Where Reika touches on some of the more esoteric subject matters herein the story...

Reika Ayanami Quatermain

“But not me and sister Rei. Has to do with how the story is so subject to interpretations and out the level of mind frells in it.” I explain, nodding a little bit at that one.

“My God,” muttered Rupert Giles, who is now furiously polishing his glasses. A nervous habit I see that he shares with his literary counterpart, no holds barred.

It is not as if he’s never faced a world ending crisis before with Buffy here. That kind of threat happened all too often here at the Hellmouth. I guess I must admit, however, that what we’ve thrown out is a bit much to take in all at once. The life she’d lived and the dark designs Gendo Akari and those would be immortals of SEELE is rather . . .disturbing to say the least, old chap.

Then again, he DID ask us who we were and we REALLY don’t have a lot of time to waste here, doing it the old fashion way: verbally.

I bet from the looks on Xander’s face over there he has a lot of questions he’s just dieing now to ask, what with having seen the show and all that. Questions that he could so easily ask and get answers with the real life version of one of the show’s more . . .mysterious (and quiet) members.

I and my sisters had been privy to some of the more secretive items that never really got answered fully in the anime or the manga and you should have heard some of the questions I and they got asked whilst on holiday, cos-playing that one Japanese video game Xenosaga character named Kos-mos. We’d . . .not done too terribly much in disguising ourselves beyond magically hiding our wings (that character having blue hair and red eyes, I was the most disguised with magically chaging my hair and eye coloration)) in that comic book convention and word got out.

Nearly was a riot there.... And the questions! Was Maya Ibuki really a lesbian and after Ritsuko Akagi? Was there actually something sexual between Shinji Akari and Kaworu Nagisa? Between me and character (whatever) in the series?!

Talk about rude!! None of their business, those questions!! They had to go ask the people in question themselves (after tracking them down) because WE sure weren’t as H*ll going to just tell them the answers to that garbage!

We only shared information (a lot of it of a sensitive nature) about Neon Genesis Evangelion with Crichton through the DVDs back earlier there because of two reasons. First was that we'd seen HIS personal life through the

Hrmph!

Well, Xander was smart enough (and enough tact) enough to hold off for the moment.

“Given my and my sisters’ origins and history . . .,” Rei continues with a slight nod towards me and Lilith.

Our cue to mind broadcast our special biographies...

This from me.

( http:// www. geocities. com/rule 179/ Character Bios/Lilith. htm ).

That from Lilith. ( http:// www. geocities. com/rule 179/Character Bios/Lilith .htm# Lilith

Lilith Ayanami Quatermain

“. . .we had a little thing small matters that could cause the end of the world and such,” my elder sister finishes up. “Rather adverse to dangers that could have spelt the end of the world or the galaxy at large, truth be told!”

Heh, I know for a fact that we First Children and the rest of NERV had nothing on Buffy’s gang. What they faced on a daily basis, but still...what Ethan had been foolish enough to casually tinker with (and lie and be coy about us about) is TRULLY annoying to us! Truly he played with fire, this idiot.

“Bah, what are you talking about?!” Rayne sputters, clearly not understanding what he’d almost unleashed unwittingly upon the world. “I saved the whole god be bloody d*mned world and this is the thanks I get?! That damn witch cannot threaten the world NOW as she . . .”

We’d heard this before, his case being that it was better that some collateral damage (like what had happened tonight) than let Willow continue on as she was, a human witch capable of eventually casting dark magic (and becoming addicted to said magic) which would eventually destroy this Earth in the TV show would instead have made (according to him...think the man's just barmy and delusional myself) a pact with a demon god from Warhammer 40K and REALLY made a bloody mess of things.

Fah, he really doesn’t understand. His methods were like inviting the wolves in to the henhouse take care of the fox problem!

“We are speaking of these things,” I shout, throwing two sets of now non-magical costumes at him. “ONE is of an entity that left unchecked could infect the entire town and convert the entire world eventually into a monster race that . . .as some here would pop culter reference them being the personification of ‘om nom nom’. Yes, the personification of HUNGER. A HUNGER that would devour this world and then spread out to the stars and devour EVERY star system within this galaxy if not stopped early enough!”

. . .

Hm, rather uncharacteristic of me, this anger. Breath. Relax.

. . .

“It even gives the background story about them on the back of the package if you’d bothered reading it before enchanting them,” I observe in a droll, mater of fact voice as he goes chalk white pale when he reads co- berating evidence. “If it wasn’t for Setsuna had not been able to finally make heads or tails of your bloody pathetic handwritten record keeping, we might have had to do something VERY regretful here.”

And I am not speaking of nuking the sight from orbit kind of "bad", because THAT wouldn’t be the only way to be sure in such matters like THIS Warhammer 40K. This could have been FREAKING bad as what you would not believe! It would have meant our Quest was a loss and we’d have to contact our nearest friends with firepower and . . . Glass this planet clean of all life. It sounds absolutely heartless, but this was how dangerous things were looking there, folks!

None of those 40K particular costumes sold, though. Too expensive, the whole lot and madman here hadn’t thought to try to lower the prices to sucker some poor victim into wearing it, despite that fact.

Except for that ONE particular power armored guy we met earlier. Some affiliate of Horus’ forces. We’ll get back to that. But back to the monster problem we’d gone around the bend on!

For, you see in Warhammer 40K it was considered (rightly) to be more merciful to “extermitus” a planet plagued with such an infection, if it got too far gone, than to let it continue to life (and threaten the rest of their nearby planetary neighbors! THAT is how bad it is. That is the threat here, we'd feared.

Genestealers were just ONE of the monster types found in Warhammer 40K for a race called the Tyranids (http://en. Wikipedia .org /wiki /Tyranids) . . .and it’s one of the reasons why I didn’t really care for the game, too depressing that gothic scifi tabletop game. If the Tynarids (who'd already gone and eaten all life in ONE galaxy) didn't kill everything, then the other factions were going to make life Hell (or impossible. . .given which faction you spoke of here).

Not a nice place to live, Warhammer 40K, and leave at that!

None of my sisters like it for that same reason. That and the other dark elements to it. There’s not hope in it, truth be told. Doomed, the whole lot in the game...

“Oh bugger,” Rayne whispers, finally seeing OUR side of things.

Heh. Save the world with this overly complicated and idiotic Rube Goldberg plan to neutralize the threat that Willow and he almost doomed it by mistake. The “original” gene stealers might have reverted back to normal, if any of the costumes had been sold here, but their victimes who’d been infected? Might not have been “cured” by the departure of the chaos magic curse...

“We’ll get back to that one costume from Horus’ army or whatever in a moment,” I continue. “The other costume was of me in my old form . . .”

On the cover of THIS particular costume is a picture of “Rei Ayanami”, dressed in a plugsuit BUT with multi-limbed wings as seen near the end of the movie “The End of Evangelion”. Basically during the time I was supposed to rejoin with my old body and obtain godlike powers....and then drew ever human soul into myself and create a super entity, destroying humanity as a species but creating a godlike mass minded . . .abomination in it’s place...

. . .

I guess you can see I’ve grown rather anti towards that, nowadays. Now that I am no longer Gendo Akari’s doll. Human. My own person.

Free.

0001-137-22 was my serial number back when I was “Rei Ayanami the First Child” and belonged to NERV. I piloted the Prototype Evangalion, Unit 00. I also had been the Second Angel: Lilith. The “mother” of my world’s humanity . . .and through the mad machinations of both Gendo Akari and SEELE I would have been it’s reaper if not for my family getting me out from that madness and gotten me . . .to get some kind of sense in my head and not all that mind bending they’d done me...

“ . . .and thank your god Janus that at the very least the entire town got reduced to an orange goo . . .if not the entire world. No wonder that your god punished you for that the way he’d apparently done.”

1. Before he or the others can ask what exactly I meant by that a small cantrip I cast upon Rayne takes effect and I scoop up the green and gray toad Rayne transformed into and place it into an awaiting jar for safe keeping.

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