Master Chief
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In a world gone bad...
Shinji, wearing only a pair of black boxing trunks, smiled to himself as he entered the dark room, his newly implanted eyes glowing bright red as he looked at the occupant of the chair in the center of the room. Even though he couldn't tell who it was visually with the chair's back turned to him, his eyes relayed the message that it was indeed his master, Mech Morphix.
"Lord Morphix," Shinji began, sounding confident for the first time in his life. "The FemMechs are ready for the invasion of NERV."
"Good," Morphix replied as he rose from his chair to look at him. Aside from his eyes, Shinji didn't really look that much different from before, at least at first glance. He was still slender, and he still had a messy mop of short brown hair on top of his head. However, closer inspection would reveal how much more muscular he truly was. His arms and chest, while not very bulky, were much more toned and sculpted, like a lightweight prize fighter who spent every day in the gym. His legs were also hard and well-muscled, a far cry from the toothpick legs he had once stood on.
"When do we mobilize, Master?" Shinji asked, licking his lips as his eyes narrowed and flashed brighter. "The waiting is killing me."
"Eager, are we?" Morphix asked as he stroked his beard, smirking proudly.
"I have a score to settle with Father," Shinji growled in reply, clenching his fists as he suppressed the urge to break something at the mere thought of the father who abandoned him.
Morphix allowed himself a small chuckle. "Your hatred for the man must be great."
Shinji nodded slowly, cracking the knuckles of both hands as his eyes flashed and narrowed with rage.
"Well then, Shinji..." Morphix walked up to his newest soldier, grinning sadistically as his own eyes flashed bright red. "Go on, and lead the FrmMechs into NERV headquarters and kill anything that you find. Just be sure to preserve Evangelion Unit One."
Shinji laughed softly as he turned around and started walking back out the door. "Should I capture the other Evangelions as well?"
"If you can," Morphix replied softly. "But do not force the issue too much after Unit One. We must at least have that; the others can be easily acquired with it afterward."
"Yes, Master," Shinji said as he stepped out of the room, closing the door behind him. He then walked down the hall, his eyes changing color from red to grey. "We've got the go-ahead," he said, seemingly to no one in particular.
"Then we'll move out as soon as you arrive," the voice of one of the Misato FemMechs responded through the communications device now embedded in his brain. "E.T.A to NERV headquarters is four hours through the sewers."
"Make sure you're all well armed," Shinji warned, "NERV isn't just going to roll over and let us take their precious Evangelions. Be prepared for any contingency."
"Yes, sir," The FemMech responded before the frequency went silent.
Shinji grinned softly to himself. Soon... He thought. Soon, I'll have my revenge against you, Father... I'll so enjoy torturing you before I take your life... Shinji smiled darkly, licking his lips as his eyes flashed red again, burning brightly with his hatred.
DUKE NUKEM
Tokyo-3 Project
An Evangelion/Duke Nukem crossover by the Master Chief
Chapter 03: Red Light District
"Damn it!" Asuka screamed as she banged her head against the wall. "This is so bullshit! I can't believe this!"
She was standing in the back of a sterile room with only two twin size beds in the center, a small space between them. Slamming a fist against the hard, white concrete wall, she then looked behind her at the beds, and at the blue-haired girl sitting on one of them.
"You know why we are not able to return to our residences," Rei said calmly as she adjusted the little blue bow at the neck of her school uniform.
"Oh, like I'm dumb enough to fall for the same trick Shinji did?" Asuka wailed as she pulled the ribbon off of her school uniform. "They could at least let me get some clothes before locking us in here! Geez!"
"We are not imprisoned in this room," Rei replied, her soft tone carrying no emotion. "We may still move about within the compound."
"Yip-friggin'-pee," Asuka exclaimed sarcastically. She then headed for the door and opened it, stalking out in a huff. Rei just sat there silently for a while, looking on at the open door.
"She seems to be angrier than normal," Rei deducted, then stood up and headed out, closing the door behind her.
Ritsuko turned around as she heard the door to her office open, surprised that anyone would visit her so late. "Hello?" She asked. She then caught sight of her visitor in the doorway. He was a huge, muscle-bound mass of a man with blonde crew cut hair, wearing a red muscle shirt and denim pants, the insignia for nuclear material carved into the gold buckle of his belt.
"You must be Ritsuko," the man said through a smirk, adjusting his dark sunglasses. "Gendo knows how to pick 'em. Babe-a-licious!"
Ritsuko blushed at the man's remark, biting her lip as she fought off the urge to tell this stranger off. "S-so," she stammered, "You're the man the Commander called? Duke Nukem, was it?"
"You'll be callin' me 'daddy' by the end of the week," Duke replied coolly. "Anyway, Gendo told me to talk to you about the mission."
Ritsuko blushed again, squirming as she heard Duke's smooth, deep, confident voice. God, what a rude man, Ritsuko thought, though she still trembled, taking deep breaths as she tried to keep composed. Though he sure looks strong... And he's... Oh... So... Big...
"Gettin' hot flashes, baby?" Duke asked as he took off his glasses, smirking as she let him get a glance of his deep blue eyes.
Ritsuko cleared her throat and shook her head, though her cheeks were still bright red. "No," She said stiffly. "Just a little restless is all. Long day, as you've likely heard."
Duke nodded, his eyes flaring with anger. "Morphix," he growled softly, his brow narrowing with rage as he spoke.
Ritsuko was immediately taken aback. "You... Know him?"
"Yeah," Duke confirmed. "I kicked his ass all over Manhattan, but I guess he's got a few more lives."
Ritsuko nodded as she adjusted her lab coat. "I see, so this isn't your first time dealing with him." She sighed softly as she settled into her office chair. "Well, the stakes are much higher this time, I assure you."
Duke leaned against a wall and regarded Ritsuko with a nod. "One of the Evangelion pilots," he told her. "I know."
"So the Commander told you already?" Ritsuko blinked a few times. Gendo told him that already? She thought, shocked. He must trust this guy a lot. Aloud, she continued. "Yes, somehow, Mech Morphix got his hands on the Third Child, and as you surely understand, the whole place is in an uproar. We don't even know where this guy is, and he's demanding Unit One, the Evangelion Shinji pilots for us."
"He's a smart bastard, that Morphix," Duke quipped. "But he can't outsmart me."
"Anyway," Ritsuko resumed, "we're working on getting a fix on his location based on his last transmission. After that, we plan to launch a diversionary operation so you can get in, rescue Shinji, and neutralize Morphix."
"In n' out, huh?" Duke asked, a mischievous gleam in his eye. "I'm an expert at that."
Ritsuko giggled at that remark. "My, you're confident, aren't you?"
"That I am." He then got off the wall and stepped up to Ritsuko, grinning as the scientist blushed even deeper. "Wanna ride the rodeo? Just be warned, it lasts longer than eight seconds."
Ritsuko grinned softly as she shrugged off her lab coat, her blue blouse suddenly feeling a bit too tight. "You know," she sighed huskily as she ran a hand through her flowing neck-length blonde hair, "that sounds good..." Especially considering the way that bastard Gendo uses me, she added to herself.
"Well then, giddyup, cowgirl," Duke replied with a grin as he pulled off his red muscle shirt, "'Cause this bronco's got plenty of buck in 'im!"
Ritsuko smiled softly as she rose to her feet, unbuttoning her blouse. This was gonna be fun....
One hour later...
Asuka had been wandering around the complex for much of the hour. She still hadn't gotten over the orders to remain in HQ at all times until Morphix was apprehended. And that damned half-smile on Misato's face as she said that wasn't helping matters either. It was as if Misato liked that her apartment would no longer be graced by the beauty and intellect of Asuka Langley Sohryu.
Probably loves being by herself again, the shameless hussy, Asuka thought through a sneer as she stalked on, her red hair flapping around like a flag behind her. She finally sighed and stopped in front of the door to Ritsuko's office, looking at it like an old friend. Damn it, Asuka thought as she furrowed her brow in frustration. Kaji's nowhere to be found, and I need someone to scream at. I guess Dr. Akagi will have to do.
She reached for the knob to open the door, but stopped dead in her tracks, frozen in shock as the door opened in and revealed a massive Caucasian man that looked like he spent every waking moment in the gym, his body rippling with massive muscles. He looked as though he had been though a strenuous workout; his red muscle shirt was covered in sweat, as was most of his exposed skin. He looked calm, though, breathing normally through his nose and acting as though everything were normal as he put on a pair of black shades. The man looked down at her and grinned devilishly, smoothing back his crew cut blonde hair as he did.
"Yo," he began, "What's a little kid doing up so late?"
"Little kid!?" Asuka spat in rage, huffing as she poked at the man's abdomen with a reproving finger.
In response, the man smiled and walked off, looking over his shoulder at her as he did. "Get to sleep," he told her in a cool, confident voice. "And if the monsters come crawling from under the bed, I'll kick their asses."
Asuka gritted her teeth as the arrogant muscle man walked off. Little kid!? Her mind screamed at her. Monsters under the bed!? How dare he! She ran after him and screamed in her shrillest, angriest voice. "Hey, you! I wanna talk to you!"
She caught up with him at a nearby elevator, glaring at him hatefully as she gasped for air. "Hey there," Asuka sneered at him. "I said I wanna talk to you!"
"You must be eighteen or older to ride," the man replied calmly as he walked into the elevator. "Why don't you go for something more your size? There's a junior high school near here; I'm sure they'd love what you've got." He then pressed a button on the elevator, which closed quickly and hummed up to one of the higher floors, leaving Asuka fuming.
Little bastard, Asuka thought. Now she was even more pissed off than she had been before. She decided to start walking back. I still need someone to vent at, Asuka reasoned as she made her way back to Ritsuko's office door. Besides, she might be able to tell me who that asshole was.
She quickly reached Ritsuko's door and slowly opened it, a strangely salty smell hitting her nose full force. Disgusting! Asuka thought, wrinkling her nose at the stench. She then poked her head inside. The sight before her shocked and horrified her. All over the floor, Ritsuko's lab coat and clothes were strewn about haphazardly. She heard shrill breathing further in, like a deep, hard gasping.
This is bad, Asuka thought. Maybe that guy did something to her? She stepped inside the office to get a closer look. Looking around, she saw Ritsuko herself lying atop her desk, naked, her legs spread open as she lay there motionlessly with her eyes closed. She was covered from head to toe in a sticky looking off-white substance, said substance also leaking from the doctor's mouth and lower orifices. Asuka was about to turn back around and go after the man who had assaulted the Doctor when something caught her ear, making her stop dead in her tracks.
"Mmm, do it again, Duke," Ritsuko murmured dreamily. A smile formed on her half-open lips. "Mmmm, it's so good... Harder, baby..."
Asuka immediately turned green and started walking off. Ewww, she was with him willingly!? Asuka thought as she pursed her lips and tried not to gag at the thought of the two of them together. Not wanting to be caught seeing Ritsuko in this compromising position, Asuka quietly walked out of the office, locking the door behind her so no one else got a peek. She then started running as fast as she could, trying desperately to get the hell out of that section of NERV headquarters. At least it wasn't Misato, I guess, Asuka thought as she ran.
Duke Nukem entered the office of Gendo Ikari for the second time today, knowing full well he'd see him here. Sure enough, the Commander of NERV sat at his desk, his hands folded under his chin.
"Long time, no see," Duke said coolly as he walked up to the desk.
"Yes," Gendo replied, his tone cold as ice. "It's been a while."
Duke looked around to see if there was a seat for anyone else. Finding none, he just stood there, gazing down at his old friend.
"You haven't let go, have you?" Duke asked, his voice taking on a much more serious tone than he himself was accustomed to. The lack of response was enough of an answer. "Listen to me, Gendo, she's gone. And she isn't coming back."
Gendo seemed to twitch slightly at that. Duke knew that was the nerve he needed to hit; it had been the same one that got to his friend ever since Yui died. He decided to go on.
"I know it's hard," he continued, "but this isn't worth it. I've been asking around about your kid, and I don't like what I'm hearing." Duke leaned over the desk, glaring through his shades at his old colleague. "You've abandoned him, and for what? So you can go on with your crazy plan to get Yui back? It isn't going to work, and even if she did come back, what would she say?"
Gendo was now trembling with anger, gritting his teeth as he glared back up at his old friend.
"I've known you both since college, even before Second Impact, and I know she wouldn't have stood for what you're doing to that boy now." Duke never let his eyes stray from the other man's, trying to drive his point home. "I'm asking you, as both yours and Yui's friend, to stop this nonsense. It isn't worth risking the whole world."
"Is that what you came here for?" Gendo replied, his voice cracking with uncommon rage. "To preach to me!?"
"No," Duke shot back, "To warn you."
"Warn me?"
Duke nodded and went on, taking off his shades as he did. "I'm here to stop Morphix and save the world, not to help in your little game of death." He narrowed his eyes, his voice a threatening growl as he resumed. "If, after the Angels are destroyed, you even think about going through with Instrumentality..." Duke then turned around and headed for the door. He stopped halfway across the office though, looking at Gendo over his shoulder. "... I've got a bullet with your name on it."
With that, Duke left the office, leaving Gendo to his thoughts.
Shinji smiled at himself as he ran through the Tokyo-3 sewer system. In just under a half hour, they'd be within the interior of the Geofront, where he and his squad of FemMechs would crush NERV and take Evangelion Unit One. Of course, he had eyes on getting them all if he could, along with the other pilots.
That'll be a riot, Shinji thought as he tried to repress a cackle, destroying Father with the robots he valued more than me...
He felt a tap on his left shoulder and looked over to see one of the FemMechs assigned to the mission. He still couldn't believe how much they looked like his former guardian. "Master," she bagan, her voice cool and collected, "We're twenty-five minutes away from the drop-off point."
"Can you detect any radar or motion-tracking equipment?" he asked her. "Any cameras?"
"No, sir," she replied with a slight shake of her head. "We're in the clear."
They must have never expected humans to attack this way, Shinji thought. Aloud, he cleared his throat. "Don't let your guard down," Shinji ordered. "That goes for all of you."
"Yes, Master," she acknowledged before she resumed running behind him, with the rest of the FemMechs.
Shinji growled softly to himself, gritting his teeth as he did. Father... Shinji thought darkly as his red eyes flashed brightly with hate. I'm coming... And I'm going to settle this once and for all... He couldn't remember being this excited about something in all his life. Then again, he couldn't remember anything this important, this personal. Suddenly, twenty-five minutes felt like an eternity to him.
End Chapter 03
Neon Genesis Evangelion © Gainax/TV Tokyo
Duke Nukem © 3D Realms/Apogee Software.
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