Creation began on 07-07-20
Creation ended on 05-31-22
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Adding to the Masses
Tokyo-3's sirens went off in response to the fact that Angels were coming, alerting people that they needed to evacuate to their designated shelters.
"I don't like this," Sabrewulf uttered, being made to vacate the hotel building. "I really don't like this at all."
"Aah!" A woman screamed, pointing at something away from where they were. "Monsters!"
Sabrewulf looked ahead and saw the alleged monsters. Three of them, in fact. One looked like a giant diamond, another like a large fish, and the last one looked like a humanoid with two spheres on its front. He had never seen such monstrosities before in his life. Not even during the Killer Instinct tournament he participated in over twenty years ago in exchange for a cure to his werewolf curse.
"Gott im Himmel," he whispered and ran as fast as his frail legs could and would take him.
-x-
"This can't be right," said Fuyutsuki to Gendo as they stood in Central Dogma. "There shouldn't be multiple Angels coming here."
"We have a problem," went Hyuga to the commanders. "We can't launch Unit-01 and the Third Child isn't answering his phone."
"Locate him," Gendo ordered; if they didn't deal with these Angels, then the human race had no future left in this dying world. "Prepare Rei for launching as a backup."
-x-
Grabbing his bag and leaving everything else behind, Shinji and Yuki-Onna ran up several stairs and out of the base onto the surface of the Geo-Front.
Smash! They looked up and saw the underbelly of Tokyo-3 get shattered into by a…giant fish.
"Aah," Shinji gasped, and Yuki-Onna carried him towards the nearest freight elevator these people used to enter and exit this place; since they were leaving, these creatures, Angels or whatever, were no longer their concern.
You can't escape from your dark fate, boy! They heard someone say to them. Where can you run? Who can you turn to? Your fate was sealed the second you were brought here. Accept the end and become the sacrifice that ends your world's path to an imperfect future.
Yuki-Onna pressed a button in the elevator and turned to face Shinji, who seemed tense.
"I won't let you get hurt again," she told him.
Shinji felt comforted by her choice of words, but that didn't stop him from feeling like something was going to come after them.
-x-
"…We've located the Third Child," went Hyuga. "He's in a freight elevator with the Riptor hybrid heading up to the city."
"It looks like they're trying to leave after what that ghost girl was saying to people," Ritsuko suspected as they got a picture of the inside of the elevator. "Do we have access to the elevator's speaker system?"
"No," Shigeru answered her.
"Where's security?" Misato questioned. "We need him here."
Oh, yes, bring him back here, a voice uttered to her. He's a sacrifice to plunge this world into unending despair! Ah-ha-ha!
Some of the personnel in Central Dogma looked around, confused by something.
"Did anyone else just hear a voice right now?" Fuyutsuki questioned.
"I thought I was the only one," Misato expressed.
"Does someone…want the boy here…just to kill him?" Maya asked Hyuga and Shigeru.
"It sounds like it," Hyuga replied. "Maybe that's why he's trying to leave with the hybrid; he doesn't want to be killed by anything…or anyone out to get him."
Humans are no more useful than the sum of their parts, then and now, the voice made itself heard once more. Your flesh, expendable… Your bones, merely decorative… But your souls…are worth harvesting along with your blood and hearts. Don't fear the end, though; there's nothing to look forward to…but an eternity of nothingness. Return to nothingness. Surrender your souls. Be…my victims.
Misato looked at everyone present in the room and wondered what they were going to do.
"We need the Third Child back here to pilot the Eva," went Gendo.
"Uh, sir?" Shigeru uttered. "Were you not hearing that voice that just said he was a sacrifice to plunge the world into unending despair?"
"I don't believe in some voice belonging to a person I've never met."
-x-
The elevator was slow, but it only went two directions, and right now, Shinji and Yuki-Onna were taking it up to the surface, away from the Geo-Front. All Shinji knew was that he and Yuki-Onna had to leave. Get out of the city, find a motel someplace, away from the Eva and whatever else that was a danger to them.
You can't hide, they heard a voice say to them in their heads. You can't escape. Your fate was sealed the second your makers made you a pawn in their own, twisted schemes. Accept your fate…and be my victim.
"Grr…" Yuki-Onna growled. "You cannot have Shinji. He's already spoken for."
What a confused and misguided creature you are. You don't even know what you are…and yet, you want to protect him from the end of the world when the world is already halfway there?
Yuki-Onna's claws extended their talons as her feet dug into the metal flooring. This voice was extreme, but she refused to show fear against something or someone she hadn't met in the flesh. Plus, she wouldn't take kindly to any that endangered Shinji like these people at NERV did in the case of these large creatures that made them use him to operate another giant creature that reeked of blood, oil and metal.
And what do you mean, he's already spoken for? The voice asked, something Shinji also found to be confusing.
Was Yuki-Onna being figurative in the sense that she had already claimed Shinji as her own victim for the future…or was she being metaphorical in the sense that nobody but her had any rights to him as anything other than what was to be expected? Or maybe she was being protective of him as she had been when they first met in that abandoned building where she lived for a long time?
"Shinji is mine," she spoke up. "Nobody else that wants to harm him can have him."
Groan. The elevator stopped and the doors opened, indicating that they had reached their floor.
I'm going to enjoy making you both suffer, the voice told them, and I'm going to enjoy making you both revel in misery.
Shinji and Yuki-Onna stepped out of the elevator and went down the hallway, unaware that the voice talking to them was the same one that had spoken to all of the Geo-Front, broadcasting every other thought, every other response, across every mind within it.
Run, run, run all you want, Shinji heard the voice say to him. Run, run, run all you can. You humans can only do so much…until you realize that the end of your life is inevitable. Your blood has been split into the air, your soul marked by the desecrations committed by those that came before you…and just as the sins of the predecessors shall be visited upon the successors, you will pay a price that you cannot fathom in your darkest nightmares…Shinji Ikari.
-x-
"…What…the Hell…is that over there?" Sabrewulf questioned, seeing the three Angels writhing as steam began emanating from their bodies.
"Never saw anything like this before," Jago responded, but in truth, he did see something similar in his past, but on a small scale. It can't be possible, though. To do so on a large scale like this is…is just unlikely.
The three Angels collapsed onto the ground and began melting away.
-x-
"…It's unbelievable," went Maya as she and the other Bridge Bunnies analyzed the bizarre reaction of the three Angels. "Their AT-Fields are…diminishing."
On the screens, the three Angels were showing signs of rapid decay, wasting away before they could even reach the city. Nobody had expected this to ever occur, even with the defeat of two previous Angels.
Even in their agony, they heard the voice again, their sacrificial loss provides energy to fuel the end of the world!
Whoever was doing this was using the Angels to attain their own means to an end.
But these three beings are inefficient. Next comes the other two beyond the reach of mortals!
The alarms rang once more and Central Dogma was in suspense over the remaining two Angels that seemed to descend from the upper atmosphere over Japan. One resembling a misshapen pancake of sorts with three eyeballs…and the other some sort of…branched or crystal monster, both writhing in agony as they contorted their forms. Suddenly…they exploded due to the friction generated by their descent.
Even with their demise, my power is not diminished, the voice spoke up again. Let those that linger within my domain suffer greatly as they have condemned themselves to a fate worse than what they can imagine…and those that choose to flee now may have a fighting chance to escape…even only for a few more seconds. You may try to flee now…if you have the will to, that is. I'll even give you a ten-second head start. Eh-heh-heh. One…two…
Some of the personnel got up from their seats and began to vacate the command center.
Misato and Fuyutsuki got the same idea and fled the chamber, leaving behind anyone foolish enough to stay.
I will not be intimidated by a voice, thought Gendo.
There's no logic to any of this, thought Ritsuko.
"You two really should leave this place!" They turned and saw Hisako, crouched on the ground with her pole arm. "Leave and live! Stay and suffer!"
She then disappeared.
…Eight…nine…ten, the voice finished counting. I'm going to enjoy this a lot.
Suddenly, the whole building started shaking.
-x-
The streets were engulfed by fear as people ran around. It was as though they had seen or heard something that got them in a frenzy and they were trying to get out of Tokyo-3 as fast as they could, with whatever they could take. As Shinji and Yuki-Onna tried to go down one street leading towards the outer city limits, they were impeded by scores of people trying to loot several stores full of electronics and groceries.
"That voice," went Yuki-Onna. "It has driven them mad?"
"Maybe," Shinji told her, "or they just think the world is going to end and they're doing whatever they want to pass the time."
Even the sight of the police present didn't help to calm things down. They were also looting places for whatever they could take.
Yuki-Onna smelled nothing but danger and fear from these people, and any wrong move they made could potentially harm Shinji. She had to get him away from these people.
"Shinji," she told him, kneeling beside him, "get on."
Shinji obliged her and got on her back. Then, she climbed up the side of the building they were beside to the roof, getting a better view of the people doing what they did from the fear they had.
"This is horrible," Shinji expressed, seeing some cars being turned over by people.
"This is only the beginning," they both heard a female voice say to them from behind, and turned to see that it was the woman from before that hurt Yuki-Onna, along with the guy dressed like a ninja, followed by an elderly man and Hisako.
Shinji looked at Hisako, and noticed that she looked like she had seen better days because she looked…injured, despite her creepy and unusual appearance.
"A creature from the darkness fought me earlier to try and obtain you," she pointed to Shinji.
"This makes no sense," he responded. "Why does anyone or anything want me? I'm a nobody."
"Because of what your parents did," the elderly man revealed to him. "They messed with forces they shouldn't have dabbled in to begin with. They tried to play at being the masters of all, unaware that they were sending their own people to a fate worse than what they believed to be possible. And now we're paying for their crimes."
Shinji didn't want to believe this. He was just a fourteen-year-old with no cherished dreams or ambitions that had been drafted into a situation by his estranged father…and friends with a girl that was half-human and half-reptile, an outcast like himself.
"What do you mean?" He asked them.
"The creature that had been kept underground where you once dwelled," Hisako explained, "was just used to release Gargos from his prison, and he released his servant, the fallen hero, Eyedol. They will gather the souls of every man, woman and child in this godless city…and come after you to ensure their reign in this world is absolute."
The elderly man then started to look like he was unwell, despite his seemingly-healthy state.
"Aaaurgh! Urgh!" He groaned, holding his head with his hands, which started sprouting grayish-blue hair and the fingernails replaced by talons. "Howwwwwwwl!"
In less than ten seconds, the man that was known as Konrad von Sabrewulf…was replaced by none other than the beast known as Sabrewulf, returned for vengeance!
"No!" He yelled in agony, and Shinji felt fear from the fact that he was standing in front of a werewolf. "No!"
As the darkness grows larger, the shades of the past retake the present! The voice uttered.
"Gargos," Hisako expressed. "Now, he's bringing out the darkness within people."
"And this turns him back into a werewolf," said Jago, but noticed that Sabrewulf looked different from before when he and Orchid last encountered him in his werewolf state.
In the past, Sabrewulf was more muscular in his upper body and thinner in his legs. Now, it was as though he was a reverse of his previous state, with his legs being more muscular and his arms being thin and veiny (basically, his incarnation from the third Killer Instinct game), and his eyes were a different shade of yellow. And unlike the previous form, this one had a tail, the same shade of grayish-blue as the rest of his body. But like his prior incarnation, his human mind remained intact.
"This is not okay!" He told them.
-x-
Bang! A large indent was made on the elevator door as Misato, Fuyutsuki and the Bridge Bunnies stood back in relative safety from the large creature with two heads and a spiked club.
"What the Hell was that?!" Shigeru questioned. "What the Hell is going on here?!"
"What the Hell, indeed," went Misato, holding her empty gun up to replace the depleted clip; she shot at that thing, and it still kept coming towards them.
"I hate this job now," Hyuga expressed. "We're supposed to be facing Angels…and that was no Angel at all!"
"It was a monster," added Maya. "It was a…a real monster."
Ding. The elevator had reached the top floor of the Geo-Front, and they vacated the elevator to get out of the base as fast as their legs could take them.
"Aaaaahh!" They heard some people scream down a corridor. "Aaah!"
"Maybe we should go help whoever's down there," said Misato, only for a stream of gore to fly out of the hall onto the floor, revealing blood, bones and entrails; whoever they belonged to was past injured. "Okay, new plan: We get the Hell out of here and send back help."
"I like that plan," went Fuyutsuki, and they fled.
Meanwhile, in the command center, Gendo and Ritsuko…had just become the unofficial guests of Gargos, who made himself comfortable in Gendo's office.
"A man of your negativity is hard to come by in any generation," Gargos told Gendo, who, like Ritsuko, was fused to a chair, painfully aware of every measure of the discomfort it caused along with being in the presence of the inhuman being. "And as for this woman…everything is illogical. There is no such thing as order in a world full of chaos. And you humans…are the most chaotic of beings in existence; you always try to put each other down, use each other when you seek an advantage, cast each other aside when you no longer have a need for each other, no matter how desperate or depraved you are, and when it comes to your bonds of blood, you don't hesitate to devastate those you consider beneath yourselves. Heh! But you two…you disgust me as much as you amuse me."
"You're…interfering…in sanctioned affairs," Gendo groaned, his face veiny due to much of it being fused to the back of his chair and with hooked chains lodged on either side of his mouth.
"Like the affair you have with this woman? Or the affair you had with her mother? Or what about the affair you have to dispose of your son because you claim to despise him? You're in no position to tell me what I'm interfering with. In fact, you're in no position to be telling me anything, human. Heh-heh-heh! And once I've gathered enough souls from those remaining within this godless city you built as a means to aid in luring the other shadows of fallen deities, I'll be one step closer to ensuring my reign is absolute. Nobody will be able to deny me what will be mine. First, a few hundred souls to replenish my power, then the soul of one willingly bound to the mockery of a fallen deity…and then your son, whose soul will be the jewel of my crown of dominance. And you two…will have the grand honor of watching him die at the claws of the only friend he has in this miserable world."
"Only friend?" Ritsuko questioned, chains wrapped around her neck and hooks stuck into her chest. "The Riptor hybrid? Their relationship is completely illogical."
Then, the hooks pulled down on her chest, sending painful signals to her brain.
"Aaah!" She yelled.
"Maybe, but to the boy, their relationship is a source of strength because the creature, descended from the ancestors created by those that dared to play with creation, couldn't bring itself to attack him when he stumbled into her former domain. She became attached to him, accepted by him, viewed as being human when she was only the barest bit of that. If anything, this creature may even desire to be more than just a friend to the boy. Such wouldn't be unspoken of. You humans have always tried to blur the lines between what is allowed and what isn't allowed. Always trying to control what you can't."
"That's sick!" Ritsuko expressed, and her hooks pulled down on her bosom further. "Aaurgh!"
"Not as sick as what I'm going to have you two do once I take the soul of his wife within that abomination you helped create and maintain," Gargos informed. "How terrified do you think the boy will be when he's brought back to see the horrors of your ugliness?"
"Grrr," they heard the growling of Eyedol as he came into the room with seven more dead workers. "These slain beings begged for their lives before they died."
"Excellent," Gargos praised him. "How many have fallen since our arrival here?"
"Six-hundred-eighteen men and women…and more to follow."
"Good. Let's go get the soul within this…Unit-01, shall we?"
"No!" Gendo yelled.
To be continued…
A/N: I'm sorry it took so long to get back to this. Life is always taking crazy twists and turns for us all. I just read the updated chapter of The Devil we Need by Jerry236, and that hadn't been updated in a long time. I'm hoping the next chapter I update will be another of my crossovers. But what did you think of this chapter?
Gargos has taken residence within the Geo-Front, Gendo and Ritsuko are his captives that he has twisted plans for, Sabrewulf has turned wolfy once again (and he's not happy about that), and Shinji's in danger due to his involvement in Gargos' plan to take the world. I felt Gendo and Ritsuko being fused to chairs was a little Hellraiser and blends into the world of Killer Instinct, but you tell me what you think. The broadcasting of thoughts and threats seemed to be odd, too, but when Gargos spoke with Yuki-Onna, there seemed to be something there that was more truth than lie. Until next time, good health and stability, readers.
