Draconian Pilot of Izzet

An Evangelion x Magic: The Gathering Crossover

By Darkscythe Drake

Hi guys! I've decided to take up one of my challenges! I hope I do well!

If you want to make your own version of the story, you can PM me. After all, the multiverse is vast…

NOTE: The M:tG storyline is a bit sketchy on some details, so expect some OOCness and headcanons from that side. But I will try my best!

NOTE 2: This takes place in a fusion of the Rebuild and original universe. Gaghiel doesn't exist and Asuka appeared when "Clockiel" struck. Mari appeared shortly after "Tunniel" and the Angels 7-13 all appeared, with Leliel the 12th Angel taking Asuka and 13 being Bardiel who possesses Asuka's Eva. Again, my attempt.

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Chapter 1 – Arrival

There is a question, passed down through the ages.

Differently worded sometimes, but the meaning remains the same.

"Are we alone?"

Mankind is a social species. As much as they bicker with one another, they desire companionship more than anything else.

That is the reason why societies are formed, why friendship is made, why love is shared.

Man hates being alone, more than anything else.

But even the company of one's own species can sometimes lose its luster. Combined with his lust for knowledge, man looks to the stars and asks himself:

"Are we alone? Is anyone out there?"

However, one must be careful for what they wish for, as it might just come true.

In the year 2015, on a ruined Planet Earth, man received the answer.

They were (NOT) alone.

They came from the skies, from the deep seas, bearing unearthly shapes and gigantic sizes.

Monsters, dubbed "Angels" all with one goal:

To wipe humanity from the face of the Earth.

To prevent that, humanity created monsters of their own. "Evangelions" or "EVA Units". Colossal machines designed to destroy the invaders and bring salvation to humanity. Truly a godsend to some, but for a select few, it was just as bad as the monsters.

Such is the case with one Shinji Ikari.

Abandoned at a young age by his father only to be summoned many years later, forced to pilot the EVA and fight the Angels that threatened to kill them off. A very meek and weak-willed child, but with strong resolve.

Despite his weaknesses, he has endured many trials alongside his pilot allies. He had suffered, yet stood triumphant.

But just as water slowly wears away on rock, suffering slowly wears away on the soul, until it finally gets crushed or worn away.

However, there are very rare times, when as a result of said suffering, that soul becomes unbound…

-DPoI-

Shinji Ikari was tired.

He was tired of many things, tired of his duty, tired of the EVA, tired of the suffering he was forced to endure.

Even his motto of "I mustn't run away!" started to falter. If it meant escaping this, a small part of him just wished to run away.

Right now, he was tired of fighting.

An Angel had taken over the red EVA – Unit-02 – of his fellow pilot, Asuka Langley Soryu and was controlling it. Afraid of hurting her in the process, Shinji refused to injure her Eva, despite his father's command.

He didn't care if he was the Commander of NERV, Shinji would not kill her.

His fellow pilots, Rei Ayanami and Mari Makinami had been knocked out in their own EVAs after failing to subdue the rogue one. Essentialy, he was all alone.

He sat in the darkness of his purple-clad EVA's – Unit-01 – entry plug as he tried to think of something, anything to help out Asuka.

Unfortunately, he didn't get the chance.

The plug lit up in a dark-red glow, his seat shifting in an unusual way. In of him a message appeared, in big green letters:

"Dummy Plug System – Golgotha Base"

He didn't know what that meant, but before he could try and ask someone back at base, he felt the Eva move. He tried moving his hands, but they were locked onto the control sticks.

The screen in front of his showed the corrupted Unit-02 pinning his EVA down. He saw Unit-01's arms move from the ground and push the other EVA away. Then, it struck.

It wrapped its hands around the corrupted mecha's neck, trying to choke it. It lifted it from the ground and body slammed it back down. Unit-01's mouth tore open and bit out a chunk of Unit-02's flesh, all the while dragging its head across the earth.

It slammed its fist on the red mecha again and again, pummeling it and breaking its armor. All the while, Shinji tried to make his rampaging robot stop.

"Father…what are you doing? Please stop this…"

But his cries failed to reach, because Unit-01 bit into Unit-02's neck and ripped out the Asuka's entry plug, holding it by the teeth.

"Please stop…please stop…I'm begging you please stop!"

He watched as the purple-clad behemoth held the entry plug in its teeth and tightened the hold it had. His eyes widened in horror as he desperately tried to force his EVA to let go, but he couldn't make it budge.

"No, no, no, nononono…"

The EVA bit down harder…and harder…and harder…the cracking of the plug was heard audibly over the speakers.

"Please no…"

It pushed down…and the plug shattered, leaking the blood-like LCL.

"NOOOOO!"

The remnants of the plug fell down to earth as Unit-01 stood solitary against the sunset, looming over the landscape like a horrifying statue.

All the while, Shinji sat horrified in his plug, his fragile mind unable to truly digest what had happened. Then, a dark voice reverberated throughout the plug. The voice of Gendo Ikari, his father:

"Target eliminated. Angel has been neutralized. Return to base at once."

At hearing that voice, something inside Shinji Ikari's mind snapped. Hearing his father's voice made him recall everything that he had endured through, everything that he had suffered through in this infernal, abominable machine.

Not just on the battlefield either. The constant belittling of Asuka, the pressure from NERV, his abandonment, years of loneliness and feeling of worthlessness all came to the front of his mind.

All thanks to his father.

His mind snapped, and an anguished cry rose from the very depths of his soul.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

At that moment, something inside the boy's soul broke. It was as though his cry had reached the farthest corners of the earth, begging for relief, begging for the pain and suffering to end.

'I can't…'

'I don't want to fight anymore…'

'Make it stop…'

'I…'

'I…'

'I want to run AWAY!'

In that moment, whatever had been broken inside him gave way to an unrestrained wave of…something. It rushed through his body, coursed through his veins and enveloped his being.

If one was to look at Shinji from the outside, which was what everyone at NERV Base was doing, they would see a pale, water-like aura rippling around him as he screamed.

The aura grew brighter and brighter until it nearly blinded them.

"What's happening!?"

"Unknown power fluctuations originating from the Entry Plug! Wavelength unknown!"

"Systems malfunctioning! We can't get to – "

Suddenly, a loud BANG! and WHOOSH! were heard as they all saw the aura – and the pilot – disappear from the plug, leaving an empty cockpit inside.

Gendo and Kozo Fuyutsuki – Sub-Commander of NERV – looked in shock as the unexplained phenomenon occurred. When everything had settled, Gendo had one thing to say:

"This…was not in the Scenario."

All Fuyutsuki could do was nod.

-DPoI-

In regards to the question asked before, while man did discover they were not alone, they had failed to realize something.

They were NEVER alone.

Just not how they would like it.

While they were few in this universe, out there – in a sea of never-ending universes, a multiverse – life was teeming. Some human, some not. Some kind, some dangerous. Yet mostly unaware of one another.

As a writer once had written in a book of his:

"Imagine you're a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you'd have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you're a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of." (Blake Crouch)

This was what had just happened to Shinji Ikari. The cry of his soul awakened something within him, a spark that shattered the veil between realms and flung him through the void.

He felt as though a storm was pounding away at his body. As though he was flying through an endless sky, swimming through a bottomless ocean. His vision was filled with bright lights and swirling clouds. As he was sent flying, he felt himself…change.

It was like he was being stretched, pressed and pulled on every inch of his body. It was unlike anything he had felt before, then again, he had never felt anything like all this before.

He had managed to focus his sight a little bit more when he saw a bright light on the horizon. Steadily, it grew bigger and bigger. In his befuddled and utterly dazed state, Shinji managed to grasp one thing:

He was hurtling towards it.

But before he could do anything, the light flooded his sight and he felt himself hit something hard.

Then, there was darkness.

-DPoI-

Trivez grumbled as she walked through the bustling streets. The sheer indignity of the situation nearly made her lose control. Ok, so she had blown up things a little more this time around, but how was she to know that was a nearly irreplaceable prototype? Now she was stuck hauling these spare parts back to the guild where they would probably be destroyed soon after they were used.

At least that thing was nearirreplaceable. Otherwise, there was no telling what the guild-master might do to her.

She saw the familiar spires of the guildhall when she saw a flash from the corner of her eye and heard a thump from a nearby alley. She was about to just shrug and leave when something poked at the back of her mind.

Not anything mystical in nature, but that curious feeling that she would get whenever something exciting was around.

She took a chance and entered the alley, setting down the parts along the way. What she saw made her jaw drop in shock.

A form was lying face down on the ground, with pieces of strange cloth lying ripping around it. But as she got closer, her eyes widened even more at what she now clearly saw.

'This…this is unbelievable! I thought that the guild-master said that he was the last one! How can there be another one?'

Trivez heard it groaning a bit, a sign that it was alive. Good. Being the curious person that she was, she tried to see into his mind, but ejected herself as soon as she entered.

So. Much. Pain. So much suffering…what…?

She tried looking again, this time a little more carefully, but she could barely see into his (knowing for some reason it was a male) mind. It was as though an impenetrable fog surrounded it, blocking all influence.

She tried to skirt around the 'fog' seeing if there was any opening. As she searched though, she began to feel something familiar, something she had felt in this city several times before. Could it be, a…?

This was too big of an opportunity to pass up. Forgetting about the spare parts, she hauled him over her should with a little bit of telekinesis for extra support and headed back to the guild. All the while one thought going through her head:

'Things are going to get a whole lot more interesting around here…'

-DPoI-

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