Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 31
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.
As the Divinity Gundam flew through the skies above Germany, effortlessly dodging flak and anti-aircraft fire, various parts on the angelic machine started to move and twist. The hands quickly slid out of the underside of the machine as the nose pivoted ninety degrees, before the machine's left arm grabbed it, then the machine grabbed the beam rifle on its right wing with its left hand, as the waist rotated one-hundred and eighty degrees, while at the same time, the plasma cannons retracted into the wings, finally the feet unfolded as the legs spread out.
Once again, Kira had outfitted his machine 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.
The Divinity Gundam's eyes flashed with a bright yellow light as the chest vents opened, venting excess heat away from the machine's auxillary nuclear reactor and shrouding the angelic Gundam in a thick cloud of steam.
The steam suddenly parted to reveal hundreds upon hundreds of mobile suits, which now surrounded the angelic form of the Divinity Gundam. The machines were highly similar in appearance to the old Earth Alliance Strike Daggers, but these machines bore a German swastica on the left shoulder and shield.
Kira simply smirked as ten of his DRAGOON units suddenly dropped from the Divinity's wings, ignited their engines and flew straight through a group of the mobile suits which now surrounded the angelic Gundam.
The angelic machine emerged from the smoke an intsant later, now wielding a twin buster rifle in each hand, an instant later, Kira began unleashing a hail of rapid-fire, full-power beam blasts. As the twin rifles continued to spew beam blasts, the Divinity's remaining DRAGOON units swung to the end of the machine's wings, and a field of rainbow colored energy spanned between each wing, as the Divinity's eyes turned purple, flashing.
Inside the cockpit, Kira's pupils seperated into a trio of close-knit mini-pupils, his opals turning multicolor at the edges, extending the spectrum of his vision. He drew a beam saber and flew straight through a swarm of mobile suits, slicing them all in half at the waist, his machine moving faster than any sensors could detect.
To an uninformed observer, it would have appeared as though the Divinity Gundam had teleported from the center of the massive swarm of mobile suits, only to reappear an instant later, now nearly two miles away from its previous location.
"Too easy." Kira smirked, as he casually turned his Gundam to face the enemy mobile suits, which were once more charging at him. The amethyst-eyed man simply sighed as he raised both of his buster rifles, the twin barrels of the massive weapons glowing with bright yellow light. An instant before Kira pulled the triggers, the Divinity Gundam, along with the warship Excalibur, vanished from the present timeline.
A bright white flash of light suddenly lit up the blackness inside the debris belt around Earth, as the warship Excalbur was once more flung into the Cosmic Era.
"Why are we back in the Cosmic Era?" Lacus asked as the Excalbur floated within the debris belt.
"Our jump drives are offline." Cagalli sighed. "So we may as well head to the nearest PLANT colony."
"The nearest PLANT is Armory One." The pink-hared beauty answered, before her blonde-haired lover could continue.
"Set a course for Armory One, then." Murrue sighed as the door hised open and Kira walked onto the bridge.
"Divinity, can you provide assistance?" The voice of Talia Gladys suddenly spoke from the Divinity's speakers, a few hours later.
'I'm already providing assistance, you stupid bitch!" Kira roared. "If you morons at ZAFT hadn't built these new machines, this shit wouldn't have even happened!'
"Chaos, Gaia, and Abyss are battery operated." Talia said, ignoring the blatent insults which were being spewed at her by the pilot of the Divinity Gundam. "Instead, they recharge."
Kira's eyes went wide. "These machines recharge on the battlefield? Fucking wonderful!"
The Divinity Gundam was suddenly between Destiny and Abyss, both beam sabers in hand. Kira caught the blade of the beam lance between his own saber blades, raised the lance above his head, and unfolded his rail guns. At the same moment, the Abyss aimed its quad ram cannons. Both suits fired an instant later, knocking each other backwards.
Shinn sighed in annoyance as the Chaos boosted towards him, a beam saber in either hand, and the bottom half of its beam claws activated. Shinn simply smirked as he blocked the beam sabers with his anti-ship sword. Chaos kicked out at Destiny's head, but Shinn ducked, intentionally dropping his sword as he drew his beam rifle, and fired at Chaos's head, at point-blank range. To Shinn's shock, Chaos blocked the beam blast with its shield. Shinn growled as he kicked the previously discarded anti-ship sword on the ground at Chaos, and he smirked when the sword hit Chaos's shoulder, sending the machine spinning to the ground.
Inside the harbor, a pair of Laurasia-class frigates moved down the launch tracks. Suddenly, a pair of Dagger Ls with recoiless rifles were at the end of the tracks. The captain stood up just in time for a round from one of the Daggers to vaporize his torso.
Talia felt the shudder from the harbor. "Another attack? Dammit!" The back door of the bridge opened, and in stepped Chairman Durandal. Meyrin looked and shouted in surprise.
Durandal looked around. "Give me a status report."
Talia hesitated for a moment. "The Destiny is engaged in combat with the Abyss, and Chaos and Gaia are firing at the colony wall."
Lunamaria jumped as her ZAKU shuddered, then started to slowly sink in the air. She cried out in surprise.
"I got you, Luna!" Mayu called, her pink Impulse Gundam carefully picking up Lunamaria's red ZAKU.
"Mayu!" Shinn shouted. "Get to the Minerva. I can handle this. That means you, too, Rey."
"Gotcha." Mayu said, carrying away Luna's ZAKU Warrior.
"I'm fine, Shinn, let's finish this." Rey said. "If they get out of here, that's it! We've got to stop them here!"
"Now there, we agree!" Shinn smiled.
"Stop this pointless fighting, you stupid fucks!" Kira screamed as all 36 of his DRAGOON units flew from their mounts, the remote weapons elegantly spiraling through the air as they began to indiscriminately fire at anything that moved. An instant later, Rey's ZAKU was sliced into five seperate pieces as a number of the Divinity's DRAGOON units pierced it, severing the machine's head, arms and legs.
"Whoa! Watch it, Kira!" Shinn cried out, as he was forced to dodge a pair of the Divinity's DRAGOON units.
Kira didn't reply, instead he reached behind his back, freeing both of the twin buster rifles from their reharge racks and aiming them at the three machines which were now relentlessly firing at the colony wall high above. An instant later, the Divinity Gundam began to glow with a blood red light, as a field of rainbow colored energy spanned between each wing and the machine's eyes turned purple, flashing.
Inside the cockpit, Kira's pupils seperated into a trio of close-knit mini-pupils, his opals turning multicolor at the edges, extending the spectrum of his vision.
An instant later, the Divinity Gundam fired a full-burst from its weapons. Everyone watched in awe as the three fleeing Gundams were instantly vaporized, but their awe quickly turned to horror as the searing beam blasts continued towards the colony wall. With a flash of exhaust, as the Divinity Gundam's own DRAGOON units quickly assembled themselves in front of the colony wall and projected a translucent blue beam shield, stopping the hailstorm of beam blasts less than two feet from the colony wall.
As the blasts from the Divinity Gundam slowly dissipated. the Infinite Justice, Savior and Akatsuki Gundams flew into the colony interior through the now destroyed harbor and on their way in, they fired a few sporadic beam blasts, obliterating the attacking Dagger mobile suits.
Kira dropped from the Divinity's cockpit to see Athrun, Lacus and Cagalli climbing from the cockpits of the Infinite Justice, Savior and Akatsuki, respectively.
"Thank god you're all okay." Kira said.
"You don't need to worry, Kira." Lacus smiled. "After all, you were the one who trained us."
"Right, only when Cagalli's around a mobile suit do I really have to worry." Athrun grinned.
"Oh, shut up." Cagalli mumbled as she and Lacus both moved towards Kira.
"Who the hell are you?" A woman's voice shouted. Kira looked to see Lunamaria Hawke, in a ZAFT redcoat uniform brandishing a machine pistol.
'So far, it seems that everyone believes our cover story.' Kira thought.
Kira mentally measured the distance and calculated how long it would take him to get to the gun, even though he already knew that would not be nesscery.
"Lower your weapons! This is Cagalli Yula Attha, the chief representative of the Orb Union." Kira called, motioning towards the blonde-haired woman.
Luna nodded slightly, slowly lowering the machine pistol, and as she did, Kira glanced out of the corner of his left eye, noticing Mayu Asuka as she decended to the floor from the cockpit of the Impulse Gundam.