W.o.G.

Chapter 11: Victory and battle yet again

Nighttime

Tokyo-1

The battle started mere minutes ago and two of the three challengers of Godzilla were down already. They didn't die or completely went out of commission, instead, were thrown far enough so that they could not interfere with the fate of the third one.

The monster King charged himself up and unleashed a monstrous atomic blast at the white and yellow Evangelion Unit-00. The pilot of the cyborg, Rei Ayanami threw the A.T. field to halt the incoming energy projectile but it was a futile attempt as the cerulean beam pierced through it like it was made of soft tissue, then struck the Eva directly in the gut and threw it away crashing into an old abandoned building which collapsed on the cyborg. Rei was writhing in agony as the armor of the Eva was melted and the skin underneath was scorched.

Shinji had just regained his footing as he heard Rei's painful scream. He charged towards the beast before him to fulfill the promise he made to the girl. Godzilla fired his atomic breath but the Eva ducked right before impact and skidded below it straight for the owner. Still holding the progressive knife, Unit-01 mimicked the thoughts of its pilot and dodging a tail whip, slashed at G putting a long scratch on his chest. Although it was gone in a matter of seconds, it gave Shinji a slight advantage as he delivered many quick jabs to the throat and gut of the monster King.

Till then J.A. was on feet as well and moved in for the kill. It punched G in the face all of a sudden. Shinji rejoined the fray and used his taijutsu expertise on G. A hard kick to the chest pushed the Leviathan back a few steps.

"We are winning." Shinji exclaimed as he saw the monster King being pushed back, but failed to notice that the beast didn't made any move to repel them or counterattack.


Control station

NERV

"We have the upper hand." Makoto said with a grin slowly blooming on his face.

"We can actually win." Shigeru said with blooming hope which was crushed instantly by Misato.

"Wake up from your delusions, you idiots!" Misato barked at them, while clenching the cross around her neck. A 15 year old memory playing back in her mind.

"He is not even trying." Gordon said sternly from his seat beside Gendo.

"Even the energy blast was a mere light show." Miyuki added.

Miki was indifferent to the battle however. She seemed lost in thought.


Battlefield

Tokyo-1

J.A. threw another punch at G and Shinji went for a roundhouse kick. But, it's the same old same old. Satisfied with the massage, G decided to return the favor as he blocked the incoming blows and held the metallic fist and the armored leg. Then maintaining a vice-like grip, he swirled around his position and tossed the purple cyborg away while dragging J.A. with him in his spin. Then he clenched the claws of the free left hand into a fist and smashed it into J.A.'s chest with extreme brute force, leaving a huge dent at the place of impact. This also loosened the left arm of the metallic titan from its shoulder. Before J.A. could make a move, G kicked it in the torso so hard that the left arm was wrenched free from its socket and hung in his hand while the robot itself was thrown over 200m. The monster King charged forward at the rising machine and after reaching the prey used its own arm as a club to hit it. A hit from the right, another from the left and third one straight from between which turned the arm into equivalent of scrap metal and threw the robot over half a kilometre, with the crater in its chest deepened further.

Shinji gritted his teeth in sheer pain and saw the ill fate that befell the machine. The only thing that he felt content, or maybe safe about, was the new improved batteries in the Evas that didn't just died out in five minutes. He remembered someone saying that they could theoretically light up the entire Tokyo-3 for half a month. His thoughts regarding the amazingly efficient battery backup that he had, were interrupted when G turned to the rising purple giant and flexed his claws. Shinji knew he was stuck in a no-escape situation and decided to carry on the fight at a distance from where Unit-00 and by extension, Rei, could stay safe. He backpedaled away and G followed him quickly as their was no feeling of redemption for this short time ally in his heart. After reaching an appreciable distance, Shinji willed his cyborg into action as the Eva ran for the monster King. Blows were delivered. Blows were received. But only one was serious while the other was enjoying. One was being torn apart and one was tearing apart. Shinji had the knowledge of taijutsu, but that was gained because of the very monster he was fighting. Godzilla had eons of experience in battles and never gave a shit at beating the crap out of his enemies.

At a safer distance, from the place which might become a cemetery for Unit-01, Unit-00 regained its balance as Rei finally overcame the phantom pain. She saw Unit-01 being pounded by the ferocious beast and was seized with terror at the thought of the grim fate that was about to befall it and it's pilot. Mustering up her courage and willpower, the blue haired girl decided to step in the battle.

Another staggering blow from Godzilla and the purple Eva lost its footing. It tried to rise again as the pilot wished it to but all it received for the effort was a knee to the face, throwing it away a small distance. Shinji forced his senses back in place and the Eva rose up in time. G reached his battered foe, who clashed with him head on and tried to push him back. In a display of true brute strength, the Leviathan pushed Unit-01 back for several hundred metres without breaking a sweat(actually reptiles don't sweat anyway). Then he threw the hapless Eva to the ground and pushed it further into the earth by pressing his tetra-clawed foot on its chest, breaking its ribs in the process. Shinji's own bones were cracked because of his connection to the Eva, but he still hung on to life. Just when G lifted his leg to pound the fallen giant a second time, he was tackled in the side by something at half the speed of sound and thus lost his balance falling face first on the ruined pavements.

Rei made it in time before Unit-01 and Shinji could have turned into street-meat, however at the cost of adding fuel to the fire of their situation. Though the impact was more harsh on her than it was on the nuclear Leviathan, Rei pulled herself faster than a normal human would have been able to do.

"Rei, what are you doing here?!" Shinji yelled over the comm-link.

"Shut up! I am not letting you die. Not like this. A life built up on your sacrifice is meaningless to me." Rei snapped back.

"This is not the right time to get sentimental. Please. Go away. I can handle this." Shinji pleaded.

"Oh really. This is how your handling is? Getting beaten to the ground." Rei said sarcastically. Shinji only grunted at that, still unable to move due to the injuries he received to his bones.

Godzilla was even more mad now than he was a few minutes before. Pushing himself up the ground, he turned to look at the brave fool who dared get in his path. Unit-00 had recovered before the monster King and used this little head start by delivering an uppercut to G, who just turned to it, followed by a quick rightward hook and then a Superman punch, turning his head back. G spun with all his might and delivered a downward backfist to the Eva's throat. Inside the entry plug, Rei experienced the pain as her Eva was thrown over the fallen Unit-01. Coughing hard, she tried to get back on her feet and Godzilla stepped in to help her. The beast grabbed the white Eva with the back of it's neck and pulled up the purple unit as well with the throat, then squeezed them both in a beer-hug.

"Rei." Shinji said gritting his teeth. "If we somehow make it back alive, then please remind me to screw some sense into your head."

"So, you want to get cozy-cozy with me, huh? I like that." Rei said with some amusement and some pain. Shinji still managed to give her a grunt of annoyance.


Control station

NERV

"What is he doing?" Yui asked panicking.

"No idea. But it definitely can't be any good." Ritsuko said grimly.

"Cut the connection between the pilots and the Evas!" Kyoko shouted at the bridge bunnies.

Maya tapped some keys on her keyboard and the computer screen affirmed the action. "Connections cut. A-10 synchronization nullified."


Battlefield

Tokyo-1

As if on cue, Godzilla's dorsal spines flashed a blue and radioactive energy was released from every square inch of his body in the form of a nuclear pulse. The severed connection between the Evas and the pilots didn't proved to be of much help as Rei and Shinji received a brutal shock that was unexplainable. That was not the end however, as G pulled off the same move, over half a dozen times more before throwing the Evas down to the ground. Shinji and Rei were beyond the edge of vulnerability and so, prepared themselves for the embrace of death when they saw the beast building up his energy to unleash the atomic hellfire and blast them away into oblivion.


Control station

NERV

Kiyara was as pale and silent as a grave. She was seeing the beast, who saved her people from the destruction Ghidorah, spreading chaos not unlike the golden hydra. Though he was aroused by the humans, she never expected him to be as threatening. It could be that the Crezallians just saw the super good monster part and neglected the balancing destructive part of his personality. Out of innocence and foolery, the alien tried to persuade the monster by contacting him telepathically. Godzilla however was unmoved and the sheer force of his psyche threw the girl into unconsciousness. Maya and Kyoko moved to her as she fell on her control system.

"What happened to her?" Yui asked nervously.

"She tried to contact him and persuaded to stop." Miki said silently.

"This is not gonna end well." Miyuki spoke up.

Everyone turned their heads to the main screen and saw in horror as the monster filling the screen called up his energy to deliver the death blow.


Battlefield

Tokyo-1

The onslaught never came because J.A., who was still operational, followed the command of it's creators diligently and rammed into the titanic saurian, shaking him off the balance. That was however its last move because the atomic breath was released over it instead, bathing it in the flames of death. Its cratered chest was no more as it fell limp on the ground. The humongous cavity in the metal giant's chest revealed its heart, the small nuclear reactor. Despite his initial rage, Godzilla felt amused now as he moved in for his food. The thing which was sent to beat him turned out to be….what did Miki called it? Ah. Yes. Instant meal. The tyrant of power remembered the words of the psychic. G bent over it and chomped on the now exposed reactor. His dorsal spines blinked a dim blue as he drained away the reactor and when it was all empty, he swirled around with the machine still in his jaws and threw it away after nearly third quarter of the spin. The sudden jolt to his neck broke a nagging crick with a relieving sensation. The unfortunate robot crashed hard, nearly a kilometre away and the remains collapsed into each other on the impact.

Godzilla observed the other two warriors and sensed the humans in them, holding on to their miserable existence. Not interested in wasting his strength over them, he left the shattered remains of the desolated city for the ocean waters. Just when he reached the shore, three rockets came out of nowhere and struck him in the back. *All three of them had the following words over their surfaces, N2 warhead(3MT).* Godzilla roared in bafflement as he tried not to fall and just then, the rockets exploded pointblank and the blast obscured him entirely. The detonation leveled what little remained standing in the city. Where stood Godzilla, now there was a huge Mushroom cloud rising high up in the sky. From a distant hill, many military vehicles which went unnoticed by Godzilla, fired their payloads and specifically the Massive Ordnance Penetrator type-II depth charges, at the Mushroom cloud. The bombs vanished inside the base of the stem and exploded, silhouetting a similar form. The target stepped out of the dust tower soon after, with debris and smoke trailing behind him. Most of the people who witnessed the creature, simply wished themselves to have gone blind before seeing something that much nightmarish despite having foresight of the event.

The beast of ages walked out of the still rising cloud, virtually unscathed. There were many bruises but they had already began to fade away. His whole body was blinking a dim red, with a glittering yellowish-orange flames shrouding his dorsal plates. The eyes full of fury, which were locked on the idiots faraway, glowed a bright flaming-orange. The monster King growled at the goners, revealing the same fiery glow in his mouth as his spines. Then, instead of the usual azure blast or the occasional crimson spiral ray, a surreal yellow/orange stream of energy erupted from the Leviathan's maw like the fury of an enraged war god with a thundering sound, that zapped across the terrain with unearthly force and pressure striking the small mountain which supported the troops of man. The moment the energy beam reached the hill, everything went white for a while and when the light died away, all that was left at the place of the hill was another mushroom cloud, rivalling its latest predecessor. The base itself was in the center of a humongous crater.

Godzilla was as good as new by then. The bruises were gone, the red glow was no more and the eyes were the familiar burning orange again. The monster King let out a triumphant roar and headed for his home once again, leaving the battlefield without even sparing a glance to it.

3hours later

Medical wing, NERV

Shinji, Rei and Kiyara, the three youngest assets at NERV, were all lying unconscious in separate rooms at the hospital section of the military base. First two fell victims to the physical force of a certain radioactive monster and the third was subjected to the psychic blow of that very creature. Outside their wards, were two people sitting idly. Their minds reflecting on the events of the day and how worse they could have been.

"Its late now, Misato. You should probably go home." Kyoko said to the Major.

The purple haired woman remained silent.

"Shinji and Rei will be well within a week, so, don't worry about them." Kyoko said again.

Just then Yui came from the hallway and sat beside the two women. "Misato, go home now. The children are fine, just passed out from the shockwave of the N2 detonations. Pen-pen will be hungry as well."

"What about the alien girl?" Misato finally broke her silence with a voice barely above a whisper.

"She is much better. Ms. Saegusa said that its very much like a concussion and only last for a day at the most. She'll be in good spirits by tomorrow." Kyoko replied.

"I will go home now." Misato stated blankly.

"Right. Take some rest." Yui said. "And take care of Pen-pen too."

"But, I want to ask something of you." Misato said blankly yet again.

"What is it?" Yui asked.

"For how long those bastards will keep pulling our strings." This time Misato was grim down to the core.

"The naval fleet carrying Unit-02 and the remaining two pilots will arrive past this week. Once they are here, we will be free from their commands." Yui said with barely controlled anger in her voice. Then, Misato stood up and left the two scientists alone.

The following week went with sheer silence. There was no Angel attack, the usual chattering among the personnel was nonexistent as well and the only sound that could be heard was mostly in the Eva cages where Unit-00 and Unit-01 were undergoing treatment and repairs. All the workers were lost in work and thought, speaking only when utterly necessary.

Kiyara was gravely too which went totally against her usual cheerful self. It would seem that Godzilla's hostility had a much deeper impact on her than people imagined.


A week after the Battle

Medical wing, NERV

Rei Ayanami opened her eyes slowly with a grunt, only to see a familiar ceiling. She dizzily stood up from the bed she was lying on. Standing on the cold floor, clad in a thin hospital gown, she stroked her belly and felt a slight tingling.

That crazy-ass nearly cooked me and I am still alive. Yes. That definitely happened. Rei thought to herself while feeling the now-superficial burn marks. Shinji got the hell beaten out of him and that's worse…. Her thought train braked when she recalled the fate of the boy. She ran out of her room to find him out. It didn't turned out to be too troublesome because his ward was next to her own. She opened the door and carefully peeked inside. The bed was empty. She moved in a little more and there he was. At the window panes, looking outside at the vast Geofront. He had some bandages but otherwise appeared to be fine.

"Shinji?" she said. The boy turned and smiled at her. Rei just rushed towards him and pulled him in a bone crushing hug.

"Ouch! It hurts." Shinji said with a groan.

"Oh….Oh my goodness." Rei broke her hold and stepped back. "I am so sorry. I forgot that you were….uh…forget it."

"Yeah, I will." Shinji said and his lips curled into a smile.

"What are you smiling at? Is there something on my face or my hair?" Rei inquired while brushing her hand through her head.

"There's nothing. I'm just happy to see you are okay." He said, still smiling. Rei was a bit startled at those words. The feeling only hopped on when Shinji pulled her in his arms gently with Rei returning the embrace.

Just then Yui came into the room and repeated her daughter's action. Shinji once again groaned because both the women nearly crushed him.

"My bones." The boy said in a painful and audible whisper. Yui and Rei pulled off at that and looked at him with concern. "I guess I'll live." The said with sharp gasp.

"Oops. I really had no idea that you're still in a fragile state." Yui said.

"Who are you calling fragile?! Didn't you saw the fight? None could have survived the beating that I did." Shinji snapped at his mother whose face suddenly fell with regret. "What's with that face?" the boy asked.

"I feel ashamed that we have to throw you kids in the battle." Yui said with sorrow.

"I share the same thoughts." Misato said from the doorway.

"Hey, Misato. How are you doing?" Shinji asked the well being of his guardian. The three women stared at him with confusion. "What? Why are you guys staring at me like that?" Shinji asked.

"You were in the hospital for a whole week, lying unconscious and you're asking how I am doing. That's really weird." Misato replied with a stupid smile.

"Not its not. I just wanted to make sure that the deity of all alcoholics is well and good." Shinji said with a goofy smile. Yui and Rei repressed their laughter which still leaked out. Misato on the other hand was as red as a fresh tomato.

"You little rascal." Misato growled at her ward.

"Hey, mind your tongue. No need to go down in the dumps. You have shoved so much booze down your throat that would have most likely killed an Angel if it had tried. Yet you are alive." Shinji said, still boasting the goofy smile. Yui and Rei had red faces with some tears in their eyes as the laughter was going beyond their limits.

"You're fresh out of the hospital and already back to berating me." Misato said with slight anger.

"For your information, I am still in the hospital. And yes, I'm back." Shinji said in a emphasis.

"Well, let's get ready then." Misato said with a chuckle.

"For what?" Shinji asked his guardian.

"We. Are. Going. To. The. Sea." Misato said excitedly.

"For what now?" Shinji asked again.

"To welcome the new pilots, Eva unit and the B-type equipment." Yui said from behind.

"Are we leaving now?" Rei asked.

"Indeed. In fact, your Eva will be equipped with the B-type as well. Along with the new Unit-02." Yui replied. "Now hurry up. Its 0730 already."

"What about my Eva?" Shinji asked nervously.

"Unit-01 is still undergoing treatment. The ribs are still bearing some cracks and they'll take roughly three more days to heal up." Said Yui.

"And Unit-00 is all ready for testing" Shinji said as a sarcastic statement rather than a question.

"It mostly had burn marks and some battered muscles in the neck region. Not too much to worry about as they are easy to deal with." Yui said in response.

Shinji gave a deadpanned stare to his mother.

"Rei. Go back to your ward and put on your clothes. Shinji, you dress up as well. And you can call your friends if they want to join you." Misato spoke, still in the doorway. The blue haired girl complied and left the room. The two adults left as well leaving the boy alone.

They were regretting a while ago about how they sent us in the Evas and now they are excited about another one of those cyborgs. This place will rank no. 1 on the list of most weird places in the universe. Shinji thought to himself and then changed into his civilian attire. His PDA was there in the room as well and he decided to call his friends for the trip.


Ogasawara Archipelago

Few miles off the coast of Chichi-jima

Godzilla was enjoying his peace and quiet. This was something he never wastes for it's one of the scarcely few luxuries the titan could have. However, it ended when the back of his head started to tingle. Godzilla growled at the sensation because not only his home was at stake by another of the messenger but it had also ruined the calm he was enjoying. The monster King changed course of his swim and headed for the next one's location.

He sensed that this one was way bigger than anyone else, as if it was born to battle him. But that is of no concern to him for the one who dares strike his home and challenge his might, death awaits with her arms apart.


Somewhere in the depths of the Pacific

Another giant stirred to life. It boasted the body of a prawn but with a much more savage appearance with claws nearly 30m in length fixed on a 65m long vessel. Bristling with razor sharp pincers, plated with impenetrable armor and equipped with huge mandibles the size of trucks, Ebirah pushed the seafloor and began moving thru the bloody waters, towards a certain creature that any other animal would have most likely avoided.


An hour later

Periphery of Tokyo-3

The people present at the harbor were waiting for their second ride which came floating from the sky soon afterwards. The VTOL landed on a helipad and the entry hatch opened revealing a NERV officer. He gestured them to board the carrier which came to escort them to the UN fleet of Over The Rainbow, carrying Unit-00 and Unit-02 over the flight deck of a one of the naval vessel.

12 miles away from the shore, the VTOL descended on the primary ship carrying the Eva units. Misato hopped out first and looked at the wide ocean before her. Shinji, Rei, Hikari, Kensuke and Toji boarded out after the Major and took in the vastness before them. They were greeted by a brunette teenager with red-rimmed glasses and two pigtails, a second girl with reddish brown hair and lastly a man with a ponytail and average stature. Shinji however failed to acknowledge their presence as much as the others did. He was lost in thought as he stared at the blood red oceanic fronts before him.

"Hello people. Lovely to meet you all. I am Ryoji Kaji, at your service. This girl with glasses is Mari and the redhead is Asuka." The man with ponytail greeted them with a smile. Mari waved at them and Asuka simply grinned with her head held high.

"Long time no see, Kaji. And you two have grown up very much since the last time I saw you girls." Misato said to the trio.

"Its really been a while, Misato." Mari said cheerfully.

"So, are these all pilot candidates?" Asuka asked pointing at the kids.

"The snowy white girl is Rei, the first child. The boy looking at the ocean is Shinji, the third child. The one in a tracksuit is Toji, the other with glasses is Kensuke and last but not the least, the pigtailed girl is Hikari. These three are school friends of the pilots and they joined us for the trip." Misato gave the brief intro. Shinji still failed to acknowledge the situation and was poked on his right arm by Kensuke.

"Do you want something Kensuke?" Shinji said turning to the boy. He was lacking his usual vigor and looked solemn

"Do you know why the Evas are here?" Kensuke asked with a low voice.

"Unit-02 is new here and they are about to test some new equipment." Shinji replied blankly in a tired voice. Kensuke was quick to notice his friend in low spirits and decided to cheer him up. He knew Shinji for a while and had pretty good knowhow of what he likes. He took out his camcorder, put a video on play and handed it over to the boy standing distressed.

"What's this…." Shinji was stopped when he heard Godzilla's roar. The three new faces noticed the sound as well and ran over to Shinji so they can see the mystery footage. It was the battle between the sixth angel Ramiel and the Kaiju King. The scene of 'Godzilla moving thru the Angel's blast attack and defeating it in one blow' played, but it failed to pull off the same reaction from Shinji as it did from the other three viewers.

"It was real after all." Asuka said from Shinji's left.

"I have my doubts cleared up." Mari said with a grin.

"How did you managed to tape this down?" Kaji asked looking at Kensuke who was a little nervous now. Misato behind him was deadpanned and threatened to drill many holes straight thru his head. "Oh. I think I got the idea." Kaji said realizing that the boy must have sneaked out of the shelters.

Shinji returned the camcorder and walked off the deck towards a lone spot but stopped when alarms blared among the fleet of ships.

"Everyone get inside. An Angel is coming straight for us." Misato said after she read the message on her PDA. "Rei. Asuka. Go put on your plugsuits and get in the Evas."

All the people did as told except for Shinji and Kensuke. Shinji's mood seemed to brighten up with the news of an angel attack while Kensuke was thrilled to record another live monster smack-down. The two boys acknowledged each other standing out alone and had same thoughts at that moment. Let's tape it down. The two looked for a right spot to place themselves. Kensuke had started recording already and a while later saw the two girls hopping in their entry plugs which slid in the neck of the Evas. Unit-00 was devoid of its grievous injuries that it took at the disposal of Godzilla. Unit-02 was similar to the other Evas in physical structure except that it had primary red coloring with few orange and black. The head sported four green eyes and small spiky plates. Both the Evas wielded the B-type equipment giving them a bulkier appearance than usual and two large sniper rifles.

A minute or two later, a swell in the ocean appeared marking the advent of the assailant of planet Earth, known as the seventh Angel, named Gaghiel. Shinji and Kensuke climbed up the walls of the control center and reached a sufficient height at its top. The flat surface had some shafts that helped them in keeping themselves in place and from falling off the top. Kensuke was pointing his camcorder at the swell lunging towards them while Shinji stood by him keeping a keen eyesight on the oceans around as if looking for something else.

Bursting through the waters, the Angel revealed itself. The waves produced by its emergence threatened to capsize some frigates. The Angel itself was a mountain of living flesh with a body similar to a stingray yet distinctly alike some lizard at the same time. The beast of god was over 300m in length with a mouth as big as an Eva's torso lined with teeth the size of SUVs. The skin was a sickly white on the underside and a muddy brown over the top, with texture akin to that of an eel. There was also a bony face not unlike that of Sachiel.


Infant Island

Indonesia

In the center of the island, in a certain inactive volcano, a colorful peanut-shaped egg was stirring slightly. The divine moth had yet to be reincarnated completely. The two guardians around it laid on its sides with unwavering focus on the surroundings. They felt the rise of two more foes and how they fell to their mighty ally and family member. The rise of another had not gone unnoticed and they also felt the increased power of this new abomination. Rodan stood up and cackled lightly to his fellow guardian. Anguirus rumbled and the pterosaur monster walked out of the cavernous pit. When he reached the shore, he looked in the direction where he is supposed to go. Then spreading his enormous wings he took to the skies in a blink of an eye, leaving a sonic boom in his wake and flew at supersonic speeds towards the battlefronts.

Rodan, The King of the Skies, is ready to avenge the world.


Carrier deck of Naval fleet

Pacific ocean, 12miles off coast of Tokyo-3

Rei and Asuka steeled themselves for the abomination before them and clutched tightly on the sonic rifles held by their Evas. The Angel howled a deafening cry that sent chills up the very spines of everyone present. In the control center, Hikari and Toji wrapped their arms around each other and barely managed to stay conscious.

The naval vessels began bombarding the monster with artillery shells, armor piercing rounds and some also fired bunker bombs. Most of shots were deflected off by the A.T. field but some bunker busters managed to pass thru and blow away huge chunks of flesh. The girls joined the fray and bathed the abomination with hypersonic bullets that pierced into its flesh. The beast however shrugged off the damage and dove into the waters. After a few seconds it leapt out of the sea from behind the two Evas but before it could chomp down on them, the waters from his location a while ago erupted outwards as a figure leapt out and over the Evas and slammed into Gaghiel's face with astonishing speed. Several teeth were knocked out which fell in the ocean, on the flight deck and one managed to crash beside Kensuke and Shinji.

"What the hell was that?!" Kensuke exclaimed. Shinji simply grinned at the question for the answer was too obvious.

The two figures vanished beneath the waves in a mighty splash that nearly drowned the flight deck supporting the two units. All the viewers tried to put up an explanation but they got the answer soon enough.

Gaghiel surfaced first and tried to regain his sense of balance. Just then, a swell rose before it and the water trembled apart by a thunderous roar.

*Skreeeeoooonngkkk*

Godzilla had arrived to lay the Angel to eternal rest. The beast of god roared at the monster King and lunged at him with jaws wide open. The nuclear Leviathan caught the toothy mouth in the nick of time and spun around, then tossed the Angel away from the flight deck in a display of his sheer strength, but missed something important.

"How is that even possible?! That's ridiculous and totally insane!" Toji exclaimed at Godzilla's move. The gasps of the crew supported his point save for one.

"No. That's Godzilla." Misato said with an amused grin.

Gaghiel was thrown roughly 200m away and Godzilla swam towards it, slamming his bulk in the Angel's back before it could recover. Gaghiel flailed wildly and struck G in the head with one of its arm-like appendages. The monster King was stunned for a second and regaining his senses watched the Angel heading for the two giants one of whom was his enemy a week ago. That didn't concerned him in the least and G charged in for the kill, but something got hold of his leg, stopping him from moving on. Looking down at the new trouble he found it to be Ebirah. Godzilla was actually surprised to see the kaiju alive. He had defeated the monster once brutally who lost one of his arm along with taking a pointblank atomic breath shot and then the shrimp never showed up again before him prompting him to assume the kaiju dead. But here is he again, ready to pick a fight with him. Uh…wait a minute, hold on a second. This is not the right time to fight the crustacean. The Angel's still on the loose. Recalling the need of the hour, Godzilla slammed his tail hard in Ebirah's head which freed him from the grip. He turned and delivered a thunderous punch between the shrimp's eyes sending him away in the depths of the bloody seas. G turned towards the Angel and rushed for it.

A while ago

"Rei. Asuka. The Angel is heading for you two. Maintain your fire. Asuka grab the progressive harpoon and be ready for close quarters combat. Rei keep up the gunshots." Misato said over their comm-link.

The girls obeyed the command and picked their weapons. The Angel sped for them and with a mighty heave, leapt into the air. Asuka followed the monster's suit and jumped off the carrier, with her harpoon at the ready. She sliced at the Angel with the harpoon while midair, leaving a huge gash on its underside and breaking off its jump. The two fell into the ocean below and gallons of LCL flowed out of the cut that the beast received from the harpoon. It turned around and lashed at the red Eva with open jaws, intent to tear it to shreds. Asuka had spent most of her life training to combat things like this and putting that knowhow to smart use she spun the harpoon with her hands and thrust it vertically in Gaghiel's mouth where it stuck and impaled the jaws, keeping them open. Asuka noticed a red glow in its throat which turned out to be the core. She fired a barrage of spikes from the Eva's shoulder pylons, straight into the gaping mouth of the beast which slowed down considerably in the water and only a few managed to dig in the orb even if by less than half their length. The Angel shrieked in pain and annoyance, swatting its limbs wildly and struck the Eva square in the chest cracking the armor plates over there.

"Command station. I located the core. Repeat. Core located. Over." Asuka said over the comm-links while trying to shrug off the impact.

However, before she could get a response, a dark blur slammed into the Angel, shattering the shaft of the harpoon and Gaghiel's lower jaw. For the first time in her life, Asuka saw the creature called Godzilla, up close and the sight wasn't a pleasing one at all. Though the monster was a dwarf when compared to the Angel, he was still an intimidating presence and for a moment, Asuka could have sworn that she felt his unfathomable power.

Godzilla's back to resume his battle but Gaghiel's not playing around. The Angel showed an impressive ability to adapt and change by increasing the mass of its forelimbs before splitting them into dozens of tentacles covered in obsidian like spikes. The tentacles whipped through the waters and wrapped around Godzilla's neck, the spikes digging in his skin. The King grabbed many of the appendages and tried to rip them away from his body, but the Angel pulled harder in an attempt to squeeze the life out of the saurian. G retaliated by releasing a short pulse of his atomic breath, incinerating many tentacles and boiling away the surrounding water instantly. Before any of the combatants could throw a blow at the other, Ebirah came from behind and clamped down on Godzilla's neck with the large rugged and sharp claws from behind. Then using the savage mandibles, the crustacean tried to get a bite out of the saurian's neck. Asuka leapt into action and withdrew her progressive knife, moved thru the waters and impaled the hide of the monster prawn, which was just enough to put a cavity in the tough exoskeleton and loosen the chokehold on G's neck who quickly took hold of the claws and threw the monster at the Angel with a clear hit. He turned and glared at the unexpected helper who nodded to him. In the cockpit, Asuka was downright uneasy about her course of action but to her relief G knew what the gesture meant and with a slight reluctance in his head, accepted the assistance. The two defenders faced their opponents together and took their stances. What came however, was quite unexpected and utterly gross.

Some of Gaghiel's tentacles were wrapped around Ebirah, while the other pierced right through the soft spots on the crustacean's body. The beast then opened its jaws and several more tentacles emerged from behind the core in its throat and completely engulfed the monster prawn. Ebirah let out a weak cry as life slipped from him and to the surprise of Godzilla himself, the Angel devoured the kaiju whole, without leaving a trace. Asuka felt like retching at the despicable sight but she controlled herself.

Gaghiel's body grotesquely bubbled and expanded, the skin changed its color from brown and white to a muddy red, the body texture shifted from the slippery-smooth to spiky-hard, while the limbs stretched and bent gruesomely with many becoming like pincers of a predatory insect while the front four turned into claws with a thicker lower digit, the rear elongated into a spiky tail and finally the cracked jaws fixed themselves and split into mandibles lined with vicious teeth. Gaghiel bellowed a deafening roar as a challenge to its enemies.

Above the water surface

"Uh…Shinji?" Kensuke spoke when he saw the sea water trembling.

"Yeah buddy?" Shinji said with eyes locked on the waters.

"Can you see what's going on down there? 'Cuz I can't get anything on the camera."

"No clue here. But I think there was another thing with the three of them."

"What is it now? Another Angel?"

"Not sure 'bout that. And even if there is, it has dug its own grave."

"How are you so sure with that?"

"Do you know where I've been this whole week?"

"Teacher said that you're out of town."

Shinji winced at that and looked at the nerd with a face contorted with confusion. "You really have no idea what happened in old Tokyo?"

"Some N2 bombs were tested there a few days ago. Wait a second. Were you involved in that by any way?" Kensuke asked with curiosity.

"The Government attacked Godzilla and I was thrown in the mess to fight him along with Rei and some giant robot they called Jet Alone." Shinji emphasized every word of his statement.

Kensuke stared at him with eyes widened in disbelief. He was no longer paying attention to the nauseating sound that came from the Angel's transformation. "You fought Godzilla for a whole week?"

"Are you nuts? He screwed us up in less than 15minutes. We were in the hospital for the week, lying out cold until we woke up today in the morning. I doubt if even god would know how we lived."

Below the oceans

Asuka saw the transformation and also how much the Angel increased in size. The previous 300m long Angel was now easily at twice that length and looked more durable and deadly. This fearsome change in the Angel's morphology however didn't had any I'll effects on Godzilla's thoughts but simply enraged him further.

Ebirah sure was a pain to the monster King and his death won't have bothered him anyhow. But a death like this? No. Even someone as annoying as Ebirah is undeserving of it. For the first time the saurian felt sympathy for the crustacean and with a wish to avenge his dignity (if he had any) the King called upon his atomic energies and released a supercharged atomic breath in an instant. The hellfire ionized the waters around and incinerated a huge chunk of flesh on the Angel's left side pulling a screech of agony from Gaghiel. The intensity of light nearly blinded Asuka and she reeled back to avoid getting caught in the brawl without being able fight back.

The abomination threw the frontal pair of its claws at G who just dodged them by a few meters but it was futile as the claws unhinged from the elbow and like the raptorial legs of a praying mantis, speared through the water and beyond Godzilla's neck, then retracted instantly catching G by the neck. Gaghiel drew close to the monster King and locked him in a raptorial cage with the second pair of claws as well. Godzilla tried to free himself but the Angel held on tight. Had Gaghiel knew about the radioactive Leviathan, he would have never tried something this much stupid. Extremely pissed with the alien monster, G released a horrendous nuclear pulse which brutally scorched the new exoskeleton of the Angel and stunned it greatly. Breaking free from the Angel's grip, Godzilla slashed savagely at the Angel and tore apart the shell and flesh. Gaghiel used all his claws to strike Godzilla in head three time in rapid succession. Then using the minuscule chance, swam away from the saurian and towards the flight deck carrying Unit-00.

Asuka had regained her sense and saw the Angel heading for the carrier with Godzilla in hot pursuit. She moved for the Angel as well but realized that the Angel would reach the carrier and probably eat Unit-00 along with Rei, just like it ate the crustacean monster. She turned on her comm-link with Unit-00 and yelled, "Rei, get away from the flight deck! The Angel is coming to eat you!"

Above the waters

Rei heard to the yelling of her fellow pilot and wondered if she was trying to play a joke on her. She could have sworn that she saw flashes of blue light a few times which without a doubt came from Godzilla's use of atomic breath. But the notion of the Angel coming to eat her didn't settled well in her head. That was when the Angel burst out from the waters and leapt for the white and yellow Eva. Time slowed down for the blue haired girl as she witnessed the approaching form of the Angel. She was quick to not the complete makeover of the abomination's body. Fear gripped her and she found herself unable to move. Shinji and Kensuke shared the same sentiments as the blue haired girl when they saw the mandibles lined with huge canines closing in for the Eva.


Cliffhanger!

Sorry this chapter took for ever but I think a few more chapters are gonna be late as well.

I wanted to add more material but this is already 16 pages+. Next chapter may take a week or two, possibly more.

Thank you guys for being so patient. I will complete this story at most by the end of this year.

R&R.