Episode 5: The Lightning of God

It's name was Barbiel, the 4th angel. a flying insect, with arms that turned to projectile spikes, a mouth that shot block destroying lasers....

Like the angel that came before it, it died an inglorious death, not even lasting as long as it's predecessor, not even being able to say that it destroyed and Eva first.

The session started with all 4 pilots being deployed into combat, the VTOLS were long since being routed by the flying monster, it was truly a terror of the sky.

Once again, Only Maryann was unable to maintain control of her Fear, as it griped her sending her almost into a blind panic for Issac's Eva to hide behind, she mastered this fear swiftly and was only out of her wits for a few moments.

The other pilots charged the Angel, spreading there At fields in various fashions, Issac narrowly avoided an early defeat when the Angel blasted the Embarkation point with a powerful laser blast.

The angel, wasted precious moments smiling with mocking glee at the Evangelions, after-all how could these tiny creatures be a threat to it, even as Emil was raising his own AT field into the danger zone. Maryann being unable to get a proper bead on the angel, and failing to hit it, several times probably did not help the situation. Eventually the Angel grew board, and with a sickening cracking sound, extended it's clawed fingers, one spike tore through the head of Tear's Eva, almost "Killing it" Two more spiked ripped into Emil's torso, a 4th spike caused the head armor of Issac's Eva to shatter leaving only fragments of it's head armor.

This pushed the Pilots to the the limits of there anger, as part of the quickly devised and unspoken plan, Emil grabbed Tear and Hammer tossed her onto the the back of the Angel, this one act spelled the eventual death of the angel.

From this point, Tear did little but rip the angel apart, where Maryann would place a shot, Tear would capitalize, ripping one of it's arms off, mauling it's wing, Emil and Issac tried to stay involved in the battle, with Emil trying to propel Issac up there as well, but the Angel was a bit wiser by this point, and took steps to evade the monster, just out of reach of Tear's efforts to catch Issac before he made the long 800 meter drop back to the earth.

At the end of the day, Tear struck the killing blow, finally having enough of the Angel, she reared back and punched straight down claws first, tearing past the meat of it's torso and shattering it's protected and armored core in a single blow (in game the pilot inflicted about 23 damaged directly to the core with one insanely lucky damage roll), a blow so mighty that the angel's genetic structure fell apart in seconds....

Then Tear fell to the earth, suffering a few bumps and bruises like Issac had before her, but she was at the end of the day, fine.

It was a victory to be sure, and a stronger finish that the last battle, the 4th angel couldn't withstand the might of the Evangelions, and the pilots as a team proved it this day. Tear was praised by both Emil and Tyrone Johnson for her performance that day, but while tear may of fought like a demon during the battle, but outside of the Evangelion, she was still the shy little girl she always was.

Issac was quite silent for the rest of the day, He had seen the face of his Eva in the reflection of it's of the liquid fluids it was at rest in... and something.... happened that disturbed him...

After the mission, the pilots settled into there evening post Angel slaughter routine, Tear had gone out for a walk, and came across a man name Ryoji, who had an important package for Rachael, he didn't say what it was, but he had recognized her as a pilot.

So because it was clearly a package for Rachael, and she was still holding a grudge against Rachael for the prank Rachel played last session, she hid it under her bed... and then shoved Rachel's slippers into the garbage disposal while a somewhat amused Emil watched on.

The next morning, Rachel, after implying the severity one "could" be punished for hiding such important documents and actually threw words including "treason" out there managed to get Tear to Pony up the package, went and checked in on Issac, who was still deeply disturbed by what transpired in his plug the previous day. While Rachel went and started going over the files, Tear went out and Maryann and Emil enjoyed a game of Twister.... in there underwear... much to Rachel's displeasure.

Tear while out ran into Brad, significantly less goth, and sporting some crutches, they had a pleasant conversation and the bare bones of friendship were formed before they parted ways.

The session ended with Rachel pondering if it would be okay to tell the pilots about what she had found inside of the last angel...

Meanwhile, Hunter, Johnson, and Ryoji, bring the episode looking at a tube in an unknown location, watching a white haired young boy....

And the boy is opening his eyes.


((OOC: If Issac was the informal MVP of the first angel battle with his hammer, then the team of Emil and Tear would probably be seen as the MVPs of this round.

Emil for getting Tear up to the angel, and Tear for the absolutely balls out lunacy that just kept making the grapple dice work for her, keeping her on the Angels back for most of the fight untill the fatefull killing blow.

It was a fun fight to GM, but it left to many PC's on the sidelines, Issac frankly didn't get a chance to contribute to the fight, and Maryann and Emil, for there efforts were only set up for the one Eva they got up there, I learned a bit about how to set up angels in the future to give the pilots more to do during it honestly))