Creation began on 07-11-21
Creation ended on 02-16-22
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Evangelion Malevolence: Do as you please
A/N: It's not so easy to do as you please when everyone else tells you what to do that goes against what you prefer to do.
"…You know, you didn't have to come with me, Rumiko!" Shinji told the girl as they wandered through the ruins of Tokyo-3. "I'm chasing a reckless firestorm! Why should we both get hurt going after Godzilla?"
"You've been a reckless person ever since I've met you, Shinji Ikari," she responded as she climbed over a piece of debris. "Okay, maybe not so reckless, but you keep people at a distance too much. If I gotta go out this year, I might as well do so being around you, the one that chooses now to chase after the God of Destruction."
If I didn't know any better, I would think she's trying to hit on me, Shinji thought as he came to the ruins of a bike shop. "Are you hitting on me, Rumiko?"
"Now, now, Shinji, that's not such a nice thing to ask a lady. Not on a preview before the first date, anyway."
"Oh, this is a date? I'm the one chasing after a monster and you're following me."
Rumiko went with him inside the ruins and found some bikes.
"Can you ride a bike, Shinji?" She asked him as he picked up a green bike that was intact.
"Nope," he revealed; despite having seen a bike in his early childhood, ever since he had been accused of stealing a bike that he had found on the side of the road, he had a hard time wanting to ride one when he had nobody willing to teach him. "Do any of these come with training wheels? Hell, even a tricycle will do?"
Rumiko walked over to a display case that had training wheels.
"Found some," she told him. "You have a paperclip or pocket knife?"
"No, why?"
Smash! She kicked the case open and pulled the training wheels out.
"Nothing," she expressed, and he looked at her. "If we survive this, I'll ask the owner for forgiveness when I bring one of the bikes back, as there's no time to ask for permission."
"As strange as this is right now, Rumiko Gaidoku…I find myself getting attracted to you, and you're clearly older than I am."
"Only by a year, Shinji, and that's not a bad thing."
-x-
Opening her eyes, Rei Ayanami found herself in a room in the hospital in NERV HQ.
"I'm…alive?" She questioned.
-x-
"…What do you mean, he left?" Gendo asked Misato as she, Ritsuko and Fuyutsuki stood in his office; he was upset that Shinji left the base shortly after he signed himself out of the hospital with some girl that had no record under NERV.
"After he recovered from his mild paralysis, he left with Ms. Gaidoku and returned to the temple," she explained; since the two Evas they had were damaged, this left Shinji and Rei without a job to do in NERV, short of training in what remained of the testing plugs. "With all due respect, sir, we saw him shoot at Godzilla with the Pallet Rifle, stab him with the Prog. Knife, even try punching him with the Eva's bare hands, and that creature didn't show any signs that he was harmed in any way by him. Not even Unit-00 stood a chance against Godzilla, and that battle lasted only thirty seconds before Rei's plug ejected."
At first, Gendo was going to demand that the Third Child be brought back to the base, but that would've been a waste. The damage reports he received on both Units-00 and 01 were over the Hayflick Limit, and both cores had been damaged beyond repair. Even if they had the time, money and personnel to repair them, there was no guarantee that they, especially Unit-01, would ever work the same way after that humiliating defeat they were handed. This left Gendo with no other choice than leave the Third Child alone until he could find a way to salvage this debacle caused by a creature that has been dead for over fifty years.
"Do we know where Godzilla is right now?" He asked them.
"It changed course after destroying Tokyo-2," Ritsuko revealed. "It seems to be heading into the Chūbu Region."
"He's obviously heading towards towns and cities still populated by people so he can kill as many as he can," Fuyutsuki stated the obvious. "At this point, all we can do is try to run if the JSSDF and the two remaining Guardian Monsters can't stop him."
"Speaking of which, a report from Lake Ikeda revealed that a cocoon hatched a few minutes ago and revealed a flying insect."
"A flying insect?" Misato questioned. "You must mean Mothra, the Goddess of the Sea."
"Anyway, the creature took flight and left Ikeda and seems to be flying towards Godzilla."
-x-
What was the point of having a cell phone when it never rang? Why did people bother to make such a fuss about them when they had nobody to keep in touch with? These were the questions that Shinji learned a long time ago to never ask because the answer he could receive was often a harsh one from an uncaring person. He was often the only person he knew that had a phone that never really rings. And a phone that never really rings…was a phone that served no purpose, even at a time like this.
"So, you're part of the club, too?" Rumiko asked him, noticing that he was looking at his phone.
"What club?" He responded.
"The club full of people that have phones that don't ring."
"There's a club for people like that?"
"I only ever get calls from my parents when they want me to come back and live with them, but they can't change their behavior enough to convince me that they're redeemable. I'm still waiting for that one call that tells me they're truly ready for me to come home to them. They haven't even called me since Godzilla showed up."
"Maybe you should try calling them," he suggested, setting his "borrowed" bike on the ground; they had to carry them over the debris before they were on steady terrain to ride them again. "You never know, they might've been evacuated from their home when Godzilla showed up."
"Maybe. Here goes."
She turned her phone on and entered the number for her parents. There was a ringtone…but nobody picked up. She tried to call them again…but the same response was met: Nobody picked up, indicating that they were either not home…or just gone.
"It's probably just a coincidence," she told him. "I wouldn't wish this calamity on anybody."
"Me, neither," he agreed with her, and climbed onto his bike. "I do hope your family's okay."
"Thank you, Shinji."
They rode down the street, hoping that they could catch up to Godzilla in due time.
-x-
"You didn't stop him?" Misato questioned Itsudatsu when she came to the temple, learning that Shinji had left to chase after Godzilla. "You do realize that that's crazy, right?"
"I wasn't going to stop Shinji from doing what he decided he was going to do, even if it was crazy of him to do so," he explained to her. "Shinji is merely doing as he pleases now that he feels he has nothing to tie him down to NERV. Not to worry, though, Rumiko went with him."
But Misato found this to be of little comfort. Even with NERV in shambles right now, he was still a pilot, and his protection was a priority, Eva or no Eva.
"Okay, he couldn't have gotten that far," she told herself.
"If you're going after him, though," Itsudatsu told her, holding something in his left hand, "could you make sure that he or Rumiko get this? They ran off in a hurry before I could give it to either of them."
Misato looked at it…and found that it was some sort of stone.
"What is this?" She asked him.
"A piece of the statue associated with the God of the Sky, Ghidorah."
-x-
It wasn't difficult for them to chase after Godzilla, since he left a path for them to follow that wasn't as cluttered on the sides as it was on the direct path. This made it easy for Shinji and Rumiko to ride their bikes down the road. As much as he wanted to say that this was likely a one-way trip for them that should've been turned into a one-way trip for him alone, Shinji had to admit that he appreciated Rumiko's company. If he was going to go out, he didn't mind her presence in the face of divine retribution.
"Man, it's like he doesn't know when to take breaks," said Rumiko as they kept pedaling down the road.
"He stopped for just a moment," Shinji reminded her. "Maybe a moment was all he needed to catch his breath. On the bright side, at least we're burning calories."
"Shinji, you need more meat on your bones. I got nothing against skinny guys, but if you look like you weigh less than one-hundred-fifteen pounds, you're seriously underweight and in severe need of protein."
"If I live to see fifteen, I'll head to a gym and change my diet."
"Assuming that we both even live to see the next week."
-x-
It was a pathetic move on her part, but Misato went back to her apartment building to get Pen-Pen, who was fortunate enough to have survive the destruction of the city by Godzilla. Most of the buildings had been smashed up, but it was mainly the skyscrapers, leaving the lesser buildings partially damaged. And it was a miracle that the penguin had survived and was in the car with her as she drove down the road outside Tokyo-3 as she was looking for Shinji and Rumiko. She was hoping for another miracle that she would find the teens.
Ring-ring! Her cell phone rang, and she answered.
"Katsuragi here," she uttered.
"Thank the kami you're alive, Katsuragi," a male voice responded.
"Kaji… Of all the people to call me, you pick now to call me?"
"I saw Godzilla attack Akita on the news. Did NERV send an Evangelion to face him?"
"We tried sending two against him, one to defend Tokyo-3 and another to defend NERV HQ…and not a thing we did even mattered against this monster. It was a miracle that we were able to save the pilots, but we lost the city and most of the base."
"You mean, Godzilla destroyed both the city and the Geo-Front?"
"The city, the base, the Evas, some…thing that was in Terminal Dogma, killed less than fifty people in the process, and I come to find out that the military back in the past when Japan was recovering from the last war, Godzilla was next to invincible against them. Nothing they had back then was able to harm it."
"I knew those old stories about the military defeating Godzilla were nothing more than crud. The NERV branch here in Germany won't consider sending Unit-02 to Japan to provide backup."
"It's better if they don't; an Eva is useless against Godzilla. For now, it's best to stay away from Japan. It's not a good time right now."
"I couldn't return to Japan, anyway, even if I wanted to, Katsuragi; any transportation methods to Japan are suspended indefinitely because of Godzilla's return."
"At this rate, NERV will most likely be disbanded, regardless of what anyone does."
"What about other monsters? What about that red monster that went up against Godzilla?"
"Baragon? Godzilla killed him. Supposedly, there are two other monsters out there to face Godzilla, but if one that could split into three couldn't beat him, I have my doubts that the other two can."
"You mean to say that…you don't believe in acts of the divine? In benevolent acts of the divine, Katsuragi? You don't believe?"
"I believe in acts of people, Kaji. They often have more impact than unseen forces."
"Yeah, and Godzilla isn't an issue created by people that chose to dabble in forces beyond their comprehensions. If an Evangelion, an act of people, failed to stop such a force of nature, then the country is doom."
Misato was about to counter what her ex had believed would befall Japan when she realized that he was, more or less, accurate about what had been said between them. The Evangelions had failed to put so much as a nick on Godzilla and the guardian Baragon, while unable to stop Godzilla, had managed to harm it without any significant damage to hinder it. The agency she worked for had failed to defend humanity from so much as one Angel, and a lot of people were lost to the renewed rampage of the harbinger of destruction.
"What are you doing right now?" Kaji asked her.
"Looking for a wayward pilot that up and decided to chase after Godzilla," she answered him.
"Really? Not many people think about chasing a monster of mythical proportions…unless they have an ambition or a death wish or something of the sort."
"Except that he was fortunate enough to survive one encounter with Godzilla after never facing an Angel, despite having had to train to face them. What would make him want to chase after Godzilla, knowing that the chances of surviving a second encounter with the monster are slim?"
"Well, opportunities of this sort are usually once in a lifetime."
Although Misato knew that to be a truth, there were opportunities that she wished were left unsought after. There were days, even years that she wished were nothing more than a dream or just an illusion that was horrible and couldn't be escaped from. She stopped her car and looked at the piece of stone from the statue that she was to get to Shinji or Rumiko. While she had read a little more of that book she got from the temple, she found it odd that the creature this piece of stone was associated with was believed to become some sort of protector after originally being a destroyer in ancient times and was worshipped by the people that killed it and hoped it would return one day to save them.
A dragon that could live for thousands of years because of its mighty heads and scales of golden armor, she thought as she picked up the stone fragment. Once believed to be so powerful that its wings could shatter the sky and filling it with light so bright that it became a sun in its own right.
Suddenly, she heard a ringing sound and found herself in a cave with the temple owner, only he was dressed in worn clothing, looking up at something above him.
What? She wondered, looking up at what he was looking at. No way.
A head, held up by a long neck, adorned in scales of gold, and reptilian in appearance, looking down at them.
The Thousand-Year-Old Dragon, she thought, seeing it accompanied by a second head on its left…and then another on its right. Ghidorah?
They looked down at the man, who raised his arms up and closed his eyes as the environment they were in started to shake.
Misato heard the beast roar from all three heads and could only feel a sense of conviction in what it aimed to do upon awakening from its slumber.
You…you want to stop the suffering caused by Godzilla, she realized, letting go of the stone, and finding herself back in her car.
-x-
"…Reports are coming in from whoever's monitoring the seismic activity," went Hyuga as he held up his phone; without the MAGI, what remained of NERV, at least in terms of personnel, couldn't access the reports, limiting their ability to keep up with the distribution of information. "They're saying a monster appeared near Mt. Fuji and disappeared."
"A fourth?" Fuyutsuki questioned. "Did they say where it was going?"
"Only that the seismic activity keeps moving away from Fuji and towards the Chūbu Region."
"It's moving straight to wherever Godzilla's going."
"Two of these creatures are moving to where Godzilla is," said Gendo in disgust, "and we have nothing which can deal with any of them."
Right now, none of them had the time to agonize over the fact that they were taken down by a monster that the Japanese military failed to stop in the aftermath recovery of the Second World War. As long as Godzilla was heading to places still populated by people, they were all in danger of being killed. What happened in Tokyo-3 was going to happen all around what remained of Japan…until there was nobody left. Just as the Angels had cast their judgment upon the human race for their arrogance fifteen years ago, Godzilla was casting judgment on the people of Japan for their arrogance over sixty years ago, and he was getting better results.
Fuyutsuki then took out his phone and called the JSSDF. If they couldn't fight Godzilla, they could at least make sure that the people and the military were informed of which monsters were which and how many there were.
With Lilith gone, there's no way to achieve Human Instrumentality, leaving us at the mercy of anything, he thought. If NERV no longer has the one thing that was meant to lure the Angels here to face them, then we don't have any reason to do anything that seems terrifying to people as a whole. Perhaps it's time to do as we please instead of being told what to do.
-x-
"…You know, I just realized something about Godzilla," said Rumiko to Shinji as they found another road to take the bikes and moving away from the monster that was walking towards the next population center. "He moves slow for a big creature that took out Baragon."
"I don't think his weight is what makes him dangerous," he replied. "He's just an embodiment, a vessel for those that died in the war that ravaged the world. Even if he has some free will, he has their conviction in him, guiding him. He's not going to let something as trivial as his mass stop him from doing what he has to do."
As they continued along the road, Godzilla gave no indication that he was even aware of the two teens moving parallel to himself. No, for this engine of mayhem, their presence right now was minute compared to the people that lived in the next city.
"Oh, no," Rumiko expressed as she realized where Godzilla was going. "He's heading towards the recovery city of Kōfu-2."
"Anything or anyone in particular there?"
Rumiko could've said that there were some people in the city that were important to her…but that would only be half the truth. The people she had in her life were currently either in what remained of Tokyo-3…or with her right now. She was starting to doubt that anyone she knew from Kōfu-2 was even there, anymore.
"I don't really know, anymore," she told him. They probably left the moment Godzilla appeared.
"Rumiko?"
"My parents and brother live in Kōfu-2, Shinji. I used to live there. I never thought I'd be going back there so soon, though. Even if there's nothing left to go back to, I just hope they're still alive and in one piece."
"We'd probably better pick up the pace, then."
They pedaled faster to make it to the city.
-x-
People were panicking in Kōfu-2 as news of Godzilla's advance came hours before it left Tokyo-3. The streets were crowded with men, women and children that were either piling up in cars, carrying, cramming or dragging whatever belongings they could take before losing everything else to an attack by a monster they hadn't seen in over fifty years since its original appearance in Tokyo. Nobody wanted to be left behind when the monster came to destroy them.
"…In addition to Godzilla," a male voice over the radios announced, "it appears that three other monsters have appeared, one of which was defeated earlier today. The red one will be codenamed Baragon. The flying insect will be codenamed Mothra. And the golden one will be codenamed Ghidorah. I repeat, the red monster is Baragon, the flying insect is Mothra, and the golden one is Ghidorah."
Stomp! The ground shook, and several cars started moving on the streets, wanting to get the occupants as far away as possible from Godzilla.
-x-
Gendo didn't like this at all. It was bad enough that NERV's Evas were damaged beyond repair, but Lilith was eradicated, the Angels that were supposed to be defeated by the Evas had been dealt with by this myth brought back to life, and now he, after more than a decade of planning and dedication to a goal he gave up everything for, was nothing more or less than a bystander with nothing else to offer a cause. Worse was how Fuyutsuki gave what little information there was on these other monsters that appeared, just so that the military would know which was which in case they tried to attack them again, not that withholding such worthless knowledge would've afforded them anything in the future. There were no backup plans, no failsafes, no second chances to return to a safer point in the past of the present, not even something as mediocre as a deus ex machina from the universe to save the country from their problem as a blessing.
We put everything into the Human Instrumentality Project, he thought as he watched on a small monitor as Godzilla entered Kōfu-2, just as people were evacuating it. Over ten years, preparing for when the Angels returned after Second Impact. Over ten years of investing myself in securing a future! All for nothing! And all because of a…insignificant…radioactive animal.
Gendo wasn't so practical at the moment now that he knew his scenario, as well as the scenario of SEELE, was as for naught as anything else that could've been planned years or decades from before now. There was no future worth pursuing, no hope for the human race, individually or as a whole. Even if they could defeat Godzilla or just outlast him, the damages caused to the Japanese nation were just too extreme to waste any time over repairing. And his own son had abandoned them shortly after the Evas were destroyed, showing that he wasn't dedicated to their cause, no matter what they did to convince him.
Then, on the screen, another creature, one with wings, entered the scene.
-x-
Although it was only from riding a bike, and one with training wheels, no less, Shinji felt like his legs were going to fall off as he and Rumiko stopped on an empty street in Kōfu-2. It might've been his first time riding a bike, it was also exhausting; he didn't think he had so muscles that could worn out from pedaling so much.
"I know what you're thinking, Shinji," he heard Rumiko say to him.
"Try me," he dared her.
"You worked out muscles you didn't even know you had to work out pedaling."
"Yeah."
"Iiiee!" A screech was heard by them, and they looked up and saw a flying insect go by. "Iiiee!"
"Mothra," Rumiko uttered, surprised by the magnificence of such a creature surpassing the size of any other insect in existence.
"Whoa, that's one mother of a bug," Shinji expressed; while he expected another monster to be big, he didn't expect one to be an insect the size of a small building with a wingspan wide enough to cover a football stadium.
Mothra gazed down at Godzilla as she land atop a nearby skyscraper, getting his attention.
"Rrrrraaurgh!" Godzilla roared at her; there could've been an army of these…distractions, and they still wouldn't stop him from carrying out his judgment over the country. "Rrrraggh!"
"Iiiirugh!" Mothra screeched as she took to the air again, flying towards Godzilla!
Swipe! She flew past his head, grazing the left side of it just enough to knock him against a building beside himself!
"Rrrrrraaurgh!" He roared in anger as the flying insect flew up and turned around to face again.
"Right now, Rumiko," went Shinji to his friend, "I don't care if my legs do hurt. We gotta move. Like, now!"
They got back on their bikes and sped down the street.
"Iiiurgh!" Mothra grunted, pointing the tip of her thorax at Godzilla…and unleashing a hail of stingers from it at his head!
Sting-sting-sting! They impacted his head and, while not enough to pierce his hide, caused him to tumble against two buildings, falling to the ground.
"Whoa!" Shinji and Rumiko both gasped.
"You know what I just realized?" Rumiko asked Shinji. "Doing as you please…is a hard thing to do anywhere!"
"Yeah…but only when you're alone!" He agreed with her, but confessed that his response was a different truth to her realization. "You gotta be with others that get you in order to be able to do shit like this!"
The ground shook as Godzilla got up, his spines glowing as he opened his mouth, sucking in atmospheric radiation, and he unleashed his stream of radioactive fire against the moth, which flew away to evade the attack. He moved his head, and therefore the beam, following her as best as he could, but she evaded by flying behind a building, which exploded upon being hit by his beam, sending debris flying everywhere.
"Oh!" The two teens gasped as they avoided a large piece of debris crashing on the street in front of them.
"Shinji, there's some people over there!" Rumiko pointed over to some departing people down the street.
He was about to say something to her when he saw, to his horror, a piece of debris falling towards her.
"Rumiko!" He yelled, jumping off his bike and tackling her to the ground, causing the debris to miss her and crush her bike.
"Dammit, Shinji!" She grunted as she pushed him off her and noticed the bike was obliterated. "Oh… If I wasn't so relieved by what you just did for me, I'd punch you for knocking me over. Hell, I'd kiss you, even. Thank you. I owe you one."
"Don't mention it," he sighs as they get up. "Are you alright?"
"I'll live. You?"
"I'm still breathing. Aw, damn."
"What?"
"My bike got trashed, too."
Several feet from them, the bike Shinji had borrowed in Tokyo-3 had been crushed by debris, leaving both teens without any mode of transportation aside from their own legs.
"Better the bikes than ourselves," she told him. "Let's go."
-x-
It was still hard to believe that Misato, like before when she had volunteered to pick Shinji up to meet his father, hasn't been able to find him, despite keeping a safe distance from Godzilla's trail of death and destruction. However, she had to suspect that she would have to get near wherever Godzilla was just to find the boy. She found it completely reckless of him to risk his own life in chasing this dangerous creature after it nearly killed him inside the Eva and killed a lot of people in Tokyo-3 that were unable to escape in time. Did he have a death wish now that he no longer had an obligation to pilot the Eva for them?
Unfortunately, we might end up being shutdown for our inability to deal with Godzilla and his disposal of the Angels that never showed up, she thought as she drove slightly closer to where Godzilla was fighting Mothra. Such a short time to live now. It's just a long time to wait for the end to come. On the downside, it may just be the end of the nation, not the world.
"Yarp!" Pen-Pen went, holding onto the piece of statue for Misato, using his right wing to point out to something up ahead of them. "Yarp!"
There were people trying to get away still, rendering the roads up ahead a large traffic jam.
"Shit," she cursed.
-x-
Mothra fired her stingers at Godzilla again, still only knocking him down with as much force as they could deliver; the beast's hide was too thick to penetrate, which made harming him difficult to achieve.
"Iiiiaurgh!" She screeched, taking advantage of his time took to get back up, flying behind his head…and latching onto it with her legs. "Iiiiaurgh!"
"Rrrrraaurgh!" Godzilla roared, unable to reach behind his head to grab her with his arms.
He tried shaking her off, but she held on as tight as she could. He could've used his tail, but that was only for when all other methods failed.
-x-
Rumiko tried tracking her parents through their phones, but they didn't show up on her phone; she was showing up in Kōfu-2, but their phones didn't pop up on the screen. It was possible that their phones were off, but she couldn't be sure unless she could ascertain their whereabouts. But she was concerned for their status right now; the country was being attacked by a giant monster that held a grudge against them for what happened to the people that died in the last theater of war in the Pacific, and people were already being killed, either burnt to death or trampled underfoot by the rejuvenated beast of vengeance.
"…Some people up ahead are causing traffic jams because their cars are either old or ran out of gas," she and Shinji heard a man tell someone else.
"…Phones are dead because of the lack of portable chargers," they heard a woman say.
"…Nobody wanted to believe that this thing was real, but as soon as they saw it attack Akita…well, early bird gets the worm while the second mouse gets the cheese…except we're still the first mouse," another woman uttered, holding a two-year-old girl in her arms.
This is a nightmare, she and Shinji both thought.
"Ikari!" They heard a voice yell. "Shinji Ikari!"
Shinji turned away from the crowds of people and cars in front of them and saw…a woman with a strange bird in her arms. He recognized her purple hair, but the bird was a first.
"Captain Katsuragi?" He questioned as she came over. "What are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" She countered. "What the Hell were you thinking?! You nearly get killed, and then you run out to chase after Godzilla?! Are you effin' stupid?!"
"Why does it matter to you? The Evas are gone. They barely did anything to hurt Godzilla with what was available. Yeah, I nearly got killed, but it's my life, and I can do with it what I will now that I don't have that bastard's voice in my head. Did he put you up to this?"
Misato was going to say that she wasn't ordered by Gendo to get bring him back to NERV HQ, but then realized that she would've been lying to him; his father had insisted later, just before she left the remains of the Geo-Front, that he be brought back to NERV just in case they had another need of him, something which seemed unlikely to ever happen unless it involved the Eva. Then, she was reminded of what Itsudatsu had requested of her if she ever found Shinji. She took the piece of stone out of Pen-Pen's possession and handed it to Shinji.
"Your temple boss asked me to make sure you both got this if I found you after learning that you left the temple to chase after Godzilla," she told him, and he accepted the stone piece from her.
"Isayama-San wanted us to have a piece of stone?" He questioned, holding it in his left hand. "Did he say…"
He suddenly found himself in a dark place…with three pairs of glowing eyes looking at him. Then, a strange breeze swept him up and he was in the air, the sky red due to fire. In an instant, the sky was clear and sunny, like someone turned off the horror and mayhem to let the happiness return to the world.
The Thousand-Year-Old Dragon, he thought, turning around to see him standing before a golden serpent with three heads. Ghidorah?
The serpent spread its wings and released a hail of lightning from the tips of them, making it seem like it was a force of nature incarnate.
Shinji saw the creature slain by brave warriors that had banded together to stop its onslaught against the people of Japan in ancient times, burying whatever remained of it deep under a mountain, and then erecting a shrine to pray for its return to life as a protector instead of a destroyer, rising to ensure their future should it ever become endangered.
"Did you…did you hold this stone long enough to see…something?" He asked Misato.
"Like a monster with three heads?" She responded. "Did you see one?"
"Yeah."
"Same here."
"What did that tell you?"
"That we're one Guardian Monster short."
"Let me see that," Rumiko told Shinji, and took hold of the stone piece from him. "Whoa. Intense. But why would Itsudatsu-San want us to have this?"
The ground suddenly shook, like a tremor.
"Oh," Shinji gasped.
Smash! On a different side of Kōfu-2, three buildings collapsed onto the ground…or rather…into the ground…and something else was emerging from in flashes of light.
People that saw this and covered their eyes from most of the flashing lights.
"Haaaaaurgh!" They heard a roaring sound.
Some sort of…golden beast with three heads emerged from the streets and stood before Godzilla on two legs and two tails. "Haaaurgh!"
"Iiiee!" Mothra chirped as she still held onto Godzilla's head.
"Ghidorah!" Shinji gasped. Even though Baragon is gone, that doesn't change that the Guardian Monsters are here. The ones left are all here.
To be continued…
A/N: What do you think of Shinji's developing relationship with Rumiko? It does seem like she's trying to hit on him, and with everything else that is happening around them, it doesn't hurt to see some form of friendship turn into something more than that. Sorry to leave you desiring more, but the next chapter must come at a steady pace. Read and review and let me know what you liked or felt could've happened in this chapter.