Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 10
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The Infinite Justice Gundam suddenly emerged in the Gundam 00 Universe, it was quickly followed by the Seravee, Arios, Cherudim, both Destiny units, Freedom's Destiny, Strike Freedom, and finally the 00 Raiser.
The nine machines carefully slowed, their pilots letting out sighs of frustration, relief and regret. None of them wanted to let ZAFT use anything like that ship, the Executer. But considering the situation which they had just been in, they had no choice; all of their ships had been destroyed, and had they continued to fight, they would have most likely been killed as well.
A few hours later, Sumeragi Lee Noriega was standing on the interior observation deck of Celestial Being's new mother ship, which shared the same name as the organization itself.
Originally the Celestial Being, a massive asteroid fortress which contained the super computer, Veda, had been in the posession of Ribbons Almark, an innovator, but during an all-out battle between Celestial Being, Katharon, the Earth Sphere Federation coup d'etat faction and the A-LAWS, a massive particle beam came from out of nowhere, destroying one of the Katharon ships along with a vast majority of the A-LAWS' fleet. The source of the beam blast was the massive asteroid fortress; Celestial Being, and the Ptolemiaos II immediately set a course to take down the fortress and retake Veda.
The fortress was very well defended with beam turrets, a large rail gun, automatons and hundreds of mobile suits. Nevertheless, the Ptolemiaos II managed to find a docking port only to be swarmed by automatons. Luckily, Tieria Erde managed to locate Veda's core where he confonted Ribbons Almark only to be shot by him multiple times.
With Celestial Being close to losing the battle, Setsuna had activated Trans-Am BURST, engulfing the entire battlefield in high density GN particles, disrupting the Innovades' quantum brainwaves and granting them to those who don't have them. This managed to even the odds, especially when Tieria, having merged with Veda, remotely activated the Seraphim Gundam's TRIAL Field, deactivating all of the Innovades' mobile suits. Thus, Celestial Being, essentially Veda, was returned to the esteemed organization.
After the battle, the fortress had remained on the dark side of the Moon, where Tieria/Veda would wait until the coming dialogue with other life. The only reason that Tieria was still alive and piloting the Seravee, was because he had been cloned.
Now the fortress was being utilized as a space station by both Celestial Being and the Clyne Faction.
The hangar was crawling with mechanics and soldiers, a majority of them were part of Celestial Being. The rest had come from the Clyne Faction, they were the ones who were lucky enough to escape from the ships before they had been destroyed.
The Strike Freedom stood silently in the back of the hanger, the Freedom's Destiny standing next to it. While the Infinite Justice, both Destiny units, Seravee, Arios, Cherudim, and 00 Raiser stood on either side of the hanger.
Murrue leaned forward on the rail, staring into her Gundam's eyes, at her own dim reflection. The Strike Freedom had not lost any limbs and most of its weapons were easily replaced, so it was clearly a low priority for repairs. That left Murrue to stand helplessly on the gantry in front of her silent Gundam, staring pensively at its darkened eyes. It still bore the bruises and scars of the battle with the Executer, but at least it was still mostly whole.
Until now, she realized that she had not understood just want it meant to be a Gundam pilot; an Angel of Death.
'To accept this power, to accept the fact that my lover, Kira Yamato, had willingly given it to me...' Murrue's thoughts trailed off as she looked up at the sound of another human approaching her. She glanced over to her left and a look of relief crossed her face as Kira Yamato walked up to her, greeting her with a smile. "I see you got patched up."
Murrue smiled back weakly. "We both know that I've been through worse than that."
"Yea." Kira nodded, coming to a stop next to her and softly kissing her right cheek. Murrue blushed slightly as she eyed him for a moment.
"There was that one time we were training, and I passed out in the cockpit, only to wake up three hours later in the hosptal on the Orb mainland." She said with a shrug, and then winced and clutched her right shoulder as the wound reminded her of itself.
Kira nodded before glancing up at the Strike Freedom for a fraction of a second. "I'm glad to hear that you're okay. I was pretty worried."
Shinn Asuka glanced up wearily from the table in the crew lounge at the sound of something hard and glass coming down on it, and blearily read the label of a wide brown bottle.
"Where do you keep getting this stuff?" He asked, glancing up at the hand and the arm and the person it was attached to. Meyrin Hawke merely dropped herself into the seat opposite Shinn with a pair of glasses and ice.
"We all have our secrets," she answered. "Want some?"
Shinn glanced back at the bottle. "We almost died."
"Only almost," Meyrin clarified, pouring herself a glass. "So, I celebrate another successful cheating of death with a few glasses of whiskey. It makes perfect sense."
"Where you come from, maybe," Shinn answered. "Gimme."
Meyrin poured him a glass and sat back with her own, a devil's grin on her face. "Bad mood?"
"I am a soldier for the Clyne Faction," Kira said, his eyes flashing, as he stood in front of Murrue in the quarters which they had been assigned to. "I don't forget my comrades."
"I'm not asking you to," Murrue sputtered, but she fell silent at the look in Kira's eyes. He stared back at her, and Murrue slumped her shoulders. "You went out of your way to protect me in the last battle."
"Why wouldn't I?"
"Well, then you're not hopeless yet," she answered. "I'm not asking you to forget about them..."
Kira pushed past her, the door sliding open with a hiss. "You are my wife when we aren't on the battlefield," he said. "However, when we are on the battlefield you are my wingman, and nothing else. I rely on you to watch my back and make sure I get back home alive; and I do the same for you. Of course I protect you in battle, even though you don't need it."
"Is that all you want? A wingman?" Murrue asked, fighting to keep her emotions at bay.
"On the battlefield; it's all I need." Kira replied as he brushed by her and marched out the door.
"I hate men." A voice suddenly said, causing Sumeragi to blink in surprise and look up from the Infinite Justice Gundam's cockpit panel, finding Murrue slumped against the side of the hatch, arms crossed. The foul mood on her face already evinced itself by the cloud of disgust and frustration swirling around her, enough to make Sumeragi wince at the feeling.
"Um, alright," Sumeragi said, looking back down at the panel and hoping to avoid the impending conversation.
"Well, I should specify," Murrue went on, glancing awkwardly across the hangar at the slumbering Freedom's Destiny Gundam. "I think I only hate Kira."
Sumeragi sighed under her breath. She knew that Kira and Murrue were married so it was unlikely that she could suddenly hate him, she also knew that Murrue was pregnent, and that her current mood could simply be the result of overactive hormones.
"Well, if you are upset with Kira, why not try to talk things out with him?" Sumeragi asked.
"I did try to talk things out with him, but he..." Murrue's voice trailed off as Kira floated into the hanger.
Murrue carefully watched Kira as he floated over to the the cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny Gundam and climbed into the machine. Letting out an annoyed sigh, Murrue quickly followed Kira, but he barely glanced at her as she stood above him.
After a long moment, Murrue finally lost her patience and floated down into the cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny, landing on Kira's lap. Before Kira could say or do anything, Murrue had already flipped the switch which operated the cockpit hatch, closing it and sealing them both inside the machine.
"Now that we're alone, how about we have a little talk, Kira?" Murrue asked sweetly.
Kira sighed and rolled his eyes, flipping the switch which controlled the cockpit hatch, and once again opening it, he then forced Murrue off of his lap, and quickly floated towards the door. He needed to think.
After wandering the halls for a few minutes, Kira came across the crew lounge. He shrugged to himself as he entered the lounge, immediately noticing that both Shinn and Meyrin were siting at a table, drinking something which he quickly reconigized as whiskey.
One hour had passed since Kira had found Shinn and Meyrin in the crew lounge. The two males were now alone, Shinn was halfway through his fourth glass of whiskey, while Kira was halfway through his seventh glass. Meyrin had broken down fifteen minutes earlier and left.
Kira was utterly wasted, but the Ultimate Coordinator was certianly not a lightweight. At the moment, Kira was in an alcohol fueled rant. "Yooou know, Shinn, thiss isn't how I thinked I'd be spendin' muh year."
Shinn nodded as he took a sip of his whiskey. "Mmm-hm."
But Kira continued with his drunken rant. "Tethered down tooo tha Capin' of the Archangel an' shoootin' stuff on 'er behalf, allll for peeeace, or unicorns, or sum shit."
Shinn nodded as he took another sip. "Yup."
"An' soon aass we were married, sheee want'd to settle down wif me an' raise some little Ultimuh-Ultime-Ulti-mate Co-or-den-ate-orssssss.
Shinn let a slight smile of amusement come to his face as he took another healthy chug from his glass and replied. "I'll bet."
Kira didn't notice Shinn's amused smile and merely continued. "But I'm toooo young to settle down wif annnny chick! Don't you thinkssso, Shhiiinnn?"
Shinn nodded as he glanced at his watch and replied. "Oh, definitely." After a moment of silence, Shinn stood up, patting Kira on the back as he said. "Well, Kira, I'm going to go and make sure Meyrin is alright."
Kira nodded slightly as Shinn left the room. On his way to Meyrin's quarters, Shinn walked past Setsuna in the hall, both of them nodding in a friendly acknowledgement of each other.
Five minutes and two more glasses of whiskey later, Kira finally passed out, after a few more minutes, Setsuna walked into the lounge.
Originally Setsuna had planned on getting something to eat, but when he saw Kira passed out at the table, Setsuna decided that his hunger could wait, as he walked over to Kira, carefully picked him up and carried him to the infirmary.
As Setsuna carried Kira to the infirmary, he passed Sumeragi. The auburn haired women glanced at Kira before looking at Setsuna, then she asked. "Kira decided to drown his sorrow in alcohol, didn't he?"
Setsuna simply nodded in reply and Sumeragi shook her head slightly as the two of them continued down the hall. She knew exactly what that was like, but she had also learned that drowning ones sorrows in alcohol only served as a temporary distraction at best.
As Sumeragi had learned before, Kira would soon realize that he would need to continue fighting in order to make sure that the deaths of his allies were not in vain.
Everyone who had survived the destruction of the Ptolemiaos II was still having a hard time believing how easily the ship had been destroyed, because to them the ship was almost like a home, and the fellow crewmembers were like family.
And so chapter nine comes to an end.
Even though it may look like both the Clyne Faction and Celestial Being are out of the fight, that is not the case.
Sure both factions lost their ships, and they are down to only nine Gundams between them, but the two factions are already making plans to go back to the Cosmic Era and when they do return, there will be hell to pay!
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