Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 51
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.
"No way!" Kira yelled in shock, as the Fury Gundam suddenly lunged forward and sliced two of his DRAGOON units in half with its beam swords. "You dare to damage the Divinity Gundam!" The amethyst-eyed man shrieked, as he assembeled the DRAGOON units around himself, the remote weapons surrounding the angelic machine with a glowing energy shield, even as Kira opened fire with his beam machine cannons, CIWS guns and eye-mounted cross flare cannons. Kira smirked slightly as the Fury Gundam vanished within a three-mile high, pure white cross of energy, seemingly destroyed.
Suddenly a green energy bolt seared by the Divinity's right wing, and Kira turned to find the Freedom once again bearing down on him, its head, arms and legs somehow restored. Unknown to Kira, the Fury Gundam had survived the blasts from the Divinity's cross flares, and was once again speeding towards the Chimera Gundam.
"This is Kira Yamato, in the Divinity Gundam, addressing the pilot of the Freedom." Kira's voice crackled over the international channel, as his DRAGOON units once again surrounded his machine with a glowing beam shield.
"This is Captain Asmodeus Sark, of Earth Alliance, in the Purity Gundam. I hear you, Kira Yamato. Or should I say, Kira Hibiki?" Asmodeus replied in a weary voice.
Kira was momentarily flatfooted. How did this man know his birth name? But then he remembered. This man was the intelligence director for Lord Djibril, the man who currently led Blue Cosmos. It was little wonder that Blue Cosmos would have a file on him.
"Excuse me, what machine did you say you were in?" Kira asked, scowling. Asmodeus chuckled grimly.
"This isn't the Freedom. The Freedom was built by the space monsters...your people. The Purity Gundam, which you see before you, was constructed by my people...Blue Cosmos. It may look like the Freedom and indeed was constructed to be identical to that loathsome machine, but the Purity is a sanctified machine, meant to destroy the PLANTs." Asmodeus replied, laying on the Blue Cosmos dogma heavily, hoping to have his enemies dismiss him as a witless Blue Cosmos thug.
"Your troops have been defeated. You are alone and you are obviously not skilled enough to be a challenge to my friends and me. Will you surrender peacefully, or will I have to kill you?" Kira asked, ignoring the rhetoric as a delaying tactic.
"Ah, but not all of my troops are gone. You have yet to defeat my champion." Asmodeus countered, calling up the data link from the Fury. To his disappointment, the Fury was currently deadlocked, in a clinch against the pink-colored Freedom upgrade. There seemed to be no evidence of destroyed foes about, so Hibiki must not have killed any yet, which seemed mildly unlikely.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Kira asked, now struggling to hold back his steadily rising anger. He was answered seconds later, not by Asmodeus, but by a scream of terror from Lacus, which was quickly followed by a massive explosion.
"LACUS!" Cagalli shrieked as the Akatsuki blazed towards the still intact Fury Gundam and unleashed its DRAGOON units, the golden weapons elegently sprialing through the air, afterimages trailing in their wake, as they fired temporal inversion blasts at anything that the computer saw as an enemy.
"What's thi-" Hibiki began, even as he frantically dodged, only to be cut off a few short seconds later, as four of the Akatsuki's DRAGOON units fired on him, forcing the Fury Gundam, along with its pilot, out of the timeline.
"This guy never gives up!" Athrun complained, a few short minutes later, as he and Kira tag-teamed the Purity Gundam. "He's lost his right hand and left leg and he acts like it never happened. What do we need to do to get rid of him?"
"This." Kira replied, moving directly in front of the enemy machine and opening his arms wide. A halo abruptly appeared above his machine's head and the thrusters on its back flickered rapidly on and off. A wave of air seemed to spread out from the front of the Divinity. Asmodeus only realized he was being attacked when lightning suddenly coursed across the control screens, blowing them out in sleets of glass splinters. His remaining thrusters died and his cameras went to pure static. He couldn't see it, but his beam sword winked out like a snuffed candle. Unpowered, the Purity dropped out of the air like the stone it had suddenly become. The impact with the ground below snapped off the damaged right leg like a twig and the Purity began the long and painful roll to the bottom of the mountain. Kira drew a bead on it with his twin buster rifle after the halo had vanished.
'Good riddance, you mindless moron.' Kira thought, only a little ashamed at the execution he was about to deliver. However, fate intervened once again, though Kira wished it wouldn't have.
A beam glanced off his back, the energy reflected by his MCPS armor, but the impact was enough to throw his aim off at the last instant. Instead of blowing the Purity Gundam and its pilot into tiny fragments, the beams blew a large crater in the side of the mountain and hurled the disabled enemy machine further and faster down the mountain slope. "What the fucking hell?" Kira snarled, before his screens made sense. Athrun, Dearka and Cagalli were conducting a fighting withdrawal, as what looked like scores of Strike Daggers and tanks assaulted them from the front. Jet aircraft filled the sky around him, firing machine guns and launching missiles at him and Athrun. More Strike Daggers were flying not far off, blasting away in his direction enthusiastically with their beam rifles. They were being overwhelmed. He had been so concentrated on Asmodeus that he had failed to notice the enemy reinforcements.
"We need to retreat!" Miriallia radioed. "We can't stand against these numbers! They just keep coming! We're all running low on ammunition."
"She's right. We need to get out of here." Athrun replied, as the Infinite Justice landed on its subflight lifter, even as the Excalibur dropped the shroud of its Phase Cloak, the huge dagger-shaped vessel seemingly appearing out of thin air, hovering in the sky only a few miles behind the Celestial Being mobile suits. "I'll go help Dearka. You cover the others while they retreat. We'll have to finish him another time."
"You're right. See you on the Excalibur." Kira replied, before turning his attention to the foes near him.
"Kill them!" Asmodeus screamed.
"You wish." Kira answered, his voice now lacking all emotion as he brought both of his twin buster rifles to bear as his plasma cannons and rail guns clicked into their firing positions.
Ten of the Divinity's DRAGOON units suddenly dropped from the angelic machine's wings and flew through the mobile suits closest to the Divinity, which emerged from the smoke moments later, both of its twin buster rifles unleashing a hail of rapid-fire, full-power beam blasts. The Divinity's remaining DRAGOON units swung to the end of its 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 turned multicolor at the edges, extending the spectrum of Kira's vision. He ignited the beam saber on the Divinity's left wrist and flew straight through the still approaching mobile suits, moving faster than even the Excalibur's computer could detect.
Even before the explosions had faded, the Divinity had deactivated the beam saber and brought both of its twin buster rifles to bear, their muzzles sparking electricity. The angelic machine's rail guns folded up, charging energy, even as a rainbow-colored beam field surrounded Divinity, shielding it from all incoming fire.
"Divinity Gundam, now firing!" Both of the Divinity's charged buster rifles fired a massive beam larger than a Tanhauser cannon straight into the formation of mobile suits. The Divinity was the only mobile suit that wasn't pushed back by the blast, its wings of light flaring as the shockwave hit it, finally the wings closed into their normal configuration. Even as the DRAGOON units once again docked with his machine, Kira flew over to the Excalibur, landing on the deck as the massive ship ignited its wings of light and afterburners.
A blindingly bright flash of white light suddenly lit up the sky as a pair of brightly glowing, five-mile wide, pink energy wings extended from the sides of the Excalibur, even as half a dozen, three mile-long, blue-white flames extended from the rear of the ship. The surviving mobile suit pilots watched in awe as the dagger-shaped warship quickly pulled into a seventy-five degree climb and sped away.
Two minutes later, as the the Excalibur broke through the Earth's atmosphere and into the void of space, the afterburners and wings of light dieing away as the vessel's warp engines came online, glowing with a bright blue light.
"Warp engines are coming online now." Cagalli said with a sigh. She didn't want to run and leave Orb defenseless, which was what she was doing now, but at the moment, she really didn't have much choice.
"No vessels of any kind detected within fifty miles of our current position." Lacus called out from the sensor station. "We can jump to warp at any time."
"And where do you suggest we go?" Hope frowned. "Earth is fractured between multiple timelines, and all of the military forces on the surface are fighting for what they believe to be their territory."
"For now, we need to get away from the Earth." Kira sighed. "Cagalli, set a course for Mars." The blonde nodded slightly, and a moment later the Excalibur's warp engines flared, the massive warship speeding away from the war-torn planet.