Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded Chapter 14

For a second the fighting stopped as everyone looked at what just happened!

What was that blur!? Something slammed into that Nazca Class! It got blown up just like that!

"K-Kira! Damn it all! He pulled out something again!" Athrun lamented with annoyance. Kira Yamato is becoming a massive thorn in their sides!

"Mobile suits! Attack him! Now!"

"Commander Le Creuset." The commander sounded angry.

"We MUST destroy the 8th fleet! So get to it!"

"Right!"

The Fourth GAT units rushed forward to engage Kira Yamato. The strike has not moved from his position yet!

"Let's attack him from the sides!" Athrun suggested.

"You are not my boss, Arthrun!" Yzak, the Duel pilot, snarled back, but he followed the suggestion.

The four machines were about to use the pincer move. There was a bunch of GINN moving towards Strike as well.

This was utterly crazy. The Earth Alliance forces were baffled seeing how they all were rushing to destroy one machine!

Yet, Kira simply pointed his weapon forward, calculated the trajectory and shot his second needle.

The needle was like a cometh accelerating forward because of how boiling the particles were. All the GINNs melted away in the path of the flying needle.

Over twenty GINNs were destroyed, and the needle continued to fly, slamming into the Laurasia-class and a massive explosion followed.

Once again, everyone stopped in their tracks.

"That kid… he is winning this whole thing himself!" The Admiral mumbled to himself as his eyes trembled. He had never seen someone do such a thing.

"Damn you, Kira Yamato!!!" The pilot of Duel roared. He was using comms.

"Hold your horses, buddy, I still have one ammo left. We can fight AFTER I blow up one more of your ships."

"DIE!"

"Yzak! shit!"

Once again, Yzak rushed forward without a plan and tried to slice Strike in half.

But Kira simply kicked the mech away and used his massive needle thrower in beam mode to deliver a massive amount of damage.

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

The remaining three pilots were shocked to see the calibre of that beam! A single beam and Duel was out for counting.

"Heh…quite durable, are you? Well, another blast will do it." Kira commented on the fact that Duel survived that beam! At such a close range, no less! It should have blown up like a balloon!

"Oh no you don't!" Athrun rushed forward to intercept his Aegis Gundam. He used one of his beam sabers to intercept but Kira already dodged him and used his shield to smack into the main camera.

"Yeah, no. Wait for your time Athrun."

Before he can do anything, Gundam Blitz, with a trident, gets in the way.

*Tsk*

Kira pulled back and pointed the Needle Thrower at the Blitz.

"Since you want it so much."

*BOOM*

Blitz's entire upper part got erased with a single blow.

"NICOL!!!" Athrun roared with anger as he grabbed half-destroyed Blitz and rushed back with it to Vesalius.

"There it is…" Kira saw it! The one which was Vesalius! He saw Athrun with half-destroyed Blitz was flying to. Same with Duel, which is getting carried by Buster.

They are showing him what his target is!

He pointed his needle thrower at Vesalius and proceeded to calculate the trajectory, the last needle being loaded into the rails.

He then pressed the trigger, and the metal needle was launched.

Boiling particles blasted through whatever GINNs were in the path.

The only reason none of the Earth Alliance got destroyed was because Legion fed them the needle trajectory, and all the mobile armours moved out of its path.

But then Kira frowned as he saw Vesalius moving to the side and a Laurasia class taking the bullet for them!

"Fuck…my luck is garbage today." The Coordinator mumbled to himself in annoyance.

"Hey, kid, we are out of time."

"Yeah…"

The Strike pilot mumbled to himself as he proceeded to rush back to the Archangel.

But then…

"Fuck…"

Vesalius and the remaining ZAFT ships started to rain their weapons on them.

Since Archangel was going down to the planet below, ZAFT had an advantage and was shooting at them from above.

"Damn!!! Those assholes will force us to land in a different spot!" Kira exclaimed with annoyance. He had no means to counter these! As his machine already proceeded to enter the ship.

Sure enough, Archangel moved to dodge the incoming beams changing the trajectory of its landing.

~~~

The battle against the 8th fleet has made ZAFT start feeling dread about facing Strike and Kira Yamato.

It had the same effect on Earth Alliance as well. The 8th fleet survived that battle that day. With Admiral intact.

But that day, they learned that one machine can change the outcome of a whole battlefield.

The power of GAT units has shown that Gundams are the future, and they have started to rush the production of more such machines.

"How is Miguel and Yzak?" Athrun asked his commanding officer.

"...they are… out of action for a while. They are to be transported back to PLANTs, and so are we. This operation is a failure.

We lost one Nazca and two Laurasia Class. Unlike naturals, we don't have their manpower, so this is a huge loss for us." The masked man said with a smooth voice. However, Athrun could feel annoyance in his commander.

"And Kira? He is still out there." Aegis pilot pointed out though his hand was shaking.

"He is no longer our issue."

"...But!"

"Athrun. You are shaking. Take some time off. You need to relax and forget that machine and the man behind it."

That moment Athrun saw images of Strike with its glowing eyes wielding that massive weapon which could blow up a ship casually.

"Kira Yamato is a threat, and ZAFT is paying utmost attention to this threat. But at this moment, he is out of our reach."

The red-coat pilot slowly nodded and excused himself.

As he walked back, he was face to face with Daerka, the Buster Pilot.

"How are Yzak and Miguel?"

"They will be taken back to PLANTs. We are going back as well."

Athrun explained with a cool voice as he looked at the void through the window. He was conflicted. How are they going to face Kira and get back at him?

"And Strike? The Legged ship? We are not going to pursue it?"

"No. The Commander received orders to return."

"But!"

"I know. I want to get back at Kira as well!"

Even though Athrun said that Daerka noticed his voice, was it fear?

The blonde Buster pilot knew where this was coming from. That Kira guy is a menace.

He fought off GINNs, the stolen four GAT units, and destroyed three ships at the same time!

He did more damage to ZAFT than several Earth Alliance fleets combined! It's not an overstatement to say that Earth Alliance is fighting back BECAUSE they have Kira Yamato.

"But for now, half of our squad is down. We can't fight like this."

"...Fine."

~~~

Meantime the videos of the fight have reached both sides. The 8th fleet survived. Something the Earth Alliance didn't expect. The command, which was full of Blue Cosmos supporters, wanted to get rid of the Admiral who was getting in the way of their Blue and Pure world.

The guy who seeks peace with the Coordinators is not needed for them.

But at the same time, they did see Strike and what it could do in this fight.

"This weapon. What did the brat use?"

"...From preliminary observation, he used Blitz Trikerios as a launch pod of some sort."

"I noticed that. I am asking how he did it!" The Admiral snapped back.

"We don't know the specific, but our scientists are working on it. It could take time for them to discover anything."

"...Hmm…"

Earth Alliance was not the only one. In the PLANTs, the situation was similar.

The brightest of the Coordinator's minds are trying to discern what they are seeing.

"This is maddening! He is using catapult rails and pure magnetism to accelerate the Trikerios dart and launch it like a projectile."

"That much we realised ourselves." Patrick Zala said with narrowed eyes.

"However, what is concerning is the particle itself."

"...The only particle we think of is the Mirage Colloid."

"...That GAT unit?"

"Correct. Somehow he made it into friction which burns. From what we saw, he compressed all of that around the needle, which is magnetically charged and kept in place around this needle."

"Can we replicate it?" Patrick asked the very next moment.

"...We need to recover that weapon. Otherwise, we could be wasting months, maybe even years trying to replicate it." The lead engineer explained with a nervous look.

*Tsk*

"That brat created it with scraps he recovered from battlefields!"

The Leader of the Zala faction slammed his hand into the table. He can't stand this. Some punk is constantly defeating ZAFT forces like this! With scraps, no less!

"Sir, with all due respect, what he did requires extensive testing! The magnetic field, the amount of Mirage Colloid gases. The amount of calculations to be done… this weapon should be only used on a battleship!"

"Well, he did that with scraps and from a mobile suit, no less!" Patrick finally lost it and pointed at the doors.

"You all are useless! Now leave!"

After the engineers left, the conversation returned to the parliament.

"We can't allow that kid to keep piloting that Strike! He will kill thousands of Coordinators!"

"...Well, from the preliminary data we have, he has landed in Africa. So he is in Desert Tiger's territory."

"...Good. Maybe fighting in different environments will catch the brat of balance, and a lucky bullet will end him."

Patrick Zala hoped while he was massaging his forehead. He is so close to being elected the next Chairman. Once he is there, he can start going all out finally!

~~~~~~Sahara Desert~~~~~~

Kira slowly opened his eyes as he looked at the bunk bed above him.

Half of his vision is blocked by pink hair.

'When did she end up sleeping on me again?' The teen was somewhat baffled by how she sneaked up into his room again.

'Well, whatever…'

He ended up hugging her while continuing to doze off.

After a while, she finally woke up.

"...Kira…you up."

"Yeah."

"...are you okay?"

"Somewhat. Having such gravity is going to be annoying." Kira commented on how it will be a pain in the ass to work on his mobile suit now.

"...I guess. You know this is my first time visiting Earth." She casually mentioned that detail.

"...Hoh… I see…"

The Strike's pilot didn't know how to respond to that. He has two sets of memories, so he was on Earth before? But it's different. On the other hand 'Kira' never was on Earth either. He grew up on the Moon and then on Heliopolis.

"...and you?"

"...Never on the planet's surface, but I was on the Moon and then on Heliopolis. So you could say we are on this Earth for the first time together."

The pinkette listened to his words patiently. She found out something strange, but she didn't hang on to it.

"My father used to tell me stories about this place. How big it is… how many different biomes there are. How big are the oceans and how much life there is." As she said that, she slowly got up. It is not too high as there is a bunk bed above them.

But she did end up sitting properly.

"Well, then, you are lucky. We will be seeing a couple of oceans and some other things. They are on the path."

She slowly nodded her head.

"...I hope so."

As she said that, she looked around for a bit.

"We should get something to eat while we can."

Kira nodded and proceeded to move out of the bed.

As he was doing that, the girl was thinking about what to do. She has ended up on Earth, of all places. This is the furthest she has ever been from her home. Same time she wonders what she should do next.

The Songstress doubts there will be more people like that admiral who let her go.

But then again, they are far away from the Earth Alliance bases.