Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 132

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.

"I told you that I can't pilot the Freedom with all the changes you made." Murrue Ramius protested as Kira Yamato physically carried her into the hanger and up to the Freedom's cockpit hatch.

Without a single word, the amethyst-eyed man opened the Freedom's cockpit hatch and gently set Murrue down in the pilot seat. After a few seconds, Murrue hesitantly set her hands on the control yokes, and as she did so, Kira smiled.

"I-if I pilot the Freedom, you won't be able to protect us." Murrue said after a moment of silence.

"Wrong." Kira grinned, as he snapped his fingers and, right before Murrue's eyes, a mobile suit vaugely resembeling the Freedom Gundam, ablit with a pair of pure white, angel-style wings, appeared in the supposedly empty mobile suit cubicle to Murrue's left. "I'll be piloting this machine." He smiled, motioning to the mobile suit which had seemingly appeared out of thin air. "The CB-X60D Divinity Gundam."

From the outside, the Divinity Gundam looked very intimidating despite its angelic appearence, its white, black and red colors, the gold V-fin, the glinting purple eyes, and the grill-like faceplate, it gave off a commanding aura. With the shoulder, elbow, wrist and knee flanges, the body of the Divinity looked ominous. The highly aerodynamic shield it held in its left hand had a pair of multi-phase beam cannons built into it, the 580mm wide-bore barrel planted directly in the center of the shield's face, with the smaller 320mm multi-phase cannon in the nose of the shield. In the Divinity's right hand was gripped a 57mm beam rifle. Across its back were strapped a pair of massive twin barrel rifles, a large hammer, and a pair of huge swords, one of the blades a shimmering crystalline blue and the other appearing as though it had been carved from flesh.

"Hello? Athrun?" The ZAFT Red in question snapped out of his reverie, snapping his head up to see Miguel's face looking annoyed on the communications screen. "You were listening? I asked what your connection is to this Kira guy."

"Well...I went to the moon after that Blue Cosmos attack on me and my father, remember?" Athrun said, pausing to see Miguel's impatient nod. "I met Kira there. We pretty much became the poster boys for 'Best Friends Forever at first sight'."

"You didn't...date him, did you?" The Aegis Gundam's head slowly turned to face Miguel's GINN. The next second, a momentary pulse from the Aegis's thrusters sent its shield slamming into the chest of the GINN. Before the blow sent the ZAFT mobile suit flying, four insect-like appendages extended from the edges of the shield and wrapped around the GINN, holding it tightly.

"I dare you to say anything so much as insinuating that I'm gay again." Athrun's voice hissed, the cockpit speakers enhancing the menace in his voice. "Then we'll see what happens to a GINN that's blasted by a multi-phase beam cannon at close range." Miguel just nodded. Despite his status and reputation as an ace, Athrun was generally regarded as a prodigy. Also, despite the prideful denials of the ZAFT engineers, the Aegis out-teched the GINN by a good two orders of magnitude.

"Stop!" Rau commanded, his voice echoing over the communication lines. "We're almost to the designated point. Get ready!" The appendages slowly withdrew back into their storage spaces on the edges of the shield. The Aegis Gundam's glare held the GINN captive for a moment before Athrun maneuvered the Gundam back the somewhat weaker hull section where Rau Le Creuset and his GuAIZ escaped.

Now, less than five minutes later, Kira was once again facing Miguel Aiman, the Magic Bullet of Dusk, in his borrowed GINN.

"So...I guess you think you're hot shit in that mobile suit, huh?" Miguel snarled at the pilot of the Divinity Gundam.

"Well, it's rather different from those shitty ZAFT mobile suits." Kira began, only for the conversation to cease as Miguel charged, machine gun firing as he moved to slam the Divinity Gundam with his shield. The angelic machine's microthrusters fired, moving the Divinity ever so slightly, causing the burst to miss. When the GINN's shield moved, the Divinity's right hand, still clutching the grip of the sword, moved. The eight-meter blade emerged from its sheath, beam edge flaring into existence as it sliced down, carving through shield and limb. Before Miguel could move anymore, both the Divinity's main thrusters and the microthrusters fired, flipping the angelic Gundam over the GINN. A 180-degree spin sliced the sword through the GINN's midsection, parting legs from torso. The cockpit of the GINN fell, only its head and right arm still attached. Before it fell too far though, the Aegis Gundam's shield slammed into it, appendages gripping the remains of the mobile suit. The two Gundams looked at each other.

"Athrun."

"Kira." The Divinity moved, pointing the tip of its sword at the Aegis, which holstered the beam rifle on its thigh, drawing the beam naginata. Despite these threatening actions, the two pilots had a rather friendly conversation.

"So, how have you been?" Athrun asked.

"I've been okay." Kira answered. "You'll never guess though."

"What?"

"Turns out, I'm the son of the Chief Representative of the Orb Union."

"WHAT!" At this point, the fight had begun, both skillfully attacking, and parrying the others attacks, at least, to the view of any unskilled observers.

"Yep." Kira nodded. "His daughter's my twin sister."

"I always suspected that." Athrun mused. "You two do look alot alike."

"I still have every intention of marrying her." Kira informed his friend.

To the side, the remaining GuAIZ dodged the Mobious Zero's fire, although the GuAIZ still ended up having its legs holed due to the rail gun shots from the Archangel. On the bridge, Natarle grew impatient.

"Aim the Gottfried!" Despite their doubts, the crew followed her command, quickly aiming the port-side Gottfried beam cannon. "Fire!" A green energy beam lanced out from the twin barrels, speeding through the upper right section of the GINN, and into the center structure of Heliopolis. The effect was instantaneous, and obvious.

The structure melted, and the colony shuddered, the damage caused by fights, both inside and outside the colony, only speeding up the inevitable. The centrifugal force ripped Heliopolis to shreds, dirt, concrete, and metal flying away. The rushing winds of the escaping atmosphere pulled the mobile suits along, scattering them all over. It was all over within a matter of minutes.

The Divinity floated in the debris field. In the cockpit, Kira's lips thinned, becoming an emotionless line as the pupils of his eyes dilated into seeming non-existence, and the irises almost completely engulfing them. The irises were also faceted, like a diamond, and shifted through countless colors, the whole spectrum of light flashing through Kira's eyes as blood steadily flowed from them.

Kira Yamato shifted uncomfortably, trying to find a distribution of weight that didn't hurt his rear. He wished that Rau Le Creuset could've waited more than ten minutes before staging another fake attack. 'Whoops! I really should stop thinking.' The Divinity had barely dodged a shimmering green energy beam from the Duel Gundam, piloted by a vengeful Yzak Joule.

"Fucking stand still!" The silver-haired Coordinator snarled, firing a barrage of missiles. Kira yawned, making sure it was loud enough to be transmitted by the earpiece, and fired the CIWS beam guns in short bursts, destroying the missiles before they so much as inched towards him. The alter then had the Divinity detach its left claw, before grabbing the beam rifle holstered on its back waist and snapping off a trio of shots past the Duel's cameras. The beams streaked by, temporarily blinding the Gundam and reminding Yzak Joule just who he was fighting. Grinning, Kira pushed the Divinity into a somersault, feeding just enough power into the thrusters to move the angelic Gundam slightly forward as it began the second revolution. As a result, the Divinity's feet kicked straight into the Duel's crotch, throwing the blue mobile suit upwards. As well as sparking a series of cursing as Yzak got the insult. Which caused Kira to laugh mockingly. Which started off another round of swearing, in a feedback loop. The shield came up, shotgun firing three times, a spread of flechettes blazing outwards. Kira ignored them, instead dodging the follow-up barrage of beams and a grenade. He wasn't surprised when the Duel threw away its rifle, whipping out the beam saber and slicing away like a butcher. The reaction to this was simple, the Divinity's thrusters flaring bright as Kira boosted the mobile suit above the other, CIWS firing insultingly at the Duel's face. Roaring, Yzak sliced the sword up, attempting to at least cut off one of the legs or something to that extent. The Divinity simply backed away, its faceplate opening to reveal a mouth filled with pure white teeth, finally the mouth opened wide, clearing the firing arc of the ion cannon hidden in the back of the machine's mouth.

"IM CHARGIN MAH LAYZER!" Kira screamed, cackling insanely.

"Actually, it's an ion beam weapon." Hope said, from the cockpit of the Strike. "Instead of firing a concentrated beam of photons, it fires a compressed beam of plasma at the speed of light, and while they may seem simi-"

"Oh, shut up!" Kira snapped. The particulars of the cannon were of no real concern to him, all he really cared about was the destruction it caused. Which was rather small, the energy beam flashing past the Duel's torso to hit a small and lonely meteroid. Kira scowled slightly, even as the green orb in the center of the Divinity's chest lit up, and an instant later, the angelic machine's temporal inversion cannon fired, forcing the Duel Gundam out of the timeline, erasing it from existence.