Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 121

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 Yamato took a deep breath, struggling to calm himself. He was here again, inside the Divinity Gundam, standing tall on the deck of a Lesseps-class land battleship as Celestial Being went charging forward under a dark, clouded sky. His army, spread out behind him, was once again driving towards the Alliance base and its steadfast defenders.

This time, however, it would be different.

Somewhere in there, Kira remembered, were three Strike Gundams, all designed to complement each other's fighting strengths and cover each other's weaknesses. They had defeated him last time. They would not do so again.

The Alliance fired their volley of ranging shots again, the army charged ahead anyways. The Alliance fired its second salvo, once again a handful of mobile suits went down in flames. The Divinity stepped forward and activated its wings with a flash.

"All troops, CHARGE!" Kira called out.

The Divinity took off with a flash, a physical shield secured to its right forearm, a beam rifle in its left hand.

The Celestial Being army charged behind him, but Kira ignored them. He didn't need them, he could destroy this base all by himself, and that he would. He armed the beam rifle and charged towards the lines of Windams.

The memories came flashing back, of the Windams that continued to fight, even after Kira had disabled them. He narrowed his eyes. They would continue to fight no matter what Kira did. He had to destroy them.

The Divinity landed with a crash. The Windams raised their rifles to open fire, Kira preempted them with a devastating full burst that smashed through the entire squad and wiped it out in a blaze. Kira watched the explosion painfully, it had to be done, he told himself. He looked up ahead, at the second line of Windams, and lunged into the air over their heads, showering them with beam shots and blasting them apart one by one.

A BuCUE came charging over a burnt-out Windam, firing its railguns wildly. A Windam across from the first line of anti-tank trenches lined up for a finishing shot; the Divinity rocketed into the Windam's line of fire and shot it down with a rifle shot before it could fire. Kira grunted as the Divinity vaulted into the air, roaring up over a beam rifle volley. He glanced over his shoulder; the land battleships were opening fire, tearing apart the Alliance defenses at the front. He looked back down at the Windams, the fight was progressing as smoothly this time as it had last time. But this time it had to be different. Kira steeled himself and took off, roaring down into the Windams' ranks. They turned their rifles on him in surprise; Kira narrowed his eyes, as the seed burst before him, and swept down towards the hapless Windams, firing a full burst to wipe out five Windams before they ever knew what hit them. The Windams backed away; Kira roared over their heads, firing into their backs, and drew a beam saber in his right hand to attack the second line of mobile suits.

The BuCUEs tore their way through the hole in the Alliance ranks, firing a volley of railgun shells into the third line before the Windams could react. Kira swept down into their confused ranks, firing a full burst that took down another seven Windams. He took off again before they could return their firepower to him, and the invading Celestial Being units promptly cut them apart while they were distracted.

Kira looked up ahead, towards a particular mobile suit hangar. They had been in there the last time. He charged, cutting down the two Windams feebly guarding it, and landed with a crash. The red beam came at him again, he skirted aside, letting it tear past,

With a crash, the Aile Strike, Sword Strike, and Launcher Strike landed before him.

Kira clenched his fists around the Divinity's controls. 'This time...this time I won't let them beat me!'

The Launcher Strike opened fire again, Kira dodged again, cutting down a pair of incoming missiles as he did. Immediately, the Sword Strike came sweeping in behind him, he backflipped over its head, kicking it in the back as he did and sending it staggering forward. Landing with a crash, he raised his beam rifle to pick it off quickly, only to have the Aile Strike try to try to slash his rifle in two with its beam saber. Kira darted backward, switching to his beam saber, as the Aile Strike followed up with another swing, Kira deployed his plasma cannons and railguns, but was forced to dodge again as the Launcher Strike fired another shot from its hyper Eclipse cannon.

"Not again..." Kira growled. He lined up for a full burst, but the Sword Strike came barreling in, forcing the Divinity back with a winnowing overhead sword slash. It fired its rocket anchor up at the Divinity, Kira smacked it aside with his shield and took aim at the Sword Strike, but beam rifle fire from the Aile Strike forced him back again. He ducked underneath another shot fro the Launcher Strike, but immediately the Aile Strike came back down with its saber. Kira drew his beam saber, deflecting the Aile Strike's saber with his own, but the Aile Strike held him locked in midair. The Launcher Strike leapt up behind the Divinity, leveling off its cannon to finish the fight, Kira's eyes narrowed as he saw his chance, the seed burst.

Pushing off the Aile Strike's shield with the Divinity's legs, Kira spiraled through the air with a scream, and slammed his saber into the Launcher Strike's cockpit. The Launcher Strike exploded, Kira slammed back down onto the ground, sinking to one knee and ducking a beam rifle shot from the Aile Strike. The Sword Strike hurled its beam boomerang at him, Kira screamed as he charged forward, slashing the boomerang in half. As it exploded in midair, Kira charged, the Sword Strike came streaking towards him, swinging its sword horizontally. Kira ducked under the swing and slashed the Sword Strike in two at the waist, grimacing as it exploded behind him.

The Aile Strike landed with a crash behind the Divinity, firing its rifle, Kira whirled around, deflecting the shot with his shield and firing back with his plasma cannons and railguns. The Aile Strike jetted aside, but a railgun shell clipped its rifle, sending it spiraling out of the Aile Strike's hand. The Aile Strike drew its saber, charging towards the Divinity, Kira narrowed his eyes. The two Gundams met with a crash, the Aile Strike's saber came down onto the Divinity's shield, the Divinity's saber onto the Aile Strike's shield. Kira scowled, seizing his chance, and deployed the plasma cannons,

With a thunderous explosion, the deed was done.

The Divinity straightened up, deactivating and stowing the beam saber before then freeing the second beam rifle from its right hip. Kira cast a wary glance at the Celestial Being lines as they poured over the base.

Suddenly, a hail of beam weapons peirced both of Kira's beam rifles, causing them to explode.

"Where the hell did those beams come from?" Kira yelled as he instantly dropped the now useless weapons, watching them explode a fraction of a second later.

"Four mobile suits approaching from the east!" Lexi's voice announced as the image of the machines automatically appeared on one of the sub-screens, and when it did Kira's jaw hit the floor.

The four machines which were approaching him were ones which everyone instantly reconigized; the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam, the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, the ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice Gundam, and finally, the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam.

The Strike Freedom launched its DRAGOONs with a flash and opened fire.

Kira growled as the Divinity ignited its Wings of Light and effortlessly slalomed through a wave of beam fire with a blur of afterimages. The Freedom squeezed off a handful of beam shots, even as the Strike Freedom combined its rifles and fired. The Divinity dodged again and stormed forward, but another burst of fire from the Strike Freedom's DRAGOONs stopped it.

"You can't win a fight against a god!" Kira roared, as the searing energy blasts unexpectedly bent away from the Divinity Gundam, soaring over the angel-winged mobile suit before slamming into the ground behind it, kicking up a large cloud of dust which quickly obsured the angelic machine.

As the huge cloud of dust and debris hung over the battlefield, a loud hiss and the clang of moving metal echoed through the valley. As the dust and debris finally cleared, the Divinity Gundam was revealed to be sporting a black-and-red color scheme, and a large mouth filled with pure white teeth.

Meanwhile, somewhere under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, onboard the Celestial Being Archangel-class warship Archangel, Canard Pars looked up from his drawing to examine Lacus's hair, he then resumed working on his drawing. Orga Sabnak, Clotho Buer, and Andrew Waltfeld were playing cards at a nearby table. Shani Andras was elsewhere. A moment later, Canard looked up, only to see that Lacus was gone, and with a sigh, he focused on his memory of what she'd looked like and started working again.

"Shani?" Lacus asked. Shani didn't look up. "Aren't you lonely?" Shani glanced over his shoulder and nodded. Lacus smiled as she sat down beside him. "Why aren't you with the others?" She asked, curious.

Shani sighed and looked away. Lacus frowned as she looked back down to the hangar floor.

"I'm not safe around people. One day, almost...seven years ago, a girl called me a freak for having differently colored eyes. And I...lost control. I punched her and punched her, and eventually I heard a snap, and she went limp. They put in jail, a life sentence. With no chance of parole. So, I avoid people and don't listen to anybody." Unseen to Lacus, Shani's eyes teared up. "The girl, Muldie, I kinda liked her. She'd only been joking. And I killed her."

Meanwhile, on the bridge, multiple alarms began to sound. "Ma'am!" Arnold shouted. "Torpedoes incoming!"

"What? Dammit!" Murrue pressed a button on her chair. "All bridge crew, report to the bridge, mobile suit pilots to your mobile suits! Prepare to surface!"

Lacus ran into the elevator as Shani climbed into the GAT-X252 Forbidden Gundam, wearing his old pilot suit with its ridiculous helmet. The Forbidden Gundam was quickly moved to the launch catapult.

Auel grinned as his ZGMF-X31S Abyss Gundam plunged into the water in mobile armor mode. He fired a volley of torpedoes, but a single mobile suit appeared between the Archangel and the Abyss, blocking the torpedoes. The mobile suit then lunged at Auel, its scythe held back. Auel quickly surfaced, popping over the attack. But, he was suddenly thrown backwards as a pair of rail gun shells slammed into his machine. The Forbidden converted to its close combat mode and fired its beam cannon at Abyss.

Auel dived, the water blocking the beam cannon, only to resurface and fire his own beam cannon. But the Forbidden's shields moved into place, and the beam blast bent away from the green-and-white mobile suit.

"What the hell?" Auel asked.

Suddenly, a black mobile suit, clearly the GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam, was in front of the Archangel's bridge, its shield raised, aiming multiple missiles at the bridge. Suddenly, the GAT-X370 Raider Gundam shot from the Archangel's left launch bay and wrapped the chain of its Mjolnir hammer around the black mobile suit's neck before then throwing it into the water.

"Don't let up!" A CGuE and GuAIZ R were relentlessly firing their beam rifles at the monstrous mobile suit. They weren't alone. A whole army of mobile suits was firing from the outskirts of Berlin, into the center of the city. Suddenly, dozens of green beams shot from the city center, carving into the streets, cutting through the mobile suits like a hot knife through butter. The beam fire suddenly stopped, and every street within Berlin lit up from the collective explosion of over a hundred mobile suits.

Lord Djibril smiled at the screens projecting the image of the GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam as it rampaged through Berlin, Germany. "So, Gentlemen, what do you think?"

"Djibril, why are you attacking Eurasia?" One of the nobles asked, causing Djibril to smile to himself as he turned in his chair.

"Because Eurasia sided with the coordinators." The leader of Blue Cosmos replied. "We had multiple reports of civilians uprising against us while ZAFT attacked. This is simply punishment."

"Djibril, why not use this weapon to attack the PLANTs?" Another one of the nobles asked.

"We will, gentlemen, we will. There are more units than just this one." The nobles looked at each other nervously.

"Djibril, what if the Destroy is taken out?" Another of the nobles asked, after a moment had passed in near silence, the only sound being that from the screens which displayed the Destroy's rampage.

Djibril waved off the question. "That is quite impossible, I assure you."

Shinn Asuka growled as he drew both of the Eclipse Gundam's anti-ship swords, one standard anti-ship sword and one quantum crystal anti-ship sword, connecting the two blades before then boosting at the Destroy. The giant mobile suit swatted the Eclipse away, knocking it to the ground. It looked straight at the Eclipse and fired its face-mounted cannon. Shinn flipped the Eclipse, then ground to a halt, the beam striking the ground.

'Everyone! Target the buildings around it! Bury it!' Athrun cried. Eclipse, Twilight, Dreadnought, Justice, and Infinite Justice fired on the nearby buildings. The skyscrapers fell atop the Destroy, dust and rubble flying all over the place, and forming a cloud of dust and debris. When the dust cleared, the Destroy was buried under the rubble.

Suddenly, the rubble started moving. within the cockpit of the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam, Meyrin Hawke's eyes went wide. "How can it still move?"

A trio of beam cannon blasts erupted from the pile of rubble, before the mountain of concrete and steel exploded, lighting up the battlefield.

Athrun couldn't look away. "What the hell is this thing?" The Destroy raised it arms, launching both of them. Athrun dodged an array of beams from the flying arms.

Nero Blitz rushed at Athrun, a beam saber ignited from its Trikeros shield. Athrun slashed through the suit's legs, then blasted off its arms with the Infinite Justice's beam cannons, then spun and boosted at the Destroy. Rosso Aegis put itself between Freedom and the Destroy. Forbidden attacked the Rosso Aegis, cutting it in half, then boosting out of the way of a beam cannon blast. Athrun dodged the blast, then blocked a beam from one of the Dragoon pod arms, then slashed it in half.

Canard activated the Dreadnought's beam sabers and sliced through the Destroy's right leg, just as the machine's triple beam cannons fired at the Minerva.

"Evade!" Talia cried. The Minerva moved just enough to dodge the blasts, the nearest one grazing its twin-barrel Tristian beam cannons. "Fire!" The blue and red Tanhauser blast struck the Destroy's shield and literally stopped. The positron beam began to fade, and just as it faded away, the air around the blast exploded, creating a massive shockwave and knocking the Eclipse, Twilight, Dreadnought, Justice, and Infinite Justice to the ground.

Blue arcs of electricity began to leap across the Destroy's Phase Shift Armored hide. Shinn gritted his teeth and boosted forward, anti-ship sword drawn back, the quantum crystal blade aimed for the massive mobile suit. The Eclipse drove the point of its combined anti-ship sword into the Destroy's main cannon, just as the weapons began to fire.

The Destroy fell backwards, shaking the ground with a sound like that of a nuclear bomb. The Destroy's face-mounted beam cannon fired as it fell, a single blue and red beam against the night sky. Finally, the beam died and Shinn landed atop the Destroy, smiling in amazement.