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Megaforce: Dimensions Apart
By
Heir of Emrys
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In this chapter we will meet four of our main peripheral characters, who many will recognise from Ranger History. In addition to this there will be a large portion of exposition, so as a special gift I will upload an extra chapter later on today.
Chapter II
Dimensions Apart - Part II
"X and Y"
(Unknown Place, Unknown Time)
"We can't have him in here!" protested a voice, coming from what sounded like far away.
"It'll be fine, Jen," replied another faint voice, but sounding much calmer.
"He could be an imposter, working for Vrak, for all we know, Wes!" hissed the first voice, Jen.
"He could be the real Jake, back from the dead for all we know!" argued the second voice, Wes, "Would you want to be responsible for him dying a second time?!"
"Guys!" interrupted a third voice, "You might want to know the results of the test I just ran on our visitor."
"Go on," spoke up a fourth voice, decidedly female.
"Well, it appears our friend here is in fact from Dimension X, opposed to our Dimension Y, where his is supposed to be dead, along with the First Pink Megaforce Ranger, who he died trying to save," explained the third voice.
"It also appears your little friend can hear you," groaned Jake, led on an examination table.
"You're awake," spoke the female voice.
"And kinda wishing I wasn't," muttered Jake as he sat up.
"How do we know we can trust you?" asked Jen, storming over to Jake, holding a cocked SPD Wrist Blaster.
"Jen, he sacrificed his life for another ranger, I think he's on our side," assured Wes, putting a hand on Jen's shoulder, calming her down.
Wes turned to Jake and spoke, "Sorry, Jen can be a little trigger happy sometimes."
"I am so confused right now," spoke Jake, rubbing his bare shoulder, noting his lack of hoodie and tee.
"So are we," spoke the other male as he stood up from his computer, "Adam Park, Black Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger."
"I'm Wes Collins, Red S.P.D. Ranger; this is my wife, Jen Collins, Pink Zeo Ranger," explained Wes.
"I'm Tori Hanson, Blue Ninja Storm Ranger," spoke the final unidentified voice.
"This isn't possible, you look a bit like them, but you look younger," said Jake, confused, "I remember seeing their faces in the news when they went public."
"You're in another dimension, we call Dimension Y," answered Adam simply.
"Because that makes total sense," muttered Jake.
"I accessed the databanks of the Rangers from your dimension, from the looks of it the gun Vrak used on you was a defect, so it sent you here, instead of ripping you apart atom by atom," explained Adam, "Like it was supposed to."
"You were only arrived here a couple of minutes before you woke up," added Wes, "You had some pretty nasty injuries, so Tori cleaned them out and bandaged them."
"Thanks," spoke Jake, rubbing his bandaged shoulder, turning to the blonde haired girl.
"You're welcome," replied Tori, "My ninja training included treating injuries."
"So I'm in another dimension," spoke Jake before a look of panic crossed his face, "What about Emma? Where is she? Could she be in different dimension all together?"
"To be honest, we don't have a clue," answered Tori, "But we'll find her."
"Great, we have no idea where Emma is," groaned Jake, standing up, "It's not like she's gonna fall out of the sky and land right in front of us."
Suddenly, in a blaze of pink and gold Emma appeared seven feet in the air, right above Jake. She fell and hit Jake, sending the both sprawling to the floor.
"I was wrong," spoke Jake from below Emma, "She didn't land in front of us. She landed on top of me!"
Jake looked up to see Emma's face only centimetres from his own. Jake's eyes looked into hers. Just for a few seconds the whole world stopped.
Wes cleared his throat, causing the two to break eye contact. Emma rolled off Jake and stood up, bending to help Jake up. As her hands hit his exposed chest, she faltered and blushed. She hadn't noticed before than despite his slim posture, Jake had some well-defined, strong looking muscles.
Wes noticed Emma's blush and subtly nodded at Adam, who nodded back and mouthed, "Tommy and Kim,"
"So where the hell are are we? Who are they?" questioned Emma, "And why are you not wearing your tee?"
"We're in another dimension," answered Jake deadpan.
"Come again?" spoke Emma.
"Vrak's energy weapon was a defect," elaborated Jake, "Somehow the energy wave transported us here."
"That makes sense because?" questioned Emma.
"Because of us," spoke Adam, from his position at the computer bank, "I was experimenting with a transdimensional transporter, it doesn't actually work yet, but the energy surge of Vrak's Blaster managed to activate it."
"Transdimensional what?" asked a confused Emma.
"Travel between different realities," explained Jake.
"So can this transdimensional thingy get us home?" questioned Emma seriously.
"Once I get it up and running, yes," answered Adam.
"Small question, why were you building one?" asked Jake.
"To contact other rangers," spoke Wes, "We need help, the Vrak of this world has taken over."
"We are the only Power Rangers left in existence," explained Jen.
"What happened?" questioned Emma.
"Vrak built a time machine, he used it to transport him self through time, killing off as many rangers and villains, who were possible threats, as possible," answered Tori.
"As a result the timeline was full of paradoxes, it tried to correct itself, but it was too much," continued Adam, "It created a world where time doesn't pass, we don't age, but we can still die."
"So why do you look different?" questioned Emma.
"The time wave caused by Vrak kinda reverted us to being twenty. It left the eleven of us the only remaining rangers."
"Not all us remaining had a morpher, there was only six working morphers, the morphing grid had been destroyed, but six continued ," answered Wes.
"Six?" asked Jake, "I only count four."
"Kira and Cam survived the time wave as well as us," spoke Jen, "Two years ago we assaulted Vrak's Palace, we managed to destroy his time machine, but at the cost of Cam and Kira's lives."
"Oh," said Jake seriously, "What about the other five?"
Wes struggled to speak, "Ummm-"
"It was this dimension's versions of the Megaforce Rangers, they didn't have any powers but they fought anyway. Vrak killed them at the same time as Kira and Cam," informed Jen bluntly.
"Oh," uttered Emma solemnly, echoing Jake's earlier comment.
"We managed to save most of the rangers weapons and vehicles," explained Adam, changing the subject, "The Morphin' Grid had a unconnected sub-section where the weapons and vehicles were stored. This is the Bio Field, it wasn't affected by the Morphin' Grid's destruction."
"Wow, this is one hell of a lot to take in," spoke Jake, rubbing his forehead.
"We understand," said Wes, placing his hand on Jake's shoulder.
"We can help," spoke Jake seriously.
"Pardon?" questioned Jen.
"We can help you against Vrak, we can help you destroy him," answered Emma, catching onto Jake's train of thought.
"We can't ask you to do that, you need to return home," protested Tori.
"Like Adam said, in our reality we're dead, obviously we never return home," added Jake.
"You need to keep positive, we'll continue working on a way back home and you two join the team," offered Wes, stretching his hand out, "Just don't die."
"Agreed," said Jake, shaking the Red Ranger's hand.
"Good," spoke Wes, opening up a draw and taking out a wooden box.
He handed to Jen, who approached the two Megaforce Rangers, "You'll be needing morphers."
"Don't worry, we're have our own," dsaid Emma, reaching into her pocket to retrieve her morpher, only to find it missing.
Emma quickly cycled through the rest of her pockets, still not finding her morpher.
"What's wrong?" asked Jake, noticing her panicked expression.
"I can't find my morpher, it mustn't have come with me," explained Emma.
Jake looked up at the others, "I didn't happen to arrive with a morpher, did I?."
"No, you didn't have morpher," spoke Tori, shaking her head.
"For some reason our morphers must have been left behind," reasoned Emma, calming down.
"Then I guess you will you'll be needing these," informed Jen, opening the box to reveal two morphers.
"They were Kira and Cam's morphers," explained Tori.
"Cam used the Green Mystic Morpher and Kira used the Yellow Dino Thunder Morpher," added Adam.
"The Yellow Morpher chooses its ranger, so may not choose either of you," warned Wes.
Emma reached in and picked up the Yellow Morpher, she laid it over her wrist and fastened it. It suddenly pulsed yellow, accepting Emma.
"I guess this one's mine," spoke Jake, taking the Mystic Morpher, flipping it open. As he did the morpher glowed green and lit up Jake's left hand and arm.
"Good, I was afraid something would go wrong," said Wes, relaxing.
"You may notice some differences very soon," informed Adam, "The Dino Gems gave their users civilian powers. Cam powered up the Green Mystic Morpher by draining the remaining power from the Black Gem into the morpher."
Adam sat at his computer and spun on his chair, "The Yellow Gem gives the user the ability of supersonic scream."
"I feel weird," commented Jake, "I feel all tingy."
Jake lowered his arms to his side, shaking them. As he did, his hands began to vanish. This continued up his arms and to the rest of his body, taking his clothes with it.
"Okay, not good," spoke Jake's disembodied voice, sounding panicked.
"It's fine," assured Adam, spinning in his chair, "That's your power, Invisibility."
"Really? You gave the teenage boy the ability to sneak around undetected?" stated Emma, raising her voice slightly.
Suddenly, from Emma's mouth came a yellow sound waves, forcing the others to clamp their hands over their ears.
As the high-pitched sound waves dissipated, Adam removed his hands and spoke, "That would be your powers."
"Super-scream, really?" asked Emma.
"It does come in handy sometimes," said Wes, shaking his head to stop his ears from ringing.
"How do I stop it?" whispered Emma, trying to avoid creating sound waves.
"Just will it," hurried Wes, "We don't want Jen to get trigger happy."
"Oh, very mature Collins," spat Jen.
"You two are married, right?" asked Jake.
"We don't know how it happened either," joked Adam.
Jake looked around, unable to see Emma, "Um, where's Emma?"
"Right here," came Emma's voice, right next to Jake's ear.
Jake screamed and stumbled backwards as he realised Emma had hidden behind him.
"Now that is funny," stated Emma with a smug grin.
"Jake, I seem to be getting a weird reading of you," spoke Adam in a worried tone.
"Go on," instructed Wes, falling into his leadership role.
"It seems your strength is growing at an alarming rate," informed Adam.
"What? Why?" asked Jake, confusion evident in his face.
"Vrak didn't happen to hit with the gun whilst you were morphed, did he?" questioned Adam.
"Yeah, that could be the reason, the neural feedback could have caused it," realised Jake.
"Whoa, lets slow it down here," interrupted Emma, "Please talk English."
"Basically, what Jake meant was, Vrak's energy blast reversed the neural flow between Jake and the Morphin' Grid," explained Adam.
"So the energy feedback from the Morphin' Grid has given me strength," explained the new Green Ranger.
"So your super strong now?" asked Emma.
"No, more like a very strong person, but not super strong," informed Adam.
Jake wandered over to table up against the wall, "So this is the Transdimensional Transporter you are working on?"
"Yeah," answered Adam.
"With an extra set of hands how long would it take to get it up and running?" asked Jake, wiggling his fingers, indicating he meant to help Adam.
Emma looked at Jake confused, she knew that Jake did reasonably well on pop quizzes and other tests, but she had never known him to perform exceptionally. She was suspicious Jake was hiding something.
"If we had all the parts we needed, then around four months," spoke Adam, "If we can't get them then it could be even longer."
"Well," said Jake, rubbing his hands together, "It looks like this is mine and Emma's ride home."
"Good," stated Wes, turning to face Emma and Jake, "But if you want to be part of this team whilst you're here, you two rookies we be needing some training."
-Megaforce-
Edited 02/11/14