Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 75
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.
Kira raised an eyebrow as he walked into the pilot's lounge a few days later, only to come face to face with a man who appeared to be in his thirties, with brown eyes and brown hair, and wearing a black business suit.
"Umm...can I help you?" Kira asked, even though he was still merged with the Divinity Gundam.
"Why don't you have a seat over there?" The man calmly asked, pointing towards one of the many tables.
"Just who the fuck are you?" The amethyst-eyed man growled, even as he brought all of the Divinity's weapons out of their standby mode. Normally, Kira wouldn't even dream of firing his weapons while onboard the Excalibur, but the current situation was rapidly turning into an exception. "And how exactly did you manage to get onboard my ship?"
"Why don't you have a seat?" The man repeated.
"Why don't you answer the question which your God has asked of you?" Kira sighed as he utilized his abilities to teleport himself and the unknown man down to the Earth's surface, somewhere near Chernobyl, Ukraine. It was dark, according to the Divinity's clock, the local time was 4:35 in the morning. Kira didn't like to openly admit the fact that he was a God, but it usually got quite a reaction, especially when he did so while utilizing some of his more divine powers.
Before the other man could reply, however, a girl with dead, black eyes that wept bile and deathly pale white skin, appeared. The thing moved without ever actually moving its legs as it stalked towards the two men. Kira sighed slightly as the creature lunged at him and began peeling the skin from his holographic body, completely unaware of the blood red light that was now eminating from the amethyst-eyed man.
"Bitch." Kira growled, igniting the beam saber on his left wrist and effortlessly slicing the creature's right arm off at the shoulder. As the creature jumped away from Kira's brightly glowing form, a loud scream echoed through the darkness, it was a wail of unrestrained pain, fear and anger. Kira scowled as his holographic body quickly regenerated, while the creature looked to its now severed right arm and began sobbing to herself, the pitiful gasping of one without a shred of hope left.
"You dare to attack a God?" Kira snarled, even as the other man, whom his computers had finally identified as Chris Hansen, a somewhat famous NBC News correspondent, suddenly vanished without a trace. Kira once more rested his gaze on his supernatural attacker. "You will pay dearly for your blatant stupidity." The amethyst-eyed man continued as the holoshroud slowly faded, once again revealing the true form of the Divinity Gundam, the angelic machine already glowing with the blood red light of Trans-Am.
The Divinity's eyes lit up with a bright purple light, even as the angel-winged machine trained all four of its searchlights on the sobbing creature in front of it. Without any hesitation, Kira deactivated the beam saber and freed both of his beam rifles, aiming them at the creature, which was now rising to its feet.
"You want to try and kill me, you bitch?" Kira snarled. "So, you're the whore that screamed 'witness' into my phone, aren't you?" He asked, barely containing his rage. "I admit that if I weren't a God, I would be dead now, but you picked the wrong person to try and kill."
"I don't think I can do this event justice, but I'll try." The voice of a female news reporter suddenly blared from the Divinity's external loudspeakers. "Every single river, every single lake, every single natural source of water appears to have instantly and simultaneously dried up, without any rational explanation." There was a short pause before the reporter continued. "It now appears that this event wasn't restricted solely to natural sources, either. We are getting reports that bottle water has also vanished, as did that in water tanks and other similar sources. It now appears that there is not a single drop of freshwater left anywhere on Earth for anybody to drink."
"What the fuck did you do?" Kira snarled at the creature, which was now grinning from ear to ear, revealing a mouth filled with blood soaked teeth. "Stupid bitch." Kira fumed as he returned the Divinity Gundam to its normal size and slammed his left foot down on the creature, crushing it with a splat, leaving a relatively small bloodstain on the underside of the machine's left foot.
Now, as Kira sat at the head of the table in the Excalibur's main conference room, less then one hour later, some of the worst results which could possibly be caused by the lack of water were beginning to occur.
Without pressurized water, most of the nuclear reactors in the world, specifically those that utilized purified water as coolant, had no available sources of coolant, and just under half of these had poor or untested failsafe plans. The effect of this led to catastrophic nuclear meltdown in roughly 46% of water-cooled reactors. The world, already reeling from the unprecedented situation, fell into total anarchy within the first four hours after the event.
International communication ceased after almost exactly 24 hours after the water had initially vanished.
"Why aren't we helping?" Lacus asked, close to tears as she, along with the other senior officers whom had gathered in the conference room, watched the events continue to unfold on the planet below.
"Because we didn't cause this, Lacus." Hope calmly answered, even as she rested her feet on the table and put her hands behind her head.
"Kira, I'm detecting a really weird life sign approaching the conference ro-" Lexi began, only to be cut off mid-sentence when her holographic image suddenly vanished, causing a chill to spread like liquid fire down the spine of everyone in the conference room. As Kira prepared to continue with the briefing, he decided that a quick glance out of the peep hole would help calm the restless minds of everyone in the room. The chill worsened with each step he took towards the door. He pressed his right hand against the cold, metal door and took a deep breath before leading his eye to the peep hole.
At first, the amethyst-eyed man could only see an inky blackness which somehow seemed to swirl within itself. When he blinked in surprise, the void melted away. He wished it hadn't. In its place, there stood what he could only guess was once a man. The limbs were long and inhumanly awkward, with bulky joints branching off into several arms, not unlike the branches of a tree. The creature was draped in a black suit, somehow making the thing more nightmarish. The icing on the proverbial cake, however, was what passed as the hellish thing's face. It was as though his mind blurred the ghastly visage to spare itself further shock and horror.
Kira shoved himself away from the door with the hand still pressed against it. The amethyst-eyed man tried to crawl away from the door. He knew, somehow, that his mind hadn't been playing tricks on him. As he crab walked away from the door, he along with everyone else in the room, watched as tendrils as black as the void he first saw snaked around through the cracks underneath the door.
All of the assembled Gundam Miesters quickly dropped their holoshrouds, revealing the machines with which they had been merged, and in less time than it took to blink; the Akatsuki, Chimera, Destiny, Divinity, Eclipse, Infinite Justice, Destiny Impulse, Strike Freedom and Twilight Gundams all stood around the table, defending their unarmored allies. As the black tendrils gripped the MCPS armored door and began to pry it open, a hellstorm of beam blasts erupted from the nine Gundams, the energy beams searing the air as they lashed towards the strange creature on the other side of the door.
As the heavy door was forced open, smoke pillowing from the motors as they tried futilely to keep the passage blocked, the creature came into focus. It had long, tangled hair, matted with blood, falling down her shoulders, its mouth was filled with countless razor-sharp, blood-soaked teeth.
Suddenly, a loud clang echoed through the room, followed by an equally loud whirring as the motors finally gave out and the door steadily opened. Kira felt something cold on his hand. he was paralyzed with fear. It was sharp and it was cold and it was moving up his arm towards his elbow.
"Come out to play." The creature said in a lilting, upsetting voice.
"Go fuck yourself." Kira snarled as all nine of the Gundams unleashed a full-burst from their weapons, vaporizing the supernatural entity. "These merged realities are becoming ridiculous."