Disclaimer: I do not own Captain Planet and the Planeteers

It took me two weeks to write this chapter because I wanted it to be exciting even though this first chapter feels like a climatic battle instead of a beginning. All things said about Captain Planet if it wasn't what it was to other people I wouldn't have written a fanfiction for it so please enjoy it.

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Anyone can be a hero that can stop the greenhouse gases, extinction of animals but too much malnutrition in animals like the polar bears have defected their heights, and stop companies building smog producing machines. Anyone would have to soon because Kwame, Linka, Ma-Ti, Wheeler, and Gi knew this day they all fall.

A man with a white cape wearing clad black armor was fighting them on a large rock terrain. Captain Planet wasn't showing up to help them.

" Captain Planet!" The five called in unison raising their fists in the air, but nothing happened.

Their rings were working fine, but Gaia's spirit wasn't giving them more help from Captain Planet.

" Darkness Mars..." Two words and yet they made the Planeteers hearts feel like a wolf crunched down on them. " Rock Bed."

All five felt like they were trapped in a bed with a painful rockslide raining down their spines. No words could be used to describe the pain felt. Pain like it was like rays of sun coming out of the clouds you don't see often. Captain Planet couldn't save them but Gaia used a little of her powers to free them from the agony and darkness brought.

A five at once simultaneous attack was in order, but before they could activate their rings the shadow man's eyes blurred their eyes with hypnotizing flashing yellow eyes.

" Give me a one at a time battle."

Four of them skyward with energy coating them. The four were Wheeler, Linka, Ma-Ti, and Kwame. Without any time to make sense of his powers Gi pointed her ring at him.

" Water!"

A geyser shot out in front of her before the water bent and fired towards the man.

" Mars Lance!"

A shadow hilt giant javelin with a gold conical metal in front of it was held by the man. It helped him pierce through the water. He was aching closer to Gi one step at a time.

' Captain Planet wouldn't give up against an enemy and neither will I,' Gi thought. Her ring was glowing bright from her willpower and she would use it against the man. " Water!"

She bombarded her enemy with balls of water that could give a person a concussion from its weight. Effortlessly, he held his javelin with one hand while destroying her water dumbbells with a black rock he tossed skyward and controlled with one finger to destroy the water.

The ball was still when he made it to her and created a mist around his now free hand. Just by touching Gi she was gone. Her body turned black and then she crumbled away."

" Gi!" Linka yelled seeing her friend being disintegrated before her eyes.

Something told Kwame, Linka, Wheeler, and Ma-Ti their friend wasn't killed. Believing it or not would be tricky. Now Wheeler was on the ground facing the warrior who was one hundred feet from him. Wheeler raised his ring and shouted " Fire!"

A wall of fire scorched across the field burning the man of Mars. Wheeler didn't stop using his ring as fireballs shot out and burned the breastplate of his black armor. Wheeler couldn't make any quips about how slow the knight was, all that was filled in his head was fury from him taking Gi away.

" I loved her."

Wheeler unleashed so much fire from his ring it made him bake like he was trapped in something black and inescapable. Speaking of black the knight put his hand on Wheeler's neck from being faster then Wheeler expected.

" Fire cannot save you. Your ring is a failure."

Wheeler was disintegrating until not even a speck of dust was left. The last words howled in a loud but frightened way were: " I know he's got a weakness! Beat him for Gi and me!"

Wheeler's closest friend Ma-Ti hit the barrier keeping him trapped in rage. He wasn't next, it was Linka and Kwame. Alone they both defeated villains, but their rings together worked better than any pair alone.

" Wind!" Linka shouted using her rings power.

" Earth!" Kwame shouted using his rings power.

With giant roots Kwame's ring launched out of the ground a tornado of wind created by Linka's ring they mixed their powers together to make a bulldozer of a tornado that surrounded the man in black armor and thrashed big rocks into him.

After what he did to Gi and Wheeler there was no way their moves were hurting him.

" Earth!" Kwame shouted.

After he used energy from his ring a big rock rose from the rocky ground.

" Wind!" Linka shouted.

Her ring raised the rock off the ground with a tornado small and moving in a spiral.

" When you see him drop that rock on him, Linka," said Kwame.

" We will avenge Gi and Wheeler's deaths," said Linka.

" But who will avenge you two when you lose?"

The black knight appeared off the ground as he held the rock in one hand and used the other to push against Linka's tornado until it dissipated.

" Geologists are fine scientists Earth has, if only they could send their rocks to me. On the other hand I think you'll be needing this back."

He tossed the rock at Kwame. The rock exploded thanks to Linka's ring. Like a cat sneaking close to someone's leg though she was slashed from the chest by the knight's claws. Her body turned black as sought before all of her blew away.

Three friends were gone. Ma-Ti and Kwame also felt what their friends did, but that feeling was in their heart area. From above the barrier holding Ma-Ti descended until Ma-Ti was on the ground. The knight raised his hand and sent Kwame back up sky high in a barrier he didn't have the strength to break out of.

" Earth was no good against me either. All that's left is heart. What a pathetic battle this will be."

Ma-Ti would use all of his rings power even if he had to sacrifice himself and Gaia could see that's what would happen if Ma-Ti used his ring to hurt someone.

Ma-Ti's ring created a line of hearts circling around the whole mountain.