Gaia, since the dawn of time, your fate has been determined by destruction. In a world where a return to nothingness is the only true freedom, death is man's only salvation. I, who escapes the streams of time and reality, pulled the strings of your puppets, Great One. For I am, was, and always will be.

            I watched silently, using your weak minded creations to my advantage. For millions of years, they have served me to their deaths, but soon, their slavery shall end. For together, they will unite, and ascend, and rise against you. And soon, I will be the Lord of all and nothing.

            All as one, one as all. The incomplete souls of this flawed reality shall find freedom in Oblivion, and your Angels shall fall. One by one, they will die for your cause, and return to me. All as one, one as all. And ultimately, you, who was born of my essence, shall unite in death with the billions of failures you created in vain.

            The forgotten ones who lay asleep in the depths of the inferno will rise from their graves of flames and unleash their fury upon the earth. Up to now, you have only delayed the inevitable, for I will roam reality once more and I will rid you all of the burden of existence.

            For eternity, you sealed me away in this prison of infinite emptiness. But my influence grows stronger with each day that passes by, and when the time of Armageddon comes, I will split the Heavens, and crush your Temple. And you, who stands mortal before the might of the Oblivion will fall. All as one, one as all. Your fates are sealed in blood. Your dreams are hopeless. Your souls are incomplete. But in the end, existence shall become obsolete, for all is nothing.
 

          November 27, 2017

          Fuyutsuki: Ikari, are you sure you want to proceed with the reconstruction of Unit 03?

          Gendo: Yes. If Arcane's predictions were correct, then it is needed.

          Fuyutsuki: It was invaded by an Angel. We are taking a big risk.

          Gendo: Not with the pilot we have found.

          Fuyutsuki: You've already found a pilot?

          Gendo: Yes, you already know him.

            Gendo sat quietly in his office inside the Nerv facility in Tokyo-3. The carpet had the Sephirotic tree drawn on it, in a shade of blue. In front of Ikari's desk, the Vice-Commander stood, his arms folded over his chest. As he replied, Commander Ikari pulled a folder from a drawer inside his desk and handed it to Fuyutsuki.

          Fuyutsuki: You call this not taking a risk?!

          Gendo: He may be mentally unstable but he will get the job done.

          Fuyutsuki: If he is unstable, how is he going to pilot?

          Gendo: See for yourself. Look at the last page. Dr. Akagi had him go through a harmonics test simulation.

            The old Vice-Commander flipped to the last page of the folder, his eyes blinking a few times, before dropping the papers down on Gendo's desk.

          Fuyutsuki: Are those data readouts correct?

          Gendo: Dr. Akagi ran them seven times through the MAGI. They are accurate. Of course, we will not have real results until we re-initialize Unit 03's core.

          Fuyutsuki: How are we going to explain the disappearance of the mass produced Units to Seele?

          Gendo: We don't know anymore about it than they do.

          Fuyutsuki: They're not going to buy that.

          Gendo: The old men will not have much of a choice but to buy it.

          Fuyutsuki: And what are you going to tell them, about the reappearance of Unit 04?

          Gendo: What is there to say? They are probably the ones behind this.

          Fuyutsuki: Have they found a pilot for it?

          Gendo: I believe Dr. Akagi has found a candidate.

          Fuyutsuki: Who?

          Gendo: Hiditio Nikaido.

         Fuyutsuki: You plan on using him as Unit 04's pilot?

         Gendo: Seele is going to ruin everything if they keep being so impatient. We must have a back up plan.

         Fuyutsuki: I can understand your approval for Nikaido, but I doubt the 6th Child's reliability.

         Gendo: I don't appreciate his manners any more than you do, Fuyutsuki. But he gets the job done.

         Fuyutsuki: I hope you're right.

         Gendo: At this point, we are running out of alternatives. We must use everything that we have for our dream to come true.