PROLOUGE
KRAK-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!                                     
The CFs wake up with a start from their bed chambers.  They 
quickly grab whatever forms of robes they have and run out  
of the castle joined by UA and T.I.M. from the tower.  They 
see smoke coming from the distance.  A brown smoke.         
"Is that a fire!?!" Eme declares.                           
"Any ideas?" Nity asks.                                     
"Could just be a meteor that hit.  It's too dark to see now.
We'll have to check it out in the morning." UA says.        
 
CHAPTER 1                                                           
THE NEXT MORNING                                            
The CFs gather in the dining hall where they enjoy a huge   
breakfast.                                                  
"Wow, Eme!" Zelda exclaims.  "You spoil us! But isn't there anyone that could use this more than us?"                
"Of course not!  Just enjoy, Zelda." Eme says.  A chef comes out and        
whispers something in her ear.  She stands.  "Excuse me.    
I'll be right back."  She heads for the door when UA comes  
in.                                                         
"Oh, er, hi, Eme." UA says, rather shakily.                 
"Um, hi, UA." Eme says back, just as.  UA shuffles over to  
the side, giving her a lot of room as if she was bigger than
life.  She walks out.  They both avoid eye contact.  The    
door shuts and UA heads to the table.  He starts putting    
food on a plate.                                            
"UA, is everything all right?" Zelda asks.                  
"Huh?  Oh, everything's fine.  Why?"                        
"You and Eme seemed to be a bit evasive." Nity states.      
"I know I'm new here, but they're right." Tala agrees.      
"What happened on that island?" Krakken asks.               
"Nothing.  And I'd thank you people to get off my case!" UA 
slams the plate down.  "I'm heading into the woods to       
investigate.  Alone.  If anyone follows or trys a mind-scan,
there's gonna be trouble.  Understood?"  They all nod.  UA  
storms out.  Moments of silence pass.                       
"Nice going." Pyro says.                                    
"Aw, shaddap!"                                              

THE WOODS                                                   
UA makes his way to the site, and finds a giant crater where
a mile of forest was.                                       
"Woah!" UA says.  He takes a dirt sample when he hears      
someone behind him.  He turns to find a man with knee-high  
dark blue boots with gold trim, dark blue pants, a gold     
metallic belt, dark blue shirt with gold spiked stripes, a  
dark blue jacket with gold trim by the zipper, fingerless   
blue gloves and a blue baseball cap.  He takes it off and   
dusts it.  Then, puts it back on his blonde hair.           
"Some mess I made, huh?"                                    
"Who are you?" UA asks.                                     
"Me?"  Suddenly, a Vile jumps out.  UA readies for a fight, 
but the man's eyes begin to glow gold and a gold stream hits
the Vile, shattering it and taking out a tree.              
"Name's Kyle.  I'm from Earth 312.  And, I may just be YOUR 
replacement."

CHAPTER 2
THE VILE LAIR                                               
UA types on the computer screen and something dusturbing    
comes up.                                                   
"A new crystal signature?  Troopers!"  Two Vile walk in.  "I
want you to spy on our goody-goody friends.  Tell me what   
you can about the new Crystal Fighter."                     
                                                            
THE CASTLE                                                  
UA and Kyle walk in.  The CFs stare at him for a moment.    
"Who is this?" Krakken asks.                                
"Guys, this is Kyle.  He's the new Crystal Fighter.         
Aparently, he comes from dimension 312.  Right?"            
"Right.  Galaxy defender extraordinare.  And yer new boss.  
So, where are th' girls with th' grapes?  What kinda castle 
is this?"                                                   
''For your information sir,'' Eme says approaching him.     
''You arent the boss. And no one will be serving you. And   
this is MY castle!!!!!!'' She yells down his throat.        
Nity looks confused "And who do you think you are Mr.       
Hotshot".                                                   
"Didnt I just tell you I am the new leader" Kyle says as if 
Nity is tottally ignorant.                                  
"Um yeah well the position is already filled" replies Nity. 
Zelda tilts her head, "Welcome..and Nity's right.." then she
starts to wonder why UA hasn't cleared that up with Kyle    
yet.
UA stands with his arms crossed.  No one can see his        
expression under his mask, but they can guess.  Kyle jumps  
into Eme's throne and reclines over the sides.  He          
streatches.                                                 
"Hey!" Eme shouts.                                          
"Oh?  By who?  Mr. Gray Tights over there?  HA!"  Kyle looks  
at them with a smirk.  "Y'guys need a real leader!"  He     
flips off the cair and starts walking around them.  "One    
with strength!  One with gumption!  One with brass          
cahonies!"  He slaps Eme's butt as he walks by.  "Hey,      
toots.  This yer girl, Tight boy?  Nice."  he walks away.   
Eme gets ready to rip his heart out, but UA gives a slight  
signal saying "hold off."  He puts his arms around Tala and 
Zelda's shoulders.                                          
"You two strippers or what?"                                
"WHAT?!?" Zelda exclaims.                                   
"I beg your pardon?" Tala asks.                             
"Woah, easy!  Honest mistake!"  He walks towards Pyro.  He  
sees the gun strapped to his back.  "Woah!  Look out fer    
RAMBO here.  Bub, only a wuss needs t'hide behidn guns.  It 
takes REAL power to be a REAL man!"  He walks on.  Pyro     
growls.  Kyle walks over to Ganthet.                         
"A man who looks like his crystal."  He places a hand on his
shoulder.  "I'm so sorry you have t'pretend t'be a warrior  
just t'get noticed around here."  He unsheathes Ganthet's sword,  
laughs at it, and tosses it back to him.  He walks on.      
"It's a good day for HIM to die." Ganthet mutters.  Kyle    
steps up to Nity.                                           
"You must be an ol' hermit.  No one looks THAT homley!"  Kyle's
eyes glow gold.  T.I.M. begins to move towards them.        
"1001001 Error!  Error!  1001001"                           
"Here's something from my world.  It's called..."  He grabs 
Nity's underwear, shoves it over T.I.M., and they both fly  
against the ceiling.  "Th' Kyle Weggie!"                    
"Alright, fun's over." UA says.  "Let him down."            
"Sure." His eyes turn back to blue and they both fall.      
"Damn!  Pyro, Zelda, Ganthet, Krakken!"  UA morphs into a  
trampoline and the four mentioned grab him from the sides   
and pull.  T.I.M and Nity land safely.  They're helped down 
and UA morphs back.  He opens a portal under Kyle.          
"Could you depart for a few?"                               
"HEY!"  UA turns back to the CFs.                           
"Well, he has a crystal, but do we let him on?  I vote NO." 

CHAPTER 3
 Entropy suddenly emerges  "Hmph.  So you claim to be a new 
leader for the crystal fighters?  He suddenly draws out his sword, 
pointing it at Kyle's throat.  "As you're new, by the time you were leader,
you'd have no one to command."                              
Makara had transformed into Maia. She didn't expect to  
be going into battle any time soon, so she saw no point in  
it. She was surprised no one had said anything. After all, a
change from green hair to light brown wasn't an every day   
thing. Well, she thought. These people don't have every day 
lives.                                                      
   She was very confused. After all, she had been told that 
the man named UA was the leader. She stayed behind the group
watching them. As far as she was concerned this new guy was 
extremely rude. And the others were handling it.                                                                
T.I.M. says "I would rather have a vile for a leader than him     
lead."                                                      
Tala frowns slightly, looking from UA to Zelda. She motions for  
her to move closer, and lowers her voice.                   
 "I believe those two have spoken before arriving here. You 
can read in in the way he was acting before. Something is   
going on."                                                  
Tala glances at UA, raising her voice back to her normal     
speaking tones. "I vote that he stays out. We need to be a  
team. With need a leader we like, not one that we would rather   
stab in the back."                                          
''NO ONE TOUCHES MY BUTT!!!!!!!!!'' Eme screams, her face all
red and mad. Lightening and thunder strike outside as she   
raises her hands up. ''He will die.''                       
"Yeah I vote we kick that jerks *%&" yells Nity.            
"Right.  We're agreed then.  He's out."  UA walks to the     
window.  "Oh guys, we're the good guys.  Try to hold out on 
frying, killing or beating him to a bloody pulp."  He looks 
out a window to see Kyle standing in a feild of Vile       
remains.                                                    
"Hope y'don't mind, I did some cleanin'."                   
"Uh, yeah, well, um...I'm afraid you can't be on the team by
popular vote."                                              
"No bigee.  Guess I'll have to kick that old lady out of my 
apartment, huh?"                                            
"Well, you can (shut up, shut up, shut up!) stay the        
night..."                                                   
"Great!  Thanks."  He lifts himself to Eme's window and     
flies in.  "Tell Honeybuns I'll be waitin'."                
Maaaaaaaaaan, I'm gonna die!  UA turns back to the CFs to   
find them closed in on him.                                 
"Okay, let me explain--he has nowhere to go, and he did stop
a mess of Vile--er, he'll be out by morning!"               
"He better be.  For your sake." Eme growls.  They all walk  
out.                                                        
"One of these days, you'll keep your mouth SHUT!" UA says to
himself.                                                    

THAT NIGHT                                                  
It's late.  The CFs are all in bed and fast asleep.  All    
except UA, who sits on the first hill outside and meditates.
He turns fast when he hears Kyle come up behind him.        
"Woah, yer good."                                           
"Duh, really?"                                              
"Well, y'know, I been analyzin' a few things in my brain.   
An' with th' help o' my crystal, determined somethin' 'bout 
everyone.  Nity th' dope, Zelda th' ditz, Krakken th'       
clueless, Pyro th' maniac, Ganthet th' wannabe, Makare th' 
shy, Tala who has yet t'establish herself, Kisuitsu th' dip,
Entropy th' bird-brain, an' a pair o' side-kicks.  Dumb, too
As fer you...yer th' biggest dope o' 'em all.  So far, I'm  
th' only one fit t'lead.  So, please stand down for I make  
ya!"                                                        
"You really are a jerk.  I'm not going anywhere, bub.  So   
make like a tree and leave."                                
"Ah, okay.  I understand."  His eyes glow and UA's crystal  
appears.  Then, it shatters.                                
"What?!"                                                    
"Yer no longer a Crystal Fighter.  Yer crystal is destroyed.
But, I guess y'don't know what that means, do ya?  Without a
crystal t'sustain ya here, yer goin' out o' this dimension. 
But d'ya go back from where y'came?  Nope.  Y'get sent t'   
limbo fer eternity.  Enjoy."  UA begins to fade.            
"The CFs will never follow you."                            
"Sure they will, 'cause I'm th' best man fer th' job."  He  
starts to walk away.  "Oh, don't worry.  I'll keep your     
Honeybuns company in th' sack while yer gone."              
"You little peice of disrespecting--"  UA goes to punch him,
but then pops into dust.                                    
"Enjoy!"                                                    
                                                            
THE CATLE                                                   
Kyle flies to Eme's window and walks in.  He sees Eme in her
bed and decides to make his move.                           

LIMBO                                                       
UA floats there, frozen, only able to think, for all        
eternity..                                                  

CHAPTER 4
Maia lays in bed fast asleep. In her dream, she was     
standing alone in her old cabin. She was looking desperately
from one room to the next trying to find Mimir, even though 
she knew he was not there. As she ran down a hall, it grew  
longer and longer, until she found herself in one of the    
castle halls of her old villiage. At the end of the hall,   
she could see a bride and groom about to be wed.          
Neither of them seemed to notice her walking up to them.    
When she finally reached them, the groom pulled up the      
brides veil revealing her sister. The couple vanishes before
her eyes and Mimir appears standing before her.             
   "Maia, you must be careful." He tells her.               
   "Why?" She asks quickly, afraid he could disappear at any
moment.                                                     
   "Your mother has died. Merrow is now queen. She has      
married man named Ravana. To receive the peoples respect she
must sacrifice one of her siblings to their god." He pauses 
watching her carefully. Maia knows this custom, and knows   
also that this was the only reason she had been born at  
all. Every parent had two children in her villiage, one was 
for the sacrifice the oldest would make in order to become a
respected adult. "You do realize that she will do whatever  
it takes to kill you." Maia nods as Mimir and the           
surrounding walls disappear. She sits up quickly in her bed.
At her feet was a small letter. Picking it up, she began to 
read. Maia broke into tears as she put the letter beneath   
the matress of her bed. She lay back down crying to herself 
quietly hoping no one could hear her.                       

Zealen had been spending a few weeks on Protoss prime,  
rebuilding the empire of his brother, God Cyrus. He had     
recieved a few suit upgrades at the tech labs, and learned  
new Psionic Abilities and a few spells. In the socializing  
area of the castle, a blue portal opens and he jumps out. He
looks around, and sees nobody. "Oh yeah, humans sleep!" He  
chuckles to himself. He walks down the hallway to his       
chamber, only to see a new female in his spot. "Eek." He    
says in a low voice. He then sees a note on the door and    
reads it. He then goes to his new room. After he finishes   
putting his stuff in the correct places, he decides to go   
outside and tryout his new PSI Emmiters, peferbly in the    
echnanced Blade shapes. His suit cloaks him self, and he    
starts walking down the hallway. Halfway there, Zealen stops
and holds his head as a sudden pain floods his highly PSI   
Sensitive Brain. After a minute he continues walking. He    
stops when he sees a blonde person break UAs crystal. Zealen
gasps when he sees him dissapear. He runs to his room and   
ejects his PSI Disk, placing it in a viewer, and sees he    
recorded the whole thing.        

Entropy knocks on Eme's door, slightly frantic.  Finally,   
too impatient to wait for her, he shifts to his beast form  
and claws out the doorknob, rushing into her room.  "Eme?   
It's Entropy, and it's important."                          

Zelda wakes up in the middle of the night, a dream on the   
edge of her mind but as she reaches for it, it fades away   
completly.  Suddenly, she has a feeling that something is   
wrong. "UA?" she asks the night air, and then gets out of   
bed and starts walking down the hall, not completly sure    
where she's going, but going there all the same.  Soon she  
reaches a door and puts her hand lightly against it. Then   
she staggers, holding onto the wall and door for support and
in that moment realizes that without knowing it she's been  
psychicly aware of all the Crystal Fighters in Crystalia.   
The reason she realizes it is because she can no longer    
sense one of them, UA.  She runs down the hall to Tala's    
room and starts banging loudly on the door, "Tala! TALA!!!" 
she calls, waking up a few of the others nearby.  Soon they 
come out into the hall, "What is it?" Tala asks.             
"Something's awfully wrong...I can't sense UA! It's as      
if...as if he no longer exists or something! He's           
just...gone!"                                               

CHAPTER 5                                               
Zealen runs down the hallway after hearing the other Crystal
Fighters wake up. He runs and sees Zelda and Tala.
"Um... Zelda, I think you must observe this." He places the 
cartridge in the viewer, and the recording pops up. After four 
minutes, it stops. Zelda looked at Zealen shocked. 
"I think this new being is harmful to the rest of us,
as for me, shall I go to the limbo and see if I can retreive
UA? My new suit allows me to travel the planes without much 
power. So should I? Oh Yes, nice to see you." Zealen says with a
faint glow on his expressionless face, with his suit        
translater glowing.
Eme suddenly felt sick in her stomach after watching the    
video thingie. ''You guys figure this out, I think I should 
go lay down, I dont feel to good.'' She said to the CFs and 
then ran to her room, clutching her stomach, before she     
burst into tears.                                           


Pyro, always the prankster decides this would be a great    
day to pull some off. After reriging Eme's throne he heads  
over to the Kitchen, rigging the frige and the microwave he 
returns to his room.                                               
"Kyle huh? He's a bigger jerk then UA" He lies in his bed   
thinking of ways to undermind Kyle, should he ever take     
command.


"There? In limbo that's where he is?" Zelda asks, turning to
Zealen, "Is that possible?"

Eme, since she doesnt sleep. Is awake when Entropy comes  
to her bedrrom. Entropy comes into the room just
about the time Eme has her hands around Kyle's neck,        
strangling him with her powerful strength. She lifts him    
above the ground, and throws him out the window. Making him 
land five floors down on the ground. She turns to Entropy.      
''Wheres UA? I can sense he isnt here! Where is he?'' A tear
falls from her eye, but she whipes it away before he can    
see.                                                        

"It could be," Zealen stated, "But powers only can come from
a greater evil." He put his hand on his thumb and then      
continued to speak. "I remember a part in Protoss History,  
conserving that of Necromancers of Kera Vane. They were     
humans, but from another part of the universe. Exactaly the 
same. The eventually led themselves into total corruption,  
becoming the blackness of space. They created the Zerg, and 
If I can remember, invented a way to send someone to the    
limbo, but only for a limited time. Obviosly, the person    
named Kyle comes from a greater evil, possibly from Human,  
or Protoss roots..." He then turns his head and Kyle walks  
in. "Who's this, a brainy moldy cucumber?" He said looking  
at Zealen in a serious way. He walked over to Zelda and     
stuck his toungue toward her ear. Ganthet unsheathed his blade  
and brought it to his throat. Zealen extracted his robotic  
secondary arms and held Kyle up in the air. He then sent a  
electrical charge thru them, resulting in Kyle reversing it,
shocking Zealen. Ganthet was engaging him, certinly knowing 
that Kyle had no right to live. Zealen quickly grabbed Zelda
and opened his portal to the limbo.    
They jumped in, with Ganthet and Kyle in a combat situation.
                                                            
LIMBO                                                       
After coming through the portal, the window into the castle    
slowly dissapeared. Zealen and Zelda were swimming through the ether, when many    
images of various planet's pasts showed up. After what      
seemed a few hours, they saw a figure, in a magneta costume.    
Zelda simply uttered the words, "Ultra Avenger" when the    
image faded and they found themselves back in the castle.   
"Damn, my power ran out. That was a neat experiance, wasn't 
it?" Zealen asked. Zelda nodded. "I will go back in the     
morning, then I will have enought power to bring two from the 
limbo, with only one entering." Zelda nodded, yawned, and went
to her chamber, waving to Zealen. Zealen walked to his      
chamber and sat on his bed. He hooked up the wires to the   
Protoss Generator, and fell asleep.

"RATS!" Kyle says, psionically hiding from sight as Entropy 
busts in.  He quickly makes his exit.                       
                                                            
He appears and begins to walk to his room, only to find     
Zelda, T.I.M and Tala.  He does a quick mind-scan, and     
plans.                                                      
"Hold it, you!" Zelda says.                                 
"We've got a few questions need answering.  Like what did   
you do to UA?" T.I.M. asks.  He shows the video.            
"I've never seen that before.  Your computers must be       
mistaken.  Have everyone meet me in th' conference room."   

          
All the CFs meet.  Kyle sits with his legs up on the table. 
He takes a remote and clicks it.  A hologram of UA appears. 
"Crystal Fighters.  Sentinei appeared and told me 
my services were no longer required.  I have returned to the
demension I have last teleported from and will begin my     
quest fo home.  Kyle here has been dubbed the new leader, so
do what he says.  UA out.  Good-bye."  The image is gone.   
"So there.  I'm in charge.  Any objections?"  The CFs begin 
to advance on him.  A fight is about to begin.
Zealen  stands up. And begins to clap. "I can see your       
hologram didn't work." He says. He then puts his hands on   
his temples, and Kyle gets surrounded in a blue stasis      
field. "That should hold him for further questioning." He   
says.
Ganthet simply smiles.  He walks in front of the new commer,
the fool.  "You, are not a nice being, especialy for a      
carbon.  If this were my world, I would fight you to the    
death, as honor would decree.  Be glad it is not. If I am   
here, I'll abide by the command of my leader, UA of the     
crystal fighters.  I will never obay you.  You would do wise
to not annoy me.  I am the physicaly most powerful Crystal  
Fighter; I would not want to kill  you."                    
 It turns out Kyle had simply been biding his time, with
a bolt of psionic power, he tears open the force field, and 
shatters a large hole in Ganthet's chest, sending him to the
floor, his crystal already helping his body's regenerative 
factor.  He'd live, but he would take long hours to repair.
Suddenly, a psionic backlash hits Zealen, knocking him      
unconscious.                                                
"Nice try, boyo.  But as an alpha level telepath, I ain't   
about t'be taken out or invaded by a low-class like         
yerself." says Kyle.                                                   
"I have had enough of his mouth!" Ganthet says, drawing his
sword.  "Taste my vengeful blade!"  He jumps on the table   
and dives at Kyle.  Kyle yawns as he sends a psionic blast  
at Ganthlet, enough to kill anyone made of flesh, but only  
enough to knock the warrior unconscious and into the far    
wall.                                                       
"Next?"  
Razis activates his four crystal fire attack and   
they surround Kyle.  Then, they emit their deadly flame and 
return, leaving fire in the spot Kyle was.  But soon, the fire
dispereses and Razis slumps and starts drooling from the    
mouth.  Kyle appears from his psionic shield.               
"Next?"  
Entropy dives in, but gets his too.  Next it was   
Zelda.  Then Makara, Pyro, Tala, Eme, Kisuitsu, Rupay, and  
the rest.  Soon, all have fallen, leaving Kyle the sole     
survivor.  He restores their heads back to normal, but keeps
all their motor functions at bay.                           
"Now, let me ask again...any objections?"
"You sadistic...URRRGGHH!!!!"  Entropy growls as he looks up
at Kyle.  "I have a proposition for you, Kyle.  You want to 
lead.  We don't want you to lead.  I have a way for this to 
work out.  We will choose someone to represent us, and you  
can fight for yourself, competing in PHYSICAL combat, no    
psionics, no energy blasts, just blades and or fists.  If we
win, you return our friend, and leave peacefully.  We won't 
bother each other any more afterwards.  If you win..."      
Entropy takes a long pause, looking to his teammates with a 
worried look on his face.  "We'll let you lead and will     
follow.  Do you agree or not?"
Tala mutters something to herself, looking from Zelda to Kyle.   
Even though she had mainly been half-awake durning this whole   
thing, she knew that something wasn't right. UA was around, 
though he wasn't. Limbo, or whatever he was in. She frowned 
at Kyle, even if he won, she wouldn't follow him. Well,     
perhaps she would..but if she had to lay her life on the    
line for his sorry ...well, she wouldn't. She sighed, almost
wishing her evil twin would just..get here and come royally 
whup him. However, she agreed with Entropy.                 
"I'll do it." Zealen stands up, rubbing his head. "Protoss  
have ways to chage there bodies, and, it will be my life to 
sacrifice, but, you will be free, and Kyle will be          
destroyed. And the only thing that will remain of me will be
my suit, and hopefully, my body." He takes a shot and takes 
fifteen blood samples, and places them in his suit. "If not, you 
can geniticlly recreate me, with all memories up to when I  
took the shots." He goes to Kyle, and starts uttering words.
He begins to glow blue, and finnaly in a bright blue flash, 
Zealen is floating above his fallen suit, in his psionic    
form. He growls and runs into Kyle. There is a bright flash,
as if anti-matter and matter met with each other. And when  
it was gone, Zealen was laying on the ground. Zelda ran up  
to him and he put his hand on her head. "He will have to    
play... with... the Zergs... I sent... him... you... know   
where... don't you?... He takes his crystal from his suit   
and gives it to Zelda. "Hold... for me... suit... create... 
myself... he places his hand on his body, which slowly      
dissapears with a green glow. A green star lies where his   
body was, and it slowly divides, and dissapears...          

CHAPTER  6
Zelda sighs, a tear rolling down her cheek, +This is too    
much..fighting among ourselves..this shouldn't be happening!
And two Crystal Fighters...dead...+ then she smiled a little
remembering that Zealen had said they could genetically form
a clone..or something, the technical stuff had been a bit   
lost on her, she hoped one of the others had picked it up.  
+The Crystal Fi--that's it!+  "CFs! Please, no more         
fighting! If the crystal he carrys is one of the            
True Crystals, and it accepts him then we should too. Fate  
has odd ways sometimes.... Who knows, maybe someday we might
have one of the Vile amoung us! But PLEASE no more          
fighting!" with that she sat down stubbornly on the floor   
and refused to move unless everyone swore to abide by the   
Crystals decision.  And if Kyle came back....+he wouldn't   
hurt an innocent would he? Someone not intending a fight?+  
she thought, and tried not to worry.
Suddenly, the sky grows dark and Kyle flies back in.        
"SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT, BOYO!"  He lands.  "Aw, he       
dissolved?  Too bad.  But now, we're gonna do things MY way,
got it?  Fer one thing, we're gonna get rid o' these Vile.  
Startin' with him!"  He shoots an eye beam and evil UA      
appears, suspended in air.                                  
"CFs, I restore yer powers. Now, kill him." 
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