Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 124
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 jolted awake as the alarms began to go off. He quickly dressed in his pilot suit and rushed for the hangar.
Murrue looked to the CIC. "Activate Igelstellungs! Open the launch catapult as soon as the pilots are ready to launch."
Canard powered up his YMF-X000A/H Dreadnought Gundam as Kira lowered himself into the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam's cockpit.
'You're going, too?' Kira asked over the radio.
"I'm not some useless mobile armor pilot, you know." Canard muttered.
"An attack force of 50 AMA-953 BABIs. No other units detected." Mirillia informed.
Asuka, Shiho, and Misato looked at the radar screen. Shiho actually looked somewhat worried. Asuka looked around the bridge, and sighed.
"Okay, I'll head out in Eva Unit 02." Asuka said, heading for the lift.
"You don't think I can handle it with my Savior Gundam?" Shiho asked, looking over her shoulder at Asuka, her violet eyes narrowed.
"I don't doubt that you can handle it." Asuka answered. "But, the Crimson Wolf wants out." The redhead grinned over her shoulder as she referred to herself by the name which her enemies had given her, narrowing her sky blue eyes as she glanced at Misato. "And besides, you and Misato aren't really equipped to handle BABIs." She lied, and without waiting for a reply, walked into the lift. Misato chuckled and shook her head.
"I almost feel sorry for Durandal." Misato said. Shiho gave her a neutral stare. Misato's smile disappeared upon seeing Shiho's expression. "Nevermind."
"Kira Jesus Yamato. Divinity Gundam, launching!" Divinity bent its knees and blazed down the tracks, then released, its engines igniting.
Canard closed his visor. "Canard Pars. Dreadnought, heading out." Dreadnought shot forward, its beam machine gun in hand.
Kira dodged a pair of beam rifle shots and fired back, destroying the beam rifles wielded by the attackers. The mobile suits instead aimed their beam machine guns and fired, nearly hitting the Divinity. A large portion of the mobile suits began firing their quad vulcans on the Divinity, forcing Kira to dodge. He fired his rail guns, knocking off vulcans suit by suit, rounds sparking off his MCPS armor.
He turned just as a pair of BABIs flew in behind him and fired their multi-phase beam cannons. Kira's eyes went wide, even he didn't have enough to time to dodge energy weapons when they were fired at point-blank range. Suddenly, an orange mobile suit was between the Divinity and the BABI, delivering a disabling beam saber slash to the BABI's multi-phase cannon before then fading out of existence. Kira backpedaled in surprise.
"Maybe we should fix the timelines when we get the chance." Kira mused as he fired a rocket anchor from within the Divinity's right palm, the projectile wrapping itself around the BABI's leg, Kira smirked as he yanked on the tether attached to the anchor and pulled the machine towards him. The BABI barely managed to duck under Kira's beam saber slash, before moving to cut off the Divinity's arm. Kira growled as he kicked the BABI in the face, knocking the machine into the ocean, and then fired his rail guns after it, pounding its armor.
A beam rifle blast suddenly interrupted Kira's path. He turned to watch as the ZAFT-built Impulse Gundam locked on the Blast Silhouette pack and aimed its beam cannons at him. Kira effortlessly dodged the twin blasts and fired back with his plasma cannons. The Impulse dodged, drawing a pair of beam javelins as it did so.
"It's not Shinn or Mayu in the Impulse." Kira muttered to himself, even as he continued to effortlessly dodge the hail of beam blasts from the rapidly approaching Blast Impulse Gundam. "Falcon kick!" The amethyst-eyed man shouted, as his angelic machine suddenly blazed with a blood red light, leaving a cloud of afterimages to catch the javelin slash as he kicked the Impulse aside. The pilot of the ZAFT mobile suit shouted out in surprise as the Impulse hit the ocean.
The Impulse raised itself out of the water, only to be kicked to land by the Divinity. The angel-winged machine landed atop the Impulse, and aimed a twin buster rifle at the cockpit.
Meanwhile, about five miles inland, a huge city stood, only hidden from sensors by the fractured timelines. In the center of the city, the shattered dome of the Paradigm Corporation stood in ruin. The once magnificent building that was both Paradigm's headquarters and Alex Rosewater's palace was split open like an egg. Underneath the ruined structure, the damage was more superficial. The underground complex was where the white megadeus called Big Fau was being restored. Scaffolding and workmen surrounded the white giant. Even so, with over a third of the megadeus destroyed, it was going to be hard to get massive robot fully operational again.
As a transparent hemisphere enclosed the cockpit from the rest of the control room, the three circular monitors at Alex Rosewater's feet came to life, as the man in question settled into the chair. A strange buzzing sound was heard in the cockpit.
"Yes, you're right, Big Fau." Alex frowned. "It's time to get back at that poor excuse for a domineus who put them up to this! It's time to rid my world of Roger Smith!"
Outside in the hanger, the frightened workmen cried out as the scaffolding around the white megadeus fell away. Screams and metallic impacts could be heard as the injured leviathan staggered to its feet and lumbered forward. Alarm klaxons were heard as Big Fau stumbled towards the huge lift that would take it to the surface.
"Sir!" The technician in charge of the elevator controls exclaimed. "The elevator! It's activating all by itself!"
"What?" His supervisor gasped. "That's impossible!"
Inside the cockpit of the white megadues, Alex Rosewater grinned an ironic smile. "Who knew, Big Fau?" He mused as the giant robot rose to the surface of the city. "We don't need that android's memory. You have me instead. Together we are complete. This is what you wanted all along isn't it? And deep down, this is what I wanted. Now let's bring this ungrateful city to its knees!" The roof opened above the robot allowing it access to the outside world. "Big Fau!" Alex Rosewater shouted in glee. "It's showtime!"
Like the dead rising out of their graves on judgment day, the black megadeus tore out of the ground sending concrete and asphalt flying in all directions. The massive robot thundered forward away from the crater its appearance had created and stood in the middle of the highway heading towards the main dome.
"There you are, Roger Smith." Alex Rosewater spat, a sinister grin on his skull-like face. "Now we'll see if you've got what it takes to be a domineus."
Roger sat in the cockpit and put his feet into the pedals. He crossed his arms as two curved arms ending in joysticks closed to encircle his chair. A transparent bubble closed to seal him off from the rest of the circular room.
"Big O, action!" Roger exclaimed. Just then a bulb flashed on the communications panel.
"What is it, Norman?" Roger asked as he flicked a switch. "No offense, but I'm a little busy here."
The circular screen on the right activated to display the face of a concerned Norman Burg. "Master Roger! I just realized. Big O is loaded with less lethal ammunition! The missiles and armor piercing shells were left back here!"
"Now we do this the hard way." Roger grimaced as he activated the eye lasers.
In Big Fau's cockpit, Alex Rosewater sneered. "I don't think that you have what it takes to pilot the Big, Negotiator. I think that Big Fau can defeat you using only one hand." He hit the button on his joystick and the turbine on Big Fau's remaining forearm, the left one, sprung to life. Big Fau's hand and forearm launched to become a deadly projectile.
With the flick of a switch, the anchor on Big O's right hip shot out, propelled by miniature turbojets, trailing a massive chain behind it. When the anchor had secured itself to the ground, Roger reeled in the chain to pull the black megadeus to the side and out of the path of Big Fau's hand. "That was too close." Roger breathed.
"What's the matter, Negotiator." Alex mocked. "Lost your nerve? I think there are parts in your megadeus that would restore Big Fau quite nicely, don't you agree? Think of your Big as an organ donor."
Two laser projectors extended on flexible periscope-like extenders from Big Fau's back. Roger responded by using Big O's arm shields to protect his body. "Why the hell am I on the defensive?" Roger grunted. "This is ridiculous!"
The fight suddenly came to a halt, however, as a new voice was heard over the communications lines, one which sounded much younger than the two megaduce pilots. "Stop this pointless fighting, you morons!" The voice shouted, and an instant later, another machine seemed to appear out of thin air, standing in between Big O and Big Fau.
The new arrival was the same size as Big O and Big Fau, but that was the only thing they had in common. The newly arrived machine was colored white with a black chest and a few red accents, in the center of its chest was a glowing green orb, and on its forehead was a pair of golden horns. The machine also held a large, twin barreled rifle in each hand, it had a large, aerodynamic shield mounted on its right forearm with a smaller shield mounted on the left forearm, but, its most unique feature was the pair of brightly glowing angel-style wings on its back.
"I am Kira Jesus Yamato." The pilot of the angelic machine spoke after a moment of tense silence. "And my machine is known as the CB-X60D Divinity Gundam." He continued, even as Big Fau began to glow with a white light, and when the light faded a few seconds later, Big Fau had been completely restored.
"Foolish child!" Alex roared, as Big Fau charged forward, bringing its right arm back for a brutal punch.
"Tell me, why does a man who rules an entire city feel the need to destroy it?" Kira smirked as Big Fau's fist impacted on the Divinity's glowing GN field and bounced back, forcing the white machine to take a step backwards to prevent falling on its backside. "What's the deal with that, huh?" When Alex didn't answer, Kira unfolded his arms and smiled. "As for what sort of being I am; I am God himself, and as of this moment, I have a duty to be the thing between you and the destruction of this city and its innocent civilians!"
"You really believe that you can make a difference, don't you, boy?" Alex retorted. "You've cast me in the role of the villain. Well now, how do you know I'm not the hero?"
"You're not the hero, Alex Rosewater." Kira laughed. "All you are is a stupid, genocidal maniac, just like someone I used to know named Rau Le Creuset."
"Shut up!" Alex growled as a pair of massive cannons emerged from Big Fau's chest and fired at the angelic machine.
"Hey Alex, I can't help wondering." Kira called in a mocking voice, as he ignited his beam shield, the glowing white energy barrier vaporizing the cannon shells. "Why are you doing this? I mean, you have enough money and power to even make your worst enemies do what you want, so why do you need a megadeus? There must be some reason."
"I now have the power that only a megadeus can provide." Alex replied smugly. "I can surpass the world my father built, and take my place among the gods!"
"You will never be anything close to a god!" Kira snarled, as the Divinity's eyes flashed with a bright purple light, the machine flapping its angelic wings a few times and taking to the air.
"I am everything my father once was!" Alex growled. Kira smiled, he must have hit a nerve. "I shall surpass my father and finish what he started!" The chairman insisted. "No one shall forget the name of Alex Rosewater!"
"Yeah, until the next guy comes along," Kira said dryly as he dodged another volley from Big Fau's cannons. "Then he'll undo everything you did and try to make his own mark on society. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to erase everybody's memories just to be sure."
"No one will replace Alex Rosewater!" The chairman roared. Big Fau fired lasers from its back, but the Divinity's wings snapped open and a white plane of energy appeared in the gaps as the machine moved itself to the left, the energy blasts slicing through mere afterimages.
"Why not, you've replaced your father, Gordon Rosewater, haven't you?" Kira quipped as he fired both plasma cannons, along with the twin hyper-impulse cannons to rake the ground in front of Big Fau, carving a large trench in the roadway. "Did your father ever tell you that he loved you? I mean, you've got no friends or loved ones. You don't want any. He never taught you how to open up to anyone did he? Must be a pretty lonely life."
"My father was a god!" Alex cried, even as a pair of lasers once again shot out of Big Fau's eyes, but the Divinity countered with its beam shields, before once more landing on the ground.
"You handle that megadeus pretty well." Kira smiled as Big Fau came closer. "Where did you get the memories to operate that thing? Did we go to school together?" A missile was fired from Big Fau, hitting the Divinity in the chest.
"Did you ever have your head shaved when you were a kid?" Kira asked with false sincerity as the smoke from the explosion faded, only to reveal that the Divinity Gundam was completely unharmed. "Stare into a fire and watch books burn? See a barcode flash before your eyes? I see that kind of stuff all the time and man, it's really pain in the ass." The amethyst-eyed man lied. "Doesn't that drive you crazy? Makes you wonder just who and what you are, doesn't it?"
"I am not one of your tomatoes!" Alex screamed as one of the periscope-style arms sprouting from Big Fau's back fired another energy beam at the Divinity, only to be deflected away by the angelic machine's advanced armor. "I am Alex Rosewater! Paradigm City's only heir! I am destined to be the ruler of all mankind!"
"Sorry, that's not going to happen." Kira responded as the Divinity spread its wings and the DRAGOON units took to the air with a flash of sapphire light. A few seconds later, everything faded to white as both the Divinity Gundam, and all 36 of its DRAGOON units opened fire.