Kira x Murrue fanfic continuation - Chapter 17
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Two months had passed since the trio of Celestial Being ships had arrived at Europa. The Celestial Being colony ship still orbited the ice-covered moon, while the Archangel and the Ptolemiaos both silently sat inside the colony's docking bay, deep underneath the ice which covered Europa's entire surface.
Setsuna and Shinn led Kira into the Archangel's hanger bay, where he saw both of their machines standing silently. He glanced questioningly at them and Shinn pointed at something. As Kira stared into the darkness, he saw another mobile suit, covered by a large sheet. Setsuna pulled the sheet off while Shinn activated the lights. Kira looked at the machine in amazement. It was beautiful and he could only imagine how responsive it would be.
"This is your new machine: 000 Gundam, we were going to wait for your birthday, but with the destruction of the Freedom-Raiser." Shinn shrugged and Setsuna took over, "Have fun with your early birthday present."
"You guys designed this for me?" Kira asked.
"Well yeah, we thought that all three of us would need new machines soon, since ours have all become outdated, but yours was a secret." Shinn replied.
"We still need to finish designs for our machines, but now that you're in the loop you can help." Setsuna continued.
"Well what's special about this machine then?" Kira asked.
Setsuna answered, "The 000 Gundam has three GN Drives, one in the center of the back, and one in the root of each of the angel-style wings, and just like the Freedom-Raiser, the 000 Gundam has forearm mounted beam shields."
Setsuna paused again, but only for a few short seconds before Shinn continued. "Like all of our machines, the 000 Gundam has a pair of head mounted Vulcan guns, and a pair of chest mounted CIWS guns, but the 000 Gundam also sports a pair of shoulder mounted beam Gatling guns." Shinn then gestured towards the wings as he continued. "The wings aren't just for show; each of the feathers is actually a DRAGOON unit, in addition, each DRAGOON unit can also generate a beam shield. The wings can also generate beam shields, which can either offer protection from enemies coming from behind, or they can be moved in front of the machine to offer extra protection from frontal attacks. In addition to the DRAGOONs, the beam shields, and the twin buster rifle, the 000 Gundam also has a pair of plasma cannons stored in the wings, a pair of rail guns on the hips, a beam cannon on the palm of each hand, a high power beam rifle, which is stored on the rear waist, two beam swords, both of which are stored on the back, four beam sabers, two stored on the hip armor and two more stored in the shoulders, four beam daggers, which are stored in the legs, and finally two beam boomerangs, which can also be used as beam sabers, stored on the elbows."
Shinn paused for a breath before continuing. "Your new Gundam also has a psychological arsenal, more specifically its holoshroud. The holoshroud was originally a ZAFT holographic technology, but we were able to duplicate it. The holoshroud is capable of covering the outside of the Gundam with images, but it can do so perfectly seamlessly, no matter what actions the machine is undertaking, whether it be violent evasive maneuvers or attacks. We also installed the Mobile Doll System from the captured Freedom and Strike Freedom Gundams, so that the 000 Gundam can be controlled from the tandem cockpit, controlled remotely, or left to an advanced onboard Artificial Intelligence."
Shinn paused again, but only for a few seconds, before he then he gestured towards the Strike Freedom Gundam, as he said. "We also equipped the Strike Freedom Gundam with the DRAGOON mounted beam shield emitters, the holoshroud, and the Mobile Doll System from the captured Freedom and Strike Freedom Gundams. So now the Strike Freedom Gundam can be controlled from the tandem cockpit, controlled remotely, or left to an advanced onboard Artificial Intelligence."
"Wait, a tandem cockpit?" Kira asked.
Shinn nodded as he replied. "Yes, a tandem cockpit, in both the 000 Gundam and the Strike Freedom Gundam."
"Why?" Kira asked, clearly curious as to why the two new Gundams had both been equipped with a tandem cockpit in place of a standard single seat cockpit.
Shinn hesitated for a few seconds before he finally answered. "Captain Ramius requested that both of these machines be equipped with a tandem cockpit, but I didn't think to ask why."
The bridge crew onboard the three ships of Celestial Being were in a controlled panic, the Celestial Being's sensors had detected not only an Earth Alliance fleet, coming towards them, but a ZAFT fleet as well. Everyone stared as the fleet approached; the pilots were already in their Gundams and were waiting for the order to launch. Suddenly the communications line opened.
"Are you all ready?" Murrue asked.
Kira immediately replied, in a sarcastic tone. "Hell no, let's do this!"
Kira was searching for any Earth Alliance or ZAFT scum in his Gundam. He was flying over the remains of the now decimated Orb colony; Terra Prime, when he found a squadron of Strike Daggers, and immediately opened fire on them. The beam from his rifle ripping a hole in their formation. The Strike Daggers immediately began firing back.
Kira took careful aim and blasted one in the chest. As he watched the pilot of the mobile suit die in the explosion, many things were running through his mind. He had just killed someone. He just distributed death to a fellow human being.
'No,' Kira thought to himself. 'The pilot deserved it. All ZAFT and Earth Alliance scum must die. They must pay for what they have done.'
Kira growled, a furious desire to protect his loved ones, building inside of him until the vision of a black seed exploded inside his head.
In an instant, Kira's eyes changed color from purple to a dark black, as they faded into the washed out glaze of a SEED possessed individual and he opened fire with more vigor and now deadly accuracy, no longer aiming to disable his opponents.
He caught a Zaku on the side and another straight through the cockpit. His lust for vengeance consumed him and he was now showing no mercy. Within a few moments, there were only four Strike Daggers, and three Zakus left. Kira put up his beam rifle and took out his beam saber. He charged straight into them and sliced them up.
Kira's Gundam hovered there, frozen in the air. Inside the cockpit, Kira was panting heavily. "There will be no mercy. Bring it on, you assholes."
Kira soon got his wish as a whole fleet of Earth Alliance and ZAFT warships came into the vicinity. Squadrons of Strike Daggers, Windams, Zakus, and Goufs launched immediately. Kira was ready for them. His beam rifle was already aimed. He began blasting. One after another, the enemy machines were being destroyed, but there were too many. Kira soon found himself surrounded.
"If I'm going down, then I'm taking some of you with me."
"I have a better idea," said a voice behind him. "How about some help."
A squadron of M1 Astrays had appeared and began aiding Kira. The enemy machines were falling back until the arrival of Earth Alliance Gundams; Calamity, Forbidden and Raider.
The Forbidden fired its arching beams and destroyed two of the M1s, but Kira dodged effortlessly. The Calamity then fired its two long ranged cannons and Kira ignited his beam shield, blocking the shots. Kira then fired at the Forbidden, but the beam bent and missed, then he noticed that the Raider Gundam was off destroying M1 Astrays with its Mjolnir Hammer. Kira screamed in rage and fired a barrage of blasts at it. The Raider quickly shielded itself by twirling its hammer in a defensive shield.
Kira kept with his barrage, but after awhile, the three Gundams flew off, clearly trying to retreat. Kira kept hot on their heels as the remaining M1 Astrays took on the Strike Daggers.
With lightning fast movements, the three Gundams charged at Kira. Beam after beam were fired at him. Kira knew that he was soon going to be overpowered. He tried his best to return fire.
Suddenly a beam blast caught him in the back, disabling one of his wings, and then the Forbidden charged, slicing off the Gundam's left leg. The Raider continued the assault by smashing the Gundam's head with its hammer, and then a final blast by the Calamity sent Kira hurtling through the ice and into the ocean beneath.
As he was going down, Kira thought of Murrue. In his mind, he saw her, she was naked, her beautiful body was surrounded in a golden aura and she was smiling at him. It was then that he knew hatred was not the answer. Murrue was reaching towards him and was smiling. Kira's heart felt peaceful and his muscles began to relax. He smiled and reached out his hand, then the aura faded and he heard Murrue's voice softly say. "It's not your time to die, Kira."
Two short seconds later, the 000 Gundam shot back into the sky, unleashing its DRAGOONs, swarming them around the Calamity and Raider, the DRAGOONs fired relentlessly, quickly overwhelming the pilots and destroying both machines.
Suddenly the 000 Gundam appeared directly in front of the Forbidden and Kira screamed in rage as he grabbed the Forbidden by its shields and slammed it into the ice. Kira then fired multiple rail gun shells, forcing the white and green machine through the ice and sending it plummeting into the ocean below. A few short seconds later the 000 Gundam shuddered slightly as the DRAGOON units once again docked with the machine.
Meanwhile, a few miles away, the Destiny's alert system went off.
"What the hell?!" Shinn asked as he backed the Destiny away from the now approaching Gaia as a barrage of missiles were fired at him, in addition to the Gaia, a white Gundam was approaching him, and it looked similar to the Buster.
"What the hell? It looks exactly like the Buster from the first war!" Shinn exclaimed and in fact; it was an exact replica of the Buster, except for the mostly white colors of its phase shift armor, and Shinn noticed there were some different weapons. The white Buster fired a beam cannon at Shinn, but he dodged it. The Gaia then transformed and charged at the Destiny, and Shinn was forced to pull out his beam saber.
"Damnit! Two on one! You fucking cowards!" Shinn yelled angrily, as the Gaia continued to ram into the Destiny, until Shinn finally dropped his beam saber.
"Shit!" Shinn exclaimed, as he ignited his beam shield to block another missile attack from the white Buster.
"Well, well. Looks like you're in a bit of a sticky situation," The pilot of the Buster mocked, smirking. The Gaia transformed into its mobile suit mode and charged at the Destiny again. Shinn was forced to continuing blocking with the shield. Shinn pushed the Gaia away with the shield, and threw the shield straight at the Gaia, causing the Gaia to fly backwards a little. Shinn pulled out his beam rifle to fire, but the rifle was destroyed by a beam shot from the Buster, as was the Destiny's right arm. The Gaia transformed into mobile armor mode and charged at the Destiny, slicing off the left leg.
"SHIT! I CAN'T LOSE TO THESE BASTARDS!" Shinn yelled.
The Gaia charged at the Destiny again, and the white Buster prepared to fire all guns. 'It's over for you, my little friend!" The pilot of the Buster announced.
'Is there another enemy? Wait, it can't be! It's-!' Kira thought in shock.
Shinn growled as the Gaia approached the Destiny. "Damnit! Is it really going to end here?!" Shinn asked himself, angrily. He braced himself as the Gaia charged at him, but a beam rifle shot blocked the Gaia's path.
"Jesus, Shinn, I didn't think you were going to be beaten so easily!" Kira sighed, as the 000 Gundam fired its rail guns at the Gaia, forcing it back towards the Buster, while the 000 Gundam stood in front of the Destiny. "Shinn, go back to the Archangel, I'll handle these two."
"But-"
"That's an order!" Kira yelled, cutting off Shinn's protests. Shinn scowled as he headed back to the Archangel.
Kira stared at the two enemy Gundams. One of them was the Gaia, he knew that. However, the other one, it looked exactly like the Buster.
"Do they really think some albino Buster can stop me?" Kira laughed as he ignited a beam saber and charged towards the Buster.
As Kira charged towards the Buster, his warning system blared at him and an instant later; a ship which he never wanted to see again dropped out of warp about twenty miles above him, quickly aiming it massive main cannon in his direction. On instinct, Kira activated his GN Field, while also shutting off some of his main cameras just before he thought the shot would go off and an instant later, the rebuilt battleship Executer fired. Just like the time before, when the anti-matter torus fired by the Executer's main cannon impacted with the 000 Gundam's GN Field, it skipped like a stone would off a pond's surface when thrown at a low angle.
After that point, its trajectory became completely randomized, and it spun off at a steep angle, a glowing white streak too bright to look at directly, sailing down out of the blackness to impact onto the surface of the ice-covered moon. The flash lit up the starry night like that of a strobe light burning out, and despite the coldness of the airless void known as space, a huge column of steam rose from Europa's surface for the next five seconds, due only to the ridiculous amount of heat which had been generated by the impact of the anti-matter weapon when it slammed into the moon's surface.
As the light faded, Murrue's now worried voice came over the comm. system. "Kira, what the hell just happened?! Are you ok?!"
"Yes, Murrue I'm ok, but the battleship Executer is back." Kira replied as he weaved through the weapons fire from both the Buster and the Executer.
Murrue's jaw dropped in disbelief, once she recovered from her shock she sighed. "Well, if the Executer has been rebuilt, we should probably retreat for now because we don't have anymore Vega torpedoes."
Kira screamed in anger as he plunged his beam saber into the cockpit of the Buster, quickly taking cover behind both his GN Field and beam shields as he transformed his Gundam into its mobile armor mode, the machine taking the form of a blue, white, red and black shuttle with white delta wings and with a flash of brightly glowing GN particles, the 000 Gundam boosted back towards the Archangel, leaving a three trails of green GN particles in its wake as it sped through the blackness.
Fifteen minutes later, as the Executer approached the Archangel, the Ptolemiaos and the Celestial Being, all three ships blazed with a bright red light. As the Executer opened fire, the three ships sped away leaving glowing afterimages trailing behind them, but the Executer was quick to follow them. As the Executer opened fire on the ships of Celestial Being, a bright flash of light lit up the blackness as the trio of ships opened a rift into another universe.
Due to the massive size of the Celestial Being, the rift that it had generated was large enough for the Executer to follow, but unknown to the crew of the Executer, the three ships of Celestial Being were not going to the Anno Domini timeline. Instead, they were heading into a timeline known only as the Correct Century.