A New Beginning - Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Gundam series, nor any of the various series which are used or referenced in my fic, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else, also, don't read this if you are not of legal age to read such material. The story contains possibly disturbing content and should not be read by close-minded people (i.e., people who are easily offended.) Everything in the story is fictional. I am also not responsible for any actions taken by people who read this story and society's problems. I do, however, own my original character; Hope Yamato.
"I'll make those cocky bastards pay for this." Kira growled under his breath as he decended to the floor of the Excalibur's main hanger bay on the Freedom's zip line, scowling at the machine's now useless DRAGOON units and non-existent rail guns.
"Kira!" Lacus yelled, as both she and Cagalli ran up to their amethyst-eyed lover and wrapped their arms around him. "When Cagalli and I saw the Freedom become engulfed by that one beam blast, we both feared the worst."
"You two still forget that we are gods," Kira replied, a hint of amusement in his voice as he smiled at the two beautiful women. "We cannot be killed." He paused for a moment, before finally continuing. "If we come under attack again, I could launch in the Freedom, but the DRAGOON units are inoperable and the rail guns have been destroyed, so I wouldn't be able to fight as well as I normally could."
A few days later, a crash of grinding metal rang through the Excalibur's massive docking bay as the main gates opened, and a pink Eternal-class support ship, which looked like no more than an upgraded version of the original Eternal from the First Bloody Valentine War, rose ponderously out of the docking bay and into the blackness.
Lacus Clyne smiled slightly as she sat on the bridge of the Eternal-class vessel, which had been given the name Purity.
Being an Eternal-class ship, the Purity was designed as a support ship, and was reletively lightly armed; with only two forward-firing heavy beam cannons, two dozen CIWS guns, and a battery of defensive missile launchers, in addition a powerful beam cannon was concealed within the nose of the ship and could be utilized as either a positron cannon, or if the need arose, a temporal inversion cannon. The Purity's primary weapons battery, however, was the pair of heavily armed METEOR units.
As the Purity moved away from the Excalibur, its phase cloak activated and the ship faded into invisibility.
The next ship to leave the Excalibur's docking bay was a Minerva-class battleship, which like the Purity, appeared to be nothing more than an upgraded version of the original design. This vessel was under the command of Cagalli Yula Athha. The ship had been given the name of Gladys, named after the captian of the original Minerva-class battleship from the Second Bloody Valentine War.
Being a Minerva-class battleship, the Gladys was heavily armed. Its weaponry consisted of a pair of dual beam cannons, a triple barrel cannon, more than a dozen CIWS guns, eight missile and torpedo launchers, a dozen anti-beam depth charge launchers and lastly a powerful beam cannon, which like the one concealed within the nose of the Purity, could be used as either a positron cannon or a temporal inversion cannon.
A half hour later, the alarms wailed throughout the Excalibur as Murrue leapt into the captain's chair, the bridge already sliding down below into combat configuration. Ten approaching shapes, all of them appearing to be Virgos, the Earth Sphere Unified Nation's latest mobile suit.
"Computer, can you find their mothership?" she asked as the bridge locked into place.
"Affirmitive, one mobile suit transport ship of unknown class, several miles out," the computer answered, "The enemy ship is outside of weapons range and is currently stationary."
"They're learning," Kira said with a smirk. "Captain, will we pursue?"
Murrue studied the void before her for a moment. If only the Virgo were attacking, then that left the Excalibur little to do except fend them off if they got too close and let the mobile suits duke it out themselves.
"Engage the mobile suits," she instructed, "and let the ship make the first move." She sat back and stared out into the blackness, steeling herself for a fight.
Kira swept his eyes over the controls of the Strike Freedom Gundam. It was largely the same as his own Freedom Gundam, but there were differences under the Strike Freedom Gundam's figurative hood, mostly diffrent weapons.
"Kira," Shinn's voice interrupted through the speaker, "how is the Strike Freedom handling?"
"It'll do," he answered, priming himself for battle.
Up ahead were four Virgo mobile suits, none of them bearing the standard colors. They broke formation, two of them veering upward and the other two veering left.
The Strike Freedom and Destiny darted apart as the four enemy mobile suits opened fire, pulling back behind their beam shields. A Virgo in green and black came barreling in towards the Strike Freedom, beam cannon blazing; Kira lunged aside, leveling off his rifle, only for the Virgo to twirl out of his sights. Another Virgo, this one in red and white, pummeled his Gundam with a barrage of missiles, while a third came streaking in from behind.
Kira whirled around to snap the Strike Freedom's leg up and kick the rapidly approaching Virgo, knocking it off course. He pulled back his Gundam's left hand for a killing strike, only for the Virgo to rocket upward, and after reorienting itself, the green Virgo charged in..
"So that's how you want to do it?" Kira grunted, somersaulting over the charging Virgo's head and whirling around for a killing beam shot. Instead, another beam saber came down through his rifle, and with a crash the Strike Freedom went reeling from a kick by the red Virgo. The green one leveled off its own rifle, only for the Strike Freedom to snap its left arm up. In the Strike Freedom's left hand was a twin barrel buster rifle. Kira smirked as he pulled the trigger, wiping out both enemy machines in a blaze of fire.
As the explosions slowly faded, Kira glanced across the battlefield, to where the Destiny Gundam was in battle with the other two Virgos, and without any hesitation, he ignited the Strike Freedom's thrusters and took off, speeding towards the Destiny and the two remaining enemy machines.
"Go the hell, Celestial Being!" One of the Virgo pilots yelled as he swiped a glowing pink beam saber at the Destiny Gundam.
"No, we won't go to hell! It has a restraining order against us." Shinn laughed, as the Destiny ignited its Wings of Light, leaving a cloud of glowing afterimages behind as it boosted to the right, dodging the saber slash.
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity, and I have erased this line." Kira smirked as the Strike Freedom lunged at the Virgo, delivering flurry of bone-jarring punches and kicks, before then grabbing the head of the enemy machine with its now glowing left hand as Kira roared. "GOD HAND!!!"
The Virgo simply vanished, as Kira had used his more God-like powers to teleport the enemy machine into the upper atmosphere of the gas giant planet known as Jupiter. The last remaining Virgo vanished an instant later, as a blast from the Destiny's long-range beam cannon speared it through the chest, wiping it out in a massive explosion, and after making sure that there were no remaining enemy machines, the Strike Freedom and Destiny quickly moved back towards the Excalibur.
As the two machines moved back towards the Excalibur, Kira was able to scan the Strike Freedom's computer and discover the password which his lovers had used to lock him out of the 000 Freedom's God-mode, at the same time he also deleted the Strike Freedom's own God-mode, as well as the copies of the system which had been loaded onto the Akatsuki, the Destiny, the Epyon, and the Infinite Justice Gundams.
As Kira landed the Strike Freedom in the Excalibur's hanger bay, he had a feeling that he would soon need the power of the God-mode.