Chapter Twenty-Three: A Star is Born
Episode Seven - Inevitability
Universe M54331Z-B1
Goldar-2 stared at the fight from his place on the Moon Palace. Timeline B-1 was a place he could only understand from what his inherited memories told him: simpler and more lighthearted.
At that moment in time, through a certain chain of events, Scorpina had unleashed some sort of worm creature and was using it to fight the rangers. She had entrapped them in a massive, pink, oblong cocoon. Before that triumph, Goldar of Timeline B-1 had also sent down a Monster of his own, with a baseball motif.
Goldar had called Goldar-2 to watch over the battle while he had gone down himself to help take down the rangers. Goldar-2 didn't know a lot about what was happening, and didn't care. He was more interested in seeing the relative ease Rita's fight against Earth was compared to his own campaign. Where in his Timeline he'd defeated the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and (which regrettably led to them adopting their new Thunder powers), Rita had yet to put a dent in the rangers' power on Timeline B-1. Goldar-2 had also retained the Green Ranger powers for the forces of evil in his Timeline, whereas Timeline B-1 had a Green Ranger fighting on the side of good.
The Green Ranger was ever showing himself to be a thorn in the side of whichever team he was battling against in both Timelines. During Scorpina's current raid against Earth, the rangers were meeting up to battle against the worm creature while Tommy had stayed behind to battle Goldar, who had occupied himself in downtown Angel Grove to attack the city. If the rangers had stayed with Goldar, Scorpina would have taken her attack to the Abandoned Warehouse District to continue the search for Zordon's elusive artifacts. In case the rangers had gone after Scorpina (which they had), Goldar had planned on heading to the Warehouse District himself. Unfortunately, he hadn't planned on Tommy not joining the core five rangers.
"You're not going anywhere!" Goldar-2 heard Green Ranger declare while the stalwart teen squared off against his golden armored counterpart. "Dragonzord in Battle Mode! Let's do this!"
As a haunting melody of Morphing Energy-infused Music Magic erupted from the Dragon Dagger, the mighty Megazord marched forward and swung its massive drill at Goldar. Goldar-2 laughed as the momentum from the weapon threw his Temporal Twin back. Goldar himself had been lucky to have not been injured more than he had been, having had the reflexes to quickly put up his sword and block the blow.
I wonder if I got the part... Tommy suddenly found himself thinking, reflecting back on the commercial audition for the karate gig he'd just been pulled from. Wait... what am I thinking!? I'm in the middle of a Monster fight here! I need to focus!
Suddenly, Tommy noticed his Megazord begin to disassemble. It took a moment for him to understand what was happening before he saw beams of light teleport them into the zords: his teammates had returned to their zords and were re-assembling. Looking over, Tommy saw on the other side of the city Scorpina's worm. It had grown and was ready to rumble.
As Tommy went to join the team, he noticed the massive Goldar had already taken the opportunity to make his way to the Abandoned Warehouse District. Letting out a sigh of irritation, Tommy placed the Dragon Dagger up to the lip molded plate on his helmet where his own lips would had been and began to play.
Dragonzord quickly caught up to Goldar and grabbed him from behind. With a mighty twist of its torso, the massive zord threw Goldar into the water of the industrial sector Dragonzord usually called home. Tommy felt guilty, because once again he was interrupting the work that apparently was constantly getting stalled due to his zord. He shook the feeling and continued giving instructions to his zord, doing all he could to ensure no one was injured or worse at the nearby plant.
Playing another chain of notes from the dagger, Dragonzord launched several missiles from its fingertips. They hit Goldar and, due to the sandy foundation of the seafloor upon which he was standing, caused him to fall. As he did, the golden heathen felt the salty water fill his mouth and sting his eyes. Not only that, but his large stature caused his fall to land him deeper into the ocean where many large rocks had their homes on the seabed. Goldar tried crying out in pain (though it was inaudible due to being underwater) as the rocks hit his yet damaged spine. While the air bubbles floated to the water's surface from his exclamations of pain, Goldar knew his time in the battlefield was over. Without even coming up for air, flames surrounded him and he found himself teleporting back to the Moon Palace.
Landing while sopping wet on the floor of the Moon Palace, Goldar found his Temporal Twin hovering over him with a look of sheer delight on his face. Goldar-2 held out his hand to help Goldar stand, but the proud golden warrior refused the "help" and forced himself up (ignoring the burning pain coming from his back).
"Funny how those old war injuries come back to haunt you, huh?" Goldar-2 stated, feigning care for his counterpart.
Goldar grunted. "Whatever. You've done your part. Now go back to your Timeline and... and do whatever it is you do there."
"Sheesh! You're welcome!" Goldar-2 answered angrily as he teleported to the Dark Dimension to find his way back home.
Alone, Goldar sighed as he took his place on the balcony to "cheer" Scorpina on. He knew by that point Tommy had already joined the fight and, if it hadn't already finished, that it would be shortly done.
Sighing in exasperation, Goldar decided to go through the motions of pretending they even had a shot of winning. In his mind, though, he was already planning his next strike against the Power Rangers.
