The Ninth Angel

MATARAEL

If the Third and Seventh Angels were humanoid and the Sixth and Eighth Angels were fish shaped, this Angel could be categorized as insectile. This is the Ninth Angel, bearing the name of "Matarael." the angel of rain.

Its appearance, with the long thin legs extending from its body, is very similar to that of spiders on Earth and even its actions, such as when it moves around, are approximately the same as spiders. The four legs extending from its body all have 2 joints and are capable of fine movement such as turning and backing up. Its oval-shaped body has numerous eye-like parts, but these are not eyes and are believed to be patterns for camouflage.

The attack method that it chose uses a powerful liquid solvent, which it excretes from the parts that look like eyes on the underside of its body. Its effectiveness is also clear from the fact it instantly dissolved Eva Unit-00's hard case. It is believed that this attack is effective only against enemies directly below it, and it is unclear whether it has other attack methods for enemies in front, behind, to its left or right, or directly above it, or if it is an Angel specialized in fighting enemies directly below.

This Angel was spotted by the observetion radar of Fuchu General Supreme Command Headquarters Integreted Security Control Room and landed in the direction of Old Atami. It made its way directly to New Tokyo-3 without being met with any special resistance. This is due to NERV's response being delayed because of the great power outage that occunred in New Tokyo-3. The Ninth Angel arrived directly over NERV Headquerters before the power came back in New Tokyo-3 and attempted to directly invade the Headquarters by using liquid solvent. However, Eva Units 00, 01, and 02, which were launched manually, work together to counter it. Its AT field is neutralized, and it is destroyed by a pallet gun.

The Tenth Angel

SAHAQUIEL

The Tenth Angel bearing the neme of "Sahaquiel," the angel of the skies. Its size is easily several dozen times greater then the Eves, end even compared with the other Angels, it can be safely said that it is the largest. Its form is symmetrical and evokes images of single-cell organisms, such as amoebas.

Its primary means of attack is small pieces of itself split off from the main body. It uses these like bombs by causing them to fall to earth from satellite orbit. Considering that these small pieces still deploy AT fields even after it has been seperated, it seems it is not just a piece split off from the main body but is a form of fisson, which the Seventh Angel also displayed.

By also magnifying and aggravating its own main AT field, It destroyed the search satellites. This is a new way to use the AT field, which had been thought of as a defensive device up until now. Of course, its defensive capabilities, which is the AT field's main characteristic, is also high, and it has displayed its strength by withstanding an aerial N^2 bombing unscathed.

The Angels that had appeared thus far were believed to have no countermeasures against information warfare, such as communications and reconnaissance, or possibly no interest. However, this Angel displayed information warfare capabilities as well. First, it destroyed the search satellites, then right after that, it interfered with communications on the ground with a powerful jamming ability. Furthermore, after the aelial N^2 bombing, it vanished from the reconnaissance net through jamming.

After escaping the reconnaissance net through jamming, it plummeted towards New Tokyo-3. It plotted to destroy NERV Headquarters using its main body. However, it is cought by Eva Unit-01's fully deployed AT field and is destroyed when Unit-00 and Unit-02 arrive.

The Eleventh Angel

IRUEL

The Eleventh Angel, which possesses the most unique form and abilities of all the Angels. Its name is that of "Iruel", angel of terror. Its size is most small, being about as large as bacteria, individually. As can be seen from the simultaneous outbreak of AT fields after the polysome attack, numerous Angels of the same type are gathered together and are acting as one. In other words, it is a form of colony.

It first appears in Protein Wall #87 on Floor A of the Sigma Unit in Central Dogma. Propegating the corroded area, it arrived at the Eva mock up in the Pribnow box. After that, it evolved and continued to propagate, using the Eva mock up as a stronghold, and invaded the supercomputer MAGI, NERV's brain, by breaking through other protective walls of the three different systems, n first took over Melchior-1, then continued to hack Balthasar-2.

This Angel constantly changes itself, overcoming weaknesses, Its ability is this exploslvely fast evolution. In order to invade computers, it turned its own form into electronic signals changing into a being that had both a biological aspect and a programming aspect.

As proposed by Dr, Ritsuko Akagi, NERV conducts a reverse hacking from the remaining Casper-3 and executes an operation to implant a self-destruct acceleration program. This program acceleretes the Angel's evolution taking it to the final stage of evolution, self-destruction. The operation is a success and the crisis was averted without the help of the Evas.