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Megaforce: Dimensions Apart
By
Heir of Emrys
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In recent chapters in has pointed out by readers I haven't really explained the changes in which morpher a character has, e.g. Wes having the Red SPD Morpher instead of the Red Time Force Morpher. This is due to the fact I had a chapter which would explain it. This is that chapter; hopefully it will answer as many of your questions as possible. NOTE - As of 19/10/13 I have edited Chapter IV to change Jake's Vulcan Cannon to the Shark Bowgun.
Chapter VIII
Tempus Fugit - Part I
"Ranger War"
(Harwood City, Dimension Y, Two Years Earlier)
Wes ducked and brought his Chrono Sabre up to block the sword arcing towards his head. The Red Time Force pushed up, causing his opponent to stumble backwards.
Suddenly laser blasts stuck the monster and forced him to his knees. The smoke caused by the laser blasts began to clear as Eric Myers walked out of it, morphing as he did.
"Mind if I join the party?" spoke Eric, hold his Quantum Defender in his hand.
The monster stumbled to his feet, "Not at all, one more ranger to kill."
"Somehow I doubt that," said Eric confidently, raising his Defender.
The monster growled, "Do you not know who I am? I am Mirloc, the most feared bounty hunter in the gal-"
Mirloc's pompous speech came to a sudden end when the Quantum Ranger blasted him in the stomach.
Wes turned to Eric, "Do wanna finish off this goon whilst I take some of Vrak's Loogies."
Eric nodded, "Consider it done."
Wes grinned under his helmet before running into the main battle. Currently every past ranger who still had powers, and even some from the future, were battling the evil alien Vrak and his forces.
Over the last two weeks Vrak meddling with the past, via a stolen time ship, had caused the situation to go from needing the six Megaforce Rangers to all the past rangers.
Wes slashed at Loogies and sliced down another which was about to blast the Black Megaforce Ranger. He spun round and cut another three in half.
Suddenly a loud shout brought Wes to a halt, it was Eric's. The Red Time Force Ranger sprinted off in the direction of Eric and Mirloc.
He came to a halt to see Mirloc holding a demorphed Eric by the neck, his morpher broken.
Mirloc turned to face Wes, "I'm glad you're here to see this."
With that Mirloc snapped Eric's neck, letting his limp corpse fall to the floor.
NO!" cried Wes, charging at Mirloc, his sabre held high.
Before he could come within five feet Mirloc blasted Wes backwards. Wes slammed into the ground, causing him to demorph.
"Did you like my 'oh-so' pathetic act?" bragged Mirloc, "Not as weak as you thought, am I?"
"That isn't going to stop me!" called Wes, clambering to his feet.
"TIME FOR TIME FORCE!"
Wes looked down, nothing had happened. His Morpher was damaged beyond repair, fizzing and sparking.
Mirloc laughed, "I guess you really are a powerless ranger!"
The bounty hunter raised his blaster and fired at Wes, who was taken by surprise.
Seconds before the blast hit Wes a large weight hit him and sent him flying out of the way of the blast. As he was tackled his saviour blasted Mirloc with his weapon.
Wes rolled over to look at his saviour, he looked to be in his twenties, but Wes didn't recognise him as a ranger, although he looked uncannily like his son.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Wes, standing once more.
"Your son, Sky," answered the man, "Red SPD Ranger."
"You're a ranger in the future," spoke Wes, surprised to see a future version of his ten year old son as a ranger, "Jen is gonna be so pissed."
"Me and my squad came to help with battle and minimise ranger casualties," continued Sky, also standing.
Suddenly Mirloc rose back to his feet and sent a supercharged blast at Wes.
"NO!" cried Sky, diving in front of Wes, taking the fatal blast.
The Red SPD Ranger collapsed to ground as Mirloc began to laugh maniacally.
Wes dropped down besides Sky, "You shouldn't have done that, I'm not worth it."
Sky gave a weak smile, "You're wrong, you are worth, and being with you, just a few more minutes is something I'd gladly die for. I guess I got my wish."
"Don't say that! You're gonna be okay!" spoke Wes, trying to staunch the blood flow.
"It's too late for me, take this," said Sky, his strength quickly fading.
Sky shoved his morpher into his father's hand. Wes turned it over and looked back at Sky, "I can't take thi-"
Wes stopped speaking, Sky was gone. Wes's eyes began to cry as he closed his son's eyelids for the final time.
"Ooh look! The powerless ranger is crying!" exclaimed Mirloc gleefully.
Wes rose to his feet and walked over to face Mirloc, "You've killed my best friend, you murdered my son, but one thing I am not is powerless!"
"SPD EMERGENCY!"
With a flash of red light Wes morphed into the Red SPD Ranger.
"You're times up Mirloc!" stated Wes, drawing the Delta Blasters.
"A shiny new suit won't stop me!" bragged Mirloc, firing at Wes, who dodged them and fired back.
Mirloc stumbled back as Wes picked up the discarded Quantum Defender and activated the sabre mode, replacing the Delta Blasters in their holsters as he did.
"Any last words?" asked Wes, at the lack of response he continued, "Fine, have it your way!"
Wes charged forwards and plunged the sabre deep into Mirloc's chest, causing purple blood to come spurting out.
"Justice is served," commented Wes darkly as Mirloc dropped to the ground, dead.
-Megaforce-
Elsewhere on the battlefield the evil space ninja, Lothor, kicked the Green Mystic Ranger in the chest, causing him to fly back and hit the ground.
"You pathetic rangers are so easy to defeat!" cackled the evil ninja.
"Who said anything about being defeated?" spoke Xander as he crawled back to his feet and nodded to the area behind Lothor.
The Space Ninja turned around quickly to see eleven figures charging onto the battle field. They skidded to a halt in front of Lothor, who growled upon seeing their faces.
"Dudes, I don't think Lothor is happy to see us," said Dustin, with a spaced out look on his face.
Cam rolled his eyes sarcastically and spoke, "I wonder why?"
"No need to be sarcastic!" chided Tori, with a small grin on her face.
"Your girlfriend has you totally whipped!" commented Blake.
"At least he has a girlfriend," said Hunter, deadpan.
Blake flushed red and looked like he was about to hit his brother when Shane commented, "He's turned the same colour as my suit!"
"Hello, evil space ninja right here!" spoke Kira, reminding them that Lothor was in front of them.
"What I want to know is where he was been for the last nine years?" asked Connor, a confused look on his face.
"If you must know I escaped after Mesogog trapped me in a jar," hissed Lothor angrily.
"He trapped you in a jar?" questioned Ethan deadpan, in reply Lothor glared at the former blue ranger.
"Whoa, death glare!" exclaimed Eric McKnight, who was filling in for Tommy.
"My dad has an identical one, maybe it's an evil villain thing?" reasoned Trent.
"Gahhh! Shut up!" shouted Lothor, "You're giving me, a HEADACHE!"
The rangers bar Kira clapped their hands to their ears in pain. In reply Kira activated her sonic scream, causing Lothor to stumble back.
"I think it's time we morph!" suggested Dustin, shaking his head.
"Totally!" agreed Eric.
"But I drained your powers!" exclaimed Lothor, addressing the Ninja Storm Rangers.
"It wasn't to hard to repower them and the Dino Gems," spoke Cam casually.
"READY?" asked Connor and Shane at the same time.
"READY!" replied the others.
"NINJA STORM, RANGER FORM! HA!"
"THUNDER STORM, RANGER FORM! HA!"
"SAMURAI STORM, RANGER FORM! HA!"
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!"
"WHITE RANGER, DINO POWER!"
In several differently coloured flashes of light the eleven rangers morphed into their respective suits, Eric as the Black Dino Ranger.
"Cam, you and the Thunders take on Lothor, the rest of us will help the other rangers," instructed Shane, falling back into his leader role.
"We got it," uttered Hunter abruptly.
"Good," replied Shane as he and the other seven ran off to help other rangers.
The three Ninja Storm Rangers ran to Xander and lined up beside him. The four rangers drew their respective weapons and charged at Lothor.
Lothor blocked Blake's Antlers and dodged Hunter's blaster. Cam managed to slash Lothor across the chest, but the four were suddenly blown back by a wave of dark energy, causing Xander to demorph.
"As you can see Rangers," spoke Lothor, "The years have been kind to me, I am stronger than I have ever been!"
Hunter groaned as he and Blake clambered to their feet. The two began to charge at Lothor again but the evil ninja sent another wave of black energy at them.
The wave hit the Crimson and Navy Rangers, disintegrating them immediately, leaving only their damaged morphers behind.
"NO!" cried out Cam at the death of two of his closest friends.
Lothor laughed and sent another wave, this one was directed at Xander instead. The wave slammed into the Aussie, fatally wounding him.
Lothor smiled manically and sent another blast at Cam, who raised his morpher to absorb the energy. The power increase quickly caused the amulet to short circuit and demorph Cam. Using the energy gathered Cam sent it back at Lothor, sending him flying backwards.
The evil space ninja slammed into the ground, wounded by his own blast. Cam dropped to Xander's side as his wound forced him to demorph.
Xander chuckled weakly, "I guess Plan Xander didn't work that time."
"Don't speak, conserve your energy," assured Cam.
Xander grimaced, "I know I'm dying, no need to sugarcoat it, just promise me you'll take this."
Xander handed Cam the Green Mystic Morpher, who nodded solemnly, accepting that this fight was Xander's last.
"Just remember to believe in magic," whispered Xander as his eyes closed for the final time.
"I will," spoke Cam softly, although he and Xander had never been close, losing a fellow ranger was a hard thing to cope with.
Cam raised himself from his knees just as Lothor managed to return to his feet.
"You made a grave mistake Lothor," said Cam menacingly.
"What's that?" asked Lothor smugly, albeit looking a little worried.
Cam grinned darkly, "You made me angry."
-Megaforce-
On the other side of the battlefield Adam, Kira, Tori and Jake were fighting a squadron of Loogies, Adam as the Black Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger. Suddenly a loud scream emanated throughout the battlefield.
"What was that?" asked Jake worriedly.
"It sounded like," Tori paused, confused, "It sounded like Lothor."
-Megaforce-
Further over Jen and Kat were fighting upgraded Putties side by side as the Pink Time Force and Pink Zeo Rangers respectively. After the Mutorgs incident Jen had remained in 2002 and married Wes.
The couple quickly became friends with Tommy and Kat, who were married like them. Wes and Jen had become an uncle and aunt to Tommy and Kat's son, Jordan.
The two were suddenly hit with a blast and forcibly demorphed. They collapsed to the ground as Vrak himself walked up to them. With careful accuracy he made sure to crush Jen's Chrono Morpher under his foot.
"You rangers are just too easy!" exclaimed Vrak, blasting the two pink rangers, forcing them to roll out of the way.
"We'll never give up!" spoke Jen fiercely.
"I'll just have to kill you just like I killed your precious Legendary Ranger!" boasted Vrak, tossing two communicators onto the ground.
"No!" cried Kat, recognising the communicators as Tommy's and seeing the blood dripping off Vrak's blade.
"Pathetic," whispered Vrak, he lashed out with incredible speed, stabbing Kat in the chest.
Kat gave a rasping breath and collapsed to the ground, blood spilling out of the wound.
Vrak laughed, "If you'll excuse me, I have to go kill the Red Lightspeed Ranger, he could be very damaging to my plan."
With that Vrak blurred away at incredible speed, leaving Jen and a wounded Kat.
Jen clambered to her feet and ran to Kat's side, finding her very close to death, chest rattling.
"Jen," whispered Kat, "Find him. Find Jordan."
"I will," promised Jen.
"Please-," Kat paused to catch her breath, "-take these."
Jen looked down to see Kat placing the Pink Zeonizers in her hands. Hen took them and strapped them to her wrists, placing her shattered Chrono Morpher in her pocket.
Suddenly a strong gust blew over the battlefield and removed the smoke and debris in the air. On top of a large pile of rubble Vrak was stood with a large, complicated device next to him.
"Rangers! Meet your doom!" shouted Vrak, addressing the fifty or so Rangers who were still alive.
Vrak laughed, "This device is very simple, it will wipe you out existence, you will never have existed!"
"We'll stop you!" cried Adam defiantly, despite the fact he was the only MMPR Ranger left alive.
"Too. Late." annunciated Vrak, pressing a button on the device, before he and his henchmen teleporting away.
With a thunderous roar the machine began to glow. The energy expanded to cover all the remaining and pulsed even brighter. The large ball of energy swelled up before exploding outwards.
The ground was scorched, the bodies of deceased rangers and villains had disappeared. All discarded morphers were gone baring the Ninja Storm Crimson, Navy and Green which sat where they had been left, sparking.
Of the fifty remaining ranger only eleven were left, the others erased from time forever.
"Urgh, did any catch the license plate the truck!" groaned Jake as he clambered to his feet.
"Somehow I don't think that was a truck," spoke Noah as Jake helped him up.
"You don't say!" added Gia sarcastically.
"Ow!" hissed Emma, her ankle clearly sprained.
Both Gia and Jake quickly took one of Emma's arms and supported her. Noah pulled his morpher out of his jacket. He opened the card slot, only for a copious amount of thick, black smoke to come out.
"They're broken," stated Troy calmly, already stood apart from the others, looking over battlefield.
"Troy? You okay?" asked Noah.
"This is it," answered Troy, "My dreams, this battle. Except they didn't end like this. We should have won, Vrak has tampered with the timeline, irreparably."
To emphasis his point Troy waved his hand at a set of building that had not been there before the wave from Vrak's machine. The tallest building was a hybrid of some of the world's most iconic buildings.
"Woah!" breathed Jake, he could see the Empire State Building, The Twin Towers, The Great Wall of China and many more.
"This is fucked up," stated Gia, "Where are all the others."
Noah looked around, but saw nobody, "Vrak said that his machine would erase all of us rangers from history."
"Then how come we the only ones who didn't get erased?" asked Emma, wincing.
"You're not the only ones left," called out a voice.
The five rangers turned around to see six figures shrouded in smoke.
"Wes?" questioned Troy, recognising the voice from his dreams.
The smoke cleared away to reveal Wes supporting Jen, who had a vicious looking cut down her left leg. To their left was Adam and Kira, who looked reasonably uninjured, apart from Kira clutching a sprained wrist. Further to the left Tori and Cam stood, the first was relatively uninjured whereas the latter was covered in cuts and bruises.
But the MegaRangers where shocked to see that any grey hairs or wrinkles the other six had ever had were completely gone. The six looked to be around twenty, not much older than the MegaRangers.
However the appearances of Kira and Adam were the most shocking. Kira wore clothes that looked like something a goth would wear, with too much makeup around her eyes. Adam on the hand was clean shaven with shoulder length hair, tied back.
"Um, what happened?" asked Jake.
Cam wiped some grime of his glasses, "The time wave Vrak caused several paradoxes. The building are testaments to it. Also, the six of us were closest when the wave hit."
"So why didn't the wave eradicate us," asked Gia.
"We must instrumental in future timeline or the timeline of another dimension," answered Adam.
"Other dimensions? Really?" snorted Jake.
"Tommy and Hayley were working on a Transdimensional Teleporter before all this," informed Wes.
"Again, in English?" asked Jake.
"A machine for traveling between dimensions," answered Kira, "Jeez, you are totally like Connor."
"Are your morphers working? Ours are fried," said Noah to cut Jake off before he could answer with something stupid.
"Really?" questioned Kira, raising her wrist to show her morpher, "Mine is fine."
The other five veteran rangers all nodded in agreement.
"What do we do now?" asked Troy, his back facing the other rangers, looking over the battlefield.
"We regroup," answered Wes, "I know the perfect place, it was built to withstand time waves. Vrak doesn't know we're alive. We heal our wounds, we can see if we can fix the Gosei Morphers, then we have to take Vrak down!"
-Megaforce-
Edited 02/11/14
