"If God's in His heaven, what the hell's wrong with the world?" * * * * * * * * * * Tuxedo Jack ~and~ Craptacularly Spignificant Productions ~present, with some apologies to Anno and Akamatsu~ Shinseiki Hinagelion: The End of Hinagelion Part II "Keitaro's in His Heaven, all's right with the world" * * * * * * * * * * There is no disclaimer, for I deign not to waste bandwidth on it. The soundtrack rule still applies. If you've got the music I name, use it. If not, get it by hook, crook, or downloading it. Screw the RIAA, get it if you want. Only pay for music if it's good. If I get enough requests, I'll post the soundtrack on my site to download. 56Kers are going to have a hell of a time with it, since it's about 75 megabytes. * * * * * * * * * * (Background music: Ave Maria from Cowboy Bebop. Still the six-minute version, but skip to 3:37 into the song, just before the section that sounds different from the rest.) Keitaro snarled as he lay Naru's broken and shattered unit down on the ground. He charged, decapitating some, slashing others, but the whole group regenerated what was needed and encircled him. The nine Aoyama-01s around Keitaro's Motoko unit pinned him, and one drew out the Hina Blade. With a primal roar, it stabbed the sword straight down into Motoko. Keitaro screamed once, and the world dissolved into a sea of white. * * * * * (Background music: C-6 from the S2 Works CDs) Keitaro stood still and stared straight ahead. "This is the time, Urashima-kun," Kanako said, her arms on his shoulder once more. "The time?" "The old world has passed away, and what remains is nothing that is even significant," she whispered. "I brought an end to the world?" Keitaro said, horrified. "The world is not over, Keitaro," Kanako said, moving to stare straight into his eyes. "I carry the souls of all the children of Lillith, and we will create a new world for them to live in." "A new world..." Keitaro thought out loud. A flash blinded him, and he closed his eyes... * * * * * (Background music: "Blackjack, Pessima Qualidade" from the FFVI Orchestral Collection. It's very hard to find, so don't worry about it.) "Wake up, idiot!" Naru whacked Keitaro in his head with a pillow, and Keitaro groaned. "You're going to be late for school!" Keitaro blinked his eyes open, and said the first thing that came to mind. "Pink." Naru looked puzzled for a second, then realized what Keitaro meant, and whacked him again. "BAKA!" She then looked down at him, and saw that he was a little _too_ happy to see her. "You mean, stupid, horny guy!" She stormed out, her fuku flaring out around her. Keitaro sat up, wiped his eyes, and went to get ready for class. He walked down the hall once he was dressed and ready, and Haruka greeted him from her seat at the kitchen table. "Keitaro, you had better be nicer to Naru from now on when she wakes you up." "It's not my fault, Mom..." Haruka hit Keitaro in his head. "Don't call me Mom. It makes me feel old." "Can I still call you lover?" Seta said from his post by the stove. "DAD!" Keitaro gagged, and Haruka smirked. "Why not?" Naru stepped into the kitchen, and she dragged Keitaro with her as she left. They left the apartment under Haruka's watchful eyes, and proceeded down the street. Naru turned to Keitaro with an evil glint in her eyes. "So, Keitaro, how far have you and Shinobu gotten?" Keitaro sputtered. "What? How... why..." "So can we expect to see little Keitaros running around soon?" Naru went on, loving every second of Keitaro's protests. "Aw, and a little Shinobu would be so cute!" "It's not like that, Naru!" Keitaro yelled, looking straight at her. "I'm just her tutor!" "Sure you are," Naru said, then stopped dead in her tracks. Keitaro kept going, and true to form, he ran right into Kanako, who was walking in his direction. They both fell over, and Keitaro spoke his mind once more. "Black..." Kanako smiled shyly. "I apologize." She stood and walked off. Naru walked up behind Keitaro and punched him in his arm. "Baka! What are you doing looking at her panties?" "If I do that, it's my business, Naru, not yours!" "Geez, you've grown a spine suddenly." _Yeah, seeing the world end will do that,_ Keitaro thought to himself. * * * * * (Background music: "Queen Serenity" from Sailor Moon) Shinobu, Haitani, and Shirai climbed higher on the terminals in their room as the LCL continued rising. "This... how the hell did LCL get in here?" Shirai screamed, just before he lost his footing and fell into the sea. _Yes, Shirai, I'm here,_ Motoko's voice sounded. _Come with me._ Shirai dissolved into LCL. "SHIRAI!" Haitani yelled in anguish. "NO!" _It's all right, Haitani,_ Haruka said as she formed out of the LCL. _Join me in here. Don't worry, the water's fine._ "Haruka-sama..." Haitani whispered, as if mesmerized, and then began climbing down to enter the LCL. He stepped into the pool, and Haitani managed to embrace the LCL-Haruka before dissolving. "I got my wish," he said. "No, no, you're not getting me," Shinobu said, clenching the gun she held. She pulled the trigger at the LCL-Haruka, firing off a few shots, but Haruka just dissolved, and Su formed out of what remained. _Kohai, stop worrying so much,_ the false Su said. _Take a break, come join me. It'll be fun! We've got some bananas, and I've got mechas, so we'll all be okay._ "No, senpai! It's not you! It's not YOU!" Shinobu screamed before the LCL flooded the chamber and engulfed her. The control room lay empty, with only LCL and the SOU systems to bear witness that there had once been humans there. * * * * * (Background music: "Words That we Couldn't Say" from Cowboy Bebop) Naru sat at her desk in the M-3 classroom in Tokyo-3. Shirai and Keitaro had been assigned pre-class cleaning duty, and they were dusting off some bookshelves in the room. Shirai laughed when he heard about Keitaro's morning. "My god, man, you're woken up by a red-haired goddess in pink panties, and not only that, you get to see another pair on a woman you knock down on the street? You lucky bastard." "Quiet, you idiot," Shinobu said, passing Shirai a pitcher of water. "You've got to go fill that vase." She turned to Keitaro. "Don't put any ideas into his head," she scolded him. "He's hard enough to deal with as it is." Keitaro nodded and went back to dusting. A short while later, the room was clean, the rest of the class was in their desks, and they were eagerly awaiting their teacher's arrival. "Man, she Gainaxes like crazy!" "She could give a dead guy a boner." "QUIET!" Shinobu said from her seat at the front of the room just before Kitsune-sensei entered. "Stand, bow, sit!" "Good morning, class!" Kitsune caroled from the front of the room. "Good morning, sensei," the male half of the class said back (in a lecherous manner). The female response was slightly venomous, as they knew who their boyfriends were dreaming about, and they weren't happy about it. "I want to introduce our new transfer student, Kanako Urashima!" Kitsune gestured to a black-haired girl who had followed her in. Keitaro's eyes bugged out. "It's her!" Kanako smiled when she saw Keitaro. Naru grew furious. "You! You flashed Keitaro your panties this morning!" "And you have claim on him?" Kanako replied coldly. "If Keitaro does not have a girlfriend, I would be happy to fill the void." * * * * * (Background music: Forbidden Gene, track 7 on Refrain) "No," Keitaro said. "What?" "This is not the world that I want." "Why do you not want this world?" Kitsune said from behind him. "Do you hate it?" Naru said from his left. "Do you hate yourself?" Kanako said from his right. "I don't hate it, or myself." "Then perhaps you dislike being surrounded by others." "Perhaps you don't like us," Kitsune said. "I don't! I love all of you!" "Is it because you are weak?" Kanako said. "Yes, that must be it," said Naru. "He cannot live with others, so he lives alone," Kitsune said quietly. "He cannot promise, so he cannot live with others." "But he was instrumental for Yakusoku," Kanako replied. "He is merely part of a promise, not all of it." "Since he is only part of it, he naturally wants to be more," Naru said. "He created that world where we came from, and now he wishes to overthrow His creation," Kanako whispered in Keitaro's ear. "The three of us are the three worlds," Naru said. "I am Body, first of the Three Mothers," Kitsune said, moving in front of Keitaro and drifting backwards through the sea of white. "I am Mind, second of the Three," Naru said, mimicking Kitsune. "And I am Soul, the Third," said Kanako. "Each of us is a world unto ourselves," Kitsune said. "Each world has infinite possibilities," continued Naru. "And each world has its own end. You must choose a world for Humanity, Keitaro," Kanako said from her position in the center of Kitsune and Naru. Normally, Keitaro would have nosebleeded to death from the sight of three stunningly beautiful naked women in front of him, but since this wasn't really reality, he didn't. He floated forward, bowed his head, stretched out his arms, and made his choice. Of course, since he had one hand on Kitsune's left breast, one hand on Naru's right breast, and his head on Kanako's chest, it wasn't exactly a very good choice. The three women collectively sweatdropped. A voice boomed throughout the wash of white. It sounded infinitely sweet, yet all-knowing and strangely sad at the same time; many and yet one, that described the voice. "He has made His choice. So let It be written, so let It be done!" The world exploded into light once more... * * * * * (Background music: none) "It's all right, Naru-san, I'm only going to be gone for a few months," Keitaro said to her as he boarded his plane. "Seta-san found some new ruins, and since I can't exactly go to Todai this semester thanks to my leg, I can get some experience in with him!" She hugged him. "But..." "Don't worry, Naru. I'll be back before you know it." He pulled loose and stepped onto the plane. And somewhere off in the distance, music began playing... "Kirari, hikaru, yume wo taisetsuni dakishimete ippou jutsu aruiteikou ashita e to!" * * * * * (End theme: "Blue" from Cowboy Bebop Episode 26 - "The Real Folk Blues, Part 2") God created Man. Man discovered God. Man worshipped God. All was good, for the world persisted. Man defied God. God became Man. Man killed God. Man questioned God. The world shook, but it held. Man defied God a second time. The world very nearly ended, but what was left brought it back, and the world became more powerful than it was before. Man denied God. The world was torn asunder, and God perished, and the souls of man waited for a new God to arise. Man became God. The world was created anew from the ruins of the second world, and God made it good. The cycle will repeat itself eternally, and humanity will advance, for we are the chosen ones. To be born, to live, to reproduce, to die - that is the evidence of God. * * * * * * * * * * AUTHOR'S NOTES I wish I had a cast here. That way I could have a wrap party, and invite Naru, Kanako, and Kitsune to come in the costumes that they wore. ... No, I'm not that bad. This completes "Shinseiki Hinagelion." If you wish to kill me like so many wish to do to Hideki Anno for "End of Evangelion," I give you permission, only ask that it be quick and clean, and that you put down plastic first. Blood's a bitch to get out of carpet. This series is brought to you by the letters H, A, C, K, and the number forty-two. Thanks go to: *TrueC, for being an excellent sounding board and getting me to work on both this and my Exile III walkthrough at the same time. *Kanako, for being one of the few people to actually leave reviews. *Kanno Yoko, Sagisu Shirou, Horie Yui, Uematsu Nobuo, and whoever did Sailor Moon's music for the soundtrack, which I'll eventually post to my site, five MP3s at a time. And certainly Akamatsu and Anno for creating the two worlds in which I've played. If you have any love for Kana or Kanako at all, you'll go read the works published by Chocolate Fudge on Fictionpress.com. If you thought that their Love Hina fiction was good, you'll find that their original fiction far outstrips it. And so, I close this book and place it on the shelf for your perusal. Ja ne! Tuxedo Jack Tuxedojack@juno.com July 2nd, 2003 users3.ev1.net/~jchiles Click the Senshi no Eisei logo for my stuff, but check out the other sites too! "Death is only the beginning. Birth is the end."