk in daylight, the ones I had been fighting so far had only been the ones who didn't have this problem. Now that the sun was setting we would be overwhelemed. As the bats descended on me I held both hands about a foot apart before a powerful electrical arc jumped between them emitting several flashes of ultraviolet light. The front of the could of bats immediatly burst into flames and several vampires on the ground shreked in apin as their flesh burned while several others just sparkeled. Damn, anothjer reason to hate twilight...

After that distraction I began to rtetreat, firing several shots back at them , but even if most of them were a bunch of emos on the inside with these numbers theyed be too many for me to beat.

But just as I was about to escape Someone familiar stepped out of the shadows blocking my pathway. It was Van, the cheif of police!

"Everyone else back off! She's mine!" He announced. He removed his hat as his body slowly began to contort. He seemed to be changing into something. Like I would give him the chance!

"Sorry Van...but I'm just not that charitable!" I said as I fired a single shot from Isseis gun blowing his heed into a cloud of red mist. But his body didn't fall like I had been expecting it to. Instead it kept growing, within moments even a new head had formed. He was stransforming into a huge canine beast! I fired several more shots into him, but each hole blown through his body quickly healed. Within moments he was fully formed, a giant black wolf, standing ten feet high and twenty feet long looking at me with glowing red eyes.

"Don't think I'm like the others...I am the lord of the undead, and you have the privilage of being my first chew toy of the day." He said as he seemed to be getting ready to lunge at me. I had to get away from him, maybe I could try blasting him with another lightning bolt? But given how easily he healed the wounds from Isseis gun I wasn't confident this would beat him. He crouched getting ready to lunge at me, at the same time I unfolded my wings getting ready to fly. But right as he was beginning to leap into the air a streak of light seemed to hit him square in the chest whatever it was, it shot straight through his body, hitting him with enough force to cause him to stumble from his feet. Whatever the projectile had been it kept going as it ripped through the hordes of vampires. Looking to its source I saw an androgynous looking indian boy holding a gleaming metal boy in one hand. An aura of light seemed to shine around his body. He leapt from the roof landing next to me, his bow trained on the giant wolf.

"Who the hell?"

"It's me Masquerade, this is my Rama mask." In Hindu mythology Rama was an avatar to the god Vishnu who battled against the demon Rhackshas who infested the land.

"You had a mask like that? Shit you shouldve given me that one!" I said looking between him and the giant wolf.

"Sorry, but I only gave you a disguises which is what you and your freinds needed to escape this place, all the good masks I keep for myself." he said as he pulled back on the bow again. Van got up snarling, hundreds of other vampires were also charging towards us, as greater numbers arrived they seemed to forget about their cowardice as they were about to engulf us like a swarm of ants.

"In legend it was said that Rama could launche a barrage of a thousand arrows with a single bow, allow me to demonstrate!" he said as he pulled back and fired. His single arrow shot into the air like a lightning bolt from a storm, faster then the eye could hope to see it multiplied into thousands of arrows in mid air as it arced downward raining death on the army of advancing vampires. As it struck some they brust into flame, others crumbled to dust while others flailed and struggled , still alive even as dozens of arrows went through their bodies like pin cushions.

"Go! Get out of here! I'll meet back up with you after you escape this town!" He said as he took out another arrow loading it into his quiver. He didn't need to tell me twice, I looked back to see Vans still struggling form covered head to toe in arrows. That looked like it must hurt.

It was then I remembered something Rana was still in the hospital. Well at least it looked like the others had made it to the trident which was beginning to launch. But I couldn't leave Rana behind, I needed to go back to find her. Taking off I flew over to the hospital before landing on the roof. Several bats landed, each rapidly growing and morhping into a man. But before any could fully transform I released another electrical arc causing the three of them to spontaniously combust ont he spot. After that I walked over to the doro and smashed it off its hinges with a blow from my tentacles making my way down the stairs. Rana was near the top floor so I didn't have far to go. But then I noticed something, the hall in front of her room seemed to be shrouded in webbing.

"Oh fuck, what now?" I asked as I took out Talons katana, using it to slash through the webbing.

"SKREEE!!!" I heard a bizzare noise, looking to my left I saw it emerging from the open doors of the elevator which appeared to be out of order. It was a huge red spider , larger then a human. It lunged at me knocking Talons sword from my grasp as it snapped its mandibles at my face.

"Oh no you don't! Don't you know scorpions are stronger then spiders?" I shouted as My tail speared its mid section before smashing its body agains the wall with enough force to crack the bricks. Breeathing heavily I puashed for a moment as I drained all the energy from the twitching spiders body. After I left it in a frozen heap I then picked up Talons sword and blasted through the door to Ranas room. Just as I had expected, someone was indeed waiting for me.

"Well...well...well...look who came to visit!" Tatsuya said as he was sitting next to Ranas bed. At his side were three skanky vampire girls and Tsubasa who poked her head over the side of the bed glaring at me.

"Now, now ladies...there's plenty to go around." Tatsuya said as he adavnced towards me. "I'm a lover not a fighter...hows about I show you just how good a lover I am tonight..." Shit this was bad, I could feel his power working on me. My body was reacting to his presence, it wanted to be with him, I was losing my will to fight. No these weren't my real feelings, they were being forced on me by this dick, I had to fight it!

"You can't win you know? Others have tried to resist me, but in the end none of them could do it."

"No...I won't give in..." I said backing away, but he wouldn't have it as he walked closer rubbing up against me. I turned away, if I looked at him I felt like his power would overwhelm me.

"Now, now, that's quite enough of that." I heard a familiar voice say. Tatsuya also heard it and looked aorund confused. It was then he looked down at his hands. A look of horror came onto his face as he began screaming and rolling around on the ground in apparant agony.

"What the fuck?"

"You bitch! What did you do to Tatsuya sama?" One of ths skanky vampire girls shouted at me. All three leapt at me at once. As soon as the first one connected I electrocuted her. I through her stunned body into the others path causing the second one to trip. The third leapt over her only to receive a blow from my tail impaling her in mid air before getting slammed on top of the other two, her now forzen body shattering on top of them. Before either of the other two could get up I drove my tail deep through both of them as one of them combusted from its blade peircing her heart while the other just died.

"You want some of this too?" I asked Tsubasa who just ran away crying. I then glanced at Tatsuyas stilling rolling and screaming ont he floor, his body was now covered in burns, what was happening to him?

"He is trapped in the illusion of the demiurge, right now his own mind is his enemy." The familiar voice said, I now saw him, the ram headed fortune teller was sitting at the side of Ranas bed.

"W-What the? Where did you come from?" he hadn't been here a moment ago.

"You only see what I let you see." He explained as Tatsuya went silent as he stopped, apparantly dead. "Illusions can be a dangerous thing, if you believe in them strongly enough they can even kill you."

"Mmmm...what's going on?" Rana asked as she sat up.

"Rana?" I hadn't expected her to be concious given how messed up she had been. No sooner had I turned my attention away from him the mysterious Demiurge had vanished once more. But I had no time to bother with him.

"Rana...how are you feeling?" I asked her. Rana only looked around a bit confused.

"I guess I feel ok, why do you ask?"

"Never mind, but could you look at my hands for a moment?" I asked her. I held them apart by one foot and a bright electrical flash jumped between them.

"Gah! Manticore! What the hell? Are you trying to blind me?" She shouted in protest covering her eyes.

"Sorry, I just had to make sure you weren't a vampire." She hadn't burst into flames or sparkeled, but I still couldn't rule out the possibility she could be some other type that didn't react to light. The fact she had recovered so quickly was nothing short of abnormal.

As I took her hand she got out of bed and we began to make our way from the hospital. Outside it was complete chaos Not only had more things that appeared to be evangelions shown up, but that puppy fingered weirdo was massacering all the vampires around the hospital. One struggling vampire was suspended in midair by six puppys that had attached them selves to his body from many differened angles as their cords were looped aorund tree branches and lamp posts. Their cords tightened for a moment beofre his body was ripped apart in six different directions emitting an explosion of blood.

"Yes...I haven't had a feast this good in a long time!" He laughed to himself in gless as he went about torturing his victims to death.

To his right was a little girl, she looked just like a fucking creepy realdoll. Grabbing one man by the neck she forced him to kiss her as she forced something down his neck. To the left hundreds of what appeared to be some sort of strange crustacians resembling some parasite I had read about on the internet which replaced the toung of fish were crawling all over the bodys of dozens of flailing vampires rapidly eating the flesh from their bones. Fortunately those three seemed to be pretty distracted right about now. I jus tneeded to sneak past them. And I was doing pretty good at this too until something leapt out of the bushes. It was one of the most bizzard things I had ever seeen. It was a man covered in head to toe in what appeared to be fried chicken skin. Strangest of all, his head looked like a giant chickens head covered in the same bizzare fried chicken skin.

"Buck-buckaw?" He seemed to squawk at me as he cawked his head to the side.

"I don't have time for this!" I shouted as I ran at him and swung Talons katana! The bruning blade met his face head on, but srprisingly it halted as it made contact. I felt as if I had just swung the sword at a steel wall. Not even talons burning blade could get through this things burnt chicken skin hyde! I then swung my tail, the blade emitting a shower of sparks as it struck his face. This seemed to upset him as he squawked once more and then delevered a powerful blow to my midsection knocking me from my feet and cracking my ribs.

"ARrghh...damn it, he's too strong!" A bit of steam seemed to come from his mouth as some liquid dripped from his crusy beak, as it hit the ground it sizzeled as he began shambling towards me. Now wasn't the time to fight him I had to get Rana out of here. Pausing for a moment I lay there gathering energy, then just as he was about five feet away from me, my tail lashed out sweeping him from his feet. As I got up I released a torrent of lgihtnign at point blank ranges from my tail, directly into his body causing him to spasm. He twitched slightly, still not dead but he smelled just like freid chicken now. I wasn't about to wait for himt o get up. Quickly I got up running over to Rana before grabbing her hand and running away.

About five hours later

Somehow we had made it out of that town. Jetalone was trashed and Ryujin was pretty messed up too but it looked like he would live anyway.

"Well that was pretty close wasn't it?" I heard a voice say, looking to my left I saw a little brown dog sitting at my feet.

"Masquerade?" I asked already suspecting who this was.

"Bingo."

"I see...So you said that you would be able to explain some of what's going on."

"Yes, awhile ago your group came into possession of something. As you may have guessed , that is the primary reason the overlords forces have been hounding you. This object is a component to a prototype satilite weapon. It will generate a barrier that will make it a super weapon both offensively and efensively, making its owner the single undesputed super power on the planet. The overlord is currently at war with a number of factions, most notably our own, but with that weapon he will be able to end the war. The reason why he hasnt tried crushing you with superior firepower is because he's worried the component could get damaged in the process."

"I see...Well that makes a lot more sense, maybe it would be best if I destroyed it then...no wait...I might be able to make better use of this." I said as I remembered something.

"Oh? What do you mean?"

"Do you know of any information about someone working for the overlord calling himself Lindquist Von Spielberg?" I asked.

"Yes, he's one of the overlords higher ranking generals, the one who was overseeing this project." Masquerade said.

"Before I destroy it, I think I would like to meet with him to talk about something. You might not guess it but he was a freind of mine before third impact, if I know him right he might be thinking of betraying the overlord. Before I destroy it I want to know his intentions. Do you know where he is?" I asked her.

"Yes, he has a base that's inside mount Fuji."

"Hmmm...not exactly in my way, well that's fine I can't go and meet him with out some insurance. Sometime int he next few days, could you tell your freind Demiurge to meet with me again? I think his powers might come in handy for what I have planned."

Several days later

We hadn't encountered much opposition after the vampire city, but I knew it was only a matter of time before the overlord made another move. As we drove along I looked at the back of Johnsons head. So he really was from a parralell universe? All this time I figured there was a good chance he was just crazy, the mask and the fact that he stabbed things to death with dildos didn't exactly paint a picture of sanity. But according to Demiurge he was the real deal. I was pretty curious about how his home universe was different from ours, later when things settled down I would need to ask him some questions about it.

Tonight would be the night when I meet Demiurge, I had already planned everything else out with Masquerade and all that was left was to settle things with him before I made my move. I hadn't told anyone what the part was for, I didn't want to risk anyone destroying it before I found out what Lindquist had planned.

But that would wait until alter, right now we were in front of some bizzare temple we had happened to come upon. Rei and Ryujin were the first to go inside to investigate. Given what we had been through int he past few days I didn't think just heading into some weird place was such a good idea, but who was I to argue? I picked up Talons katana and followed after them.

When I got inside I noted them talking to some strange guy, well he didn't seem to be dangerous, but then again neither had those vampires. I kept my hand on Talons blade just in case he did anything funny. It was then I felt some sort of tremor go through the ground.

"What the fuck was that?" I asked as I looked around.

“Come on. Let's get to a safer place of the shrine. Things out there seem to be getting a little bumpy.” The stranger said as he helped Ryujin and Rei up. I hadn't seen what had happened since I was at the back fo the group, but apparantly they all fell down fro some reaosn.

As we moved to a safer place I said "You can call me Manticore, don't ask what my real name is because I'm not telling. Anyway I think I missed your introduction..."

"My names Spike, you can also call me Sen." was his answer. Oh well his name sounded a bit more reasonable then some of the names that people in our group tended to go by. From the look of it this guy hadn't come back completely human either. He didn't react that strongly to my form , either he had already seen a lot of crazy stuff that jaded him to it, or he was just good at taking this sort of thing in stride.

After Rei connected with her sucker punch which echoed through the town sending fragments of the rival Eva’s helmet raining onto the ground I begin bring down my hammer to deliver a strike to the Chinese Evas head but before I could land the blow the abomination lurched back and counter by unleashing its tentacles once more forcing me to dodge but I was not about to lose my shot at him so as the last tentacle whipped pass me I smashed down on the brake while throwing the controls hard to the right spinning my self around and slamming the hammer against the Evas side knocking it across the block just as Rei delivered a swift kick to Unit Twos chest launching it down the block as well where the two mechs collided against each other showering the area with metal and sparks as the two titans slouched onto the ground sitting back to back unmoving……. wait… WHAT?! No, no, no that didn’t just happened!

I looked around in disbelief at…. at…. well THIS! “Rei! Did….. this just happen?!” I yell out over the video line to Rei both to find out if she found this outcome just as unlivable as I did and to make sure they were both ok.

“Yeah…. I think..” Re responded with a look of disbelief on her face.

“So… yeah. Just to make sure we’re both on the same page here, we just somehow managed to knock both our enemies down the street not only at the same time but at just the right angles so they collided back to back the act of which just so happened to enough to take them down just like in a bad cartoon?” I reillerated to Rei, sorry folks; shit like this doesn’t just happen I mean…… come on!

“As far as I can tell….. let’s just be happy we won?” was Reis reply.

“Yeah, sorry it’s just…. forget it. Let’s met up with the others and get the hell out of here Rei.”

“Alright let’s get goi……” and it was at this point that Rei finally noticed I was a God damned giant boue robo-cat….. from the future…… because being a big blue robo-cat isn’t enough I guess…. Well after noticing the ridiculous form I’ve come to inhabit Rei didn’t quite know how to take it so she responded with, "What! Where's Ryujin-san? Who are you?"

“I AM RYUJIN-SAN, Rei! I’m just ahhhhhh, blue…. now…. somehow… Look it’s a long story; let’s just get out of here ok?” I responded just as my RADAR responder went ape-shit indicating 3 incredibly large inbound objects heading towards the town. “You reading this Rei?” I asked seeking confirmation.

“Yeah….” She responded with a trembled to her voice. She then added, “Ryujin-San I got… a bad feeling about this.”

At that point the 3 bogies came into visual range revealing themselves to be 3 of those….. Eva like things we saw being air lifted over Phoenixes place the day before the attack. They were ugly, like some kind of twisted skeletal characture of an Eva….. their chest looked to be a fused ribcage and their torso were beyond emancipated, I mean Evas are pretty skinny but these things were just sickly and their faces were convoluted ridged and horned skulls, Rei was right to call them abominations. As I went to needlessly point out the fact we needed to get out of here on the foreheads of each of the incoming giants a lid opened up revealing what seemed to be a third eye and with a flash a beam lanced out form them at us boring into each of our mechs torsos and blasting the surrounding blocks onto cinders. After I was able to get the damage report pop ups down to a manageable level I saw the town before me set ablaze….. the whole town was now burning kicking blacken columns lf soot and ash into the air! It took everything in me not to give into panic! What…. what if Rana….. Naomi!....... No I couldn’t give in, I needed to focus….. deal with the situation at hand…… As I began to come up with my plan of action something started spinning in their eyes and a hail of smaller bolts shot out of them and blasted craters across both of our mechs…. Ok, it’s cleat row that they’re after us which means we need to led them away form the town if our group has any chance of making it out of their, assuming of cour….. no, no… they’re alive. Over the radio Rei let out a battle cry and went to charge them but I reached out and grabbed her forcing her to a stop while letting her know, “Rei, we need to get out of the city before they can hit us with another beam attack if we want to have any chance of the rest of our group getting out of here of live.” Rei reluctantly agreed and we headed off away form our group in the hopes we could lead those thing away form our friends.

Two hours had passed and we had lost them, I hope. The mask had run out shortly after we fled and a pool of my blood had since gathered at me feet. I didn’t have much time left before I passed out, we were following a hidden transponder code we equipped each of our robots with in the case we spit up and I was setting Jet Alone on auto pilot programmed to follow in on Rei as I pass into the night.

I had that dream again and I was floating in a sea infinite missed opportunities were I…. I saw my love pulled away from me and there was nothing I could do but watch….. watch her in the embrace of an another and in her place a terrible reasonability was forced on to me where standing before me to ready to judge was……….

As I came to I saw the blurred silleuate of two individuals standing over me… the closer of them was sitting by my side holding me hand and the farther one was standing be my legs her arms crossed and horned head hung low…… it was Manticore and the one by my side was……. “RANA!” I shouted as I shot up into a sitting position!

“Michalik please, lay back down before you tare your stitches!” She replied as she tried to force me back down.

How could she expect to calm down now! She made it through….. she recovered! Wait…. if she’s already…… how long was I out? I took a moment and just sat there looking into her eyes and I cupped her face; it was then when I noticed the IV stuck into it and I was in the Jet Alones cargo bay turned sickbay, and then I asked her, “Rana you…. how did you…” I then grabbed and held her hand, “You’re ok, God…… just how long was I out?”

She gave me a smile then replied, “Well you’ve been out for a couple of days but I’ve been fine for a while, we don’t know why but I remember this goat head man watching over me.”

“Yeah when I went to rescue her I found Demiurge, the fortune teller, keeping an eye on her. He also helped me fight off that one douchebag and his harem of vamp bitches and before he just kinda vanished he told me something about the power of illusions so maybe he did something to her like what that mask did for you so that’s pretty much our only lead on her miraculous recovery and we don’t know if it’s only temporary or not so we’ve kept a close eye on her just to be safe. “Manticore added in.

“If… if that’s the case I’ll have to give him my thanks when….. if we meet again.” I replied, now that I knew that Rana was alright, at lest for the time being, I was time to ask about everyone else, “So, we all made it out that town?”

“No, after those things showed up and set the place on fire….. everything went to shit, lost contact with everyone. Out side of the three of us there’s only Johnson, Phoenix who’s takin’ over this tin bucket while you were out, Rei who’s been in Zero the whole rip, Shiro who of course been piloting Trident and Lil Z’ As for everyone else…. we don’t know.” Manticore answered.

That was it, what about everyone else what about…… shit! “What about Naomi?” I blurted out after it struck me that she was in the town before this all went down…. oh God if….

“Oh, she was with us for a little bit; after she patched you up she said she had to go and took off letting us know she’ll do what she could to find the rest of our group.” Manticore reassured me,

Ok…. oh shit, she was safe too. Ok this is all we got left for now….. Ok I know were Rei, Phoenix and Shiro are…. Lil Z’ is probably flying around somewhere but what about Johnson? “So then where’s… where’s that Gasmasked bastard at?”

“Resting, he was here watching over you almost the whole rip too but he stated to pass out and I had him go to the bunks” She informed me, she then looked over at Rana and added, “Rana been here too the whole time but I can’t get her to budge.”

“That’s because I feel find, my God do you know how long I was on a bed? I never want to lie down again after that!” Rana countered.

We then heard the sound of the cargo bay hatch open and speaking of the devil, in came Johnson who the mount he say that I was up examined, “Holy shit you’re up! Thought you’d be sleeping forever buddy.”

“Just woke up myself, thought YOU were the one sleeping?” I replied.

Johnson then walked over to the edge of my bed and replied, “I was like 15minutes ago, after I go up I checked on things on the bridge and Phoenix found a monastery she want to check out so before I went to check on it I just wanted to see how you were doing”

“Wait… You were going in alone?” I asked, how can he even think of that after what happened that last time we split up!

Johnson at first went to reply, “Well yea…… “But then he thought better of it and said, “You know that does seem to be a pretty dumb idea right now…..” He then looked over to Manticore and asked her, “Yo Manticore, want to come with?”

Who responded, “Sure, let’s go.” And they went to leave.

“Wait!” I called out before they could walk out, “I’ll come too.”

That got Ranas attention and she yelled out at me, “No you are still too injured, you need your rest!”

“Think she’s right, you did lose a lot of blood.” Manticore added in.

“Bull, I’ll never recover lying down like this. I need to get back in the game. I’m coming as well.” I replied, I can’t just lie down and do nothing after all this! I’ve been down far too long already; I need to get beak cot my duties!

Manticore looked over to Johnson who gave her a nod and then she looked back at me and said, “Find, just stay behind me.”

I then got myself out of bed; doing everything I could to hide my stiffness and grabbed some weapons before heading back up to the main airlock where I ran into Lil Z’ who needless to say was more then a little happy to see me up and about as he ran over to me and gave me an almost cursing bear hug! I then had him fly me down while Manticore took Johnson and after we hit the ground Rei wanted to come as well and after Zero lowered her to the ground we stepped into the monastery where the four of us say this guy who not surprisingly looked like he walked out of a 70’s kung-fu movie mediating in the center of it.

"Uhhh....excuse me. You need some help?" Johnson asked the man.

The man then coked his head up and looked over at him and replied,” I’ve been expecting you all. Come inside and make yourself home."

He then looked over to Rei and said, "Oh hi there. Sit down, beautiful" which caused her to blush.
Rei then sat down and the two began to converse, to the point where he handed out a drink to her. He then asked Johnson "Hey Mr. Gas Mask! You and the others want some drinks as well?"

"Sure thing", he replied.

After having a drink and sharing a few laughs he told us his name was Spike Sen and he asked us the same and one by one we did so but when it got to me all I was able to get out was, “And I go b…” before he talked us all to the ground…. shit, this is what I get for letting my guard down! But before I could say or do anything the ground rumbled like an earthquake had gone off and a chunk of the ceiling smashed into the ground we where just sitting at!

“Come on.” He replied as he help us us. “Let's get to a safer place of the shrine. Things out there seem to be getting a little bumpy.”

I sit here in disbelief staring at her.... Can she really be alive, is this really her? I go to say say something to her, to tell her how glad I am that she's still alive..... how sorry I am for letting her die.... but nothing will come out, my lips refuse my minds commands..... what can I say to her after all, it was my failing that....

Misato then cracks a thin smile at me and breaks the long silence by saying, "Well Shin-Chan, it's been a long time hasn't it?"

Those words and the smile that sang them off jarred me form my failings and the lock on lips let up long enough to barely stutter out, "Yes, it has Misato-Sama." I stared into her once more and over come with with all that was bottled up inside I found myself wrapping my arms into a deep hug around her as I buried my head on her shoulder and cried, "I... I'm so sorry Misato-Sama, everyone needed me, you needed me.... and all I could do is run away, run away and watch you die. I really am worthless. I just sat there wanting to die! I didn't care about anything at all! Then when I came back I was scared, hurt and confused I tried to hurt Asuka. And then Mana came back and I couldn't do anything as I saw her get killed. Then father came back, and I tried to kill him, but that wasn't my fault. Akagi-san, she....... violated me, and tried to make me hurt Rei! I still don't know why I exist. Here you should take this back. I couldn't keep my promise...... I-I'm sorry." I say as I hand her back her necklace back she gave me before she died and collapse in her lap sobbing spending the last of my energy.

We headed down to a small corridor in the basement of the temple, safe from the action above.

“A temple with a celler?” Mr. Johnson asked.

“Some temple, ain't it?” I told him. He gave me a strange look.

Rei was looking around and Ryujin too. I think they were making sure the basement was safe.

“I wonder what's going on there?” Rei said bewildered.

“The enemy?” asked Ryujin.

“No way! We whipped them! Were safe... for now.” said a determined Johnson.

Rei glanced over at me.
“Do you know what it is Spike?”

“It's the MolMol.” I told them.

“The what?!” They all responded.

“The MolMol, i'm not surprise you've never of it. Bascically it's an underground monster that's trying to kill me. I think I somehow created when I came back through instrumentality.”

“Again, huh?” Johnson said. “How is that possible?”

“I don't know, i'm still figuring that out myself.”

“Are you going to try to kill it?”
Said Rei.

“Most likely.” I told them. “I could use back up though. “Want to help?”

As soon as I said that, they all raised an eyebrow.

“Hell yeah!”

I grined.
“That's what I like to hear.”

“Let's get up there and kick it's as-” I stopped Johnson.

“We can't go back up my friend.” I told them. “If we go back up, the MolMol will come out of nowhere and eat us before we could even take a base of action. Trust me, he's good like that.”

“O-kay, how do we get out the temple if we can't go back up?” Rei asked.

Before they knew it, I tapped a brick on the celler wall.
Suddenly the wall began shaking and it opened up, revealing a tunnel.

“Will go through here.” I told them. “It leads back up to the top, we can figured out things later.”

They smiled, Rei even blushed.

“I told you this temple had everything.”

“It sure does.” Rei says as she smiles.

As the rumbling increased we headed down deeper in the temple to get away from what was making those noises.

“A temple with a celler?” Johnson asked.

“Some temple, ain't it?” Spike commented, this was really weird, buildings in Japan werent even supposed to have basements due to typhoons much less a temple. Then again it may have been installed recently due to things like angel attacks, though I doubted it would provide much protection from a direct hit from an angel.

“I wonder what's going on there?” Rei said bewildered.

“The enemy?” asked Ryujin.

“No way! We whipped them! Were safe... for now.” said a determined Johnson.

Geh, that guys overconfidence was showing again. It wouldnt' surprise me at all if the enemy caught up with us again today. I had to find a way to meet up with Lindquist and try to find a way out of this mess. Hopefully when I met with Demiurge later tonight he'd be able to help me do that. But it seemed that it wasnt the overlord this time.

“Do you know what it is Spike?” Rei asked

“It's the MolMol.” he explained, though that wasnt much of an explanation.

“The what?!” some of us asked.

“The MolMol, i'm not surprise you've never of it. Bascically it's an underground monster that's trying to kill me. I think I somehow created when I came back through instrumentality.” he explained, I hadnt encountered anyone who I knew for sure came back as two people. Though I had seen enough to believe it was certainly possible.

“Again, huh?” Johnson said. “How is that possible?”

“I don't know, i'm still figuring that out myself.”

“Are you going to try to kill it?”
asked Rei.

“Most likely.I could use back up though. Want to help?”

“Hell yeah!” some of us shouted enthusiastically.

“That's what I like to hear.” he said in response

Though at the moment I felt like resting up
a bit more before slaughtering another monster. Why did these things always need to pop up at inconvenient times? But still if what Spike said was true, that would be an interesting discovery.

"I have a theory about your monster." I said to Spike.

"What would that be?" He asked back.

"If what you say is true and you made it in instrumentality, the monster out of there could just be another aspect of your personality manifesting, this would especially be plausible if you had a split personality disorder. So far we haven't seen a true limit to what people can come back as. Many of the individuals we've encountered have broken supposed laws of physics. I happen to violate them myself, check this out!" I said as I turned my back to Spike and generated eight long tentacles from it in a matter of seconds. "If I can come back as something which can alter its shape in a way that shouldn't be physically possible, then it wouldn't be hard to believe this you could have manifested as more then one being. My theory is the monster out there isn't just something you made, it is you, another part of yourself that manifested in a second body." I explained.

Before Spike could even begin to ponder what I told him Johnson jumped in saying “Let's get up there and kick it's as-”

“We can't go back up my friend. If we go back up, the MolMol will come out of nowhere and eat us before we could even take a base of action. Trust me, he's good like that.”

"Maybe, but even if part of you came back as a monster, now things are different because now you've got someone who came back all monster who'll help you fight it. It wouldn't be the first time some weird thing tried to eat me. I've already had to fight my way out of a monsters stomach and a giant snakes mouth. Though I'd rather not get eaten again...it's really nasty." I said as I remembered the filthy stinking maggots in the scientology monsters stomach.

“O-kay, how do we get out the temple if we can't go back up?” Rei asked.

To answer the questions Spike tapped the wall revealing a secret tunnel. What the hell was up with this weird tunnel?

“Will go through here. It leads back up to the top, we can figured out things later.” He said as we followed. Rei was blushing at this guy, wait didn't she like Shinji? Oh well this guy looked like he'd probably provide better genetic material for the future of the human race, so who was I to complain.

“I told you this temple had everything.” He said as we went up the tunnel

“It sure does.” Rei said with a smile.

"Yeah, what the hell kind of temple was this?" I asked as I followed them.

After we got to the surface I heard a booming roar. It was then I turned to see one of the weirdest things I ever saw since coming back. What appeared to be a huge furry version of Trogdor the Burninator was blasting the side of the temple with fire breath.

"That's your monster...." I said attempting to hold back a laugh. What the hell was that thing supposed to be? "So...that thing used to be a part of you huh...I guess someone who came back as a girl with tentacles and three boobs can't really talk, but still what the hell?" I asked as the furry Trogdor picked up a large boulder hurling it at the side of the temple with another roar. The boulder struck the wall before falling tot he ground with a large thud sending bits of rock and dirt flying into the air. That thing was big and rediculous looking, but if what Spike said was true it was also very fast. But the question was could it fly? That would be decisive in how easy it would be for me to take it down. It had small wings that looked like they could never carry its huge body. But that didn't nessecerely mean it couldn't fly. And if it could fly, would it be able to move fast enough to keep up with me?

“Come on! This way!” Spike yelled out as he led us down a stone laid stairway lined with cobwebs, ancient statues that looked like some kinda of crazed Buddha and intermittent pillars covered in what looked like kanji (not that I could read Japanese mind you….. wait….. why can I understand it though?)

“A temple with a cellar?” Johnson asked as looked over at Spike with a confused look to him. So temples don’t normally have basements? Learn something new everyday I guess.

To which Spike shot back, “Some temple, ain't it?”, as he started to step down the stairs kicking up a thick cloud of dust as he does so.

Manticore followed behind him with a perplex look on her face and Johnson with Rei went after her. Wait…… What the hell is going on here? Why the hell are we just following this guy? What do we know about him? And more importantly why is this place coming down around us? I was still far to stiff and tiered to deal with this shit, bloods still too thin. Aww fuck it, can’t just leave my friends alone can I? So in another act of stupidity I prepped my rifle and followed after them as I hear Rei ask Johnson, “I wonder what's going on there?”.

“The enemy?” I piped out, this is probably a trap so why not?

“No way!” Chimed out Johnson, he then looked down at Rei and tolled her, “We whipped them! Were safe... for now.”

We whipped who now?

“Do you know what’s causing this Spike?” Rei asked looking over to him.

“It's the MolMol.” he explained looking back at her….. the what? Ok folks I don’t even know what to say here, MolMol….. WOW.

“The what?!” Manticore asked with the same look on her face I had right about now.

“The MolMol” Spike reiterated, he stopped and turned to face us and went on to explain in grater detail, “I’m not surprise you've never of it. Basically it's an underground monster that's trying to kill me. I think I somehow created when I came back through instrumentality.”

“Again, huh?” Johnson said. “How is that possible?”

“I don't know, I’m still figuring that out myself.” He said back.

“Are you going to try to kill it?” Rei asked him.

“Most likely. I could use back up though. He replied. He then looked down at her and smiled while asking, “Want to help?”

“Hell yeah!” Johnson and Rei shouted out at the same time while Manticore and myself just replied with dead pans looks.

“That's what I like to hear.” Spike replied to Johnson and Rei with a smile.

"I have a theory about your monster." Manticore told Spike.

"What would that be?" He asked back.

"If what you say is true and you made it in instrumentality, the monster out of there could just be another aspect of your personality manifesting; this would especially be plausible if you had a split personality disorder. So far we haven't seen a true limit to what people can come back as. Many of the individuals we've encountered have broken supposed laws of physics. I happen to violate them myself, check this out!" she said as she turned her back to Spike and generated her tentacles from it in a blink of an eye. How’s that violate physics? I mean so long as the amount matter in her doesn’t change there’s not a whole lot of law breaking going on, if she’s just talking about how at they come out 8 feet in one second is not that fast. She then retraced the “physics violators” and then added in, “If I can come back as something which can alter its shape in a way that shouldn't be physically possible, then it wouldn't be hard to believe this you could have manifested as more then one being. My theory is the monster out there isn't just something you made, it is you, another part of yourself that manifested in a second body."

Spike seemed to be going over what she was saying when Johnson pulled out his magnum and shouted out, “Let's get up there and kick it's as-”

“We can't go back up my friend.” Spike cut him off with, “If we go back up, the MolMol will come out of nowhere and eat us before we could even take a base of action. Trust me, he's good like that.” Wait…. what? Then why the hell are we going down this way then?

Manticore then looked over at Spike and told him, "Maybe, but even if part of you came back as a monster, now things are different because now you've got someone who came back all monster who'll help you fight it. It wouldn't be the first time some weird thing tried to eat me. I've already had to fight my way out of a monsters stomach and a giant snakes mouth. Though I'd rather not get eaten again...it's really nasty."

“O-kay, how do we get out the temple then if we can't go back up?” Rei asked.

To which Spike answered by tapping a part of the wall to the left of one of those crazy Buddha statues and a secret passage opened up kicking up a cloud of choking dust as he explained, “We’ll go through here. It leads back up to the top, we can figure out things later, I told you this temple had everything.”

“It sure does.” Rei replied back to Spike blushing with a smile following him into the passage. Wait, is she falling for him? How old is this guy, better not make any moves on her or he’ll have both Johnson and myself to deal with……

Manticore then asked, "Yeah, what the hell kind of temple was this?” to no answer from Spike as she went in after them following Johnson.

After walking for a couple of minute going thought the dark and extremely dusty tunnel Spike told us to stop and a second later we heard the sound of grinning stone as part of the wall opened up finally letting in some light as a thunderous roar came in for the chamber the passage opened up into, guess that’s the MolMol. We then stepped out into the large cavernous chamber and at the far end of it was……. was……. my God….. THAT’S the MolMol?! Standing about 15 feet tall and covered in fur the “MolMol” looked like a….. a….. Ok, I’m just going to go out and say it….. it looked like teh basted love child of Trogdar and a mole…… there it was with it’s angry eye brow and constant “V’s” and a big furry clawed and furry mole arm coming out if it’s back and it was apparently a wing-a-ling MolMol since it had two little bat wings coming out of it’s…. you know I have know idea of what’s holding them in…… I’m… I’m at a lost here people what else can I say?

"That's your monster...." was Manticore response to this ridicules abomination as she attempted to hold back from busting out laughing. After composing herself she looked over at Spike saying, "So...that thing used to be a part of you huh...I guess someone who came back as a girl with tentacles and three boobs can't really talk, but still what the hell?"

Well after that it seemed that it noticed us since the Trogclone grabbed a chunk of rubble and casually chucked it at the passages opening forcing us to jump out of the way as it collided against it. Ignoring the protest given out by my sore joints I propped myself on my knee and brought my weapon to bear as Spike ran in at the beastie, Manticore flew at it with her tentacles morphing into a battery of bladed weapons and Johnson charged in firing off his revolver.

Realizing that she was lacking a proper weapon Rei called out, “What about me guys?”

“Stay by me and follow my lead!” I call out to her as I toss her my pistol. After she caught it I then told her, “Steady your aim and fire, just make sure you don’t hit our friends.”, as I pumped super hot ionized matter into it seemingly only singing its fur.

Meanwhile the others closed the distance with the furry beast; Spike pulled a Michael Jordan and leaped a good 15 feet into the air delivering a sharp snap kick to its face causing the beast to rear back while Manticore let off a bolt of lighting at it to little effect and then swooped into closer so she could bring her tentacle to bear as Johnson fired off his 6th shot from his gun and pulled out his trademarked chainsaw and reaved it back to life!

Shortly after our arrival the thing turned as it seemed to sense us. Wasting no time it hurled another large boulder in our direction which I easily dodged as I took to the air raining lightning down on it without much effect. The beast roared and spewed fire, the good news seemed to be that it was unable to follow me into the air even if my attacks weren't doing much. The others fired on it from the ground without doing much either. It was time to switch tactics as I flew in closer, slashing it across the face with my tail. This actually seemed to do some damage as blood gushed from the wound and it released a roar of fury, lashing out at me. But as quick as it was it wasn't fast enough as I flew just out of its reach. Chasing after me it leapt onto the roof of the temple before releasing another blast of fire. So far my lightning hadn't been very effective, but there was one other thing I could use. As it was scrambling to get onto the rooftop I pulled out Isseis gun and fired a single shot intot he wound I had opened on the beasts face. The flesh around the wound seemed to bloat up before exploding, sending out a jet of blood as half the things face was turned into a bloodied mess.

Squeeeling in pain the monster tumbled from the roof before turning on the nearest person on the ground which just so happened to be Johnson as it came at him snarling. I was about to go down and help him out but before I could I felt some searing heat graze my shoulder as I was knocked form the air by some weird greenish beam. I landed with a thud against the half ruined roof of the temple almost sliding off before I hooked my tentacles into it. The brun wound on my shoulder was beginning to heal, but it still smarted pretty bad. That blast hadn't come from thej monster. And that beam didn't look unfamiliar either. Did that mean he was here?

"I fioun yuo now!" I heard a familiar but slightly more high pitched voice shout.

Dammit, that weasel dragon thing wasn't bad enough, but Issei was here too? Sure enough the green haired brat who consistantly mangeled anything he tried to say leapt down from the highest point of the temple landing next to me. Except he wasn't a little boy anymore, thanks to the incident with Tsubasa back in that vampire city he looked like a little girl right now.

"Dammit, this isn't the time for this! If you don't get away from me right now Issei, I'm going to pop your head with your own gun!" I said as I got up to face him. Behind me I could hear a loud explosion as the monsters flame breath caused something to explode. I had to deal with this brat quickly and get back to helping the others.

"Nio! Yuor going to liseen tu me! Yuo give beck my peenis right nuw!" she shouted at me as Issei pulled out a gun identical tot he one I was holding in my hand.

"Now Issei...just because you happen to be a girl, that doesn't make you any less of a man." While I was talking I moved two of my tentacles behind my back about a foot apart from each other before releasing an arc of electricity between them creating a blinding light much like what I had used to kill some of the vampires.

"AAGGHH!" Sheilding her eyes Issei fired wildly, I also fired a couple shots as well as I ran, neither of out shots connected as various part sof the roof exploded into showers of gore, the blood generated from Isseis weird bullets painting the temple red in the process. I had to get rid of this little punk fast so that I could get back to helping the others beat that freaky monster, I wasn't so sure they could beat it without my help.

“Aim for the head!” I shouted at the others.

The battle had begun and we attacked like crazy. I'll spare you the details because it really conseded of just kicking, punching, cussing, ducking, more punching, more cussing and so on and so forth...
(As well as Manticore cracking up at the sight of the MolMol.)

And then after several minutes we... killed it. Yeah, Manticore held him down and I put the nail in the coffin (The nail being my magnum and the coffin being the MolMol's head.)

Yeah... I know what your thinking, “that was anti-climatic” and you'd be right, however when your hanging with me, that's how things just roll.

“Well that was lame.” said a disappointed Johnson.

“Yeah, what's up with that?” Manticore retorted.

“Whatever happens, happens.” I replied back.

“Huh?” Rei replied.

“A wise man once said that. I live by that. Things don't always turn out the way you wanted.”

A silence followed.

Then...

“So Spike, where will go from here?” Ryujin finally answered.

“I was going to ask if I could join your group. The temple received too much damage in the battle and will most likely cave in soon.”

“Sure, why not?” replied Johnson.

“Yeah.” replied Ryujin.

“Ditto.” said Manticore.

“Me too.” said Rei lastly.

“Sweet, now I can stare out you all the time sexy.”

Rei blushed. The others gave me a glaring look.

We were just about to leave town when suddenly the MolMol's corpse began to smoke.

“What the hell?!” Johnson and Manticore muttered.

Then it hit me.

“The MolMol... I remember!”

Out of the large smoke came a small white fur puppy. It ran towards Rei and began licking her. She giggled.

“What the?!... what happened to the MolMol? What's going on?!” shouted Manticore.

“I remember now, this was my puppy, Toki from my pre-instrumentality life. I think I forgot to feed him on “The Day” and turned himself into the big weasel dragon thing when he came back. Then he came after me and i've been trying to kill it so I could change him back. Funny how I forgot.”

Akward silence.

“You know, for someone pretty cool, you sure act goofy sometimes.” Said Ryujin.

I chuckled.
“Yeah, I get that a lot.”

We left town and continued on.
I'm surprised they didn't ask me more about the weird events that just transpired. Then again, one of the said people is an alien female creature with three tits so i'm guessing they're use to it.

As we traveled, I noticed Rei had taken an interest in Toki and like wise.
“That Rei.” I thought to myself.
“She would make a great mother.”

...

“What a random thought.”

I came tumbling through part of the roof that had been blasted open landing with a thud in the middle of a large prayer hall in front of several large Buddah statues. Issei then landed on the other side of the room next to one of them. "Big mistake...falling in hear where you can't run around as much!" I said as electricity crackled around my body. Issei quickly darted behind the statues as I released so much lightning the first stone statue exploded sending bits and pieces flying through the air. But before the dust could even clear the statue behind it began to glow red hot. Moments later two burning green beams of energy blew it in half as they shot past me blowing a hole in the wall on the other side of the room. I expected Issei to retaliate, but the little brat had already vanished.

"Now where he .err she err ..whatever have gotten to?" I saked as I looked around. As I walked over to the decimated statues to inspect the area I spotted a nearby closet door move slightly. "Uhoh!" I said as I popped Talons sword from its sheath. No sooner had I done this the closet door exploded as Issei came at me wildly swinging a huge broad sword. The blade sliced through the remaining Buddah statue as I blocked it with Talons blade and then kicked Issei backwards sending her tiny body sprawling. Before Iseei could fully get up I swung my tale blasting the little imp through a nearby bathroom door. Not giving Issei a chance to get up I pulled out the gun again firing repeatedly intot he open door. Issei quickly scrambled out of the way as the wall exploded into showers of blood. Just to be sure the imp didn't try ambushing me the moment I walked into the bathroom I fired another lighting bolt through the door before walking in. Sure enough that had forced the little bastard away from the door. But the question was where the imp had gotten to?

"Gove it bask!" Issei shouted as she leapt fromt he ceiling landing on top of me. Issei may have been small, he may have been turned into a girl, but the little bastard was incrediubly strong for such a shrim! Grabbing my horns she twisted my head as I felt my neck snap. I momentarily fell over limp on the ground as the little imp raised her sword. But before she could strike my tail lashed out smacked her face, knocking her through one of the nearby bathroom stalls. As my vertebrae poped back into place I stood up. "Why yuo no die? I kill you! I kill you! I killl yuo to derth!" Iseei shouted in anger and surprise that I could still fight.

"Ouch...that hurt!" I said as Issei stood up and charged with a high pitched battle cry running at me with the blade ready to cleave me in two. Quickly I lashed out a single tentacle grabbing a nearby urinal. With a jerk I ripped it from the wall smashing it into her body sending Issei reeling back intot he sinks, the side of her head bleeding from where I had struck her.Grabbing onto one of the sinks she ripped it from the wall swinging it as I brought the urinal around for the finishing blow. The two collided, shattering and sending bits of stone flying through the air. Not letting up Issei drove her elbow into my stomach causing me to double over. I felt the contents of my stomach beging to force their way up. That was a big mistake Issei! I vomited aiming right at her! Issei tried to scramble out of the way but it was too late as the vomit struck her head on burning through her flesh as she screamed in agony. "It's time for you to go some place that I hope to never go to again...the toilet!" I said as I gave the dissolving imp a kick sending her reeling backwards. Stumbling and slipping in her own dissolving body she then fell into a toilet before completely dissolving into a sticky disgusting mess that smelled of toxic gas.

"Eww...." I said as I hobbled over tot he toilet and gave it a flush. Even now I noticed just how impressive the durability of the clothes were Naomi had given me, my vomit had completely dissolved Issei into mush but it hand't even scorctched the clothes it had gotten on. I'de still have to give these a good washing when I got the chance though.

A bit later

I emerged atop the roof, the others were still having trouble with that weird monster. But lucky me, it wasn't paying attention to me at all. I picked a nearby wooden ladder and smashed it in half with my tail, picking up one end like a huge javelin before flying high into the air. Then a dove, putting all the speed my ion propulsion could muster behind it as I drove it downwards intot he beasts neck. It roared in agony as I drove the it intot he ground like a stake pinning the monster in place. As it thrashed in pain, spewing fire Spike pulled out a magnum before aiming directly into the exposed eye socket wound I made earilier before firing into the monsters brain causing it to go silent.

“Well that was lame.” said a disappointed Johnson. He had his chainsaw out, I bet he wanted to go postal on another weird animal. Though to be honest I hadn't expected things to be that easy either.

“Yeah, what's up with that?” I asked

“Whatever happens, happens.” he replied back. Wait that line...

“Huh?” Rei replied. I wondered if Rei had also seen that anime and was putting the pieces together.

“A wise man once said that. I live by that. Things don't always turn out the way you wanted.”

Wait this guy called himself spike and also said that line, hell he even kind of looked like Spike aside from not being quite human. Oh well I guess there could be worse people to team up with then a hard core cowboy bebop fan. The others also went quiet, maybe theyed come to the same conclusion I had.

“So Spike, where will go from here?” Ryujin said finnally speaking up

“I was going to ask if I could join your group. The temple received too much damage in the battle and will most likely cave in soon.” he replied

“Sure, why not?” replied Johnson.

“Yeah.” replied Ryujin.

“Ditto.” I said , we could certainly use some more help.

“Me too.” said Rei lastly.

“Sweet, now I can stare out you all the time sexy.” Was this guy fucking serious? He's already putting the moves on an underaged girl he just met. Rei just blushed at this, oh well he would still probably make better dna for the future of the human race then Shinji even if he was some sort of Spike Spiegal wannabe. Johnson just gave him a look which I couldn't read through his gasmask, was that jealousy or parental dissaproval or was he just pissed? I couldn't tell. Oh well whatever happens happens...

But before we could do anything else that weird monsters corpse began to smoke as its huge body vanished a tiny white puppy emerged with a tiny bark before going over to Rei licking her. “I remember now, this was my puppy, Toki from my pre-instrumentality life. I think I forgot to feed him on “The Day” and turned himself into the big weasel dragon thing when he came back. Then he came after me and i've been trying to kill it so I could change him back. Funny how I forgot.” Spike said with a laugh. All I could do was face palm at this.

"I'm not sure about this guy. He seems to be a few bricks short of a piece of cheese..." I said quietly to Johnson as he stared down at the small puppy.

Later

After we had left and the sun was beginning to go down I cat up in a tree waiting. The others were camping out nearby. Supposedly Demiurge would be able to find me regardless of where we were. At least that was what Masquerade had told me.

"Well...it looks like you had quite a day." I heard a familiar voice say.

"Your here?" I asked. As I said this the air in front of me seemed to shimmer as Demiurge appeared.

"Yes, I knew you would be coming to this place." He said with a smile. Of course, this guy had access to any knowledge he wished to know. He could even tell me if Lindquist tried to lie to me. But then again at the same time, if our goals didn't quite match up it would be quite easy for him to betray me. But then, the fact that he was meeting me here in the first place either meant that our goals did in fact coincide or he had some other use for me. I could only hope it was the latter as there wouldn't be a whole lot I could do if we wern't on the same side as he would be able to anticipate any moves I could possibly make against him.

"There's no need to worry about that, I assure you that I'm not your enemy. Now then, how's about we get going." He said to me. I checked to make sure I had everything in my bag. I had packed several weapons a few masks and even one blank mask. I closed up the bag and followed him over to a motorcycle he had parked nearby.

"I didn't hear you drive." I said to him.

"That's because I arrived here three hours before you. But even if I hadn't you would not have heard anything, my illusions can mask all senses." He said before we both got on and drove off.

After giving that Spike kid a thorough interrogation to which as far as I can tell he seems to be pretty much on the level, maybe a little on the odd side and I was sure to let him know that if he tried anything with Rei he’d have myself and even more so Johnson to worry about but all in all he seems to be a good kid, I found myself a nice tree to lay under. In all reality I really wanted to be with Rana given her recovery and how long it’s been since since we’ve been together but right now I need some rest…. I was warn out mind, body and soul and if I was with her we just be talking and I’d never get any shut eye before the next crises came up…….. but really that’s the thing, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get my mind off the 10 million crises I was dealing with. No matter where we went, what we did the Overlord would just find and attack us and now our group was split up..... which might actually be a good thing at the moment since it would make it harder for him to track us all down and with out having to worry about everyone we can unleash the full power of our robots a bit more freely. Of course that also meant that we were the easiest of the group to track down but again so long as they were after us the rest of the group was safer but that also meant that I had to be prepared to deal with a new attack at any moment which in turn was the very reason I couldn’t get the rest I needed!

Shit, I’m just tearing my mind apart…… how can I deal with an enemy that has total tactical surprise, they can attack when an where they want leaving us on the defensive. Now I was by nature a defensive fighter; my strategy in a fight is always to get the enemy to attack, watch for their openings and then turn my defensive action into and attack but here I couldn’t see what their opening was, there attack were totally chaotic and while they were brutal they didn’t make a lot of tactical sense….. almost like their only goal was to simply cause terror, leave us disoriented, frantic and since I couldn’t find their opening I couldn’t fight defensively like I want to which means I was fighting a losing battle….. fighting defensively…… that’s it!

With a sudden burst of inspiration I jumped up and ran over to our supplies and pulled out all the military maps we grabbed form the base that was taken over by the Scientology cult along with a grease pencil and a ruler. I then unfolded them and laid them on the grass and using the ruler and pencil I measured out which bases were the closest to us…… it was time to change up my strategy!

About a half and hour of planning later I got everyone together to hear my plan out, well all most everyone; Manticore seemed to have ran off, probably doing a little recon while getting some personal time in so I’ll just go over it with her later and besides I think she’ll like this one.

With everyone standing around me I laid down the maps once again and pointed to large base about 50 miles from us located in a valley surrounded by hills and told them, “Ok this is it! This has to be the Overlords main base of operations for this area so I think we should pay it a little visit and level the fucking place!” I then get up and look across each of them, “I think we’re all sick and tired of running only to be tracked down and massacred by this Overlords army am I right?” I pause for a few seconds for them to nod and reply, “So I think it’s time to take the fight to him! Right now his forces will be spilt up looking for us and since we now no longer have to look out for a bunch of other people, to many to fit in our robots, we can start to be a little more aggressive. So my plan is we head straight for this base.” I look over at Shiro and point to hill top with an elevation of 625ft about 12 miles form the base and tell him, “You set up shop here and hit them with everything shy of your N²s while Rei and myself along with Lil Z’ just blast this place to shit. We ain’t taking no captives, not stocking up on supplies we’re just hitting them and hitting them HARD! After we’ve leveled it we then move to this smaller bas located 18 miles to its north west and do the same to it and then go counter clock wise taking out each of these 5 smaller bases leading up to this airforce base located just off of the ocean.” I pause again to let all that sink in and then double tap the air base before continuing, “Now here’s where thing get a little different, we want this base mostly intact. There’s a couple of reasons for this, since Phoenix is a pilot we can take advantage of some of the long range transport craft there for one. Also we can us the UAVs there to help search and find the missing members our little group here and there’s a good chance we might find a satellite uplink there that Shiro over there might just be able to hack into and I don’t think I need to explain to heavily the reason why that would be a good thing. Alright sine we need to pull our punches with this one we’ll park our bots behind this hill and a couple of us will do a little scouting of the base looking for troop concentrations, weapon depots, where they keep the fighter and so on and after we got a good idea of what’s going on there we head back to out mechs and take out their troops and fighters, hell take out most of their aircraft but leave a transport of two and a few drones and for the personal we need to leave a few alive, it’s about time we learn where this Overlords main base is. After we’ve taken the base we’ll do our best to hold it while we reprogram a few of the UAVs to find our friends and we try to get into the satellite network. Well that’s about all I got for now, we’ll wait a little bit for Manticore to show back up during which we’ll get ready and Rei, I’ll need you and Zeros help reloading Jets missiles launchers but in the mean time anybody got anything else they want to add to the plan?”

After riding on the motorcycle for awhile we came to a stop in the middle of a suburban area nearby what looked to be some sort of baseball stadium. a lot of people were gathered nearby. Many of them were wearing the uniforms of the overlords army and some of them weren't human either. Outside the stadium several dragons scuffled around a number of armored vehicles letting out a roar.

"What the hells going on here? Looks like it's some kind of big event." I said as we got of the motorcycle, Demiurges illusions would make us both undetectable to these guys but still the amount of enemies in the area made me a little nervous. No couldn't lose my cool, I just needed to stick to the plan and everything would be ok. "This is going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Don't worry, since I'm here any needles can be easily found." He said as his third eye opened. "Follow me!" He said as we walked inside even as we brushed against several enemies they didn't notice us. Demiurge could fool even their sense of touch into believing they were touching nothing but air.

If I was on my own I would have no idea where to go , but with Demiurges help we easily navigated the base. We then made our way outside where they were setting up some sort of stage in the middle of the stadium. It looked like they were going to hold some sort of even here but it wasn't done being set up yet. Then I saw him talking to a large man wrapped in bandages like a mummy.

"RRRGHHHMMMHH" the mummy seemed to moan out.

"It's late huh? Well I guess it can't be helped. Seems the rally won't be on time today after all." he said in response to whatever weird noises the mummy was making before it shambled off.

He was about to go back what he was doing when I looked over to Demiurge and said "Alright, lets do this just like we planned." I said

Demiurge nodded as I walked over sneaking up behind him before putting the barrel of a gun to the back of his head.. "Don't move. Your the only one here who can see or hear me, so don't bother trying to ask anyone else for help." I said as he froze up.

"If you think a mere gun can kill me your sadly mistaken...your that girl with the tentacles, Manticore was it?"

"Yeah that's me. Also this isn't a regular gun, it's a little souvenere I picked up from that annnoying lackey of yours before I killed him. I don't know if you could survive a shot from that but even if you can. I took that into account Matt."

He seemed to go stiff as I used his name "How do you know that name? Who are you?"

"I was able to figure it out from your current identity, Lindquist von Spielberg was a character you made afterall. Now your going to do as I say or I kill you!"

"Are you so sure you can kill me even with that? I am a lightning god afterall." He said with a smile.

"If this was the only way I could threaten you I wouldn't have come here. Are you familiar with the anime "Deathnote"?" It was time for me to use my bluff. I had come up with this plan after I found out that demiurge could use his illusions to kill.

"Yes, I've seen some of it."

"Recently I happened to run into someone who came back with a deathnote...I killed him and took it for myself. Right now I have an accomplice in a safe place who has your photo as well as the stolen deathnote and I told them your name as well. If you don't cooporate with me they will write your name in it." I said to him.

"How do I know your not lying? Also I'm no longer human, a deathnote shouldn't work on me anymore."

"For your first question I can prove I have one here and now, I also have a page I took from it. You can tell me the name of anyone here you want to have killed and I can do it for you here and now as long as I can see their face. As for the second question, it seems that rule no longer applies, the guy who came back with this book could kill anyone as long as he knew their face and name." Lindquist looked a little nervous.

"Ok, why don't you kill him." He said gesturing to the large orc I had seen earlier. "He screwed up several missions recently, his real name is Susan Smith."

"Susan Smith huh....guess you can never tell a book by its cover." I said as I pretended to write the name down on a piece of paper. I then glanced over at Demiurge giving him the signal. He opened his third eye focusing on the orc. Moments later the orc fell to its knees coughing up blood before collapsing and then dying. Demiurge had used his illusions to fool it into believing it was having a heart attack. When all his power was focused on a single indevidual it was strong enough to kill.

"Now do you believe me? If you don't want to end up like Susan you'll do as I say."

"Alright...what are your demands?"

"First, recently you were chasing after us because we took something from you. It's part of a satilite weapon...I was wondering what your intentions are in using this?"

"Alright, I'll tell you about it, but not here. Follow me, I'll take you back to my base in mount Fuji where we can talk." He said as we went. After exiting the stadium we made our way to a small airship behind it before getting inside. Demiurge followed as well invisible to him.

"Your also someone from my past as well aren't you." He said as he glanced over at me. "Using the process of elimination I would say that your probably Dan. I must say I had no idea you were into this sort of thing."

"Geh! How did you know?" I said a bit taken aback.

"So I was right then?"

"Yeah..." I said looking pretty embarrassed as I felt my face go completely red.

"Out of the people who know about Lindquist von Spielberg only you and Mike are not accounted for. And of the two of you, I think your the more likely of the two to come up with something like this. Also not very many people knew I watched deathnote, you being one of those people. So given all that it wasn't hard to figure out. But why did you come back looking like that?" he asked.

"Uhhh...well....I was uhh...since I had nothing better to do in limbo I thought I would try coming up with an idea for an urusei yatsura hentai and uhh...shit happened I guess..." I said lying about why I had actually come back like that.

"You shouldn't hide who you are. You must confront yourself!" Demiurge said nodding in the background. I only gave him a glaring look before going back to the conversation.

"Well if anything I'm sure Katie will like your new form."

"So you found Katie too huh?" I said as he confirmed my suspicion.

"Yes and not just her either." He said as we continued to fly towards his base.

OOC: Just wanted to do something different, no I don't plan on taking her as a permanent character.

IC:
“Asuka this Angel is breaking through our defenses faster then anything we’ve dealt with before so we’re going to hot launch you straight into the Geo Front where you’re going to take it down as it breaks through the last plate. Remember Asuka we need to stop this Angel no matter what!” That annoying bag informed me over the com link.

“I know that already Misato! Just get me up there so I can deal it!” I shot back, like I didn’t already now this! Not like they got anyone else. What? Is Wonder Girl going to take it on? What Angel has she ever taken on and defeated on her own? And of course the great and might Shinji just had to run away because he can’t deal with his daddy issues so that leaves just ME. I’ll take this one down all by my self, I’ll show them!

“Eva Unit Two-LAUNCH!” Misato shouted as I was shot up to the surface. Arriving I was greeted by the thundering echo of the 14th Angel blasting its way down here, the armored buildings shook and rattles as bits of metal and concrete broke off and rained down under the impacts. To my either side warning lights and klaxons went off as two lifts loaded up with weapons raised up besides me.

Alight Asuka, this is your time to shine… you don’t need that baka Shinji…. you don’t need anyone! I grabbed a Pallet Rifle in each hand and waited….. I thought they said this thing would be here by now? Come on damn you! Stop playing games and show your self!

And with that the Angel seemed to obey my wish as the sky lit up with a brilliant flash as the Angel blasted though the Geo Fronts ceiling sending the armored blocks raining down below smashing into the ground with the force of a small earthquake! A second after the blast cleared I saw it crawling out form the hole it had made. As I lined up my duel rifles Misato blurted out, “Asuka A.T. Field full power! Neutralize the Angels.”, more useless knowledge! I focused and projected my Field as far and as strong as I could and let off sending a hail of tracers at it….. only for them to explode in a shower of sparks several meters short….. Scheisse! It was still to far, I wasn’t effecting its A.T. Field at all so I waited for it to get closer. The Angel has now pulled it self free, mein Gott it’s huge! Slowly it floated towards the ground flailing its two paper thin tentacle like arms getting closer… closer….. NOW! I put all my effort into phasing out its A.T. Field and pulled the triggers on my rifles….. only to watch each and every shot just impact or bounce of its Field…..

“I’m Neutralizing its A.T. Field aren’t I?!” I found my self yelling out loud as my guns ran out of ammo….. time for something bigger! I grabbed two missile launchers and changed at it as it finally touched ground…. just need to get a little closer that’s it! I brought the launchers to bare and waited until the wobble tone become a steady beep and fired sending out two armor piercing rounds at it which tracked and homed in on the Angel trailing lines of white cotton behind them… come on…. come on…. I’m focusing as hard as I can! NO! With a flash and a burst of flame they too simply impacted against its A.T. Field…….Welches ein bisschen Tier Sie sind?! With out even bothering to get a lock on I fired and fired again until both launcher were empty… still nothing! So with nothing left I dropped the worthless objects and pulled out my Prog Knife and once again charged at that monster while screaming, “Verdammt sterben Sie!!!” I was going to take it down with my bare hands if I had to!

Finally the Angel reacted twisting its solid lump of a torso to look at me with it hollow skull like empty eyes….. it almost look like it was smirking at me…. at ME! Just got 300 more meters to go so I charged up my blade and shouted out, “Verbiegen Sie vorbei und nehmen Sie es!!” at it as I prepared to leap into my blow but before I could its paper like arms retraced and folded into it bone like shoulders….. what was it doi…… Suddenly they shot back out at speed and arced at me but I was able to duck down and roll under them! I launched my self back up and went to charge, this was my opening for my “Töten des Schlages” but then I felt something wrap around my arms and pull me back….. its arms…. they got me! Nein! Nein, nein, nein, NEIN it wasn’t going to stop me, with all my strength I pulled, pried, tugged… COME ON! I can’t fail….. just die already! It looked at me with that smirk again…. it was enjoying this…… come on you Du Hurensohn just finish me off or let me go!

The monster then reared back and with a snapped whipped it arms sending a rippled down them terminating at where it was bounding my arms and with a jerk…..My arms… their muscle, tendons, sinew, bone snap and tear… ripped from my body…. Mein Gott, the pain…. I feel the blood gush out and make a lake of the surroundings… I felt sick to my stomach… I needed to vomit…. Nein! Get a hold of your self Asuka….. no surrender, no retreat…. I can still do this…. I rather die then fall back now…. come on you monsters finish me or I’ll finish YOU!!!!! It then reared back its arms once more and shot them out, a second later I felt the cut from across my neck……………….

I awoke laying chest first on the ground breathing heavily…. I had that dream again… wait…… what happened? There was a sulfurs smell to the air… and before my eyes was a sea of flame…. what the hell happened here? Hold on… something was on my back covering me. I turned as best I could to see what it was only to find that idiot laying unconscious on top of me. Looks like I’m just stuck with this baka……

"So it's in here huh? Your secret base?" I said as I got out of the ship. The crater had been completely hollowed out and filled with the structure of his base, at the top of which was the landing pad for the air ships. "How long did this take to make?"

"It wouldve taken a lot longer, but Brian came up with a way to speed up the process using nanotechnology. It took about a year to build."

"A year...just how long was I gone...It didn't seem quite that long."


A bit later


After making our way through the base we came to what appeared to be a simple janitors closet. "Through here is a secret room that only those in my inner circle have access to. It actually exists in another dimension, much like the dirac sea that one angel used." Linduist said as he opened the door and we steped inside. At first it looked like a regular closet, but the moment I entered I felt my head spinning as if I was about to black out. The next thing I knew I was sitting in the middle of some strange room. It looked like some sort of high class apartment , it even had a big screen TV sitting in the corner. Though it was much bigger then an apartment and it soon became apparent why. A dragon was in it!

"Matt? What are you doing back here so soon?" I heard someone ask, I then looked over to see someone who I didn't quite recognize , but they looked vaguely like my old freind Brian. Aside from this person and the dragon I spotted a fearsome looking demon and the girl who looked like the goth version of Lum who was lying on a couch.

"What the? You brought her here, what's going on?" Another voice asked coming from what I recognized to be the dragon he had been with earlier.

"Hold on everyone, I've got a good reason for all this. Let me explain." He began to say. "First of all I suppose I should reintroduce you to everyone. That dragons Wallid."

"No I'm not." The Dragon said backing away

"That person over there is Brian, that demons Jon and the girl on the couch is Katie. Now I'm sure you all are wondering who this is." he said gesturing over to me. Oh boy this was going tobe embarrassing.

A bit later

"Leave me alone!" I said sitting behind the couch with a paper bag with two eye holes cut in it over my head. I had brought that paper bag before hand because I had anticipated there would be a chance that I would end up in a situation that was so awkward I would need to use it. Wallid was rolling on the floor laughing.


"Come on Wallid, all of us came back as something a little out of the ordinary, I mean Brians a hermaphrodite...Besides apparently he came back this way accidently you shouldnt laugh." Lindquist said attempting to sort things out.

"You shouldn't lie to your freinds about why you came back that way. You mustn't lie about who you are." I heard Demiurge say from where he sat nearby. I did my best to ignore him.

"B-But...hahaha..." The Dragon said as he rolled on the ground laughing with tears in his eyes.

"Curse you Wallid!" I shouted as I jumped on top of him releasing a high voltage shock causing him to twitch a bit smoking slightly.

"GWAAAA!!Ok! Ok I'll stop!" He said as he seemed to barely hold back a laugh even as he was still smoking slightly.

"Hey can you come over here? I want to get a closer look at you!" The girl who was apparently my ex girlfreind Katie said from the couch.

I walked over to her, she looked even more pregnant then last time. She must be pretty close to having the baby since she couldn't even get off the couch right now. That's right, I would need to ask what the deal with that was. "So it's really you huh? I like your new form. You don't need to be so embarrassed about it." she said.

"Uhhh...thanks..." I said not really sure what to say.

"Is it ok if I touch your boobs?" she asked.

"Yeah sure go ahead." I said as she gave them a squeeze.

"Wow these feel so real..." She said in awe.

"That's because they are real. By the way you look pretty pregnant right now, when did that happen? Matt tells me he's the dad, but weren't you seeing someone else?" I asked as I gave her stomach a poke.

"Yeah I'm due to have the baby sometime in the next few days. When I came back Matt was the only other person who was alive. We both thought we were the last people on earth which kind of resulted in us getting back together."

"I didn't find anyone else until about five months later." Lindquist added in.

"Your not feeling jealous are you?" Katie asked.

"No it's alright, besides I'm seeing someone else right now too." I had already accepted awhile ago that Katie and i probably wouldnt ever be getting back together.

"You are?" she asked

"It's not a guy is it?" Wallid asked from the floor.

"No it's not a guy! Do you want me to electrocute you again? All guys are ugly and dirty and I don't want to touch them."

Lindquist just looked a little annoyed at that comment.

"That's right I almost forgot why I came here. I wanted to ask why you guys are working for the overlord. Based on what I've seen the overlords just some nutcase whose going around using his resources to fuck around with people instead of properly restoring the world. Why are you following a guy like that when you have the resources to fight against him?" I asked.

"Well actually right now we don't have the resources to directly oppose the overlord. What you've seen so far is just a small fraction of what he commands. In other words it's better to be at the devils side then in his path. However that isn't to say that I don't have a plan to overthrow him. I agree, leaving the world in the hands of someone like that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. So in secret I've been working on a way to otherthrow him from his position and take the world for myself. This relates to what you stole from me earlier."

"That satelite weapon...I suspected that might be the case."

"The satelite weapon, aside from the shield generator in your possession is completed. It's armed with two weapons. One is an emp cannon that can destroy anything electronic on the earths surface. The other is a positron beam gun. But the overlord currently has other satilite weapons of his own, I don't want to move against him unless I'm sure it will work. And to be sure I will need the sheild generator."

I glanced over at Demiurge, he nodded and said "He is speaking the truth."

"I see..." I said in response to this.

"So will you give me what I need? I'll tell you now, that the chance of success your group has is zero. The overlords forces are vaster and more powerful then you realize. Your only chance of victory is to join me."

Based on what I had seen I had to agree with what he said. Just continuing on as we had been doing would be suicide, our best chance for survival would be to allie with him. And Demiurge had said he was telling the truth , the only way this would be a trap would be if Demiurge was in on it which I didn't think was the case "Well I suppose I can't argue with that. But when we rule the world I want Madagascar. I'll go try to convince the others into making a secret alliance with you. If that works we can have a staged fight where you pretend to attack us, we retreat and you get the shield generator. If they won't agree to that I'll just steal it and bring it to you myself."

It's a simple room, that considering the destruction of Third Impact is still in decent condition and looks to be kept up surprisingly well. The walls are a bland manilla color. There's two twin beds, each with fairly decorative comforters and white sheets, two white pillows each. There is a single bathroom, a couch and three comfy chairs as well as a desk. There is a small 20" inch t.v. sitting on top of the desk.

As I awoke I saw Misato sitting in a chair next to the bed I found myself laying in, overlooking me and when she noticed I was had awaken she smiled then said, “Hey kid, looks like you passed out on me.” I blink my eyes a few times sleepily and sit up a little before saying, "I'm sorry, Misato. I must've overworked myself. I've just been through a whole lot."

"This might be able to help with your problem." Lindquist said as he showed me a weird gun.

"What the hells this thing?"

"It's something Brian invented. It can reset a person to their default form or some other form that's been encoded into the gun by temporarily nullifying their AT field. The data for a persons original form is still there even after they've been reimagined, if no new data is entered the person in question will be reset to their default state. Since your stuck in this form I figured I could let you use it..."

"No way! First of all I don't trust some dodgy invention you guys came up with. Secondly I have no desire to going back to being a frail human. Yes, I know being a female can be difficult , but that's just a cross I'll have to bare. Don't worry...I know it'll be a hard journey...living life as a girl... but I'm sure I'll manage somehow..." Demiurge just shook his head at my display of lies and half truths.

"Eh, just thought I would bring it up."

"But still it's impressive you guys could come up with something like this. So re-imagining can even effect the level of someones intelligence. I don't suppose you built a zeeky bomb?"

"Do not say anything even remotely close to the Z-word! The last time someone did that I had to rebuild the base!" Lindquist said putting his hand over my mouth.

"I'll be sure to keep that in mind." I said as he lead me over to a room filled with kittens. "What's with these kittens."

"These are all troublesome individuals who have had their data overwritten. Since we formed our group we've secretly been eliminating individuals who came back too strong to be handeled using conventional means. This kitten here used to be Chuthulu, an indestructable monster. But this gun is the great equalizer, no matter what powers someone comes back with everyone is subject to being rendered helpless if their AT field is nullified."

"I see..." I looked at the gun and noticed a number of controls for the settings "What is this number pad here for?"

"A time duration can be set for how long a person reverts for. The default setting is indefinitely , but this can be overridden by hitting in a number on this pad. If you hit a one, it will revert you for one minute."

"I see..." I got an idea. I didn't know how much I wanted to trust some dodgy gun they made, but if it worked flawlessly on so many people, maybe I should chance it. . Though I knew if something got screwed up I would be kicking myself pretty hard later, but no I had to take the risk. Just to make sure I looked over at Demiurge he could see the future.

"Will it work?" I asked assuming that even now he was reading my mind. He merely nodded his ram head.

"Will what work?" Lindquist asked.

I didn't answer his question "I want you to revert me for five minutes."

"Why? I thought you said you didn't trust some dodgy invention of Brians." Lindquist said raising an eyebrow.

"Well if it worked on so many people already it looks like it may be trustworthy. In any case I think it'll be worth the risk, just do it." I said as I handed him the gun. He then proceeded to enter int he proper setting before firing it at me. I felt my body begin to change shape as my tale and boobs dissapeared. I then felt a bizzare sensation in my crotch as my genitals reformed growing into a penis. Slowly I got off the floor back in my original form.

"Shit..it really worked...haven't seen that in awhile..." I said looking down at my crotch. If things went as planned I would change back in a few minutes, there wasn't much time. I pulled the blank mask out of my bag and put it on my face for a few moments and then removed it placing it back in the bag.

"What was that about?" Lindquist asked.

"Just something that'll come in handy later. Shit I look embarrassing in these clothes while I'm male..." After a few moments I felt my body beginning to change back into its regular state. My frame shrunk as my chest swelled outwards, a third boob popping into existence between the other two which had already began growing. I then felt my balls and dick shrink and vanish into my body before my crotch split back open causing me to let out a small yelp. Moments later my tail erupted from my rear end lashing about on the floor. I smiled, my plan had worked perfectly.

"That...felt really weird...somehow I don't think I'll ever get used to doing that." I said as I rubbed my crotch which was still tingling from changing shape so rapidly twice in the span of five minutes.

"I still don't get what you did." Lindquist said.

"This mask allows someone to change into whatever first wore it. While it would be bad if I perminantly changed back into my original form, there will be times when it would be good to have it around." I said as I put the mask back inside my bag. "Anyway I should head back, I'll return after I either convince the others to go along with my plan or when I steal the sheild generator."