Finally got this to a point worth showing. Author's notes at the bottom. Enjoy!


Venom glared at Misato, the blank white eyes somehow radiating pure murder as he tightened his grip on her throat. With a growl he lifted her with one hand, as though she weighed nothing, and slammed her up against the wall. She struggled to reach for the remote, but he squeezed her throat tighter, forcing her to gag.

The thing that had once been her charge rumbled, "You shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have killed him."

She choked out, "He was an Angel! An enemy-!"

Venom shook her as snarled back in response. "HE WAS A GOOD PERSON! HE DIDN'T DESERVE WHAT YOU DID TO HIM!"

He threw her across the room, and more by luck than judgment she landed against the door, which immediately slid open with a pneumatic hiss. Hurriedly, clutching at her dislocated shoulder Misato ran for it as a platoon of armed soldiers took aim behind her.

Ritsuko was waiting for her, staring at her superior's bruised throat in surprise. Removing her hand from the door control, she said, "What happened in there?"

Misato coughed. "Shinji's not in that room. Whatever is in there, it's weird and pissed off."

The two women abruptly jumped as the sound of tearing metal rent the air. The monster had grabbed the door behind her as it sealed shut, growling, muscles bulging as he pushed and finally slid it open with a crash. Venom stuck his head out of the door and screamed, "GET BACK HERE YOU BITCH!"

Ritsuko stared in horror as the nightmarish creature tore the doors apart further, striding out into the corridor after her. Casting about, his tongue slithering around as if tasting the air, his head snapped towards them. The mouth opened up to reveal a row of fangs, sharp as daggers, bared in a grin.

"We have your scent. You will not escape us, nor will you escape what you've brought on yourself, Katsuragi. You and the rest of WILLE are already dead."

Venom stomped out into the light, still stalking his prey, to find two rows of helmeted, armed guards standing before him. Semi-automatic weapons trained on the giant beast, although a few of the people holding them were trembling. They were trained to fight humans, not monsters...

Shinji decided he liked this new feeling. As he took a step forward, and the guards raised their guns, he saw two in the back with their knees trembling. Behind them, Venom saw Misato leaning against the wall, Ritsuko by her side tending to her superior's injured throat.

Venom's tongue snaked out of his mouth, licking his chops. He took another thunderous step forward, pausing as he saw them retreat a pace back. They were afraid of him?

Then he caught sight of his appearance in the reflection of one of the one-way windows. His fangs bared, his muscles standing out like boulders, his height increased to tower over the others, spikes and tendrils ever shifting…

The monster in his reflection was terrifying. And yet he felt no fear, no disgust at his newly grotesque appearance. He felt a kind of grim satisfaction. He didn't look like himself.

Oblivious to the creature's inner contemplation, the squad leader shouted, "Stop, Shinji Ikari, or we will shoot!"

Shinji Ikari was not a threat. Shinji Ikari was a small boy they could use, abuse, manipulate and threaten. Shinji was harmless.

He was venomous.

The symbiotic monster roared back, "SHINJI IKARI IS NOT HERE! ONLY VENOM!"

With that, the dark beast charged. The men opened fire, bullets speeding forward faster than the speed of sound, and the monster jumped. Bouncing from wall to ceiling, even in these cramped quarters, he dodged bullets left right and center. The few that impacted bounced off his toughened Venom kept running, having taken enough firepower to take down a charging bull elephant, and was completely unharmed. To his surprise, Venom felt no pain. He felt downright euphoric.

Ritsuko looked up from her work and briefly gaped. "That's not possible. Nothing human-sized could survive a barrage like that without an AT field!"

Misato was already backing towards the door. "You can marvel at his abilities later. Right now we need to get out of here!"

The monster opened its jaws wide and roared, raising its claws as it ran at them. Cannoning into the first line it scattered them like ninepins, great swipes of its powerfully muscled arms smacking them into the walls and ceiling. Shrugging off the bullets, he turned his attention to the two fleeing women.

"YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM US, MISATO KATSURAGI! WE'LL HUNT YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!"

One of the guards, smarter than the rest, noticed Venom's brief distraction. Raising his rifle, the soldier had good sense to aim for the inside of his mouth and opened fire, blasting apart the monster's head from within.

Venom swayed for a moment, and collapsed to the ground.

The silence was almost deafening. Misato paused in her attempts at escape. Ritsuko turned back to face the scene behind her.

The guards kept their guns trained on him, watching for any sign of life. Venom remained motionless. One of the guards advanced, raising the muzzle of his rifle and nudged Venom's left foot.

Ritsuko sighed in relief. "Good. He's dead. That woman's legacy is no more…"

"Oh really?"

The beast's head restitched itself together in seconds. One moment it was a mass of blood and bone fragments, the next he was whole. The head was completely restored, Shinji's glaring red eyes briefly showing through before being replaced by the symbiote's own white distorted eye spots were slightly larger.

Several tendrils extended from various points on the suit, attaching themselves to the walls. Venom used them to rotate himself into a standing position, clenching his fists as he trembled with rage.

The security team stared, hurriedly reloading Venom rose from the ground, an inhuman growl building in the back of his throat as he got up to his full seven foot six height, towering over them all.

"That…was…unpleasant."

Misato swallowed. "Oh fuck. FALL BACK!"

The guards kept firing but Venom was already moving. With a roar he dove towards them, tanking bullets as he fell. He landed heavily on one soldier, snapping her spine like a dry twig and caving in her ribcage. Rising, he swung a backhanded fist the size of a frozen ham at another man's head, caving in his nose and dislocating two of the man's neck vertebra. The choking man fell with a gurgle as Venom turned on the rest of the squadron. Raising his claws and swinging, he tore them apart like a bear among chickens.

Away from the bloodshed and violence, Ritsuko opened one more door behind her, Misato following swiftly through before Ritsuko locked it behind them…from the outside.

Venom impaled one unlucky sod on his clawed fingers, looking up to see the last two remaining WILLE soldiers beating on the doors, desperately begging to be let out away from the monster.

Venom licked his lips, and inside the symbiote, for the first time in his fourteen years of conscious existence, Shinji Ikari laughed. He tasted power for the first time, true, real power, not a burden like EVA-01 or a trap like EVA-13.

Inside the suit, Shinji Ikari felt euphoria. He felt strong, like he could throw an eighteen wheeler truck with one hand. For once he felt power, and no responsibility to anyone else but himself.

Venom stood up to his full height, tongue undulating from side to side, tentacles extending from his shoulders, muscles bulging in an obvious show of power, and laughed. Shinji couldn't help it-the euphoric joy, the great strength had finally gone to his head.

This is better… we feel better than we can remember. This power…I don't feel alone anymore either. This is better than we felt before coming to Tokyo-3 in the first place. We can do anything we want now!

His stomach gurgled. Venom grunted and turned his attention to all the fresh, warm meat on the floor.

Some of it was still moving, a few guards still wheezing out their last breaths. Venom's tongue snaked out of his mouth to whip about excitedly.

"Misato. We are coming. We are hungry."

_SCENE BREAK_

Captain Asuka Langley Shikinami tapped one foot, impatiently waiting for her turn to see him. Shinji was back, Misato should have been thrilled.

Instead Asuka had been shunted to one side once again, wondering just what was going to happen next.

Ever since she got back without Shinji, Misato had been even colder than usual if it were possible. Her anger, her hatred seemed to be eating at her without a target, and Asuka seemed to be a convenient punching bag now.

Even with Gendo out of the picture WILLE didn't seem to be pulling their shit together any time soon.

Asuka wanted to hate him, really she did, but all she could think about was the last time she'd seen him.

She'd seen the look on his face when he fell into that hole. Before the fear set in, before the grief, he'd looked at her with something unreadable and warm.

That look on his stupid puppy dog eyed face…ugh.

She scowled again, pacing the room. Mari watched her, smirking.

"What's the matter, princess? You look like your dog just died."

Asuka snarled, "SHUT UP."

Mari's teasing smirk vanished, replaced by a look of something approaching sympathy. "I read your report, by the way. Did the puppy-boy really do that?"

Asuka rounded on her, teeth bared. "And so what if he did! I don't give a shit what good deed he did now, he's the reason we're in this mess!"

Mari simply shrugged, interlacing her hands behind her head as she reclined on her cot. "If you didn't care, why are you shouting?"

The anger on Asuka's face slowly drained away, replaced by a vulnerable look in her eye.

Averting her gaze from Mari's knowing look she turned away. "Why the hell did they lock us in here anyway? Ever since they brought him on board they've been acting as weird as possible."

Further conversation was killed as the door was snatched open with a bang. Two soldiers, Kenta Shiota and Musashi Lee Strasberg, were suited up and waiting for them, guns at the ready.

"Captain Shikinami. Pilot Makinami. You two and that thing are needed at the bridge."

Asuka blinked, before realizing he was talking about Rei Q. The EVA pilot had waited patiently in the corner, doing as she had been ordered since she'd come on board the ship.

Just like a doll, Asuka thought disgustedly.

"Lead on, Musashi. And no funny business."

Musashi's lip curled, but he said nothing. Their mutual dislike was well known to the staff at WILLE; starting when Musashi had loudly wondered what "that bitch" had done to earn her keep around here aside

t hadn't yet come to blows the management had done nothing to curb it. Musashi hated her with a passion but didn't dare act on it-low level grunts were much easier to replace than EVA pilots. Asuka wanted to claw his eyes out but didn't want the entire security force out for her blood.

So they worked together, at a stalemate, one longing for the chance to put the arrogant mouthy bitch in her place, the other wanting to throw the obnoxious bullying dick off the bridge.

Stepping off her bunk, still clad in her plugsuit, Asuka strode out like a queen, Mari grinning and following suit.

_SCENE BREAK_

On the bridge, technicians and soldiers scurried about like headless chickens, grim terror stamped on their features. Some of them were tending to people with odd burns on their limbs and bodies, others sat in silence, trying to work on getting the security feeds on one of the lower levels up and running again.

Asuka strode past the peons in her path and stepped right up to Misato's perch, where the Captain was still barking orders at the staff.

"Captain, with all due respect, what the hell is going on!?"

Misato paused while shouting for someone to get more guns to the lower decks, and turned to face Asuka in surprise.

"Musashi didn't tell you?"

Asuka snorted. "Of course that misogynist didn't. Now what's going on?"

For answer, Ritsuko, who'd overheard, pushed a button on one of the computer consoles to her left.

Asuka turned her eye to face what was happening and her jaw dropped.

The brig was now a slaughterhouse.

Anonymous limbs were scattered everywhere; blood splatters up to three meters high, some of it dripping from the very ceiling. The doors were torn open, strange black resin staining the metal, structures resembling spider webs stretching across various portions of the hallways leading out into the center of the ship.

Asuka had seen a lot of death and destruction after Near Third Impact and her own battles with the Nemesis Series, but back then she'd had EVA-02 supporting her, WILLE's forces at her back.

This…this was somehow worse. This was something on a much more personal level of evil.

"What did this?"

Misato sighed. "Shinji. Or at least, something that used to be him."

Asuka turned to face her superior officer in shock. "WHAT? But he's a powerless wimp! He's no threat without an EVA Unit!"

"Not anymore."

Ritsuko called up more footage. Asuka stared, slack jawed with shock as a seven foot tall, jet-black monster tore apart an entire security platoon, throwing them about like ragdolls, claws scything through Kevlar like it was tissue paper, a set of vicious jaws literally biting the head off of one unfortunate grunt….

"That….that's what he's become?"

"Yes. Somehow he's become some kind of monster and calls himself Venom. He's tearing apart everything in his path, and he's sworn to kill everyone in WILLE."

Misato kept her face straight ahead as she continued. "So we're going to kill him first."


A/N:Shorter than the last chapter, but I wanted to get this scene moving already.

Also to answer another question, this fic is not meant to be another awesome Super!Shinji fic. This is meant to be an answer to the question "How many ways would handing someone like him superpowers go horribly wrong?" And another one: "What happens when you keep abusing the person that is the only reason you're still breathing?"

This was also made because of another minor complaint. I've seen at least three other Shinji revenge fics done right, but they all miss a certain opportunity. If Shinji's throwing away his morals then why the hell wouldn't he kill Gendo first?

Nobody in NERV ever gave a shit about Shinji beyond his uses save for Rei, Kaworu, and maybe Asuka. He has never forgotten this, nor will he forgive them for turning their backs on him when he needed them most.