For anyone who wants to read Greg's part (and it's well worth it) but don't want to read the previous 45 parts, a quick summary of prior events is:
The heroes are three teenagers from Tokyo: two girls, Tsugiko and Yumi, and one boy, Kyouji. They got sent to a magical land called Mars, told that they are the reincarnations of legendary heroes, given superpowers and costumes, and told that they have to save the planet. The villainous Wintergreen is trying to conquer the world, and the heroes have to find the nine shards of the legendary Starburst Crystal to do it; to find the pieces, they are given a furry little animal guide named Kit Kat. Our heroes get into a love triangle, but after a long looooong time it got resolved (by Greg in an earlier part) with Kyouji getting together with Yumi. However, he's been halfhearted about the relationship, which is depressing her. Incidentally, Kyouji's routinely haunted by the ghost of his own former incarnation, Teru.
In the previous part, Kit Kat vanished, while the heroes were warned of a new dire threat, the embodiment of the anger of Mars itself. Meanwhile, Wintergreen's craziest henchperson, Twizzler, found herself haunted by the ghosts of her victims, but another ghost (SC's just full of 'em of late) gave her a spell to somehow resolve the problem. Oh, and Twizzler is in love with Kyouji.
And that's it. Three hundred thousand plus words boiled down to a couple hundred.
SC in a nutshell
The heroes are three teenagers from Tokyo: two girls, Tsugiko and Yumi, and one boy, Kyouji. They got sent to a magical land called Mars, told that they are the reincarnations of legendary heroes, given superpowers and costumes, and told that they have to save the planet. The villainous Wintergreen is trying to conquer the world, and the heroes have to find the nine shards of the legendary Starburst Crystal to do it; to find the pieces, they are given a furry little animal guide named Kit Kat. Our heroes get into a love triangle, but after a long looooong time it got resolved (by Greg in an earlier part) with Kyouji getting together with Yumi. However, he's been halfhearted about the relationship, which is depressing her. Incidentally, Kyouji's routinely haunted by the ghost of his own former incarnation, Teru.
In the previous part, Kit Kat vanished, while the heroes were warned of a new dire threat, the embodiment of the anger of Mars itself. Meanwhile, Wintergreen's craziest henchperson, Twizzler, found herself haunted by the ghosts of her victims, but another ghost (SC's just full of 'em of late) gave her a spell to somehow resolve the problem. Oh, and Twizzler is in love with Kyouji.
And that's it. Three hundred thousand plus words boiled down to a couple hundred.
Now go read Greg's part.
Nicolas