Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion, nor do I own the Matrix trilogy. They are
the property of their respective owners, and are used without permission.
Deus Ex Machina
Part II: Zion
Fifteen years ago:
Information was sketchy at first. All Zion knew was that the machines had fought something on the cold plains of Siberia, and that defeating it had been costly to them, and would scar northeast Asia forever.
But for the first time in over a century, the clouds broke for a few hours, and the sun shone on the surface of the Earth. Not that there was a human or machine there to see it.
Eventually, Zion got the details of the battle. The Oracle Herself provided them, taking the biggest risk She had ever dared
in order to learn all the facts.
The story She told was incredible. On the Arctic ice sheet that stretches from North America to Europe and Asia, a Being appeared. The first machines to encounter it quickly reported it to Zero One. When they attempted to investigate this Being, they were destroyed, swatted aside like flies.
More machines, Sentinals and other combatants, were sent to assalt the Being, which a particularly whimsical machine had dubbed The Angel. Again they were soundly defeated by the massive humanoid invader. The machines did learn that they were unable to penetrate the shield the Angel produced. Another, more precise machine named it the Absolute Terminus Field, a boundry that no machine or weapon penetrated if the Being did not want it there.
The machines mustered a third attack, activating combatants that had not moved since the victory over and enslavement of humanity. Hundreds of thousands of machines swarmed the Angel, fearlessly attacking, ignorant of death. The Angel was almost overwhelmed. As its AT Field collapsed, the machines pressed, cutting into its flesh with claws and lasers.
The wounded giant made its last attack, an energy blast that shamed everything the machines had used. In seconds, a hundred thousand machines were reduced to molten slag, boiling away the frozen tundra.
The few machines that remained were not supposed to be used. But the army before them wasn't supposed to lose, either. Quickly, they launched their payloads, the most devestating weapons the machines had. The Angel's poorly restored AT Field only slowed the missles. The N2 mines detonated on the Being's skin, vaporizing it.
The Angel's core ruptured in the blast, feeding the explosion exponentially. The crater it left was more than eight miles wide. Earthquakes shook the entire surface of the earth, disturbing the machine's power structures, and toppling old human buildings around the world.
It was almost a year before a hovercraft even got a sensor hint of a Sentinal.
Author's Notes: It is November 5th, so Matrix Revolutions is out. But this is not the place for a review. Suffice to say, it is a movie I will have to see again, before I can decide what I really think of it.
With regards to this fic, I don't see any need to make major changes to my plans for it. But even if I did, it would be far off into the fic.