Author's note: Evangelion belongs to Gainax, Sonic Belongs to Sega. Many thanks go once again to GamerJay for Beta reading. If it wasn't clear enough in the last chapter, the humanoids the Angel is sprouting up are like a 'human' version of Chaos, the elemental monster from Sonic Adventure 1.
On a side note… Well guys, I'm gonna wrap this up in this chapter. I'm making this story into a two parter.
Why? I have one more story arc involving the Mobians, and that will probably alter the canon Eva even more. More words, more chapters, more everything. Catch my drift? Since this was already too big without that (over 170k words… wow), I'm making a second book, a sequel called "Sonic Genesis Evangelion: Outburst".
Thank you all for sticking up with me thus far. There are a lot of people I wish to thank, like GamerJay, Chuckman, Gainax and Sega. I also wish to thank everyone that reviewed, faved and stuck with me for this long. I hope for even more in the second book. And since there will be a second book to this story yet, I'm thanking everyone (properly, with heart, naming everybody and pointing their contribution, all that stuff) in the last chapter\last author note of the second book, 'Sonic Genesis Evangelion: Outburst', whereas here, I'm putting a preview.
That's right! A 'coming soon' segment, at the very end of this chapter! Enjoy:
Chapter 28: Doom Hacking
The flurry of activity was an unusual sight for Central Dogma's vast space. This was usually an area of calm planning and strategic thinking, even when there was a battle happening. The only thing that would actually deviate during a battle was the sounds of it coming from the vast screens of Central Dogma. However, this time everybody was either moving or typing and speaking. Everybody was doing something, commenting on something.
"Something's wrong! It's heating up!"
"The polluted area is expanding again!"
"No good! Firewall is still ineffective!" Maya said.
"IT'S NOW FEEDING OFF OF THE OZONE!" Hyuga yelled.
"Stop the Ozone!" Ritsuko said. Right after that, the pattern showing the Angel changed, leading Ritsuko to a conclusion that horrified her yet still filled her with scientific wonder, "Amazing… It's evolving!"
The red alert responsible for the MAGI blared again.
"What happened?!" yelled Misato.
"One of the sub computers has been hacked!"
Ritsuko noticed Robotnik extra focused on his computer screen a new flurry of activity sprouted as the techs fought of the hacking of the adjacent computers to Melchior. At some point, Hyuga pointed something out.
"This can't be a human hacker…!"
This picked interest from both Robotnik and Ritsuko. What Hyuga said made sense.
The Angel is doing this as well?
"We can't trace where it's coming from!"
Ritsuko turned to Aoba the moment he yelled that, "That's impossible!"
"The Pripbom box that held the test bodies is showing movement and pattern changes again!" Maya yelled.
"Cut the main connection to the Pripbom box." Misato ordered.
"Didn't work! It's not accepting the command!" Hyuga answered her.
"Use the laser to cut it!"
There was a distinct sound of light being deflected.
"AT field deployed! No effect!" Misato grimaced at Maya's response.
Once again a new burst of desperate activity that caused even the commander and the sub-commander show a slightly troubled expression. The 'hacker' was using a very advanced algorithm to discover a very specific set of passwords. It had already cracked the first one when Aoba yelled out:
"It's trying to invade the MAGI!"
The commander ordered an emergency shutdown but it was ineffective. The flurry of activity got even more intense when the firewalls began falling, bleeping bright red several sectors surrounding Melchior in the screen of Central Dogma that were originally green.
"Coolant system of the MAGI has gone offline!" Another random tech yelled suddenly.
What?! How does a liquid hydrogen system stops working?!
Unlike Ritsuko, Misato voiced her thoughts, "Is this ALL work of the Angel, or is there a terrorist attack as well?!"
(SGE)
"Darn! This never ends!" yelled Sonic as he dispatched another cold faceless blue humanoid, landing from his homing attack.
"Shadow! How is it going?!" Asked Silver to the hedgehog I the back as he protected the injured Tanaka right behind him, with Sonic a little bit in front of them.
"Anytime now. Something must be happening to the main computer of this base, that's why it's taking so long, that's why not even our personal com units aren't working," Answered Shadow as he typed away at his hacking unit, that was now connected to the mainframe of a telephone Unit.
"Did you manage to do as I said?" Tanaka asked Shadow suddenly, visibly fighting the terror that sprouted as another blue humanoid started forming itself.
"Yes. I'm in the communication mainframe. What now?" Shadow glanced at the injured tech.
"You gotta reroute the telephone line to access it directly so you can call Central Dogma!"
Shadow resumed his typing as Sonic and Silver resumed fighting.
(SGE)
"I'm sorry, major but that is not correct."
Misato turned to him, "Excuse me?"
Robotnik straightened his glasses, "The data core of the MAGI was breached and some of its data was replaced by foreign data and sent to Tokyo-03 control core systems in a matter of minutes, as the lovely lieutenant Ibuki pointed out. Not even a hacker of my skills would be able to do such a thing…"
It took me three days to see all of NERV's dirty secrets… He straightened his face again and cleared his throat before continuing.
"We have to see this as no ordinary hacker attack, as lieutenant Hyuga pointed out." He scratched his mustache, "This too is the handy work of the Eleventh Angel…"
Misato narrowed her eyes. "Let me guess. You know that not because of the general emergency situation bet due to your… sources?"
Robotnik simply grinned at her.
Misato grimaced, narrowing her eyes even further, "I am so sick and tired of this bullshit! Just how do you know all that you know?! How do you know so much about the Angels?!"
The phone in Central Dogma, the one for her personal use, rang as suddenly as she started chewing Robotnik. He sighed in relief when she actually turned her attention to it.
(SGE)
She blinked. Who's calling at a time like this?
"Hello?" She said to the receiver, picking it immediately.
"Major, you must know this by now but there's an Angel on HQ." Shadow the hedgehog sounded surprisingly calm. "One of the things it's doing is using the liquid nitrogen of the MAGI's cooling systems to make monsters."
Misato narrowed her eyes again. "Are Sonic and Silver with you?"
"Yes, but I don't think we can hold them off forever…"
Maya interrupted Misato's thinking all too suddenly by screaming, "Melchior has been reprogrammed by the Angel!"
"Hang on Shadow," Misato hated putting the grumpy Hedgehog on hold but the bridge required her attention now, because again the same flurry of activity sprouted, creating an almost panic like atmosphere, which was immediately enhanced with what the artificial warning voice of the general alarm system declared next.
"The artificial intelligence Melchior has suggested self-destruction."
The alarming voice over, furious typing and techs reporting all at the same time, including on how Melchior began hacking Balthasar, died down only when Ritsuko ordered.
"Change the logic mode! Set the synchro code to a cycle of 15 seconds!"
"ROGER!" Her three main techs and lieutenants answered at once.
Soon after there was a pause in its attack. Balthasar's hacking stopped just a few seconds before half of it became red in the screen.
(SGE)
Sonic blinked, "Is it me or have they finally stopped… you know, respawning?"
Silver shook his head minutely, "I… I think you're right Sonic. They stopped coming."
"Major," Shadow said suddenly, from the back of the cold corridor to the phone in his hand, "Whatever you just did, it worked. At least on our end of things."
There was a long pause where Shadow seemed to be listening.
"Alright, put her on." Another pause, "Hello doctor Akagi… Well, they seemed to be polymer like life forms, formed from something that was controlling the particles of the liquid nitrogen… Hm, if we consider this Angel as some sort of fast evolving set of bacteria that also have the ability to influence particles from a distance, that makes sense… I didn't expect MAGI to become our enemy either doctor. Understood… I see… I hope that works. We'll be here, I'll keep this line open," he put the phone to the side, without hanging it up. "Sonic."
He would have gotten bored by Shadow's long winded talk to Ritsuko, but Sonic was still fired up from the battle he just fought. His head snapped promptly at Shadow. "Yeah?"
"Doctor Akagi just ran a fire wall that bought us two hours. These things should return by then." He gestured the injured tech with them, "Take Tanaka to the medical bay and get back here."
(SGE)
Misato felt a bit of a haze for the past half an hour or so. Not only had the situation briefing not gone as she imagined, since she was half expecting Ritsuko to agree that destroying the MAGI would destroy the Angel, which was completely refuted, but she also got to see these bacteria had some sort of telekinetic control of Chaos energy nature over chemicals, which was how the Angel Managed to turn the nearby liquid nitrogen into the monsters the hedgehogs fought off, and were ready to fight off again. Couple that with the fact the Commander agreed with the gamble of Caspar powered up by Ritsuko's and Robotnik's meddling against the Angel…
Today is just full of surprises…
That was all she could think as Ritsuko entered the bowels of Caspar's memory unit, going inside the very box, shaped like a computer processor, after removing the door for it.
"Extraordinary…" Muttered Robotnik as Ritsuko entered.
"Are… are these code markings for the MAGI?" asked Maya in absolute wonder.
"Yes. These are developer's notes."
Soon, the two doctors and lieutenant Ibuki were typing away in different keyboards, connected to different memory banks. Robotnik and Maya were in different partitions but Misato was assisting Ritsuko inside Caspar's unit.
"This reminds me of our collage days." She said with a smile after giving her a wrench and another numbered keyboard.
Ritsuko just smiled.
"Why don't you tell me more about the MAGI as we do this?"
(SGE)
This is amazing!
That was the dominant thought in Robotnik's head as he worked. He was focused on countering the Angel but not only that, he was also listening to the Major and the other doctor talk. He heard confirmation of his suspicion that the MAGI was a transcribed human intelligence, but also of even more properties about it. It turns out the Magi was Naoko Akagi as a scientist, a mother and a woman.
Ritsuko's mother must have been a remarkable woman.
"So, how is what you and the mustache turd are doing now supposed to kill this thing again?" His interest was picked up once again. Mainly through his scowling of Misato's insult
Ritsuko didn't stop typing or even look at her to answer, "This Angel is a fast evolving set of micro organisms."
Robotik cut in just as he picked up something interesting to look into, "We just type a program that will 'teach' the Angel to self-destruct." He widened his eyes when he looked at the information the Angel took from the MAGI.
Is this…? Oh, my it is…
He cleared his throat, "My lovely doctor Akagi, I don't mean to interrupt your work and I hate to pile the bad news but…" Of course Ritsuko didn't stop working to even look at him, "…I have just figured out what the Angels' long term plan is…"
The red alert blared again; lieutenant Hyuga's voice could be heard above them, "Balthasar has been taken over!"
A computerized voice then announced, "The artificial intelligence has proposed self-destruction of the base. The Self-destruct sequence will commence 2 seconds after unanimous consensus of the Artificial intelligence."
…followed by a flurry of activity that included even the major asking "Has it started?!"
The computerized voice kept speaking, describing certain doom while Ritsuko and Maya kept working on their typing. Robotnik simply put his hands behind his back because, since he couldn't help out in the couter hacking measures. He already did what he could have done about that so instead he focused on the information the Angel had altered and sent out and where it had sent out.
He and Ritsuko typed furiously, Ritsuko defending her mother's legacy, he figuring out what the Angel did.
Robotnik was so focused on his own task that he only heard something when Ritsuko finally managed a defense route, when she said "It'll be okay. I will have a second's margin."
"One second?" Misato gasped.
"It's not minus or zero."
Robotnik didn't pay any more heed after that, not even to the countdown that started, indicating when self-destruction would happen. Not just because he trusted in Ritsuko's abilities but also because he finally saw what the Angel had altered. Not only had it altered it, it had also sent it all over Japan.
"This is… this is definitely the swine flu vaccine…" He said silently to no one in particular.
(SGE)
SWOSH! SPLASH! "Come on guys! Just ten more seconds!" Sonic yelled as the countdown all around them counted and just as he had dispatched another blue humanoid with his homing attack.
Nine. The robotic voice of HQ announced in the distance the number of seconds left.
"How do you know-"
Eight.
"-that it's a countdown to salvation, Sonic?" Asked Silver as he used his telekinesis to dismantle a different blue humanoid.
Seven.
"How do you know we won't self-destruct?"
Six.
"All we can do now is trust the guys of NERV!" Sonic yelled back as he readied himself to another humanoid. Silver wished he'd looked more confident.
Five.
SWOSH! SPLASH! "He's right, Silver."
Four.
Just after Shadow landed from the homing attack that dispatched another blue humanoid he continued.
Three.
"There's nothing else we can do…"
Two.
Three more blue humanoids were unmade once again by a simultaneous quick attack from the three hedgehogs
One.
To their surprise, and maybe even horror due to where the countdown was, the three last blue cold humanoids seemed to be the last ones, the particles of liquid nitrogen spread all around. They all held their breaths…
Self-destruct was cancelled by the artificial intelligence.
…only to let it out in a long sigh of relief, the air escaping them in unison. Sonic even sat on the ground as he sighed out.
"PHEW!"
Silver crossed his arms, "That was TOO close. Even for us."
"Humph. You still glad we're here fighting a war that has nothing to do with us?" Shadow sneered as he turned from Silver to look at Sonic.
Sonic raised both his hands, "Hey don't pin this on me, Shads. Robotnik is the one that brought us here, to this universe…" He rose back up, "At least we're all safe. Another Angel is defeated."
"We should head back. See if everything really went fine." Silver started walking away, quickly followed by the other hedgehogs.
(SGE)
Observing her own skin sometimes did this to her. She was pondering her own existence as she observed the pale flesh of her arm. Even after an Angel almost tainted it.
Different… unique…
She almost startled herself with that thought. Of course it was a conclusion reachable only when comparing herself to others but it was a thought that was there. Probably thanks to the words of pilot Ikari and Sonic the Hedgehog.
I'm unique… I matter…
It was so strange to think of herself that way. It was probably the first time she was ever thinking of herself that way. She felt warm inside. Before she could ponder on it any further, her com unit to the connection plug of the other Eva simulation body ringed again.
The click allowed a hesitant Shinji to speak, "A-Ayanami. Are you okay?"
She blinked, "There has been no change since the last time you asked, pilot Ikari."
"Um… That was over two hours ago. I'm just wondering if you're okay."
"Like you, I was not injured when we ejected. I am still uninjured."
"I… understand… I was just wondering if…?"
"…?"
"What do you think happened?"
"Probably an Angel Attacked."
"…I see…"
"…"
When the silence became awkward Shinji spoke again, "Erm… Ayanami, this doesn't have to be like this, we could… talk… Maybe would make time go faster."
"What would we talk about?"
"I… I have a…"
"…?"
"I… can't tell you…"
"…Why?"
"She asked me not to. Let's just say I'm… happy. Happier than ever lately."
"…why?"
Now Rei could actually feel him smiling, "Really wish I could tell you."
Rei blinked, "…"
"Well, I'll… talk to you later, Rei."
Now Rei didn't just blink, her eyes went slightly wide and she felt her cheeks color a bit.
"I… Ikari-kun…"
"Hm?"
"You… called me Rei…"
There was a moment of hesitation, "I… I did, didn't I?" Another moment of silence, "I'm sor-" He cut himself suddenly, after another moment, "You can call me Shinji if you want, Rei…"
Rei wasn't sure how long passed at that point. Eventually she did say, "Shinji…"
Again her cheeks heated slightly. She thought she heard him chuckling.
(SGE)
"So… The MAGI is all that is left of your mother. That's why you wouldn't give it up…"
The memory Unit of Casper drummed to life and started hiding itself again, "Actually I… Wasn't very fond of my mother… So I made that decision as a scientist." Ritsuko smiled when the memory unit was fully back in place. "She clung to her womanhood to the very end. This was just like her…"
Robotnik finally had enough of the sentimentalism being displayed between the two female colleagues. He stepped up and cleared his throat. Both women looked at him, Misato almost scowled. He could feel Maya was nearby as well.
"I hate to tumble down on 'merrily celebrating victory' but this is not over yet ladies."
"The Angel is dead Robotnik." Misato nearly snapped.
"I know that but there is the matter of what it did."
Now Ritsuko stepped up, "The MAGI computer is safe."
"I'm not talking about the hacking, I'm talking about what he transferred through his telekinetic abilities."
Ritsuko straightened her glasses, "Sonic, Shadow and Silver already reported that everything in the coolant corridors of the MAGI went quiet."
"Indeed but just because his manipulation of the nitrogen particles of the Liquid Nitrogen of the cooling systems failed thanks to the hedgehogs, it doesn't mean his other goal failed."
Maya stepped up closer but it was Misato that asked, "Other goal? What other goal?"
Robotnik took a deep breath, "The first 'long term plan' of the Angels has come to pass, ladies. You see, what the Angel took from our data base was the schematic for swine flu countering. Not only for the fabrication of the vaccine but also for control and distribution. And it has spread it all throughout Japan, every city and state the MAGI had jurisdiction or even a tiny influence over."
Ritsuko, Misato and Maya just stared at him with neutral expressions. Maya blinked.
Robotnik raised one eyebrow, disbelieving they weren't getting it. "The Angel has altered the vaccine for Swine flu, girls. And sent it off all over Japan."
Maya blinked again, Ritsuko and Misato narrowed her eyes.
Robotnik sighed, "You girls are lucky you have your looks."
This time Ritsuko, Misato and even Maya glared at him.
He cleared his throat, "Remember the spider Angel, Matariel? The one that infected humans with its smaller spawns and turned the humans into what we called 'angelic zombie'?"
He straightened his glasses, now all eyes in the room, not just the girls', were focused on him, "And then the… 'meteor' Angel Sahaquiel spread swine flu. And now, coincidently; the hacker Angel Iruel makes an alteration in the blue prints and fabrication properties of swine flu vaccines." He gestured emphatically with both his palms imitating a domino, "Are you beginning to see a domino scale effect here, and what the final domino is going to be?"
Ritsuko and Maya widened their eyes terrified at the same time Misato hung her head backwards with a pained worried expression with eyes closed.
"Ah yes, that's the 'puzzle of doom' coming together? The abacus is clicking the results for you, kids?" Robotnik mocked.
Maya spoke for the first time, "S-So… the spider Angel of the black out, it making the venom that turns humans into Angelic Zombies, that was just the Angels concocting a virus to kill us efficiently…?"
Ritsuko nodded. "Phase One of a single long term plan. Phase Two was having the next Angel spread swine flu."
Misato still had her eyes closed, as if fighting a migraine, "And now the hacker Angel places something in the swine flu vaccine that the MAGI distributed to the whole country." She opened her eyes to almost glare at Robotnik, "And you think-"
"I know, major. I would stake my reputation and my IQ on it," he straightened his glasses again. "That swine flu vaccine that the infected MAGI just sent to the entirety of Japan, currently under a swine flu epidemic, is Grade A, farm fresh and ready to turn humans into monsters Angelic Zombie virus."
Misato Groaned while clenching her fists, Ritsuko narrowed her eyes to the side and Maya looked even more worried and scared.
Misato spoke again, in a dangerous voice after the moment of silence "Country wide distribution of a fast infecting and fast spreading fatal plague… It's quite the plan…"
Robotnik shrugged, "Really, I'm surprised it's not the whole world instead of just Japan. You don't get to be an Angel for nothing…" He scratched his huge mustache "Well, I guess you girls better stock up on…" the hand on his mustache went to his chin and then to his back before he spoke again, shrugging, "…Well, everything, really… Because by this time tomorrow, 'Japan land' will be 'Angelic Zombie land'."
To be concluded…
Coming soon, from the author of the Sonic Genesis Evangelion saga,
Comes the second and final part of the ultimate Sonic and Evangelion crossover:
"You guys ready for this?" Despite the apocalyptic setting before them, Sonic still managed to smile.
"…Doesn't matter if we're ready or not. We don't have a choice…" said Silver.
Shadow simply grunted.
Sonic Genesis Evangelion: Outburst
See the hedgehogs witness the past, helplessly watch the oblivion of everything in the future without them, and return to the present:
"Damn… Shadow, that… that was…"
"That was fucked up, Sonic. I know."
Watch as the final pieces of the board are set, and ready to make their final moves:
Sonic shook his head, "No no, you're missing the point, Humpty Dumpty." He gestured both his hands emphatically, "There's nothing here for you. There's no throne, no land for you to rule. There is no version of this where you come out on top."
That actually stopped Robotnik on his tracks. He stared at the Hedgehog who battled him for so long, the worthy rival that fought with him so many times. This was as serious as ever, the most serious Robotnik ever saw him being.
Witness crushing choices of crushing consequences to who is making the choice and to others:
Shinji stared at her in utter disbelief, "Asuka… seriously?!"
Though she was slightly surprised at her boyfriend's small outburst, Asuka just shrugged, "I'm just saying…"
Observe everything spiral down towards oblivion, as the ties that bind some people together are trampled:
"Are you done?"
Misato still had the same hesitant smile. She hesitantly nodded.
"I thought not looking you in the eye, not talking to you would be enough to clarify the message. Apparently it wasn't…"
And as the walls come tumbling down, the journey draws to a close and the final battle that needs to happen starts:
And Sonic gave him a thumb up…
"Alright Shinji! This is the grand finale!"
…before he turned back and edged towards the monstrosity before them, a few hundreds of meters in the distance.
"Sonic…"
All of that and more in:
Sonic Genesis Evangelion: Outburst
First chapter uploading in
05/05/2015
