Hiya,

Here's TRIO 4.  Keep sending C&C or..... (looks at the shaking cage 
containing SS Azusa and SS C-KO.)

					TRIO:
			      RISE OF THE ECLIPSE SYNDICATE!
				   THE ECLIPSE LORD!

	The small camera like device attached to a mini-jet body and small 
stumpy legs took in the events as they occurred.  It recorded Crack 
Shot coming closer to his prey.  The events were being sent through 
the camera to a large skyscraper.  The home of the Eclipse Syndicate.


	Blade Bot, Seer, Lujane and Samaron watched the monitor.  "What is 
he DOING?" Blade Bot exclaimed, "Playing Hide and Go Seek?!!"

	"Although I know this is hard for you," Seer replied, "you must have 
patience."

	"Shut it, you magic moron!"

	"Rust bucket!"

	"Parlor trick!"

	"ENOUGH!" Lujane roared as she pointed to the screen, "Look."

	Crack Shot was making his move.

	Back where the action is......

	Ranma, Gohan and Sailor Moon waited.  Ranma was certain he had heard 
something and he knew that someone was coming.  Whoever was coming 
was good but not good enough.  He started to move off silently.  
"Where's HE going?" Sailor Moon whispered to Gohan, who had powered 
up again, his golden-blond spiky hair ruffling in a small breeze.

	"Don't know," Gohan replied, "but be ready, anything could happen."

	"HAIL THE ECLIPSE!" Crack Shot shouted as he leaped up from his 
position on the garbage hill and fired.

	Gohan and Sailor Moon dodged out of the way.  They almost didn't 
make it.  They both looked at the burn mark that was where Sailor 
Moon had been standing less then a second earlier.  She gulped 
nervously.  Crack Shot laughed and said, "I wasn't even trying real 
hard.  If I had been, you wouldn't even have had the chance to move.
"

	"Your mistake!"

	Crack Shot turned and was greeted by a vicious roundhouse right kick 
from Ranma.  The Eclipse Syndicate's marksman was knocked for a loop 
and rolled violently down the hill, "Oof"ing and "OW"ing all the way 
down.  Crack Shot stood and shook out his head.  He turned his 
blaster towards Ranma and.... it was cut in half by a glowing discus. 
 "HEY," he shouted, "No fair!  Uh oh."

	Gohan was walking slowly towards him, cracking his knuckles 
ominously, his ki pulsing slowly and a large grin plastered on his 
face.

	Back at the Eclipse Syndicates HQ.....

	Samaron sighed as he watched the action, "Perhaps Crack Shot was not 
so perfect after all...."

	Lujane look at her husband with pity and turned to Seer.  "We need 
to rectify this situation NOW!" she ordered.

	Seer nodded once and replied, "I see.  You want me to send a horde 
of Scarab Demons?"

	"Yes.  Let's give our three new friends a little surprise."

	Seer nodded once again and raised his hands.  He moved them in 
circular motions as he chanted, "Mochada..... Kosida... Echida... 
SCARABS ARISE!!!"

	Back at the battle again....

	Gohan stopped his advance as a strange <tikk, tikk, tikk> came to 
his ear.  "EEEEWWWWW," Sailor Moon groaned, "What IS that thing?"

	He looked and saw a 6 foot tall, jet black creature.  It had large 
pincers for hands and the mandibles on its mouth opened and closed 
rapidly. "I don't know," he said, "but it didn't come alone."

	Another, 100% identical creature, popped up from behind another junk 
pile.  Then several more popped up... and then several more... and 
then several more, until there were twenty of the creatures in all.  
"All right," Crack Shot exclaimed at the creatures surrounded him, 
"Scarab Demons!  Boy, are you three in trouble.  Go get'em Scarabs!"

	The Scarabs charged.  Gohan blocked a blow from the pincer of one 
with his left arm and then quickly followed up with a strong punch 
with his right fist.  The Scarab flew back and landed in a heap, 
before it got back up and charged again.  "Man," Gohan thought, "I 
guess I can't pull my punches with these things."

	Ranma ducked a pincer shot from a Scarab and responded with three 
quick shots to the creatures body and a snap kick to the face.  
Sailor Moon also ducked a blow from a Scarabs claw, but then she had 
to leap away from another Scarabs shot and then had to roll away from 
anothers and finally she scrambled backwards from yet anothers blow.  
"Why are four of them attacking me and their only attacking you guys 
one at a time?" she whined.

	"Maybe they don't like your hair," Ranma quipped.

	"Oh, you shut up!  MOON TIARA ACTION!"

	The tiara flew forward and zapped three of the four Scarabs.  SM 
jumped into the air and stuck out her leg as she shouted, "SAILOR 
MOON KICK!"

	The fourth Scarab fell backward from the blow and was hit again as 
Gohan threw away the one that was attacking him into it.  Crack Shot 
watched with joy.  Sure, three of them had been lost, but seventeen 
were still left and there was no way these KIDS could beat them all.

	He didn't know how wrong he was.

	Gohan was tackled by five Scarab Demons at once and then five more 
piled on top of that.  Gohan strained his muscles and with a savage 
yell threw them all away.  Then he moved in and struck a flurry of 
punches on one of the Scarabs which had been on top of him and it 
finally collapsed.  He unleashed a ki-ball and two Scarabs were blown 
away.  "Nice shot," Ranma commented as he kicked another Scarab down.


	"Thanks," Gohan replied, "NOW LET'S FINISH THIS!"

	In the span of five minutes, all the Scarabs were either unconscious 
or disintegrated.  Crack Shot gulped as the trio approached him.  
"Heh," he stutterer, "Come on now guys.  I was just following orders..
. no hard feelings.... right?"

	"Right," the trio said sarcastically.

	Several seconds (and several amazingly loud sound effects) later.....
..

	Crack Shot lay unconscious, his head buried in a pile of rubble as 
the three heroes walked off.  The camera device flew up and away.

	Back at the Eclipse Tower......

	"Oh well," Blade Bot sighed, "THAT was a total waste of time."

	"I must agree."

	All of the Inner Four froze in fear as the new, evil, voice came 
from out of nowhere.  However, they all recognized it and dreaded it. 
 "Eclipse Lord," Lujane shouted to the sky, "We are honored by your 
presence."

	"Don't lie to me," Eclipse Lord replied with a voice that seemed to 
come from everywhere at once, "Your afraid.  Something has happened 
in my absence.  Tell me."

	Suddenly, a form, sitting in a large, leather, golden colored throne,
 materialized at the far end of the room.  He was a shadow being like 
Seer and yet not like Seer as he also had metallic arms like Blade 
Bots, and a long lizard-like tail like Samaron.  His eyes glowed a 
rich purple and they thinned into slits as the Inner Four kneeled in 
front of him.  "I will not ask again," Eclipse Lord stated in an 
angry growl, "What has happened?"

	Lujane quickly went on to tell the details of when Warp and Snatcher 
stole the Time/Space Device straight through to the events of several 
minutes ago.  Eclipse Lord nodded.  "I knew someday we might have had 
to contend with the Sailor Senshi and with all the strange events 
that take place in the Nemira district, I am not surprised that a 
martial artist of some kind tried to stop us as well.  I have only 
one question for you.  Do the three of them show any sign of 
regaining their memories?"

	"No, my lord," Lujane answered.

	"Then leave them be for now.  If we do not bother them, they will be 
too busy struggling to learn of their past to bother us and if they 
do show signs of remembering who they really are...."

	Eclipse Lord paused and all of the Inner Four understood what was 
being implied.  "Yes master," they chorused.

	Away from the villains and back to the heros....

	Gohan and Usagi had powered down and they joined Ranma in just 
sitting and catching their breaths.  "You two," Usagi commented, 
"were incredible.  I wish I was as good a martial artist as you."

	"How do you know your not," Gohan commented, "and just don't 
remember?"

	"Simple.  When we were fighting... well YOU were fighting and I was  
just dodging, it felt natural, like I always did that.  I may not be 
much good to you guys in the future."

	"Says the girl who zapped about half of those Scarab things," Ranma 
commented with raised eye brows.

	"Yeah... but what if I miss or I can't reach my tiara?"

	"Well... I could teach you... if you want to learn."

	"HUH?" Usagi exclaimed in surprise, "Why?  We don't exactly get 
along if you know what I mean?"

	"I know we didn't get off to the best of starts," Ranma admitted, 
"but maybe we should try to start over," he stuck out his hand, "What 
do you say?"

	Usagi looked at the outstretched hand for a second before smiling, 
accepting the handshake and saying, "Sure," then she turned to Gohan 
and said, "Sorry for ignoring you."

	"It's okay," Gohan replied, "You two needed to set things straight 
anyway."

	"Were we that bad?" Ranma asked.

	Gohan pretended to think about it for a second before saying, "Let 
me put it this way, when I remember everything about my life... the 
last three days with you two will still probably rank as the LOUDEST 
ever."

	Ranma and Usagi grew sheepish looks on their faces.  Then Usagi 
turned to Ranma and said, "There's one thing I need to ask of you."

	Ranma replied, "What's that?"

	"Hold up your right hand."

	"HUH?"

	"Hold.. up.. your... right... hand."

	Ranma shrugged and complied.  "Now what?"

	"Repeat after me, 'I, Ranma Saotome, promise to never, EVER, call 
Usagi Tsukino Dumpling Head ever again."

	"(Sigh) If it'll make you feel better.  I, Ranma Saotome, promise to 
never, EVER, call Usagi Tsukino Dumpling Head ever again.  Happy..." 
Ranma grew a large grin and Gohan could sense a set up coming, "Long 
Ears?"

	Usagi just grumbled in response.

	Gohan suddenly gripped his head in his hands and groaned softly as a 
stray memory started to flash in his mind.  "Are you okay?" Usagi 
asked.

	"What's wrong?" Ranma asked.

	Gohan suddenly straightened and a sly grin started to grow over his 
facial features.  "Nothings wrong," he stated, "In fact... I just got 
a killer idea."

	A while later......

	Part of the allowance that the goventment had given to them was to 
buy new clothes and Gohan had welcomed the opportunity even more then 
Usagi.  When Usagi and Ranma had pressed him for information about 
his idea, Gohan would simply reply, "It's a surprise."

	Now, R&U waited for their friend to appear from behind the changing 
rooms curtain.  "Is anybody watching?" Gohan asked, his voice muffled 
by the the curtains cloth.

	"Nope," Ranma said, "Your clear."

	Gohan stepped out and Ranma and Usagi did a double take at what they 
saw.  Gohan was dressed in a black shirt with a green jacket that had 
the top buttons opened, with green pants, white boots with black tips,
 a white bandana on his head, black shades covering his eyes and a 
long red cape on his back.  "What do you think?" he asked as he 
struck a pose, "I am the Great Sayaman!"

	"Great wha????" the others asked as they fell over.

	"Great Sayaman," Gohan repeated and continued with, "This image came 
to me after we fought those big bugs.  Wherever I came from, I was 
this super hero, I'm sure of it.  Usagi you probably have the same 
deal."

	Usagi nodded and said, "Right and I think I know where your going 
with this."

	Gohan grinned and replied, "You probably do.  Remember that first 
night you said we were like a trio?  Well I say, let's become THE 
Trio.  We can do a lot of good with our powers and this Eclipse 
Syndicate is very dangerous.  They have to be stopped somehow.  So, 
why not let us do the job?"

	Gohan stuck out his hand as he had that first night and Usagi 
quickly stuck hers on top.  "I agree," she said, "Don't ask me why, 
but this seems like the right thing to do.  How about you Ranma?"

	Ranma thought about refusing, the whole idea was ridiculous and 
there was a good chance one or all of them would wind up hurt or 
worse.  Still, there was something in his heart which told him that 
this was not only the right thing to do, it was the ONLY thing to do. 
 "I'm in," he said as he stuck his hand on top of the others.

	The next night.....

	Sayaman observed the tall buildings of the New York skyline as his 
cape fluttered in the nights breeze.  He looked to his left and saw 
Sailor Moon, her pony tails also blowing in the wind, standing ready. 
 He looked to his right and saw Ranma-chan, shivering slightly from 
her recent exposure to the cold water that changed him to her, also 
ready.  "Okay everybody," Sayaman said, "Let's go!"

ANOTHER BEGINNING

NEXT:  The Eclipse Syndicate prepairs to strike again.  Our heroes 
receive some bad news which may change the way they spend their time. 
 Also, see Ranmas new identity for the first time!  Be there or be a 
four sided object