I'm just wondering before I go on, is anybody at all interested in a forum of this series? I may make one before I start the sequel. Will be much easier to write than this. Hopefully. Rest Assured, I'll try to put the last chapter or two out fast.
Phase 34: Rainbow Wings
Vestige makes a great song right now, actually.
Kira's eyes widened as the mobile armors approached, dodging beam cannon fire. He opened Freedom's wings and took off, firing his beam rifle. The numerous mobile armors began to circle him, using their shields to block him in. Freedom raised its beam field, blocking beam cannon blasts through the shield.
"Dammit!"
# # #
Athrun spun, slicing out with his lance, cutting the cockpit of a Zamza-zah open. He looked inside expecting to see at least one pilot. His eyes widened.
"Automated? Kira! Kira!" Athrun looked to see Kira trapped in a cube of beam shields. He drew his beam boomerang and threw it, carving through three mobile armors. "Kira! They're just big dragoon pods! No pilots!"
# # #
Kira lowered his beam field.
"What?" A beam cannon blast hit Freedom mid-torso, filling the cube of beam shielding with smoke. Ten dragoons suddenly emerged and destroyed the mobile armors holding Strike Freedom, which emerged from the smoke moments later, its new beam rifle unleashing a hail of beam blasts. Its dragoon pods swung to the end of its wings, and a field of rainbow colored energy spanned between each wing, and Freedom's eyes turned purple, flashing. Inside the cockpit, Kira's pupils seperated into a trio of close-knit mini-pupils. His opals turned multicolor at the edges, extending the spectrum of Kira's vision. He drew a beam saber and flew straight through a swarm of units, cutting through them faster than Athrun could see, then used a beam rifle burst to destroy a Destroy.
'What the hell was that?' Shinn yelled, panicking.
# # #
Rey gripped his head, gritting his teeth. What was this damned ringing? It was like a million thoughts ringing like bells through Rey's head.
"Get...out..." Rey growled, angry, "GET THE HELL OUTTA MY HEAD!" He drew his beam javelins and began to carve a rage-driven swath through the forces guarding requiem, his dragoons following in his wake.
# # #
Djibril watched as his army was being destroyed like cannon fodder, terrified.
"Fire! Fire Requiem Now! Destroy those insects! FIRE EVERYTHING!"
"But sir, our forces are still in the line of fire!" the admiral said, looking at Djibril, horrified.
"I WANT THEM DEAD NOW!" Djibril pulled out a pistol and shot the nearest human being to emphasize his point.
"Are you insane?"
"I SAID FIRE!"
# # #
Strike Freedom placed its new beam rifle into its beam cannon, the handle splitting into twins to either side of the rifle. The upper and lower barrel folded back, their muzzles sparking electricity. Its Xiaphias railguns folded up, charging energy. A rainbow-colored beam field surrounded Strike Freedom, shielding it from all incoming fire.
# # #
Athrun was still wondering what had caused Freedom's transformation when a Destroy attacked him.
'You murdered me!' Sting Oakley roared, firing his beam cannons. 'I won't let you kill me again!' Athrun threw all three beam boomerangs, cutting through the Destroy's launched arms, and the third cut of the units legs, leaving the unit to fall over, firing its cannons at Justice. Destiny suddenly showed up and destroyed the immense mobile suit with one shot of its beam cannon.
"Tell me what's happening to Freedom!" Shinn shouted, attacking the Justice.
"What's wrong with you?" Athrun shouted, blocking the attack with his shield. "I don't know either, alright!"
"Why would I believe a traitor like you?" Shinn said, throwing a beam boomerang. It knocked Justice's lance out of its hand, forcing Athrun to draw his beam rifle. "Tell me what's really happening!" All of a sudden, Destiny's head was shot by a pair of dragoon pods. Legend boosted at Justice, its Beam Javelins flashing. Athrun dodged and fired a pair of shots at Legend, forcing it back on the defensive.
# # #
Inside Legend, Rey was wildly looking around the screens, sweating, his helmet discarded.
"Where is he? Where's Mu la Flaga!" At that moment, a destroyed Zamza-zah slammed into Legend, and Rey suddenly was lunged forward, his head striking and breaking his main view screen, before falling unconscious.
# # #
"Strike Freedom Heavy Weapons Type now firing!" Freedom's charged beam rifle fired a massive beam larger than a Tanhauser cannon straight at Requiem. Just as he did, the main battery of Requiem emptied into a nuclear chamber, and fired a large beam. When they struck, Freedom's smaller beam struck the large cannon blast of Requiem and the two forces of energy canceled each other out in a release of kinetic energy that forced the base on which Requiem sat to spin out of control, causing a huge crack right down the middle of the station. Freedom was the only suit that wasn't pushed back, its wings of light flaring as the wave hit it, then the wings closed into their normal configuration. Discarding the now destroyed beam rifle, Kira flew over to Justice.
# # #
Djibril watched as the wave of plasma flew right at him, cracking the window. Within seconds, the glass had stripped him to nothing. Within minutes, Djibril was merely a mushy collection of blood and some bones that were sucked into outer space.
# # #
"Let's go." As they left, rescue teams began to recover Destiny and Legend, their pilots unconcious.
"What was that, Kira?" Athrun asked. Kira looked at Justice.
"I found a state above SEED mode where I could tap into my extra brain power. With the bio-sensor I can set Freedom to increase its reactor while also receiving solar energy via its wings. I tried to use at Onogoro, but I couldn't control the sudden surplus of energy."
# # #
"It appears we have no choice. Those people will attack the Plants. I want Messiah on line immediately. Also, I want the Operating System installed into the Immortal." Durandal turned to Meer. "Meer, I am afraid right now you are no longer needed." Meer looked at Durandal, shocked and confused.
"Who's...who is Meer? I'm...I'm Lacus, aren't I? Aren't I?" Durandal nodded to a guard, who gripped Meer's arm and pulled her away. He turned to his Praetorian Guard.
"Take her to a remote location and dispose of her." Meer, looked back, unknown to Durandal that she could still here them. "Then bring Asuka to me. We have matters to discuss."
# # #
Sebastian drew Fenrir from its sheathe, examining the blade's edge from several angles, using a whetstone to sharpen it here and there. He drew a rag of fur and tanned hide from a bag and set it down next to some oil, then unpegged the blade from the hilt and tsuba and with drew the actual metal tang and blade out and began to use the oil and rag to clean every centimeter.
Samuel stood nearby, watching Alex lift weights. The raven-haired pilot held back any sound he could. It was an exercise similar to learning to ignore any kind of pain, but less stressful. He simultaneously counted the pegs in the room with his Newtype senses, focusing his mind to the kind of multi-tasking needed for mobile suit piloting.
"Do you think Durandal will attack us next?" Samuel finally asked.
"Nobody is elected to be Chairman unless he has something the others don't. Historians call it charisma, allies. Really, it comes down to security guards."
"Security Guards?"
"Like the kind that take his more powerful adversaries out of harm's way," Sebastian said.
"Meaning?"
"He's got something else."
"Like what?"
"Well, Zala had Genesis, the one before him had N-Jammers."
"There is Destiny," Samuel added, looking at Sebastian.
"Destiny's a rook, not a Queen."
Sebastian stood up, setting his cleaned weapon into its sheath. He walked out, taking his things with him.
# # #
Stella stared out of the observation window of the Archangel, trapped by the silence of the moment. Kira turned the corner to see Stella and stopped. She looked to see Kira and pushed away from the window.
"It's...really quiet," Stella said. Kira tried to remember the days just before Jachin Due and realized he couldn't.
"It's the deep breath before the plunge. Pretty soon, it's all going to be chaos. A lot of people are going to die."
Stella stiffened. "Die? Are we gonna die?"
"If we do, we're not dying alone." Stella froze. She blinked.
"We'll be together. Like family."
"We are family." Kira looked into her eyes, exactly his own, and saw a part of himself there. Up until now, he'd never fully wrapped his head around the fact that he had a family. Now he had a mother, and a brother, and two sisters. He had more to actually fight for. The thought brought a wellspring of joy up from him, and he suddenly smiled and hugged Stella protectively.
"I'll protect you, Stella."
# # #
Shinn walked into the room to see Durandal looking out the window. Shinn walked up and saw a large mobile armor being unloaded. It had a pair of wings extending from its shoulders with dragoon pods shaped like feathers, and Shinn counted at least nine beam cannons mounted around the unit, all but one facing forward, three arranged in a gatling gun-like formation on either side.
"The ZGMF-XXX IMMORTAL. It was built using test data from Chaos, Gaia, and Abyss, and is based on a suit from ZAFT's first series of gundams. It features a nanotech repair system that can repair it as long as it is powered by a nuclear reactor. This will be the weapon that destroys Freedom. All I need you to do is destroy Athrun and Lacus Clyne. Then nothing will stop the Destiny Plan."
"Who will be piloting it, sir?" Shinn asked. Durandal looked of his shoulder and smiled. Shinn blinked. "You...you'll be piloting it? Are you sure you don't want me to pilot-"
"I am the one who began the Destiny Plan, thus I should be the one that concludes it. Don't worry Shinn, nothing will happen to me. I can handle a mobile armor just fine," Durandal interrupted. Besides, the Immortal is based on your combat data.
# # #
Via read the orders again, and looked up at the purple-uniformed commander that had delivered them. Arthur looked at Via, uncertain of himself. She crumpled the paper and threw it aside.
"What is the meaning of this? I've been called to be the primary commander of Messiah? And what is this Messiah? There's no ship named Messiah in our fleet, and certainly no ship that needs more than one commander!" Via yelled, angry.
"Ma'am, I am just the deliverer. The orders come straight from Chairman Durandal. As a member of Faith, you have no choice in the matter. The Chairman will explain." Via ground her teeth and walked off the bridge.
"Arthur, don't you dare lose my ship. Or then you'll be sorry."
# # #
"Hey, Mobile Suit Pilot!" Murrue shouted. Neo looked up from welding a joint on the Akatsuki, goggles covering his eyes, his hair tied back into a ponytail. He shut the welder off pushed off over to Murrue, removing his goggles.
"And how may I help you, princess?" Neo asked, bowing.
"Well, you could come to the strategy meeting aboard the Eternal in about fifteen minutes, but I guess if you're too busy fixing you mobile suit."
"I'll fix my mobile suit AND be at the strategy meeting."
"Are you sure, heavy duty repairman such as yourself?"
"I make the impossible possible, I will be there, then I will fly my fully-repaired circles around your slow bulky ship."
"Yeah? Well, don't run into any of my large intimidating weapons."
"I'll do that, and avoid your ship's guns! Now, if you excuse me." Murrue just stared open mouthed as he floated back to where he left his welder, then put his goggles back on and began to weld again.
"I'm going to punish you for that later!" Murrue shouted, leaving.
"Okay. I love spankings!"
# # #
Kira was looking at the large tactical table of the eternal, Lacus sitting in chair nearby, Andrew Waltfeld standing opposite Kira.
"Serpent Tail and the Junk Guild have rejoined Terminal. We have more military strength than one of Zaft's fleets, but we're facing three. The First, Third, and Fifth Fleets Arrayed against. The Sixth and Seventh will be on us in twelve hours," Andrew said, reading a list of statistics.
"We'll have to attack before that. But we'll be wiped out if we haven't crippled the First and Third by then. The Fifth will be held back until the last moment," Kira noted.
"There's also a small space fortress nearby. We've been unable to confirm, but it looks like it's moving. There are a pair of repair and resupply frigates there, and a pair of super carriers. They're both capable of launching twelve mobile suits at a time."
"And Durandal is going to have them bear down on me and me alone," Kira finished. Lacus and Waltfeld both looked up at him, shocked.
"His Destiny plan, the way I see it, I'm the one thing that would be fit to rule the world. I would be the king, if not the god of his gene-based caste system. So he'll come for me." At that point, Murrue and Neo walked in, followed by Stella, Shani, Clotho, and Orga. A few seconds later, Canard walked in from the other door. Sebastian and Alex walked in, followed shortly by Samorai and Mina Sahaku.
"I think Sebastian, Alex, and Sam should defend the Archangel. Neo will help you. Athrun and I will take the Meteors and take on the main mobile suit force. Stella and Lacus will support us. Shani, Orga, and Clotho will punch a hole for the ships. Canard and the Astrays can be rear guard for Forbidden, Calamity, and Raider. Athrun and I will take down Destiny and Legend, then head for the-"
He was cut off by a huge beam firing near the Eternal. Waltfeld grabbed the table and headed for the captain's chair.
"What the hell was that?"
"A huge beam weapon from that space fortress!" Meyrin reported, typing furiously. "The east wing of the fleet's been devastated, and five ships are on fire and leaking oxygen. Seven more are suffering hull breaches, but can still launch and move. Three aren't reporting in."
"That was a Genesis beam!" Sebastian shouted.
"We have to start launching now! Get back to you positions. Athrun and I will take the Genesis out."
# # #
Murasames and DOM Troopers were suddenly scrambling, launching to establish a safe perimeter. A few scout Zakus were found and destroyed, as the ships began to spread apart to avoid presenting a target.
# # #
The Eternal, Kusanagi, Archangel, and ReHome all opened their linear catapults, squadrons of mobile suits protecting the hatch. Neo opened a communication with Murrue.
"I just called to tell you I'm coming back. I promise I'm coming back. And if anything tries to stop me, I'll shoot them out of the sky." Neo said. Murrue blinked, then smiled and nodded. He closed the line.
# # #
Kira looked around the Eternal through Strike Freedom's cockpit, thinking to himself.
"One last time..." he declared to himself. "All pilots, launch your machines!"
# # #
"Canard Pars, Dreadnought H, Launching!"
"Mina Sahaku, Astray Gold Frame, Taking Off!"
"Lowe Guele, Astray Red Frame, Launching!"
"Gai Murakumo, Astray Blue Frame Second L, Taking off."
"Alex Strassmeier, Dragoon Soryu, Launching!"
"Sebastian "Storm Wolf" Connor, Zangetsu, Launching!
"Samorai Joule, Gekka, Launching!"
"Stella Lousieer, Gaia, Launching!"
"Neo Roanoke, Akatsuki, Launching!"
"Yzak Joule, Gouf, Taking Off."
"Dearka Elmsan, Zaku, taking off."
# # #
"Rey za Burrel, Legend, Heading out!"
"Mayu Asuka, Chaos, Taking off!"
"Lunamaria Hawke, Core Splendor, Taking off!"
# # #
"Athrun Zala, Infinite Justice, taking off!"
# # #
"Shinn Asuka, Destiny, Taking off."
# # #
"Kira Yamato. ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom, Launching!"
Freedom shot down the launch rails, sparks flying. As it cleared the launch rails it opened its Wings of Light and flapped once, sending deuteron particles flying in its wake.
# # #
The massive mobile armor freed itself from its external cables.
"Chairman Gilbert Durandal, ZGMF-XXX Immortal. Heading out."
# # #
Here we are. And boy has it been a long ride. The Immortal is a little mobile armor I came up with (stretching little) but I will... do something I can't think of right now for the person who can guess which mobile armor the Immortal is inspired by. Anyway, on to questions.
1) Who will die?
2) Who will review?
3) Who will strip naked and cry out for joy now that I've finally put out a chapter? (None of you I hope, but I don't know.)
4) What happened with Rey when Kira entered Rainbow Mode? (Or at least I want to hear your thoughts.)
5) Will Durandal live?
6) Will Via live?
7) Will Stella live?
8) Who's ghost will appear to Shinn/Rey/Neo/Kira/Murrue/Auel(WHAT? IT'S NOT LIKE I HAVE ANY RULES HERE!)/Rau/Flay/The 2 billion dead soldiers Kira cried over in the first series/Mu/Djibril
9) Which one of the characters will randomly strip naked and show up in the middle of the final scene with Durandal and Kira? (BTW, if you blow soda on your keyboard I will not replace it. You know who you are.)
10) WHY were you DRINKING SODA a SECOND TIME after knowing that THAT had happened in the FIRST PLACE?
11) WHY IN THE BLAZES WOULD I WRITE ELEVEN QUESTIONS?
13) WHY IS THERE NO TWELVE? (SLAP YOURSELF IF YOU FELL FOR THAT. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.)
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