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>

 "So who needs your mysterious presence?" Asuka replied, 
>gripping the controls.  "I'm a Production Model pilot.  All I need is 
>your body." 
> So saying, she threw her will against Lucifer's flesh, 
>bypassing his astonished consciousness entirely as the Synchrotron 
>spooled up into the positive control zone. 
> As his face vanished from the monitor and his presence winked 
>out of her mind, Asuka thought she heard Lucifer chuckle and murmur, 
>"Well thought."

>
>Aww Rats. Here I thougt it was the Lightbringer and DJ starting their
>big move... Still, this was just TOTALY perfect, on every level!!

I particularly think it was a stroke of JMS level genius that he gave us the scene that follows this one months back and we all assumed it was DJ, because it just had to be, doncha know? But as it turned out, it didn't have to be what we thought it was at all.

And I think this is the very first time in any EVA fanfiction that I've ever seen Asuka get to pilot Unit 01. And it made sense for her to do so as well!

>

 "Oh, bravo, Eternal One," she crowed.  "The most important 
>throw of all your endless lives - and you MISSED." 
> She flung the stunned Lightbringer aside and took a step, then 
>paused.  Her thumbs pricked; Longinus's posture was not that of a 
>defeated failure as he slowly rose to his feet, his eyes glowing at 
>her like coals, his armored jaw quirked in something terrifyingly 
>like a monstrous smile. 
> "Did I, now," said DJ quietly. 
> From where he'd ended up in a heap, Lucifer reached out, 
>crying, "No, WAIT - " 
> A terrible pain wrenched all through Natlateth's giant body. 
>She looked down - 
> - and saw the twin points of the Spear of Destiny's stabbing 
>end jutting through the crystalline surface of her core.

>
>Heh. It may have turned out to have allmost been an ooops, but
>still... GO DJ! He's not the Eternal Warrior for nuthin!

It wasn't an "oops" at all on DJ's part. At least not in technique and aim. (It was only an oops in the sense he failed to take into account what it might actually mean for Natla's heart to be shattered.) Note that when he throws the Spear, he throws it with the single point first. The actual end meant for killing is the two prongs on the other end. He either saw Shinji getting ready to make his move, or knew he would be there already. So he threw it to Shinji after determining on the fly that he wasn't going to get a clear shot from the front at Natlateth.

Of course, it now occurs to me to wonder why the exploding core causing another "impact" wouldn't have been a problem with some of the other angels that were destroyed during the regular series. I'll have to go back and look to see if they were killed in the same way as the original source material.

>

 Just then Misato barged in and said in the slightly-too-loud 
>voice of the well-meaning drunk, "What the hell're you doing in here 
>WORKING at a time like THIS?  C'mon down to the canteen, Ko, you're 
>missing all the fun!  Maya's drawing on Truss with a marker!  C'mon, 
>you might be able to tell me what it's s'poseta be!  It just looks 
>like a buncha jiggedy lines to me."

>
>"Its Kanji for 'I saved the world, got drunk, and wound up with this
>silly Tattoo, Misako"

"Been there, done that, got the T-shirt."

> "Oh, I know. But right now? Heaven. After everything we've
>been through in the last year and a half, it's so good to just
>-relax-."
>
>Aye, truer words have not been spoken. And yet, that is the basic
>dictonomy of life that makes it worth living; its opposition in all
>things. For without the bitter, how can we know the sweet? And even
>here, I feel this... Sweet, that this project is finally done, yet
>bitter in its own way, for this tale is done. The last word has been
>written, and it is finished. It was one heck of a ride, and now we
>have nothing left to look forward too. Yet I will not be sad, for
>even if their story is over, there are other stories that have not yet
>been told, and I await them with a sense of hope and wonder.

Well spoken. You know, it occurs to me that this is the first series of Eyrie that has had a definite ending. Undocumented features and Symphony of the Sword are open ended, and rightfully so. Hopelessly Lost, God's Willing, Warriors Legacy, and 45. Caliber Angel are all unfinished projects. But NXE is over. I wonder how that's going to effect this forum?

-Logan

	I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. --Prince Lir, The Last Unicorn