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Asuka

Shinji tells Asuka, who has, at this point, fallen into a coma-like state at her hospital bed, that he is afraid of Misato and Rei. He then pleads for her help, and when she does not reply, begins to shake her, pleading for her to wake up and help him, to the point where he accidently partly pulls off part of her hospital gown, exposing her breasts. Shinji then masturbates over her body (though this is not obvious at first, save for his increasing panting and then, his semen stained hand) and, when he realises what he has just done, breaks down, believing he is scum.

Episode 25': Air

Early Morning

At NERV headquarters, Aoba, Hyuga, and Ibuki discuss the fact that peace has not returned, and the likelyhood of NERV's disbandedment and the fate of the EVA's, since all of the Angels have been destroyed. Aoba does not know what will happen to them, and believes they should wait untill the Human Instrumentality Project begins.

In a nearby car park, Misato discovers the true nature of the Human Instrumentality Project, and comes to the conclusion that the Committee will use EVA-01, the only EVA cloned from Lilith, to start an artificial Third Impact, rather than Adam or the angels. At their meeting, SEELE, Gendo and Fuyutsuki come to the same conclusion. Fuyutsuki tells them that humans only existed to create EVA, and SEELE believe that Instrumentality is simply evolution and that death can bring happiness. Gendo tells SEELE that death creates nothing, and they end their discussion.

At around the same time, Rei wakes up from her bed, and leaves her room, Gendo's old glasses left shattered to pieces and lying on the floor. Meanwhile, Shinji lies on his bed, listening to his SDAT player.

Attack on NERV

Now within a restricted area of NERV HQ, Misato reads on the truth about Second Inpact, just as NERV's security systems spring to life. Believing to have been found out, she turns, only to discover otherwise. At this point, SEELE, using the MAGI based across the different NERV HQ's around the world, begin their attempt to hack into Japan's own MAGI. Ritsko is then released from her cell, herself already knowing the situation. Misato, too, makes her way to the control room. Inside CASPAR, Ritsko begins implementing Firewall 666 into the MAGI, which successfully halts SELLE's hacking attempt, and will keep the MAGI protected for 66 hours.

SEELE realise that they will have to resort to force to get to EVA, so they send out the Japan Strategic Self-Defence Force to infiltrate NERV. The JSSDF begin their attack by bombing the hill that encases the Geofront, and Gendo orders that all NERV personell prepare for combat. The JSSDF manage to infiltrate NERV, killing all of their personnel on sight, and Misato realises that the bombers were decoys, and that they will most likely go after the EVA pilots as well. She orders that Auska is to be placed within EVA-02, which will be stored in an underwater warehouse until it is ready. They are unable to find Rei, and they also find that Shinji is alone, still somewhere within the complex. As NERV locks itself down to no avail, Gendo lets Fuyutsuki continue with the operation alone, while he leaves for personal business. Misato orders that all personnel fall back, and that all areas leading to the control room be filled with Bakelite. She then takes a gun and leaves, looking for Shinji herself.

The JSSDF manage to infiltrate the control room, as well as get to Shinji.

Love is destructive.

At Terminal Dogma, Rei looks into the Dummy Plug system, seeing the remains of her "clones". Gendo arrives to meet her, telling her that the promised time has come. Back at the main complex, Shinji dosen't resist as the JSSDF turn their guns on him. Just at this moment, Misato arrives and kills all of their troops and takes Shinji to her car, where, through intercepting radio transmittions, she finds out that the JDDSF has made it past the Bakelite. She then gives Shinji an ultamatum: either come with her to EVA-01, or be killed by the quickly approching JSSDF forces, otherwise he will "die without accomplishing anything". Shinji simply mutters under her breath for Asuka to help him. Misato tells him that he always runs away and that "Indecision is the worst!". She has no choice but to actually drag Shinji into her car, and Shinji says that he dosen't want to die, but neither does he want to do anything. Misato tells him not waste his life by dying.

Suddenly, the JSSDF drop an N2 mine onto the ruins of Tokyo-3. The resulting explosion is enough to tear a hole in the Geofront, exposing NERV HQ in broad daylight. As they drive through the EVA graveyard, Misato explains to Shinji her findings, that Second Impact was, in fact, planned and caused by humans, that, when it occurred, Adam was reduced to an egg to prevent any further damage, and that humans originated from Lilith, much in the same way that the Angels originated from Adam, so that, in effect, humans are the 18th Angel. She goes on to explain that the Angels were other possibillities of human evolution, but without human form, and tells Shinji that all of the EVA's must be destroyed, believing that it is the only way to survive.

Inside the underwater warehouse, inside EVA-02, Asuka wakes from her coma, just as the JSSDF begin to bomb it. She pleads to herself that she does not want to die, and as shes says this many times over, a voice tells her not to die, which Asuka recognises to be her mothers own voice. Eventully realising that her mother has always been there to protect her, her soul residing in EVA-02, Auska regains all of her confidence, causing EVA-02 to reactivate.

Asuka's Return

Rising from underwater, Asuka is easily able to take out the oncoming JSSDF forces, but not before they cut off EVA-02's Umbilical Cable, although Auska is still confident and destroys the rest of their forces. Noticing the EVA's have become a burden again, SELLE tries one last ditch attempt to get to EVA-01: sending out EVA's 5 through 13, the Mass Production Evangelions. Realising that they all have S2 Engines, Fuyutsuki believes that SEELE may try to start Instrumentality from the Geofront itself.

Misato contacts Asuka and tells her to destroy the EVA series, promising that Shinji will arrive to assist her soon. Asuka begins her task as instructed, while Misato and Shinji are near the elevator leading to EVA-01. Some JSSDF troops open fire on the two, severely wounding Misato, but they both manage to escape inside. She confronts Shinji, telling him that he now has to decide for himself what to do next. Shinji tries to refuse, citing that he dosen't want to hurt anyone else, and believes that he can't help anyone, a cheating coward. But Misato refuses to back down, and realises that it hurts more for him to hurt other people than to hurt himself. Shinji fights back, beleving that Misato does not know how he feels, believing her to be "one of them", and Misato tells him that she will never forgive him for the rest of her life if he dosen't do something. She tells him that their lives are similar, that they constantly loved and hated themselves in a loop, but that they believed that they had inproved themselves. She then asks him to pilot EVA-01 one last time, to "find the answer to the reason for [his] existence." She then passionately kisses him, and promises to "do the rest" when he comes back, pushing him into the elevator. She collapses, slowly dying from blood loss, and mutters to herself as a ghostly figure of Rei appears before her, and the area leading to the elevator is bombed. Inside the elevator, as he notices the blood in his mouth, Shinji breaks down and cries.

The Beginning of the End

While Asuka continues to destroy the EVA series one by one, Shinji, now inside the base where EVA-01 resides, hears her voice over the intercom. At the same time, Gendo and Rei arrive at their own destination, Lilith, still pinned to her cross. They both notice Ritsko sitting nearby, who announces to them that she has, as well as the firewall, she has implimented a program that will destroy the entirety of NERV HQ, taking Lilith, the EVA's, and themselves with it. She supossedly activates it, only to discover that her access to CASPAR has been denied. Gendo draws a gun at her, and tells her something (to which the viewer never hears), causing her to reply "Liar." Gendo shoots Ritsko, and as her body collapses into the pool of LCL, she notices Rei's ghostly figure before her.

As Asuka finishes destroying the last of the EVA series, she turns, just to block one of their oncoming weapons with her AT Field. The weapon seems to morph into the Lance of Longinus, and manages to break through EVA-02's AT Field, impaling it through the head. Asuka screams in pain, just as EVA-02's internal battery runs out, leaving it defenceless as the EVA series each revive themselves, and madly tear EVA-02 apart. Auska attempts to place EVA-02 into Beserk mode, but it is impaled by each of the EVA series' Lances, supossedly killing her. At EVA-01's base, Shinji still refuses to pilot EVA, and, at this moment, EVA-01 springs to life on its own, and Shinji realises that his mother resides in it.

They rise from the Geofront, and confused, afraid, and scared after seeing EVA-02's lifeless corpse, Shjini screams into the howling wind.

Episode 26':まごころを、君に (My Purest Heart for You)

I would like to thank the animators, crew members, producers and espicially the five young ladies who helped bring this production to life.

— Hadaki Anno

Note: Much of this act, like TV episodes 20, 25 and 26 before it, takes place from within Shinji's mind, and/or within the merged Rei/Lilith and the Sea of LCL. Thus this summary can be considered only one interpretation.

Back at Terminal Dogma, Gendo asks Rei to allow him to merge Adam, implanted into his right hand, into her. It has become obvious at this point that Gendo is trying to perform Instrumentality in a different way than SEELE had planned: by using his hand to merge Adam into Rei, Gendo and her will then merge into Lilith, in order to reunite with his dead wife, Yui. As Gendo inserts his hand into Rei, he trails downward, and Rei fliches.

The Beginning of Instumentality

As Shinji continues to scream within EVA-01, Rei somehow notices him doing so. EVA-01 breaks from its bindings and is pinned to a cross-like shape, unable to move. The real Lance of Longinus breaks free from its orbit on the Moon and arrives just at EVA-01's neck. SEELE, now knowing of this, enter into a sort of ritual chant, while the EVA series throw their replica Lances at EVA-01 and bite onto its cross, rising it high into the sky, before breaking free from it. As they move around it to form the Tree of Sephiroth, they begin to produce an Anti-AT Field using their S2 engines. The outside area of the Geofront explodes, taking all of the JSSDF forces with it. Easily seen above the Earth, the Geofront is completely exposed, now revealed to be the Black Moon; the Egg of Lilith.

At Terminal Dogma, Rei interrupts Gendo's procedure by absorbing Adam, and Gendo's hand, into her. She tells Gendo that she is not his puppet, and that he must now go to Shinji, who is "calling [her]" Merging into Lilith, she breaks it free from her cross, and begins to rise into the control room, and out and up to EVA-01. Inside, Shinji continues to sob, and when he sees the merged Rei/Lilith, he screams again. The EVA series move behind Rei/Lilith, and resonate their AT-Fields while EVA-01 reveals its S2 Organ. Shinji pulls at the controls, but to no avail, and begs to himself for all this to stop. At this moment, Kaworu appears before Shinji, causing Shinji's trust to resurface, and allowing Rei/Lilith to insert the Lance into EVA-01's S2 organ, transforming it into the Tree of Life. Fuyutsuki realises that the decision to trigger Third Impact has now been given to Shinji.

At this point, Yui asks Shinji:

"What are your dreams?"

Shinji, at his arrival, believed that when he arrived at Tokyo-3, he thought something was waiting for him there. In his dream, as a young boy, he builds a sandcastle that looks much like the Geofront with two girls, who eventually leave him at sunset. Sad, he continues to build it himself, then destroys it, and cries. He goes over thoughts in his mind; Auska's feelings of repression at Shinji, the word "mama", and him seeing Misato and Kaji haveing sex, much to his disgust, afterwhich Auska explains why they are doing it. Misato tells Shinji that his mind is showing him a part of her that has always been hidden from him, and that the truth can be painful.

Auska believes he dosen't know him fully, and calls him selfish. Shinji tells her that she never acts or says anything at him. Rei asks if he tried to understand, and he says he did. Auska tells him about his earlier mastubation over her, and announces that if he can can't have all of her, then she dosen't want him. He asks why Auska, Misato and Rei are not kind to him, they say they are, and he calls them liars, that they intentionally wish to make it unclear to him. Rei tells him again that the truth is painful, which is even more painful. He fears the moment when they don't need him anymore, and realises that he needs their help, to be nice to him, to be his friend.

He asks this to Auska, to stay with him forever, but Auska thinks he just hurts her. She believes that he never loved anyone, and he is only coming to her out of selfishness. Shinji pleads to Auska to help her, to not dump him, not leave him, not kill him, and when she refuses, he begins to strangle her out of confusion and anguish. Shinji now believes that because noone understands him, everyone should just die, along with him. Rei tries to ask him why, and he thought that no one would betray him.

Third Impact

Back in the real world,