Kira x Murrue fanfic - Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED or Gundam SEED Destiny, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else!
Author's note (1): The Chosen Path by MapleRose is highly similar to how my fic starts off, however, my fic is in no way a copy, nor is it meant to be one.
Author's note (2): Also, I suppose that this fic can be considered an A/U continuation of Destiny, since, I changed the story so that Neo Roanoke's DNA does not match that of Mu La Flaga.
Kira was constantly being forced into unfair battles, but in a way it sort of made sense. He was the pilot of the single most powerful weapon in the Three Ships Alliances' entire arsenal, and it was only natural for his enemies to go after him first. Kira was always going up against two or more enemies at a time. Within moments three more Zakus had converged on his position again. Kira charged between two of the enemy mobile suits and quickly rolled to the right, his beam saber cutting through the head of one Zaku and then another in one single fluid motion. Kira then evaded several more Zakus that were now firing on him with beam rifles.
Kira came up under the Zakus, cutting through the head of one before colliding weapons with a second. The two exchanged several blows before Kira took a heat hawk to the shoulder, his own beam saber stabbing through the Zaku's head at the same time. Kira was not able to get away from the Zaku in time, and he was sent backwards by the force of the explosion. His Gundam's right arm was now sparking but it was still useful, at least for the moment. Just then he saw the Destiny Gundam quickly approaching him.
Kira growled as he combined the Freedom's beam sabers and flew towards the Destiny, and as the two Gundam approached each other, Kira activated the Freedom's Mirage Collid Stealth System, causing his Gundam to suddenly vanish without a trace. Shinn quickly stopped his charge and began to look around for some sign of the enemy Gundam.
Kira yelled in anger, as Freedom seemingly appeared out of nowhere, ramming the Destiny from behind. The force of the impact caused the Destiny's thrusters to shut down. As the Destiny began to lose its flight capabilities, Freedom grabbed it around the waist, activated its own thrusters, and slammed the Destiny into the ground.
"I won't let you beat me again!!!" With a single brutal punch, Freedom again slammed the enemy Gundam into the ground, as Kira felt a wave of rage begin to eat away at him.
"I'm tired of simply disabling your mobile suits and letting you get away!" Kira screamed as he ruthlessly jumped onto the Destiny and began to beat it into the ground.
Murrue sighed softly from within the cockpit of the Strike Freedom Gundam as the ZAFT forces began retreating. She then heard a scream of terror echo from the coastline and looked over to see the Freedom relentlessly beating into the Destiny. Murrue stared for a second, and then began to speak through the open communications line. "Kira? Kira what are you doing? It's over, let him go!"
Kira didn't reply, continuing to ruthlessly slam his fists into the cockpit hatch of the Destiny. Even though he had severed all of its limbs and destroyed all of its weapons, he continued to beat on it.
"Kira, stop! It's over!" Athrun yelled in worry, flying the Justice down to stand beside Freedom, which was still beating the disabled Destiny into the ground. "The battle is over!"
Murrue looked over at him, puzzled as she thought. 'I don't like this...My head is hurting just from looking at him...What's going on?'
Her question was answered very quickly, as Kira suddenly pounced on Athrun instead, the Freedom's beam saber leaving a crack in Justice's armor.
"What the hell?!?" Athrun yelled as his Gundam fell over, mostly from the shock of the sudden attack, giving Kira enough time to cut off Justice's right arm and some of its head. As the Justice fell onto its back, Athrun's head slammed into the headrest. As he blacked out, he saw the Freedom's Destiny looming menacingly over him.
"How are they?" Murrue asked softly as she walked into the Archangel's infirmary a few hours later, looking over at the unconscious pilot of Freedom's Destiny Gundam.
The doctor simply shrugged, as if he didn't know the answer himself. "I have no idea Captain. All the scans we ran proved that he's in perfect health, aside from a few minor muscle irritations, but that's to be expected in a pilot of his age and caliber. From what we can see, it's a burnout. Classic burnout."
"Burnout? You mean that he just...ran out of energy?" Murrue questioned, with a confused look on her face. "It looks that way." The doctor answered, pushing his glasses up his nose with two fingers. "All of our scans, and even the blood tests came back negative for anything, he's just exhausted himself."
"And what about Athrun?" Murrue questioned, as she looked over at the unconscious form of Athrun Zala.
"Well, he has a few shrapnel wounds and a good amount of blood loss, but he'll be alright with some sleep and time to let those wounds heal properly. He'll be pretty sore for a while though, I recommend that he gets some rest and keeps away from piloting."
The Doctor then glanced at Shinn Asuka, the pilot of the Destiny Gundam, before continuing. "And as for the Destiny's pilot, he lost a lot of blood, but he'll be alright as well, but once again, they all need some rest."
Murrue nodded in understanding and she glanced at Kira again before walking out of the infirmary. She wanted to stay with Kira, but she knew that right now it might not be the best idea.
Murrue sat in her chair on the bridge, she immediately turned to Miriallia and said. "Miriallia, could you please contact the Eternal, and the Orb Defense Headquarters? I need to talk to Lacus and Cagalli, hopefully one of them might be able to shed some light on why Kira went crazy earlier."
Murrue knew that "crazy" probably wasn't the correct term, but it was the best one she could think of considering what had happened during the last battle.
A few seconds later, Lacus and Cagalli both appeared on the main screen, and without wasting any time, Murrue asked. "You both saw what Kira did during the last battle." She paused for a few seconds before continuing. "Have either of you seen him act like that before?" Cagalli and Lacus both shook their heads, indicating that neither of them had ever seen Kira act so viciously before. Murrue nodded in understanding as a single tear slid down her cheek then she ordered the communication line closed.
Unknown to Murrue, both Cagalli and Lacus had noticed the tear as it slid down her cheek.
The next day began early, despite the pouring rain. As a group of ZAFT mobile suits approached the shore, their faces were suddenly illuminated by a flash of lightning, and Murrue saw the cold twin sensors of Gundams.
Athrun, Kira, and the captured pilot of the Destiny Gundam were all still unconscious at the moment, making her the Archangel's only pilot.
The Impulse leveled off its beam rifle, as Luna scowled in annoyance. "I didn't think that the Captain of the Archangel was an ace pilot," she snarled. "She must have a guardian angel."
The Legend opened fire with its own rifle and its DRAGOONs, which had swiveled to aim at the Freedom, but Murrue pushed the controls forward desperately, and the Freedom pitched down towards the water, the beams sailing by just inches over the Gundam's head.
"Aim for the wings," Rey insisted as he once again opened fire with his beam rifle and DRAGOONs, but again the Freedom dodged the blasts, veering towards the left and taking off low over the water.
As the Freedom ignited its Wings of Light, Murrue yelled. "It's time to end this!!!" Freedom streaked forward, leaving glowing afterimages in its wake as it blazed towards the Legend.
Legend's beam shields came up, just in time to cut one of Freedom's beam sabers in half, the separated half bursting into glowing plasma. Rey slashed at Freedom's chest, but the beam sabers bounced off of the Freedom's armor. Murrue dodged the Legend's next slash and shot it with her rail guns, knocking the Legend away.
"You tried to kill Kira!!!" Murrue screamed in anger as she unleashed her DRAGOONs. As soon as the weapons had cleared their mounts, they extended a small set of wings, ignited their internal engines and swarmed around the Impulse and the Legend.
Luna's eyes widened in surprise as she quickly took cover behind her shield and yelled. "How the hell can she use DRAGOONs in the atmosphere?!?"
Rey didn't answer as he again swiveled his own DRAGOONs, taking aim and firing at the Freedom. Murrue clenched her teeth as she opened fire with her twin plasma cannon, only to see the Legend smack her shots aside with its beam shield, before then slicing through one of her DRAGOONs with its beam javelin. Murrue growled as she put her beam rifles on the Gundam's hips, before reaching up to her wings, freeing the twin plasma cannons and combining them into a double barreled rifle.
"I will never let you hurt Kira again!!!" Murrue screamed as she pulled the trigger and the twin cannons fired. A single beam of blindingly bright blue and red light with power equal to the Loingrinn cannons of the Archangel, shot out of the end of the cannons. Both the Legend and the Impulse dodged the blast, but the Minerva was not so lucky.
"EVADE!!!" Talia ordered when she saw the blast streaking towards the Minerva. The ship quickly pitched up while rolling to the right, in an attempt to dodge it. The blast from Freedom's cannons ripped clean through the left wing of the ZAFT battleship, sending it crashing into the surface of the ocean.
Murrue let a grim smile cross her face as she recalled her DRAGOONs while the Minerva crashed into the ocean. Meanwhile both the Impulse and Legend flew high above her, their pilots stunned at the raw power of this new Gundam.
With the Minerva disabled, Murrue returned the plasma cannons to their mounts on the Gundam's wings, and then boosted back towards the Archangel.