DarkStar Rising Jess Shelton AKA StromDakth ______________________________________________________________________ Sailor Moon, and all affiliated characters are owned be we all know who. Star Wars, and all affiliated characters are owned by Lucasfilms Ltd. The use of these characters is entirely for entertainment purposes. We thank them both, for creating these characters, and kindly ask them: Don't Sue Us! ______________________________________________________________________ Note: Story follows 'Sailor Scouts, and the Young Jedi Knights' Suggest reading 'For her Friends' trilogy, 'Identity Crisis', and 'SS and YJK' by Wolfbyte I am the same StromDakth mentioned at the end of 'Identity Crisis' I have been relatively uninterested with anime until a couple of months ago when my friend, Wolfbyte aka Solar, began writing his stories. I am an avid reader with an active imagination and was unable to resist the temptation to continue with his work. This story is primarily written by me but with aid from Solar/Wolfbyte so forgive me if this story is rather patchy and incomplete. This also mainly an introduction for my new character and so don't be surprised if it isn't very complex. _______________________________________________________________ Chapter 13: Cameron sat on the small hill near where Jason had left him. He was having few problems with his powers now. Whatever had been blocking them, he seemed to be out of the immediate area of effect. In another ten minutes his powers would be fully charged again. "It takes less and less time for me to charge now." Cameron thought, "Guess that's another mystery to solve." From his vantage point he could only see a few blasts between the buildings in the distance but most of them seemed to be coming from his friends. "Guess they must be winning." Without warning, a giant ruby blast flew out of space and smashed into the ground near where his friends where. "Lita!" Cameron clenched his eyes, feeling the energy flowing into him, energy from all sources around. "No, she's all right." Cameron sighed as he felt her energy flowing to him. "They're all safe." A second bolt ripped from the sky crashing near the first. Suddenly a third blast erupted, but not from space. It came from the ground near where his friends where, hurtling up into the starry sky. It flew high into the atmosphere until it struck and erupted. "Now that was impressive." Cameron muttered. He closed his eyes and sighed. His eyes flew open in shock. "They're still there." He had felt the disruption of something blocking the flow of energy. They hadn't destroyed the Krell ship. "So why did it stop firing?" This was a mystery and Cameron was sure he would find an answer with his friends. In a swirl of darkness a wormhole appeared and Cameron was gone. * * * * * Darien watched the strangely modified Krell Jason had called Yeves. Though there wasn't much of Yeves to see. He was wearing a massive mechanical body suit that no doubt increased many of his physical attributes. The only visible part of Yeves was his face. That attested to his fight with Jason years earlier. The flesh on most of his face was burned or boiled away, leaving a blackened, bloody visage that brought to mind the specter of death. "I killed you." Jason was in a complete stupor. "Years ago. How are you still here?" "You destroyed me." Yeves cried. "You ruined my body, burned me to the bone but you didn't kill me. You blew me into the bowls of this city but I didn't die. Do you have any idea what it is like to be burned at the stake and still live without a working body?" "Would you go away if I said yes?" Jason asked. "Still you make your jokes." Yeves raged. "But I'm afraid for you that the last laugh is mine." he smiled slowly. "You see, you've used up your powers for nothing. The Krell are still alive and well and targeting you with their weapons right now." "But we just.." Amy asked in surprise. Yeves just waved her off, "You destroyed a mere relay satellite. Now, before you die my associate, Commodore Melvik, would like some information." "He won't get it but you can ask." Serena spoke up. "I will get it. One way or another. Where is DarkStar?" "What do you want with him?" Jason asked. "Melvik would like to discuss with him the punishments for killing his only son. Now tell me." Jason's response had it's usual tact, "Go suck an egg. That is, if you can find one that isn't to tough for you." Yeves smiled. "Your funeral." The giant mechanical right arm swung up and fired at Tuxedo Mask. A blue beam lanced out striking the unsuspecting Darien. "Without him you are all powerless." He turned back to Jason, but the black and yellow suited scout was gone. A fist smacked into the back of the exo-skeleton, not even fazing the wearer. "It is a solid titanium composite. Your puny bones will break before you could even dent it." He turned and found Jason clutching his hand. "And with you away from them, Melvik can have his revenge to." A third giant red blast shot out of space, striking the space behind the scouts. Jason's eyes went wide in horror at what he saw, bloodied and battered, flying toward him. "Raye!" * * * * * Melvik sat on the bridge of his vessel smiling. Yeves was down on the planet dealing with the human, Solar. Now Melvik got to finish the Sailor Scouts that had been pestering him. "Fire." An amber blast erupted from the cannon latched to the underside of the slave ship. It streaked toward the surface striking in the center of the group of females. Melvik smiled in malicious pleasure as the women were blown away like paper dolls in the wind. But these were not the ones he really wanted. "Find me the human I want. Find me DarkStar." * * * * * Cameron appeared in an alley near where he and scouts had been fighting the Krell. He quickly glanced around to make sure he was safe before glancing around the corner to the combat zone. Cameron was surprised there were no more Krell there but he wasn't surprised by the fact that there were two massive holes gouged into the street. He glanced up and down the street looking for his friends. At one end were the Sailor Scouts, looking drained, and at the other a strange partially robotic humanoid whose head resembled a barbecued Krell. As Cameron watched the Krell shot Darien, knocking him unconscious. "God damn." Jason quickly darted around the other side coming up behind the robotic Krell punching it in squarely in the back. There was a loud clang and Jason pulled his hand back, clutching it in pain. "Ouch. Looks like he needs his butt saved again." Before Cameron could move, a blast more powerful then the previous two erupted from the heavens, streaked down, and struck amongst his friends. "Lita!" Cameron ran over to her wounded form and clutched her to him in horror. "This can't be happening. I just met you. Please be all right." His only response was Lita's head lolling to the side. "No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" 0D Rage. Rage like the burning of the heart of a supernova. Rage like the deepest, coldest, fiercest depths of space. Rage like few mortal beings could comprehend grew in Cameron. It was a rage he had controlled for years but that had always been a part of him. It was the rage of a Berzerker. "They shall pay!" he shouted, forgetting Jason's plai in the heat of his blood rage for Melvik. "You shall pay!" Cameron rage grew but his thinking didn't leave him. "But your punishment will require more." He bent over clutching Lita. Without hesitation he kissed her. He fed his power into her, healing her, and drew from her rage. Rage she had kept pent up for years. Rage she had never released. The rage fed him, fed his life force. "I love you and you shall be avenged." Cameron whispered and vanished. * * * * * Jason ran around the giant robotic Krell. He saw Cameron leaning over Lita but he didn't care. Ahead was the still form of his wife and eternal love. He picked up her still form and held it, his tears streaming down his face and onto hers. "No. You aren't dead. You can't be dead." Raye gave out a soft moan and slowly opened her eyes. "Jason?" she said weakly. "What happened?" "Nothing that we can't fix together." He leaned down and kissed her. A bright yellow formed around him and a red one around her. The two auras mixed and merged filling everything around them with lightning. When Jason released her Raye was weak but stronger then she had been. "Come on." Jason smiled, "Lets finish this guy." Jason turned her around to face Yeves. "Give him your firebird special." Raye closed her eyes, concentrating on Jason's hands on her shoulders, "Mars Firebird Strike" the flame erupted from her forming into a bird of fire, intent on it's target. Before the bird could leave her hands, Jason closed his eyes and concentrated. With the speed of thought the bird grew and grew. Yeves watched in horror as the fiery apparition grew to enormous proportions. He looked at the humans causing it. "You have attacked my friends and tried to kill them. This is something I can not forgive. So by the powers of the Sun" "And Mars." Raye added. "My you burn in the pits of hell." The giant bird raised it's head and gave forth a great howl. It turned to the small being called Yeves. Yeves screamed in horror as the creature dove, engulfing him in a backwash of flame. Jason and Raye could hear his dying screams as he burned. When the flames cleared there was nothing left but burnt cement. Raye turned to Jason. "Like I said. Old trick I just remembered." Lita's eyes flew open. She remembered the explosion and the pain. She had been closest to the blast so she should be dead. She reached down and checked. "All here." she sighed. Then she remembered Cameron. He had held her and promised her vengeance. She looked around but could not see him. Only the other scouts, who were all beginning to stir and awaken. "Has anyone seen Cameron?" * * * * * High above the small blue planet a craft flew. It was not a pretty craft, more built for purpose then aesthetics. It was one central, flattened cylinder with several fish bubbles rising from the sides. It was the Krell ship, Yevetha. A predator of the weak. A seeker of slaves. It was a solitary creature in it's environment. At least it was until now. A small black hole appeared atop the craft and from it stepped a man dressed in an equally dark suit. Cameron looked down at the surface of the vessel as it's movement began to throw him off. It didn't matter. It could get as far as it liked and it wouldn't be far enough. "I will have my vengeance." Cameron thought. "Blackhole formation." * * * * * Amy wobbled uneasily as she tried to stand. She looked around at the devastation in dismay. "This is going to take a while to fix." She clutched her throbbing head trying to stem the pain when the mini computer she was wearing began to blare. She looked at the thing in surprise and pulled it out. A small display brought up all the data that was disturbing it. "Oh gods." Amy silently cursed. * * * * * Melvik was thrown from his chair as a massive force seized his ship. He quickly pushed himself up and hopped back into his chair. "What was that?" * * * * * Cameron watched as the matter inherenient in space flowed around him drawing toward him. The massive energy required drew from his power and when that was gone from his life force. He didn't care. This was a power he could only use once and that was the way of it. He had lost what he cared for most to these Krell. He wanted to make sure that no one else was harmed by them. His thoughts wandered to Lita, his lost love. He was suddenly taken aback. He felt her energy, strong and pure. "She's alive." he called in joy to the void. "But I have to finish this or the Krell might yet kill her. I can't allow that." In his hands the growing orb of matter began compressing. In a moment it would become to massive for its size and would collapse. * * * * * Lita ran over to her blue haired friend. "What is it?" "My computer." Amy was shocked and scared, this Lita could tell. "It just can't be. Not so close." "What? What is it?" Amy turned to her. "A blackhole." * * * * * "What do you mean it's a blackhole!" Melvik screamed. "A blackhole couldn't form here. It requires a mass greater then a sun." The scared private whimpered "Sir, we detected an incredible build up of local matter just outside the hole. The volume isn't increasing but the mass is. In another few seconds it will collapse into a blackhole." * * * * * There was no flash of light nor any other sight or sound to mark the collapse except for the sudden intense pull of gravity. A blackhole is a star that reaches such an incredible mass over it's life and grows so large that it can't support it's own weight collapses. Usually this collapse creates a small star called a pulsar but on rare occasions with unbelievably high masses they collapse into blackholes. The pull of such an anomaly is so great that not even light can escape it's pull. Nothing, absolutely nothing can escape the pull of a blackhole, not even the Krell ship. * * * * * Cameron saw the orb of matter collapse, forming the small pit of darkness. It attracted him, pulled the very atoms of his being toward it. The same it did to the Yevetha. Cameron watched the ship being pulled in and ripped apart by the intense gravity. It struggled and pulled but it didn't have the power. With a final horrendous lurch the craft ripped apart leaving giant fragments to be drawn into the pit. Cameron watched the last of the pieces spiral into the blackhole. He did not smile in triumph or cry in delight. What joy was there to be found in the taking of life. It had been necessary to save his friends and his planet. Now it was necessary for him to die. As the blackhole grew, it's effects began to reach the vibrant blue planet. If the blackhole wasn't sealed then it would destroy the Earth and every other planet in the solar system. Since the power that fed the blackhole was Cameron, it would not seal until his power was extinguished. "Good-bye, Lita." he whispered. There was a bright flash of light. When it faded, the blackhole and Cameron were gone. * * * * * "It vanished." Amy was totally bewildered. "What do you mean, it vanished?" Jason asked. "It was a blackhole and blackholes don't just vanish." "Well this one did." "What is a blackhole?" Mina queried. Serena was busy trying to splint the girls arm since Amy was busy. "A blackhole is a big hole that sucks everything in." Amy began tapping commands into the computer. "What are you doing?" Jason asked. "I'm trying to figure out what caused a blackhole to form right outside our atmosphere" Amy stated in annoyance, "and then caused it to vanish." Lita had spent the entire conversation staring into the sky, a finger pressed lightly to her lips. "Cameron." she whispered. Jason was shocked, "Cameron. Could he have done it?" "I don't know." Amy responded. "I haven't had a chance to test the limits of his abilities." A thought came to the blue haired girl and she frantically tapped commands into the computer. "What are you doing now?" "I'm trying to get a picture of the energy output up there." She brought up an multi-colored image of energy intensity. As she continued to mess with the controls parts of the image vanished. Amy deleted the background radiation, the Krell ship, and the blackhole. Finally, the energy of the atmosphere vanished and Amy gasped. Jason grabbed the computer from her and stared in distress at the image. It showed a semi-close up of a man floating in space at the center of a massive vortex of matter. "It was him. Could he be alive?" Jason's voice was shot with worry. Amy took a second scan and ran the image through the same filters. The image cleared leaving behind a blank screen. Lita continued to look up at the stars. A single tear dripped down the side of her face, prelude to a deluge. "He's gone." _____________________________________________________________________ Oh my god, I killed him. Or did I? You'll just have to read on to find out. I am sorry I brought Yeves back for as I said, I hate bad guys that just keep popping up but I thought that I might be able to actually make it work. At least he is finally dead. I guess we don't want to piss off Cameron. That boy doesn't get mad often but when he does he redefines the word. He'll blackhole you if you get this boy pissed. The epilogue should be up now so go and read it.