A/N: I own nothing. Here's a little thing.
Deep down below the ground was the headquarters of the power rangers, the Command Ship. While mostly navy blue in color, it did have its colored sections six to be specific. Red, blue, yellow, pink, black, and green. Or at least there were six, due to the cramped space underground the ship occupied it had to compress certain parts to preserve both functionality and crucial parts. So goodbye to the color green, which was good for the ship, but bad for one Ronnie Revolta who currently walked the halls of the ship with her golden staff in hand.
The rogue ranger looked about the halls as she walked, basking in the nostalgia, and the lack of her color. Granted she knew that it was inadvertently her own fault, but it still stung nonetheless.
After half an hour of slow walking and gazing the fallen ranger came across the room she had been wanting to see the second most: the command center. It was still the room with three paths leading to the circular platform that lay in the center, and above the bottom level of the room where training and simulations were done. Where one would presume that a fourth path would be was nothing but a bluish grey barren wall. Stepping onto the platform Ronnie looked intensely at the wall before her, as if daring it to do something unsightly.
She completely ignored the cowering robot looking from around the doorway to her left.
In an instant the wall came to life with a light bluish glow as an equally blue hard light projection of a head apparated from it. The head was that of an eleven year old boy with short hair that was done on a cowlick, and had a tuft sticking up. As well as a overbite and a prominent chipped front tooth. He also had freckles on his cheeks. When Ronnie saw the head, she quietly gasped in shock. When the head saw Ronnie, he softly gasped in shock.
"L-Linkon?" Ronnie asked as she reached out an arm to touch the head.
"R-R-Ronnie?" Linkon asked as he let her touch him. "I-If I had known you were coming I'd have dusted the place."
"As if Cyde would've gotten the place done by the time I got here." Ronnie said with a slight giggle in her voice. "So, you're a floating hard light head now, huh?"
"Y-Yeah," Linkon said as his cheeks turned brighter as a form of blushing, "I sort of became one with the Morphing Grid, meaning that I can project myself like this to interact. You, uh, you look good."
"Yeah," Ronnie said with a glare and misty eyes as she put two and two together, "A meteor being dropped on your head will do that."
"I did what I had to do in order to protect the Zeo Crystal." Linkon said with an even glare.
"We could've been stronger than ever before, the Alliance wouldn't stand a chance with the type of power we would've had," Ronnie said as she slammed her staff down in anger, "What's one planet compared to the entire universe Linkon, huh!? Or were you just willing to let everything the rangers stood for to protect a single planet out of the quintillions out there?"
"You're the one who went against the rangers way, not me," Linkon glared back with equal rage, "All life is important Ronnie, even life that hadn't been as developed as ours yet."
"Tell that to the dinosaurs you drove to extinction Lame-O," Ronnie said as her eyes glowed a ferocious green, "You did a GREAT job protecting them with that meteor you dropped on me!"
"I did what I had to do!"
"Well what did your parents say when you told them that their only son brought the extinction of an entire species!?"
"I wouldn't know!"
"Why? Because you scared to tell them? I'm sure they'll be just as disappointed you as they would in me!"
"Because everyone we know is DEAD!" Linkon yelled in rage as streaks of dark blue went down his cheeks in an effort to simulate crying. That lone sentence caused all rage Ronnie had to instantly dissipate. She lightly shock her head in disbelief, she couldn't have heard that right, right?
"W-W-What do you mean Linkon? Y-You're pulling my leg aren't you, cause if you are than it isn't funny."
"I wouldn't lie about this Ronnie," Linkon said as he looked down in sorrow, "Everyone we know is dead."
Silence was all that was present in the coming moments, with the only sound that broke it being the clang of Ronnie's staff hitting the floor. She rapidly shook her head as the tears that threatened to spill before in her rage now spilled from her sorrow and denial. She couldn't believe it, wouldn't believe it, won't believe it until she had proof. Luckily all the proof she needed could be said from the boy right before her.
"Ninja Rangers?" She asked quietly.
"Dead." Impossible.
"Turbo Rangers?"
"Dead" Not too far fetched, but not a likable prospect either.
"Space?"
"Dead." Inconceivable.
"Galaxy?"
"Dead." Unthinkable.
"Um, oh, Wild, Mystic, Jungle, Dino, and Samurai." There was no way all of them could've perished, she thought.
"Dead." Ronnie began to get weak in the knees.
"Lightspeed, RPD, Ninja Storm, Ninja Steel."
"Dead." Linkon closed his eyes as he continued.
Ronnie opened her mouth to list another ranger team, only for Linkon to shake his head, causing her to close it for a moment before speaking up again.
"T-T-The Sentai Division, the uh, um, oh, Super, Zyu and Zyu2, Kart, Jet, heck the entire division. They predate the rangers by a few good centuries." Linkon simply shook his head. "The previous Mighty Morphin Rangers? Your parents, Cyde's creators, and," She gagged at what she was about to say, "Chandler's parents?"
Linkon's silence was all she got.
Ronnie gave out a small squeak as the tears flowed faster and harder than before, falling to her knees in despair. After a few moments of silence, the girl looked up at Linkon and asked.
"What happened?" Linkon shuddered at the question and briefly considered whether or not to tell her before looking at her.
"Chandler sent the weaknesses in HQ's defenses to the Alliance The machine empire struck first, lead by King Mondo. They had started making their soldiers out of a flimsy yet easily producible metal that allowed them to make larger numbers than before in a short amount of time. With the weak spots constantly targeted by the machines the defenses didn't last long. After that Master Vile swooped in with his army of monsters. The rangers tried to retaliate with the Link Droids and Mega Link Droids, but they were beaten, broken, ravaged, and destroyed by the overwhelming numbers. King Lexion did send some soldiers to fight, but they didn't really amount to much in the overall conflict."
Ronnie looked down in horror at what she was hearing, and who wouldn't be? Everyone she had ever known had been slaughtered by the Alliance of Evil. But Linkon wasn't finished yet.
"Then Dark Specter showed up." Ronnie flinched at the dreaded name of the feared leader of the alliance. "A lot of people managed to evacuate to Eltar, but none of them were mentors or rangers in training. We're all that's left of the power rangers." Ronnie began to shake in rage. "Ronnie, despite everything that happened between us, I still love you and I want you to know that I'm here for you." Silence dominated for a few moments before Ronnie said.
"No." Linkon looked on at Ronnie in shock, "No you're not here, you're just a projection of the one I love from what rangers use for power." She grabbed her staff and stood tall and firm with conviction. "You may have settled for this, but I won't! I'll find that crystal, gain the power that rangers should've used from the get go, and use it to fix my mistake. Then when I do, I'll end the alliance and kill that rat Chandler!" She raised her staff high and slammed it into the ground causing a burst of green energy to blast throughout the room, and Linkon to close his eyes from the light of it. By the time he opened them, Ronnie was gone.
He looked at the spot she had inhabited in silence before meekly saying, "Don't go."