Rebirth and Undeath 3
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Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion.
'Are you sure?'
Checks bank account.
Yep, I definitely don't own Evangelion.
(All original characters are just that, original. Any resemblance to person(s) existing in real life is purely unintentional.)
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"I can't get this door open!"
"Oh my god, we're all going to die in this shelter!"
"No, we are NOT! We have at LEAST a month days of food and drink, more if we're conservative. So just calm down woman!"
"What about the air? Oh god! We're going to suffocate!"
"Look, the-"
"JESUS! Martin can you please get your wife to shut up?!"
"Uh… Honey, calm down okay? There's an interior circulation system that stores at least a month worth of oxygen, and if we run out it will tap into the outside, so just relax. This is just like that time we locked ourselves into the villa in Italy, right hon?"
"Hey Mr. Yamatino! I think I found the problem with the locking mechanism!"
"Finally 'Manuel, now get that damned door open! And Singh, what the hell happened to 'full communications' with the rest of the world?!"
"The systems are working… I can't help it if there's nothing being transmitted. And none of the websites have-"
"I GOT IT MISTAH Y!! I GOT IT!"
"Oh thank you Lord! Thank you!"
"I'll call the others from the back room… The door's opened! Come on, let's get out…" [fading]
"Now let's get out of he- W-what the… What the hell?! Foreman? What are they doing here? What's going on?"
"W-What's wrong with them Martin? Why do they look so pale?!"
"I don't know honey…"
"I demand to know what-" [tear] "AHHH MY EYE! MY EYE!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU- AHHH! HELP ME! HELP-"[screams stop]
"Oh my god!"
"Our father who art in Heaven…"
"AHHHH!"
[ripping flesh, screams]…
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As the Death Lord soared across the leagues, Mishta felt wonderful heat building within his body as his army began to awaken. He chose let them be for now.
So what if they destroyed each other? There were more on this Earth than there had ever been in past times. They could afford to lose a few. Even a few million.
He glanced into the horizon. He and his kin had long left the day/night border behind and were flying in darkness now. It would not be long before they had blanketed the world with their will.
And for the lillims who broke free from the lichs' power…
Mishta suppressed a shudder. What a horrible fate for any being to be savaged and cannibalised by its own parents and children. He had seen it countless times and it got no better each time.
The lich smashed effortlessly through the lower levels of a human tower.
But in the end, Mishta decided as the tower collapsed behind him, it didn't really matter. The Newborn lillims of this era were no more consequential than a second in Time. Their fate was not his concern.
His eyes narrowed to repress any further doubts, the lich ran on through the darkness…
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"Hold still…"
With a moist rag in her hands, Asuka started dabbing at the right side of Shinji's head. The boy winced each time the alcohol touched the cleaned wound on his scalp.
"I said hold still! You don't want this to get infected do you?"
"Sorry…" His face twisted in a sharp expression of pain as the rag came down again.
The two teenagers were in the ER of the Tokyo-3 General Hospital, making use of some of the gear left lying around by hospital workers. The silence wasn't so bad in here.
Here, near the centre of the city, the silence was somewhat muted by the sound of cicadas rejoicing in the midday heat. A few birds, playing among the power lines, added their voices to the noise.
It was turning out to be… a fine day.
"There!" Asuka said as she got tired of wiping Shinji's head. "That should do it!"
"A-Arigato" Shinji stood up from the gurney.
"Hmph. Consider it payment for the pampering you're going to lavish on me."
"Uh…" Shinji developed a large sweatdrop, but quickly changed his demeanour after a one-eyed glare from Asuka. "O-Okay…"
The red-head smiled. "Great!" her voice suddenly became more sultry, "And who knows, there might be something in it for you too, Shinji…" With a toss of her somewhat tousled red hair Asuka turned and walked away swaggering like a model.
Behind her Shinji grinned as his eyes drifted down the girl's retreating form. How many girls in the world could be absolutely irresistible with an eye-patch and a cast on one arm?
He winced slightly. Of course there was only one girl left in the world…
Quickly Shinji shoved aside this train of thought. Asuka had been right in saying that they had to worry about survival first before anything.
After all…
Maybe everyone would still come back…
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Alone for just a moment on the sidewalk outside the hospital, Asuka watched a sparrow dart up to a perch on a nearby powerline. The little bird chirped a few times before darting away with a fluttering of its wings.
Asuka's eye lazily followed the movement.
They would survive, she decided. Shinji was an incompetent baka who took an hour to figure out how to reset a cast but at least he had her around to make sure he didn't forget how to eat or anything stupid like that.
The two of them could always move to Osaka-2 or some other city, find a beautiful house somewhere and start a little farmfor when the imperishables inside the cities ran out. A house with solar panels or something, so they could enjoy a few amenities. Eventually she would figure out how to hook them up with heating for their water, but the weather shouldn't go back to pre-Second Impact days for years.
Nothing would have to be made, really. There was a more than plentiful supply of clothes out there… Machines they'd be able to scrounge from various places. And anything else they could learn.
"You'll see… I can do it..." she whispered to nobody in particular.
A crow cawed…
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"This was not supposed to happen…" Rei whispered as she shone her flashlight at a spider-shaped bloodstain on the wall.
Ayanami Rei, First Child and once one with Lillith, felt betrayed and somewhat angry as she peered through the unoccupied corridors of Nerv. She had broken from Commander Ikari's control, for what?
To be used by… someone else.
Lillith?
Another Angel?
… Pilot Ikari? No
Commander Ikari?
Standing in the cold halls, she found it difficult to believe that she had followed that man's every command like… like some kind of doll. Yet… She had seen into his heart…
She could understood what he had felt, and maybe, maybe even forgive.
But either way, it couldn't have been possible that he predicted her final move. So the question remained:
Who took over Instrumentation?
A slight frown appeared on her pale features as she swung the beam down the hallway, ready to shoot anything that moved with an automatic rifle she had pried from the half-destroyed corpse of some JSDDF soldier.
Half-destroyed?
No… it had been half-eaten.
Alone in the dark corridors, Ayanami regretted the loss of her Angelic AT field and the protection it would have given her.
But she was glad that Instrumentation and the death of Lillith had freed her human side. So that she could at least begin to understand emotions- anger, loss, regret, disgust, love, fear…
Shouldering the strap of the weapon, the First Child continued her exploration of the Nerv ruins.
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Shinji plopped down on a park bench, glad to finally be able to drop the bags on his back. He was carrying a travelling bag full of food and whatever clothes Asuka hadn't wanted to carry. On top of that were two rolled up sleeping bags just in case they ever decided to sleep somewhere.
"Ahhh why can't we just find a car somewhere?" he complained.
"What do you think I was looking for dummkopf? Everybody was either in a shelter or gone when… it happened, remember?!"
Shinji stared uncomfortably at the cracks in the sidewalk.
"What did I tell you about guilt Third Child?" Asuka demanded as she placed her left fist on her hip.
"S-sorry…" Shinji muttered, then looked up with as big a smile as he could muster. "That's not important now, right?"
"You finally got one right, baka." The red-head plopped down on the bench next to Shinji and closed her eye.
"So… where are we going to sleep tonight?" Shinji asked as he rummaged through the bag for some lunch.
"…"
The boy pulled out some half-crushed sandwiches and sat back up, "Asuka?"
Asuka opened her eye with a smile as she took a sandwich from Shinji's hand. "Shinji, have you ever been to a five-star hotel?"
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Outside the sun began sinking into the horizon. But that didn't really matter to Rei Ayanami, working her way through the tunnels of Nerv. Without working escalators and with many of the doors barred it was difficult for her to find a way out of the Geofront.
Rei's stomach rumbled loudly.
There should be a vending machine right…
Rei fired a quick burst at the vending machine as she rounded the corner, the kickback from the rifle dragged the gun painfully across the thin material of her plug suit. Down at the other end of the hallway the girl's flashlight revealed holes in the vending machine's plastic cover.
And, behind that, food…
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Shinji and Asuka enjoyed a far better meal, scavenged from the hotel's storage.
Wine. Fruit. A lobster Shinji had cooked in the hotel kitchen… All enjoyed on one of the Tokyo-3 Maviott Hotel's fancy dining rooms, on one of their solid mahogany tables.
Too bad it was so dark. The light from their 'borrowed' flashlights were dimmed by the haze that blanketed the city. But neither of the children noticed as they crammed their faces with the good food.
"Hey Shinji…" Asuka paused to swallow a steaming chunk of lobster flesh, "This isn't bad."
"Awigato Afuka" Shinji mumbled through a mouthful of apple.
"BAKA! Don't talk with your mouth open!" Asuka threw a grape across the table.
"I won't do it again Afuka…" Shinji muttered, his mouth still full of apple, and he couldn't help but laugh as Asuka tossed a handful of grapes at him. Of course his laugh spit food everywhere, disgusting the red-head further.
Soon the two children had started a good sized food fight with the perishables in the Hotel dining room.
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Rei chewed thoughtfully on a chocolate bar that did little to assuage her hunger.
Were she anyone other than the First Child she would have freaked out long ago. Yet Ayanami Rei would press ahead, even if she had no real reason to continue.
No… real… reason… ?
She swallowed.
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"I give up I give up I give up!" Shinji said quickly as Asuka approached with half a watermelon.
"Too late Third Child!" the red-head replied gleefully, blinking through the fruit punch that dripped down her hair.
Shinji tried to roll away too late as the girl's arm came down, smushing red pulpy flesh all over his face.
Laughing Shinji pulled fragments of melon off his face and tossed a handful of it at Asuka.
And the food fight continued…
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The ancient one frowned, facial muscles pulling down the edges of his perfectly sculpted lips.
Before him the Mass Production Evangelion lay forcibly stripped of its armour, cold gray flesh quivering in the chill night air. Pieces of the man-made restrictions was littered upon the blood-soaked sand with strips of Eva skin and flesh still clinging to some. Among these was a bloody cockpit, a chunk of the monster's back obscuring half of it.
The disgusting odour hung that over the beach bothered none of its current inhabitants. The flies were glad to have so large a food supply. And Varkildna…
The lich sat in a familiar position of thought, his legs crossed and his head resting in one hand. This was turning out to be a lost cause. The MP Eva had nothing for the lich to revive but meat, and at this rate it would be better to create a flesh golem than to raise this creature.
A thin black web covered the red core of the Evangelion. Parts of it hung morosely from the core, blowing back and forth in the wind. As the lich watched, a strand of web was knocked loose from the bundle and blown away.
Not exactly working out the way he had hoped.
With a monumental sigh the ancient one floated down and kicked the Eva's head, the force of the blow collapsing the giant's cranium and splashing chunks of flesh across the darkened sand.
The lich rose back into the night sky before drifting out over the sea of LCL with one object on his mind.
Evangelion Unit-01.
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Omake-esque (Flavour: Evil):
Laughing Shinji peeled fragments of his flesh off his face and tossed it at Asuka.
Asuka stepped to the side, but slipped on a puddle of fruit punch. She crashed into the table, the impact popping off her wounded arm in a shower of blood.
Elsewhere Rei passively chewed on the tongue of a former JSDDF officer. 'Needs salt,' she thought.
And on the Eighth Day Bal'ferrin looked down upon his work and said in his mightiest of voices…
"Ewwww!"
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A/N: I made and killed OC's in one page! Whoot =D
Yes, in case you didn't get it, those were rich people holed up in some underground shelter.
Woohoo another chapter finished! (Plays Final Fantasy victory music)
Yeah, some character interaction out of the way. Bloodshed and general violence to come, I promise =D But of course I have to leave space for some closure at the end…
Since you took the time to read this… Which character(s) do you think should be killed/maimed by undead?
Please review! It makes me feel so much better!