Gundam SEED Eternity - Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny, or Gundam 00, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else!
Author's Note: Before reading this fanfic, please read the following three fanfics; .net/s/5206070/1/Kira_and_Murrue_fanfic, .net/s/5233057/1/Kira_and_Murrue_fanfic_continuation, and .net/s/5345526/1/The_power_to_change_the_past, it will make this fic easier to understand.
Two years had passed since the First Bloody Valentine War had ended. In the aftermath of the slaughter that was the final battle, both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT had agreed to a peace treaty; one which banned the use of N-Jammer Cancellers in mobile suits and military weapons, as well as the use of Mirage Colloid.
However, since Celestial Being was dedicated to eradicating all conflict, the treaty did not bind them.
Now, Kira Yamato along with his wife Cagalli Yula Athha, silently stood on a beach in front of their mansion in Orb. They were both staring into the sky with muted horror as the remains of Junius 7 plummeted into Earth's atmosphere.
In the two years since the last war, Cagalli's sense of style had changed; she had let her hair grow down to the middle of her back. Now she was wearing a red T-shirt and a pair of khaki shorts, while Kira was wearing a grey T-shirt and a pair of black shorts.
Kira turned, running back into the mansion, with Cagalli following close behind. "Kira, where are you going?" Cagalli asked, as Kira ran into the underground bunker where the 000 Gundam, which had been renamed Freedom after the end of the First War, had been stored.
Kira turned to face Cagalli as he ran into the bunker and said. "Cagalli, I'm going to launch in the Freedom and try to push that thing back."
A few minutes later, the Freedom Gundam streaked into space, heading straight towards the remains of the Junius Seven PLANT colony, which was now glowing red as it descended lower into the atmosphere.
"It's them!"
The shouts suddenly went up among the ZAFT troops as they struggled against the mysterious horde of black and purple GINN High Maneuver IIs. A Blaze ZAKU Phantom alighted on a rock floating near Junius 7's descending remains, watching as another GuAIZ R was cut down by a GINN's beam blast.
"Voltaire," the pilot said, his words broadcast among the ZAFT ships and mobile suits, "we've confirmed the presence of the Freedom Gundam."
As the Minerva's four remaining mobile suits advanced, the news streamed into their cockpits. Inside the red Gunner ZAKU Warrior, Lunamaria Hawke gasped in surprise. Celestial Being, the rumors all said the Freedom Gundam flew with Celestial Being! Moreover, the Freedom's pilot was Kira Yamato.
She keyed up the viewfinder and searched for any sign of Celestial Being.
Not far away, inside the Savior Gundam, Shiho Hahnenfuss glanced anxiously over her shoulder, looking in spite of herself for the Duel Gundam. It was rumored that the Duel was with Celestial Being, but that wasn't confirmed. Moreover, Shiho was still in charge of the mobile suits, she couldn't get too worked up yet.
She glanced over at the Destiny Gundam. Rey's white Blaze ZAKU Phantom was hovering almost possessively over the Destiny. Could she leave things in Rey's hands?
"Commander, what are your orders about Celestial Being?" Rey asked calmly. Shiho blinked for a moment.
"Leave them alone unless they attack you," she said haltingly. "We'll await official orders otherwise from Chairman Durandal and Captain Gladys."
Unknown to anyone, two ships were quickly speeding towards the falling PLANT. They were vessels of Celestial Being, both of the Archangel-class, the Rising Angel, and the Fallen Angel, which was the new name for the Dominion.
In the mobile suit hangar of the Rising Angel, still under the shroud of its Mirage Colloid, the gray forms of the Destiny, Infinite Justice and Strike Gundams stood side-by-side. Nearby the red ZAKU Phantom, piloted by Meyrin Hawke stood silently, along with a half-dozen standard green ZAKU Warriors and ZAKU Phantoms, all of which were marked with the distinctive Celestial Being crest on their shields.
In the mobile suit hangar of the Fallen Angel, which like the Rising Angel, was still under the shroud of its Mirage Colloid, the gray forms of the Calamity, Forbidden and Raider Gundams, stood side-by-side. Nearby, a half-dozen Murasames and Murasame Reconnaissance Types silently stood, and just like the ZAKUs, all of the Murasames had been marked with the distinctive Celestial Being crest, on their left shoulder and right wing.
The pilots onboard both of the ships were quickly making their way into their machines.
Everything came to a sudden halt when, seemingly without any reason, Junius 7 streaked straight up. The PLANT moved so quickly, that the mobile suits which had been fighting above its surface barely had enough time to dodge as it unexpectedly escaped the gravity of the planet, and moved back into a stable orbit.
On the bridge of the Minerva, Meyrin Hawke sighed in relief, Kira had made it in time, he had pushed the remains of Junius 7 back into a stable orbit, and now all that was left was to eliminate the terrorists which had intended to drop it in the first place.
"W-what the hell was that?" The pilot of one of black and purple GINN High Maneuver Type IIs asked in shock, but before anyone could answer, the cockpit of his machine was pierced by a bright pink energy beam and in an instant, the machine had been engulfed in a fireball.
"KIRA JESUS YAMATO IS BACK, BITCHES!!!" The voice of Kira Yamato screamed as the Freedom Gundam seemingly appeared out of nowhere, cleaving a pair of the GINN High Maneuver Type IIs in half with its beam sabers.
Kira laughed as the GINN High Maneuver Type IIs moved to surround him, but they never got time to attack him. A fraction of a second later, he freed a pair of twin buster rifles from the back of his machine, firing both of the rifles continuously, holding the triggers down, while holding the weapons at arm's length as he began to spin in circles, the blasts destroying everything in their path.
Kira sighed slightly as he let go of the triggers and once again stored both of the twin buster rifles in the storage racks on the back of his machine, but as he moved to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, he noticed a machine approaching him from the planet. Kira quickly zoomed his camera in on the machine and gasped in shock. "T-the Epyon Gundam?"
Sure enough, the crimson and black Epyon Gundam was streaking towards him, in its mobile armor mode. Kira barely had time to ignite his beam shield as the Epyon transformed into its mobile suit mode, ignited its beam sword and slashed at him.
"Murrue?!" Kira asked in shock, staring at the Epyon Gundam as it floated over the Freedom.
Murrue Ramius's eyes flashed beneath the plastic and metal of a crimson and black Earth Alliance flight suit and helmet.
"I expected to see you here, Kira," Murrue said quietly.
"What are you doing here, Murrue?!" Kira exclaimed. "I thought you were..."
"Be quiet!"
The Epyon pushed the Freedom away, but the two mobile suits quickly leveled out. The Epyon pointed its beam sword combatively at the Freedom.
"You thought that I had died two years ago, didn't you?" Murrue growled. Kira stared in open-mouthed shock, this was not the Murrue Ramius that had fought by his side at Jachin Due. "But now look at me," Murrue went on, glowering at Kira. "I'm a real soldier. I'm respected and loved for who I am." The Epyon began stalking ominously towards the Freedom, and Kira backed away to keep his distance. "I have the power to protect people now, Kira. The power to protect people from you!"
"Murrue..." Kira began, but the Epyon charged, and the beam sabers slammed together in a shower of sparks.
"You left me to die!" Murrue screamed, her eyes alight with fury. "I never meant anything to you, Kira!"
"You don't understand, Murrue!" Kira cried back. "I tried to save you, but I couldn't reach you in time!"
"LIAR!"
The Epyon lunged forward, sending the Freedom staggering back, then Murrue charged in for a killing blow, which Kira barely managed to deflect.
"Murrue, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Kira shouted. "Get a hold of yourself! Murrue!"
The Epyon charged again, and Kira grunted, swinging back in a quick counterstrike that left the two Gundams' sabers locked again.
"You made me your little weapon to bring peace!" Murrue shrieked, as the world began to turn red. The two machines had now begun to glow with the red light caused by atmospheric reentry. Continuing this fight was suicide. "You used me! You never loved me to begin with!" The Epyon pushed harder, and Kira grunted under the pressure.
"I DID NOT LEAVE YOU TO DIE!!!" Kira screamed as he forced the Epyon back, kicking it in the chest, before then freeing and igniting the beam boomerangs from the shoulders of his machine and whipping them at the crimson machine. "And I still love you!" He roared as he then freed and ignited the beam boomerangs from the elbows of his machine, whipping them at the Epyon as well.
Murrue scowled as she dodged all four of the boomerangs, but a few seconds later, the twirling beam blades arced back towards her. She was able to dodge the first pair of spinning blades, however the second pair found their marks. Murrue scowled as the first boomerang sawed through the Epyon's right wing and arm, while the second severed her machine's left leg.
"STOP THIS INSANITY!!" Kira screamed, tears clouding his eyes as he once again freed the pair of twin buster rifles from the back of his machine, the twin barrels of both weapons brightly glowing with a yellow light. A full power shot from only one of the twin buster rifles had enough destructive power to obliterate a PLANT, much less a mobile suit, with two of the weapons, the pilot might as well call himself God.
"Just because you have a pair of twin buster rifles, doesn't mean that you can beat me." Murrue scowled, and as the two machines descended further into the atmosphere, the green orb in the center of the Epyon's chest began to glow with a bright white light.
"OH SHIT!!!" Kira yelled as he quickly boosted to the right, barely dodging the blast from Epyon's temporal inversion cannon. Unfortunately, the ZAFT Eternal-class cruiser, Athena, was not able to dodge the blast. Kira watched in horror as the beam blast from Epyon's temporal inversion cannon surrounded the Athena, the hull of the ship glowed for an instant but then it vanished without a trace, the ZAFT Eternal-class cruiser had been forced out of the timeline, essentially erased from existence.
Kira stared at the Epyon Gundam, noticing that its Mirror Coated Phase Shift armor was now flickering between the crimson and black colors displayed while active, and the dull grey of its powered down state. Kira hesitated for only an instant, before once again aiming both of his twin buster rifles at the Epyon, his vision now clouded by tears.
"Murrue, please stop this!" He sobbed. "I don't want to fight you!"
The first chapter of Gundam SEED Eternity is finally done.
I apologize for how long it took me to get this posted...
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