Part 1
Jayna looked out of the window of her room into the courtyard below. This was the night that she had dreamed of for many years now, but in the last few days she had become more nervous than she had been at any other time in her life. When Aron arrived they would run off to be married and there was nothing that anyone could do about it not even her mother 'queen or not'. Sure her mother would be mad at first but eventually she would have to except it, after all it was Jaynas choice and not her mothers.
"Jayna are you sure about this?" asked the young princesses handmaiden. "I mean you could get in a lot of trouble if you guys get caught before you get to the Raynoc Province. I've known you since we were very small children and you've always taken the time to think things through but this time you seem to just be rushing in head first."
"Laran, I know that your just looking out for me as you always have. You're my best friend and I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I have to go through with this. Aron and I love each other and just because my mother can't get over something that he's not even responsible for is no reason for me to not be with the man that I want to spend the rest of my life with. Besides Aron wasn't even around when it happened and he can't help what his father did."
"Well anyway where is he?" Laran wondered aloud. "He should have been here by now."
"I'm starting to get worried" Jayna said. "What if he got caught?" She said moving away from the window and heading towards her wardrobe.
"He'll be here Jayna. Arons been sneaking into the palace to see you for as long as I can remember and he hasn't been caught yet, so what makes you think that he'll get caught on the most important day of your lives. Now stop worrying and help me get these bags packed or you won't be ready when he gets here and then you'll really have to worry about getting caught."
"I'm not worried about him getting caught, but what if he changed his mind?" Jayna questioned with a worried tone that her friend was not used to hearing from the ever confident princess."
"You shouldn't think that way. You know that Aron loves you and would go to the end of the universe to be with you. I'm sure there's a good reason that he's not here yet. Now help me get this stuff packed."
"You're right I need to stop worrying, I'm sure everything will be alright."
"So this was what Keldeha looks like after all these years." said Emperor Nicandros to himself as he he stood on the bridge of his Starship. Seeing this world again after so many centuries brought back many memories to the Emperor. Memories that haunted his years trapped in the dimensional void, memories of the world that would prove to be Zordon of Eltars last stand, memories of the spell that locked him in that cursed piece of null space for over an eon. But now he was back, at first he didn't understand it, but after learning of Zordons death at the hands of one of his own Rangers he knew that the seed of evil that he had planted in the minds of Zordons friends Zedd and Rita had finally paid off. The terms of the spell had been met by that act and now Nicandros was free to take over where he left off and after 20 years out of the void he was right back where he started, only this time there was no Zordon to stand in the way of his supreme rule of the Galaxy. He had quickly taken over Aquitar, Triforia, Mirinoi , Edenio, Phaedos and even Zordons beloved homeworld of Eltar. Then in a final insult to the Eltarian wizards legacy he took over Earth. The battle had been long and hard fought by Zordons children, the accursed Power Rangers but in the end they too fell before his might just as he knew that they were destined to. Now only Keldeha remained untaken and it to would soon be his. Nicandros laughed silently. It was ironic to him somehow that oce again this was the last world that he had to conquer but this time the results would be different. History would not repeat itself.
"Operations report. How are the assault teams progressing?" Nicandros barked at his operations officer as he rose from his command seat.
The short man stood up and turned around to face the man who was now the most powerful being in the universe. "All is going as planned royalty. Teams 1 and 2 have passed through the forest outside of the palace unnoticed and are in the perfect position to strike. Teams 3 and 4 are also ready and simply awaiting orders to begin their attacks of the two neighboring villages." Vaard answered. "Only team 5 remains unprepared."
"Excellent, as soon as the last team is ready order the attack to begin. Our time has come and we will at last have our vengeance." Laughed the Emperor. "With this final step my domination of the quadrant will be absolute."
'Jayna's going to absolutely kill me if I don't hurry up.' Thought Aron as he made his way through the trees that blocked his path to the palace. 'Still Queen Xanya will do much worse to me if her guards catch me sneaking into the palace. I could end up getting executed on site. Oh well, it's worth the risk.' The you man smiled as he thought about the princess that waited for him at the other end of the forest.
Jayna and Aron he met when they were children and had been close friends growing up. That was until Jaynas father had been assasinated while on a tour of the planet with Arons father, who was captain of the Royal army stood as his personal body guard. The queen was so enraged that she ordered his death. But after thinking about this she decided to expel the family from the palace to never again be in her presence. But for his many years of service the queen gave the familly a large piece of property and sent them on their way with at least a shred of honor.
Aron couldn't stand to be away from his best friend and that night snuck into the palace to see her. This would begin many late nights of him sneaking in to see her. Several time he was caught and sent away. Once the queen was so upset that she had him placed in the prison for two weeks and only let him go after a lot of crying from Jayna.
That night Aron once again snuck into the palace to see her. This time to tell her that he was in love with her. At first Jayna didn't know what to think and with drew from her friend to wanting to face his new feelings. Even going as far as to tell him to never come back. The young man was persistant and eventually Jayna admitted her love for him and the two announced her love for him also.
The princess told her mother about her feelings and asked for permission to marry. The queen became enraged ordered that the young man be captured. Jayna warned her love and tried to get him to hide but Aron refused to run away and confronted the angry monarch. The queen ordered that Aron be placed in the dungeon until the princess had been married to the husband that the royal family had choosen. Jayna begged this didn't happen and agreed never to see Aron again and even to marry whoever her mother wanted so long as Aron would be allowed to go free.
Aron told them that he would rather die than have Jayna marry a person that she didn't love just so he could be free but Jaynas mind had been made up and she sent Aron away from the palace once again. Aron would still not accept this and returned night after night only to find that Jayna had taken precautions to keep him away. Everytime he returned he would find that each one of his secret entrances had been sealed. He was determined that Jayna not marry who ever it was that the queen had selected. After weeks of trying he finally found an entrance and made his way to her bedchambers. There he found her crying over a scarf that he had given her.
Seeing him she dropped the scarf and ran to his arms. Aron lifted the princess and held her for a moment before looking into her eyes and asking her to marry him. She agreed and the planned to run away together. Aron came to see her each night and they planned for their elopement and several times had barely managed to avoid being caught.
Now the night that they had been waiting for had finally come and by tomorrow they would be husband and wife. Of course they wouldn't be able to celebrate with their friends and would be on the run for years, but this is something that they had discussed and were ready to live with. Eventually the queen would come to accept it and they would be able to return to their loved ones.
Aron stood in a clearing and looked up at the towering palace that was still several miles away. He thought to himself before once again beginning his journey to get his princess.
"Emperor, the attack units are ready to begin the assualt." Vaard informed the emperor. "They are ready to begin on your order."
"Consider the order given my loyal assistant. Order my forces to begin the attack. But tell them to be careful. I want the ruler of this world captured and not a hair is to be harmed. As for the rest of this world lowly citizens tell them to destroy half the population. The other half will make excellent slave labor and after they've seen what we've done to the others they will be hesitant to put up any resistance."
Vaard nodded and turned his attention back to his station. He slowly reached over and touched the button that activated the communications array. "All forces, you are now ordered to begin the invasion of this little mudball."
Everyone on the bridge of the Starship turned to their emperor. Nicandros stood up and stared at the viewscreen for a moment. A broad smile came across his face "Now our domination of this pathetic universe will truly be complete."
Larans head sprang up "That sounded like weapons fire!" she exclaimed "We had better find out what's going on, this could be serious."
"Laran you can't be serious, no one would dare to attack the palace. It's probably just a training drill." the a thought hit the princess. "What if they spotted Aron?" she began to shake nervously.
"I'm sure Arons okay. He probably heard the weapons fire and decided to sneak in another way." Laran put a hand on the princesses shoulder. "Jayna I'm sure that everything will be okay, Aron will be here soon."
"Thanks Laran." Jayna said as she took a deep breathe and calmed down slightly. Laran had always been able to calm Jayna down. They were more than just a princess and her hand-maiden. They had become close friends, almost sisters and ever since they were children Jayna could always be soothed just by hearing Laran tell her that everything would be okay. This time was different however. She was beginning to fell that something was about to go horribly wrong. "On second thought I think that we'd better go and check out those sounds." she said grabbing Larans arm and running towards the door.
Aron emerged out of the forest in the spot that he normally came out of, but instead of finding the small village that he was used to seeing he found himself staring at the largest fire that he had ever seen. There were people running in all directions. They all seemed hysterical and were all obviously frightened. An older man ran past and bumped him in his haste.
Aron reached out and grabbed the man by the arm. "What's going on here?" he asked the frightened man.
The old man trembling in fear pointed in the opposite direction from where he was running. Arons eyes went wide as he realized that the man was pointing towards the palace. The man tried to pull his arm free but Aron was stronger and held him in place.
"What's happenening?" Aron asked on the brink of frustration. He pulled the scared man closer "talk to me, I can help" he tried to assure the elder.
"The monsters are here. They'll destroy us, you can't help boy. Not even the planets finest warriors can help us."
"What do you mean monsters? Don't worry I'm sure that the royal army will be able to handle what ever it is."
"You don't understand boy, the queens guards are going to be slaughtered and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Keldeha is doomed."
Aron looked at the man and saw how truly afraid he was "Go a head and get out of here hide witht the others. I passed a cave back in the forest. It's fairly large so take as many people as you can and go there. I'm going to the palace and will try to join you as soon as I can."
"This large cave where exactly is it?" The old man asked.
Aron thought about the time he and Jayna had snuck out here when they were kids and Laran had followed them out trying to bring them back. They found a large cave and hid inside for nine hours before they finally got hungry and returned to the palace. Laran was furious when she came running in soaked and exhausted only to find Jayna in her room sound asleep. She ran to Arons room to find him laying in his bed also fast asleep. The next day she vowed that she would make the two of them pay. Laran had never carried through on her threat and had in fact even helped the two on several occasions when they would have been caught sneaking around. "It's there, you can't miss it." Aron told him running off towards the palace.
Jayna burst into the throne room with Laran following closely behind. The queen was facing the tactical display that was usually embedded in the wall behind a large tapestry. In fact Jayna has only seen it once before in her entire 17 years.
The princess walked over to her mother placing a hand on her shoulder "Mother.." Jayna said once she had the queens attention. "Laran and I thought that we heard weapons fire."
The Queens head snapped up as looked at her daughter and motioned for her to come over. "Jayna I need you to go back to your quarters and prepare to leave."
"What's going on mother?" Jayna asked excitedly.
"We're under attack." The queen shouted. "I want you to leave. Now go to your quarters and gather a few things. Laran you go with her. We have very little time. Meet me in the main hall in 15 minutues."
"But mother I don't want to leave you. I'll fight too." Jayna told her.
"Laran take my daughter out of here." The queen ordered.
"Come on Jayna." the handmaiden said as she grabbed Jaynas arm.
The princess held her ground "I'm not going anywhere until I know what's going on." She told her friend.
Queen Xanya stepped forward and placed her hand on the princessess shoulder. "It's okay Jayna. Everything will be okay, but you need to get ready to leave. I have a mission for you."
"What type of mission mother?" she asked pulling her arm out of Larans grasp.
"You're going to bring back help."
Jayna frowned slightly, she know that if they were under attack all of the soldiers on Keldeha would be there soon. "Where am I going mother?"
"Jayna you must trust me. Meet me at in the main hall and I'll explain everything."
Jayna nodded and turned to head out of the throne room. "I'll meet you there as soon as I'm ready." She gave a quick nod to Laran and the two left, headed bak to Jaynas room.
"Emperor the assualt team assigned to take the palace has arrived and now await instructions." Vaard informed Nicandros.
"Tell them to hold their position. Also tell the other teams to continue the attacks. I will personally go down and lead the assualt on the palace."
"As you command my lord." Vaard said.
"Now have my armor and personal shuttle prepared. I'm on my way to the shuttlebay."
Vaard smiled slightly as he watched Emperor Nicandros leave the bridge. He had been so full of hatred for all these years that he could hardly wait for the Emperor to finally conquer Keldeha. Vaard took his place in the command seat of the bridge and pulled up a tactical display. 'Finally they will for what they have done. I should have ruled Keldeha from the beginning. King Delvin may no longer rule but his decendents will pay for baninshing me from my home world.' Vaard reached down and touched the control panel. "Shuttlebay this is Vaard, prepare the Emperors personal battle armor and shuttle for departure he will be leading the assualt on Keldehas palace personally." A wicked gleam came over Vaards face as he changed the monitors view to watch his leader walk down the cooridor to the shuttlebay.
Arons eyes went wide as he saw the amount of soldiers that were gathering at palace. There were thousands of them and all were wearing armor that he didn't recognize.
Aron stared at the fearsome armor for a few moments before deciding on what he should do. He knew that he had to get inside of the palace to check on Jayna and get her out but there didn't seem to be anyway past them. The young man decided to take a moment to look over the armor. It was a deep blood red, with guards that went down just past the elbow and the left arm and all the way to the wrist on the right arm. The gloves on each hand seemed to be a thick leather and had the fingers cut out. A spike rested on each knuckle. What really caught Arons attention though were the helmets that the soldiers wore. The dark red helmets all had featureless faces with sole black visors so the soldiers could see.
A shiver went up Arons spine as he came to the realization that he would have to get past these warriors to get Jayna out of there. Then the spark of an idea came to him along with a smile.
Jayna and Laran stood outside of the main hallway waiting for the queen. The princess looked over at her long time friend "What do you think that my mother has planned?" she asked.
"I don't know but Keldeha is in trouble." Laran answered nervously. "While you were getting your things I listened in on the tactical meeting and those guys that are attacking are from another world. They've already taken the outside villages and are making their way here."
Jayna let out a gasp "Another world!" she exclaimed. "How are we going to fight something like that?"
"We don't fight something like that." Queen Xanya said as she approached her daughter. "We have friends that will help us. All we have to do is call for them."
"What friends your majesty?" Laran asked.
"And how do we call them?" Jayna followed.
"Follow me." Xanya motioned towards the two girls.
They quietly followed her back to the throne room. Once there she sat on the throne and pulled up on the arm. A control panel opened and after pressing several buttons the large carpet in the center of the room began to raise, revealing a staircase hidden beneah it.
Xanya stepped down from her throne and walked toward the staircase "Let's go." she said as she began descending the steps.
Jayna and Laran stared for another moment before they followed the queen into the dark cooridor. Laran nudged Jaynas arm. Jayna looked over at her friend and managed a weak smile. "Did you know this was here?" Laran asked.
"I had no idea." Jayna told her as they reached the bottom.
The three finally came to the bottom of the stairwell and
"My god mother, what is that thing?" exclaimed Jayna as she stared inawe at the amazing site before her. As the crowned princess of Keldeha she had seen many things but never anything like what now stood before her in whatappeared to be room in the palace that she had never been in.
"In ancient times our people as attacked by a raiders from another world. We couldn't tried to fight them but didn't have the strength."
"I didn't know that." Jayna said.
"Only a few people do. You would have been told when you became Queen but we don't have time to wait for that. The enemy was more powerful than anything our people had ever seen and we needed help. Out of nowhere a starship appeared and a wizard followed by six warriors. The warriors all wore different colored armor. Their battle ended in a spell being cast that locked away the evil attackers. The wizard left our world shortly after but told the king that if evil should ever again threaten us from the stars that we should use this device to summon help. He also left these." The queen then reached up and pulled down a clear crystal container, inside were two gold colored coins. She opened the container and pulled out the coins, and handed one to Jayna, sticking the other in her pocket. Both sides of the coin were blank and it was surprisingly heavy.
"What it this mother?" Jayna asked.
"I don't know for sure but believe them to be some form of identification so the wizard will know that we are his friends."
"Well how am I supposed to go to him. We have no spaceships."
"He did leave us a way to go to him." Queen Xanya stepped back an a large cylinder rose from the center. "We believe this is a teleportation device. Even though we've never used it the device should send you to this wizard for help."
"Well I guess I'm ready to go. I hope this works." Said Jayan as she moved towards the cylinder. A door opened and her eyes went wide. Taking a deep breathe she stepped through the door and it closed behind her.
Queen Xanya moved towards the control panel on the other side of the cylinder as Laran looked through the door at her friend. She heard several beeps and then in a flash of light Jayna was gone. "I hope she'll be okay." Laran told the queen.
"I'm sure she will. Either way at least she'll be safer than us,"
"Beep, Beep," sounded the door chime.
"Enter" called out Emperor.
One of the royal guards stepped into the room with a grin on his blue face. The kind of grin that showed of his full set of razor sharp teeth and also let the emperor know that he had good news to report. "Permission to speak your Excellency" the guard said with an enthusiastic tone.
"Report." came Nicandros simple reply.
"Our forces have defeated the defenders and await our arrival on the planets surface before they enter the palace just as you requested."
"First of all let us make one think clear my minion, I do not request I command. I thought that you would be aware of that after being with me for so many years. But I will forget about your slip of the tongue. This is good news we will finally achieve our dream of galactic rule. Now take the shuttle down I will be on the bridge as soon as I don my battle armor."
"As you command Lord." The guard said as he began to back out of the room.
The soldier leaped at Aron, who quickly sidestepped the attack and brought his leg up into the soldiers chest. He was glad hat he had taken out the soldiers ability to speak as his first attack he would have had dozens of the soldiers after on him at once. Seeing how tough this one was he knew that if more attacked he would be in serious trouble.
The soldier went down with a thud rolled into a tree. Aron was quick to capitolize on this and grabbed the soldier in a necklock. The soldier tried to pull away but Arons grip was to strong, he held the invader tightly.
"What are you doing here?" the Keldehan asked.
"The forces of the Vandairre are meant to rule the universe now release me." the soldier said as he struggled in Arons grasp.
"Well you better start somewhere else. Keldeha isn't going to go down that easily."
"Pathetic human we've already conquered the rest of the universe. You tiny little world is the last."
"That may be so but Keldeha won't go down that easily. We'll fight you down to our last breathe."
"Our Lord, the Emperor Nicandros will soon be arrive on your planet and will lead us to battle through the gates of your capitol." the soldier said.
"What are you talking about?" Aron growled.
"Look in your miscolored sky and see what descends upon your pitiful little planet." The soldier returned as he pointed up at the large shuttle that was moving rapidly toward the palace.
"What is that thing?" Aron screamed out as he stared at the object that was coming in towards he palace.
"That is the end of your pathetic civilization." The soldier said.
"Oh shut up!" Aron shouted. He punched the soldier in the face, knocking him out. Aron looked over the soldier and came to a decision. "I guess these'll fit." he said
Emperor Nicandros entered the bridge of the shuttle and looked around. He was excited about what today meant for him and his people for it was the day that the fulfilled the dream that had been denied them for so long. He stood for a moment and than began to walk to his command chair. Looking into the view screen he could see that they were almost on top of the palace structure and that made him even more anxious "bring us in for a landing in the courtyard this will be over quickly." he said.
The pilot nodded and steered the shuttle towards the courtyard. After manipulating a few of the controls he landed in a small clearing just inside the gate. The emperor stood from the command chair and walked through to the door at the back of the bridge. He made his way to the troop hanger. There were about four hundred troops lined upo all carrying standard Vandairre swords and energy rifles.
He walked to the center of the troops and looked them over. "My loyal minions today will hence forth be known as the greatest day in our history. Today we truly begin our total domination of the universe. This tiny world of Keldeha has been the only thing that has kept us from our destiny. For thousands of years we were forced to suffer in that cursed dimensional prison. When we were freed we all wanted to attack and take this planet first but I decided to wait until the time was right. We swarmed over the universe and took our rightful place as our rulers. Now has come the time to finish our conquest. Keldeha shall finally fall to us. Now go and claim what is rightfully ours." Nicandros then turned to the officer standing by the bay door and gave a nod telling him to open the door. He then put on his helmet and watched as his warriors swarmed out of the shuttle to attack the Keldehan defenders that stood out side. Almost as soon as the first soldier came out the were met by fire.
Nicandros then turned to the officer standing by the bay door and gave a nod telling him to open the door. He then put on his helmet and watched as his warriors swarmed out of the shuttle to attack the Keldehan defenders that stood out side. Almost as soon as the first soldier came out the were met by fire. The Vandairre warriors didn't flinch a bit and raised their rifles. Three forths fired at at the soldiers while the rest made their way back to the gates. Nicandros simply walked through the weapons fire towards the palace.
One of the Keldehan defenders ran at the emperor and tried to tackle him. Nicandros reached out and grabbed unfortunate soldier by the neck and lifted him off his feet. He peered into the eyes of the frightened man and smiled. The soldier shook with fear. "You are correct to be afraid as should the rest of your pathetic world." He then tossed the man aside with such force that there was a loud resounding crack. The mans eye rolled to the back of his head and his head slumped down.
The gates opened and the soldiers that stood on the outside of the gate swarmed in. The defenders stood their ground only to be overrun. One of the soldiers stopped to look at the damage. The soldier rolled one of the fallen Keldehan defenders out of the battle and placed a weapon tightly in his hand. "Here use this only if you have to." he whispered in the mans ear.
The Keldehan looked at him in surprise "Why are you doing this?" he asked.
The soldier pulled down his face plate to reveal a slight lope-sided grin. "I'm here to help."
The Keldehan defender looked at the invader. "You're Keldehan!" he said in shock.
"That's right and I have to get to the queen and princess before those monsters find them. Do you know where they are?"
The Keldehan looked suspiciously at the young man in front of him and hessitated for a moment but something in the youngsters eyes told him that he could trust the youth. "I don't know for sure where they are but I don know that the are still inside of the palace."
"Thank you." The young man said as hs stood up and turned to walked towards the palace.
"Wait, who are you?" the Keldehan soldier asked.
The young man looked back. "My names Aron" he said as he replaced his face mask and ran towards the palace.
Emperor Nicandros walked to the palace doors and held out his hand. The huge double door flew open to reveal several Keldehan warriors taking aim with their weapons. Nicandros pulled his long cloak closer to his body and stepped forward. One of the defenders squeezed his trigger and then watched in horror as the blast skimmed harmlessly off of the Emperor. Nicandros stepped forward to the quivering man a grabbed him by the neck "You little fool. Your pathetic weapons won't effect me. Your sorry little world is now the property of the Vandairre empire. Now tell me where I can find your former ruler."
The soldier turned his eyes away unable to speak. Nicandros pulled him closer and the soldier responded by spitting in his face. Nicandros grip on the mans neck tightened until there was a snap. The defenders body then hung lifeless in the emperors hand. Nicandros tossed the limp form into the group of gathered soldiers. They all opened fire each hitting the emperor. Nicandros continued to walk through the soldiers as though they were not there. His own soldiers poured into the room and opened fire and leaving a room filled with scorched Keldehan bodies.
Nicandros walked through the palace not encountering no more resistance and finally came to the throne room. "So this is what they think of as a throne room." he scoffed as he looked around the large well decorated chamber. "This will do for now but will have to brought up to my standards. Now go find the King or Queen of this mudball and bring them to me."
Several of the soldiers ran from the room and split up, heading in different directions down the main cooridor. Only three soldiers remained in the throne room along with the emperor. One of them looked around as though this place seemed familiar but no one seemed to catch the reaction.
Nicandros walked over and placed an hand on the soldiers arm. "Examine this room I have a feeling about it." he told the man.
The soldier nodded and went began to search the room. Nicandros watched as the soldier checked every corner of the room before finally coming to the throne. He caught a glimpse of the emperor looking at him out of the corner of his eye and then continued to examine the throne.
"Do you see something interesting over there?" Nicandros asked him.
The soldier stepped away from the throne as the emperor approached it. He slowly began to walk backwards towards the door as he watched the emperor take a place on the throne.
"What is this?" Nicandros asked aloud as he examined the armrests on the throne.He then looked over to the soldier. "Come here" he instructed.
The soldier slowly started to move back towards the emperor. As he reached he reached the throne he noticed that the emperor was fumbling with something on the arm rest. Nicandros waved the soldier over and pointed to a set of buttons on the rest. "I want you to check these out my loyal warrior." he told the soldier.
The soldier hesitantly pressed a two of the buttons and stepped back. A large section of the floor behind him opened revealing a stairway.
"Good job warrior." said Nicandros "I believe we have just located our rather shy ex-monarch".
Nicandros along with his three warriors walked down into the stairwell that appeared. The area was well lite but the air was stale as though this hidden area hadn't been entered for a long time. Still Nicandros was confident that this is the place that he was looking for and that the person he sought out was in here.
The three reached the bottom of the stairwell and came to a door. With one push the emperor knocked the door off of its foundation. He stepped into the small chamber quickly and found two females standing before a large cylindical object. "Where is the ruler of this world? I will not ask again."
One of the females older but shorther than the other stepped forward. "I am Queen Xanya, ruler of all of Keldeha. Who are you"?
"That would be former ruler. I am Emperor Nicandros and your little mud filled world now belongs to the Vandairre." Nicandros said, as he stepped to the Queen.
Xanya didn't back off one bit. Instead she raised a pistol and took aim at the alien ruler. "You will leave my world now and never return or I will kill you."
Nicandros glared at her for a moment and then in one swift moovement reached forward and pulled the weapon out of her hand. "Pathetic" he said. The then aimed the weapon at himself and pulled the trigger. The blast bounced off of his chest harmlessly"
Queen Xanya stood in shock for a second and then turned to run. The soldiers standing in front of the door grabbed her and the girl that was with her. One of them looked the queen over then grabbed the other girls arm. "Come with me" he said harshly, pulling at the girls arm. He moved his head to look into her eyes and winked slightly then. The girl nodded and then followed silently. Queen Xanya walked behind them quietly.
Jayna looked around at the bright colored lights the swirled around her. She wondered how things were going back home and if she would even make it in time to help. For that matter she wondered if there would be any help for her on the world that she was traveling to. Sure everything had been right so far but the idea of getting help from an alien world seemed a little far-fetched, but then again just two hours ago the idea of aliens attacking her home world seemed far-fetched.
The princess closed her eyes for a moment and thought about what was happening. "Some wedding day" she said. "oh well maybe these aliens will help us get this over with quickly so I can get back to Aron." She opened her eyes to see that she was flying to a blue world that had white clouds swirling around it. It was totally different than the almost cloudless skies of Keldeha "so this is Earth. Well it's beautiful." The princess looked on as she descended."
The soldier led the Queen and her companion up the stairwell and through the door of the throne room and into the cooridor. The other two soldiers followed but the Emperor turned and sat on his new throne.
The three soldiers silenty walked there soldiers down the hallway before rounding a corner. The soldier in the lead quickly pulled the girls whose arm he was holding to his other side and came up with a swift kick to the head of one of the other soldiers. That soldier fell to the ground with a thud. The third soldier ran at the attacker but was off balance and was caught by a roundhouse kick in the chest.
The remaining soldier turned to the queen and looked at her for a moment. She shuddered. He moved closer to her and reached for his weapon. Xanya stepped back and fixed her eyes on the invader. If this was going her last day she wanted to face it having her killer know that the people of Keldeha were not afraid of them.
The soldier turned the weapon around in his hand and held it out for the queen to grab. She hesitantly reached for the weapon and was shocked when the soldier offered no resistance but instead just let go of it.
He then reached up and grabbed the sides of his helmet pulling at the latches on the back of it. The helmet slid off and the queen stood in amazement as she saw Aron standing in front of her.
"Your majesty" called out Aron as he bowed in front of the Queen.
"What are you doing here?" questioned Queen Xanya "You know that you have been banished from the palace, besides we are under attack and the palace is no longer safe."
"I show a ship coming down towards the castle so I came as fast as I could." Aron answered knowing that if he told her the real reason that hewas there the Queen would personally have his head where he stood. "Your majesty where is Jayna? I have to know."
"I sent her for help." Xanya answered as she turned her back towardsthe young man. Suddenly there was a loud crash behind them.
"They're coming your highness" said the girl that was with them "We have to go before they find us."
"Laran's right your Majesty they're on the way, we have to find somewhere safe to hide" said Aron has he grabbed the Queen arm and pulled her back in the direction that they had come from.
"Follow me I know where we can take refuge" Xanya said as she pulled her arm from Arons grasp and started to head back to the throne room.
"We can't go back there" Aron argued. "That mad man is still sitting there.
"True but so is our means of getting help."
"What do you mean?" Aron questioned.
"Trust us. If we can get back to that chamber we were in then we can get out of here."
"Is that how you sent Jayna for help?" he asked.
"Just come on." Laran told him.
Aron shrugged his shoulders and followed as they ran back to the throne room.
"Vaard it is safe to land the ship we have met with almost no resistance and the palace is ours." Nicandros said into his comm-link.
"Emperor the scanners showed something leaving the atmosphere at little while ago"
"What was it Vaard?" Nicandros questioned.
"It scanned as a teleportion beam." Vaard answered. "And sire the signal was headed towards the Earth."
Nicandros scowled. "I want you to send a transport jammer into that signal and disrupt it." the emperor ordered.
"Yes my lord." Vaard said as he ended the transmission.
Nicandros stood up from his new throne and headed towards the door. "I wonder what they hope to accomplish by sending someone to Earth. Oh well they'll find no help there."
The three Keldehans watched as Emperor Nicandros left the throne room and headed down the corridor going in the opposite direction.
"Good he's gone, let's move." Xanya, Aron and Laran all ran the short distance to door and entered. Xanya quickly moved to the throne and activated the secret door. They then scrambeld into the stairwell and Xanya hit the button to lower the floor. Little did they know Nicandros had reentered the room and saw the floor lowering.
"With the help of the device in that room I sent Jayna to a distant world called Earth. She's going to bring help for us."
"How is that possible?" Aron asked.
"Simple fool it's called teleportation." said Nicandros as he walked into the chamber.
The three Keldehans cringed as the turned around to see Nicandros standing behind them. Xanya stepped forward and looked at him "You're going to be in serious trouble when in just a little while"
"Oh yes tell me about it" Nicandros retorted as he learned over and put his ear next to the Queen. "Oh I hope that your not talking about that little teleportation signal that you sent to Earth becuase if you are and this Jayna person is important to you then you're going to be very upset."
"What have you done monster!?" Laran yelled.
"Oh you mean the fact that I've already taken over the Earth or that I just ordered my men to sent out a jamming siganl to destroy whatever was teleporting there." he laughed.
Everyones eyes went wide and Xanya started to cry.
"You bastard" Aron shouted as he dove towards the invader. Nicandros simply lifted his hand and slapped the young man away. Aron slid across the floor and hit the wall with a thud.
Nicandros walked towards him and leaned down to lift him up. Aron quickly brought his leg across the back of Nicandros knee taking him off balance. Xanya tossed the weapon that she was holding to Laran who quickly pointed it at the emperors head.
"Aron I need you to go to follow my daughter." Aron nodded as he walked to the chamber. Xanya then walked to the controls and acitvated the chamber. Then reaching into her pocket she pulled out a blank coin similar to the one that she had given to Jayna earlier. "Take this with you." she said handing it to Aron. You will be looking for a mighty wizard. "When you find him you are to give this to him."
Aron stood still for a moment then looked at the queen. "Your majesty, you go?" Aron said. it wasn't the fact that he was scared, quite the contrary he was actually excited about the idea of going to a new world but he had others to think about."
"Look Aron you are the fighter of the group so if Jaynas in trouble you are the best one to be there to help her. Besides the device has only enough power for one more teleport. And I want to make sure that Keldeha gets the help that it needs." Queen said. "Now go quickly you must help my daughter."
Aron nodded and stepped into the chamber. Then in a blinding red flash of light he was gone.
"Do you think that he has a chance?" Laran asked.
"For Jaynas sake I pray that he does Laran, I pray that he does."
Nicandros stood up and Laran pulled the trigger but the Nicandros rolled out of the way and the blast hit the floor behind him. He slapped the weapon out of her hand and kicked her into the control panel for the teleporter. She crashed through it and the machine sent out sparks showered out. Laran slumped over unconcious.
Queen Xanya ran to the side of her daughters friend. The emperor raised his hand and the room flled with soldiers. "Take these pathetic Keldehans away." he ordered them.
There was a beep from Nicandros comm-link, he lifted the tool and spoke "Yes Vaard"
"We just detected another teleportation signal my lord, should we disrupt it? Vaard asked.
"No let this one go through. What he will encounter on Earth is far worse than anything we can do to him." Nicandros laughed and put the comm-link away.