Scorn and Tragedy
Chapter 1
[Welcome to Scorn and Tragedy my second RPM story involving my favorite characters Dillon and Ziggy but rather rare dynmaic at least from what I've seen so please enjoy and as always Power Rangers and all other concepts belong to their rightful owners only the plot is mine]
Scorn, the belief that something is worthless or despicable, this is something that twenty-one year-old Ziggy Grover knows all too well. Whether it was in the Corinth underbelly with the Cartels or here with the Power Rangers Ziggy had been despised and hated for so long that he forgot what it was like to feel loved.
Ziggy was running through his morning routine, most of the other rangers were more afternoon to late night type of people where as Ziggy was an early bird. It also happened to be less likely for his to run into his would-be teammates. Looking at himself in the mirror he saw his own profile staring back at him. The same semi-long curly brown hair, same chocolate-colored eyes, his build was lanky so it wasn't powerful but it was light; making him fast and maneuverable.
Ziggy had been Ranger Green for about three weeks now and both Flynn and Scott were trying to teach him a battle style that contradicted his size and build. Not to mention that Ziggy already had a battle style and if he used it he could kill Flynn and Scott easily.
In fact the blithering idiot routine Ziggy commonly played is nothing but a ruse. You see Ziggy Grover is not originally from Earth at all he is a prince from a world called Solaria it is inhabited by humans but these humans have about three million years of history compared to Earth.
Ziggy's father, Emperor Nolan is a savage, bloodthirsty tyrant with no honor and mercy is a foreign concept. However Ziggy was of kinder temperament and truly cared for the people of Solaria his kind and friendly demeanor was well known to everyone and earned him the respect and adoration of the Solarian people but earned him the animosity of his own father who launched his coup against his own flesh and blood fearing a threat to his power. Although the man feigned ignorance Ziggy knew it was his doing. Ziggy's uncle sent him to Earth until the assassin was apprehended or killed.
Ziggy left his quarters and proceeded across the catwalk, down the stairs and into the kitchen and made himself some instant oatmeal for breakfast before continuing out to his favorite place in Corinth; the garage roof. He would often wait here and think as his anti-morning team woke up.
After about an hour of sitting on the roof Ziggy made his way down to the grass-like Astroturf behind the garage and began to warm up for today's training with Ranger Red otherwise known as Scott Truman. The new Ranger Green had had just about enough of their fearless leader's condescending attitude toward him; if Scott pissed him off he wasn't sure if he'd be able to hold back. Ziggy's people had learned to tap into a psionic energy field that is the cornerstone of their most important technologies. His people had even learned to channel it in battle making their strikes fifty times stronger than muscle force alone.
Two hours later the Red Ranger finally made his appearance. "About time fearless leader, I've been here and ready for two hours already." Scott snorted at that. "Yeah I don't believe that." Scott Truman was a young hot headed man with a darker complexion then most of the team.
He was about two inches taller than Ziggy but about four inches shorter than Dillon. His hair was ebony-black and styled in a short afro-style. He was slender but very athletic. Personality wise Scott Truman was loyal, noble and has an air of natural leadership; now if only he would listen more often he'd be a better leader then his father.
"Believe what you will Ranger Red unlike you all I'm not allergic to the early morning." Ziggy quipped with a teasing smile.
Scott then turned serious, what a surprise.
"Now we're going from the second set today and I don't want to hear any of your crap." Ziggy hated when Scott did this his body just doesn't have all the natural power that Scott's does.
He sighed this was going to be a long session.
Ten minutes later they are sparring with fervor. Dillon the Black Ranger and Summer the Yellow Ranger were watching from the sidelines. Ziggy was sent to the ground for the umpteenth time.
"Come on Ziggy you have to do better than that!"
Scott rushed him before he could even get his bearings and got a direct hit with nasty uppercut.
"Come on this style isn't that hard or are you just that useless?"
Dillon growled when heard Scott say that, bashing the kid wasn't going to make him better.
"Well how about a style I can actually use, this combat style involves a lot of brute force, power oriented moves and techniques; I simply don't have the same muscle mass as you do to put it simply, I'm not you Truman."
Scott sighed. "I don't have time to teach you another style so deal or don't someone like you shouldn't be a ranger in the first place."
That was it Ziggy had had enough.
"I didn't want to be! Protect the morpher with your life were Doctor K's exact words and I did!" Ziggy snarled at Scott. "I risked life for you and you treat me like the scum of the Earth believe me when I say I know what scorn and ridicule are basically the story of my life."
Ziggy was huffing at the end of his tirade.
"You know…let me show you just what I can do!" Ziggy rushed Scott with speed that took the Red Ranger by complete surprise.
Ziggy sent a dizzying series of attacks that ended with mighty reverse spin kick that actually knocked Ranger Red back about four feet.
"Where did this come from?" Summer asked from the sidelines.
Summer Landsdown was pleasant young woman with radiant blonde hair and a pair of compassionate blue eyes, she is heiress to the Landsdown fortune but she doesn't act like your typical rich girl.
"There comes a point where everyone gets tired of being bullied and I think Ziggy has reached that point." Dillon responded also a little impressed with that recent flurry of attacks.
Dillon was a tall brooding young man with dark brown hair and serious brown eyes. He couldn't remember his past and was the first to come in contact with Ziggy and the two had managed to form an unlikely friendship. Dillon was the physical opposite of Ziggy with plenty of raw power to spare.
Scott stood back up wondering the same thing Summer had asked a few minutes ago. Where on Earth did that come from? Ziggy was standing there as if he didn't just pull off a well practiced attack combination.
"Where did you learn that, I thought you were untrained?" Scott asked with a puzzled expression on his face.
Ziggy snorted.
"No Scott you guys simply assumed that, I never actually said I was untrained."
Scott tried to make a rebuttal but couldn't come up with one.
"Man has a point." Stated the musical tones of Flynn McCallister the resident Ranger Blue, Flynn was a cheery twenty-five year-old with a calculated heart of gold. Flynn was about an inch or two shorter than Scott but was brawnier. He short wispy brown hair, pleasant azure eyes and strong sense of justice.
"Why didn't you say something then?" Scott asked trying to understand the reasoning.
Ziggy sighed and let his gaze turn hard.
"That was a test Ranger Red; you are the leader of the team it was my way of testing you to see if you truly understood that role." Ziggy stated with a note of wisdom in his voice.
This caused Scott sputter indignantly. Was the new kid really trying to judge him as a leader?
"Listen punk I've been doing this for a whole year, a scrawny kid who can't even hold his own in battle has no place judging me." Scott growled with a note of warning.
Ziggy contemplated about this, the rangers were a committed team but it appeared that Scott did not like to be challenged however Ziggy understood what it meant to be a leader since he was prince.
A team was built on trust so in order for Ziggy to make any headway he needed to prove he was the right man for the job.
"Did I not just prove that I can hold my own but back to my original point, don't get the wrong impression fearless leader but I do understand what it's like to be a leader and know the difference between being a good leader and being a great leader." Ziggy explained walking over to lean on the railing with Dillon, if something went down he knew he could count on Ranger Black for support.
Scott just stared before laughing this kid was really something else. Ziggy glared it appeared that Scott wasn't taking him seriously.
"That right there is prime example that you have an idea of what leadership is, you laugh because you think there is no way a scrawny, twenty-one-year-old kid could understand what it tells me is that you have a hard time looking past yourself which makes you blind to the person your training." Ziggy explained true he had never trained anyone personally but his sensei tried to understand the student before training them to figure out the best methods.
"First when you started to train me three weeks ago did you ever take a good look at me?" Scott scoffed. "Of course."
Ziggy then tilted his head.
"Did you really? If you did then why Ranger Red did you and Flynn attempt to teach me a style that didn't correspond with my body type?" Ziggy inquired causing Dillon, Flynn and Summer to look at him with amazed gazes because for all intents and purposes he was right.
"He didn't have time to analyze you Operator Series: Green." Doctor K's deep voice said with cold indifference.
Ziggy turned his fiery glare on the screen behind him.
"Do you want me to perform well or not, last I checked there is no way to reverse the morpher bond…or maybe are you hoping that Venjix or Tenaya Seven kill me so you can choose the Series Green operator you want?" Ziggy inquired making Dillon smirk that was really the crux of the issue, Scott looked utterly shocked by that question but it was the first time that Ranger Red took into question his own training methods.
"As I was going to say before an overgrown calculator rudely interrupted me, my body type and build just doesn't have the natural power that yours or Flynn's do so doesn't teaching me a style that involved brute force that I just don't have sound a little pointless?"
Scott's eyes widen and then to their surprise he nodded. It did seem pointless when laid out like that.
"My frame may not be powerful but its light and what does that lightness translate to?"
Scott caught on.
"Speed"
Ziggy nodded before appearing behind Scott faster than he could blink to emphasize his point.
"Correct, speed and agility are my main skills in combat."
It then struck Scott that there may be more to their new ranger then met the eye.
"Ziggy…how do you know all of this?" Scott asked turning around to face Ranger Green.
Ziggy seemed to debate with himself a bit before coming to a decision with firm nod of his head. They all watched as he reached down his shirt and revealed a necklace. It was a simple cord but tied to one end where the pendant would go sat a pair of rings.
"Do you guys know what these are?" He asked patiently.
Summer glanced at them and recognized the style.
"They look like royal seals."
Ziggy gave his trademark smile that lit up a room.
"Exactly, these however are actually well made duplicates the real ones are with my uncle, Hierarch Nolan."
Ziggy then made his way over to the door.
"Let's go inside…I'd feel safer talking about this where no unfriendly ears can hear."
They all nodded with a sudden sense that whatever Ziggy had to tell them was big and serious.
Once inside the rangers proceeded to the dining table where Ziggy sat down and took of his necklace and placed it in front of him. The others joined him and the Doctor K screen flickered to life.
"Now what I am about to tell you may sound crazy but I guarantee that this one hundred percent true."
Ziggy took a deep breath before beginning.
"As I showed you I have a pair counterfeit royal seals, the reason I have them is because…I'm a prince from a world far beyond this system."
Ziggy paused to let his words sink in.
"The statistics of you being extraterrestrial are about 375 million to one."
Ziggy glared at the screen.
"As I was saying, I come from a ringed world called Solaria; my home world is about forty-five percent larger than Earth."
Scott and the others tried to picture it in their heads but couldn't.
"Now don't get the wrong idea, I'm human by all means."
To prove this Ziggy purposely cut his finger with a pocket knife he pulled out but it wasn't a deep cut, just enough to bleed. Sure enough Ziggy bled red.
"I'm just a human from another world."
Summer quickly ran to the bathroom and brought back a band-aid and wrapped it around Ziggy's self-inflicted wound.
"Nolan Grover is my uncle, my father died in combat three months before I was born. Because I was only a baby I obviously couldn't take the throne so my uncle as steward was supposed to stand in for me until I turned sixteen."
Ranger Green paused to take a few breaths.
"So he was supposed to stand in for you until you came of age but what happened to bring you here?" Scott asked still not too sure if he believed this yet.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely…well my uncle had always been a brutal man but the taste of actual power drove him over the deep end."
The Green ranger took another breath before continuing.
"Solaria is part of a much larger civilization known as the Olympian Consulate, sound familiar?" The older rangers aside from Dillon think on it before there is a flash of recognition in across their faces.
"Greek mythology, the gods weren't gods at all were they?" Flynn asked feeling a little scared.
Ziggy nodded solemnly.
"They were my people, the whole reason there is human life on Earth is because we Olympians paved the way."
The entire team just gawked at him like he'd grown another head.
"We Olympians are thousands of times more advanced then the most sophisticated technology on Earth."
Summer realized what that meant it meant should this be believed Ziggy had grown up with technology eons ahead of their ranger tech which was the most advanced on Earth.
"Can you prove it?" Dillon asked this tale sounded too extravagant even for Ziggy.
"I want to god do I want to but I have no credible way…wait I do three of the most mysterious locations on this world are so by our fabled warp technology…I'm talking the Dragon's Triangle and the Bermuda Triangle and Stonehenge of course, I know their true purpose."
Doctor K then screeched indignantly. "My ranger technologies are unmatched except maybe for Venjix himself!"
Ziggy stood up and smirked deviously.
"On Earth maybe, Stonehenge…the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon's Triangle are all connected; when our kind finds a world worth colonizing the first port of call is to set up a warp network on the world to make it easy to get to, this is done by establishing a Warp Conduit usually conduits are set up a series of three; two domestic conduits that create the global warp network and one planetary conduit that links this world to a strategic forward command post." Ziggy railed the process off like someone who had done it for years.
"Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle, the Queen Ann's Revenge went missing too well that would due to the conduits themselves…even when deactivated the conduits produce a large trans-dimensional warp field that if treaded carelessly can warp you to anywhere on Earth or in Earth."
Ziggy waltzed around but before he could continue the alarms went off cuing another Venjix attack.
It took no time at all to deal with this particular Attackbot it was Generation Five so it was to be expected. As Ziggy and Dillon were heading back to garage when Ranger Black asked a question that had been bugging him since Ziggy's explanation of his sudden change in skill.
"Zig, was any of what you said earlier actually true?"
Ziggy looked at Dillon with a friendly smile. "As true as I am scrawny…in fact now that we're alone there was one part well two that I wanted to tell you privately out of respect for you."
Ziggy took a stabilizing breath. "You're an Olympian too…same faction and everything."
Dillon stomped on the breaks nearly giving Ziggy whiplash.
"Y-your joking, you know about my past?" Ranger Black inquired desperation thick in his voice.
"Some of it…like you I am missing some memories too, unlike you however the Templar didn't take my memories they simply sealed them…they're there I just can't access them…for example I know that you are deathly allergic to mayonnaise so steer clear." Ziggy stated with small smirk.
Dillon didn't know whether to strangle Ziggy or hug him while he pulled into the garage before the others as usual.
"Well I know you're looking for some big facts and with this psionic memory block some details are frustratingly hard to get at but there is one thing no memory block could ever take away…" Ziggy trailed off as he exited the Fury and strode around until he was standing in front of Dillon before smiling up at him.
"…and that is the connection we share…big brother."
[Thank you for reading Chapter 1 of Scorn and Tragedy I hope that you liked it, if you did please favorite it so you can recieve notifications when the next chapter is posted. If you really liked leave a review, I love reading your feedback Chapter 2 is already written I'll post it once I see how well this does.]
