AS BLOOD AND GUTS RUN IN TO THE BLAZING FIRES

That man he had teeth like Asuka's and his eyes glow like mine and he beat her so badly it was really awful to watch, I've honestly never seen Asuka get beaten in combat and it made me sick to my stomach. Who are those people?

I mean that woman referred to Mari as the runt of the litter and the man he said he knew Asuka when she was young clearly he is an Evangelion pilot as he has the abilities like us which means he must have been the one we faced off against in battle who had the dead lance of Longinus and that's even more terrifying. I have to find that panel though now for everyone else and Asuka's sake if she could open the foyer doors she could let everyone out.

Rei turned pulling away from the screaming crowds and employees almost feeling her feet slide on the carpeted floor as she ran away from them as they ran towards the foyer strangely the gun men and women weren't following. She ran down the opposite corridor seeing the panel come into view which was glowing blue.

She eased herself up pulling off its blue screen throwing it to the floor as she eyed the computer screen trying to remember the emergency code as she shoved her key card into the lock ignoring the commotion which could be heard up the hall as everyone ran in the foyer only to hit the closed doors at the end.

She turned watching as Rosetta and Antonio appeared coming alongside her much to her surprise. "What's the emergency code I really need the code!" Rosetta turned sharply. "Now I'm wishing I hadn't drunk so much." She raised her hand. "It five seven five nine four seven...there's more I know there is."

Antonio spoke leaning forward. "Its five seven five nine four seven three four seven..." Rei started typing watching as the code flashed green as she started to go through the systems areas up on a long list. "Cars, parking, credit…where is it? I need the override all of the buildings doors so they will open and everyone can get out." Rosetta stopped her hand. "Three down four to the right."

Rei moved her hand pressing it bringing it up. "Activating it now..." She watched as a ten minute count down started. "Why does this have a download bar?" Antonio eyed the panel. "Security reasons so you can cancel it, its old style technology but an unsuccessful type that was replaced with emergency digital alarms."

Rosetta looked up. "You know Asuka tried really hard, she had so much courage." She breathed in about to say more only to hear the cracking sound of a gun followed by intense pain she looked down watching as blood started to drip down her leg only to hit the floor in intense pain.

"Yeah well the bitch still lost and I'm sick of having to look around for you, you're wasting our precious time!"

Rei turned as another shot was fired at Antonio who hit the floor bleeding heavily from his shoulder opposite her still holding Asuka's gun, she eyed the masked man. "Stop hurting these people they've done nothing to deserve this!" The man eyed her, his Spanish tone noticeable despite his mask as he raised his machine gun higher. "Stop wasting time, you are coming with me now!"

Rei eased the gun up not thinking as she fired it straight at his boot ignoring his cry of agonizing pain. "No I'm not!" The next moments caused intense pain as his weapon hilt smashed into his stomach only for the next blow to hit her in the face causing her to stumble back as blood ran down from her nose.

The man's hand suddenly found her hair as he dragged her up it. "Pretty little thing aren't you? You're so young looking in the face." Rei looked up only for the man to be punched full force by another man who was being closely followed by a woman who shook her head in annoyance as she kicked Asuka's gun out of Antonio's hand which he'd raised aiming to shoot the man then punched him in the face sending him sideways.

The other man's voice hit the air filled with anger. "What part of we are not meant to touch her did you not understand Alessandro!?"

Rei fell to her knees only to be grabbed by the woman she felt a medical gun get shoved into her neck only for it to be fired causing her whole body to slowly go numb as her mind became very heavy though she could still hear them speaking as her gun slipped from her fingers hitting the floor as everything started to go in and out of focus. A hand moved to her dress pulling off Asuka's phone which clattered to the floor only to be stamped on causing a crunch as the glass broke. "You stupid bastard you broke her nose! Achika will have to fix that back on base before we send her back to Gendo we don't have the specialized medical equipment in the vans!"

Antonio watched as the load bar hit two thirds complete which caused all of the emergency alarms to go off instantly so people knew that the doors were about to open. He watched as the woman pulled Rei up on her shoulders as she started to move in the other direction away from them.

Alessandro ignored his stinging mouth and bleeding foot as he eyed the other man. "The little bitch shot me!" The other man gave him a cold look as he spoke. "I don't care if she ripped your worthless little dick off you had orders they were not to touch her and I'm getting tired of cleaning up your messes we were all given medical guns for a reason!" He turned away. "Now get off your pathetic back side, we need to pull back as the vans are waiting at the other end of the building so move it!"

8

Nari breathed in sucking the lollypop in her mouth as she carried on playing on the app in the stench limousine which was parked some way from the auction building in a private parking area which meant she could still see the building.

She eyed the time realizing it would be at least two more hours before it was over plus the extra press time as the press would try to get more time as they loved swarming celebrates and some of the world's best were in that building. She eased up her hand adjusting her mirror only to stop as she caught sight of the auction houses flags lowering slowly which was so odd maybe it was a publicity stunt or something wouldn't be the first time.

She paused watching as the flag pole slowly raised again as two flags worked their way up she felt her whole body tense as they unravelled revealing something truly shocking. Both were Red flags with large white circle in the middle though inside that was black griffon symbol. She paused closing her hologram app screen realizing whose flag it was it belonged to the terrorist group Gryphon who were much smaller than the bigger terrorist groups.

Unlike all of the others Gryphon believed that the angels were gods and that Nerv shouldn't be killing them, but they were low level terrorists and loved to nail bomb other religious temples and kill people but they never did mayor attacks on high level places they just didn't have the man or woman power or the contacts.

That was until now as they clearly gone up in there station which meant the auction house was under attack she moved pressing Rei's mobile phone number only to blink in confusion as it came up with no signal.

She tried a second time still getting nothing she breathed in pulling back the special compartment on the dash board so the special Nerv channel could be contacted. She breathed pulling out the lollypop as she typed in to using the special code hearing it slow ring as a male voice answered. "This is Nerv central how can we help?"

Nari looked up. "There's a serious problem at the auction house." There was a long pause followed by a long sigh. "Great which celebrity did Asuka beat up this time?"

Nari leaned forward in annoyance. "This isn't about Asuka it's about the auction house!" The voice came again. "What do you mean please clarify?" Nari looked up. "Put your Nerv cameras over the auction house it's got terrorist flags on it!" She waited for a moment only to hear him speak again. "I see the flags but this is a joke right a publicity stunt?" Nari breathed in deeply. "Those are Gryphon's flags that means there could be a terrorist group in that building right now!"

She paused. "Call the Colonel right now or put me through directly to her home phone." The male voice came back slightly nervous. "She said no interruptions tonight, which was an order." Nari eyed her com. "I don't care put me through!"

8

Rosetta looked up slightly as she grabbed Rei's fallen gun eyeing Antonio as she pulled up her dress tearing a long piece of it off as she moved over to him wrapping it around his shoulder. "We have to get out of here Antonio."

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Antonio breathed in painfully grabbing Asuka's gun trying to ignore his stinging face. "There's another door an emergency exit it's not far from here it will open when the front doors do, it leads out into the gardens maybe there we can contact someone." Rosetta grabbed her dress tearing it as she wrapped it around her bleeding leg while grabbing Rei's shattered phone. "Rei's phone might get a signal it's a Nerv phone assuming it still works since it’s connected to Nerv."

Antonio stood up slowly helping her up as they worked their way slowly towards the other door they could hear commotion and screaming as they clearly weren't the only ones trying to get out he could hear doors being banged on violently they would open any moment now. "Where do you suppose there taking Rei and Asuka?"

Rosetta breathed in limping slowly forward knowing the doors would all open soon. "I have no idea I don't even know who these bastards are they don't look any off the ones in the news." Antonio breathed in deeply. "Maybe they're a new group." He looked up as the blue strobe light came on signalling that every door in this building was about to open.

He turned the corner only to see Miki come into view she was desperately trying to drag her unconscious brother towards the door which suddenly opened. They came closer to her as he spoke. "Do you need a hand?" Miki looked up although her face was white and she looked really afraid. "I can't lift him…I hate the bastard but I can't lift him!" Antonio moved forward helping to lift the man despite that it caused agony to his shoulder. "Help my friend she can't walk."

He watched as Miki nodded doing so as they all walked out in to the gardens bellow seeing others run out while others piling out the doors on other sides of the gardens as they found a spot as he placed Ryo down carefully.

He breathed in sitting near a tree out of sight watching as the others did the same. "This was not how I thought this night was going to go." Rosetta pulled out a vaping cigarette breathing into it before breathing out mint smelling smoke as she tried to get Rei's phone working watching as Miki put her brother in to recovery position. "Here I was trying to quit vaping…"

Miki's hand suddenly grabbed her vaping cigarette as she took a long breath blowing it out. "Yeah that makes two of us." She eyed her brother taking another long breath breathing out the smoke. "Stupid fucker if you weren't my brother I'd kill you myself right now!"

Antonio eyed her. "You need to calm down." Miki eyed him in disgust. "Don't tell me to fucking calm down they didn't beat the shit out of your brother right in front of you!" Rosetta turned to her. "Do you know who these people are I mean that guy who beat up Asuka he said it was his fault?"

Miki turned sharply. "No I don't know who they were my stupid brother pisses off a lot of people!" Her next words were cut off as massive boom echoed through the air causing everyone who was still running out of the doors to hit the dirt. She looked up in horror as red fire blasted through the roof of the foyer section of the building going miles in to the air blasting smoke and fire outwards and upwards causing distant screams which could be heard all around them in the darkness of the night as the fire engulfed the whole foyer section of the building including its flags.

She stared at the fire for a long moment nothing felt real anymore to her and she just felt like she was floating through a nightmare the tears came before she could stop them as she leaned forward sobbing uncontrollably as both Antonio and Rosetta tried to console her.

The pain inside became almost rage and hurt boiling into one she didn't care who it was or how much it took she would make them pay for this and for what they did to her brother! He needed medical help now more than ever and she just felt so helpless in all of this. Whoever these people were they had just killed hundreds and all of some king of vile revenge on her brother.

8

Achika eyed the burning building from the fake food vans passenger seat window as they drove away it was almost artistic and beautiful yet there was something so strange going on in that the burning roof was falling away revealing the ancient statue which was completely untouched by the flames despite that everything was burning around it. Her gaze drifted to Asuka who was laying further back and chained along with another figure that she was not happy to see as she should not be with them and should have been dropped off. She paused eyeing the men and women in the back as Christopher carried on driving his eyes and teeth had now returned to normal. "So does anyone want to amuse me right now?"

She paused feeling her teeth grind together unable to stop the anger. "And tell me who broke Rei Ayanami's face!?" She eyed them. "What part of don't touch her did you not understand? Also I'll have to fix her nose back on the ship since I don't have my special medical equipment here right now!" The first woman looked up who was tending to Rei's nose. "It was Alessandro…he did this."

Achika raised her hand. "Oh great I might have known he would mess this up for me yet again first Rome then Argentina and last time Russia!" Christopher breathed in speaking coldly. "Along with trying to rape my date simulation what a guy…like I think we should both move up our dealing with him to a lot sooner."

Achika eyed him clearly the irony wasn't lost on her as they'd both intended to set him up after this event but he had just dug his own grave for them she eyed the other men and women. "Which truck is he in?" The man opposite spoke. "The medical one since Ayanami shot him in the foot even though again the special medical equipment isn't there."

Christopher felt his hand grip the wheel tighter as the rage took over. "Ayanami should be in that stuck not him it has high end pain killers!" He paused eyeing both the man and woman. "Thank you both though for your honesty, I'll reward you when I get back since you both didn't try to cover this up."

The woman looked up. "Our loyalty is to you both and Pharaoh and we hate Alessandro he's a screw up." Achika eyed the now burning statue in the distance which though covered in flames was not burning and remained white as they moved to Tokyo Threes higher roads. "Yes Antonio is a screw up and all screw up must answer to their gods in the end, it's the way of things."

She paused. "We are only put on this earth for a limited time and we must always appease our gods or suffer the wraith of them." Christopher moved the van higher on to the main roads as they drove normally and slowly as to not gain any attention. "Clearly he didn't learn that lesson where he grew up in Spain hence I look forward to teaching him personally what it means."

8

The phones ringing I just don't want to answer it I'm too tired and my brain wants quite it's my night off I had a really nice night out with Kaji and he's now sleeping opposite me. Maybe if I ignore it will stop ringing I pause realizing that it's not going to stop ringing since whoever is calling is persistent as hell. I need to get one of those new hologram phones so I don't have to answer or sit up in bed or do anything.

Misato opened one eye groggily as she pulled away from Kaji who still sleeping next to her in bed, she slammed her fingers on the receiver causing the hologram to pop up as sound only as she eyed the time. "What is it, it's one in the morning I'm sleeping!?"

Ritsuko's voice hit the air filled with annoyance. "I don't care if it's six in the morning! You're meant to be on call twenty four seven it's in your contract and Kaji's." Misato eyed the phone seeing that Kaji was waking up though he looked as tired as she was. "What do you want Ritsuko?" Ritsuko's voice came again though it was very dead panned. "There's been an incident at the auction house building."

Misato breathed in deeply. "Look if Asuka beat up someone they probably had it coming and I'll deal with it tomorrow, I'm tired." Ritsuko's voice suddenly cut through her thoughts. "Turn on your news feed right now this is deadly serious!"

Misato turned grabbing the control that lowered the large flat screen in the bedroom pressing it watching as came down turning on she eyed it. "Turn to channel twelve and show high definition news." She watched as it came on as it began to run breaking news and a view of the auction building from an aerial perspective. "Is this some kind of joke? It's just a press shot…"

Her next words were cut off as the footage showed the whole front section of the building blowing up in a huge blast of flames which lit up the night sky as the press voice spoke solemnly as the camera angle changed showing different angles of the destruction. "This live feed was taken two minutes ago we believe a terrorist attack has just taken place at the Bukowskis auction house."

There was a long painful pause. "Medics police and fire crews are making their way down there now…we don't know how many are hurt it's too early to tell, all we know is that this was a very powerful attack Nerv military trucks and tanks and medical crew have just left central base as we speak all we know is that this was an attack by the terrorist group Gryphon.

Mobile phone camera footage came up showing two Gryphon flags rising on the front of the building moments before the huge explosion. "Gryphon has never done anything like this before, we believe the explosive used in this event had to be military grade but Nerv will confirm this on sight."

The news presenter spoke again. "There worst attack to date was on the temple of Quetzalcoatl in Mexico but this was a very long time ago." He spoke again. "We can’t report either on who is alive or dead though we know the blast caused injuries to hundreds on the red carpet who were waiting for the many celebrities inside from all walks and professions in including sport, TV, film as well as presenting, fashion and music. We also have no idea if Asuka Langley Soryu who's older step sister is Mari Illustrious Makinami is alive." There was a long sad pause. "We also don't know if Rei Ayanami the daughter of Gendo Ikari who is the younger sister of Shinji Ikari is alive."

Ritsuko's voice hit the air. "You and Kaji need to get down to that place right now Maya is coming to you in one of the special medical military trucks she already rung Shigeru and Sumire as they will both be dealing with the pilots during this difficult period as we don't want them near this building at all or inferring in this investigation as with both Shinji and Mari this could get very difficult as I'm sure your aware." Misato turned seeing the shock in Kaji's face. "Will Gendo be joining us?"

Ritsuko’s voice was emotionless. "Yes since Rei is his child and he wants to find her." She paused breathing in deeply. "Asuka's grandmother has also been notified though she's taking this very badly." Misato looked at her phone as Ritsuko's phone call ended she turned to Kaji as her next words came out in an emotionally numb manner. "We have to go."

End of part 22

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