SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 15 out, this is Chapter 16 of this fic and the start of Season Two. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Pairings: Tieria/Sasha between Season One and Season Two. Allelujah/Marie and Lockon (Jr.)/Anew in Season Two.

Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Chapter 16: Homeland Burning

Underwater...

"Staying here to watch the ship is boring." Mileina whined, the bridge personnel, minus Sumeragi, were at their stations.

"Don't say that." Feldt chided. "We're overseeing the repairs to Ptolemaios, analyzing the new A-LAWs mobile suits and tuning 00's Twin Drive System. There's lots to do."

"I know that, but none of that stuff is fun." Mileina pouted.

"At least this is better than what Sasha's doing." Lasse piped in. "She's busy analyzing the A-LAWs mobile armor's jelly bombs and finding a counter-agent to it."

After the Gundams returned to the Ptolemaios II...

"Emergency coded message from Wang Liu Mei." Feldt reported. "Apparently, an A-LAWs mobile suit team is headed towards the Katharon base. What should we do?"

"We'll go and help them." Sumeragi decided. "Ptolemy, anti-satellite optical camouflage, emergency descend. Tell the Gundams to be ready for launch."

"Ptolemy, prepare emergency ascent." Feldt informed the on standby pilots. "0043 until we surface."

"The A-LAWs found their base?" Tieria echoed.

"But there are innocent children there, as well." Allelujah reminded.

"Hurry up." Lockon growled. "Hurry up, damn it."

In the airspace near the Katharon base...

"Damn, we're too late." Tieria cursed, seeing the A-LAWs squad decimate the base before releasing the automatons on the destroyed base to take out any stragglers.

"What about the Katharon people?" Allelujah asked.

"I'll leave this to you guys." Lockon went on ahead. "Get a move on, Gundam." he split off.

"Peries, intercept that first Gundam." Andrei instructed.

Maneuvering out of Soma's rifle blasts, Lockon returned fire

"All machines after the other Gundams." Andrei ordered his squad.

"I'll be sitting this one out." Graham backed out.

"This is..." even Soma was shocked by the automatons' ruthlessness.

"This... is something that human beings would do?" Lockon spat. Drawing his double beam pistols, he started taking out the attacking automatons.

"Mass murder with automated weapons." Allelujah hissed as he and Tieria dodged the Aheads' fire. He switched to flight mode and took out a GN-X III with his closed claw. "You don't bother pulling the trigger yourself. You don't even feel any of the guilt." he snapped the mobile suit into half.

"Double Bazooka." even Tieria was enraged. "Burst Mode!" his energy blast took out another GN-X III.

"We've achieved our initial objective." Andrei pulled his troops out. "Time to withdraw."

"I'll never forgive you." Lockon promised, now turning to open fire at Soma, who used her shield as a distraction to allow herself to escape. "I'll never forgive you for this, A-LAWs! Don't you dare run. Don't you dare run away from me, A-LAWs."

In the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"It's horrible..." Sumeragi gasped at the destruction of the base when the ship arrived.

At the demolished Katharon base...

"So this is... A-LAWs..." even Allelujah was taken aback.

"That's right." Tieria confirmed. "This is our enemy."

In the airspace near Azadistan...

"We're been Azadistan shortly." Setsuna informed Marina as they flew over the skies.

"Azadistan is..." Marina gasped in shock when the clouds cleared to reveal the burning capital.

"Everything is burning..." even Setsuna was stunned.

"But why is Azadistan..." Marina was heartbroken. "Why?"

"The scale of this attack..." Setsuna breathed. "Not terrorists. That machine." he spotted Ail's Arche Gundam in the distance. "It's a Gundam and that color... could it be!" he realized who the pilot was.

"That's right." Ail grinned, "You guess right, brat."

SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just love plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.