TRIO:
			     HOW IT BEGAN:
			      A NEW START

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	Officer Carlos Molaris sat in the waiting room doing the only thing 
he could do, waiting. A woman in her mid thirties walked out and 
called to him.  He walked over and asked, "So what's the verdict Dr. 
Kafka?"

	Dr. Kafka replied, "These three are a most unusual case.  They 
remember their names and all of them say they come from Japan but 
beyond that, nothing.  They don't remember a single detail of their 
lives."

	"Wait a minute," Carl interjected, "If they say their from Japan 
than how come their not speaking Japanese?"

	"Well," Kafka replied, "we think that it's because of a phenomena 
known as 'Selective Rememberence'.  Not to go into too much 
phcyobabble, basically a theory exists that a person who hears 
something does not really not know it but it gets stored away in a 
subconscious part of his or her memory.  That's why sometimes you 
remember things that you thought you didn't hear right at first.

	"English is a required course in Japanese schools, so when they 
heard you talk, the part of their memory that held that information 
came to the forefront and...." she waved her hands like a magician.

	(Authors note: I am NOT a phcyologist.  All phcyobabble is made up.
)

	"So what are you going to do?"

	"We're going to do some basic intelligence and physical tests and 
then probably put them in a foster home for the time being.  Your 
services are no longer needed officer."

	Officer Molaris nodded and walked out the door.

	Meanwhile, in an abandoned factory some several blocks away..........


	The yellow portal opened and spit out its two passengers.  Snatcher 
and Warp looked around.  They were alone, for the moment.  Both of 
them knew THAT was not going to last.  Warp fell to her knees and 
gasped out as another wave of pain from her midsection washed over 
her, "That little Sailor bi... OWWW!  I'm glad I zapped her."

	"How did you do that anyway?" Snatcher asked.

	Warp shrugged and said, "Haven't the foggiest."

	"I might be able to answer your question," a new, slightly metallic, 
voice said.

	Both Warp and Snatcher looked up in dread.  They both thought, "Oh 
GOD!  One of the Inner Four!  We're in for it!"

	The sound of metal clanking on stone heralded the approach of this 
new being.  What little light that was in the building reflected off 
the newcomers metallic features.  He was tall, about 7 feet.  Silver 
in color and angular to an extreme in shape.  His head had an optic 
lens, that looked much like the lens on a video recorder, on it, 
along with a curious black circle with a white outline on the top of 
his cranium.  His fingers were literally as sharp as nails and 
jutting out from his wrists were two long blades that reached out 
several inches in front of his hands.  Snatcher said as he saluted, 
"Blade Bot!  Hail the Eclipse!"

	Warp followed with her own salute and, "Hail the Eclipse!"

	Blade Bot nodded once and said in a much less enthusiastic voice, 
"Hail the Eclipse," then continued, "I assume you have the device?"

	Snatcher nodded and said, "Give it to him Warp," then he whispered 
to her, "I don't think we're in trouble.  We may get out of this yet.
"

	Warp gulped and reached into her back pocket.  The device she pulled 
out had been slightly crushed, with imprints that looked like a human 
hands.  Blade Bot snatched the device and growled, "What is this?  
Explain yourselves!!!!"

	Snatcher and Warp went on to retell their account, very nervously, 
of their encounter with the Sailor Senshi and that strange boy. (See 
Part 1 for details.)  Blade Bot seemed particularly interested with 
what had happened to Warp.  Blade Bot then said in a much calmer 
voice, "So that explains it."

	"Explains what?" Warp asked.

	"This device, is a prototype Time/Space portal generator.  Sort of, 
a mechanical version of your natural capabilities Warp, although you 
can only travel through space.  Any way, when Sailor Moon hit you 
with her attack, you must have squeezed the devise hard enough to 
activate it and it must have interacted with your powers, causing you 
to fire out at random."

	"So you mean Sailor Moon isn't vaporized?"

	"Unfortunately, no."

	"Aww drat!"

	"However, this does bring me to my secondary reason for coming.  We 
saw this very strange report on one of the local news channels and 
thought you might be able to explain it."

	A hologram came out of a device that Blade Bot held in his other 
hand.  It showed an image of a news broadcast.  "In Local news," the 
news anchor said, "the appearance of a strange energy fissure has 
scientists baffled as to its origin.  Also, three people have come 
out of the portal and have been taken to a local hospital for 
evaluation.  They all suffer from amnesia and have no details for 
frustrated scientists."

	A picture of the Gohan, Ranma and Usagi was shown.  "That's him," 
Snatcher exclaimed as he pointed at Ranma, "that's the boy from the 
research facility!"

	"The girl must be Sailor Moon," Warp said in thought.

	"How can you tell?"

	"Duh," Warp replied with sarcasm, "Sailor Moon is a girl and there's 
only one girl in that group."

	"You're right.  Dumb question."

	Blade Bot nodded and said, "It says that they have amnesia.  That 
might not last.  We don't need the Sailor Senshi meddling in our 
affairs and we don't know what kind of connections the other two have.
  We need to eliminate these loose ends.  Snatcher, go make sure they 
never get a chance to remember."

	Snatcher bowed slightly and said, "Yes boss.  May the Eclipse 
Syndicate grow strong."

	At a psychiatric center......

	Usagi sat in the room nervously.  It was cold and sterile.  Finally, 
a man who looked to be in his mid-thirties walked in and sat down in 
the chair on the other side of the single, welded down, metallic 
table.  "Hello," the doctor said, "I'm Doctor Stevens.  I'm here to 
run a basic psychological test on you."

	Usagi smiled nervously and replied, "Hi.  I'm Usagi," then she asked,
 "This isn't going to involve anymore needles is it?"

	"Hello Usagi and no.  We're going to start with a little word 
association test.  I say a word and then you say the first word that 
pops into your head.  Got it?"

	"Got it."

	"Ready?"

	"Yes."

	"Okay here is the first word: Morning."

	"Breakfast."

	"Square."

	"Meal."

	"Left."

	"Overs."

	"Four."

	"Food groups."

	Doctor Stevens got a strange look on his face and asked, "Should we 
stop and get you something to eat?"

	Usagi shrugged and said, "Well, I haven't eaten since.... well, 
before I can remember.  So I guess I could use a little snack."

	Two Big Macs, two McChickens, two extra large fries, two extra large 
chocolate shakes, a 20 pack of McNuggets,  three bags of cheese 
Doritoes and one diet soda later........

	"SSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRPPPPPPP!!!!!"

	Doctor Stevens look on wide eyed and asked, "Feel better?"

	Usagi let out a burp and replied, "Much.  Thank you very much."

	"Err.... your welcome.  Can we try this again?"

	"Sure."

	"Okay.  Here we go, 'Here' is the first word."

	Silence.

	"Is there a problem?" Doctor Stevens asked.

	"No.  I'm waiting for you to start."

	"OH!  I guess I should have said, the first word is: here."

	"OH!  There."

	"Dark."

	"Kingdom."

	"Meatball."

	"ACK!"

	"What's wrong?"

	"Nothing.  I don't know why I did that."

	"Maybe it was some kind of conditioned response."

	"Huh?"

	"Never mind.  We're getting off track.  Here's the next word: Silver.
"

	"Millennium."

	"Dumpling."

	"ARRRRGH!!!"

	In the next room.....

	Gohan looked at the doctor that sat across from him.  His room was 
identical to Usagis.  This doctor however was running a different 
test, "I'm Doctor Frankson.  I'd like you to try and solve as many of 
these math problems as you can in ten minutes."

	Gohan nodded and replied, "Good.  I'm glad I'm not getting stuck 
with needles anymore."

	Then he picked up his pencil and as soon as the doctor handed him 
the paper, set right to work.  Doctor Frankson took out a stop watch 
and hit the button to start it.  Three minutes later Gohan raised his 
head and said, "Finished."

	Frankson looked at the paper, surprised that anyone could have 
finished so fast and read the answers.  He set the paper down and 
looked at Gohan with a shell shocked look in his eyes.  Then he said 
very slowly, "These are all right.  Amazing.  I can't believe it."

	Gohan grinned sheepishly.

	In another room.....

	The woman doctor looked at Ranma as he stood on the mat in the 
middle of the room.  The room was filled with all sorts of exercise 
equipment. Like exercise bikes, step machines, weight training 
devices and other machines.  "Hello, Ranma isn't it?," the doctor 
said, "I'm Doctor Sylvia."

	Doctor Sylvia was an oriental woman in her mid-thirties, while not 
glamorous she was still attractive.  Doc. Sylvia continued, "This is 
just a normal exercise test.  We're going to check your physical 
fitness on these machines.  First though I'd like you to warm up and 
stretch out so you don't hurt yourself."

	"Okay," Ranma said, "After getting stuck with all those needles, I 
could use the exercise."

	Ranma stretched his arms and legs and then a strange look passed 
over his face as he stretched out his back.  "Is something wrong?" 
Doc. Sylvia asked.

	"No," Ranma replied, "I think something is coming back to me though.
"

	"Oh really, what?"

	"Just......" Ranma started a complex Kempo kata.  He did punches and 
kicks at an incredible speed.  He threw in flips and forward and 
backward rolls.  He jumped high in the air, almost hit the ceiling 
and landed in front of Sylvia.  Then he stood up into the ready 
position, bowed and finished with, ".....that."

	Sylvia was silent.  However, she did have a strange twitch in her 
left eye.

	Later.........

	Ranma was led into yet another room.  This one however, had three 
chairs and two of them were occupied.  Also, one side of the room was 
a wall length mirror.  Ranma sat down next to the other boy, yawned 
and said, "Man!  We've been doin' this stuff so long, I'm fighting to 
keep my eyes open."

	The other boy looked at the girl who was sprawled out in her chair 
and snoring slightly.  "Looks like she already lost THAT battle," he 
commented, "by the way, my names Gohan."

	"I'm Ranma," Ranma replied as he shook hands with Gohan, then a 
thought came to him, "Hey.  You two are the others who came through 
that portal thingy with me."

	Gohan nodded and at Ranmas exclamation the girl awoke.  "Huh," she 
muttered sleepily, "Wha?  Who?"

	"Ah, Your awake," Gohan said with a smile, "seems the gangs all here.
"

	"Hi," Ranma said, "I'm Ranma."

	The girl smiled and said, "I'm Usagi."

	As the three got to know each other, on the other side of the mirror,
 sat the doctors who had examined them.  They were now observing how 
the three visitors acted in an informal setting.  As nothing of 
interest had happened, they decided to compare notes.  "Well," Doc. 
Stevens said, "They all seem pretty normal with word association.  
Except for Usagis aversion to meatballs and dumplings and the fact 
that Ranma nearly went nuts when I said the word 'fiance'."

	Frankson went next, "Gohan is a mathematical genius.  Ranma is okay 
but he didn't seem to be trying real hard and Usagi.... well... I 
hesitate to say the word airhead, but..." he shrugged.

	Sylvia took over, "Ranma and Gohan are in excellent condition and 
both seem to have some kind of martial arts training.  Usagi is in 
good health but she's only average," she sighed in exasperation, "For 
all we know, she could be some kind of princess and those two are her 
bodyguards."

	All three of them went silent at that thought.  "NAH," they all 
chorused with a dismissive wave.

	Then Sylvia asked, "What about the blood tests we ran on them?"

	Frankson replied as he looked at a sheet of paper, "Usagi is normal. 
 Ranma has a slightly higher level of estrogen then normal and Gohan 
has a very peculiar abnormality in his blood that we can't identify.  
I suggest that we send them to that house now but keep them in 
contact with us and each other for now."

	"That sounds reasonable," Sylvia concurred.

	"Agreed," Stevens said.

	Later still...

	Usagi, Ranma and Gohan were taken into the waiting room.  A man came 
up to them and said, "Come on.  I'll take you to your, until your 
memory comes back, new home."

	Outside......

	Snatcher watched from the roof as the three targets and the man left.
  He followed the van from rooftop to rooftop, somehow keeping pace.  
He grinned to himself and thought, "Soon, very soon."

	The van turned into an empty street and Snatcher made his move.  He 
jumped off the roof he was on and landed right on the vans roof.  His 
feet made deep impressions and before anyone could do anything, 
Snatcher fired a small blaster pistol right at the vans engine, 
disabling it.  "Get out," Gohan yelled.

	The four of them left the van and started to run.  Snatcher leaped 
off the van and landed in front of the group.  They stopped running 
and the man drew a revolver.  Snatcher fired his blaster with 
pinpoint accuracy and disarmed the man by hitting him in the arm.  
Then, Snatcher followed up with a boot to the midsection.  The man 
went flying and landed in a heap several feet away.  Snatcher said, 
"You're lucky your not one of my targets.  I'll let you live," then 
he turned to Ranma, Usagi and Gohan and said, "you three on the other 
hand, aren't so lucky."

	Ranma acted instinctively and did a snap kick, which knocked 
Snatchers blaster away.  Snatcher chuckled as he said, "Okay we do 
this the fun way.  I wanted a rematch with you and now I'm gonna get 
it."

	"Rematch?" Ranma asked, "Have we met before?"


	"Oh that's right," Snatcher replied sarcastically, "you don't 
remember do you?  Let's just say, I kicked your tail last time and 
I'll do it again."

	"Somehow, I doubt that."

	"Confident, aren't you?"

	The two charged each other and fought with every move they knew.  
For Ranma, this was far less than he normally would have, for all of 
his special moves had been lost in the haze of amnesia.  Still, he 
made a good accounting for himself, getting in several good shots.  
However, none of them seemed to really hurt Snatcher and he answered 
with powerful blows which DID hurt.  Gohan and Usagi watched on, 
feeling helpless until Usagi got a strange look on her face.  "What's 
wrong?" Gohan asked.

	"I'm not sure," Usagi replied, as her broach began to glow, "I think 
I'm remembering something.  Some words... a name," then she shouted 
to the sky, "MOON CRYSTAL POWER!  MAKE UP!"

	Usagi transformed and when she was finished, the name "Sailor Moon" 
rushed into her brain again.

	Ranma fell, a small trickle of blood falling from his nose.  
Snatcher had backhanded him hard and the camouflaged warrior laughed. 
 Ranma staggered to his feet and before they could continue.... "Hold 
it!" Usagi yelled, "I don't know what's going on here or how I did 
this but I'm warning you to back off pal!  I am Sailor Moon!  The 
Champion of Justice!  I shall right wrongs and triumph over evil... 
and that means YOU!  In the Place of the Moon.... I'll punish 
you!!!"

	Gohan looked at the newly re-born Sailor Moon and asked, "Uhhh... 
why did you say all that?"

	Sailor Moon shrugged and replied, "I don't know.  It just seemed 
appropriate."

	Snatcher tapped his foot impatiently and shouted, "Could we get on 
with this?!!!"

	Then he pulled out a long katana from a hidden compartment on his 
back and another from a compartment on his left leg.  He raised both 
of them and charged Sailor Moon.  Moon cried out in surprise and 
leaped to the side, falling on her face.  Snatcher turned and slashed 
again.  Sailor Moon rolled out of the way in the nick of time.

	Gohan watched, not sure what to do.  He was getting angry.  He felt 
so helpless.  The others were all fighting and he wasn't sure what he 
could do, or if he could do anything, to help.  His frustration 
reached its peak and he shouted, "Stop It!"

	Snatcher turned his head and commented wryly, "You say something?"

	"I said," Gohan replied as he felt his rage suddenly reach a new 
level, "STOP IT!!!!!!!"

	Gohan became a Super Saya-jin.  He didn't know this of course, all 
he knew was that a tremendous amount of power filled him, a yellow 
fire encircled his entire body and his hair stood straight up and 
turned blond.  "Oh MAN," Snatcher groaned, "Do all of you have 
special powers?"

	Gohan didn't answer but instead flew towards Snatcher with a 
wordless roar of fury.  Gohan unleashed a series of punches so fast, 
Snatcher had no time to block.  Gohan continued his barrage until 
Snatcher fell back and Gohan let go with an incredible shot that 
knocked a part of Snatchers face mask away.  Ranma and Sailor Moon 
had gotten up by this time and they looked on with Gohan as Snatcher 
stood.  The mouth portion of his face mask had been knocked away and 
underneath it, instead of skin and bone, was a skeletal, robotic grin.
  "He's a robot," Ranma exclaimed.

	"Get the terminology right," Snatcher "tsk"ed, "I'm an android."

	"Whatever you are," Gohan said with a growl, "Your scrap!"

	Gohan flew forward again and hit Snatcher with a shattering kick 
that knocked the mouth portion off in a shower of sparks.  Sailor 
Moon said, "Gohan, get back.  I think I know how to finish this."

	Gohan complied and Sailor Moon removed the tiara from her forehead.  
It changed in her hand to a glowing discus that she threw at Snatcher 
with pinpoint accuracy on the cry of, "MOON TIARA ACTION!!!"

	The tiara sliced through the air and Snatcher was able to only get 
out an, "Uh oh," before it hit him and separated his head from his 
body.  The robotic head bounced on the ground and the body simply 
collapsed.  Snatchers head stopped right in front of Ranma and it 
said, "Not bad.  You got me.  Again, not bad... for a beginning."

	"BEGINNING?!?" All three of the heroes exclaimed.

	"That's right," Snatchers head laughed, "I'm only one of the 
soldiers working for the Eclipse Syndicate.  You meddled in their 
affairs and now they will make sure you never get your memories back.
"

	Ranma frowned and stepped down on Snatchers head with all his might. 
 It was crushed and Snatchers red eyes stopped glowing.

	A little later....

	After the man had revived, they continued on their way, this time by 
bus, to where they were supposed to go.  It turned out that because 
of an influx in foster children that the three of them were given a 
whole house to themselves. (If Sailor Jupiter can live on her own 
then so can these three.) It was a modest, two story building, with a 
kitchen, two bathrooms, a patio on the second floor, a nice den and 
three bedrooms.

	After they had settled in and picked out who would get which room, 
all three of them got together, discussing what to do.

	"So what should we do?" Ranma asked.

	"I don't know," Usagi sighed, "We should have told that guy about 
how we were the ones who stopped that Snatcher guy and not some super 
heroes who just showed up."

	"That's a stupid idea," Ranma replied hotly, "If we did that, then 
several seconds later, ZIP, off to some lab they keep aliens and 
Bigfoot in."

	"Who's stupid?!!"

	"Jeez, I didn't say you were stupid.  You are so touchy."

	"I AM NOT!!!!"

	"Guys," Gohan interjected, "this is getting us no where real fast.  
Now, I have to agree with Ranma about telling, but we also need to 
keep on our guard.  This Eclipse Syndicate will probably try for us 
again.  I think we should stick together in the meantime too," he 
held out his hand, "What do you two say?"

	"Sure," Ranma replied as he stuck his hand on top of Gohans.

	"Okay," Usagi said as she put her hand on top of both of theirs, 
"We'll be like a Trio."

	"A Trio," Gohan said thoughtfully, "I like it."

	"Yeah," Usagi said, "I hope we can get to be friends.  Except it may 
take a while for me to get used to this jerk," she indicated Ranma.

	"Who's a jerk?!!" he replied.

	"Who's the one who called me stupid?!!"

	"I said I wasn't calling you stupid before but I am now, you stupid 
Dumpling Head!"

	"DON'T EVER CALL ME THAT YOU... YOU... JERK!!!"

	"Oh great, your loud too."

	"PIG Head!"

	The two of them started to stick their tongues out at each other and 
Gohan just sat there with a perplexed look on his face, wondering 
just what in the name of all that was holy had he gotten himself into.


THE END.... OF THE BEGINNING

Next Episode: The full Inner Four make their first appearance.  Watch 
out Trio!  Blade Bot, Seer, Samaron, and Lujane are after you!
Next time on Trio: The Rise Of The Eclipse Syndicate!  Emergence of 
the Inner Four!