Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 80
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.
"What the hell is going on here?" Kira asked, as he and Murrue quickly proceeded through the Excalibur's genetics labs a few minutes later.
"I honestly have no idea, Kira." Murrue answered, as the door in front of them hissed open and the lights suddenly blazed to life.
Standing at the opposite end of the huge room were two of the biggest monsters that Kira had seen thus far. They were huge, a good ten feet tall standing up straight. They were pink and brown colored in nature, and roughly humanoid. Their legs were goat-like, but their torsos were definitely human. They looked to be carved out of stone with solid, thick slabs of muscle. Their fingers ended in massive claws and their eyes glowed with an inner, bright red hellish light. A pair of ram horns curled out of either side of their craniums and their faces were twisted mockeries of humanity. They let loose, both at once, roars beyond anything Kira had ever heard. The entire room seemed to shake as they bellowed, Kira and Murrue both froze.
The two monsters, which Kira had mentally dubbed as Barons of Hell, touched something deep down, some sort of primal instinct or fear at the very base of humanity. All they wanted to do was run, to just turn and run away, and it was only their countless years in the military that prevented them from actually doing so. They both held their ground, and after a few short seconds, the monsters attacked. Faster than the human eye could follow, the creature on the left hauled off and threw a great big ball of green colored fire. As Kira raised his right arm to block the attack with his physical shield, his vision was suddenly blocked by a huge mass of writhing brunette tresses.
"What the hell are you doing, Murrue?" Kira yelled, even as his lover's silky locks effortlessly blocked the searing green fireball. Murrue simply smirked as her beautiful hair, which was now in excess of fifty miles long, parted in front of Kira, once more clearing his field of vision. The amethyst-eyed man could only watch in awe as his lover's brunette strands quickly took the form of a massive brown serpent with brightly glowing marigold eyes, pink-tipped horns on either side of its head and a gaping mouth filled with pure white, razor sharp teeth.
The serpent let out an ear-splitting roar, louder even than the bellows which the two barons of hell had unleashed a few seconds earlier. The two barons, now effectively distracted, began to hurl green fireballs at the massive serpent, only for the glowing projectiles to impact harmlessly on the creature's thick skin. The serpent let out an aggrivated hiss as the green fireballs continued to uselessly pelt its skin. After ten long seconds, the serpent finally lashed out, opening its gaping maw, taking the closest baron into its mouth, the razor-sharp teeth effortlessly slicing the huge beast in half at the waist. Torrents of thick red blood gushed from the obviously fatal wound, soaking the seprent a deep crimson, even as it lunged at the remaining baron and dispached it in a similar fashion.
Kira's mouth had long since fallen open in awe, and it remained that way as Murrue's silky tresses once again receded to their normal length, stopping just above her ankles. The marigold-eyed woman allowed a slight sigh to escape her lips as she realized that her silky strands were now soaked with thick red blood.
They continued on through the flickering passageways and the dank, death-ridden maintenance rooms until finally the pair came to a secondary entrance into the main chamber. Kira stopped and stared as he entered. The size of the chamber was massive compared to every other room he had been in so far. The place easily stretched out a hundred meters in length and fifty in width, it had to be a good thirty meters tall. Across the chamber were two massive pillars that went from floor to ceiling, comprised of what looked like pure technology. They gleaned under the high, powerful lights that still somehow remained operable. Various work stations were spread out across the area, one of them on a massive raised platform.
This was the heart of the Excalibur's hyper deuteron nuclear power plant, one of the massive ship's half dozen power sources. The two began to walk into the chamber, feeling small against its wide breadth and width. After a few short seconds, the assault began. A pair of demons came stomping from around the central raised columns and charged for the two humans. As one, they immediately raised their beam rifles and sprayed searing enery blasts. The green energy bolts stitched a bloody line of tiny explosions along the thick, pink flesh and the creatures roared in anger and pain. They managed to drop one about three meters away, but the second one was tough. As the two guns ran out of power, the beast had yet to fall.
"Fuck this!" Kira scowled, reaching out with both hands and grabbing the creature. The amethyst-eyed man smirked as he effortlessly lifted the huge creature off the ground before throwing it into a wall, the impact leaving a huge dent in the thick metal. "Divinity finger!" The amethyst-eyed man roared, igniting his wings of light and streaking towards the slowly rising creature, his left hand now glowing with a blood red light. The demon could only scream in pain as Kira's glowing hand slammed into it, the searing heat quickly burning through the creature's tough hide, before the palm beam cannon finally fired, vaporizing the brain and killing the creature.
"Showoff." Murrue muttered as Kira just stood there, smiling. Of course he had finished off his weapon, and of course this sound drew the attention of any other beasts nearby. From another doorway in the far left corner of the chamber a pair of demons and a trio of imps came stomping in, snapping at each other. He unholstered his pair of beam rifles, then opened fire. One of the demons dropped underneath the barrage of fire, as did one of the imps. The other two fireball throwers began to toss their hellfires, unfortunately in their franticness, they pegged the surviving demon from behind.
The demon forgot all about the two human platters, spun around and began to chow down on one of the imps. The second one shrieked as its brethren was eaten alive and began hurling its own flaming arsenal at the big, burly beast. Kira quickly called for Murrue to hold fire. This was better than pay-per-view. The demon finished off the first imp, eating the thing's whole torso, arms, head and all, leaving a pair of still kicking legs. It was wobbling painfully it approached the second imp, which continually hurled fireballs at it. The demon managed to get a large swipe off, cutting clear, painful looking marks across the imp's chest before it finally collapsed into a big, pink heap.
As soon as they had moved into the next corridor, something smacked lightly against Kira's visor and he blinked, batting instinctively ahead of him. Realizing it wasn't an attack, he focused and saw that it was a fleck of blood.
"What the hell...?" He whispered. A second one appeared, this time it was larger, a full drop. It began to make a slow, crimson trailer down his visor. A third drop fell, then a fourth.
"It's raining." Kira commented.
"Blood." Murrue concluded finally. All around them, in a light rain, droplets of blood began plummeting earthwards.
"Christ...what next?" Kira muttered, he wished he hadn't as they came into yet another corridor, this one was longer than it was wide. A rectangle of visceral content stretched out before them, and as if to answer Kira's previous question, he and Murrue came into another opening, this one being was longer than it was wide. They had found the remains of the research team. Placed on metal spikes in rows along both lengthy walls were about a dozen humans each, all of them contained within, either the green of a soldier's uniform or the white of a researcher's attire. The spikes punctured through their chests and stomachs, blood leaked thickly down, having pulsated from their gaping wounds. Sometimes there were multiple spikes, punching through their arms, hands and more often than not, heads. Pain was etched into their stony, unmoving faces, an eternity of pain. Some of them still twitched.
"God almighty..." Murrue whispered, staring at the two rows of death. Blood drops kept falling on their heads. Kira slowly walked forward to one of them that was still moving ever so slightly. It was a soldier, but the nametag was missing. His helmet was also missing, he wore a crimson high-and-tight haircut and his eyes were closed; he was clearly unconscious. He was impaled three times through the chest. Kira sighed as he placed the cold barrel of his beam rifle to the man's head and squeezed the trigger once. The body jerked convulsively and was still, almost as if relieved. Silently, emotionlessly, he and Murrue did the same for any other survivors they found. They could barely be called survivors, trapped and tortured, there was no way to save them. When the dirty deed was done, an homage to the dead, they left, heading towards the holodecks.
Less then five minutes later, as Kira and Murrue progressed down the corridor, they found Cagalli, Lacus, Allister and Aoi. The two women were fiercely protecting their son and daughter-in-law from a horde of the undead. Kira silently stepped forward, vaporizing the crowd of zombies with a pair of blue-red plasma cannon blasts. After a few more minutes, they stumbled upon Hope, Mayu and Akira, the two women effortlessly and viciously slicing a pair of the undead crew into multiple pieces with their beam sabers, as their nephew took what shots he could with the scaled down beam rifle which he now wielded. At first, Hope didn't seem to recognize the group, but Mayu put a reassuring hand on her lover's shoulder, causing her to relax slightly.
Out of the nine of them, Cagalli, Hope, Kira, Lacus and Mayu were merged with their Gundams, Murrue wielded a riot shield in her left hand and a scaled down twin buster rifle in her right hand, while Allister, Aoi and Akira, each wielded a scaled down beam rifle in their right hand and riot shield in the left.
Kira's eyes widened as the group of nine stepped into the still active holodeck ten minutes later. Odd rock constructs, like bizarre, twisted statues, lined the area. They could both hear a stomping nearby, shaking the ground and rattling their bones. Kira and Murrue both looked around, and then they saw the creature. It was huge, at least as tall as a mobile suit. It was a horrible abomination unto existence. Its skin, if that's what it could be called, was blood red. Its feet were giant, cloven hooves, much like the barons of hell. One was black and one gleaned silver. Half of its right leg was nothing but metal, an almost glowing steel silver.
Most of the skin covering its stomach was missing. Bright, bloodied strands of meat and muscle showed through. Its torso was nothing but thick slabs of solid muscle. It looked like it could lift the Earth itself. The right arm was fairly normal...as far as normal went recently, save for a few wires sticking out of the elbow. But the left arm ended in a giant box that looked like it probably fired disturbingly large projectiles. Its face was a visage of pure terror, a menacing sneer of all gleaming, razor sharp steel teeth and two blood red eyes the size of dinner plates. Two huge, curving horns grew out of the sides of its skull, winding back over its forehead.
"OPEN FIRE!" Kira screamed at the top of his lungs. As if to punctuate this command, he unleashed a full-burst from his weapons. The massive beast stood there as the pair of rail guns shells and four searing beam blasts, streaked towards it, and they all impacted harmlessly across its great chest. The beast roared mightily, reared its head back, raised its arm and fired, the group ran. Kira could only think of one thing at the moment, and that was a proper name for the beast; Cyberdemon. It was the only thing he could put to it. A single missile, which was the size of a 2001 Volkswagen Beetle RSi, exploded out of the box on the end of its arm and went wide, exploding along the far wall of the area that they were in. Walls of thick metal surrounded them on all sides.
Everyone scattered, trying to fire upon the beast. Rail gun shells and various beam blasts washed across the area and smashed across rock walls and sometimes the beast. Kira blasted out with a pair of high explosive rail gun shells and watched them explode into the thing's stomach, the twin explosions seemed to pale in comparison to the size of the Cyberdemon. The beast redirected its mighty arm towards the three smaller, weaker humans and sent a trio of rockets flying, ignoring the incoming rail gun shells and beam blasts as if they were annoying flies. The three huge rockets came in far too fast. It seemed that Allister, Akira and Aoi had absolutely no chance of survival.
"Oh no you don't, you stupid fucker!" The five women shouted in unison, each of them lengthening their beautiful hair to more than one-hundred miles and surrounding the three children with a thick, protective sphere of writhing blonde, pink and brunette tresses. The trio of rockets impacted the thick, silken barrier and detonated harmlessly. The Cyberdemon roared in anger as it was denied its kill.
"Aww, did you not get to kill anything?" Kira sarcastically taunted the raging beast. "Cry more, faggot." He snarled, opening up with another full-burst, before grabbing the beam saber on his left hip, freeing the weapon and slamming the handle into that of the beam saber on his right hip before finally freeing and igniting the now double bladed weapon. "So, you want to lob Volkswagen Beetles at my family?" The amethyst-eyed man growled, even as he utilized his more divine abilites, spawning a dozen 2005 Ford Excursions, the twelve vehicles positioned around the massive Cyberdemon in a circle. "Then I'll hurl Ford Excursions at you!"
The twelve Ford Excursions were fully fueled and filled with high explosives. As the dozen full-size sport utility vehicles sat around the now stunned Cyberdemon, their 7.3 liter V-8 diesel engines rumbled to life and began idling, even as their high-beam head lights, tail lights and hazard lights illuminated themselves. The Cyberdemon roared at the idling vehicles, as if trying to frighten them into submission. In response, the dozen sport utility vehicles revved their engines, roaring back at the creature.
Kira grinned sadistically as he thrust both hands forward, all twelve of the massive vehicles shooting forward in perfect unison, going from a complete stop to nearly two-hundred miles per hour, in less time it took to blink an eye. An instant later, the Cyberdemon vanished within a single, massive orange-red explosion which sent plastic, aluminium and steel shrapnel in every direction. Just before the cloud of shrapnel hit the group, a wall of silky brunette tresses with pink and blonde highlights, sprang up, the beautiful hair effortlessly blocking the flying debris.
Kira glanced over his shoulder and smiled at Yumi. As soon as the twelve vehicles had impacted the huge beast, Kira's five lovers had merged to once more form Yumi, and in doing so, they had also un-merged with their Gundams, which were now back in the hanger bay.
Yumi was far from unarmed though, as she wielded a scaled down twin buster rifle in her right hand, a beam rifle in her left hand, with a riot shield securely strapped to her left forearm, not to mention her silken tresses. Yumi's beautiful hair now rested at her ankles, and was completely capable of instantly extending to any length, allowing the silken strands to function as incredibly effective weapons or shields.