Reign of Evil
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." ~William Congreve
The sky darken and it started to rain, the front of the balcony of Empress Rita's Tower in the heart of the silent city of Angel Grove can be heard the clashing of swords. The Dragon Dagger lay across the cold dark ground while it's master uses Saba in a violent clash with Jaysin who held the Golden Power Staff but at the top was the long blade of the Power Sword. Jaysin skillfully used it in his sword play and extended the base of the staff outward so he could wield the Golden Power sword with both hands making his strikes more powerful.
Jaysin Li Scotts and Thomas Oliveira were the last Power Rangers of Earth 3-29. The Darklord Zordon's chosen leaders. The two resumed their batte after not seeing each other for years. They battled as fierce rivals that never ended their rivalry. Their blades drew sparks from one another. Their fighting styles had evolved since the last time they fought but they quickly adapted to one another.
The cold wind blew the rain into the throne room making the ground wet and slippery. This did not stop them from ruthlessly trying to kill one another. Thomas tried to use his invisibility but Jaysin countered with closing his eyes. Jaysin flashes back to when he was training with a blindfold on and would have to dodge attacks from the other students and try to land strikes back.
Thomas was unable to get a clean hit on Jaysin who blocked all his attacks. Thomas turned visible and tried to use his speed but found that Jaysin predicted where his blade would strike almost on instinct. Their blades slammed into one another causing both to slide back then they lunged forward slamming their blades at one another pushing against one another.
Thomas has killed or ruined the lives of dozens of rangers and doppelgangers over the years but he had never managed to kill the one person who had always got away and survived, Jaysin. Thomas was thrilled to see Jaysin's skills had not waned even if in his heart, he had given up on life as told to him by Gia. As for Jaysin he hadn't faced a true challenge worthy of his full force and skill since The Arbiter. They both derived a sick twisted enjoyment in trying to kill one another. In their heart they both had missed this. They had missed one another.
They both looked at one another with an evil grin, but it was Jaysin who forced Thomas back, knocking Saba from his hand as it went flying through the air. Thomas quickly slams his hand down deflecting Jaysin's blade missing his chest but the blade thrust through his left hand side. Thomas held the blade with a wicked grin spitting up blood from his mouth but even in his most painful moment he was having so much fun, he felt as if his heart would burst with overwhelming joy.
"MASTER!" Saba floats in the air firing his heat vision at Jaysin who glances up seeing the red light. Jaysin kicks Thomas away bringing up his sword getting blasted back by the heat vision. Jaysin goes sliding across the ground. Jaysin recovers to one knee looking up hatefully at Thomas who holds up his head holding his bloody side with a look of pure joy. Thomas reaches behind him with his right hand holding up the Master Morpher. Jaysin gets to his feet with a smile.
"It wont work" Jaysin grins.
"Good thing I had Alpha give me an upgrade" Thomas laughed insanely. Jaysin's eyes widen.
"Nooo…" Jaysin looks startled.
"Alpha?" Billie looks over at his screen with a dark look.
"I don't understand Mistress Billie. I haven't done anything. Billie quickly brings up the security footage from last night but found that it two like the Dojo and the bar, it had been deleted. Billie's scan had completed when she saw the report and saw the one alert of malware in Alpha's programming.
"Alpha what is this...Code 871?" Billie said outloud. Alpha's red eyes turned green and so did his coding and all the screens went black and Alpha's voice sounded normal and he spoke in complete sentences.
"I have served Master Thomas since he broke into the Command Center the first time and destroyed it" Alpha said in a dark tone.
"Traitor…" Billie stood up pushing her chair back. Jaysin had heard everything over the communicator.
"It's morphin time!" Thomas held out his morpher opening it as it cracked to life with the power of corruption. The Dragon coin appeared in the morpher. "Dragonzord! Green Ranger Power!" Thomas stood as a full power corrupted green ranger who held out his right hand with the Dragon Dagger flew back into his right hand.
"Blast it!" Jaysin said out loud running at Thomas sliding across the ground at the last minute missing the slice at his neck by mere centimeters. Thomas spun around striking the dagger into the ground cracking it and splitting the ground with energy bursting forth. Jaysin evades that and Saba overhead firing his heat vision. "BILLIE I NEED MY MORPHER NOW!" Jaysin yells into the communicator.
Billie and Hayley were desperately trying to break into the vault whose electronic locks were off thanks to Alpha who also cleared her access. Alpha unplugged himself from the mainframe back into his cenozoic body. A violent exchange with robo Kat and Alpha in a narrow space as she tried to prevent him from trying to kill Billie and Hayley.
"Hayley and I are trying but Alpha turned on us and is trying to kill us!" Billie replies.
"What?" Jaysin looked alarmed as Thomas closed the distance between him violently and insanely trying to slash him with the dagger.
"There's going to die and you're going to have to listen to them die! Unless?" Thomas backed up pointing his dagger at Jaysin's hands. Jaysin glanced down to see his hands were glowing gold with red lighting cracking around him. "Can you morph like you did when you were the Gold Zeo Ranger?" Thomas challenges him.
"Baby don't! The morpher stabilizes your power, if you tried to morph without it the golden power corrupted by your red ranger powers could destroy you! That energy would be too much for your body!" Billie turns away from the safe speaking into her communicator while Hayley opens a panel and hacks the power grid trying to restore power to the vault while robo Kat and Alpha clash in the background slamming each other against the wall, the monitors and the center console.
"Am I not challenging you enough my friend? Fine, I'll step it up!" Thomas said in a sinister voice. Thomas pulls the Master Morpher off his belt as the Dragon coin turns into the Tigerzord coin. "Tigerzord! White Ranger Power!" Thomas yells out a white light blinding Jaysin as Saba flies into Thomas's right hand slashing at him. Jaysin instinctively ducks racing forward. Thomas lunges at him striking down. Jaysin spins his staff behind him blocking the attack sliding across the ground. Jaysin quickly rolls over and springs back to his feet.
Thomas holds out Saba and fires his heat vision. Jaysin runs along the wall with the heat vision right behind him. Jaysin runs up the wall back flipping missing the heat wave flinging gold lighting from his Golden Power Sword. Thomas's white ranger form changes into an armored version of the white ranger back when King Mondo first invaded and they needed extra power to fight the cogs before they got their Zeo Powers.
Thomas got hit with the golden lighting and was flung back into the far wall. Jaysin leaned forward bringing up his right hand parallel to his face holding his left hand along the blade as it erupts in golden fire. Jaysin races forward yelling out in rage. Thomas laughed evilly, egging Jaysin on grabbing the morpher off his belt. "RED LIGHTING TURBO POWER!" Thomas yells out morphing into the Red Turbo Ranger.
Thomas easily dodges out the way as Jaysin slams into the wall with his sword causing it to explode on the other side. From the dust Thomas could see a right eye aflamed in a red and gold light. Thomas laughed but suddenly clenched his side in pain. This whole time he had been bleeding beneath the suit, while the energy has been keeping him going but between that and the corruption Thomas would die if he doesn't treat his injury, but he didn't care he was having too much fun and so was Jaysin. He could tell Jaysin was lost in a bloodthirsty rage.
Jaysin lunges forward using his sword like a rapier striking to strike at Thomas who effortlessly dodged using his speed. Under his helmet he was starting to sweet and his vision was starting to get blurry. Being in the Turbo Ranger form was accelerating his condition. Thomas flashes the head beams at Jaysin temporarily blinding him. Thomas roundhouse kicks the Golden Power Sword from Jaysin's hand, then leaps back running full force, punching Jaysin in the chest causing him to go flying back into the wall.
Thomas ran up on him throwing a volley of punches brutalizing and pulverizing him. Thomas backed up holding his side. A bloody and bruised Jaysin whose right fist was alive with golden glow and red lighting punches Thomas square in his chest causing a massive explosion of sparks as Thomas gets flung back across the ground. Jaysin falls to one knee, Thomas struggles to get to his feet pulling the morpher off his belt as it shifts back into the Master Morpher.
"Man Tommy, how many forms do you have?" Jaysin gives a dismayed look toward him.
"ZEO RANGER FIVE RED!" Thomas yells out transforming into the Red Zeo Ranger. Jaysin groans. Thomas races at him bringing out the Red Zeo Sword. Jaysin races at him holding out his right hand with the Golden Power Sword reappearing in his hand. Jaysin swings the sword with both hands shattering the sword spinning around while ducking down. Lighting from outside strikes the blade of the sword as Jaysin slashes upward causing Thomas to fly up hitting the ceiling and slams into the ground.
"Give up Tommy it's over!" Jaysin tells him standing erect. Thomas struggles to get to his feet when a breach opens up and a white light shoots out. The breaches closes as the light smashes through the roof landing between Thomas and Jaysin who go flying back. From the dust the Black Dragon emerges. Jaysin recovers to his feet pointing his sword at him. "Who the hell are you?" Jaysin demanded.
"I'm the Back Dragonzord and I have come to avenge my master Drakkon, by killing this pretender" Black Dragon tells him looking over his right shoulder at Jaysin then over at Thomas who holds up his Master Morpher.
"Black Dragon!" Thomas transforms into the hybrid ranger that was the green and whte ranger powers fused together known as Lord Drakkon. Thomas flicks his wrist with the Dragon Dagger reappearing in his right hand and Saba in his left hand. "Before my time is done I'll kill all of you!" Thomas said in a sinister voice.
"You will try pretender" Black Dragon replies.
"No, get in line, he was mine first" Jaysin points his left hand at Black Dragon.
"Stand aside human, I have no quarrel with you" Black Dragon replies back.
"You're a breacher on MY earth, sorry coming here was a death sentence" Jaysin told him dematerializing his Golden Power Sword.
"Hold on Jaysin, I'll end this quickly and then we can go back to killing each other" Thomas says in a weakening voice. Jaysin grins gesturing out to Thomas.
"By all means show me bro" Jaysin said with a wicked grin. He hadn't called Thomas that since they tried to be one time friends.
Black Dragon races forward bringing down his right hand. Thomas blocks using the Dragon Dagger and Saba. Thomas pushes Black Dragon back off balancing him then with Saba and the Dragon Dagger sparking with corrupted energy unleashing a brutal 32 hit strike brutalizing the Black Dragon. Jaysin watches Thomas off balance and draws sparks from the armored body of the Back Dragon.
The fight ended as quickly as it began. Black Dragon caught Saba with his left hand and blocked the Dragon Dagger strike with his right hand. Then gave Thomas a hard right lifting him up off the ground and hurled him into the air. As Thomas failed the Black Dragon spun around using his tail to strike Thomas across the chest. Thomas goes flying out the balcony landing on top of a car hundreds of feet below with the Black Dragon leaping out the window.
Jaysin let out a deep sigh giving chase teleporting to the ground below. Thomas rolled off the broken car landing face first into the pavement groaning in pain as his suit dematerialized off of him. Thomas pushes off the ground on all fours and sits up next to the car holding his bloody side. Next he hears something land on the ground breaking up the pavement.
Thomas looks over to see the Black Dragon just growling at him in the rain with dark clouds overhead. Thomas watches the Black Dragon hold up both his hands firing two massive beams from the palms of his hands toward Thomas. This was when Thomas thought to himself he was going to die, at least until a red light landing between him and the Black Dragon and deflected split the beams apart so they destroyed the surrounding area.
When the dust cleared Thomas saw King Tyranno standing with his back to him as he faced down the Black Dragon who did not look pleased. A red fluid steam seemed to be emitting from Jaysin. With the flick of his right hand gold lighting surges through his body forming the Golden Power Sword in his hand. A red eye could be seen through the black visor of his helmet. It pulsed with a corrupted red energy bleeding through the visor.
"You had your fun breacher it's time to go back to your home!" Jaysin spoke in a distorted and angry tone.
"Not until I kill the pretender" the Black Dragon replied.
"The only one who is going to kill Tommy is me!" Jaysin replied in a dark distorted voice, Thomas just smirked holding his side thinking to himself "Same old Jaysin…". The Black Dragon had no further need for words and started to charge King Tyranno. King Tyranno held the sword up as lightning descended from the heavens charging the sword turning it the blade white hot. King Tyranno dashed forward in a red and gold blur striking the side of Black Dragon who yelled out in agony as a dome of gold lighting around them.
Thomas watched Black Dragon's armor plates turn red hot. He started to spark and seizure. Thomas was sure he would blow up but instead King Tyranno pulled his sword out backing up tilting his head. Black Dragon didn't fall, his body started to smoke but he kept walking toward King Tyranno. King Tyranno struck his sword into the ground, cracking it under his feet as a gold light erupted from the ground and consumed him. King Tyranno watched as Black Dragon seemed to twist and be pulled apart then suddenly without warning he pulled the sword from the ground turning around facing Thomas, his sword dematerializing.
King Tyranno started to walk toward Thomas as Black Dragon fell to his knees then face forward on the ground. Thomas smirks getting to his feet so he can stand on equal footing with King Tyranno. They stare each other down as the rain stops. Thomas's wet hair covered his face, his clothes were soaking wet and blood ran from his side and down his pants leg. Thomas had dark veins under his eyes, he was pale and sweating.
"Friendship has made you weak Jaysin" Thomas said in a tired and dying voice.
"You still don't get it Tommy" King Tyranno takes off his helmet and tosses it to the ground. Thomas stares at the blank pale look of Jaysin. His right eye was black with blood red iris, black veins krept up the side of his right face, his shortbread with the grey streak going down and the left side of his face looking like burnt pizza with the whited out eye. "It is not weak to value some life" King Tyranno told him bluntly.
"Oh yeah?" Thomas spat at Tyranno's feet.
"The journey of life can be crippling, it can beat us down and make us the best versions of ourselves…" Tyranno tells him. They both reflect over the past few years and what they both have suffered and lost. "But along the way we meet people who change us for the worst, people who are loyal, who will stand by us no matter what. Fortune favored us both and we had such people and now they are all almost gone" Tyranno thinks of Billie while holding his head up high staring into nothingness. Thomas thought of Jaysin, Kim, Kat, and Billie. "We need to hold on to what we have left," Tyranno tells him.
"Like you and me? Because we have a bond that transcends different realities" Thomas coughed up blood but smiles thinking of what Tyranno was trying to tell him. Thomas saw Black Dragon hand twitch behind Tyranno and gave him a curious look. "You didn't kill the Black Dragon?" Thomas inquired weakly.
"When you awoke the Dragonzord from his slumber, you destroyed Kim's Gravezord and forced me to destroy the Dragonzord and the only thing I got out of that loss was the Falconzord for two mega level zords. As far as I see it you OWE me a megazord" Tyranno uses his left hand to point his thumb at the Black Dragon.
"I see, have Billie repair him and reprogram him to be loyal to us" Thomas grins evilly holding his side painfully. Tyranno tilted his head.
"Us?" Tyranno gave a skeptical look to Thomas.
"Think about it Jaysin-"
"That's not my name" Tyranno sternly corrected. Thomas giggled a bit.
"Think about it Tyranno, The Arbiter has been to countless worlds and killed countless ranger teams. Sounds like there are worlds in the multiverse just begging us to rule over them my king, Billie will be your queen, and I'll be your...Lord Drakon. We can make our kingdom on a multiversal scale" Thomas smiles evilly. Tyranno showed no emotion and just stared at Thomas. There was a long silence between the two. Thomas grew impatient. "Or we can keep trying to kill each other over and over again till one of us wins" Thomas proposes the other option.
"Life's end comes for us all eventually…" Tyranno reflects on the death of the Ranger Overlords during the crisis and the death of the Zeo and Alien Rangers.
"There is nothing wrong with striving for greatness with only the time we have been allotted" Thomas reminds him.
"It's also important to spend time with the few who make life worth it" Tyranno reflects on his love and happy memories with Billie free from trying to kill heroes, and throwing the world into chaos. Tyranno liked it when it was just him and Billie. Free from the burden of ruling and being Power Rangers. Thomas let out a disappointed sigh.
"Can't you do both?" Thomas asked weakly. Tyranno just gave him a blank stare. Thomas lets out an exhausted sigh. Thomas held up his Master Morpher.
"Don't, I'll kill you" Tyranno told him in a cold tone.
"This one will surprise even you. This power I got from Dystopian future from an old man Tommy" Thomas presses the side buttons and his morpher opens up with a blinding white light. "White Dragon!" Thomas yelled out. When the blinding white light fades away what stood there was a corrupted and powerfully dangerous ranger.
Thomas stood there with a dark gold and silver helmet with a gold-tinted visor surrounded by Dragon's teeth. There's also a ridged gold chest piece that flows into the center diamond, forming a Dragon Shield type design. The rest of the suit seems to be silver with dark gold accents, and the center diamond glows bright white. Corrupted white energy was bleeding out of him like it was steam.
"Back to action," Tyranno said when a blue light flew past him. It was Overlord Blue, Billie materialized in her blue ranger slayer form with the long battle dress. Billie struck Thomas's dragon shield with her Power Lance. Thomas flew back and slammed into a car. Billie took off her helmet tossing it to the ground. Her eyes were black with dark blue iris of corruption. She had a fierce and insane look across her face.
"Alpha killed Hayley despite Kat's best efforts to stop him. Kat was forced to plug into Alpha and she comitted murder-sucide and our base was once again destoryed by YOU!" Billie screams out. Tyranno just stood there with an intense look crossing his arms. Billie's lance cracked to life with corrupted blue lighting. Billie used her lance to knock Thomas into the air and repeatedly thrusted her lance at him multiple times unleashing all her violent hatred and rage upon him. Thomas twisted in the air and slammed into the ground. Thomas got to his knees as his armor dematerialized around him.
"Look, Billie I know I messed up but think about this. Were all still here, we are all powerful rangers. As I was telling Jaysin there are countless worlds out there in the multiverse that have been left rangerless waiting for us to conquer and rule over them. Jaysin as King, you as the Queen and I as the Lord-"
"Shut up! You think after everything you have done to us I'm going to let you live so you can double and triple cross us? Your f**king on drugs!" Billie snaps at him in a sinister tone.
"I have shown you mercy-"
"F**k your mercy!" Billie said with a look full of hate. She raised her lance to strike Thomas when Tyranno grabbed her lance and lowered it gently. Then looks down at Thomas.
"Thomas makes a valid point lover, there are countless worlds begging for rangers to save them...to rule over them like here" Tyranno says in a dark voice.
"But Tommy will betray us and try to kill us again and again-" Tyranno gently places his right finger on her lips to silence her.
"You're smart, the smartest person I have ever met, Billie. I'm sure you can think of a clever way to keep him under control" Tyranno orders her. Billie just stares at him coldly then back at Thomas who looked up at her with a smile.
"It'll be like old times, the three of us but better" Thomas laughs. Billie punched him and knocked him out breathing hard looking over at Jaysin.
"I think I have the perfect way to keep our dear friend Tommy on a short leash baby" Billie turns to Tyranno dropping her Power Lance to the ground putting her arms around Tyranno making out with him. Tyranno puts his hands around her waist and holds her close. Tyranno gives in to her love while Thomas is laid out on the ground in his own blood.
