"Targets identified: Night Angel Leliel, Bird Angel Aral, Womb Angel Amishar."
Misato Katsuragi's voice came through the communicator.
She had just come up with the names for the bird-shaped Angel and the ribbon-of-light Angel.
The Night Angel's sea of Dirac attacked first. Black shadows surged toward Super Unit-01 like a tide, sucking every building, weapon, and even the air in their path into nothingness.
Rather than retreat, Unit-01 advanced. Its Wings of Light snapped open, and its AT Field formed a rainbow shield, forcibly resisting the gravitational pull of the devouring space.
"Found you."
Shinji Ikari's eyes seemed capable of seeing through space. Through Unit-01's AT Field perception, he locked onto the Angel's true body in Imaginary Space.
The tip of the Spear of Cassius rose. Energy streams coiling around its shaft tore through the atmosphere, forming a straight pillar of warm yellow light.
Unit-01 abruptly twisted its wrist. Light burst from the Spear of Cassius, and the shining spear pierced the center of the sea of Dirac faster than sound.
That was the very core of the AT Field with which the Night Angel maintained the space.
With a soft squelch, Imaginary Space collapsed like a shattered mirror.
The projected sphere of black-and-white stripes disintegrated instantly, and the matter sucked into the spatial rift came tumbling down.
The Night Angel's true body dissolved into particles under that single strike.
Before the Night Angel's remains could hit the ground, the Womb Angel's glowing tendrils had already penetrated Unit-01's AT Field.
Almil's ability appeared to involve invasive fusion.
Weblike corrosion marks appeared across Unit-01's armor, and the neural connection devices inside the cockpit blared shrill alarms.
"Interesting. Can you ignore AT Fields? No, you must have merged into my AT Field," Shinji Ikari said with a grin.
Unit-01 unfolded its AT