Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 123
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.
Cagalli Yula Athha sighed and got up, heading for the bathroom to do her business. She stopped when she noticed a blue box sitting on the sink. She mentally counted. And gave a scream.
Athrun jolted awake and saw Cagalli staring at him, her golden eyes showing entirely too much white. Athrun sighed and moved so she could sit down on the bed. "What's wrong, Cagalli?"
"When was my last period, Athrun?" She asked, her voice shaking.
Athrun thought briefly. "About thirty-six days ago..." It was now Athrun's turn to scream. "You mean, you're...you're...you're...?"
Cagalli nodded, scared.
"Kira's going to kill me." Athrun muttered.
"No, I'm going to kill you!" Lacus Clyne shouted from the doorway. Athrun gave a shout and dodged a thrown butter knife. Lacus leapt at Athrun, spoon and fork in hand. Cagalli looked down at her belly. She put her hands over where a bulge would be in a few months.
"Please, please don't inherit their genes!" Cagalli begged. "I don't need a little Kira crying all the time or trying to kill Athrun!"
"Hey!" Lacus shouted. "What's wrong with a little Kira?"
"You want me to answer that?" Athrun asked, even as he kneed Lacus in the crotch, and she heard bells ringing. She fell over, falling into the fetal position.
"That was below the belt, cheap shot!" Lacus yelled from where she lay on the floor.
"You were trying to kill me with a fork!" Athrun protested.
The ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam of ZAFT slashed at the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam of Celestial Being. A pink lance of energy suddenly came between the Divinity's beam saber and the Destiny's anti-ship sword. Shinn blinked and looked at the golden mobile suit.
"Back off." Cagalli said. The golden mobile suit, the ORB-01 Akatsuki Gundam, knocked the Destiny back and charged, wielding a beam naginata at Destiny's chest.
"You Natural Whore! Do me a favor, AND STAY DEAD!" Shinn shouted, as he threw a beam boomerang, severing, the Akatsuki's weapon arm. He threw another, both coming at Cagalli's suit from different angles.
Divinity suddenly fired its twin rail guns, destroying both beam boomerangs. Shinn looked up to the Divinity and readied his blade. With a bright pink flash, the Destiny's wings of light snapped open and the mobile suit lunged, slashing at the angelic form of the Divinity. When Shinn opened his eyes, the Divinity wasn't there. The Destiny's hands let go of the anti-ship sword, and Shinn looked in time to see the sword split into two, cut clean down the middle.
As the anti-ship sword fell away, the Destiny's armor went black, its eyes turning red. It leveled its beam cannon at the Divinity and fired, unleashing a red-and-black energy blast from its cannon. The Divinity dodged, and the beam blast struck the water, the blast instantly forming a ball of energy large enough to emcompass an entire Archangel-class ship, and finally the ball exploded.
Within the Divinity Gundam's cockpit, Kira sighed as all 36 of the DRAGOON units flew from his machine's back, the brightly glowing weapons spiraling elegantly through the sky, leaving armies of blazing afterimages in their wake, and as the DRAGOON units flew through the air, multiple panels opened on the outside of each one, with each of the remote weapons unleashing another 10 DRAGOON units. In less than five seconds, the sky was filled with a total of 396 DRAGOON units, each one glowing with a blood red light and leaving dozens of afterimages behind as they streaked through the sky. "Now then." Kira grinned. "Watch as I proceed to fire beam blasts at every point in space and time, across the entire universe."
But just before Kira was able to pull the trigger, a blindingly bright white light unexpectedly surrounded the entire planet as the fractured timelines finally lost what little stability they had. The globe of light quickly spread out from the Earth's surface before finally emcopassing everything out to the orbit of Mars.
The black, airless void of space near the massive Gamma-ray laser known as GENESIS was a writhing, pulsing sea of absolute chaos. Hundreds of Earth Alliance GAT-01 Strike Dagger and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits clashed violently with an equal number of ZAFT ZGMF-601R GuAIZs, ZGMF-1000 ZAKUs and ZGMF-2000 GOUFs. Battleships exchanged fire, green energy beams flashing back and forth, either to miss or strike, causing death and destruction wherever they hit, as the surface guns of Jachin Due added their own lethal light to the picture.
Heero Yuy, within the cockpit of the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero, had been skirting the edge of the massive battlefield which he had suddenly been thrust into, analyzing the situation when he spotted a white mobile suit in the distance. Zooming the Wing Zero's cameras in on the suit, he noted the strange, fin-shaped apparatus attached to its back and its familiar design aesthetic. "Hm...that's a Gundam. But I don't recognize it."
He was, in fact, looking at the RX-93 Nu Gundam. Aboard Nu Gundam, an older Amuro Ray looked back at Wing Zero, intrigued by the design of its angel-like wings.
"Wow, look at that. That's definitely a Gundam, but I've never seen any mobile suit with a design like that. Maybe I should contact the pilot and try to figure out just what's going on here." He was about to reach for the communications panel when all hell suddenly broke loose. From Heero's point of view, he saw a mobile suit, a ZAFT GuAIZ, which was about to ambush the white Gundam from behind. Just like that one time with Duo, Heero aimed his twin buster rifle and opened fire, the massive energy beam flying right past Nu Gundam and annihilating the GuAIZ. Amuro took a slightly different view of the life saving shot, specifically an attempt on his own life. Amuro responded by firing back with his own beam rifle. Heero dodged out of the way, cursing as he did so.
"Dammit, now he thinks I'm the enemy." Heero growled as the fins on the back of Nu Gundam separated and folded in on themselves before then opening fire.
"Great, remote weapons. They seem to be something like the Mercurious' and Virgo's deflectors but these ones shoot back." In response, Heero leveled the twin buster rifle and fired another massive blast of energy. Nu Gundam's fin funnels formed a protective I-field in front of the Gundam, shielding it from the worst of the blast.
"Damn!" Amuro cursed. "That's one powerful rifle he's got there. Unreasonably powerful. This is gonna be a difficult fight."
The Wing Gundam Zero and the Nu Gundam continued firing at each other, each attempting to take the other down. And so Amuro Ray, a Newtype pilot with a Psycho-Frame cockpit and Heero Yuy, the Perfect Soldier with the Zero system cockpit, began to duel.
Kamille Bidan in the MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam, and Emma Sheen in the RX-178 Gundam Mark II, were in the thick of the fighting. They had been fighting with a squad of RMS-108 Marasais but these had then been shot down by a group of OZ-02MD Virgos, painted in black-and-red. They had been having a hard time with the Virgos until they had wandered right into a three-way melee between a group of ZAFT ZGMF-1017 GINNs and ZGMF-600 GuAIZ mobile suits, Zeon MS-06F Zakus, MS-09R Rick Doms, and MS-14A Gelgoogs, as well as Earth Alliance TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armors and GAT-01 Strike Dagger mobile suits.
"Kamille, I think we're in trouble!" Emma said, as the Zeta Gundam and the Gundam Mark II flew back-to-back, firing at any mobile suit that dared to come close.
"Really? I hadn't realized!" Kamille shot back, trying to fire at a fast moving OZ-12SMS Taurus, painted in the standard black colors of the OZ orignization.
"We need to get out of this, we need to find the Argama." Emma responded, resolving later to have a word with Kamille about snarkiness over the comm. If any of them were still alive by then.
A group of MS-09R Rick Doms fired their bazookas at some Strike Daggers. The Dagger pilots wisely decided to take cover behind some floating debris. The rounds struck, sending shrapnel flying everywhere. A huge chunk of debris went flying towards Emma and Kamille, both of whom were forced to dodge. Emma pulled up, firing her beam rifle at an oncoming MS-14J ReGelg. The ReGelg dodged to the right, straight into the guns of a DT-6800A Daughtress. Emma's shots traveled on and nearly struck the ORB-01 Akatsuki Gundam, piloted by Cagalli Yula Athha. Cagalli immediatly oriented on the shots and fired her own rifle at Emma. Growling at this new development, Emma attempted to arc around some debris, hoping the pilot would forget her and find easier targets. Cagalli was the tenacious type though, and she wasn't about to let someone who'd just shot at her get away.
Kira Yamato, in his CB-X60D Divinity Gundam, whom had been flying alongside Cagalli, called to her over the communications line. "Cagalli, wait! Don't get separated!"
"Don't worry about me, Kira. Watch your own back." Cagalli retorted.
Emma's threat alarm shrieked as green energy bolts flashed past her. Twisting around, she saw the Akatsuki headed straight toward her. "Tenacious aren't we?" She rhetorically asked the oncoming mobile suit, aiming her beam rifle and opening fire.
Kira would have followed Cagalli, but a single OZ-02MD Virgo II distracted his attention. Quickly realizing that his beam rifle was useless against its shield, he drew one of his beam sabers and lunged forward, ducking under the mobile doll's beam cannon and stabbing it in the torso. At the exact same time, almost directly across from him, Amuro Ray, in his RX-78-2 Gundam, had been firing at a RMS-106 Hizack. In a strange twist of converging events, a flailing G-838 Mahiroo crashed into the Hizack and knocked it out of the way at the same moment that Amuro pulled the trigger. His shots flew through the space where the Hizack had been and grazed the Divinity. Kira immediately turned and fired back with his beam CIWS, Amuro's Newtype reflexes being the only thing that saved him. Barely dodging Kira's volley of beam blasts, Amuro flew towards the Divinity, dodging up, down, and around to avoid being fatally hit, even though a few blasts scarred the Gundam's armor. Closing to beam saber range, Amuro activated one of the beam blade weapons and slashed at Kira who blocked with his own saber. As Amuro Ray and Kira Yamato crossed blades, the patch of space around GENESIS, which they had been dropped into, continued to tear itself apart as people who had been thrown into an unknown situation fought savagely for their survival.
In the cockpit of the ZGMF-X42E Eclipse Gundam, Shinn Asuka's eyes widened as his advanced sensors suddenly locked onto the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam, but the crimson-eyed man instantly realized that the approaching machine wasn't the Destiny Gundam which Hope Yamato piloted, as it didn't possess any GN drives. After a few seconds of hesitation, the Eclipse freed its standard anti-ship sword, as the Destiny did likewise, and with a flash of pink light, both machines ignited their wings of light and streaked towards each other, meeting with a crash and locking blades.
Within the Divinity Gundam's cockpit, Kira sighed as all 36 of the DRAGOON units flew from his machine's back, the brightly glowing weapons spiraling elegantly through the blackness, leaving armies of blazing afterimages in their wake, and as the DRAGOON units flew through the void, multiple panels opened on the outside of each one, with each of the remote weapons unleashing another 10 DRAGOON units. In less than five seconds, the space around the Divinity was filled with a total of 396 DRAGOON units, each one of the remote weapons glowing with a blood red light and leaving dozens of afterimages behind as they streaked through the vacuum of space.
"This is a warning to all forces currently engaged in combat!." Kira spoke, having forcibly opened a communications channel to all of the mobile suits and ships on the battlefield. "You will cease all combat activites or be forced to helplessly watch as I proceed to fire beam blasts at every point in space and time, across the entire universe."
As Kira finished speaking, the Excalibur faded into existence just beyond the edge of the battlefield. Instantly, all of the mobile dolls turned and began moving towards the Divinity Gundam, having determined it to be the greatest threat, while the manned mobile suits remained reletively motionless, their pilots having been overcome by an unexpected wave of fear when the dagger-shaped warship suddenly appeared. Kira didn't even flinch as the closest group of mobile dolls opened fire with their beam cannons, only for the searing yellow energy blast to be deflected by the angelic machine's armor.
"Stupid mobile dolls." The amethyst-eyed man sighed, freeing both beam rifles from the Divinity's hips and quickly sniping the closest mobile dolls with incredible percision and efficency, targeting and destroying the beam cannons, leaving the machines completely unarmed.
Kira glanced over the radar. The remaining mobile suits and mobile dolls were scattering, even though they were just barely within range of the Divinity's weapons. At this point, they were so disorganized that Kira could pick them off one by one, with only one hand and his eyes closed, if he really had to. He could tell from the way that they were reacting that they were no longer looking for a fight.
"This is Kira Yamato in the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam." Kira spoke once again over an international channel, doing his best to keep arrogence out of his voice. "The Excalibur will continue on its present course. If you so wish, you may escort us to Earth and we may settle matters there. We will be more than willing to allow you access to our hangers, refueling facilities, and ammunition stockpiles for the remainder of the flight."
Kira continued to circle around the broken mobile suit formations in a waltz of death, ready to fight at a split second's notice. One mobile suit, which Kira instantly recognized as the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam, still bearing its standard colors of white, black and red, buzzed past him, rushing towards the Excalibur. Kira turned and locked onto the Strike Freedom with his combined beam rifle. One shot with the combined rifle was all he needed to take down an enemy, even one like the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam. Suddenly, the Strike Freedom joined Kira in his dance, a beam rifle in each hand, both weapons pointed back at him.
"Your terms are...acceptable." The dozens of Gundam pilots, whom had now assumed command of the mobile suits from their respective universes, finally growled over the radio after a long moment of extremely tense silence. "Continue on your present course."
"Thank you." Kira replied. "Anyone who wishes to do so may now land in the Excalibur's hanger." As soon as he had finished speaking, all of the ships and mobile suits moved towards the Excalibur's hanger bays, which were now slowly opening.