Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion, that belongs to Hideaki Anno, and a
bunch of Japanese studios, namely Production I.G and GAINAX property. I do
not own Devil May Cry either, as they belong to Capcom. If I did own any of
them, I sure wouldn't have made End Of Evangelion so sad that it made me
cry, instead, I would have Dante beat the living crap out of SEELE, the
JSSDF, the MP-Eva series, and Lilith. Wait a minute...is that what's going
to happen in this story?
Once again, people were in awe to the last Chapter, that I'm still in shock to see only good reviews about this fic. THANKS AGAIN! So, in payment for your demands, I'm going to make sure the Evas get some action as well. To China-boy who said if Dante will fight alongside Shinji and Asuka against the MP-Eva series...well, you just have to stay tuned to find out.
But before I get to business, I'm going to clear up a few things, namely the power of the Devil Arms item known as Ifrit that grants Dante the power of the almighty power of kicking ass the right way that stuns even the most hardcore of DMC fans. As I said in Chapter two of this story, Ifrit enables the user when he equips it, the ability to punish his foes using the fires of hell. As in Dante's case, he uses martial arts that make DMC look like something out of a fighting game. (Who else can incorporate Street Fighter homage moves into a game like DMC, but Capcom?) However, telling how exactly Dante will look when he performs his various punches and kicks, then into a Special Move, is not an easy task when it is written. Its better to leave it to you guys to experience just how beautiful Dante looks when he does it in the actual game. But being the self righteous, good Samaritan, and hentaish son of a gun that I am, I'm going to break down the basic moves of Dante's Ifrit attacks, as well as some in-depth research of the pros and cons of Ifrit. Please bear with on this if you want reference on making this as perfect as it can be.
First off, Dante has four simple attacks with Ifrit, while with Alastor he has three. However, with both items, he can cancel one of the attacks midway into a special move, or any other style of move that suits. For example, If Dante is using Alastor, and he performs the left-right slash combo, he can perform a Special Move before the third slash appears during the attack animation. One of my personal favs is: Slash-Slash, then during the second slash's animation, hold the attack button for one second, then start pressing Slash again repeatedly to perform the Chop Suey, where he can slice and dice an enemy up to twelve to thirteen hits, then ending it with a thrust! (And Dante can do this with one hand too!) And yes, this move is cancelable, but the alternate ending move has to be inputted before the thrust appears. This can end up being cancelled into a Stinger, or an aerial shotgun attack, or probably High Time. (I'm not sure if THAT'S possible...)
Using Ifrit is almost totally different though. The range of the attacks are always short, meaning Dante has to be up close and personal to his enemies to deliver his punishment. His attacks with Ifrit goes something like this: (I'm going to use King of Fighters/ Street Fighter references so at least half of you can understand the animation patterns for Dante's blows from hell.)
Opening Fierce Punch: Dante starts with a seemingly deadly left thrusting jab that is quick and powerful at the same time. I guess it depends on how you use it in timing if you want the enemy to be stunned when this hit lands.
Second Blow: If that wasn't enough, Dante switches to his right fist in almost the same attack animation from before, but it depends also on how fast or how slow it comes. This punch is more like a short upper blow that stops as quickly as it is executed.
Heavy Kick: This is where Dante start to look REALLY cool. Dante then performs a single roundhouse kick with his left leg, and even though its not that powerful, it's but an opener for the second kick.
Finishing Kick: After Dante finishes his first kick, and if he continues his attack, he simply turns his body, letting his left foot rest so he stands on one leg, while his right leg is raised over his head, charging it to be released into a awesome heel kick. Probably the MOST beautiful attack in the game, but also slow.
And the most shocking thing of all this, is that all of these attacks can be used with the simple press of one button, plus the duration of how its being held down! Try taking Dante on in a street fight and live to tell it.
Hey, you guys didn't tell me that I missed a move for Ifrit? Guess now's the better time to let you know about:
Rolling Blaze: Dante executes a backward somersault kick, with flames powering up the jump. Similar to the normal back flip, this move can both attack enemies AND get Dante at a greater retreat distance from behind or below his enemies. Also, if Dante uses Magma Drive in a combo to juggle the enemy, think of what Rolling Blaze can do it if it connects. It sends the target flying away when Dante's feet from Rolling Blaze hits! You have to see the actual game demo to see it work!
Oh, yeah, did you know that Dante can still use his martial arts while he is equipped with Alastor? It is possible, just perform Round Trip while he has the Alastor equipped, and while his sword is causing havoc somewhere else, press the attack button to perform the just mentioned kicks and punches before Alastor comes back. He can still do the hand to hand attack even after Alastor comes back too. There is a downside to this though, the barehanded attacks won't have the flaming effect it would have, as when Dante has Ifrit on, meaning it's not as powerful when the actual item is equipped. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it in an actual heat of battle, but it's still cool to do it though.
Okay, that is enough of my rambling. Take this seriously if you want to, but its better to see Dante do his stuff in the actual thing. You don't know what you are missing if you haven't seen Dante use Ifrit. Now...unto to the story! And don't forget to review, please!
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ShardclawKusanagi proudly presents:
End of Evangelion May Cry
An Evangelion/Devil May Cry crossover
Chapter 4: Locked and Loaded
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Back in Central Dogma, the Nerv staff continued to watch Dante take on the numerous enemy forces, Gendou sat unfazed by the sudden turnabout that the base was being defended by just one man.
"The JSSDF have committed almost an entire division..." Fuyutsuki said quietly. "Even if the son of the Legendary Dark Knight manages to hold them off, It's only a matter of time before they take us over completely."
Gendou rises from his seat and without looking, he spoke to the Vice- Commander . "Professor Fuyutsuki, please take care of things here."
"I understand. Please give my regards to Yui." replied Fuyutsuki, as Gendou left the room.
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He had just about enough of this. While taking down more JSSDF troops, Dante was actually getting bored keeping these guys from getting too deep into Nerv HQ. It's not that he didn't wanted to let it happen, he did sign up to save the world because business has been slow lately in Devil May Cry, and he that he can catch some kicks out of meeting the Mass Production Type Evangelion series, then beating them into submission. It's just these guys are persistent. They never take it upon themselves to consider that what they are going up against is someone that is ten times powerful than their army put together and pull back.
(This is getting too tiresome.) Dante thought, as he used his Round Trip to one group of troops that covered his front, while he pointed his guns to fire at the troops overhead him that descending the stairways. He had reached into one of the large shaft areas of Nerv, where he can eliminate the troops that were descending from the Geofront using the aircraft vehicles and other areas that he hadn't covered yet. So far, he had been in other parts of Nerv defending it and saving the innocent Nerv civilians that were caught since the invasion began.
"But what's the point of all of this happening here?" Dante said to himself as he had changed from his pistols to a double barrel shotgun with incredible lethal power. Using the custom armor piercing bullets he had equipped for use against heavy alitery, and his activated Devil Trigger, he had transformed into his much more powerful Devil form, his body increasing in size and turning to a black shade of armor that crackled with lightning, inflicting double the damage upon his enemies and making alot of others run for their lives.
He simply made swiss chess of the metal that covered the vehicles by firing at the enemy with the energy shots from the shotgun in a one-handed shot and with a flick of a wrist. Several of the ammo destroyed the VTOL air carriers that were on their way to the lower parts of the base while Dante continued to walk down to the end of the corridor.
After Alastor returned to him, leaving another trail of dead troops, Dante saw that he had to flush the descending passageways down into Central Dogma of enemy troops. He leapt head first into the endless looking shaft in a perfect swimmer's dive, his body's weight increasing the speed of his descent. He spotted more VTOL's and he aimed his shotgun. He fired at the vehicles one by one during his fall, with each shot, the recoil from his gun made him leap in the air to face another target.
After countless numbers of the vehicles were taken down, Dante had found himself at the bottom floor of Nerv. He approached one of the elevators before he looked at his pocket watch.
"Okay, so what's next on today's schedule?" Dante asked himself. "Oh, yeah, I have to head to this Terminal Dogma and destroy Lilith. These bastards have taken up much of my time already, I can't even stop to think for myself."
Just then, an explosion rocked the wall near him, as more JSSDF troops appeared in front of him.
"Just great!" Dante shouted, but before he can picked up his shotgun, three troops fell down in less than three seconds, knives lounged in their skulls. Dante looked up and saw a female figure wearing a combination of black and white clothing, with red hair that was tied into a long ponytail that hanged to the front of her left shoulder, jumping towards the enemy in a flurry of aerial jump kicks, catching one troop in the combo, then after landing, she performed a roundhouse kick sending him into the air, allowing her to throw her knives into the airborne corpse, then before it landed, she hastily performed a spin kick to the corpse, sending it flying to the rest of the enemy group.
Taking out a pair of cutlasses from ancient times, she hacked one troop with a left-right slash combo, before spinning to her side, throwing her knives in a wave at the rest of the troops. In a matter of seconds, another fleet of troops laid dead in front of Dante.
He simply smiled and approached the woman. "About time you got here...Lucia."
The dark skinned woman smiled back to Dante. "Son of Sparda...always the charmer, aren't you?"
Dante suddenly pointed a gun at her. Lucia stepped back a bit as he fired, meeting it's mark into the skull of a troop that had just entered the area.
"Missed one." Dante simply said. "Why are you around inside this base, Lucia? Wasn't part of the deal when you joined me and Trish was to handle the enemy on the outside?"
"True, I managed to take out several of the squadrons before they got into the headquarters..." Lucia spoke in her sultry accent. "But I overheard them saying that they will drop something called an N2 mine on the city soon."
"N2 mine?" Dante had no idea what was she saying. "I don't like the sound of that..."
"Has Trish located the Third Child as yet?"
"She'd better, or else I'm just wasting my strength dealing with these punks." Dante said. "Since you're inside, I think it's best I go and deal with the outside. And you?"
"Lilith shall be my target, leave that matter to me." Lucia said.
"Watch yourself." Dante said, as he returned the way he came using his flying devil ability.
"You too, Sparda." Lucia said, as she took the elevator that lead to Terminal Dogma.
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Back in Central Dogma, Misato was still trying to make sense as to how one man can eliminate an invading force of the JSSDF. Soon after, two women was also spotted in other various places in Nerv, also showing incredible skills in defending Nerv from the enemy.
"EVA-02 launched via No. 8 route. Stabilize at a depth of 70 meters." Makoto reported, as Evangelion Unit-02 was being launched with an unconscious Asuka inside it.
"Now that half of the forces have been eliminated, that man have bought us some time, we take the initiative." Misato said. "Release Bakelite into all passages and pipes up to Section 803!"
"Affirmative!" Shigeru shouted.
As the various areas where countless JSSDF troops have been slaughtered by Dante, the bakelite started to enter the passageways.
Misato can breathe a little easier for now. "This should slow them down a bit." she said to herself, then got a report from Hyugga.
"Major Katsuragi!" Makoto turned to Misato. "No. 47 route has been cut off... Group 3 is unable to advance! If this continues, Shinji and the woman protecting him will be totally cut off!"
Misato's right eye slightly raised itself. She then reached for inside her jacket and took out her Glock .45, unloading the clip and replacing it with a fresh one. "All non-combat personnel avoid close combat. The enemy are professionals... If you can't fall back to Central Dogma, it's better to surrender." she said to the bridge crew, then whispered to Makoto. "Take care of things here for me."
Makoto replied with a nod. "Sure."
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A few moments later, somewhere else in another part of Nerv....
"HIYYAAAH!" Trish shouted, as she pounced on one of the troops with a drop kick, then used a spinning aerial kick that sparked with yellow energy, sending the troop flying. She then took up her dual pistols and fired at the numerous troops. But even her can't eliminate the oncoming number of troops that keep on coming.
(Just what it will take to make them to stop? I take down five, twelve more of them show up.) Trish thought to herself. (But I can't give up now...I have to protect Shinji and convince him to fight. I hope Lucia and Dante can manage themselves.)
Just then, before she can breathe for awhile, shots were fired from behind the troops position. Three of them got head shots, while the other two got wounded in the stomach areas. Trish can see a Japanese woman with lavender hair running towards her and the enemy and firing her Glock .45, dressed in a red jacket and a form-fitting dress that hugged her figure tightly.
Trish didn't have the time to admire the woman's aim, but continued to eliminate the troops by picking up an iron beam that had fallen from the ceiling from one of the troop's previous attempts to stop her, but failed and using her own demonic energy, she picked up the beam and sent it towards a line of troops as a dart, pinning five troops in one single shot. Misato was at a loss for words to say how can this woman easily take on the JSSDF.
All that was left standing was Misato and Trish, as the two started to stare at each other for a while, then Trish spoke.
"If you're worried about Shinji, don't be. He's safe." Trish said. Misato simply fixed her stare at Trish even more.
"Who...or what are you?" Misato asked.
"Let's say I'm a good Samaritan that was in the neighborhood with a couple of friends." Trish replied. "My name's Trish, and you must be Major Misato Katsuragi."
"How do you know you who I am? Are you part of SEELE as well, so you can control the Third Impact for yourself?" Misato clicked on her gun.
"Sheesh, don't get so edgy, girl. We're only here to help." Trish said. "Besides, I wouldn't think of taking me on if I were you."
Misato looked back to see the half conscious, and already dead countless troops that laid in the hallways, and it was just the same when she was on her way to find Shinji...most of the enemy forces she had seen were either dead, electrocuted, burnt to death, and even got the living crap beaten out of. She knew that whoever or whatever Trish and her friend was, they were not average people.
Something about them reminded her of the Angels, but these guys are different, their powers were different than Angels, and probably more stronger than them.
"You can doubt if I'm telling the truth or not, but you guys sure are in need of some helping hands here. If you don't like my style, then you'd better get to Shinji and I'll handle the rest of things here. I don't need any luggage around to keep me behind."
Misato almost blew her top when she heard that remark. "You'd better watch your mouth, lady. It's bad enough that something like this has to happen, but to be insulted because..."
"It wasn't an insult, but the truth be told, this base wouldn't be standing if we hadn't been here." Trish said. "You want to get Shinji into Unit-01, don't you?"
Misato gulped, then placed back her Glock into her jacket. "Yes, it's imperative that he goes out there and fight. If he doesn't destroy the Eva series, Third Impact will happen."
"You can just take us there and I'll provide the cover. Don't worry, these lame-o troops don't have a thing that can hurt me." Trish said.
Misato complied and went forward to another passageway , where Shinji was waiting for Trish. His face lit up as he saw Misato come in with Trish.
"SHINJI!! Oh, thank God, you're safe!" Misato ran to hold Shinji frantically. "Are you hurt?"
"No...I'm okay...thanks to Trish. She's been protecting me since the attack began." Shinji said, still feeling a bit nervous.
"Shinji..." Misato spoke quietly, then thought to herself. (He's different from before...he's almost his old self again...)
"We don't have much time, Misato. More of these guys can show up soon. You'd better get Shinji to Unit-01 ASAP." Trish said getting set to leave the two.
"Wait!!" Misato called out to Trish. "It would be better if we mix it up. The area where Unit-01 is located may be probably covered in bakelite by now. We can use a hand to get through it."
Trish smiled at Misato. "Alright, I'll help out. I was getting a bit overtired from taking out all of these troops anyway. You have every reason to trust me, Misato. My friends and I may be the only way to stop Third Impact from happening."
Misato simply nodded, and the three headed into the carpark where the next destination was to the Evangelion cages.
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"This is bad...The centre was built to withstand Angel attacks, not invading armies." Makoto said, taking out a Beretta from his console drawer. "Safety off."
Shigeru was busy taking out armaments from his own desk. "Yeah. Only counter-terrorist measures at best, but we can barely hold off terrorists."
"If the JSSDF mounts a serious attack, we don't stand a chance."
"Come to think of it, the reductions in funding for anti-personnel defense measures probably had this in mind from the beginning."
Shigeru said. "I wouldn't be surprised about that."
"That's entirely possible..." Makoto said, as he continued to look on at the large monitor where Dante had been blocked off by the now hardened bakelite. "But what's the deal with that guy? He simply took out almost half of the invading squadron."
"Major Katsuragi didn't have the time to question if he's another Angel, which I highly doubt he could be one..." Shigeru said. "If he's on our side, at least this base has a chance of fighting back."
The Command Centre continued to watch the monitor as Dante seemed trapped by the red material that blocked his way to the Geofront. He knocked on the bakelite, a sarcastic smile on his face.
"What is this crap?" Dante thought. He simply shrugged his shoulders, then he started to levitate, as blue lightning and a large pair of dark wings emerged from his back. He has activated his Devil Trigger, and then started to perform an aerial Round Trip, the Alastor ripping away the bakelite, while Dante performed Air Raid to easily bust through the wall of bakelite. Once again, this left the Command centre in awe of such power. Even Sub Commander Fuyutsuki didn't bother to investigate if this was the power of an Angel because he knew instinctively that this power was definitely stronger than any Angel that has attacked Nerv in the past.
(We may at least have a fighting chance...) Fuyutsuki thought. (I just hope that Dante stands a chance in time before Gendou performs the ritual.)
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Dante was halfway through the passageway, and he can see the exit. Just before he can execute a Devil Trigger activated Stinger to burst through the bakelite, he heard an explosion from outside. It sounded too close to Nerv, that the entire base started to shake violently.
"What in the...?" Dante remarked loudly. He thought any second more of this and the whole place may come crashing down on him.
Back in the Command Centre, the bridge crew had braced themselves from the unmerciful attack from the N2 mine that had practically evaporated the area of Toyko-3 that covered the GeoFront, leaving a giant, exposed crater over Nerv.
"Damn, haven't they heard of moderation?" Makoto shouted.
"That was a bit much." Fuyutsuki said.
"Alright, now these guys want to play hardball." Dante said to himself. "Better start to head for the great outdoors and deal with these bothersome flies."
But before Dante can get to the exit, another loud set of explosions was heard from above, just as serious as before. As if the GeoFront was being bombarded by missiles.
(These guys aren't kidding.) Dante thought, as he braced for shock once more. (I hope that Kaji guy has hazard pay ready for me and Trish when I done here because I think I'm not getting paid enough for this. Just what is that these guys want the Evangelions so badly?)
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"They plan to initiate Third Impact - not with Angels, but by using the Eva series." Misato explained to Trish, while she drove her car pass the failed Eva prototypes, as Shinji sat next to Misato quietly. "15 years ago, Second Impact was caused by humans on purpose. But that was in order to minimize the damage by returning Adam to an embryonic state before the other Angels awoke. Shinji, we humans were born from a being called Lilith, who is a source of life just like Adam. We are the 18th Angel. The other Angels are possibilities of what we might have become - humans that gave up human form. Sadly, we had to reject each other - even though we're all human..."
Trish started to shake her head in disbelief and silence. Even if all of this was true, she thought that it was still illogical and insane that humans intended to destroy themselves and for what? Whatever the reason, their result will always end up being the same for everyone. She watched on at Misato who seemed determined enough to prevent this from happening, but she and the rest of Nerv was in need of help to fight against this threat and she never regretted being here in Japan with Dante and Lucia to help fight in this critical battle.
"Listen, Shinji...You must destroy the rest of the Eva series." Misato said. "It's the only way to stay alive. Do you understand?"
Shinji replied with an almost reluctant nod. He didn't want to fight again, but now after what Trish and Misato had told him, someone had to keep the Third Impact from happening, or everyone that he cares for will just vanish from existence, possibly forever.
"Yes, I do." Shinji said quietly. Trish placed a hand on his shoulders and continued to assure him.
"Don't you worry, Shinji. I know you'll do marvelous out there. Remember that you're fighting not for yourself anymore, but for her, Asuka as well as everyone else whose counting on you." Trish smiled at Shinji.
"You're pretty optimistic at a time like this." Misato remarked to Trish. "Let's hope it can get us a way to stop the Impact."
Trish simply nodded her head and laid back to the backseat. "Oh, don't worry, my partners are working on it as we speak."
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Back in the Terminal Dogma area, where Rei was observing her own dead clones in the LCL tank, a voice called out to her. It was Gendou's.
"Rei... I thought you'd be here." the Commander said, as Rei finally turned to face him.
"The promised time has come." Gendou said, now standing close to the naked Rei. "Let's go."
From behind the shadows, Lucia peered out of the corner that she was hiding from and examined Gendou leave the room with Rei. She returned the ancient cutlass weapon she was carrying into its holding case and stepped forward to the LCL tanks.
"That girl...just by her presence here, I can sense that she holds an incredible power and that man's going to misuse it for his own needs for the price of humankind!" Lucia said to herself. "If I let him, he can lead me right to Lilith, so I can exterminate the threats. But I must do it before any harm comes to the girl."
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Outside on the GeoFront, the JSSDF have surrounded the outer lake diameter with their platoons and artillery. The N2 have done its damage, so now what was left for the enemy troops to do was to take on Evangelion Unit 02 which was situated inside the bottom of the lake.
One of the JSSDF 1st soldier communicated on his radio. "Surface heat receding. High-pressure steam discharges have also subsided."
Another soldier spoke on radio. "Initial location of all units completed."
But soon there was loud explosions from the radio's background, as Dante started to unload grenades from his grenade gun at the enemy troops and with a few simple shots, was destroying the tanks around him.
"Ah, I just love the great outdoors..." Dante smiled, as he stepped out of the Nerv exit. Suddenly, another firefight began, as several foot soldiers charged the demon hunter with their arsenal of guns. Dante leapt into his Air Hike and off the wall, where he flipped over the troops' heads, thus letting Dante Weapon Switch his grenade gun into Ivory and Ebony. He fired at the numerous troops before landing at a clear spot. Before the troops can give Dante the chance to rest, more shots were fired. Dante had already charged his Round Trip and was taking down rows of JSSDF troops, while he looked overhead and saw the VTOL's preparing to launch large missiles at Dante. One was launched, and heading straight towards him.
Luckily, the missile was nowhere close to Nerv, so this gave Dante the chance to cause his own collateral damage. He went into Air Hike, while avoiding the numerous gunfire from the troops, then when he was close enough, landed on the descending missile and walked on it, giving him leverage to fire at the VTOLS. He then jumped off before the missile detonated, activating his Devil Trigger to destroy the VTOLS around him using Air Raid, the massive energy of lightning electrocuting and destroying everything surrounding Dante that was airborne. By the time he was done, Alastor had come back to him, having taken down a number of foot soldiers.
He landed on the ground, several troops surrounding him were ready to intercept again. Dante pulled out his pistols, but he wasn't going to use them, instead, he used a slash-slash combo on the troop on front of him, before turning is back and doing Chop Suey on the troop on his far left. Before finishing the combo into the final trust, he performed High Time on one of the other lone troops, then went into Air Raid once more, punishing the troops while flying over them with his unholy lightning powers.
From a distance, the JSSDF Sub Commander Dogma watched through his binoculars in shock. "Who the hell is that man?! He's taking down our entire fleet!"
He can now see Dante making 'come, come' suggestions with his guns to the troops, making them charge at Dante once more.
"Time for something a little different..." Dante smirked, now equipping Ifrit. He leapt over one of the troops and suddenly, Dante was behind him. Before the troop can react, he heard a taunt from his enemy.
"You need a hand with something? Here, let me show how it's really done!" Dante said, as he quickly got into his Opening Fierce Punch, stunning the poor troop to make him stagger. Then Dante got into Second Blow as fast at he had delivered the first attack.
The troop, before he can realize what has happened to him, was way beyond stunned and Dante continued to torture the poor soul, when he performed his Magma Drive, juggling his enemy into the air. But before the troop can land on the ground, it was time for Dante to perform his Rolling Blaze, the flaming back flip from his feet kicking away sending the troop flying like a spinning wheel.
Some of the other troops saw what Dante did, and started to run, while three of the other troops charged the demon hunter. Dante performed two of his initial attacks to one of the troops, before Rolling Blaze-ing him and landing on top of another troop's head, before jumping off of him and then performing a powerful flaming drop kick on another, sending his body into the ground in a small crater.
Dante rolled from another of the troops attacks, before getting into another Rolling Blaze once more, only to cancel into firing his pistols using his Devil Trigger, taking out the rest of the troops.
Dante landed on his feet and simply shook his head. "What a bunch of pussies. Mundus and his own army of demons put up a better fight than all of you put together. You should be ashamed of yourselves that you ever picked on these innocent people. Bad, bad dogs, stay down."
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"We must continue or else SEELE will be pissed." the JSSDF Sub-Commander spoke. "So far, Level 3 and the purple unit have been secured."
"And the red unit?" the JSSDF Commander asked.
The division's own Intelligence officer responded. "Found in the underground lake at a depth of 70 meters, Commander. The pilot's status is unknown."
"Prepare to launch the depth charges into the lake." the Commander said.
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Beneath the lake, Asuka was curled up in the fetal position inside EVA-02's Entry Plug. Slowly, she began to recover conscioness.
"...I'm alive...?" she whispered.
Then, the depth charges were launched into the lake, firing and exploding around EVA-02. Asuka holds her head, screaming in agony. She unaware of what has happening, or why was she was even back in the cockpit of Unit-02. Her synch ratio had dropped to the point that she won't pilot an Evangelion anymore, so why was she there? Unless something was very wrong in Nerv right now, she would accept it as a logical explanation. But she didn't care, she can't defend herself now, much less fight against whoever was attacking her. All she can do was huddle herself into her body and try to block out the outside world of all the things that were causing her this pain.
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Author's note: The dialogue in commas are the words from Asuka's mother, so you readers wouldn't get confused.
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Asuka started to whisper at first, then repeating herself, as it was growing louder and stronger. "I don't want to die... I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."
Just then, another voice mixes with Asuka's. "I don't want to die... (You're still alive) I don't want to die... (You mustn't die yet) I don't want to die... (You must live) I don't want to die... (I won't let you die) I don't want to die... (Don't kill me) I don't want to die... (You're still alive) I don't want to die... (I won't let you die yet) I don't want to die... (You must keep living) I don't want to die... (Die for me!) I don't want to die... (You mustn't die yet!) I don't want to die... (Die!) I don't want to die... (You're alive!) I don't want to die... I don't want to DIE!!"
It was then Asuka realized that moment she was not alone throughout in this ordeal. She remembered seeing her mother's face when she was younger and started to walk towards her.
"Mama... So this is where you've been?" Asuka asked, as she clasps her mother's hand and then, EVA-02 awakens.
"Mama!"
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From outside the GeoFront, Dante who was still recharging his almost half tired body using his Devil Trigger ability, he saw a giant cross-shaped explosion lit out from the lake.
"Seems that the giant devil has finally awakened." Dante smiled, as he sat on one of the destroyed tanks. "About time, I was getting tired of doing all of the heavy work."
One of the JSSDF soldiers shouted at the sight. "What the!?"
EVA-02 emerges from the lake, using the carrier ship as a shield at first to block the incoming missiles that were flying at her direction. After a few moments, using Unit-02's strength to throw the battleship at the area where the missile launchers were stationed, she glanced at the HUD to see that she had more incoming trouble.
"Mama... Mama! I understand now...The meaning of the AT Field." Asuka thought to herself, as she started to fight against the enemy forces with all her amazing and now awakened piloting skills. "Always protecting me! Always watching over me! Always...we were always together, Mama!"
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Back in Misato's car, Misato had been keeping check on the happenings (and you guys can bet that she can't keep her mouth close when she heard of Dante tearing up the GeoFront using Ifrit) on the GeoFront, when she heard Maya's voice over the radio.
"EVA-02 has activated!" Maya said. "Asuka's okay! She's alive!"
Misato and Shinji looked at each other, while Trish smiled. "Asuka!?"
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As Asuka continued fighting, one of the JSSDF officers shouted over the radio." The cable! Sever that thing's power cable! Concentrate all fire power on the cable!"
The division responded, making sure that the cable is severed. Asuka turned around and growled. "Shiest! Well, even without the cable...I still have 12,000 plates of special armor... and my AT Field!"
And Asuka continued to raise her own hell, destroying the VTOLs that helplessly attacked her without any success.
"I can't lose! Not against you!!" Asuka said, as her Unit 02 stands over the burning rubble of the destroyed JSSDF forces.
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"The loathsome Evangelion...Do they stand in our way yet again?" SEELE No. 1 said. "Once again, our plans will not go unrealized. It seems that one must fight fire with fire."
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Over the open space where the N2 mine did it's damage, Dante can see nine large aircraft transporting the white colored SEELE made type Evangelions over the area. He can also see the red Kaworu Dummy Plugs behind their backs being inserted into them. Their empty, yet grotesque appearance of their faces, and the fact that they can produce wings to fly made Dante get up from his short rest.
"So, the old geezers decided to call in the big boys, huh?" Dante said.
"The Eva series!?" a stunned Asuka said, watching the Mass Production Types fly around her Unit -02. "They've been completed?"
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Again, another cliffhanger. This Chapter was kinda long, I didn't expect to make it that way, but I really wanted to include Ifrit into the Chapter, as well as the other surprises and the action that was packed in this Chapter. Again, I had fun writing this fic, and I do hope that there's people who agree about how kick-ass this story is.
To the reviewer who said, that Dante looked fat in the first Devil May Cry, maybe you haven't played the sequel to realize the few faults that made me really disappointed. Not only they made the puny challenge level EVEN SIMPLER in DMC2, but Capcom also messed up some of Dante's character. I mean, since when Dante flips a coin to make his mind up about something, is he Two-Face or something? And yes, kudos goes out to his new outfit, but I like the first one much better, because it makes him more threatening. I made him keep his long hair for the crossover though.
And yes, I had to include Lucia as a surprise, because there may be some Lucia fans out there who want to see her stake someone on Nerv with one of her knives. So you got your wish, and maybe you'll get lucky to see her make a pin cushion/punching bag out of Gendou if I get enough reviews...
I wanted to post this update and 'COE' as well at the same time, for the most ravenous fans, but I couldn't. SORRY! I'm still in the process of making Raiden and Gendou's conversation as twistable, sensible and convincing as it can be. So you'll have to be patient and bear with me on this one, remember, I'm no super writer and I can't rush my work like I used to. SO STOP HASSLING ME!
So what's next on the menu? It's Asuka vs. the Mass Production type Evangelions! Will she win or suffer a horrid end? Or will Dante lend a hand to help out? And what about Lucia? Will she make chop suey of her own against Gendou and Lilith? And will Shinji come to his senses to fight? Who knows, you just have to stick around for another action packed episode of End of Evangelion May Cry coming soon! Until the next update, my friends! -Collis, aKa Shardclaw Kusanagi.
Once again, people were in awe to the last Chapter, that I'm still in shock to see only good reviews about this fic. THANKS AGAIN! So, in payment for your demands, I'm going to make sure the Evas get some action as well. To China-boy who said if Dante will fight alongside Shinji and Asuka against the MP-Eva series...well, you just have to stay tuned to find out.
But before I get to business, I'm going to clear up a few things, namely the power of the Devil Arms item known as Ifrit that grants Dante the power of the almighty power of kicking ass the right way that stuns even the most hardcore of DMC fans. As I said in Chapter two of this story, Ifrit enables the user when he equips it, the ability to punish his foes using the fires of hell. As in Dante's case, he uses martial arts that make DMC look like something out of a fighting game. (Who else can incorporate Street Fighter homage moves into a game like DMC, but Capcom?) However, telling how exactly Dante will look when he performs his various punches and kicks, then into a Special Move, is not an easy task when it is written. Its better to leave it to you guys to experience just how beautiful Dante looks when he does it in the actual game. But being the self righteous, good Samaritan, and hentaish son of a gun that I am, I'm going to break down the basic moves of Dante's Ifrit attacks, as well as some in-depth research of the pros and cons of Ifrit. Please bear with on this if you want reference on making this as perfect as it can be.
First off, Dante has four simple attacks with Ifrit, while with Alastor he has three. However, with both items, he can cancel one of the attacks midway into a special move, or any other style of move that suits. For example, If Dante is using Alastor, and he performs the left-right slash combo, he can perform a Special Move before the third slash appears during the attack animation. One of my personal favs is: Slash-Slash, then during the second slash's animation, hold the attack button for one second, then start pressing Slash again repeatedly to perform the Chop Suey, where he can slice and dice an enemy up to twelve to thirteen hits, then ending it with a thrust! (And Dante can do this with one hand too!) And yes, this move is cancelable, but the alternate ending move has to be inputted before the thrust appears. This can end up being cancelled into a Stinger, or an aerial shotgun attack, or probably High Time. (I'm not sure if THAT'S possible...)
Using Ifrit is almost totally different though. The range of the attacks are always short, meaning Dante has to be up close and personal to his enemies to deliver his punishment. His attacks with Ifrit goes something like this: (I'm going to use King of Fighters/ Street Fighter references so at least half of you can understand the animation patterns for Dante's blows from hell.)
Opening Fierce Punch: Dante starts with a seemingly deadly left thrusting jab that is quick and powerful at the same time. I guess it depends on how you use it in timing if you want the enemy to be stunned when this hit lands.
Second Blow: If that wasn't enough, Dante switches to his right fist in almost the same attack animation from before, but it depends also on how fast or how slow it comes. This punch is more like a short upper blow that stops as quickly as it is executed.
Heavy Kick: This is where Dante start to look REALLY cool. Dante then performs a single roundhouse kick with his left leg, and even though its not that powerful, it's but an opener for the second kick.
Finishing Kick: After Dante finishes his first kick, and if he continues his attack, he simply turns his body, letting his left foot rest so he stands on one leg, while his right leg is raised over his head, charging it to be released into a awesome heel kick. Probably the MOST beautiful attack in the game, but also slow.
And the most shocking thing of all this, is that all of these attacks can be used with the simple press of one button, plus the duration of how its being held down! Try taking Dante on in a street fight and live to tell it.
Hey, you guys didn't tell me that I missed a move for Ifrit? Guess now's the better time to let you know about:
Rolling Blaze: Dante executes a backward somersault kick, with flames powering up the jump. Similar to the normal back flip, this move can both attack enemies AND get Dante at a greater retreat distance from behind or below his enemies. Also, if Dante uses Magma Drive in a combo to juggle the enemy, think of what Rolling Blaze can do it if it connects. It sends the target flying away when Dante's feet from Rolling Blaze hits! You have to see the actual game demo to see it work!
Oh, yeah, did you know that Dante can still use his martial arts while he is equipped with Alastor? It is possible, just perform Round Trip while he has the Alastor equipped, and while his sword is causing havoc somewhere else, press the attack button to perform the just mentioned kicks and punches before Alastor comes back. He can still do the hand to hand attack even after Alastor comes back too. There is a downside to this though, the barehanded attacks won't have the flaming effect it would have, as when Dante has Ifrit on, meaning it's not as powerful when the actual item is equipped. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it in an actual heat of battle, but it's still cool to do it though.
Okay, that is enough of my rambling. Take this seriously if you want to, but its better to see Dante do his stuff in the actual thing. You don't know what you are missing if you haven't seen Dante use Ifrit. Now...unto to the story! And don't forget to review, please!
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ShardclawKusanagi proudly presents:
End of Evangelion May Cry
An Evangelion/Devil May Cry crossover
Chapter 4: Locked and Loaded
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Back in Central Dogma, the Nerv staff continued to watch Dante take on the numerous enemy forces, Gendou sat unfazed by the sudden turnabout that the base was being defended by just one man.
"The JSSDF have committed almost an entire division..." Fuyutsuki said quietly. "Even if the son of the Legendary Dark Knight manages to hold them off, It's only a matter of time before they take us over completely."
Gendou rises from his seat and without looking, he spoke to the Vice- Commander . "Professor Fuyutsuki, please take care of things here."
"I understand. Please give my regards to Yui." replied Fuyutsuki, as Gendou left the room.
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He had just about enough of this. While taking down more JSSDF troops, Dante was actually getting bored keeping these guys from getting too deep into Nerv HQ. It's not that he didn't wanted to let it happen, he did sign up to save the world because business has been slow lately in Devil May Cry, and he that he can catch some kicks out of meeting the Mass Production Type Evangelion series, then beating them into submission. It's just these guys are persistent. They never take it upon themselves to consider that what they are going up against is someone that is ten times powerful than their army put together and pull back.
(This is getting too tiresome.) Dante thought, as he used his Round Trip to one group of troops that covered his front, while he pointed his guns to fire at the troops overhead him that descending the stairways. He had reached into one of the large shaft areas of Nerv, where he can eliminate the troops that were descending from the Geofront using the aircraft vehicles and other areas that he hadn't covered yet. So far, he had been in other parts of Nerv defending it and saving the innocent Nerv civilians that were caught since the invasion began.
"But what's the point of all of this happening here?" Dante said to himself as he had changed from his pistols to a double barrel shotgun with incredible lethal power. Using the custom armor piercing bullets he had equipped for use against heavy alitery, and his activated Devil Trigger, he had transformed into his much more powerful Devil form, his body increasing in size and turning to a black shade of armor that crackled with lightning, inflicting double the damage upon his enemies and making alot of others run for their lives.
He simply made swiss chess of the metal that covered the vehicles by firing at the enemy with the energy shots from the shotgun in a one-handed shot and with a flick of a wrist. Several of the ammo destroyed the VTOL air carriers that were on their way to the lower parts of the base while Dante continued to walk down to the end of the corridor.
After Alastor returned to him, leaving another trail of dead troops, Dante saw that he had to flush the descending passageways down into Central Dogma of enemy troops. He leapt head first into the endless looking shaft in a perfect swimmer's dive, his body's weight increasing the speed of his descent. He spotted more VTOL's and he aimed his shotgun. He fired at the vehicles one by one during his fall, with each shot, the recoil from his gun made him leap in the air to face another target.
After countless numbers of the vehicles were taken down, Dante had found himself at the bottom floor of Nerv. He approached one of the elevators before he looked at his pocket watch.
"Okay, so what's next on today's schedule?" Dante asked himself. "Oh, yeah, I have to head to this Terminal Dogma and destroy Lilith. These bastards have taken up much of my time already, I can't even stop to think for myself."
Just then, an explosion rocked the wall near him, as more JSSDF troops appeared in front of him.
"Just great!" Dante shouted, but before he can picked up his shotgun, three troops fell down in less than three seconds, knives lounged in their skulls. Dante looked up and saw a female figure wearing a combination of black and white clothing, with red hair that was tied into a long ponytail that hanged to the front of her left shoulder, jumping towards the enemy in a flurry of aerial jump kicks, catching one troop in the combo, then after landing, she performed a roundhouse kick sending him into the air, allowing her to throw her knives into the airborne corpse, then before it landed, she hastily performed a spin kick to the corpse, sending it flying to the rest of the enemy group.
Taking out a pair of cutlasses from ancient times, she hacked one troop with a left-right slash combo, before spinning to her side, throwing her knives in a wave at the rest of the troops. In a matter of seconds, another fleet of troops laid dead in front of Dante.
He simply smiled and approached the woman. "About time you got here...Lucia."
The dark skinned woman smiled back to Dante. "Son of Sparda...always the charmer, aren't you?"
Dante suddenly pointed a gun at her. Lucia stepped back a bit as he fired, meeting it's mark into the skull of a troop that had just entered the area.
"Missed one." Dante simply said. "Why are you around inside this base, Lucia? Wasn't part of the deal when you joined me and Trish was to handle the enemy on the outside?"
"True, I managed to take out several of the squadrons before they got into the headquarters..." Lucia spoke in her sultry accent. "But I overheard them saying that they will drop something called an N2 mine on the city soon."
"N2 mine?" Dante had no idea what was she saying. "I don't like the sound of that..."
"Has Trish located the Third Child as yet?"
"She'd better, or else I'm just wasting my strength dealing with these punks." Dante said. "Since you're inside, I think it's best I go and deal with the outside. And you?"
"Lilith shall be my target, leave that matter to me." Lucia said.
"Watch yourself." Dante said, as he returned the way he came using his flying devil ability.
"You too, Sparda." Lucia said, as she took the elevator that lead to Terminal Dogma.
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Back in Central Dogma, Misato was still trying to make sense as to how one man can eliminate an invading force of the JSSDF. Soon after, two women was also spotted in other various places in Nerv, also showing incredible skills in defending Nerv from the enemy.
"EVA-02 launched via No. 8 route. Stabilize at a depth of 70 meters." Makoto reported, as Evangelion Unit-02 was being launched with an unconscious Asuka inside it.
"Now that half of the forces have been eliminated, that man have bought us some time, we take the initiative." Misato said. "Release Bakelite into all passages and pipes up to Section 803!"
"Affirmative!" Shigeru shouted.
As the various areas where countless JSSDF troops have been slaughtered by Dante, the bakelite started to enter the passageways.
Misato can breathe a little easier for now. "This should slow them down a bit." she said to herself, then got a report from Hyugga.
"Major Katsuragi!" Makoto turned to Misato. "No. 47 route has been cut off... Group 3 is unable to advance! If this continues, Shinji and the woman protecting him will be totally cut off!"
Misato's right eye slightly raised itself. She then reached for inside her jacket and took out her Glock .45, unloading the clip and replacing it with a fresh one. "All non-combat personnel avoid close combat. The enemy are professionals... If you can't fall back to Central Dogma, it's better to surrender." she said to the bridge crew, then whispered to Makoto. "Take care of things here for me."
Makoto replied with a nod. "Sure."
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A few moments later, somewhere else in another part of Nerv....
"HIYYAAAH!" Trish shouted, as she pounced on one of the troops with a drop kick, then used a spinning aerial kick that sparked with yellow energy, sending the troop flying. She then took up her dual pistols and fired at the numerous troops. But even her can't eliminate the oncoming number of troops that keep on coming.
(Just what it will take to make them to stop? I take down five, twelve more of them show up.) Trish thought to herself. (But I can't give up now...I have to protect Shinji and convince him to fight. I hope Lucia and Dante can manage themselves.)
Just then, before she can breathe for awhile, shots were fired from behind the troops position. Three of them got head shots, while the other two got wounded in the stomach areas. Trish can see a Japanese woman with lavender hair running towards her and the enemy and firing her Glock .45, dressed in a red jacket and a form-fitting dress that hugged her figure tightly.
Trish didn't have the time to admire the woman's aim, but continued to eliminate the troops by picking up an iron beam that had fallen from the ceiling from one of the troop's previous attempts to stop her, but failed and using her own demonic energy, she picked up the beam and sent it towards a line of troops as a dart, pinning five troops in one single shot. Misato was at a loss for words to say how can this woman easily take on the JSSDF.
All that was left standing was Misato and Trish, as the two started to stare at each other for a while, then Trish spoke.
"If you're worried about Shinji, don't be. He's safe." Trish said. Misato simply fixed her stare at Trish even more.
"Who...or what are you?" Misato asked.
"Let's say I'm a good Samaritan that was in the neighborhood with a couple of friends." Trish replied. "My name's Trish, and you must be Major Misato Katsuragi."
"How do you know you who I am? Are you part of SEELE as well, so you can control the Third Impact for yourself?" Misato clicked on her gun.
"Sheesh, don't get so edgy, girl. We're only here to help." Trish said. "Besides, I wouldn't think of taking me on if I were you."
Misato looked back to see the half conscious, and already dead countless troops that laid in the hallways, and it was just the same when she was on her way to find Shinji...most of the enemy forces she had seen were either dead, electrocuted, burnt to death, and even got the living crap beaten out of. She knew that whoever or whatever Trish and her friend was, they were not average people.
Something about them reminded her of the Angels, but these guys are different, their powers were different than Angels, and probably more stronger than them.
"You can doubt if I'm telling the truth or not, but you guys sure are in need of some helping hands here. If you don't like my style, then you'd better get to Shinji and I'll handle the rest of things here. I don't need any luggage around to keep me behind."
Misato almost blew her top when she heard that remark. "You'd better watch your mouth, lady. It's bad enough that something like this has to happen, but to be insulted because..."
"It wasn't an insult, but the truth be told, this base wouldn't be standing if we hadn't been here." Trish said. "You want to get Shinji into Unit-01, don't you?"
Misato gulped, then placed back her Glock into her jacket. "Yes, it's imperative that he goes out there and fight. If he doesn't destroy the Eva series, Third Impact will happen."
"You can just take us there and I'll provide the cover. Don't worry, these lame-o troops don't have a thing that can hurt me." Trish said.
Misato complied and went forward to another passageway , where Shinji was waiting for Trish. His face lit up as he saw Misato come in with Trish.
"SHINJI!! Oh, thank God, you're safe!" Misato ran to hold Shinji frantically. "Are you hurt?"
"No...I'm okay...thanks to Trish. She's been protecting me since the attack began." Shinji said, still feeling a bit nervous.
"Shinji..." Misato spoke quietly, then thought to herself. (He's different from before...he's almost his old self again...)
"We don't have much time, Misato. More of these guys can show up soon. You'd better get Shinji to Unit-01 ASAP." Trish said getting set to leave the two.
"Wait!!" Misato called out to Trish. "It would be better if we mix it up. The area where Unit-01 is located may be probably covered in bakelite by now. We can use a hand to get through it."
Trish smiled at Misato. "Alright, I'll help out. I was getting a bit overtired from taking out all of these troops anyway. You have every reason to trust me, Misato. My friends and I may be the only way to stop Third Impact from happening."
Misato simply nodded, and the three headed into the carpark where the next destination was to the Evangelion cages.
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"This is bad...The centre was built to withstand Angel attacks, not invading armies." Makoto said, taking out a Beretta from his console drawer. "Safety off."
Shigeru was busy taking out armaments from his own desk. "Yeah. Only counter-terrorist measures at best, but we can barely hold off terrorists."
"If the JSSDF mounts a serious attack, we don't stand a chance."
"Come to think of it, the reductions in funding for anti-personnel defense measures probably had this in mind from the beginning."
Shigeru said. "I wouldn't be surprised about that."
"That's entirely possible..." Makoto said, as he continued to look on at the large monitor where Dante had been blocked off by the now hardened bakelite. "But what's the deal with that guy? He simply took out almost half of the invading squadron."
"Major Katsuragi didn't have the time to question if he's another Angel, which I highly doubt he could be one..." Shigeru said. "If he's on our side, at least this base has a chance of fighting back."
The Command Centre continued to watch the monitor as Dante seemed trapped by the red material that blocked his way to the Geofront. He knocked on the bakelite, a sarcastic smile on his face.
"What is this crap?" Dante thought. He simply shrugged his shoulders, then he started to levitate, as blue lightning and a large pair of dark wings emerged from his back. He has activated his Devil Trigger, and then started to perform an aerial Round Trip, the Alastor ripping away the bakelite, while Dante performed Air Raid to easily bust through the wall of bakelite. Once again, this left the Command centre in awe of such power. Even Sub Commander Fuyutsuki didn't bother to investigate if this was the power of an Angel because he knew instinctively that this power was definitely stronger than any Angel that has attacked Nerv in the past.
(We may at least have a fighting chance...) Fuyutsuki thought. (I just hope that Dante stands a chance in time before Gendou performs the ritual.)
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Dante was halfway through the passageway, and he can see the exit. Just before he can execute a Devil Trigger activated Stinger to burst through the bakelite, he heard an explosion from outside. It sounded too close to Nerv, that the entire base started to shake violently.
"What in the...?" Dante remarked loudly. He thought any second more of this and the whole place may come crashing down on him.
Back in the Command Centre, the bridge crew had braced themselves from the unmerciful attack from the N2 mine that had practically evaporated the area of Toyko-3 that covered the GeoFront, leaving a giant, exposed crater over Nerv.
"Damn, haven't they heard of moderation?" Makoto shouted.
"That was a bit much." Fuyutsuki said.
"Alright, now these guys want to play hardball." Dante said to himself. "Better start to head for the great outdoors and deal with these bothersome flies."
But before Dante can get to the exit, another loud set of explosions was heard from above, just as serious as before. As if the GeoFront was being bombarded by missiles.
(These guys aren't kidding.) Dante thought, as he braced for shock once more. (I hope that Kaji guy has hazard pay ready for me and Trish when I done here because I think I'm not getting paid enough for this. Just what is that these guys want the Evangelions so badly?)
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"They plan to initiate Third Impact - not with Angels, but by using the Eva series." Misato explained to Trish, while she drove her car pass the failed Eva prototypes, as Shinji sat next to Misato quietly. "15 years ago, Second Impact was caused by humans on purpose. But that was in order to minimize the damage by returning Adam to an embryonic state before the other Angels awoke. Shinji, we humans were born from a being called Lilith, who is a source of life just like Adam. We are the 18th Angel. The other Angels are possibilities of what we might have become - humans that gave up human form. Sadly, we had to reject each other - even though we're all human..."
Trish started to shake her head in disbelief and silence. Even if all of this was true, she thought that it was still illogical and insane that humans intended to destroy themselves and for what? Whatever the reason, their result will always end up being the same for everyone. She watched on at Misato who seemed determined enough to prevent this from happening, but she and the rest of Nerv was in need of help to fight against this threat and she never regretted being here in Japan with Dante and Lucia to help fight in this critical battle.
"Listen, Shinji...You must destroy the rest of the Eva series." Misato said. "It's the only way to stay alive. Do you understand?"
Shinji replied with an almost reluctant nod. He didn't want to fight again, but now after what Trish and Misato had told him, someone had to keep the Third Impact from happening, or everyone that he cares for will just vanish from existence, possibly forever.
"Yes, I do." Shinji said quietly. Trish placed a hand on his shoulders and continued to assure him.
"Don't you worry, Shinji. I know you'll do marvelous out there. Remember that you're fighting not for yourself anymore, but for her, Asuka as well as everyone else whose counting on you." Trish smiled at Shinji.
"You're pretty optimistic at a time like this." Misato remarked to Trish. "Let's hope it can get us a way to stop the Impact."
Trish simply nodded her head and laid back to the backseat. "Oh, don't worry, my partners are working on it as we speak."
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Back in the Terminal Dogma area, where Rei was observing her own dead clones in the LCL tank, a voice called out to her. It was Gendou's.
"Rei... I thought you'd be here." the Commander said, as Rei finally turned to face him.
"The promised time has come." Gendou said, now standing close to the naked Rei. "Let's go."
From behind the shadows, Lucia peered out of the corner that she was hiding from and examined Gendou leave the room with Rei. She returned the ancient cutlass weapon she was carrying into its holding case and stepped forward to the LCL tanks.
"That girl...just by her presence here, I can sense that she holds an incredible power and that man's going to misuse it for his own needs for the price of humankind!" Lucia said to herself. "If I let him, he can lead me right to Lilith, so I can exterminate the threats. But I must do it before any harm comes to the girl."
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Outside on the GeoFront, the JSSDF have surrounded the outer lake diameter with their platoons and artillery. The N2 have done its damage, so now what was left for the enemy troops to do was to take on Evangelion Unit 02 which was situated inside the bottom of the lake.
One of the JSSDF 1st soldier communicated on his radio. "Surface heat receding. High-pressure steam discharges have also subsided."
Another soldier spoke on radio. "Initial location of all units completed."
But soon there was loud explosions from the radio's background, as Dante started to unload grenades from his grenade gun at the enemy troops and with a few simple shots, was destroying the tanks around him.
"Ah, I just love the great outdoors..." Dante smiled, as he stepped out of the Nerv exit. Suddenly, another firefight began, as several foot soldiers charged the demon hunter with their arsenal of guns. Dante leapt into his Air Hike and off the wall, where he flipped over the troops' heads, thus letting Dante Weapon Switch his grenade gun into Ivory and Ebony. He fired at the numerous troops before landing at a clear spot. Before the troops can give Dante the chance to rest, more shots were fired. Dante had already charged his Round Trip and was taking down rows of JSSDF troops, while he looked overhead and saw the VTOL's preparing to launch large missiles at Dante. One was launched, and heading straight towards him.
Luckily, the missile was nowhere close to Nerv, so this gave Dante the chance to cause his own collateral damage. He went into Air Hike, while avoiding the numerous gunfire from the troops, then when he was close enough, landed on the descending missile and walked on it, giving him leverage to fire at the VTOLS. He then jumped off before the missile detonated, activating his Devil Trigger to destroy the VTOLS around him using Air Raid, the massive energy of lightning electrocuting and destroying everything surrounding Dante that was airborne. By the time he was done, Alastor had come back to him, having taken down a number of foot soldiers.
He landed on the ground, several troops surrounding him were ready to intercept again. Dante pulled out his pistols, but he wasn't going to use them, instead, he used a slash-slash combo on the troop on front of him, before turning is back and doing Chop Suey on the troop on his far left. Before finishing the combo into the final trust, he performed High Time on one of the other lone troops, then went into Air Raid once more, punishing the troops while flying over them with his unholy lightning powers.
From a distance, the JSSDF Sub Commander Dogma watched through his binoculars in shock. "Who the hell is that man?! He's taking down our entire fleet!"
He can now see Dante making 'come, come' suggestions with his guns to the troops, making them charge at Dante once more.
"Time for something a little different..." Dante smirked, now equipping Ifrit. He leapt over one of the troops and suddenly, Dante was behind him. Before the troop can react, he heard a taunt from his enemy.
"You need a hand with something? Here, let me show how it's really done!" Dante said, as he quickly got into his Opening Fierce Punch, stunning the poor troop to make him stagger. Then Dante got into Second Blow as fast at he had delivered the first attack.
The troop, before he can realize what has happened to him, was way beyond stunned and Dante continued to torture the poor soul, when he performed his Magma Drive, juggling his enemy into the air. But before the troop can land on the ground, it was time for Dante to perform his Rolling Blaze, the flaming back flip from his feet kicking away sending the troop flying like a spinning wheel.
Some of the other troops saw what Dante did, and started to run, while three of the other troops charged the demon hunter. Dante performed two of his initial attacks to one of the troops, before Rolling Blaze-ing him and landing on top of another troop's head, before jumping off of him and then performing a powerful flaming drop kick on another, sending his body into the ground in a small crater.
Dante rolled from another of the troops attacks, before getting into another Rolling Blaze once more, only to cancel into firing his pistols using his Devil Trigger, taking out the rest of the troops.
Dante landed on his feet and simply shook his head. "What a bunch of pussies. Mundus and his own army of demons put up a better fight than all of you put together. You should be ashamed of yourselves that you ever picked on these innocent people. Bad, bad dogs, stay down."
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"We must continue or else SEELE will be pissed." the JSSDF Sub-Commander spoke. "So far, Level 3 and the purple unit have been secured."
"And the red unit?" the JSSDF Commander asked.
The division's own Intelligence officer responded. "Found in the underground lake at a depth of 70 meters, Commander. The pilot's status is unknown."
"Prepare to launch the depth charges into the lake." the Commander said.
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Beneath the lake, Asuka was curled up in the fetal position inside EVA-02's Entry Plug. Slowly, she began to recover conscioness.
"...I'm alive...?" she whispered.
Then, the depth charges were launched into the lake, firing and exploding around EVA-02. Asuka holds her head, screaming in agony. She unaware of what has happening, or why was she was even back in the cockpit of Unit-02. Her synch ratio had dropped to the point that she won't pilot an Evangelion anymore, so why was she there? Unless something was very wrong in Nerv right now, she would accept it as a logical explanation. But she didn't care, she can't defend herself now, much less fight against whoever was attacking her. All she can do was huddle herself into her body and try to block out the outside world of all the things that were causing her this pain.
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Author's note: The dialogue in commas are the words from Asuka's mother, so you readers wouldn't get confused.
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Asuka started to whisper at first, then repeating herself, as it was growing louder and stronger. "I don't want to die... I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."
Just then, another voice mixes with Asuka's. "I don't want to die... (You're still alive) I don't want to die... (You mustn't die yet) I don't want to die... (You must live) I don't want to die... (I won't let you die) I don't want to die... (Don't kill me) I don't want to die... (You're still alive) I don't want to die... (I won't let you die yet) I don't want to die... (You must keep living) I don't want to die... (Die for me!) I don't want to die... (You mustn't die yet!) I don't want to die... (Die!) I don't want to die... (You're alive!) I don't want to die... I don't want to DIE!!"
It was then Asuka realized that moment she was not alone throughout in this ordeal. She remembered seeing her mother's face when she was younger and started to walk towards her.
"Mama... So this is where you've been?" Asuka asked, as she clasps her mother's hand and then, EVA-02 awakens.
"Mama!"
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From outside the GeoFront, Dante who was still recharging his almost half tired body using his Devil Trigger ability, he saw a giant cross-shaped explosion lit out from the lake.
"Seems that the giant devil has finally awakened." Dante smiled, as he sat on one of the destroyed tanks. "About time, I was getting tired of doing all of the heavy work."
One of the JSSDF soldiers shouted at the sight. "What the!?"
EVA-02 emerges from the lake, using the carrier ship as a shield at first to block the incoming missiles that were flying at her direction. After a few moments, using Unit-02's strength to throw the battleship at the area where the missile launchers were stationed, she glanced at the HUD to see that she had more incoming trouble.
"Mama... Mama! I understand now...The meaning of the AT Field." Asuka thought to herself, as she started to fight against the enemy forces with all her amazing and now awakened piloting skills. "Always protecting me! Always watching over me! Always...we were always together, Mama!"
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Back in Misato's car, Misato had been keeping check on the happenings (and you guys can bet that she can't keep her mouth close when she heard of Dante tearing up the GeoFront using Ifrit) on the GeoFront, when she heard Maya's voice over the radio.
"EVA-02 has activated!" Maya said. "Asuka's okay! She's alive!"
Misato and Shinji looked at each other, while Trish smiled. "Asuka!?"
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As Asuka continued fighting, one of the JSSDF officers shouted over the radio." The cable! Sever that thing's power cable! Concentrate all fire power on the cable!"
The division responded, making sure that the cable is severed. Asuka turned around and growled. "Shiest! Well, even without the cable...I still have 12,000 plates of special armor... and my AT Field!"
And Asuka continued to raise her own hell, destroying the VTOLs that helplessly attacked her without any success.
"I can't lose! Not against you!!" Asuka said, as her Unit 02 stands over the burning rubble of the destroyed JSSDF forces.
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"The loathsome Evangelion...Do they stand in our way yet again?" SEELE No. 1 said. "Once again, our plans will not go unrealized. It seems that one must fight fire with fire."
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Over the open space where the N2 mine did it's damage, Dante can see nine large aircraft transporting the white colored SEELE made type Evangelions over the area. He can also see the red Kaworu Dummy Plugs behind their backs being inserted into them. Their empty, yet grotesque appearance of their faces, and the fact that they can produce wings to fly made Dante get up from his short rest.
"So, the old geezers decided to call in the big boys, huh?" Dante said.
"The Eva series!?" a stunned Asuka said, watching the Mass Production Types fly around her Unit -02. "They've been completed?"
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Again, another cliffhanger. This Chapter was kinda long, I didn't expect to make it that way, but I really wanted to include Ifrit into the Chapter, as well as the other surprises and the action that was packed in this Chapter. Again, I had fun writing this fic, and I do hope that there's people who agree about how kick-ass this story is.
To the reviewer who said, that Dante looked fat in the first Devil May Cry, maybe you haven't played the sequel to realize the few faults that made me really disappointed. Not only they made the puny challenge level EVEN SIMPLER in DMC2, but Capcom also messed up some of Dante's character. I mean, since when Dante flips a coin to make his mind up about something, is he Two-Face or something? And yes, kudos goes out to his new outfit, but I like the first one much better, because it makes him more threatening. I made him keep his long hair for the crossover though.
And yes, I had to include Lucia as a surprise, because there may be some Lucia fans out there who want to see her stake someone on Nerv with one of her knives. So you got your wish, and maybe you'll get lucky to see her make a pin cushion/punching bag out of Gendou if I get enough reviews...
I wanted to post this update and 'COE' as well at the same time, for the most ravenous fans, but I couldn't. SORRY! I'm still in the process of making Raiden and Gendou's conversation as twistable, sensible and convincing as it can be. So you'll have to be patient and bear with me on this one, remember, I'm no super writer and I can't rush my work like I used to. SO STOP HASSLING ME!
So what's next on the menu? It's Asuka vs. the Mass Production type Evangelions! Will she win or suffer a horrid end? Or will Dante lend a hand to help out? And what about Lucia? Will she make chop suey of her own against Gendou and Lilith? And will Shinji come to his senses to fight? Who knows, you just have to stick around for another action packed episode of End of Evangelion May Cry coming soon! Until the next update, my friends! -Collis, aKa Shardclaw Kusanagi.