Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 18
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.
"Misato, Asuka." The voice of Kira Yamato calmly called over the open communications line. "Fall back to the Excalibur, I'm going to show these fools exactly what they are up against." Asuka and Misato quickly followed their orders, the two fighters seemingly moving as one as they disengaged from the battle, ignited their afterburners and sped away from the Japanese fleet.
"What do you-" Just as the redheaded pilot began to speak, a massive orange-red mushroom cloud erupted, the nuclear fireball instantly engulfing and obliterating the Japanese fleet.
"Damnit, Kira!" Murrue's voice yelled through the communications line as the Divinity Gundam quickly pulled up to fly alongside the two Raptors. "Why did you use nuclear weapons?" Kira didn't answer, instead he forcibly closed the communications line.
"No doubt you are wondering about why exactly we are here." Kira said a few days later, as he leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table, putting his chin on his tented hands, his whole voice and posture changing a bit, becoming more intent and slightly less casual, even as he sat in the White House, discussing the war with the current President of the United States; Harry S. Truman. "With our advanced technology, we could easily fly across your entire continent in less than an hour and simply wipe both Germany and Japan completely out of existence within five minutes of our arrival over the respective countries. Only because we are dedicated to eliminating conflict, did we come here. We are far more than just a highly advanced private armed originization."
"Of course you are." The president calmly replied. The president wasn't going to say it outloud, but he was very worried by the fact that this orginization not only posessed bipedal fighting machines, but also the top secret weapons which were now in development and known as nuclear warheads.
"If you want to attack us, go right ahead." Kira calmly replied, he had been reading the president's mind since he had entered the White House, and knew that the man was truly afraid of the power which Celestial Being wielded. "But I assure you, Celestial Being will come out the victor if you should decide to fight against us. As I said earlier, we are a private armed orginization dedicated to the elimination of all conflicts. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to eliminate the current threats to peace." With that said, Kira's body seemed to dissolve into thin air as the Excalibur's transporter system activated and beamed him onto the bridge of the ship.
Less than one hour later, panic and fear was rampant within Berlin as the Excalibur floated menicanly overhead, even as hundreds of German aircraft swarmed around the huge dagger-shaped warship, pelting its energy shields wth machine gun rounds, rockets, bombs and even experimental missiles.
"It's safe to say, that since that ship floating above us appears to be invunerable to all of our weapons, we were at a massive disadvantage, my furher." One of the German commanders reported as he stood across a table from Adolf Hitler.
"That is impossible!" Hitler screamed, slamming his fists onto the table. "There has to be some way to shoot that damned thing out of the sky! Launch every aircraft we have, I want that thing destroyed!"
"They can't be serious." Kira scoffed on the Excalibur's bridge as the German aircraft continued to pummel the shields with ordanace of all types. "Fuck this shit, it's time give these Nazi faggots a small sample of our power." The amethyst-eyed man finally muttered as he picked up the phone on his chair's armrest. "All X-wings and E-wings are hereby cleared for launch, swat down those annoying Nazi flies. If some of them actually do end up having a sense of self-preservation and want to surrender, hit them with your EMP Cannons and guide them in for a landing."
A few short seconds later, forty-three small fighters screamed out of the Excalibur's primary aircraft hanger, the reletively small group of fighters consisting of 25 X-wings and 18 E-wings.
Within the cockpit of his X-wing, Luke Skywalker sighed under his breath as he began to issue orders to Rouge and Wraith Squadrons. "Rouge Squadron, Wraith Squadron, engage the enemy at will, and if at all possible try not to kill the pilots."
As the X-wings and E-wings began to dogfight with the German aircraft, the Excalibur's primary weapons bay opened, revealing millions of bombs. The weapons payload held within the Excalibur's massive bay could be changed at a moment's notice from the bridge of the ship. The Excalibur's primary weapons bay could hold a total of ten-million weapons and was currently filled to capacity. Out of the ten-million weapons currently in the weapons bay, five-million were freefall bombs, and the other five-million were percision guided bombs.
The ordnance within the bombs themselves currently consisted of one-million conventional warhead bombs, one-million thermobaric bombs, one-million nuclear bombs, one-million neutron bombs, one-million electromagnetic bombs, one-million smoke bombs, one-million stink bombs, one-million quantum bombs, and one-million antimatter bombs.
"Target; Berlin, Germany, locked on." Hope spoke from the weapons station. "Do you wish to deploy?"
After a moment of tense silence, Kira nodded as he answered. "Deploy, but use conventional ordnance only, at least for now."
"Understood." Hope answered. "Now deploying five-hundred bombs with conventional ordnance."
The Excalibur shuddered ever so slightly as it shed the weight of half a thousand bombs, the weapons freefalling for more than thirty-thousand feet before slamming into the ground. Some of the weapons detonated upon impacting the ground, but others were bunker buster bombs and drilled into the ground before finally detonating.
"Any word of their surrender, Lacus?" Kira asked while the city below them slowly burned, even as bombs continued to drop from the Excalibur's weapons bay.
Lacus was about to answer when Luke's voice came over the communications line. "This is Rouge One, I have a visual on a white flag flying above the German headquarters."
"They're surrendering?" Kira asked, not able to believe that it would be so easy.
"Yes." Lacus replied, smiling in happiness. "It appears that the Second World War is finally over."
"Fuck that." Kira growled as the vision of a glowing seed exploded inside his head, causing every living creature on the planet to recoil in shock, even as his amethyst eyes faded into the washed out glaze of a SEED possessed individual. Unlike any time before, however, Kira's eyes were now glowing with a blood red light as tornados of purple and red swirled within his pupils. "I want to make absolutely sure that we've ended this pointless bloodshed." Kira's voice was devoid of all emotion as he gave out his next orders. "Hit them with a pair of antimatter bombs."
"Wha-what?" Lacus asked, shock and horror flashing across her face. "Germany has surrendered! There is no reason for doing something like that!"
"Cagalli!" Kira growled. "Come and restrain Lacus, she's a traitor!"
Cagalli nodded slightly as she pulled out her service pistol and aimed it at Lacus's forehead.
"Kira." The pink-haired princess quietly whimpered as Hope prepared to drop a pair of antimatter bombs on the country below.
Hope was just about the release the weapons, but it was clear that she was hesitent to do so as she held her finger a fraction of an inch above the brightly glowing button.
"If you won't do it, I will." Kira growled in annoyance as he walked over to Hope and roughly shoved her aside, sending her tumbling to the floor.
"Kira!" Cagalli, Lacus, Mayu and Murrue exclaimed in unison, even as Hope's head slammed into the nearby console, sending a spray of blood across a few of the controls. As Hope lay bleeding on the floor, it quickly became obvious that she was unconscious and that Kira had disabled at least a few of her powers, specifically her regeneration.
As Hope lay bleeding on the floor, Kira raised his right hand, clearly intending to release the antimatter bombs, however, he never got the chance, as four gunshots suddenly rang out in rapid sucession. An instant later, four bullets passed through Kira's body, two peircing his heart, while the other two drilled through his head. While the shots wouldn't kill him, they were more than enough to render him unconscious.
As Kira's body fell to the floor, Mayu ran over to Hope, carefully picking up her lover's bleeding body and quickly carrying her towards the infirmary, while Cagalli, Lacus and Murrue moved to restrain Kira, before then hauling his now unconscious body off of the Excalibur's bridge.