Creation began on 02-01-19
Creation ended on 02-07-19
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Salvation at the hands of an Artificial God: Past
A/N: After seeing all three Godzilla anime films of Netflix, I got the idea to create this crossover that deals with Shinji getting involved in the situation of dealing with Godzilla Earth. If anything, this will be two separate stories interconnected by the same situation: One in the past, and the other in the future. Here goes.
As Haruo got separated from his parents and saw as Godzilla approached the airport to destroy the last vestiges of humanity, something fell out of the sky and crashed onto the runway. It crashed with enough force that the ground shook up to twenty kilometers.
"Look at that!" A man yelled as the people stopped running to see what had fallen.
"Is it a weapon?!" A woman cried. "Is it a bomb?!"
"No," Haruo uttered as he got a look out the window. "It's some sort of…robot."
-x-
"…Aah…urgh… What happened?" Shinji Ikari, the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 and designated Third Child in accordance with the Marduk Institute, whatever that was, groaned as he came to, seeing the world around him through the Eva's optical video system, seeing a sky red like fire…and a creature unlike anything he'd ever seen before.
It was around fifty meters in height, obscured by the red sky, looking bulky and somewhat smooth and rocky in a sense, somewhat dinosaurian in appearance…and, despite it almost looking as though it were smiling in a sense, it made Shinji think otherwise of its nature because of his past encounter with other large creatures. The fact that it gave off a feeling of hostility as a world of destruction was behind every step it took as it came closer.
Shinji turned his head towards the buildings where there were these strange ships that looked as though they were to get away from the creature, and the Eva's optical system zoomed in on some people that were just watching the scene happening in front of them. They were all wearing identical suits, possibly meant for their survival, their faces locked in expressions of woe; they must've been so afraid of this creature that they were trying to flee from it before it could annihilate them.
Where you are now doesn't matter, anymore, Shinji, he thought to himself as he checked the Eva's internal battery, seeing that, despite the impossibility of it, it had two-and-a-half minutes of power left. You're here now, and you have to do something, anything, because you know that if you don't, the people around you will suffer.
Making the Eva rise up to its feet, he stood and faced the monster that posed a threat to the human race.
"I will not run away," he uttered. "I will not turn my back on them."
-x-
"That robot… It's facing Godzilla!" A woman yelled as Haruo looked at the robot taking something out of one of its shoulders, resembling some sort of knife.
"Is it…here to protect us from Godzilla?" He wondered, and watched as the robot ran towards the monster, its speed making it seem like it didn't obey all of the laws of physics regarding power and weight.
-x-
Armed with only the Progressive Knife, Shinji knew that it was better than nothing, and swung the vibrating blade across the beast's chest, feeling as though he were cutting into…a tree.
"What the… What is this thing?!" He questioned, not seeing any blood spill from the chest.
Did this thing not bleed? Did it not possess any blood? But what was noticed was how the creature was slow to react, but showed signs of being injured. There was a long, cut-like gash on its chest, looking like a hole in a mountainside.
"If you can be hurt," he realized, turning the knife over, "then you can probably die."
However, bluish lights began to flare up around the creature's body as electrical sparks or glitter formed a circle around its head and condensed in front of it. Suddenly, it was unleashed in the form of a thin, blue beam.
Shinji reacted by spreading the Eva's AT-Field, feeling the Eva get pushed backwards by eight feet, like it was brushing up against a wall that was hot.
"Aaaah!" He yelled, and realized that he was at least three feet away from crashing into the building behind him, seeing the frightened people cowering in fear. "No!"
-x-
Godzilla didn't know what this being was, but couldn't let it stop it from eliminating the last of its enemy from the world it would rule on. Firing its atomic breath, it failed to inflict any degree of harm upon the new threat. There was some sort of force field in front of it, protecting it from harm.
Suddenly, it started to glow the color of its atomic breath, the energy it unleashed to attack it encircling its body.
Something was up.
-x-
Shinji couldn't explain it, but somehow, the energy attack the Eva was hit with had reenergized the internal battery back to full power. He'd been told that the Eva was able to deal with a nuclear explosion and fallout by Misato, but he didn't expect to actually have to go through with it, assuming that she was just trying to assure him that everything was going to be fine with the Jet Alone incident. But now, here he was, and the only thing between him and suffering life-threatening changes at the midst of extreme radiation…was the Eva itself.
It looks like this creature is like an actual animal, he thought, raising the knife up to the height of the Eva's neck. If I take off its head, it should be enough to kill it.
The smile this creature gave might've been unintentional, but Shinji would give it a reason to frown at him.
"Ten…nine…eight…seven," he started counting, the Eva running towards the monster, intent on decapitating it. "…Five…four…three…two…one…"
SLASH! The knife clashed with the head and something else, and time seemed to stand still.
The Eva fell to its palms and knees, its knife wedged in the ground.
THUD! A body fell to the ground loudly.
-x-
"…How long do you suspect he'll be unconscious?"
"…Hard to say for certain… The radiation was cleared up by the ANEB, but we want to keep him for a few days to make sure he doesn't develop any symptoms."
"…Witnesses will want to know everything they can about him… That robot…"
"…Bilusaludos want to study it, but the UN state they can't unless they get consent from him…"
There were so many voices, but they were just noise to Shinji as he drifted in and out of consciousness every few minutes before he fell into darkness.
"Please, wake up soon, sir," he thought he heard a little boy's voice.
"Gah!" He awoke with a gasp, finding himself in a large, sparse room, the scent of an incense candle filling the place up with a sweet smell, and a small window opened to let in a draft.
Shinji looked around with his eyes, seeing that he was dressed in white garments and in front of the medical bed were small jars of flowers.
"Ah, you're finally awake," he heard someone say to him as he turned to the right side of the room, seeing a female nurse. "How do you feel?"
"I…I don't know," he responded. "How long was I asleep?"
"Almost three weeks. That's to be expected, though; you were found a few feet away from Godzilla when they brought you here."
"God…Godzilla?"
"You might be experiencing some memory loss. What do you remember?"
"I was…falling into darkness…and I awoke where I ended up…and there was that strange monster that looked like some sort of dinosaur."
"That was Godzilla. It was a monster unlike anything we've ever seen…and hope never to see again. Do you remember…facing it?"
"Yes, I do. Did I…defeat it?"
"Better than defeat it, young man. If you were going for its head, you took it and its arms off. It was supposed to be able to regenerate from its injuries, but after losing its head, it just fell over. The Bilusaludos quickly exposed it to high amounts of ANEB to eat away at its radioactivity. Some people are guessing that it can't regenerate from severe head trauma."
"Nobody can survive losing their head."
"We don't know who are yet…and already, you're a celebrity."
"What?"
"They're calling you names like, the 'Man Who Killed Godzilla', 'Godzilla Slayer', the 'Keeper of the Giant', and so on."
He killed a monster nobody else had been able to kill, and Shinji would learn that they've been trying to kill it for over a decade, that it appeared in Twenty-Thirty, and for this one act of selflessness, the people were calling him a hero.
"My name…is Shinji Ikari," he told the nurse.
"Shinji Ikari…it is nice to meet you."
-x-
His story was unbelievable…but the media ate it up like how the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria ate up the radiation emitted from Godzilla's remains. The world knew what they could about Shinji Ikari, the fourteen-year-old boy from another universe where the year was Twenty-Fifteen and he had been drafted into a war by his father to face an enemy he knew nothing about that were codenamed "Angels". The robot he piloted was a synthetic, bio-mechanical organism designed to fight these Angels, and the last one it ever faced was what led him to this world…where he saved them from having to abandon the planet.
-x-
"What is the update on the Godzilla remains?" Halu-elu Dolu-do of the Bilusaludos asked Mulu-elu Galu-gu as they looked at the decaying remains of the monster itself.
"Its cells are still active, but its radiation's reduced dramatically," the latter answered the former. "It shows zero signs of regeneration."
"Without its head, without light and water, it can't return to life and continue its reign of terror on this planet."
"We did, however, learn some interesting details going further into its biology. At first, it was believed that Godzilla was some sort or mutated dinosaurian aberration, but it's not. It's a hyper-evolved plant organism."
"Essentially, it is a walking tree that looks like an abomination."
"That's right. While its cells are still decaying and the ANEB is still eating away at its radiation, we should be able to decipher every last bit of genetic information this creature has…and develop new methods of countering it should we ever face another one in the future."
"Excellent, Mulu-elu Galu-gu, this is an impressive update."
-x-
Five years later
Five years of silence, five years of reclamation, and five years of peace. Ever since the defeat of Godzilla at the hands of Shinji Ikari and his Evangelion, there hadn't been another attack by any new monsters in the following months. There were sightings, but these were lesser, less-hostile creatures, such as another Anguirus, Mothra and another Baragon, and they weren't a threat, just passing by the reclaimed countryside of wherever they went.
In truth, Godzilla was the only real danger that had ever existed, and it was hoped that it would never return.
"Are you sure he lives here?" Yuko Tani asked Haruo as they stopped by a small house in the countryside of Hokkaido.
"Yes, I'm sure," Haruo answered her. "This is where he wanted to be after all those interviews and the deal he made with the UN regarding the Eva being used as a defense against any future attacks from giant monsters."
Because the study of alternate dimensions was impossible and he was alone in an unfamiliar future, Shinji, desiring only a life of peace now that he no longer had to fight the Angels or anything related to NERV, requested only to walk away from violence and find his place in this new world. One of the good things about his new predicament was that the UN felt that, being he was the one to defeat a monster none of them or their alien allies could, he should be rewarded for his untimely service to the world, and was paid enough to last him a lifetime. Of course, even with money, all Shinji would've minded more than anything else was a simple job as a chef.
There was nothing currently available for him in the culinary field, so he was stuck for the time being doing the next best thing: Teaching young people how to cook at his house, provided there were those that wanted to learn about miso soup and teriyaki.
This is what brought Haruo and Yuko here in the first place…and because Haruo wanted to see the young man that saved the lives of his parents when he defeated Godzilla…just to say his thanks to him in person.
Ding-dong! Shinji, in his study, reading another cook book, heard the doorbell rang, and set it down as he got up from his desk.
"I wonder who that could be," he wondered as he walked towards the front door, passing a small picture taken almost a year ago of himself at the beach with a young girl his age, with reddish-black hair and brown eyes. It couldn't be Mariko, she'd call me first.
Fin
A/N: Here it is. What did you think and what do you expect to see in the next chapter? Read and review. See ya!