Power Rangers: A New Beginning
Chapter 21: Disassembled Part One: Which things become clearer?
The Future
Mega-City 25
Lucas Wright stared at his monitors, he yawned into his hands. His watch commander put him on this detail to prove to Lucas that there is more for an officer to do then just save the world. Suddenly Lucas sat up straighter in his chair, there was something happening to the time stream
"I don't understand" he muttered to himself as he punched a button on his wrist communicator "Uhh sir, we have a problem"
"What is it?" the voice snapped from the tiny speaker
"I can't explain it sir, I think you should come down and see it for yourself"
The voice sighed
"On my way" the voice barked
Minutes later the door slid open behind Lucas, Lucas jumped up to his feet and snapped off a quick salute. The commander walked in slowly, it was a blue dog-like creature, the commander returned the salute
"What is going on?"
Lucas relaxed a little
"There are some abnormalities in the time stream"
"Is it possible that someone has gone back and started to disrupt the past?"
"That's what it looks like to me sir, but I have checked the logs; there have been no abnormal time shifts to the past"
The commander stared at the screen, his ears twitched slightly
"Check the computer logs, I want to know if…"
At that moment the door slid open again, a young man in a red jumpsuit ran in
"Sir, he's escaped, and he's taken the power coin with him"
The Present
The Red Ranger stepped over the fallen form of the android, the body shifted in his arms as Miryla raised her head slowly
"I was…" she whispered softly
"Dead is the word" The Ranger replied as he lowered Miryla to the floor "But on the good side, the plan is working as we thought it would"
Miryla smiled, licking her tongue across her lips
"Good, I hope you brought something for me"
The Red Ranger nodded and reached into his pouch, pulling a small golden coin, he handed it over to Miryla. She looked down and smiled as it shimmered in a pinkish light
The Future…
The commander paced the deck
"I want someone to explain how he escaped"
Lucas shook his head as he looked over to Alex, the man in the red jumpsuit
"I don't have an answer to that, but it appears that someone else crossed over now. There is a report from a travel agency of them losing a person on a trip back to the early 2000's"
"And why is this coming to my attention now?' the commander asked, turning on Lucas
"Because it was overlooked sir" Alex said
"This is unbelievable"
An alarm klaxon overhead began to spin and wail its alarm
"Now what is it?" The Commander asked
"The time stream is changing" Lucas replied with fear in his eyes
"How long before it reaches us?"
"Less than an hour, sir"
"Sir, allow me to take my team back to the disturbance and fix it"
The commander nodded
"Fine, Lucas"
Lucas stood without having to be asked; he followed Alex out the door
The commander sighed the fate of the future was now in the hands of the newly formed SPD
The Present
Alpha slowly came back to life
"What hit me?" he moaned
Alpha slowly got back to his feet, his servos whined and grated, one had mostly ruptured doing his attack
Suddenly everything became cleared; he turned as fast as he could to Miryla's holding tank, to see it empty, the glass front had been shattered
"This is not good" he said as he started back to elevator that would take him back to Zordon
"Not good at all" he said shaking his head as the elevator raised up through the floor, as he was raised up he saw the damage to the command center, sparks erupted from control panels, Zordon's containment tube had been shattered, ragged chunks of steel littered the floor
"I must get in contact with the rangers" he said
Later…
"Let's see if this will work" Alpha said as he screwed the communication panel back down. Suddenly lights showed as well as power levels, the command center's lights slowly raised back to their normal brightness.
"Power has been restored to the command center" Alpha said with a sigh
He turned to a dial and watched as Zordon's containment tube shimmered and fixed itself, suddenly Zordon's giant head slid down
"Alpha" he boomed "What has happened"
"It's bad Zordon. Miryla has disappeared, and I was attacked by the Red Ranger"
"That was not the Red Ranger, Alpha"
"Sure looked like him to me"
Zordon shook his head
"I believe it is time we come clean with the Rangers, Alpha"
Alpha nodded as he turned back to his panels
"The must be warned of the existence of the Psycho Rangers"
Alpha stopped and looked back up to Zordon
"It gets worse; we have lost all life signs for the Black Ranger"
"How long have we been without power?"
"The chrono device says about a week" Alpha said
"Find the Rangers, and bring them to me"
Angel Grove
Kimberly began to hate her only black dress, it seemed like it was getting more and more uses in the last few months. She sat staring at the casket in front of her as she gripped Billy's hand.
Someone once said that death was a bitch, and now she was seeing for herself that it was true
"Cut down in the prime of his youth" the minister continued "We now give this young man into your arms Lord. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
"I'm beginning to believe there isn't a god" Jason muttered as he watched the casket lower itself into the ground
Tommy sat next to him, his hands still in handcuffs, he nodded solemnly
The crowd around them began to disperse, the five of them still sat there, Tommy awkwardly put his arms around Trini's sobbing shoulders
"So what are we going to do now?" Billy asked
"I'm done" Jason said "I can't believe this has happened, it was bad enough when they brought the military in but…he was my friend"
"You can't just quit" Billy said
"Watch me" Jason said as he stood up and walked away
"Jason" Billy called out, but Jason just walked away, pulling off his morpher and tossing into a nearby bush
"I'm going to spend some time with my grandfather" Trini said, sitting upright "I just have to get away"
Tommy looked shocked
"But I thought…"
"I'm sorry Tommy, I just have to. Maybe I will come back" Trini said as she slid away from him, she walked over and hugged Kimberly and stopped by Billy and handed him her morpher "It was fun while it lasted"
"So I guess that's it" Kimberly whispered
"No" Billy said as he stood and went for Jason's morpher
"Billy we haven't heard from Zordon or Alpha for weeks now" Tommy said
"It hasn't been that long" Billy snapped
"Yes it has, I would know, I have been in jail"
"Yeah, what about that" Kimberly said "Is it true? Did you kill Miryla?"
"What kind of question is that?" Tommy asked "Of course not"
"Well it's just that we don't know much about you and…"
"Look I'll admit that I have some flaws, but I'm not a murderer" Tommy said as he tried to get up as the guard walked over to him "The statue of limitations states that with no body there is no crime committed. I should be out by the end of the day tomorrow" The guard began to lead Tommy away, he stopped suddenly "We'll get through this"
"So Billy" Kimberly said
"Yea?" Billy said sliding the morphers into his jacket pockets
"Where do we go next?"
Billy shook his head
"For the first time, I have no idea"
Kimberly nodded
"Billy?" a voice said behind them, Billy stood and turned around
The man in gloves stood behind him with a battalion of MJ-12 soldiers, each with a large 'Z" emblazed on the chest
"Dad?"
Next Up: Billy shot, Kimberly stabbed and Zack dead! Wait that has already happened, answers to more questions and the introduction of the SPD
Till Then
I remain
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