Fic: [Crossover] The Package
Title: The Package
Series: Evangelion, Black Lagoon
Type: Crossover
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6092097/6/
Chapter 6
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Shinji bleated as the fast rafts poured out from the nearby coastline, filled with what looked like pirates.
"Crap," Revy said succinctly, drawing her pistol and putting a bullet in the chamber. "Looks like shooting practice is over."
Rock stuck his head up from the hatch, his tie fluttering in the breeze as he said, "Dutch says that radar shows more boats hemming us in out on the water. We're going to have to break through them to escape."
Revy promptly used a word that would have gotten Shinji in deep trouble with his aunt and uncle. "Grab the wheel, Rock, and send Dutch up here," she ordered flatly, her eyes going hard and dangerous as she continued, "It's gonna get ugly."
"Right," Rock said, giving her a lingering look as he headed below.
Shinji grabbed hold of the railing as the ship jumped, the rough looking boats getting nearer. "What about me?" he asked steadily.
"Get below," Revy ordered calmly as she aimed, "no way are you ready for this."
As Shinji hurried to the hatch Revy's gun roared, and he saw a flash of red as a man fell from one of the boats. The seriousness of this struck him, a man was dead and she had done it so casually, like swatting a pesky fly. She fired her gun again, killing the helmsman of another boat, sending it out of control.
Revy spared him a annoyed look, "Get going!"
"Ah," Shinji jerked into motion, hurrying down the hatch and sliding down the ladder. His holstered pistol nearly caught on the hatch, but he wiggled free. He headed down the hall, then stepped aside for Dutch.
"Get to the bridge," he ordered Shinji, "make sure Rock doesn't do anything too crazy." AS Dutch climbed up to the deck he added under his breath, "I'm getting too old for this shit..."
Revy nodded to Dutch as he joined him on the deck, noting the sub-machine gun and extra ammo he was carrying. Good weapon for this sort of situation, or at least she hoped so. There were five boats of pirates heading for the Lagoon, each with twenty or more men. A sixth was trying to get back under control after she shot the pilot, but it'd probably join the attack eventually.
"Huh, about what I was expecting," Dutch noted flatly.
Revy smiled coldly as she said, "We've dealt with worse, over the years."
"Yeah, but we were both a lot younger at the time," Dutch countered as he took aim, firing off short burst to conserve ammo.
Down below Shinji reached the bridge, even as he heard Benny and Rock talking. "I knew we should have taken the long way around," Benny muttered, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and looking tired.
"Couldn't make it under the time limit," Rock sighed as they watched the pirates neared, "we're cutting it close as it is."
They both quieted down as Shinji entered, Benny smiling slightly. "Is everything okay upstairs so far?" he asked.
"Yeah," Shinji hesitated as he added, "Revy seems pretty confident."
Benny snorted, "She always seems confident."
Rock ignored that. "They'll signal when it's time to break out of this," he said, "get ready to grab onto something, we're going to have to go fast."
Shinji hesitated but had to ask, "Why can't we just run away from the shore and escape? The little boats couldn't catch us then."
"The radar shows a ring of ship waiting for us out away from the shore," Benny told him patiently, "even if we got away from these guys we'd have to dodge gunboats."
"Sorry," Shinji said meekly as they watched through the armored windows upfront as the pirates neared, only to be shot at by Dutch And Revy.
Up on the deck the pirates desperately tried to scramble up on the swaying boat's deck, only to be shot off by either Dutch or Revy. Well, actually Dutch was doing most of the shooting, to conserve her bullets Revy was kicking and punching people off with a frightening disregard to her own safety.
"Come on you fuckers!" Revy yelled, having stolen someone's machete after punching him in the face. The blade was red with gore, as were her tattoo marked arms.
"Stay back from the edge," Dutch cautioned as he pumped another burst of fire into the attackers. They were holding the attackers back and cutting into the numbers, but there were still a lot of 'em trying to board.
"Ha!" Revy yelled as she brutally chopped at a man's collarbone, dropping him in a purst of blood. She staggered back to Dutch, panting softly.
Dutch was relieved to see she didn't have the crazed look in her eyes that Revy occasionally got. It usually meant all hell was breaking loose, and they couldn't afford to have her go bezerk right now. "Can you reload?" he asked, noting she had ran out of bullets shortly after the attack began.
"My Cutlasses are reloaded," Revy grinned, "it's just funner this way." A bit more seriously she added, "There's too many to shoot with the bullets we have, we ain't winning this with just guns."
"You got a plan?" Dutch asked curiously. He guessed they'd downed about forty men or so, give or take. Of course that still left four boat loads or so of about eighty men. Give or take.
"Kill as many as we can, then break out along the coast," Revy shrugged as another boat inched it's way closer to theirs, the pilot now clearly wary of their skill with weapons.
"Short, simple and clear, I like that in plans," Dutch agreed as he opened fire again.
As they concentrated on the frontal assault, a boat broke away from the group attacking the one side. It wasn't a plan, it happened because Evy had shot their pilot and they were floating around erratically. Once the men on board got control they found themselves out and away from the Lagoon, and headed back as quickly as they could.
The bow or front of the boat wasn't an ideal place to try to board. It was a small area, with a pointed bow, and there would only be able to get a few fighters on at a time. On the other hand the two maniacs shooting their comrades were NOT there, and the shape of the boat would give them a bit of cover. In that way, it was perfect.
"Oh crap," Benny swore as they saw the boat heading toward the bow.
Rock convulsively grabbed the controls, then made himself relax. Starting the engines might throw Dutch or Revy off, which would be bad. "Benny, go get your pistol," he ordered just as the first few men climbed on.
"Right!" Benny scrambled away, hurrying down the hallway.
Several raggedly clad pirates hammered on the window with improvised weapons, making little progress. But someone passed up a axe, and the armor glass began to crack and buckle.
"Out of your seat, sir," Shinji said, tugging at Rock's arm and getting him away from the cracking front window.
"Benny, hurry up!" Rock yelled as the cracks spread through the plastic backed glass, the material bending inward.
"Looking for bullets!" a harried Benny yelled back.
With a loud crunch the glass started to give way, the material ripping away from the frame. Wildly the pirates tore at the glass, ripping their hands as they widened the hole to try and get inside and claim their prize. There was little time, the mad men up front had to notice them soon, but there was only a boy and a stunned man here...
A shot rang out, and the first pirate through the hole looked stunned a moment before scrambling backwards. Shinji stood in the shooting stance Revy showed him, gun held in two hands. Eerily he wasn't nervous, not even scared as he lined up the sights and fired again.
A man's head rocked backwards as the slug hit, and the pirates who had been desperate to get inside suddenly wanted to get the hell away. They scurried backwards across the bow, trying to get into their boat even as Benny arrived, laying down more wild but supportive fire.
"Everyone all right?" Benny asked, noting with some surprise how accurate Shinji was. Though admittedly compared to him anyone was a marksman, but the kid wasn't bad.
"We're fine," Rock said, giving Shinji a searching look.
"I'm okay," Shinji answered after a moment, puffing out a sigh.
Up on the deck they were standing n puddles of blood, both having run out of bullets. But Revy's savagery coupled with Dutch's strength and intimidating looks won the day, and the pirates had piled back into their boats to sail away.
"You still alive?" Revy asked as they leaned against each other, both quite exhausted.
"No," Dutch answered sarcastically. He moved away from her with a groan, sighing in pain. "Crap. Now I have to get back to the wheel incase those gunboats make a move," he sighed.
"I'll get the assault rifle," she agreed as they headed down the hatch into the ship, Revy adding, "I can probably warn 'em off, at least."
The two hurried to bridge, only to slow to a stop as they saw the broken in front window and Rock trying to clear off the glass. "What the hell?" Dutch blinked.
"We had some leakers," Rock sighed, "but we handled it. What's the situation up top?"
Businesslike Dutch got in the seat, wincing at the crunch of glass. "The pirates have fled, but we still have the patrol boats to deal with," he said. He called down the hall, "Benny, check the radar! What are the other boats doing?"
"They're," Benny paused as he checked something, "looks like they're scattering, Dutch. No idea why, but they're taking off like a bat outta hell."
Dutch slumped in his seat tiredly. "What the fuck?" he muttered.
Rock figured it out first, probably because he was better at thinking outside the box than most people were. And, honestly, he was less tired than the others too. "It was all to support the pirate attack," he said flatly, "someone paid those boats to hem us in and make us a target."
No one looked at Shinji, but no one had to. He was the only cargo the Lagoon was carrying, and he had to be the reason for the attack. The crew knew it, and so did Shinji. "But why?" Shinji had to ask. "I mean, I get they might want to use me as leverage against did, but he doesn't even LIKE me!"
"But do they know that?" Benny asked reasonably, having come back in the bridge to join the conversation.
"Doesn't matter," Dutch decided after a moment as he started the engines. "Let's get out of here, sitting on our assess won't get us to Tokyo-3 any faster."
"I'll watch the radar for any more surprises," Benny promised as he left.
Before Shinji could sneak off for a well deserved rest Revy grabbed his arm. "Come on," she ordered, tugging him along.
"Wha...?" Shinji started.
"You're a bigger target than I thought, kid," Revy said flatly, "so I figure getting you up to being a decent shot is more important than ever."
Shinji groaned, but meekly followed.
To be continued...
Series: Evangelion, Black Lagoon
Type: Crossover
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6092097/6/
Chapter 6
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Shinji bleated as the fast rafts poured out from the nearby coastline, filled with what looked like pirates.
"Crap," Revy said succinctly, drawing her pistol and putting a bullet in the chamber. "Looks like shooting practice is over."
Rock stuck his head up from the hatch, his tie fluttering in the breeze as he said, "Dutch says that radar shows more boats hemming us in out on the water. We're going to have to break through them to escape."
Revy promptly used a word that would have gotten Shinji in deep trouble with his aunt and uncle. "Grab the wheel, Rock, and send Dutch up here," she ordered flatly, her eyes going hard and dangerous as she continued, "It's gonna get ugly."
"Right," Rock said, giving her a lingering look as he headed below.
Shinji grabbed hold of the railing as the ship jumped, the rough looking boats getting nearer. "What about me?" he asked steadily.
"Get below," Revy ordered calmly as she aimed, "no way are you ready for this."
As Shinji hurried to the hatch Revy's gun roared, and he saw a flash of red as a man fell from one of the boats. The seriousness of this struck him, a man was dead and she had done it so casually, like swatting a pesky fly. She fired her gun again, killing the helmsman of another boat, sending it out of control.
Revy spared him a annoyed look, "Get going!"
"Ah," Shinji jerked into motion, hurrying down the hatch and sliding down the ladder. His holstered pistol nearly caught on the hatch, but he wiggled free. He headed down the hall, then stepped aside for Dutch.
"Get to the bridge," he ordered Shinji, "make sure Rock doesn't do anything too crazy." AS Dutch climbed up to the deck he added under his breath, "I'm getting too old for this shit..."
Revy nodded to Dutch as he joined him on the deck, noting the sub-machine gun and extra ammo he was carrying. Good weapon for this sort of situation, or at least she hoped so. There were five boats of pirates heading for the Lagoon, each with twenty or more men. A sixth was trying to get back under control after she shot the pilot, but it'd probably join the attack eventually.
"Huh, about what I was expecting," Dutch noted flatly.
Revy smiled coldly as she said, "We've dealt with worse, over the years."
"Yeah, but we were both a lot younger at the time," Dutch countered as he took aim, firing off short burst to conserve ammo.
Down below Shinji reached the bridge, even as he heard Benny and Rock talking. "I knew we should have taken the long way around," Benny muttered, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and looking tired.
"Couldn't make it under the time limit," Rock sighed as they watched the pirates neared, "we're cutting it close as it is."
They both quieted down as Shinji entered, Benny smiling slightly. "Is everything okay upstairs so far?" he asked.
"Yeah," Shinji hesitated as he added, "Revy seems pretty confident."
Benny snorted, "She always seems confident."
Rock ignored that. "They'll signal when it's time to break out of this," he said, "get ready to grab onto something, we're going to have to go fast."
Shinji hesitated but had to ask, "Why can't we just run away from the shore and escape? The little boats couldn't catch us then."
"The radar shows a ring of ship waiting for us out away from the shore," Benny told him patiently, "even if we got away from these guys we'd have to dodge gunboats."
"Sorry," Shinji said meekly as they watched through the armored windows upfront as the pirates neared, only to be shot at by Dutch And Revy.
Up on the deck the pirates desperately tried to scramble up on the swaying boat's deck, only to be shot off by either Dutch or Revy. Well, actually Dutch was doing most of the shooting, to conserve her bullets Revy was kicking and punching people off with a frightening disregard to her own safety.
"Come on you fuckers!" Revy yelled, having stolen someone's machete after punching him in the face. The blade was red with gore, as were her tattoo marked arms.
"Stay back from the edge," Dutch cautioned as he pumped another burst of fire into the attackers. They were holding the attackers back and cutting into the numbers, but there were still a lot of 'em trying to board.
"Ha!" Revy yelled as she brutally chopped at a man's collarbone, dropping him in a purst of blood. She staggered back to Dutch, panting softly.
Dutch was relieved to see she didn't have the crazed look in her eyes that Revy occasionally got. It usually meant all hell was breaking loose, and they couldn't afford to have her go bezerk right now. "Can you reload?" he asked, noting she had ran out of bullets shortly after the attack began.
"My Cutlasses are reloaded," Revy grinned, "it's just funner this way." A bit more seriously she added, "There's too many to shoot with the bullets we have, we ain't winning this with just guns."
"You got a plan?" Dutch asked curiously. He guessed they'd downed about forty men or so, give or take. Of course that still left four boat loads or so of about eighty men. Give or take.
"Kill as many as we can, then break out along the coast," Revy shrugged as another boat inched it's way closer to theirs, the pilot now clearly wary of their skill with weapons.
"Short, simple and clear, I like that in plans," Dutch agreed as he opened fire again.
As they concentrated on the frontal assault, a boat broke away from the group attacking the one side. It wasn't a plan, it happened because Evy had shot their pilot and they were floating around erratically. Once the men on board got control they found themselves out and away from the Lagoon, and headed back as quickly as they could.
The bow or front of the boat wasn't an ideal place to try to board. It was a small area, with a pointed bow, and there would only be able to get a few fighters on at a time. On the other hand the two maniacs shooting their comrades were NOT there, and the shape of the boat would give them a bit of cover. In that way, it was perfect.
"Oh crap," Benny swore as they saw the boat heading toward the bow.
Rock convulsively grabbed the controls, then made himself relax. Starting the engines might throw Dutch or Revy off, which would be bad. "Benny, go get your pistol," he ordered just as the first few men climbed on.
"Right!" Benny scrambled away, hurrying down the hallway.
Several raggedly clad pirates hammered on the window with improvised weapons, making little progress. But someone passed up a axe, and the armor glass began to crack and buckle.
"Out of your seat, sir," Shinji said, tugging at Rock's arm and getting him away from the cracking front window.
"Benny, hurry up!" Rock yelled as the cracks spread through the plastic backed glass, the material bending inward.
"Looking for bullets!" a harried Benny yelled back.
With a loud crunch the glass started to give way, the material ripping away from the frame. Wildly the pirates tore at the glass, ripping their hands as they widened the hole to try and get inside and claim their prize. There was little time, the mad men up front had to notice them soon, but there was only a boy and a stunned man here...
A shot rang out, and the first pirate through the hole looked stunned a moment before scrambling backwards. Shinji stood in the shooting stance Revy showed him, gun held in two hands. Eerily he wasn't nervous, not even scared as he lined up the sights and fired again.
A man's head rocked backwards as the slug hit, and the pirates who had been desperate to get inside suddenly wanted to get the hell away. They scurried backwards across the bow, trying to get into their boat even as Benny arrived, laying down more wild but supportive fire.
"Everyone all right?" Benny asked, noting with some surprise how accurate Shinji was. Though admittedly compared to him anyone was a marksman, but the kid wasn't bad.
"We're fine," Rock said, giving Shinji a searching look.
"I'm okay," Shinji answered after a moment, puffing out a sigh.
Up on the deck they were standing n puddles of blood, both having run out of bullets. But Revy's savagery coupled with Dutch's strength and intimidating looks won the day, and the pirates had piled back into their boats to sail away.
"You still alive?" Revy asked as they leaned against each other, both quite exhausted.
"No," Dutch answered sarcastically. He moved away from her with a groan, sighing in pain. "Crap. Now I have to get back to the wheel incase those gunboats make a move," he sighed.
"I'll get the assault rifle," she agreed as they headed down the hatch into the ship, Revy adding, "I can probably warn 'em off, at least."
The two hurried to bridge, only to slow to a stop as they saw the broken in front window and Rock trying to clear off the glass. "What the hell?" Dutch blinked.
"We had some leakers," Rock sighed, "but we handled it. What's the situation up top?"
Businesslike Dutch got in the seat, wincing at the crunch of glass. "The pirates have fled, but we still have the patrol boats to deal with," he said. He called down the hall, "Benny, check the radar! What are the other boats doing?"
"They're," Benny paused as he checked something, "looks like they're scattering, Dutch. No idea why, but they're taking off like a bat outta hell."
Dutch slumped in his seat tiredly. "What the fuck?" he muttered.
Rock figured it out first, probably because he was better at thinking outside the box than most people were. And, honestly, he was less tired than the others too. "It was all to support the pirate attack," he said flatly, "someone paid those boats to hem us in and make us a target."
No one looked at Shinji, but no one had to. He was the only cargo the Lagoon was carrying, and he had to be the reason for the attack. The crew knew it, and so did Shinji. "But why?" Shinji had to ask. "I mean, I get they might want to use me as leverage against did, but he doesn't even LIKE me!"
"But do they know that?" Benny asked reasonably, having come back in the bridge to join the conversation.
"Doesn't matter," Dutch decided after a moment as he started the engines. "Let's get out of here, sitting on our assess won't get us to Tokyo-3 any faster."
"I'll watch the radar for any more surprises," Benny promised as he left.
Before Shinji could sneak off for a well deserved rest Revy grabbed his arm. "Come on," she ordered, tugging him along.
"Wha...?" Shinji started.
"You're a bigger target than I thought, kid," Revy said flatly, "so I figure getting you up to being a decent shot is more important than ever."
Shinji groaned, but meekly followed.
To be continued...