WELCOME TO THE FINAL CHAPTER OF CROSS ANGE: WINGS OF FREEDOM.
So this is the final chapter, thank you guys for sticking with this for this far. I appreciate the reviews and they have helped me with progressing the story, somewhat... given that this is a crossover of Gundam Seed and Cross Ange, I didn't have too high hopes... bt it turned out fine.
So before we get started, I'll be referring to Embryo here as just Embryo. He will be the final one.
So yeah, the long awaited death of Embryo, and the fight between Kira and Mazinger Zero.
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Kira stared at the massive Mazinger in front of him. The Ultimate Coordinator could feel the amount of power the mech in front of him exerted and it was staggering, if it was anyone else, he had no doubt they would fall.
Kira gripped his controls hard and was about to charge when the massive machine spoke, "YOU ARE EITHER BRAVE OR STUPID TO FACE ME."
Kira blinked and grinned, "Well, if I didn't, everyone else would have died."
The Mazinger seemed to smirk, "INDEED. I CAN FEEL YOUR POWER, MINISCULE COMPARED TO MINE, BUT POWER NONETHELESS."
Kira let out a breath and said, "Let's go."
The Mazinger nodded and waited as the Strike Freedom shot towards him, drawing his beam saber as he did. Kira swung the blade down as the Mazinger Zero raised his arm to block the slash.
The beam saber struck onto the arm of Super Alloy Z and pushed against the alloy. Kira wasn't too surprised with the results as he unleased all his DRAGOON pods.
Still pushing his blade against the Mazinger Zero's arm, Kira willed all the DRAGOON pods to take aim. The Strike Freedom pushed and leaped away as Kira willed the pods to fire.
Eight beams of pure energy struck the Mazinger Zero, causing a massive explosion. If it were anyone else, they would have thought that they had won... but Kira knew better.
The smoke and dust cleared to reveal the Mazinger Zero. The being cracked its neck and spoke, "NOT A BAD ATTACK. DO YOU HAVE MORE?"
Kira responded firing all his weapons in Full Burst mode. The Mazinger Zero stood still as the beams of energy hit him right on the chest, once again causing a massive explosion. Kira hoped it would do the job, but he could still feel the energy the Mazinger Zero exerted.
The dust cleared again, revealing the Mazinger Zero slightly banged up, but overall still alright. The being seemed to smirk, "BETTER... MY TURN."
In a flash, the Mazinger Zero vanished and reappeared in front of the Strike Freedom. Kira barely had time to dodge the destroyer of possibilities' fist. The fist smashed into a floating boulder that was behind Kira and totally smashed the rock to pieces.
Then the Mazinger Zero quickly turned and its chest started to turn red. Kira felt danger and death and quickly shot away as the Mazinger Zero unleashed a massive blast of heat and energy.
The result was the total destruction of anything within the blast radius for a few hundred miles. Fortunately Kira and the Mazinger Zero had taken the fight quite a distance away from the original position, so no one was even near them.
Kira stared at where the beam was for a few moments before he looked at the Mazinger Zero. If the machine showed that it was tired or anything, Kira didn't see it.
The Mazinger Zero turned its head to Kira, "WELL, YOU DODGED IT. GOOD, IT WOULDN'T BE FUN IF YOU DIDN'T!"
The Mazinger Zero held out its arm and pointed it at Kira. Then suddenly, two blades grew from the arm and started to merge onto one massive bow-like blade.
The Mazinger Zero grinned, "TASTE THIS IRON CUTTER."
The bladed arm shot out towards the Strike Freedom at staggering speeds. It was only due to Kira's instincts that he managed to lean to the side just in time as the arm shot by.
Kira took the chance and shot forward, drawing his beam sabers and went to stab the Mazinger Zero's head. But before he could even touch the machine, the Mazinger quickly twisted his head at the Freedom and spat out tornadoes of rust.
The Ultimate Coordinator saw this and immediately shot upwards, dodging the rust tornado and maybe dodging an immediate defeat. Kira's mind raced for ideas, his Strike Freedom was strong, but faced against an enemy like the Mazinger Zero, even he had his limits.
He was broken out of his musings when the Mazinger Zero appeared in front of him and grabbed the Strike Freedom's head with an iron grip. Kira struggled to break free but it was all in vain
The Mazinger Zero held the Freedom up as his chest glowed. Before he could fire however, Kira activated SEED mode and drew his beam sabers and deployed the DRAGOON pods.
The Strike Freedom swung its beam sabers at the joints of the Mazinger Zero's arms as the pods concentrated to fire on the joints as well. The results were as Kira hoped, with the arm breaking to pieces and freeing the Freedom.
The Mazinger Zero stared at where its right arm used to be and stared at Kira, "NOT BAD. LET US CONTINUE."
The brunette put away his beam sabers and drew his beam rifles. He then focused all weapons and fired them at the Mazinger Zero's head. The Mazinger stared at the beams incoming, not fearing it in the slightest.
It was wrong however, as the beams all struck its head hard. The dust cleared to reveal a burned and angry face of the Mazinger Zero. Its eyes glowed as it roared, "YOU HAVE DONE IT! YOU SHALL FACE MY WRATH!"
Infinite beams of photonic energy shot out of the Mazinger Zero's eyes, with the intent to destroy the Strike Freedom. Kira started to dodge the beams one by one as he willed his DRAGOON pods to fire at the Mazinger Zero.
The pods fired as he willed at the head of the Mazinger Zero once again. The beams managed to stun the Mazinger for a while as the beams stopped coming. Kira didn't waste time and shot forward.
The Mazinger Zero stood there still blinded by the beams from the DRAGOON pods and opened its eyes just to see the Strike Freedom in front of it, beam sabers drawn.
The Mazinger let out a massive roar of pain as Kira stabbed both swords into its eyes, one blade for one eye. It gripped its head with its remaining left hand and flailed wildly, breaking Kira's beam sabers in the process and sent him flying away.
Kira quickly regained balance and stared at the blind Mazinger Zero. He felt a bit sorry and decided to end it quickly. Willing the DRAGOON pods to close in and surround the Mazinger Zero, but not too close, Kira readied all his weapons.
Kira willed the Strike Freedom to move closer to the Mazinger Zero, but not too close to avoid getting hit. Then, Kira pulled the triggers.
In an instant, with a flash of red, blue and green, the Mazinger Zero went limp as the beams pierced through its entire being. Then, electricity started to crackle through the Mazinger Zero's body.
Kira's eyes widened as he felt the energy running rampant in the Mazinger Zero's body. The Coordinator turned and flew away as the Mazinger Zero collapsed into itself and exploded in a massive shockwave.
The shockwave was so big that it sent Kira flying into a boulder that was floating. The man groaned as he got out of the rock, "Well, at least no one was in the blast radius."
Kira got up and left the area to look for the others, heading for the massive island of True Arzenal.
Meanwhile, above the True Arzenal, Ange in her Vilkiss stared down at the Hysterica.
Embryo spoke, "Ange, would you please reconsider? You can stay by my side, we can rule the worlds."
Ange glared at Embryo, "I'm not as desperate to want you. Besides, Kira is a whole lot better."
Embryo fumed, "You will never speak of another man in front of me!"
Ange stared at him coldly, "You seriously can't take no as an answer, can you?"
Embryo glared at the white Ragna-mail, "If its come to this, I will take you by force!"
Ange huffed, "When have you not done that?"
Ange had enough of the chat and charge the Hysterica. The girl swung her blade at the Hysterica and clashed blades with Embryo.
The blonde man grunted as he pushed against the Vilkiss' superior strength, "How? My Hysterica is supposed to be superior!"
Ange glared at the man, "True, your Hysterica is strong, but you have never actually fought. Faced against any of us, even if its not a Ragna-mail or Gundam, you stand no chance!"
The Vilkiss' eyes glowed in response to Ange's words and pushed harder. Ange then willed the Vilkiss to spin and kicked the Hysterica away.
Embryo grunted in annoyance, "If that's the case!"
He started to sing as the Discord Feather activated. Ange huffed, "Don't you dare sing my mother's song!"
The girl began to sang as her Vilkiss glowed golden. The two Ragna-mails fully charged their Discord Feathers and unleashed the tornadoes of destruction against each other.
As the two blasts pushed against each other, Embryo yelled, "Your Vilkiss is just a normal Ragna-mail, your half-assed Discord Feather can never win against mine!"
Embryo's blast enlarged and broke through Ange's Discord Feather and headed for the Vilkiss. The former princess saw this and leaped to the right to dodge the blast.
Ange glared at Embryo and charged him again. But right before she reached him, Ange's ring glowed and the Vilkiss turned into its Ariel mode.
The girl grinned and vanished right in front of Embryo. She reappeared behind him and sent a series of slashes, punches and kicks that sent him flying around like a pinball before she reappeared in front of him.
Ange thought, 'Let's go, Vilkiss!'
The white Ragna-mail responded to her thoughts and turned into its Michael mode, the sword extending into a beam saber. The girl roared as she swung the long sword at Embryo.
The self-proclaimed Tuner barely raised his shield in time to block the slash. But the force behind it was too big and sent him flying into a boulder near the island.
Ange looked at monitor and saw that she could freely use the two modes. The girl then noticed one more mode in the monitor and smiled, "Vilkiss, you're responding to me, aren't you?"
The monitor glowed a bit and Ange grinned, "We'll be free of that hentai-stalker after this. Lets go!"
The Vilkiss' eyes glowed in recognition and started to glow. The glow was so bright that even Embryo shut his eyes from it.
Soon, the glow died down. The Vilkiss was still white, but it had red linings and it exerted a stronger aura. Another noticable change was that instead of the normal rifle, the Vilkiss held a decay convergence cannon.
In the cockpit, Ange blinked in surprise as she noticed her suit had changed. Instead of the white and blue suit that was very revealing, she was wearing a pure white suit with a bit more cover.
Ange let a small smile grace her face, "Not bad, Vilkiss, I like this better."
The monitor glowed slightly in response before Ange turned her focus onto the Hysterica which had risen up from the boulder.
Ange spoke coldly, "I'm putting an end to this once and for all!"
Before Embryo could even say anything, the Vilkiss charged and slashed the Hysterica. It then spun around and sent a blast of energy from its convergence cannon that sent Embryo flying for a small distance. Ange didn't let up with the attack and charged in, stabbing her sword into the Hysterica before kicking it away again.
The girl then activated her Discord Feathers through sheer will and unleashed the blast at point blank range. The energy sent the Hysterica flying again, miraculously not destroyed. Ange ignited her sword to form the beam saber and flew up, "This is the end, Embryo!"
The girl swung her sword down and sliced through the Ragna-mail like hot butter.
Just then, everyone else was done with their fights and had joined up with Ange. They all looked at the remaining cockpit of the Hysterica, ready to explode at a moment's notice.
The Tuner spoke, "Why, Ange? Of all the people, I chose you, why?"
Ange glared at the man, "You may have chosen me, but I sure as hell didn't choose you. Besides, who would choose someone like you?"
Embryo fumed, "Fine, I don't need someone who doesn't understand my love."
Ange snorted, "What love? You're nothing but a shameless narcissist who's always acting superior. You have no sense in clothes, you never stop grinning and your hairstyle is ridiculous! It's impossible for me to pass on your useless perverted genes!"
Ange raised her decay convergence cannon and took aim at the cockpit, "You haven't got a chance with me, you're a thousand million years too early! Turn to dust!"
The girl pulled the trigger, not waiting for a reply. But right before the blast hit, a barrier formed around the cockpit, blocking the beam.
The barrier's sudden appearance surprised the group of pilots as Embryo laughed, "You're underestimating me too much."
The group of eight saw Embryo producing the orb of energy in the cockpit as he spoke, "If I can't have you, Ange, I will destroy the universe, no, the multiverse and everyone in it!"
The orb glowed and everyone could feel the space starting to change. Salamandinay looked at Ange and Lacus on the screen and the three girls nodded.
The three songstresses took a breath and started to sing, "Ichimen someru hana wa, sora e to noboru hikari~ ikuoku no ibukitachi~ ima, sekai ga umare kawaru."
As the three girls sang, the Vilkiss, Raziya and Enryugo turned gold. At the same time, the space around them started to stabilise and the energy orb around Embryo stopped glowing.
The self-proclaimed Tuner's eyes widened as he shouted, "No! Stop singing!"
The girls payed him no heed as they continued to sing. Then, three sets of Discord Feathers/Space-time Convergence Cannons activated. In an instant, three pairs of tornadoes of pure energy shot at Embryo and the blonde narcissist knew no more.
Lacus, Ange and Salamandinay stopped singing as their Ragna-mails/Ryu Shin Ki returned to normal. The space then started to destabilise as everything started to shake.
Aura's voice came at them before they could even say a thing, "The space Embryo created is now destabilising. Ange, Salia, focus on your space-time powers, I will do the rest."
The blonde girl looked at the bluenette for a while and nodded. The two of them then focused on their Ragna-mails as they turned blue. Then everyone vanished from the area, along with the island of True Arzenal.
Meanwhile, Embryo found himself standing in front of a massive skeleton with purple robes and a golden staff.
The Shinigami grinned at Embryo, "We finally meet, Embryo, 'Tuner of Worlds'."
The skeleton said the title with obvious mockery as he continued, "So let's look at your sins, shall we?"
Embryo glared at the skeleton, "Sins? What sins?!"
The Shinigami smirked, "Why, the sins you've commited in your thousands of years of your life. So let's get to it, shall we?"
The god of death pulled out a huge file and slammed it on the table, not intentionally but due to its weight. The god flipped through the file and said, "Escape of death... raping a young girl... taking away people's wills... killing... raping a young girl... killing... using Aura as a battery... trying to take over the world... hypnotizing young girls etc etc... these can earn you eternity in hell."
The god smirked, "But frankly, hell as it is now would be heaven for you. So, I compromise. For the next eternity, you shall endure the hellflames, get yourself ripped apart for infinite amount of times... and endure all of that while watching gay porn of Maito Gai. Effective immediately."
He slammed the red button on his desk and sent the blonde man falling to his hell for the rest of his afterlife.
Back with Kira and co, the man opened his eyes to see the blue sea in front of him. The Coordinator noticed he was also standing upright and not in his Strike Freedom. The man looked around and saw that the others were all there in the same position he was.
Aura spoke, drawing everyone's attention, "It seems we succeeded. Embryo is gone, and we're back in our world. We've also brought the True Arzenal with us."
Everyone looked around and found that their respective machines standing near them. Salamandinay said with a tired smile, "I believe we should all have a short rest before we go back?"
No one argued as they fell to the ground exhausted. Ange looked at Kira, "Kira, what do we do now? We've defeated Embryo, we saved the world."
Kira looked up to the sky and said, "Who knows? Maybe we'll stay here, maybe open an orphanage or maybe a cafe or something."
Lacus smiled softly, "At least, we won't have to worry about politics or anything threatening the world."
Aura nodded, "True. You've done a lot. You all deserve rest."
With that, they all say there watching the sea, glad that everything had ended. Then as they sat there, Shin spoke, "Hey, I just realized, Kira is in a relationship with Lacus, Salamandinay and Ange right? The three of them are all princesses, they can all sing quite well, and they can all pilot Ragna-mails or Ryu Shin Ki. Does he have a fetish for that?"
Everyone blinked and Kira said, "Maybe, but Shin, I think you should run."
Shin blinked, "Eh?"
Luna pointed behind him and he turned to see the former princess of the Misurugi Empire smirking darkly at him. The pilot of the Destiny yelped and ran, with Ange hot on his tails with a staff. Everyone just laughed as they continued to sit there.
A while later, everyone was back in the village of Aura. A festival was held to celebrate the end of the war and the defeat of Embryo.
Aura had granted the male DRAGONs the ability to have a human form, to the joy of everyone since most males would lose that ability after a certain age.
Now, everyone was dressed in yukatas and kimonos as they celebrated. Kira and the others were all having fun, finally getting the time to rest without worry of danger.
As they walked, Kira heard the Shinigamu's voice, "Kira Yamato, you have done well."
The man turned and looked up to see the god standing on a building, looking at him. The god spoke in Kira's mind, "You have my gratitude, enjoy your new life with your soul mates. I pray we don't meet again soon."
The god vanished with a gust of wind as Kira smiled softly and thought, hoping his thoughts would reach the god, 'Thank you, Shinigami.'
The young man was broken out of his thoughts by Salamandinay yelling, "Kira! What are you doing? We're gonna leave you behind!"
The man turned to see everyone else waiting for him and ran to them. The Coordinator said, "Sorry, something just caught my attention."
Ange asked, "And what would catch the attention of the great Kira Yamato-sama?"
Kira smiled in response, "Nothing important. Let's go."
Shin nodded, "Yeah, the fireworks are gonna start soon, right?"
Lacus looked at Salamandinay, Naga and Kaname "You girls know any good spots?"
Kaname and Naga shared a look and smiled, "Yeah, follow us."
The two DRAGONs lead the group to a small hill near the village. Vivian beamed, "Let's race up!"
Without waiting for a response, the young pink haired girl shot up towards to the top of the hill. Ersha giggled, "Well, I'll see you guys up there."
The older woman then ran up after the young DRAGON. Hilda, Tusk and Salia shared a look before the three ran up. Luna looked at Shin as she pulled him, "Come on, let's go."
The hotheaded teen could only follow as he tried to keep up with the girl. Kira looked at Athrun, Cagali, Lacus, Ange and Salamandinay, "You guys seriously want to race?"
Athrun laughed, "Why not? Last one there will treat everyone to lunch for a week."
The blue haired man then ran up the hill, with Cagali hot on his tail. Kira sighed, "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt..."
He trailed off when he saw the others running up the hill. Kira sighed again before he chuckled and started to run up the hill, where they would watch the fireworks.
A few years later, Kira, Ange and Lacus had opened a cafe in the village with everyone from Arzenal. Salamandinay had duties with the council of the village so she could only help out some times.
As Kira served coffee to a customer, he saw Salamandinay walking in. The man smiled at the girl, "Salamandinay."
The girl smiled at her boyfriend, "Hello, Kira. Aura-sama wants to gather everyone, so we need everyone there."
Kira nodded, "I see. Let me get ready, I'll tell the others too."
The DRAGON princess nodded as Kira left to get cleaned and get the others.
A while later, everyone gathered in front of Aura's room. The ancient DRAGON looked at the group, "I called you here to tell you about the other Earth."
Ange looked at the DRAGON, "What about it? I mean we did say we wouldn't go back."
Aura gave Ange a kind smile, "True, but I figured you'd like to know how it is there, since I am not there to provide them with Mana."
Sylvia nodded, "I'm curious actually. I mean, now that we do not have Mana, things must have change back there."
Aura nodded, "Indeed, the only ones who have had experience using Mana here are you and Momoka after all."
Momoka nodded as the DRAGON beckoned them to follow her to the table. Aura conjured up a hologram and spoke, "Since the world of Mana lost its Mana, it caused an uproar. People couldn't adapt to it at first, and they were confused with how things would go."
The DRAGON showed them the Misurugi Empire, "Because of that, many have started to fight for resources, since Mana there is no more. The world of Mana will become a world of revolution, at least that's what I believe."
Athrun nodded, "So why tell us?"
Aura looked at the pilot of the Justice, "I just wanted to, what you choose to do is up to you."
Everyone looked at Ange and Sylvia, deciding to let them decide since they were princesses of that world. The two sisters looked at each other, a silent agreement passing between them.
Ange looked at everyone and shook her head, "Its their fight now, I cannot fight for them. They must learn, just as we all did."
Lacus smiled, "I don't really like it, but if that is your choice, we respect it."
Shin nodded, "Besides, I'm sure we're all tired of wars."
Ange nodded, "Yeah, we should just live in peace."
Aura nodded, "Very well, you can go now. I just wanted to tell you that."
They all left the room. Cagali then asked, "So, what do we do now? I mean we closed the cafe early."
Lacus looked at Salamandinay and smiled, "Why don't we go to that ancient arena of sacred trials Salamandinay built?"
The DRAGON princess' face turned red and glared at her fellow princess, "I told you, I didn't know!"
Everyone laughed as they headed for the arcade. As they walked, Kira looked up to the sky once more and thought, 'Everything ended well, but if anything happens, we will be ready, I have a lot more to protect now.'
The man looked away from the sky and quickly followed after his friends... no, his family.
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And done!!! wow, 4k words in the final chapter. Not bad for me. So, thank you everyone for sticking with this ride. It was a nice one for me, and if Cross Ange has a second season, I'll consider doing a second season for this story too, only if Cross Ange has a second season, since I saw somewhere online that it wouldn't be impossible.
Thank you, for everyone who has reviewed this story, most of them were helpful and I appreciate that.
A small shoutout to zerozx21, I didn't do a lemon here since it would destroy the ending, in my opinion. I might do those crossovers you suggested, but it will be at the end of the waiting list, and I'm not as familiar with Gundam Wing as I am with Unicorn, 00 and SEED, just to name a few. I am however familiar with Iron blooded orphans, but someone has already done that, so maybe not.
So yeah, that's all from me. Once again, I thank everyone for supporting this story. And as of now, I officially declare, Cross Ange : Wings of Freedom, to be completed. Thank you, Gaim no Kaze signing out.