SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 30 out, this is Chapter 31 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 31: Prelude to Revolution

Outside Sumeragi's room...

Sasha let out a tired sigh after the door slid close, the younger woman had handed the memory disc and the 'Providence Plan' notebook to the tactical commander.

"It won't do you any good to worry too much, you realize." a voice stated.

"Tieria..." Sasha turned to the pilot.

With a strained smile, the Innovator pulled his lover into a tight hug.

Outside the infirmary...

"How could this have happened?" Allelujah wondered, as he and Michael watched the recovering Johann.

Some time later, in the ship's briefing room...

"Joseph Copeland probably intends to show the world a new solution to achieving world peace." Sumeragi started her presentation to the crew. "As he puts it, a world with no war: what would a world without any conflict look like? A world where every single detail of a person's life is predetermined by the Coalition itself?"

"Most likely..." Sasha realized the implications. "Through wealth. That's the Providence Plan. A world where a person's role is decided by the the level of wealth that a family has and those who have no wealth are discarded."

"In such a world, indeed, only the rich will be free of the uncertainties about one's self and one's future." Allelujah agreed. "It's also possible they could live without worry or suffering; because their destiny would already have been decided for them."

"There would likely be no more battles in such a world." Sasha concurred. "Battles will become meaningless because everyone would live knowing it's meaningless to try and change their destiny."

"What does Joseph Copeland become in such a world?" Lasse piped in. "The King?"

"Destiny itself becomes King." Setsuna stated. "Or one's riches. Perhaps he becomes the High Priest."

"I wonder if it really would be meaningless?" Tieria wondered.

"I'm not the type of person who gives up so easily." Lockon swore.

"I know." Setsuna smiled.

"Then, it's decided then." Sumeragi ended the meeting. "We've got to stop the Coalition. We can't let destiny decide our future for us."

Elsewhere, in the Mobile Space Fortress Messiah...

Joseph Copeland sat back on the commander's seat in the fortress as he waited for the rest of the Coalition members to gather.

In the Ptolemaios II's bridge...

"Getting readings on the E-sensor." Feldt informed the group in the briefing room. "Given the speed, they're likely to be enemy forces."

In space...

"Hilling." Revival reminded Hilling. "Remember our objective is to capture the 00."

"I know that." Hilling pouted. "And that's why, we're going to need her help when we get there."

"You're a twisted one." Revival rebuked. "Warrant Officer Halevy, this may be a new Regnant's first sortie, bu we're expecting a lot from you."

"The Gundams are here." Hilling piped in.

"Only a few enemy units." Tieria led the formation. "But one of them is a mobile armor. It's different from the previous one."

"Incoming!" Allelujah warned.

Louise fired her machine's particle canon at the Gundams and forcing Lockon and Tieria to dodge the energy beam.

"That particle beam!" Tieria swung back to avoid getting hit by the curving beam.

"It curved?" Lockon was surprised.

"It's so powerful..." Tieria winced, using his GN Field to block off the incoming energy beam.

"This attack..." Allelujah was under attack by the Gadessa's Mega Launcher energy beam. "It's gonna hit." he realized the beam was about to hit Arios' tail.

"No, it won't!" Soma retorted, splitting up the Archer Arios and allowing both pilots to escape the beam.

"Enemy approaching." Orange Haro chirped, Lockon was using his Shield Bits to block out enemy fire. "Enemy approaching."

Lockon turned to engage the approaching Revival and leaving Hilling to Tieria.

"Lockon!" Allelujah tried to back Lockon when he himself came under the Regnant's fire.

"I'll make an opening!" Tieria stepped forward, Arios barely managed to avoid getting hit. "Hyper Burst Mode! High density compressed particles, releasing!"

The Regnant moved in, its GN Field deflecting the energy ball.

"Impossible..." Tieria was shocked. "The Hyper Burst..." he winced when he came under heavy fire from Hilling.

"Tieria!" Allelujah was about to jump in when the Regnant's energy beam shot past him, taking out one of Arios' arms.

"How dare you!" Soma snapped, letting loose an array of missiles at the mobile armor.

Meanwhile, Lockon and Revival was trading shots with each other, drawing away from the main battlefield.

"Haro, deploy Shield Bits in assault mode." Lockon ordered, sending in the attacking Shield Bits at the Gadessa's attacking Fangs and destroying every one of them.

The two adversaries then clashed in a sword fight, Revival trying to break the stalemate using the head mounted Vulcans' rapid fire.

Lockon retaliated by firing off his missile pods. Activating Trans-Am, he broke free and let his Shield Bits corner Revival's unit, before he came in from underneath and bombarded the half-destroyed mobile suit with his rifle. With the Shield concentrating their fire on the battered Gadessa, Lockon readied to finish off the Ritter heir, his dismantled Shield Bits were poised in front of the half-destroyed unit.

Meanwhile, Louise's particle beam split Tieria, Allelujah and Soma apart.

"It's about time I get going!" Hilling charged past.

"He broke through!" Tieria cursed, he, Allelujah and Soma returned fire at the advancing Gadessa.

Louise moved in, releasing the mobile armor's Egner Whips and electrocuting all three pilots.

"You're mine now, 00!" Hilling shot towards the 00-Raiser, whipping out his twin beam sabers.

With a determined glare, Lockon ended his fight, taking out both mobile suit and pilot with a single blast to the cockpit.

In Trans-Am mode, Setsuna disarmed Hilling of both sabers and shot out the Gadessa's arm and making the Mega Launcher explode.

"Revival, that idiot." Hilling spat, realizing Revival was defeated. "He got defeated. Warrant Officer Halevy, the retrieval mission has failed. We're retreating."

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