A New Beginning - Chapter 12

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.


Kira sighed to himself as he sat on the bridge of the Excalibur a few days later. Everyone was on duty at the moment, and since they were Gods, the members of Celestial Being didn't really need to do anything that normal creatures needed to do, such as eating or sleeping, but they still did mostly out of habit.

"Well, since we are dedicated to eliminating conflict," Kira suddenly said. "Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have at least a few unarmed vessels in the Excalibur's ship compliment." He paused for a moment as he quickly brought up the specifications from multiple unarmed ships.

"Personally, I like the Nubian ship designs." He said as the list of ship designs from the planet known as Naboo appeared on the screen, among them were J-type diplomatic barges, J-type 327 Nubian royal starships, J-type star skiffs and H-type Nubian yachts.

"Considering how hostile the remnants of the Empire are, why don't we simply use our massively superior firepower to eliminate them?" Hope asked, as everyone began to look through the recently acquired ship database. "Better yet, why don't we simply plot a course to Earth? With the Excalibur, we could probably end the First Bloody Valentine War within only a few days."

"Sadly that won't work." Kira said a mixture of annoyance and regret noticeable in his voice. "Murrue and I had been given the exact same opportunity once before, and despite our overwhelming advantage, the war still didn't end until after both sides had tried to use their weapons of mass destruction on each other."

"Well, now we have the Excalibur." Hope smirked.

"She does have a point, Kira." Murrue said after a long moment of silence. "The Excalibur does have more weaponry then an entire fleet."

"Fine," Kira sighed after a moment of thought. "If you guys really want to, we can return to Earth and try to end the war, but don't blame me if we fail to succeed." He then turned to Lacus. "Lacus, signal the New Republic, tell them that Celestial Being will be leaving in a few weeks to perform an armed intervention on Earth, also send them the blueprints for the Abyss, Aegis, Blitz, Buster, Chaos, Duel, Gaia, Impulse, Saviour and Strike Gundams."

Lacus nodded and quickly sent the message. At first, Kira had been quite hesitant to send the blueprints for the five original Gundams, much less the blueprints for the second generation Gundams, but the New Republic was now allied with Celestial Being. Only a day earlier, the New Republic had sent a copy of their massive ship database to Celestial Being, in addition to all the available information about the Force. After all, it was only fair to exchange information with allies.

Half an hour later, the hanger of the Excalibur was alive with activity as the pilots resupplied their machines, even the hundreds of mass production mobile suits were being resupplied and in some cases, they were even being upgraded. Kira glanced at one of the sub-screens within the Freedom Gundam's cockpit when it suddenly came to life, displaying a large group of E-wing excort fighters, along with an equally large group of X-wing fighters, all flying in a V formation as they approached the Excalibur.

Kira quickly estimated that there may have been as many as fifty ships in the entire formation. As he reached out with his senses, the amethyst-eyed man was not overly surprised to find that Luke Skywalker was leading the massive flight of star fighters. After only a few seconds, the image of the fleet was replaced with the face of Luke Skywalker.

"Kira," Luke said, his tone of voice completely serious. "We got your message, but I'm worried." He paused for a second before continuing. "I can sense a huge disturbance in the Force and it seems to be coming from the Earth."

Worry flashed across Kira's face for an instant, but he merely nodded in understanding as he replied. "How many ships are with you?"

"All nineteen members of Rouge Squadron are with me, 13 X-wings and 6 E-wings." Luke answered few short seconds later. "I was also able to round up the Wraith Squadron, which consits of 6 E-wings and 6 X-wings." He continued. "In total our force consists of forty-three ships."

"Very well," Kira said, he already knew that he would be unable to talk the Jedi pilot out of accompanying him to Earth, especially since he had sensed a disturbance in the Force, which seemed to be emanating from the Earth. "You are hereby cleared to land in the starboard hanger bay."

"Understood. Rouge Squadron and Wraith Squadron are now proceeding to starboard hanger bay." Luke replied as his squadron steadily moved towards a pair of massive doors which were now opening on the Excalibur's starboard side, one more revealing the interior of the ship's huge hanger bay.

As the ships quickly moved towards the Excalibur's hanger, Hope's face appeared on the other sub-screen. "Kira," She asked. "What will we do if the Earth Alliance and ZAFT continue to fight even after we demonstrate our superior abilities?"

"If the Earth Alliance and ZAFT continue to fight even after we reveal our abilities, I'll simply unravel the very fabric of reality within the entire solar system." Kira scoffed, pausing briefly as a sadistic smile crossed his lips. "If they really piss me off, I may even go so far as to merge the entire solar system with hell itself."

Two days later, near the Imperial stronghold known as the planet Byss, deep in the core of the galaxy, hundreds of New Republic ships suddenly dropped out of hyperspace. The Imperial ships instantly opened fire.

Despite the fact that some of their shots did hit the Repubilc ships, the Imperial officers were stunned and horrified when the blasts actually bounced off the hulls of the Republic starfighters.

"W-what is that?!?" An Imperial officer suddenly asked, as one of the X-wing starfighters, which appeared to be slightly larger than the others, streaked towards the bridge of the nearest Star Destroyer, and as the X-wing approached the massive ship, the fighter suddenly transformed.

The Imperial officers watched, transfixed with both awe and horror, as the X-wing starfighter took the shape of a humanoid robot, more specifically; a Gundam. However, they wouldn't have any time to contemplate this, as the bridge of the Star Destroyer vanished an instant later, as a lance of green energy engulfed it.

Once the defensive ships had been lured away from the planet, the Celestial Being Warship Excalibur suddenly appeared in orbit, seemingly emerging from the blackness of space itself.

Instantly, thousands of turbolaser batteries located on the surface of the planet opened fire on the massive ship, but the weapons merely bounced off its armor, some of the reflected blasts destroying the very same turrets which they had been fired from.

As the massive ship hovered omniously above the planet, Kira stood on the bridge and finally, nearly thirty seconds later, he forced open a communications line on all frequencies. "Attention Imperial army, this is Jesus Yamato of Celestial Being. You will surrender immediately or we will be forced to destroy you!"

As the Imperial forces continued to fire shot after pointless shot at the Excalibur, a single, devastatingly powerful beam of bright green energy lanced out from the bow of the ship, slamming into the surface of the planet.

Kira watched from the bridge of the Excalibur, the look on his face showing no emotion, as the surface of the planet instantly cracked. Molten lava quickly filled the cracks amd less then a second later, the entire planet exploded into nothing more then molten rock and debris.