At the Asuka mansion, Dema-fa was busy cooking up supper. He chuckled
a bit has he heard the front door open. About a minute later, Misato
walked inot the kitchen.
"So, have a fun time with my fingerprints?" Dema-fa asked.
Misato glared at him. "You knew that I would come up with something
impossible to believe. Didn't you?"
"Impossible? No. Not at all," Dema-fa replied. "What you found out
is true."
Exasperated, Misato ground out, "It just led to more questions. I need
some answers."
Dema-fa finished the omlet and put it on a plate. Leaning against the
wall, he bowed his head in thought.
"Misato, the Fudo expiditon found something in the Antartic ice. A
being known as Lilis. An orginization known as Seele took Lilis and
held her prisoner. Her freeing from the ice is what summoned the Angel
known as Adam to Earth. What Adam and Seele didn't know was that other
things were frozen in the ice and were getting out through the hole that
was made when Lilis was taken."
"Things? What things?" Misato asked uneasily, while backing up.
Dema-fa grinned wickedly. "Later. It's time for dinner."
Misato shook her head as she followed Dema-fa out to the Dining room.
She took a seat as the omlet platte was set in the middle of the table.
"There's a western custom of saying grace right before you start to
eat," Dema-fa said. "But, since we're blowing away Angels, it's
probably innapropriate."
Asuka's head snapped up and she angrily asked, "Don't you take anything
seriously?"
Dema-fa closed his eyes and nodded.
Opening his eyes and staring at Asuka, he replied, "Yes, there are.
Minor things like this, I ignore or make fun of. I have my reasons to
act the way I do."
"There is no reason for your attitude," Asuka snapped.
Twirling a piece of egg with his chopsticks, Dema-fa thought, *If you
knew that I had proof that Hell existed and that no matter how good a
life I've led my soul will go straight to Hell after I've died, I think
your attitude on my position would be a lot different."
Shinji sensing that a fight might break out, change the subject. "You
said that we are defending all of humanity. How?"
Snickering to himself, Dema-fa replied, "If an Angel touches Adam a
Third Impact will be started. Now of course that's what the Angels
want. It's what Seele wants as well, but on their own terms."
"Huh?" came from several voices.
"If an Angel comes in contact with Adam, human souls will be seperated
from their bodies and judged idependantly. However, Seele's version of
the impact has all the human souls merged into one being that is content
to exisit."
Picking up a leafy carrot, Dema-fa started to strangle the carrot.
"You can do this, and it's content."
He spun the carrot around by the leaf.
"You can even do this and it's content."
He quickly whapped all of the others on the head with the carrot,
although not very hard.
Despite the yelps of protest, he contiued, "And even doing that it's
content."
Dropping the carrot, he stated, "I am not a vegtable. But Seele's
little plan intends to take everyone's free choice away from them.
That's what the Evangelions are for. Once they defeat the Angels, they
will be used to initate a controlled Third Impact."
All but Nagisa looked shocked at Dema-fa's little explanation. Rei
because Dema-fa knew the truth.
Asuka whispered in a shocked voice, "That's insane."
"True, it is," Dema-fa replied with a smirk. "But, that is the only way
Lorenz Keele, the leader of Seele can get into Heaven. Too bad for him,
the leader of Gehirn found out and passed the infromation on to me."
Misato stared at Dema-fa and whispered in a shocked voice, "So that's
what's going on. How can it be stopped?"
Dema-fa shrugged, "That's my job. I think I'll screw up the Dead Sea
Scroll predictions with the next Angel. That should stop the Third
Impact from occuring for at least another thousand years. Humans have
the right to live as they see fit."
Nagisa shook his head sadly. "You have no real idea what you're up
against."
"Actually, I do," Dema-fa replied. "It's the Angels who don't know
they're facing. Now, please keep quiet about all of this. I've got
something in mind that will give those jerks jerks in Seele a major
heart attack when I pull it off."
Warily, Misato asked, "What do you have in mind?"
The only answer was an evil smirk.
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A week after Dema-fa's revelation, the next Angel appeared. Misato and
the EVA piolts were still stuggling to keep quiet about what Dema-fa had
revealed to them. Rei in paticular was having a hard time. Her loyalty
to Gendo was being outweighed by something she didn't understand. Right
before the EVA's were about to be launched, the lights went out in NERV
headquarters.
In the main control room, Gendo demanded, "What's going on?"
Maya reported, after conversing on a cel phone, "Apparently there's
been sabotage. It'll take us at least six hours to repair the damage.
The sabatouers have been identified as being part of the Jet Alone
project. The backup generator should get the viwescreen on in a few
minutes."
Gendo looked at Dema-fa, who was leaning up against a wall.
"Looks like you're humilitaing them, caused them to retaliate against
us. Anything to say, Dema-fa?"
Dema-fa shrugged, "It would have happned anyway. They see money going
somewhere else. They want said money."
Gendo ignored Dema-fa and started ordering the manual prepping of the
EVA units. If he had paid attention, he would have seen Dema-fa fading
from view.
The back-up generators kicked on and some of the consoles lit up. Maya
took a look at her console and stared.
Whirling around, Maya addressed Commander Ikari. "Sir? The Angel is
almost at our door. We don't have much time. And, I don't know how to
say this, but Dema-fa is standing on a nearby roof looking at the
Angel."
Gendo spun around and stared at the blank spot where Dema-fa was
standing.
"How did...," Gendo began to ask. Quickly facing Maya, he ordered,
"Put it on the main view screen."
"Yes, sir."
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Dema-fa looked at the approaching Angel. He frowned as he looked at
the sleek dove like shape barreling in from the sky. It looked like a
dove with its wings in the folded position and feet not in view.
"Wasn't the next one supposed to be a ground based one?" Dema-fa aske
himself. Cracking his knuckles, he smiled. "This is good. I've been
wanting a challenge."
With that, he concetrated and sent a beam of blue light at the Angel.
The energy bolt struck and caused the Angel to let out a keening noise.
Inside NERV HQ, Gendo saw the beam and was shocked. "What was that?"
Equally stunned, Misato replied, "I have no idea. It seems to be
simmilar to an Angels AT field, but that can't be right."
"What's the staus on the EVA's?" Gendo demanded.
Maya shook her head. "Moving slower than expected."
"Feed a link to the EVA bay. I want them to see this."
"Done."
They watched the screen as Dema-fa faced the new Angel.
"Suprised? You should be," Dema-fa said. "You idiots showed up way
too late to stop the real Second Impact. They got loose from the ice."
The Angel hesitated for a moment upon hearing that. It fired a blast
of energy at the building that Dema-fa was standing on. As the
structure collapsed, dust obscured the figure of Dema-fa. As the Angel
turned away, laughter caused it to stop and spin around.
"If that's your best, you are in real trouble," Dema-fa's amused voice
came from the obscuring smoke.
As the dust settled, it was obvious that the building where Dema-fa was
standing was gone. But, he was still in the same blace he was, before
the Angel fired.
Inside the EVA bay, Asuka asked, "How's Superfreak doing that?"
"That is puzzling," Rei said.
As the area around Dema-fa cleared even more, all could see that his
means of support were two giant bat wings extending from his back. The
Angel floated back even further, hesitant on approaching this foe.
"My name is Akira Fudo. I had to clean up the mess you idiots left
behind. As I did to your foul brethern, I shall do the same for you
arrogant Angels. I have another name as well."
As he spoke his body started swelling and his hair gained a redish hue
as it grew and formed itself into a double bladed axe like shape. As
his pants burst, it was revealed he had purple furry legs. Small horn
like protusions were at each wrist. His face had undergone a radical
transfromation from somewhat human to something else.
"I am Devilman."
Throughout NERV shock and horror were evident. Several of the more
religious people were saying prayers upon the revelation of the demon in
their midst. In the EVA bay, Asuka was coughing badly and Kaworu stared
at the screen.
"Amon," Kaworu whispered.
Apparently the Angel facing Devilman whisperd the same thing.
Devilman stated, "I am not Amon. As Akira Fudo I merged with Amon. I
am the one in control. The body, mind and power of the Demon are mine.
I am Devilman. I destroyed the demons and now it is your time to die.
PREPARE!!!"
Devilman launced himself at the Angel. The Angel took one look at the
demon/human hybrid charging at it and turned around. Moving as fast as
it could, it flew off with Devilman close behind.
Heart pounding, Misato played with the cross she wore. *A demon? He's
a demon?*
*It is Akira. But merged with a demon?* Gendo thought, almost
paralyzed with fear.
Rei watched the screen with interest. *So that is why he is
different.*
Rei said, "That is an interesting ability. I wonder how Dema-fa...
Akira Fudo gained it."
"Aren't you scared?" Shinji asked, looking a bit green.
Shaking her head, Rei replied, "He has done nothing to hurt us and has
helped us out. What his outward appearance looks like doesn't change
who he is."
Kaworu snapped out of his shock and stared at Rei. He took a glance at
the screen and then looked back at Rei. He covered the smile that was
growing on his face.
"Great," Askua said with some asperity. "we're rooting for a demon to
beat an angel. Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this
picture?"
Kaworu said, "Neither actually. The test of humanity will go on, but
it will focus on Akira Fudo from here on out."
The other EVA piolts looked at Kaworu Nagisa with curiosity on their
face.
"What are you talking about?" Asuka asked.
Nagisa smiled slightly and replied, "The Angels you have been facing
are a test to see if humanity is ready to ascend. Adam came here to
tell your scientsts to stop the cloning experiments, but some of them
were aware of how to trigger the tests of humanity when Adam arrived.
Dema-fa/Akira Fudo/Devilman or however he wants to be called was an
unknown element."
"How do you know this?" Rei asked.
"I am the Angel Tabris. I was supposed to be the 17th Angel, but
Devilman's suprising appearance threw everything off. In short, he made
the Evangelions obsolete. The test will be to see if a human soul can
guide a demon back to Heaven."