Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Gundam series, nor any of the various series which are used or referenced in my fic, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else, also, don't read this if you are not of legal age to read such material. The story contains possibly disturbing content and should not be read by close-minded people (i.e., people who are easily offended.) Everything in the story is fictional. I am also not responsible for any actions taken by people who read this story and society's problems. I do, however, own my original character; Hope Yamato.
The year is 2015 AD, even now, battles rage throughout the world, but it is now against a diffrent enemy entirely.
Everyone in the Nerv control room, deep below the city of Tokyo-3 jumped when the sirens began to sound, however, none of the radar stations around the city had detected an Angel, instead, they had detected, what looked to Nerv control room personnel, to be a large dagger-shaped transport craft, everyone also noticed the distinctive Nerv logo, on the hull of the ship.
Gendo Ikari, the Supreme Commander of Nerv, did not want to take any chances, and immediately ordered the defensive perimeter to open fire on the strange ship, despite the Nerv logo on the ships' hull.
The crash of grinding metal suddenly rang through the Excalibur's massive docking bay as the main gates opened, and a pink Eternal-class support ship, which looked like no more than an upgraded version of the original Eternal from the First Bloody Valentine War, rose ponderously out of the docking bay and into the blackness.
Lacus Clyne smiled slightly as she sat on the bridge of the Eternal-class vessel, which had been given the name Purity.
Being an Eternal-class ship, the Purity was designed as a support ship, and was reletively lightly armed; with only two forward-firing heavy beam cannons, two dozen CIWS guns, and a battery of defensive missile launchers, in addition a powerful beam cannon was concealed within the nose of the ship and could be utilized as either a positron cannon, or if the need arose, a temporal inversion cannon. The Purity's primary weapons battery, however, was the pair of heavily armed METEOR units.
As the Purity moved away from the Excalibur, its phase cloak activated and the ship faded into invisibility.
The next ship to leave the Excalibur's docking bay was a Minerva-class battleship, which like the Purity, appeared to be nothing more than an upgraded version of the original design. This vessel was under the command of Cagalli Yula Athha. The ship had been given the name of Gladys, named after the captian of the original Minerva-class battleship from the Second Bloody Valentine War.
Being a Minerva-class battleship, the Gladys was heavily armed. Its weaponry consisted of a pair of dual beam cannons, a triple barrel cannon, more than a dozen CIWS guns, eight missile and torpedo launchers, a dozen anti-beam depth charge launchers and lastly a powerful beam cannon, which like the one concealed within the nose of the Purity, could be used as either a positron cannon or a temporal inversion cannon.
A moment later, a huge purple, green and black machine, known as Evangelion Unit 01, rose out of the ground on the vertical launch catapult. While Evangelion Unit 01 was about the same size as a Destroy Gundam, it lacked any weapons, ranged or otherwise, which could effectively damage the Gundams built by Celestial Being.
As the Excalibur, which was now flanked by both the Purity and the Gladys, approached Tokyo-3, the city's defense systems immediately began to fire. The defensive weapons were swiftly silenced, however, as the Gladys and the Purity returned fire, destroying the weapon emplacements with a single volley of beam blasts. Gendo Ikari was not done, he quickly opened a communications line to the three approaching ships.
"To the unidentified ships, we demand you identification!" He commanded with an authoritarian voice.
"This is the Excalibur! Why the hell should we identify ourselves, Ikari?" Came a sharp female reply.
"By the power invested in me by the United Nations!" Was his reply, with a slight smirk on his face.
"Who?" Came the response, along with sounds of giggling and the failure to hold back a laugh. Now he was mad! He had just been mocked on an open communication frequency. He waited a couple seconds and then fired back his reply.
"The United Nations Military Command and the United Nations General Assembly. The current leadership during this time of crisis, but if you don't know them, then who do you serve?" Commander Ikari asked plainly, but with a smirk.
Soon a picture came up on the main screen in the Nerv command center and everyone in the Nerv command center did a double take, when a brown-haired woman appeared on the screen.
"Oh! That United Nations, and as to whom we serve, that's easy, we serve God himself and we are much more powerful then you could ever hope to become." The captain stated quite plainly.
Two of the crewmembers on the Excalibur's bridge, who were sitting right behind Murrue as well as a few others, who were off camera, broke out laughing. They couldn't help themselves.
The look on the Nerv command personnel was priceless. Then Nerv's own radio began to produce muffled giggling that broke out into full laughter. The laughter belonged to Nerv's own command personnel, as well as the U.N. soldiers.
This was not Commander Ikari's day.
Within the cockpit of the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam, Kira Yamato began to laugh as his machine streaked out of the Excalibur's launch bay. An instant later, the Gundam's plasma cannons swung forward from behind the machine's shoulders, while at the same time, the hip-mounted rail guns also clicked into their firing position.
A fraction of a second later, there was a blinding flash of light, accompanied by a deafening boom as the Divinity Gundam fired its plasma cannons, rail cannons and twin buster rifle in the same instant.
The massive EMP which was caused by the Divinity Gundam's weapons was powerful enough to plunge the entire city of Tokyo-3, and even Nerv headquarters, below the Geofront, into total darkness.
A few short seconds later, Kira Yamato appeared in the command center, his entire body glowing with a pure white light, illuminating the entire room.
"Gendo Ikari." Kira growled. "You need to move on, stop fighting to change things that are in the past! No matter what you do, you can't bring anyone back!" The amethyst-eyed man snarled, his body now beginning to radiate with a blood red light. "Just because you lost your wife, you intend to initate Third Impact and destroy the future. Is that really what you desire; the extermination of humnity?" Before Gendo could answer, Kira vanished with a flash of bright white light.
A few seconds later, the Purity and Gladys once again landed in the Excalibur's docking bay, and finally the massive ship vanished underneath the shroud of it's Phase Cloak.