CHAPTER 3: Through the Dimensions

A/N~ This next chapter shall be a filler, just to explain how the Rangers came to Remnant in the first place.

Warrior Dome

~THIRD PERSON POV~

A loud echoing chorus of cheer rocked the game show stage in the Warrior Dome. The mixture of excited and impatient roars of the spectators fuelled another episode of 'Galaxy Warriors' to extreme enjoyment status.

Taking the stage once more was Cosmo Royale, grabbing his microphone while prancing around entertaining the crowd with his hosting skills, though most of the crowd was more focused on the battles instead of Cosmo's big mouth.

"Once again, folks! A contestant is being pulled out of battle!" At least he was able to bring the crowd together, even if it wasn't enough. "Oohh. He ain't going to like that."

At the look at his wrist watch, he caught on that it was time to call it a day and settled off. At least today did not end in a total failure. He only hoped it would have been better though.

"Stay tuned as we find out what shall be next in our Extra Special Edition of Galaxy Warriors! Interdimensional Battle Extravaganza!"

And just like that, the curtains were closed, leaving behind the crowd to roar even more.

Behind the curtains, Cosmo Royale picked up his cane and walked funnily towards backstage, passing through some of the lesser Kudabots who were assigned to do more harmless, but completely unsatisfying jobs as clean-up duty, sweeping up any confetti left behind by the show of the day.

As he made his way into the corridor, he hoped to meet Galvanax, discussing with him on what was the next course of action. What kind of new misadventures would the contestants go through next? And more importantly, at least for Cosmo, would the ratings go up?

The sight of a lone human girl fighting Toma Bomba earlier could actually help. The way she fought was probably unlike anything the spectators have ever seen before; their cheers louder than ever. Also, it would have been no surprise that she was doing all of this unmorphed that helped boost the ratings up. Not even the Rangers could provide such a stunt-filled show like this. This had to go on!

Alas, Cosmo walked to the end of the room and into another; into Galvanax's throne room.

There he found the proud and powerful gladiator supreme, sitting atop his throne. Galvanax sat silently, watching the previous battle with both interest and disgust. He always loathed a human gaining ground against one of his contestants, and if this kept up, it could spell disaster to his own show, despite the massive excitement this lone human incited to the crowd.

Even if the show was about to get the views it would need, Galvanax had to face the facts. He had to do something about this recent development if he was going to obtain the power that laid within.

"Sir!" He was suddenly interrupted by the uncalled for call of his show's host, who came waddling over with a completely literally new face of worry after he spun his head from his trademark happy face. "Why did we decide to withdraw Toma Bomba away from the battle? The crowd was getting so pumped up!"

All Galvanax could give the babbling goblin was a growl of discontent, shutting Cosmo up.

"If you must know, Cosmo, that witch Madame Odius decided to hold some secret meeting with our 'new allies'. Some rambunctious group of human children who claim to have goals that align with ours. Therefore, I had to cut the battle short." Disgruntled by the forced cancellation of the action, the champion moved on, heading for the very witch who promised a probable outcome to this alliance. "She better have great news, for her sake."

Right on time, the soothsayer had arrived with Ripcon at her side, coming to report on her mission to Galvanax.

The boss was as cross as ever, having fed up of the lack of information Odius was keeping from him. He stomped towards Odius, staring at her with his beaming red eyes. The witch could not do anything to stand strong against such a gaze of violent power. Just bow down and address the master. That was all she could do.

"Ah… Great Galvanax!" she greeted. "It is certainly great to see you again!"

"You better have a good excuse for leaving me in the dark, Odius." The giant was not amused by her welcoming approach, still impatient to the core.

"And I do, sir." Madame Odius was about to explain herself to Galvanax, but as it happened, she saw the monitor far behind Galvanax, telling her that her boss was watching the whole spectacle from the ship. "But I believe that you're already seeing it yourself, Master."

Everyone turned their attention back to the screen, just at that moment when the human girl in a dress was able to pin down the contestant with her sniper rifle.

"Hmmmm…" Galvanax watched on, studying the battle and thought of what was to come next in his plans to get what he wanted.

"I cannot believe what I'm seeing." Ripcon was beyond baffled by spectating the abilities this one human could do against a whole troop of Kudabots and one lean mean fighting machine. No wonder Odius found an interest in working with the locals he had met earlier.

Having had enough, Galvanax switched off the screen and faced the soothsayer. "Odius. You have my attention." admitted the champion, all of his temper cooled and interests garnered for Odius. "We need this power. It could be our opportunity to destroy those nosy Rangers once and for all!"

"And we shall have it, my liege… We shall have it…"

~BRODY'S POV~

Forever Fall

"Ergh…" I don't know what came over me. I mean, choosing to fight a large scorpion with a glowing stinger on its tail. I always thought, how hard could it be? I've been raised in a tough environment trying to at least avoid getting kicked out by nearly everyone at a very hostile environment for ten years. Then, the next thing I knew it, I'm leading a team of good pals to fight the forces of evil.

Fighting a giant scorpion shouldn't be that big of a deal, right?

But right now, I had to rethink my options. This was a lifeform I've never seen before, and it was far bigger than any of the monsters I've fought back at home. I mean, huge as in, normal size without the Gigantifier. I did not know what to expect.

Seeing that a girl could maybe almost my age taking on a pack of those wolf-like monsters and handling another one of Galvanax's minions on her own, you would think that the creatures here could be a breeze.

I was so wrong…

There I was, coming face-to-face with a scorpion almost twice the size of Galvanax with a stinger that could probably vaporize me in one stab. Those glowing red eyes constantly staring me down like all of my previous monsters.

I was fully morphed, equipped with my one-of-a-kind Star Blade with the many powers and ninja steel at my whim, and I was still struggling to one-up this giant insect.

Or was it… an arachnid? I don't know; I had a hard time catching up on my Earth studies. Hey, it's hard speed-running through your homework after being imprisoned in Galvanax's Warrior Dome for ten years.

But through that decade of hard labour, I was always taught to expect the unexpected. Who knows what kind of dangers would come at you?

Well, the unexpected has its way of bringing enough danger to keep your blood pumping 'till next Earth month.

"HSST!" The giant scorpion attacked, launching its fiery stinger at me. I jumped out of the way, letting the sharp point pierce the ground instead. I rolled to safety, accompanying my good friend, Redbot.

Redbot's not really much of a fighter, but at least I could always depend on him for moral support. Still, his presence as a vulnerable target did kind of get in the way. I had to put my focus on fighting this thing and the last thing I needed was to have Redbot become a metallic shish kebab.

"Are you okay, Redbot?" I asked, keeping one hand in front of him to keep him back from danger.

"Still intact, Brody." Redbot's voice sounded very shaken. The poor bot must had been really scared out of his motherboard after the scorpion decided to jump in. Now, I had to make sure he was out of reach.

"Get to cover. I'll hold him off a little longer." I heled my sword forward, defiantly facing the creature while covering for Redbot as he ran for the trees.

"Y-You don't have to tell me twice!" My good pal took it to the woods while I let the creature come at me.

I pointed my Star Blade towards it, showing it that I meant business when it comes to protecting my friends. The scorpion reacted; this time with its pincers instead of the stinger.

It snapped one at me, but I jumped up before I could get crushed. I aimed for the monster's back, hoping to get a good slice at it.

That's when that blasted stinger came in again. I had to flip away to gain enough momentum to avoid it. It just barely scratched my suit on my way down to the ground.

Once I rolled away, I swung my sabre in front of me in case the creature made another run for me. It turned around towards me and stared, snapping its giant pincers at me.

I knew I couldn't go on any longer. It was time to end this fight once and for all.

I pulled out another Ninja Power Star from my belt, letting the power in my body swim through and into the star. I then locked it in place before bringing the sword to my chest and positioning my thumb to give the star's blades a rough spin.

"NINJA SPIN!" Then, one flick of my thumb and the star rapidly spun, channelling all the power from the star into the blade of my weapon in a coat of red blazing energy.

I felt the rush of power coming back to me as I made ready to make the ultimate final attack.

With one quick dash, I charged for the scorpion, blade dragging through the dirt along the way. As I closed in, the scorpion lunged its right pincer at me. I saw the attack coming and jumped over the strike and landed right in front of its mouth. Before I could land a blow on it, I caught sight of its stinger darting for me.

Quickly, I blocked the stinger with my sabre. The moment it hit my blade, I was taken aback by how powerful the thrust against me was. I was on my knees trying to support myself as the stinger inched closer to my neck.

I had to push in more power to my blade and be free of the pressure this thing was giving me. Charging my blade up again, I let one mighty push of my body upwards and let the stinger fly right above me.

Within that instant, I made footwork and leapt in the air before the monster would react. Below me, the scorpion was well within my sights before I lifted my sword upwards and dived down to make the finishing blow.

"Final Attack!" After yelling out my battle cry, I slashed the sabre at its head, scoring that final blow and ending the scorpion's life for good…

Just another day of busting evil monsters, like the days before…

One Week Before,

Summer Cove,

Earth,

The days before.

Just another day before I got myself into some unknown world. The days when I was happily attending school at Summer Cove High.

That day, it was like any other. Going through classes and usual hangouts with my friends all over the city were the fun bits of the day. Well, I'd rather forget the everyday antics of Victor and Monty right about now. Other than that, we were just minding our own business, just the six of us having some fun and helping me learn more about Earth life.

However, even on these normal days, we all felt something was off.

During these times, we would get an alert or something; usually one of Galvanax's minions wreaking havoc in the city. It was every once a week that big bully would send in a monster to terrorize the public and we would jump right in at the very moment.

However, one month had gone by and strangely enough, there was no sign of Galvanax or his cohorts. Not even a single Kudabot showed up to mess with us.

We would wait for a little while more before anything could happen. And yet, there was no trouble going on.

This was totally suspicious, we thought. Just how would Galvanax be so absent if he was so into defeating us and getting our ninja powers at the same time?

The others saw this as a chance to have some peace and quiet and worry about their grades instead of monsters. But as for me, I didn't like it.

I've spent ten whole years in Galvanax's Warrior Dome, and when something doesn't happen within an Earth month or so, the show would host some 'brilliant' special which involved more violence and more entertainment.

And that was when I knew. Something told me that Galvanax was hiding something and I guessed it was about to get to us when we least expected it.

For now, I was in the cafeteria, having the ever-so typical serving of meat loaf before I would end my day at school to join the others. I loved that meat loaf, but having it every day can really spoil your appetite after a while.

Speaking of my friends, one of them saw me eating at the table and decided to come join me.

"Hey, Brody!" I lifted my head to see the energetic genius that was Sarah. She sat down opposite me, expecting some news from me like 'how my class went' or 'did I learn something new'? Same old questions, but talking with Sarah, these questions were really fun to answer.

"Hey, Sarah." I put down my spoon of loaf to say hello. And so, we began the talk. However, that same suspicion I had all day was still messing with my mind. I had to bring this up to the team, so Sarah was a good start.

"The others are planning to head over to the lake later today. We were hoping you would like to join us." I had to fathom this. Hanging out with the other Rangers was the light of my life after being free from Galvanax and all. I wouldn't trade it for the galaxy.

But when it came to Galvanax, I had to press matters and, as the leader of the team, make sure that everyone was on board with what I had to say.

So, for the first time in a while, I voiced my rejection to Sarah's request. Worse still, I had to make them cancel out the meeting, at least for now.

"Sorry, Sarah." I sighed. "I'm… not feeling alright right now." Sarah lifted her eyebrow, slightly taken aback at my refusal.

"Why not? It's a nice day today. Don't you want to have some relaxation while there are no monster attacks?"

There. That was the thing. She had to say it, and now I really had to voice out my concerns.

"That's the thing." Sarah wasn't so sure on what I was getting at, so I had to go on. "I can't shake the feeling that Galvanax hasn't been around lately."

"What's so troubling about that?" Sarah asked again.

"Well, when Galvanax isn't doing anything like sending his contestants to die out there, it must mean something." Now, Sarah was drawing curious. At least it looked like she was about to pay attention seriously this time. When Galvanax is plotting something, it would be very bad if we were to ignore it.

"What do you think?" Sarah, always so curious… "You've been up there in the big house before. What do you think he's up to?"

"Well…" I was about to suggest something, but suddenly, another set of good chums decided to come join us.

"Hey, guys!" We looked to our side to find the rest of the team coming to sit down with us. The couple, Haley and Calvin, sat next to each other besides Sarah while the magician-in-training Preston and superstar Levi Weston sat on both sides of myself.

Good. Now that the team was altogether, it would be easier for me to tell everyone what I feared the most.

"What's up with you two?" Levi spoke up. He must had seen Sarah and I being all troubled about something. I know I was…

"Yeah, you look like you've been kicked out of the class or something." joked Calvin as he slumped an arm around Haley's back. She noticed our expressions and had to ask herself, knowing that I was coming down with something.

"Does this have to do with Galvanax again?" Her question kept the gang all quiet. When they saw Sarah looking at me, they knew that it was me who had to do the talking.

"Alright, guys." I breathed out. "I don't know about you, but Galvanax is up to something." Everyone's eyes were on me with worried and questioning gazes.

"What is it, Brody?" asked Preston.

"I'm not sure, but this lack of activity is creeping me out." I picked up my fork and stuck it down my mushy food, poking it over and over to calm my nerves. "If he's been leaving us alone for this long, then I'm sure he's coming up with some diabolical special episode of Galaxy Warriors to even things up against us."

Now that got everyone spooked. The situation was getting more serious as they continued to look at me inquisitively.

"What kind of special are we talking about?" Levi asked again.

"Usually, it would involve more explosions and a whole lot more fighting and bashing." That wasn't much to describe Galvanax's specials, but it was still enough to make sense. The others were sure worried enough.

"Wait. So you're saying that Galvanax's coming up with an even more destructive episode? What are our odds of going through with this?" Calvin wondered.

"Trust me, guys. If we don't do something about this, then prepared to be splattered, bashed, crisped, vaporized… You know the drill."

Our worries mounted to an all-time high. We really had to deal with Galvanax and all before the next school day. Otherwise, we're going to have a lot more to lose than a good grade. I got up and put away my meat loaf, too sick to even continue eating at this point while the others followed me to the trash bin.

"So, what do we do now?" Preston asked me as I dumped my food into the bin.

"What else?" I shrugged my shoulders. "We go get Mick. We have to let him know what's up."

The others nodded. And so, leaving the cafeteria and a wasted batch of meat loaf down the trash bin, we made our way to the school's auto-repair garage which doubled as our secret base. I hoped that Mick wasn't doing anything with other students, because I was sure that this whole matter was about to get a whole lot worse if we didn't get to business fast.

Off we were to the garage to find Mick and Redbot could be. Maybe Haley's dog, Cody too, but we had bigger problems to worry about. No offense to Haley.

As we got there, we were in luck. No one was home and better yet, the garage was now in the form of our base with our gadgets and computers all logged in, as well as the all-powerful Ninja Nexus Prism placed in its shelf at the right side of the room.

And who did we find tending to the base? Yep, there was Mick, tuning into his computer and just typing in some buttons.

Without time to lose, we ran up to him; our arrival catching his attention.

"Whoa! Rangers!" Mick called. "You guys seem to be in a rush! What's going on? Another food fight at the cafeteria? I'll get the tomatoes!"

"That's not it!" I stopped Mick before he had any more ideas. "It's a real emergency."

"Brody!" Then, we were joined by Redbot, who happened to be taking care of Cody while we were in the middle of our classes. He was holding with him a chew bone toy that Cody must had been playing with him with. "What's the matter?!"

Cody came running to his owner's feet as Haley bent down to pet her dog, ruffling up his neck fur and snuggled with him.

"We think that Galvanax is about to unleash a massive attack on us." I declared. "We need to find out where he could be and when he'll strike before it's too late."

To my surprise, though, Mick fiddled with his finger and headed towards the computer. I knew what that meant and no doubt about it.

Mick already knew and he was already planning to do what was needed.

"As a matter of fact, I'm working on that." Bingo. Good ol' Mick. He's always a step ahead of us when it came to figuring out Galvanax's next plan of action.

He led us to his computer and made us all gather around in a circle to look at the monitor. The screen showed the map of the known galaxy; a spiral entity in the middle of infinite space.

I could tell Mick was planning some sort of galactic search for Galvanax. He did mention that he had picked up some useful junk from the Warrior Dome when we free fell from the ship.

When we watched what Mick had been doing for the time being, we looked closely as he zoomed into some part of the galaxy.

"What's up with the tech work, Mick?" asked Haley.

"Actually, I'm just trying to look for a lead. The Ninja Nexus Prism should be able to tell you guys what's really up."

The Prism! Of course. It would be able to tell us anything happening out there, so it could have told Mick something about Galvanax.

We decided to try it out and watched the giant glassy star at its centre. When we arrived, its blades began to spin rapidly and projected a vision in the centre.

There, we saw the Warrior Dome ship in the stars. It was just drifting along, cruising on with almost no schemes at work. The ship was on its own, with only a few civilian transports getting into the ship as if another show was about to happen.

Then, all of a sudden, we saw it. The ship moved to some huge portal from out of nowhere and just warped itself into it.

No one knew what to expect. The ship just vanished from this galaxy and to some random location only the Morphing Grid knows where.

For awhile, we all thought this could be the day that Galvanax had finally decided to end his little game against us. But this was Galvanax we were talking about. He would not pass the opportunity to defeat us if he had to go somewhere important; meaning he must had found a way he could finally gain an advantage over us.

Wherever Galvanax was heading off to next, there was no doubt that we were in for an even nastier fight in our hands. Something had to be done.

"I got it!" Suddenly, Mick shouted from the other end of the room. The team and I ran to his side to find out what he had cracked.

"What is it?" I asked. Mick moved over to let us see what was going on. After seeing what was going on, we finally found an answer to what Galvanax was up to. In the screen, there was Cosmo Royale on stage as usual, entertaining the crowd of the show's live broadcast.

"Hello! Wicked ghouls and gentle giants! We are here in anticipation for our newest episode!

Prepare to be enthralled as in two days' time, we shall launch our grand special episode!"

The crowd cheered for Cosmo's speech, but as for us, we weren't liking it one bit.

"This will be a glorious set of entertainment and exciting battles as our contenders shall fight the local population in this new unknown dimension!"

"What?" Calvin was just as worried as I was when he heard the host speaking about this special. "Unknown dimension? Fighting the locals?" I couldn't believe my ears. An interdimensional special episode on some unknown world? That explained the disappearance of Galvanax, but we never imagined he had gone that far from us. "Why?"

"This cannot look good." Sarah stepped away in disbelief. First we were battling hard and well against the monsters in this world, now we were facing the fact that he was in a different one, far away from our own and we couldn't do a thing to stop him from gaining power or inciting fear to another innocent world.

Or so I thought until the predicament with the scorpion right about now…

"Wait…" Then, a thought came to mind. Something wasn't right about how things worked here. "If Galvanax is in another universe… Then how could broadcasting between universes be possible? Heck, we don't even know travelling between other universes is possible."

"There must be a way in." deduced Calvin.

Suddenly, Mick was just looking around the screen for any signs of interaction or any possible connection to wherever Galvanax was.

"There!" He pointed at the screen and we looked to where he directed his finger at. To our surprise, a small portal opened up from the coordinates where Mick had locked in earlier. From out of the portal, a little robotic drone came out and drifted off as the portal closed. Of my time in Galaxy Warriors, I recognized the type of the drone.

"One of Galvanax's probe drones." I said. "That's got to be our ticket in! Galvanax's drones always return to the ship for recharging. If this is how he's transferring footage of his battles this way, then we could have our chance to go through the portal."

"Okay. We found our way in. Easy." said Preston. "Now, we just need to know how to get there."

At this point, Sarah was already formulating a plan to get us into that portal. It didn't take her that long to come up with something.

"I've got an idea." she announced, catching our interests all at once. "Mick, lock on to that probe. Quickly."

"On it, Sarah." Mick tapped into a few buttons on the keyboard based on Sarah's instructions. With a few clicks here and there, he managed to lock onto the drone within just a few seconds. "Got it."

"That was fast." remarked Calvin.

"You'd be amazed by what I can do with a few bits of salvage from Galvanax's ship, some bits of old rusty cooper wires, and a spoon of peanut butter." We all stared confusingly at Mick for that mention of peanut butter. "Yeah, the peanut butter was for my appetite. Sorry." Forgetting about it, we returned to the task at hand.

"Okay, so now we have the probe's coordinates, we will take the Astro Zord and follow it." continued Sarah.

"So, when we tail it all the way, we could follow it into the wormhole!" Levi followed up.

"Precisely."

So with all of our preparations in place, we were ready to pursue Galvanax to wherever the heck he was and save whatever world he was about to terrorize. We were off to our Astro Zord and to the cosmos!

We waited outside the nearby park for our Zord to arrive; somewhere private and discreet where we wouldn't attract too much attention.

I had already used up my Zord Star for the Astro Zord and now we were waiting for it to arrive. We looked out for any aerial signs of it, hearing for any weird noises like the whirring motion sounds it would make. It was cloaked as well, so we really had to watch out for it, or someone would be bound to notice.

"Look!" We didn't have to wait long for it. Up in the sky, I could faintly see something flying towards us. It then began to take shape, revealing itself to be none other than the blue alien spacecraft that was our Astro Zord, uncloaking itself just when it was about to reach the ground.

It landed down on the grass in front of us. Unfortunately, that was when we had to move quickly because those loud whooshing noises it made were getting louder and louder, probably enough to make people wonder what the commotion was about.

"Let's get out of here before anyone notices!" AS one, we all rushed in; me, my team and a few extra passengers…

"Why are we taking Cody with us?" asked Calvin as he stepped on board, looking at the husky who just jumped in with us.

"Come on, Calvin." whined Haley. She and Cody were inseparable, so it was natural that both would need each other's company. "Someone has to watch out for him. Who knows how long we'll be away?"

"You could always send him to your parents or… Whoa!" Haley would have none of it and just shoved her boyfriend into the Zord with us.

"Just get in!" Then, we were followed by Mick and Redbot, climbing into the Zord before its doors were shut closed. We strapped ourselves in for the ride with Mick in the driver's seat. Putting the pedal to the metal, the sudden rumbling of the Zord shook us a bit, letting us know that it was taking off.

We could then feel the pulling force of acceleration take place as the Zord was now in the sky and within a blink of an eye, zoomed away into orbit. We could feel the pull of gravity pressing against us while the Zord was penetrating through the atmosphere.

After an agonizing few seconds of painful force, we were suddenly and immediately relieved by the event of the Zord pulling out of the orbit and into space. Good thing the Zord had an in-built oxygen supply system, or we would have been done for.

We couldn't really see the Earth from inside since the Zord did not have windows from where were, but I was quite heavy-hearted when I left the planet. Ten years ago, I was kidnapped right after my father was gone and my brother left behind, to be in a ship filled with awful crooks and bad eggs all over me; discriminated beyond belief. My times in space were just dreadful and unpleasant. The only times I ever enjoyed myself there was the moment I met Redbot and Mick, and getting out of the ship for the first time in a decade.

Now, leaving the Earth again did make me feel a little queasy. But knowing I had friends, true friends, to back me up this time, I did feel better. And we were about to do something right for a world we have never been to. That's what we Rangers do.

Mick typed in the coordinates to wherever Galvanax's drone was located and the Zord made the jump to hyper speed, vanishing off away from Earth and into deep space.

We reached the point where we just couldn't figure out where in the universe we were after we successfully reached our destination. I took a deep breath and hoped that this mission would go as planned. We messed this open door of opportunities up and Galvanax would find out and close it shut and we lose our chance to help save another world from his terrible game show.

Mick took a good look at the scanner, with Redbot at co-pilot seat. They paid close attention to wherever the probe drone would be. The whole area around was just pitch black space, according to Mick, so finding the probe in the middle of nowhere could either be a hit or miss. All hopes were on the Zord's sensors to pick up the drone when it would arrive. We miss this, we would lose our ticket in, or at least wait until another probe comes out, but who knew how much more terror Galvanax would bring to that world.

"Found it!" Right on point, Mick spotted something within the scanners. Bringing up the Zord's frontal camera, we could see from the overhead monitor that a lone probe drone was already on route from wherever it came from.

"Quick! Let's catch up to it!" said Sarah.

"But let's do it quietly. We can't attract any attention to ourselves." I reminded.

"Redbot, lower engine power and let's move in a little closer to that little drone." Mick ordered. As instructed, Redbot slowed down the ship, drawing power away from the thrusters and the Zord was slowly moving. Mick directed his controls on the Zord and followed the drone.

We couldn't see what was going on, but for the past few minutes, we were going smoothly without any warning. Even so, nothing was as tense as this. The stakes were high and we could not afford to mess it up one bit.

"Okay…" Mick continued to drive the Zord towards the drone as both machines cruised through the stars. Then, all of a sudden, we felt the ship coming to a complete stop.

Was this it? Did we get detected? Would the drone make a run for it? Questions flooded my head with more concern than ever before.

"There it goes." Mick announced to us. "It's going through another portal."

As luck would have it, the plan went as planned. The drone was in the middle of warping itself into the wormhole which came out of nowhere.

As it disappeared from the radar, it was soon our turn to enter through the portal and take on Galvanax elsewhere. It was now or never. We looked to each other before everyone laid their eyes on me for some words of inspiration.

"Alright, guys." I told them all. "This is where we go to parts unknown. To the great dangers of the mysterious world of wherever Galvanax would end up in… And uh…" I didn't really have much to say yet. I was so focused on thinking about what to do when we reach there that I didn't prepare something for the team.

"Nice going, Brody." I could hear a mixture of sighs and snickers going around. I rolled my eyes and shrugged my shoulders, showing that I at least tried my best.

Without further ado, Mick prepped the Zord for a run towards the wormhole, setting the controls and adjusted the levers to full throttle before the portal would close. The acceleration of the Zord caused our seats to be rocked all the way back as we sped for the portal.

Everything that came next happened in an instant as we had one more powerful force pushing us back as the ship finally made the jump into the wormhole and off to another dimension, to whatever perils or wonders may greet us there.

Well, as luck would have it, we were in for a whole menagerie of all sorts of troubles we would end up with.

The jump from one universe to another must've happened in a flash, no one knew we made any trip across the dimensions. It was just one blast of hyperspace and the next second we knew it, we stopped.

We all took a little breather from the powerful force of the jump from our universe before looking to Mick of what became of us next.

"Ergh…" It looked like our good friend came down with a case of intergalactic motion sickness. Maybe he shouldn't have had that peanut butter sandwich before space travel after all.

"Are you alright, Mick?" asked Redbot, clearly unaffected by the law of physics acting on us humans and dog. Speaking of which, Haley went over and patted Cody, comforting him from the nauseous travel.

"What do you think, Redbot?" said a completely woozy Mick. "I'm sure you're glad you're a robot, or this whole… Umph!"

Mick held in his breath before letting out a gut-wrenching barf down on the floor, making us feel just as disgusted.

"Ewww!" Sarah's face cringed at the sight of Mick letting out a nasty puke. The poor guy was always in a pickle when it came to space travel. That one time when the Warrior Dome jumped to hyperspace to Mars, Mick felt so wretched in his stomach, he let out an even more disgusting pile of vomit. Needless to say, Ripcon wasn't too happy with it and punished the both of us to cleaning duty for the next three Earth weeks.

Redbot decided it was time we checked out where the drone, and Galaxy Warriors, brought us to this time. He brought up the overhead monitor up to display what was outside the Zord. The screen showed us the sight of the world Galvanax was currently terrorizing.

We saw a planet almost like Earth, with landmasses and a huge body of water all over. However, what was different was that the world looked quite damaged, as if its lands were fragmented by a catalytic event, its continents looking more like large islands than actual land masses. What was even more blighting to this system was the tragic sight of a moon completely broken apart like it was hit by some powerful force that devastated a portion of its surface.

This whole place must had seen better days, and worse still, Galvanax was down there trying to do more harm.

"That's the world Galvanax is at?" Levi looked on. "It looks so… broken…"

"It reminds me of the planet Vamnar during one of Galvanax's competitions there." I remembered one day when I was doing some sanitary duties during one of Galvanax's competitions on said planet.

The planet itself was heavily devastated by some orbital bombardment by some evil band of bandits who ransacked the entire planet and left it for dead. Galvanax sure didn't help with anything when he made the planet his arena for more destruction and violence.

Now, he was about to do the same thing here, and it made my heart burning with fury. We had to do something to stop him, or another planet would fall to the hands of evil forces like Galvanax.

"Okay, what's the plan, Brody?" asked Preston.

"Mick, if you can, get this Zord to scan the entire premises of each island. We'll need to find where Galvanax is concentrating his forces into."

"Sound plan, Brody." Mick complied, flying in close to the planet and making contact with the surface. It was another brief agonizing moment of surging through the atmosphere before we eventually made it through.

We had to spend another half an hour for the Zord to take a thorough sweep throughout one of the landmasses on the planet. After all that scanning, we managed to pinpoint several deployments of Kudabots and Bashers throughout that one continent. Our course was plotted and now for the plan to be set in motion.

Within that continent, there appeared to be multiple small settlements or towns throughout the land, but the landmark worth noting was the huge technological city with a towering castle right in the middle.

At least now we knew that the planet was not at all defenceless, suggesting a proper society with a proper government to defend itself against any threats. Regardless, it was the perfect place to incite terror throughout this place.

"Okay, here's what we're going to do." Everyone huddled around to hear me out. I had considered the options of our movement throughout this unknown area and the parts my team should play in setting up our fight against Galvanax.

We all agreed that no one in this world, no matter how innocent or helpful they could be, would know of what we were to avoid any more chaos from spreading. Even if we were heroes, we couldn't risk escalating the crisis against these governments in this world.

"Mick. I need you to pilot the Astro Zord and keep watch from up in the sky. Keep yourself cloaked and monitor our positions."

"Consider this Zord operational and ready to serve." Mick affirmed. I then looked to the others.

"Also, I need you to land everyone to different sections of that city. Each section will be run in pairs, except for one more for one Ranger."

Of course, Calvin and Haley selected each other to check out one location, also brining Cody along for the ride. He's always been more of a help to the team than we ever thought, so taking him with them could prove to be useful.

Sarah and Levi both chose to go together as well to cover more ground. That left Preston to handle his side of the mission solo.

"Well, that means I'm going alone." sighed Preston.

"Don't worry, Pres." Sarah patted his shoulder. "We'll get back together when we have Galvanax right where we want him."

"But what are you going to do, Brody?" asked Haley.

"Since we know that there are Kudabots swarming around the city, I'm going to do some stalking to see if I can get a lock on the grand scheme of things. Once I find anything, I'll get back to you guys as soon as I can."

Now, there was just one more person I needed to address. Or should I say, some bot?

"And Redbot." Finally, I had something for Redbot to do. Normally, I would have him stay with Mick and assist him with his task. However, this was a new world to explore. I was not sure what I would come across when I patrol the rest of the outer perimeter. "I still need some help with my tracking in the forests. So, I'm going to need your help in this."

"What? Me?" Redbot looked surprised that I asked him to come with me. He also sounded very hesitant to come along in this perilous scouting mission too. "Ummm… my systems dictate that I should stay here with Mick."

"No, Redbot. I need your help in your sensors to help detect trouble while we move through the forests."

"But, Brody…" He still wanted to refuse, but I really needed his help.

"Come on, Redbot. When have you ever let me down?" My words kept Redbot in a tight situation. There was no way I would ever doubt Redbot for any help in the past. I know I can count on him, and during this time, I needed him more than ever.

"Hmmm…" Redbot processed through his gears again, thinking whether he should accept my request, or stay out of it. After a while, he reached a verdict. "Oh, alright…" He reluctantly agreed, satisfying my need for some company. "I can't refuse a chance to help my human friend."

"Cool." I stood by his side as I prepared to send the team off. I volunteered to go first to begin our mission. "Then, it's settled. The five of you will start checking out the city for any signs of suspicious activity while Redbot and I start searching for any traces around it."

Altogether, we brought our hands together for a group cheer. On the count to three, we threw our hands in the air and shouted out our group call.

"Ninja Rangers! Fear no danger!"

And that brings us back here where I've successfully cut that scorpion creature down. Beforehand, I got to see the local wildlife around here, watched as one of Galvanax's contestants get totalled by a group of teenage women with some nifty weapons and now, killed a giant bug which nearly made Redbot and me into skewered snacks for its appetite.

"Power Down!" I de-Morphed back to my regular self. In my human form, I kept my Power Star in the safety of my pocket and went over to help Redbot.

"You okay, Redbot?" I asked him. He was looking in tip top condition, apart from the apparent shivers of his metallic body. Who knew robots could learn how to become fearful? But Redbot was still braver than I would admit it. He's gone through worse.

"All systems are still functional, Brody!" he assured. "Though my nano-receptors could still use some reconfiguring after that scorpion gave me the creeps."

"Well, at least we're done with that bug." I turned around and, to my surprise, the body of the massive creature had vanished! All that was left was a small shroud of black mist blown away into the wind and disappearing into nothing. Things were just getting weirder with each surprise in store for us.

But forgetting about the encounter with the scorpion, one thing was achieved in my scouting mission so far. There was some building up to Galvanax's forces throughout these forests, so it would mean that our sworn foe was definitely getting ready to do some major damage to this planet. I feared that whatever he wished to do this place or whatever he wanted out of it, it wouldn't be good for us when he would return to Earth.

On the bright side, there was some comfort in exploring this world, knowing that there were people who would be able to handle the monsters themselves. Believe it or not, even I'm downsized in terms of skill compared to what these humans could do with. With enough time to getting to know these talented fighters, perhaps they could prove to be great allies in our fight against Galvanax.

But, in the way of the ninja, much more had to be learnt before a critical decision is made. There was clearly a bajillion more stuff that I needed to understand about this whole place. For now, I must conceal myself away from anyone involved in protecting this planet until I know I can fully trust them.

I've got a feeing, though, that these fierce warriors could be the right kind of help we need. We faced a common enemy, so we had to become allies, but I had to be very sure first, and then I would decide what to do next.

It's been like a day since I separated from my team, so I figured I'd give them a call to see how they were doing. I used my wrist Datacom to contact the other Rangers, speaking to the device while looking at the miniature screen.

Within a few beeps of the device, the call was ready and I called out to everyone, hoping to get a response.

"Hey guys. Do you read me? This is Brody."

Few seconds went by…

I waited for a word…

"I read you loud and clear, Brody!" And the first person to respond was Preston! Thank the Grid he was able to answer my call.

"Sarah and I are doing well so far, partner." More good news came when Levi also talked into the channel, speaking on Sarah's behalf too.

"So are Calvin, Cody and me." And finally, Haley joined in, letting me know that she and the other boys in her life were all just fine.

"Whoa… They have good reception here." Sarah spoke from the other line.

"Well, let's hope it stays that way. Keep in touch." I told them next. "Remember, we cannot afford to reveal ourselves to anyone, no matter whose side they're on. Not until we know if they're truly in need of our help. The way I see it; they probably won't need it. But just stay sharp. As soon as we find a way to get rid of Galvanax from this world, we will get right on it and be on our way back home. Good luck, Rangers. And may the Power protect you."

"Right!" The final seconds of the call ended with all of us acknowledging our continuation of the mission. I put off the Datacom, headed back to Redbot and resumed my own part of the plan to catch Galvanax and stop him from conducting his ultimate plan, whatever it was…

TO BE CONTINUED…

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