Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 94
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 a bunch of idiots." Kira Yamato scowled from the Excalibur's bridge as the warship's engines suddenly flared to life, swiftly propelling the dagger-shaped vessel out of its custom dock in the Orb shipyard. The huge ship was quick to clear the surface of the ocean, lifting into the sky and igniting its wings of light, rapidly gaining altitude as it moved to rendezvous with the Katusaragi.
As the Excalibur's bow continued to effortlessly slice through the clouds, Lexi's holographic image suddenly appeared on the bridge, her face contorted in worry and alarm. "Kira, we have an unauthorized launch from the central hanger! It's the Akatsuki Gundam!"
Before Kira could reply, the Excalibur shuddered slightly, a large explosion billowing from the centerline catapult doors as a searing green energy blast from the Akatsuki's beam rifle pierced the armor. An instant later, the muted shriek of twisting metal was heard as the golden machine kicked the catapult doors from their hinges and bolted out of the now unprotected launch bay. Before streaking back towards Orb, the Akatsuki Gundam grabbed the now mangled launch bay doors from where they lay on the deck, taking the two sheets of super high strength alloy with it, the pilot clearly intending to use the huge slabs of metal as blunt weapons.
The glowing golden seed fell before Cagalli's eyes, and with a crash her machine landed at the Morgenroete mobile suit testing grounds. An instant later, the Akatsuki had smacked an MBF-M1 Astray with one of the Excalibur's launch bay doors, effectively pulverizing the machine. The golden mobile suit then threw the remaining door like a frisbee, watching as the huge slab of metal winged its way through the air before slicing into a nearby air traffic control tower, sending the top five feet of the building plummeting to the ground to vanish within a large cloud of debris. Cagalli then noticed a single MVF-M11C Murasame charging towards her, its beam saber alight. Without any hesitation, she seized the shoulder of the charging machine, tossed it around her own mobile suit, and threw it into a group of parked tanker trucks filled with extremely flammable mobile suit fuel. As the pilot of the Murasame tried desperately to keep his machine on its feet, the glowing beam saber plunged into one of the tankers, instantly igniting the fuel within and surrounding the mobile suit in a massive fireball.
"Enough of this!" Cagalli shouted. "Let's see what the Akatsuki Gundam can really do!"
She threw the switch, the backpack binders opened up, and a blinding flash of golden light poured forth from the two binders on the Akatsuki's back. The wings of light shone to life with greater intensity than ever before, and everyone stared in disbelief as the Akatsuki blasted off around the battlefield, afterimages blazing behind it.
With sparks flying and metal straining, Cagalli Yula Athha's Akatsuki Gundam traded sword blows with the red and gold Gaia Gundam's beam saber over the Morgenroete mobile suit testing grounds. The Gaia slammed the Akatsuki back with an overhead sword hack, sending the Akatsuki grinding backwards through the sand. Cagalli glanced to her left and then threw the Akatsuki down onto its knee, just in time for a plasma volley from the Savior Gundam to sizzle by overhead. And an instant later, the Gaia was upon her again, forcing her back with a swift barrage of saber swings.
"Your capabilities are as expected." She grunted, her voice lacking emotion, and turned her attention towards the Savior and its massive backpack. "But yours leave much to be desired."
She vaulted off one foot over the Gaia's saber strokes and showered the red mobile suit with beam bolts, only for the Savior to come streaking in from the sun with another volley of plasma and a blast from a high-energy beam cannon on its backpack. Cagalli threw the Akatsuki to the right and let the Savior streak by, and then jammed its sword up to deflect the Gaia's sweeping saber swing.
The Savior roared up into the blue sky and transformed back to its mobile suit mode, and pounded the Akatsuki with beam rifle fire. Cagalli jerked back the controls and sent the Akatsuki into a steep dive as the Gaia and Savior pounded fire after her, and the Akatsuki spiraled through their shots. Suddenly, the Savior roared in from behind and slammed into the Akatsuki with a bone-jarring crash.
"I've had enough of this!" The pilot of the Savior growled, and the Savior backed away and rose up into the sky as the Gaia leveled off its beam rifle.
Cagalli screamed as the Akatsuki charged forward with a blaze of afterimages and a brilliant flash from the wings of light, and the pilot of the Gaia had barely enough time to blink before the Akatsuki had torn the beam rifle from his hand and sent the Gaia crashing into the dust with a tooth-rattling kick to the face and another to the torso before delivering a devestating kick to its head, the kick being powerful enough to send the Gaia sliding through the sand. The Savior fired a cloud of missiles, but the Akatsuki merely raised an open palm towards the incoming projectiles, and sent them veering off course and into the ground. The pilot of the Savior gaped in disbelief, just before the Akatsuki was there to slam its anti-ship sword down onto the Savior's shield.
"You just don't understand!" The pilot of the Gaia roared as the Savior broke the saber clash, allowing the Gaia to charge in with its own saber. The beam sabers clashed again and the pilot of the Gaia struggled to keep up with the blindingly-fast Akatsuki Gundam. "No Natural could ever understand what we've been through!" The Gaia fell to one knee and jammed its saber up to stop a devastating sword blow from the Akatsuki. "The Naturals have been trying to destroy us for decades! With the Requiem, they came closer than ever before to actually succeeding! What are we supposed to do?"
Cagalli drove the Gaia forward with a wordless scream and then rammed the Gundam hard in the chest with her machine's right knee. The Gaia backpedaled desperately as the Akatsuki closed in, only for the Savior to let loose a storm of firepower between the two combatants and shoot by in mobile armor mode.
"Pull back!" The pilot of the Savior shouted. "Back on top!"
The Gaia vaulted off the ground and over a sweeping sword strike from the Akatsuki, and Cagalli rocketed after it. The red mobile suit slammed down onto the Savior's back and the two mobile suits rocketed around with a punishing barrage of firepower. Cagalli ground her teeth and hurled the Akatsuki through it, afterimages flying, and the two Gundams' beam blades crashed together again in a shower of sparks.
"The Coordinators have always had to fight for their right to exist." Varder snarled, as the Savior wheeled around again. "They tried to kill us all with nuclear weapons during the Valentine War and the beginning of the Junius War! They actually did with the Requiem! Why should we not take what's rightfully ours and make sure they can never threaten us again?" The blades clashed again. "Tell me!"
The Savior fired its plasma cannons and forced the Akatsuki on the defensive; Cagalli scowled up at the two mobile suits and darted through the blasts to pound the Gaia's saber and shield with her beam sword.
"You bunch of murderers!" She growled. "Killing people like they're all the same!"
"That's a laugh, coming from the likes of you people!" The pilot of the Gaia scoffed and flung the Akatsuki away, just in time for the Savior to pummel Cagalli's beam shields with beam fire.
"If you think that ZAFT should have just stayed at Mars, you're sorely mistaken!" The pilot of the Savior added with an angry snarl, and rushed in to slam the Akatsuki back with its saber. "You damned Naturals can't keep us from humanity's only home!"
"What the fuck are you morons talking about?" Cagalli shrieked as the Akatsuki lashed out with its right foot and kicked the Savior in the crotch, the blow catching the pilot off-guard and allowing the golden mobile suit to deliver a punishing backhand to the Savior's face before finally severing its legs with a pair of shells from its rail guns. "Celestial Being believes that the Earth belongs to both Naturals and Coordinators!" The Akatsuki then raised a beam cannon in its left hand and fired a searing blue-red energy blast at the Gaia, vaporizing the entire left side of the machine, while leaving the cockpit intact. "We want everlasting peace!"