Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded c35

~~~~~~Meanwhile~~~~~~

With wide eyes, Athrun gazed at the destruction that happened at Earth Alliance’s moon base. All the stored weapons, warships and infrastructure exploded in a huge pillar of fire, which soon disappeared, considering it was the moon with no atmosphere to speak of.

Regardless, the moon base was gone.

‘They didn’t even have a chance to defend. Damn it, father! What the hell are you doing!’

“Damn it. What is with that weapon!” Yzak and the rest watched with him.

Ten Nazca destroyers were assigned to pursue Freedom and Eternal. They were more like a Vanguard toward whatever Earth Alliance forces remained in space.

“Don’t know. Maybe they are going to use it like they used to use Nukes? You know…if you attack us again, we will shoot it at Earth…” Daerka commented with crossed arms.

“You do realise that it's a radiation weapon? If that thing shoots, Earth becomes inhospitable!” Nicol exclaimed with worry.

“...Damn…”

“Captain, what is that thing!” Athrun looked at the captain of the warship.

“We are trying to figure it out, but the command tells us it is classified.” The comms officer told the red uniform-wearing elites.

“Great…” Daerka sarcastically commented while Athrun gnashed his teeth in anger.

‘Damn it!’

But then….

**Alarm blaring**

Enemy radar’s alarm systems started to blare through the warship.

“One extremely fast target rushing towards us!!!”

“Out here?” 

The captain sounded surprised.

“Show it.” The commanding officer instructed. 

“Magnifying the image.” 

On the main screen, an image appeared.

“Is that… Strike?”

“No, the head is slightly different. It looks like Freedom.” Athrun corrected the captain.

‘But the colour scheme is slightly different. Did Kira already improve on it?’

The blue-haired teen was slightly nervous. Kira had no doubt already realised that it was powered by nuclear power, meaning that he could go crazy.

~~~~~~Around a half an Hour Ago~~~~~~

Strike Freedom was loaded in the Eternal as final preparations were done for launch.

Kira changed into a blue pilot suit as he finally got his proper clothes.

“I still think red suits you well,” Lacus commented as she tried to make some small talk, but she was getting nervous.

“Strike Freedom is white and blue, Lacus. We need to accept that blue is my colour.” Kira joked as he closed the locker.

“You just repainted the machine with phase shift armour!” She knows that he can colour it however he wants.

“Don’t tell that to other people.” Kira snorted, as he knew no one else figured that out in the settings. Clearly, all the pilots he had seen so far didn’t appreciate their machine’s ability to customise their Phase Shift Armour.

“Besides, Freedom was always a blue and white. I might migrated Strike’s colouring, but the machine looks almost identical.”

“...fine.” 

She sighed before walking into his hands for a hug. 

“Don’t you dare do something reckless!”

“The plan is reckless already, but I promise no reckless-reckless stuff.” He hugged her back.

Snort

“I am holding you to that.”

After saying that, she kissed him before leaving the changing room.

Kira smiled as he put on his helmet and went to the hangar, where his Gundam awaited him.

The mechanics gave him a thumbs-up as they quickly became buddies with the Ultimate Coordinator. After seeing how crazy a workaholic he is, they quickly grew respectful of him.

As Kira boarded the machine, the cockpit turned on itself and started to power up. 

The pilot’s face was scanned the moment he got seated. The controller sticks came out, and pop-up windows started to appear, showing the machine's parameters and state.

“Legion, are you there?”

[Ready and waiting for you, sir.]

“Begin final preparations for launch.”

Kira checked the Gundam’s state as the Strike Freedom was loaded into the catapult deck.

Lacus' face appeared on his side. The girl was his launch officer.

“Oh… now that’s a face I can get used to looking at every time, all the time.”

“We are short-staffed here. Regardless, remember what I told you.” She said while slightly narrowing her eyes.

“I know, I know. Blow up all my enemies, blow up the super dish, and return home.” Kira lazily waved his hand.

“Kira…”

She sighed at his bad jokes.

“Hey, I told you, I do love you. So I will return in one piece, " he said, sighing at how she couldn’t understand his ‘jokes’.

But his comment made her blush erupt to the next level.

His abrupt ‘confession’ revealed the people who were listening in.

“Nice kid! So when is the wedding?” The blonde man asked as he popped into the conversation.

“Lieutenant!” Lacus blushed even more, seeing that this was not a private chat!

“In a couple of months, at most.” Kira casually replied to the fellow pilot. His comment caused quite a shock!

“Huh?” 

The pink-haired girl looked surprised. Where did this come from?? She agreed to marry, but they have not decided on a date!

“Hold on! Why I am hearing this for the first time!”

Siegel’s face appeared on the side as he listened. He expected a more serious conversation, mission-related stuff, not this…

“Father…” Lacus didn’t know where to look at…

“Anyway, I am off! Get that METEOR ready for me.” Kira pressed the launch button as his Gundam rushed out from the catapult deck, and Kira activated the Phase Shift Armour. 

The signature colouring of Strike appeared, and only the elbows and the knees were painted in gold.

The machine flew some distance away as the METEOR system disconnected from Eternal’s side and floated towards him.

Moments later, the system connected with the back of the Strike Freedom. A pop-up appeared on the screen showing that the support system METEOR was online.

The Ultimate Coordinator smirked as he pushed the lever forward, setting thrusters at the maximum allowed for the current configuration.

The twin engines of METEOR rapidly started to spin as blue energy erupted and accelerated the mobile suit forward.

~~~

The advance force swiftly started to deploy the GuAIZ, Justice, Blitz and Duel.

The red-coat Daerka, who got his mobile suit taken, was given standard edition GuAIZ. For a while, he was a laughing stock as Yzak kept on reminding him that his machine was taken away.

Though he was jealous that Athrun got Justice Gundam, having his father as the nation's leader has its perks.

The mobile suits rushed towards to intercept a solo mobile suit.

“Kira! Surrender! You are outnumbered! That machine doesn’t belong to you!”

“There is no point in trying to persuade him! Just kill the bastard!” Yzak proceeded to shoot, but none of his blasts touched him. The machine was like a meteor.

“Get lost! I don’t have time for you losers! I might have killed coordinators, but I am not crazy enough to destroy the life of the entire planet!”

Kira proceeded to multi-lock and released a massive volley of beams, railguns, and missiles from the Meteor and Strike Freedom.

Athrun was able to dodge as he used the superioŕ machine and his reflexes to block missiles and beams.

But others were not that lucky, as Blitz, Duel, and the GuAIZ were disabled.

‘Damn, the Meteor is performing far better than I thought. It's not that… Kira did something to the targeting systems, too!’

From this exchange, Athrun realised that the Freedom in front of him had already been improved in some way!

“Damn it, Kira! Are you planning to fight all of ZAFT alone!?” Athrun tried to block the massive beam sword descending at him.

Justice blocked it with its anti-beam shield, but the beam sword powered by the Meteor system cut it like cheese.

“If I am the only sane person on this battlefield, then so be it, Athrun. Your ZAFT decides that it's a great idea to cook Earth. I think its not, so I will destroy it. If it mean I have to do it alone!”

Freedom speed increased as the machine was leaving afterimages!

‘N-No way! ZAFT R&D only considered Mirage Colloid to be able to improve manoeuvrability, but he already has it developed and installed!’

Athrun needed to pull back from the incoming other Beam sword, but Kira wasn’t holding back as he activated Freedom’s hip Railguns and blasted Justice at close range.

The blue-haired teen gnashed his teeth as his machine was rattled from the impact. The next second, alarms blared, and Justice lost his arms and legs!

‘...Damn… AGAIN!’

The pilot of Justice slammed his fist into the monitor as once again he hesitated, once again he was confused, and once again Kira, with his steel will, rushed literally at the entire ZAFT fleet! He had no fear, no hesitation, only the drive to do what he thought was right.

At that moment, he recalled what Lacus said to him.

‘She is right. The way I am I won’t beat him… Do I even need to beat him?’

Athrun used the thrusters of his damaged machine to turn around and look at the path of destruction.

Kira disabled all of the 10 warship and is rushing towards the dish in the distance.

‘I didn’t join the military so that father could wipe out Earth…’

At that moment, someone wants to contact him.

“hmm?”

The confused teen answered the call. 

What he saw was the familiar face of Commander Waltfeld!

“Hey, kid, do you need a lift?”

“Commander…” Athrun looked surprised as he turned around and saw three distinct warships in the distance approaching the battlefield!

The Pink Eternal, the legged ship, and one unknown, but he knows its flag. It was ORB!

~~~

“Sir! A single object is moving towards Genesis at rapid speed!”

After blowing up the moon… by all means, conquering it, Patrick Zala, the Supreme Chairman, was on his high horse: his next target, Earth.

“What is it?”

“S-Sir! We identified as… Meteor system from the Eternal!” The officer looked shocked for a second.

“Eternal?” 

At that moment, Patrick had a flashback of a brown-haired teen smirking while looking at Freedom!

‘Kira Yamato!!!’

“It's Kira Yamato! I want EVERYONE to focus on it! Destroy it by any means necessary!”

The Supreme Chairman looked at the officers responsible for targeting the Genesis.

“I want Genesis locked and targeting that punk! There is no way in hell he can dodge that!”

The officers looked dumbfounded when they heard that! Does this man want to use a Superweapon to blow up one machine?

‘Did he finally lose it?’

“B-But sir…”

“No buts! I command it! Kira Yamato has to die! If we don’t kill him, he will hound us until the end of times!” Patrick said with a crazed look.

‘Yes, he lost it. I can’t believe it. Our Supreme Chairman is a crazy man…’

And now this crazy man has a Superweapon at his fingertips.

~~~

Kira looked at the defensive line in front of him. This is the infamous security line which protects the entirety of the PLANTs. Close to a hundred warships are lined up, protecting the fragile hourglass-shaped colonies.

And now all the ships are moving towards him…

The Ultimate Coordinator closed his eyes for a second; in his consciousness, a purple lotus flower shattered into particles. 

When he opened his eyes, the multi-lock system turned on, and his 360-degree cockpit became a huge targeting system. He proceeded to lock into multiple targets at once.

With targets set, Kira pressed a button and released barrages at the incoming mobile suits and warships.

~~~

“10…18….32…48…”

A warship captain counted the disabled machines that tried to engage the Freedom mobile suit.

“... 56 machines… that Kira Yamato is a menace!” The captain mumbled as he looked at the carnage with a sweaty forehead.

“Sir! The mobile suit is locking on us!”

“Evasive manoeuvres!” The man ordered his officers, but Freedom appeared in front of them. With huge beam swords, it slashed through the Nazca class Destroyer like tofu, disabling the engines and weapons before rushing forward towards its next target.

“...”

“...”

“...”

“Sir— the Command is sending a message… they are ordering us to remove from the line of fire!”

“HOW DO YOU SUGGEST WE DO THAT!?" the captain screamed at the comms officer, as they were ‘dead in space’!