Galactic Odyssey
Part of the Power Rangers: Worlds, Times and Distances Apart Universe
A Power Rangers Fanfiction
Chapter 3: A Sister Lost
by Lauraac2110
Inquiris, the fateful day of the Accident, early morning, Eight O'Clock
The ear-splitting scream jolted Dimitria awake that fateful morning as Alpha 6 jumped in fright.
"Alpha 6, where did that scream come from?" Dimitria demanded as she slid out of bed. Alpha 6, who was working at the console, furiously typed in a number of commands to calculate the source of the scream. Seconds later, the robotic assistant turned to Dimitria.
"Dimitria, the scream came from Divatox's quarters," Alpha 6 informed her. "She has probably had another nightmare again of her days as an evil space pirate."
Dimitria grimaced at this.
"Do you want me to contact her and put her on-screen?" Alpha 6 asked. Dimitria shook her head.
"No, if Divatox wants to talk about it, I am sure she will come here anyway. Continue with your work, Alpha 6," she answered. Alpha 6 nodded and turned her attention back to the console.
Dimitria, on the other hand, dressed and sat back on her bed again. She was feeling exceptionally uneasy at that moment. Despite wanting to believe Alpha 6's presumptions about her sister having another of her nightmares, a gnawing doubt lingered in the back of her mind. She felt that there was something very, very wrong although nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary.
For a moment, Dimitria considered what she was going to do before she put her feelings and doubt to one side.
After all, everything appeared as it had been for the last two years on Inquiris from what Divatox and Alpha 6 had told her since she had woken up. Peaceful and quiet.
Little did she realise at that moment just how soon that peace and quiet would be shattered forever.
Inquiris, Divatox's Quarters, the fateful day of the Accident, early morning, at that very moment, Five Minutes Past Eight
When the burst of evil energy that Venjix had released had hit Divatox, she had screamed as pain shot through her entire body to transform her back into the evil space pirate that she had once been long ago before Zordon's purifying wave of energy had turned her into a powerful force of good.
Now, though, she was laughing evilly as her minions, Rygog, Elgar and Porto stood before her along with her brother General Havoc.
"It feels so good to be evil again," Divatox finally said as she sat up and composed herself.
"So, sister, what are we going to do now?" General Havoc demanded. "Now that we're back and you're evil once again, that is."
"I am going to get revenge on our goody-goody sister, Dimitria, by destroying that which is most precious to her first," Divatox answered as she stood up. "Care to join me, dear brother?"
General Havoc grinned and nodded as Divatox turned her attention to her minions.
"Rygog, take Elgar and Porto and go secure us an escape vessel since we'll be leaving immediately after I've gotten my revenge upon my sister," Divatox commanded.
"As you command," Rygog replied respectfully before he left with Elgar and Porto. Divatox then turned to her brother.
"Follow me," Divatox said calmly as both of them left her quarters behind.
Inquiris, the fateful day of the Accident, early morning, Eight Thirty
When Divatox and General Havoc burst into the room, they had the element of surprise on their side.
Before Alpha 6 could protect Dimitria by activating the defence grid and disabling the system, General Havoc and Divatox had deactivated the robotic assistant by removing her power source and disconnecting a number of important wires that connected to the robotic assistant's hard drive. They then threw her aside as both of them turned to a shocked Dimitria.
"Hello, sister," both of them said coldly.
"How... Why..." Dimitria began.
"I have been restored to what I should be," Divatox said coldly as she hauled her sister off of her bed and threw her onto the floor. "And, now, I can get my revenge."
"Divatox, please stop this. This is not you," Dimitria begged as she tried and failed to get back up onto her feet since Divatox simply threw her back down onto the floor again. General Havoc had an exceptionally amused expression upon his face.
"I must admit, sister, I never once believed that I would ever see you stoop so low," General Havoc said coldly as he regarded Dimitria with a look of disdain. "Begging is supposed to be beneath you."
Dimitria didn't reply to him as she glared at him with an expression of pure hatred upon her face as Divatox moved over to the console and began to furiously input a number of commands. When she was almost finished, she looked up with a smug look of satisfaction upon her face as she continued to input the last of the commands she needed to enact her revenge.
"In a moment, I am about to destroy everything precious to you, Dimitria, in revenge for everything that you've ever done to me," Divatox said coldly as Porto entered the room.
"Divatox, Rygog and Elgar have secured your escape vessel," Porto informed her. Divatox smiled at this as she finished inputting her commands.
The lighting in the room turned red and, after that, the self-destruct message appeared on the screen in the console. On top of that, a warning alarm started to sound. Dimitria paled.
"As you should know, Dimitria, the self-destruct sequence has now been activated," Divatox said with a cold smile. "In almost three hours from now, at precisely eleven thirty, this facility will explode and destroy your precious Inquiris. Goodbye."
With that, Divatox, General Havoc and Porto left without another word. As soon as they were gone, Dimitria of Inquiris instantly set to work on reactivating Alpha 6 and hoped, with all her heart, that she would manage to restore her robotic assistant before it became too late tosave her precious home planet.
Inquiris, Escape Vessel, the fateful day of the Accident, mid-morning, Nine Fifteen
"Get us out of here, Porto," Divatox commanded once the escape vessel was ready to take off and all of her minions were inside of it. "Take us to the nearest trade planet where we can steal a warship so that we can take over the universe and get our revenge on the Power Rangers."
"Yes, Divatox," Porto answered as he started the launch sequence. Seconds later, the escape vessel took off.
Inquiris, the fateful day of the Accident, mid-morning, some time later, Five Minutes Past Ten
Once Dimitria finally reconnected Alpha 6's power source and harddrive, the robotic assistant instantly came back on-line and looked around in confusion.
"Dimitria, what happened?" Alpha 6 demanded. "My memory banks have been corrupted so I do not recall how I was deactivated."
"Somehow, Divatox has turned against us once again," Dimitria said mournfully. "She and my restored brother Havoc, along with her newly restored minions, came here and deactivated you. Then, they set off the self-destruct sequence before they fled. It has taken me just under an hour and a half to reactivate you. I do not believe that we have much time left to stop the self-destruct sequence before Inquiris is destroyed."
"Ai, Ai, Ai, that is not good. I will attempt to disable the self-destruct sequence immediately," Alpha 6 said as she rushed to the nearby console and started to furiously type in a number of commands as she tried to deactivate the self-destruct sequence.
Inquiris, the fateful day of the Accident, mid-morning, several minutes later, Ten Fifteen
It was a short time later that Alpha 6 admitted defeat after she had tried almost everything she could to deactivate the self-destruct sequence. Nothing had worked because, unfortunately, Divatox had set the system to disable itself when Dimitria or Alpha 6 tried to override the self-destruct sequence.
"Alpha 6, what are we going to do?" Dimitria wondered aloud quietly as the robotic assistant turned to her.
"There's only one way that we can save Inquiris now, Dimitria," Alpha 6 said grimly. "We'll need to pull the manual self-destruct sequence override lever to deactivate the self-destruct sequence. Unfortunately, though, there is a small problem."
"Which is?" Dimitria demanded.
"My head is too wide so I won't be able to enter the duct that it is in," Alpha 6 said grimly. "It was deliberately designed that way so that no one could reprogram me to manually activate the self-destruct feature to destroy you."
Dimitria grimaced as she closed her eyes for several moments before she suddenly realised something very important. Alpha 6 wouldn't be able to fit into the duct? But what about her?
"Alpha, would I be able to fit into the duct?" Dimitria demanded.
"Yes," Alpha 6 answered in surprise. "Why?"
"I will deactivate it personally if I have to," Dimitria answered. "Tell me about the location of the duct and the defences around the lever."
"The duct is behind Divatox's wardrobe in her quarters," Alpha 6 answered. "The lever is right at the very end of the duct and, if I remember correctly, it is hidden behind a panel that will only open after a retinal scan has been performed to identify you. On top of that, it is also protected by a number of defences which can only be deactivated by your voice."
Dimitria grimaced.
"We had better hurry to Divatox's quarters then," Dimitria said grimly. "Come, Alpha 6."
With that, both of them rushed out of the room to Divatox's quarters. Both of them knew that their time was almost running out and were determined to save Inquiris before it was too late.
Inquiris, Divatox's Quarters, the fateful day of the Accident, late morning, some time later, Eleven O'Clock
As soon as they had entered Divatox's quarters, Dimitria quickly shifted Divatox's wardrobe to one side and Alpha 6 quickly set to work on opening the grille.
After several moments, the grille swung open with a squeak and Alpha 6 turned to Dimitria.
"I can only wish you good luck, Dimitria," she said simply. Dimitria nodded wordlessly before the robotic assistant helped her into the duct and, without looking back, she scrambled to get to the manual override. They didn't have a lot of precious time left before the self-destruct sequence would activate and destroy her precious Inquiris forever which Dimitria was not going to allow to happen if she could help it.
Inquiris, Maintenance Duct, the fateful day of the Accident, late morning, some time later, Eleven Twenty-Five
As soon as she arrived at the end of the duct, she knew that she didn't have a lot of time left. Almost instantly, she located the retinal scanner and activated it.
Eleven Twenty-Six...
Once it had scanned her eyes and confirmed that she was indeed the Dimitria of Inquiris, the panel in front of her slid aside to reveal the manual self-destruct sequence override lever which was protected by a glass box.
Eleven Twenty-Seven...
Dimitria grimaced. Alpha 6 hadn't told her about the glass box...
Unless, of course, it was one of the defences that could be deactivated by her voice.
"Deactivate all defences around the lever," Dimitria commanded aloud.
Eleven Twenty-Eight...
The glass box slid away to reveal the manual self-destruct override sequence lever. Dimitria quickly scrambled closer to the lever so that she could deactivate the self-destruct sequence.
Eleven Twenty-Nine...
Dimitria of Inquiris instantly pulled the lever down and waited for the self-destruct sequence to deactivate.
Eleven Thirty...
After no signs of anything happening, Dimitria closed her eyes and prepared for the worst.
Eleven Thirty-One.
Hesitantly, Dimitria opened her eyes again as the alarms abruptly stopped and the lightning returned to normal.
It took her a few moments to realise that she had done it.
She had saved Inquiris.
Almost instantly, she sighed in relief as she closed her eyes again for a moment before a small smile spread across her face.
It seems that your attempt at revenge against me, Divatox, failed. Dimitria thought grimly in sorrowful satisfaction as her small smile vanished. I saved Inquiris from destruction. And Alpha 6 and I are relatively unharmed although a number of Alpha's circuits may need a few minor repairs.
For a few minutes, Dimitria remained next to the lever as she let the sorrow that she felt because of the loss of her sister to evil consume her before she brushed it aside and slowly turned to return to Alpha 6's side.
Inquiris, Divatox's Quarters, the fateful day of the Accident, early afternoon, some time later, Twelve Noon
When Dimitria emerged from the duct, Alpha 6 enveloped her in a tight hug.
"Ai, Ai, Ai, you did it!" Alpha 6 exclaimed happily. "You saved Inquiris, Dimitria!"
Dimitria, however, wasn't in such a celebratory mood and Alpha 6 saw this.
"Dimitria, what's wrong?" Alpha 6 demanded quietly.
"I have lost my sister, Alpha 6," Dimitria answered. "That what is wrong."
Alpha 6 sighed grimly at this.
"We'll get Divatox back, somehow, Dimitria," Alpha 6 vowed after a moment. "I'm sure of it."
Dimitria sighed before she nodded.
"Come, Alpha 6, we had better go see if the system has been reactivated now that the self-destruct sequence has been disabled," she said grimly.
Alpha 6 nodded and, wordlessly, both of them left Divatox's quarters behind.
Inquiris, the fateful day of the Accident, early afternoon, some time later, Twelve Thirty
As they entered the room, Alpha 6 instantly set to work at the console as Dimitria returned to her bed, thoroughly exhausted, and lay down.
"Dimitria, the system has been restored," Alpha 6 confirmed. "And you have a message from Billy on Aquitar."
Dimitria sat up at this.
"Play the message," she commanded. Alpha 6 nodded and quickly typed in the required commands to play the message.
"To all Power Rangers and Allies In Space,
This is Billy Cranston. If you don't know already, we have a massive problem in the form of all, and yes I said all, the villains that we have previously destroyed over the years who have been revived. You're probably wondering how this happened.
Venjix was destroyed today and his destruction unleashed a massive wave of evil energy off the scale which caused the revival of the evils. I do not know how he was defeated nor by whom. All I know is that he is gone.
You are all in great danger. My advice to you is to band together with your allies and friends against the evils for we are in for a long road ahead. Today is the beginning of a war that will become the greatest war in history surpassing even the Space War fought out here by the Space Rangers.
I have some good news. Tommy Oliver is alive and survived the invasion in hiding. Unfortunately, Earth is completely overrun by evils so I'm heading to the planet to meet up with him so that we can start gathering the scattered Rangers together and to work upon defeating the evils which is what I assume that he needs me for. I will not be out of contact, though, so if you need any advice do not hesitate to contact me on Earth.
No matter what happens, I want all of you to remember that you have to work together to keep the evils as far away from Earth as possible for as long as you possibly can whilst you try to thin their ranks. The more time you can buy for us to get defences prepared on Earth, the better, for the universe will be in grave peril if Earth falls to evil in the war.
If you need any help, do not hesitate to contact Dimitria of Inquiris who I'm relieved to inform you is now awake once again. She is an excellent guide and should be able to guide you adequately when you need advice as you should know.
The odds may be stacked against us, dramatically, but we've overcome terrible odds before so I'm positive that we can do it again," the message said.
"Well that explains why Divatox has become an evil space pirate again," Alpha 6 muttered. "And it also explains why General Havoc and her minions have returned as well."
Alpha 6 then turned to Dimitria.
"What are we going to do, Dimitria?" Alpha 6 asked.
"We're going to do what I've always done," Dimitria answered with a small smile. "Watch, wait and intervene when my help is required."