Creation began on 01-10-15

Creation ended on 11-07-15

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The Beast becomes a Protector

When the Angel arrived into the city, Shinji and the dinosaur-like creature (which he had to assume was called Riptor, due to some scratched-up information engraved upon the broken manacles on its wrists that read "Project Riptor") ran down the streets.

"Whoa!" Shinji gasped, just as Riptor lifted him up and onto his back, running faster than he ever could on his own feet.

Suddenly, a blue car stopped in front of them, revealing a purple-haired woman.

"Aaah!" The woman gasped, and pulled out a gun, aiming it at the dinosaur-like creature.

"Wait! Don't!" Shinji yelled at her.

She looked up at the boy, recognizing him from his picture in the file, but found it hard to believe that he was atop a creature that seemed impossible to create.

BOOM! The Angel had destroyed three of the aircraft that were attacking it, and advanced further into the city.

The woman gave in and got back in her car.

"Follow me!" She told them, having to take a leap of faith that the creature was able to understand at least that much.

As the car drove off, Riptor pursued it, keeping up at an impressive pace that even the woman couldn't believe it was capable of.

-x-

It wasn't a short while ago that much of Tokyo-2 was destroyed in an N² Mine in an attempt to destroy the Angel, but all that did was slow it down, forcing it to regenerate and adapt to what was done to its body.

"Are you sure your agency can handle this mess, Ikari?" A military official asked a man with orange-tinted glasses.

"This is what NERV was meant for," he answered him.

"What exactly do you intend to do, Ikari?" An elderly man in his fifties asked him.

"I intend to activate Unit-01."

"But we have no pilot."

"No need to worry. Another spare is on the way."

-x-

Misato, as she had introduced herself to Shinji a while before arriving into Tokyo-3, couldn't stop feeling terrified of the creature that Shinji was riding atop of behind her car as they entered the Geo-Front to NERV HQ. She found it crazy that he would actually be on one and not view it as a dangerous animal or something hostile like the Angel was at the moment. And, judging from the periodic glimpses she took of the creature, she suspected that somebody from a long time ago had tried to tame it, but failed.

They probably became this thing's meal, she thought, and they reached the bottom of the express linear elevator to reach NERV HQ.

Shinji got off Riptor's back and quietly followed Misato into the building.

Unfortunately, Riptor followed them. Or more accurately, Riptor followed Shinji.

"So, um…how did you two meet?" Misato asked Shinji, trying to strike up a conversation with the boy.

"You wouldn't believe me, even if I told you," he responded, looking at Riptor, who looked back at him with an almost-human expression on its reptilian face.

"Friend," it growled again, and patted Shinji on his head.

Misato was now extremely surprised! It wasn't every day that you heard a reptile the size of a man say something that it shouldn't have said. Or do something that was out of character for an animal.

"Friend," she heard Shinji say back to it.

-x-

"Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki, we have a problem!" One of the male technicians gasped, looking on the monitor in front of him and seeing Captain Katsuragi and the boy she was to bring into the base, along with an extra guest that was clearly not human. "Captain Katsuragi has returned with someone and some thing."

"What do you mean?" Fuyutsuki, the elderly man, asked him.

"Some sort of dinosaur is with them."

Everyone looked up at the monitors and saw what the man was talking about.

"Good God," some of the women gasped.

"Send down security," Fuyutsuki ordered.

-x-

Misato soon stopped and turned to face Shinji.

"Okay, this is insane," she told him, taking out her gun and aiming it at Riptor. "This thing can't be safe to be around."

"No," Shinji told her, getting in between her and the beast. "You can't do this, Misato. It hasn't done anything to you."

"Grr," Riptor growled, glaring at Misato.

"Shinji, it's dangerous," she tried to defend her actions.

"You wouldn't think it dangerous if it saved you from being beaten into a pulp by some bullies at school," he told her. "Plus, you're the one holding a gun, so that makes you the dangerous one right now. Put it away."

"Not with that thing looking like it's going to eat somebody."

Riptor slowly brought its claws up…and placed them on Shinji's shoulders.

"Oh, this is awkward," Shinji expressed.

But Riptor moved its head towards Misato's gun, in a manner that was similar to…

"My God," Shinji and Misato looked and saw a woman with faux-blond hair and a white, lab coat.

She was followed by men in security uniforms and armed with rifles.

Riptor growled harder, and Shinji realized how severe this could get if any of them pulled their triggers.

"Lower your guns! All of you!" He shouted at them.

"Shinji, step away from it," Misato told him.

"Lower your guns now!" He told them again.

Despite the potential danger that was present in the hall, Misato saw that Riptor's arms never made any attempt to harm Shinji, even though she thought it could rip him to shreds.

"Puuuut…yoour…guuuuuns…doooown," they all heard Riptor say to them.

"You heard," Shinji expressed, feeling that he should complain about Riptor's arms on his shoulders. "Um, could you let go of my shoulders, please?"

Riptor looked at him…and released his shoulders.

"Sorry," it apologized.

Misato then lowered her gun. She couldn't shoot it, not without hitting Shinji, who wasn't giving her an opening to do so.

-x-

Fuyutsuki found this hard to comprehend, but the boy that was brought to NERV HQ wasn't letting Captain Katsuragi or the security guards take down the creature that was with him. It appeared as though the boy was protecting it, like he was fond of it.

-x-

"No offense, Shinji," went Misato, as she and the rest of the people that were present in the hall were escorting him to meet his father, "but you're treating that…that creature like a…a pet."

"If I knew if it was a boy or girl, I'd be able to treat it better," Shinji expressed. "I'd seek help to figure that mystery out, but I don't think anyone here would be interested in helping me do that as they seem more interested in trying to hurt it."

Riptor then stopped walking and raised its left leg up…and answered the call of nature.

"Aw, come on!" One of the guards groaned at the sight of the beast urinating on the wall.

When Riptor was done, it resumed walking and stayed close to Shinji.

"You can test that, right?" Shinji asked Misato.

"You'd have to ask Ritsuko," she told him.

"I'm not going anywhere near that thing unless it's sedated," Ritsuko defended.

They reached their destination and entered a dark room. When the lights came on, they were met with a giant, purple face!

"Whoa!" Shinji gasped, and Riptor, probably feeling intimidated, extended its claws.

"Grr!" It growled, getting in front of Shinji and staring at the behemoth.

"What is that thing doing in here?!" They heard a man's voice over the intercom, and Shinji looked up towards a glass screen behind the purple head, seeing a man he hadn't seen in years.

"Father," he uttered, and Riptor could hear the suppressed feeling of malice in his voice; whoever this "Father" person was, Shinji didn't like him very much, so Riptor wouldn't like him, either.

-x-

Within the room above Unit-01, Gendo had thought something like this wasn't possible. Yet, here it was, beside the Third Child, looking at him with an animalistic fury that seemed to be just as common in humans. It looked like a dinosaur, but with a degree of human intelligence.

"Kill it," he ordered the guards present, but none of them dared to raise their guns up.

"We can't, sir," Misato expressed. "Your son's against it."

"Then move him aside."

"Grr," Riptor growled, looking at Misato, Ritsuko and the guards.

"Aw, screw this!" One of the guards yelled out, throwing his gun to the ground. "I'm not getting killed for trying to come between a boy and his pet dinosaur."

But before he could leave the cage, he saw Riptor do something that would creep him out for a long time: The beast raised its left claw up…and waved at him.

"Ugh!" He shuddered and ran out of there.

To be continued…

A/N: StraightedgeWingZero brought this up, and I needed to finish this chapter and move on to the next one. I do hope this will curb people's hunger until the next chapter.