SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 17 out, this is Chapter 18 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 18: Reunion and Separation

Louise flew wildly to dodge the Igelstellung missiles, with two of them destroying her suit's right arm.

Andrei cut in, blocking out the remaining missiles with his GN Shield. "We're too far front." he told Louise. "Puu back Warrant Officer."

"But I was..." Louise protested.

"That's an order!" Andrei barked.

Elsewhere, Setsuna had activated Trans-Am and was charging towards Graham.

"That's right." Graham fended himself. "This is what I wanted to fight."

Setsuna moved behind Graham, the Ahead turning to block off the attack, only to have 00 slice the left arm off.

"This is incredible." Graham admitted.

"Marie!" Allelujah tried to reach out to Soma and held the Ahead tightly within Arios' arms. "I'm never letting you go again, Marie."

"This guy..." Soma frowned and fired her assault rifle at point-blank range and causing both units to fall into the forest below.

Graham was dodging Setsuna's rifle blasts when Setsuna switched tactics and moved in to strike Graham's unit with his GN Sword.

"What's happening?" Setsuna frowned when the Twin Drive overloaded and he skidded across the ocean surface. "It's an overload."

"I see." Graham realized. "His suit isn't in perfect condition. Then, there is no value in defeating him now." he then took off.

"Surround the double-equipped one." Barrack ordered.

"Setsuna!" Tieria and Lockon provided fire cover for the 00. "Setsuna, are you all right?"

"It's the Twin Drive." Setsuna answered.

On the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"All Gundams, fall back for now." Sasha instructed. "We'll divide the enemy forces. Ian, release the high-density particle and smoke torpedoes."

"Roger." Ian responded and released the two torpedoes into the water.

"ZERO, disengage." Sasha deactivated the ZERO interface.

In the A-LAWs' battleship...

"We're regroup." Kati ordered after reports came in of the smokescreen. "Signal a withdrawal."

On the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"I can't locate Arios." Feldt reported. "Allelujah..."

"There's no response from Arios?" Sumeragi entered the bridge. "Find Arios' last point of contact from the mission recorder. After retrieving 00, send Seravee and Cherudim on a search for Arios. Great call, Sasha."

Later that night...

"Where's Marie?" Allelujah stirred, Arios and Soma's ahead having crash-landed into the forest. "Marie!" jumping out of his cockpit, he hurried over to the destroyed Ahead. "Stop it, Marie." he was forced to dodge when Soma came at him with an assault dagger.

"Even without my mobile suit, I'll..." Soma charged at Allelujah and pinned him to the ground. "I will not lose to a failure like you."

"Marie..." Allelujah blinked when a stab of pain assault Soma's head. "Marie Parfacy!"

With a pained scream, Soma's personality was overwritten and Marie resurfaced. "Allelujah..." she recognized the older pilot, before passing out in Allelujah's arms.

Meanwhile...

"It's raining." Tieria looked out of the cockpit screen and noticed the raindrops on Seravee.

With Allelujah and Marie...

"Where am I?" Marie sat up on the makeshift mattress.

"Marie." Allelujah entered the tent. "I see you're awake. I checked our machines, but the systems are down for both." he settled in. "We won't be able to fix them by ourselves. Let's hope that someone comes for us. Can I ask you something? How did you end up being Soma Peries?"

"They probably implanted another personality in order to restore the five senses I had lost." Marie reasoned. "Then the Superhuman Institute must have sent me to the military as a Super Soldier to ensure they wouldn't be closed down. But because of that, I could finally see what you looked like for the first time. I knew it was you right away. Maybe it was the quantum brain waves."

"I never thought I'd actually be here, talking to you face-to-face, either." Allelujah admitted.

"Can I ask you something, too?" Marie inquired. "What did you do after you escaped the Superhuman Institute?"

"In an attempt to escape disposal, my friends and I fled the Institute together." Allelujah recounted. "At first, I regretted not taking you with us. But it was a good thing I didn't. My friends and I were able to steal a transport ship and escape the colony. But we had no place to go. We just kept drifting in space until eventually we ran out of food and air. And then..." he recalled Hallelujah murdering the others in cold-blood.

"I knew." Marie spoke. 'I knew that another personality existed inside you."

"It doesn't excuse what I did." Allelujah argued. "Hallelujah is me. As the ship's sole survivor, I cursed my fate. And the Superhuman Institute too, and this word. That's why, to change the world, I accepted the offer to become a Gundam Meister. Because the only thing Super Soldiers know is how to fight. Marie, do you still have the memories of when you were Soma Peries?"

"I have them." Marie replied. "And her personality as well."

"Then, you know about the things I've done." Allelujah cursed himself. "I killed them all. At my hands, our friends, our siblings. I took their lives, for a second time."

"I'm the same as you." Marie soothed, holding his hand. "I've killed you once before. In that attack, I killed your other self, Hallelujah. I gave you this scar." she parted Allelujah's fringe to reveal the scar on his forehead.

"No, Soma Peries did that to me." Allelujah objected.

"It's the same with you." Marie stated. "Because I'm Peries too. That's why, I'm sorry. I really don't know what to do."

"And I feel the same way." Allelujah added. "When I found out you were Soma Peries, I couldn't stop thinking about you. I wanted to save you so much. But now that I've done it, I don't know what I should do next. Someone like me, doesn't really have anything to offer you."

"I'm just happy that you're here." Marie held Allelujah's hand in both her hands. "Just think, I was able to finally meet you. I was deprived of my senses; all I could do was call out with quantum brain waves. You were the only one who ever answered. Because of you, I was able to feel grateful of being alive. And now I can look at you with both my eyes, I can speak with you, even touch you. I never imagined a day like this would come."

The tent was then lighted by a flash of light from above and the two Super Soldiers exited the tent and came face-to-face with Sergei's unit.

"Lieutenant." Sergei opened his cockpit and greeted his former subordinate.

"Colonel." Marie blinked.

"Someone you know?" Allelujah asked, following Marie.

"That voice..." Sergei descended from his cockpit. "I see. You're the Gundam pilot from back then. Move away from the Lieutenant." he leveled his handgun at Allelujah. "Celestial Being. You said your personality was overwritten?" he frowned after Marie explained.

"That's correct." Marie confirmed. "Right now, I'm no longer Soma Peries. I'm Marie Parfacy."

"Marie." Sergei echoed. "So that is your real name, Lieutenant? The Superhuman Institute did this to you?"

"Marie is a kind-hearted girl." Allelujah stepped forward. "She's never been the type who would kill. I won't hand her over to you. If she returns to the Federation or A-LAWs, they'll just use her as a Super Soldier."

"But you're a member of Celestial Being." Sergei reminded. "Even if she goes with you, she'll be drawn into the fighting."

"I won't let that happen." Allelujah insisted.

"I'm not so foolish as to believe the words of a terrorist." Sergei stood his ground. "Because of what you've done, I've lost many comrades and subordinates. Do you think I can forget my resentment so easily?"

"Colonel, don't." Marie shifted herself between the two men.

"Just shoot me." Allelujah offered himself. "In return, promise me that Marie, or rather Soma Peries, will never be involved in any fighting on any fighting again."

"Your wish is granted." Sergei leveled his cocked gun at Allelujah and pulled the trigger.

"No!" Marie pushed Allelujah aside to take the shot. "Colonel..." she blinked when Sergei fired the bullet in the air.

"A moment ago, Lieutenant Soma Peries died an honorable death in battle." Sergei declared. "I will now return to base to inform my superiors of her fate. Come to think of it, I never did thank you." he headed back to his unit. "Five years ago, the accident at the Lower Orbital Station, I want to thank you for your participation in the rescue effort."

"Colonel Smirnov," Marie called out. "For having engaged Soma Peries only in anti-Gundam operations, and never using her in any other fighting, I want to thank you."

"The way you say that," Sergei sighed. "Now I'm absolutely sure you're not the Lieutenant I used to know."

"And one more thing," Marie added. "The Soma Peries who's inside me wants you to know something: I wanted to be your daughter."

"Those words are more than enough for me." Sergei turned back.

"Colonel!" Marie wept and hugged her father figure.

"Live on." Sergei told Marie. "Keep on living. Happily, together with him."

"Thank you for everything you ever did for me, Colonel." Marie saluted Sergei.

Returning her salute, Sergei took off in his unit.

"Marie," Allelujah hugged her from the back. "Thank you for being alive after all this time. Thank you for giving someone like me a second reason to live."

At sunrise...

"If he fell into the water, there's no way we'll find him." Lockon was cruising above the ocean.

"Enemy approaching." Orange Haro chirped. "Enemy approaching."

"Regular forces." Lockon recognized the Ahead unit. "A light signal?" he frowned when Sergei sent Allelujah's coordinates to him via light signal.

"Allelujah detected." Orange Haro quipped as Cherudim closed in on Allelujah's location. "Allelujah detected."

"What the hell?" Lockon gawked at the kissing couple. "All this trouble to find him and he's hanging out with some girl? Way to go." he teased.

On the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"It's a signal from Haro." Mileina reported. "They found Haptism-san!"

"Sumeragi-san." Feldt beamed.

"It's great news." Sumeragi was relieved. "I am so relieved, Allelujah."

"It looks like he's with a girlfriend." Mileina gushed.

"Girlfriend?" Lasse gaped.

"How'd that happen?" Feldt gawked.

"Since when?" even Sasha was shocked.

"What the heck is that boy doing?" Sumeragi moaned.

Elsewhere...

"I see." Tieria noted, after Sasha notified him. "So Allelujah Haptism has been found, then."

"Well, isn't that good news?" Ribbons' taunted voice sounded from the cliff.

"Who's there?" Tieria aimed his handgun at the intruder. "How did you know I was here?"

"I knew because we are the same." Ribbons answered, his quantum brain waves were activated. "Base sequence pattern: 0988 type."

"Don't tell me, you're..." Tieria gasped in realization.

"I am the very first Innovator, Ribbons Almark." Ribbons smirked.

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