Hi all as promised I am releasing a teaser of PF chp 13c. Many thanks to TONY LOCO for his help. This will be my last post until I either finish this chapter or my untitled one. I recommend that you take a little time to re read a chp or two of PF or you might get lost. HEHEHE I had to do the same just to write this.

As a note this will either be the last chp or 13 d will be. Too many loose ends to tie up.

Anyways enjoy
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The link for PAst/Future is under my crossover section

Forcing his Eva to move as fast as possible, Toji arrived at his destination in less than a minute. Scooping up the rifle on the run, the Fourth child found that the rifle was fully charged. Lifting the rifle and aiming it into space, Toji aimed the rifle at the Angel. Pulling the trigger, a beam of white light lanced out towards space, impacting the Angel. From where he stood the only effect that his attack had done was slow down the Angel’s approach.

“It had no effect,” Toji reported in, a little trembling in his voice. The Fourth child was almost positive that the blast would have had more effect than just slowing it down.

Rei did not stop for a second to glance at the bright light to her left. She continued on course as ordered. In her mind, the first objective was to destroy the Angel then it was to lure the Fifth Child away from the city. Finally reaching her destination, “Retrieving positron rifle,” Rei said.

“Wait till Toji’s rifle has been recharged before firing. Maybe two simultaneous hit will have a better success,” ordered Misato. Turning to Maya, why didn’t Toji’s shot have any damage?” she questioned.

Maya wished that Ritsuko were here. She would have been able to answer the question. “It might be because the Angel is too far away,” Maya answered, repeating what Ritsuko had said earlier.

“Lets hope the combine might of Rei and Toji’s rifle will work.”

* * * * *

Asuka couldn’t believe what she was seeing. In front of her was one of the ugliest but also scariest Angel she had ever seen. There were eyes all over the white Angel and every time her Eva moved those eyes seemed to follow. It resembled one of her worse nightmares come to life. What was strange was the winding spear protruding out from the Angel’s chest, pinning it to the cross.

*Get a hold of yourself. The Angel isn’t going anywhere. You’re Soryu Asuka Langley. The best of the best.* Asuka repeated the mantra to herself. She had never been this close to an Angel before.

Taking a deep breath, Asuka started to take a survey of the room. There was nothing particularly interesting except for the Angel in the middle of the room. It was dangling above a pool of red liquid. Zooming in, Asuka gasped. The red liquid was actually blood flowing from the Angel from the wound caused by the spear. As she brought up the comm., ready to relay to the Commander that she had reached her destination, something about the Angel’s blood kept nagging her.

“Commander. I’ve finally reached the bottom.”

“Acknowledge, pilot Langley. Your instructions have changed. Remain where you are,” Ikari commanded before cutting off communications.

“Arggg!!!” Asuka shouted. Muttering a couple of graphical words in German, Asuka turned her attention back to the Angel and the Spear.

* * * * *

Up on top, Rei had finally positioned herself next to the Fourth Child. "I am ready," Rei reported in.

"Good. Toji I want you to be the first one to fire. Rei will synchronize her shot with yours. Understood?" Misato ordered.

"Hai," both pilots responded.

*I thought Rei died unless the Commander had a reason for hiding her,* Misato thought. *I'll ask about it at another time.* Turning her attention away from the screen, "Maya how is Ranma doing?" she asked, more concern now than before. Before he was a frightened boy in pain; that was something she understood. But having Ranma act like a cat was not something that she could label familiar territory. Since Ritsuko wasn't here to explain her ward's behavior, she had to reply on herself to make a judgment call.

"His sync ratio keeps rising!" Maya reported, her voice was a bit more stressed than usual.

Returning her attention to Toji and Rei, she prayed the next shots would be last time they had to use the positron rifles. Though the new stock model took only a tenth of the energy needed compared to the prototype, it still drained the city of all power. *Thank goodness the government of Tokyo 3 decided to upgrade their power generators after the prototype was used for the first time,* Misato thought. *Don’t worry Ranma, we’ll save you soon.*

"Misato, my gun is fully powered," Toji called in.

"Maya forward the coordinates for the angel's core to Eva 00 and 03," she ordered.

"Hai! Sending now."

"Target confirmed," Rei answered in an unemotional voice.

"I got it!" Toji shouted. "Time for this angel to become moon dust!"

A few groans were heard among the command staff, those who knew where that saying originated from. A few smiled as Toji helped lighten the atmosphere a little.

"On my mark Rei. Three . . . two . . . one . . fire!" Toji shouted.

Two simultaneous clicks could be heard as the whining of the positron guns started to generate power on an unprecedented level. The two Evas held in their hands the most powerful guns ever created. As lights all over Tokyo 3 shutdown due to the power consumptions, two orbs of brilliant white shown before lashing out into the darkness of space.

* * * * *

"Rwarr!" Neko-Ranma shouted in pain. The long stick that the bad man now held was stronger than anything he had ever faced.

"So you finally realized the folly of angering a Messenger of God!" Arael shouted, foam escaping from his mouth as the Angel was locked in a state of battle frenzy.

Neko-Ranma leaped back, away from the spear. While in the air, the martial artist turned cat did a flip and lashed out twice as he sailed further from the mad man. Landing, Neko-Ranma gazed forward as his ki slashes flew towards Arael.

Laughing, Arael started to spin the spear in a circular motion, creating a shield from the ki projectile. "Little boy I will enjoy killing you and all those you care about!" Grinning madly, Arael fly towards Neko-Ranma, thinking of impaling the pigtailed youth.

Seeing the charge, Neko-Ranma dodged to side but was not fast enough as the spear cut his left shoulder. Turning to lick his wound, Neko-Ranma eyes started to glow. The nature of the Neko-ken was based on the personality of a cat. The induced Neko-ken starts as a playful cat. As the danger increase so does the personality of the technique. Where the ki claws were more like a cat having fun, like clawing a piece of furniture or the hand of his trainer, that kitten would soon mature into something fiercer. The next stage was usually a self-preservation mode. The last and most dangerous was the protection of his mate and cubs, for a cat this was more important than his own. The thirteen Angel had accidentally triggered the last stage to Neko-Ranma's cat personality.

As the battle raged on, one thing became apparent to Neko-Ranma. Its wounds were not healing like they normally did.

"So you finally realized it didn't you. I will continue to slice you up slowly and nothing will be able to heal you in my space of influence!" Arael gloated, pointing the spear soaked with Neko-Ranma's blood at the martial artist. Their surrounds started to take on random blotches of mismatch colors in response to Arael’s state of mind. Because of this Arael failed to notice the twin beam of energy streaking toward his unprotected heart.

* * * * *

In the control room, everyone was holding their breath.

"Beams are to impact in two seconds . . . one . . Impact!" Maya shouted.

A wave of cheers could be heard as the beams ripped through the Angel's core.

Everyone could see the Angel starting to fall apart and the beam that the Angel had used to trap the Fifth Child and his Evangelion Unit was dimming and eventually disappeared.

Everyone but for a purple haired lady looking warily as silence filled the plug of Evangelion Unit 04.

* * * * *

Up in space, Arael shouted in pain and agony as his heart was ripped from his body, the spear falling from his grasp. Looking at the of the image of the Neko-ken fighter faded from his space of influence, Arael started to laugh as his life energy left him. "Defeat by a mortal at my own game," he whispered to himself. "Kaworu, you are the last of us. What will you do?"

Rolling unto his back, Arael coughed up some blood. Wiping his mouth with his hands, "To think that the mortals use our blood to breath in. How barbaric."

Tilting his head to see the shock expression on the Neko-ken fighter. "I hope you are victorious for now that I am finally thinking clearly for the first time in ages, I would like to salute a worthy opponent," Arael called out.

The last expression Arael had of Neko-Ranma was the anger and shocked expression on the teen's face. *I bet he thought I was running away,* he chuckled to himself as he waited for his end to come. "Kami-sama I have felled you. All my brothers have felt the temptation of power as I have . . . please forgive us," he pleaded. His plea was answered by a bright white light appearing before him as his body exploded in space.

* * * * *

"It is now my turn," the boy named Kaworu whispered to himself. Hopping off the rock that was currently on, he started to make plans to gain the trust of the four Evangelion pilots; excluding the First Child since he knew the half angel half mortal clone would see through his disguise.

* * * * *

Neko-Ranma was furious. His enemy was running away! "Rwarr!" Neko-Ranma shouted his challenge as his surrounding changed once again. The space where his enemy had stood continued to vanish only to leave an image of Tokyo 3 in its place. "Rwarr!" a distorted Neko-Ranma again roared out this anger, this time unleashing the full power of the Neko-ken.

As the black Evangelion raised his head to let out an inhuman roar of anger, nearby buildings started to explode as the Evangelion expanded his AT field. The earth beneath him cracked and exploded upward, leaving the black semi-organic robot to stand in a small crater, undamaged due to its protective barrier.

Glancing around, Neko-Ranma saw two creatures he recognized. Snarling, Neko-Ranma was about to launch himself at Evangelion Unit 00 and 03. There were two reasons for the Neko-ken fighter's hostility. One was the fact that the evil man had used copies of his friends to hurt him and the second and decisive reason was both his love ones were lost to him and now someone was sporting her looks stood in front of him.

"Ranma I am so glad you are okay," Shinji shouted in joy as he appeared on Evangelion Unit 04's screen.

"So Wonder Boy needed his ass saved again huh," Asuka teased.

"How are you doing, buddy?" Toji asked.

"Mission accomplished. Saotome-san please follow me," Rei asked, now following her second set of orders that Doctor Akagi had given her after reactivation.

"Rei explain!" Gendou ordered.

"Rei?" Misato asked.

Dismissing the images of Toji, Rei, Shinji and Asuka that appeared on his screen, Neko-Ranma charged Evangelion Unit 00 and 03.