Disclamer: I don't own Evangelion or Marvel.
Now that that's out of the way, it took me forever to figure out how to make this scene feel right. Anyone can splatter a load of guts and gore over a scene, but to make that actually scary takes work.
In the end, though, I had fun with it.
Enjoy! For this time, a certain someone makes some important calls, and a madman reaps what he sows!
Gendo moved through the depths of Neo-NERV central, sidearm unholstered. Fuyutsuki never failed to report in, one could set the time by his routine…if he had fallen silent, then clearly they had an intruder.
With that in mind, the king of the Lilim firmed his resolve, and stepped outside into the corridor.
The base, his kingdom, was quiet as the grave. All he could hear were his own footfalls echoing off the walls and ceiling as he tread carefully through the hallways leading to Fuyutsuki's quarters and the dummy plug plant.
Abruptly, a pipe fell in the distance, clattering to the floor with a bang. Gendo froze, a slight bead of sweat trailing down the side of his face. This base was still in pristine condition, a giant machine ready to make a man a god...for anything to be out of place even now was unthinkable. The plan had gone off without a hitch!
He kept walking, gun at the ready. WILLE couldn't be after him, not this soon-the barrier he'd put into place ensured that the AAA Wunder wouldn't be able to attack Neo-NERV directly. No one else who'd want attack him would have the resources. There was no way anyone could have snuck into the Geofront through the other entrances, no one else would have the knowledge.
He was jolted out of his thoughts by another crash, followed by a horrifying, gurgling roar that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once.
Gendo felt his pulse quicken. He considered going back to his office, but that was a foolish idea as well-whatever was inside the base might be in that direction.
He and Fuyutsuki could regroup, and release one of the EVA series on whatever it was. Yes, he decided, that was perfect-
Gendo rounded the corner and his train of thought stopped cold as he found Fuyutsuki.
Or rather, what was left of him- a skeleton, marred with spots of pink flesh and black goo, along with a few scraps of cloth surrounding the remains.
Gendo froze, hearing some monstrously heavy breathing.
"Hunger….feed…"
That voice…that warped, horrible voice sounded like a thousand people talking at once, in disjointed horrible unison.
The commander of NERV looked up, seeing something out of a nightmare clinging to the ceiling of the hallway, still chewing on a scrap of meat. The enormous blank white eyes turned to face him as it swallowed and growled at him.
Fear gripped his heart in its icy claws as he took off running. The monster above him gave a great, gurgling roar and dropped to the floor on all fours, standing upright to race after the Commander.
"You shouldn't have lied, Gendo…so hungry. HUNGRY!"
Blindly , Gendo fled, the beast just a pace behind him, its massive limbs tearing apart the metal catwalk as it chased him. It opened great slavering jaws, endless rows of sharp, pointed fangs gleaming in the artificial light as it gained on him.
He chanced a few wild shots behind him—the bullets impacted the black flesh but he saw no blood, not even LCL flying away as they tore into its hide. The monster just roared louder.
Gendo rounded the corner, his lungs burning, sweat pouring from his body…but not from the exertion.
He couldn't die yet! He couldn't! He was so close, Yui was almost within his grasp! Hurriedly he raced back the way he came, intending on entering his personal quarters and sealing the doors behind him.
Then he could activate the Rei clones, one of the MP EVAs, and kill this thing now-
He jerked to a halt as something long, gooey and incredily tight wrapped around his right bicep. He cried out in pain as the thing yanked on his arm, intent on dragging him back towards the horrible thing behind him.
Behind Gendo, the monster opened its jaws, a long, lurid pink tongue rolling out to slaver in anticipation.
"Kill you…kill you slowly…"
That decided it. Gendo raised his sidearm, and aimed at his own arm. Gritting his teeth, he fired it three times, the third shot shattering his humerus, the tentacle's pull doing the rest, severing his arm above the elbow.
Despite the horrendous agony he was free. The black beast was so surprised it stumbled briefly—giving Gendo just enough time to slip inside his quarters and seal the heavy blast doors.
_SCENE BREAK_
Misato Katsuragi stared at the screen in something akin to shock.
On the screen, panting and covered in blood, was none other than Gendo Ikari. The true cause of all her suffering, the mastermind behind Third and Fourth Impact…
And he was standing in the screen, clutching at his missing right arm and begging them for help.
"I'm sorry, Gendo, I'm having a hard time understanding this. You want us to help you?"
"Indeed."
Misato raised an eyebrow behind her shades, arms folded under her chest as she glared coldly at the Commander of NERV. All the hatred inside her rose to the surface as she spat, "And why should we help you?"
"Because…"
Gendo gritted his teeth, nearly falling to one knee.
"If you do not, th-then…th-then you will leave me no choice."
"What does that mean?"
"You…no longer care for him. That is…that is obvious. You strapped a bomb…to his throat…and allowed me to take him."
Misato nearly snorted. "Don't pretend to care about him now, Gendo. You've never cared about anyone but yourself-!"
"Are you any different? Do you really think I don't know about what you had to do in order to get control over that flying leviathan? The lies you told, the lines you crossed"
Another muted boom shook the camera on Gendo's end. He continued speaking, loudly.
"But that does not matter now. Something worse than myself is loose in my base, killed Fuyutsuki, and—"
He got no further, as the door was finally wrenched open, and was flung across the room. Everyone in WILLE stared at the screen as a terrifying nightmare stomped into the dim light and advanced on the Commander.
_SCENE BREAK_
Something abruptly slammed into Gendo from behind, the weight of it knocking him to the floor, driving the wind out of him.
Gendo rolled over, his visor knocked askew, to see a pair of enormous blank white eyes glaring at him. The giant mouth unhinged, revealing a face underneath the black flesh. Hurriedly Gendo tried to scramble for his sidearm-only to drop it with a scream as the monster struck him again.
Gendo hit the ground, straining to get to his feet, wheezing, "I…I don't understand. I planned for this to the hilt. The biometric locks were keyed to the DNA of myself, Fuyutsuki, and the Rei clones, so how could something like you get inside?"
The monster unhinged it's jaw, the top half of its head folding back like the hood of a jacket as the lower jaw extended down towards its chest, the tongue and mandible melding together with the surface of the creature's chest.
The true face of the monster before him glared down at the commander of NERV as he gasped in recognition. Gendo stared into the eyes of his would be killer, and realized he had no one to blame but himself.
"Y-You…why?"
The monster, deaf to Gendo's sobs of pain, advanced towards him, growling. "The hunger demands we feed…but we know you. We know how much you hurt us. You took everything from us, and you are not worth consuming."
Gendo thought quickly. "You're correct. I am not worth killing. I am not the one that attached a bomb to you and set you up as a monster. I am not the one who allowed you to take the fall for the Impacts-URK!"
The beast grabbed him with both hands, dragging him off the floor to dangle helplessly above the ground. Gendo was around 5'9'' and yet this monster towered over him now, lifting him as though he weighed nothing.
"No. None of your lies. No more of your manipulations. You don't deserve to live."
The head reshaped itself, and the creature opened its fanged maw wide and screeched. With a grunt it swung.
"YOU DON'T DESERVE YOUR LIFE!"
Gendo was thrown across the room, the impact rattling his teeth. He hit the ground, coughing, trying to get to his feet.
"Thanks to you, we have nothing but poison running through our veins."
The great schemer, the commander of NERV, the architect of humanity's demise barely had time to scream before the black beast was upon him. It kicked him in the ribs, shattering three of them before it laid hands on him again.
"We are toxic to everyone we touch!"
It struck Gendo across the face, breaking his nose, bellowing in his ears as it struck him again and again, shattering teeth, breaking his jaw, pummeling him with greater and greater force.
Gendo was thrown once more, the impact against the floor breaking his remaining arm and injuring his spine. To his horror, he found that he couldn't feel his legs anymore…and all conscious thought was blotted out by sheer terror as something seized him by the back of the neck. He couldn't feel it but something else had grabbed him by the legs.
The monster that had once been Shinji Ikari and a pile of odd goo raised their shared enemy over their head. Opening its fanged maw wide, it roared.
"WE ARE VENOM!"
What followed was a noise like something thick and wet being ripped apart, then finally silence. All was quiet, save for the sound of blood dripping off of the walls and ceiling. Venom breathed heavily, panting with exertion as it dropped two piles of meat and bone to the ground.
"And we are...alone."