Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded c28

Chapter 28

“Prepare missiles! We will blow our way out of the base!” Archangel Captain Murrue Ramius, with a sweaty forehead, instructed the gunnery officers.

“...But…”

“We don’t have any choice! You don’t wish to die, do you?” She proclaimed as everyone stopped for a second. They can see soldiers trying to board other ships, including Archangel.

“...Fine…but we don’t know when the attack will happen.”

[It will take around 20 minutes to power the Cyclops System]

“W-Who!?”

[Artificial Intelligence Legion. I have assumed all of the controls over the base. However, the trigger system is out of my reach as it’s directly linked to the commanding submarine.]

“If you have assumed control of the base, can you open the gates?” Captain ignored the details for now, as she knew this should have been Kira’s creation. She recalled he had a bunch of laptops in his room with him.

[I can do that. However, they can overwrite my command as well.]

“Damn those Blue Cosmos! They are prepared!” Mu La Flaga exclaimed before he got an idea!

“Open the gates at my command! I will use Buster to keep it open! The kid made sure I had one big Positron Cannon for a reason!” The Lieutenant rushed out from the bridge.

“...Damn…what now?” 

Others were still conflicted about desertion.

“Orb... we will go to Orb.” The captain recalled that Kira had several meetings with Lord Uzumi…

 As if setting up things for this…

‘Did he predict this? Probably did…’

“Yeah! I need some serious holidays after this! I recalled that Orb has great beaches!”

One way or another, the bridge crew recovered to some degree, as they were already used to such pressure!

“But damn, Kira has such Artificial Intelligence, and we didn’t know it.”

[Apologies, I was instructed to remain silent until specific criteria have been met.]

“No worries. We can grill Kira later!” One of Kira’s friends clenched his fist. They wonder if they can get something like this in their houses.

~~~

“Ensign! We are leaving! Organise the people who bordered the ship! There are some of the positions they could take over!”

Crew members of Archangel notified Natalie Badgiruel, who had just returned to Archangel with a bunch of soldiers who should have boarded the submarine.

She was about to complain that she was promoted to Lieutenant, but she sucked it in and started to bark orders.

They might have taken extra soldiers, but Archangel had to move again.

“I-I detected incoming heat signatures from space! I-ITS ZAFT!!!”

The newly promoted lieutenant grimaced upon hearing that.

“Quickly seal the doors! We have to MOVE!!!”

“R-Right!”

The soldiers pushed people who wanted to barge back and closed the doors. The vessel was already moving out.

‘Damn those Blue Cosmos! This is not some game for you stupid radicals!’ The woman bit her lower lip from frustration and anger. She swiftly organised newcomers before rushing towards the bridge.

~~~

“Kid, you not ready yet?” Mu La Flaga greeted Kira, who finished dressing in his pilot uniform.

“You can call it battle meditation. This is the first time we face absurd odds without trump cards.” Kira said after taking a deep breath.

“And since I promised Lacus that I would survive. I have to consider some of my actions.” The Strike’s pilot explained as he placed his helmet on.

“I know what you mean. However, just be yourself, relax, and do not allow stray thoughts to cloud your battle instincts.” The Lieutenant reminded him.

“Yes, you are right. The world needs to see the next generation Strike.” Kira’s confident voice returned.

“Yeah, and you said that you don’t have a trump card. I think that machine is that trump card.” Mu La Flaga grinned as he placed his helmet on.

“Right. Let’s go.”

After the pep-talk, the pair walked to the lift and took it to the hangar level, where they rushed to their machines.

As Kira got into his Strike, the hatch sealed behind him, and the monitor slid into its position, creating a perfect sphere around him.

The Ultimate Coordinator got into his seat, and the machine started to power up. The monitors turned on and showed the OMNI enforcer and Earth Alliance logos. The pixels spread around him, showing the hangar as Strike is being loaded into the catapult deck.

Next to load up were the machine's parameters, the status of six batteries, and the percentage of Mirage Colloid particles in the machine.

“Batteries, check. Mirage projectors check, Thrusters, Thrusters support, check, support systems online. AI support online, neural linkage stable.

It appears we are ready to fight, Legion.” Kira said to his AI as he saw that all of the systems were online.

[I am ready and waiting, sir.]

“Kira! We will discuss your installing AI into a military vessel without my permission later. For now, focus on blasting us out from the base.” The captain’s face popped on the screen.

“Sure, though I promised Lacus that I would give them a chance to run away before I blast them.”

“That is fine with me. Just make sure we survive.” 

“That is fine with me.”

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

Close to a hundred pods carrying mobile suits entered the atmosphere above Alaska's base, as well as a bunch of GINN launched from regular warships. They had flying support so that they could fly in the atmosphere.

Sadly, the force they could launch from land was limited because of… a certain incident in the Indian Ocean. 

Because of that, they had to compensate.

“Nicol! Leave Strike to me! I will kill Kira Yamato!!!” Yzak said to his teammate.

“You are not the only one who wants to kill him, Yzak.” 

A picture of a teen appeared on the comms window.

“Yeah, yeah, let’s just see who can kill him first!” Duel's pilot said that as the pod opened, mobile suits were set free. Moments later, the pair ignited their flyer supports and proceeded to fly towards the main gates of the base.

Which was opening.

“Here comes the navy!”

Yzak was about to zoom in, but for a moment, the danger systems blared as a huge positron beam incinerated a portion of the gate and rushed towards the ZAFT forces.

“Are they fucking mad!? They destroyed their own security!?” Duel rushed back into the sky as it saw the legged ship leave.

However, what made him stare with disbelief was the Buster! Daerka’s machine!

“Damn those bastards! How dare they use his machine like this!!!” Yzak furiously rushed at the Gundam standing on the legged ship.

But before he can approach, a kick to his mech sends him flying to the side.

“Who…” 

The Duel’s pilot controlled his machine before looking at who kicked him.

His eyes widened to a huge degree.

“W-What is that!?”

It had the same colours, it was the same infuriating machine, the same yellow eyes! But…

“What is with those wings!?” 

Yzak looked at… Strike, but it had wings with blueish-purple particle-like wings! He had never seen such a thing before! It looked like he took Blitz’s mirage colloid and cooked something extreme with it!

“To all ZAFT forces, this is Kira Yamato. Alaska’s base is rigged to explode.”

“Did this ashole just hack all of our communication channels!?” 

Yzak’s eyes bulged as he realised that Kira Yamato was talking through all of the radio channels!

“If you don’t believe it, then just look at this.”

Video footage appeared on the screens, showing the base with a bunch of dishes placed together.

“I don’t give a fuck what you are showing! I will kill you first, then check it for myself!” Duel rushed towards Strike.

“Ugh… base Duel… you haven’t improved it yet? Just how talentless are you?.” 

Kira looked disgusted. He spoke through the open channel as he saw Duel rushing at him.

“DIE!”

Yzak was seeing red after that comment.

But at that moment, Strike used its legs to kick the rifle away before doing a backkick with its other leg!

“W-What is with that movement!? How can a machine move like that!?” Yzak, for a second, forgot his rage as he was looking at Strike with disbelief. He forgot that he was falling from that kick.

“I haven’t killed you. It should be enough proof that this base is about to blow up, so remove your ships, or I will blow my way through.” 

The Duel’s pilot slammed his hand into the console in front of him.

“Y-You think you can just dictate such a thing!!!” 

“Blow him up! Shoot!” The red coat commanded his troops.

“B-But sir! That’s a Cyclops system! It will melt any human within a several-kilometre radius! 

“Don’t listen to that garbage! This is Kira Yamato! How many surprise methods has he used before? This is not different!” 

“Attack!”

“...”

~~~

“Well, it’s not working…” Mu La Flaga said via comms as he saw that ZAFT forces were confused for a second before rushing to attack them.

“You should mellow down a little bit, kid.” The blonde said to Kira.

“Ugh… Do you think it's as easy?” The brown-haired Strike’s pilot complained to the Buster’s pilot.

“I already offered an Olive branch.”

“We are moving through! If they fight back, destroy them! We need to survive! Remember!” 

Captain’s image popped on Kira’s side.

“...Right…”

Kira closed his eyes for a second as he started to hum. If any Gundam fan heard that, they would know what it was.

A purple lotus flower shattered inside his consciousness when he opened his eyes.

“We shall fight like there is no tomorrow. Legion, we are switching to combat mode.”

[Rerouting particle dispersal, entering combat mode.]

At that moment, the way particles are dispersed shifted, and the blueish-purple wings became smaller as Kira pointed his beam rifles in two different directions.

“Last chance, remove yourself!” 

“...”

“...”

“...”

“In that case, I shall remove you by force.”

Kira pressed the triggers, and beams rushed from his two hyper rifles.

However, the beams were not straight as they spread out and hit multiple enemies!

These single beams were strong enough to blow their machines up!

He didn’t stop as he continued to point and shoot.

The GINNs and other machines started to move, but Kira’s new rifles were strange! They could bend!

“Enough!”

A black machine appeared on his side, trying to impale him with a spear.

But Strike moved to the side, kicked the spear, then pointed one of the rifle’s muzzle at the Blitz’s head and pressed the trigger.

“At least master mirage colloid dispersal. Using the prototype variant after that long is suicidal against me, Nicol Amalfi.” Kira said to Nicol as he looked back at the ZAFT’s navy, which started to shoot missiles and rail guns at Kira’s ship and the Eurasian fleet, which just wanted to leave.

“I guess we have no other choice,” Kira mumbled to himself. He brought his rifles together, and they started to fuse and become one big cannon.

“Legion, artillery mode.” 

[Rerouting particles and power.]

A charging bar appeared on the screen as the percentage started to grow.

“Archangel, prepare for maximum acceleration after I make a path.”

“Roger!”

Kira pointed forward and then pressed double triggers.

A huge purple and blue beam escaped from the barrel as it was rushing towards the ZAFT’s blockade.

The ships and mobile suits in the path were erased; tens of mobile suits alongside ZAFT warships ceased to exist.

“That’s it! Now rush forward! We shall cover you guys!”

Mu La Flaga was the first one to snap out from the sheer destruction he had just seen. That was something far more dangerous than a simple positron beam! 

Or was it a railgun blast? He is certain that he was using Mirage Colloid in all of this!

Yzak and Nicol watched from the sidelines as the Legged ship, a bunch of Earth Alliance warships and two Gundams moved forward and left the encirclement.

“Yzak! Nicol! We are retreating! We just confirmed that there is a Cyclops system inside the base!”

The masked man appeared on their comms screens.

‘Damn… he wasn’t lying!’

Yzak clenched his fist! Not only did he lose, but he looked like a total idiot!