The Arbiter
"Foolish Children, no matter how far you run, no matter where you try to hide, there is no escaping FATE! Forfeit your power or forfeit your lives!" ~The Arbiter, The First Ranger and the Will of The Morphing Grid.
Jaysin makes his way up the hill running to the door of the Command Center. He walks the darken dimly lit hallways. Wires and piping where all over the place with smoke venting from the broken and bent pipes. He uses his right to steady himself against the wall and walks weakly to the lower levels of the Command Center to the Zeo Chamber. Jaysin stumbles inside taking off his black dress shirt tossing it to the ground.
"Jaysin?" Billie looks up hearing him come in. Billie races over to Jaysin catching him as he collapses in her arms. She throws his left arm over her shoulder and holds him up by his waist. She walks him to the back wall where their old Mighty Morphin Power Suits, weapons and damaged morphers were on display and sits him up against the wall. "Jaysin what happen to you?" Billie asked looking him over.
"I passed out from exhaustion-"
"The strain the Gold Power puts on your body is getting worse, your body can't take it anymore. You should never have killed Trey-"
"I KNOW!" Jaysin snapped at her. "At the time we didn't know that Triforian and Human physiology was so different or that the Golden Power was not completely or permanently compatible with humans. Too late now" Jaysin scuffed turning his head away. Alpha-5 brings him several bottles of water. Jaysin starts to chug each one down quickly like a man dying of thirst. Billie notes Jaysin was sweating profusely, his skin was getting paler, and the black veins under his eyes were becoming more visible and sickly looking.
"If you don't give up the Golden Power it will drain your lifeforce and kill you!" Billie reminded him.
"If I give it up the Golden Power it will be lost forever!" Jaysin reminds her.
"Blast it! If we knew what we knew beforehand, maybe I could have sealed the excess power, built in limiter, or reconfigured the Golden Power Staff during the transfer to be compatible with humans-"
"We can't worry about that right now Billie" Jaysin cuts her off putting his left hand on her shoulder. "The others...there dead! What happened?" Jaysin demanded. Billie looked away with a scorned look.
"He calls himself the Arbiter, the first ranger, the will of the morphing grid" Billie gets up walking over to the console hitting some keys bringing up the playback on the viewing globe. Jaysin walks up behind her drinking his third bottle of water eyeing the viewing globe.
Jaysin sees the Shogun Megazord and the Super Zeo Megazord perform their ultimate attacks to finish off the Machine Empires Monarchy, Louie Kaboom, and the machine war planes descending from space. Moments later, while the Alien Rangers were congratulating each other from the cockpit of the Shogun Megazord white lighting descended from the sky striking the ground revealing a ranger, with a modified black red ranger helmet and black futuristic armor.
"Alien Rangers of the planet Aquitar 3-29, you have poisoned the waters of your home world and subjected your people into slavery. Now you come to spread your evil to this Earth. You are a cancer on the morphing grid. You are unworthy of the power that has been granted to you. Forfeit your power or forfeit your lives!" The Arbiter orders.
"You want our power come and take it!" Delphine replies from the Shogun Megazord. "We have you outnumbered and out powered!" Delphine arrogantly reminds The Arbiter.
"Run, fight...it makes NO difference" The Arbiter said emotionlessly. The Arbiter disappears in a streak of lighting reappearing into the cockpit of the Super Zeo Zord.
"Impossible!" Billie yells out. Alpha-5 looks over at her. "He's locked me in and took over the Super Zeo Zord!" Billie holds up her left hand talking into the communicator.
"Aye-aye-aye! This is bad!" Alpha-5 puts his hands on his robotic saucer head bobbing back and forth.
"Billie how is that possible?" Delphine asked alarmed.
"I dunno! But you gotta get out of there! The Shogun Megazord is no match for the Super Zeo Zords!" Billie orders them to retreat. The Alien Rangers try to get away but are attacked by the Super Zeo Megazord. A brutal and violent clash happens where the Super Zeo Megazord completely overpowers the Shogun Megazord. Delphine orders the rangers to split apart and escape. This did not work. The Arbiter triggered the self-destruction of the Super Zeo Megazord then teleported out at the last second. There was a massive explosion ending up with a massive mushroom cloud in the distance.
"NOOO!" Billie backed away from the computer her eyes wide with horror. Her hands shaking. "Delphine…" Billie looked down at her hands clenching them tightly cursing herself for not being able to hack the Super Zeo Megazord back before it was too late.
"Billie look!" Alpha-5 pointed to the viewing globe. Billie looks up, tears running down her eyes. The smoke clears, the remains of the Super Zeo and Shogun Zords where scattered for miles all across the desert. Each of the Alien rangers fell from the cockpit of each zord gravely injured but alive. Their suits where covered in ash and burn marks. Some had cracked helmets and broken visors.
"YES!" Billie jumps for joy. "Now get out of there you guys! Fall back to the Command Center!" Billie orders them to, overjoyed that their alive. Her joy was short lived. Corcus, the black ranger is the first to his feet stumbling forward when white lighting strikes behind him. The Arbiter runs his right hand through Corcus chest killing him instantly dropping him to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
"Corcus!" Delphine calls out shocked and horrified.
"The power protects you NO LONGER!" The Arbiter looks over at the other Alien Rangers. Corcus demorphs upon death. The other four Alien Rangers regroup getting ready to avenge their fallen comrade.
"Power of water, power of dark, rangers unite!" they all say in unison pulling out there blasters firing at The Arbiter. He stands there unaffected holding out his hands like a prophet of old.
"What the-" Cestro, the blue alien ranger was silenced when The Arbiter lighting behind him turning him around struck him down with his demonic looking gloved hand. Cestro hit the ground demorphing with bloody slash marks across his chest. He would bleed out and die watching the rest of his friends get butchered. The Arbiter lighting overs to Aucrico reaching around with his left hand around his throat.
"AUCRICO!" Delphine calls out. "LET HIM GO!" Delphine orders The Arbiter.
"As you wish!" The Arbiter snaps Aucrio's neck demorphing him and throwing his body to the ground.
"Delphine! Get Tideus and get out of there now! He is too powerful! We need to regroup NOW!" Billie orders watching from the viewing globe in horror.
"Tideus! Full power!" Delphine orders and once again they fire there blasters at The Arbiter who power walks quickly over to them shrugging off the blasts as if they were annoying flies. The Arbiter smacks the blaster from Tideus hand with his left hand then gives him a hard right across the helmet causing his head to twist around killing him instantly. Tideus demorphs and drops to the ground. The Arbiter's visor glows blue as he turns his head towards Delphine.
"Relinquish your power willingly or have it ripped from your corpse!" The Arbiter holds out his hands gesturing to her dead friends.
"NEVER!" Delphine yells out running at The Arbiter. The Arbiter just cracks his neck. He blocks all her punches and kicks with just his right hand. Then for amusement he lets her throw a volley of punches showing her attacks have no effect on him. Delphine backs up horrified.
"I am the will of the morphing grid!" The Arbiter proclaims. He walks up to Delphine and smacks her upside her helmet. Then he easily blocks more of her punches and kicks with ease. Then spartan kicks her in the chest sending her flying back across the ground. Delphine throws a kick with her right leg but The Arbiter catches her leg with one hand and with the other he reaches behind her and tosses across the air slamming into the side of the destroyed white Shogun zord.
Delphine pulls out her sword unleashing her ultimate move in a dazzling display of swordsmanship. The Arbiter just walks back with each strike, sparks streaking off his armor. Then she thrusts the sword through his chest. Delphine backs away breathing hard. The Arbiter just stands there pulling the sword out from his chest and it transforms into a corrupted version that he plunges into her chest impaling her into the side of the white shogun Zord.
Delphine pulls the sword out from her chest. The sword returns to normal and falls to the ground. She demorphs falling to the ground unconscious and bleeding out slowly. The Arbiter just stands there for a moment then disappears in a streak of white lighting.
"He killed them all Alpha…" Billie said in a traumatized tone.
"I don't believe it…" Alpha-5 said.
"He called himself the first ranger, what do you know of this Alpha!" Billie turned her head and yelled at him.
"I don't know anything! Nothing about him is in my data banks! I swear Mistress Billie!" Alpha-5 pleads. Billie looks away pissed off and hurt over the loss of Delphine and the Alien Rangers. Billie looks up at Zordon's tube to see it filled with nothing but white lighting.
"We need answers, we need to know what we are up against. We need Zordon! Get to work Alpha and find him NOW! Or I will dismantle you and use you as spare parts!" Billie orders in a nasty tone.
"I'm on it mistress Billie!" Alpha-5 goes to another keyboard and begins the search. The computers search their universe while Alpha-5 begins to write a tracking algorithm in hopes to find Zordon across any dimension or universe he may be in. Billie places her hands on the computer leaning forward and bowing her head. Her hair hangs over her face and hides the tears she is shedding for Delphine.
"Billie, Billie, come in its Rocky! What the hell was that explosion? What happened? We were almost killed in the blast!" Rocky calls to Billie on the communicator. Billie sniffles wiping the tears from her eyes.
"There dead..." Billie holds up her left hand talking into the silver watch looking communicator with blue inlays.
"What are you talking about?" Rocky demanded.
"The Alien Rangers were murdered by an evil black looking ranger in futuristic looking armor…" Billie broke the news to them.
"You mean the robocop looking lunatic that just appeared in front of us-"
"GET OUT OF THERE NOW! FALL BACK TO THE COMMAND CENTER!" Billie orders them. She hits a few keys on the keyboard to bring up the four Zeo Rangers who stood at the base of the hill before them The Arbiter and behind him countless waves of defeated cogs from the Machine Empire. Billie and Alpha-5 noticed the Zeo Rangers where hunched over exhausted with there hands on there knees looking up at The Arbiter.
"Zeo Rangers of Earth 3-29, you have terrorized your earth, enslaved its people, used your power you been given to selfishly further petty agendas for personal gain. You are unworthy! Surrender your Zeonizers or have them ripped from you!" The Arbiter gives out his ultimatum.
"You killed our friends and destroyed our zords! You're the one whose going to have his power ripped from you!" Kat yelled back.
"Run, fight, it makes NO DIFFERENCE!" The Arbiter tells them.
"Billie, it's Kat. Were avenging our friends and our zords!" Kat informs her.
"NO! I have seen what he can do! He may be the most powerful foe we have ever faced!" Billie tries to plead with Kat.
"All the more reason were going to need Thomas and Jaysin. Get them over here now!" Kat snapps at her.
"I can't find or get ahold of Thomas and Jaysin is being overwhelmed by champions and putties!" Billie replied. The Arbiter hits a few buttons on his right wrist gauntlet and scrambles their communications so they can no longer communicate with one another.
"Guys? GUYS?" Billie yells into her communicator. "Thomas! Come in! Thomas OLIVERA! Where the hell are you!" Billie yells out but gets no response. She looks up at the viewing globe to see the Zeo Rangers summoning there weapons and taking a fighting stance.
"Zeo Rangers!" they call out in unison. Then charge The Arbiter. Billie eyes widen as she brings up her communicator again.
"Jaysin! Jaysin! Where are you! We need you!...I NEED YOU!" Billie yells into her communicator but no response comes back. Billie just looks up helplessly and powerlessly as she watches her friends who succeeded her team engage in a brutal and violent fight with The Arbiter...
