I still do not own Power Rangers. Book II: Master Org spans a period of about twelve years. For right now the time is still 2026. This chapter is the major reason I took down and reposted this story. Before it was about how someone is treated by others-now it is about how someone treats others. There are going to be some plot changes too, but this idea came first.
"There's a city of reformed monsters on Earth?" Goldar asked, standing to the left of Rito, who was sitting at the controls.
"Yeah, it was founded a few years ago by a wasp monster named Waspicable. With all the aliens that visit Earth these days, a city of reformed monsters doesn't seem too weird for the humans anymore," Rito explained.
"You've thought about this in great detail, Rito. How long have you been planning your escape?" Scorpina asked from his right side.
"I've been considering it ever since Thrax travelled back in time. I felt like he was throwing his life away for revenge when we had a great life going for us in the present. Being evil destroys peaceful, happy lives."
Goldar and Scorpina looked at each other. They were running from Rita and Zedd. They hadn't given much thought to what this meant about their alignment now. Most of the time when monsters fell out of favor with their employers it had to do with failure or trying to seize power for themselves. Changing alignment was something worse than treason.
"Rito, we can't just turn good," Goldar said.
"Why not? We just have to not destroy anyone or anything anymore?"
"What about the Power Rangers? They destroyed monsters."
"Goldie, we were trying to destroy them first. Don't you think that if we left them alone, they'd leave us alone?"
Goldar thought about what Rito said. Bulk and Skull provided them with a place to stay and, even though they did exploit them, there were times when they expressed genuine concern and even friendship. There was the contractual nature of them doing the teenager's chores in exchange for staying with them, but there were warm feelings. With Zedd, the relationship was purely contractual, with Zedd paying the occasional compliment and the frequent insult, but there was no true caring about Goldar on Zedd's part. Goldar looked to Scorpina.
"Do you want to try being good for a while, see how it works?"
"Goldar, we're evil. We can't just…"
"Act differently than Rita did when she tried to make you marry Elgar?" Rito interjected.
Scorpina was annoyed with Rito for butting into her and Goldar's conversation.
"We just have to try not to destroy anything," Goldar said pleadingly. He was still unsure about turning good himself but he was willing to give the idea a test run.
"Very well," Scorpina said, "but only to keep out of unnecessary trouble."
The Space Skull landed just outside of Turtle Hills, a small town roughly halfway between Silver Hills and Turtle Cove. Rito, Scorpina, and Goldar teleported outside.
"This the place?" Goldar asked.
"Only one way to be sure," Rito said. The trio walked into the center of town passing monsters leaving and entering what looked like human buildings.
Rito approached a Tenga and asked him the direction to immigration, which was housed in the town hall building in the middle of town. Most reformed monsters that came here had come on stolen spacecraft to escape evil overlords. The earth government was sympathetic to their needs and allowed them to register here, instead of a larger city.
The town hall building was grey with three stories, the only building in town that was that tall. On the third floor, Goldar, Scorpina, and Rito formed a line to fill out paper work with a Quantron secretary and enter a room toward the rear of the building where their photographs were taken. When they left, the Quantron immediately called SPD.
"You're sure it's them?" Dr. Thomas Oliver said on one end of the view screen.
"You'll recognize these pictures better than I will, sir." Commander Anubis "Doggie" Cruger entered a code to split the screen and show the photos up close.
"That's them alright." Tommy said. "I thought they were with Rita and Zedd when they were destroyed in the Vica Galaxy."
"Apparently they're still alive today. Since they have registered, and haven't committed any crime yet on this planet for thirty years, I can't touch them yet, and neither can you. But if they get out of line, you'll be the first person we consult, sir."
"It's not these three I'm worried about. There are scores of villains who disappeared without ever being defeated—Scorpius, Queen Bansheera, Lothor, Mesogog—if any of them are still out there we could be in serious trouble. Most of the original team are in our mid-forties now. If we thought Goldar was gone, Rita and Zedd themselves could be back for all we know."
"Stranger things have been known to happen, sir."
"Stop calling me 'sir' commander. I'm not in SPD."
"No, Tommy, but as coordinator of Ranger activities on Earth, you're not exactly a civilian either."
Tommy laughed, and said simply, "I think I'll pay our friends a visit in person."
After getting their photos taken, Goldar, Scorpina, and Rito learned from the Quantron of a house to which they'd been assigned, 847 Arsenic Lane, so they headed there. They had enough food stamps to last them while they looked for jobs. They followed the directions the Quantron gave them and found themselves outside a grey two-story house on the end of its street. The paint was peeling.
"This is the place," Goldar said.
"Looks kind of rundown," Rito said.
"Beggars can't be choosers," Scorpina said to Rito. She then turned to Goldar and said, "There are three bedrooms and three of us, so—"
Scorpina never finished the sentence as she was interrupted by a next-door neighbor who looked like a clown.
"I take it you guys are new here," Jindrax said.
Goldar, Scorpina, and Rito looked at their neighbor. He was leaning over a waist high light blue fence. The house behind him was a light blue one story. Unlike their own temporary home, the paint here seemed to be fresh.
"Name's Jindrax. I live here with my wife, Toxica."
He held out a hand and shook Rito and Goldar's. He then took Scorpina's hand and kissed the wrist.
"I thought you said you were married!" Goldar protested.
"Can't blame a monster for bein' chivalrous," Jindrax said.
Scorpina laughed inwardly. Goldar had not run away with her in the past because of his feudal loyalty to Zedd. Now he couldn't handle someone being polite to her out of chivalry.
"So, Jindrax, what line of work are you in?" Rito asked.
"I'm a tour guide in Turtle Cove. I lead tourists to the sites of the Wild Force Rangers' greatest battles, many of which I took part in."
"Why did you turn good?" Rito asked.
Jindrax became silent and looked down at the grass.
"Master Org showed me too clearly where being evil gets you. You think you have all the power in the universe, but you don't, and you drive away everyone who's ever cared about you."
"My thoughts exactly," Rito said.
Scorpina scrunched her face and shook her head, "I didn't leave my mistress because she was evil. I left her because she wanted me to marry her new master's stepcousin."
"And you'd be okay with forcing your own underlings into arranged marriages that would make them miserable?" Jindrax asked.
"I don't have any underlings," Scorpina said as she tried to put herself in Rita's position.
"But if you did?"
Scorpina really considered if the roles had been reversed, would she have been any kinder to Rita?
"Your boss treating you badly was not your problem. It was her problem. How you treat others, now that's where you are accountable," Jindrax said.
"You came up with that?" Goldar said looking at the clown-like monster.
"Toxica and me spent a long time traveling after we left Master Org," Jindrax said to Goldar. He turned back to Scorpina. "Being evil, in the since that most evil overlords mean it, is having power over others that is not rightfully yours, and lying to your underlings whenever it is convenient. Sounds great unless you're one of those underlings, or the humans that they attack."
Jindrax looked at Scorpina one final time, "Just something to think about."
That night, unexpected visitors arrived in Turtle Cove. Keglar had developed a disc-shaped device to scan for the remnants of the Org Heart. Olympius, Keglar, and a search party of Stingwingers scoured the grassy area nearest the building where the Wild Force Rangers fought their last battle with Master Org. Kegler was holding the device and following its readings until it lead him to a bizarre sight—three seeds with what looked like tentacles whiplashing Keglar's hands as he tried to pick them up.
"My Emperor! I've found it!"
Olympius charged toward the seeds. Knocking Kegler out of the way he picked up the seeds, letting them beat violently against his hand.
"With these, I shall become the Master Org and have the power to crush any resistance to my rule!"
"But hasn't the child that you and Empress Trakeena are expecting consolidated your rule already, Sire?"
Olympius spun around to face Kegler. "Thrax didn't improve relations between Zedd and Vile, he made them worse. Scorpius already believes that he can control the United Alliance of Evil through me as my father-in-law. Trakeena sees herself as my equal. Imagine how much worse it will be when Trakeena is the mother of my son or daughter and Scorpius the grandfather." Olympius spun around again. "And then there's Havoc. He wants Stingwingers, Piranhatrons, Quantrons, Chromites and Battlings to use in his assault on Mariner Bay. The only reason I've consented to let him have Scorpius and Divatox's forces in this endeavor is to keep him occupied with ruling my mother's kingdom and flaunt the title of 'king' around. He has already made me look like his pawn. Everyone knows he engineered Gasket's downfall. But with these, " Olympius showed Kegler the seeds in his hand, "I will have the power!"
Olympius put one seed into his mouth and swallowed, then the second, then the third. He immediately felt a powerful gag reflex and dropped to his knees. He kept swallowing saliva trying to keep the seeds down. He held his stomach the entire time. He completely bent over.
"Your Highness, are you alright?!" Kegler asked.
"Be quiet!" Olympius commanded.
After an hour of intense nausea the seeds dissolved in Olympius's stomach, freeing Org genetic material to travel through his bloodstream and infect every organ in his body. When Olympius stood up he felt like a new monster, and was suddenly aware of memories not his own: the first Master Org's defeat at the battle of Anamaria; Viktor Adler's defeat by the Wild Force Rangers. He may have failed twice in the past, but this time he would succeed. He extended his hand and vines sprang up and encircled Kegler and the Sting Wingers. Kegler was too concerned with the vine around his throat to notice the veins running across Olympius's forehead, right jaw, and wings.
"Master!" Kegler cried, Olympius realized that he might need Kegler alive. He released the vines' hold on his followers. He then began to laugh, but it was not the laugh of healthy young monster like Olympius. It was the laugh of an old monster rotting with sickness. Olympius could not access all of Master Org's memories but he could feel their presence waiting to awake within him, and what he could remember made his blood boil. Somewhere in his subconscious mind, Master Org had already awakened and was assessing his new host.
"Ultimate power is mine!" Olympius cried out gleefully.
Oh, how wrong you are.
Olympius could not here Master Org's voice in his head, or even sense its presence apart from the memories—but he was in there and had found a new pawn.
