Editing Campaign:NERV Siberia (section)

===Throwing Down The Progenitor===

With no other options and the location of Adam discovered, the team's handlers decided to send the Pilots deep into the ocean at the initial Impact site, to hunt down and engage the hopefully-still-dormant Adam in direct combat. Wingleader Elsa Faustus quietly confirmed there wouldn't be any possibility of striking at the beast a second time if they failed, but decided not to inform the others so as to keep the pressure down somewhat during the long flight to the Antarctic. Upon dropping into the sea floor, the Pilots discovered a small AT Barrier keeping a large cave entrance clear of the seawater and otherwise sealing it off from the ravages of the icey depths. Upon moving past the light barrier, they found themselves in an alien ecosystem, with strange, Core-producing plants and multiple embryonic Vragi, as well as the Giant of Light himself, awake but not at his full power. Adam claimed that by assaulting him with his own children, the pilots were only proving the weakness of Lillim, and thus regardless of the outcome of this battle, proved the superiority of the Adamite model of life and thus would signal his creators' victory in the Doctrinal Conflict of the First Ancestral Race. The Pilots, not really giving a damn about a billions-of-years old alien experiment when the survival of their entire species was on the line, told the alien deity to fuck himself and proceeded to attempt to murder him. The battle was hard-fought, as the team raced to destroy Adam before he could fully spread his almost deific AT field and reach full power, contending with his absolute mastery of the AT field and extremely powerful body. In the end, however, it was a combination of Griet's mastery of the Lillim-engineered Great Positron Cannon, Elsa's AT powers, and Tanya's raw ferocity that held the day. Adam's immense power simply couldn't match the might of their Synched AT fields and heavy weaponry, though Lt. Helmanetski's bolt pistol was significantly less effective. Adam made his final mistake when he vaporized Cernobog's arms, causing the angry, angry EVA to become even angrier, and his pilot to become ANGRIER BY FAR. His shining body destroyed, Adam pulled his final gambit, literally transcending his physical body and becoming a figure made of his own deifically powerful AT field, but a chorus of heavy weapons fire, antimatter, teeth, and the massive AT power of the entire team synching together put a stop to that, destroying Adam Transcendent forever. The ecosystem bubble he had created collapsed, nearly destroying the Pilots as the ocean came crashing in, but they escaped. With Adam's death, 2nd Impact has been avenged, and no new Vragi can be produced. Adamite life has been effectively exterminated from the Earth, leaving it free for the Lillim. The team must now pray that Russia's diplomats can convince the UN to allow them to Bind Lillith with the Lance of Longinus before she reawakens, necessitating another epic conflict. If the UN is too deeply influenced by SEELE, the team will be forced to move against Tokyo-3 in force, possibly causing significant collateral damage and committing an act of war, in order to prevent a cataclysm that could yet erase the human race.