SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 27 out, this is Chapter 28 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 28: Within the Scattering Light

In the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"Visual cameras are detecting a large object attached to the orbital ring." Feldt reported.

"As we feared..." Sumeragi hissed.

"They built two of those damn things?" Lasse growled.

In the second Memento Mori station...

"Memento Mori, humanity needs to be reminded of death and given thought of how precious peace is." Goodman grinned.

In the Africa Tower...

"Attention, all hands." Hercury gave his subordinates his new orders. "Get the citizens to the surface quicker. Tell the ground troops what we're doing. All hands, prepare to evacuate. I was being too naive. The moment I took these citizens hostages, the Federation considered them to be anti-government dissidents because they simply know the facts. That's right; the Federation will destroy this place and take the lives of sixty thousand people just to strengthen its political dominance."

"It's utter madness." Sergei muttered. "It's Emancipation Day Massacre all over again."

In the airspace near the Africa Tower...

"Those A-LAWs scum have finally shown their true nature." Lockon growled.

"Could the Coalition be orchestrating this from behind he scenes as well?" Tieria wondered.

"Katharon's troops are escaping." Allelujah informed.

"Those bastards..." Lockon hissed, as the three pilots witnessed the Federation ground forces shoot down the escaping Katharon units. "Why are you doing this now?"

"Stop, Lockon." Tieria took off after Lockon.

"You're being too reckless." Allelujah agreed, following suit.

The three Gundams now joined in the fight, taking out the Federation army.

In the Ptolemaios II's hanger...

"Send Ptolemy into space?" Ian echoed, upon hearing Sumeragi's request. "You must be kidding. It's impossible in our current situation."

"But the lives of many people are at stake." Sumeragi argued.

"I'll head out in the 00." Setsuna entered the hanger. "The only thing that can stop the satellite weapon is the 00-Raiser. I need a mission plan."

In the Africa Tower...

"All the soldiers and civilians are on their way to the surface." Hercury told Sergei, the two veterans were the only ones left in the station. "You should leave too."

"What about you?" Sergei asked.

"I am the commander of this operation." Hercury reminded. "I will stay to see it to the end. Whatever happens after this, make sure future generations know the truth."

"You can't atone for your sins that way." Sergei grabbed his friend's collar. "You are a soldier. As a soldier, you must protect the citizens. Save as many people as you can, then you can die. They're preparing to fire?" the monitor alerted them of the Memento Mori. "Let's go."

In the second Memento Mori station...

"Enemy approaching, sir." the radar officer reported.

"Have the Empruss launch at once." Goodman instructed.

In the airspace beneath the Memento Mori station...

"Releasing all compressed particles." Setsuna aimed his twin beam sabers. "Activate the Raiser System."

"An enemy." Saji alerted Setsuna as Devine swooped in.

"I won't let you, Gundam." Devine rained his fire on 00-Raiser. Ejecting his twin grapplers, he electrocuted both pilots with the Egner Whips. "I shall avenge Bring's death." he then moved in towards the immobilized 00-Raiser.

"Trans-Am Raiser!" with the Raiser System fully charged, Setsuna fired off a massive energy beam saber blast that instantly sliced the Empruss into half before it could even raise its GN Field.

In the second Memento Mori station...

"We're at full power, sir." the operations officer reported.

"Commence strafing." Goodman ordered.

"Incoming high energy blast, sir." the radar officer informed.

"It missed us." Goodman sighed in relief when the beam missed the Memento Mori station.

"The beam's moving, sir." another soldier stated.

"What?" Goodman gawked as energy beam shifted to the side to cut off the satellite arms. "It wasn't a shot? It's a beam saber?"

In the airspace beneath the Memento Mori station...

"It wasn't enough!" Setsuna gasped in horror. "Stop!" he exclaimed, the Raiser System was already powering down before they could destroy the Memento Mori. "Don't do it!" he begged, the 00-Raiser was falling back to Earth just as the Memento Mori fired.

The Memento Mori's blast hit just underneath the lower orbital station, damaging the elevator and resulting in the exterior auto-purging.

"The pillar's exterior..." in his Taozi, Sergei's monitor reflected the elevator's rapid breakdown.

"Hurry." Hercury urged.

In the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"The laser struck the pillar." Feldt informed. "The pillar's external shell is starting to auto-purge."

"Fragments from above the stratosphere will burn up due to the atmospheric heating." Sumeragi surmised.

"It's the fragments from the sections below that are the problem." Sasha frowned. "Those will hit Earth."

Inside the elevator...

Both Hercury and Sergei were rushing down to Earth as the entire elevator crumbled from the inside out, derailing the trains that the former hostages were in.

On Earth...

"What's that?" Lockon looked away from his fight.

"Could it be..." Allelujah gaped n horror.

"The Orbital Elevator..." even Tieria was shocked. "It's collapsing."

"To all units in this airspace." Sumeragi opened a mass communication to the battling mobile suits. "I'm transmitting data via a visual comlink. Please destroy the pillar fragments that will be entering the air spaces I've indicated. Below them are densely populated areas. Unless we work together, tens of millions of lives will be lost. So please, I'm begging you. Save those people's lives."

The three Gundams abandoned their fights to focus on the falling pillar fragments.

"Compressed particles releasing." Tieria fired off all six beam cannons, destroying several of the falling pieces. Another concentrated beam blast took out another layer of metal pieces and allowing the civilians below to flee for their lives.

"Haro!" Lockon barked, sniping at the falling shards.

"Deploying Shield Bits." Orange Haro chirped. "Deploying Shield Bits." the Shield Bits were deployed into attack mode and shot towards the falling shards.

Allelujah cleared off a layer of metal pieces, before continuing to take out the metal fragments that were still falling. "There are just too many." he exclaimed, getting overwhelmed. "Damnit!" he cursed when a piece shot past him. "That's..." he turned when that shard was destroyed by a blast. "Marie." he spotted the GN Archer.

"This doesn't count as a battle." Marie assured herself. "It's to save lives." she re-positioned herself to a better shooting position, Allelujah moving in beside her.

"Damn, if this keep up..." Lockon growled and sent out his missile pods. "It got past." he cursed when two waylaid pieces flew past him. "That's..." he turned when the two shards were shot down. "Katharon."

"Machines from the coup d'état faction?" even Tieria was surprised when Hercury's soldiers joined in.

"This is a hell of a mess." Lockon muttered.

"What's this?" Allelujah spotted additional forces backing them. "It's the regular army."

"You shouldn't be too surprised, Prince Daithí." in Gundam Zwei, Michael was shooting down the falling shards with his rifle and backed by his GN Fangs. "It's in crisis moments like this that everyone bands together."

"Michael Trinity..." Allelujah voiced.

"Michael Trinity, reporting back for duty from my undercover mission, Your Highness!" Michael grinned.

In the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"It looks like we're be able to avoid any direct hits to the urban areas." Mileina informed.

"Thank you all." Sumeragi sighed in relief.

"In times like this, I guess everyone comes together as one." Sasha snorted.

"That's what I call irony." Lasse agreed. "But it isn't bad."

"Mobile suit teams approaching port-side." Feldt reported. "It's A-LAWs."

"They're waiting for this opportunity?" Lasse growled.

Near the base of the Africa Tower...

"Don't look now, gentlemen." Michael snarled. "We have incoming hostiles."

"I know we have our orders, but still..." Louise sniped a falling shard, positioning herself.

"I will not abandon people to their fate." Andrei stood his ground, the Ahead units joined in the fight.

"That machine..." Marie spotted Sergei's unit on her radar and moved forward.

"Colonel..." Michael, too, spotted his commander's unit and moved.

"What?" Andrei frowned at Louise's report. "You're saying you saw machines coming out of the pillar? The leaders of the rebel? Follow me." he led Louise off.

"I thank you for your help." Sergei voiced.

"I thought it was you, Colonel Smirnov." Marie responded.

"Peries?" Sergei gawked. "Why are you in a mobile suit?"

"Incoming." Marie alerted.

"A-LAWs?" Hercury turned to see Andrei and Louise flying in.

"That voice..." Andrei was shocked. "Colonel Hercury?"

"Andrei?" Hercury was stunned.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Andrei snarled and aimed his sub-machine gun at Hercury.

"Lieutenant, a large piece!" Louise alerted Andrei.

"Damn it." Andrei cursed at the surrounding units concentrated fired on the descending sheet. "It didn't fully auto-purge?"

"At this rate, we won't..." Sergei spat. "A Gundam." he spotted Seravee in front of them.

"Trans-Am!" Tieria activated Trans-Am. "GN Bazooka, firing Hyper-Burst Mode!" leveling himself underneath the sheet, he fired the energy blast at the falling piece, splitting it into smaller shards.

Setsuna came from above, taking down the shattered shard with his rifle. "Lockon, Allelujah!"

"Trans-Am!" both Meisters activated Trans-Am, each taking out the two split pieces.

After all the fragments were destroyed...

"This is terrible." Sergei was surveying the wreckage in his Taozi. "I see you made it, Hercury." he flew up to Hercury's unit.

"Unbelievable..." Hercury muttered. "This is something that can never be taken back."

"Go, Fangs!" Michael released his four of his GN Fangs to form a diamond-shaped energy shield to block off Andrei's shot.

"A Gundam?" Sergei was shocked by the unexpected intervention. "Red particles... that unit, you're from Celestial Being!"

"Gundam..." Andrei roared, charging towards Zwei. "You're the ones who caused this catastrophe, Celestial Being!"

Michael blocked off Andrei's beam saber with his Buster Sword.

"Andrei..." Sergei recognized his son's voice.

"Father..." Andrei gaped. "Don't tell me you were fighting with the rebels? What the hell are you doing here?"

"Did you know, Andrei Smirnov..." Michael snarled as he swatted Andrei's Ahead back. "That your precious Federation built a second Memento Mori and fired it at the African lower orbital station? And all because Colonel Pang blew the whistle on the A-LAWs' cruelty and they decided that six thousand civilians were all dissidents just to keep their political leverage?"

"Celestial Being!" Louise shot past Andrei to attack Michael.

"Louise!" Saji shouted, 00-Raiser destroying the Ahead's rifle with its own rifle.

"Colonel!" Marie charged in to defend Sergei as he fought off Andrei.

"This is revenge!" Andrei roared, stabbing Sergei's unit. "For mother!"

"Andrei, I'm sorry..." the dying Sergei whispered. "You had closed your heart off; I didn't know how to approach you. I didn't try as much as I should have. Get away from me." he pushed Andrei's unit off. "Hercury, remember our promise... I'm leaving the Peacecraft bloodline to you..." his Taozi shut down and exploded.

"Colonel..." Marie muttered in shock.

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