A New Beginning - Chapter 25
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.
Only three months had passed since the First Bloody Valentine War had begun, and already things were getting out of hand. Much to the surprise of everyone on the Excalibur, a new PLANT chairman, known as; Kale Khan, whom was in reality, a Sith Lord known as Darth Revan, had been elected, and had quickly ordered an assassination attempt on Lacus Clyne.
Looking up from his computer screen, Kale Khan waited as the doors opened for ZAFT Special Agent Kira Yamato to enter with something slung over his shoulders. At first he thought it was Lacus Clyne's corpse and one of her allies but when he noticed the familiar clothing of the secret service agents, he knew something was wrong.
"What is the meaning of this, Yamato?" Kale demanded.
"I should be asking you the same question, Kale Khan," Kira replied letting the corpses drop to the floor. "Why did you send these clowns to kill Lacus when you knew what would happen if anyone interfered with me? What's more, they threatened to kill Athrun and myself if we didn't let them handle the investigation."
"Then you should have listened. Lacus Clyne is a dangerous woman, her words encourage peace through talk and understanding. That's not how to win the war. Lowering ourselves to talk with the naturals only shows them we are weak. We can't let ourselves go back to being naturals when we've evolved into a superior species. And because of the simple fact that we are coordinators, the naturals continually exploit our abilities and call us space monsters." Kale prattled. "Once every last natural is dead we can being anew with a world created by the strength of coordinators."
"Evolved? The last time I checked evolution took millions of years and coordinators have been around for only 200. Coordinators aren't the next step in human evolution, we're just artificially enhanced naturals. And if we're as superior as you say we are, why have ZAFT soldiers been killed in combat? Don't forget that my sister is a natural, you dumb piece of shit," Kira spat back. "The only thing you'll be remembered as is a genocidal maniac. And one last thing, Lacus is still alive. She escaped because of your boy scouts, so this is your screw up."
"Yamato." Kale seethed.
"Just remember, if any of my friends or loved ones die, the naturals will be the last thing you need to worry about." Kira smirked walking casually out of Kale's office.
'Damn him. He always finds a way to undermine me.' Kale fumed.
A few hours later, Kira, Cagalli, Hope, Lacus and Murrue all stood on the bridge of the Excalibur, discussing possible ways to end the war. Suddenly, a video feed was forcibly relayed the Excalibur's bridge, an image of Lacus' father appearing on one of the large bridge screens.
"Father!" Lacus choked at the image of her father's dead body.
It was more grotesque than anything she had seen. Siegel Clyne's body was crucified on the front of a Ginn, his body covered in multiple lacerations and carved into his chest was the word 'Traitor'.
Meanwhile, in Panama, Athrun Zala sat in the cockpit of the Aegis Gundam, watching as the remaining Ginns murdered the surviving naturals in cold blood.
Athrun, along with the other three Gundam pilots on the Vesalius, had joined Celestial Being after their first encounter with the Excalibur, and they were now working as undercover agents within ZAFT.
'This is just disgraceful,' Athrun thought to himself. 'We look at them like nothing more than cockroaches yet they see us as space monsters just because we've had our genes altered. Is this what I should be fighting? Fighting against people who can't accept someone just because of their genes?'
"I'm beginning to question the very reason for this war," Athrun sighed as he fired up the Aegis Gundam's thrusters. "Some coordinators are no better than Blue Cosmos."
"I can't argue with that." Yzak said, watching the carnage with disgust.
An hour later, the bridge of the Excalibur was in chaos, but the chaos was not being caused by an attack, instead, Lacus Clyne was trying to get to the Justice Gundam. After seeing her father's dead body, she had suddenly been filled with a deep desire for revenge.
"Damnit, Cagalli!!" Lacus shrieked as she struggled to break free of Cagalli's grasp. "Let me go!"
"I'm not going to let you go, Lacus." Cagalli answered as she continued to hold her lover's arms behind her back. "We both know what will happen if I let you take the Justice up to the PLANTs to take revenge." The blonde paused for a few seconds, but finally she whimpered. "This war is only getting worse."
Meanwhile, up in the PLANTs, the recently completed Freedom Gundam's eyes flashed as all the fury of its pilot, Lacus Clyne, was unleashed.
The Gundam quickly tore the nearby ZAFT soldiers apart with a volley of CIWS fire, the Gundam then leapt into the air and rained beam blasts down on the ZAFT mobile suits and guns. The Freedom then landed in an intersection and immediately stormed forwards, towards a formation of GINNs which was being led by a CGUE.
Freedom swept down into the GINNs' ranks with its beam saber, plowing through their useless machinegun fire and tearing them apart. They had angered Lacus, what she was displaying now was real, powerful, unadulterated rage. ZAFT had done something to truly infuriate Lacus Clyne, and now they were going to pay.
Lacus quickly emptied her beam rifle into the ZAFT mobile suit ranks, and the flaming mobile suits plowed into the city. The Freedom then replaced the rifle on its rear waist armor, before storming up into the air, lunging towards a squadron of DINNs and ripping them out of the sky with a single beam saber slash. Lacus was fighting insanely, heedless of whatever damage she caused to the city or the colony, concerned only with wiping out any mobile suit that opposed her.
The Freedom Gundam looked to its right when a missile suddenly slammed into its positron reflector, the missile had detonated harmlessly against the positron reflector, but it had succeeded in getting the attention of the pilot. Freedom glared at the mobile suit which had fired the missile as if trying to decide how to destroy the attacker.
Suddenly, the Freedom's eyes flashed with a bright white light, before returning to their previous blood red as a pair of cross flares shot from Freedom's eye mounted beam cannons, slamming into the mobile suit, destroying it as a pink cross of energy rose a half mile into the artificial sky of the colony.