Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 24
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 Divinity Gundam thundered out of the Excalibur's centerline hangar, with Kira in the cockpit, eyes darting rapidly around the battlefield. "These crazy bastards."
A wave of beam fire cut him off, and he rocketed upwards in surprise. As he leveled out, his amethyst eyes widened in surprise at what he saw hovering before him.
"Evangelion Unit 04." Kira scowled, struggling to hide his surprise as he slashed at the silver Evangelion Unit with his wrist-mounted beam sabers, forcing it to back away. Even though Kira could probably still win this fight, he certainly wasn't used to being denied omnipresence. "Misato Katsuragi, you traitorous bitch."
"Stand down, Kira." Misato said, even as Evangelion Unit 04 was forced to back off while taking cover behind its beam shields to block the beam blasts from Kira's rifle. "Without your more god-like abilities, even you won't be able win against the combined forces of every nation on earth."
"You want to bet on that?" Kira laughed, even as a green Slash ZAKU Warrior streaked in close atop a Guul unit, twirling a long double-edged beam axe and bringing it down with a crash. Kira ground his teeth as his Gundam plummeted backwards, only for the ZAKU to follow up with another punishing blow.
Kira clenched his fists around the Divinity's controls, pushing his Gundam higher. "There's only one of you!" The Divinity rocked again, this time as a GuAIZ R on a Guul pounded his with a rail gun salvo. "What?"
As he raised his rifle to deal with the GuAIZ, instinct bolted up through him, only for the Divinity to quake again, as the Slash ZAKU vaulted off its Guul, slammed the Divinity in the chest with a vicious kick, and then brought its axe down through the Gundam's rifle.
"My rifle!" Kira clenched his teeth and hurled the rifle's sparking remains at the ZAKU; only for another blast to hit him head-on as the ZAKU darted aside, bringing him face to face with a bazooka-toting GINN on a Guul. "There are still only three of you!"
The Divinity blasted up over its enemies, drawing a beam saber, and the three mobile suits followed with a storm of firepower. Kira seized his chance, diving to the right as the GINN fired again, and with a crash, he stormed forward and slashed the GINN's bazooka in two.
Undaunted, the GINN dropped its ruined bazooka and swatted the Divinity to the side with a heavy blow from its anti-armor sword.
The GINN and GuAIZ charged, the latter igniting a beam saber on its shield.
"Fuck this shit!" Kira roared as he fired a full-burst from his weapons, completely obliterating both machines with a single hellish volley.
"Do my bidding!" He yelled as his DRAGOON units shot off their wing monuts, each of the remote weapons leaving an army of brightly glowing afterimages in their wake.
The sky crackled with beam blasts as two Slash ZAKUs and a Blaze ZAKU struggled to shoot down the blinding Destiny Gundam. With a shriek of twisting metal, one of the Slash ZAKUs met its end on the blade of the Destiny's anti-ship sword, and Shinn whirled around to face the two survivors.
"I guess this is my fault too," he grunted, and rocketed upward to avoid the ZAKUs' return fire. "But like hell am I going to let you win!"
The Destiny danced effortlessly around the two ZAKUs' blasts, slamming its sword down onto the Blaze ZAKU and ripping both the mobile suit and its Guul unit in two. As the Blaze ZAKU exploded in a thundering fireball, Shinn charged through the flames and down towards the Slash ZAKU, and with a crash and a vanishing flame of life, he tore the last ZAKU in half.
Even as the ZAKU exploded, Shinn's senses screamed, and he whirled around with his beam shield active, only for a salvo of beams and bazooka shells to slam into it and drive him back.
Behind the smoke, he tensed at the sight of three gray DOM Troopers coming to a stop before him in combat formation.
"So," snarled a man's voice, "you guys thought you could get away with trying to eradicate humanity."
"You've had quite a run of it," added another man.
"But don't think you can escape us now!" finished a woman's voice.
Shinn's eyes darted between the three DOMs. "Well well," he muttered, "Team Razor. So you guys have turned against us as well."
The woman with the eye patch and red hair scowled back at him. "Only after Celestial Being decided to try to exterminate humanity, you son of a bitch."
One of the men sniffed in contempt. "Hilda, I don't want to hear another word from this bastard."
The woman smirked. "Understood. Herbert, Mars, let's kill him!"
The three DOMs rocketed apart and opened fire.
"We want to recreate humanity in our own image!" Shinn shrieked as the Destiny suddenly ignited its Wings of Light and surged forward, severing the heads of all three DOMs with a single beam saber slash, instantly disabling them. "We want a world of everlasting peace!"
"Lacus, Mayu." Murrue said, as she sat on the Excalibur's bridge. "Both of you proceed to the hanger and launch. Hope, Cagalli and I will join you shortly." Both women nodded and quickly moved towards the door.
"Hope." Murrue continued, seething in the captain's chair as her warship wheeled around to resume the battle. "Give the computer fire control. Set it to take whatever shots it can get. Cagalli," her eyes flashed furiously, "take us down into their midst and get us to point blank range, then switch to computer control."
"What?" Lacus and Mayu screamed in unison as they stopped at the door.
"We're playing a little game of Chicken," Murrue responded as she picked up the intercom. "Attention all hands; brace for collision."
The five women fixed their eyes on the Minerva for a few seconds before then proceeding towards the hanger.
The Divinity Gundam, with its angelic wings once more whole and brightly glowing, reeled under the punishing sword blow from a GOUF, and with a laugh, the enemy pilot somersaulted over the stunned Gundam. Yzak Joule raised the Duel Gundam's beam saber, but the GOUF swatted its arm wide with its shield.
Kira's blood froze in his veins as he watched the GOUF drive its sword through the Duel's cockpit.
"Yzak!"
The enemy pilot yanked his sword from the skewered mobile suit and regarded the smeared blood on its surface with glee. "And now, it's your turn!"
In the Divinity's cockpit, Kira stared in disbelief at the cloud of smoke and wreckage that had once been the Duel Gundam, that had once been Yzak Joule. Kira's eyes turned towards the GOUF's sword, dripping with blood.. His ears rang with the hysterical laughter of the enemy pilot.
But with a flash, his eyes saw only the purple-and-gold veined seed rapidly spinning within his mind before exploding as though it were the creation of the universe itself.
The GOUF roared forward, sword upraised for a finishing blow, but an instant later, the Divinity closed the distance between them with blinding speed and ripped the GOUF's entire right arm out of its socket with its left hand. As the GOUF shuddered under the blow, the Divinity stahed its saber and tore off the left arm, and then, with a crash, the Divinity seized the GOUF by the neck with its left hand and ripped off the GOUF's cockpit hatch with its right. Robinson stared in disbelief as his mobile suit's chest plate went sailing towards the sea, and an instant later, the whole mobile suit shook as the Divinity slammed its right hand over the open cockpit, and Robinson found himself staring down the barrel of the Divinity's right-hand palm cannon.
"Tell me," Kira's voice snarled through the broken machine's cockpit, through the enemy pilot's brain, as he found himself completely at his opponent's mercy. "Tell me what was so important that he had to die!"
The enemy pilot scowled in rage to hide his fear. "D-Don't think you can threaten me!"
"Tell me why you killed him!" Kira roared.
The palm cannon's opening began to glow, and the pilot's rage vanihed as he looked on in horror at the glowing light, and the growing heat. "You wouldn't," he started. "I'm...I'm defeated! Mercy! Mercy!"
"Mercy?" Kira screamed. "You want mercy?" The light grew brighter, the heat greater. "I'll show you mercy! I'll show you the mercy you showed him!"
The pilot shrieked in pain as the heat ignited the fabric of his flight suit, and flames sprang up over his legs, racing up his body. Writhing in agony with flames swirling upon him, he barely managed to look up through burning eyes at the Divinity's blazing palm.
"I'll show you your brand of mercy!" Kira snarled. "I'll show all of you!"
"HELP ME!" The pilot screamed, as the flames consumed him.
Inside the Divinity, Kira watched in fury as the smoke poured out of the GOUF's cockpit. At last, he ramped the palm cannon's intensity back up to its normal level, burning away the pilot and punching through the mobile suit's torso; and at last, he hurled the sparking mobile suit down at the Minerva, watching, seemingly without care, as the remains of the machine impacted on the rear deck of the warship, exploding into a massive fireball just behind the bridge.
He looked up with furious, dull eyes; a whole squadron of mobile suits was approaching from the air. They looked to be a mixture of Earth Alliance, ZAFT and Celestial Being models; they were clearly reinforcements.
"I'll show all of you," he growled, clenching his trembling fists around his Gundam's controls. "I'll show all of you exactly why I am known as both God and Satan!"