"You heard him men!  Load up the experimental rounds!"  Wedge yelled from atop his tank, while they fired the silver bullets of their APDU special weapons into the Angel's chest.  The rounds were coated in a radioactive substance which burned through organic matter, stripping away the resilience of the angel.  Like a murder of crows, the VTOLs crowded around Gazardiel madly, and tore its body to pieces with rockets and vulcan cannons, causing the core to pop directly out of the chest while the Angel's body began to fall away like a worthless sack of flesh, leaving the core completely defenseless.<br/><br/>In the Angel's furious death throes, its claw lashed out with the entire weight of its body and Niki, throwing her Evangelion 30 meters through the air and against the side of the mountain, 10,000 special armored plates barely keeping the pilot from suffering agony.  "You're all clear kid!  Now let's blow this thing and go home!"  Wedge yelled, while energy swirled around the dented and progressive knife pierced core ominously.<br/><br/>Down in the command center, the base commander's seat rose slowly up from where it had retracted for security purposes, and the deadly serious face of Dr. Naoko Akagi appeared from below, frowning slightly in her green lipstick, while she still held her hands tented, framed by the tips of her greenish hair, dyed red.  "We have been watching."  Dr. Akagi said, while Major Mecci and Ritsuko turned around with looks of primal terror.  "All conventional forces, retreat immediately!"  She announced quite suddenly, gesturing unnaturally with the small mechanical tendril connected to the base of her neck.  "Evangelion units, try and establish deflection as much as possible; The angel's core has so far gathered energy equivelent to 250 kilotons of trinitrotoluene; your priority has become the safe disposal of the core without destroying the mountain or nearby tunnels."  Dr. Akagi commanded, while the MAGI crunched the numbers on how best to dispose of the core without excessive damage.  "If you destroy the core, try to destroy it by hand."