Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 17
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.
"Kira, what exactly is the point of having us go back to 1941?" Murrue quietly asked as she, along with Athrun, Kira, Shinn, Cagalli, Hope, Lacus, and Mayu, walked towards the Excalibur's hanger bays.
"It's quite simple really." Kira answered. "We are dedicated to eradicating conflict, and the second world war was nothing more than a worldwide conflict."
"And why exactly are you planning on taking the Divinity into combat instead of one of your customized fighter aircraft?" Hope asked after a moment of silence.
"The Divinity is transformable." Kira smiled. "So, as long as I keep my Gundam in its flight mode, it will appear as nothing more than a highly advanced fighter aircraft. Either way, we need to intervene and stop this senseless killing." With that, the group split up and headed towards the hangers where their respective machines were stored.
As the Divinity Gundam, which was hidden beneath the shroud of its Mirage Colloid Stealth System, screamed through the skies above Germany, Kira's radar suddenly picked up a formation of twenty Bf-110 fighter-bomber aircraft, which were being escorted by nine Bf-109 fighter aircraft. The amethyst-eyed man smirked as he pulled into formation with the german aircraft before then dropping the shroud of his Mirage Colloid.
The German pilots stared in shock and horror at the Divinity Gundam, which now bore a German SS plane-tree camouflage pattern and had been outfited with four wing mounted weapons racks, two of the weapons racks slung under each wing. The wing mounted weapons racks on the Divinity Gundam's wings carried four AIM-9X Sidewinders, four AIM-120D AMRAAMs, four B61 nuclear bombs and four AGM-84 Harpoons.
"Targets identified; twenty Messerschmitt Bf-110 Destroyer fighter-bombers, accompinied by nine Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighters." Kira smirked as he read the information from one of the sub-screens, even as the pair of Bf-110s directly in front of him opened fire with their twin rearward facing 7.92 mm guns.
Kira rolled his eyes in disbelief as he brought both of his plasma cannons to bear and fired, unleashing a pair of blue-red energy blasts. The twin beam blasts effortlessly sheared the wings from the two Bf-110s directly ahead of him, before then continuing onward and obliterating a pair of the Bf-109 escorts.
The remaining aircraft immediately opened fire on the strange craft, but to the surprise and horror of the German pilots, their rounds simply bounced off the armor protecting the mysterious craft.
As Kira pulled up, dodging a second burst of machine gun fire, his sensors picked up another aircraft which was quickly climbing towards him. As he zoomed in on the aircraft, Kira saw that it had a fuselage which was narrow and long, with open machine gun stations in the extreme nose and tail, he also noticed that the aircraft had a pair of forward canards near the bottom of the fuselage.
"Hmm, that's a Focke-Wulf Fw-42 medium bomber." Kira muttered, dodging another burst of machine gun fire. "I didn't think that these Nazi bastards had ever completed those shitty things."
As he banked towards the approaching bomber, Kira also noticed a pair of fighters, both with a rear wing forward canard construction.
"Henschel Hs P.75s." Kira growled. "It seems that these assholes are just begging us to stomp them out of existance."
Meanwhile, as Hope and Mayu flew their F-22 Raptors high above the North Atlantic, they intercepted a German radio transmission. "This is Bismarck, we have engaged two British ships."
"Bismarck?" Mayu asked in disbelief, as she and Hope tracked the communication, finding that the massive German ship was only a few miles to the west.
"Well," Hope smirked, as she rolled her F-22 Raptor, which currently bore a German winter camouflage scheme, to the right and dove towards the floating fortress, with Mayu's own F-22 Raptor, which bore a pink-and-red variation of the standard German oak-leaf camouflage scheme, following close behind. "I say that we disable that ship and capture it."
"Mayu, what are your armaments?" Hope requested, just as the clouds parted and the massive ship came into view.
"I've got 480 M61A2 20mm cannon rounds, two B61 nuclear bombs, four AIM-9X Sidewinders, four AIM-120D AMRAAMs, four GBU-40 small diameter bombs, two AGM-84 Harpoons, and two Wind Corrected Munitions Dispensers." Mayu quickly answered.
Hope instantly suspected that the younger woman had outfited her F-22 Raptor with wing mounted weapons racks, and her suspicions were confirmed when she accessed the computer onboard Mayu's Raptor and discovered a pair of wing mounted weapons racks, each of whch were capable of carrying up to eight weapons, greatly increasing the Raptor's attack power, while not compromising its stealth abilities.
The wing mounted weapons racks on Mayu's F-22 Raptor carried four AIM-9X Sidewinders and four AIM-120D AMRAAMs, the center weapons bay carried a pair of AGM-84 Harpoons, four GBU-40 small diameter bombs and a pair of Wind Corrected Munitions Dispensers, while the side weapons bays concealed the two nuclear weapons.
Hope's own F-22 Raptor had been also equipped with wing mounted weapons racks, although unlike Mayu's fighter, Hope's F-22 Raptor carried four AIM-9X Sidewinders and four AIM-120D AMRAAMs on the wing mounted weapons racks, the center weapons bay carried four AGM-84 Harpoons and four GBU-40 small diameter bombs, while the side weapons bays concealed two AGM-123 Skippers.
As the two Raptors streaked out of the clouds and leveled out, now flying just above the wavetops, the 15-inch guns of the H.M.S Hood opened up, with the 14-inch guns of the H.M.S. Prince of Wales opening fire a few short seconds later. The two women watched as the Bismarck answered back with a broadside from its own 15-inch guns.
"Fuck this." Hope muttered as the shells from all three ships missed their respective targets. "Freedom three, engaging." An instant later, the center weapons bay of Hope's Raptor opened up and a single AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile dropped out, ignited its engine and sped towards the huge battleship.
"Freedom four, engaging." Mayu called out as she followed Hope's lead, opening the center weapons bay of her own Raptor, and like Hope, firing a single AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile.
The two missiles streaked in and slammed into the side of Bismarck, ripping a pair of huge holes in the thick armor protecting the massive German battleship.
An instant later, the bodies of the two fighters were suddenly surrounded by brightly glowing beam shields and in less time than it took to blink an eye, the two Raptors had actually flown through the hull of the Bismarck. Hope's Raptor had flown through and obliterated the Bismarck's ammunition magazine, while Mayu's Raptor had effortlessly punched its way through the engine room, stopping the massive battleship in its tracks.
The morning of Tuesday, May 27th, 1941 brought a heavy grey sky, a rising sea and a tearing wind from the north-west. The pair of F-22 Raptors which had disabled the Bisnark less than 12 hours earlier, were now circling high above the massive German battleship.
Hope glanced to her left as she noticed one of the British ships, the H.M.S. Hood, moving towards the disabled Bismarck. In the blink of an eye, Hope's Raptor had turned towards the Hood, and fired its EMP Cannons, completely disabling the British ship.
As soon as Hope had disabled the Hood, the massive form of the Excalibur appeared, the massive dagger-shaped ship landing in the ocean and partially submerging as one of its numerous hanger bays opened up.
The crewmembers onboard the British ships watched in stunned silence as the Excalibur slowly yet steadily moved forward until the German battleship Bismarck was completely inside the hanger bay. Once the massive German battleship was completely inside the hanger, the door slowly shut, trapping the ship and its crew inside, and then the huge ship vanished under the shroud of its Mirage Colloid. The massive dagger-ship wasn't seen again until Sunday, December 7th, 1941. The day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Oh god, it's like a swarm of angry bees!" Kira Yamato yelled from the cockpit of the Divinity Gundam as the machine streaked out of the Excalibur's launch bay. Far below the Excalibur, hundreds of Japanese fighter and bomber aircraft were launching an attack on Pearl Harbor.
A few short seconds later, the Divinity Gundam screamed through the first squadron of incoming Japanese aircaft, scattering the entire formation. The Japanese pilots watched in shock and horror as the machine pulled out of its dive only ten feet from the surface of the ocean, throwing up a huge cloud of water in the process.
As the Divinity Gundam flew through the air, now in an eighty degree climb, various parts started to move and twist. The hands quickly slid out of the underside of the machine as the nose pivoted ninety degrees, before the machine's left arm grabbed it, then the machine grabbed the beam rifle on its right wing with its left hand, as the waist rotated one-hundred and eighty degrees, while at the same time, the plasma cannons retracted into the wings, finally the feet unfolded as the legs spread out.
The Divinity Gundam's eyes flashed with a bright yellow light as the chest vents opened, venting excess heat away from the machine's auxillary nuclear reactor and shrouding the now scattered Japanese aircraft in a thick cloud of steam.
Once again, Kira had outfitted his machine with four wing mounted weapons racks, with two on each wing. The wing mounted weapons racks on the Divinity Gundam's wings once again carried four AIM-9X Sidewinders, four AIM-120D AMRAAMs, four B61 nuclear bombs and four AGM-84 Harpoons.
"Enough fighting already! It only leads to more fighting!" Kira roared as a pair of F-22 Raptors screamed by the scattered Japanese squadron. The first Raptor was colored in a purple variation of what would later become known as a digital camouflage scheme, while the second bore a bright crimson variation of the standard German oak-leaf camouflage scheme.
Much to Kira's dismay and annoyance, the Japanese aircraft were quick to reorganize themselves before opening fire on the Divinity Gundam.
"You're all usless!" The amethyst-eyed man snarled as he once again transformed his machine back into its flight mode and streaked away, but less than ten seconds later, the Divinity Gundam screamed by the much slower propeller driven aircraft, now traveling at more than three times the speed of sound.
"What the hell is that thing?" One of the Japanese pilots yelled as the sonic boom caused by the Divinity Gundam's passing shook five of the fighter aircraft apart, sending the shattered remains plunging towards the ocean below.
"I'll wipe you out!" Kira roared as he pulled his Gundam into a bone-crushing 15g turn, the machine almost instantly performing a one-hundred-eighty degree turn.
"Time to terrorize and conquer everyone." Kira smirked as the plasma cannons emerged from the Divinity Gundam's wings and opened fire, the searing blue-red beam blasts destroying a pair of fighter aircraft.
"Excalibur, this is Crimson Fury." The voice of Asuka Langley Soryu spoke through the open communications line a moment later. "We've found the Japanese fleet, shall we engage them?"
"Crimson Fury, this is Excalibur, you are hereby cleared to engage and sink the Japanese fleet." Murrue ordered from the bridge of the Excalibur.
"You pathetic fools!" Kira roared as he transformed the Divinity back into its mobile suit mode. Even as the Gundam transformed, Kira freed both of the twin buster rifles from the back of his machine and began to fire the weapons continuously. He held the triggers down, holding both of the weapons at arm's length as he began to spin in circles, the bright yellow columns of energy instantly engulfing and eliminating the remaining Japanese aircraft.
After making sure that there were no other hostile aircraft nearby, Kira once again transformed his Gundam into its flight mode and streaked away, heading towards the Japanese fleet.