Creation began on 08-15-15

Creation ended on 08-15-15

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Hope from the Future: In a Lake of Fire

A/N: After watching the original film of the famous and infamous legend of the Nineteen-Fifties, it came to my attention that this was not attempted before. With my Hope from the Sky story achieving some success, I can hope for this story to achieve similar success. Here goes.

Sirens. For some reason, the disoriented Shinji Ikari, pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 and the Third Child of NERV in Tokyo-3, Japan, could hear sirens. But they weren't like the sirens he was used to hearing. They were like the kind you could hear in old films.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrraaurgh!" A roaring noise that was unlike anything he had ever heard before came and freed him from his disorientation, and he looked at his surroundings.

He was still inside the Entry Plug, still in his plugsuit, and switched the Eva from its life support setting into its active mode, allowing him to see through the Eva's visual systems. It was nighttime, but the setting was different; nowhere could Shinji see the tall buildings that represented Tokyo-3, and the buildings he could see were engulfed in flames…or being demolished by a large reptile that looked as though it were from an age long forgotten.

My God, he thought, seeing the creature was now approaching him (or the Eva, to be precise).

"We'll be with your father soon," he heard a woman's voice right then, and turned the Eva's head to look down at a woman with three children with her, frightened to the point of being unable to run away from here. "Just a little while, and then we'll be with Daddy."

Turning to face the creature again, Shinji checked the power regulator of the Eva, seeing that it had at least four minutes of power in its reserves, and knew what he had to do. Willing the Eva up onto its feet, the boy that should've been facing an Angel classified as the Twelfth Angel some time ago was now going to face a creature that resembled that of a dinosaur made as big as fifty meters in height, towering over the majority of the buildings present. Even if it seemed hopeless, he knew he had to do something. He couldn't just let innocent people die.

-x-

It was unbelievable! Hard to get around! But it was happening in front of the Japanese! Some sort of giant, purple robot had fallen from the sky in the dead of the night…and was now looking as though it were going to face Godzilla!

Civilians running away, but turning around every chance they got to see what would or could transpire that they didn't want to miss. Military officials retreating to avoid being trampled or incinerated by Godzilla, wondering if this giant could do what they couldn't.

The giant suddenly removed something from one of its shoulders and it took the form of some sort of knife with a glowing blade.

-x-

Yes, even if it did seem hopeless for him to try, Shinji had to protect the people that he could protect from this monster.

"Aaaurgh!" He yelled as he willed the Eva to charge towards the beast, his Prog. Knife held low to stab the creature in its abdomen. Hopefully, it's not armored to deflect the knife!

The beast unleashed a mist of fire at the Eva and set its arms and front ablaze, but even as its human pilot felt the sting of the flames, it didn't impede its charge in the slightest.

PIERCE! The knife penetrated the scaly abdominal cavity of the monster!

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrraaaurgh!" It shrieked in immense pain; it was almost as painful as the horrid experience it had with the great fire that had immersed it not too long ago. "Rrrrraaurgh!"

It unleashed its stream of burning mist again, hoping to force this horned enemy back.

"Aaargh! Urgh! Aaaurgh!" Shinji groaned in agony as the high synchronization made him feel like he was literally being set on fire. "Aaaaurgh! Take…this!"

SLICE! The Prog. Knife was pushed upward in the dinosaur-like creature, and ripped out through what used to be its neck and jaw that had been split in half, spraying blood everywhere.

As the timer showed only two minutes of power left, Shinji prayed for the creature to not be invincible or come back to life.

In five seconds, the monster fell backwards and crashed into a burning building, consumed by the flames it had caused to spread.

-x-

It just knelt there on the street, not moving at all. Even as the Fire Department did all that it could to put out the flames that had consumed much of the city. It was like it had no reason to even consider attacking the people that thought of gathering around it, even those with injuries in need of medical treatment.

In front of it, in the remains of the destroyed building, were the charred remains of the monster that had been attacking the country's ships and cities ever since its existence was made known to the nation.

Suddenly, the back of the purple giant opened up and released a long, white tube, which then opened up. The civilians present were shocked to see a child come out of the giant, looking like he'd been through Hell and back again. The child was dressed in what looked like a diving suit of some sort with an apparatus attached to its front and back, with a pair of white objects hanging on his head.

"Is…is everyone okay?" He had asked them, and then passed out.

To be continued…

A/N: And this shall be the first chapter of a new crossover. What do you think of Shinji's reason for facing the force of nature in this story? Do review until the next chapter.