Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Evangelion Genesis or Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse, they belong solely to their rightful owners.
Warnings: This story will be YAOI, ShinjixKaworu. It you do not like DO NOT read. This warning is for your own good and mine if you do not like BoyxBoy goodness! Also the characters will be OOC so, once again, if you do not appreciate this then DO NOT read!
Author's Note: Be aware that I did change the Timeline around to accommodate my ideas for the story. So ages will be different. Events will also be different. This story will also have only elements of Campus Apocalypse, so sorry for those who wanted the EVA units in this story.
Evangelion: Angel's Egg
Launch 002: This is Hell
Year 2008
Helicopters and tanks were parked on the beach shores. Men ran frantically around, divers swimming the waters, all of the sweeping the area. Gendo Ikari stared at all of them, waiting and watching. He sighed as his mind took him back to memories he'd rather not remember.
"Sir, we found him!"
Gendo moved out onto the beach and to the water where many of his men stood, guns held ready. He made his way past them motioning for them to lower their weapons. He gazed down at the child he had not seen in almost two years. Lying naked in the sands, drenched and bleeding from the side of his head.
"Shinji…."
• • •
Year 2015, Tokyo 2
Shinji reached into the vending machine and took out the melon soda that had dropped down. Opening it he looked up as an announcement was called over the station intercoms. All around him people rushed about, molding together like cattle. It was so crowded that he felt isolated, claustrophobic.
"Shinji!"
Startled by the voice he turned to find a girl standing to his left looking at him sternly, her hands poised on her hips. She was a skinny thing with brunette hair done up in twin pigtails and hazel eyes that burned with fierce authority that demanded respect. She wore a blue dress with a white coat over it and strap sandals.
Shinji smiled nervously as he turned to her, "Sorry Hikari, spaced out."
"Geez, you looked like a weirdo just staring like that, if you're not to careful people will start to think you're a creeper" joked the girl as she grinned at him.
"Let's hope not, so where's your shadow?"
She smiled and turned her head to look behind her, Shinji following her line of sight to a teen their age lying on a bench, hands behind his head and eyes closed. He had short brown hair and looked a bit on the delinquent side. He wore a baggy dark blue jacket and black pants.
"Boys! I swear, the kid has to morals, you'd think he was a hobo or something" said Hikari before she held her hands up to cuff around her mouth, "Hey, Toji!"
They watched as he was startled awake by her shout and bolted right up, nearly falling off the bench, causing the two to chuckle. He turned to them and glared before standing and walking over to them, hands in pockets and his form slouched a bit.
"There's the lug I know" said Hikari as he got to them.
"Yeah, yeah" said Toji as he held up one of his hands to wave to two finger salute Shinji who just gave a small wave.
"Train 48659 is now departing Tokyo-2 station for..."
Hikari looked at her wrist watch, "Oh, that's our train, c'mon!"
She grabbed Toji's wrist and whirled him around, practically dragging him along, while Shinji followed after at a slower pace.
"Jesus, slow down!" cried Toji as he was flung about like a ragdoll.
About a minute later they reached a train, barely managing to make it before the doors closed behind them.
Catching their breath they took up a spot by a door, the rain was awfully crowded, but for a weekend it was not new.
"So, Shinji, your uncle gonna let you go on the spring trip with us?" asked Toji.
Shinji was leaning his left shoulder against the door, facing the two who stood together.
He looked at them and sighed, "Well you know Uncle Kozo, he was a friend of my Dad's before he died, and I was left in his care, the man is so protective of me, I'm not even sure if he likes letting me out of the house. Forget letting me go out of the country."
"Too bad, it'll be less fun without you there" said Hikari who was standing in front of him.
Shinji grinned, "Yeah right, you two lovebirds would be cuddling together on the beach even if I was there, "eyeing how Toji was leaning over Hikari, arm resting on the train encasement.
They each blushed; Toji hurrying out of his position to stand straight and whistle like nothing was going on, Shinji chuckled at his friends' behavior. Hikari was twiddling her fingers and pouting a bit.
• • •
A woman stood on top of a nearly broken building holding a set of binoculars to her eyes that were protected by a set of sunglasses. Her raven hair whipped behind her back, her stance firm and commanding.
Taking the binoculars from her eyes she looked down at her vest pocket at the sound of a beep. Reaching into her pocket she took out an odd device that looked like a compass. Her grip on it suddenly tightened and she tsked, gritting her teeth.
"Shit!"
Looking up she held the binoculars up to her face again, right at a moving train headed north.
She grinned.
• • •
Shinji looked outside again, outside appearing like a wave of blurry pictures being fast forwarded through. Sighing he closed his eyes and drifted off. Everything around him began to slip away, drowning out, muffled like the beating ocean waves. Everything just seemed to glide through him, come together into one fold, one being.
Ring….
Shinji frowned at the sound, his face disturbed.
Ring….
He jolted awake, shocked at the jerking crash, and all he heard were the screams of Toji, Hikari and the other passengers, as well as the twisting, bending sound of screeching metal. Then it all went silent, cold and dark.
• • •
It was hot, to hot. He hissed at the licking flames that danced around him, scorching away at anything it touched. Looking around he was horrified at the sight of the crashed train, so easily folded in like a crumbled piece of paper. Looking around frantically, he tried to locate Toji and Hikari. Standing up he called out to them, only pausing briefly to wonder why his voice was muffled, barely uttering a full sounded syllable.
He turned and smiled when he found Hikari standing a few feet in front of him. Running over to her he spoke her name to get her attention but she did not seem to hear him. Reaching her he grabbed her shoulder and asked her if she was ok and where Toji was.
She still did not respond. Frowning he shook her a bit and tried to ask her again, louder this time, but it just seemed his voice was drowned out. Getting scared by the second he turned her around and gasped, feeling like he was just punched in the gut, hard.
Hikari, she had a piece of glass puncturing through her throat, her right eye was missing and there was a gapping hole in her gut, her right arm mangled and torn. Her entire front was covered in blood and she stared on, just empty. Her appearance was as white as snow, a corpse, that's all he could explain her as.
And then, in an instant she grabbed for him, causing him to scream and fall back onto the ground. She pounced down on him, clawing at him, reaching out before she just…melted away into a puddle of orange liquid.
• • •
Shinji snapped his eyes open, jolting awake from what he could only assume was a nightmare, but the pain in his body told him otherwise. Only managing to focus and move his eyes he darted them about to find the wreckage of the demolished train, thrown about, as well as rubble, signs that the tunnel had caved in a bit.
Groaning he tried to sit up, struggling with limbs that screamed in protest and begged to just fall into a dead limp. He bit down a yelp as pain shot through his body, practically hearing the agonizing groan from it.
He stopped just as he managed to painfully get to his knees, gasping at the sound of what he familiarized as Ode to Joy. Looking up he was shocked to see a boy sitting on a large boulder, one leg propped up while the other dangling down without a care.
He was Shinji's age by the look of it, and from what he could make out, had short silver hair and shimmering crimson eyes. His skin just seemed to give off its own milky light. He smiled as he hummed that song, looking down at Shinji as if he were an old friend. He wore a sleeveless black hoodie, a white t-shirt underneath and dark blue denim jeans.
"W-who are you?"
The hummed music stopped and there was silence for a brief moment as Shinji took in the boy, who seemed to hold a certain aura that felt compelling to him. Like he had known the boy all his life, and possibly longer.
"'Who are you?' is there ever an answer to this question that one can define? 'Who?' How can we say, when we may be someone we are not sure of, or something entirely different then what we know?"
Shinji was puzzled by the boy's speech. And turned his attention back to what could have happened. Looking around he found small fires cast about the area of the disastrous crash. A part of the tunnel ceiling had indeed caved in and had crushed a good part of the train. Looking around some more he noticed that there was no one else around.
"Hikari? Toji?" he called out, confused as to why no one else was around, there was not even a sound to indicate that anyone but him was on the train. He called out again, this time yelling their names, hoping they'd answer, his heart sinking into his gut like a heavy weight. His search got frantic as he turned to every direction to try and locate some sign of his friends, of anyone.
In a disaster like this people would be crying out, screaming in pain from injuries, and trying to get out and find help. Something!
"No one's here."
Shinji turned and nearly screamed to find the silver haired youth standing above him. He had not even heard the boy move from his spot. The boy was grinning down at him, hands in his pockets.
"What are you talking about?"
The boy's grin just widened before he bent down and helped Shinji to his feet. Shinji gasped as the boy set a hand on his shoulder, a surge of flashes punching him in the head as they swarmed in at once. A red sea where the planets touched, strange creatures flying over a crimson sky. His mother convulsing, his father screaming.
Then they stopped.
Shinji gasped out as if he had held his breath for minutes under water. And realized that he was in the boy's arms, standing perfectly as if he had never been in an accident, he even felt better. Astonished he looked down to see that he felt this way because there was nothing wrong with him to even tell he had been in a train that crashed. He was healed of any scratches if bruises.
But that was impossible!
Before he could even start spouting nonsense about this new situation there was a cry from outside. He and the boy turned to the open end of the tunnel where crashes and screamed were coming from.
"What's going on?" whispered Shinji fearfully.
The boy grabbed his wrist and ran forward, dragging him along, "We have to go" he said calmly as if he had not heard anything, heading right for the sounds.
Shinji gasped and wretched his wrist away, backing away from the silver haired boy, who stopped and turned to look at him with a cool composed look.
"Wait, did you not hear that? And I can't leave without Hikari and Toji!"
The boy just stared at him, "but you can't…there's nothing to find."
Shinji knit his eyebrows together, his mouth forming a thin line, "What?"
"Shinji…they're dead, don't you remember?"
Shinji's lungs just seemed to collapse, and he chocked on his words, trying to yell that that could not be true, that the teen was lying.
The Flaming hot flames sinking its teeth into his skin.
Shinji paused, shocked by the scenes playing a film picture through his mind.
Monsters, that looked like overgrown, deformed fetus babies with bony wings sprouting from his back, climbing over the wreckage, screeching as they pounced on the passengers that fled in fear, some falling prey to gruesome deaths, eaten alive by these things whose shrieks rendered several passengers to have their bodies explode.
Shinji shook his head in disbelief, "No…."
Toji, Toji was there trying to wake a Hikari that looked like the one in his dream, her remaining eye vacant of life. He was crying trying to get her up, pulling at her limp body. He then gasped and looked up to find one of those monsters overhead before screaming as it pounced on him.
"NO!"
Shinji fell to his knees, shaking his head frantically, trying to dispel the images.
A monster came at him as he woke up outside of the train, he screamed, holding his hands up to give some protection. When nothing happened he looked up to see….
He looked up at the boy, "You, what are you?"
The boy grinned and picked him up again and led him to the tunnel exit. Shinji could only follow, the will power to stop not even a thought to him. When they got to the tunnel opening the boy pushed Shinji behind him, blocking the brunette teen form from view. Shinji looked up with trance eyes.
"What are you looking at?" the words barely had any backbone to them.
The boy turned his head to him and then pointed outside. Shinji looked over his shoulder and gasped. The tracks had been destroyed, and down below on the city streets citizens ran for their lives as more of those baby like monsters flew or ran on four limbs after them. There were tanks in the area as well as foot soldiers but their guns seemed useless. Gunfire lit the streets, crackling with booming thunder.
"Wha-what are they?"
"Cherubs, more of a downgrade from ANGELs, nasty little things."
"ANGELs?"
The boy did not say anything else and just grabbed Shinji's hand and ran along the broken tracks to the center where the tracks had been demolished.
"Climb down."
Shinji looked down to see that the metal bar of the tracks had bent downward towards the ground below, but had far from reached the ground. Gulping he looked at the boy and could tell that he was not kidding. He looked dead serious.
"There's no way, I'd die" protested Shinji.
The other teen just looked at him before smiling. Shinji was confused by this but that soon changed to horror as he felt a push to his chest and her felt himself falling. He screamed clutching his eyes shut, he was going to die, he was going to die! Tears flung from his eyes as he braced himself for an impact on the pavement below. At least it would be swift, he would not feel any pain, he hoped.
Then he felt himself slow down. Surprised and curious as to why he felt weightless, he opened his eyes to find himself floating downward, He moved himself upright to look at the ground that was slowly coming closer. Inches away he fell smoothly on the roof of a car.
"No way…."
What had happened, what was going on? Looking up he quickly got out of the way, jumping down onto the pavement, as the other teen came floating down as well, looking like an angel descending from heaven. He landed softly on the roof of the vehicle. The sliver haired teen sighed before he looked at Shinji and grinned before jumping down and patted himself off.
"Um, you still have not told me your name" said the brunette.
The silver haired teen looked around for a bit before looking at Shinji and smiling, 'Nagisa, Kaworu Nagisa."
Shinji nodded, "Uh, Ikari, Shinji Ikari."
The boy did not say anything but grabbed his hand again and ran down the road, stealthily dodging the sight of the Cherubs. Shinji nearly let it all out right there at the sight of half eaten bodies lying in the streets and the blood coating almost every inch of the roads and sidewalks.
The city was in fiery ruins and no matter where they ran to people were dying from these demons, soldiers were trying all they could but it proved to be hopeless. How long had he been out, how was this happening so quickly and they had had no prior notice?
Shinji jerked awake to their situation just as he bumped into Kaworu's back and was about to ask him why he stopped when he saw several Cherubs standing in front of him. They screeched at them, their deformed fetal bodies jerking about like broken wind up dolls. Baring their mouths of sharp teeth at them.
Shinji backed away, moving his free hand to clutch onto Kaworu's arm. Said teen only moved in front of him and held out his arm, motioning for Shinji to back away very slowly. As they moved the things just stood there, menacing and deadly little things, covered in the blood of those they had killed and eaten.
There was a sudden sound and Shinji looked down to see that he had accidentally kicked a can. Looking back he only had time to utter a short yelp before the things charged at them. Kaworu pushed him away from him, and held up his hand above him. Shinji watched as a bright light circled around the teens hand, practically blinding him and the Cherubs, who screamed in pain.
When it cleared, Shinji opened his eyes to find Kaworu slicing the Cherub to bits with an elegant Rapier, its hilt pure gold, the blade long and slim, but fierce. He backed away from the bloodshed, not taking his eyes off the teen who met these things half way as they clawed at him, pounced and charged.
Shrieeeeeeek!
Shinji stopped dead and turned slowly, fearful of what could be waiting behind him. It came into view, he screamed as a Cherub appeared to be inches from his face straight above him. He threw himself back, holding his hands out to push it away. He wanted it to stop, to go away. He did not want to die, not by this thing.
'Help me!' he cried out.
His body suddenly became hot, smoldering, intoxicating. He felt so light all of a sudden in an instant, as if all gravity had been lifted from the world, the same feeling of when he floated down from the bridge. Opening his eyes he gasped to find an orange shield of some sort protecting him from the cherub who was beating on it angrily, trying to claw into it, but its attempts were just bounced away like bullet proof glass.
Shinji watched it, astonished. Only to be shocked a second later as the sword pierced the shield and speared the deformed fetal babe. He cringed as it screeched out, flailing itself on the blade before its movements just dulled to a stop in what seemed like hours. Shinji watched as orange liquid dripped out of the monster, traveling along the sliver blade and onto his face.
His body seemed to go into spasms, his eyes unfocused, darting about in his skull, as he stared up at the dead corpse, more of the orange blood falling on his face, like a tainted rain that seared his skin.
Kaworu looked down at the smaller teen before lowering his sword and flinging the Cherub off the blade. The sword then vanished in a spark of light.
"Shinji, we have to go, now."
He did not wait for a response as he grabbed the teen's wrist and ran, Shinji stumbling after him. They turned a corner, only to be stopped as Kaworu jerked back, a kick was aimed at his face. Letting go of Shinji he dodged a few punches and managed to land a kick to the person's gut.
Shinji, snapping out of his trance, looked at the person to find that they were female, a woman with long raven hair. She wore a skin tight black dress, with a red jacket and black boots. Her eyes were hidden by a black visor. Around her neck was a cross necklace.
She stood, patting her stomach as if she had just finished a good meal, grinning at the silver haired teen who grinned back. They attacked each other once more, meeting half way, their fists connecting before they let out a furry of punches and kicks. The woman fought in more of a Capoeira style.
Kaworu pushed the woman away with a roundhouse kick to her face, shattering the visor and sending her to the ground. Seconds later, she sat up once again as if nothing was wrong, like she had just tripped, and looked at them. Shinji gasped as he stared into hardened golden slit eyes, the veins around them bulging out, beating. The woman grit her teeth as she stood and charged at Kaworu again only to stop as a car came racing down the road to their left.
She turned towards it at the last minute and the car crashed into her pinning her against a building, shattering her body. She couched up blood before falling limp on the head of the car. But…this blood...was orange, shocking Shinji.
"Shinji!"
The brunette teen jumped and looked towards the car at the driver.
"Uncle!"
The man in the driver's seat, a gray haired man, looked at him sternly, "Get in!"
Kaworu followed the order without hesitation while Shinji paused to look at the woman's still corpse before getting in the back with the silver haired teen. The man put the car in reverse and backed up, dislodging the woman's body from it and falling limp to the ground. He swerved the car around and drove down the road.
Shinji looked out the back, towards the woman's body as they drove away from it, picking up speed. He turned to look at Kaworu, who was wiping his fists of the orange substance with a cloth. Staring up to the front he looked at the man who was his uncle, who was driving mercilessly over bodies that lay in the road.
Everywhere they went people were running everywhere; the gunfire was quiet now, safe for a cry of it here and there.
"I want to know, what is going on" demanded Shinji as he set his hands on the back of the driver's seat, moving to place himself beside the man.
The man looked at him from his peripheral vision before looking back at the road. The brunette teen waited for a bit, ready to listen to this man speak. Shinji was certain he knew what was going on, and the fact the Kaworu seemed calm around him told him that they knew each other. When the man did not talk Shinji grit his teeth, anger smothering him.
"Uncle, my friends are dead, people are dying and these things are killing everything in sight, now tell me what is going on!"
The man still did not say anything so Shinji just grumbled in frustration, the result of it all catching up with him at last. He fell upon the back seat, slouching in it. Tears fell from his eyes uncontrollably as he thought back to Hikari and Toji. How everything was fine just a while ago and then it all turned to hell. Covering his face with his hands he leaned his head back, his body racked with sobs.
This was hell.
• • •
The woman's corpse lay still as the car drove off. Minutes passed, the silence disturbed by a few echoes of gunfire and screams. Suddenly, the woman's body just seemed to fix itself into place, and there was a twitch of her fingers. Seconds passed before her body gave a jerk, she raised her head up as if waking up from a sleep that was disturbed. Her face written with irritation.
She slowly got to her hands and knees, nursing her chest as her ribs seemed to move underneath her clothes, a cracking sound, though muffled, could be heard. She looked down the street towards where the car had gone before reaching into her coat pocket and taking out a cell phone. Dialing a number she held it up to her ear, a ring tone drawing out for a number of 2 two time before it was picked up.
"Katsuragi here, I've located the target, 005 is with him, as well as Fuyutsuki Kozo…I was, unfortunately, unable to capture the target, mission failure."
After a few minutes she hung up the phone, placing it back inside her jacket pocket. Sighing, Katsuragi looked down at herself. She stood and dusted herself off before looking to where the car had driven off to again and growled. Turning to the opposite direction she took a few steps before freezing to a stop. Her body began to jerk about, convulsing as she clutched at her throat, stumbling on her feet and she grabbed a hold of a wall with one hand.
She seemed to be chocking desperately for air, foaming at the mouth as her pupils became dilated, her eyes flashing between golden slits to normal hazelnut brown. The veins of her body began to bulge out and her eyes suddenly rolling to the back of her head. Frantically, Katsuragi took her hand away from her throat she reached into the left pocket of her jacket and took out an injection gun, a vial of orange fluid inside. Putting it to her neck she pulled the trigger, cringing as a needle entered her skin, emptying the liquid into her bloodstream.
She gasped out, taking a hungry grasp of air before chocking on it, coughing as she fell to her knees, her body calming down. He eyes returned to normal, turning hazelnut once more. Throwing the gun away it broke against the concrete sidewalk, her glare following it with a hatred that would make even the deadliest of animals cringe in fear.
OMG! That took forever to write! Well, here is the next chapter, hope you like it, thanks for reading and please review!
Sayonara!