SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 35 out, this is epilogue and the end of this fic. (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.
Epilogue: A Wakening of the Trailblazer
About a year later, one night...
Sasha snapped her eyes open and rose from the bed she shared with Tieria, beads of cold sweat forming on her temples.
"Sasha, what's wrong?" Tieria was also roused from his slumber, feeling his quantum brainwaves were being tugged by Sasha's. "You're sensing something?" he guessed, seeing the frightened look in his partner's eyes.
Shortly after the war that resulted in the dismantlement of the Coalition, Sasha had insisted on moving the Infinity near the vicinity of Jupiter, on the premise that because Aeolia Schenberg had created the original GN Drives on Jupiter, it would be logical to assume that the large planet would be a cornerstone when dealing with the dialogues to come.
"They're approaching..." Sasha whispered in fear.
"Sasha, talk to me." Tieria pleaded, pulling her into a hug from behind and tucking his chin on her shoulder.
"Chaos..." Sasha breathed.
"Chaos?" Tieria echoed. "As in the chaos theory?"
"No," Sasha shook her head. "The Chaos: the source of all evil in the galaxy, the ultimate expression of nothingness and source of darkness."
"Sasha, what are you..." Tieria trailed, eyes widening when he saw the astronomical mark of Mercury burn on Sasha's forehead. "What in the world..." he let out a startled gasp when seemingly endless images bombarded his mind. "Athene... Ami..." he mumbled, his memories as both Solon and Satoshi came back to him. "How could I have forgotten? We need to stop Chaos." he told his soulmate firmly.
"We need to return to Mariner Castle to retrieve my henshin pen." Sasha agreed.
Two months later...
The couple exited their transport shuttle that was docked near the boundaries of the magically concealed Mariner Castle.
As if sensing its rightful mistress had returned, the magical cloaking shield shimmered and vanished, allowing the couple to enter the still preserved palace.
The planetary magics still retained within the palace swirled around the two returning royalty and transforming them back into their Silver Millennium selves.
"Shiva." Princess Athene reclaimed her Astral Summon, the Summon brand reignited on her collarbone as she retook her original transformation pen.
One year later...
Linda was returning the Celestial Being base from Jupiter on a transport shuttle.
"Laser sensor confirmed." the gatekeeper let Linda in. "Laser sensor aligned. 0021 to dock. Transport shuttle has passed through the particle cloak. Fixed arm docking initiated." the shuttle docked. "Docking complete."
"I couldn't wait to see you, Linda." Ian floated into the shuttle once the ship was secure. "Is it finished?"
"That's why I'm here." Linda giggled. "These are the new GN particle emitters that've been customized for use with the Twin Drives." she activated the outer cameras to see the group of Haro-operated Karels guiding the particle emitters out of the transport. "The machine to end the war.
"It's the Gundam that Setsuna had hoped for." Ian agreed. "The 00 Qan[T]."
On the Ptolemaios III's bridge...
"It's VEDA's regular report." Feldt spoke. "The Federation Army has begun removal of a probe that entered Earth's celestial sphere."
"Removal of a probe?" Lasse echoed,
"Can you find out where it came from?" Sumeragi asked.
"It came from Jupiter." Feldt replied.
"Is there any detailed data on it?" Setsuna inquired.
"I'll try to find out." Feldt nodded.
Near the Moon where VEDA was located...
Descartes Shaman took off in Gundam Gadelaza to destroy the approaching Europa vessel. "Quantum brainwaves synchronized. Launching GN Fangs." he released all fourteen of his GN Fangs. "Eat this!" he sent the Fangs as bombardment missiles into the abandoned ship before ending the fight with his GN Blaster.
In the Infinity...
"It has begun." Sasha noted, as the crew watched the destruction of the space probe. "Then, I'd better get going. Tieria, head back to the Ptolemy."
"Roger." Tieria nodded. "Be careful." he planted a kiss on her cheek.
"I will." Sasha nodded and exited the bridge. "Silver Mercury Power, Make Up!" she transformed into her Silver Millennium Senshi form. "Planet Teleport!"
In the security chambers of the Io Castle...
Silver Sailor Mercury turned on the Jovian palace's security systems and had the planet's defense systems activated in full assault mode. With the Thunder Planet fortified and capable of fending off the metallic locust horde, she then locked down the transportation portals she knew the envoys of Chaos would be using to enter the Solar System.
"And now," the revived Ice Senshi mused. "All we have to do is to eliminate the scouting drones."
On Earth...
Unbeknownst to the populace, the assimilated alien scout drones were not completely destroyed, but fell to Earth, disguised as debris fragments.
All over the world, the scouting drones then merged with various mechanics and caused severe incidents.
One major incident in particular involved a schoolgirl, Amia Lee, who had been returning from school. As she reached for the doorknob of her house after finding the fingerprinting lock not working, the metallic shards of the drones begun covering her outstretched hand. The door then opened to reveal the already assimilated Sky Eclipse in a space suit. The interior of the house was already covered in metallic shards and the 'revived' Sky reached a hand out to the frightened potential Innovator.
On the Ptolemaios III's bridge...
"You're going to Earth?" Lasse blinked when Setsuna informed the crew of his decision.
"Do you really believe the information about the fragments that fell to Earth attacking people with high quantum brainwaves?" Lockon inquired.
"It's information straight from VEDA." Feldt confirmed.
"If it's true, our comrades will be in danger." Setsuna concluded.
"Mileina, please contact Allelujah." Sumeragi requested.
"I get it." Lockon relented. "I'll go with you, Setsuna."
"I can't reach him." Mileina reported.
In Mongolia...
"We quit receiving power from the solar reception base." Allelujah noted. "Does it bother you that much, Marie?"
"Yeah, I feel kinda of uneasy." Marie nodded. "I'm sorry. It was selfish of me to ask you to come with me."
"It's fine." Allelujah assured. "Making an occasional stop or two isn't a big deal. The electrical transformer is gone." the couple ran into the solar plant to find the transformer had vanished. "Why? Excuse me." they entered the command building. "This is..." he placed himself in front of Marie when the pair found the infected workers scattered in the corridor.
Outside, an unmanned jeep drove straight towards them and forcing Allelujah to pull Marie to the floor.
"This way." Allelujah led Marie out of the building as the military vehicles outside starting running on their own.
Meanwhile...
The hospital Louise was in came under attack by the assimilated Sky.
A gunshot from Setsuna shattered the visor of Sky's space helmet, the animated Innovate was trying to pass on the carrier eggs to Louise. "That was just a warning." the Gundam pilot cautioned, his gun still trained on Sky. "I'll hit next time. Ribbon Almark." he recognized the revealed face.
Back in Mongolia...
With the military truck chasing after them, Allelujah and Marie was forced out of the plant and into the nearby field. The crash-landed truck then reformed itself and continued its chase, just as Allelujah and Marie split into two directions. The reformed truck then turned its attention on Marie who had stronger quantum brainwaves.
"They're targeting Marie." Allelujah realized.
"Oi, Captain Obvious." Hallelujah reminded his other self. "Marie's quantum brainwaves are attracting them. I don't have time to chit-chat. I'm borrowing your body, partner." he switched over.
With Hallelujah now in control, the truck turned its attention to the battle-thirsty pilot.
Letting the truck rush towards him, Hallelujah scaled the wall back to the plant and causing the truck to crash.
Another military truck then turned the corner and chased Hallelujah, the Super Soldier slid under a trio of connected pipes to evade the vehicle, only to have the truck smash straight through to continue chasing. A second jeep then came in from the front in an attempt to sandwich Hallelujah.
Hallelujah jumped on the jeep's hood and landed on the stone platform above after causing the two vehicles to crash. He was forced to move upwards when a loader container came straight for him. "Come and get me if you can." he taunted and turned to see a rising helicopter behind him.
A shot from Dynames Repair took out the helicopter, saving Hallelujah. Four more consecutive shots took out the affected military vehicles.
"Sorry, vacation's over." Lockon informed his fellow Meister.
With Setsuna...
"Ribbons Almark..." Setsuna hissed. "Why are you..." his quantum brainwaves picked up a vague message from the approaching Sky. He fired more shots at Sky, but did not deter the infected Innovate. Left with no choice, he tossed a clay explosive at Sky's space suit, taking out the assimilated Innovate, the lower half of the body fell to the ground and shattered into metal shards.
On the Ptolemaios III's briefing room...
"The Ribbons Almark Setsuna saw, or rather that human figure, was a crew member of the manned Jupiter probe that left Earth about 130 years ago." Sumeragi explained. "Feldt."
"The manned Jupiter mission was a cover fro GN Drive development. "Feldt brought up the photos that were available. "It's really not that strange for Ribbons-type Innovate to have been on board."
"The metal organism got into it and..." Setsuna realized.
"That's probably what happened." Lockon agreed.
"According to VEDA's information, the same sort of damage has been occurring on Earth." Sumeragi supplied.
"What are the aliens trying to do?" Allelujah wondered.
"I have no idea." Sumeragi admitted. "We don't even know if they're sentient."
"The E-Sensor has picked something up." Mileina reported. "Something is approaching the ship. It's on the long range optical camera."
"Is that a Federation ship?" Lasse wondered.
"No." Setsuna frowned.
"Mileina, compare it to known silhouettes." Sumeragi picked up on Setsuna's suspicions.
"It most closely resembles registration number 9374." Mileina stated. "The manned Jupiter probe... the Europa!"
"What?" Allelujah gaped.
"How can a destroyed ship be out there?" Lasse wondered.
"We'll take the Gundams out." Setsuna barked.
In the battlefield...
"Is that it?" Setsuna frowned, the three Gundams were closing in the Europa.
"That's..." Allelujah spotted the horde of alien probes surrounding the vessel.
"They multiplied!" Orange and Blue Haros chirped. "Multiplied!"
"They'll have to go through me before they can do whatever they're planning." Lockon swore and started shooting down the attacking probes.
"So it's the aliens." Allelujah frowned, a group of probes were hot on the Harute's tail. "They were targeting Marie."
The Harute sped up, with Marie releasing an array of missile to counter the probes.
"What?" Marie gaped when a probe melted into a missile and took on its shape.
"The missiles changed?" even Allelujah was shocked.
The remaining probes then turned their attention on Setsuna and attacked the 00-Raised en-mass.
A blast of quantum brainwaves from the probes disorientated Setsuna, forcing him to dodge the drones instead.
"Enemy approaching!"Orange and Blue Haros chirped. "Approaching!"
Lockon focused back on his fight, sniping the attacking drones flying around him. "Setsuna!" he shouted, the younger Meister drew the drones away from the combat zone.
It was not longer before the probes embedded themselves on 00-Raiser's arm, the drones then forcing their thoughts into Setsuna's head. Just as a large probe was about to hit 00-Raiser, it was blasted by an energy beam.
A series of laser beams rained down on the probes, freezing every one of them, before the twin cannons returned to its originator Gundam. A metal claw then grabbed 00-Raiser around the waist and another claw ripped out the infected arm. Another ice beam took out the affected rifle.
"Trans-Am!" Tieria activated Raphael's Trans-Am, taking over the fight as he blasted all of the probes with his cannons. A giant energy beam took out the probes attack Harute. Another concentrated twin energy blasts then leveled the Europa.
"Attention all Gundams." Sumeragi alerted the Meisters. "Head towards Earth and concentrate on destroying the fragments."
Near Jupiter...
As if sensing their main fleet was destroyed, the scouting drones that had been assimilated into the humans left their hosts bodies and shot towards the Jovian planet.
In the Celestial Being transport ship...
"Honey, come here!" Linda panicked.
"What is it?" Ian hurried in. "What in the world..." he gaped as green lightning rained down around Jupiter.
Near Jupiter...
The remaining scouting drones converged together to form a massive metallic planet.
Before the forming planet, Silver Sailor Mercury hovered, with the jagged Frozen Judgment blade in hand. With a somersault, she leapt into the half-formed 'planet'.
As the molten metal closed in rapidly around the Ice Senshi, her eyes hardened. "Avatar Shiva!" she summoned the ice maiden. "World of Eternal Winter!" she cast the ice attack which shot up, forming an ice pillar that instantly froze the liquid metal and causing it to shatter into icy dust. The area spell then spread outwards, locking everything and Earth in solid ice.
SailorStar9: And this is the end of this fic. Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just love plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.