Creation began on 08-20-20

Creation ended on 08-21-20

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Evangelion Malevolence: Error

A/N: In this crossover, there's only a guarantee of danger caused by the arrogance of the past.

NERV, the paramilitary agency tasked by the United Nations after the global devastation that was Second Impact, to defend the human race from the threat of the Angels…was in a situational rut at the moment. A moment that, in certain cases would be a few seconds or a few minutes, had been progressing for over two months now. The people in charge of it had no clue as to what was going on. As far as they were aware, at least one Angel should have shown up on a specific date to attack the world, but there has been no sighting of any unusual creatures.

Gendo Ikari, the man tasked with running NERV and ensuring that mankind had a future, was questioning why nothing was going the way it had been written. The Angels should've marked their return the same day his son, with whom he hadn't had any contact with for over ten years, had arrived, but never did.

Why? He wondered as he sat in his office, pondering the mystery to why the Angels have yet to appear and advance towards Tokyo-3. Why have they failed to show up?

All NERV could really ascertain about this…situation…was that there were no major signs of any AT-Fields detected, and for the last two weeks, there had been a temporary spike in energy miles away from Japan, but it only lasted for eight seconds before disappearing, and they couldn't identify the source.

Ring-ring! His phone rang, and he answered.

"This is Ikari," he uttered. "What do you mean, you've found something?"

-x-

"…Now, I'm sure many of you have heard about the perseverance of the previous generation that led to the survival of society and the economy following Second Impact," said the old man that would drone on and on about the aftermath of fifteen years ago, "but you probably don't know anything about what happened in Nineteen-Fifty-Four, a period where people's perseverance was truly tested after the end of the war."

The students in the classroom looked at him like he had grown some sense for the first time.

"Less than ten years after the end of the war, Japan was attacked…by Godzilla," the teacher revealed, and their attention was in full view. "Tokyo was ground zero for the devastation. Only the courage and determination of the people before us managed to save the country. That battle…was the only real battle the Japanese Self-Defense Forces ever had to face…since their founding in that same year, Nineteen-Fifty-Four."

A hand was raised in the back of the class.

"Yes?"

"Just how big was Godzilla?" A girl asked the teacher.

"Fifty meters. One-hundred-sixty-four feet in height."

The students murmured; that was bigger than most of the buildings back in the past.

"After its defeat, it fell into obscurity," the teacher continued. "Since then, with the period of rebuilding and expanding, Japan had enjoyed some measure of prosperity. However, the threat of such a creature of comparable fury has not passed. You see, a few years before Second Impact, reports of another large monster or unspecified animal…attacked in the east of the United States. In New York City, to be precise. And since then…there have been unfounded reports of several sightings in other parts of the world."

In the back of the classroom, one student, Shinji Ikari, found the lecture more intuitive than the one on Second Impact; it had been more informative and new, based on old information that hadn't been given in a long time.

"Hey," he heard one of the students in front of him say to another student, "that attack in New York… That was also Godzilla, right?"

"A few Americans claimed it was, but it was mostly based on rumors," the other boy responded. "Some people here had doubts. They couldn't estimate how big the thing was."

The bell rang, and school had ended for the day. This enabled Shinji to go do the one thing that actually helped him to pass time with some ease; unlike the albino girl he met a few days after he arrived to Tokyo-3, Shinji found solace in working at a place that was different from NERV…and could help him forget about what they were doing. While most people his age might've preferred working at a library or an auto shop, Shinji preferred to work at a shrine just outside the city limits. He had compared it to a library, only without the books.

"Ikari," he heard Rei Ayanami speak to him as he gathered his belongings, "we were instructed to return to NERV HQ afterwards."

He looked at her like this was something he was obligated to do; he had gotten his schedule straighten out with NERV so that neither conflict with one another, and this was one of those days where he didn't have to show his face at NERV.

"Leave me alone, Ayanami," he told her and left the classroom.

Ever since he showed up, he had seen the way his father was around the girl…and wanted nothing to do with either of them. If his father preferred some strange girl over his own son, that was his choice, but he wasn't going to go chat with the girl when it was unnecessary for him.

As he left, Ayanami was left confused. Did he not get informed that they had a scheduled synchronization test today? He seemed to be in a hurry to leave after school was let out, but not to go to NERV HQ.

-x-

"…Welcome, Shinji," uttered the elderly man that had employed Shinji after he showed up in Tokyo-3.

"Good day to you, Isayama-San," Shinji greeted as he sat his bag down behind the desk and put on his apron. "Say, Isayama-San…what do you know about monsters?"

"Monsters? They exist, that they do. Most don't believe they do, but those that do…pray they never appear. Fear can drive those that believe to hope they never appear. Disbelief can drive those that don't believe to assume they're just stories. Why do you ask?"

"One of my teachers today, they spoke about a monster that supposedly attacked Japan in Nineteen-Fifty-Four."

"Oh, you mean, Godzilla. Out of many monsters, he is the worst of them all. A beast of reckoning. He will return to lay waste to Japan once again."

"Once again? So, then…he has attacked Japan before?"

"He has. Do you disbelieve?"

"Honestly…I want to believe in something more than what other people tell me."

"Your desire to be your own person, seen as different from those you're related to."

"Yeah."

"Just as I say to each of my employees here, whatever does happen in the unwritten future, today, tomorrow, and the day after, know that whatever fate befalls you…isn't personal like those with unresolved issues that must be settled if one seeks to move beyond the past and into the future in the eternal present."

Shinji nodded in acceptance, but was confused by what his boss told him. It almost sounded as though…Isayama was sympathetic to the young people for something that had happened, but didn't elaborate on it. He decided not to question it and proceeded to get to work on minding the shrine as people came to pray to their deities.

-x-

"…A research submarine from the JSSDF was performing a deep sea reconnaissance when it was requested to investigate a nuclear sub that was last reported near our coast," went Misato to Gendo and Fuyutsuki, replaying recorded footage taken by the sub, showing the wreckage of the second submarine. "Just underneath the sub, there was were these…remains."

On the screens, one could make out a strange, large, fish-like creature next to the remains of what looked like a large, diamond-shaped object that had been melted or torn into.

Gendo then saw a bright light far from where they remains were illuminated, and the camera turned to pan on a retreating a form.

"What is that?" Ritsuko Akagi questioned, unable to make out what was no longer there, as the screen went static; the footage had cut off.

"The sub's operator, Kurama Ummi, is on the line now," Misato informed. "Can you describe what you saw, Mr. Ummi?"

"Yes, I can," the man on the phone responded.

"What was it?"

"It looked like…the fin of a huge creature."

The NERV personnel murmured amongst each other, confused by what they saw and heard. A fin? Huge creature? What was going on here?

"But we don't know exactly what it was," said Misato, "but we're getting the remains they found, and we're certain of one thing: The remains don't relate to any terrestrial organism in recorded history, pre and post-Second Impact."

"Just how many remains are there?" Ritsuko questioned.

"Five different corpses."

-x-

All five of these would-be judges were now dealt with, leaving it to cast its own judgement upon these people, and not because of some divinity crisis they had brought upon themselves. This was a judgement they had set in motion long ago, and they needed to be punished severely for it, each and every one of them, until there was nothing left of them. This is why it exists, it's sole reason for being, and now there was nothing in the way of it doing its duty. It was the judge, jury and executioner of all Japan, and they needed to be dealt with in due time.

If any other would-be judges were to appear, it would do away with them, too.

To be continued…

A/N: I bet some of you can guess where this is going. Judgement is a reckoning and full of suffering that cannot be overlooked.