Neon Genesis Evangelion:
The Darkness Emerges
By Doffman
The reviewer, Second Son, is a very interesting fellow. He slightly, but only ever so slightly, scares me.
And yes, I purposefully wrote Allen as, to be quite frank, a jackass and a player. At first, Allen was going to be the main character, but I then decided against it because I found the character to be too much like me, only with out the ability to get the girls. In the first draft of my story, I killed off Kaji for those same reasons.
However, do to the large gaping hole in the plot that created, I had to make a young Kaji with even LESS respect for other peoples' feelings. That made me not hate Kaji so much and, thusly, made it possible for me to write about him. Soon after, I got very irritated with Allen, and wanted him to get his ass kicked at least once, so I set up a scene so that Shinji would do it.
You see, Allen is VERY strong. Due to the chip in his head, he knows basically every form of martial arts known today, and a few that aren't. So I had Shinji come up from behind him and take him out. Simple, yes? This also solved the problem of how I was going to get Asuka and Shinji back together. I had planned on keeping Asuka and Shinji apart for a bit longer than I did, but there was really no point to stretching it out other than to antagonize people who are reading my Fan fic.
And also, No, I did NOT make Drac out to be perfect, or even remotely close to such. No one said it in that many words, but I know, by the way some people wrote their reviews, that some feel that way. He is VERY emotional, and VERY honorable. That's basically his character outline. Though he is a tad bit… Ah… Crackers…
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE, SECOND SON! You've made me go on another rant! I hope you're happy! I apologize, everyone, for my longwinded Rant, and I will try to cut back on the stupid, "The Making Of" style of forwards… Bloody half a PAGE is what this is… Iie…
One more thing. If you don't already know, I will be keeping all of the side stories in a different story heading. Styphon, you should read Misato's chapter. You'd like it! :)
Enjoy the story. Have fun reading. La-de-la.
Chapter 26:
The Turning Point
"Okay. If this is what you want." Shinji said, backing away from Asuka slowly.
"What? You're not even going to argue with me?" Asuka asked, astonished.
"Why would I?" Shinji asked, leaving the room without making eye contact. Asuka felt herself go limp as sadness overtook her.
'Shinji… I'm sorry. It's for your own safety.' Asuka thought. Her sadness quickly switched to anger. 'Where does he get off not even putting up a fight for me? Am I not even important enough to him? His spine snapped like a twig under pressure. Weak spineless Baka Shinji…'
'Why did you do it?'
'Because that is what she wanted, and because I wanted to make her happy.'
"Shinji… You idiot…" Asuka whispered softly. "What makes me happy has nothing to do with anything. I want to make you safe."
'But his safety would make ME happy.'
'I guess it is my own selfish desires after all, isn't it?'
'If they were my own selfish desires, I would say, "To HELL with his safety, I want to have him right now." This is not what I did. I sacrificed my relationship with him, the most precious thing in my life, so that he may live.'
'He probably hates me now.'
'But at least he's safe.'
'And yet, I'd rather live one hour WITH him than a lifetime without him…'
"Baka…" Asuka whispered, pressing her face into her pillow.
***
"It's… A Cow…" Maya said, sweatdropping.
"A… Cow?" Ritsuko asked.
"Yes… The cow is generating the AT-Field…" Maya said, smiling awkward.
"Correction, Maya-san. It is a calf." Drac said quietly, looking at his opponent from his eva. "This being is mentioned in Revelations, along with 3 others. However, what they are doing here… That's anyone's guess…"
"Have you been studying, Sixth Child?" Gendo asked.
"Sir, I had the Bible memorized when I was 12. My faith is what kept me alive through Hell." Drac said quietly.
"And yet, we still live in Hell." Allen muttered quietly, sitting silently in his eva. "What keeps you alive now?" Drac grew silent, focusing on the battle before him.
"Hey! Where's Shinji and Satan-Er… Asuka?" Touji asked.
"Away." Drac said coldly. "Focus on the battle."
"Dracan knows much more than he lets on." Fuuyutski muttered.
"What? Blood type orange… the AT-Field is gone…" Maya whispered. "And we lost the cow… Er… Calf…"
"It's adapting. It realizes that we can detect its AT-field, so it turns it off." Gendo said.
"Yes… We may not be able to detect it until it's too late." Fuuyutski said, bringing a hand to his chin.
"Call Allen back. Have the others search for the Angel." Gendo said.
"What? Why?" Ritsuko asked.
"If the Angel breaks into the Geo front, we will need some sort of defense. We can't detect it, so it may find other means of entering." Gendo explained.
"The angels are still attempting to reach Lilith. Kaoru must not have told them." Fuuyutski stated.
"Or maybe they are trying to free Lilith now that it is fully regenerated…" Gendo trailed off, gazing at the screen intensely.
***
"Well, then… I do not see any COWS!!!!" Touji screamed, rather irked.
"Well, it would be rather easy to find, since all the cows in Japan DIED in the SECOND IMPACT!" Kensuke bellowed.
"Shut up and keep looking!" Hikari yelled, slightly irritated herself.
"This is pointless, Commander Ikari. We won't be able to find it. At least not in the evas." Rei said, tapping lightly against the arm control of Unit 00. Commander Ikari nodded slightly.
"Very well. Return to the hangars…" Gendo said.
Allen turned off all of the screens cluttering up his vision, and continued to the place where he was told to go. He found his eva submerged to the waist in an odd colored water as it waded through to the other side. What was on the other side disturbed him greatly.
An angel hung from the ground, suspended on a cross.
"Seven eyes…" Allen whispered quietly, looking away from it with a feeling slightly resembling fear. "What am I doing down here, sir?" Allen asked quietly, looking across the synthetic sea.
"You are waiting." Gendo replied.
"For?" Allen asked, slightly annoyed, to which he received no answer.
Suddenly, the Angel on the cross broke free of the restraint on its right arm. This caused Allen to spin around in his eva and face it, but he was too late. A bolt of energy crashed into Unit 04, sending it into the water.
"Lilith is free…" Fuuyutski murmured, taking a step back from the screen..
Allen was quick to his feet as he drew out his prog knife, but was again knocked back by Lilith. Allen lost his grip on the knife and Lilith caught it, wielding it as an Eva would. Lilith, with its other hand, picked Unit 04 out of the water and threw it back onto the land.
"What's happening?! What's going on?! ALLEN!!" Yumi cried out.
With the speed of lightning, Lilith was on Unit 04 again, tearing at the eva's armor, and exposing the core. With a swift downward stab of the knife, Unit 04's core was pierced, causing a great explosion that shook the whole of the Geo Front.
***
"What… That Eva… That was a core…" Kensuke whispered quietly. "What does this mean?"
"Evas ARE, angels, Kensuke. Or at least they are made to be similar." Drac told him.
"What are you saying?" Hikari asked, astonished.
"That's enough, Dracan." Ritsuko said firmly. "I don't know where you got it, but that is classified information!"
"So it's alright for kids to get INTO these things and not even know what they are?" Drac shouted accusingly.
"Stop this." Gendo said. "Lilith has broken free. You must go and stop it." Gendo said.
"But that is where Allen was!" Drac said shakily. "What happened to him?" Gendo made no response. He only looked into Drac's eyes with a piercing finality.
"Allen…" Yumi whispered quietly, knowing what must have happened.
"Unit 04 was defeated. We can no longer detect the Seventh Child's life signs." Maya said sadly.
***
The explosion cleared to reveal an unharmed angel, and nothing more than rubble. The angel dug through the rubble of the Eva and began to search for the boy that it knew survived.
'Adam must die.' Lilith thought, readying the blow that would kill him.
A very black AT Field burst from the rubble and sent the angel backward.
"I am the Alpha and The Omega… The First and the Last… The Beginning and the End…" The boy said, rising above the ashes of his Eva. "The beginning of Man, and the End of Existence." Adam said as a lance of energy burst forth from his hand and knocked the knife from Lilith's hand.
'You must die…' Lilith said.
"I will let you leave, Lilith, knowing that you will die with the rest of existence. Run from me with the few precious moments you have left to live. I will see Ikari now." Adam said, floating slowly away from the Angel.
'You will not win, Adam. That is the one thing that I have learned while being imprisoned by these humans. They are very resourceful, and they will always win in the end.' Lilith said, cutting through the layers of Geo Front shielding like paper to the surface.
"Or so you assume." Adam said to the retreating figure.
***
"I will leave this to you, Doctor." Gendo said hurriedly as he left. Ritsuko shrugged, wanting to know exactly WHAT was being left to her. Lilith was gone now. So was the other angel. What else was there to take care of?
Allen walked into the room casually. "Have you seen Commander Ikari, Doctor Akagi?" He asked politely.
"He just left. Are you alright?" Ritsuko asked.
"I'm fine. I need to talk to Commander Ikari." Allen said urgently.
"I don't know where he is now. I need to run a check on you now. Come with me." Ritsuko said.
"No." Allen said.
"What?" Ritsuko asked, astonished.
"You will tell me where the Commander went." Allen said in an emotionless demand.
"I will tell you, when I'm good and ready. Now you WILL come with me and get tested." Ritsuko said firmly, grabbing his wrist. With a quick twist, Allen removed her hand, causing her to scream out in pain.
"I will go where I want to go, Doctor Akagi." Allen said coldly. "Your death can be painful, or it can be quick. Where is Commander Ikari?"
"I… I don't know… He left quickly…" She said, weeping.
"Not good enough." Allen said, picking her up by her head with one hand. "Good bye." He said as he squeezed her head, bursting it like a melon. Blood and brain matter oozed from between his fingers as he grabbed her spine and removed it from the rest of her body.
***
"Oh God…" Yumi whispered, looking at the remains of Akagi Ritsuko.
"What could have done this…" Hikari said in tears, clinging to Touji's chest.
"Where are Maya and the others?" Rei asked, trying to ignore the large bloody mess on the ground.
Yumi fell to her knees and began to vomit. Kensuke put a hand on her shoulder lightly.
"Are you going to be okay, Yumi?" Kensuke asked, concerned.
"Yeah… I'll… Be fine…" She said, standing up with Kensuke's help.
"Maya! Wake up!" Drac said, slapping in the face the unconscious form that had fallen behind her desk.
"W-wha… Sempai…" Maya said quietly, looking around the room.
"What happened here? What's going on?" Drac asked hurriedly. Maya began to weep, tears of seeing horrors beyond her imagination.
"Allen… He… He came in and he… Oh, Sempai!" Maya cried, clinging to Drac's chest in tears. Drac grew stiff at this action, not knowing what to do when one of his superiors bursts into a fit of tears.
"Allen…" Drac said, the name rolling off his tongue with a vile hatred as if the word were the representation of pure evil. "Please don't tell Yumi about what you saw, okay?" Drac asked her softly.
"But why… I… Okay…" Maya said, sniffling, not making coherent sentences. Drac gently released himself from Maya's grasp, stood, and headed for the door.
"Drac! Where are you going?" Rei asked, knowing the answer even though she hadn't heard what Maya had said.
"I have something to take care of. It won't take long." Drac said with an unconvincing smile.
"Can I come with you?" Rei asked.
"No, don't worry about it. Just stay here with Maya." Drac said. 'I don't want to take you with me, Rei. Not to where I'm going.' Drac said to himself.
"Goodbye, Drac." Rei said, tears streaming from her eyes. Drac felt his heart weaken as he turned away from her.
"Goodbye, Rei." Drac said, leaving the room.
"Where's Drac-kun going?" Hikari asked.
"He's going to die." Rei said, emotion leaving her voice. "He's going to confront an enemy of which there is no hope of him beating."
"What?" Hikari said, not understanding.
"Drac won't be coming back this time." Rei said, eyes locked on the door from which Drac had left.
"What are you talking about?" Hikari asked, concerned for her friend's sanity.
"He knows that he can't win, but…" Rei said, concealing tears. "He went anyway. Because he had to…"
"Rei…?" Hikari asked, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"I am fine, Pilot Horaki." Rei said in a monotone voice before sitting in a chair and waiting for someone to tell her what to do.
***
"Adam has awakened, and he HAS made the pact. He is going to destroy existence. Not just the planet, in Drac's case. He will destroy God as well as all of his creation. If he is not stopped, he will become a god himself." Brian said quietly.
"Drac is the best chance we have. Shinji is… There's little to no chance in having Shinji do it." Rachel declared.
"It's too soon, though. Adam wasn't supposed to awaken until much later." Mara objected.
"Lilith may have cost us our future. Adam is too powerful now that he has made the pact. There is no chance of Drac beating Allen at this point. However…" Michael said.
"Already there, Michael. I'll order a Sniper right away." Kibby winked, grabbing his cellphone.
"If Adam kills Drac… There will be no coming back this time…" Brian murmured quietly, clasping his hands together in prayer.
***
Drac slid into the apartment, revolver in hand. He crept against the wall, peeking into the kitchen.
'Not there.'
Drac slid into the living room, and caught a glimpse of him in his room. 'Bingo.' Drac said triumphantly as he aimed the gun at the base of Allen's neck and fired.
A loud bang erupted from the gun, followed by the sound of a bullet bouncing off a hard surface.
A black AT Field had encased Allen protectively.
"Almost, Drac." 'Allen' said as he turned around. "I almost didn't stop the bullet. You almost won." He said, walking slowly toward him.
"Die!" Drac screamed, firing several rounds, knowing it to be useless.
"Why did you come here, Drac? You had to know that you couldn't win." Allen said. "You had to know that there was no chance in killing me. Drac dropped his gaze, as well as the gun.
"I had hoped. But seeing the look in your eyes washes away any form of hope. My brother really did die all those years ago." Drac said quietly.
"So you knew? I wouldn't have expected it of you, how you acted." Allen said with a sinister smile.
"Yes, I knew. I knew what Brad did to you after you died. But you can't do this, Allen! You just can't!" Drac cried, voice filled with emotion.
"WHY?!" The only FOND memory I have of my family was of my brother promising to protect me! A promise he did not keep! I have NOTHING!" Allen cried angrily.
"That's not true! What about Yumi?" Drac asked quickly.
"The only reason she's with me is because of SEELE. They needed someone to keep tabs on me. Everything became clear when I agreed with him. I know everything now." Allen said as though he had just bitten into a lemon. "The truth is a bitter fruit, Dracan. Or should I say Dracorian?" Allen smiled evilly.
"Allen is dead. All that is left… All that exists is Adam." Drac said sadly. Black wings burst from his back as a staff appeared in his hand. "I promised Drac that I wouldn't hurt his brother. There is nothing of him left in you."
"Where is the real Drac? Or was there ever one in the first place?" Adam queried.
"Drac died when he vowed to avenge his brother's death. I am what replaced him." Drac said.
"I see. So you've been pretending all along. It seems that I WASN'T told everything after all." Allen said. "Since you aren't my brother, I will simply kill you."
"You are welcome to try, Adam. You are welcome to try." Drac said with a grin.
End of Chapter 26
This is the season finale. You won't get any more until next summer! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
So how does everyone like the plot twist? Fun? Or Stupid? Sigh… I need to find something better to do with my spare time… Like actually get a girlfriend. Or at least a life…