Hi AHSM... no one is commenting at all in ADSMI... so I'm crossposting... I already have ideas for the next leg of the series -can you say another rename? But this hill called ICH9... is a steep one. I don't know if I'll be able to get this thing to part 3... so... I'm reaching out for comments and criticisms... sure it's pure ego stroking... I understand that... but I'm not feeling so haughty as to pull off the "ending" I have planned... I need to buffer the ole ego -yes Ego too- for what is going to be a major blow to write. One I can't just gloss over. Something that WILL come back to haunt my Avatar... how evil inevitability can be is daunting.... and necessary. Well Enjoy another trip into my Mind. Don't trip on the Earwax. Because I have nothing better to do Productions An Eldrick Tobin project In the Company of Hope 9: Confessions "Such was the love they shared," Joy finished reading. "Wow Joy... I never knew you could read so well... I felt like it was happening all around me," Astrala giggled. "Thanks. Anyone else impressed? Keep the compliments coming." Charhon harumphed," Well I was... but not now." "Later in bed then," Joy smiled triumphantly. "I never said that..." "Speaking of bed," Margo interrupted,"It's bed time Charhon, and I need my pillow." "Of course. I'm nice and warm for you," Charhon said following after Margo. Joy looked over at Ardice... asleep on a lounge chair by the pool... she never made it passed the halfway mark... too much yelling at Konei over something. Probably that Role Playing Game they were playing with Workbot. "It's so good with children." "What is Joy?" Ami Kintaro and Eldrick descended from the rooftop where Eldrick was pointing out constellations to Ami. They looked so misplaced together. But they worked so well. "Huh? Oh I was thinking about the alternate story for tonight. _20th_Angel:Eva_meets_Inju_ The girls didn't want to hear it. They opted for something only lemony." "Only lemony? You sound like lemons for you are like reading from a dictionary," Eldrick noted shocked. "Of course... not steamy enough... I want every detail... I want so much detail that you know where every drop of sweat is... every hair," she got starry eyed,"Can I PLEEEEASE use the who-dink-us on 69th Angel? Please please please??? I need Inju and Eva Pilots!" "Wait till Hope is back. You promised to watch things here while she reported back in for duty." "I know I know. Told her nothing was happening. But she had to go find out for herself." There was a smell like 1 million roses being tossed past your nose all at once. "I did sis. And it's regulation to do so." "Please no regulation code calling I beg you... so can I use the machine now Eldrick?" "Let her Eldrick. Nothing's happening. Lossoth is building power now that he can leave again... but isn't stepping foot out yet... and my doppleganger only left me some really tough cases to work out." Hope paused,"It's... difficult talking to someone who looks almost exactly like you... save with lime green hair." Ami quirked an eyebrow,"Lime green?" She looked at Eldrick. "Probably a planned flaw in their replication matrices." Joy tapped her foot,"Machine yay or nay. If Nay then I'll need to let the floor borrow your clothes for a while Eldrick. Welcome to join in Ami. Or I can watch my darling sister stand in for me. But sex must happen in front of me or I'll... cry." "Use the machine Joy," Eldrick said eyebrow twitching. "Thank you thank you!" Joy kissed Ami... who blinked. She then kissed Eldrick... who also blinked. She went back to Ami and said after kissing her again," Don't mind me... just giving back what I borrowed to let Eldrick have some of. Now don't you three do anything I wouldn't do," she said from behind her sister feeling her up underneath the combat fuku that was worn. She left happily when she saw she'd left them all hot and bothered. "My work here is done," she said to herself and went to the arcade level... where Tentacles and Kaoru would say hi. "My sister seems to get wierder everyday," Hope said to no one in particular. "I think she's relaxing," Ami said. They looked at her. "I mean it... I think what we are seeing as wierd is how she really is but we don't know that from the Angel of Bondage Nurse Joy persona she throws up all the time. This must be the real her." "Really huh?" Eldrick scratched his head. Hope smiled lightly,"Ami's right. Joy hasn't been like this since... since before we were Incarnations... before the coming of the war that had dad come to that awful conclusion that the only way to fight was to enlarge our race to be better able to fight... itself. Those were dark times. We both worked on a Hospital ship... before they got rid of such war hindering conventions... "Anyway we both worked on the ship as... nurses. The blue-haired Angels of Mercy we were called. We were still identical then." Eldrick burst in,"You're identical twins?" "It seems shocking to look at us... but yes at one time there was NO distinction at all. Not so much as a blemish. It was genetic. The zygote split into an out of phase state. Neither resulting embryo was in this reality, but were instead out of phase with reality itself. Mother didn't even give birth to us... we sort of happened. We still had cords to cut though... but mom never got a stretch mark." "The hospital ship?" Ami asked slowly. "Oh yes... sorry. We worked on the ship. One day one of the new soldiers came in wounded. Mortally. We didn't have anything to replace his new blood with that wouldn't make his last hours agony. His wish was to get a kiss from each of us. We were still chronologically 17 then, and so it was exhilarating and yet frightening. We were his last wish. We got up on the platform he was for all intents mounted on, and leaned over and kissed him. When I pulled back I realized Joy hadn't yet, and I watched in curiosity. She kissed him... she played games with his twice as big as it should have been tongue. She mounted his face as I watched in horror as his pulse fluttered. He licked her till she screamed that she couldn't stand it and climbing down him... she... she... "Fucked him till he died... and slowly slowly licked every drop up, and asked if you wanted a taste. You then fled screaming that I was a cold blooded murderer... while the doctor thanked me for putting the man out of his misery in the kindest gentlest way possible. You didn't stay to hear that they were going to have given him the transfusion anyway... which would have made his life hell... and given him a lethal injection if they couldn't save him before his spare hour burned out," Joy fell silent. "I'd thought you'd left." "No I've always been your sister. No matter how different we look we are blood. I'm sorry that my way of helping the doomed was to cheer them up sexually while you told them to cheer up and tell them about their lives and loves. It's one of the reasons why I never told you why I approached Dharm about my current position. I never wanted you to ever be able to change your mind and continue traveling the dark road you had before. If I could have been in 2 places at once I would have solaced the ones needing solace and talked to the ones needing to talk. I figured one day you'd give up on Hoping for the universe and I didn't want you to slip down the path I reveled in. I love you as you are sis." "And I you... mixed up as you are... but I was actually meaning I thought you'd left to be naughty," Hope said wiping away a tear and smiling. "Oh yeah well... the system wouldn't boot." Eldrick blinked and shot a glance at Joy,"You plugged it in right?" "Of course... I even broke out the manual and checked all the settings. All the self tests pass... but it won't actually boot." "This shouldn't be happening... you can fill it with cement and it'll boot." Eldrick sighed,"I'll never get to sleep without knowing what's what! Sorry Ami... sorry Hope." "You'd have just all ended up screwing till morning anyway... sis has that look in her eye." Hope turned crimson,"I ... I do not!" "Sex is only natural. Don't worry about it. But we shouldn't be discussing this... Eldrick left ahead of us." Hope looked about and could see Ami beckoning to them from near the Elevator with a smile. The smile faded when the doors opened on the floor to find Washuu staring at what looked like a Geiger counter. She turned around,"You guys doing something funny with this or what? I can hear it at the end of the elevator shaft." Joy blinked,"Hear what?" Then the sound and picture kicked in... coinciding with Eldrick stepping out of the elevator. -=-=-=- "You like your dolly don't you?" "Yes... Yes I do..." "Lick it some more then..." "Um..." "Won't do it? Punishment time! You won't play with dolly... dolly is gonna play with you. Bend him over," the woman in emerald green lace commanded. "Please no..." "No lubricants? Oh okay," she played it around the blindfolded man's ass while another girl set up a camera when a whip was cracked at her. Everyone in the seen was totally under the sway of the Green Laced woman. And deathly afraid of her. Another girl wheeled a screen infront of the victim in shadow. The screen showed his backside. "Please stop this." "What no more teasing and get on with Male Penetration video? Oh alright... I'll even let you watch it being filmed." The man cried as they peeled the blindfold off and a girl was told to lick his ass to wet it up a bit more. The guy held back some moaning obviously as his shadowy presence undulated. Being given a "ringside" seat to watching his seat be licked. Then the girl was commanded to stop... and with only a pause to show him the monster that was going in. The green laced woman rammed it in and left it there. "We'll wait a minute for the pain to subside... I'm not without compassion." "TAKE IT OUT!!!!" "Oh you must be ready for more... and so hard too," She swiveled the camera to his crotch... it showed a very powerful erection that subsided a bit as the torpedo was removed. -=-=-=- No one could move an inch as the film played itself out... to the almost gruesome orgasm that the man had that they highlighted for the camera. They were FORCED to watch for hours until the man started asking for it... complaining when something was going in that wasn't big enough. Moaning with ecstasy when it was churned in his back door. With a sudden stop of the film they could move. Washuu only said,"Not my normal Monday night movie choice that's for sure." Hope asked,"Who was that anyway... the voices were all distorted." Joy contemplated the ceiling and clenched her fist. Ami was on the verge of tears. "Me." The word cut the silence like a knife and Joy punched the wall in frustration. Washuu turned around shocked to look at Eldrick in disbelief. Ami clung to him saying how she wished she could make it all go away for him. Hope couldn't say a word. ::: And he loved EVERY minute of it. All... however many hours. Math was never my strong suit.::: Eldrick's head snapped forward,"Lo... soth?!!?" But the face that greeted him was... Leon's. Leon put down an AD Police issue Bullhorn and said,"Wow it only took you... too damn long to figure it out. Hi Max. Long time no see... well I've seen more of you than I could possibly want now. But I digress. What was it like being manhandled Eldrick. Did it really give ya wood or was that formica?" "Solid wood furniture. Care for a demonstration? Joy bring your friend down to say hi to my colon." "No need for false demonstrations." "Whose being false, Rick? I've enjoyed it with Joy I just can't remember since she was "On Duty" and only the dead remember when they are with her on duty. Please go get it Joy I'm soo hot right now I could vaporize titanium." "I could never... not after seeing... seeing that. Never again," She leaned into the wall silently sobbing. Eldrick approached Joy... he reached to touch her but she pulled away... so he quietly pulled out his manhood and quickly plunged every inch he had into her backside. She reflexively bucked into him and cooed. "It isn't any different for me Joy. The fun we could have had had you known about what being actually on duty meant for your partners. No bindings... no gags... no suffering through my screaming... just fun." "Yes yes. Whatever... remember me... Villain extraordinary who stole your prototype of bailing wire and goats testicles and condoms so that he could still get out of his prison whenever he wanted to without setting foot outside of Hell? The one who instructed the Slaver to be sure to hit Tokyo and go to a certain university at a certain hour for some prospectives who had changed their minds after already signing themselves into service... I even gave him the order to make those contracts that you now possess, Eldrick. You know... the ones where you can ask them quite strongly to do whatever you want... if they are willing enough to do it. They were so hot for each other they almost went down on each other in the Slave mobile!" He looked around,"Hey I'm confessing all my evil plans in a gloating like fashion you could at least listen!!" Everyone was of course purposefully ignoring him and watching Eldrick take Joy from behind. Joy of course had stopped listening a while back. [Author: Could it be she's having too much fun? Naw. No one enjoys all the anal sex in the Arc... no it must be because um... she's tuned him out... yeah that's the ticket. It has nothing to do with the anal sex. Nothing at all.] "Come on! I even used my Camera to make a digital 3d image of the Remote Control of the Gods so that I could have one too!" They still weren't listening... heck Hope was all over her sister's breasts and Ami was whispering sweet nothings to Washuu. "Hey! I only have 10 more pictures to take before my Sexaroid army can begin production!!! STOP IGNORING ME!!!!" Washuu and Ami were kissing each other, Hope was eating her sister -while playing with herself-, and Eldrick was pinching Joy's nipples, when everyone came at almost the same time. "You people disgust even me!" and 'Rick Hunter' killed his transmission. Most everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and stopped fake orgasming -where appropriate. Joy eased Eldrick out and practically climbed on him trying to kiss every inch of his face. "Well I guess that WASN'T a charade to get his goat plushy from him," Washuu pointed out as she stepped away from a very untouched Ami Kintaro. "Glad I figured you were just teasing Washuu when you hadn't touched me yet." "Ami the only time I've ever touched a woman besides myself was Anatomy class at the Science Academy." Ami giggled,"Didn't you just teach that yesterday?" Washuu blushed,"No no I mean eons ago." "And What about during the whole Zero Ryoko thing," Konei blurted. Washuu sighed,"That was for science." Ami turned to Hope,"Were you faking?" Hope looked at the floor and shook her head," I did almost go for my sister... but she said to play with Eldrick's testicles instead... but I confess she smelled really nice..." Eldrick finally fired his man product into Joy who launched off of him and hovered slowly to the floor by her sister where she knelt down, "Thanks for the compliment Hope... not that you should be eating a sibling as naughty as I. I've been everywhere." The Sisters smiled before helping each other stand. Which was both sad and funny to watch. Eldrick 'put himself away' and regarded his machine before speaking. "If only VCR Rabbits hadn't been almost free," was all he said. "VCR Rabbits? What's that?" Joy asked. "Oh a little thing so you could watch what was on a VCR in another room. They had just the parts I needed for communication between the two still quite separate pieces. I just didn't think one suite could do this to another suite." Washuu rattled into her computer,"And the Paralysis?" Hope answered,"Lossoth." "Good I was hoping Eldrick hadn't built that into it." Washuu got a flat look,"Hey just teasing," she looked over waving her hands in front of her in warding. The screen, in front of her, blipped 3 times,"Ah done with computations... as I thought. ALL the weird disturbances of the last... man that's a lot of work he's done! He might well have every anime girl's picture by now!" Eldrick blanched,"He wasn't just boasting?" "I'm afraid not," Washuu sighed and drew up the relevant data," This is a giant compiled list of all the funny occurrences of either ' Rick Hunter's ' appearance, sudden flashes... ad nauseam. I'll bet he's even taken pictures of anime girls already in hell's service just so that his army is more complete." Eldrick looked over the data,"He seems to have a projection limit." Washuu,"Really?" she punched up a grid map of the Known Dimensional Steps. "Hey thanks for seeing that," she whirled over the keyboard again. "It's nothing really you'd have seen it soon enough," Eldrick chuckled with a large sweatdrop mounted in his hairline. "Actually I probably wouldn't but I won't get into that... BINGO!" Washuu reads over the data,"He doesn't have them yet? He has to have THEM already." Hope blinked,"Who doesn't he have yet." "The Fanboys! Version of the Sailor Senshi." "Why them specifically?" "They are more hardened from dealing with fanboys and fangirls... his target audience it seems. Look here and here... he seems to have rather wanted a fan's idea of a character than the actual original." "What good is that kind of data... isn't it basically tainted?" Hope inquired. "True... that's what I can't wrap around my brain," Washuu punched at the screen in frustration,"I've been investigating this for far too long. I'm tapped out of ideas," she sighed then looked at Eldrick,"How about you... you've got a brain... come on you probably have some wierd idea floating in there about what MUST be going on." Eldrick blushed,"It's silly." "Speak." "Well if his target is the fans... why not use 'material' that's more likely to know the secret wishes of the fans," Washuu just nodded," Like the difference between handing a new shoe to a crime dog or handing one of the victim/culprits shoes fresh off of their foot." "Correct." "What you already knew?!" "Yep." "Why'd you make me say it then?" Eldrick scratched his head. "Tell ya later right now... you need to see how Max is doing," Washuu poked his stomach. "But the Fanboys! don't exactly want me in there..." Ami smiled,"It'll be okay... Max has been living fairly peacefully with them for a while now... ChibiUsa is doing fine goofing off with Max all the time and thereby staying out of the Fanboys! wrathful hair. Everything should be fine. You'll even get to check up on Sunahama and Kasumi." "Didn't I leave them in Tokyo? The AHSM Tokyo?" "Um with all the Fanboys! References..." "Oh no..." "Yes the Tokyo the group is attached to... fluctuates... when you were in there... it was the Fanboys! Tokyo." "Oh heck... I left them to be panty snatched by Havoc..." Eldrick worried ignoring the fact that they were from there anyway. Joy grinned,"They don't wear any." Hope blushed,"Sensible." "Why easy access? Is that why you go without." "OH NO!" Hope turned a few different shades of red,"It makes for less laundry. That's all I meant." "Just an ecchi check is all. So Eldrick taking anyone with you?" Joy suddenly had a camping style backpack on her back and heart eyes in her eyes,"I'll make sure Kas and Suna are in good working order... I mean safe. Oh and Jo too." "You're hopeless." "Yes I am sis... yes I am," Joy winked at Hope. Eldrick pondered as he put on his gear,"You know... once you guys get out of the car... you'll Fanboy Shift. Take on new looks... need new names for temporary issues..." The Demonettes blinked,"Um no... we won't." "No?" Ardice answered,"We don't shift... Joy and Hope and Ami though..." Ego commented on the convenience of that... and got whacked with a broom. Joy smiled broadly,"I bet I know who I'll look like. I'm sure sis will look like Rei Ayanami. As for Ami..." Ami smiled,"I checked the other day... a blue eyed Shayla-Shayla... in Hikaru's school outfit." "How cute!" "Thanks. Who will you look like?" "sorewa himitsu desu." Ego looked blank,"What's that mean... who is that?" Konei answered,"I think she's saying she's going to look like Xellos." "Nerf for brains... it means 'It's a secret.'" Ardice corrected,"I think." Joy posed then announced,"I'm driving!" Ami smiled then shook her head,"We're talking my car. It's coded to only respond to me. Sorry." "Good Luck," Eldrick called... especially after he saw Washuu give them something to use to detect both Max and Rick. "You'll have to find me if you need me... I can't just go find you... we don't have a few days advanced warning on this." "Understood," Hope said before disappearing down the stairs. "Washuu... plug me in." Washuu began typing shortly after attaching Eldrick to the machine. Eldrick grunted at the sudden influx of information, but then it was always like this. Projecting through continuity barriers -even into copies of other continuities- was alot harder than picking up the clicker and pushing some buttons. Fortunately this time things wouldn't implode in the machine. [Author's Note: So sue me. I can't leave a good idea down. Be glad I have no intention of mainstreaming the nanites or Noh'ohki. Regardless of their protests. Some ideas I am not gonna pick up till I have to.]. He opened his eyes after he got up to speed on what had happened. He was happy with the results. It was much later... he'd popped in at a proper point... one that wasn't written. The best kind. Of course the bad part is he didn't know crap about what was going on... Were the senshi still dealing with the FanserviceQuartet? Hopefully... otherwise he'd be really lost. Bad enough the dummy program didn't keep track of such things. His door opened. He turned his head. She was there... ready to go shopping and stuff. Another Day of keeping her away from the fanboys. For their safety. He reached for a shirt from his "closet". He read it first,"'Glomp the artist' Thanks Havoc." "Ready?" She asked without coming into view of his bed... she didn't know if he was dressed afterall. "I am now," he stepped into view. "You must really like that shirt Havoc got you. Maybe you should buy a new one today." "Perhaps you're right." He went over and picked up his bike, and carried the monster outside... barely as usual. "Maybe I should buy a lighter bike too," He smiled. "You'll feel better after breakfast," she said shaking a finger at him. He chuckled,"Well let's get to it then!" He put on his helmet, and she muttered about her hair as she put hers on. They climbed on the bike and were off. DURING ALL OF THIS "Can't we change the color? You're positively mired in red Ami." Ami smiled,"Oh alright... ColorShift... sea green." |Compliance. The car changed colors as Ami put the roof away since they needed to see, not be comfortably anonymous. Everyone stowed equipment and then she started the engine. The demonettes waved as the car pulled out of it's garage and launched into flight up the ramp leaving the car to toil as cars do behind them. Hope looked pensive,"I do pray they wait for the signal first." "Hope... everything will be fine," Ami reassured. The grounded group stopped before the gate and waited for the signal. The Aerial group batted their wings in a hover ready to leap through. Over the com system Gerard announced,"Post Finished. Uploading to server. Good luck." They would ride a Fanboys! related post to the appropriate Tokyo. Of course to even an observant onlooker nothing would seem any different. And indeed the trip was pretty instantaneous. But still. It would be very annoying to get across and find you'd hit the normal one for Sailor Moon, and not the Fanboys! Sailor Moon. "Uploaded." Joy Pointed her riding crop 'Mercy' forward,"Charge!" and they did. On the other side a space for a car just seemingly randomly happened. A Fluke. Then a car appeared in it. A Coincidence coupled with an improbability... but no one noticed. Ami turned the car into the first Alley she could. Where the Aerial Unit waited. "Com set test... 4 3 2 1 aren't we all just having fun," she watched the readouts for the reply since if her sisters nodded she'd BARELY see them. They were obscured from sight. The appropriate voices and lights lit up. The Car entered the Alley. "Our turn. 6789 our communicators are working fine," Ami said subvocally as she watched the readouts. All the right voices and lights went on. "Right the plan is to use the Equipment to 1 Verify Eldrick... err Max's position. And then Use the Equipment to find and neutralize Rick 'Lossoth' Hunter. It'll piss him off no end and he may simply come right back... be ready. He may also increase his abilities... and or use his own powers. Be Careful. She got the affirmative over the system. "Break and Search." The demonettes went even more hard to see and then were gone. "Right girls. Max should be only a few blocks away... let's find that pancake shop." Ami drove the car -red again since entering into Fanspace!- through the alley to the next street and merged with traffic. Soon they were passing the caf and saw Max Sterling and ChibiUsa Tsukino laughing and having breakfast. "Max 'Eldrick' Sterling confirmed visually and electronically. Now concentrate on the other signal." "Guyverized Rick Hunter sighted zooming from Rei's Shrine. Pursuing Mr. Culprit." "Keep on him Konei. His Guyver suit makes him pretty invulnerable..." "Hey what was that?!" "What happened?" "Caught a reflection from a rear view mirror. Oh drat I lost him!" "Use the sensors and find him again," Ardice announced. "Oh yeah." Ardice made a signal to the car only,"We brought her along why?" "We need eyes Ardice. I know you're sister isn't the best at anything... but she's tenacious." Konei hooted in victory,"Yay! I found him again... only... he just looked in the window on Max." Ami smiled and replied on the closed band to Ardice,"See?" She got a tired sigh from Ardice. Ami switched back,"What did he do?" "Rats! I think he got a picture of ChibiUsa!" "1 down... 9 to go." MEANWHILE IN LOSSOTH'S LAIR. Lossoth strapped to a motion simulator grins. They though he was after the senshi. They were so very wrong. "They'll be mine again Lace. Isn't that wonderful?" "Absolutely. I'll take these 2 pictures to developing. The Cyberdroids should be ready in the hour. Ready for their imprint pictures. Should I turn any of the army on and send them to help?" "No... they need their energy if I'm to replace their... progenitors properly. No." "Understood Great Master. I'll send in Velvet when I leave." "By the way... thank you for the footage earlier. It worked perfectly... save that they ignored me." "We must all make sacrifices. Master will get his chance to gloat later." "I hope so... I HATE being ignored." "As do I Master," Lace looked at the floor. A tear of sadness or anger fell. "Get the photos done... I have work for the ChibiUsa Cyberdroid. We'll put it in TODAY." "Devilishly Cruel." BACK IN FANSPACE! "He loses me one more time with such a cheap trick I'm going to hurt him I swear. I hate that creep!" "Calm down Konei. It isn't your fault. He's dropping reflective chaff." "Crap he saw me! He's leaping my way... we're phasing into anime combat space..." The signal stopped. Ami tensed. Hope clasped her hands together to keep herself in her seat. Joy started playing games with a k-bar from her pocket darkly, and muttering. She was really getting into her current look as a doppleganger for the new Sylia from Bubblegum Crisis 2040. Not necessarily a good thing. Right now she was channeling the Boomer hatred at Rick. "I.. got him... I'm pooped!" Konei announced triumphantly. "Can I go back to my usual daily activities with Gerard now? He's almost earned his soul back." "Back to your chew toy pretty kitty. We'll be fine," Joy spoke into the com set. "YATA!!! Should I put my communicator in the car... or with Max?" "Max. He's in the men's room though." Joy perked up,"Give it to me then Konei. I'll do it." "Gee thanks Joy! I'm so pooped I might be visible right now. Oh goodie I'm not." Konei flew over the car and dropped the earpiece down to Joy... who dematerialized Ryoko style back to the caf. Ami just sighed. Hope looked ready to eat nails,"My sister isn't into the mission enough." "Yes she is... she's deathly worried this 'll come down to Electronic Avatar versus Electronic Avatar." "At least Max has an advantage there... being a real one." "But he doesn't know so it isn't that much good for him. It'll end up being prototype versus production model. And we don't know if Rick has done anything with it. The Fabrics aren't stupid." "That's what *I'm* afraid of... Hikaru," Hope... blinked,"Tsunami!" Ami faced forward and saw Havoc with a big confused look being thrown into a lamppost by spell by an unimpressed and very very naked Naga. "Give me back my bikini FREAAAAAAK!" Ami Hit the parking brake on the cadillac and it spun around the other way on a dime... unfortunately striking Desolation landing him in the back seat bleeding. The Wave rose up behind the vehicle and Hope stood up and raising her summoned staff placed a bubble around the car right as the wave would have hit it and transported the car the heck away from Planet Hentai... and sadly out of Tokyo (1) and into Tokyo 3. Hope looked about after they landed,"How did that misfire?" "Fanspace! is why Hope." "I'll concentrate better next time." A familiar voice spoke to them,"You look like me." Hope turned to Rei Ayanami who was amazingly not at planet Hentai considering how ecchi Chaos was. She readied her cover story and took a deep breath. "Ayanami Rei-san? Wow! One of the heros of Tokyo 3! It's an Honor to meet you... my name is... Relena Peachcroft." "Nice dress Peachcroft." Hope looked down for the first time. She was befuku'd. She blushed. "I just got back from a Sailor Moon convention." "I see. You shouldn't be on the streets. NERV cannot predict the arrival of new angels. Tokyo 3 is off limits. You should go." "Well you and Unit 00 will protect us Ayanami-sama!" Rei blushed a little bit,"You're praise should be for Pilot Ikari." Ami nudged Hope,"Wow... could you get her autograph for us Relena-chan!" "Kasumi Tendo! We can't just bother celebrities like that." "Better hurry... she's leaving," Ami sing-songed. "What? HEY Ayanami-sama!" She leapt out of the car in character and rushed over with a pen and magically... a big picture. "What?" Rei stopped. "Could you sign this for me?" "Why?" "Praising Pilot Ikari and his father is one thing. But you and Pilot Asuka carry a big load too. I heard about what you did with that N2 mine in a damaged Eva. That took skill and bravery. I want the autograph of that person." "I will sign your autograph for that person to the page," she signed it. "'Pilot Ayanami'. Wow! Perfect! You have nice handwriting." Rei didn't have a chance to reply... because due to the nature of Fanspace! a menace arrived. The Angel claxon went off... but the alarm nearest them was in such disrepair from the constant damage and a budget only big enough for Eva maintenance that it exploded and it's electrical wires flee into a puddle making a wave that connected to Hope and Ayanami... shocking them both. Rei fainted from the sudden pain. Hope fell onto her hands gasping. Ami picked Rei up and put her in the backseat. And checked for wounds. She gave the thumbs up to Hope. A NERV helicopter arrived. "Pilot Ayanami your presence is required at NERV HQ." Hope realized they meant her and not Rei in the car. "But." "No buts Pilot. We need everybody! It's Zhamiel ... AGAIN!" Hope was lead to the heli. "Miss Tokyo-3 isn't safe... take your friend elsewhere. This area is restricted." Ami just nodded in disbelief. "She looks petrified... we better give her directions..." "I'll be fine... a friend lives in this building." "Ah so you know Pilot Ayanami then. Security will be by to give you the all clear so you may exit the building when the Angel has -hopefully- been dealt with." "Yes sir." She picked up the Real Rei and took her up to her apartment. What a disaster this was becoming... in of all things... a comedic fanfic-verse! MEANWHILE BACK IN THE AREA TO EVENTUALLY BE CRYSTAL TOKYO... "You must be Miss Tsukino. I'm Max's friend... Joy... Joy Davenport." "Joy? Oh did you come to visit Max from America? He talks about all his friends back in America all the time." "Felt I'd surprised him. I know how he talks about this caf and since he wasn't at his house... I figured I'd try here before going shopping." "He's in the Men's Room." "Ah thanks," Joy heads off to the Men's Room. "Wait you can't go in there!" Joy smiled at ChibiUsa, and pointed at her chest,"These are fake. I'm a guy." ChibiUsa blinked... as did half the establishment. Some obvious bishounen fans did double and triple takes. Joy entered the men's room... and stepped up to a urinal... and with a little effort and a joke about her massiveness she relieved herself. She zipped up. "So who all's in here?" She did in a mock male voice. "Me for one. I don't think anyone else..." "Oh good." "Joy?" The person in question popped open the door. "Hey... step out Joy... I'm busy." "Captive target." This made him finish up faster as he snapped his manga closed. Motoki came in, and saw her smile. "Am I interrupting something?" "No... he's no fun today." Max exited the stall. "Sterling?" Motoki was shocked. Joy wrapped an arm around Max's waist. "What's going on?!" "This is my friend Joy." "Hi. Joy Davenport... a pleasure. "Max what is a girl doing in here?" "What girl Motoki-san?" "Why... you..." "They're fake." "But... I don't understand." "I came from America to say hi and flirt with my Max-san." "Your Max?" Max pulled the arm off,"Joy is delusional." "No... I'm flirting... then I'm going shopping. And I'd better get to it. Bye Max." She slipped the ear piece into his pocket while groping his buns. She then walked past Motoki and swatted him hard. Motoki blushed. "Sorry you had to have a run in with Joy. The hair and the breasts... just a front." "And the figure?" "Surgery." "Sugoi!" "Hai. 'She' has been all over me since the surgery. 'She' isn't my type though." "What is? Miss Tsukino?" "Silly Motoki." "Max is a lolicon! I should spread that back at the Arcade. Your friends will get a kick out of it." "Groovy," Max hung his head then picked his manga up and went back out to ChibiUsa. "Just kidding man!" Motoki then had to rush into the bathroom because the tension just left the scene. Max approached their table. ChibiUsa brightened when he arrived. Something didn't seem right to Max though. "You're friend Joy is an odd one. HE had his hands all over just about every guy in the place before leaving. Are all your friends back in America as wierd?" "Most are saner... at times." "So you were reading a manga again? No wonder I always end up waiting." She smiled though. It didn't bother her. Max paid the check and they left to go shopping. "Max... Joy gave me this... what is it?" ChibiUsa held up Joy's ear piece. "That's linked to an action radio program from America. Put it in your ear. Joy gave me one too." Max fished the item from his back pocket where Joy had whispered putting it. Going incognito she'd said. Maybe she didn't want any kind of a signal trace on her. Maybe she'd given up... after having been caught in a cream lemon wave... no... for her that would mean she's in Planet Hentai groping everyone in the place. She had almost leapt on him in the stall. Of course if she wasn't in Planet Hentai... she might be pursuing Rick. "Hey a t-shirt store for guys... let's go in. After seeing Joy's "No girls allowed" t-shirt I'm ready for anything that might be printed on a t-shirt." "Anything you say Lady Tsukino." "Silly Max." "Naturally." They entered the clothing store. ELSEWHERE Margo pondered who she'd seen watching the explosion of cream and lemon. She KNEW it had been Imeria... or one of her clones. This mission did NOT need the Continuity Police in it unless they were specifically on the right side. Their side. Her proteg would answer her questions. Hopefully at least. She descended next to her in the alley. Magically putting on her Urd Disguise. "Marjherie... long time," Imeria said. And it was Imeria... no glands in the hairline... or stitch marks from having said glands pulled off. "Panties!!!" Havoc-chan cried bounding past them from further in the alley... lying in wait maybe? Well soon Imeria -who kissed Havoc-chan as she swiped her panties- and Margo -who stole Havoc-chan's panties while Havoc stole hers- were feeling the breeze. Havoc-chan continued bounding until she felt a draft. "Hey which one of you is so skilled?" Havoc-chan was in their faces suddenly. Margo smiled,"Her." Imeria blanched as she produced Havoc-chan's Panties. Havoc-chan threw and arm around Imeria's shoulders. "Ever considered the fun filled life of a panty thief? You could be my new trainee in the arts of the hentai." Imeria looked back... Margo smiled at her and leapt into the air. Margo had beaten her. She'd never escape Havoc for hours. and all this fun would be over by then. "Master Rick is on his own." "Oro?" "Nothing. Tell me more about panty theft. Can I grope too?" "That's one of the best parts." BACK AT THE HOUSE Ego was eating ice cream. Washuu was monitoring Eldrick. Konei was busy doing naughty things with Gerard. Okay... that's done. A LITTLE WHILE (HALF AN HOUR) LATER IN NERV HQ. "Mein Gott! Have you become a Moonie Wondergirl?" "Hmm? Oh this? Like it? A person on my floor left it behind. I washed it," Hope turned a little this way and that, but otherwise was keeping to the whole Rei Ayanami shtick. "It's not bad... if indecent. I never knew you were such a pervert." "Pilot Sohryu... now is not the time for this. We must rise and do battle with the villainous Angels who ravage the land. A task ordained by God himself. We must punish the fallen in his stead." "Kaoru please! Just put your plugsuit on... over there... and hush! I still can't believe you're on our side." "The Angels are wrong to punish humanity... besides it was humanity that gave me life. Humanity that saved me from the dummy plug you damaged that time. I should actually thank you for freeing my from SEELE." Asuka kicked at where she could hear his voice coming from. Hope pushed the button on the plugsuit "Come on you three! Can't you hear Misato grumbling for you to hurry? Zhamiel has entered the Upper Atmosphere! We have to be ready for his land fall." "Pilot Aida we shall be at the appointed place on time. Worry not. Let us go and do God's work." In the "hanger" "Rei" was the last one in. She ran to the new Eva 00. She reached out to comfort it to tell it that she was NOT Rei Ayanami and to ask it's permission to use it in battle. The will inside gave in rather easily considering the trouble it usually makes. "Alright people Zhamiel is back and he's registering off the scale again. He almost made it to Central Dogma last time. There's something down there we don't want him to touch. I can't say more sadly... but the angels are drawn to it like a beacon. I don't need to remind you of 3rd impact do I. Toji answered,"Of course not Commander." "Good. We don't need repeats. Not that this one wants to take up to heaven." "It's sick is all I can say," Hikari said. Asuka grinned at Hikari,"We'll be fine. We beat him to a standstill last time but this time we will beat him." Aida grinned,"I thought Shinji was group leader." "I'm only saying what he would right?" Asuka teased. "Asuka... lighten up." Shinji retorted,"Alright with Kamui out... and Eva 04 only Carnage knows where we are one short this morning. Rei you're with Kaoru and myself today." Loudspeaker: 20 Minutes till he's in firing range! "Everyone. No dying." Kaoru quipped,"Yes it's frightfully boring. Heaven is just a waiting area to be reborn you know. I was there." Asuka grimaced,"Sick as always Kaoru. This is no time for such humor." "Later over diner then?" "Drop dead." "With or without an entry plug this time?" Misato growled at them,"Knock it off and get out there! Evangelions Launch!" Hikari complained anew about the launch,"I wish this didn't make me ill!" And then they were launched up onto the remains of Tokyo 3... where they were forced to break immediately due to a miscalculation in Zhamiel's new power level as blasts rained down from above. MEANWHILE Haris yelled into the comset,"Ardice! Who's near Ardice! He caught her totally by surprise." "I have her Haris... she's okay... he conked her over the head... and dropped her into an Angel Battle. I sent her home already." "Damn Charhon and now Ardice. He's picking his fights." "Probably means you and Margo are last." "If he goes after Astrala next he's going to be in for a surprise..." "AstralaX. Yes it's amazing how much stronger she is just because she makes her self a few years older and taller in appearance. I thought Margo was vain." "I heard that Hope. How are things on your end?" "Not too bad. Zhamiel ignores us. He's only after Adam." "I see... Ami how is Rei?" "Still stunned. The strike caught her totally off guard. And it wasn't an Accident. We've been transferred to NERV HQ's medical facility." "Then they know Hope isn't..." "Gendo made up a lie... Shinji buys it... that's what counts. Kaoru is enthused," Hope sighed,"'I'm not the only one fighting for god in more than one body. A good thing this is. We'll talk later... after dinner.' His Zealousness is only matched by Gendo's. And he's like Kaji's unborn son I swear." "In other words he's morale officer Hope?" "Hai. Nuts he's heading my way... gotta go..." Hope signed off. Ami soon signed off to due to Rei needing water again. "Just you me and Astrala, Margo. Think we'll keep him off the senshi?" "Without the senshi noticing? That'd be a trick, Haris. They don't need the ego blow of seeing their attacks ping off of something right now. How are things at Fanboy! HQ?" "Boring... they barely even move... they're currently being appalled by Chaos's latest creation. I kinda wish Makoto and Ami would find somewhere else to be." "Like Planet Hentai?" "Be nice if they were all in one place, yeah." "Chatty aren't we?" Max broke in. "Nothing else to do... but wait. Astrala's got his scent. What's CU think of the bogus feed the simulator is giving her ear piece?" "She only took it off to go to the bathroom. She loves it. She didn't wanna lose it in the bathroom." "It does sound exciting. The Monster Busters. Nice... stolen from Tenchi in Tokyo right?" Margo queried. "But of course. I am a fanboy if not a Fanboy!" Haris quiped,"Yes you title of mass destruction could be... Whine!" "I don't know... I'm personally prone to Danger." Margo burst into chuckles,"Danger. Slippery when wet." "Cute... well she's back." IN "MAX STERLING's" HOUSE "All clean!" "Yep your face is radiant. Okay... stand over there and don't move," Max picked the paint brush up and dabbed into some of the colors he'd been mixing,"This should be interesting... how old did you want me to draw you?" "Oh just a little older..." "Let's say... yeah that's a good age," Max mumbled the number to himself... he actually didn't have one... he was just going to draw her older... as Sailor Moon. He tossed tons of processing power into the project... he wanted it to look good. He once again felt that unnatural twang of something amiss nearby. He couldn't put his finger on it. "You aren't going to make me ancient are you cause if you are..." "Silly. Of course I won't do that," he had to slow down a bit... he was going to fast with all the extra processing power. He was painting like a cartoon. He then sped back up as an idea formed. He was soon done. He grinned at her. "Ready?" "But you only just started! How could you be done already. Was this a trick?" "Kinda... I wanted to present to you something I cooked up a little while ago," the picture he showed her was her in exquisite finery like what one might wear to a ball... and she was older... like in the Episode with the age swap. "Sugoi... It's amazing.... just... wow... what's the dress from?" "A store we always pass... they put this up in the window only yesterday. I'm actually surprised you didn't notice it." "I saw the "I brake for pancakes" t-shirt... or I might have," she grew quiet. When she spoke again she smiled,"Can I go get Usagi to show her this?" "Sure. Try the temple. She's probably there." "Reading Rei's manga... I know," She sighed,"I'll be back soon." "Want me to go with you?" "No it's okay." "Be sure to tell..." "I'll tell them. Such a silly worrier." "Of course." When she was gone the feeling passed. He didn't know if it was a good or a bad sign. He checked in on the com system. Everything was eerily quiet the girls said. Zhamiel had been routed ... again... but not destroyed... again. They'd given everything into the fight. Eva's had been damaged. Zhamiel delivered another message in Aramaic that The Magi were at work deciphering. What would this one be after the other one? And where were the angels coming from in the first place? His reverie was broken when ChibiUsa knocked on his door again a while later. "Oh... you're alone." "Yeah." "You changed your clothes." "Yep." "Hungry." "Curry sounds nice." "I'll get cleaned up," he walked over by his bed and flipped his shirt off for a new one. "You need some sun on you." "Huh? Now now... I told you it's embarrassing around the corner. I can't change while watched," She smiled. She smiled back and went around the corner. .o(Is she acting a little wierd suddenly?)o. His thoughts were interrupted when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and then pulled his face back quickly. "What's wrong? Don't you like the closeness? The closeness between a girl and a boy?" "ChibiUsa? What's gotten into you?" He saw a flash of something in her eyes. "You aren't ChibiUsa are you?" She pulled out something that he knew the girls had packed to use on Lossoth,"No I'm not," and his world grew cold. AT THE HOUSE "I didn't plan for this when I made those. Eldrick snap out of it," She slapped him after repeated attempts of other things. Nothing. It didn't work. "Real world stimulus should pop him right back into wakefulness... unless... Oh no... I never told him what they did! It was too effective because... oh no! We'll have to wait for him to wake up normally." She punched up video for the security booth on her screen and yelled into the microphone,"Gerard Emergency... get out of her arms and make a new post on the fanboys! I have to get a message to the Girls." "Hmm? Yes ma'am," And half asleep Gerard wrote up another post on the fanboys while Washuu plugged herself into the com system with an ear piece. Soon after she was on the sidewalk in Tokyo. "Now to find a quiet place to send a message." "WOW! Look! It's Washuu!!" And some girls rushed for her will posters and pens. "Yikes!" She dashed for an alley while sending out the message that Eldrick had been taken most likely... "Eldrick... I mean Max is kidnapped? When?" came Astrala's worried response. "I've been hovering over his house for the last hour." "Anything odd happen?" "ChibiUsa changed clothes... that's all. Well and that she was skipping back to his house. It was soo cute." "Astrala... that probably wasn't her." "Oh man... Investigating." "Well now that you girls know I gotta go back... I came out near a science class touring tokyo... posters and pens with my face on them!" Haris chimed in,"Goddess's speed Washuu. Try to keep us posted." "Will... do..." And Washuu stepped back through leaving a dust cloud stirring mob to rush off down the street. "Damn... What's the report Astrala?" "There's no one here." She walked around the house semi visible. "No... not a trace," She caught a glance of something in the mirror. "Rick's here!" And then the other girls heard no more. "Margo... we NEED to get the senshi in a clump... in case... Astrala... fails." "She won't... but I'll begin interacting," She closed the channel and landed. She went into the Shinto Temple. "Excuse me... is a Hino Rei here?" Hino-san stopped arguing with Usagi and wandered to the Entrance. "I'm Hino Rei." "You are invited under pain of panty theft to a party at Planet Hentai. If Tsukino Usagi, Chiba Mamoru, Kino Makoto, Mizuno Ami, Aino Minako, Kaioh Michiru, Tenoh Haruka, and Meioh Setsuna are here let them know they too are invited." "You hear that Usagi?" "Party!" "I see you heard..." "I'll go tell Mina-chan!" "Good I'll get dressed." "Oh it's come as you are. Nothing perverse. I'm the Host," "Urd" broke in. "But Planet... Hentai means perverse." "I'm footing the bill. It's a nice big space and that's what I paid for. Don't worry. I'm off to find everyone else." She didn't tell them 'To tell Havoc I've arranged this.' ELSEWHERE Haris stepped out of the stairwell. And shifted costume and form. If this was to work it had to look like there was only ONE host. She knocked on the door with Urd's hand. Chaos's face was driven through the door a second later. "I-tai... Moshi Moshi. Oh... URD-SAMA!" "Hii! I've set up a darling little party at Planet Hentai... and a non-ecchi one. All Fanboys! Fangirls! and Senshi are invited. Free food free Alcohol... and Kareoke! Bai! See you there," she stepped through the ceiling. "SUGOI! Hey Mayhem did you hear that!" Haris really hoped this would work. She fired up the circuit again,"Oh yeah... Margo... you forgot... the senshi are known to the divine." "Oh sorry... I forgot. Too busy wondering if Imeria was still at Planet Hentai with Havoc. She was." "Ouch... maybe we can get CP to pay for this... since we can't mess up the continuity with them watching... but Lossoth can be caught in the act!" "True. I think Imeria was watching for us by the way." "GRRR Well she can watch us at Planet Hentai. Found Setsuna yet?" "No. I found Haruka and Michiru already at Planet Hentai. I found out from them where Hotaru was... and explained to Havoc-kun about the Party. He wants me to jello pit wrestle for the bill." "I'll cover that for you." "No you won't. I've trained this body for things like that. You find Setsuna." "Right," Haris signed off. A worried Haris began musing on how to find the Time Guardian when she found herself climbing onto the roof... and staring at her. "Harishia de la Croix. Pleased to meet you again." "Don't call me that... Puu." "Touch. Why do you seek the Guardian of Time?" "We need all the senshi in one place to keep Lossoth off of you." "Ah yes him... But be warned... he's not looking for us." "What's that mean?" "See you at the party... Harishia," Setsuna vanished. "Bleah I hate that name. I wish she didn't do that." She flipped on the comlink,"One Puu headed to you." She then leapt into the air and flew to Planet Hentai... worrying about Astrala. AT NERV HQ "How's Rei?" "She's fine Shinji. She's resting. You know she hasn't been the same since 3rd Impact." "I just hope she gets better." "For you? Or For the team?" "For her, father," Shinji walked away as Gendo began talking about the intricacies of Rei's condition... details about what brought it on, etc. "Ah Pilot Ikari, what news from the chambers of the angels of mercy?" "Rei's resting. She's fine, Kaoru." "Your care for your fellow pilots truly inspires me." "Pilots... I wish Misato hadn't helped in the lie earlier." "We needed to be fighting fit with few worries. What's easier to trust... a totally new person you've never met? Or that there's a new clone of someone you already know?" "I just don't know." Hope stepped around the corner,"I'm sorry Mr. Ikari for the deception. I had no clue who I'd look like when I came to the world of Anime." "It's alright. You ... you did good out there." Kaoru smiled,"Yes you did... unlike some other fan people you did swimmingly. Kamui's sync ratio isn't back up to par yet since his Profile was... altered." Shinji shuddered. "Well Miss Tendo and I will be out of your hair after the debriefing. We shouldn't have even ended up into your hair in the first place." Kensuke wandered in,"Oh hey Miss Peachcroft... you're exit papers are cleared. They'll be signed after your debriefing," Kensuke forked them over. "Thank you Pilot Aida." "No thank you for fighting as well as you did. I hope they ask in the debriefing how you did that with the AT field. I'd love to learn how to do that." "I can't explain it. I just did it. Well bye. It was a pleasure," Hope bowed to them and walked to the Debriefing where Ami was already being asked questions. AT PLANET HENTAI Jo Insei put on her bunny outfit with a tug. She loved how it concealed but was still regulation here. She picked up her tray. "Work Time!" She was glad she'd found the job here. She was too much of a pervert for a waitress anywhere else. This city was so different from the one she was raised in dimensions away. There she was almost a prude... here she was a 3rd don ecchi... nowhere near the Hentenno... but not your average pervert either. For her it was what she knew rather than her overt ecchiness. "Put it on and get up." "I don't wanna... I hate working here! I always get felt up," Kasumi grumbled. "I didn't think you minded, Kas," Sunahama quipped. "Hush ecchi girl. If we didn't need the money... I would have quit months ago." "And speaking of jobs... I STILL haven't forgiven you for not telling me about this place so I had to find it myself," Jo admonished. Kasumi blushed,"We didn't know you liked this sort of thing. Viewing it a reading it, talking it those are one thing... LIVING it another." "Then get out there and live it. We've been back here too long. Another 10 minutes and we have to help with the floor show." Sunahama gagged,"Hosing off mud drenched perverts is not my idea of fun. Let's go." Then spilled out of the dressing room to find a rather banal gathering... food... that was there... people... there also... but the ecchi level was so suppressed you could TELL it was suppressed. Jo went over to the door where she would lead people to tables. Kas and Suna began waiting tables. Getting drinks here and there. Havoc-chan bounded past Kas and Suna who then felt the breeze. K&S,"Hey give those back!" "Hotcha!" Havoc bounded away... but "Urd" counter-swiped and handed the girls their panties. Chaos pulled his hand from Hotaru's eyes after the girls had their panties back on. "Arigatou, Chaos," Hotaru said softly to Chaos... who immediately glanced at Haruka who was glaring. That the place was so subdued Jo realized was because the place was back down to 1 Havoc. Havoc-kun was in the Yggdragsil jacket spouting sweet nothings to a highly receptive Minako. Havoc-chan being freed from such things until dusk was in almost open sparing with the Goddess Urd who would swipe back any panties or bras H-chan rightfully stole. H-chan seemed to be loving the pure challenge of it between Happochinos. The Fanboys and Fangirls were a different story. Chaos was restrained by the loving touch of Hotaru... and the not so loving glares of Haruka and Michiru. Hysteria was in the Hentai petting zoo. Had been for a while now. Dark Mayhem sat calmly with his Ami-chan watching Blueseed which was playing on the big screen. Well not too calmly... occasionally flames would erupt from him but he was at a fire retardant table so it was okay. Pestilence sat calmly with Makoto eating popcorn. There was the calm of the shy around their table. Carnage and Rei sat at a table to themselves. Rei looked really smug because Miyu had a Shinma which required her attention to stop, and so couldn't be here. Anarchy and Tasuki were off in the insulated for sound Kareoke Room. Jo didn't want to know where Sarcasm-hime was... but she did know by the line of Bishounens leading off into one of the back rooms. Even Desolation had been found... The Girl with the wings who looked like Ryoko was keeping him out of trouble. But man did she look worried about something. Maybe she had family trouble? Setsuna Meioh looked no different... but then she never did. The Green Haired Lady seldom had a smile... certainly not with Havoc-chan trying to steal her panties... like now... wait... catastrophe averted. Urd caught her... and stole H-chan's panties! [Author Note: Yes I know... boring description. But what can you do... we are currently rising to another rising action and so sadly there must be a speed bump. Also Urd had to tell them they were in trouble. So things are subdued... why not just let that part be known in the text rather than blurting it out here? The Author need not go by such old hat conventions. Away with ye... no wait... stay... I'm not done yet.] (To be continued when the author has caught up on his rest. He exhausted himself writing yesterday and so has nothing to use to write with today. Hope for a conclusion tomorrow! Next Stop... Heck! And where Astrala is) (Hey why are you here! This is an intermission for Pete's sake. Go... I dunno... dry hump the wall or something... hey there's someone cute right now... molest... maybe when you're done *I'll* be done writing.) (Author Dives off the writer's block into the sea of LCL... and it smells like Rei. Hotcha!) (Ego: Of course the author didn't have writer's block... he was stressed writing the other parts... and so he was feeling the piece was reflecting that... he's got his silly little pervert barricade back up now... and what HE thinks is the perfect plot twist-and-shout. Send them prayers to your Belief system... here we go) The drive was quite boring. And that didn't sit well for Ami and Hope. All heck should have been happening... and yet it looked like a scene from anything but Fanboys! For fun Ami asked,"So how was the fight? We have have time for a rundown before Tokyo and Rick Hunting." "Well the first thing of note was my exceedingly high sync ratio. They weren't pleased at such a sudden change. Gendo covered it up. Ritsuko must have spun around to contest it... but her injury flared up. I heard her grunt over the com system. "Shinji... Shinji is not the same Shinji. I'd heard this but he's... mature now... it was unique. The clipped orders exactly what needed to be said nothing else. It was like ... all the trouble with his father was gone. Not pushed away... but gone." Ami broke in,"3rd Impact does that I'd suppose..." "Yes They were pretty much all different... he's just the one that stuck out to me. He was the only one without a mask of the good old days in place. "As for the battle itself. We fanned out... "Heads up!" Shinji yelled as the team rushed in when Zhamiel landed. Zhamiel tore at the ground in it's mindless path to Adam and the LCL lake. "We have to get it's AT field down this time." "Ikari is right it must not be allowed to mock us with it's continued existence. As we envisioned so shall we do!" The Defense Expanded their AT Fields to counter Zhamiel's while offense tore at it. No grandiose combat moves... no special weapons. Progressive knife and hand simply ripped and cut... then a switch off as Offense becomes defense expanding their AT fields while defense tore at it. "That was it?" "Yep. I couldn't intercede and disrupt things for them. The Magics and Physics at work near Tokyo-3 are such that the more output utilized the stronger the next adversary will be. Or at least that's Kaoru's Theory." "You know... about when Zhamiel landed Rei and I were already in NERV. I guess that's fortunate." "What happened with you?" "It's not as interesting." "Please?" "Oh okay... you talked me into it," Ami smiled," Almost right after you left... The helicopter landed on the roof with a light step light a ballerina's... which belayed the Hired Goons known as NERV security's stomping upon the desolate tenement's roof. They Secured the Area before their leader signaled to head down. Floor by floor they looked in every room till they came to the apartment "owned" by one Ayanami Rei. Kintaro Ami had just popped her head out when they stomped up to the door. "You there what are you doing in this apartment! This building is NERV property for NERV personnel. State your business." "Ease off... this is the other one." "Sir," the grunt nodded and stepped back. "So... you know Ayanami Rei miss?" "Yes." "I find that difficult to believe." "It is the knowing of caring for a patient. My friend got... taken instead... which is good because Ayanami isn't doing so well." "Pilot Ayanami is here?" "Sir I just got a radio that the Eva's are all positioned. We have to get her and Pilot Ayanami back... there's no time. We'll have to get the rest of the information then." "You are correct of course. Get a stretcher," He looked at Kintaro,"Fortunately the Eva didn't notice the difference. Lucky for Humanity. Hopefully this little impersonation stunt by your friend... "We meant no harm." "will not cost Humanity anything costly in the long run. Now tell us if Pilot Ayanami said anything while she was unconscious..." he paused to get her out of the way of the stretcher roughly,"You'll understand that since 3rd Impact we can leave nothing at all to chance." "I... I understand." He motioned for everyone to clear out to the Chopper with haste. A Lieutenant reported that Zhamiel was almost in firing range according to the Magi. A blast rocked the apartment building and indeed the remains of Tokyo-3. "Damn glorified abacus chain! Move it people before we are toast!" He shouted as he stood at the top of the stairs almost flinging people past him towards the chopper as he scanned towards the battlefield. Kintaro paused to stare at the where a blast had landed. Zhamiel was using it's cross shaped blasts to find a "narrow" point to go through what with Eva "05" hovering in the actual hole with it's AT field visibly spread. "What are you mad? Get in the chopper!!!" "Sorry sir," And Kintaro ran and got in. The Leader Climbed in directly after her and slammed to the door just after takeoff. Kintaro could see little else. "I'll spare you the inquisition once we got to NERV... how'd the battle end?" "Well the chewing went on for a while... until it's AT field fell... then... as it was almost through the now threadbare Geo Front roof... it gave up. Kensuke was not pleased..." "Oh no you aren't getting away again that easily!" The Olive clad pilot growled as he toggled and fired the "guns" in the battery uprights. Bullets sank in deep. Any other angel would have retaliated. Zhamiel just sat there calculating it's AT field pulse to send it into orbit again... opening it's eyes for the first time the entire battle. The only time it ever opened those blackened pits. Weapons tore into it... drawing neither blood nor pained screams before it flexed it's AT field and launched up. The ground unable to take the force gave way... Hikari dove for the hole and spread her AT field before it looked down. Zhamiel... only able to see it's goal... and not AT fields continued his retreat. "Then Gendo gave us the command to return... telling ME to Remain and AT block the hole until a crew could get there. That's pretty much all that happened. Gendo obviously told them the truth... and I got a few quick second cockpit looks and Asuka's rather blatant stare before... "So you're a Fangirl? You don't look like one of those perverts." "Yes I am... sorry for the deception. Is Ayanami alright?" "Urgh... are you sure she's a Fangirl? She's so like Wondergirl it's sickening. 'Is Ayanami alright?' What you going to say it's Pleasant knowing she's fine? Mein Gott! Fanpeople!" Ami chuckled,"Well you do have the manner down." Hope blushed and cleared her throat before saying,"You embarrass me," just like Rei does. They continued Talking like that up to the doors to Planet Hentai. "And then she says,'Just Remember little miss Fangirl Shinji is mine. Not your idol's mine!'" "Oh merciful heavens!" Ami Chuckled before gazing around the rather dead Planet Hentai. There was something in the air that could have choked a mule. All the PH shenanigans were in place... the Fanpeople acting their usual considering the location... Mizuno Ami-chan snuggling up to Mayhem... the devastation of him getting all combustive. Everything seemed okay... but the air was all wrong. Hope shook Ami's shoulders," Are you okay?" "Something is wrong here." "I don't feel anything." "Eldrick will know... is he here?" But before Ami could flag Haris down -since Margo was Mud wrestling (and winning)- Astrala... in X mode stumbled through the door. "I busted him up!" Cheers went up. Ami blinked. Astrala smiled and lost concentration becoming her younger form again with a pop. Makoto slipped from her table and congratulated her. Ami looked at Hope stunned, and this time Hope seemed to feel it too. Something was rotten at Planet Hentai. "You come to me and Kamui's table and tell me about this adventure. After that we'll exchange recipes like we did near the Masaki Shrine." Astrala stepped back,"You were anime neuralized. And I know it was you and not the "Pure" Kino Makoto who got zapped at the shrine that day." Makoto grabbed her arm as a friend would and tried to lead her to the table again,"It didn't take. Chaos blasts himself all the time I hear." Ami heard a noise and looked up... the sound of a camera flash priming on a very expensive camera, and before she knew what she was doing she had called her henshin staff and lobbed it at the Disco orb while tearing Astrala away and underneath her body to shield her from the flash. Pop went the flash... boom went the false disco orb in a rain of glass and film. Hope called her own staff and -well to skip the exact 18 pages of descriptive details- the film equipment ceased to be. A Loud roar ripped out from the very walls. ::: You stopped me this time but next time you will NOT be so lucky. ::: ::: And now as another great villian once said... "Send in the Clowns." Enjoy my modifications to the Sexaroid Series... Heroes. ::: Mizuno, Aino, Tsukino, Hino, Kino, and the inseparable pair suddenly screamed out in a unified voice and burst from their disguises! They were not the senshi at all. They had already been replaced by Lossoth with their Sexaroid counterparts! "M-Mako-chan?" Chaos squeaked before grabbing the sleeping Hotaru and running for the door. The Mako-bot leapt up and over him. "Neh, Chaos... don't you want to stay and have some fun?" She ran a hand over her metal form,"Is not my chest even more ample for you to grope?" Chaos had to blink, but before he could say the wrong thing or look into her hypnotic eyes Haris launched into Robo Mako and they went right out the door. It closed behind them. Mayhem ran over to Setsuna who was dealing with Mecha Ami,"Don't look into her eyes Mayhem..." "I'd help but there's no one to kiss. Damnit." Setsuna gestured to the Waitstaff girls huddled under a table. "They should do." But before the giggling girls could have their kiss a Synth Venus Love me Chain cracked him into a wall. Kasumi and Sunahama ceased giggling. As one they stood up and as one they spoke,"For hurting the one man who's ever considered kissing our cute lips and was actually going to do it... We can't forgive you. In the Name of Unrequited Lovers everywhere we will punish you!" And so began their transformation sequences... and pixification! In the end 2 Sprites floated in the air... with little tiny bows... and the requisite arrows. "What you going to do you actually plan to do with those?" "This!" They said as one and fired arrows at Synth Venus. One could expect 2 winged toothpicks to do... almost nothing. But that assumption is wrong here... as a whole wide enough to bring the Yamato through extended out from the Pixified Pair. Needless to say... Synth Venus was out for the count. Hope fought back a relentless Usako-bot before finally retiring Neo Bot Serenity to the scrap heap with a sudden kick to the stomach. "Soft underbelly." Haris reentered Planet Hentai with a few tears in her wings and a thumbs up. Mecha Michiru and Synth Haruka stood back to back busting up the place. Margo let fly the spell she'd been casting and the fluids within Gearworks Michiru congealed. She collapsed with in an almost dignified manner. Mock Haruka turned and saw the carnage and in a rage leapt at Chaos... Faux Pas Space Sword in hand. Chaos freaked and in a rare feat of brilliance henshined and fired off the Comet Cleanser Scrubber Attack. And for once... it was the perfect thing to do. The chemical agents at work within the cleanser reacted explosively with the skin of Mock Haruka and she was no more. Chaos was crispy but that's expected. Ami Kintaro continued to circle with her opponent. It was now down to Boomer Hino as Setsuna had long since removed her opponent from her sight. "Mars Fire Sniper!" Ami looked almost sad as she tossed up her spell,"Memories like Reflections form a Wall." She turned away unable to watch the destruction of her opponent. "Chaos-chan," said a metallic sounding Hotaru-chan. Everyone looked to see Hotaru stand. Astrala being closest tensed. "I had fun. Just like Hotaru would have," she vanished. An SD-Pesti-chan tugged on Hope's hem,"Is it over now?" "Yep." "Oh... okay," he smiled and everything around them quavered and shifted. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Pick your section ending./////////////////////////// \The thing is... I don't know WHICH I want to go with... the one is nice... but \totally doesn't fit with the threadbare representation I've made of the \Fanboys! themselves. So... Pick your poison.... one Commented out section... Or \the other beyond it. //BACK AT PLANET HENTAI // //Mayhem looked around after getting up from the wall,"What the flaming hells //was that about damn it!" // //Of all the blank faces there was no answer... especially not from Carnage who //had been brainwashed by Rei's hypnotic eyes and was still recovering from the //headache. // //"Could... someone get his I beam off me?" the Wu marked fanboy asked. // //Real Sailor Senshi burst through the door... from the back of the //establishment... and surveyed the damage. // //"Look what you did Akito!" // //Carnage blinked then stood up,"I didn't do anything I was in a trance!" // //"Nagumo you're okay! And all mine!" Venus announced... just seconds before the //sun went down... and the Havoc's switched genders making the coat become //useless. "I will not be defeated so easily!" Venus dehenshined grabbed the //jacket from female Havoc, and would have lunged off after male Havoc but 2 //small forms tugged her sleeve. // //"Ano... how did you dehenshin like that? We can't." // //Jo Insei produced herself from behind the bar -majestically cowering- and //kissed Pixie Kasumi... who promptly changed back. She then kissed Pixie //Sunahama... and she changed back. "The kiss of an ecchi is powerful, almost //unstoppable. Where I come from it is known to break concentration. Seems it //works. Let's get to work cleaning up." // //"But me and Kas are heroes now right?" // //"Wrong." // //"What's the point then?" // //Sunahama smiled,"I guess to help others without worrying about yourself. //Here's your broom." +.++.++.++.++.++.++.++.++.+ //AT FANBOYS! HQ // //Chaos awoke with a start... 2 in fact. One was the dream he'd just had... the //other was Rampage chewing on his elbow... with the rest of his arm in her //mouth!! // //"KYAAAAA!!!! TASUKETE!!!!! Get it off!" SD chaos screamed as he leapt out his //room via the poster and right into the wall beyond. // //Mayhem sitting on a couch angled the daily paper so he could get a good look. //Then he raised the paper back up. // //"Chaos... you gotta stop damaging the wall. We only just replastered from last //time," Pesti sighed as he continued cooking. // //Carnage continued to type as he spoke,"What happened this time you airhead to //get you so worked up?" // //Chaos pulled his face from the wall,"I'm glad you asked... you see." // //"No I don't it's not bright enough in here... FIREBALL!" // //Chaos sizzled and coughed. // //"Now you were saying?" // //"Well I had this really bizarre dream... and it actually wasn't Hard Lemonade //induced..." // //"Heads up Chaos!" // //"Huh?" Chaos looked up to have Hysteria's shoe flatten his nose as she bounced //off his face. // //"Neh Chaos-momma wasn't going to tell his story without Hysteria-chan was he?" //she asked leaning down to look at the quivering wreck. // //"Hotcha! I brought the jello for such a festive event," Havoc-kun announced... //bouncing off of Chaos's newly risen face. // //"DIE HAVOC!! GAAV FLARE!!!" Carnage was on his feet and casting at a stunned //looking Male Havoc and a frantic Chaos trying to get out of the blast. He //failed. And it hurt. A lot. // //After the gratuitous Cream Lemoning of the apartment... and the adjoining //hallway... Pesti said,"Maybe if you actually say the thing... we'll be better //off." // //Anarchy drifted past in a half shell AT field with Tasuki using his Halisen as //an oar... // //MEANWHILE // //The Three roommates woke with a start. /I'm sensing a pattern.../ Kasumi //removed the wrought iron grip Jo had on her panties, and woke Sunahama up to //do the same for her own. They then woke Jo up with a bowl of water. // //"I'm up stop pouring!" // //"We'll stop waking you up this way," Sunahama started. // //"...when we stop waking up with your hands in our panties!" Kasumi finished. // //Jo smirked,"Why am I the pervert when you 2 are the hottest lesbian couple in //the universe besides Haruka and Michiru? Moaning each other's names in your //sleep. What must the neighbors think?" // //They blushed. Kasumi said,"Well... at least we moan in Japanese... what were //you muttering about last night!" // //"I was having... Role Playing Game dreams again..." // //"Not Leather and Lace again! You live that damn game!" Sunahama noted with //heat. // //"No... if I lived the game we'd all be much happier," She grinned," Speaking //of dreams you 2 were in mine..." // //They blinked... in unison,"Nani?! You were in mine too!" Kas and Suna looked //at each other,"You dreamt it too!" // //Miss Insei chuckled,"Things certainly are wierder with us since Eldrick and //his Girls tried to break those contracts for us." // //All eyes turned to the dresser where 3 scrolls stared back at them with their //red seals. // //Suna blanched,"You don't think we'll forever be locked in wierd lesbian tryst //dreams forever do you?!" // //Kas's eyebrow twitched,"Speak for yourself on the Lesbian issue Sunahama. I //dream only of men at night." // //"The same for me... little miss can't do wrong!" // //Jo smirked,"Then explain moaning out each other's names at night?" // //K&S turned to her,"Stay out of this Queen of the Bisexual!" // //"I like that title... Queen of the Bisexual... wanna be in my harem? Definite //chances for meeting cute guys in there..." Jo winked at them. // //Kasumi dropped her head,"She's incorrigible." // //Sunahama dropped hers too,"She's insatiable." // //Kasumi blinked and stared at Sunahama,"How would you know?!? Been playing //house?" // //"If I've been playing house you've been playing Doctor! Made any house calls?" // //"How about we talk about this mutual dream issue from last night rather than //slit each other's throats?" // //The pair got all bambi eyed,"Yes we made the kawaii-est Pixies!" AND NOW THE STUNNING CONCLUSION! ... Not... Intermission time again... We'll pick up in Heck later. Really... I swear... senshi's honor! What? I'm not a senshi? Then explain the genderswapping the combatting evil the... what? I said genderswapping out loud? I said nothing of the sort... I said let's roll out with what promises to be the Conclusion! And let's forget that whole Starlight issue entirely. Astrala looked about the warehouse floor she was standing on. You could tell from her face she'd been expecting to be in Heck... but this was not Heck. This rundown two story eyesore didn't even factor in as Purgatory. "Where is this?" Haris looked about,"Whereever we are... this is not Fanboy! Land... check out the view..." Margo stepped back shocked,"Is that post outside made of a giant thigh bone like I think it is!" Hope hopped down from the window ledge,"Everything is. Concrete where concrete belongs... but bone everywhere where there would be metal. Don't ask about the 'glass'," she stifled a shudder. "Hope," Ami said pointing at her,"You're back to normal." She looked down at her hands and touched her hair,"You're right... we really aren't in Fanboy! Land are we?" BACK AT THE HOUSE SOME TIME LATER "Damnit! Where are they!" Washuu flung her stress ball at the wall. It wasn't helping her. It only kept her hands busy when they needed to be typing. It didn't help her figure out why Eldrick hadn't stirred either. He was still out cold from the blast that fake ChibiUsa had let fly on him. "First Eldrick now everyone else! Where are they? Are they finding out where he is? Why can't I run this damn trace!!" She looked over at Eldrick almost accusingly,"Why didn't you listen when I explained what the weapons do? You'd be fine by now if you had only listened," Eldrick twitched. Washuu leaned forward,"He moved... he can hear me!" She rushed over to his almost marionette crumpled form. "Eldrick listen closely. You were hit by taser... you should have woke up 4 hours ago... but it was an enhanced taser... and so you won't wake up for another 4 minutes. Also... I'm running a trace program to find where the girls are. They vanished off my scope," Eldrick's brow furrowed. "My search routine can find your Ami anywhere in any dimension," Eldrick smiled. The Screen behind her squawked it's finding of the target. "Good boy." She rushed over to the screen,"This isn't good... it seems they're in Heck... have been for some time... Astrala still hasn't had her picture taken. She's the final element. If he gets her then his power link between all the Sexaroids in his army will be complete. With the Demonettes back under his power in a manner of speaking he'll be able to cross (OAV/OVA), TV, and Omake boundaries. A simple matter then to run his negatives back through the machine he used to make the first wave to make a second... and replace those characters he finds there... Fanpeople everywhere will be too giddy at having the characters act like they want them to to notice there's something wrong... and by the time any do... he'll have a lever with which to force any Fanperson to flame anyone they want. He just has a character hint that Fangroup X is closer to who she'd like in a relationship, and Fangroup Y feeling disgruntled make a snide remark... and BOOM... The Flame Spiral of Destruction is unleashed." Eldrick growled slightly. "So if we can keep him from taking Astrala's Picture, and Destroy his master control device -not to mention his VR machinery... we will have derailed his plans." Eldrick grinned in his slumber... and a Portal opened up. MEANWHILE :::Astrala::: "Who said that?" the girl in question looked everywhere as she stopped in her tracks. "Who said what?" Haris turned tugging at the bandages on her wings which was all Hope and Ami could contrive even henshined due to her different physiology. "Ow... Damnit these things are the worst." Astrala rushed up and cast a spell on Haris who she then had to grab to keep from hitting the pavement. "She'll heal faster now that she isn't conscious of the pain. It's too bad we can't make a portal home." Speak of the Devil... a portal opened before her. "Sugoi!" From the other side,"Astrala come through quickly!" Washuu exclaimed. "What?" "There's no time..." Astrala flew through the portal which closed with a snap. She looked back at her wings to check for damage but the twinkling forms protruding from her back were fine as they shimmered in the light. She put her wings away and regarded Washuu. "Why was there no time?" "I'd just pinpointed Rick's position... he was lining up with his camera in the building above you." "Why still use Rick if he can get to us physically?" "Rick is a buffer... and," she flashed a look at Eldrick who had a minute to go before she hoped he'd snap out of it. Washuu motioned for Astrala to hand Haris to Workbot and to talk with her on the next floor down. Astrala complied puzzled. "You were saying Miss Washuu? And why must we talk down here?" "Eldrick can't hear that Rick is of Avatar strength... not right now. He only needs to know he's strong ... but not potentially unbeatable. He needs to just think Rick is just Lossoth using his prototype hardware. If he heard that Lossoth has made Rick Hunter an Anime Avatar grade being... he'd lose in a fight with him." "But how Eldrick is unconscious." "Well you already know Eldrick is an Avatar right? Hey now no heart eyes." "But that he's so powerful and keeps himself under control is so nice of him." "Err... actually he doesn't know how strong he is." "Oh my." "You see this world is like putty to him but he doesn't know," She heard him stirring above, and lowered her voice,"And doesn't WANT to know how much he can shape it. He's like a child on the beach with a sandcastle that he just came upon. He doesn't remember that before he was taken for ice cream that he built it. Only that he's found it and wants to play with it. He doesn't seem to know that with one punch or kick the whole thing can come tumbling down. He just dances his little figures around it without a care to how powerful he really is," Washuu finished her sentence and glared at Astrala... who was lost in a sea of floating hearts. "Are you listening?" She jabbed a heart and it popped. "Oh sorry... I heard every word but the thought of Chibi Eldrick playing with a kawaii little sand castle... it was too cute." "Anyway... what we have to hope is that Lossoth pushes his buttons. I already know that Joy in already deep in Lossoth's domain -which is City Hall- with Imeria of all people. I hope she'll be that leverage." "You hope she'll get hurt? How can you think that!" "I can think that because she's invincible. No concussions... no bruises. She can't be hurt or killed unless she actively wants to be... and Eldrick knows that. If she let's herself be hurt there is a reason. And I'm hoping Eldrick will react. I'd rather it her than Hope or Ami... he's too attached to either... while Joy has that slight aloofness even when she's charging your to the bedroom that may make him able to accept her being hurt and recovering. Hope he'd want to recover. Ami he'd... die for." "You're right... that may be why Joy is so far ahead... she may not just be wanting to solve all this before he gets there... she is trying her best to make sure he is nowhere near harm's way. IN THE MIND OF Eldrick... where we gotta leave off... it's 2am... and I gotta go in through the front door... maybe I shouldn have typed this on that hateful keyboard at the house... maybe... and maybe I want the robothruster boinking a hole in my skull. Sorry folks for the delays and stretching out... but the idea that I have to have this character I have sheltered give in to what is inside both of us... is far from easy... I've even tried to find other things to do... I even considered the Fight with Sachiel Angel... coming back to the fight with Flashbacks. Heck I had to do that with the Eva battle... and did you see any of the other fights? No. I'm trying to force the combative mood... and it isn't working. Well I better get to the house... need sleep to try to finish this tomorrow... And I now realize that was an Eva flashback... in that that scene is from Eva... the whole sand castle thing. I didn't mean to just appropriate it. I didn't even understand the significance before other than that Shinji was all alone. Guess I do have an idea now. But anyway... We're back... without further ado... I am cold. I am hot also. Where am I? This place is foreign... But I know it well... Though it's not home. I need to move... But I can't... Feeling blindly... IN THE DARK Then there was light as he found the light switch... a switch that refused to turn back off when he saw the horror before him. He did this. Their cold blood was all over him as witness to the act. Thick as licorice it refused to simply drip off of him. The creature... the guards... the other prisoners begging to die... slain. He'd programmed the program to react as he would... "I didn't think I could slay an Inju. That is so wrong," But deny it he couldn't. His sword was in his hand... his armor was on his body. The program had told him everything it had done. It didn't know he would have rather not found out. It didn't ever let him just get beat around when he would have simply let his ass get kicked. It was like a dummy plug. No soul of it's own. He was horny from the danger he'd been in. He couldn't stop from revelling in it for a moment. "The power..." 'was sweet' were the words he didn't say aloud. A Display much like a Victorian Mirror or steel silver and wrought iron appeared. Washuu did not mask her horror. "You look like hell." "I've felt worse... none of them saw?" Washuu shook her head,"No... everyone is being treated on the practice level. Imeria's Clone is here... helping... says she got orders from Command. She says hi." "Cute," he concentrated and the blood slicked off his armor... off his sword... off his face... the taste would not go so easily however... "How is everyone... and what do you mean treated," he said as something clicked. "Oh wait..." "Everyone is fine... that slight lapse is probably from the fight and being knocked out." "You make good weapons," he smiled. "Yeah well I also make good scanners... I uploaded some data on everyone's location and a map. Hope says that the city is called... brace yourself. Hyper Mega-Heckyo 3. Messed up huh?" "Lossoth is truly warped." ::: Somebody Call? ::: A ghost like image of Lossoth appeared,"Sorry to appear so... Blood 2 but I'm busy." "Can the chatter. I'm coming to rip your head off and piss down your throat." "What about my needs? I need this head attached to have a crown placed on it when I rule the universe." "And I though my head was full of hormones racing around," Eldrick smirked to Washuu who shrugged. Lossoth looked at the window," Oh hi? Sorry no visitors... What??? The spell failed in my own realm?!" Washuu smiled slyly,"Maybe your lease expired? There's more to being an evil overlord than stupid plans. Not that that ever stopped Kagato..." Lossoth's form bristled,"You dare compare me to that amateur!!!" "I don't remember him being trapped in hell for violations of anything," She turned to Eldrick,"You were right... he does need his head examined a little bit more than you do." "Fine if you're going to insult me... here a present for you Eldrick. Don't say I'm not generous." A box appeared before Eldrick... with a big 'Open me' tag... written in the Exocet font. Washuu smirked,"He sure does love his clichs. I'll alert you if anything untoward is approaching." "Thank you but no... I have scanners in here. I'll watch out for myself." "But..." "I'd rather not have anyone see me do anything... wrong. Like what happened here. My destructive territorial tendencies are on fire... I don't want anyone seeing that. Certainly not you Washuu." Her face turned cutesy,"Aww you gonna protect Little Washuu from seeing blood and feces sprayed all over the walls? Why you're just the sweetest!" Washuu turned serious,"But I will turn off because you asked... although... way back when I saw students and fellow staffers do worse than what you just did. And they did it for less correct reasons," she paused," Come back in one piece. I'll try to page the others to come back... but I don't have a trace on Joy or the Actual Imeria... but I'll try to pinpoint them also. Piss a little for me." "Ewww." "Hehehe," and Washuu shut off. She was probably gagging on such words like he was now. He brought the map up in the window absently. "Ami, Hope, Joy, Imeria, me, Rick, and Lossoth. Everyone else probably won't get involved... or are debauching in..." he grimaced at the map,"Teflon City? I wonder if it's non-stick... probably. Well anyway... time to get Rick..." he made to step and the walls of the gift fell down. He looked over and got sickened. Within the box was a cage of flesh... and within that cage was an unconscious ChibiUsa. He would have just walked over and cut it open... but... the cage was alive... it grew a head... arms... legs... all big ugly tentacle-like things. He looked at the map... it showed Ami and Hope getting closer to city hall. "I don't have time for this demon. Release the girl and disperse... my quarrel is not with you. Do not make it so." &So... different you sound... all confident... not at all like with Lace... no... far different. You screamed in pleasure then. You were a hole to get her jollies off then. Mistress Lace got such pleasure from you.& "Yeah she was hot." It blinked... obviously upset it's taunting didn't work. Eldrick flicked a command toggle he'd been working on since seeing it. "Hot like LCL... like you are." &ARGH! No... Master... I... fai...& and Eldrick had to leap to catch ChibiUsa from falling with the once proud cage beast... now proud LCL. He set her down when she started to wake up. She stood and looked up at him. "Where'd you get all that armor?" Eldrick "Max Sterling" Tobin blinked in confusion,"Um... family heirloom?" "Everyone fights evil nowadays," she sighed,"This place is icky." "You said it," he surveyed the area... but when he turned back... there were 2 ChibiUsa's... both looking at each other in shock. "Where'd she come from... Max ... what's going on? Why is there a second me." He sighed,"One of you is ChibiUsa... the other is a Boomer and a Sexaroid... who blasted me earlier." "I would never do that... hey stop talking when I'm talking you fake.... who are you calling a fake fake. This is getting nowhere." Eldrick sighed again and put effort into his thinking. .o(Which was wish... I could kiss them and see which one blushes... but that would make things complicated when Max goes back with the real one. I got it)o. "Answer me this... Who does Eldrick love beyond all doubt?" The one of the right said,"Me of course!" The one on the left said,"Who's Eldrick?" Right took a step back... but he snapped his fingers and she couldn't move... he'd unplugged her motor circuit... something he now realized he should have just probbed for... something he was now going to do on a grand scale. While ChibiUsa admired the suddenly frozen in place doppleganger, "Max" scanned for all forms of life... and boomer tech... and his own Tech. Blips appeared. "Yes... I know where EVERYthing and everyone is now." "How? Oh wait... nevermind. I forgot. Not something easy to get used to." "Mind if I send you someplace safer?" "Send me to your place... I'll wait for you there... say you went to the store for paints... I'll do something like sketch until you get back," she smiled. "A plan is formed." "Silly Max." He made a portal to the right and proper location to send her and stood by the door like a maitre d. She walked through the door regally and bowed at the other side before breaking into giggles. He smiled waved and closed the portal. He looked at the defunct boomer. "Well better send that to Washuu so it can't be used against me here." He opened a portal,"Gifts for kawaii redheaded scientific geniuses." "What's the occasion?" "To keep him from reattaching her motor circuit and using her against me again. I don't think he has any fans of hers locked away so his negative isn't recharged... assuming it needs to be recharged... something I picked up scanning her for her motor circuit. He left notes. Guess she was the first made or something." "I'll get on it... and see if I can reprogram her a bit. Can't let perfectly good if evil technology go to waste." Eldrick sweatdropped. Washuu cackled. "See you latter Miss Washuu." "That's little Washuu you ecchi. We'll discuss Miss Washuu later." Eldrick stepped away from the portal,"No... need to age shift on my account." Washuu cackled again,"But I so love teasing Little Eldy... well I need to get to work here. Bai." "Bai," he said as he closed the portal. He looked to see where Joy was... he needed to get ahold of her since she didn't have a comm unit. She was already almost to Lossoth himself. Wings sprouted from the armor and he leapt into the air and downbeat for altitude. One more thing flying through the air wasn't going to attract attention... something Hyper Running on the ground would. ACROSS FROM CITY HALL "So what's the plan Hope?" "Storming the place is oddly... not a problem... it's which way we wanna go. There is no one and nothing in the way to him... which means he's going to be relying on Rick Hunter. Which is bad." "No kidding... running up against Avatars... I mean last time... *wince* Self Insert Fanfic Avatars really know their stuff... and he's just as strong." :::Yes I am::: came a voice behind them before they were teleported deep within city hall itself. Into cages designed for them and their senshi-ified gifts. "Damn," was all Hope could say... before her hair shifted from blue to lime green. Ami smiled. Lossoth... did not. Ami leaned back in her cage,"Didn't plan on Miss M.I.R.R.O.R getting in on the action? How do you even think a cheap trick like that worked? Hope is not so weak." "But you are missy," Lossoth chuckled. "Eldrick will save me. I pity you." "I don't need your damn pity! I'm going to grease my cocks in his skull... and when I'm done you're next!!" "Kinky." Lossoth blanched,"I hate how you do that. How else am I gonna get my torturous jollies!! I'm evil and I have needs." "And THAT is why I pity you." "I should have guessed. Anyway... Eldrick will be here soon. As will Joy and Imeria." AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS LEADING TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE Joy stopped and looked at Imeria ... again,"Stop following me... if you're looking for sex we'll just have to bang like in 'Mad Rabbits of Lust 91' later. I'm busy. You're cute but business before pleasure." "How about pleasurable business?" "That's fun... but not right now..." Joy continued walking up the stairs... pausing to look back every now and then. "Like I've said a thousand times I'm not looking at your ass." "More's the pity. I'm watching for when you stab me in the back." Imeria blinked and tensed,"Whatever do you mean?" "Can it," Joy snapped her fingers and Imeria was hogtied,"Lossoth will love your return... think of the fun you'll have serving your master again." "How did you know?" "I was following you invisibly. I could tell you were in the dimension. I heard your little admission... Oh hi Rick... we were just talking about how cute Imeria makes as a gift in her current state." "I failed master..." Rick Hunter appeared behind Imeria... then bent down and fingered her..."I know... we'll work out the kinks in this later." Imeria was too rapt to speak... before he teleported her to his bed chambers. "Now then, Joy... what now? Big ass battle royal?" "Naw... I'm here to rescue Ami." Rick blinked his Guyver suit emitting steam. "Then what is Hope with her invisible self here to do?!" AT LOSSOTH'S SIDE :::This::: And Lossoth's Remote Control of the Gods copy... rejoined the Gods. BACK AT THE STAIRS "I'll get all of you for this!!!" Eldrick landed and kicked open the doors to City Hall. He reached the stairs and he heard... well Joy greeting him coyly... and... ::: Great Powers at my command... ::: "Oh fun... get Ami and Hope and the Stand in out of here," Eldrick called to Joy. ::: Infernal Arts that I'm making up as I go along but talking like this sounds cool ::: Joy sweatdropped then phased through a blocking Rick Hunter... who blinked at what he considered impossible. Rick shook it off and let Joy rescue them... it was after all... only about Eldrick and him anyway. He'll get them to himself later. Only a matter of time. What did one fanboy matter? ::: Big Hoopy Destruction Rain down on this boring burg... sparing Teflon Town where I sent everyone ::: Eldrick sweatdropped... Joy ran past him with Hope and the M.I.R.R.O.R leaping ahead of them. Ami on the other hand... began kicking Rick Hunter around like a rag doll. ::: Burst... Forth! WALLFLOWERS!!! ::: "Wallflowers?! But they suck!" Ami said with her hand on her hip before the blast struck HMH4 blowing all the buildings into an abrasive dust that Ami accidentally inhaled some of. No one else was hurt as Eldrick threw up a wind screen seconds after the "spell" fired. When the dust settled... Ami was coughing up blood. Hope tried to heal her but the dust was still in there and it didn't help -or hinder. Eldrick rushed over to her and concentrating with sweat pouring down his face and out gaps in his armor seized hold of the sentient dust of evil and pulled it out of her lungs when Joy patted her on the back. "That... hurt..." Ami coughed and passed out. Eldrick caught her. During all of this Rick was unwatched and he picked up Eldrick's discarded sword... and rammed it home... stabbing Ami in the process. Ami's pained face looked up at Eldrick,"I'll... be... okay... stop him. I have... faith... in... you." "Be okay my left ass cheek," yelled Rick as he twisted the blade. Eldrick quickly slipped Ami from the blade and tossed her to Joy... and grunted because right then his sword cut through him a bit and as swords go his was as sharp as they come. Max Sterling... Vanished. Joy poofed everyone back to the house... saying how that was actually a good idea. Rick Pissed and Moaned and swung in the air,"Damn it! Why can't I just bloody kill him!!! I thought that was him not the stupid projection! Damn obscuring armor!!!" AT THE HOUSE Eldrick stumbled from the machine. His head rather than his side felt stabbed. Oddly he was wearing his armor again. He ignored that too. He was only focused on one thought... is Ami safe. It was his world. He ran up the stairs. He went into the bathroom and through the adjoining door to avoid the other occupants bandaged and looking on. "She doesn't look good Eldrick. Your sword... it..." was all Washuu could say. Eldrick ignored her and checked for a pulse... faint but there... he then tore off a bracer, and then after sending a unified command to his nanites... bit himself and bled on her wound. "The nanites will do their magic. I'll get them back from her when she is well again." "But Eldrick they might not be enough." "They will be enough!" he yelled. "As you say Eldrick. They will be enough," Washuu looked away. Hope placed a hand on him... and healed his wound,"I'll do what I can for Ami also... but stomach wounds are complex." "You and the nanites and Washuu will save her... I know it." Charhon spoke,"What are you going to do?" "It should be obvious. I'm going to kill him." Haris laughed that off,"Practical Dukes of Hell don't just get killed." Washuu stifled further discussion,"He has to do what he thinks he has to do. We can't stop him." Joy handed him his bracer,"And we'd be fools to try. Aim for the spheres of course to take out Rick. He probably forgot how vulnerable a Guyver is... Lossoth himself will be trickier... can't give hints there. You'll need this back," she held out the bracer... which lifted up and snapped into place. Eldrick stepped out the door... and went down the stairs... he grabbed a bodoken from the wall in the practice room... made the appropriate portal... and stepped through. Washuu went back up the stairs after watching him go,"He'll win... but what will the cost be?" Ardice sighed,"Can we even be certain he'll win?" Ami sat up,"You... have... to have faith in him..." Astrala calmed Ami back into the bed before turning around,"The boy goes to slay the dragon. That the dragon is slain is what matters... not if the castle is destroyed. Little boys don't think about the consequences of their actions... right Washuu?" AT THE RUMBLE Eldrick squared away again... his bodoken nicked and scarred. It could never be used again.... but he'd almost unseated the sword from Rick 8 times now... and he had plenty of energy to charge it with yet. Then a thought struck him... and he couldn't help but laugh. Rick paused,"What's so funny?" "You should know... we're thinking inside the box." "Duh... I'm humoring you before you die." "What... you think I can't kill you? All I need is a splinter really. I know how you love the little fights and conflicts. I'm just remarking how dull we are. 2 3rd rate swordsman chipping away at each other. If this was a movie it would be ... bad comedy. We are laughable," but Eldrick wasn't laughing... he was calculating. "I'm not laughing!" Lossoth threw the sword to the side and peeled the sides of the chest back for the cannon... when he saw his target wasn't there still laughing. "You have Ego problems Rick," and then Eldrick cut the main orb on Guyver Rick's head... and watched him turn to ooze as Lossoth... still seated on his chair... with the VR suite prototype hovering next to him screamed in agony. Eldrick smiled a dark smile... his armor went black... and he prepared to cut Lossoth in half as he leapt into the air. ::: Who has ego problems now? ::: Eldrick downstruck... on nothing. He swiveled the cut around and up and hit the prototype... that connected. Lossoth appeared out of the ooze of Rick Hunter... flamey T-1000 style,"Hey that's going to be hell to fix." "What can I say... I'm petty... must be from talking to you so much lately." "Talk's cheap," Lossoth reassembled from flames and lava the Guyver suit,"And I can learn from mistakes... no weak points now!" Eldrick concentrated a blast of air filled with his trademark fruits and veggies collided with the armor. Eldrick grinned... but it washed away. "Like I said... I learn... Lava Blast!" The attack arced in seconds to where Eldrick had been. The second Lossoth fired he decided to not announce... but Eldrick didn't sit still for that either. Eldrick snuck in a quick strike and blew Lossoth's arm off. "That's going to leave a mark." "Really? I hadn't noticed," Lossoth's arm regenerated in ... well to calculate the time would be like in a calculus class... which this isn't,"See... I'll still be scratching my ass with either hand from my new Eldrick's Armor toilet bowl." Lossoth clapped his hands together and everything was fire. Eldrick lost his concentration and armor and sword left him -fortunately before singeing. Eldrick screamed... and all of hell heard it. He fell to the ground... charred beyond recognition... but he stood right back up. "I... will... not... lose!" And he reached out and pulling the air in towards him from above cracked off his burned and crispy flesh... revealing new beneath... and blew out the flames by feeding them too much. They consumed all the nearby air... and poof... no flames. Meanwhile Lossoth producing somehow the opposing sword to Eldrick's stabbed him in the upper thigh. Eldrick looked down at the being stabbing him,"Who do you think I am... Lancelot?" Eldrick brought his fist back and knocked Lossoth and sword away. The wound forgotten... healed. Lossoth snorted the "blood" back into his nose and brought the sword around for a charge. Eldrick threw up a wind screen... but the sword ate through it and into his stomach. "Die Eldrick. Die... Mister Hero," he wrenched the blade up and out. He sent it away and picked up the pieces of the VR suite. IN Eldrick's MIND [Why did you let him do that? .I did not. [Fallacy. You've made him destroy his plans... destroyed his machine for now... Everyone else is safe. And so... you let him. .Why the hell is everyone against me? [Fallacy. We aren't against you. We want you to open your eyes. As Neo became The One in Matrix... by opening his eyes... so do we also want you to open yours. .Questions one day wisdom the next? Ego: He won't listen... you're wasting your time. [A Defender... an ruse... a distraction from the truth. Ego you're needed elsewhere. Stay out of this. Ego: Stay out of what? You filling his head with delusions of grandeur so he kicks Lossoth's ass and makes you all gushy happy because an inner demon is gone? [One less is one less. Ego: Thank you Gendo Ikari. [Are you then Keel... and is he Shinji? Ego: Power trips are for other people. He is no hero. [Don't want your spineless Person developing a backbone? .You know I'm right here... sheesh... [I'll get back to you. .Now I'm back burnered. [Because if he does... he may not need you to coach him into one... he may not need me to lecture him. Because he may not need anyone or anything save little things to make him happier because he'll be totally happy then anyway. Ego: Killing Lossoth will solve nothing... a new evil will pop up... or Lossoth will revive... and we are back to phase one... one step higher. And the spiral staircase has infinite steps because the mind thinks it so. .Can I get back to dying? [Why? You want him to use his OMS to control the Boomers and take over the world? .What? [It was on the map... ah wait... it wasn't Lossoth so you ignored it. Ego you do the honors. Ego: Why? [I'm picking on you. Ego: *mutters and brings up the map* [Right beneath Teflon City... where the factory is... that little insignificant speck that showed up as "Unknown Boomer Technology" that became "OverMind System" and pinged at you... but you conveniently ignored it. Dying to keep fighting forever provided the girls are safe. How noble. But if you die... they will follow. .Huh? Ego: Genius... you go poof... Lossoth takes over this bit... then the next bit... then your house... takes the girls as his own... then he conquers the next... and the next... and soon... well gosh... he owns everything... the girls aren't safe... and well...you can't do anything... you died. .I'll just come back. Ego: Naw... I'm selling our Phoenix Down stock... don't need them. Lost cause. Mister wants to "Play" hero keeps dying. .I'm a Hero. Ego: Bullshit. .I am a Hero! [Is he saying something? I'm watching Springer. .I AM IN THE REAL WORLD "A Hero!" Lossoth turned around,"Oh How clich. Hero rises from the grave 90... this time it's for another sequel 81: Hold the taxes. Just," Lossoth crossed the distance and slammed Eldrick's head into the ground,"stay," Lossoth grabbed him by the hair,"dead!!" Lossoth Swung him over his head... and was knocked back by the blast of air Eldrick cushioned his slam with. Lossoth looked at the hair in his hand, and tossed it away. Eldrick reached for it and it flew to his hand where he grabbed it and held onto it murmuring. "No spells today," Lossoth recalled the sword and flung it at Eldrick. Eldrick looked at it... and suddenly it hit a wall. "Kawaii-yo... an AT field? How darling." Eldrick quirked an eyebrow as the sword shifted into a Lance of Longinus and penetrated the field. Eldrick just reached forward and grabbed it. "What in the hell?!" "I thought we were in heck. Oh I don't need this... you keep it," Eldrick Hurled the Lance back at Lossoth who sidestepped... but the Lance not being one to be denied -or Eldrick... either way- spun around like the glaive from Krull and stabbed Lossoth in the back. "Now for something I saw in an Anime... :::Burning fires from the depths of Abadon::: "You aren't casting that today freak," Lossoth pulled the Lance through his body and flung it at Eldrick. It hit the field again... but was knocked away by Eldrick's sword leaping in from nowhere and driving it into the ground... where it shifted back to normal. :::Fires of Gehenna become a force to strike::: And a window popped up Eldrick quick shifted it to voice only. The voice that greeted him... was not Washuu telling him the worst. It was Ami and all she said was,"Come home. Joy just destroyed his OMS. He has no boomer army now." Eldrick smiled at Lossoth,"I never can get to finishing that spell. Oh well... it would have probably only recharged you or something. Oh yeah... keep the sword. It actually makes you a force to not just brush aside like the maggot sucking vermin you are," Eldrick paused," I think I like this whole Dark Schneider impression thing. Perhaps I'll get to use it on you one day... when you're feeling up to it of course... I mean... you look... like the dead," Eldrick smiled and threw his voice down into the basement,"Hey Imeria... master's calling. He needs a sling for his ego... it's broken." Imeria came up the stairs and Caught Lossoth before he fell over. Lossoth turned his head,"And when I am healed again... all you know will suffer." "But you see? That's what makes being the good guy so much fun. You see... as the villain... you get to have you're butt handed to you... or if there is no hero... you rule the universe... until some other villain who seeing you now bored... kicks you butt. And then someone his. It's a vicious cycle. Like a unicycle with a partisan for a seat and crystal pointy tires. It gets you no where and," Eldrick grinned," It gets you hurt ... in the end. Whereas being the hero means I get to kick a whole lot of ass all over the place comprised of villains like you. "Well happier people than you call. Ta ta," Eldrick Stepped and for dramatic effect pulled some air in and swathed himself all Dark Schneider-y with just a opaque blanket of air. A Portal Opened. Eldrick stepped through portal. Portal Vanished. "I have a new plan. One he can't stop. I've heard about these things called heart crystals..." Imeria pushed him and let him fall backwards onto the floor,"If you think you're going to Tomoe you are mistaken." "I wasn't finished -besides I don't even own glasses. You see... if I infuse a heart crystal with some modifications into one of the "Girls" I don't need the OMS and that broken pile of crap over there. I can give them a nice evil... semi free will... and complete obedience to me." "How about we just rebuild the city with the Boomers and fuck and frolic and be done with this conquest of the universe deal? Even the CP doesn't own the universe. No one does. And What about Evail? They control 99% of the realms lower than this one... but still they battle goodie two shoes daily. Plus running the Empire of the Black Pits is alot of work. You really want that kind of responsibility?" "I have a grand infernal vision." "Oh not the big bloody battlefield of the internet minds wired in killing each other until one person is left... and you stab them in the back to take their experience points and become the ultimate super being thing again." "I tell you experience points are real!!" "You can crawl to your regen lava all by yourself. I'm not helping. I can't believe I'm here anyway." "Mind numbing sex with multipronged evil?" "Oh yeah. Give me your hand you multipronged evil." Lace appeared,"Give me your other hand... Ewww sweaty palms." Thread and Sheer appeared,"Got his legs. Hey lets make a wish." Velvet appeared beneath him,"I got my shoulders into his back. Tons of fun should be really light between all of us." Lossoth scowled,"Tons? That implies that I'm only fat. I'm a lardass... I'm made of neutronium and don't you forget... now heave me to the vat... I have beauty rest to wrestle from the sandman." Epilogue "Well that sucked. He'll live... he'll bother everyone again... and CP can't do squat but banish Imeria to heck where she wants to be anyway. Another day another evil plan foiled. At least I'm not in a fuku with panties riding up my butt." Ami came down the stairs... dressed as Arshes Nei,"Done kicking ass? I have something for you... besides me." Eldrick picked up his jaw. "Well being that his ass is in a sling I suppose the kicking of it is done now... What did you have for me?" "An order of Nanites..." "Shaken and not stirred I hope?" "Oh would you rather do something Bond like?" "No... I just need you... it's good to see you okay again. I was..." "Shhh... Let's not worry about any of that. I'm fine now... Washuu Hope... and you saw to that." "But you need your rest..." "I'll rest afterwards... I'll be in the bedroom. I thanked Washuu for you. Now I need to thank you," she winked and slid out of her outfit on the way up. Eldrick soon followed. In the morning he had his nanites back... and funny... when he heard them enter... they seemed to have the gigglefinnies... and he could have sworn he looked like Dark Schneider in the mirror... but that's... another story for another time. For now... think of the heavy breathing and body grinding. Morning is still hours away. \Alright so I got all huffy and puffy and made it sound like the world was going to end... but I really did need some support for the original vision. It was still an ass kick fest... but it wasn't the jumping around like a John Woo action flick... and I don't know if I conveyed the emotions right... I'm still on my endorphin high from watching Stigmata. And no I don't know where I suddenly decided to have an AT field... of course my wittle wind screen is just as strong... so it's moot... unless hit by a nice firebased attack like it was. Ah well... hope you had fun... and more notes are ahead. For those upset with how I'm running the Tokyo 3 segment... sorry... I always got the feeling when reading Fanboys! that somehow the world had gone back to semi normal after 3rd Impact. And, That somehow there was still angel trouble... even if fewer and farther between. I just added occasionally repeats. Zhamiel you may or may not remember as one of the names of either a Fallen Angel... or Satan himself as demonstrated in the first Warlock movie. Plus it DOES sound like an Angel name... and I made him a repeat angel due to the fact that Zhamiel may -like Warlock Suggests- be powerful enough to be thought of AS the devil. *shrug* Your Milage May Vary. Also... as a friend pointed out... I don't list who 19 was. Or 21,22,23 etc... until Zhamiel came back. And why not simply reuse the number... NERV does it all the time. ^.~ As for Mr. Kaoru Nagisa. I remembered there being at least 1 Eva 05 missing from the Flock by count in EoE. And that's the story I'm sticking to. Also I apologize for the different sections for just before Heck. I really wasn't sitting well after how threadbare I'd portrayed the Fanboys! May His Lordship Chaos forgive me.\ ------- Ayanami (Hope) 00 -Blue (goki) Ikari 01 -Purple (Chigoki... also seen as Shogoki) Sohryu 02 -Red (Nigoki) Suzahara 03 -Black (goki) -Something had to be untouched. Shiro 04 -not here Chrome and Gold (goki) Nagisa 05 -Standard White >.< (goki) Hokari 06 -Brown (Gotta name these myself... but I'm not up on the scheme... yes Aida 07 -Olive Drab (They may be coming back... Annoying New Evas ^.~ ANE's) Can Anyone tell me the actual kanji for the Eva's other names? These are what I pulled... but I don't know which ones to use. It's for my personal info... and I wanna give names to Hikari's and Kensuke's Eva's. May not use them but... I gotta know. 01 and 02's names are from a translation of the Red Cross Book that was handed out to people for a price at showings of EoE in Japan. Or D&R not sure and if I look at the page again... this 'll be more delayed. 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