Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 12

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About ten months later, a white, red and black shuttle with blue, forward swept wings, sped through space leaving twin trails of green GN particles in its wake. Within the cockpit, the pilot glanced at one of his sub-screens when his communications system suddenly beeped at him.

"Attention; unidentified shuttle, you have entered a restricted area, you will identify yourself immediately or we will be forced to shoot you down." Kira Yamato clenched his teeth and gripped the controls of his Gundam when he noticed three mobile suits with false GN Drives coming toward him, and he almost instantly reconigized the three machines as GNX-704T Ahead mobile suits. Instead of the standard maroon and black color scheme, these Aheads had been painted in a black and blood red color scheme. In addition to the diffrent color scheme, Kira also noticed a pure white skull, and below it, what appeared to be a very ornate sword.

Kira accelarated forward at high speed. His newly upgraded Gundam, the GN-X50A Freedom-Raiser, was much faster with the twin drive system, in addition, the Freedom-Raiser also had a mobile armor mode, which the machine was currently utilizing. While in its mobile armor mode, the Freedom-Raiser appared to be nothing more then a white, red and black shuttle with blue, forward swept wings, but in its mobile suit mode, it had the appearance of the original Freedom Gundam.

Kira fired a few shots at the enemy mobile suits as he passed over them confusing the pilots. "We're giving you one more chance to surrender." The voice said again as the pilot of the machine lost track of Kira's machine. Kira suddenly swooped down from above one of them and fired a pair of beam blasts from his twin plasma cannons.

The machine attempted to dodge, but it was only partially successful, as it's right arm was sheared off by one of the beam blasts. The pilots then began to use their own attack patterns against him. Kira let out an annoyed sigh as he transformed the Freedom-Raiser into its mobile suit mode.

"It's a mobile suit! It's transforming! A Gundam!!! Fire! Fire! Fire!" The commander yelled in terror as the Freedom-Raiser streaked towards him with a beam saber in its right hand. Before the enemy commander could even hope to react, the Freedom-Raiser had severed the head from his machine, but before Kira could move towards the two remaining machines, they began to fire their own beam rifles, forcing Kira to ignite his beam shield in order to block the shots.

"It's time to end this pointless fighting, don't you agree, Freedom?" Kira said, his voice nearly emotionless as a bright golden glow filled the cockpit. As if in response to Kira's question, the Freedom-Raiser's eyes flashed with a bright yellow light.

The two remaining Aheads charged towards the Freedom-Raiser, still firing their beam rifles, but they were both stopped in their tracks when a pink energy beam seared its way through space, missing both mobile suits by only a few feet.

The two Aheads turned to find the 00 Raiser barreling towards them and a fraction of a second later, the 00 Raiser severed their limbs, completely disabling them. Kira sighed slightly as he force an open comm line to the commander's disabled machine, and as he did, the Phase Shift Armor on the Freedom-Raiser's head crest changed so that it now displayed the words: Jesus Yamato.

"You are aware that the war is over, so why are you fighting us?" Kira asked.

"You were the ones that threw the world into chaos to begin with!" The commander yelled. "If it wasn't for Celestial Being, my wife and children would still be alive!"

Kira hesitated for a few short seconds before he replied. "I have a wife and children as well and I would be heartbroken if I were to lose them. However, that does not mean that you can go around and start battles for revenge." Kira paused for a moment before continuing. "My sister once said something; "One guy's killed for killing another and then he's killed for killing him. How is that kind of twisted thinking ever going bring us peace?" I have taken those words to heart, which is why I simply disabled your machines, but if you continue to attack Celestial Being, I will kill you." With those words, the Freedom-Raiser turned to face the 00 Raiser.

"Kira," Setsuna called. "We need to return to base."

Kira nodded slightly, but then he looked at the three disabled machines. In a flash, Kira ignited a beam saber in his left hand, and severed the limbs from the commander's machine, and an instant later he severed the heads from the other two, then he said. "Consider this a warning, the next time you attack us, I will kill you."

With that, the Freedom-Raiser and the 00 Raiser flew off.

An hour later, everyone sat at the table in the briefing room. Sumeragi was standing at the head of the table and once everyone had quieted down, she started the briefing. "All former members of the Clyne Faction will probably be happy to know that we will be returning to your universe." The former members of the Clyne Faction instantly began to cheer, eager to see the familes and friends whom they had left behind, nearly two years earlier.

Sumeragi raised her hands, silently signaling everyone to quiet down, and once they had her face twisted into a frown. "Just to be safe, we sent a probe over to the other universe. The data and images that the probe relayed to us were less then encourging." She said, as a photo which the probe had taken appeared on the screen at the front of the room.

Everyone gasped in horror. In the center of the photo was the Earth; it's surface concealed by thick clouds of dust. "Unfortunatly, this was the only photo that the probe was able to take before it was destroyed. We don't know who or what destroyed the probe and we don't know if the blanket of dust in the Earth's athmosphere is the result of the war, or an asteroid impact." Sumeragi said. "But either way we are going back to the Cosmic Era. Depending on the situation, we can either stay there, or we can rescue the survivors and return here. But that decision will fall to Captain Ramius and the crew of the rebuilt Archangel."

And thus, Chapter 12 is complete.

I've also given a reletively small sample of what's to come in the next few chapters.

Once Celestial Being returns to the Cosmic Era, things will get very hectic, very quickly.

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