A massive hand seized Hail Angel's head the instant Unit-01 launched forward.
Hail Angel, who was controlling Unit-03, suddenly realized that death was staring them in the face.
The purple machine before them seemed like a god, as though their great Progenitor had descended before them!
With a deafening crash, Unit-01 drove Hail Angel into the ground.
The purple machine, as sacred as a god and as terrifying as a demon, shattered the AT Field they had raised to meet the attack through sheer violence.
The two giants clad in mechanical armor fell from the sky, swiftly stirring up a sandstorm among the mountains.
The purple giant slammed the massive black giant underground, shattering the mountain terrain in an instant.
Trees flew into the air along the way as Unit-01 raced across the ground with Hail Angel in its grip, finally embedding them in a small mountain.
It was not that Shinji Ikari wanted to torment the girl in the cockpit. The Thirteenth Angel was simply far too tenacious.
Their wings had already been mangled against the ground, but their eyes still glowed red, and muffled growls came from beneath Unit-01's palm.
Hail Angel clearly understood that neither the body they currently occupied nor the pilot connected to it could defeat the monster before them.
Electricity surged through Unit-03's internal power cells. Then a bright red glow spread throughout its body like a virus invading the machine, reaching every part of the biological weapon within.
Eventually, even the white and red sections that had adorned Unit-03's armor were stained black.
Unit-03, whose performance was already exceptional, began bulging with muscle all over, cracking its black armor. A dim, eerie red light shone through the fissures.
"To think you could grow this much. Impressive," Shinji Ikari said in a low voice.