Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 5
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The Ptolemiaos II was now flying in a V formation with the Eternal and the Minerva. The ships had split up during the battle, in order to cover a larger area.
As the Freedom's Destiny Gundam entered the hanger of the Ptolemiaos II, Murrue's eyes widened in shock and horror, both of its arms were gone, now only smoking stumps remained.
The Infinite Justice Gundam had landed on the Minerva, it had only taken light damage, which would be easy to fix. As Athrun floated out of the cockpit of the Justice, his eyes widened and he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw a person whom he never thought he would see alive again.
"S-Shinn?" Athrun asked in shock. Shinn simply nodded and replied. "Yes, Athrun, it's me, I'm not dead." Athrun quickly recovered from his shock and grabbed Shinn by the collar, slamming him into the wall. "Why the hell did you make us all believe that you had killed yourself?!?"
Shinn simply smiled. "I sincerely apologize for the deception, but it was the only way. I didn't want anyone to know that I had rejoined the crew of the Minerva, to be completely honest, only Meyrin knows who I really am. Everyone else onboard thinks that my name is Michael Trinity." Athrun nodded slightly. In a weird way, it rather made sense. In the past when people wanted to vanish and didn't want anyone to come looking for them, they often faked their deaths.
After a moment, Athrun sighed and asked. "So, are you a pilot?" Shinn nodded as he turned and pointed at what appeared to be the Destiny Gundam. Athrun gasped when he noticed that the Destiny was now holding what appeared to be Wing Zero's twin buster rifle in its right hand. "No, that is not the original rifle from Wing Zero, it is actually a limited production version, but it's just as powerful as the original." Shinn said as he led Athrun over to the Destiny.
About one hour later, Kira and Setsuna were in the pilot's lounge on the Ptolemiaos II, at the moment they had just finished sharing their piloting histories with each other, and although their overall piloting histories were quite different.
Kira couldn't help but find at least some similarities; they were both teenagers when they first piloted their first Gundams, they had both started out with what could be considered as "basic" machines, before their first machines were destroyed, which were then replaced by much more powerful ones.
Kira also noted that just like his Strike Gundam, Setsuna's Gundam Exia was later recovered and had been rebuilt. He also noted that there were some very similar weapons and systems in their Gundams.
Sure, the Freedom's Destiny Gundam didn't have a GN Field or a Trans-Am system, but it did have beam shields and Wings of Light, which from the descriptions that the two had given each other regarding their separate systems, actually sounded quite similar.
A few hours later, Kira and Murrue were in their assigned quarters, but now they were in an intense argument. "I don't give a flying fuck if you have the Zero System, and SEED mode; you are NOT going to pilot any machines in the next battle, much less the Strike Freedom!" Kira yelled.
Murrue's eyes widened slightly at Kira's reaction, or more specifically; his choice of words. She had already explained the new cockpit system to him and how it provided much more protection then his own.
"Oh shut up." Murrue sighed, in exasperation. "You're not all powerful, Kira, nor are you all knowing and in case you've forgotten, I can still pull rank on you. Not only can I order you to let me pilot, but I can also restrict your own piloting privileges, or have you forgotten that I am still your Captain?"
Kira glared at Murrue for a few seconds before finally sighing in defeat. "Fine, I guess that I really have no choice in the matter since you still outrank me, just don't you forget, it was your fault that I had to fight in the first place, Captain."
Murrue could easily sense the sarcasm and anger in Kira's voice; she still regretted having forced him to pilot the Strike, and to be completely honest; she didn't really want to make him fight. After looking at the floor for a few seconds, Murrue raised her head, smiled and kissed him on the lips, whispering softly into his ear as she broke the kiss. "The only reason that I want to pilot the Strike Freedom is so that I can protect you, Kira."
Kira nodded; even though he was upset with her, he did his best to hide it. He knew that Murrue only wanted to protect him, but she was pregnant, so now he not only had to worry about her, but their unborn child as well.
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted with his cell phone went off, and with a sigh he took it out of his pocket. Murrue stared in curiosity as the cell phone; it was a replica of an early twenty-first century cell phone known as the Google G1.
After talking for a moment, Kira hung up and let out an annoyed sigh, while at the same instant, warning alarms began to sound throughout the ship. "That was Athrun, apparently ZAFT doesn't learn, they are coming back for another attack on the Requiem, but now, they have five of those new ships."
A few minutes later, Murrue and Kira both floated into the hanger, the Strike Freedom was ready, but the Freedom's Destiny was still missing its right arm, while the left had been replaced with one of the spare arms, originally intended for the Gundam Exia.
Murrue quickly turned to face Kira and asked. "Well, the Freedom's Destiny can't deploy with just one arm, so what should we do?"
The answer to that question came from the 00 Gundam's external speakers, as Setsuna's voice said. "Kira, take the Exia."
Kira nodded slightly towards the 00 Gundam, and then he pulled Murrue into a gentle hug as he said. "Please be careful out there." Kira smiled as he nodded and replied. "You too."
With that, they both headed for their machines, and a few minutes later the Strike Freedom was moved to the catapult, and since it had been the first machine to activate, it took priority.
"Murrue Ramius, Strike Freedom, taking off." Murrue paused for only a fraction of a second before she then jammed on the afterburners.
A few seconds later, the Gundam Exia was moved to the catapult.
"Gundam Exia, Kira Yamato, launching." Kira announced as he throttled up the GN drive and flew out of the ship.
Finally, the 00 Gundam was moved to the catapult.
"00 Gundam, Setsuna F. Seiei, launching." Setsuna announced as he throttled up the GN drives and flew out of the ship.
A moment later, the 0 Raiser floated into position on the launch catapult and its engines began to glow with GN particles.
"Saji Crossroad, 0 Raiser, launching!" The small fighter-like craft launched and instantly separated, floating around 00, before then floating into place across the Twin Drive mobile suit. Setsuna waited as 0 Raiser synced up with 00's twin GN Drives. Setsuna smiled slightly as 00's main screen read: 00 Raiser-Complete.
He throttled up and 00 Raiser burst forward through the blackness as it activated its Trans-Am system, at the same time, the Gundam Exia activated its own Trans-Am system, while the Strike Freedom activated its Wings of Light, allowing the two machines to keep up with the 00 Raiser as it sped forward, all three of them leaving blinding afterimages in their wake.
Kira glanced at the Strike Freedom and after a few short seconds, he spoke up. "Murrue, since you still have the Wing Zero's twin buster rifle, you are the only one who can disable the Requiem." Murrue nodded as she peeled off towards the cannon, while Kira and Setsuna both moved to intercept the five approaching Prometheus-class ships.
Murrue glared down into the mouth of the Requiem cannon as she unleashed her DRAGOONs. As soon as they had cleared their mounts, each of the remote weapons extended a small set of wings, ignited their internal engines and swarmed around the Strike Daggers and Windams, which had been chasing her. As soon as the DRAGOONs had opened fire, the pursuing mobile suits quickly backed off. Murrue then assembled the DRAGOONs around herself, using them to surround herself in a protective beam shield while the twin buster rifle charged to full power.
Meanwhile, across the battlefield, Setsuna boosted ahead of Kira and yelled. "TRANS-AM RAISER!!!" Kira watched in amazement as a beam sword, which was easily the same size as the ones on the METEORs, flashed to life. Setsuna roared as he swung the blazing sword down, the beam blade slicing three of the Prometheus-class ships cleanly in half with a single slash.
Suddenly the Requiem cannon lit up like the Sun, the mouth of the cannon spewing fire and smoke more then fifty miles into space. Kira sighed slightly, as he realized that Murrue must have destroyed the cannon, and was probably on her way to assist them.
As he turned his attention back to the two remaining enemy ships, Kira noticed that ship to his right began to turn, now facing towards where the Requiem had been moments before. He watched as pair of what appeared to be nothing more then white lights flashed lit up on the tips of the ships wings, and an instant later the ship sped away, vanishing into the distance with a flash of white light.
Kira quickly moved to aid Setsuna with the remaining ship, he had hoped that the ship, which left, was going to simply send an invasion force into the Requiem's control room, but his hopes were suddenly crushed when he heard Murrue let out a scream of terror. "KIRA, I JUST LOST CONTROL OF MY GUNDAM!!! THE PROTECTIVE GEL IS DRAINING FROM MY COCKPIT!!!"
Kira snarled in anger as he once again activated the Trans-Am system, streaking off towards the Strike Freedom. He knew that if all of the protective gel had been removed from the cockpit, the Strike Freedom would automatically shut down, leaving Murrue completely defenseless.
"LEAVE HER ALONE YOU ASSHOLES!!!" Kira screamed, as the Exia streaked in from the blackness with a beam saber in each hand, slicing what he assumed were engine pods, off of the ships' right wings. The ship had now begun to turn away, clearly trying to retreat, but Kira didn't give it the chance as he quickly blazed in front of the ship, coming around from the other side and slicing the engine pods off of the other side of the ship.
Kira figured that the parts he had destroyed were indeed engine pods, because as soon as he had sliced off the second set, the ship slowed to a stop.
Kira watched the ship for a moment, and then he switched to the ZAFT frequency and said. "Attention; crew of the unidentified ZAFT vessel, your ship is disabled. At this moment, the Warship Minerva, of the Clyne Faction, is approaching you. If you do not resist the Minerva's boarding party, they will return you the PLANTs."
Kira then cut the comm. link, gently yet firmly grabbed the Strike Freedom around the waist and then he carefully boosted towards the Ptolemiaos II, he had almost lost Murrue today and he would never forgive himself if that happened.
Meanwhile, unknown to everyone, Armory One was being completely evacuated as ZAFT prepared to unleash its most terrifying weapon yet. It was a weapon of mass destruction, as well as one of desperation; the Battleship Executer.
Well, here's Chapter 5 in the continuation of my first fanfic.
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