Of Gods and Kings

"What is a Mob to a King? What is a king to a god? What is a god to an unbeliever?" ~Unknown

Jaysin teleports back into the Command Center removing his helmet holding it under his right hand. Jaysin uses his left hand and wipes the sweat from his brow looking at the wall behind him at the display of the original battle worn Power Ranger outfits and damaged morphers.

"You exceeded your time again, hurry and demorph" Billie says in a cold tone running simulations on the viewing globe of the Golden Power compatibility to human physiology.

"Right…" Jaysin replies in a low voice walking over to the display of the Red Ranger placing his left hand in the tube remembering his old times as the Red Ranger. He remembers the Tyrannosaurus dinozord and how it was always there for him. How he won many solo fights on his own with it. The most memorable one being defeating the Dragonzord.

He remembers when the dinozords were destroyed and came back as the Thunder Zords. He won many fights with the Tyrannosaurus Red Dragon Thunder Zord. He remembers memorable solo battles he won against Goldar, Sphinx, and the righteous Green Ranger.

He also remembers he intentionally failed to recover the green candle to let Thomas lose his power. He knew he could get Thomas kicked off the team and gain his power and he did. Jaysin became a Red Ranger with the dragon shield. He dual wielded the Power Sword and the Dragon Dagger. He had control of the dragonzord. More importantly he had Kim's affection back.

Those were good times, he was the leader of the Power Rangers, he had control of the Red Dragon Thunder Zord and the Dragonzord. He had Kim and they ruled Angel Grove as Overlords. Then in a series of unfortunate events Thomas was brought back for a time as the Green Ranger, then as the White Ranger and everything fell apart for Jaysin after that. He lost his zords, his leadership, his powers, his friends, and Kim.

"Jaysin?" Billie had looked up to see Jaysin's reflection in the screen and he was still morphed. Billie paused her simulation looking back over at Jaysin. "Is everything alright?" Billie inquired.

"Yes...everything is fine" Jaysin answers her.

"Feeling sentimental or nostalgic for your old powers?" Billie grins.

"No...it's just...nothing. Its nothing, where are we on the tests?" Jaysin left hand drops to his side turning around walking slowly toward Billie.

"I tried seals and limiters, so far nothing has worked to stabilize the Golden Power in humans" Billie answers him turning around when a streak of white lighting enters the Command Center. Jaysin narrows his eyes and Billie's eyes widen in horror.

"Jaysin Li Scotts, Gold Ranger of Earth 3-29, you hold yourself up as a king among Power Rangers, you have had the most power and potential. Yet, you have used and abused that power and your position for more power to satisfy your own selfish desires and petty agendas. You have caused death and destruction on a global scale. You are unworthy of being a Power Ranger" The Arbiter points at Jaysin.

"Is that right?" Jaysin grins evilly.

"Surrender the Golden Power Staff or I will rip it from your corpse! Like I did your friends!" The Arbiter warns.

"Hahaha, my friends? Don't make me laugh. I was going to get rid of them anyway" Jaysin grins. The Arbiter just stares at him intently.

"The Golden Power will destroy let me take it from you and destroy it" The Arbiter demands.

"You want it then come and get it" Jaysin holds up his helmet putting it back on powering up.

"Run, fight, it makes no difference the end result will always be the same" The Arbiter warns.

"Will see wont we" Jaysin yells out in unspeakable rage attacking The Arbiter in a blur of darkness and gold lighting. In the blur state only the gold shield, bands, and symbol on his helm could be seen. He looked more like a demon ranger then anything else. His voice was dark and distorted as well. The two rangers smash through the wall of the Command Center and engage in a violent and savage fight.

The fight shook the very foundation of the Command Center causing rolling black outs. Each punch echoed through the walls. Both Jaysin and The Arbiter could be heard yelling like vengeful gods of old. The Arbiter manipulated the morphing grid and copied Jaysin's Lord's Assault attack.

The Arbiter was a blur of distorted darkness with blue lighting around him. They tore the Command Center's hallways and inner sanctum apart flying, and super speeding each other through the walls.

"Aye-aye-aye, there going to destroy the Command Center at this rate Mistress Billie!" Alpha-5 panics.

"That's not the worst of it you tin can, look!" Billie points at the stat screen to show Jaysin's vitals were dropping and soon his ability to maintain the Gold Ranger form was going to fail.

"This is bad!" Alpha-5 dances around in circles panicking more.

Two blurs smash through the wall one with gold lighting and another with blue lighting as they smash through another wall into the Legacy Chamber.

"Oh my god, he is copying Jaysin's Gold Ranger powers!" Billie looks on horrified. They smash through the wall again sliding across the ground. Jaysin recovers quickly and exchanges some punches and kicks with Arbiter proving he was the better martial artist over powering The Arbiter then power kicks him with a golden light sending the Arbiter flying into the weapon display of there old ranger powers.

Jaysin tries to call forth the Golden Staff but it doesn't come. He tries again and this time it materializes. Jaysin Powers up the staff and hurls four golden balls of energy destroying the display, scattering the costume and damaged morphers across the Command Center while causing the ceiling and wall to collapse around The Arbiter. Jaysin grabs his chest while he demorphs and remophs back into the Gold Ranger.

"ENOUGH!" The Arbiter screams throwing off the rubble. Jaysin uses the Golden Staff to destroy the rubble to protect Billie from harm. Jaysin races forward striking Arbiter four times with the energy from the Golden Staff drawing sparks from his armor. The Arbiter swats the Golden Staff from Jaysin's hand next they both throw and punch at one another and block with the other. Both find themselves locked pushing against each other trying to see who is stronger.

The Arbiter pushes Jaysin back who slides across the ground. Jaysin falls to one knee with the reactor glowing in the center of Arbiter's chest. A massive blue beam fires from the chest sending Jaysin smashing through the center console and into the far wall cracking it. Jaysin stumbles forward falling to one knee demorphing and remorphing at random. Jaysin shakes his head getting back to his feet.

"Jaysin, you body can't take much more of this!" Billie had pulled a tablet out of her backpack when the console was destroyed. Alpha-5 stood cowering behind her. Warning on Jaysin's vitals were flashing red.

"Understood" Jaysin replied dashing forward at The Arbiter. Each one throwing punch after punch on the other.

"Alpha! Jaysin's power is dropping to quickly at this rate…" Billie looks up in horror. Jaysin slams Arbiter up against the wall throwing fast right after fast right. At first each golden punch that he threw seemed to hurt The Arbiter but after the third punch The Arbiter was just standing there unaffected by the hits.

The Arbiter catches Jaysin's fist with his left hand and grabs his throat with his right hand. Jaysin tries to break the grip of the right hand with his left as The Arbiter pushes him back. The Arbiter pulls Jaysin's hand away lifting him up in the air and choke slams him into the ground breaking it under him.

"JAYSIN!" Billie looks around for anything on the ground to help Jaysin only to see her old damaged morpher. Billie dropped to one knee grabbing the morpher looking back at Alpha-5 holding it up to him. "Alpha do you think this still works?" Billie demands.

"Mistress Billie NO! The power coins were destroyed! Morphing could destroy you!" Alpha-5 warns her.

"Could? So there is a chance it can work?" Billie inquires.

"Yes, but-"

"I'll take those odds" Billie looks over Jaysin who struggles under the right foot on The Arbiter. Jaysin resummons the Golden Power Staff and tries to strike The Arbiter who snatches the Staff right out of the hands of Jaysin using his left.

The Arbiter now held the Golden Power Staff and with it points it at Jaysin. Flames cover it and transforms it into another corrupted power weapon. The Arbiter uses the staff to drain the Golden Power from Jaysin. A Golden Light shines brightly demorphing him. Then The Arbiter holds the staff with both hands and breaks it across his knee releasing the golden power into the world causing the Golden Power to be lost forever.

"NOOO!" Jaysin yells out back to normal, pale skinned, sweating with veins under his eyes.

"NO JAYSIN!" Billie yells out. Billie looks down at her left hand at her old morpher looking up at The Arbiter in rage.

"The Gold Ranger is NO MORE!" The Arbiter proclaims. The Arbiter looks down at Jaysin who struggles under his right foot looking up at him in hate. "As are you Jaysin Li Scotts of Earth 3-29-"

"ARBITER!" Billie calls out to him. The Arbiter looks over at Billie and notices the damaged morpher in her hand as does Jaysin.

"Foolish girl, you will destroy yourself!" Arbiter warns.

"Don't Billie, get out of here! Save yourself!" Jaysin gives her a pleading look.

"No! I will lose no one else!" Billie said in a dark tone, with an evil look in her eye standing before The Arbiter and Jaysin. Then she grins saying in a low dark voice "It's morphin time…"