Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 26
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.
"So what's your plan then?" Kira asked flatly, his arms folded across his chest as he glared at the communications screen on the table in front of him. He was hardly able to believe this was his own twin sister, or rather her past-self, known as Faith Yamato.
"You're not going to like it." Faith replied, almost hesitantly.
"How is that any different from how I feel right now?" Kira countered. "I'd at least like to know what my fate is going to be, even if I don't have any say in the matter."
"You'll be taken into custody at an asylum for the insane." Faith winced as she saw the blank look cross his face. "It's a temporary measure. While you are there, the experts will do a full evaluation on your mental state. It may take a few weeks, maybe a few months, but at the end there should be no doubt as to whether you are sane or insane. Meanwhile, the military and police investigators will be going over every battlefield and piece of evidence with a fine toothed comb. They are already saying that there's some contradictory evidence. I'm asking for you to give us time to build a case for your innocence, because right now there's simply no way that the court will rule you as being either guilty or insane."
"And what if these experts conclude that I am not mentally sound?" Kira scoffed, his voice slowly rising in volume as he continued. "Perhaps, because I am angry after the attempted murder of my family as well as unjust persecution from the rest of humanity, not to mention the recent loss of my more holy powers, I'm just not inclined to being the polite and gentle man I usually am? How will they differentiate between the true insanity of a man pushed over the edge, and the obsessive determination of a man who has, on countless ocassions, nearly lost his family to senseless and violent means, and knows for a fact that he is the only one who could possibly deliver justice for those deeds because of an unbelievably corrupt and barbaric legal system that has turned against him at every step?"
"It's the best that can be done." Faith sighed, she could sense Kira's anger slowly, yet steadily rising.
"The best that can be done?" Kira echoed. "That's complete bullshit and we both know it! None of these pathetic countries can even hope to reverse-engineer, much less utilize any of our technology."
"Yes, Celestial Being's technology is millenia ahead of the technology utilized in this universe." Faith sighed. "However, we could also use our superior technology as a 'bargaining chip' when we plead for your freedom."
"You want to give these barbarians Celestial Being's technology?" The amethyst-eyed man yelled. "Have you forgotten that Cagalli, Hope, Lacus, Mayu and Murrue have all been raped repeatedly while the six of us have been stuck in this place?"
"Yes, Kira." Faith sighed, as she began to rapidly type on the keyboard in front of her, quickly disabling the monitoring software as well as the audio pickups hidden within the two rooms. "That is exactly why I have planted a special virus inside the computer system monitoring this building. This virus makes copies of all audio and video recorded within this building." Faith allowed a slight smile to cross her lips as she continued. "The virus then sends the copies of the audio and video to my own computer, all without leaving any trace of itself. In addition, I am able to edit the audio and video as I see fit and send it back here, completely overwriting the old files. And after the edited files are uploaded, there is no way to delete them."
"Wait, won't they become suspicious when they find that they suddenly can't delete their own files?" Kira asked.
"Nope." Faith grinned. "After the edited files are uploaded, they are encrypted in such a way that they will appear to be deleated, while in reality the files are still there." The blonde-haired woman paused for a moment before continuinng. "I'm going to re-enable their shitty security system now, Kira, so act normal." Kira nodded as Faith typed a few commands, once more enabling the security system.
"Giving them some of our technology might be the only way to save you and the others from hundreds or even thousands of years of solitary confinment, rape and torture." Faith said, looking away from the screen for a few seconds. "I don't want to do it anymore than you do, but it may be our only option."
"Fine." Kira reluctantly agreed. "I suppose that it would be better to give them some of our non-combat technologies than to continue staying locked up in here, being tortured and raped day after day." He paused for a moment. "But, if we give them any of our technologies, I want them to return the Excalibur, along with all of its mobile weapons, to us."
"I'll see what I can do, Kira." Faith sighed. "Unfortunately, I can't promise anything."
'If I still had my more divine powers, this mockery of a trial wouldn't even be taking place.' Kira thought to himself as he stood in the testimony box.
"Let me ask you something, your honor." Kira said, the judge nodded, silently telling him to continue. "What would you do if the time comes for you to fight a devastating war against the ones you love? Would you kill because of anger, or get killed because of love? Would you protect someone you love by killing the loved ones of others?" Kira paused for a moment before continuing. "Unlike a vast majority of other pilots, I don't normally try to kill my enemies; I simply disable their mobile suits by targeting the weapons or main camera. Once their weapons or main cameras are gone, I allow them to flee."
"That is a valid point." The judge replied. "Records do indicate that in 99% of your battles, you have only disabled your opponents. However, that is not why you are presently here. You are here because you have been convicted of conspiracy to commit omnicide, as well as attempted omnicide. Also, just for the record, what do you target on aircraft?"
"I don't really see how that even matters." Kira sighed. "But on aircraft, I target the engines, leaving the cockpit and control surfaces completely intact."
'This is a waste of our time, not to mention complete bullshit and we both know it.' Kira thought, directing the thought towards Faith, with their recently reacquired telepathy, as the blonde sat across from him. She was wearing a black business suit and her ankle-length blonde hair, which she normally allowed to hang freely, was currently tied into an intricate bun at the back of her head, so that it wouldn't get in her way.
'I won't deny that it is a waste of our time.' Faith replied, also utilizing her telepathy. 'But you did go a little overboard in the last battle.'
Faith could see that her lover was quickly becoming very agitated.
"Your lawyer, Faith Yamato, who also happens to be your sister." The judge said, scowling at Faith. "Claims that you seemed to be mentally unstable at the time of the last battle. Knowing that, I wonder why you were even allowed to pilot."
"Celestial Being's command structure is vastly diffrent and much more complex when compared to the command structure of the United States military forces." Kira sighed. "No offence meant, but in all honesty, even if I did try to explain it, I'm not sure anyone in this room, with the exception of other members of Celestial Being, would understand it."
"Please," The judge smiled. "Enlighten us."
"Trust me," Kira chuckled. "You don't want me to do that. I have been alive for over 2,000 years, and some of the things which I have seen and experienced would easily drive normal humans completely insane."
The judge considered Kira's words for a moment, but then he allowed a slight smile to tug at his lips as he replied. "Well, Mr. Yamato, I'll make you a deal then."
"What kind of deal?" Kira asked.
"You enlighten us." He replied, as he began to write up an official pardon, before then handing it to Kira. "If we should happen to go insane, the charges which have been placed against you and every other memeber of Celestial Being will be dropped. Your friends will be released from custody and you will also get all of your machines back."
Kira looked at the sheet of paper for a moment, carefully scrutinizing it, looking for any possible loophole, and after finding none, he slowly nodded. After releasing a relaxing, centering sigh, the amethyst-eyed man began to concontrate on his memories and on sharing those memories with everyone in the courtroom.
An instant later, everyone in the courtroom saw things which they had never seen, most of which they had never even imagined were possible: the gamma-ray laser Requiem, which had been constructed on the Moon, Kira's now, long since destroyed Freedom Gundam streaking through the blackness of space towards two huge fleets, while weilding a pair of massive twin barreled rifles, the massive form of the warship Excalibur as it hung in orbit above the Earth, even as the Second World War raged on the surface and in the atmosphere, the capturing of the Divinity Gundam after its rampage, finally the visions ended with the confinment and subsequent torture of Kira and his lovers.
"Shall I take a look?" Murrue offered as she stuck her head into the cockpit of the Divinity Gundam, where Kira now sat. The marigold-eyed woman couldn't help but smile at the blank look that her offer earned her. "How many days have you been staring at that? My eyes are fresh. Besides, before I was pushed into the captain's seat, I was a fairly competent technician."
"I've been trying to get my Gundam back to my custom settings for nearly a week now." Kira sighed, his brows lifting, as a dubious look, one which should have been a little insulting, but which Murrue found endearing instead for no reason she could think of, except for the simple fact that it was Kira. "Which one of us was assigned to the G-weapon project back on Heliopolis?" She pressed, before he could do more than open his mouth. "You or me?"
He closed his mouth again and sat still for a long, quiet interval, before finally settling back into his seat with an audible exhalation of breath. "Go right ahead." He finally answered, voice heavy and disgruntled. Murrue nodded, pulling herself farther into the cockpit and sitting in the seldom used co-pilot's seat.
"Wow..." Murrue muttered, as she quickly scanned the now all but destroyed OS of the Divinity Gundam. "They really went all out in trying to hack into the Divinity's computer."
"No, really?" Kira answered sarcastically, earning him a stern glare.
"If the Zero System hadn't stopped their hacking attempts where it did, I'd be surprised if you would even be able to make your machine walk." Murrue sighed, her fingers flying over the keyboard, just as fast as Kira's own, as she began to manually scan the Gundam's computer system.
"What is this, Kira?" Murrue asked a moment later, pointing to a directory with the label of 'Music'.
"What's wrong with wanting to drown out the sounds of battle with some music?" He asked, with an innocent smile on his face. Murrue simply shook her head and sighed as she continued to scan the OS of her lover's Gundam.
Suddenly, the Divinity Gundam's eyes flashed with a bright yellow light and the cockpit hatch closed, as the machine unexpectedly came to life, the cockpit instantly filling with a blood red light.
"What the hell did you do?" Kira yelled.
"I didn't do anything!" Murrue replied as the machine began to move towards the catapult.
"Divinity, you do not have launch clearance! Abort launch!" Lacus yelled through the communications line, locking the catapult in place just before the Divinity Gundam reached it.
"We're trying to stop it from launching!" Kira and Murrue replied in unison from the cockpit, as they frantically tried to shut down the Divinity Gundam.
Seeing that as the catapult was now useless, the machine raised its beam rifle and fired at the still closed hanger doors, the searing beam blast vaporizing the metal, opening the hanger to the void of space.
The Divinity Gundam then ignited its thrusters and blasted out of the hanger. As soon as the machine was clear of the Excalibur, it transformed into its mobile armor mode and sped away. The Divinity Gundam's initial acceleration was so extreme and so sudden, that it rendered Kira and Murrue unconscious.
Everyone watched in shock as the Divinity Gundam suddenly appeared in the skies over Washington D.C., the angelic machine hovering high above the White House.
An instant later, a sudden rush of terror engulfed the entire city. Fear was everywhere, like a dark, blood drenched fog that had sprung up from nowhere, and no one was safe from its touch.
The Divinity Gundam was finally utilizing the one weapon which Kira had installed, but never armed; the Mind Crusher. As the name suggested, it was a psychic weapon of mass destruction, and it was only a matter of time before it spelled doom for every living thing in the city.
Minds snapped, flesh tore, gore spurted, breath froze in lungs, clothing was soaked with bodily waste as the terror reached self destructive, even suicidal heights. Many of the police officers and military personnel throughout the city quickly took out their sidearms, choosing the peace of a bullet through the brain rather than suffering an instant more of the uncontrollable, unexplained fear, while the unarmed civilians battered their skulls open against whatever was close to them, trying to bash the sudden, inexplicable terror out of their minds. Even those who achieved unconsciousness continued screaming, even as they fell into nightmares and were quickly devoured by the monsters of their own subconscious minds.
The sudden stench of regurgitated food filled the confines of the Divinity Gundam's cockpit as Kira sucked in deep, hoarse, grateful breathes of the hot, tinned oxygen of his cockpit, which still tasted pure and sweet to him after coming back to his senses. Kira gagged and spat globs of spittle and blood several times, before his tongue finally regenerated where his teeth had gashed it repeatedly and deeply during the mental attack he'd just suffered at the hands of his own Gundam.
Nearly five minutes had passed since his machine had arrived over Washington D.C. and began the horrible mental attack. Glancing to his left, Kira saw that Murrue was still unconscious, but he wasn't able to think about that, as dozens of anti-aircraft guns and flak cannons opened fire on him.
"Damn! They must think that I did this!" Kira growled, as he transformed his machine into its mobile armor mode, wildly dodging the hail of weapons fire, although he had no intention of shooting back.
"This is Kira Yamato, pilot of the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam and leader of Celesital Being!" He yelled through the open-channel, all-frequency communications line. "All United States Armed Forces, please cease-fire!" The only reply he received was one which surprised him; a missile warning.
Kira didn't block the incoming missiles. Instead, he transformed his machine back to its mobile suit mode and sidestepped them, often by margins of less than a foot, using delicate taps on his manuevering thrusters to shift the Divinity at the last possible second. For some mobile suit pilots, such dodges might have been a sign of desperation, but for Kira, they were just a sign of irritated boredom.
"Stop this shit!" Kira roared as he freed a pair of beam sabers from his machine's shoulders. Taking the weapons in each hand, he ignited the bright pink blades and slammed them through the exhaust nozzles of a pair of passing F-86 Sabers, leaving the control surfaces and cockpit of both fighters completely untouched.
"Divinity Gundam, this is the Washington-Dulles International Airport, land immediately!" A voice yelled over the open communications channel.
"How do you expect me to land while your pilots are still trying to shoot me down?" Kira roared as he activated his electronic countermeasures, jamming all of the electronics on the pair of Messerschmit Me-262 jet fighters which were now pursuing him, although on Kira's radar and monitors, the two German fighters appeared to be American fighters, specifically a pair of F-117 Nighthawks.
"Those aren't ours!" The tower operator yelled. "Those are German fighters! All anti-air defenses, shoot down those German fighters!"
Almost instantly, dozens of anti-aircraft guns and flak cannons, most of which were located on the roofs of high-rise office buildings, roared to life, filling the sky with a thick blanket of deadly anti-aircraft fire. Kira smirked as his Gundam effortlessly weaved through the maelstrom of weapons fire, knowing that neither the flak shells, nor the anti-aircraft rounds would be able to damage his machine.
"Nazi asswipes!" Kira roared as he let his DRAGOON units fly, quickly swarming the remote weapons around the pursuing German fighters and surrounding them with a glowing pink beam shield. "Attention, German aircraft." Kira growled, even as he transformed the Divinity Gundam back into its mobile suit mode and effortlessly sidestepped the speeding fighter aircraft. "You will surrender and land your aircraft at Washington-Dulles International Airport immediately!"
"And if we fail to comply?" One of the German pilots responded.
"If you fail to comply." Kira answered, pulling the Divinity Gundam up alongside the enemy fighters before then igniting his beam claws and flexing his fingers. "I'll crush your aircraft like the tin cans they are!"
The two German pilots were quick to comply with the order, landing their aircraft at the airport and not even bothering to put up a fight as they were taken into custody.