Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 27

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.

Shinn Asuka silently watched from one of the Excalibur's internal observation decks as the dagger-shaped warship slowly slid into the custom built dock at the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. Technically this place was supposed to be home, but all the guards everywhere and the atmosphere of tension and anger assaulting his senses put the lie to that sentiment almost as soon as the gates clanged shut.

He would not disembark. Most of Celestial Being's members were not exactly trusted here anyway; why tempt fate? He glanced up as the door slid open and Lunamaria Hawke stepped onto the deck.

"There you are," she said with a start. "I was going to get off. Do you wanna come with me?"

Shinn cracked a smirk. "That probably wouldn't be wise. I got jumped right off the boat last time. You should probably stay here too."

Luna glanced around the deck, and Shinn's smirk faded as he picked up a feeling of tight anxiety from his fellow pilot, whom he had only recently proposed to. "If I stay here any longer I'll go crazy," she said. "I'll be okay. Nobody recognizes me by sight and I can just pass myself off as a random soldier or something."

"If you say so," answered Shinn with an eyebrow raised skeptically, despite a reassuring smile. "Be careful. I love you."

"I will, and I love you too, Shinn." Luna replied as she wrapped her arms around Shinn, pulling him into a deep and loving kiss. After reluctantly breaking the kiss nearly ten seconds later, she left, leaving Shinn to his own thoughts.

With a sigh curling from his lips, Athrun Zala slumped down into a chair in the Excalibur's rather spacious and luxurious crew lounge and stared down ruefully at his cup of lousy instant coffee. He could cook, but he had never inherited Andy's masterful touch. Instead, since Andy had been busy with pilot training, fate had replaced the Desert Tiger's ingenious concoctions with mere Folgers crystals, and Athrun could most certainly tell the difference.

"Goddammit," Asuka Langley Soryu's voice groaned over his shoulder, and he shot a surprised look up at her as she stared back down at him, hands on her hips. "I go looking for someone who isn't all mopey today and I find you staring angrily at your coffee."

"Sorry." He swirled the contents of the Styrofoam cup for a moment, before abruptly changing the subject. "So, how is Misato doing?"

"She'll live." The red-headed pilot replied. "But, she may not be fit to pilot anytime soon."

"That's not a surprise." Athrun nodded as the memory of the last battle flashed through his mind.

-FLASHBACK-

"Misato Katsuragi, you have brought dishonor onto Celestial Being!" Kira growled from the cockpit of the Divinity Gundam. "And for that, you deserve 10,000 deaths!" With a blinding flash, the Divinity's Wings of Light flared into existence. Before Misato could react, Kira had already severed both of her machine's arms and legs, before finally kicking the now bleeding Evangelion Unit into the Excalibur's open hanger bay.

As the disabled Evangelion Unit lay motionless in the hanger bay, Misato screamed and cried in pain. Unlike the Gundam pilots, the Eva pilots actually felt pain when their Eva took damage, the severity of the pain corrosponding with the amount and severity of the damage that the Eva took.

-END FLASHBACK-

"Yea." Athrun sighed. "I heard that after the entry plug had been ejected, it was discovered that Misato's arms and legs had actually been severed from her body."

"For the pilot's body to actually sustain the same injuries as the Eva itself," Asuka replied. "Requires an extraordinarily high synchronization ratio."

A week later, in the Excalibur's massive main conference room, the leaders of each country had been assembled, and now, Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne stood at the head of the table, flanked by their bodyguards; Edward Cullen and Isabella Swan, respectively. Kira and Lacus were carefully scrutinizing the minds and memories of the assembled world leaders.

Finally, Lacus spoke. "As most of you are already aware; Celestial Being is a private armed organization with a single purpose; to eradicate any and all warfare from the world."

"That's preposterous!" Adolf Hitler yelled as he rose to his feet. Against all odds, the German leader had somehow survived the destruction of the second battleship Bismarck.

"Shut up, you Nazi cunt!" Kira roared as he raised a scaled-down version of the Divinity Gundam's twin buster rifle at the German leader. "You do not have permission to speak unless you are spoken to!" The amethyst-eyed man growled as the twin barrels of the weapon began to glow with a golden light. "Is that understood?"

Hitler nodded slightly as he once more took his seat.

Lacus glared heatedly at the German leader before her expression once again softened and she continued. "As I was saying, Celestial Being is a private armed organization with a single purpose; to eradicate any and all warfare from the world. As such, we demand that all countries hand over any and all weapons, both lethal and non-lethal, to us. This includes prototype weapons, weapon blueprints, incomplete weapons, antique weapons and even ancient historical weapons. If any country decides to defy us, and not fulfill these conditions within the next month, we will intervene with all of our military power." Lacus paused for a moment to let her words sink in, but then a sweet, reassuring smile crossed her lips as she finished. "All countries which agree to these terms will come under our eternal protection and their militaries will be integrated into those of Celestial Being."

"In addition," Kira smiled. "Once your military forces have been fully integrated into our own, your citizens will be able to enjoy all of our luxuries, and after every country has agreed to our terms, there will be no hunger, space-travel will become routine, almost anything you could possibly want will be avilable to you, and best of all; we will have an ever-lasting peace!"

As the conference slowly progressed, down in the hanger, the Divinty Gundam's standard anti-ship sword was being replaced by the pinnacle of melee weapon technology; the beam-edged Quantum Crystal Anti-Ship Sword.

Unlike a standard anti-ship sword, the QC anti-ship sword was made from a solid edged piece of Quantum Crystal.

Quantum Crystal was a recently discovered material, which was aligned in a regular crytsalline pattern not only on the molecular level like a gemstone, but on the atomic and subatomic levels as well, making it practically unbreakable, and extremely durable. Only two things would even have a chance at reliably damaging Quantum Crystal; anti-matter or other Quantum Crystal weapons.

The new Quantum Crystal Anti-Ship Sword was basically indestructible by physical shock or heat damage, and was even capable of cutting through any known form of armor like it wasn't even there, since it sliced apart individual atomic particles. A nuclear bomb was considered to be blunt when compared to the Divinity's new anti-ship sword.

As if the QC anti-ship sword wasn't enough, the Divinity was also being equipped with a new DRAGOON System, known as Fractal Wings. This system consisted of thirty-six seperate feather pods, eighteen per wing, each capable of manifesting either a Beam shield or a Geschmeidig Panzer energy deflection shield, while also being capable of firing either Beam or Temproal Inversion blasts, allowing the pilot to defend himself while not having to halt his own attacks.

In addition to the QC anti-ship sword and the new DRAGOON system, the Divinity Gundam was once again being outfitted 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.