Stage 79: The promised time

*The bridge crew begin getting out and arming their guns
Makoto: This place wasn't made to withstand invading armies.  If the JSSDF
launches a full-scale attack, we're screwed.
Shigeru: Now that I think about it, they have been slowly cutting down on
our defense budget.  Maybe they planned this whole thing from the beginning.
Makoto: Who knows. It's definitely a possibility.
*Explosions below, the bridge trembles under their force
Shigeru: Maya! Release your safety.
Maya: I...can't shoot a gun.
Shigeru: You shot one plenty during training.
Maya: But there weren't any people back then!
Shigeru: Idiot! If you don't shoot, you're dead.

Scene: Misato checking the fallen soldier's transceiver.
Radio: How's it down in the cage?
Radio: We have the purple one secured.  No problem with the Bakelite
infusion.  The red one was catapulted out.  We are currently examining its
route.
Misato: Not good, they're trying to prevent contact between Shinji and Unit
01.  This is it, Shinji.  Stop lying around, we have to hurry!  Now, get up!
*Misato grabs Shinji by the wrist
Shinji: No!
*Shinji breaks free
Shinji: Our opponents aren't angels...they're humans.  There's no way I
could fight them!
Misato: It's kill or be killed.
Shinji: Whatever. You're just like father.  You're both the same.  You just
want to get me in Eva to use me for your own good.  I just don't want to
hear it anymore.  We're just going to die anyways.  Father said mankind's
going to be destroyed.  If we're just going to die, we may as well just die
now!
*Misato slaps Shinji
Misato: Wake up!  I won't let you do that.  I mean, you're still alive. As
long as you're alive, there's still something you can do.  I'm not like
Commander Ikari.  It's true I want you to ride Eva just the same, but I
don't want you to lose hope.  It's not for the sake of anyone else, I want
you to ride Eva for your own sake.

Scene: JSSDF closing in on the bridge
Fuyutsuki (on the phone): I don't care.  Make securing Terminal Dogma your
top priority.
Makoto: They've blown up pretty much everything else, yet they don't lay a
finger on this bridge.
Shigeru: They probably want to take care of us with one blow, but the
original Magi's sitting right under us, and they likely want to get their
hands on it intact.
Makoto: Yeah, but we're not equipped to deal with BC (biological/chemical)
weapons.  If they bring those out, we're in trouble.
Shigeru: That, or N2 mines.
*N2 mine dropped on the geofront
Makoto: Speak of the devil.
Shigeru: Do those guys not know the meaning of restraint?
Fuyutsuki: They're really going all out.
*Missile attack on Central Dogma
Maya: No! Just stop it! Why, why do you want Eva so badly?!

Scene: Eva-02 sleeping in the Geofront lake, Asuka inside, waking up to the
missile-fire.
Asuka: Where...am I? Entry plug...inside Eva-02?
*Asuka reaches for the controls
Asuka: It's not moving.  Why?  This piece of junk.  Oh...I see.  The one
that's junk here is me.

Scene: Rei, watching the other Rei's disintegrate.  Gendo walks up.
Gendo: Rei, you were here after all.  The promised time has come.  Now,
let's go, to the place where you belong.

--AA