Nihao!

	I'm back again...
	Tour de Force is a lot like 311, right down to the instruments they play. 
Their singing style and concert style is virtually identical as well.
	Don't expect any lyrics, I can't write 'em.
	Henshin Musics: Inner Senshi: Japanese music
                      Outer Senshi: Japanese music
                      Inner Knights: American Scout henshin music
                      Outer Knights: Rock version of Outer Senshi's
	This is a mangling of the manga/anime series created by Naoko Takeuchi.
	Wormwood is a demon invented by that master of religious fiction, C.S. Lewis.

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"Tears of Bitterness, Tears of Woe"

	Ryu was dressed in black pants and a black tunic.  He also wore a black cloak
trimmed in silverd.  His tunic had a complex Dragon pattern embroidered on it,
coiling aroung his chest and back.  He held out a silver staff as long as he
was tall, the Dragon's Eye gleaming at the top of it with a bright blue-white
light.  A blue-white sphere of energy appeared around the pieces of the Dark
Knight's armor.  The sphere, and its contents, receeded from reality at a
right angle.
	He slumped to one knee, leaning on his staff for support, as his clothes
reverted to their civilian form.  He stood up, shrank the staff lengthwise
down to the size of Usagi's old Moon Stick and stuck it into a hyperspace
pocket.
	"Good bye forever, Dark Knights..." he whispered.  He looked around the area
behind the Hikawa Shrine carefully, and didn't spot anyone.  He summoned his
bracers and the Dragon's Eye and used them together to Power Slide away
without three other Knights or even a full transformation.

	It was late evening on the island of Okinawa and the island's pride and joy,
the rock band Tour de Force, was holding its last concert on the island of a
long time.
	"On the drums its.. Colt Richards!"  A shortish young man came out from back
stage at full tilt.  He was built like the proverbial brick wall.  He grinned
a million dollar grin and took up his place behind the drums.
	The announcer kept going...  "Joseph Mauser, bass guitar!" A blond man
bounded out from behind an amplifier, waved to the crowd, blew a kiss to the
ladies in the audience and strapped on his guitar and waited.
	"Keith Magnum, guitar and vocals!" A man with an odd shade of green hair
bounded up out of the crowd, jumped up and down a few times and grabbed his
axe...
	"And of course.. our favorite lead vocalist.. the one, the only LUKE INGRAM!"
 A man with *long* green hair tied back into a pony tail walked out on stage.
	Luke pulled out a microphone and started speaking.
	"Well, folks, we're about to go off to college, and maybe a little stardom,
in Tokyo.  We've had a blast here, and it's been great getting to know you
all!"
	The crowd roared.
	"We've got a little announcement to make though...  Right now we're still
here on student visas, but now that EMI's started getting interested it looks
like we're gonna be citizens within the year..."
	The crowd roared even louder.
	"Well, well, I'm very flattered that you guys love us enough to make us stay
in Japan..."
	They went into one of their rising hits, Karate Man...  A song named in honor
of, and about, an old man that'd visited the island several years earlier...

About two hours later...

	Colt slumped down against the wall outside of the gym, looking up at his
friends.  "That...  Was absolutely draining..." he groaned.
	"mutter flub," replied Joe.
	"What he said..." Keith muttered from the bench across the sidewalk.
	"You all suprise me..." a male voice scolded from the shadows.  A large,
brown cat walked towards them, a golden crescent moon on his forehead.
	Another, identical cat followed him.
	Luke smiled in greeting.  "Prometheus, Epemetheus, what's up?"
	The twin Lunar Cats spoke at the same time.  "There's some sort of Demon
trying to blast through the psychic barrier at the castle of the Peace
King..."
	All four men growled at the thought of such a historic monument beingf
destroyed...
	"Saturn Geo Power!" Colt shouted, metallic, dark blue bracers forming on his
arms.
	"Uranus Gale Power!" Joe called out.
	"Neptune Tidal Power!" Keith barked. 
	"Pluto Nox Power!" Luke completed.
	"TRANSFORM!"
	Their clothes seemed to ripple, and were replaced with black pants, gloves,
boots and jerkins with white tunics.  The only colors they wore besides black
and white were their planets' colors as the sashes that hid their noses and
mouths.
	The Outer Knights charged towards the ancient palace as fast as their
enhanced speed could get them there...

	"Lord Wormwood, the Black Tear isn't here," the kary reported.  Her tail
twitched nervously as she folded her six arms across her chest.
	A warhammer made of a blue metal slammed into the side of her head, sending
her to the ground.
	"I am the force of nature that crushes your bones," Saturn Knight announced.
	"I am the force of nature that drys your bones," Uranus Knight warned.
	"I am the force of nature that none can stand aganist," Neptune Knight
boasted.
	"I am the force of nature that claims all in the end," Pluto Knight remarked
grimly.
	"We are the Outer Star Knights and you're trespassing on our turf!" they all
shouted.
	The kary pulled six swords out of hyperspace and rushed at them, or rather,
slithered at them very quickly.
	Uranus held his hands at eye level, as if he were hiding his face behind a
basketball.  "Wind Razor!" he shouted, bringing his hands closer together and
then turning his palms to face the kary.
	A phalanx of sharpened blades of hard air whirled from his hands and slammed
into the kary, leaving myriad cuts all over her body.  The Demon's greenish
blood leaked out onto the sand, puddling here and there.  She almost whimpered
at the sudden onslaught...  She hadn't been told she might have to face
resistance like *this*!  {DAMN YOU, WORMWOOD!} she howled telepathicly as
Saturn retrieved the Atlas Hammer with a thought and aimed it at her.
	"Seismic Crasher," he stated flatly.  He punched the ground with his fist,
sending a wave of seismic energy through the ground.  The ground exploded
under the Demon like a landmine, shredding her to pieces.
	"Crude, but *very* effective, Saturn," Uranus praised.
	"I think.. I'm gonna hurl..." Neptune said queasily.
	The remains began to give off foul-looking red smoke as they dissolved.
	"Well," Pluto remarked pragmatically as he turned to leave, "At least she
didn't leave a mess..."

	Within the confines of a comfoprtable office in a rather respectible section
of the city of Pandemonium sat a well-cultured man in a large, tall backed
leather chair.  He was a very pale skinned man, with long, well groomed black
hair.  He kept his clothes in fashion at all times and always, and I mean
*always* made sure he looked his best.
	A woman dressed in a flimsy outfit that left *nothing* to the imagination
stood next to his desk, a chain goiing from the collar around her neck to a
ring on the to of the desk.
	Wormwood turned to look at her, a cold gleam in his solid black eyes. 
"Karen, take a memo.. and maybe I won't toss you to the Overfiend for the next
few decades..."
	"Yes, Master," she groveled.
	"To Whom It May Concern:  As of this day, Juanuary 3, 1994. Mr. Wormwood of
the Aquisitions Bureau will be taking a vacation..."
	"It is as you wished it, Master..." Karen groveled.
	"Karen?"
	"Yes, Master?"
	"I lied..." the damned woman vanished with a snap of his fingers...  His old
buddy the Overfiend hadn't been getting much lately.. and he *had* to help out
old fraternity buddies during lean times, didn't he?

Starguild Productions Presents:
A New Moon Order Production

"Star Knights: Tears of Bitterness, Tears of Woe"
Written By: Berk' "REM" Watkins

unfinished..


There are few things in this world that cannot be fixed with the 
appropriate application of High Explosives..  or duct tape, 
lots of duct tape...
     - Berk "REM" Watkins