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Disclaimers I don't own Sailor Moon and D. Grey-man since if I did own them both, the Planetary Senshi will have equal footing as Sailor Moon and the Allen/Lenalee pairing would be canon. But you don't see that happening do you? However, I do own the pairing, I hope.

Chapter 52: The Noah of Lust


"Tapp." Johnny made his way to the trapped researchers.

"Johnny!" Bak rebuked. "Wait Johnny! With your body like that..." before choking on the gas the Akumas let out.

"Tapp..." Johnny made his way down to the staircase. "Tapp... Tapp is gonna be taken away..."

Just then, Allen's left eye activated as one surviving combined Akuma peered open its eyes.

The left eye's reacting, but only slightly. He mused, looking around. Is there an Akuma still alive? It's too weak to be certain. Is it just a hunch?

"What a terrible gas." Marshall Tiedoll remarked.

"To the Commanding Center, this is Lab 5, Noise Marie. All Akumas ceased action." Marie reported.

"Is the radio working?" Miranda asked.

"It's the newest model that's supposed to even endure a such strong magnetic field like the Ark, so..." Marie replied. "This is Lab 5! Commanding Center, can you hear me?"

"This is the Commanding Center. Yes, we can hear you." Koumi replied. "Please report the inner situation."

"Some dozen of the Science Department are severely injured; there's an enormous amount of gas being released from the Akuma's corpse, and vision and hearing are inhibited." Marie reported.

"Put something over your mouth and breathe through that. This is poisonous!" Bookman advised a choking Reever.

"We'll improve ventilation right away." Koumi added. "What about the enemy's Ark?"

"Two remain open at the moment." Marie replied, peering over to look at the opened gates. "Neither of them show any sign of closing."

"We understand your situation." Koumi remarked. "Marie, please stay with Miranda and guard her. Marshall Cross, can you hear me?"

"What?" Marshall Cross demanded.

"We'll stop Miranda's activation now and return the time to the Egg." Koumi replied.

"What do you mean?" Marshall Cross inquired.

"Can you destroy the Egg the very moment the time returns?" Koumi requested.

"Wait, Chief." Malcolm stopped him. "Destroy the Egg? Do you know just how important that is..."

"The Egg is already within the enemy's hands." Koumi told him. "The Time Record returns the time only temporarily. It cannot erase the time itself. We must destroy it, or it would go back to the Earl. We will destroy it."


Back in the demolished lab...

"Reever-san and everyone else, you should evacuate to the upper floors where the gas won't reach..." Allen advised as the group of researchers coughed.

"No, I'll be okay. Everybody else, go!" Reever instructed.

"Section Leader..." Mavi looked at him.

"Reever-san!" Allen protested as Reever stood up.

"The modified subordinates were taken beyond the gate." Reever told him. "They might be there still! Someone has to go stop them!"

"I understand." Allen replied. "I'll go too."

"Allen!" Reever blinked.

"I'll go." Mavi added.

"Me too." the third researcher remarked.

"Everybody..." Reever muttered.


Outside the Ark...

"Inspector Link, I would like to ask you to do a convert mission." Malcolm told Howard. "Your skills haven't deteriorated, have they?"


Inside the lab...

A liquidized Lulubell had returned as she seeped through the cracks of a grilled manhole.

"Humans..." she droned.

"To destroy the Egg in a second, Cloud, Zokalo and I have to do it together; the three of us." Marshall Cross informed Koumi. "But this is a lump of dark matter. I can't ensure success."

"I asked you to do it." Koumi replied.

"Guess there is no choice." Marshall Cross remarked.

"Whenever you're ready, Miranda." he turned to the Timekeeper.

"Yes." Miranda replied.

Just then, Marie was alerted by a strange sound.

What is this noise? Can it be...? he wondered.

"Miranda!" he exclaimed, hugging the torrent of liquid that had encased the Timekeeper.

"Noel Oreganon!" he released his strings.

"I can't capture liquid!" he hissed when his strings missed their target.

"What the heck is that?" Marshall Zokalo inquired. "Is it alive?"

"It's the Noah of Lust. It can transform into any creation." Marshall Cross replied.

"I'll have you give me back Master's Egg." Lulubell remarked, her liquefied body perched on top of the Egg.

I can't... breathe. Miranda choked for air inside Lulubell.

"What a bothersome ability." Lulubell looked at the Timekeeper.

"Stop activation!" she ordered, drowning the Timekeeper and stopping the 'Time Record'.

"The Egg is sinking! Is the time dying?" Marie gasped, before releasing his strings to stop the Egg from returning to the Earl as Lulubell growled at him.

"Are you going to fight me?" Lulubell demanded as Marshall Zokalo poised to attack.

"I really don't feel like giving it back to the Earl." Marshall Zokalo grinned, aiming his blades at the Egg. "Madness Develop!"

Lulubell formed an energy shield to guard against the incoming twirling blade.

"It's pointless." the Noah told them, pushing the blades back.

"Bastard!" Marshall Zokalo growled, catching his blade.

"Zokalo's attack, which defeated the Akuma Giant in one hit..." Marie was shocked.

"Destroy the Egg, Lau Shimin!" Marshall Cloud ordered, riding her Innocence.

"I said, it's pointless." Lulubell remarked, extending her hair to counter the large primate, fist-to-fist, before smacking it away.

"Lau Shimin!" Marshall Cloud shouted once more, her Innocence renewing its assault.

Lulubell simply smirked as she changed her body once more, this time into a stone-like armor to guard against Lau Shimin's black and white energy balls.

This thing... should be liquid! Did it change? Marshall Cloud wondered, as the smoke dispelled and revealing Lulubell's newest form, a spider-like body. Raising her fore hands, Lulubell stopped Lau Shimin's attack, crushing the energy balls within her palms and sending both Exorcist and beast flying backwards.

"The Arrow of Original Sin." Marshall Cross fired his light arrow from behind.

"The Egg didn't break even with Marshall Cross' attack!" Koumi was stunned as the Egg remained unharmed.

"What a defense..." Malcolm was shocked.

"Not yet." Marshall Zokalo readied his weapon once more.

"Let's go!" Marshall Cloud told her beast as Marshall Cross raised his revolver.

Twirling his blade once more, Marshall Zokalo released his weapon as Marshall Cloud rushed in with her beast. At the same time, Marshall Cross fired his gun.


Meanwhile, Allen and Bookman were escorting the three researchers to find the others when a pipe broke. Allen jumped up to cur the pipe before it fell.

"Damn! What's going on?" Reever demanded.

"Miranda-san!" Allen gasped, seeing an unconscious Miranda inside the liquefied Lulubell.

"Allen, please go!" Reever told him. "We'll be fine!"

"Yes sir!" Allen replied and rushed back into battle.

"If you don't hurry up, you;ll end up as collateral damage!" the Skull warned as the shockwave knocked the newbies to the ground.

"Stand, damn it!" his partner scolded, gripping onto the Tapp-turned-Skull. "Blimey, the newborns are so slow."

"Now, go in, go in!" he pushed the Skull into the gate, only to have Johnny pushed the new Skull away.

"Tapp!" the bespectacled researcher looked at the Skull. "You're Tapp, right? I was watching from above all this time! I won't let you go to the Earl!"

"Fool! he's already in our possession!" one of the two Skulls mocked as Johnny supported the Skull.

"Sweep that garbage off!" his partner ordered.

"Tapp..." Johnny blinked before the Skull swatted him out of the way.

"Tapp! Wait!" he called out, landing heavily against the single surviving Akuma. "Tapp!"

"You can't go!" he cried when the Skull proceeded towards the gate.

Then, from the Akuma's eye, two stone-like hands emerged

"Tapp! Please wait!" Johnny called out, unaware of the danger behind him.

The Akuma's eye iris then opened a the two hands reached over to grab Johnny.

"It's was still... alive!" the researcher exclaimed in horror, screaming as he was pulled in.


Back in the battle...

Marshall Cross was firing his bullets as Lulubell deflected the shots with her hand.

Marshall Zokalo threw his twirling weapon at the Noah who blocked it with one of her hands.

Two of Lulubell's hands then countered Lau Shimin's blows, fist-to-fist.

"Damn! The Noah won't even let the Marshalls attack even near!" Koumi cursed.

"We should probably attempt to dispose of the Noah first rather than the Egg." Malcolm suggested.

"If we could do that, we wouldn't be struggling!" Koumi protested. "There's Miranda inside that thing!"

If I can defend from their attack a little longer... Lulubell mused as she deflected the attacks.

"I won't let you go!" Marie swore, adding some more of his strings.

"You!" Lulubell growled at the blind Exorcist as Marshall Cross' bullets punched three holes into the Egg.

"See-Saw!" Marshall Zokalo added in his attack, slashing a cut in the Egg.

"The Egg!" Lulubell gasped.

"No... I can't stop it..." Marie remarked, some of his strings snapping.

"There isn't time!" Marshall Cloud told him. "If we keep weakening Miranda's body, we won't destroy the Egg!"

"Yeah, if we don't get in a big one, we're out." Marshall Zokalo agreed.

"The first priority is the destruction of the Egg." Marshall Cross remarked after a while.

"Wait a moment, Marshall!" Marie protested, some of his strings snapping as Marshall Zokalo prepared his attack.

"Lau Shimin, long range mode!" Marshall Cloud ordered as Marshall Zokalo charged up.

"Anti-armor weapon: Lau Gunz!" she declared as the primate charged up.

"Judgment: Purging Level." Marshall Cross powered up as well. "Let's make it triple."

Their energy is rising... Lulubell noted. I need to buy more time.

"Is that wise, Exorcists?" she challenged, pulling Miranda out of her chest and placing the Timekeeper in front of her. "Sacrificing one of your very few comrades? I'd think this woman's ability is important for you."

"Are you going to use Miranda as the shield for the Egg?" Marie demanded as some more of his strings snapped.

"If you destroy the Egg, the woman goes down too!" Lulubell threatened.

"The woman's an Exorcist, I think she has the right mindset." Marshall Zokalo replied.

"Don't mistake us." Marshall Cross grinned.

"MARSHALL!" Marie shouted, all of his strings finally snapping as the three Marshalls prepared to fire their attacks when Allen's shadow leapt into the scene.

"Marshall! Marie! Miranda!" Koumi shouted over the transmitter, the shockwave knocking the scientists off their feet.


In the infirmary...

"Everyone, duck!" the doctor warned, the shockwave rocking the medical equipment.

"Is everybody...?" Lenalee asked as Lavi shielded her.


In the hall...

"Are you okay?" Chaoji asked as one of the Vatican soldiers was trapped under a crumbled rock. "I'll move it right away!"

After moving the boulder off, Chaoji proceeded to take the injured soldier away when a chandelier fell on top of this.

"I'm borrowing this." Kanda snitched a sword from one of the standing soldier's waist and slicing the chandelier apart before it fell.

"Kanda-san!" Chaoji beamed.

"This has an awful cut." Kanda snorted.


It entered the gate. Lulubell stroked the Egg tenderly as the Egg entered the portal. It needs to get back the Master quickly. If we attend to it now, it's fixable. Those damn Marshalls...

A white lump...? she frowned as a glowing light shone from a gap in the Egg.

"You...!" she growled as Allen emerged from the hole.

"What a terrible master you are, Cross." Marshall Zokalo remarked, knowing what had happened. "You knew he was gonna come jumping in and you shot a full blast anyway."

"No matter. He's a critical now." Marshall Cross grinned.

"Stop! If it's damaged any further..." Lulubell exclaimed as the Egg continued to break apart. "Damn you... Allen Walker!"

Allen then burst out from the gate, bearing Miranda in his arms.

"You're despicable." he told his Master.

"I trusted you... idiot apprentice." Marshall Cross told him.

With the Egg destroyed, the gates closed on their own.

"It closed." Marshall Cloud remarked, Lau Shimin landing on the ground.

"Marshall Cross, can you hear us?" Koumi's voice crackled over the transmitter. "Marshall! The situation...?"

"The Noah fled, the Egg?" he inquired after Marshall Cross replied.

"You could destroy it!?" he beamed.


Meanwhile...

Howard had approached the crackling fragments of the shattered Egg left behind in the battle and he bent to pick them up.

"Bookman!" Marie looked at the aged Bookman as he approached, the blind Exorcist carrying the unconscious Miranda.

"She's okay, she's just unconscious." Bookman assured the two.

"I'm glad." Marie sighed in relief.

"Allen." Bookman looked at the teen.

"I'm worried about Reever-san and the rest. I'll head over there..." Allen replied.

He barely finished his sentence when his left eye activated as a childish chuckle was heard.


SailorStar9: Wow, that is short. Now that's done. In the next chapter, a Level 4 Akuma appears and creates a big ruckus, destroying a lot of things. Allen fights with it, but the fight doesn't go well. Will he be able to survive?