[DDD | 037 | Dream Virus] It all returns to nothing, it all comes

[redheadcarrier]

The cockpit of Asuka's Eva unit flickers into view and the viewscreen shows a scene of devestation and death. All around her, the land is laid waste, the scattered wreckage of helicopters, tanks, missile launchers. The remains of an army. And Asuka's laughter is ringing inside (but it's hollow, empty - she knows how this ends). And then it happens. Tiny dots come spiraling out of the clear, blue sky. White birds with wings, machines of war, like her Eva, like her - "Mother," she mutters to herself, "We can take them!"

But there's a count-down playing it's way across one small section of the HUD. A few minutes. Less. She's running out of time. But still, she launches herself at these new foes (the Eva series), and still she fights her way through them. One, she simply slaughters with her knife, before it snaps and shatters. Another is killed by a series of spikes launched from her Eva's neck. Yet another she engages with a giant blade. And one she rips apart with her Eva's bare hands. And others go down, spurting life-fluids. And she's winning, and she knows it, even as she grunts and strains with the effort. But that countdown is almost out.

She turns, looking for her next foe, in time to see a giant sword coming at her, hurled through the air. She lifts her hand and the AT field flares for a brief second, just enough time for the spear to shift into a dual-pointed spear. She has the time to look surprised, to mutter, "The Spear of Longinus?"

And then it blasts through her AT field and goes right through the Eva unit's head. There's a shriek from Asuka, even as her unit loses power and collapses. There's pain. Lots of pain. But she has to get up, she has to kill them because they enemy are getting back up! They're not staying down, they're regenerating and getting back up! She has to kill them. She has to fight, but her unit won't respond as she tugs on the controls uselessly. And then the enemy descend on her and tear Eva 02's guts out and there is more pain, more hurt, before they abandon the unit, flocking and flying upwards on their wings.

Asuka clutches at her eye, at her stomach. It feels like she is the one being dismembered. But yet, Eva 02 seems to regain power. There is a feeling of protection, of hot fury as the unit tries to stand up, one hand reaching skywards.

"I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill-" Asuka is murmuring in anger as she tries to force herself up. And then the spears rain from circling Eva series, pinning the Unit 02 to the ground and Asuka flatlines as everything goes black.

And Asuka wakes up screaming again.

 

(( OOC note: this is basically this scene, although very much from Asuka's POV. ))