PROLOUGE
Exactly one month ago, the Vile in the leadership of the    
alternate Ultra Avenger unleashed their new weapon--an army 
of indestructible Fire Vile that burns at the touch, reforms
when they were destroyed, and eventually molded together to 
create a giant one.  That and the evil Phyllite under the   
guise of Phyllis poisoned Zelda and Eme, turning them into  
Adlez and emE, evil versions of themselves.                 
The final stand took place at the castle.  Zelda and Eme    
were returned to normal, the giant Fire Vile was defeated, a
section of the castle was destroyed, Pyro turned up missing,
and UA escaped.                                             
Since then, the castle wall has been repaired and the Vile  
have stayed quiet.  That gave Ultra Avenger, the leader of  
the Crystal Fighters, time to work on the Rebel Jet Mach 2. 
After a few mishaps, it was in pretty bad shape.  But, not  
too bad that it couldn't be salvaged by UA.                 
He tightens a screw here, bangs a peice of metal there,     
recalibrates the gyro-compass flight mechanism a smidge--    
                                                            
While noise emits from the workshop in the courtyard, some  
CFs lounge by the pool, while Nity, Ganthet and T.I.M. sit  
in the tower.  Nity taps on the huge computer.  He types:   
PYRO.                                                       
"LOCATING...SUBJECT PYRO NOT FOUND."                        
"Where could he be?" Nity asks.                             
"No clue.  He ran into battle and that was the last anyone  
saw of him." Ganthet states.                               
"Internal scanners are giving the same response." a newly   
built T.I.M. states.                                        
"Well, we'll do him no good by running ourselves to         
exhaustion.  Maybe we should try to relax with the rest of  
the team and try again later." Nity says, streatching.      
Suddenly, a red button begins to flash.  Nity taps it.  A   
man appears on the screen.                                  
"Greetings, Crystal Fighters.  I am Chancelor Grouwitt.     
Might I speak with Queen Emerald?"                          
"Sure.  Hang on."  Nity hits another button.  The video     
screen installed by Eme's throne comes to life.             
"Call for you, Eme."                                        
"Send it through."  The chancelor's image appears.  "Ah,    
chancelor, how are things under your rule?"                 
"I'm afraid it could be better."                            
                                                            
UA applies the last stroke of paint to the jet, ever so     
gently moving it--until he hears:                           
"WHAT!!!?!?!?!"  He drops the can of paint and the brush.   
He watches as it oozes over the floor.                      
"Oh, man.  She better have a good reason for making me waste
an hour's worth of finding the right pigmentation."  He     
morphs on his mask and 'ports to the throne room.  
He appears just in time to catch a candle stick aimed at the monitor.                                 
"Woah, woah, woah there, Queeny.  What's going on?"         
"YOU!  I'm not too fond of you right now either."           
"Yeah?  So what else is new.  What's the trouble?"          
"I need to get to the southern part of Crystalia in order to
deal with a royal problem, but my main ship ports have been 
destroyed in a Vile attack and I have no means of getting   
there."                   

CHAPTER 1
"Not necessarily." UA says, looking out a window at the jet.
                                                            
MINUTES LATER                                               
UA hops into the jet in the front seat while Eme sits in the
back and frantically buckles up, knowing UA likes to travel fast.
"Okay, Nity's in charge till I get back.  Keep up the search for Pyro, and    
T.I.M., continue working on our--project." UA says to the CFs standing 
by the jet.                 
"Right." Nity says.                                         
"Right." T.I.M. says.  UA sits down and straps in, closing  
the cockpit.  He starts up the jet and begins to hover      
upwards.                                                    
"Not too fast, PLEASE!" Eme says.                           
"Aw, but I gotta test out the engine, queeny!"  UA hits a   
red button, and with a sonic boom, the jet is gone.         
                                                            
SOMEWHERE OVER WHAT SHOULD BE THE ATLANTIC                  
"Now, I've been meaning to talk to you." UA says.  "If you  
could repair the nature we accidentally destroy, why do you 
get so huffy?"                                              
"Because, how would you like your home invaded and trashed?"
"Point."  UA flicks a switch.                               
                                                            
SOMEWHERE BELOW AND TO THE SOUTH                            
A shady female figure turns from a monitor.                 
"We have a visual of the targets."                            
"Excellent." A man's voice says.  "Activate the forcefield  
and fire the ray."                                          
"Yes, sir."  The woman hits a button.  Over an island in the
middle of nowhere appears a forcefield that turns invisible.
Then, the top of a mountain slides open.  An energy beam    
fires out and into the sky.                                 
                                                            
THE JET                                                     
An instrument begins to buzz.                               
"What is that?" asks Eme.                                            
"Hmmmm...an energy disruption nearby.  One that matches a   
forcefield, and the other matches a--"  Then, the jet is hit
by the beam.  Everything rocks and shakes.  "--laser beam." 
The instruments go dark.  UA pulls back on the stick as they
enter a tailspin.  "NOTHING's WORKING!"                     
"DO SOMETHING!"  UA pulls the pressurized hatch release     
lever.  Nada.  He unbuckles his belt and punches the hatch. 
No good.  He built it too strong.  He sees the form of an   
island growing closer and closer as they fall towards it.   
UA quickly morphs around Eme and morphs into solid titanium.
They fall for what seems like hours, then--                 
                                                            
THE CRYSTAL TOWER                                           
Nity runs in as an alarm goes off.  He works on the computer
as the rest of the CFs run in.                              
"What's going on?" Zelda asks.                              
"It's UA and Eme.  The jet went down somewhere in the ocean.
...And I can't find a trace of them!"                       
                                                            
SOMEWHERE ON THE ISLAND                                     
"We have touchdown.  They're still alive."                  
"Good.  With their instruments down, their powers inhibited,
and their teammates unable to get a lock, we'll have all the
time we need to have some...FUN with them."  The Chancelor  
steps into the light.  "Send out...THE WELCOME WAGON."  

CHAPTER 2
''I dont like the looks of this.'' Eme says. ''You can let  
go of me now UA...''.                                       
''Oh sorry.'' he does so and they find their way out of the 
trashed jet.                                                
''It seems as if we are on Crystal Isle....millions of miles
away from the castle. Any hope of the CFs finding us?'' asks Eme.     
UA morphs back.  He heads over to the jet, from which they  
were ejected out on impact.  Sure, UA thinks, it takes a    
huge plunge to pop the hatch.  He looks into the cockpit.   
He flicks a switch.  Nothing.                               
"They can't get a lock on our instruments.  Maybe they'll   
have luck with our powers."  UA walks over to the cockpit   
cover and tries to lift it up.  He then tries to 'port.     
"Well, scratch that.  Any of yours still working?"          
"No." Eme says.                                             
"Oh, great.  Now, I can't 'port us anywhere, we can't go    
anywhere--the only thing we can do is--"                    
"DIE!" Pyllite shouts as she and an arm of Vile appear from 
behind the bushes.  UA and Eme stand back to back,          
surrounded.                                                 
"Actually, I was gonna say explore to find a way off, but I 
guess now's not the time for that." says UA.  

After finding out that Eme and UA were lost Zelda walked,   
appearing calm, to her room and totally broke down into     
tears.                                                      
                                                            
"Kisutsu! C'mere." Nity called seeing him walking down the  
hall.  "I can't seem to get a lock on UA and Eme." he said, 
glaring down at the controls.  He pressed a few buttons and 
a flashing red 'Negative' came up. "See?" he said gestruring
angerily to flashing word.                                  
"Hmmmm...." Kisutsu said, staring into the screen.         
"Uhhhh... How 'bout this button?" He said, pushing a random 
button.                                                     
Krakken looked at the unfeeling computer screen as it's 
monotonous, uncaring message displayed yet again.           
"Insufficiant data, unable to process request."             
    "Oh, that makes a lot of sense." Krakken crushed the    
computer into sparking shards, letting the electricity in it
fizz away in the machine's death throes.                    
    Pyro stood up, the tension in him that had been building
for over an hour snapping at the destruction, "#%$^% it,    
what are we just sitting around for, let's just go and find 
them!  We'll just head to their last coordinates, and search
from there.  HOW... HARD... IS... THAT?"                    
    "Um... very." Nity rubbed the side of his nose "none of us know 
how to work this equipment well enough to do something like that"                               

ISLAND   
Eme immediatly started to kick some Vile butt with her cool 
manouvers and kicks.                                        
UA (slightly amazed at a Queen's fighting prowess) begins to
get medieval on the Vile.  He jumps, flips, and downward    
kicks a Vile.  But, without his increased strength, all his 
moves do is phase them.  He gives one a backfist, then      
punches another.                                            
We can't keep this up forever, UA thinks, so maybe it's time
to get EXTRA personal!  He jumps into the middle of a group 
of Vile.                                                    
"Hey, let's party!"  One lunges.  He grabs its arm and      
flings it over his shoulder into another, shattering them.  
Two come from the side.  He jumps and double kicks them.  He
uses another's shoulders to flip over it, twin kick a Vile  
into another, shattering it, then back kicking the Vile he  
used into another.                                          
"Eme, smash them into each other with all your power.  It's 
the only way to beat them in our weakened state."  He takes 
care of the last two Vile.  He dusts off his hands.         
"Well, that was easy--too--"  Then, another group of Vile,  
dressed as pirates (with swords to match) come out of the   
bushes.  "--easy."                                          

CHAPTER 3
''You mean your weakened state'' Eme mused and took UA's  
advise with the pirate Viles. She continuously picked them up
and threw them into others.  

A mysterious figure crosses a desolate wasteland,       
comming up to a mound he notices that the ground feels      
like metal. "How did this get here?" He asks himself as he  
brushes off the sand. It soon reveals an airplane style      
door. He presses some numbers on the door's keypad and it   
quietly opens. He enters looks around and quietly thought   
"I hope it still works"                                     

In the control room: on a lone computer screen to the    
side for only a moment a signal bleeps on screen. It      
almost goes unnotest.                                       
Kisutsu sees it and as he runs over the signal is lost with
out a trace.                                                
"DANGIT! Almost had him?" Kisutsu says.      
"What almost had what?" Ganthet asks.                              
"Coda, I can almost swear that it was Coda's homingbeakon that was 
just on this dang screen.                                 
"Coda's? You mean...he could still be alive? That's great!" 
Nity exclaims, then starts trying to work the controls while
muttering to himself, "This here...and if that..&$#@..maybe 
if I.."                                                     

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."  UA walks as a Vile charges him.  He    
flips it over with one hand, shattering it on a rock.  He   
grabs a sword and flips to some others.  He engages in some 
sword play, then slashes a few Vile.                        
Meanwhile, a Vile cuts Eme's arm.                           
"OWWWWWWWWWWWW!"  She grabs its arm and flings it into      
another Vile.  "You know, this is all your fault!"          
"MY FAULT???????" UA says, while slicing three Vile.        
"You and your stupid technology!  Thanks to it, we're       
marooned here and fighting for our lives!"  She slams two   
together.                                                   
"%&@#, %&@#, %&@#."  UA flips and kicks one.  Then, they 
retreat.  Panting, UA walks back to the jet.  He puts the   
sword in the ground.  He crouches down by the jet.          
"Now what're you doing???"                                  
"Just SHUT UP!"  UA pulls a key out of his belt and inserts 
it into a pannel.  He opens it.                             
"What is that?"                                             
"Survival kit."  He pulls out stuff.  "Let's see, foreign   
money, domestic money, translation kit...ah!  Here it is."  
He pulls out a metal suitcase, some clothes, and a huge     
backpack.  He looks up at the sun.  He can just make out the
faint forcefield.  "If I'm right, that forcefield we must've
passed through will be keeping in more heat, so we'll need  
to dress cool."  He tosses her some shorts and a t-shirt.   
"It's up to you, but you may wanna put those on."  UA opens 
the backpack.  "Dehydrated food is still in abundance."  He 
then takes off his shirt and mask and pulls on a tank top.  
Then, he opens the suitcase.                                
"I hope this is what I think it--YES!"  He pulls out a      
yellow belt.  "Things're starting to look up!"              
''No, thanks. If you remember I have a suitcase.'' Eme looks 
around the disaster area. ''Bingo!'' she opens it up and    
pulls out her favorite outfit. a short wrap-around skirt and
a halter-top like top. She then immediatly starts to strip  
down.                                                       
''Eme!'' UA shouts.                                         
''What? Im not shy, never was and I'm not going to start     
now.'' She gave him a sly grin and stripped completely of   
her dress. Then she wrapped her skirt on and fastened it,   
then slipped her top on. Then she took a hairpiece and      
pulled her long curly hair into a ponytail.                 
Of course, UA kept his back turned to Eme.  He stands up and
takes off the yellow belt he was wearing and replaces it    
with the thicker one in the suitcase.  He takes a wire out  
from it and manuvers it through his tank-top, then brings it
up from the back of his shirt and places the end on his     
temple.  He reaches back into the case and pulls out a      
small, rectangular black gun.  He clicks back the veiw      
scope, then places it in its holser.  He reaches in again,  
pulls out a pair of one-piece sunglasses and puts them on   
his face.  He folds up his gloves and drapes them inside his
belt.  He turns back to Eme.                                
"We'll set up camp here.  We'll explore the island and see  
if we can't find th central command before nightfall."      
"What makes you think there is one?"                        
"Oh, I think my 'bro' has a hand in this."  He starts       
putting the stuff back into the jet.                        
"Hey, and who put you in charge anyway?  This is MY kingdom 
and I know every square inch of it!"                        
"Oh, really?  Then what island are we on?"                  
"Umm, we're on--uhhhhhhhhhhh...maybe Crystal Isle" Eme
doesnt seem to sure of herself.                            
"I thought so."  He tosses her stuff in and shuts the door. 
He stands and dusts his pants off.  "You have a choice,     
either stay here and set up a camp or come with me."        

"Ack!" Nity said, and pointed to a survalence screen,       
"Look!" a small group of Vile were loitering around 
a group of trees, "I've got an idea, let's split up.  T.I.M.
you and Kisutsu and Ganthet go search for Eme and UA, you   
can bust any Vile you see on the way, Zelda and             
Rupay..uhh..where are they anyway? Oh-well, I'll find 'em   
before you leave. They'll stay here" then he remembered     
Zelda's incompetence with machines,"..umm..hmm..nevermind.  
Zelda and Rupay'll come with me to whack the Vile in the    
woods, rest of you stay here and watch the equipment." Then 
Nity handed out walkie talkies, "Got it? Let's go." 

''Im coming with you of course.'' and Eme followed after UA. 
UA leads a path through the thick jungle with the
knife he took from a Vile.  Somehow, they find their way to 
the beach.  There, they find a huge, old wreck.             
"That was one of my ships." Eme states.  "It disappeared  
years ago and was never heard from."  UA examines the       
rotting wood.                                               
"Looks like Vile damage to me."                             
"That means the Vile--"                                     
"Were always here."                                         
"HERE?!?  In my Kingdom?!?  For how long???"                
"Who knows.  But it's obvious they were here before the     
Crystal Fighters were formed."  UA pulls on his gloves.     
"What are you doing?"                                       
"I'm going to investigate.  I just hope that the costume I  
had on when the symbiote left me was the right one."  He    
clicks his wrists together and spikes pop out of the front  
of his hands.  He clicks his heels together and his boots   
pop spikes.  He swings a hand on the ship and begins        
climbing up.  He jumps over the side and lands on the       
slanted deck.  He retracts the hand spikes and begins to    
walk towards the cabin door below where the wheel--was.  He 
pulls his gun and tries the knob.  Locked.  He kicks it and 
it swings open.  Unlocked.  He walks into the dark cabin and
looks around.                                               
Well, he thought, at least the infra red tint still works.  
He looks around the red illuminated room.  Suddenly, his    
vision begins to fizzle.  Then, a red circle begins to      
blink.                                                      
"THE SCANNER!!"  But then, it fizzles out.  Nuts.  he looks 
to where the circle was and moves in.  But, with a lack of  
light, he can't make out what's there.  He moves in a little
more only to hear a low growl.                              
                                                            
Seconds later, he runs out of the cabin and slams the door  
shut behind him.  He holds it as a roar comes out from      
behind it and it begins to be banged.                       
"What's going on?" Eme asks from below.  I feel like John   
Candy and she wants to know what's going on, UA thinks, as a
bear knocks down the door and crushes him flat.  Definitely 
John Candy.                                                 
"Eme, MOVE!"  The bear leaps off him and makes its way to   
the side of the deck.                                       

CHAPTER 4
 Nity looked around the group and started to wonder where    
Zelda and a few of the others were. He sighed, +It'd be nice
if everyone was where they were ~supposed~ to be.+ He       
watches T.I.M., Kisutsu, and Ganthet head out in search for 
Eme and then invites Zealen to come along with him, Zelda,  
and Rupay, well..when he finds them.  Nity walked down the  
hall and soon found Zelda, still in her room, "Zelda, we've 
gotta go, there're some Vile around...Zelda, you okay?"   
Zelda had long since cried herself out, though her eyes were
still red when Nity entered the room, she took a deep breath
and wiped her face, "I'm fine. Let's go."                   
"You seen Rupay around here?" Nity asked, wondering if she  
really was all right. Zelda shrugged, "Not recently." "Zel, 
you don't ~have~ to go, Zealen and I can take care of the   
Vile I think." Zelda shook her head, "I'm fine." then she   
got a dangerous look on her face, "The Vile will pay for    
this." The three of them left to go after the Vile outside. 

Working silently on the controls the mystery man finally    
gets the computer to respond "DragonStar active."           
"Systems Check" He orders.                                  
"Full operation"                                            
"Raise Legs." The sand erupts with a strange sight. Lifted  
up on two legs a airplane like noone has ever seen,         
carrying what looked like a dragon's headed bomb underneath.
"Lift off, course set Crystal Castle."        
The "Dragon Star" lifts up, turns towards the castle and    
burns off silently, it's legs transforming into huge        
afterburners.                                               

"Hmmmm... Why do _I_ have to be one of the ones who stays  
with all these computer thingies..." Kisutsu looked at the       
control panel. "Hmmmm... I've heard you can order pizza from
these things.... Ahh! DEL... Must stand for Deliver!" He    
slowly started to move his finger to the button...          

FIVE MINUTES LATER
Kisutsu continued to wait for his pizza. "Hellllo!  Where's my...   
hey, the letters are disappearing from the screen..."         

ISLAND
''Nonsence UA!'' Eme said and walked to the bear. With a    
roar of her own, the bear calmed down, jumped to her side,  
and nuzzled her. ''See, its just a Crystalian Bear.''       
UA grumbled as he pushed the heavy door off himself.        
"Show-off."                                                 
                                                            
ELSEWHERE                                                   
"The 'bear' is 'nuzzling' her."                             
"Excellent." Says the voice of the chancelor.  "Continue our
little game while I go and take over Eme's kingdom."        
"Right."                                                    

THE WRECK                                                   
UA dusts himself over and walks to the edge.  Then,         
something clicks.  If the door was locked, how did a bear-- 
He looks down to see a piece of the 'bear's' fur not placed 
right, and a metallic limb underneath.  UA jumps off the    
boat and tackles Eme just as the bear was about to take a   
huge bite.                                                  
"OW!  What are you--"                                       
"Oh, shut up!"  UA pulls his gun and pops a pellet.  He     
loads the gun and aims.  "This one packs a wallop!"  He     
fires.  It hits the bear and explodes.  Eme, of course,     
doesn't know, so she backhands UA.                          
"What're you doing?!"                                       
"I just saved our necks--"  The smoke clears, leaving only  
the bear's metallic form.  "Scratch that.  RUN!"  They take 
off into the forest.                                        
"I thought you said that thing packed a wallop!"            
"Oh, now you wanted the wallop.  Make up your MIND!"        

CHAPTER 5
"Razis Crystal Flame." Razis said, attacking the Vile that  
they finnaly came to.  
"Watch out!" Rydia called as three of the Vile headed towards Zealen.                             
Zealen strikes out with his PSI-Blades and destroys one of  
the Vile. He does a quick back flip afterwords, knocking the
wind out of another. He concentrates his power and focuses  
his PSI blades to become scythes, and hacks the other two in  
half. He grins in delight, and says, "Elightenment is good, 
but a dead Vile is better." while blowing on his PSI        
Projectors.                                                 

The DragonStar aproaches the Crystal Castle and lands in the     
forest, the mystery man still at the controls.              
"Mode Change: Drag" He says as the ship settles to the      
ground.                                                     
The "nose" of the plane folds under the dragon head. The    
dragon head bends forward as the legs pull it to a vertical 
posision. A golden blade lifts out of the arm-less winged   
dragon's head. It roars, revealing a metalic weapon of some 
sort. It turns to the Castle and approaches it.          
Noticing the array of Vile he points the         
dragon's head at them.                                      
"Arm STN 384. FIRE"                                         
The dragon's mouth opens and a bolt of energy strikes the   
Vile, causing several of them to colapse from the bolt   
The dragon's head remains open and a loudspeaker sounds.    
"Hey guys ya missed me?" Pyro's voice booms over the        
speaker.                                                    

''Im sorry back there. What was inside that bear? Is    
that some other technology you people have on Earth or      
whatever?'' Eme, not understanding all this technology.      
"It's called a cyborg.  They're robots made to look like    
living things.  Quick!"  UA grabs a tree limb and pulls her 
up into the tree.  He follows.  The 'borg runs to their spot
and looks around.  UA slowly unsheathes his blade.  Then, he
leaps down and shoves it right in the middle of the head.   
Sparks fly from the cut and the 'borg falls limp.  He pulls 
the sword out and sheathes it through his belt.  He helps   
Eme down.                                                   
"Ag, I'm caught."  UA grabs the blade, and in a swish, the  
tree branch falls.  His sword suddenly appears in his belt  
again as he un-catches her.                                 
"We're close to something, but the sun is starting to set.  
We'll head back to the jet and make camp and a plan.  I have
a feeling there's our computer central." UA says, pointing  
at the mountain at the center of the island.                
                                                            
THE CASTLE                                                  
"PYRO!" The CFs shout, coming out from wherever they were.  
"Where were you?" Zelda asks.                               
"Yes, tell us how you managed to hide from us this past     
month." UA says, standing against a tree.                   
"UA?!?" Nity asks.                                          
"But we saw your jet go down--"                             
"Uh, uh, uh.  First, Pyro tells his, then I tell mine."  He 
gives them all a friendly smile.                            
                                                            
THE ISLAND                                                  
They watch a group of Vile scurrying around the crash site. 
"Okay, princess, I'll go left, you go right."               
"Princess?!?"                                               
"You have to EARN my respect to be Queen in my eyes."  They 
split up, ready to use a pincer attack.                     
''Sometimes I hate having to be dragged into this royalty   
crap!'' Eme mumbles as she heads into the direction UA said 
to go and waited for his signal to attack.                  
"GO!"  They jump out and begin to fight Vile after Vile.  UA
uses fancy swordplay.  He then loads his gun and fires      
boxing gloves, anvils and various other things, shattering  
his batch.                                                  

"So Pyro, what happened? How'd you esca--" Nity started to  
say, when Zelda, suprisingly, inturputed him, looking around
suddenly. 
"Hey..UA... umm..where's Eme?" Zelda asks.
"Oh, Eme?  She had to stay and tend to...royal business, and
I was glad to get rid of her.  She thinks she's soooooo high
and mighty.  Yelling at me for that sluggish take-off and   
for not pushing my rebuilt jet too hard.  So, Pyro, on with 
your story!" answers this slightly strange UA.                                               
                                   
Inside, water begins to come into the subterranian caverns  
where UA is.  
"Well, since I'll never get to see TITANIC, at least I can  
live it.  The movie production probably went bankrupt like  
they predicted anyway. (Remember, he disappeared in the     
summer of '97, so as far as he knows, Titanic bombed before 
it hit theaters.)"                                          
Eme stands on the peak of the mountain and watches as the   
water hits the base of the mountain.                        
                                                            
Inside, UA floats in neck-high water.                       
"Hope the Crystal tower gets that distress call...at least  
for Eme's sake...hey!" UA says, noticing something, just as 
the room fully filled.                                      
                                                            
The water begins to touch Eme's feet...until she realized   
she could fly again!  She transforms and does.  She watches 
as the rest of the island goes under.  She flies to the jet 
and sets down inside the cockpit.  She sees all the         
equipment is back on.                                       
  
CHAPTER 12
Durring the confusion, Ganthet had snuck up behind          
Striker.  He whispers to himself, as he graps her  
shoulder, "Harmonic disruption,"  Striker seems to     
virbate to the point of blurring.  Screaming, she falls to   
the floor.  "I disruped her harmonic field," Ganthet says simply.

ANOTHER DIMENSION
Tala gingerly lifted the wide plantium band, then fastened  
it around her throat. Three stones glinted softly as she    
turned to the mirror, checking her reflection. The center   
one, the largest was the shimmering color of moonlight. This
was her personal crystal. To the left was her father's; it  
was between a ruby and garnet in hue. The right, her        
mother's; it was jadeish in coloring. She had come upon all 
three crystals after her parents had died, along with a     
short note explaining what they were, and how they were to  
be used. Her sister and brother, whould have gotten the     
other; but had died along with her parents. She owed it to them 
to help the other fighters. As if picking up on her mood,   
the crystals darkened, then lightened. They were a special  
design..rather like mood stones. The bearer could influence 
the crystal's magic by their mood, or very nature. If an    
evil or mostly angry person held the crystal, they would    
darken. Not quite like the actual dark crystals, but similar
in nature. This was the only thing that worried Tala. She   
had a twin, who had her own crystal, but she wanted the     
other three. And if she was able to get ahold of all        
them...she shook her head, dispelling the thoughts.         
 Each crystal held a particular power. Tala's gave her the  
ability to phase through objects and even people. The ruby  
one, gave her limited telekinetic and telepathic powers. The
third, was purely magic based, and said to have good        
offensive capabilties, and limited defensive ones. All      
together, she susposed, they could make someone quite       
powerful. Each on it's own was a different story. With this 
in mind, she headed downstairs, so she could seek out the   
other Fighter's.                                            
  Meanwhile, Tala's twin watched everything that was going  
on. Her crystal was a dark black, because of her nature.    
It's powers gave her ability to send shadows out as spies,  
covered herself with, turn others into a shadow, and        
teleport anywhere a shadow could become. She even called it 
the shadow crystal. A cruel smile twisted her lips. Now was 
the time to get the other three crystals, and gain even more
power. And perhaps take out a few pesky do-gooders in the   
process.                                                    
  
OUTSIDE THE CASTLE
Closing her eyes, Tala concentrated on where the other Fighters should be.
 She had heard rumors of their castle and lands, and        
hopefully that's where she would end up. Murmering a few    
soft, slurred words, she began to phase out of her home...  
 And landed atop two vile, knocking them to the ground.     
Opening her eyes, she blinked. There appeared to be dozens  
of people fighting. Or.things..at least.                    
 One of the Vile she had landed upon reached for her leg,   
and she stared at it, then looked up. The Vile was lifted   
into the air, then with a wave of her hand, crashed into a  
wall. The other thing, was delt with in the same way.

Suddenly, a group of bombs land by Striker.  They go off at 
the same time, giving her a does of knock-out gas while also
giving her cuncussions from the force of the blasts.        
She falls as Pyro steps out.                   
"Pyro!" Rydia exclaims.                                     
"Yeah.  Look, everyone to the Dragon Star.  I'll explain on the
way."  They tie up Striker then they all run out.  Zelda stops by Tala who is standing just
outside the castle with a pile of Vile laying around.             
"I'm hoping you're a Crystal Fighter.  Come on."  Tala      
shrugs as she follows Rydia.                                

SOMETIME THE NEXT MORNING                                   
The Dragon Star appears over the Rebel Jet.  Eme waves up to   
it.  Nity flies down with a hook and tow rope.  He lands.   
"What happened?"                                            
"UA and a group of Vile ambushed us and managed to steal the
jet's power and our powers.  Then, they did something and   
sunk the island.  UA is inside it when it went under."  That's 
when bubbles form on the surface and an inflated UA pops up.
"GASP!"                                                     
"UA!" They both exclaim.  Nity and Eme help him up.         
"Whew.  Luckily my powers came back before the water went   
over my head.  I had to wait until the island stoped sinking  
so I wouldn't have to fight the undertow on the way up."    
"Well, at least your alright." Eme says.                    
"Nice to have you two back." Nity says.  Eme flies up into  
the Dragon Star and UA grabs Nity and he begins to fly them up.
"So, did you get my message in the tower?"                  
"Er, not exactly.  UA, there's something I have to tell     
you..."                                                     
                                                            
"Okay, so the tower's a bit of a mess.  After I woke up, I  
managed to keep a cool head.  Tala introduced herself and   
told us about herself.  So, I have another new face to lead.
I'll just say, this is my biggest team ever. The rest of the CFs say that Striker
returned and for some reason is working for the Vile. When we got
back she was gone even though she should have been out of it for
a few more hours. Also UA  and the    
Vile disappeared again.  Big surprise.  But each encounter  
brings us one step closer to finding the one, true lair.    
Ultra Avenger, signing off."                                
*CLICK*
                       --THE END
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