Evangelion Malevolence

by Traitor of All Traitors

Before the end of the world, a judgment was meant to take place. For fifteen years, it was delayed. But now it can no longer be avoided. Buildings will fall, people will be slaughtered, and he will let nothing stand in his way.

9. The Devil's Brutality

Creation began on 07-05-21

Creation ended on 07-10-21

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Evangelion Malevolence: The Devil's Brutality

Shinji opened his eyes and saw a blurry face over him. As his vision came into focus, he saw that it was Rumiko, who had a worrisome expression.

"Shinji," she expressed, "you're finally awake."

"Mmm… Wha…what happened?" He questioned.

"You don't remember?"

"Barely."

"You went up against Godzilla to defend the city."

"You went up against Godzilla to defend the city," her words echoed in his mind, and he reached for his head with her left hand as what he had forgotten about came back. "How long was I out?"

"Five hours," she revealed, seeing him look at his bandaged hand. "It was a miracle that you came back in one piece."

"But Godzilla… He's still out there. I didn't stop him, and he leveled the city."

"There are still two Guardian Monsters left to face him."

"Do you truly believe they can stop him?"

"At this point, all I can do is hope."

Shinji tried to get up from the bed, but found it difficult due to an issue.

"I can't feel my legs," he told her.

"It's temporary numbness," she explained what she had been informed. "It'll be half an hour before any feeling returns. Your capsule was crushed slightly."

Those jerks. No matter what they say, the Eva is just one more obstacle that can barely rival something as dangerous as Godzilla.

Meanwhile, the damage to the city was being inspected by those that managed to survive Godzilla's attack on it…and the Geo-Front.

Misato was among the survivors, assessing the devastation and was grateful that it had been cleared of civilians. But now the city was a lost cause for the whole country. No matter how much was paid to rebuild, Godzilla had made certain that nobody would want to return after the failed battle with Unit-01. And the resulting aftermath when he broke into the Geo-Front and disposed of Unit-00 left NERV in a series of disgraces and turmoil.

NERV HQ had been destroyed and the entire facility, all save for the trauma center and what was untouched in Central Dogma. The damage caused to Terminal Dogma had exceeded the Hayflick Limit, and the discovery of a giant creature nailed to a red metal cross had left those still alive to talk about it questioning how something like it was beneath their feet the entire time and they weren't aware of it. But Godzilla seemed to be aware of it and went out of his way to incinerate it to nothing more than a memory to be forgotten about.

"Godzilla," she heard Ritsuko say, fortunate to have survived as well, with just a bandage on her head, "truly a god incarnate."

"A violent one," she added as they stood in front of the giant hole Godzilla had made to enter the base in the city. "What was NERV doing with something like that locked up down there? And why did Godzilla want to destroy it?"

"Probably perceived it as a threat to itself."

Misato felt her phone vibrate, and she answered it.

"Katsuragi, go," she uttered, and received an update. "That's good to hear."

Despite the loss of Units-00 and 01, the First and Third Children had survived…and Shinji was starting to regain feeling in his legs.

"At this point, we'll be disbanded," Ritsuko told her.

"So long as we're still alive, we can still fight Godzilla," she responded.

"With what? The JSSDF couldn't stop it and we were just as ineffective."

"Think positive, Rits."

"I can't think positive at a time like this. This city was supposed to symbolize that the human race could defend itself against the threat of the Angels…and we just got proven wrong by a creature we were ill-equipped to face that wasn't an Angel…and it killed forty-three of our personnel in the process."

Among those lost in the devastation included Maya Ibuki and Shigeru Aoba; Godzilla's consecutive radioactive heat ray blasts had caused pieces of the ceiling in Central Dogma to fall and crush them.

-x-

Gendo couldn't make excuses for what Godzilla had done to the Geo-Front. The Committee would be out for blood, namely his, and when this matter with Godzilla was dealt with, if it ever got dealt with, he would be as good as dead and forgotten about. Standing in front of the ruins of where Lilith had once resided, crucified over an artificial lake of LCL, he knew that the scenario that had been planned from the beginning was now for naught. The Human Instrumentality Project, the goal to evolve the human race to the next state of being in these desperate times, through the forbidden union between Adam and Lilith, was nothing more than a pipe dream thought of by some elders that controlled the world behind the younger people that carried out the dirty work.

"Ikari," he heard Fuyutsuki say to him, "this was hopeless from the very beginning. Godzilla is impossible to defeat with an Evangelion…because he is a force of nature that technology can never match."

But it wasn't just the loss of Lilith that had Gendo upset. It was also the loss of Unit-01. The battle between the two behemoths had been over before five minutes could pass after the umbilical cable was severed.

"Unit-01 has switched over to its internal battery power," went Ibuki to everyone in Central Dogma. "Five minutes till shutdown."

And nothing the boy did made any dent in the creature's hide, Gendo thought as he watched the wasted efforts of his son against Godzilla. Bullets, the Progressive Knife, even the AT-Field. Nothing worked to stop it!

Godzilla had proven to be an unstoppable force in the face of NERV's adversity…and human innovation had been proven ineffective in every sense.

Fuyutsuki, on the other hand, as much as he wanted to tell Gendo about what he learned of the last time Godzilla was dealt with, he decided that Gendo wouldn't listen, even if he was forced to hear him out. However, he had every intention on informing Dr. Akagi and Captain Katsuragi. Based solely on the inefficiency of human artillery against the irradiated animal, the two women were likely to understand what they had tried to deal with and why they failed.

"I just want to know the truth, sir," he had spoke with a man from the JSSDF that had been around since the aftermath of the second war. "When Godzilla appeared, did the military really defeat him? After seeing him in action in Akita and the devastation it caused on Hokkaido, I had my doubts about it. While I'm sure the soldiers that signed up believed in such a fabrication, is a falsehood really worth it?"

"This is a secret that few people know about," the man responded to him, "and even fewer who are alive to talk about it."

-x-

Forty-three people died in the attack by Godzilla, either burnt to death, buried under debris, or were trampled underfoot by the monster as it came into the Geo-Front and made a mess of everything. Even as Shinji was being helped to walk around the undamaged parts of the NERV base by Rumiko, the boy couldn't help but get the impression that most of the people that were fortunate enough to survive the attack were upset with him for being unable to stop a monster that wasn't what they had been preparing to face. In honesty, he had his doubts from the very beginning that an Eva was capable of besting something it was not intended to go up against. He didn't get any weird looks from anyone, but the feeling didn't go away.

"Do you remember anything else about the battle against Godzilla?" Rumiko asks him, holding him on his left side as they walked, strengthening his leg muscles.

"The fear of being trapped with nowhere to run or hide," he answers her. "I tried to get near him to stab him in the head when shooting him with a rifle clearly didn't work (he looks at his right hand as the fingers flex). I remember getting my arm blown off. Even when they tell me that it's because the Eva was connected to my nervous system, I never felt such pain in my life."

"Some of the worst weapons people can make are the ones that need people in ways that are completely unethical. What the Hell were these people playing with? What were they thinking, making things that were so dangerous that one wrong mistake could end up causing a nightmare of a lawsuit that no legal system in the world would protect them from?"

"What about Ayanami? What does she have to say about any of this?"

"You really think these people would tell me about her, even if I asked? As far as I know, she's bedridden in a body cast until her bones mend."

That was her way of saying that, despite having no ill will towards the girl, Rumiko didn't know much about Rei Ayanami to give Shinji an update on her current status. All she really knew about the albino girl was that she had been pulled from the wreckage of Unit-00 sometime before Shinji had been pulled from Unit-01, and all of this after Godzilla left upon destroying a creature that had been under the base.

"What now for you, Shinji?" She asked him.

"What do you mean, what now for me?" He replied.

"Unit-01 is trashed, NERV is totaled, and there's no doubt in my mind that the government won't give funding to rebuild something that has proven useless. Do you think they'll dismiss you from here?"

Shinji had to consider this a possibility. He had been summoned to Tokyo-3 by his father to face creatures called Angels, none of which ever came, the Eva was gone with, hopefully, no chance of it being rebuilt, and because the Geo-Front and the city had been damaged, it rendered a lot of people homeless for the time being until they could find new homes elsewhere. On the bright side, it appeared that the shrine they worked at was among the buildings ignored by Godzilla, people and all, which gave a sign of hope that there was a future. But as for NERV, there was a chance, only a chance, that Shinji was free from the obligation that they had placed on him when he showed up; no Eva, no Angels, no reason to fight.

"One can hope," he told her.

-x-

It was a memory from long ago. Perhaps an inherited one, but Godzilla knew he had seen that crucified behemoth before in the ancient past. Back then, she hadn't been a threat to him or other members of his kind, so there was no reason to engage her. But in the here and now, in this damaged world, she would've been made a threat to all, including himself and his mission to punish the Japanese for their sins. So he had to destroy her, to remove her threat to his mission, and be free of any other threats the Japanese could unleash upon him.

This was the fate that they must be dealt with. The souls of the damned demanded that the souls of the disgraceful and ignorant be condemned by him for their crimes. He was their sword, their spear, their arrow, pieced painstakingly back together and renewed with new purpose. In due time…in due time, this once-great nation would be reduced to nothing more than a memory like the lives lost in the theater of war.

As the next city came into view, he roared in fury over how far the Japanese had fallen.

-x-

"…This was never anticipated!" SEELE 10 shouted in the meeting between the hidden masters behind the world. "The loss of Unit-01, Unit-00, Tokyo-3…and the loss of Lilith! None of this was as foretold in the Dead Sea Scrolls!"

"The Dead Sea Scrolls are no longer valid," went SEELE 05 to them. "This Godzilla is a completely unprecedented and unknown factor. Is there any information on the creature that is available to us?!"

"All that we know is that this animal was killed once before," SEELE 01 revealed; it took painstaking hours to receive the knowledge associated to this monster's history with Japan. "Unfortunately, the means to destroy this creature has been lost forever."

"And with the Evas having proven useless against it," SEELE 09 uttered, "the Human Instrumentality Project is no longer within our grasp."

"Ikari…even he knew nothing of this threat to our scenario," SEELE 03 expressed. "NERV is useless against Godzilla."

"All we can do now…is wait for the inevitable," said SEELE 11, and the rest were silent.

Because Lilith had been destroyed, even if they still possessed Adam, their agenda could no longer be realized. Even if they could make a suitable substitute, their dependence on the Dead Sea Scrolls that were never made public to the people gave no indication that any man-made constructs would serve them in their goal. And because the Evangelions were ineffective in fighting Godzilla, they had no weapon of sufficient power that could defeat the beast. They, along with what remained of the human race, were literally stuck between a rock and an ocean to sink into.

-x-

"…What do you mean, the military claimed the credit for defeating Godzilla?" Misato asked Fuyutsuki when he chose to tell her, Ritsuko and Shinji and Rumiko about what he had learned about the Nineteen-Fifty-Four incident.

"When Godzilla first appeared, he laid waste to everything," he explained. "He was defeated, however, but not by the military. The monster was killed using an unknown chemical developed by a former soldier-turned-scientist from the war. The man has been dead ever since and his records erased from the public. Whatever weapons the military had access to back then were completely useless against Godzilla; his hide had been exposed to the power of the atom bomb and was able to survive, meaning he couldn't be harmed by anything at that point that was less powerful than such a weapon at the time. When it was over, the government chose to keep what happened a secret and give the military at the time credit for defeating Godzilla. If the truth came out, they would've been ridiculed for their inability to protect the country."

"Sixty-one years…covering a lie," went Rumiko. "Even if the public knew about this now, it wouldn't change anything; they already know the military's having a hard time trying to fight Godzilla. If nothing except a chemical made by a dead man worked then, we're… Well, I don't need to say it, but all we have left are two other monsters from Japan's past to fight back against him and save the people."

"You really believe that foolishness?" Ritsuko asked her. "That thing killed three monsters when one couldn't drive it away, and not a single one of them stood a chance."

"At least Baragon went out fighting," Shinji defended the Guardian Monster. "He was the God of the Earth in the legend, meaning that his power was limited to being on the ground all the time. He would return to defend the homelands, the mountains and forests. Though, he wouldn't have cared much for human casualties. None of the Guardian Monsters would've, really."

"You believe in this nonsense, too?" She asked him.

"I have more belief in them than I ever could've in the Eva!"

"You spent more time working at a temple than training here, which would've been more effective had your father made it so that you were not able to set your own priorities."

"Lady, I am not a soldier…and I am not some damn drone for you to point in a direction and be expected to simply follow orders, yours, hers (he points at Misato) or that bastard's."

Misato and Fuyutsuki both took a step back. It was obvious to most that Shinji had been against being made to pilot the Eva ever since his father had him come to Tokyo-3, but many had started to wonder what he'd do to them if he thought of using the Eva to carry out whatever hatred he felt towards them. But he was clearly not like his father as many had chosen to believe; he wanted nothing to do with him and would've gladly walked away if the opportunity presented itself. And Ritsuko had just pushed the boy into speaking his mind about his personal feelings regarding everything.

"There was no guarantee that the Eva was even going to work against Godzilla," Shinji reminded her, "and I gave my all just to try and hurt him, short of committing a kamikaze assault. That was no monster or a mistake made by people's arrogance. That was a god and a devil, all in one…and he refused to be dealt with by something that was no better than a glorified action figure with a thumbtack for a horn."

They were fortunate that Gendo wasn't around to hear this.

"You could at least pretend to have some appreciation over what we were doing here," Ritsuko calmly stated.

"Now, you know that that's as unlikely as that man showing concern or interest in my life," Shinji countered. "Do you even know what Godzilla's name means?"

"You do?"

"Only because that history teacher that keeps droning about Second Impact and the aftermath decided to talk about him. Godzilla, the English translation for the name Gojira, which means 'God incarnate'. A violent god with anger so potent that it rivals a devil swollen with hate."

The memory of the Eva's knife snapping in half against Godzilla fresh in his mind. Even when he was hoping that a knife wound to the neck would slow it down, even for just a while, the sight of it breaking against its hide left the boy thinking that NERV was way in over its head because they were expecting something that wasn't a creature born from the arrogance of the misuse of atomic energy. And then…the fear of death crept up his neck as Godzilla prepared to decapitate the Eva's head with his fiery, radioactive breath.

"Shinji, no!" Misato recalled her fear of Shinji being killed the moment the Eva was decapitated. "Quick! Disconnect his nerve connections! Now!"

When Godzilla disposed of Unit-01, the monster walked over it and advanced into the city. It was only by chance that Shinji's Entry Plug wasn't crushed.

"Status report!" She demanded from Hyuga.

"He's alive," he revealed, relieved that Godzilla had failed to kill the boy.

Still, nothing changed the fact that NERV was unable to deal with Godzilla and there was nothing capable of killing it.

-x-

As the night came into play across the archipelago, Godzilla had completed his leveling of Tokyo-2, which was just another poor excuse of a city with nobody in it to lay waste to. But his mission of vengeance was nowhere near over. Even if there was nothing left of the original Tokyo, he would still go back there to ensure that there was no way for the Japanese to feel that they had any hope of surviving in this crippled world. No matter what opposed him, vengeance would be obtained…and the penance for the Japanese's disgrace for forgetting the past and the unforgiven sacrifices of those involved, willingly or unwillingly.

"Grr," he growled.

-x-

"…It's a relief to see you two alive," Itsudatsu expressed as Shinji and Rumiko returned to the temple and found everyone else there alive.

"I can't believe Godzilla ignored this place," Shinji sighed as he looked around and saw the entire place was completely intact. "The city got leveled."

"Cities rise and fall all the time, Shinji," a woman informed him, pouring three cups of tea. "That purple behemoth that fought against Godzilla… That was you, wasn't it?"

Shinji nodded and looked away.

"At least you tried," another woman responded. "It's just another reminder that science and technology has yet to match the power of nature."

"And some forms of life are just more dangerous than what can be expected when faced," a man expressed as he accepted one of the cups.

"Life, Fujima-San?" Shinji asked him.

"Yes, life…against artificial life, which that purple behemoth represented."

"Yeah."

Shinji then noticed one of the statues he and Rumiko had retrieved from Myōkō was shattered.

"The statue from Mt. Myōkō?" Rumiko asked Itsudatsu, pointing to the pile of rubble.

"Yes," he answered. "Baragon, the God of the Earth, fell in battle."

"Which means there are only two Guardian Monsters left."

Shinji then chuckled as he turned around and ran out of the temple.

"Shinji, where are you going?!" Itsudatsu yelled.

"With the Eva out of commission, I was pretty much dismissed from my old man's agency!" He replied. "And with the school demolished, I don't have to worry about my education until who-knows-when! I can only think of one thing left to do that's my own idea! Chase Godzilla!"

"You know that's crazy!" Rumiko yelled, and then raced after him. "Hold on! I'm coming with you, Shinji!"

-x-

The ice shattered away as the large, golden serpent head rose into the air over Hirotoshi, looking down at him.

"You've finally awakened," he uttered to the head.

"Rrrrraarr!" It growled.

-x-

The moonlight shone over the cocoon-like object floating in Lake Ikeda as several small boats rowed near it.

Crack! A portion of the structure burst open, revealing a white head with feathery antennae and large, purple eyes!

"Aaah!" Some of the people in the boats gasped as they quickly turned around and moved away from the cocoon.

The head was soon accompanied by a small body with thin legs and a strange back. Illuminated further by the moonlight, the creature, resembling an insect of sorts, spread open the strange material on its back into the air, darkening upon contact with the air, revealing to be a pair of large wings of yellow, black, orange and purple colors. It was…some sort of colossal insect.

"Iiiee!" It chirped.

To be continued…

A/N: Now things are getting more interesting. NERV has been put down by Godzilla, the Evas are destroyed, Lilith is gone, and now Shinji's going to do whatever he wants to do because he no longer has to pilot Unit-01. And Godzilla has leveled Tokyo-3 and Tokyo-2, and continues to devastate Japan to serve the souls of the vengeful dead. What do you think will happen now?