Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 11
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.
Two years had passed since the Third Bloody Valentine War had begun, the Earth was in ruins and most of the PLANTs had been destroyed.
Suddenly, inside the debris belt around Earth, a single bright white flash of light lit up the blackenss, as the Celestial Being warship Excalibur streaked into the universe.
Five minutes later, as the massive dagger-shaped warship of Celestial Being silently floated within the debris belt, Lacus shouted. "Captain, we have a massive ship coming in from out port side! Our computers have already identified it as the ZAFT warship Executer!"
Kira grinned as he glanced at Hope and said. "Hope, target the Exectuer with the EMP Cannons."
"All EMP Cannons are locked onto the Executer." Hope reported as the Excalibur's shields lit up, a blue bubble surrounding and protected the massive ship as it began to shudder ever so slightly under the firepower of the Executer.
"Fire." Kira ordered, his voice completely calm and emotionless.
Dozens of invisible EMPs suddenly lanced out from the Excalibur, instantly washing over the Executer and completely disabling it. Kira smirked as he tapped a few buttons on his chair, activating the Excalibur's recently installed tractor beams and slowly dragging the huge ZAFT warship into one of the Excalibur's vacent hanger bays.
As soon as the ZAFT warship had been secured within the Excalibur's previously vacent hanger bay, the massive ship sped into the distance before once more vanishing within a bright white flash of light.
"So, now where the hell are we?" Cagalli asked as the Excalibur appeared within a diffrent universe, the massive ship floating high above another version of the Earth.
"Well, according to the sensor systems, the current year is 2009." Lacus answered. "And there appear to have been multiple animal attacks in a small town known as 'Forks' in Washington state."
"Animal attacks?" Kira asked, disbelief obvious in his tone of voice. "You don't seriously expect me to believe that animal attacks are the worst problems in this universe, do you, Lacus?"
Lacus merely shurgged, she honestly didn't have any answers at the moment.
"Well, either way, I'm going to take the Divinity Gundam down there, maybe I'll be able to discover something." Kira suggested as he moved towards the door.
"Right now, all we really know for sure is that we can't let this situation go on, but we don't know how, or even what has to be done." Kira sighed a few hours later, as he sat in the driver's seat of his personal vehicle; a 2008 Chrysler Firepower Concept Car.
The vehicle, while appearing to be completely normal, was actually highly customized, having been equipped wth a Zero Point Energy Module, a high-capacity energy battery, an N-jammer, Mirror Coated Phase Shift armor, advanced communications and sensor systems, a pair of rail guns hidden within the front bumper, a pair of plasma cannons hidden within the rear bumper, a pair of beam cannons hidden in the corners of the windshield frame, a pair of beam machine cannons hidden underneath the hood, and finally a positron reflector shield.
"Fighting won't do us any good, because that's the way it's always been in the past." The amethyst-eyed man continued, allowing a hint of annoyance to enter his voice. "That's why the hatred never stops and why the fighting never ends, no matter where we go."
Although it appeared as though Kira was not merged with his Gundam, in reality he was, and was merely utilizing the Divinity's holoshroud to project his own image over the armor of his machine.
"Well, in that case, I think it might not be a bad idea to simply sit back and monitor the situation for a while." Murrue replied through the open communications line.
"I guess." Kira sighed, running his hand through his hair before finally bringing the Firepower's 6.1 liter Hemi V8 engine to life with a throaty rumble.
Just as Kira pulled the vehicle onto the freeway, someone landed on the hood of his car, the Phase Shift armor easily absorbing the physical blow. Kira glared at the man which was now crouched on the hood of his speeding vehicle. The man was tall, with light brown hair and deep crimson eyes.
"Hello, human." The man hissed, and Kira instantly knew that this was no ordinary man; it was a vampire, that went by the name of James.
"Goodbye, douchebag." Kira answered, before swerving his vehicle into the concrete highway divider, throwing the man off the hood and sending him skidding for a few meters before he lunged to his feet and actually began to run after the rapidly retreating form of the Firepower concept car.
"Murrue," Kira said through the still open communiations line. "Lock onto my car with the transporters and beam it directly into the hanger bay, something's come up."
A few short seconds later, the Chrysler Firepower concept car seemed to dissolve into thin air. As the vehicle dissolved around him, Kira curled his body into a protective ball, rolling along the ground for a few feet before lunging to his feet.
To James' surprise, the human hadn't been injured at all by rolling along the road at nearly one hundred and twenty miles per hour. Kira simply smirked, even as James charged forward.
"You have absolutely no idea who you are fucking with." Kira sighed, as he deactiaved the portion of the holoshroud that hid his physical shield, bringing the white, red and black Phase Shift protected shield up and effortlessly smacking the charging vampire, sending him flying backwards to land on his ass nearly fifteen feet away.
"You, with your limited knowledge, can not possibly comprehend what you are fighting against." Kira smirked as he dropped the Divinity's holoshroud, revealing his machine's true form, while at the same time, freeing and igniting the beam sword stored on his right hip.
"I know how things are now! But I also know that things can change!" Kira roared, as his Wing of Light flared into existence, leaving blinding afterimages behind as he streaked forward. An instant later, the brightly glowing energy blade effortlesly sliced the vampire in half at the waist.
"I want a better tomorrow." Kira finished as he turned on his heels and blasted the enemy with a full-burst from his weapons, vaproizing the body. "I can't stand a world without change!"
"You're being arrogent...People aren't that smart!" A second voice spoke from the side of the road, Kira growled as he turned to face the source of the voice.
"You're the arrogent one! I'm just one man!" Kira snarled as he raised the twin buster rifle in his left hand, pulling the trigger without so much as a second thought. The blindingly bright energy blast instantly vaporized the second vampire, in addition to carving out a five-mile long, fifty-foot wide and ten-foot deep trench in the ground. As the beam blast faded, Kira heard rapidly approaching police sirens.
"Time to show these people what Celestial Being is truly capable of." Kira muttuered to himself, as he allowed the Divinty Gundam to once more assume its true height of 19.5 meters. The officers on the ground below stared in awe at the angelic machine that now towered over them, even as Kira aimed his beam rifle at the four police cars which had screehed to a stop only a quarter mile away.
Within the cockpit of the Divinty Gundam, Kira smirked as he unleashed his DRAGOON units, the remote weapons elegantly spiraling through the sky for nearly an entire minute, leaving thin trails of brightly glowing GN particles along their flight paths, before they once again docked on the back of the machine.
"Well, I believe that I have just provided a subtle example of our powers." Kira smiled to himself as the Divinity Gundam spread its wings while also igniting its thrusters, before taking to the air.
"Thanks to your reckless antics down here, the United States is considering launching nuclear weapons at us!" Mayu Asuka sighed as she and Kira walked towards the Excalibur's bridge, about one week later.
"Nuclear weapons?" Kira scoffed. "That is exactly why we have N-jammers built into the Excalibur's hull. As long as we have the N-jammers, nuclear weapons are nothing to worry about."
Just as the two walked onto the Excalibur's bridge a few moments later, the attack alarms began to blare.
"Oh, for fuck's sake." Kira sighed in annoyance as he quickly turned and began to make his way back towards the hanger bay. Two short minutes later, the Divinity Gundam, in its flight mode, streaked out of the Excalibur's centerline catapult.
"What's that?" Kira asked his monitors as what appeared to be a fighter jet quickly flew towards the Excalibur. The amethyst-eyed man watched in horror as the fighter began contorting and transformed into a mobile suit, or more specifically, what looked like a Gundam, one which possessed a very large beam weapon for its primary.
"Oh, shit, that's a Gundam! It's a transformable Gundam!" Kira yelled in alarm as he transformed the Divinity Gundam into its mobile suit mode, seizing two of the machine's beam boomerangs off the shoulder racks and hurling them towards the approaching Gundam.
The enemy Gundam quickly brought its buster rifle to bear and pulled the trigger, obliterating both of the Divinity Gundam's beam boomerangs with a single shot.
"You've got to be kidding me, Kira!" Lacus yelled from the cockpit of the Infinite Justice Gundam as the pink machine boosted out of the Excalibur's launch bay. "We are the only ones in this universe that even have the technology needed to create mass production mobile suits, much less Gundams."
Kira scowled as he seized the Divinity Gundam's second pair of beam boomerangs off their elbow racks and hurled them at the still approaching enemy Gundam.
As the second pair of twirling beam blades forced the enemy Gundam to dodge, Kira reached up to his wings, freeing the twin plasma cannons and combining them into a double barreled rifle.
"So you want to fight like that, huh?" Kira growled, as he pulled the trigger, unleashing a blindingly bright blue and red beam blast and obliterating the enemy Gundam.
The door leading to the Excalibur's bridge opened with a hiss as Kira walked in a few minutes later, and immediately the amethyst-eyed man began to give out orders. "Hope, set a course for the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Washington state."
"Attention all hands," Lacus announced through the ship-wide PA system as Hope set a course that would put the Excalibur about half a mile from the coast of Washington. "The Excalibur will be commencing atmospheric reentry in two minutes, all hands are to standby in their designated units and to brace for turbulence, as well as possible combat." With that, the massive warship ignited its thrusters and dove into the Earth's atmosphere, the bow of the ship quickly beginning to glow with a fiery red light as it descended.
Everyone in the state of Washington, knew that no matter what happened to them, or how long they lived, they would never be able to get the scene unfolding high above them out of their memory. It would be permanently imprinted upon them in all its awesome scale and terrifying power, the sight of the Celestial Being warship Excalibur cleaving the clouds themselves apart, before gracefully landing in the ocean. What surprised the residents even more was the fact that, despite the massive size of the Excalibur, it didn't cause a tidal wave as they had all feared it would.
"Water landing successful." Hope announced, as the Excalibur came to a stop in the ocean a few short minutes later.