Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 35
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, in its mobile armor attack mode, grabbed the Master Gundam in its claws. Kira smirked as he squeezed the mobile suit, crushing its body.
"Oops…I broke this one!" Kira said, laughing. "Someone bring me another one!" A pair of Devil Gundam mass production mobile suits fired at him. "You'll do!"
He fired his Scylla cannon, and the beam pierced one of the tan mobile suits as the other tried to dodge the blast, but was unprepared for the curving nature of the beam and was hit too.
"Ha! This is too easy!" Kira laughed as he transformed the Divinity back into its mobile suit mode. "I'm starting to wonder if this so-called 'Devil Gundam' really exists, or if it's nothing more than a myth or rumor."
As if on cue, the ground began to violently rumble before splitting a moment later to reveal the massive form of the Devil Gundam.
"So, this is what everyone in this universe is so afraid of?" Kira scoffed. "I'll grant that it is a very ugly and pathetic machine. However, it is quite obviously rooted to the ground." The amethyst-eyed man smirked as he continued. "And even if it does somehow manage to hit me, which I doubt will happen, my armor will either block the shots or reflect them."
Kira watched with mild amusement as the machine below him opened fire. The amethyst-eyed man chuckled within the Divinity's cockpit as he effortlessly dodged the searing beam blasts, leaving them to slam harmlessly into the Excalibur's positron reflector shields.
"Excalibur." Kira called, even as he continued to effortlessly dodge the continous hail of beam blasts. "Hit that shitty thing with the EMP cannons. We are going to disable and capture it!" A few seconds later, the Devil Gundam suddenly lost all power, having been hit with 1,250 electro-magnetic pulses simultaniously.
Five days had passed without any combat, and from where he currently stood, more than a mile from ground level, on the Excalibur's sundeck, Kira Yamato could see for dozens of miles. The entire valley was spread out beneath and around him, the only things limiting his vision being the sheer bulk of the mountains bordering the valley which the Excalibur was now hovering above.
After a few moments of silence, Cagalli walked out onto the sundeck. The blonde smiled slightly as she walked up behind Kira, gently wrapping her arms around him and sighing. "You know, we've deteced a large, uninhabited island in the South Pacific."
"Let me guess, Cagalli." The amethyst-eyed man smiled. "You want us to go there and re-establish the Orb Union in this timeline."
"Mmhmm." Cagalli quietly answered.
"No, not in this timeline." Kira replied, causing tears to well up in Cagalli's beautiful, golden eyes. "I'm sorry, Cagalli, but this timeline is much too violent. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Gundam Pilots in this universe are far too pig-headed and stupid to understand what it means to have a world without war."
"There's always the option of going back to the Cosmic Era." The voice of Lacus Clyne said as the pink-haired beauty walked out onto the sundeck.
"That's true." Cagalli agreed.
The conversation was cut short, however, when alarms began to blare and an automated message boomed from the intercom system, "All hands, level one battlestations! Unknown mobile suits and ships approaching!"
Inside the Divinity Gundam, Kira snapped his eyes to the right and immediately hurled his mobile suit backward, dodging a huge pulsing beam from the ocean's surface. There was a ship down there, a lone battleship flinging machine gun rounds and beam fire into the sky, under the escort of four Nobusshi mobile suits.
On the ship's bridge, the captain of the Veracruz leapt out of his seat and pointed furiously at the angelic Gundam and its shimmering wings of light. Since it had arrived, that thing had taken out hundreds of mobile suits, not to mention two Gundam Fighters, but perhaps with enough firepower... "Shoot that thing down! All missiles, fire!"
The world shook as the Veracruz fired its entire complement of missiles towards the Divinity. Kira narrowed his eyes at the projectiles as they came closer, and a white flash split the air, and the captain of the Veracruz could only stare in disbelief as the Divinity swung its left arm skyward and the missiles arced up towards the sun.
"There's no way he could have done that!" He screamed. "That was thirty-two missiles! How could they have all failed at once?" The Divinity's eyes flashed and the Gundam charged. The captain backed away in horror. "The Nobusshis! Get David's team here!"
With a burst of exhaust, the four Nobusshis put themselves between the Veracruz and the Divinity, letting loose a withering salvo of firepower. Kira ground his teeth and snarled at them.
"Are you not afraid enough?" He growled, and with a crash, he rammed his saber through the cockpit of the first one; the second one lined itself up for a beam cannon blast, only for the Divinity to hurl its broken comrade at it and let them both die in a fiery explosion; the third darted away from the blast, only to be chopped in two by the Divinity's beam saber. The last one leveled off both its guns and opened fire, only for the Divinity to effortlessly swat aside the beams and plow its saber through the Nobusshi's chest.
Down below, the Veracruz's captain gasped as the Divinity blasted out of the smoke and kept coming.
"SHOOT THAT THING DOWN!"
Kira glowered down at the desperate warship, the horror from its bridge washing over him. "Well?" One of the ship's beams came streaking towards him, only for the Divinity to bat aside the blast with its beam saber. "Don't you guys fear me?"
The Divinity shook as it ducked aside from another cannon blast, and Kira's eyes flashed in fury as he saw his opportunity.
"Then I'll make you fear me!"
With a scream of thrusters and twisting metal, the Divinity somersaulted over the next salvo and came smashing down onto the Veracruz's deck, stabbing cleanly through its beam cannon and ripping it off in a cloud of fire. The black Gundam paused for an instant to glower into the ship's bridge, before rocketing off the wounded ship's deck, just as the ship's own missiles came pounding back onto the Veracruz from above, and the vessel disappeared beneath a thunderous explosion.
In the sky, with the Divinity's beam wings shining in the sun, Kira watched as the lives on the Veracruz vanished, and turned his eyes towards his next target.
"This is what your interpretation of mercy looks like!" The Divinity Gundam itself screamed as it once again ignited its thrusters and flew off. After a few seconds of silence, the Excalibur flew omniously overhead, before dropping a pair of antimatter bombs, the weapons completely obliterating any remaining machines and killing any survivors.
"Akatsuki, Chimera, Destiny, Impulse, Strike Freedom, please proceed to the catapult." The computer's voice spoke through the hanger bay, and the five machines quickly proceeded to their desiginated launch catapults and locked themselves into launch position. "Buster, Eclipse, Infinite Justice, Twilight, 00-Riser, please standby."
Shinn Asuka smirked within the cockpit of the GN-000DE Eclipse Gundam, which had been previously known as the GN-000D Destiny Gundam. "I have to agree with Kira's choice of actions this time." Shinn said. "These people think that they can prevent wars by fighting."
"I agree as well." Lunamaria Hawke replied from within the cockpit of the ZGMF-X42T Twilight Gundam. "It's as Lacus has said; fighting only breeds more fighting."
"After we either end the fighting, or if worse comes to worst; destroy this instance of humanity." Luna hesitated for a few seconds before continuing. "You and I will get married."
Shinn nodded as he replied. "Personally, I would rather not have to destroy humanity on my wedding day."
"Well then, Shinn." Luna smiled. "Think of that as motivation for helping to eliminate war."
Just as Luna had finished speaking, the Excalibur shuddered slightly as the Akatsuki, Destiny, Impulse, Infinite Justice and Strike Freedom Gundams were all launched simultaneously.
"Cagalli Yula Athha, Akatsuki. Taking off!"
"Lacus Clyne, Chimera. Taking off!"
"Hope Yamato, Destiny. Launching!"
"Mayu Asuka, Impulse. Heading out!"
"Murrue Ramius, Strike Freedom. Heading out!"
As the five machines moved into formation around the Divinity Gundam, the computer spoke again. "Buster, Eclipse, Infinite Justice, Twilight, 00-Riser, please proceed to the catapult." The five Gundams remaining in the hanger quickly proceeded to their desiginated launch catapults and locked themselves into launch position.
"Lunamaria Hawke, Twilight. Taking off!"
"Shinn Asuka, Eclipse. Launching!"
"Athrun Zala, Infinite Justice. Heading out!"
"Dearka Elsman, Buster. Taking off!"
"Setsuna F. Seiei, 00-Riser. Heading out!"
As the Buster, Eclipse, Infinite Justice, Twilight and 00-Riser quickly moved into formation, directly behind the Divinity's own formation, the other Gundams and mobile suits quickly launched from the Excalibur.
As the other machines formed up, the Akatsuki, Impulse, Chimera and Strike Freedom all glanced towards the Divinity. They weren't sure why, but Kira's lovers could all sense something eminating from him which they had never felt before; pure hatred.