Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 9
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"This is monstrous. Worse than a nuke." Kira whispered, still stunned by what he was seeing on the screen, as the icons which represented the Clyne Faction's fleet, began winking out in droves on the radar screens, accompanied by bright flashes of light in the distance on the main screens, or else just empty silence. Fleet formations, already scattered because of the Executer's main cannon, completely frayed and disintegrated, every ship moving in a completely random order as contaminated ships tried to flee, clean ships tried to maneuver to take on life pods, and doomed ships began breaking apart or imploding all around. It was chaos, pure and simple, chaos that made the battle of only a few hours earlier look positively staid and dignified.
"Do you know how many thousands of people you have condemned to death!?" Kira screamed as he once again turned the Freedom's Destiny Gundam to face the massive battleship. To everyone's horror the Executer suddenly turned its weapons on the host of fleeing life pods and other evacuating craft which were leaving the stricken armada and heading for the Moon's surface, blasting them apart like they were targets on a range, since the slow moving, unarmored craft could do little besides hope they didn't get hit.
A few mobile suits, mostly M1 Astrays and Murasames, moved to intercept the oncoming fire, to shield their fleeing comrades as best they could, but the overall effect was minor and usually resulted in the mobile suit or mobile armor in question being blasted into stray particles in a matter of moments.
"Damn it! How monstrous can ZAFT get!? As if that blue shit wasn't bad enough, now they're targeting fleeing lifeboats!?" Shinn shouted in revulsion and hatred as he opened fire with his long-range beam cannon and beam rifle, trying to destroy as many of the Executer's weapons as possible.
"Just die!" Kira roared as the Freedom's Destiny Gundam spiraled elegantly back into the battle, dodging a volley of beams from a nearby Windam before activating its Wing of Light with a flash, as he began to fire beam blasts from his DRAGOON units, which were still wreaking havoc from within the Executer.
Kira narrowed his eyes as he grabbed a discarded anti-ship sword, but suddenly a hurricane of rail gun shells shot down from above, harmlessly bouncing off the Gundam's armor, but the force of the impacts still succeeded in punching the white Gundam down to the surface of the Executer.
Kira's eyes went wide as he looked into the sky and saw a black and red Calamity Gundam and three Zakus, which were now charging towards him, opening fire.
One of the Zakus swept in, abandoning its beam rifle and drawing a beam saber. An instant later, it was blown out of the sky as the Calamity opened fire again, slamming the Freedom's Destiny with solid shells and knocking it back behind a veil of smoke. Another Zaku came charging in, with a beam saber upraised, only to be shot down by more beam blasts from the Calamity.
"He's shooting down all his allies!" Kira cried, the Freedom's Destiny Gundam rocked as more blasts pummeled its beam shield. "Why?! What is with this guy?!"
The third Zaku charged, but at the Calamity instead of the Freedom's Destiny. The huge gun-toting Gundam vaulted off its sub-wing unit, letting the Windam pass by beneath it with a fruitless beam saber swipe. The Calamity turned its ram cannons on the hapless ally, blowing it out of the sky and landed back on the sub-wing with a crash.
Kira watched as the Calamity suddenly vanished, only to reappear behind him a few seconds later, the Calamity then fired its chest mounted beam cannon. The beam hit the Freedom's Destiny Gundam in the back, turning it into a fireball.
The Calamity turned away. Suddenly, Freedom's Destiny boosted out of the fireball, its right wings missing, and slashed at the Calamity with the anti-ship sword in its right hand. The pilot of the Calamity screamed as the blade passed through his midsection.
Kira turned to the remaining Windams and boosted at them, drawing a beam saber with his free left hand.
"Die!" Kira shouted, as he swung the beam saber at the enemy mobile suits. The enemy pilots successfully dodged the slash and began to wildly fire at Freedom's Destiny with their beam rifles. Kira growled as he skillfully dodged the blasts, streaking towards the enemy mobile suits, quickly destroying them with a blast from his dual plasma cannons.
As soon as Kira had destroyed the remaining enemy Windams, he noticed a squad of Deep Forbidden mobile suits, with a Forbidden Vortex at their head, all of which Kira realized must have been modified for space combat, came streaking towards the Freedom's Destiny Gundam.
Freedom's Destiny rocketed forward, bringing the anti-ship sword to bear as the Forbidden Vortex did the same with its trident, and the two mobile suits crashed together.
"Fuck do I hate doing this." Kira sighed, as he fired the Gundam's thrusters. The Forbidden Vortex staggered back, and the Deep Forbiddens moved in to cover it while it regained its balance, but it was too late, as Kira activated the twin shoulder mounted plasma beam cannons.
Instead, the Forbidden Vortex's backpack slid down over its head, and the Geschmeidig Panzer armor sent his shots arcing over the Vortex's head and lancing back down towards Freedom's Destiny. Kira boosted back, letting the shots sear by before they then slammed into the surface of the Executer, then a moment later one of the Deep Forbiddens charged towards him with its trident.
"Well that was stupid!" Kira snapped, slamming the trident aside with the anti-ship sword and surging forward. The Deep Forbidden floundered, its comrades rushing in, but Kira forced them back with a furious swipe of the anti-ship sword, and then he slammed the blade through his foe's waist, snapping the enemy machine in two.
The Forbidden Vortex tore through the wreckage, stabbing forward with its trident. The Freedom's Destiny Gundam quickly smacked the blade aside, and a few seconds later, its DRAGOON units burst through the rear of the Executer before once again docking with the Freedom's Destiny.
As the explosion subsided, Sumeragi's voice spoke through the comm. line. "Kira, we've got to retreat. Our fleet is gone, the 00 Raiser, Seravee, Arios, and Cherudim have all been damaged. Both of the Destiny units have lost their anti-ship sword, the Strike Freedom has lost its solid shield and is now utilizing its beam shields..." Sumeragi read, trailing off with a sigh.
"Wow, we're getting fucked," Shinn added as he fired again at the Executer, destroying a wave of missiles before then blocking a barrage of beam blasts with his beam shield.
"That's one way to put it." Meyrin agreed, also taking cover behind her beam shield. "And assuming that we did have somewhere safe to retreat to, how long would it take to repair our Gundams?"
"Assuming that we can find somewhere safe to fall back to, probably no more then a month," Sumeragi answered. "In their current conditions, only the two Destiny units, Freedom's Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice are combat-capable right now."
"Kira Yamato, I am ordering you to fall back!" Murrue yelled through the comm. line, obviously concerned for his safety, but also upset.
"GOD DAMNIT!!!" Kira screamed in anger as he reluctantly fell back, taking cover behind his beam shield, and providing cover fire with his rail guns and plasma cannons.
"Setsuna, activate 00 Raiser's jump drives, now!" Sumeragi ordered.
"Understood, jump drives now online." Setsuna replied as a hole opened in the very fabric of space-time, without wasting any time, the Infinite Justice sped into the hole in space and time. It was quickly followed by the Seravee, Arios, Cherudim, and both Destiny units, Freedom's Destiny, Strike Freedom, and then finally, the 00 Raiser.
The hole was only slightly larger then the Gundams, so there was no real risk of the Executer being able to follow them.
Well, here's Chapter 9 in the continuation of my first fanfic.
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