DarkStar Rising 
Jess Shelton AKA StromDakth

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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!
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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 writting 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.

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Chapter 8:
     Raye awoke with a pounding head ache.  "Someone get the number of 
the truck that hit me."
     "Only if you get the number for the one that hit me."  Raye 
opened her eyes and was pleased to see Lita.
     "Lita.  You're okay." she reached over and took the brunette's 
hand.
     "At least as good as I can feel after Brull brained me when I 
resisted."  Lita cuddled her head again as a wave of pain over took 
her.  Raye took the chance to take a look at their surrondings.  Not 
that there was much to look at.  The room only had one door with a 
concave bubble window and a second window on the outer wall presenting 
a view of the stars.
     "Must be night." Raye thought.  Then she saw the sun entering the 
frame of the window.  "Oh no.  We're in space again." she groaned.
     "I know." Lita groaned.  "And don't use your powers in here."
     "Why?" Raye asked, raising an eyebrow and regretting the 
movement.
     "The walls are designed to contain our power and reflect it.  
You'll just fry us."
     "Then what are we supposed to do?"
     "I think we need to think of someway out of here."     
        Then Raye saw the bowls of food next to Lita and realized she 
was hungry.  She took one and was about to gulp it down when
Lita spoke up, "I wouldn't.  It makes the food the Imperium gave us 
seem like a gourmet meal."
     Raye looked down at the bowl of brown fluid.  It didn't look that 
bad.  "Are you sure?"
     "Before they took Serena she tried some.  She said that she would 
never be hungry again."
     Raye looked at the bowl in surprise.  "How could anything be that 
bad?"
     "I guess a species of slavers would have learned how to create 
something foul enough that the slaves wouldn't eat it."
     "When did they take Serena?" Raye asked, "Did they get anyone 
else?"
     "They captured you, me, Serena, and Amy.  They took Amy first 
while she was still unconscious and took Serena about half an hour 
ago."
     "Maybe we can get out when they come for us." Raye suggested.
     Lita shook her head, "They create some sort of stun field in here 
when they come for one of us."
     "Then what do we do?"
     "I don't know."

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     Serena fell to the ground roughly as one of the Krell soldiers 
shoved her in front of the apparent leader.  He was tall, even for one 
of his people, and had several faded gray hairs streaking his 
otherwise black hair.  His pale flesh was also slightly potmarked by 
speckles of purple.  He seemed very angry.  He began talking with one 
of the guards in a strange tongue then turned to her.
     When he spoke, it was in the slanged version of his people, "You 
are the leader of the Scouts, Correct?"
     "Yes."  She stood up.  "I am Sailor Moon the defender of love 
and."
     The leader waved off the rest of her speech.  "Yes, yes.  I have 
already heard that awful speech in our recordings of your combat."  He 
turned to glare at her.  "What I want to know is which of you killed 
Frell?"
     Serena was confused.  "Who?"
     "Frell!" the old Krell yelled.  "My son!  You people killed him 
yesterday!"
     Serena stepped back from the giant fuming alien.  "The one who 
attack us at Lita's?  He deserved what he got."
     This enraged the towering being "Tell me who killed him or I 
shall make you suffer like you could never imagine."
     Serena stepped right into the slave driver's face, "You could 
never imagine some of the things I have suffered." She growled, "I 
have died.  I have seen my friends die.  I have lost my eternal love.  
I have suffered tortures that you could never imagine.  So don't you 
even think about threatening me."
     The aged Krell could not believe the fire that this small human 
held within her.  But even this strong willed creature would not deter 
him.  "What I want is the name of the human that has killed my son."
     "Your son killed Jason.  He was repaid in full."
     "Tell me his name." Melvik grabbed the small human.
     She glared into his eyes.  "DarkStar."
     "DarkStar."  The older Krell whispered.  He released her and 
began to walk away.  "Take her to a holding cell.  I will want to talk 
to her later."
     Two large guards took Serena's arms and led her off down the 
hall.

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     Amy looked up as the door opened and Serena was thrown in.  
"Sailor Moon."  She rushed over and helped steady her blond friend.  
"Are you okay?"
     "I'm fine.  I just need some food.  I'm starving."  Amy smiled at 
her friend.
     "You're all right."

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     Jason, Mina, Darien, and Cameron appeared in the halls of a giant 
ship.  Jason and Darien looked around in awe.  It was an impressive 
ship after all.  Mina turned her attentions to Cameron who had 
collapsed as soon as they had appeared.
     "Wow.  I've never been on a starship before." Darien stated.
     "Never?" Jason asked.
     "Well.  There was once but that ship was from a different 
dimension."  Darien turned to his friend.  "How many have you been 
on?"
     "Lets see."  Jason thought, "There was the Sun People's city 
ship, the first Krell ship, the Imperium space station, and three 
different ships at the Jedi Praxeum."  Out loud he said, "Six."
     "Six.  Now that is impressive."
     "Guys, " Mina interrupted, "I think we have a problem."  The two 
male Sailors turned to find Mina leaning over a crumpled DarkStar.
     "What's wrong?" Darien asked.
     "Did he make a pass at you?" Jason asked, half smiling, "Cameron, 
you know that scares the ladies."
     "Jason, now isn't the time." Cameron said through clenched teeth.  
"I don't have any power left."
     "None?" Darien asked.
     "None."
     "That could be a problem.  I'm almost drained too.  It will take 
me about an hour for me to recharge fully."  Jason commented.  "How 
long is it going to take for you to power up?"
     "I can't recharge here." Cameron muttered.
     "What?" Darien seemed confused.  "Why can't you recharge?"
     "This is a starship.  Doesn't that explain the situation?"
     Jason slapped his head.  "Of course.  This ship is designed to 
protect the occupants from cosmic radiation.  They are specifically 
made so that the radiation that fuels him is not allowed in."
     "Exactly." Cameron said.
     "This could prove a very big problem." Darien commented.  "That 
reduces our fighting force by twenty five percent."
     "I'm not entirely useless."  Cameron said, pushing himself to his 
feet.  "I can still fight hand-to-ha.." he stumbled and crashed to the 
floor, groaning in pain.  "Okay, maybe not."
     Jason thought for a moment then spoke up.  "Cameron, we're going 
to hide you for now while we go and try to free the others.  Okay?"
     From the ground came a muffled voice, "Do I have a choice?"
     "No, I guess not.  Come on."  The three active sailors picked up 
their weakened comrade and led him around a corner.  Their they found 
several large equipment lockers.  "Perfect."
     Cameron lifted his head to look at the lockers.  "No.  You 
wouldn't." He turned and looked at his old friend.  "You would."
     "Come on.  Time for you to do a sardine impression." Jason 
smiled.
     "I hate sardines." Cameron said.  Dispite his distaste for the 
confined space Cameron climbed into the compact locker.
     "We'll be back for you in a while." Jason shut the door and the 
three left.
     "You better, or I'll find you." they heard shouted from behind 
them.
    
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     Jason, Darien, and Mina skulked around the interior of the Krell 
vessel.  They had seen several of the aliens but had only needed to 
confront two of them.  They were now laying unconscious, tied up in a 
refuse bin.  Even now they could hear another Krell coming down the
hall.  "Hurry, we want as few confrontations as possible."
     The Scouts quickly ducked back into a side hall to avoid the 
notice of a passing soldier.  They had little to worry about.  The 
Krell was to busy looking at a report from his section.  When
the foot falls had disappeared the three suited figures stepped out of 
the hall.  "Now, as I remember from the last time I was on one of 
these the brig should be this way." Jason pointed and the Scouts 
quickly ran down the hall.
     Jason wondered how Raye was faring.  She had been here for almost 
six hours now.  "Who knows what kind of trouble she was in." Jason 
then smiled "Who knows what kind of trouble she was causing."  She had 
always been a handful even for her husband.  But that was one of the 
reasons he loved her.
     "Jason, are you sure about your directions?" Darien asked.
     Jason shrugged.  "I think so.  I was partially unconscious at the 
time I was here."
     "Lucky for you I was fully awake when we were here." Mina stated.
     "Then maybe you should lead the way, my dear Venus."
     "Don't mind if I do."  She crept in front of the two men and lead 
the way down the hall until they reached a door inset in one of the 
walls.  "Okay.  I think this should be it.  On the count of three."
     "My count or yours?" Jason asked smiling.
     "Mine.  We actually count to three."  The two guys took up 
positions by the door.  "One, two, THREE."  The three Sailors rushed 
into the room ready for any eventuality.  They came back out several 
moments later, Darien and Jason laughing.  "Okay.  So maybe I don't 
remember it exactly." she defended herself.  "I wasn't that far off."
"You lead us into a bathroom!" Jason broke out laughing.
     "Everyone is entitled to at least one mess up."
     "True.  But we've given you a lot more then that."
     "What?  What are you talking about?"
     "Nothing.  Just kidding."  Jason began down the hall again.  "You 
guys coming?" he called over his shoulder.

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     Lita and Raye sat on the floor of their cell staring out the one 
small window.  In it's view was a large field of stars with the full 
moon in the center of the window.  It looked beautiful to them, with 
the sea of Serenity visible quite clearly.  Neither had touched any of 
the increasing number of soup bowls that just seemed to appear in the 
cell with them. "What are we going to do?" Raye said out loud.
     "I don't know.  Amy could have gotten us out of here."
     "Or Jason." Raye added.
     "Or Cameron." Lita whispered.
     Raye turned to her friend.  "You really like him don't you?"
     "I really wish I knew." Lita said.
     "Do you think you love him?"
     "I don't know." Lita buried her face in her knees for several 
minutes then turned to Raye.  "Raye, how did you know when you and 
Jason were in love?"
     Raye was a bit surprised but she guessed she shouldn't have been.  
She did ask Lita.  "Well, it's kind of hard for us to know love like 
most people because usually we have usually met them back in the 
Silver Millennium.  We are all destined for someone.  The trick is 
falling in love with the one we are destined for."
     "Yeah, but HOW do you know when you're in love?" Lita insisted.
     "Oh.  I guess it is when you would be willing to spend eternity 
with someone.  When they are more important to you then your own 
life."  Raye sighed.  "To me Jason is like the completion of me.  It's 
like being only half a person until you find your true love.  Only 
then will you feel complete."
     Lita smiled at her friend.  "You are so lucky.  You got a perfect 
man." Lita moped.
     "He isn't perfect.  Trust me."  Raye leaned over and wrapped an 
arm around her friends shoulder, "There is a perfect man for you out 
there, to.  You just need to find him."  Raye smiled, "And I don't 
think it'll require much of a search."
     Lita perked up.  "Well, you were destined to Jason back in the 
Moon Kingdom.  I was promised to Nephlyte, remember.  What if he was 
my destined?"
     "Then I say, screw destiny and go with your heart."  Lita laughed 
at her friends frankness.
     "Thanks, Raye." Lita wrapped her arms around her old friend and 
hugged her.
     "You're welcome, Lita."  When the tall athletic girl released her 
she huffed out trying to recover from having her lungs crushed.  "Now, 
the next time you see him you tell him exactly what you feel.  If you 
love him, you'll both know it."
     "Thanks, I will."
     "Now if only we could help Mina get a boyfriend."  Both of the 
girls laughed, a well needed reprieve from the depression of the cell.  
Then they heard the door begin to open.  The were both immediately 
silent as they hoped behind the door.  Suddenly a familiar head popped
through the open frame.  "Hiya, honey."
        
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     Jason stood in front of the door to the brig.  "This is where 
they held us.  Raye and the others should be here." he thought.  He 
reached down and slowly began to open the door into a long, black 
hallway.  "Come on." he whispered to his two compatriots.
     The three of them slipped in through the open door and looked 
around at the rows of closed doors.  "This will take forever to 
search." Darien said in distress.
     "Not if we use that." Jason pointed to a darkened console inset 
in the wall.  They walked over to it and each eyed the contraption.  
"Okay.  Now where is the 'ON' button?"
     They all scanned the surface of the blackened device but none 
could find a way of turning it on.  "Maybe it uses voice software.  
Computer on."  The screen flashed to life.
     "Amy would be proud." Mina said.
     "I chose to take that as a compliment." Jason commented.  
"Computer, locate Earth captives called Sailor Scouts."  The screen 
hummed for a few seconds then a schematic of the holding area 
appeared, one room highlighted in green.  "That's it.  Come 
on."
     As the three were running down the hall the same thought passed 
through both Jason and Darien's minds.  "I'm coming, my love."  At the 
end of the hall they found the door behind which their destined ones 
were.  Jason peered inside through the small window but could only see
darkness around a single window showing stars and the moon.
     Darien reached down and slowly turned the knob of the door, 
automatically unlocking it.  Jason leaned his head in looking for the 
female scouts.  Then he saw a patch of the darkness move.  He smiled 
"Hiya, honey."  The lights flipped on and the three Scouts jumped back 
in surprise.
     "Hiya, Dear." The last was sneered on by Melvik standing in the 
room with some twenty armed Krell soldiers.

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        Now ain't that a bummer.  Get onto the ship and find that you
can't charge up there, due to the unstable nature of his powers.  
        I also thought it was about time to add another highly emotional
part to the story so I wrote in the part with Lita and Raye.  I hope 
you enjoy.  
        I don't think I have much more to say about this chapter so I'll
bid you all adiu.
                I thank Lady Jupiter for her positive criticism but
I would like others to send some so I can work the story to everybodys'
enjoyment.  StromDakth@aol.com in case they didn't put it up.

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