Disclaimer: As always, I do not own Evangelion or any of the Devil May Cry franchise. If I did, I would have Lady as my own personal bodyguard to hunt flamers down. They belong to their respective owners/companies of GAINAX and Capcom.
Author's note: Well, after playing over 40 to 50 and more plus hours of the most anticipated kick ass prequel of one of the best popular action games around, doing tons of research required, and some bruised thumbs, I've finally gotten enough boost to continue this fic. As good as this is for all the fans reading this, I now have to segment the final set of chapters into various sections in order for most of Dante's DMC 3 attacks to be featured in this fic. Hey, I never thought there would be so many! So I'm going to use this chance to say my brief 'thank yous' to those who have been bearing with me for an update of this story.
To X-Over: I know you've been a fan of this crossover since the first chapter, so thanks for the kind comments and support since you've been waiting for an update for a long while. I'm sure you like the upcoming set of chapters for sure, as they contain a lot of goodies and surprises ahead, but your input of ideas and suggestions will be appreciated as well. Be sure to check out my other crossover stories when you get the chance.
To DarkFusion: One of my fiction's biggest fans and a good online friend, I haven't surely forgotten to mention you. Thanks for waiting on the update and for some really nice suggestions that I'm sure I will be using in this story soon.
To Battousai530: By the time you last reviewed this fic, I was still getting my ass kicked in DMC3 while you managed to beat it before me. But I finally beat it, so you're going to get your update, along with some surprises…
To GreyWolf4: Yeah, the DMC series is known to be tough on certain difficulties, even the original Devil May Cry on Hard mode is kicking my ass, compared to what people has to go through on Dante Must Die mode. But it is still quite a compelling game and Dante surely is lovable amongst fans all over. You should give DMC 3 a try; it would be worth your time.
To RuneKnightPictures: Yeah, I know it's been awhile, but here it is and more of it where it came from, so stick around for some kick ass stuff coming your way.
Majin Naraku: Good to see one of my COE/SX fans getting to like this fic, but to go as far to call it a masterpiece? Aw, come on…you really don't mean that, right? Well, I appreciate the comment said along with the review, so no harm there. You're going to love the following updates to this story as well so much; it's nearly unbelievable that I can manage inputting stuff like this in the first place…
To everyone else who reviewed and enjoyed this fic so far: Thanks for enjoying the story to this point, I'm sure the wait will be worth pleasing the majority of you who want more Dante action. Just one final note to those who haven't fully played DMC 3 yet, I've included a reference chapter detailing all of Dante's attacks and weapons from the prequel which you will start seeing from this update. It's in the last chapter, so it would be wise to check it out to ease confusion.
Now with that aside…let's continue this crazy party! Let's rock, baby…
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ShardclawKusanagi presents:
End of Evangelion May Cry
Chapter 6: Demon vs. Machine
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"Uggh….what's happening? Where am I?" Misato asked after what it seems that she have been blacked out forever. She swore she was dead, but if it wasn't for Trish who took her to safety shortly after seeing Shinji off to fight in Evangelion Unit 01 once more, she would have never reawakened.
"Take it easy…we're at the infirmary areas of NERV." A calm natured Trish replied, as Misato's eyes recognised the room, having being stocked with medicinal and surgical items. She rose up from the bed to see the strange blonde woman dressed in black, but the aching in the right side of her abdomen started to get worst. Trish placed Misato back to make sure she was comfortable.
"I told you…you took a nasty bite from that bullet, and you lost a lot of blood." Trish said. "If I hadn't used some of my powers to at least stop the bleeding while I fixed you up, you'd be dead from that wound or right after we left that area where our 'guests' blew up afterwards."
"What…?" Misato stared at Trish strangely. "Just…what are you? Why are you here…helping us?"
"Let me be straight with you…I'd never like the thought of doing this, but my partner insisted that we do this." Trish answered. "Be grateful for the help, you guys are totally screwed without us on your side."
"Partner…you must mean that man in that red, leather clothing." Misato replied. "Is he the one who's trying to stop NERV from being taken over by the enemy?"
"That man happens to be Dante Sparda." Trish answered.
"Sparda…you don't mean…the son of the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda?" Misato asked.
"Seems you've heard about him…"
"Not much…I just have heard stories about him before the Second Impact while I was still a kid…before I lost my father in it, he used to tell me tales of a demon who rebelled against his own kind, for he had compassion for humanity two thousand years ago." Misato spoke. "His name was Sparda alright…"
"How much more about him do you know?" Trish asked.
"A lot. I was even told that using his power, he somehow sealed off the power merging this world and the underworld, but at the cost of his own powers, making him human." Misato continued. "That made him a legendary hero of sorts until his death. My father even had tales about an incident long before the Second Impact that was somehow recorded, something that involved a large tower that served as a gateway to the two worlds…"
"You must be referring to the Temen-ni-gru." Trish spoke. "Yeah, Dante was still a teenager at the time, just getting into the demon hunting business when that happened and he personally stopped it by his own hands."
"I see. So, what my father was saying wasn't just a legend, fairy tale or myth…this Sparda and the whole demon thing was the real deal." Misato said in near utter shock.
"Wait till you meet Dante…he takes his father role to a whole new level." Trish said with a light smile.
"Is he capable by himself to deal with an entire battalion of special defence forces?" Misato asked.
"I think it's his sick way of getting his kicks and helping humanity at the same time. But he's not the only one fighting; I'm just here to help." Trish said.
"You sound like you care for Dante enough to be doing this for him…"
"I was sent by the king of the Underworld, Mundus, to kill Dante, even going as far to take the shape of his dead mother. You can say I'm like Dante as well…half human and half demon. But he ended up saving my life when plans didn't work out." Trish said. "I ended up repaying the favour and died for it, but it was his own mother who helped me come back to him one last time to help him. Now, I'm stuck with that smart ass for as long as I live, so no complaints there."
"Wow…that is one deep relationship you two must have." Misato said, almost impressed.
"He has that charm on women. Another one is supposed to be with us, her name's Lucia. She was raised as a soldier to hunt demons in her homeland of Vil De Marli." Trish explained. "But eventually, she found out that she was also another creation of a man who sought for demonic power, but in turn, the power warped him into a monster. Lucia was told she would eventually turn against the humans that cared for her, but it never happened because she was true to her human origins. After saving her homeland from it becoming another demon's paradise, she became another one of Dante's partners for hunting demons outside of America."
"So, there are three of you against SEELE and the JSSDF, huh?" Misato asked. "Still, that's not enough to keep things in favour on our side…"
"To you and the rest of the people, it does look hopeless. But I know Dante has got a back up plan to take care of the rest of the forces in here." Trish spoke, before she stopped and glared at the door. "Damn….they finally found us! Go somewhere and hide, I got this covered!"
"What are you…?" Misato exclaimed before she was pushed off the bed and hurried to a corner by Trish, as she took out her own custom made dual pistols, ready for action.
Without waiting for the enemy to respond, she kicked down the door and leaped into the hallway, her guns blazing with high concentrated electric bolts at the squadron of JSSDF troops that were taken by surprise by Trish's gunplay.
Rolling to the side, she emptied a clip on a row of troops, before dropping a gun and using her free hand to whip out her own large sword, which was the Sparda itself. The sword, named after Dante's own father, was the true form of the Force Edge which was once used by Sparda himself. It was a large, curved sword that emanated red aura around it.
"No time to play around, boys…I'm in a hurry." Trish simply said, charging up for an attack. Since the two had been working together, Dante was able to teach her some of the sword's techniques and attacks. Her stance with the Sparda was similar to Dante's, but her skills were not as good as his.
"Round Trip!" she shouted, throwing the Sparda at the troops in a boomerang like fashion, as the sword's extended blade turned into a giant scythe during the attack. The unfortunate troops in her way were cleaved clean by the flying sword, clearing almost the entire hallway of the enemy. The Sparda then flew back to her after doing its job, giving her a chance to catch it with ease.
"All clear." Trish said, calling Misato out from the room. As she stepped out, her eyes widened at the sight of the carnage Trish just caused to the squadron of the invading JSSDF troops. Most of them were cleaved clean in half around their waist areas4 while a majority were knocked unconscious or severely injured by Trish's assault. They never knew what hit them.
"Quite a mess you made here…" Misato shuddered at the grisly sight, but almost felt glad that the troops got a taste of Trish's powers.
"That is small stuff compared to what Dante can do….where is he anyway?" Trish said, as she and Misato started to trek through the ravaged NERV hallways. However, they couldn't get far enough, as they heard incoming gunfire from a far corner they were approaching.
"Shit! There are still more of them?" Trish exclaimed, taking back out her pistols. Misato simply took out her own pistol as well and the two women nodded at each other, ready to face the enemy any moment now. But to their surprise, they saw a couple of JSSDF troops being blown back by an explosive round.
They went to investigate and saw a woman in her late twenties with short, brown hair, dressed in a white dress shirt, and purple short tights. Special decorations were seen on her left breast pocket, while a holster was strapped around her waist, holding gun clips, grenades and an extra pair of handguns. She was in a serious gunfight against a set of JSSDF troops, as she fired in various directions using her own dual handguns. After they got empty, she dropped both guns and fired an explosive round near a close troop, causing a shockwave for all of the troop's weapons that were on the ground to rise.
With a smile on her face, she took a pair of gun clips from her waist holster and threw one into the air, while biting unto the other, all the while being ready to catch a pair of submachine guns that caught her eyes, her right one happens to be blue, while the other was red, and fired a round at the number of troops around her until one of the guns ran empty of bullets.
Stopping to drop one of the submachine guns, one of her own guns comes falling back, with the clip before her as she used her free hand to catch it and have the clip inserted into it as it fell, and continued her gunplay, taking out the last number of troops in front of her. Right after she had enough use from the other submachine gun when she had killed off more of the invading troops, she dropped it in time to grab the clip from her mouth and placed it back into the other falling pistol, reloading it instantly after the remainder of the troops had been killed off thanks to her amazing gun skills.
"Hmph…you were always such a show-off, Lady." Trish said, as the gun carrying lady only glared at Trish from the comment.
"And you will always be such a bitch, Trish." Lady smiled back to her friend, fixing her rocket launcher, Kalina Ann that was strapped around her shoulder. She was wearing a small, portable cell phone that was hooked around her right earlobe. "At least I made it in time for the party…"
"Yeah, but I bet Dante's having more fun than we are." Trish replied, while Misato stood there with a gaping look on her face. "
"Amazing…." she muttered, before noticing the woman more closely. "Wait a minute…I know I've heard rumours of a woman from the States as well who was a demon hunter as well…you're the famous Lady, are you not?"
"Guess that what everyone calls me by these days." Lady replied in a tone of sarcasm as she touched her phone around her ear. "Everyone except these boys…okay, this section's clean. I've managed to find Trish."
As soon as that was said, a new group of troops entered, but the colour of their armour was different, that being the majority is white and a purple stripe was painted vertically over their heart areas. They were equipped with more specified hardware in artillery than the JSSDF.
"The area is back under NERV's control. The remainder of this sector's division is assisting NERV security in engaging the enemy in the other surrounding areas of this facility." One of the troops spoke
"This is part of my specially trained team from the U.S Army, known as the White Devils. Since the Temen-ni-gru, I was hired part time by the United States government to hunt demons for them as well, but I was also given a chance to train military forces in the use of firearms." Lady spoke. "You can put all worries aside, Major, these men have been trained by me to fight essentially in conditions like this, and there's more of them where they came from, an estimate of over a thousand to be exact. They are all over this base chasing the invaders for their lives. "
"So, we do have a chance…" Misato said. "But what I don't understand is why would you want to help too?"
"That's a long story…" Lady simply said. "Look, now's not the time to go over memories…I was told from the outside defences that Evangelion Unit 01 is out on the GeoFront with Unit 02 and Dante. They are on a stand-off with the rest of the JSSDF troops and the Mass Production Evas."
"Dante's what!" Trish exclaimed in shock. "Is he trying to get himself killed?"
"I think it's more like he's enjoying himself right now…" Lady said sheepishly.
"Can you lead us to the Command Centre?" Misato asked.
"Yes, we've managed to take back the area some time ago after we intervened in the fire fight with the JSSDF." One of the White Devils spoke.
"How convenient…" Misato simply said, nodding her head. "Okay, let's move on. Those two kids may get into some sort of problems without me to tell them something…"
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Back outside on the GeoFront, the towering Evangelion Unit 01 and Unit 02 stood with their backs to each other, surrounded by the nine reactivated Mass Production Evas. Dante was looking around to get an idea of what's going to happen next, as he see he still had to deal with more bothersome JSSDF troops.
"These dumb-assess just don't know when to quit…" Dante said to himself, shrugging his shoulders. (Guess I got to pull out all the stops now…)
With a confident grin on his face, Dante then charges his Devil Trigger powers to change his Alastor sword into one of his keepsake swords, the Rebellion. Charged with power, he then smirked at the charging set of troops that was getting closer to him.
"I'll give you boys one chance to run away now if you want to live." Dante called out to the troops who were approaching him with their weapons consisting of flamethrowers, handguns and submachine guns. "Take it now if you know what's good for you all…"
From the distance, the JSSDF commander was seeing Dante challenge the troops, while the Mass Production Evas were getting ready to engage Units 01 and 02.
"He's in a perfect position to be ambushed. If we can't stop, then those Evangelions sent by SEELE should finish him off." The troop commander said.
"But…that man totally almost decimated our entire platoon by himself!" his subordinate replied in shock. He was beginning to fear the power Dante possessed.
"No excuses! He's just ONE man!" the commander said, now shouting unto his radio. "All units! Engage the enemy! Throw everything you have on him! He must be eliminated in order to proceed with the invasion! Any form of denying this order will lead to immediate execution!"
"You guys are all dead either way." Dante's voice replied as simply the Rebellion and letting it lie on his shoulder, having to overhear the man's desperate cry over the troop's radio. "Don't say I didn't warn you. Its showtime…let's get the party started!"
(The background music of 'Taste the Blood' plays.)
Without a moment to waste, Dante used his Rebellion and started to cleave troops one after another using a mix of the sword Type 2 attacks and sudden charge attacks of his Stinger move. Suddenly turning around, he then used Stinger to disperse a group of troops, and suddenly got into his Million Stab attack, repeatedly stabbing a number of the troops in a fast succession of hits.
"Breakdown!" Dante shouted, completing his attack, getting set to raise some more hell. Afterwards, he then took out his twin pistols and fired a barrage of shots at some distant enemies, and then started to 'mix it up' by firing shots of handgun and shotgun attacks.
"The fun's barely started…" Dante said, using Stinger once more at another group of troops, then rising into the air with his High Time attack. "Blast off!" he shouted, carrying a troop up into the air. Dante then continued with his Helm Breaker attack, and charged with another combo swing of his sword, until he was hyped up to perform his old special SwordMaster attacks.
Stopping as he was done with the Stinger attack, he then performed his Prop Shredder attack, juggling a couple of troops into the air. As the two troops were airborne, Dante leaped up and fired a barrage of rapid shots from Ebony and Ivory, before leaping on the battered JSSDF troop's body, using him as a leverage to jump over him and ended on the other side, behind him and in front of the comrade with him.
While they was still in the air, Dante executed his Aerial Rave move as he slices the troops with repeated slices, into an Air Hike cancel into a barrage of gunshots and a Helm Breaker, slamming them into the ground, and blasting them away using a Stinger attack. Dante was surely messing up these troops with his moves.
"Just warming up for the main event…are you boys ready?" Dante said, charging his Rebellion with an electrical energy. "C'mon!"
Dante then throws his energy shockwave Drive attack, knocking away a row of troops as he sent most of them flying. But Dante wasn't done yet, he then threw the Rebellion as a spear to a distance with his Sword Pierce attack, impaling and pinning troops in the path.
"Stay down." Dante said, taking out troops near him using his Trust Kick attack, while the Rebellion pinned the troops down, allowing him to fight freehand. Firing his shotgun to keep the troops at their distance, he then called back the Rebellion to him, as it come spinning back at a fast speed, knocking and cleaving enemies in the path on its return in homage to the Round Trip move.
"Are you ready?" Dante smirked, now prepared to raise hell to a new level. He charged another group of JSSDF troops in a dash attack and started to unleash a melee, breakneck paced attack of all of his Rebellion attacks one after another, taking down surrounding troops with his slashes. Then, after clearing the surrounding area with his slashes, he then got into his Million Stab attack, continuously dicing a group of troops, and suddenly cancelling into his Crazy Dance attack, plunging his Rebellion into the ground, grabbing the blade area with both hands and started to spin around, kicking away troops that came to attack him one after another.
"Down and out." Dante said leaping from the spinning attack and blowing away the last set of troops with a knockdown slash. Dante managed to clear most of the remaining enemies. The rest of them who saw Dante lay the critical smackdown on their comrades, who were all lying dead and unconscious before him, retreated before Dante came after them.
"You scared?" Dante said, throwing his arms out. Before Dante can even bother pitying the retreating JSSDF troops, he suddenly dashed of the way using his Triple Dash move as if on instinct, before a giant white foot of an injured MP Eva crushed him. If Dante hadn't used his Trickster move moments before, he would have been flattened by the Eva by now. Once he was at a distance from the white Eva, Dante simply grinned and called out to his new, giant enemy.
"Come and get me…I got plenty for everyone." Dante said, calling the MP Eva to attack him. He used Air Hike to leap back and away from the Eva, before using Sky Star to dash towards the MP Eva's leg to Wall Hike on it, as Dante started to run upwards on the Eva's body.
From a distance, another damaged, but regenerated Eva sighted Dante on its damaged comrade and rushed it to smash Dante. But the demon hunter saw the other Evangelion coming towards him and leaped off it, only a few meters away from its S2 organ. Dante then used Sky Star once more to get close to the other Eva and out of harm's way, but now he has to deal with two MP Evas at the same time now.
"This is one hell of a party!" Dante shouted getting closer to the entry plug of the MP Eva he was currently on. Now he was ready to show these guys how crazy the party will get, as he plunged his right fist into the Eva's armoury and into it's neck, and a burst of white light shot through it's neck, a heavy spray of crimson shooting outwards, damaging the MP Eva. Dante then pulls out his bloody fist, only to reveal that his arms were covered by a pair of black gauntlets, with bright light surging through its veins that ran to Dante's knuckles and fingers. His feet were covered in greaves of the same, mysterious gauntlet Dante had.
"It's time for you to go to sleep...permanently." Dante said, shifting into his demon form and started to bludgeon the entry plug core with repeated strikes of his Volcano move, as powerful super novas created by the BeoWulf's punches began to destroy the entry plug of the MP Eva he was on.
"Go to hell! Volcano!" Dante's transformed shout in his demon form while he executed the move seem to have reverberated throughout the GeoFront, as the Eva began to spasm with each Volcano strike it received.
"Go to hell!"
"Go to hell!"
"Go to hell!"
Soon after that, Dante then went for the head area, executing two punches, as he began turning his body to perform a one legged lightning kick. During the kick stance, Dante suddenly activated his Hyper Fist attack, as he started to execute a barrage of lighting fast punches, punching into the MP Eva's neck, only to complete it with a single, right punch that threw an energy blow at the damaged area.
"Sweet dreams." Dante said, totally decimating the Eva's head area with his attacks and returning back to his normal form. The MP Eva howled as it fell down with a loud crash, and as it did, its head area was snapped open, separating it from the main body.
The other MP Eva lunged at Dante with its own Lance of Longinius, but Dante zipped out of the way in a blink of an eye and reappeared on the Eva's head area this time now using his Air Trick move.
"That was a close one…not!" Dante said, executing his BeoWulf type 2 attacks, continuing the lightning kick attack into a drop kick, all the while as Dante was charging up for an additional attack.
"Rise you up!" Dante shouted, executing his powerful Dragon Fist move, ascending into the air with a twirling punch that damaged the MP Eva's head all the way to the top. As Dante was now over the Eva, he used Air Hike for leverage which got him to use a Killer Bee attack, lunging a powerful downward kick unto its head area, and executing an aerial Volcano attack.
"I'm not done yet…" Dante said, as he continued having fun destroying the Eva he was on with his attacks, executing another string of BeoWulf infused punches, into a Straight attack, pummelling the Eva's head. Dante had messed up the Eva's head sensory unit so much, now it can't tell where its attacker is. Dante then got ready to execute another powerful attack from his BeoWulf SwordMaster arsenal of attacks.
"Kiss this…RISING DRAGON!" Dante shouted, planting a highly focused single punch into the Eva's head, sending a powerful shockwave surrounding him that shook through the MP Evangelion, Dante performed his Real Impact move, consisting of Dante's most powerful Rising Dragon yet, his punches while ascending into the air damaging the Eva's head. But it was not over, while Dante was still airborne during the Real Impact, he then executed his Devil Trigger once more, and his Tornado kick, as he spun his body with a leg outstretched, repeatedly kicking the Eva's head at lightning speeds.
"You're grounded!" Dante said, as he landed on the falling Eva, stunning both Shinji and Asuka who were watching him all along. Looking at the two different Evangelions that were defending NERV, he waved his arms at them.
"Crazy? Huh!" Dante said out loud. He was really enjoying himself today, but he still have yet to the good part, one of them namely to take out Gendou Ikari before he starts Third Impact. For the meantime, he can brush up on his skills he hasn't used in years.
"Did…did you see all that, Asuka!" Shinji muttered. He was having trouble finding words to say after seeing just one man take down a squadron of the JSSDF and two of the Mass Production Evas. "He must really be on our side."
"Yeah, or he may be trying to get the competition out of the way…" Asuka replied, checking to make sure she had enough power this time for her Evangelion to take out her frustration on the rest of the remaining Evas.
Before he can sight on taking out another Eva, he then heard his cell phone ring. Dante recognized the caller, and it was Trish.
"Trish? What's up?" Dante said simply, only to get a harsh response from her.
"You're really are such an arrogant ass. How can you go out there and fight like that without considering how much I worry about you?" Trish replied.
"Come on…it's not like that, Trish. The kids needed a hand to take out the garbage anyway…"
"If you had enough fun, get back into the headquarters now…it seems the Command Centre grants an audience with us." Trish spoke.
"Any word on Lucia yet? Has she found that First Child already?"
"Nothing as yet…I'm starting to worry, Dante. She may be trouble."
"Fine then…I am on my way back now. Leave it to me to finish the job." Dante said, placing back the phone in his red, leather coat. Seeing more MP Eva's charging at him, Dante used his Air Hike move and leaped out of danger's way, and got close enough to Unit 01's vicinity.
"I'm leaving the rest of this to the both of you, because I don't want to miss the party." Dante bowed to Shinji's Eva as he started for the entrance to NERV headquarters that wasn't sealed or destroyed during the invasion. He also spotted a motorbike that was still in good condition lying close by. "See you two around."
With that, Dante then leaped down, and flicked out his Cerberus nunchucks, sending one of the chains and having it wrapped around one of the bike's pedals. Pulling the bike closer, Dante catches it and with a might of his demon strength, swung it around to get a balance as he landed on its seat perfectly and started the ignition once it hit the ground. Driving at top speed, Dante was out of the Eva's directions and already back in the way into NERV headquarters.
"Hang on; Lucia….I'm coming to help." Dante said to himself as he rode back into NERV. From Unit 02's vantage point, Asuka was in an awe seeing a man like Dante fight on their side.
"That guy was amazing…" Asuka said, causing Shinji to overhear. Remembering Trish's words, he first looked down at Dante's position and then at Asuka's. He contemplated what he must do now, for he understood what he is going to fight for thanks to the mysterious woman who helped him and Misato both earlier.
(Okay, Shinji…this is not the time to screw up anymore.) He thought to himself. Clutching the controls, he let out a war cry as he charged the first weak MP Eva he saw. As he got close, Unit 01 smashed its enemy's face in with a charged punch attack, before it was caught by the purple Eva and was thrown violently to another MP Eva, crashing into it.
"Hey, that wasn't fair!" Asuka shouted. "You can't start the fun without me saying anything first! Now, it's my turn!"
Unit 02 then grabbed unto one of the knocked down Eva's, still recovering from Unit 01's attack, and smashed it's S2 organ with a rage infused, powerful blow that shattered it completely.
"Just die already!" Asuka shout, taking up a Lance that the MP Eva's created and charged at the Eva, with
Shinji, having seen Dante in battle knew what Asuka was going to do and picked up a Lance of its own using Evangelion Unit 01, and charged forward with the Lance pointed outwards. Both Unit 01 and Unit 02 executed a double Stinger attack of their own variations, pinning the MP-Eva with a pincer attack, Unit 02 striking the head area, while Unit 01 went for the chest area, totally eviscerating it open.
"No mercy!" Asuka shouted, grabbing the injured MP Eva's head and slamming it down unto the ground using her Unit 02, while she gutted it open with the Lance. That Eva was down for the count, but there stood six more Evas which were ready to strike Shinji and Asuka now in their Evas.
"There are still more of them, Asuka…" Shinji said, looking around. "You think we can keep this up?"
"We'd better, or else a lot of adults will be mad at us if we don't defend them and this world one final time…" Asuka said in a near, unsatisfied tone. "But we must do this, Shinji…no turning back now, right?"
"You got a point." Shinji looked on. "I do hope Misato and everyone else are alright…"
"Shiest! We can worry about them later; let's clean up these so-called copies of our Evas!" Asuka said, getting ready to take down more Evas.
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ShardclawK: And that's it for this chapter, I do hope after the long wait it was well worth it. What do you guys think of it, eh? Am I still doing a good job portraying things right? Well, if I am, I can certainly be proud of that, now that we need actual visual for the action scenes in this story. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Lucia, she and Rei will be back in the next chapter, but there will be definitely be more twists to be added than those now, so hang on for some good stuff.
I'm sure you must have liked with what I done with this part of the fic, it must be my best update of this story so far, and there will be surely be more like this coming later thanks to the great set of inspiration I've been getting every time I play Dante's Awakening. But I must warn you all that since I've integrated DMC 3 into this now, it's going to be a while again before this fic's over, as I've enough ideas for more crazy battle scenes coming up. For example, the last set of reviews requested for Dante to give Gendou what he deserves (And I can assure you all, IT will happen.) but not anytime soon, as I want fans to get a gist of the weapons, styles and attacks I'll be using in this fic later first with this arc featuring the Mass Production Evas. But that's not a bad thing, right?
And to make sure it's not enough; I'm giving Dante the chance to use two Styles instead of one to accommodate everyone as you may have noticed, in order to give the battle scenes more crazy results. Oh, the possibilities you can get with a combination of QuickSilver and SwordMaster…just to put it, anything goes from now on in this fic, so be expecting some wild stuff later.
One final note, I want to also detail the weapons used, so anyone of you with requests for which weapons Dante should use in the next set of chapters, go on ahead and leave it in your review. I had to use Rebellion and BeoWulf, (my two personal favourites) in this chapter as appetizers for the opening final battles. Most likely, you're going to be seeing Nevan in the next chapter for sure…
Well, with that said, time for me to wait on your reviews and comments. I'd really appreciate them so I can get working on the next chapter and update this thing faster. See you in the next update.
Collis aka ShardclawKusanagi.