Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 15
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One month had passed since the briefing had ended, it had been agreed that the Celestial Being colony ship would be brought into the Cosmic Era so that any surviving civilians could be evacuated.
Now, Kira Yamato was on a simple patrol mission, but that simple patrol mission was about to go straight to hell.
Kira's eyes widened in surprise when his threat board suddenly lit up, indicating a threat which, according to his sensors was only a mile ahead, but as he looked at his monitor, he couldn't see anything.
Kira Hibiki grinned within the cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny Gundam, which was indeed, only one mile away from the Freedom-Raiser, but the machine was invisible due to its Mirage Colloid Stealth System. Kira smirked as he quickly locked onto the Freedom-Raiser and fired his long beam cannon.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?" Kira yelled as he quickly dodged a beam blast, which had appeared from the blackness of space. He scowled in frustration as the Freedom's Destiny Gundam suddenly appeared, no more than a mile ahead of him. He quickly drew the Freedom-Raiser's beam saber, rocketing towards the Freedom's Destiny. Hibiki drew the Freedom's Destiny's anti-ship sword, retracting his beam cannon as he drew the sword, and charged up towards the Freedom-Raiser. The two mobile suits met with a crash; both pilots screamed; the Freedom-Raiser and Freedom's Destiny's wings snapped open. The Freedom-Raiser surged forward, pushing the Freedom's Destiny back and Kira raised his saber for a finishing blow, but the Freedom's Destiny smacked the beam saber aside and slashed the Freedom-Raiser across the face.
The Freedom's Destiny attacked again, and Kira dove backwards, quickly drawing the Freedom-Raiser's beam rifle. Hibiki snorted in disgust, as his machine tore the beam rifle out of the Freedom-Raiser's grasp with a palm cannon blow. Drawing his saber again, Kira tried to dive over the Freedom's Destiny Gundam's head and cut it in half, but the Freedom's Destiny swung around to smack the saber stroke aside.
The Freedom-Raiser charged again, but the Freedom's Destiny rammed it with its shoulder, knocking it back. Kira tried to slash the Freedom's Destiny in half horizontally, but the machine knocked the saber aside with its beam shield and swung the sword again, slamming it against the Freedom-Raiser's shield. Growling, Kira dove backwards, dodging two more sword strokes, before firing his plasma cannons and rail guns, but the Freedom's Destiny deployed its beam shield.
The shots exploded against the beam shield. Kira watched tensely as the Freedom's Destiny was consumed in a pall of smoke. The Freedom's Destiny burst out of the smoke, sword upraised, and Kira glowered back down at his enemy, at himself. Charging again, Hibiki let out a scream of rage as the Freedom's Destiny slammed its sword against the Freedom-Raiser's beam shield, knocking it backwards. He then followed with a horizontal slash, which Kira barely dodged. The Freedom-Raiser swung its saber again in a downward hack; the Freedom's Destiny caught the blow with its sword and smacked the Freedom-Raiser's saber arm and shield aside. Kira's eyes widened in horror as he thought. 'H-how is this pilot able to block or dodge all of my attacks?!?'
With a shriek of torn metal, the Freedom's Destiny slashed off the Freedom-Raiser's left arm at the shoulder, its left rail gun, and its left leg at the knee. An instant later, Hibiki smashed its face with a roundhouse kick, and as the wounded Freedom-Raiser tried to deploy its remaining guns, Hibiki then hurled a beam boomerang to slice them all in half. He caught it on the rebound, reattached it to his shoulder, and charged, sword upraised. Kira barely stopped the attack with his beam saber. Hibiki snarled in rage as he tore off a chunk of the Freedom-Raiser's right-hand shoulder armor with his palm cannon, and with a final kick, he pushed the Freedom-Raiser away again.
The damaged Freedom-Raiser, throwing sparks and smoke, dove away from the Freedom's Destiny as it swung its sword furiously.
"This can't be...!" Kira gasped as the Freedom-Raiser was rocked by another kick. The Freedom's Destiny charged again, slamming its sword against Kira's saber.
The Freedom's Destiny punched the Freedom-Raiser across the face, and charged with its sword upraised; Kira barely deflected the blow, and twisted to the side when the Freedom's Destiny swung again. Shards of the Freedom-Raiser's left wing went flying as the Freedom's Destiny kept up its furious attack. Kira dodged three more slashes and blocked one more sword stroke. The Freedom's Destiny and Freedom-Raiser remained motionless in the blackness, glowering at each other. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Hibiki shrieked.
The Freedom's Destiny surged forward, pushing the Freedom-Raiser back; with a yell from its pilot, the Freedom's Destiny charged again and Kira once again barely managed to block the slash.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M LIKE THIS!" The Freedom's Destiny responded with a kick to the Freedom-Raiser's chin. "IT'S YOUR THAT FAULT I HAVE TO SUFFER!"
Another sword stroke landed against the Freedom-Raiser's beam saber. "JUST DIE ALREADY!" Hibiki screamed, and gunned the booster, pushing the Freedom-Raiser forward, and kicked it in the face again.
The Freedom-Raiser swung its saber back at the Freedom's Destiny, but a third kick knocked it back once more. Kira's eyes widened in disbelief as the Freedom's Destiny backed away, gearing up for a finishing attack.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Hibiki screamed, his eyes flashing.
The Freedom's Destiny, brandishing its sword, activated its beam wings with a flash, filling Kira's field of vision with the glimmering translucent wings. Kira struggled to keep up, but the Freedom's Destiny moved in a blur of afterimages, flashing around him, diving and twisting and circling.
Hibiki saw an opening and screamed in fury as he charged; Kira's eyes bulged in shock as the Freedom's Destiny sliced the Freedom-Raiser in half at the waist.
The Freedom-Raiser exploded in ball of fire and brightly glowing GN particles, but unknown toy anyone at the time, Kira had managed to hit his ejection button, which launched the relatively small cockpit out of the Freedom-Raiser's back.
Amidst the smoke and debris, Kira Hibiki sat inside the cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny Gundam, panting for breath, staring with dull, empty, angry, teary eyes as the smoldering remains of the Freedom-Raiser began to float aimlessly through the void.
On the bridge of the Archangel, Murrue had been watching the Freedom-Raiser's battle, but when the camera dropped into static, she turned to Meyrin, her voice barely above a whisper, since she was trying to hide her rage. "Meyrin, load all missile tubes with the Vega torpedo."
Everyone quickly began to carry out their orders, they knew that the Vega torpedoes were hardly appropriate for use against a single mobile suit, but now, no one was going to question their orders.
A moment later, Meyrin replied. "All missile tubes are loaded with Vega torpedoes and are ready to fire."
Murrue nodded as she replied, tears now streaming freely from her eyes. "Fire at will, send that Gundam and its pilot straight to hell."
An instant later, a single brightly glowing ball of lime green energy shot out of the Archangel's bow mounted missile launcher. The weapon was only about one meter in diameter, but despite its small size, it packed a truly devastating punch, which became obvious a few seconds later when the brightly glowing ball passed through the Freedom's Destiny Gundam's beam shield, completely vaporizing the enemy machine on impact.
Murrue sniffled as she floated out of her chair, and as she moved towards the door, she said. "Move us towards the remains of the Freedom-Raiser." She paused to wipe the tears from her eyes, then she finished. "Meyrin, you have the bridge, I'm going to launch in order to recover the Freedom-Raiser."
Two minutes later, the Strike Freedom Gundam carefully approached the remains of the Freedom-Raiser. Murrue instantly noticed that the Freedom-Raiser was now nothing more than a small debris field. She once more allowed her tears to freely flow from her eyes, but after a few agonizingly long seconds, her comm. system beeped at her. Murrue's eyes widened when she looked at the screen and noticed the distress signal, which was emanating from a small escape pod. She quickly yet carefully grabbed the Freedom-Raiser's escape pod around the waist and towed it back to the Archangel.
Murrue sobbed uncontrollably as she landed the Strike Freedom Gundam in the Archangel's port side launch bay, protectively cradling the Freedom-Raiser's escape pod in her arms.
Murrue quickly climbed out of the cockpit of the Strike Freedom and floated over to the Freedom-Raiser's escape pod. Once there, she entered her access code and opened the hatch, but when she looked into the escape pod, tears once again formed in her eyes.
Kira was still strapped into the seat and through the visor of his helmet, Murrue could see that his face was covered with blood; she also noticed, to her horror, that the left sleeve of Kira's normally blue and white flight suit was soaked red with blood. As if these injuries weren't bad enough, when his machine had been chopped in half and exploded, a large piece of glass from one of the monitors had embedded itself deep into Kira's right arm, a thick trail of blood seeping from the wound.
Murrue had accompanied Kira to the infirmary, but after nearly six hours, it was her hunger and thirst, which caused her to reluctantly leave his side.
"Captain, we are receiving a message which you might want to hear." Meyrin told Murrue as she floated onto the bridge about forty-five minutes later. Murrue glanced at Meyrin, nodding as she sat in her chair and replied. "Put it through."
The message, which began to emanate from the ship's speakers, an instant later, was one, which no one had ever expected. "This is the Orb Union colony; Terra Prime, located on the surface of the Jovian moon of Europa. Celestial Being warships Archangel and Ptolemiaos, can you hear us?" The voice was that of a woman.
On the bridge of the Ptolemiaos, Sumeragi's eyes widened, both ships had intercepted the message and were listening to it. "Wait, did she say that the colony is on the surface of the Jovian moon of Europa?" Feldt Grace nodded in disbelief, she wasn't sure that she believed it herself. Europa was a moon that orbited the planet Jupiter, a gas giant planet, which at its closest was 370 million miles away from the Earth. Even if the Archangel, the Ptolemiaos and the Celestial Being colony ship were able to use Trans-Am constantly, it would still take them at least six months to reach Jupiter.
And thus, Chapter 15 is complete.
Well, the Freedom-Raiser is gone. The only reason that Kira even survived was because the cockpit doubled as an escape pod.
I already have some plans for what Kira's next Gundam will be, but a vast majority of the credit for that, as well as the idea to have Orb Union colonies on Europa, goes to nxkris.