PROLOUGE
Despite the only recent emergenc of the Vile in this  
time, there already was almost an empire of those evil      
beings.  They resided in the Dead Universe, one of the very 
few universes that did not support any life at all.  The    
planets were few and far between and nothing, not even the  
smallest ameba lived there.  The Vile knew of this         
universe, as did many, and so when they went forward in time
they chose that Universe to enter, to arrive in a populated
area might be the end of their attack before it began.  The 
general consent                                             
was that the Dead Universe was haunted, though the evidence 
supporting it was sparse but now it truly was haunted, by   
the Vile.  One of their own had organized the time travel   
and chosen the Universe they were to enter, he was         
Dolomite, or so it was believed.                            
     +There must be some way...we need to regain our        
strength before we can start out against the Crystal     
Fighters, wouldn't you know that the time we chose to come 
into was the same time when the Fighters emerged?+ Phyllite 
thought to herself, she was                                 
unaware of the fact that the Viles very presense was what   
had caused the Crystals to start searching for their Holders
so no matter what time they entered the Crystal Fighters    
would soon begin to surface.  If she had known this she      
wouldnt have even thought about trying a different time, as 
it was, she did think about it but the machine that had     
brought them to this time in the first place had broken     
almost before they were through and they had stolen it so   
they had no idea how to build a new one anyway. "Phyllite,  
what are you doing here?"                                   
Dolomite demanded as he walked regally up to her. Phyllite  
didn't even blink as she anwsered his question quickly from 
years of practice with the same sort of situations, "I just 
came to hear your great plan of how we are to regain        
strength before we face the Crystal Fighters.  We should    
find a distant Universe and stir things up a bit, but I'm   
sure you've already though of that, haven't you, great one?" asked Phyllite.
Dolomite looked confused a second then smiled smugly and    
quickly said, "Yes, of course I 've thought of that! That's 
exactly what were going to do." Phyllite smiled to herself  
amazed at how easy it was to manipulate him into doing      
whatever she wanted done. "Oh, I'm sure youve also thought  
of setting your plan in motion, haven't you? Some messenger 
must not have delievered a message to me, don't worry       
yourself though, I know what I'm to do, I'll have it all    
taken care of." Then without another word Phyllite bowed and
left to start her work.                                     


CHAPTER 1 
With the recent death of Nity and Anakin gone staying near Cathdreal Cave
to think about the tragic thing he had learned recently when
his brother told of killing his parents,  
there was only four crystal fighters left.  Coda, Zelda, UA, and
Eme.    
 Zelda looked towards the sky, Somethings wrong, dead   
wrong. She said uneasily                                    
to the other Crystal Fighters not quite sure ~what~ was     
wrong.
"Well, I've known a few people who go by instinct, and their
usually right." UA says to the group who were outside for a 
little luxury.                                              
"So, what you're saying is--?" Coda asks.                   
"What I'm saying is you guys can keep relaxing, but be ready
any minute for a fight."  UA heads back to the castle, but  
stops by Zelda first.                                       
"You sure your telepathy hasn't come in yet?"  Zelda thinks 
for a moment.                                               
"Not lately." she says.                                              
"Go with those feelings."  UA makes his way to the throne   
room, wanting to talk to Eme about some new defense plans he
had in mind.                                                

Elsewhere                     
A smoking hole is left where a comet seems to have fallen   
from the sky.  The land around the giant hole is charred.   
Through the smoke, a shredded-gloved hand reaches out.      
Behind it, the rest of it's holder, Ultra Avenger!          
(GASP!)                                                     
No, no, the OTHER Ultra Avenger!                            
(Oh.  Right.  Sorry.)                                       
He climbs out of the hole, smoking with his costume dirty   
and shredded.  He falls to his knees and pants.  He wipes   
the blood from his mouth off his dirty face with his dirty  
glove.                                                      
"Oh, yeah.  I'm gonna kill that copy o' mine.
Then I'm     
gonna bring him back to life, then I'm gonna kill him again!
Then I'm gonna gut him like a fish!  And then, I'm gonna    
kill his little friends.  I'll rip them apart with my bare  
hands!"  UA  coughs up more blood, but his eyes are of a man 
with vengeance on his mind.                                 

Eme glanced up from watching the twins play and looked to UA 
''Hey, what can I do for you?''                             

"Hmm..if it ~is~ important I wish it'd be more specific     
about ~what's~ wrong.."  Zelda says.
Zelda sighed and then decided that if anything else was     
going to 'come' to her at all it probably would come 
she was least expecting it so she decided not to think about
it at all..or at least ~try~ not too.  Zelda joined U.A. and
Eme and then sat down by Eme's twins half-listening to Eme  
and U.A. half-watching the twins.                                                              
UA unfolds some paper.                                      
"...and given all the unused and rusting scrap metal you got
in your smithery, I can create this defense parimeter around
the castle and possibly the village.  Heck, I could even    
build the Crystal Fighters a headquarters so we don't mooch 
of your hospitality any more than we have to.  Also, I was  
making some calculations, and if the sun should ever go     
nova, the automatic force bubble will surround the planet   
and sustain all life on it for the next three millenia, as  
you can see here under idea fourteen seventy-two." UA discussed his plans

Coda sits next to a pool in one of the court yards. At the 
present time he is training BOCT.                             
"Good BOCT, Real good!, Now come get your treat..." says Coda.        
as Coda holds his arm out for BOCT to land a pain shoots through  
Codas arm and from the crystal forms a strange gold haze      
around coda. Coda falls to the floor ingulfed in pain. Coda 
closes his eyes trying to get up. The pain was so great
that it felt like his skin was getting riped of his bones.  
Some time later Coda wakes up to find that his condishion  
is not good. His body is not of a man but of gaint eagle. An
eagle the size of a man. "No-o-o-o " Coda screams but all that
is heard is the sound of an eagles call.                    
Thinking to himself "Somebody help me" " Zelda help me zelda
please help" Coda hopes he can some how send a psychic message.

Zelda sighed, she couldn't keep the strange feeling away..it
kept coming back. She decided to check on the other Crystal 
Fighters..Eme and U.A. were right there..then she went      
Coda. "Hmm..strange.." she said after not being able to locate him, but passing an    
eagle along the way. She headed back to Eme and U.A., "Do   
either of you know where Coda is?" Zelda asked "I haven't seen     
him..."
They both responded with a "No".
"UA, this all sounds pretty good" Eme said turning back to him. 

"Hmm.." Zelda starts searching the castle, wondering what   
could have happened to Coda.                            

CHAPTER 2
As Zelda walks by she see's an eagle on a edge of a pool
"That's not quit right" she think's to herself. "But I've 
got a wreid filling that Coda is in trouble"   
And she walks on.                                           
  " NO Zelda don't go I need you." Cdoa trys to say.        
worried Coda looks at his reflection in the pool.  As he     
peers into the Crystal blue water he sees a head of a gaint 
eagle. By instinct he thinks that it is BOCT but as time    
sinks into him he realizes that it truly is him and that this
eagle is of white and black feathers and his balance crystal
is still in his forhead. Once agin he screams " NO-O-O-O I  
can't stay like this...." and with that the pain returns not
as bad as the the frist time, but still there. And with in  
the minute he is back to his hansome old self.                
"What in Hera is happening to me, this not in any of the    
records maybe Eme or UA will know what is wrong" thinks Coda.            
 A runs to the Castle, runs afraid it might happen again. " Ua, aEme
can we talk i need your help, I just truned into a bird and 
back again Have you ever heard of such a thing? asks Coda as he rushes into 
the throne room.             
"Woah, slow down, buddy." UA says.                          
"Kcab degnahc I neht tfel ehs--" mumbles Coda.                           
"Think before you speak!" says Eme.                                  
"I was by the pool and I got pain and transformed into BOTC 
then Zelda passed by and didn't see me and she left then I  
changed back!" Coda says, panting.  Eme and UA look at each   
other, strangely.                                           
"Okay, so, you're an Animorph." says UA.                            
"Hey, no reason to call me names!" yells Coda.                          
"No, no.  You're an ANIMORPH!" UA says it slower this time.                             
"A whatymorphorsomething?"  asks Coda.                                 
                                                            
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT's time for--                             
INCREASING YOUR VOCABULARY WITH ULTRA AVENGER! (Applause)"  
UA comes through the red curtains on the stage, while Eme   
and Coda finish clapping, rluctantly.                       
"Thank you, thank you.  You're all too kind.  Hey, I just   
flew in from New York, and boy are my arms tired!" says UA.          
BADOM-DOOM!                                                 
"Ha, ha, thank you, but now down to business."  The setting 
changes into the set of Mr. Rogers, and UA morphs into the  
sweater wearing man himself.                                
"Hi there, boys and girls.  Won't you be my neighbor?"  UA  
flashes a toothy smile.  He looks like a characiture.  "Now,
boys and girls, can you say ANIMORPH?"                      
"ANIMORPH!" The two somehow say.                            
"I knew ya could.  Now, an Animorph is a person with the    
special a-bil-i-ty to morph into an animal.  It's part of   
his or her special power."  Everything goes back to normal. 
                                                            
"Thank you, thank you!  UA has LEFT the building!  Got it   
now, Coda?"  Eme and Coda stare at each other, then at UA.  
"Uh--Yeah." says Coda.                                                
"Good.  Now come help me in the lab."  He zips out to the   
smithery, and Coda follows, looking back as if to say       
"WHY ME!?!?!"                                               

"What can I help you with" asks Coda as they reach UA's lab.
"Well, for starters, hold out your arm."  He does.  UA takes
a moist paper square and rubs it.  Then, he sticks a needle 
in his arm without causing pain.  He pulls the handle back  
up and takes a blood sample.  He hands him a bandage to put  
on the spot.                                                
"What was that for?"  asks Coda.                                      
"I needed a sample of your blood to determine what other    
surprises your "mutation" has for you, power-wise." answers UA.        
"You can determine all that from my blood?" asks Coda surprised.                
"Genes, my friend.  They control all.  Now, to the point--" says UA.
UA opens up a micro computer running on solar power with    
blue prints on them.  "I need your help in constructing a   
security defense system surrounding the castle and the      
nearest town until I perfect it."                           
"Yeah, but why ask me to--" asks Coda.                                
"My instincts say you're someone who could be very useful in
helping me out on these little things.  Besides,  Anakin   
is takeing time off, and I don't want to   
endanger Zelda or Eme.  They could be the most useful if the
rest of us go down.  Especially with Eme's influence and    
Zelda's appearing mental abilities."                        
"Hmm.  Point taken.  So let's get started."  says Coda.               
"Right, first we need--"  A small metal object falls from   
the sky and lands outside the smithery in the courtyard.  UA
and Coda step into the yard and look at the device.  Coda   
begins to pick it up, but he's shot back by a force field.  
Phyllite's image appeared.                                  
"A HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTOR!"  says Coda.                                
"Attention, all Crystal Fighters who see this.  I have a    
village held hostage."  The image rotates to a village      
severly damaged and on fire.  "If you do not comply to my   
demands and give me the dark crystals, I cannot guarantee   
the survival of these villagers, either by me or my Vile    
partners.  You have three hours to head to these            
coordinates."  She indicates to the numbers on the bottom of
the screen.  "Three hours."  The image fizzles out.         
"Ouch.  So, what do we do?" Coda asks.  UA clenches his     
teeth, then checks his anger.  He makes a few calculations  
on the small computer, comparing Earth's map to             
Crystallia's.                                               
"That's on the other side of the globe." UA says.           
"Can you teleport us there?" asks Coda.                               
"I can only 'port as far as the center of the west side, but
I have no idea where we'll land. But, 
I got a way.  He opens two doors to a small garage.  He     
pushes out a tarped object.  Then, he pulls off the tarp.   
                                                            
The three Crystal Fighters sit in three out of five
seats in the pen-cap shaped jet.  UA starts the engine, and 
they take off from the trailer it was on, and they streak at
high speeds towards their destination.                      

CHAPTER 3
The three countinue to the distant land in UA's little ship.   
"UA this runs like my frist car, are you sure were gona make
it?" Coda asks.                                              
UA dosent answer.
Zelda looked to Coda "Eme told me all about your transforming 
anisomething act. So do you do it accidently or can you control 
your morphing" asked Zelda.
"I don't know let me try..." Coda concentrate on the from
of the eagle and within a few sec. his clothes trun into    
feather and his body truns into an eagle.                   
Thinking "Zel I did it can you belive this?" Coda trys to   
talk. " Zel caw can caw you hear me this is great and it     
didn't hurt that much either." Coda flaps his wings. This is great.                           
"Hey no morphing in the jet" UA says to Coda.
Coda changes back. "This could come in real  
handy" says Coda.                                                      
Then UA lands the jet and they get out.
" What next? I wonder if I can do some thing like a T-Rex or
something?" Coda says as he trys to consentrate on a T-Rex. 
As he does a mouse runs by and soon he is a black and  
white mouse. Coda look up at Zelda and squeaks "this sucks".   
Zelda laughs and looks at Coda the mouse, "Hehe, I thought  
you were going for a dinosaur? Last time I checked mice     
weren't dinosaurs..."                                       
                                                            
Phyllite ends the hologram and thinks to herself,           
+Excellent, everything is going as planned..soon I will   
have the Dark Crystals and nothing will stop the Vile from  
feeding on all the Chaos in the Universes!!"

"Come lets get over there" UA points to the town about a half a mile away.
"Zel stop laughing at me, I think that I can only      
chnage into things I've come in contact with." Coda
says returning to normal.             
" Yeah but you were so cute though" Zelda luaghs            
" UA you do kown that by the 13th rule of heroism that   
no hero should ever give back what the villin wants, don't   
you?" Coda remarks."Do you got a plan?"                     
"Hey, this morhping ability could come in handy...do'you    
think you could change into a Vile? Then you'd be able to   
infiltrate them..if need be, let's hope it doesn't come to  
that though. Though I must say, I think you'd look cuter as 
a mouse than a Vile." Zelda said, laughing.                 
"Rules of heroism?"asks UA " I didn't realize there was any.  And    
here I started out by the skin of my teeth, winging it all  
the way.  Coda, here are the rules of heroism.              
ONE:There are no rules.                                     
TWO:You make the rules.  And of course I'm not giving her   
the dark crystals."                                         
"So, what are we gonna do?" asked Zelda.                                
"First, we're gonna get there.  Second, we're going to try  
and sneak into the line of fire and take the shots while the
people escape". 
They head towards the village.

They sit in a bush and watch.  Vile partol the site of      
damage, and move about.  Many of them surround one building.
"That's where they must be keeping the villagers." Coda     
says.                                                       
"You're new at this, right?  It's not always the obvious.   
The least guarded building may be where they keep them.     
That could be a decoy."                                     
"How do we tell?" asks Zelda.                                          
"Covert opperation."  UA morphs into a Vile.  He grabs      
Coda's arm, morphing him.  "I pay attention.  Zelda, stay   
here and wait for my signal."                               
"Which is--?"                                               
"Uh, president Lincoln boxing President Washington." he     
says, shrugging.  The two leave to the village and          
audimatically blend in.                                     
"Okay, I'll check the guarded building, you take the least." says UA.
"Right."  Coda heads for the least guarded.  UA just walks  
right in past the vile.  Coda does the same, only to come   
face to face with the villagers, weakened from blood-loss   
and hunger.                                                 
"Son-of-a-bee.  He was right."  Unfortunately, that doesn't 
work out for UA, who was trapped the minute he entered the  
hut.  He doesn't teleport out if only not to give Coda and  
Zelda away.  Phyllite looks up at him in the net.           
"Why did you enter this hut?  Did you forget the prisoners  
are in the other one?"  He nods.  He has to play this right.
One slip and this mission is over.  She studies him, then   
motions for him to be released.  Whew, he thought.  I made a
damn greenhorn mistake.  Gotta focus.  They step outside the
hut when Zelda is brought up to Phyllite.
"Ah, a spy.  And the one who got away, too.  Oh, well." she 
raised her talons.  "A mistake easily rectified."  UA morphs
back and grabs her arm.                                     
"No." he says.  A vile takes a sword from the smithery, and 
chucks it into UA's back, then she slashes his face, chest  
and stomach.  He falls to the ground.                       
"Yes." yells Phyllite.                                                                       

CHAPTER 4
Coda stands just in side the door of the containment building 
and he truns back into his regular form. Luckly Coda was the 
only vile/non-villiger in the room. He motiond to the people 
to be quite and he blocks the door with a couple of  boxes. 
" Ok listen up I'm a Crystal fighter and I'm here to help." 
Just then all the villigers start laughing and trun in to   
Vile.                                                       
" Well what a plaesent suprise?" Coda says pulling off his   
bandana " Who's up for a dance "                            
The Vile rush in and Coda  flys to the rafters sending lighting   
bolts down from his fingers. As he lands the Vile chop the  
main beam and the building starts to calapse.                
Coda jump-kicks a Vile in the head as he jumps to the       
ground. A Vile swings at Coda's head and is struck in the    
head by a falling cage of chikens. The chickens laugh.      
Coda is struck in the head with a club from a little runt Vile 
standing on the boxes infront of the doors. Coda truns      
around ducking a few swings and grabs the runt Vile and tosses
 it into the chiken cage.                                       
The ground is  rumbling and not from the fallig building.   
Coda looking down at the cage when a huge shadow overcomes  
him. Coda turns around to face a eight-foot vile dressed as 
miss Clever, And holding a four-foot frying pan....         
"O-no" Coda trys to say as Ma-vile hits Coda in the chest   
sending him through the wall.                               
Coda lands on his back sits up and looks at the cameras and       
smiles as his teeth crumble apart to the ground, And Coda    
falls back to the ground witha poof of smoke.

Phyllite raises her tallons, and brings them down on Zelda, 
who isn't there any more.  She destroys the two vile.  She  
looks around, then looks up towards a whistle.  She sees UA 
and Rydia on top of the hut.                                
"I believe this is yours."  He tosses the sword down at her.
 She steps back and it digs into the ground.  He morphs into
Spider-Man, aims a hand and fires a web line to a tree.  He 
swings off the roof.  He drops Rydia off where she can fight
freely, then swings around and hits the top of the guarded  
hut.  It falls back and shatters into millions of pieces.   
That takes out all the Vile inside.  He lands and turns to  
see Ma-Vile holding Coda, and a bout to give him the        
death-stroke.                                               
"Woah, spider-sense tinglin'!  You wouldn't be planning to  
hit my friend there, would you?"  She nods.                 
"Uh, U-UA, a hand--please?"  pleads Coda.                               
"Y'know, you're gonna do it all wrong."  She gives UA a    
puzzled "look".  "That's not the way to hit a hero."  UA    
grabs her arm and spins her toward him, making her drop     
Coda.  "You see, first you do THIS!" he kicks her in the    
gut.  "Then, you do this--" he cracks her across the jaw    
with a hook punch.  "Then a lot of this!"  He does spin     
kicks and backhands off every spin he does in place.  No    
turn of his body is wasted.  Then, he stops and points to   
her with his hand.                                          
"Now you try."  She just stands there.  He morphs back and  
pushes her with a finger.  She falls back and shatters into 
a million pieces.                                           
"You'll never get into the super villain's union if you're  
just gonna fall to pieces."  He helps Coda up.              
"Ow--What happened?  I saw you get killed."                 
"I'm a morpher, remember?  My body is no longer just flesh  
and blood.  It's something in between--like a colloid.  Just
like yours may be.  Now, let me get you to the jet."        
"But what about--?"                                         
"She can handle herself.  Her crystal gives her powers,     
remember?  Mine is just a paperweight."  They hobble to the 
jet, leaving Rydia winning aginst the Vile.                 
                                                            
UA straps Coda in.                                          
"Now, you stay there.  You took a beating, and you need a   
few moments." UA demands.                                              
"No, I can fight--"
"Uh-uh.  Until I teach you how to use your new ability to   
heal yourself, you're staying here.  You still can be       
killed.  And you're too sluggish when wounded."  He closes  
the hatch.  "Computer, voice lock *
"                                                           
"Confirmed" it responds.  He heads off.  Coda tries to open 
the hatch, but it's locked shut.                            
                                                            
UA heads back to the village where Rydia continues to fight,
but instead, the images begin to fade.  She stops swinging  
at air.                                                     
"What the?" asks Rydia.                                                
"Holograms.  The village was never here."  Everyhting but   
the landscape fades.  "They were hard light holograms." UA  
says.  "They were tangible, but fake."                      
"Correct." The hologram of Phyllite says.  "And while you   
were fighting shadows, we are heading for the dark crystals.
 You heroes are so predictable in your plans.  Ta."  She    
fades.                                                      
"What?  Where could she think we have them stored?"  UA     
thinks for a moment.                                        
"THE CASTLE!!!"                                             
                                                            
The band of Vile move across the planet, a two day's journey
away from the castle, and their numbers are growing.

CHAPTER 5
"We got to get to the jet." says Rydia. They take off for the jet and  
head off at the speed they came.                            
                                                            
After explaining the situation to Eme, and UA's calculating 
their foes' time of arrival, they quickly head out to the   
nearby villages to recruit help to build UA's security unit 
to give them a fighting chance, since there are Vile nests  
still unknown to them that they may pass on the way here.   
The three recruit craftsmen, scientists and magicians.  They
all head back at the castle.                                
                                                            
A group of people begin to dig trenches around the castle   
and the town.  Another group begins to mount weapons and    
sensors onto trees and the walls.  The last group all begins
to bang and pound in the smithery, developing walls of thin 
sheet metal.  A crystal fighter leads each group according  
to UA's blueprints.                                         
                                                            
The trenches are finished and the metallic walls are entered
into them.  Dirt and grass is put over them to hide them    
from sight.                                                 
                                                            
The sensors and weapons are installed and hidden.           
Special units are installed into the basement.  Everything  
runs on natural power.                                      
                                                            
A day and a night pass.  On the last night before the       
battle, the Crystal Fighters and the workers relax.         
                                                            
"Okay, we're gonna have to make a stand.  The system is     
completely autimated, but I need you all here just in case  
you something goes wrong.  I can't guarantee victory, but   
we'll go down fighting." UA says.  The room cheers at that, 
ready for action.


+I ~will~ have the Dark Crystals!+ Phyllite promised herself
as she and a large group of Vile headed toward Crystalia.   
The mission was dangerous, foolhardy one of the Vile had    
remarked..before Phyllite silenced him..forever, if they    
failed 'Dolomite's' forces would be severly depleted.       
Phyllite was prepared to fail, she had made sure her escape 
teleporter was active and running on full power before they 
set off to Crystalia.  She would leave the rest of the Vile,
+Possibly a neccesary sacrifice.+ She thought, and was      
already  preparing a story for Dolomite, should she need  
it.  Phyllite was confidant that they wouldn't though, she  
had a secert weapon which she intended to use.

Dawn.  A rooster crows.  A witch cackles.                   
"ATTACK!"  The Vile begin to run up the hill to the castle. 
On the turrets, everybody waits and watches, hoping for the 
good outcome.                                               
"Okay, this is it!" says Zelda.                                         
"How did you know they'd attack this early, Zel?" asks Coda.           
"I don't know, Coda.  I just--don't know."                  
"Ready the loaders!"  People with bags of arrows line up and
duck beneath the upper edge of the wall.  The Vile pass by  
the sensors before the castle.
NOW WOULD BE A STUPID TIME  
FOR THIS NOT TO WORK, UA thought.  I JUST WISHED WE HAD TIME
FOR A BENCH TEST, BUUUUUUT--  the Vile near the castle.     
In the basement, the "DELAY" clock is near the end of its   
countdown.                                                  
4.                                                          
3.                                                          
2.                                                          
1.                                                          
BYE-BYE                                                     
Huge arms built from the machine in the basement to the     
sheet-metal walls begins to come alive.  Then, a second     
later, the immense walls rise fast from the ground, slicing 
up every Vile on the line before they could reach the walls 
and every side.                                             
YES! UA thought.  The crossbows come out of their hiding    
places in front of the people on top of each wall and tower.
Their tracking system scans, targets, locks and fires.      
Arrows fly from every empty space, hitting the Vile.  The   
gun-powder tips lit before they took off explode on impact. 
The people cheer.  Vile make it to the walls and try to get 
in, but defense spikes slices them in half where they stand 
and pound.  The reloaders reload, light and let the         
autimated cross bows do the rest.  

CHAPTER 6

JUSTAR
Nity raised his arm and blocked Sentinei's staff as it  
struck down at him. He jumped into the air and fired off a  
few rounds of fireballs that Sentinei easily deflected. Then
jumped and kicked Nity in the ribs. Nity twisted and landed 
on the ground then sweped his leg around to trip Sentinei but
he did a back flip evadeing the attack and struck Nity      
across the chest sending him to the ground.                 
"Dangit you are just to good for me" said Nity.     
"Yes but you are a very good appoinet who could very well   
take on anyone from your own world" said Sentinei "training 
is over for today".                                         
It had been about a year since Nity had been teleported to  
this world by a  demigod who called himself Sentinei. 
Sentinei had been training Nity for the great war against  
the Vile for the last year in this little dimension he had  
created solely for the purpose of training champions of     
justice. {In this world a year is about a week in Crystalia,
although in this dimension it does seem like a full year}.  
Nity had become a great fighter in this time in the         
dimension Sentinei called Justar.  Nity's training was becomeing  
tuffer and tuffer as he was getting ready to rejoin the     
other Crystal Fighters again. He couldnt wait.

Phyllite steped out, or rather, a hologram of her stepped out
in plain sight of the Crystalians and Crystal Fighters.  They
tried attacking her, but their arrows went straight through   
the hologram killing two of the Vile that stood behind her. 
She laughed at their failed attempt to kill her. Then she   
declared, "Any further attemps to stop us will result in the
murder of several hostages I picked up. All complete        
innocents." She gestured toward one of the Vile and another 
hologram appeared, one of several families, including    
childern and very old people. "Another thing, you have one  
hour..I repeat ONE HOUR to turn over the Dark Crystals to me
or else." She guestured again and the hologram of herself   
and the hostages disapeared.                                
                                                            
"Oh-no!" Zelda cried seeing the hologram of the hostages,   
"We have to free them! ..somehow."

Coda flips up a scaner on T.I.M. and starts searching  
for Phylite no luck. "Dang this isn't working... T.I.M.  
shreaches for crystal resadue from Phyllite." The computer     
flashes and than beeps.                                     
"Zel, UA, I've got a Fix on that creature. About five miles North
east." Coda says flying over the walls toward the bleep on  
his screen.                                                 
"Today this ends, No more using the inocents as shields or  
traps today the crystal fighter will step out from under   
the shadow of the vile and toward our freedom!" declares 
Coda.                                                                 
       Coda kicks on the boosters and flys off to war?

CHAPTER 7
As Coda headed off  into the distance more Vile came, a lot more.
This wasnt good UA realized. There was only two Crystal Fighters left and there 
defences were running low. UA now wished he had gotten Anakin from
Cathedral Cave.
Then a figure came over the hill a figure made of fire his name, Lavaz.
Zelda spotted him first. Was this creature to be trusted.
Lavaz swooped down shooting a wall of fire in front of the Vile.
Then he shot streams of fire at them burning and scorching them 
and the Vile quickly retreated.
Lavaz gave a thumbs up to the Crystal Fighters and Crystillians and
then he left as quietly as he had came. 
After Lavaz is gone UA sees Coda flying off.                                      
"Help Coda out.  I need to work on something." UA tells Rydia.
then he ports her onto T.I.M. giving Coda a slight startle.               

JUSTAR
Nity's training was ended for the day. He had already become
about twice as strong as before since now he was not just a 
great fighter as Razis but also as Nity. Sentinei had also   
even taught him some magic he could use when he is just     
Nity.                                                       
"If its ok I would like to go look at the Striker crystal"
says Nity.                                                  
"Yes I will join you" says Sentinei.                        
The two of them walk into a room which has a glass case     
which contains the little bits and pieces of Strikers       
crystals that had exploded.                                 
Shortly before the temporal vortex had destroyed Domogolin, 
Sentinei had teleported the fragaments of the crystal to    
this place where it would be safe.                          
The great power of the crystal made it so it could form back
together.                                                
The bits and pieces of the crystal were slowly yet surely   
forming back together.                                      
"In time the crystal will complete its self and reconstruct 
Striker and she will fight along side the crystal fighters once  
again" says Sentinei.                                       

UA puts the last stroke of paint on a giant, covered object 
a few kilometers away from the castle.  He looks to the     
distance and hopes Zelda and Coda get their butts back here 
with Phyllite and the hostages.                             

Rydia and Coda reach T.I.M.'s cordinates to find Vile.
The two go into battle.                                                  
Coda strikes a Vile with a upercut and does a backflip over 
a Vile that was standing behind him. Does a rear naked choke 
 And then Vile is rendured unconsious. Holding the vile he truns     
around to use the poor vile as a shield for one of his      
friends swords, at the same time Coda kicks the now dead    
vile foot up into the others groin. Needless to say that one
is also out of the picture.                                   
"Zelda wacth out.." Coda pulls the sword out of the        
vile,"Sorry did that hurt?" and throws it at vile that      
was swinging a battle axe at Zelda. Which topples   
into another vile.                     
"Well that takes care of that, Now Miss Phyllite about the  
score I have to settle with you!" says Coda.                          
Coda runs towards Phyllite and jumps, lightning sarounds his foot 
and thunder strikes.                                        

CHAPTER 8
Phyllite looked up, "Not today."she says then she teleports 
away leaving the rest of the Vile to their doom.            
As the smoke disapates Rydia  sees Coda with his foot stuck in a 
tree that was standing behind Phyllite. "DANG IT... That    
hurt to much to be a miss" Coda says pulling on his leg.    
 "Somebody help?" Coda says looking embaresed. 
"Oy." Rydia said looking at Coda who's leg was stuck in the 
tree then she went over and yanked the leg out.                            
                                                            
Phyllite paced back and forth in her shuttle, the Vile had  
failed, or so she gathered, she had left as soon as she felt
she was in any danger.  Phyllite glared silently at the     
walls of the large room trying to think of some way to get  
the Dark Crystals, "Ah-ha!" she cried remembering the       
hostages. She then teleported them to her shuttle with the  
shuttle's teleporter.                                       
"Crap" Phyllite yelled, noticing for the first time that  
Coda had succeded in wounding her.  +Must've blocked out the
pain in all the excitement..well..its not blocked out now   
~that's~ for sure..+ she thought as she quickly grabed a    
med-kit and created a make-shift bandage to use until she   
returned to Dolomite's layer and met with a proper Vile     
healer.                                                     

"You're ready." the healer says.                            
"Good, now for my hostages."  She heads to the cells of the 
lair.  She opens the iron door and walks in.                
"You people are going to help me, or you'll--huh??"  The    
room is empty.  She finds a piece of paper and picks it up. 
She reads the words on it.
"You're not the only one who can manipulate hard-light      
holograms.  Hope you enjoy my little gift.                  
Love, Ultra Avenger.

With the villagers safe Coda and Rydia return home.

EPILOUGE
After long hard thinking and flushing his eyes of tears Anakin is ready to return home.
Anakin gathers his stuff and heads out of Cathedral Cave.
In the sky chunks of a meteor come falling down.
One strikes down into the ground just infront of Anakin and he looks up to see
another coming at him he tries to avoid it but it hits his leg snapping it in half
then another hits him in the chest and he flies back into the ground 
his rib cage crushed, he is dieing.

THE END-- 

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