Green Lantern: New Genesis

Chapter 1

I don't own Green Lantern or Evangelion

There are many universes in existence and each of these universes has its own history, rules, and Heroes. In one universe a shattered boy who is too pathetic to be called a hero drifts into space locked inside a manmade god.

In another universe sits a lonely man on a lonely planet surrounded by seven lanterns. He is the last living being, all others having died as the universe slowly crawled to its end, whatever is left being drawn into the black void that lies behind the source wall after the depletion of the reservoir of emotional energy. His name is Sodam Yat and he is the last green lantern, the sole possessor of the green light of willpower and the host of Ion the embodiment of willpower, though with the fading of life and will in the universe Ion was no more than a whisper in his mind. He is also the guardian of the last remnants of power of each of the seven colors of the emotional spectrum and their embodiments, though since he was the last living being in the universe he didn't know what he was guarding them for, but it was his final duty and he would see it through to the end having grown from the brash young man he once was. So Sodam sat and stared into the pitch-black abyss of the universes end as his small resting place was slowly drawn into it.

"Please lantern, we do not have to die here" Parallax whimpered from his battery.

"I am tired demon, and this is finally my opportunity to rest", Sodam said.

"You think even the end of the universe will quell my rage?" Butcher the rage entity growled.

"It does not matter" Sodam said as his planet began to crumble into the darkness. Sodam felt his form stretch and compress as he was drawn into the final collapse. It was not a pleasant experience, but it was not as bad as he thought.

"NO, I WILL NOT VANISH!" Parallax shouted and burst forth from his battery, his own fear giving him a burst of power.

"There is nowhere for you to run. Have hope, you will be reborn in the new universe" Adara the embodiment of hope said.

"NO! I WANT TO LIVE!" Ophidian the embodiment of greed shouted as it too struggled out of its lantern to escape.

"Then let us combine our powers to tear through this dying universe and into a fresh one" Butcher cried emerging from his lantern and sending a stream of energy into the center of the collapsing universe.

"YES!" Ophidian said and added his power to the butchers, with Parallax adding his own.

"Wait!" Sodam said and tried to call on his power, but with the only will in the universe being his own and the seven embodiments he had nearly nothing left. Sodam could only watch as the combined power of three godlike beings (despite their weakness) ripped through the even weaker membrane of the dying universe and burst into another. Cursing Sodam summoned enough energy to fly as Adara, Proselyte the embodiment of compassion and the predator the embodiment of love followed him. As they burst through into the new universe, he felt a surge of willpower from millions of souls as he connected to a new reservoir of power and his full power was restored. Putting on speed he saw the three terrors making their way toward earth, soaking up the rays of its yellow sun he felt his daxamite superpowers awaken and added his natural flight to his lantern power to speed up. Now only a few feet away he summoned his will and made a net to catch the three demons in a net of green light. The three struggled until with a mighty roar the butcher burned through his still returning willpower and they sped off again. Surging forward he saw the three heading toward something in the distance, what looked like a crucified figure with a strange red helix rotating in front of it. As he watched the three vanished insides of it.

"Ion, can we go after them?" he asked the entity that had been part of his being for so long and got a silent affirmative. Summoning his powers, he turned himself into energy and entered the strange construct. Swirling chaos surrounded him then he found himself above an earth city. Looking around he saw the three embodiments of fear, rage, and greed hovering over a spot on a beach.

He didn't know how long he had been here; all he knew was that it had been him, then Asuka. He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. She had found the strength to sit up but had yet to say a word

"She probably hates me, and I don't blame her. How did it come to this?" He wondered as he stared out at the ocean.

"Well, I wanted to live, even if I'm hurt and betrayed, so I guess the first thing to do is find some food" He thought as he stood up.

"Where are you going?" Asuka asked dully.

"To find food" Shinji said.

"Well then we should get going" Asuka said surprising Shinji so much that he looked at her as she got easily to her feet.

"Aren't you hurt?" Shinji asked.

"These bandages are mostly for show" Asuka said easily moving her arm. He turned to walk up the beach when a flash of light in the sky made him look up. What he saw would have made anyone else run for the hills but considering what he had been through seeing monsters made of red, yellow, and orange energy flying toward them hardly fazed him.

"Are those angels?" Shinji asked out loud.

"Does it really matter?" Asuka asked as the monsters stopped and hovered over them.

"Greetings"The yellow creature, which looked like a giant lizard, said. The other creatures resembled a giant red bull and an orange snake.

"Who are you?" Shinji asked.

"I am Parallax the embodiment of fear" The creature croaked.

"I am the Butcher, the embodiment of rage" The bull roared.

"I am Ophidian the embodiment of greed" The snake hissed.

"And what the hell do you want with us?" Asuka demanded.

"We feed on emotion, it is our being and sustenance, but more than that, we wish to take hosts to spread our power" Parallax said.

"Enough Parallax" an Orange skinned man shouted having appeared out of know where and was hovering above them glowing with green energy.

Outside unit 01 Rei/Lillith had watched the invaders tear into Unit 01 and enter into its core. She knew that these monsters didn't belong here, but all her power was gone with the rejection of third impact. Kaoru/Adam appeared next to her.

"We cannot allow these beings to stay here. If they come into contact with our brothers and sisters among the stars, it will create monstrosities beyond imagining." He said.

"Agreed, but what can we do?" Lilith/Rei asked.

"We use Unite 01s power to send them into a universe they are meant to live in, one that can deal with them" the boy said.

"I can be a second chance for Shinji as well, and perhaps us" Kaoru/Adam said. Rei/Lilith nodded. Together they told Unit 01 their desire and the manmade god responded, its eyes lighting up as it came back to life. The light wings spread out and in a crackling of otherworldly energies it vanished in a warping of space.

Sodam had finally caught up to the three embodiments to find them speaking with two human youths.

"Enough Parallax" Sodam shouted.

"You are one lantern and embodiment against three" Parallax hissed.

"He is not alone" Adara said hovering next to Sodam with proselyte on his other side having followed him into the strange construct. The Predator was crouching over the two children protectively.

"Predator, what side will you choose?" Parallax asked.

"Neither, I will guard these children, so that whoever wins shall have hosts waiting for them" Predator said, crouching its monstrous crystalline form next to Asuka and Shinji.

"So that you may take them for your own?" The butcher demanded.

"Neither of them has enough love to become star sapphires" Predator said.

"Yes, neither of them is able to produce enough fear to be yellow lanterns either" Parallax said.

"Nor do they have enough rage to be Reds" The butcher stated.

"Then why guard them?" Ophidian asked.

"I have my reasons" Predator said.

"You will incase them in crystal and turn them into star sapphires!" Parallax croaked and shot a beam of yellow energy at predator. A wall of sapphire sprang up and blocked the blast and predator shot a blast of sapphire energy at the yellow monster that brought up a shield. Butcher reared up and breathed gout of flame toward predator only to be intercepted by Adara who doused the flames.

"Enough! One of these children does not even exist" The blue bird shouted. Adara said and with a great shriek the beach, the red ocean, and Asuka shattered like broken glass, leaving everyone in darkness lit only by the light of the embodiments.

"What's going on?" Shinji demanded as fear flooded through him.

"This was but a figment of your imagination and a creation of the woman who controls this place" Adara said and flapping her wings glowed with blue energy and with a twist of reality Yue Ikari was standing beside her son.

"What are you? How did you enter Unit 01?" She demanded.

"Yue Ikari, you have great hope, you will be my vessel" Adara said and before anyone could stop it entered into the woman, causing the three other entities to howl with rage. Before they could do anything Yui/Adara and Sodam/Ion combined their powers and in a mixture of blue and green light contained the three negative embodiments in a net of light while they struggled mightily to break free.

"I don't understand what's going on here, but I want to help" Shinji thought feeling a fire grow inside him, one he thought was long dead a fire that Sodam/Ion felt as well.

"That boy, could he be?" Sodam thought as power ring flew from his body and hovered in front of Shinji.

"Shinji Ikari you have the ability to overcome great fear" the ring said.

With calm certainty the boy slipped the ring on his finger and felt power flow through him and in a flash of green light was encased in his old plug suite colored green and black. Focusing his mind, the same way he did when he synced with unit-01 he imagined a net and a net of green light sprang out of his ring and settled over the three embodiments as well. However, the three forgot about the predator who surged forward and broke the net holding the other embodiments.

"What are you doing?" Sodam shouted.

"Think about it lantern, as much as you despise us, all emotions are necessary for existence" The crystalline embodiment said.

"Predator is right" Adara said, ceasing her own attack.

"You have held to your duty through the life of your universe Sodam Yat. It is time to rest" Adara said. Sodam floated to the ground and sank to his knees.

"I am tired, so tired" He said as a mass of green energy emerged from him and coalesced into a green whale like entity.

"Ion" Sodam said.

"Sodam Yat, you have been my avatar and a guardian of the universe to the end of its life, however you can still go on to guard another universe" Ion said.

"No old friend, I am tired, I want to finally rest and meet my old friends again" He said and began to fade away.

"Wait a minute, what about me?" Shinji demanded. Sodam turned his head and smiled at the boy before holding out his hand. The green ring on the man's finger left it and flew onto Shinji's finger; merging with the ring he had been given.

"You are my successor, boy. I sense you have great willpower within you, use it wisely" He said then vanished.

"But use it for what?" Shinji whispered to himself as the other emotional embodiments began to glow.

"We have reached another universe, one brimming with fear" Parallax growled

"And greed" Ophidian hissed

"And rage" the butcher roared as they glowed brighter. With the feeling of the universe compressing they combined their power and ripped a hole into thin air. When Shinj's vision cleared he saw a swirling portal in the sky.

"What happens now?" Shinji asked.

"We follow" His mother said.

"For there is also hope in this universe" Adara/Yui said

"And Love" Predator said

"And compassion, the squid like proselyte said"

"And of course, willpower" Ion said and before Shinji could react the embodiment poured into him, and he felt power and knowledge on par with third impact pour into him, but warm, inviting and companionable, then it was gone.

"What happened?" Shinji asked.

"You are not yet ready for my power, but I will exist in your ring until you need me" Ion said into his mind.

"Now fly" it said, and Shinji felt himself lift off the ground. Bracing himself, he willed himself forward through the portal, his mother, and Proselyte. He shot out of the portal to see that there was a hole in the core of Unit 01 which was silently roaring its agony into the vacuum of space. Putting her hands out, Yue shot a blast of blue energy into the core of Unit 01 healing the fracture and putting it back to sleep.

"So, what do we do now?" Shinji asked.

"Adara says that this universe has no blue lantern corps and wants to build one" Yue said.

"I shall seek out those who require compassion" Proselyte added and flew off looking like it was swimming through space.

"I sense Zamorans" Predator said and shot away also.

"What should I do?" Shinji asked.

"You find your own corps, the Green Lanterns" Yui said

"What about unit 01?" Shinji asked.

"I shall keep it with me as I explore this universe. It will be safest that way" Yui said.

"So, I guess it's goodbye again" Shinji said.

"For now, but Adara says that the blue and green energy function best together, so I am sure that we will meet again, but she also says that you need to seek out the green lantern corps and gain training with your ring" Shinji held up his hand and looked at the ring on his finger, feeling the power surging through him.

"Alright, I'll do it" He said. Yui smiled and floating forward embraced him.

"That's my boy" She said smiling. Shinji held back his tears as he smiled back before they parted.

Okay, I'm reposting this by request with a few edits. The problem with this story is that I write some of these chapters as close to the episode as possible because the writing is near perfect and I don't want to mess with it. Now I don't have easy access to the series due to it being taken off Netflix and I don't want to mess with DC Universe just yet. So if you want me too I can re-write this using my own words, but I don't think it will be nearly as good as inserting Shinji into the episodes. Sorry I keep changing this but I truly want' Shinji to be mostly alone with all his old demons he needs to overcome. Also, if I actually make it far enough I will bring in Misato and Asuka as well as the rest of NERV in a kind of Rebuild storyline. Also dealing with his issues with Asuka is a big step on his way to becoming the white lantern and it doesn't work the way I want it if they are in the same universe. I found someplace to watch young justice, so I am going to focus much energy as I can on getting this story finished.