Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 19
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 Excaibur was now in orbit above the Moon, far beyond the reach of any weapons currently utilized by any nation on Earth. Even so, the ship was hidden underneath the veil of its Mirage Colloid Stealth System.
"Wha-what happened?" Kira Yamato painfully groaned as he slowly began to regain consciousness.
"You tried to drop antimatter bombs onto Germany and in the process you shoved Hope out of your way, nearly killing her." Mayu Asuka angerly replied, glaring at Kira as he hung on the wall, restrained by his wrists and ankles. "I plan to make you pay for hurting Hope like that. I know very well that is was unintentioal, but it doesn't change the fact that you still hurt her."
"Attention all hands! Proceed to level one battlestations!" Lacus' voice suddenly shouted through the ship-wide PA system. "The remaining German armed forces have begun moving! We have also intercepted encryptred radio transmissions concerning America's nuclear weapons program!"
Mayu glared at Kira for a few seconds, before finally letting a sigh escape her lips as she released hm. "You got lucky this time, Kira."
"Don't worry, Mayu." Kira smiled, softly kissing the young woman on the lips.. "After this war is over you'll have plenty of time to torture me." Mayu blushed slightly, nodding as the two quickly got dressed and headed towards the bridge. On their way towards the bridge, Kira stopped in the infirmary. Mayu watched in silent awe as Kira not only healed Hope's wounds, but also restored all of her previously disabled powers.
Less than five minutes later, the bridge doors hissed open as Hope, Kira and Mayu walked in.
"What's going on?" Kira asked as he stood inbetween Hope and Mayu.
"It seems that the remaining German forces are attempting to invade England." Lacus answered. "I've also intercepted a number of the German radio transmissions, and it seems like they believe that the Excalibur is a highly classified English vessel."
Almost immediately, the bridge crew burst into nearly uncontrollable laughter. "Wow, they're even dumber than I thought!" Kira laughed as he walked over to the helm and sat down.
"What do you think we should do?" Hope asked as everyone began to slowly regain their composure.
"That is quite simple, Hope." Murrue answered. "We have to perform yet another armed intervention." Five seconds later, the Excalibur dropped the shroud of it's Mirage Colloid, and turned towards the Earth. Once the ship's bow was pointed at the planet, the massive dagger-shaped vessel began to quickly move towards the blue sphere.
Five minutes later, the Excalibur's hull began to glow a firey red as the ship once more plunged into the Earth's atmosphere. The fighting on the English coastline screeched to a sudden halt a moment later, as the huge dagger-shaped ship parted the clouds, the bow of the ship actually pushing the clouds to the side, changing the weather above the battlefield from overcast to sunny.
"Celestial Being does not start fights, but by god, we do end them, and with extreme prejudice if nesscery!" Kira's voice boomed from the Excalibur's hundreds of external loudspeakers. "All forces currently engaged in combat are ordered by God himelf to stand down and stop fighting!" Much to the dismay of everyone onboard the Excalibur, the German tanks were quick to resume their advance into England.
As the German forces continued to advance, Shinn Asuka's GN-000D Destiny Gundam steadily made its way from the Excalibur's primary mobile suit hanger to the centerline launch catapult.
"Destiny, you are cleared for launch." Lacus announced as the Destiny Gundam moved onto the catapult.
"Shinn Asuka, Destiny, commencing intervention!" Shinn replied as his machine was flung out of the ship, the sky instantly coming alive with the blurry phantoms of the Destiny Gundam as it spiraled elegantly from the Excalibur's centerline catapult.
Every one of the soldiers on the ground stared at the rapidly moving Destiny Gundam in both awe and horror, even as the machine opened fire on the German tanks with its beam rifle. The green energy bolts slammed into the German armored vehicles, the exterme heat from the beam weapons instantly igniting the fuel and ammo stored within, and obliterating the armored vehicles in a blaze of fire.
As a squadron of German fighters, armed to the teeth with experimental missiles, came streaking towards him, Shinn Asuka was aware of a single emotion permeating the charging dozen of aircraft: fear.
"If you guys are so afraid of us, then you shouldn't be fighting," he said, watching time slow as the German fighters opened fire. "Because I'm not showing any mercy!'
The Destiny's beam wings blazed to life, and the mighty Gundam sent an army of afterimages flashing forward as it dodged the fighters' attacks. The squadron of attackers broke formation, moving out to flank the afterimage-spewing Gundam.
"That's not going to work!" Shinn snapped, whipping his rifle up to cut down one of the German fighters, and dodging the attacks of the rest. A second fghter moved in behind the Destiny, but Shinn whirled around to slice the aircraft in two with his anti-ship sword, and then fired up above to drill another blast through a third fighter. The remaining machines backed away, opening fire with their missiles. Shinn backed away as the warheads came streaking in, throwing his solid shield out in front of him, and the sky lit up with explosions as the missiles smashed into the shield.
The remainng German pilots waited with baited breath as the smoke flashed up in front of them and an instant later, a barrage of beam blasts came tearing out of the cloud, wrenching three of the aircraft out of the sky before the rest could take off and evade. The smoke parted to reveal the Destiny Gundam, beam rifle raised and missing its physical shield, but otherwise unharmed and waiting.
"Making me sacrifice my shield..." Shinn growled, as the fighters moved in to resume the attack. "On the other hand, now your ranks are thinner!"
The fighters opened fire again, with a flurry of afterimages, the Destiny backflipped over the shots and charged, crushing a seventh fighter's cockpit with a palm cannon blast before the pilot could react. Even as the aircraft exploded, the Destiny whirled around amidst the smoke to spear an eighth fighter on another beam rifle shot, and took off as the remaining aircraft belatedly returned fire.
A desperate ninth fighter came charging in from behind, machine guns blazing. Shinn smirked as he whirled around to seize the German aircraft, turning and using the fighter as a bludgeon against another German fighter. As both aircraft fell from the sky, the Destiny effortlessly shot them both down with a single shot, and then ducked beneath another fighter's machine gun volley, hurling a beam boomerang through its fuselage. The boomerang arced down towards the final fighter, but it managed to dodge the blade at the cost of its left tailfin, and went charging up towards the Destiny, still spewing machine gun rounds.
Shinn only watched as the boomerang came whirling around again and tore the aircraft in two, and as his bisected foe exploded, Shinn caught the twirling beam blade and returned it effortlessly to its rack.
"Really, this is getting tiring." Shinn said with a sigh, as the Destiny glanced back towards the Excalibur and took off.
Meanwhile, onboard the rebuilt German battleship Bismarck, which was about twenty miles offshore and was currently engaged in battle with the HMS Prince of Wales, the radio came to life. "My Furhur, we have a problem." The man on the other end, known as Adolf Galland, said.
"We have lots of problems," Hitler grunted, as his ship rocked again. "What is it?"
"My men have taken the English beachhead," Galland said, "but since then, something terrible has happened...and my men..."
"What is it?" Hitler asked, as a sinking feeling began to materialize in his heart.
"My men are killing each other, sir."