Chapter I The Space Cop
Chapter II Reglulated Fight
Chapter III Crystal Cops
Chapter IV New Vile
Chapter V Epilogue
CHAPTER I
Scene I
“BREEEP! BREEEEEP! BREEEEEP!” the alarm sounds in the
Crystal Tower.
"What is that?" Nity asks.
"The intruder alert." UA says. "Boy, am I glad Zelda took
Eme and the others for a nature walk. Looks like we got a
fight on our hands." The two CFs run out of the tower and
stop in front of the castle. They look around.
"I--don't--see anything." Nity shields his eyes from the
sun, just as a worm hole opens out of nowhere in the sky.
"Yeah? What do you call that?" From the bright abyss, a
motorcycle shaped hover craft comes out with an armored
rider. The worm hole closes and the bike touches down in
front of them. The rider takes off her helmet, revealing
her to be a beautiful, blonde woman. She pushes the hair
out of her face as she gets off the hover bike and walks
towards them. She pulls out a liquid display pad and looks
at it. She types a few things on it then look at the both
of them.
"One of you...Ultra Avenger?" He and Nity exchange glances.
UA looks her over as he says "I am."
"I'm Officer Sherlton." She walks over and hands him a
small slip of laminated paper. He reads it over.
"A ticket for 25 trillion...Zarloggs?!?" He looks at her.
"What's this for?"
"You, as team leader, get this for breaking or allowing the
breaking of every inter-dimensional regulation in the rule
book." She types on the display and reads off a list.
"Want and willful destruction of property:
Vile base, trees, grass, another base, huts etc, etc..."
"They keep trying to kill us! Those were accidents! And
most of them were done under the influence of fear gas!"
"Dimension hopping without a license..."
"Oh, like I had a choice!"
"Super heroing in another dimension without a license..."
"I wasn't aware I had to go to the DEPT. of SUPER HEROING, a
subsidiary of the DMV."
"Flying in a jet three times over the regulation
prohibited...shall I continue?"
"Okay, okay. How much is a Zer--whatever--in American
Money." She types on the display.
"Thirty seven thousand dollars." UA almost falls to the
ground. He checks his suit then shrugs.
"That, or you can continue on as normal--except I'll be around to make sure
you follow the rules."
"Excuse me, might I ask where these rules come from, or how
come we're hearing about it now?" Nity asks, extremely
confused. Officer Sherlton hands him a gigantic book from
out of nowhere. He almost falls under the weight.
"These rules come from the fifth dimension of the holy law
makers. They make the rules for every dimension.
Eventually, the fact you broke them even without knowing it
usually catches up with you in the end, or in purgatory as
some of you know it. But, in this new team's case, they
made a special exception. I'm from the Universal Police
squad, section six, and I am now in charge of what this team
does and doesn't do." She hands UA the official warrant.
UA and Nity exchange glances, just as their walkie-talkies
click to life. "Guys, we're coming in, but we got trouble."
Entropy comes out from behind UA, having heard the whole
thing. "Indeed." He snorts. Shifting into Ankhell, he
pulls out his sword and activates it, the blade darkening to
ebony. "Now, officer...It's not important. Anyway, just
why is it that we should have to listen to you? We insure
your protection, along with a billion other worlds. For all
extensive purposes, we should be reprimanding you for all of
this. Anyway, if you wish to consist with annoying us in
this pathetic manner, please leave me out of it. I prefer
not to be involved in such-" He suddenly lifts the officer's
helmet off her head, then skewers it, turning it to dust on
the sword's blade. "-Trivial matters." He then walks off,
leaping through a window and flying off.
Chapter II
Scene I
In the throne room, the CFs gather. Eme sits in her throne.
Zelda tells them what they saw.
"The Vile are preparing a march on a local village."
"We must stop them." Eme says.
"Right." Coda says. "When do we leave?" He looks to UA.
"Don't ask me. Ask miss rules over there." They all turn
to the cop.
"Right. According to the rules, we get to our mode of
transportation."
"That'd be me." UA says. "Everyone huddle. Let's pull
chocks!" They all move closer. "okay, one teleportal,
coming--"
"HOLD IT! We must get proper clearance from the one in
charge here." She puts her helmet back on, looking at UA.
He sighs. He looks to Eme.
"Eme, can we go?"
"???? ....Sure..." They 'port out.
Scene II
Soon the CFs appear in the woods,
just as the attack began.
"Okay team, let's..."
"Hold it. Do it by the rules or I'm commandeering your
team." the cop says. They all exchange glances.
"And those are--?"
The officer reads off of her stark white list "The
rules for battle are as follows: No damage of surrounding
property or properties in anyway. Stop. No excessive
violence whatsoever; if a foe has fallen to the ground, you
are not to follow up with any attacks or attempts of
violence upon his or her person. Stop. No unchartered
forms of movement during aforementioned battle. Stop. Any
destructive abilities or weapons are not to be used, to
reduce risk of unforeseen damages..."
The list went on for 5 or 10 more minutes, mostly things
about the proper use of weapons and what to do with captive
foes.
"Come ON, we have to fight them before they die of old
age!"
She flips to another page of the magic book of rules and
regulations. “Violations: Among the violations is the use of
impertinence directed at a law official such as myself,
namely Violation 421B." The officer makes a mark on another
page of the book. "One last thing, make all attempts at
capture and restraint; although excusable under the right
conditions, violence will be frowned upon.
End of Rules and Regulations."
The CFs race upon dead brown grass to encounter the
Vile, already having killed the villagers, and making off
with the village's meager plunder. The Crystal Fighters
feel their Crystals pulsing with excitement, ready to right
wrongs, and, at the same time, they feel the restraints set
upon them by the watching officer.
They go to fight the Vile, in a totally alien and
restricted way.
Zelda takes out her Crystal (which she had finnaly gotten
back from Nity) and lifts it into the air. "Stop! There's a
height limit of three feet on holding Crystals." Zelda
looks quizzically at her, "Umm..okay. Fine." she says,
holding her Crystal lower, "Rydia Luna--" "Using a Crystal
without your real name, and do you have a Crystal use
license?" Zelda sighs in aggravation and glares at the
officer, tossing her Crystal into her bag, "Fine!"
Zelda angrily mashs up some reagents and starts to cast a
lightening spell, but she’s interrupted for something or
other, she wasn't listening anymore. The bolt of lightening
still came, but it missed the Vile entirely, and almost hit
the officer instead. "Where did you get your reagents?" "I
got them outside the palace..why?" "Tut, tut, tut,
reagents that haven't been processed and scanned." Zelda
takes a breath willing herself to find a way around the rules
that seemed to block everything she did, "Okay, that rules
out everything but psychic powers.." "That is absolutely
against regulation 457621, unless, of course, you have a
signed agreement from a fully recognized Mentor of Mentality
"What in the Universes...?" she asks in confusion, not
knowing what a 'Mentor of Mentality' was. Zelda did the only
thing she could think of then, she walks straight up to the
Vile and says, "Please go back to your home and leave us
alone." One particularly large Vile in front lifts her up
and hurls her at a tall, wide tree. She slams into the
tree, but is still conscious and tries to stand up, but she
looses her balance and falls back against the tree. Zelda tries
to focus her eyes on something, anything, but can’t.
Coda jumps on T.I.M. and flies toward the Vile.
Scene III
He runs around a house and sees ten or so Vile leading a group
of woman and children to one of their ships.
"T.I.M. Elector Shield force ten, On all Vile with in TWO
feet of the villagers." Coda says.
" FORCE TEN SIR... THAT'S NOT SAFE?" T.I.M. says in reply
"I know T.I.M. Shield NOW!" Coda demands.
Just then a gray and yellow shield forms around the ten Vile
.In a rush of shock, two of the Vile try cutting through the
shield with their swords. The swords strike and turn to
melted metal and then disappear.
" Listen to me you wastes of good air, You have the right
to remain silent. You also have the right to disobey me until
I get you back to the that rule totin' blonde cop from hell,
And the right to keep touching the shield until your arms
fall off." Coda yells for all the Vile to hear.
" You all, are all right to leave, Run now!"
" NICE SPEECH SIR" T.I.M. says nervuously.
" Quite T.I.M." Coda said.
He forces the Vile to walk at the same time.
Scene IV
And then takes them back to the space cop.
"There! I didn't kill them, I talked to 'em, and didn't
damage anything. How’s that Miss Thing!" Coda says with a
smile.
UA flips out in front of a group of Vile and takes a
fighting stance. The space cop taps his shoulder.
"What now?"
"Use of any fighting skill outside of their origin dimension
is strictly forbidden. I don't know what you 'heroes' do in
New York City, but we have rules, Mr."
"Fine, fine." He walks up to the Vile. "Please get the
hell.."
"Foul language!"
"...Back under the rock you came from." The Vile shrug then
smack him aside. UA begins to feel a very strong emotion.
He thinks it’s called HATE!
The space cop begins to reprimand every CF, including Coda.
Especially Coda. Entropy grabs a Vile and tosses it,
seeing that it’s the only thing he could possibly do. Another
Vile grabs him and sends him into a tree. The impact forces
it to fall on top of Ganthlet, who's crystal might keeps the
tree up, but begins to buckle under the weight.
"A...little...help!"
"Coda, tend to Gan--"
"As team leader, YOU should make the rescue."
"I'm a little BUSY here, office--" The tree falls on
Ganthlet, who gets pushed into the ground like a nail, but he is
unharmed. Mostly. The Vile run off, leaving the villagers
dead, the land destroyed, and this and that.
"This was a pathetic display!" the officer states. "You did
more damage doing NOTHING!"
"EXCUSE ME?!" UA says. "It was YOUR stupid rules that--"
"Blaming others is no excuse for your failure as team
leader. As of this moment, you are off the team. I am
commandeering it, and shall lead them into proper and
efficient regulation battles."
"Off the--OFF THE TEAM?! After an HOUR of getting Ganthlet
out, losing to a bunch of VILE, and listening to your
babble, I'M off the team? FINE! I'm gone!" He starts to
walk off.
"Ahem. Your Crystal." She extends a hand. UA walks back
and slams his Crystal down in her palm. He pulls her close.
"Just to let you know, if you weren't a lady, at least I
THINK you are, I'd be slugging you to China and back."
"As I recall, you have fought women. Another violation."
UA walks off, grumbling. Leaving the CFs with their new
leader.
"Now, shall we return to base?"
Chapter III
Scene I
THE CASTLE
"I saw all the DESTRUCTION on a viewing port! Where's that
UA?! I'm gonna kill him!" Eme screams at the CFs.
"Ultra Avenger is no longer on the team." The officer
states. "I am now Ultra Avenger and shall be known as such
until I am replaced. He is no longer void to lead or be a
hero in this dimension without clearance. I have taken his
call sign according to section 999666-A paragraph C,
sub-section D, sub-paragraph B. And according to paragraph
E, I am also commandeering your rule here."
"WHAT?!?"
"For letting Ultra Avenger get out of control when you could
have done differently." She turns to the CFs. "You all have
an option. Follow your ex-leader into the unknown and forever give
up your Crystals and rights to your names and be replaced,
or fight by the book. Entropy grumbles, walking straight up to the officer. "I do
not pretend to know what you plan to do having us follow all
these pathetic regulations, but-" Entropy suddenly gets an
idea. (Well, one better than lopping the cop's head off.)
"-Did you know how unregulated the folks in the Vile castle
are? They're definitely not playing by the rules of
villainy, whatever those may be. They're more unregulated
than we are, even."
Pyro looks at the Space cop kind of wild-eyed. "Uh, how many
rules are there?" he says as he lights up a cigarette.
"549,768,321 rules. Including rule #354 NO SMOKING"
Pyro takes the cigarette out of his mouth, blows smoke in
her face and continues. "Who died and made her queen POA?"
He looks at her. "Aw ta hell.." She cuts him off. "NO
CURSING!" he continues. "with you. You're very existence
makes me sick." He finishes by throwing the cigarette on her
boot. "I'll come to your funeral. You’ll probably be dead
soon if you follow these $^%#$%in' rules.“ He walks out
after Eme and UA. "Yo' wait up!" Pyro says as he chases
after them. “He was going to be removed soon anyway. Until
then I shall replace him as well." A distant cry rings out
"YARIGHT!!! GOOD $#@$IN' LUCK!"
Scene II
OUTSIDE
"Hey UA, if we need a place to go, I got a small lab/bunker
about a mile away. I got quite a bit of equipment there."
Pyro says as he finally catches up.
"Very well. You all feel this way?" They all nod.
"Excellent. As of this moment, the CFs shall be
replaced and their call signs recycled." Suddenly, a
wormhole opens and the number of replacements needed come
out, dressed like the officer. That's when the alarm rings
throughout the castle.
"WARNING! UA, VILE ACTIVITY DETECTED IN THE AREA!"
"Excellent. Let's go, team!" Outside, the
CFs, the real ones, stand and watch.
"Shouldn't we do something? They'll be killed!" Zelda
exclaims.
"So?" Pyro asks.
"They won't be killed." They all turn to see UA. "We'll let
them get a taste of what we got, then jump in. Sound good?"
he asks with a smile. They others exchange glances, smile
and nod.
Zelda started muttering to herself, +Call sign, what's a
call sign? Stupid rules. Loop hole..loop hole loop
hole...there must be something, but to look through that
entire rule book!? Oy!" She looked up in surprise as two of
the cops started talking to the Vile, the first got slammed
into a tree (she winced remembering how much that hurt) but
the second...the Vile actually seemed to be listening to!
"Ohmygosh...hey guys...look." she said pointing to the Vile,
but as she looked at the Vile she sensed something was
wrong. "UA, can we help them now?" she said looking nervously at some
of the other Vile.
The new Crystal Fighters are tossed about like ragdolls,
many of them losing consciousness and slipping into a dark
void. One of them desperately tries to use Krakken's
crystal to summon a blast of wind, but it won't respond.
The Crystal's owner gives a stress-relieving chuckle. "Why
did they think we were the ones with the Crystals? We're
the only ones who can use them."
Chapter IV
Scene I
A Vile stands over each unconscious officer/CF. Thick,
viscous liquid streams out of their fingers and into the
officers' mouths. They go into convulsions, choking and
writhing, and then they rise, their eyes glowing red.
Eventually, all have been transformed into Vile, with the
exception of the new UA.
Nity stands, transfixed by the horrifying sight before
him. "I-It's like they were possessed, or had eggs laid in
them, or something."
"That is no proper death for a warrior," whispers
Ganthet in response. Kisutsu nods silently, still stunned.
The others just stand, horrified beyond words, until
Krakken snaps out of it. "We've waited too long! We have
to help NOW!!" The Crystal Fighters run with all they have,
hoping beyond hope to save a life and to end many ruined
existences, because it was their duty, and their fault. “I
just can't help but think, if we had followed the rules,
they never would've come, and this never would've happened
to them. If we had even HELPED them SOONER, they would still
be human. But undoubtedly, someone is more responsible for
this than us. The Vile. And by all that I deem precious in
this life, they will pay for what they have done.” So swears
Krakken.
"Uh, guys. If they had our Crystals as humans, wouldn't
that mean that they have them now as Vile?" Pyro suddenly
realizes as one of them holds up a Crystal... " The more
important question is can THEY use them?" Not wanting to
find out he pulls out his EP-113 (Energy Pulse Rifle) and
fires at the Vile holding the crystal up, the blast
nearly blows the Vile in half but he remains standing, the
hole resealing in seconds. "That isn't a normal Vile
thing.... Could it be, the Crystals?" He thinks as the Vile
look at them, grinning, if that's possible.
"CRYSTAL FIGHTERS, MOVE!" UA shouts. He slides down the
hill with the others. The CFs enter into battle with the
Vile, as UA stops by UA, formarlly the space cop.
"I don't get how we could lose!" she shouts.
"Simple. Your rules promote a peaceful means. But evil
doesn't give two squats about peace. Now, the end result of
no physical contact, as per rule #...2789-3 I believe, your
alternate CFs were transformed into Vile. But, luckily, I
know a secret about that." The CFs get blasted back by the
new Vile and land by UA's feet.
"Like my new toys, UA?" Evil UA asks, above the Vile. "Took care
of your wanna-be team with no problem!" He laughs evilly as
he fades, just a hologram.
"Now, watch our brand of fighting, officer!"
"But, UA! They got our--" Suddenly, most of their Crystals appear
in their hands.
"Well? What are you waiting for? CRYSTAL FIGHTERS, FIGHT!"
They all smile as they charge, ready for some major
pay-back.
Entropy charges in, leaping at the Vile that stole his
Crystal and grabbing his sword. "Blasdean Necronomicus Es
Mortuum!" He cries, the blade turning ebony black as he
falls into a fighting stance. Suddenly, a phrase jumps into
his head. "Hereius Catharus es Mortuum!" He points his
sword at the vile, firing off a white beam of light from the
tip. Almost instantly, the Vile’s matter flows back into
human shape, becoming the officer it once was. The officer
groans and collapses, unconscious.
Pyro starts thinking about the area and groaning about his
current uselessness he remembers that he had a new system in
his improved AAWP(Arm Augmentation Weapons Placement)
system. He presses a few buttons on his wrist and the Energy
Rifle he was holding reshapes itself into a vial launcher
pistol. He attaches a feeder line from his arm guard into it
and fires explosive vials around the battle field. "Hello
boys! I GOTTA LITTLE FUN FOR YOU!" He grins sadistically as he
prepares to fire some more.
"Stop this is against rule #.." Pyro interrupts the space
cop quickly. "Shut up! you're stupid rules almost made you
a Vile too if we hadn't a come along. So shut up, screw the
rules and let us do our freakin job!!!" He empties a few
more shots around.
Ganthet mutters something about the only true rules being
those of honorable combat, including giving a death of the
same type. He draws his sword, and starts hacking Vile.
Using his great strength, he smashes half a dozen of the
transformed Vile into pulp. "I have released you from
living death, rest well in the Hall of Warriors." (his
kind's name for a Valhalla-like place) He picks his Crystal
out of the dead bodies, replaces it in his chest cavity, and
tosses several others their Crystals.
He looks at his Crystal and mutters "One day I'll actually
use this #$@! thing."
Pyro looks suddenly irate "Wait a minute. This stinks.
I just figured this out. I think this is a scheme by the
evil UA to get our Crystals."
"How do you figure that?" UA questions him.
"Easy. One: Miz Space POA came in here and started taking
the Crystals under some rule or another way to easily. Two:
When she led our replacements into the Vile she offered
no resistance. I'm sure self defense is not illegal. Three:
everyone else got converted into a Vile but her... And
lastly Four: None of the Vile directly attacked her. This
stinks, we aren’t being told something here. And I DON'T
like being left in the dark." Pyro arms his pistol and
points it at the cop "Start talking. If I fire you have no
chance of surviving."
"Your proposal shows merit." Entropy says, drawing his
sword, then grabbing the space cop from behind and holding
the blade to her throat. "Now, what is really going on? And
you'd best answer, I don't like cutting people's heads off
but I will.”
Nity looks to UA. "Hey can’t your evil self shapeshift
because of his syimbiote and stuff, how much you want to bet
this space bit... cop is really UA?"
"Woah, woah, woah! She is NOT UA." UA says. "UA is just
another version of me from a parallel dimension, so we think
exactly alike, right? Well, I would NEVER have been able to
think of this, so he shouldn't. Besides, I got my contacts
on."
"CONTACTS?! How is seein' better supposed to--" Coda asks.
"Simple. Here." UA pops them out from under his mask and
hands them to Coda. He puts them in then looks at the cop.
He can see through her armor, weapons an helmet, leaving
her tights underneath and skin in view.
"Now, look at me." he morphs into the cop. He does and
sees UA as he was. UA demorphs as Coda hands him back the
lenses.
Chapter V
Scene I
"Cool." As the other CFs take out the last of the Vile, UA
and the cop talk.
"Now, I hope you learned that rules and regulations can't
rule everything."
"But, what about order and--"
"Order is good. But too much can be dangerous." He motions
to the unconscious cops.
"I see what you mean."
"I still don't trust her...." Pyro says quietly. "It was
all to easy. Besides, she gave in to easily." Without
anyone noticing Pyro tosses a micro homing beacon(with
audio hookup) onto her leg. "I'll know where you are and
what you do." He mutters then turns to UA, who finally
finished talking to the cop "Now what?"
Ganthet dusts Vile guts off his crystalline body, sheaths his
sword, and speaks to the space cop, "You are an agent of
law, order and justice. And because of that, I respect you,
as I respect all good people. But...these Crystal Fighters
have done a fine job on their own for quiet a while....why interfere
now?....you could have done so much earlier,.....why now?"
"Easy, according to the rules, you have over three million
violations." She says. "That makes you top priority."
"Made, right?" UA asks, looking at her.
"..."
Scene II
THE CASTLE
The officer gets on her hover bike, ready to follow the
others already home. Her wormhole pulsates as the CFs stand
by.
"So, you gonna take what we said into thought?" UA asks as
she starts up.
"...Sure. No problem." She heads into the hole and is
gone.
"Well, we're all back to basics. So how about a pool party
in the nearby lake?" UA asks. The others all agree as they
head off to the castle for their party gear.
Scene III
SOMEWHERE
The cop storms into a room that looks like a deep void of
space.
"We need a full task force on those Crystal Fighters, and
those Vile! They're violent law breakers who are just three
thousand short of violating every rule in the book. I need
harnesses, traps, men--EVERYTHING!"
One of many celestial unseen bodies answers her.
"GEEZ. WE JUST MADE UP ALL THOSE RULES CAUSE WE COULD.
DON'T MEAN YOU GOTTA ENFORCE EVERY SINGLE ONE! SO TAKE A
CHILL AND PAR-TAY!" Music starts up and disco lights shine
throughout the room.
UA speaks......
"Rules are the basis of life. The human and or mutant mind
isn't developed enough to function without them. But too
many is, well--TOO MUCH! Rules are good as long as they
make sense, but we can't only run on rules. We need to be
allowed to use our common sense and express who we are.
Without that, the human mind would go nuts. Well, on a less
lighter note, my attempts to get home are no better than
they have been. Isn't that a hoot? But, we had a fun
party. That was a real pick-me-up. NOT!"