Ninjetti Rebirth
Chapter 9: Backwards
A/N: All things Carri belong to KJ, with many thanks. Trixabus, Baneero, Alia, Zokk, Kemma, Gene, Hedara, Gale, and Golver all belong to me. The man in the Sky-blue cloak is not mine, but Toei/Bandai/Saban's along with all other Power Rangers/Super Sentai stuff. The multi-verse idea is from two sources, the idea did come from KSuzie's "The Coins"
Note: I added the last little bit of the previous chapter with Tommy and Kim to the beginning of this one.
Kim and Tommy were sitting in her living room, she had just changed out of the coffee coated clothes and into dry clothes. "So..." he said, still unsure of what to say.
"So..." She mocked him, flopping down next to him.
"Kim, about what you said. I still love you too, but..."
"I know." She looked down "You're in a committed relationship, but-" She didn't get to finish as Gale arrived in a flash of blueish-black light and grabbed them, pulling them through the portal.
When they awoke they found themselves in the old Mighty Morphin' Command Center. Tommy shook his head, he had no idea what was going on. One minute he was he was having a conversation with Kim, and the next he's being pulled through...something. He looked over at Kim and saw her holding her head as she sat up. "You okay?" He asked, still trying to figure out what had happened.
"Yeah..." Kim breathed, taking in the view of the Command Center "I think so anyway. Please tell me you see the Command Center too." Tommy nodded. "Okay...good...It's not just me then." They looked around at the old spirals of light, the space-like walls, and Zordon's Power Tube. "Zordon? If you're there, can you please tell us what's going on?"
"Zordon?" Said a familiar, gravelly voice "Why would Zordon be here? This is a place of good!" They looked up at the Power Tube to see Lord Zedd's image appear in it. Both of them shifted into battle mode and summoned their morphers with a flick of their wrist. Zedd looked down at the two Rangers that had entered his Command Center. He wondered how they managed to sneak in, as he thought about it he began to understand.
"Zeddie? Who is it?" a familiar screech called, they turned to see Rita walk in from one of the pocket dimensions. "Power Rangers? How did they get in here?"
"I think I should ask you that." Tommy nodded to them. "Why are you two here? This is a place of good, not evil." Zedd laughed and Rita cackled.
"You," Zedd nodded "are the ones who are evil. Zordon and his Rangers have been plaguing the Earth for many years."
Tommy blinked, there was something off about Zedd and Rita, normally they'd have attacked by now. What's going on? Tommy asked himself, and why is Zedd in Zordon's Power Tube? None of this is making any sense at all...
Kim stood there, just as awestruck as Tommy. But she had an idea of what had happened, "Tommy," she whispered.
"Yeah?"
"I think...I think we may be in an alternate universe?" She said, glancing around and noticing the subtle differences in the Command Center, the spiral lighting was different, it was brighter in the room, and the Power Tube was wider.
"A what?" He asked, genuinely confused.
"An alternate universe, you know, different choices, different futures, etc. I think that's what happened." Kim tried to sound far braver than she felt. She knew these places existed, thanks to Gene, but she'd never been to one before. Tommy stood there, eyes fixed on Zedd as he took that information in.
"So," Rita said "you guys are from an alternate dimension?" Tommy and Kim nodded. "Well, are you good, or evil there?"
"We're the good guys, and so was Zordon." Tommy assured them.
Up in the moon palace Alpha Five was going nuts, some sort of an anomaly had set the moon palace sensors off and he couldn't figure out what it was. "Ay yi yi yi! Zordon, what's going on?" He cried.
Zordon stepped into the room, his cream colored crown in place, red and blue cape wrapped around his shoulders, and thick red and black belt covering half of his cream colored robes. "Someone has entered our dimension." He said smugly. "Alpha, send the Rangers down to see what it was."
"Yes sir!" Alpha said as he hurried over to the communications panel. "Rangers, we need you to check out a disturbance at the following coordinates."
"Understood." Tommy said in his communicator, he looked around at Billy, Kim, Jason, Zack, and Trini. "Ready?" They nodded, each calling out their dinosaur name.
The alert went off on Tommy and Kim's communicator's as well, startking both of them. Tommy looked up at Zedd, "They'll be here momentarily. If you guys really are good, then we don't want you to get hurt."
"Understood." Zedd said "Rita, let us go down to the Power Chamber. Send Goldar and Rito out there to fight with them." Zedd vanished from the Power Tube, his image shooting downward, and Rita followed him down. A few minutes later Goldar and Rito appeared.
"We were instructed to help you." Goldar growled.
"Yeah we were told that you were good Rangers, or somethin'." Rito added, the two Rangers nodded before morphing into their Ninjetti robes.
The four exited the Command Center and came face to face with six Mighty Morphin's. What surprised Tommy was that the Green Ranger was one of them, not the White. What the hell is going on? Tommy asked himself as he engaged the Green and Red Rangers, with Goldar aiding him. "Green Ranger," Goldar snarled "you will pay for your treachery!"
Now that sounds like Goldar, Tommy thought as he ducked a punch the Red Ranger threw at him, but what does he mean by treachery?
Kim and Rito took on the Pink, Blue, and Yellow Rangers while the Black stood back and decided to go with, finally deciding on the Green and Red. Kim kicked the Pink Ranger and sent her flying into the Yellow, while Rito clashed his sword with the Blue Rangers Power Lance.
Tommy lead the Green Ranger away to face him one on one. He did a spin kick, and watched as the Green Ranger ducked under it and came at him with an uppercut, which he narrowly avoided. "Who are you?" Tommy asked, getting a little frustrated.
The Green Ranger made a humph sound and said "Tommy Oliver. You?" Tommy removed his hood and face mask, showing the Green Ranger his identity. Eyes widening beneath his helmet he ordered a temporary retreat.
The man in the sky-blue cloak entered the Overseer's Dimension and grabbed Hedara by his cloak before he could say anything. "What did you do with them?" He demanded, he never lost his temper, never, but this time was an exception. Hedara smiled evilly.
"Who? Oh you your two greatest chidren?" He laughed "I dropped them in an alternate dimension. Was I not supposed too?" The man in the sky-blue cloak muttered something and turned to the Twelve Dimensional Overseer's.
"Which one of you did he have do it?" He demanded. Slowly, Gale came forward. "Which one did you drop them in?"
Gale looked at him and said "Follow me." The man in the sky-blue cloak threw Hedara down and ordered for him to be detained.
"You cannot give that order you old has-been." Hedara smirked, but to his surprise the Overseer's quickly obeyed. "What the hell?" He demanded "Let me go!"
Tommy, Kim, Goldar, and Rito teleported back into the Command Center, and Tommy demanded an explanation as to what was going on. Zedd agreed and explained that ten-thousand years ago he was in the midst of a war with Zordon. The war extended from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy. Many of which Zordon destroyed. Eventually Zordon had called for a truce, only to trap Zedd in a time warp, seriously crippling his power. Hearing that her master had been tricked and trapped, Rita concocted a spell that trapped Zordon, Alpha Five, and the five Power Coins in a space dumpster. Rita then found the DragonZord Coin and kept it for herself, in case they ever needed it.
Ten thousand years later Zordon managed to free himself from the space dumpster and had summoned five teenagers to possess his evil coins, effectively twisting the teens intohis own evil mini-army. Goldar and Rito battled them time and time again to keep them from destroying Earth. Eventually Rita remembered the DragonZord Coin and they summoned Tommy Oliver to possess it, after casting a good spell over it, and Tommy battled valiently for weeks. Until, that is, The Red Ranger managed to reverse the spell on the coin, allowing it's evil energy to flood Tommys entire being. Ever since then the Rangers had been nearly impossible to defeat. That was over a decade ago.
"So you see," Zedd said "we would appreciate it greatly if you could stay and help us." Tommy and Kim looked at one another and silently agreed that while they were stuck here they may as well help. Though they admitted that it would be weird fighting alongside the enemies of their dimension.
"Zedd," Tommy said "I have an idea of how you can boost your ranks, in case the two of us get sent back before we help you finish this."
"What is it?" Zedd asked, curious as to what his new ally was proposing.
"Kim, hand me your coin." Kim summoned her morpher and handed Tommy her Jaguar Coin. "Copy these." He pulled his own Tiger Coin out and handed them to Rita. "These should be stronger than their DinoCoins."
"Thank you, so much." Zedd said as he nodded his head.
Once Tommy and Kim had a moment alone they began to talk about their relationship. Before their abduction, they had both admitted to still harboring feelings for the other. Kim started them off. "As I was saying, before we were so rudely interrupted. Thanks for that!" She called up at the sky. "Tommy, I do still love you, but I know you're in a committed relationship, and I don't want to ruin that for you." Tommy held his finger up to her lips to shush her.
"Shh. Kimberly, I've been thinking about this for years. I want to apologize for that day on Murathias. I should have believed you, but I didn't." He looked down at his hands, seeing her hand appear over one of his.
"It's okay. I realize my story was a little farfetched. I really didn't write you that letter though. That's why when Jason told me you and Kat were together, it broke my heart." Kim tried to keep a tear from falling as she allowed the memory to surface, but Tommy watched it fall and caught it, kissing her cheek.
He looked at her and smiled "Kimberly Ann Hart."
"Yes?" Kim looked at him, his recent action leaving her in a daze.
"I love you."
Kim looked at him, more tears threatening to pour out.
"Tommy, Kimberly." Zedd said as he and Rita appeared "Thank you, for allowing us to copy your coins."
Kim smiled weakly as she reached out for her coin. "You're welcome. Anything to help out the forces of good, no matter who they may be."
"There you are." The man in the sky-blue cloak said as he found the two. "Come on, let's get you back to your own dimension."
"Oh!" Kim jumped as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "I guess this is our ride home. It was nice...meeting you!" She called, unsure of how to actually phrase it at first, as she entered the portal.
"You two my dear!" Zedd called.
After the three vanished through the portal Rita turned to Zedd and said "It's nice. Knowing that there are good Power Rangers out there somewhere."
Zedd nodded his head "Yes. It is. I just hope we can repay them for their kindness one day."
Jason stared as he watched his best friends girlfriend make out with her ex boyfriend. He didn't understand how Karone could do this Tommy, not after all they'd been through. As the initial shock wore off and he was able to form words he shouted "Karone! What the hell do you think your doing?!" Karone and Zhane both jumped and the noise.
Zhane jumped back, and Karone stood, ready to defend herself. "Look, Jason, calm down." His nostrils were flaring. "I know how it looks, but I had every intention of resisting him. But we got started to talking about our past together, and how he loved me even when I was evil."
"Tommy said he didn't care that you were once evil, what makes him any different?" He nodded towards Zhane.
"It's different because Zhane actually did like me when I was Astronema. Tommy didn't know me back then."
Jason snorted and crossed his arms. "Kim was turned evil by Zedd once, and Tommy still loved her."
"Loves." Karone corrected him. "I saw the way they looked at each other the other day. Both are still in love with the other. I had to stomp Tommy's foot just to get his attention. If she's going to be on the team, then I can't be in a relationship with him." She paused and let out a huge sigh. "I don't want to compete with another girl for his affections. I can't."
"You mean you won't." Jason corrected her. "And you," he walked slowly towards Zhane. Zhane stood frozen, Jason was one of the only people in the universe that intimidated him. "You caused the biggest part of this. Andros told me about your night out." Before Zhane could utter a word Jason drew his fist back, encased it in ice, and punched Zhane right in his face. There a very loud crack as the Silver Ranger fell to the floor. "Damn." Jason muttered "That guy either has a hard skull, or that ice hurt my hand." Karone ran over to Zhane, shaking him to get him to wake up while also yelling at Jason to get out. "Happy to oblige." Jason said as he slammed the door on his way out.
"...And that's the whole story." Jason said as he put his beer down. Andros and Ashley both had a look of sheer surprise on their faces.
"I don't believe him!" Ashley shrieked "Andros, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to freakin' murder your friend!" Andros stood and placed his hands on his wife's shoulders while telling her to calm down. Eventually she gave up and let him lead her to the bedroom for some rest.
A few minutes later Andros reappeared, slowly shaking his head. "I can't believe Zhane would do that..." he almost moaned.
"Believe it." Jason growled "I was so pissed that I punched him in his friggin' face."
Andros jerked his head up "Well, I'm sorry to say this, but I'm glad you did. I've never known him to do something that stupid. Sure he's done a lot of stupid stuff, like get that Triforian woman pregnant when he said he never wanted to settle down and have a family. He hardly even visits his son, Bridge." Andros stared down at his coffee. "Have you told Tommy yet?"
Jason shook his head. "I can't find him or Kimberly anywhere. They're not even answering their cell, or communicator's."
"You don't think Tommy's pulling a Zhane, do you? I know he wouldn't, but still. It seems as though it may be the only logical explanation."
Jason shook his head again as he spoke "I know my bro, he'd never do anything that stupid. He's always been faithful to the end." Andros nodded and sighed as he looked out the window. A couple of birds were flying around, it brought a smile out of Andros.
Hedara sat quietly in his cell. They'll be sorry, he told himself, all of them. Especially him. No one undermines my authority. No one! He began to chuckle, then laugh insanely. "Now...how do I get out of here..." He paced back and forth, looking for an opening in the cell. "Damn it." He grumbled "I don't see one."
Rocky and Carri were sitting on her couch. The movie had ended around an hour ago and they had decided to go back to her place to watch that nights Baseball game, Astros vs. Dodgers. She lay curled up in a ball, her head between his shoulder and head, his head lay atop hers. "Fifty bucks say the Dodgers win." He muttered, a sly smile crossing his face. She lifted her head up and raised an eyebrow.
"Are you betting against the greatest team ever, Mr. DeSantos?" She asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
He smiled "So what if I am?"
"Well then your on!" She smiled and her eyes sparkled. They'd only known each other for a little while, and had only been on one date, but Rocky had known right away that he loved her. He just didn't want to admit it yet. "But," she said, holding her finger up, "when the Astros win, you'll have also have to spend an entire day shopping with me."
Rocky frowned and said "What if I refuse?" She scooted away from him and crossed her arms back, pouting over on the other end. Rocky knew she wasn't really angry, her peek at him through her slightly open eye showed that. He laughed and scooted next to her saying "Fine. If, not when, they win, I'll go shopping with you." She quickly threw her arms around him and kissed him.
A couple of hours later the ball game ended and Rocky was holding his hand out with a big grin on his face. As Carri hesitantly placed the fifty in his hand his smile grew even wider. I swear, he looks like he just won the lottery, she told herself. "Told you the Dodgers would kick ass." He laughed.
"Yeah whatever, they just got lucky."
"Luck had nothing to do with it, that was pure skill." He said, and she rolled her eyes dramatically.
Adam made it safely to Triforia, he didn't know which key he was going to find, if he found it at all. When he appeared Trey was standing by, waiting to tell him which direction they key was in. He'd been walking for hours now, it was Zega all over again to him, except he had no one to talk to this time. He shielded his eyes from the sun, squinting to see if she could spot the ruins Trey told him to look for. "Nothing yet..."
He trudged on for another couple of hours, finally spotting the city ruins. He entered through the hole in the wall surrounding them, and began exploring.
The man in the sky-blue cloak dropped Tommy and Kim off back at her place. Before he left again they asked him who he was, to which he stole the Mystic Mother's words "My name is not important." But Kim wanted to atleast see his face. Slowly, she walked up to him and removed his hood. As it fell back on his shoulders he stared at her.
"You look familiar..." She said, raising an eyebrow. The man nodded, replacing his hood and backing into his portal.
After he left Tommy walked up to Kim and said "He didn't look familiar to me."
"Well he did to me. I know I've seen him somewhere before." She mused, she knew she'd seen him before. She just couldn't place where and it bugged the crap out of her.
Kim walked through the halls of the moon palace, she had to find a way to remove that tattoo. Knowing someone could cripple you in an instant wasn't a feeling she enjoyed. "I know what will brighten my mood." She smiled as she headed down towards the dungeons, boots echoing off the stone walls. As she came to a stop infront of Goldar and Rito's quarters she noticed the baboon was missing. "Hey," she said, scaring Rito who had his back turned to her, "where's the ugly ape at?"
"He's uh...he's in...the bathroom! Yep, that's where he is alright!" Kim smirked, she knew he was lying.
"You know," she crooned "you just gave me the excuse I was looking for to torment you." She smiled "Not that I really need one though." Rito gulped and tried to transport out when she grabbed him. He tried running, but she had a tight grip on his shoulder. She laughed as she began to rip his body parts off and watch them re-attach. He cried out every time she'd pulled one off, and that only made her laugh harder. Her laughing soon turned into cackling and she threw him down on the floor, stomping on him hard enough for his ribs to splinter. He howled in pain as she continued stomping her frustrations out.
Gruumm stared over at Morgana, who was coloring in a book, he grunted and looked over at the moon palace on one of the video screens. "The new moon is tomorrow night. Baneero, I hope you enjoy your last night. Alive." He looked back over at Morgana who had turned to look at him and grin. She could hardly wait, soon she would have her revenge on her father for not giving her what she wanted.
"Yes." She crooned "Daddy will pay." She laughed at the thought.
"Morgana," Gruumm rasped "go suit up. Use that new armor you found." Morgana skipped out of the room.
The man in the sky-blue cloak returned to the Overseer's Dimension and walked up to Gale. He swallowed a lump in his throat as the man approached him. "Gale," he nodded "I understand you acted out of fear of Hedara. But do not fret, he is well contained." Gale nodded.
"Sorry sir." He said weakly.
The man shook his head "There is nothing to be sorry for."
"But sir, I threw your heirs into an alternate dimension. If they had been killed it would have been my fault!"
"No, it would have been Hedara's fault for bullying you." He placed his hand on Gale's shoulder. "Gale, I feel as though I can trust you to lead where Hedara failed. From here on out, you are the Grand Overseer." Gale was speechless, clicking noises came from his throat as he tried to get his words out.
"But!" He finally stammered "What about you? What are you going to do?"
The man smiled as he replied "I'm giving Gene your dimensions and taking over his."
"Is that so you can keep an eye on those two better? See how they progress?" Gene asked coolly from hi set. The man nodded.
"It most certainly is." He said as he took a seat.
