Kira x Murrue fanfic - Chapter 7
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.
"Rey Za Burrel, Core Splendor, taking off." Rey said as he launched from the Minerva's centerline catapult. The Minerva then launched the chest flyer, and the leg flyer.
The missile launchers disconnected from the Core Splendor as it transformed into the cockpit for the Impulse Gundam. It activated the first laser lock and docked with the Leg Flyer. Then came the second laser lock and it docked with the chest flyer creating the complete Impulse.
Rey carefully moved the Impulse Gundam towards the Deliverance, ZAFTs newest Eternal-class ship. The starboard METEOR unit was drifting nearby, open and ready. Rey ejected the Force Silhouette and backed into the lock.
"Rey," Talia's voice warned, "the METEOR will do you no good against a lone mobile suit. Use it against warships and mobile suit squadrons instead."
"Understood," Rey answered. The Impulse shuddered as it connected with the METEOR, and Rey clenched his teeth, arming its weapons.
He looked up at the Alliance fleet, taking off with a roar. A squadron of Dagger Ls formed up in front of a Drake, outfitted with some kind of enormous emitter on its hull. Rey opened fire with a blazing volley of beam cannons, the shots ripped through the Alliance mobile suits, but slammed harmlessly against the positron reflector shield.
Rey scowled. "Merely against these things…" He snarled, igniting the beam swords and sliding past the shield and slashing the ship in half. "I have no time for you!"
The Impulse lunged up over another ship, cleaving in two with a downward hack. Another battalion of mobile suits charged at him, spewing beam blasts. Rey's eyes flashed, as he swung back, opening up with a barrage of missiles and smashing the Alliance mobile suits out of the sky.
"Shinn," he growled, scanning the battlefield for the Destiny's distinctive beam wings, "I'm coming for you…"
Rey scowled as both Shinn and Luna approached. Without and hesitation, he charged towards the Destiny and Legend. The crosshairs passed over them both, he opened fire. Shinn's eyes flashed, his beam shields springing to life to deflect the shots.
"Rey!" Shinn shouted.
"That's Rey?!" Luna exclaimed. The Destiny took off, activating its beam wings.
"I'll handle him!" Shinn yelled back.
Rey sneered, firing his beam cannons and a cloud of missiles again. "I will not let you reach Messiah!" He yelled, igniting both of his beam swords. Shinn narrowed his eyes, boosted to the left and the missiles arced around him, disappearing into space. Rey scowled, charging, and swung his swords horizontally. but Shinn somersaulted effortlessly over them, ducking aside as Rey followed up with another beam cannon volley.
"You think you can beat me with that thing?!" Shinn growled.
With a snarl, Rey returned fire again and Shinn ducked aside again, afterimages flashing around him. The Impulse pulled back as Shinn squeezed off a blast of his own from the long range beam cannon, narrowly missing the METEOR. Rey swung both of his swords up, bringing them down on the Destiny, but Shinn blocked them both with his beam shields, sliding down under the blades and slamming his hands into the swords, tearing them apart with his palm cannons.
"Dammit!" Rey snarled, abandoning the beam swords and pulling back with a beam cannon barrage. Shinn slalomed aside it, and the Destiny raised its hand, Shinn figured that now would be a good time to test out the jamming systems, which had been installed on the Destiny while he was on the Eternal.
Rey looked over his shoulder in disbelief, as the METEOR's own missiles slammed into him from behind, wiping out the METEOR's engine array. As the METEOR exploded, the Destiny and the Legend took off.
As Rey pulled himself from the wreckage of his METEOR, drawing his beam rifle, he scowled, watching them go. The Impulse took off, heading back towards the Minerva. Rey now knew that if he wanted to defeat Shinn, he would need something more powerful then the Impulse.
A few minutes later, Shinn's eyes widened in disbelief as the Providence Gundam launched from the Minerva, slamming into the Destiny and shoving it back. "Enough of this!" Rey snapped. "Your intransigence is your undoing!"
He swung up his beam rifle to fire, but another beam blast cut him off, forcing him back. Rey dove upwards, keeping his DRAGOONs focused on the Destiny, his eyes widened in surprise.
"Lunamaria!"
Inside the Legend, beam rifle and DRAGOONs pointed up at the Providence, Luna scowled determinedly at her enemy.
"I won't let Shinn fight alone," she said. "Even if I can only distract you, I'll do it!" The Legend roared up towards the Providence, firing again and forcing it back. "I have power too!"
"Luna!" Shinn cried, desperately dodging Rey's DRAGOON fire. "Don't! You can't handle him!"
"You are always here…" Rey snarled, returning fire with his own rifle and dodging the Legend's DRAGOON shots. "You are always the weakest link…"
The Providence's DRAGOONs vanished, and Shinn realized in horror that they were no longer aiming for him.
"I'll take you down, Rey!" Luna yelled, raising her beam rifle.
Rey's eyes flashed furiously. "Disappear!"
Shinn reached up in horror. "Luna!"
The Providence's DRAGOONs opened fire, a barrage of beams slammed into the Legend, blowing off its limbs and DRAGOON backpack and halting the maimed mobile suit in its tracks. Rey leveled off his beam rifle and fired.
The final beam shot speared the Legend in the chest, and Shinn's eyes widened in horror.
"Shinn," he heard Luna's voice say, "I love you..."
"Luna…" Shinn whispered.
The Legend exploded.
"LUNA!"
Shinn felt tears well up in his eyes, as he stared in horror and disbelief at where the Legend had been a few seconds before.
Meanwhile, across the battlefield, the Freedom's Destiny Gundam fired its chest-mounted 20mm CIWS at an approaching Providence Zaku, causing some damage and forcing the pilot, Shiho Hahnenfuss, to back away slightly. Kira then freed and ignited a beam saber in his right hand, with the now combined beam rifle in his left hand and boosted forward.
As Kira charged, the Providence Zaku fired three blasts, in rapid succession from its beam rifle, the blasts heading for the right arm, head, and cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny Gundam.
Kira quickly moved the right arm of the Freedom's Destiny up and over the first blast, then he moved his shield to the right, blocking the shot heading for the cockpit and finally the Freedom's Destiny leaned its head to the right, dodging the last blast.
With a scream, Athrun drove the Infinite Justice's beam saber into the Gunbarrel Windam's striker pack, and before it could explode, he kicked the sparking remains towards another Windam. The third Windam lunged up over its disabled comrades, beam saber raised. Athrun deflected it with his beam shield, and grinned.
"Too slow, bitch!" He shouted, firing his beam rifle and destroying the Windam's head. He lunged up over the now disabled mobile suit, firing at the remaining Windam with a barrage of shots from his beam rifle. It drew back behind its shield, Athrun swept in, and before the Windam could react, Athrun had severed the head with his beam saber.
As the Strike Freedom Gundam pulled alongside the Eternal, Lacus glanced at it before she heard Murrue's voice come through the open communications line. "I can get you out of there!" Murrue protested as the Eternal sped towards the positron shield, which was protecting the Requiem cannon. "You don't have to die!"
Lacus was now the only person left onboard the Eternal, since she had ordered everyone else to evacuate.
"Without someone to guide the ship, they might knock it off course," Lacus responded. "This is the last thing I can do for you. Now go, help the others bring peace to this world." She narrowed her eyes at the ominous pit of the Requiem and ignited the Eternal's thrusters for the final time.
As the Eternal sped forward, Lacus looked out the window at the Strike Freedom and smiled. "I'll give my life so that you can live the rest of yours in peace. I hope that you and Kira have a good life together, I love him with all my heart and I hope that he will be happy with you." Lacus paused for a second, then she smiled slightly and added. "Please remember me."
Murrue nodded as she watched, with tears in her eyes, as the Eternal plowed forward, disregarding the desperate mobile suits in front of it. Murrue squeezed her eyes shut, the Strike Freedom offered a grim salute.
On the bridge, Lacus saluted back, and smiled as the Strike Freedom quickly pulled away.
The Eternal slammed into the positron shield, bursting through with a crash and a shriek of twisting metal. It sped down into the depths of the cannon, on the bridge, as sparks and smoke filled the air, Lacus's eyes flashed.
The Eternal then fired its remaining anti-air guns and missiles into the mouth of the cannon. The Requiem exploded and Lacus smiled as she vanished in the blast.
"Holy shit!!!" Athrun, Cagalli, Kira, and Shinn exclaimed in unison, as the Requiem cannon suddenly lit up like the Sun, spewing fire and smoke more then thirty miles into space, but they had only glanced at the massive explosion since they were still fighting.
As the massive explosion slowly faded, Murrue sniffled and said. "We promise that we will remember you, Lacus." She paused just long enough to open the visor of her helmet and wipe the tears from her eyes before she finished. "No one will ever forget the sacrifice which you made today."
The Akatsuki's remote turrets flashed over the lunar surface, spewing beams, but nothing could pierce the unstoppable Destroy's beam-deflecting hide. Cagalli's eyes flashed furiously as the Akatsuki spiraled away from a barrage of missiles, letting the golden armor deflect the brunt of the Destroy's beam cannon volleys. The Akatsuki could deflect direct beam shots, but Cagalli wasn't interested in seeing how much longer this ability would work.
The Destroy fired another barrage of missiles, Cagalli scowled, pulling back with a burst of CIWS fire. The enemy pilot had figured out her weakness already.
Three missiles escaped the inferno, streaking down towards the Akatsuki. Cagalli's eyes widened in surprise.
A moment later, a beam shot down between the middle missile, blowing it apart and taking out the two flanking projectiles as well. The Infinite Justice dropped in before the Akatsuki, firing up at the Destroy.
"Athrun!" Cagalli exclaimed, swarming her remote turrets to protect the Infinite Justice as the Destroy returned fire.
"Beams don't work on this thing?!" Athrun growled, as the beams slammed against the Akatsuki's defense screen. Cagalli lunged up over the Infinite Justice, firing back with her beam rifle and turrets, but the Destroy shrugged off her barrage like nothing, blasting back with another beam cannon wave.
"How many guns can this thing fire!?" Cagalli snapped, ducking aside and letting the errant shots dissipate against the Akatsuki's shining armor.
As Athrun spiraled through the beam barrages, returning fire with his rifle, struggling to get closer, his eyes darkened.
"We don't have time for this shit," Cagalli said. "I'll distract this damn thing, you get in close!"
Athrun grimaced as the Infinite Justice spiraled out of harm's way, a typhoon of missiles slamming into the lunar surface behind him. He whirled around to return fire, but another wave of beams forced him back again.
"This thing doesn't stop!" He breathed, taking cover behind his beam shield. "There has to be an angle we can attack it from!"
The Akatsuki's remote turrets flashed around the battlefield, pounding the Destroy's positron shield with beam shots. "Any angle we fire from will still have that shield in the way!" Cagalli answered, diving up to avoid another wave of beams. "We have to get in close with beam sabers!"
Athrun paused to open fire, but his shots landed ineffectually against the Destroy's positron shield. He scowled as the Destroy turned its guns back on him, taking off as the shots followed him through the sky. "Then I'll cover you! You can get through with the Akatsuki's coating!"
"Sounds good to me!" Cagalli shouted, switching to the Akatsuki's dual saber and charging through the face of a murderous beam bombardment. The Infinite Justice swept in behind it, spewing beam fire back at the Destroy and drawing its fire.
A wave of missiles came streaking up towards the Akatsuki, Cagalli's eyes widened, and she threw up her shield, but it was too late. The missiles slammed into the Akatsuki's golden armor, blowing off the Shiranui pack, the right leg, and the left arm, punching a hole in the cockpit. Cagalli ground her teeth as she was sprayed with shrapnel, the Akatsuki slamming down into the Destroy's outstretched left arm. Cagalli looked up, finding another missile streaking towards the open cockpit.
"It's too late!" She roared, as the Akatsuki plunged its saber down into the Destroy's arm.
The missile slammed into the Akatsuki's cockpit as the Destroy's arm exploded, and a moment later, the golden mobile suit vanished in a blazing fireball.
Athrun's eyes widened in horror. "Cagalli!"
The Destroy staggered back, glowering down at the smoldering stump that had once been its left arm. Athrun's eyes flashed, his blood boiling. If he had been the one to close in instead of Cagalli.
The Destroy opened fire with its remaining guns, forcing Athrun back on the defensive.
"You goddamned monster," Athrun screamed. "I'll kill you!!!"
"You monster!!!" He screamed, rocketing forward. The Destroy paused for a moment before opening fire. Athrun slipped easily through the barrage, instinct and fury guiding him. "You've taken everything!" The Destroy's fire grew more desperate. "I won't let you kill anyone else!!!"
Athrun raised his beam carry shield, firing the Grapple Stinger forward. It bit down into the Destroy's cockpit hatch, Athrun roared forward, retracting the line and streaking in, igniting his beam boomerang blade. The Destroy angled its guns to fire.
With a scream of rage, Athrun drove the boomerang blade into the Destroy's cockpit; still screaming, he slashed the cockpit open, forced the sides of the wound apart with the Infinite Justice's legs, and pumped beam rifle shots into the open cockpit. The Destroy's wound sparked ominously as Athrun pulled back behind his beam shield.
At last, the Destroy collapsed to its knees and exploded.
Athrun watched it die, with tears in his eyes.
Rey forced the Providence and Destiny apart with a burst of thruster exhaust, and, eyes flashing, launched his DRAGOONs in a blaze of sapphire light. "Everyone will open their eyes! Everyone will see the blood they've spilled! Everyone will see the hatred in their hearts!"
The Providence charged again, igniting its shield-mounted beam saber, as the DRAGOONs swarmed around the Destiny, firing a wave of blazing beam shots around it.
"I will show the world our pain!" he cried. "I will make the world see our tears, and in the end, the world will change!!!"
"You crazy bastard!" Shinn shouted. "You can't break the cycle by killing everyone! You're just repeating it!"
The Providence roared down into the Destiny's face; the sword and beam saber clashed in a shower of sparks, the Gundams' eyes flashing.
Shinn snarled as he kicked the Providence away from him, he then grabbed its left arm, and began to spin it around like a windmill. Shinn screamed as he let go the Providence Gundam after spinning it around for nearly ten seconds.
The force of the throw sent the Providence careening uncontrollably into the wreckage of a nearby Nazca-class, and before Rey could reorient himself, Shinn had fired his beam cannon, the shot tearing through the cockpit and engulfing the Providence in a massive explosion. Shinn the ignited his Wings of Light and took off, heading towards Messiah.
Within the cockpit of the Strike Freedom, Murrue watched in disbelief as Messiah suddenly fired. A fraction of a second later, the world turned white and everything disappeared. The Gundam began to shake, then it began to break apart and as it did, she closed her eyes and said. "Kira, I'm sorry."
Kira's eyes widened in horror as the Strike Freedom Gundam was engulfed in the blinding light of the NEO-GENESIS cannon. An instant later, the Strike Freedom vanished in a massive fireball.
"Murrue!!!" Kira screamed, and as the fireball faded, Kira noticed that the torso of the Strike Freedom was, somehow still intact. What he didn't notice however, was that his own Gundam had also taken severe damage.
Kira sobbed uncontrollably as he landed the now badly damaged Freedom's Destiny Gundam in the Archangel's port side launch bay, protectively cradling the remains of the Strike Freedom in his arms.
Kira quickly climbed out of the cockpit of the Freedom's Destiny and floated over to the cockpit hatch on the Strike Freedom's torso. Once there, he entered his access code and opened the cockpit hatch, but when he looked into the cockpit of the Strike Freedom, tears once again formed in his eyes.
Murrue was still strapped into the seat and through the visor of her helmet, Kira could see that her face was covered with blood; he also noticed that the left sleeve of her normally white flight suit was also soaked red with blood.
Kira very carefully climbed into the cockpit of the Strike Freedom and unbuckled Murrue's cockpit harness, then he very carefully lifted her from the cockpit and set her onto a waiting stretcher. After Murrue's body had been secured to the stretcher, the medical team rushed her to the infirmary.
He wiped the tears from his eyes as he floated over to the only recently completed ZGMF-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero. He quickly entered his access code, and a few seconds later, the Wing Gundam Zero's eyes flashed with a bright green light as the cockpit door closed.
Suddenly, what looked like no more then a white blur flew out of the Archangel's port side launch bay. The object flew straight through a group of approaching Zakus and an instant later, the Zakus all went up in multiple blinding explosions.
When the light from the explosions faded, Wing Zero floated where the Zakus had been only a few seconds ago, with a beam saber in one hand and the shield and buster rifle in the other.
Suddenly a bright golden flash lit up the cockpit, while at the same time, a purple seed exploded in Kira's mind. He charged forward, going so fast that the enemy mobile suit forces had no time to react. As Kira's beam saber came crashing down, effortlessly slicing through the arms and legs of the enemy machines, before he then kicked them in the head, sending them flying into space.
"I'll make you all pay!!!" Kira screamed in rage as he aimed Wing Zero's twin buster rifle at the Messiah. Kira let a grim smile cross his lips as he pulled the trigger, unleashing the full power of the twin buster rife.
A pure column of expanding golden light shot out of the rifle and everything in front of it simply changed states, moving from solid to plasma instantly. The golden beam cut a path of cleared space that stretched for nearly three hundred miles.
Kira then noticed a group of Zakus approaching him. He quickly flipped the Wing Zero and fired his machine cannons, forcing the machines to back off. He then dodged a beam salvo from a group of Windams and Strike Daggers, locked on, drew his beam rifle and fired, taking their heads.
Suddenly the Destiny Impulse Gundam streaked onto the battlefield, its Wings of Light leaving blinding afterimages in its wake as it quickly sped towards Kira, but he boosted out of the way and fired the twin buster rifle. The blast engulfed the Destiny Impulse's beam rifle and turned it to slag. The Destiny Impulse quickly whirled around, only to have its head cleanly severed by Wing Zero's beam saber.
Kira gritted his teeth as he quickly set Wing Zero's beam rifle on its lower back and transformed the Gundam into it's so-called Neo-bird mode, sweeping in towards the surface of the Moon like a comet. Kira pulled up at the last second and skimmed the surface at a height of only fifteen feet.
A moment later, the Destiny Impulse Gundam had replaced the damaged chest flyer. It quickly targeted Kira, firing its beam cannon and beam rifle wildly, trying to get a bead on the fast-moving Gundam, and missing terribly, so Kira decided to simply outrun the Destiny Impulse.
Just as he had outrun the Destiny Impulse, three enemies sped at Kira, two with standard machine guns and another with large cannon held with two hands. The heavier equipped mobile suit stopped first, arming and firing the oversized weapon. Kira easily dodged the attack, but he was forced to transform in order to block the pelting of the machine guns with his shield. Kira quickly freed and ignited a beam saber, soaring forward and cleaving the head from the first Zaku.
Bringing up his shield, Kira allowed the high powered blast from the third Zaku to smash against it, burning through half of it before dying out. Kira abandoned his shield, and rushed forward, smashing his beam saber against the heat hawk of the Zaku. Using his lower thrusters, Kira then flipped over the Zaku, and stabbed his beam saber down through the head of the machine, the blade stopping just short of slicing into the cockpit, Kira then yanked the weapon out of the now disabled machine. Kira let out a growl as he once again boosted toward the Messiah, he knew that as long as Gilbert Durandal was alive, the war would continue.
Kira didn't like to kill, but at the same time he wanted this war to end as quickly as possible. He sighed quietly as he freed the twin buster rifle, once again aiming it at the Messiah, and pulled the trigger, once more unleashing the full power of the twin buster rife. The blast effortlessly punched through the massive space fortress, hitting one of the nuclear reactors, which it used for power, and causing a chain reaction of explosions, which quickly engulfed the entire structure.
A few hours later, Kira glanced towards the five Gundams, which were standing in the Archangel's hangars. Destiny, Infinite Justice, Freedom's Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Wing Zero all bore the scars of battle, but their jobs was done. The Gundams could rest; they could forget this tragic day.
Kira Yamato, Athrun Zala, Shinn Asuka, and Murrue Ramius could not.