Chapter IX: The Final Power; The Confederate's Final High Water Mark pt. I
Here's the final battle! Get prepared! And try to keep up if my writing is complicated in some way. Again pardon me if my writing seems bad or things get ridiculous. Also I don't know any Digimons I can come up with for any of the Digidestineds there, so if you might, try to come up with some for our friends.
By the way, for another battle fic of mine, check out my Gettysburg fic. You might find it interesting.
From the look of things, the fortress Messiah rears its fearful presence and fires the Neo-Genesis particle beam, obliterating the whole Orb and one Battlecruiser (commanded by Lt. Gen. John F. Reynolds) sent to destroy Requiem. There are more problems; additional Confederate mobile suits are heading their way, their numbers increased. What's more, the Destiny and Legend are out on the battlefield. But no matter, the entire Union forces and their allies still have numbers and firepower, but things aren't going to be as easy as before.
Meanwhile, on Yoh's ship, the young king's getting restless. Even he has limits in his patience. "Ok, guys, I'm going out to help them. As a Digidestined, and a metal fan, I must fight for cause." Yoh announced as he is leaving. "Yoh..." Anna protests but she knows what must be done. "Anna, I leave you in charge. I love you." Yoh said as he makes his way to the elevator. "Good luck Yoh. I love you too." Anna muttered as she now sits at the command throne. There Yoh and a team of elites are taking off in their Phoenixes and Scouts (from Starcrafts).
Tai, his team and the other Digidestineds now go into the heat of the fight. "Confederates! COME AND GET THEM!!" Tai challenges them all. Everywhere else, there was total chaos; the whole scene looks like a battle scene from Star Wars.
Now Athrun and Kira are dealing with Shinn and Rey now. With them are Tai, his team, the Elric brothers and others, but even with their help, it is still tough. "This is bad Kira; looks like they were planning to aim for Orb." Athrun said as he dodges attacks from Rey. "Please go on Archangel, Athrun too. The Justice can tear through that shield. We'll stay and take care of this fortress." Kira strategize to his comrades as he launches his Dragoons at the Destiny. "But the Eternal will be vulnerable." Murrue said.
"Its alright. Please go Athrun, Murrue. We got faithful Digidestineds and our allies to help us." Lacus said. "Very well then. Let's meet definitely meet again." Murrue acknowledges. "Yeah, for sure." Andrew Waltfeld replied to her. The Archangel separates from the Eternal.
Roy Mustang's Battlecruiser, called Arsenal, sees the legged ship move out. "Alright boys, follow the Archangel. They might need help." he ordered as his ship turns to go with the Archangel.
Meanwhile, the group of Yzak is on their way. "So Yzak, what do we do?" he asks. "We are going to support the Eternal." Yzak ordered. "But..." Dearka hesitated, knowing that they know that they had switched sides. "It's a ZAFT ship right?!" Yzak made his decision final. "I see..." Dearka could only say. The Joule team then backs up the Eternal.
Also, the Star Destroyer class ship commanded by Michael McNeil and the Battlecruiser, under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark Jamison Sheppard (from C&C Tiberian Dawn), provides additional support and cover for the Eternal. Meanwhile the other Battlecruisers can hold out by themselves, including the Star Deadnaught Kratos General Grant is in. Jim Raynor's ship Hyperion supports and backs Yoh's ship.
"All of our nations are more important than us! Each of our nations are the only ones left in standing against their plans. Each possesses importance to all of us. If one falls we lost this war! All of them must be protected at all costs! That is reason why were here!" Ruuji inspires his division in a mighty, courageous tone. "So my friends, WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?!"
"AU!!! AU!!! AU!!!" they all called out, trying to have a little humor and another shot of boosting their morale, coming out from one certain favorite movie of theirs. That is one of the things why they like Ruuji so much, he can inspire them and increase their morale. "We fight for all that are good!" "We are with you sir! For Metal, for Digimons, for freedom! To the death!" they call out to the 15-yr old Lieutenant General.
Elsewhere, the fight rages on like hell; they met stiff resistance everywhere. "Damn, they're persistent alright." Brig. Gen. John Buford said in his Battlecruiser. The other ships are defending themselves and other comrades beside them while evading some shots thrown at them. The other Digidestineds around are fighting valiantly; showing no signs of slowing down or giving up. They know that a lot of good things are at stake; they can't afford to drop out now.
Kira deploys his Dragoon pods at Rey. "Rey! Freedom, you bastard!" Shinn curses as he fires at Kira's machine. They exchange fire, and then Shirou, some members of his team and Ruuji himself join in. Rey fires at them to stall them. "Shinn, join forces with the Minerva. Get Athrun and the Elric brothers and destroy the Archangel and other Digidestineds. I will deal with the Freedom and them here! They're mine!" Rey tells Shinn. He does so. Shirou and his team composed of Saber, Ilya and Rin also deals against Rey.
Athrun, Tai, their teams and with the now "returning" Mu La Flaga in the Akatsuki joins with them. "They got a lot of guys, yep. But you're gonna need other than numbers!" Mu exclaims as he fires a salvo from his Dragoons.
The Eternal along with one Star Destroyer and one Battlecruiser, heads for the Messiah. Now joining them are two other Battlecruisers, commanded by Lt. Gen. George Meade and Maj. Gen. Ben Carville (from Red Alert 2). Also, Ra-Kan's Carrier is there with them, along with 2 Carriers. "Go around the rear of the fortress. No matter how big the beam is, it's meaningless if we don't get it." Ra-Kan said. Some other Digidestineds (maybe the season 3 guys and Negi's team) join up with them. The 3 DOM troopers are defending Eternal valiantly. They also come to assist the Digidestineds around.
"Damn it, cut it out already!" Yzak feels the pressure as he shoots incoming missiles at the Eternal and Michael McNeil's ship. "What the hell is the Freedom and the other Digidestineds doing?!" "What's wrong, you want their help?" Dearka calls to Yzak with a slight humor in his tone. "That's not it you fool!"
Meanwhile, the Archangel is blasting their way through the chaotic battlefield that is in space. "We gotta break through that shield. Time is short, hurry up and regroup and destroy Requiem immediately." Murrue told one of the captains of an Orb ship. "The Minerva is coming from Blue Alpha. Distance, 16." One of the officers on the Archangel alerts them all.
The Archangel fires missiles at them; the Minerva shoots them down or just avoids some. "Fire Gottfrieds!" Murrue ordered. Mu separates from Athrun, Tai and their team to provide assistance to his ship.
As Athrun, Tai, his team and the Elric brothers make their way, they bumped into Ruuji's division, and a familiar mobile suit. "The Impulse… Lunamaria!" Athrun said in surprise. "Athrun!" Luna can't believe that Athrun is still alive. She then sees the Elric bros are still there with them. "...Why did you have to bring Meyrin? Why did you take her away?!" Luna shoots at Athrun but Ed's alchemic shieldings from his Arbiter blocks it. "Break off Lunamaria! Just stop this!" Ed calls out to the Impulse.
"Come back here you traitorous little scumbag!" Luna goes chasing Ed's Arbiter. "Don't call me little you insolent, incompetent bitch!!" Ed was pissed by her; he just hates it when people call him little, short, or anything due from his height. Luna's got a lock on him and fired. But her shot was blocked and reflected back to her thanks to Al's machine. "I won't let you harm my brother or my friends!" Al shouts to her. "You tell her Al! Now let's take this bitch down!" Ed calls out and the brothers fire at her. Luna got hit by their attack.
Sora ordered Garudamon to fire her attack at the Impulse. "What do you think of us now? Pathetic, are we, huh bitch?!" Sora spat out insults to her. "Yes, you all are!" Luna retorted to Sora and she still attacks at them. Mimi helps out by ordering Lilymon to shoot at the Impulse, then TK appears with MagnaAngemon and takes out an arm. "Don't make me do this. We don't want to attack you!" TK pleads to her from his spacecraft.
TK's good words fell on deaf ears. "I won't listen to you Digidestined!" Luna fires a machine gun at TK's ship but is protected by the heavy shield system. Athrun then launches a beam boomerang at her at takes out the right leg.
"Luna! You alright?" Shinn can see that Luna's outnumbered. "Damn it, you fuckers!" Shinn charges at them like a bat out of hell, rage filling his being. "Who's that?" TK asked. "It's Shinn!" Athrun exclaimed as he dodged his attack, takes out his twin sword beams and duels against Shinn's mobile like Jedi Knights against a Sith lord. "How dare you all! You try to harm Luna!" with that, Shinn releases his SEED mode.
Shinn and Athrun fought hard against one another, but then Tai's, Matt's and Sora's Digimoms butt in. Tai's partner WarGreymon manages to cut lose weapon of Shinn. He's getting frustrated at the Digidestineds' interference and is also confused by their cause.
"Why are you fighting for Metal music!? What is it worth to you!?" Shinn asks to them as he swings his beam sword at them. "Because Metal makes me and we feel truly alive. It makes us release and expressions our feelings and frustrations. It has more power than anything else!" the Fullmetal Alchemist answers to him.
"How can that be? I don't understand!" Shinn is confused by their words. "You won't understand because you're a non-believer!" Matt shot at him. Shinn shot back to Matt, "Listen, you don't understand. Gilbert's doing this for the sake of peace and freedom of mankind."
"I know but that's not how is supposed to be. People and Digimons are meant to live free and follow whatever dreams they had, not to be bounded of they are destined to be and stuff like that. Digimons in addition are not meant to be used as weapons. And metal music should not be abolished because it didn't do anything to you, and it is a cause worth fighting and dying for! Manowar has taught me that!" Tai says to him as his Digimon partner prepares to go for another offensive.
Shinn retorts, "Ha! What a worthless cause you're fighting for! So it makes you weak!" "No, it's not a worthless cause! It makes us strong and brave!" Ruuji tells to Shinn with sheer honesty. "And we will fight for our rights, freedom, for the sake of Digimons and for metal too! We are prepared to fight to the death!!"
"Well, if that's how you feel, then prepare to die! And I can kill you easily! Your cause is just crazy! It's madness!" Shinn is ready for another offensive move. Tai again said something from a certain movie that he loves. "Madness? THIS – IS – METAL!!" And like a signal given, they all charge at Shinn.
"Damn you! I'm not gonna let you beat me! Why am I gonna get beaten by the likes of you!" he launches an all out assault on them. Tai, Ruuji and their teams attack the Destiny at once. Shinn is outnumbered but is not afraid, he soldiers on, still thinking they can be beaten. He fails to understand to strength of the Digidestineds, not just from the power of their partners, but also their will power and their perseverance. Meanwhile Izzy is reading the details on his laptop about the Destiny; he then tells everyone its limitations. "Everyone aim for that spot! That will further weaken him!"
"Alright!" WarGreymon strikes him with his Terra Force while MetalGarurumon and Garudamon fire from mutiple sides. The Destiny is taking damage and Shinn stubbornly goes on. The other partners just keeps on firing at him, while Ruuji fires some rounds of homing missiles at the Destiny. The Elric brothers are firing their alchemic powers at Shinn, wanting to take him down for good; Ed hell bent on taking him down.
The Destiny is taking a lot of damages already. Despite that, Shinn still goes on. "Still think we're weak huh? You think Metal makes us weak?!" Edward calls to him mockingly. "Yeah you tell him Ed!" Matt supports him up. "Do you see now Shinn? Do you see that we are strong? Do you need more proof than this?!" Tai shouts out to Shinn. "Why you... I won't give up! You're all still weak and pathetic! You don't deserve to live in Durandal's world!" he attempts to attack them again, only to be pushed off by Ruuji's liger Digimon.
"We're the ones having the advantage here! Give up and we'll let you live!" Tai calls to him, although, he knew what he said was a lie. "Just shut your goddamn mouths! I will never listen to you scum!" Shinn retorted. "If you keep it up, you're going to get yourself killed! You want that huh?! Ok, let's attack guys!" Tai didn't even wait for a reply; he had enough of this guy.
"Damn you! Damn you! DAMN YOU!" Shinn is still at it, now pissed and losing patience. He again charges at them, but then Athrun calls to Shinn again. "Stop fighting when you're possessed by your past!" "Yeah! You've got to move on. Stop fighting to change things that are in the past! Even if you do that, you won't regain anything! Simply, you can't bring it back!" Alphonse supports Athrun.
"Bullshit!" Shinn still denies it all. "And now you're going to destroy the future, is that it!?" Edward now joins in. Shinn still clings on to what he believes in, the cause of the Confederacy.
He attacks everyone while arguing with them. "I understand that! That's why the world needs to change already. That's why Orb, Izumo Kingdom, Kita Domain and the Potomac Sector needs to be destroyed! And also why metal needs to be abolished, and you metal fans must die along with it!!"
"So is this really it? Is this the kind of power you wanted?! Or the strength for your own gain?!" Sora retorts to him. "You plan on destroy and killing the future and the people's happiness as well. And you would be branded as a butcher, slaying innocent metal fans!" Ruuji shot at Shinn.
"No I'm not!!" he had enough and aims at Athrun. Suddenly, Luna appears in front of him, as if protecting Athrun. "Shinn, please stop! You too Athrun! All of you!" Luna was taken from what they've said. But it seems that Shinn would stop at nothing. "It's too late!" he then comes to even destroy the Impulse in front of him, overcome by blind rage.
Athrun activates his SEED mode and blocks off the attack; Kari's Digimon assists. "You moron!" Athrun yells. "Stop him now!" Kari ordered to her Digimon and Angewomon and Infinite Justice to fully attack relentlessly and disable the Destiny. To deliver the final blow, Ruuji ordered his liger Digimon (in Mugen form if you watch Zoids Genesis) to fully render the Destiny to be damaged beyond repair. The enemy mobile suit comes crashing down to the moon. "Shinn! Luna goes after the fallen Confederate ace.
"Guys, we've been out here too long. We got to get to Requiem!" Izzy reminded them and they quickly get to it.
Kira gets a familiar feeling deep inside when facing Rey. "How is this possible? It can't be!" The Legend releases a beam saber at Kira and they had a duel as their energy swords clash like lightsabers. "Why do this? What's the point?" Kira calls to the Legend. Rey fires his own Dragoon pods in all directions. Kira, Shirou, Ruuji and their friends dodged it.
"Who are you? Who the hell are you?" Kira gets a strange sense of déjà vu with the pilot of the Legend. "I'm sure you recognize me. I am… Rau Le Creuset!" Rey proclaimed. Kira is shocked to hear the name of a former formidable and evil adversary he faced in the past, and that he is him? He dodges Rey's attacks from the Dragoons fired at him.
"People's dreams... people's futures, and their splendid result, you Kira Yamato!" Rey gloats as he fires a rapid volley fire from his Dragoons at Kira and the Digidestineds around him. Kira blocks using his shield but is thrown back. "And because of that, you're existence must come to an end! You'll disappear with us!" Rey tells to Kira.
"You Digidestineds as well, you will all be annihilated! The Digimons shall become our slaves of weaponry! For the sake of the new world that's about to be reborn!!" Rey talks like a real life villain hell-bent on destruction and dominance. All Digimons attack Rey from all sides.
Kira cannot believe that Le Creuset is actually back. "But... it can't be you! How is this possible? Why are you back?!" "I can't run away from myself and the one thing you can never recover is your past. That is why we must end all of this, sweep everything away. And return it to the true and correct appearance. Humanity, and the world!" Rey said, his voice bent on destruction on the world for a renewal.
"Hey, wake up Kira!" Saber calls to him. Kira snaps out of his shock and avoids his attack. He then regains to come at Rey. "No, you're wrong! There is only a single existence to a life! That's why that life is yours and not his!" Kira said as he skillfully takes out the Legend's Dragoon pods. "Listen you, whatever you're planning, it will not happen! We only got one life and we can't exhange it! Be yourself and not someone else! We fight for keeping our freedoms and happiness! That goes for Digimons too! We Digidestineds did nothing to deserve this!" Shirou said to Rey even though he doesn't know exactly what he is. Rey was taken aback by their words.
Ilya thought she saw an opening. Right after Kira fires all of his guns at him, Ilya made sure he will not come back for more. She orders her Digimon, an (Zerg) Ultralisk to turn the mobile suit to be made ready for the junkyard. "Good work. Now let's go, our friends need help." Ilya said as they left him.
Meanwhile, Yoh and his forces battle out and helping out their allies wherever they can.
Then on the surface of the moon, there are more Confederate forces there. General Grant orders the deployment of their cyborg division down at the moon's surface to deal with the Confederates there. And like a futuristic Invasion Of Normandy, dropships comes down from Kratos to deploy the Awakened, Enlightened (from Kane's Wrath) and Immortals in mass numbers. The Colossuses and Thors (from Starcraft 2) come in as well, not in many numbers due from their size and the enormous strength they possess. Then later, Zone Troopers and Raiders, Wolverines, Titans, Behemoths and even the MARV and Redeemer (from Kane's Wrath) follows to lay waste to all Confederate forces there, hoping to weaken their efforts.
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