Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 89
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.
"Do you think the PLANTs will use nuclear weapons?" Kira Yamato asked from within the cockpit of the Freedom Gundam.
"Normally I'd say no." Athrun Zala answered from within the Justice Gundam. "If my father were himself. But right now, I'm not sure."
"Why do things like that exist in the first place?" Kira asked, moving his machine towards the launch catapult. "Nuclear weapons, well for that matter why are there even mobile suits and guns?"
"The choice we're making may be one of evil as well." Lacus Clyne spoke from the bridge of the stolen ZAFT battleship Eternal, even as the docking clamps holding the twin METOR units to the pink ship's bow released. Both of the weapons platforms slowly coasted forward, rotating ninety degrees, even as the front sections of the two units folded back allowing the Freedom and Justice to dock with their respective units. "For we call for peace, but with weapons in our hands."
Asuka glanced back nervously at the huge C-5 Galaxy cargo plane, which had taxied in behind her F/A-22 Raptor, as she sat on the Excalibur's taxiway, waiting for take off clearence. The redheaded pilot was only nervous because the huge cargo plane was closer than normal.
"Crimson Fury to tower." Asuka spoke through the communications line after a few moments. "What are the intentions of the C-5 Galaxy that just taxied in behind me?"
Before Lexi could reply, a voice came over the radio as the C-5 Galaxy's nose cargo doors opened, and the pilot of the huge transport aircraft, Misato Katsuragi, spoke. "I'm going to eat you."
Meanwhile, a group of sixty ZGMF/TAR-X1 GINN Tactical Air Reconnaissance Types flew over various regions of Japan.
"What the hell is that?" One of the GINN pilots asked himself as he noticed what could only be properly described as an army of zombies. Without any hesitation, the GINN pilot zoomed his camera in on one of the groups, noticing that all of the zombies were clad in samurai armor and armed with either swords or spears. After a few seconds a trio of yellow energy beams cleaved through the ranks of zombies. An instant later, a huge black dragon erupted from a nearby castle, with a huge blood red ball of energy grasped within its fangs.
"I shall open the gates to hell!" An omnious voice suddenly boomed as the ground began to split, revealing millions upon millions of walking corpses.
"Commander Yamato!" The GINN pilot called out, even as he split his video feed, sending it to the Divinity Gundam as the angel-winged machine quickly approached.
"Time to hand another arrogent moron their ass." Kira sighed to himself as he merged with the Divinity, which was cloaked by its Mirage Colloid, and transformed the machine from its mobile armor mode to its mobile suit mode, the angelic mobile suit once again shrinking to the size of an average human, while simultaniously activating the holoshroud, the angel-winged mobile suit projecting the image of its pilot over its armor as it quickly descended towards the ground.
As Kira landed, deactivating his stealth system as his feet touched the ground, the humanoid creature now standing in the center of the elevated landmass which served as the battlefield, rose a sword above it head, causng a massive blood red ball of energy to appear, as though it was balancing on the very tip of the blade.
Kira scowled as his advanced computers instantly analyzed the blade, and the massive energy ball floating above it.
"So'unga. The Sword of Hell." Kira muttered, reading the information as appeared in his mind. "Dragon Twister. The attack of a dragon from hell."
Kira simply rolled his eyes as the sword itself began to speak, it's voice filled with malicious glee. "Ahh, another victim."
"If you think you can kill me, you are in for quite a surprise." The amethyst-eyed man smirked as he freed the standard anti-ship sword from his back, the weapon seeming to appear from within his back as he took it into his left hand.
Standing on a nearby ridge, Kagome Higurashi, not to mention her friends and traveling companions, Sango and Mirkou, could only stare in stunned silence at the newcomer.
"Who the hell are you?" A man with long silver hair, dog-like ears and amber eyes asked, even as he slashed a huge curved sword at the humanoid creature now known as So'unga.
"I am Kira Jesus Yamato." Kira answered, grinning as a pair of brightly glowing angelic wings suddenly appeared on his back, the wings themselves were glowing with a pure white light, even as a pink aura surrounded them. "Although to be more accurate, I am the one you would call God, Inuyasha."
"Get out of here, human." Another voice spoke, this one coming from Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older brother.
Before anyone could say anything else, So'unga charged towards Kira, but the amethyst-eyed man casually raised the physical shield on his right arm, effortlessly blocking the attack.
"Pathetic." Kira smiled as he ignited the beam blades in his legs, lashing out at So'unga and delivering a beam-assisted roundhouse kick to the creature's waist, the energy blade effortlessly cleaving through So'unga's waist and sending it falling to the ground in two pieces. "Get up, So'unga." The amethyst-eyed man scowled as he delivered a bone-shattering kick to each half of the creature, sending both pieces tumbling and rolling for nearly half a dozen feet before finally skidding to a stop. "I know very well that simply being cut in half won't kill you."
Finally, after nearly thirty seconds, So'unga regenerated, laughing as it did so. "I do have to admit, human, you have skill and you provide a unique challange."
"Oh, I'm more of a challange than you could possibly comprehend." Kira grinned. "And I have more than enough skill to hand you your ass."
"We'll see about that!" So'unga cackled, rasing the sword high above itself and unleashing the Dragon Twister. Kira simply smiled as he ignited his GN field, a sphere of brightly glowing green GN particles instantly surrounding him, deflecting the Dragon Twister and sending the glowing red energy ball rocketing skyward.
"Are you done yet?" Kira laughed as his GN field faded.
"Not even close!" So'unga growled, clearly angered by the fact that this insolent human had somehow deflected the Dragon Twister.
"Don't you realize that you're only prolonging the inevtible?" The amethyst-eyed man sighed quietly as So'unga once again unleashed the Dragon Twister. As the blood red energy ball screamed towrds him, Kira raised his right hand, the palm open, and smirked as he utilized some of his more divine powers, causing the destructive attack to harmlessly dissipate when it was only two feet in front of him.
"Damn human!" So'unga roared, charging forward and locking blades with Kira, having completely forgotten about Inuyasha and Sesshomaru.
"It's not my fault that you're weak!" Kira shot back, his wings of light flaring to life.
"I am the Sword of Hell!" So'unga snarled. "I can't be beaten by a worthless human like you!"
"Shut up!" Kira shrieked, his rail guns unfolding from his hips and firing a pair of hyper-velocity shells into So'unga at point-blank range, the twin shells effortlessly slicing through So'unga, while also propelling both halves of the body clear over to the other side of the elevated battlefield. "Get up and fight me, you fucking coward!" Kira screamed as the two pieces of So'unga's body once again skidded to a halt. After a few seconds, So'unga once again regenerated, climbing to its feet and charging at Kira, the two once again meeting with a clash of swords. The amethyst-eyed man smiled as his body suddenly began to glow with a blood red light. "TRANS-AM!"
"What is this?" So'unga asked, clearly shocked by the fact that Kira's body had suddenly been surounded by a blood red light.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Kira chuckled and an instant later, So'unga lost its balance, nearly falling flat on its face before looking into the skies above, finding that Kira had broken the clash and taken to the air, although now he had dropped the holoshroud, revealing the true form of the Divinity Gundam. "You can't possibly hope to beat me." The amethyst-eyed man grinned sadistically as he unleashed all 36 of his DRAGOON units, swarming the glowing red weapons around So'unga, but not yet opening fire with them. "You can't really be this weak." Kira taunted as So'unga continued to desperately dodge the swarming weapons. "I'm not even using any of my divine abilities and you're barely managing to dodge my DRAGOON units."
Kira watched as So'unga once again unleashed the Dragon Twister, the attack managing to wipe out the DRAGOON units, but only doing so because Kira had willingly allowed it to happen by disengaging the MCPS armor which normally protected the weapons.
"It seems that you're not quite as powerful as you thought!" So'unga cackled, only to be silenced an instant later as the Divinity's wings, and by extention its DRAGOON units, regenerated.
"Murrue, take my physical shield back to the Excalibur." Kira chuckled, completely ignoring So'unga's taunt, as he threw his solid shield into the air. "I don't need it for this fight." The amethyst-eyed man smiled as his shield was caught by the Strike Freedom Gundam and with a blast of thruster exhaust, the blue-winged machine sped away.
"Pathetic human." So'unga snarled, once more raising the sword high above itself, unaware that the Divinity Gundam had once again assumed its true size. "This will put an end to-" So'unga began, only to stop mid-sentence as it gazed upon the machine's true form. The Divinity Gundam now towered an impressive 18 meters above the battlefield.
"T-that's a Gundam!" Kagome Higurashi said in complete shock as she stared at the angel-winged machine. "We don't even have those in my time! They aren't even supposed to be real!"
"Zero, please guide me through this." Kira said, as a relaxing sigh escaped his lips and the Divinity's cockpit was momentarily illuminated with a nearly blindingly bright yellow light. Everyone on the ground watched in shock and horror as the angelic machine's faceplate suddenly split down the center, the two halves sliding to either side and revealing a mouth filled with massive teeth. Even as the faceplate split, the angel-winged mobile suit's thrusters ignited, keeping the machine balanced as its lower legs slid forward to uncover a pair of massive nuclear warheads hidden within the legs. The Divinity grabbed the two warheads, almost casually freeing them from their storage compartments and slinging them over its shoulders, the twin weapons latching onto the machine's angelic wings, even as the Divinity's twin rail guns and plasma cannons clicked into their firing positions.
Back on the ground, everyone had fallen into stunned silence, even as the Tenseiga and Tessaiga vanished from their respective owner's hands, only to reappear an instant later, the blades much larger then before, since they were now wielded within the hands of the angelic machine towering high above them.
"Yes, Zero, I know that we never repaired the timelines." Kira sighed as the Zero System began to communicate with him. "All we can do is continue to eradicate conflict." The amethyst-eyed man continued. "Because, at the moment, we don't have the ability to fix the timelines."
"Ahh, so you're the one who-" So'unga began, only to once again interrupted by Kira.
"I walk a darker path than you'll ever understand, So'unga." The amethyst-eyed man's voice boomed from the Divinity's external loudspeakers.
"You don't understand the meaning of darkness, human!" So'unga retorted.
"Really, now?" Kira smiled, even as he began to charge both of his chest-mounted multi-phase cannons. "If that's the case, why do you think that my machine; the Divinity Gundam, wields the firepower to reduce this entire pathetic planet, along with every living creature on it, to ash?"
"T-that's impossible!" So'unga roared angrily, once again attacking with the Dragon Twister, which now took the form of a massive, pitch-black dragon with glowing blood red eyes. Kira yawned within the Divinity's cockpit as the attack hit him square in the chest, only for it to be deflected by the machine's MCPS armor and slam into the ground, kicking up a huge cloud of dust and derbis.
"I was actually kind of worried that you might have scratched my machine's paint with that last attack." Kira smirked, sarcasam dripping from his voice, even as a pair of sheaths appeared on the Divinity's hips, one on the left hip and one on the right. "I don't really need these two swords to defeat you." The amethyst-eyed man sighed. "If nothing else they will make nice reserve weapons." He smiled, sheathing the blades on his hips. An instant later, the pair of nuclear missiles on the machine's back took of with a flash of exhaust. As the twin warheads screamed towards the ground, the angelic machine transformed into its mobile armor mode and sped away, vanishing only a millionth of a second before the two missiles impacted with the ground and detonated. In less time than it took to blink, everything within a 50 mile radius was engulfed by a massive orange-red mushroom cloud, the heat in excess of that at the heart of the sun.
As humans waged war upon one another on the surface of Earth, North Africa to be specific; their struggle awoke sleeping giants that had rested for over four hundred years, since the battle of Egypt long ago.
During this specific battle, the Celestial Being warship Katsuragi and its compliment of Gundams with their allies, mainly GINNs and Windams, fought against OMNI's Strike Daggers. Various beam blasts lashed back and forth and missiles arced high above, even as the Eclipse and Twilight Gundams fired dozens of magnetically accelerated rounds into the midst of the Strike Dagger horde. One of these, a kinetic energy penetrator with an anti-matter explosive planted in its head, missed its target and shot through the sand and bedrock to a capsule buried far beneath the surface. The accompanying positron detonation and release of gamma radiation messed with the circuitry, releasing the occupants of the capsule prematurely, along with another capsule buried nearby.
From the first capsule, a biomechanical-looking, humanoid machine erupted from the sand, claws grasping out and ripping at the Strike Dagger's torsos as the alien robot roared.
"I am Megatron!" The sheer hatred and bloodlust embodied in that harsh, mechanical voice caused several of the OMNI suits to back off, even as other robots forced their way up through the sand. One of them, looking like a triangle with head and limbs, reflexively flinched away from Megatron, before the machine roared again. "STARSCREAM! Are we still on this misbegotten rock of a planet?"
"It would appear so, my lord Megatron." Starscream replied in a scratchy, wheedling voice, even as the other machines, known as Decepticons, formed around their principal commanders.
"Where is Prime? I had him and his Autobots buried near our location!" Almost as though summoned, the red and blue form of Optimus broke through the dunes, followed closely by the faded yellow of Bumblebee. On each side, Decepticons amongst the OMNI forces, and the Autobots from under the Archangel, Transformers continued to exhume themselves, engaging in combat with one another.
Or, in Megatron's case, with the bystanders. As his infamous fusion cannon fired again and again at the Strike Daggers, he posed Starscream a simple question.
"Why are my optics so distorted?" Starscream replied simply.
"Lord Megatron, it appears that our capsules were disrupted by weapons fire from these humans." He said, gesturing at the mobile suits. "I believe that this also may have scrambled our optical cir-" The aerial Decepticon was interrupted by Megatron's fist smashing into his face.
"You overestimate these fleshlings, Starscream." The Decepticon leader stated. As he spoke, his red optics flickered off for a brief second before reactivating. And beheld the red and white armored Twilight Gundam, the same height as the Cybertronian. As he gazed at the surprisingly daunting weapon the human had created, Megatron couldn't help but vocalize what he believed was a human expletive for a situation like this. "Fuck."
Optimus, for his part, stood by the white, red and blue mobile suit designated as the Eclipse Gundam, watching the confrontation. In his dozens of millennia as a Prime, he had seen many things he would never have expected to witness. One such item he was currently adding to the list was his brothers slack-jawed look as the Eclipse drew its foot back and disdainfully kicked Megatron in the chest, crumpling Cybertronian armor and sending the Decepticon bowling end over end, crashing into one of the Constructicons, Ravage. One of the other Decepticons, a cousin to the one known as Brawl, roared and charged the Eclipse, guns blazing before Optimus could warn it.
Shinn lazily grabbed the charging robot by the chest, ignoring the ineffective bullets, forcing the Eclipse's hand through a small part of its armor as it lifted the machine up to camera level.
"God, we really did mess up the timelines." The crimson-eyed man sighed to himself, before then regarding the machine in his hand. "And this is one ugly fucker." Finally, he drew the Eclipse's anti-ship sword back and stabbed forward, piercing the bulky mechanical through the torso just as he released it. The next second saw the Eclipse Gundam fire both of its hip-mounted rail guns, the beam-tipped rounds melting through the Decepticon's chest and spark, traveling through it to plant themselves in a Strike Dagger leading a group of its fellows against the currently immobile Autobots. The explosion ripped the lead Strike Dagger apart, severely damaging those surrounding it.
Optimus stared, aghast, at the strange machine before him. It was humanoid, like the Transformers themselves in their non-vehicle forms, and was roughly the same height.
The machine was white with a blue chest, with piercing green optics and a head design strangely not unlike that of Optimus himself. It's back sported long, blood red angular wings, and sections of its legs flared slightly outwards. The blade the mech held against his face was just as light blue, except for a pinkish-red plasma strip that constantly cycled along the blade, and as long as Optimus was tall. On its other limb, the mech sported an equally large square-shaped shield with a silvery edge.
Off to the side, Optimus witnessed further action by the Decepticons.
A Brawl-baseform roared, bringing its cannon about to fire at the blood red machine, which ran straight into the blast, the shell only stopping its run for a moment before the machine almost eagerly leaped up and forward, blue-white plasma flaring from the thrusters ensconced in its back and legs. The machine dropped down onto the Brawl, a foot smashing into the war-loving Decepticon's shoulder and crushing the frame down, before the beam-clawed right hand sliced down and into the Brawl's torso, claws cutting all the way through to its back. By luck or design, Brawl's Spark was left intact, as the machine stepped off of its shoulder and lifted Brawl until it was level with the crimson machine's optics. And was summarily torn apart in an instant, the beam claws on the machine's left hand tearing into Brawl's waist and slicing outwards until its legs fell, as the claws embedded in Brawl's chest closed and crushed its Spark.
A pair of Protoform Decepticons, sealed before they could acquire their vehicle forms, jerked suddenly as gold-hot blades stabbed through them, slicing through layers of alloys that had managed to protect generations of Transformers from lesser bladed weapons. As they fell, a black machine similar to many of the others appeared, before flickering back into invisibility.
During the brief instant in which he had seen the machine, Optimus recoiled. That machine had to be one of the most hideous, fearsome-looking things he had ever seen. It appeared as though it had been cobbled together from the remains of other machines that had seen dozens of battles, covered head-to-foot in scars, the shield mounted on its left arm looking cracked, cursed; evil.
But the most frightening aspect of the machine had been its head. The left side of the machine's head appeared to be in pristine condition while the right looked like it had been run through a garbage disposal, then cobbled back together. The entire right half of the visor was gone, exposing the glowing camera eye. The left-side camera eye appeared blue, but without the cover, the demonic red light of the right-side camera eye was revealed without inhibition.
Megatron had now recovered from the crunching kick the crimson machine had given him, slowly and almost painfully crawling back up to his feet. It was apparent he was having some trouble moving his torso around, and Optimus really didn't think he'd be able to transform with his armor all mashed together like that.
Then Megatron roared, raising his right arm, the limb shifting into a configuration any Transformer knew all to well, some from experience. The fusion cannon.
The most powerful weapon any Transformer could have, the fusion cannon could annihilate anything with a good direct hit. It required a few seconds to charge as it gathered surrounding gases and compressed and heated them until fusion was achieved, at which point the ball of superheated plasma was shot out of the cannon at a good fraction of the speed of light.
"You must run." Optimus pleaded with the machine before him. "Megatron is charging his cannon! It-" The machine quickly stowed its sword and withdrew its rifle, even as it smashed Optimus aside with its shield, before igniting a beam shield and holding the barrier between itself and Megatron.
Who then fired, the golden bolt of energy and plasma blasting apart the air to reach its target. And when it did; the heat and radiation from the impact forced Optimus' optics to temporarily go off-line for safety. And when they came back on, the blue machine stood there, its shield none the worse for the experience it had just gone through. Then, the machine simply raised its right arm, so that the rifle in its hand aimed directly at the leader of the Deceptions.
A flurry of rapid-fire beam beams shot the fusion cannon to pieces, smoldering, melting fragments of Cybertronian alloys dropping to the hot sand below before the rest of Megatron's arm followed, with the dark Transformer gaping in mixed horror and awe.
Then the machine leapt forth, quantum crystal anti-ship sword out and slicing through Megatron at the waist as it's wielder came to a stop assisted by the thrusters in its wings and legs, the machine pivoting about to once again slice at Megatron. The flurry of swipes continued for twenty seconds, until Megatron finally fell to the ground in five pieces that were barely capable of recognition as his parts.