Tales of Evangelion
A crossover between Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tales of Symphonia. I own the rights to none of these products.
Prologue
It was a normal summer day like any other, and I was surfing the web. What I found overjoyed me. Evangelion 2 the video game had been secretly released in the US today, surprising everyone. I had my eye on this game for a while. I rushed out to the nearest game store to buy it, not paying attention to what system it was for.
I opened the package and grabbed the disk, not even daring to read the instructions. I popped open my GameCube, and pulled out my Tales of Symphonia disk which I was playing. I had it saved at a very good spot before, fortunately. I fit the disk in, closed the lid and turned on the power. The big G-cube spun and gave me an error message. INCOMPATIBLE DISK. "What? Incompatible?" I reset the game, but it did the same thing. I looked at the package the disk came in, it was a PS2 game. I slammed my controller on the ground. "Dammit!" It pressed some buttons on impact, and a second error message came up. POSSIBLE SAVE FILE CORRUPTION, TEST ON GAME. "Uh-oh! I don't like the sound of that." I turned off the power and quickly switched game disks back to Symphonia to make sure everything was all right with my save. I loaded up the data, and began to move around on the field. My party launched up on the Riehards and flew. When I flew over a small island, I was surprised to see a cutscene, considering there aren't supposed to be any on the field maps. What I saw awed me. This is the story of the game.
--&==
A man with long blonde hair floated above a large chamber with his wings. He looked down at the half-elf far below and the scientists around him. He said, "Prepare to insert the evolved Cruxius Crystal."
"Aye, Lord." A scientist replied. He attached a red orb onto a mechanical plunger. The half-elf was strapped onto a board, and it tilted up, giving the plunger a perfect shot at his chest.
The floating man spoke down to him, "Leliel, if this operation is successful, you will become Seraphim like me. Do you desire this?"
Leliel answered nervously, "Yes, my Lord."
"If it fails, you will lose what you are and become a monster. If so, you will be sent on a mission to break one of the three seals on the World. Do you understand this?"
"I do."
"Do you still wish to continue?"
"Yes."
"Then proceed."
A technician pushed a button on the machine, and the Cruxius Crystal was forced into Leliel's body. He cried out, "For the glory of Lord Yggdrassil and the ascension of half-elves!"
The room went silent. The Crystal inside the half-elf glowed red, and pulsated into black. He cried out in pain as it expanded and snapped the restraints. He began to float. The man above frowned. The half-elf below him became swallowed into a ball of black and white stripes. A shadow expanded under him farther than his form. He screamed with the power of 1,000 screams.
"Enough of this, Leliel! The test has failed, now off with you to your mission!" He points at the demonic ball and shadow, and it becomes translucent, and then fades away.
A red haired man walks up behind the blonde man as he floats to a platform. "I believe that was unwise, Lord Yggdrassil. We should have learned of his new powers before he was sent into battle."
"It doesn't matter. We need to test out every Cruxius Crystal combination to increase our numbers so our kind can ascend and wreak our revenge upon the human filth." The blond man replied.
"I was once human. Does that mean I'm like that filth?"
"No, you are my second in command. You are far better then them."
"Why do you insist on sending the failures to the original world? The others we sent have failed."
"The original world has the most mana, we must break one of the three seals it has so the mana can flow freely again. Then we can make full use of our powers and punish them all."
"I see. Forgive me for questioning your judgment, Lord Yggdrassil."
"You have it. Come, the other two Seraphim await us." Yggdrassil flew away.
"I shall come shortly." He turned to look at the empty space where Leliel once was. "Be careful. I feel as if this will be your greatest challenge yet." He turned away and wings appeared on his back. He flew away.
--&==
In Tokyo-3, the normal routine continued for the people of the city. That is, before a shadow expanded and a black and white sphere appeared above the city. The 12th Angel had arrived.
--&==
Units 00 and 02 stood around the black shadow, ready to cast their AT Fields as the bombers prepare to drop their N2 mines into the shadow in an attempt to recover Unit 01. Before the operation started, the shadow began to crack.
Maya called out from the remote command center, "Power readings are off the scale!"
Ritsuko was stunned, "But we haven't done anything yet!"
Misato let out a sliver of hope, "Could it be, Shinji?"
"Impossible, the Eva's power cells must be at 0."
Even so, the shadow continued to crack, revealing a deep orange-red color beneath. The ball lost all of its white color as two monstrous hands began to tear it open.
The purple Evangelion's head emerged from the opening and it began to howl. Rei looked on with an emotionless face, while Asuka's brow quivered with fear. "My God, am I piloting a thing like that?"
The Evangelion completed the splitting of the sphere, and it landed on the broken shadow. The cracks began to spread beyond the boundaries of the shadow, and they glowed more brightly orange then before.
Maya turned to Ritsuko, "Something's wrong! The power level is still increasing!"
Ritsuko was speechless, but Misato said what she wanted to. "You mean that thing isn't dead?"
Ritsuko finally found words, "It may be soon anyway. It might be trying to self-destruct."
Misato turned pale, "Oh God!" She contacted the pilots. "Rei, Asuka! The Angel's going to self-destruct! Get out of there, now!"
Rei answered calmly as she dashed towards the middle, "I will not leave Ikari-kun there."
Asuka returned, "There's no way I'm letting her get the glory for this!" Her red Eva dove in to the minefield of orange cracks. They both reached the purple Eva at the same time and began grab and drag it to safety. The Angel's shadow started to glow, and it cast a whiteish-green wall around itself.
Asuka cried out, "Misato! We're surrounded!" An earthquake began, which knocked all three Evas to their knees.
Maya paled and yelled, "Critical mass! It's overloading!"
Misato did the only thing she could do, "Eject the plugs, now!" The signal was sent, and the Evas' plugs launched out of the back and flew towards the opposite end of the border. Suddenly, the entire inside of the entrapped circle glowed. Then there was nothing. No Angel, no Evas, no entry plugs, no buildings, nothing. The Angel had disappeared, and the only thing left of where it was is perfectly flat dirt.
--&==
Lloyd and company flew over the seas of Tethe'-alla. A bright flash appeared in the sky above them.
"Yow! That's bright!" He said.
"It sure is pretty!" Collette answered.
Raine went into scholar mode, "It looks almost like the light from the oracle. Fascinating!"
Sheena winced and shielded her eyes against the glare of the light, "I don't like it."
Zelos took that as a wide open door, "Oh come on, Sheena. In this light you look even more beautiful than normal."
Presea and Regal remained the calm members of the group while Genis spoke up, "Look! Something's coming!"
Indeed, three small meteors fell to the right of their position, but didn't explode when they hit the earth. A large one fell to the left, and it created a large impact explosion. The light in the sky disappeared.
Regal finally spoke, "What kind of weapon could do this?"
Presea held her hand to her chest, "It is not a weapon. I do not know what it is, but I sense it has something to do with the Cruxius Crystals."
"You felt it too, Presea?" Collette asked.
"Yes."
"Lloyd, this could be important! We might be able to find out more about Cruxius!"
"No, we should pact the two remaining Summon Spirits on this side to break the Mana flow." Sheena reminded them of their mission.
Two selections appeared on the screen:
Ignore it, let's keep moving.
Let's check it out.
The selection was made and Lloyd said, "Let's check it out. Collette may be right, and there could be people hurt."
Sheena sighed, "Fine, but I'm doing this under protest."
Genis was next, "Which way should we go? To where the three small things landed or to where the big boomer hit?"
Lloyd grinned, "I like explosions! Let's go left!"
Zelos pulled his Rieard in front of Lloyd's. "Woah woah woah! That's too dangerous! We can't go there. All that dust kicked up will make it hard to see anything, plus who knows what else happened in that explosion!"
Raine nodded, "It's true. Toxic chemicals, radioactivity, even rare diseases can be brought out by such an impact. It would be safer for us to investigate when the smoke clears. Why not turn right and check the other fallen stars?"
"Yeah, come on Lloyd. Let's go right. I want to make sure that my little hunnies don't get hurt." Zelos the charmer said
Lloyd grumbled, "Fine. Let's head to the right." The Riehards turned and began to fly to a relatively large island, where three white cylinders with the numbers 00, 01, and 02 engraved on them still smoked.
(Author's Note: Welcome to the world of Tales of Evangelion. This will be a long and ongoing project. It started out when I hit a roadblock in finishing the unfinished fic, Eva R: Redemption, to burn off the energy and come back to it with a fresh mind. This has turned into a full blown project now. I hope you enjoy it. Also, if you're wondering where this starts in ToS, it's just after Sheena makes a pact with Gnome in Tethe'-alla on the first disk.)