Creation began on 11-17-20

Creation ended on 05-13-21

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Evangelion Malevolence: Drawing First Blood

Baragon emerged from the ground once more and roared at Godzilla, getting his attention. The Guardian Monster had to hold him off for as long as he could until his fellow Guardian Monsters had gained enough strength to continue the battle against this being of vengeance and ensure a future for this nation endangered. Even if it meant being killed again, the souls of the honorable dead would ensure that he would return to life in another ten-thousand years; with their original slumber disturbed, they would have to sleep in rejuvenation for the same period of time required to return to full strength instead of where they had been now.

"Grraaurgh!" He roared again, and leapt into the air, biting into his neck.

"Rrrraurgh!" Godzilla shrieked as he grabbed onto Baragon's sides, trying to rip him away and dispose of him.

So long as this pest was biting into his throat, he couldn't use his signature move to eradicate his obstacles and move forward.

Up in the air, the helicopter with the cameraman continued to broadcast the fight between the two monsters.

"And now the red monster is biting Godzilla on the neck!" The guy reporting the fight yelled. "Godzilla is trying to throw the red monster off!"

-x-

After being informed that the JSSDF's plan to bomb Godzilla didn't work due to the monster blowing their bombers out of the air, Shinji returned to the command center in Central Dogma with Rumiko and witnessed the continuing battle between the God of Destruction and the God of the Earth, seeing that the latter was still putting up a good fight against the former.

"He ain't letting up," Rumiko expressed.

"Yeah," Shinji agreed with her, seeing that Godzilla had difficulty pulling Baragon off so long as he kept his jaws clamped onto his neck. "He's really giving Godzilla a hard time."

Until Godzilla managed to tear Baragon away from his neck and threw him to the ground, now sporting a few deep marks where his teeth had sunken in. Strangely, though, there didn't seem to be any blood escaping from the injury and into the world.

"Either Baragon didn't bite deep enough," Shinji told Rumiko, "or this Godzilla doesn't bleed."

"I'm going to have to believe in the former over the latter," she responded.

On the screens, Baragon righted itself up and began to move again, but Godzilla approached it and stomped it into the ground.

"And now Godzilla's stomping the red monster into the ground!" The reporter announced. "It looks like the red monster's in serious trouble!"

"Hey, man, this is awful!" The cameraman expressed, and the camera turned away from the scene. "I don't want to watch this!"

"Shut up!" The reporter ordered. "You're here to film, so you have to record all of this! Come on, you're missing it!"

The camera returned to the fight between Godzilla and Baragon, with Baragon still getting pummeled as it tried to get up and move again.

"Folks, it's real slam-down here!" The reporter went on as Godzilla continued to stomp on Baragon, preventing him from getting away. "Oh! And Godzilla puts the boot in again! It looks like the red monster can't take much more!"

But Baragon proved the reporter wrong; when Godzilla pulled back his right foot, Baragon saw an opening and charged towards him, putting his all knocking him backwards.

Godzilla, taken by complete surprise, lost his balance and fell backwards onto the ground.

"Oh, yeah, that's how you throw down!" Rumiko cheered.

-x-

With Godzilla distracted for just a few precious moments, Baragon burrowed back underground and dug deeper than the previous tunnel. Despite his considerable strength, Baragon was barely getting any results against this living engine of death and destruction. He almost made a hole in one of the arms, but the enemy's hide was thicker than his teeth could penetrate. There was one thing he was certain of, though, and it was this hatred-driven beast didn't seem to possess the ability to recover from injuries inflicted on him.

The next time he surfaced, there was only one way that he may stand a chance of beating Godzilla; he would have to shave off some of his own rejuvenated life to summon additional allies. Even if he shaved off a day of his own lifeforce, he wouldn't be as tough as currently was; his durability would be reduced and his strength would be diminished. But so long as there was a chance to beat Godzilla, he would pay the price. The people of this once-great nation deserved a future, even after all the wrong several of its people have committed.

"Grrr," he growled as he burrowed his way back up.

-x-

Godzilla looked up at the helicopter the reporter and cameraman were in…and his mouth glowed blue as he prepared to obliterate them out of the sky.

"Oh, no, Godzilla's going to kill us!" The cameraman gasped. "Get us out of here! Now! Get us out of here!"

Even within the NERV HQ, the personnel saw that Godzilla was unwilling to let them, a mere handful of mediocre human beings, flee from him.

Burst! Baragon emerged from the ground under Godzilla, knocking him back down as he unleashed his atomic breath, sending it firing in the sky away from the helicopter as it flew away.

"Rrrraaurgh!" Baragon roared, his body glowing like fire, only green. "Rrraaurgh!"

Then, simply because the cameraman was still filming, everyone with access to the news saw Baragon…divide into three, with the other two creatures beside him looking different from how he appeared. The creature on his right resembled some kind of armadillo or ankylosaurus while the one on his left was some sort of quadruped reptile with what looked like membranes in between its arms and legs.

"What…the Hell…are those two?" Misato asked.

"Probably the demigods under Baragon," went Rumiko. "Anguirus and Varan."

"Anguirus and Varan?" Ritsuko questioned. "More mythological creatures?"

"They come from legends thousands of years old. They may not be as old as Baragon is believed to be, but they're considered close to his level."

"And you think they stand a chance against Godzilla?" Misato asked her.

"That…remains to be seen."

"And this…is just unreal, people," the reporter sighs as the helicopter flew away. "The red monster has now divided itself into two more."

However, because the helicopter was flying away from the scene, whatever else they could see of the battle was cut off.

"What do you suppose are the chances of these three," Ritsuko questioned, "this…Baragon, Anguirus and Varan? What are their chances of beating Godzilla?"

"I honestly wouldn't know," Rumiko responded. "I believe in the Guardian Monsters, but even they have their own hierarchy of weakest to strongest, dependent upon many factors."

"Which would be?" Misato asked.

"The order in which they fought," went Shinji, "the order in which they appeared, or even the order in which they were killed and then prayed on to return to protect the homeland."

It seemed as though these two teens had very little knowledge of these creatures outside the mythology they stemmed from and the fact that people, in one way or another, worshipped them or prayed for them to return to life. Of course, nobody at NERV could blame them for this limited intel; NERV dealt with information based on facts and theories put into practice, not religion or mysticism or the power of belief. But they were dealing with a monster that was out to take vengeance upon them and instead of relying on the Evangelions, they were being dependent upon some creatures from ancient times to save them from certain doom.

Gendo couldn't believe this as the transmission was terminated; either the camera was disconnected or the helicopter was taken out.

"Fuyutsuki," he uttered to the sub-commander, "we need to get back in contact with the JSSDF, immediately. We must be ready for when and if these creatures show up here."

-x-

Now that he was backed up by Anguirus and Varan, maybe Baragon stood a better chance against Godzilla. He had to hold out long enough for the other two Guardian Monsters to awaken with whatever strength they could gather from the passing of the homeland's honorable dead over the generations and face this vengeance-driven foe. While he might've been the weakest of the trio, he had lasted this long against a stronger foe.

"Rrraugh!" He roared, and Varan took flight while Anguirus charged towards Godzilla.

It was all or nothing in this battle. Win or die. Fight or fall.

Anguirus rolled into a ball and struck Godzilla with enough force to knock him down.

Godzilla was further enraged by this action than he had been with Baragon because it interfered with his purpose to punish the nation of Japan. As he saw Varan fly down and grab his tail, his initial thought was fling him across the ground, but found that such an idea would be difficult; Varan, despite his own size, was much stronger than he anticipated him to be, able to drag him across the ground and then lifted him off the ground.

"Rrraaurgh!" Godzilla growled as his spines lit up as he absorbed the atmospheric radiation into his mouth; he was going to blow Varan to pieces.

But Varan was smarter and released Godzilla's tail after going up a considerable height.

Godzilla was dropping a hundred feet onto the ground, disrupting his nuclear energy for the moment before he hit the ground. When he did hit the ground, his radiation stored up for his attack was dispelled across the ground.

"Grr…" He groaned as he slowly got up.

SLAM! Anguirus, still rolled up, struck Godzilla and knocked him down again.

"Rrraah!" He roared when he unfurled and stood up on his hind legs.

Varan glided down beside him and Baragon and gave Godzilla a death glare. These three were a unexpected match against the God of Destruction, giving him a hard time.

Unfortunately, Godzilla didn't get to be the monster he was due to mere infamy. No matter what the enemy or how many there were, he would come out on top and conquer all. Rising back to his towering height of sixty meters, he prepared to eliminate the trio with every fiber of his rejuvenated being, his eyes glowing like white fire.

-x-

Shinji escorted Rumiko to the women's restroom after she informed him that she needed to go, and now he was waiting for her out in the hallway. Of all the people in NERV right now, she was the only person he was able to stand because she had a moral compass that wasn't pointing northwest, northeast or south; the initial attempt to bomb Godzilla with N² bombs had been met with failure when Godzilla destroyed the jets carrying them with his atomic breath, not that Shinji was complaining, as he was relieved that the people that lived where Godzilla was currently attacking now had a chance to get away. So long as he wasn't directly involved, the deaths of the military personnel that were in those jets to deliver their non-nuclear payload to stop Godzilla were deaths he could look past.

"You show more hesitancy when faced with making hard choices," he heard the voice of his father as he turned his head to the left in the hallway, seeing Gendo. "Sooner or later, you will have to make hard decisions."

Shinji frowned at his father and responded, "Hard decisions require those that have no compassion in their hearts or light in their souls. When people like that make choices like what ended up failing because of a creature that has a vendetta against the nation, they cease any right to be viewed as people and are no better than the monsters that hate people for something they did long ago. I'm sorry…or rather, I am not sorry…that I don't desire to make life-altering choices that end up either ruining people's lives…or taking them to preserve the lives of other people elsewhere because some people that want to live so much have no morality when it comes to causing pain and suffering onto others, but if you tell me to do something that places people in jeopardy, I will refuse, regardless of what happens to me."

"You would sacrifice all of mankind to keep your conscience clear?" Gendo asked him.

"Do you even have to ask such a question? Most people don't grow a conscience overnight while others try to pass off something else as a conscience when how they really feel is anything but such a thing. If anything, this is your fault."

"Like you, I have a responsibility to ensure mankind has a future."

"Yeah, everyone keeps telling me that…and quite frankly, I am tired of hearing it. It's just a belief that I can't believe in, no matter how many times I'm told. Even if I did believe in it, the only life that should be put on the line is the life of the person that has nothing left to lose…and nothing left to live for…because there's nothing and nobody around to tether him to any future worth living for."

"Is that what you think?"

"It's how I feel."

Suddenly, the door to the women's restroom opened and Rumiko came out, noticing that father and son seemed to be having a conversation.

"Did I miss something?" She asked Shinji.

"No," he told her; he'd tell her about it later. "Just a conflict of beliefs."

"Coming from you, that's something I know to be true; people with different beliefs will always have a conflict between them if they can't find equal ground. That's a downside to individuality and free will to make choices others can't accept them for making."

Gendo then watched as the two teens walked away…and felt the need to sneer at the fact that they were holding hands; if there was something else going on between them, he needed to find a way to pull them apart.

"It doesn't appear to be that the girl is trying to get in the way of NERV, Ikari," Fuyutsuki had told Gendo as they had observed Shinji and Rumiko in the hallway after the decision was made to drop N² bombs against Godzilla, something that the teens couldn't agree with. "It may be that the girl likes your son…and the feeling appears to be mutual…to a degree."

If there was one thing he didn't enjoy about his son, it was the mere possibility that there was someone that wanted to be more than something as insignificant as a…a love interest. Even the very idea of his son having someone involved in his life was just a distraction in a series of distractions in his scenario, which may have been compromised permanently due to Godzilla.

-x-

It was just as the three were starting to believe. No matter what they did to inflict grievous wounds onto Godzilla, he would just get back up and not look any worse than he did before. But from what Baragon could see, none of the bite marks or puncture marks he and Anguirus inflicted seemed to be healing, which implied that this beast was not capable of regeneration. If this was so, then all that needed to be done to stop Godzilla was to injure to the point where he couldn't move. Even if he had only an arm or leg left, he wouldn't be much of a threat if his mobility was compromised.

However, the goal had to be to try and cripple this living embodiment of destruction, and he had his doubts that he'd be able to so much as tear off an arm. But that wouldn't stop him from trying, though. As a Guardian Monster, he had a responsibility to protect the homeland against destruction, even at the risk of dying a second time.

"Rrrraaurgh!" He roared, and Anguirus and Varan charged with him towards the God of Destruction, intent of inflicting as much harm as possible in a rush attack. "Rrrraarugh!"

But Godzilla was prepared for that. He turned around and whipped his tail at the three, sending them crashing into a hillside. Then, with his spines aglow, he breathed his atomic breath on the trio with such intensity that they were obliterated.

"Rrrraaurgh!" Baragon shrieked as he was the last to be vaporized.

In the fires, Godzilla could see orange particles floating into the air, scattering across the sky.

"Grr," he growled, now no longer impeded by these distractions. "Grrraaurgh!"

-x-

Shatter! The statue from the shrine in Myōkō crumbled into pieces in the temple, and Itsudatsu sighed at what it signified; Baragon, the God of the Earth, had been defeated by Godzilla in battle.

"Isayama-Sama," one of the teens at the shrine uttered in reaction to the statue breaking. "The statue… Why'd it break?"

"The guardian it represented fell in battle," he explained to her as he looked at the other two statues. "Only two remain, and they will give it their all."

To be continued…

A/N: And with Baragon no more, all we have are Mothra and King Ghidorah. But even the Evas will be in on the danger, despite Shinji and the JSSDF's protests against the assumption that the cybernetic behemoth will be a match against the God of Destruction.