I've already discontinued one story, but this one still has hope it seems.
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A Destiny Covered In Blood: Jason's Fate
As the gargantuan golden aura flared down, Ivan rushed into his first titan, and to everyone's surprise immediately combined the two titans which formed a gigantic single robot.
"Holy shit! A Gattai Combination!" Dex panicked. Then he looked around at who his teammates were and said, "Never mind."
A barrage of golden shaped missiles surged from the giant Pyramid shaped zord, and lightning erupted from the top of said zord which eviscerated Ivan's new toys. Ivan barely escaped the zords before their destruction.
Pyramidis now hovered over the new SPD base. It's own shield now syncing to the SPD one, and a voice echoed through the night sky.
"Ivan Ooze. You are charged with the deaths of over four trillion people. The destruction of over sixteen worlds, and two attempts at destroying Earth. The highest court triumvirate is never wrong and can not be corrupted by the powers of good or evil. They will now deliberate," the thunderous voice continued from Pyramidis.
A new deep voice was heard from beyond the cosmos: Judgment Time echoed throughout the planet's surface.
A giant clock's hands formed, counted down five seconds before, "Guilty!" was heard.
The thunderous voice of the king of Triforia again boomed from above as he advised, "You have been approved for deletion. This means you are to be executed immediately."
Ivan shot purple bolts of lightning at Pyramidis as a large semi-transparent cube surrounded him, and closed in. Ivan noticed his bolts were ineffective and pulled all of his dark magic together for one massive push. It was enough as the cube began being pushed back.
"Rangers, and allies. As an officiate of the triumvirate, I officially deputize you as SPD. Please assist us in finishing this and ridding the universe of Ivan Ooze's evil once and for all!"
What the Triforian hadn't realized was that the rangers and allies all had already pulled out their weapons and prepped themselves to attack.
Catlin closed her eyes and called through space and virtual reality as she commanded, "V.R. Techno Bazooka. Fire!" Her ex – fiance's weapon appeared, and fired upon her command.
The Beetleborg formed his hands into a shape that drew in energy, and released it toward the cube, thus reinforcing it's power.
The Quantum Ranger tapped his Quantum Defender against his wrist, then aimed, and gave his gun the verbal command, "Quantum Defender... Fire!" which it did. A red streak pounded into the cube.
Dino Thunders Yellow, and Black fired their weapons, respectively.
Dana combined her delta blasters and sent a shock wave of energy as well.
Kamen Rider Black Death raced toward a spot on the cube near the blast, but far enough away to remain safe. He leaped forward, and yelled, "Rider Kick!" as his energized foot slammed into the cube which caused it to close in further.
However Ivan was not one to be defeated so easily. And he swore to himself he would survive as A few flashes of light were seen inside the cube as it sealed. Then it was clear inside. Ivan Ooze was no more.
Eric's morpher beeped and Jason's voice was heard, "Great job rangers and ranger allies. I...Whoaaa.."
The SPD force field was down and Jason was teleported outside. Tommy's immediate response was to beat Jason to within an inch of his life in hopes Jason would beg for forgiveness.
"What the fuck? I know we haven't been on the best of terms, but pulling out the acting CO of SPD in an illegal teleport is not kosher," Jason Yell up to Trey, the Gold Zeo Ranger.
Tommy never got the chance to follow through on histhought, as a black ranger with gold trimmings leaped down from the mighty pyramid zord. He slowly turned toward Jason and said, "It saddens me to say this Jason, but that was only part one of the trial. Only six cases in history ever required the use of the Triumvirate as there is usually a heavy penalty to be paid. One of the uninhabited dead moons of Aquitar were tribute for this transaction. Jason Lee Scott. You are accused of murdering fellow rangers. Guardians of this galaxy. I have protected you as long as I could as did Andros, but the ranger alliance of Earth, Aquatar, and Triforia demand someone be held accountable. The penalty for such a crime if found guilty is ten thousand years of servitude as a mentor to rangers, and guiding and protecting them. Or death. Should you fail this duty if found convicted, Earth is forfeit and shall be...destroyed by the council of heaven."
The rangers, allies, and Jason himself argued this point. The gold ranger simply raised his staff and thunder rolled. Then there was silence.
"This is out of our hands. With but the wave of a hand, our galaxy could be wiped off the face of the very cosmos. I am a warden of this galaxy as I have been for the last ten thousand years, and I will continue to be it's peacemaker..even if some must suffer for the greater good. Now Jason.. Do you understand what I have said?"
Jason nodded but inquired, "If I admit guilt, is there a way to spare the Earth?"
Inside of the Gold Ranger helmet Trey smiled sadly as he now knew his old friend that was once entrusted with his powers still existed. Trey said, "I will intervene as much as they permit. They have heard your pleas for your planet. Now," Trey called.
Judgment Time, was once again heard.
The same clock reset and five seconds passed. The nearly transparent cube that held Ivan now reformed into that of a giant display.
Trey brought his hand down from the side of his helmet and said, "This is unheard of. Jason is only partially the guilty party. I am receiving word now. Okay. Got it. The display will show us what we are meant to see."
"The first shot is Jason with his girlfriend of the time Kimberly shortly after the Serpentara incident at the Atlantic beach on the eastern coast of your North America. Here in this next shot he is injected with a psychokinetic drug from a nano machine of some kind. His eyes glowed red. He passed out. Next scene we see is from Jason's perspective eight days later where he was locked away in the super max prison where he spent the next twelve months. He was cleared of all charges of misconduct after his mind was scanned by Aquatarian tech, and Triforian tech which is well beyond that of Earth. But some rangers claimed they saw Jason savagely murder a good deal of other rangers. But now with the Triumvirate's help, we have pieced together the rest of what occurred that fateful night," Trey explained. "Please report to the conference room. The Triumvirate has ordered that those present be a part of a special jury."
Jason was escorted by Trey who had sent his staff away as Jason was already familiar with it's powers and might try to use them to escape.
Once everyone arrived, Jason stood in the middle of the large whitewall conference room nearly enraged at being put on display like some animal. But his willingness to protect Earth overrode his indignation.
The screens lit up on the wall in front of the room and the bottom read Case 4g40r5b.
On the screen: Jason Lee Scott, Katherine Hillard, Kimberly Ann Hart, Tania Sloan, Justin Stuart, Kai Kwan (?), and Danny Delgato were all held captive by Vexar. Former Beetleborg villain.
"Vexor," Josh said silently from inside his suit.
"You know that guy?" Kira asked.
"He was one of the big bads when I was temporarily asked to become an active Beetleborg. But they told me they defeated him long ago. I should know. My ex-wife was one of the ones who beat him."
Everyone's attention returned to the screen.
Everyone present with Vexor was paralyzed, and unable to reach any morpher or defend themselves in any way. Vexar let out a breath, and said, "Let's wake up my little friend I had delivered to you earlier today. He snapped his fingers and Jason's eyes again glowed red.
"Kill them all," Vexor ordered.
"Never!" Jason screamed as he tried to fight the mental control of his captor. Ever time he tried to attack Vexor, he lost more and more of his mental control.
"Kill them now dear boy," Vexor again commanded calmly.
Jason's heart raced. Then he stopped cold. He bowed before Vexor and conceded, "As you command master."
Vexor left Jason to do his work. Jason walked over to a box of knives. Tania, Justin, and the rest of the rangers, former and active begged Jason to stop.
"Your friend is still in here, but he can not hear you. The only thing he can do now is make your deaths quick. I can not disobey my master, but your friend's will won't allow me to enjoy slowly torturing you. Even in his unconscious mind he tries to protect you and buy you time. Pathetic."
This dark facsimile of Jason stabbed Kimberly in the stomach, then slit her throat in a quick succession.
His body trembled, but didn't stop as he moved forward to Tania who's eyes hardened as she said, "Jason. If you can hear me... avenge us!..." but was cut off as a crowbar was shoved through her mouth through her skull. It killed her instantly.
Katherine didn't even have a chance to scream. Her blood drenched the floor and spilled onto Jason's white t-shirt. Pool upon pools of blood traveled across the floor.
Justin was next, but he remembered one possible escape. He closed his eyes and screamed out, "Storm Blaster, Lightning Cruiser...Help!"
'Jason' swung at Justin and knocked him out. But that strike was much more brutal than the teenaged Justin could have prepared for. It placed him into a comatose state. He, and Kai were teleported into Storm Blaster.
Jason Lee Scott's body then vanished in a puff of black smoke.
Back in the conference room:
The gold ranger set himself in the center of the room beside Jason and said; "Jason was recovered by the Ninja Storm team in Blue bay harbor, and the nano tech removed from him days later thanks to their in house tech genius. Justin recovered on Triforia, but his memories of the events were fragmented until recently. The question is... Just where does Jason stand? His body was used for the heinous crimes, but he himself, even without knowing tried to stop from killing the other rangers. You all have a display in front of each one of you. There are four options. The majority will be tallied with that of the Triumvirate's own decision. Do not speak to each other. You all are not being given an option. Even the non rangers are considered heroes of Earth, and are being required to participate," the gold ranger instructed.
Any and all thoughts of defiance were swept away by the thought of Earth being destroyed and/or enslaved.
TEN minutes had passed, and the final votes tallied.
The gold ranger demorphed, and looked to Jason with a small smile and said, "I'm sorry to tell you that you are not fit to lead SPD currently. We have assigned a leader in your stead until you are fit to return to duty."
Jason nodded dumbly, but found relief in his not being executed.
"Jason Lee Scott of Angel Grove California, of the western United States of Earth. You are hereby requested and required to lead a specially created team in search of Andros of KO-35. His wife Ashley, and their son Jeice. You will not receive assistance from SPD as this will be an autonomous mission. You will not contact anyone in SPD under any circumstances unless you have a confirmed lead on Andros. Do you understand these orders?"
Jason's sweaty hands not wishstanding, he nodded. Trey continued and said, "Well, congratulations Captain Scott. Your vessel awaits.
"One thing first before I take this command," Jason stated.
Trey raised an eyebrow. Jason walked over to Tommy who couldn't bring himself to look Jason in the eye.
"LOOK AT ME!" Jason Commanded. "After all the shit you put me through and accused me of! Look at me dammit!"
Tommy did.
Jason took a non evil power enhanced swing at him, and knocked him out.
Jason looked to Kira and asked, "Are you going to come after me for that?"
"Will he be okay?" She asked seriously.
Jason nodded simply.
"Then no. He needed to be knocked down a peg or two. But if you try that again, I might be the one up on charges next time. And I won't hold back," Kira warned.
Jason understood, and gave a quick affirmative before Jason started rubbing his beard as he asked, "Do I still get a ship?
Trey placed his palm on his forehead, and wished for pain medication as he said, "You want your spot back in SPD I'm sure. So please don't act so much like a pirate."
To Be continued.