Red
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~Abraham Lincoln
Earth-Prime, unknown planet…
A human in a brown colored nomadic robes, with a mouth piece, and goggles races through a dense forest being pursde by green giant colored orcs. Wearing primitive clothing brandishing warpaint and primitive weapons. He side steps missing wooden spears that fly past him. He ducks and dodges through the trees getting cut off by the orcs. The man side steps avoiding them all together.
He races past the trees into a clearing sliding to a stop looking down a steep cliff into dark murky ocean below. He turns around to see the orcs slowing emerging from the clearing with menacing looks. The man just shakes his head.
"I'm really miss being able to morph…" the man mutters to himself. He flicks his right hand and the Dragon Dagger slides into his hand. The man uses the energy from the Dragon Dagger to make a flaming circle. Then stabs the firing a green beam of energy the explosion blows the Orcs back. The man salutes with the dagger leaping off the cliff a portal. The Orcs get up looking around panicking. A horrifying scream comes from a village followed by a dark light crashing further back into the woods snapping trees in half.
A young Rita in a galaxy styled clothing walks through the clearing past her orcs looking down the cliff then back at the Orcs.
"Where is the intruder?" she demands.
"He escaped with the coin and the dagger my empress" an Orc warrior bows before her explaining the situation.
"You lost my coin and my dagger?" Rita gives out a sarcastic laugh. Then destroys the Orcs with the wave of her staff in anger. "Now how am I supposed to defeat the Power Rangers and conquer Earth without my green ranger?" Rita shakes her head.
Earth 3-29, Ruined Zeo Zord holding bay…
Billie was in her chair monitoring several monitors when a portal opens up in the air behind and the man fell from the portal landing on his feet gracefully. Billie spins the chair around to see the man pulled back the hood, and pull down the goggles and mouthpiece. Billie stares at Jaysin who stands before her. He runs his hands through his hair ruffling it.
"Did you get the items?" Billie demands. Jaysin stares at her holding the Dragon Dagger in the right hand and the Dragon Coin in the left hand. Billie snatches the dagger from Jaysin. Jaysin noticed a crazed look all over her face.
"I'm okay by the way Billie" Jaysin tells her throwing off his robes kicking them under the table to the right hand side. He stands their wearing a red shirt, black jacket, and black jeans with black shoes.
"I know" Billie replies not looking at him sliding her chair to her work table using her one good hand to set the dagger on a makeshift harmonizer. Jaysin watches her hit a few keys and brings up the dagger's energy and sound waves on one monitor and on another monitor Earth 3-29's dagger's energy and sound waves. Then she runs a program to sync Earth Prime's Dragon Dagger to Earth 3-29's energy and sound waves.
"Planet full of Orcs, dense forest amarred in a barren wasteland on an alien world in another dimension. Could you believe we'd be traveling to other worlds and dimensions-"
"I'm busy Jaysin, incase you haven't noticed we have alot of work to get done here" Billie scolds him. Jaysin just stares at her. He hated what she was becoming. He missed the old, nerdy Billie full of hope, important information, and tech support. Now she has become mean, uses Kim and him to project her inability to inflict violence on others, and has become downright hateful of life by sight and memory. Jaysin looks at the dragon coin and slams it down on the table next to Billie who flinches, then just stares up at him with blood running down her right eye.
They glare at one another then Jaysin walks away. Billie turns her head then turns her chair looking at Jaysin walking away when Ninjor suddenly jumps around the corner. Jaysin eyes widen in surprise. Billie looks up blinking at Ninjor.
"Ninjor?" Jaysin backs up shaking his head. Jaysin hated Ninjor and found him and his body movements annoying. The mere sound of Ninjor's voice was enough to make Jaysin cringe.
"Great to see you again Master Jaysin-"
"What do you want Ninjor" Jaysin's dryly rubbing his eyes.
"To give you this" Ninjor walks over to his work station grabbing a morpher holding it up to Jaysin. Jaysin's eyes his old red ranger morpher rebuilt and connected to the corruption like Kim's morpher. Ninjor holds it out to Jaysin who begrudgingly takes from him looking at the cracks in the casing.
"It still has cracks in it Ninjor" Jaysin comments looking over the morpher.
"I left them in, adding character to the morpher to match the burn on your left side of your face" Ninjor explains. Jaysin lifts head up at Ninjor. Billie saw the hateful look written across Jaysin's dark facial features. "Care to test it, its stable" Ninjor asks. Jaysin tosses the morpher up and down then holds it tightly turning around walking with his head and his left hand in his pocket deep in thought. Jaysin stops looking back at Ninjor then up at Billie.
"I need him Jaysin" Billie cautions him. Jaysin stares at her silently as if to ask why. "1. He protects me while you and Kim are dimension hopping. 2. His knowledge on power coins and the morphing grid are invaluable. 3. He can supersize himself and without that ability it would have taken years to build the Graveyzord" Billie reminds him. Jaysin just shakes his head, then turns around looking at Ninjor.
"Tyrannosaurus!" Jaysin yells out engulfed in a red lighting. His helmet materializes around his face with his suit. Billie perks an eyebrow. Jaysin like Kim's suit was black with red diamonds instead of pink, he had the armored red greaves and thigh pads, red gauntlets, puffed up neck collar with red inlays. His Power Sword hung off his back on a three-belt leather strap which allows him to reach over his back with his right hand and unsheathe it. His helmet was black with the tyrannosaurus design still in red.
Jaysin leaned forward his left hand holding the blade of his sword and his right hand on the handle. Ninjor pulled his sword out both but Jaysin was fast as lighting. With the swing of his sword Ninjor's sword stabbed into the ground along with his body. Ninjor tried to recover but by the time he rolled over Jaysin was on him with his sword resting against his neck.
"Your as powerful and as skilled as Billie said you were" Ninjor compliments him. Jaysin just stares at him through a black visor. Jaysin took a step back tapping the morpher powering back down in a glow of red light. Jaysin holds out his hand awaiting Billie's approval.
"Well?" Jaysin asks her.
"Well what?" Billie looks down at him.
"How about some praise Billie?" Jaysin flinches at her in anger.
"Praise for what? Beating Ninjor? I knew you would win. Your the strongest of us. If you lost I'd be dissapointed" Billie commented, then sits down in her chair turning around going back to her monitors. Jaysin lowers his hands clenching his fists. He missed the days when Billie used to come up to him after the fights and give the team debriefings and would praise Jaysin on his leadership and battle capabilities.
For Jaysin, Billie was his childhood friend. She was there for him when his mother and sister left and he was stuck with his abusive father. Billie was there when they became Power Rangers. Billie was there throughout all his battles and conquests. Billie was his family, the person who kept him grounded, but now she has become so full of hate because of The Arbiter. Jaysin crossed his arms lowering his head letting his bangs hide his features. A beeping sound went off at Billie's workstation.
"It's ready Jaysin" Billie says coldly grabbing the Dragon Dagger and tossing it to Jaysin who looks up just in time and catches it. "It's synced to our Earth's vibrations along with its sound waves so you should have no trouble controlling the Dragonzord" Billie explains.
"I expected no less from you Billie" Jaysin replies coldly holding the dagger firmly looking up at Billie.
"Now, go awaken the Dragonzord and bring it back to the hanger bay so Ninjor and I can upgrade it and you can join Kim hunting down The Arbiter" Billie orders Jaysin. Jaysin just stares at her in silence. Billie stares back at him. "What?" Billie said hatefully.
"Don't forget who the leader is here" Jaysin finds himself pointing the dagger at Billie.
"I haven't forgotten, just as you shouldn't forget whose tactics carried you to victory" Billie scolds Jaysin. Jaysin clenches the dagger tightly turning his back on Billie walking away. "Oh and Jaysin…" Billie pauses, Jaysin stops looking over his shoulder at Billie.
"What?" Jaysin said annoyed.
"Destroy Angel Grove while your at it and full fill our original purpose the Darklord Zordon gave us" Billie orders. Jaysin just gives her an ugly look.
"What's happened to you Billie?" Jaysin asks in a heart breaking voice. Jaysin watches Billie's eyes bleed out again.
"Nothing, now get to work my old friend" Billie replies in a scorned voice. Jaysin just shakes his head and walks away. Ninjor watched the whole exchange in silence, then follows after Jaysin.
"Master Jaysin!" Ninjor calls out to him. Jaysin stops letting out a huge sigh. Jaysin turns around looking annoyed at Ninjor.
"What?" Jaysin snaps at him.
"Don't be too hard on mistress Billie she is just going through alot" Ninjor.
"I know…" Jaysin puts his left hand in his pocket and rubs his forehead with the palm of his hand while holding the dagger.
"She just loss so much Master Jaysin-"
"She has…" Jaysin cuts Ninjor off. "And she is just trying to hold on to what she has left…" Jaysin looks up at Ninjor. "Can I trust you with something?" Jaysin asks.
"Anything-" Jaysin reaches in his pocket and hands Ninjor a damaged yellow ranger morpher.
"Fix this and don't tell Billie" Jaysin orders. Ninjor takes the morpher and nods.
"What are you going to do?" Ninjor asks.
"I'm going to destroy Angel Grove" Jaysin smiles wickedly. While this exchange was happening Billie was typing something up on the computer with her one good hand when a strange code froze her monitors and a bunch of red zero and ones flooded her screen.
"What is this?" Billie went to try to type something but the suddenly the monitors return to normal. "What was that?" Billie whispers to herself checking all her system files and running multiple scans to try and figure out what that was.
Meanwhile on top of a skyscraper in Angel Grove Jaysin stood in his ranger forme looking down at a ruined city trying to rebuild and people who looked like ants going about their sad meaningless lives. Jaysin used the Dragon Dagger to awaken the long dormant Dragonzord. His cockpit lit up in a variety of lights and system boot ups. Its red eyes come to life as it stands up on the ocean floor hearing the call to battle.
The Dragonzord rises from the bay and destroys the docks. Running his tail through buildings and stomps his feet through the building killing thousands. Jaysin stands high above for all of Angel Grove to see him, then continues to play the dark melody. The lights on the Dragonzord's chest plate red lights go off in a synchronized pattern. Missiles load in the fingertips of the Dragonzord as Jaysin gives him the order to fire.
The Dragonzord launches a missile strike on Angel Grove and Rita's tower. Dozens of the remaining skyscrapers collapse. Hundreds of people fall screaming to the ground. Buildings and neighborhoods being repaired from the last monster attack get destroyed once again. A young black man wearing a red shirt and blue jeans with a bald head sits in the park watching kids and families play in the park. A missile slams into the center and explodes. When the man comes to the park is in ruins, fire is everywhere and as blood runs down his face he looks up to see dozens of moms and children dead. He continues to look beyond the smoke to see the Dragonzord towering above roaring with the Red Ranger leaping to the top of its head surveying his destruction.
"T.J. Johns!" a asian woman with short dark hair cried out wearing a pink shirt and tan shorts runs through the smoke covered in ash sliding next to T.J. grabbing his shoulders and lifting his head up to meet hers.
"Casey-Chan…" T.J. said weakly.
"I thought the Power Rangers were defeated and gone?" Casey looks back up at the Dragonzord realizing they returned more evil and more powerful then before. She was in awe of Jaysin's raw, savage, merciless, and ruthless nature and power. T.J. looks up weakly his vision blurring wishing he could have power like that so he can force this world he hated so much into what he wanted it to be.
Angel Grove was a city in flames with Jaysin laughing insanely on top of its head looking down at the hopeless people in there misery. He loved this feeling and the power, though he found himself missing his Gold Ranger powers. He hops into the cockpit of the Dragonzord getting ready for another missile strike.
"Oh no, he is planning to launch another missile attack!" T.j. coughs.
"We wont survive another attack!" Casey yells out. In the hangar bay an alarm goes off while Billie was trying to figure out the virus problem in her computers. She switches one of the monitors to see the news of the Dragonzord's missile attack. Then on another monitor two profile pictures pop up with T.J. and Casey's picture on them. Then another of a kid named Justin in a ruined neighborhood wearing damaged blue shirt and jeans covered in ash with his home in flames and his father burned to ash.
Another monitor pops up with a mexican teenager named Carlos Raveria running through an apartment in flames escaping its collapse pushing people out of the way to save his own life selfishly. Another monitor pops up with a girl name Ash running out of a mall with brand name clothes she looted with a wicked smile on her face. Billie's eyes widen as she gets on the mic.
"Jaysin! Stop the attack and return to the base NOW!" Billie orders. Jaysin pauses the attack holding up his left wrist to speak into his communicator.
"What? Why Billie? This is what WE want!" Jaysin yells back.
"Carlos, Casey, Justin, Ash, and T.J. are all on the city, if you fire you launch another attack you could kill them!" Billie says in a scorned voice.
"Who?" Jaysin asks confused.
"In other Earth's they succeeded Thomas and the others being the Turbo Rangers and then moving on to becoming the Space Rangers! I need them! For the long game!" Billie demands. Jaysin begrudgingly sighs running the Dragonzord through the city, smashing some buildings and stomping on crowds of people back to the base.
"Fine!" Jaysin says spitefully.
"We survived!" Casey laughs insanely with T.J. watching the Dragonzord run away. Carlos, Ash, and Justin from there respectable ruined location watch the Dragonzord race away with awe of its destructive power wishing in their own hearts they could have power like that to do what they pleased. Each one drops what there doing to run after the Dragonzord and the desire for real power and status.
Zord Hanger Bay,
The Dragonzord moves into position being moved into place in the Zord Hangar Bay with Ninjor super sizing himself to start the upgrades to the Dragonzord. Jaysin walks up to Billie's station removing his helmet placing it on the work table. Billie slightly turns her chair pointing at the monitors. Jaysin looks up to see profiles on the five individuals that Billie deemed worthy enough to call off Jaysin's attack.
"So these are the would be Space Rangers?" Jaysin wipes sweat from his forehead eyeing each profile.
"Yes, and they will be lead by him Andross of-"
"How do you know all this Billie?" Jaysin cuts in.
"Knowledge is power Jaysin" Billie replies coldly tapping away at a few of the keys bringing up hundreds of windows on information of Power Rangers on other earths. Jaysin eyes widen.
"Billie what is this?" Jaysin looks greatly disturbed.
"The more we know about the other Earths and our doppelgangers, the easier it will be to kill them, conquer their planets and track down The Arbiter" Billie replies coldly. Jaysin Looks at her with a pale expression, this went way beyond just tracking down and killing The Arbiter.
"We started this to get our revenge against The Arbiter! Since when do we do his dirty work and start offing our counterparts?" Jaysin demands spinning Billie's chair to face him. She flinches at him turning her head away.
"Why should they have better lives then US!" Billie snaps back. Just then the screens flicker as if on que bringing up Jaysin's doppelgangers and his relationships. Jaysin turns his head while looking up at the screen. Jaysin see's his doppelganger on Earth-Prime on a beach after an intense training session. Jason and Trini eye each other romantically using a white towel to dab away the sweat they worked up.
Jaysin sees another doppelganger of him in Earth-1, a heroic version of himself after giving up the golden power to live a life of peace with a girl named Emily on beach of Angel Grove. Over in Cenozoic Earth, a much younger Jason with dirty blonde hair making out with Kim on his bed on the eve of a showdown with that Earth's Rita. Jaysin hits a button on the computer switching the monitors to different screens. Jaysin lowers his head.
"I am me Billie, no one else. I don't care about them" Jaysin points his right hand the monitors. "I care about OUR life and OUR earth, and OUR mission! I don't care about them, their lives, or their earths!" Jaysin scolds her. Billie just stares at him when the monitors glitch and act on their own again alerting them that the transfer is ready.
"Another glitch?" Billie turns her chair to the monitors. Jaysin perks his eyebrows.
"Has this been happening alot?" Jaysin inquires.
"Yeah, there seems to be a bug in our system, but I have a scan going and pretty soon I'll have the problem fixed" Billie answers him in a unworried tone.
"You think it might be a hacker trying to pull information from our computers?" Jaysin stands there with his arms crossed.
"Strangely enough, no. It's actually been helping me pulling up information when I need it like a moment ago when it pulled up the information on your dopplegangers" Billie explains.
"Annoyingly helpful like Alpha" Jaysin replies dryly. Suddenly a light bulb goes off in her head.
"Jaysin, your genius!" Billie says excitedly. Hitting a few more keys then brings up a giant nero network.
"Is that-"
"It's Alpha! He is in our systems. He must have backed up his programming before the Commander Center was destroyed! That clever Rogue A.I. of ours!" Billie said excitedly.
"Correct Mistress Billie!" Alpha 5 replies through the speakers. "I have been waiting for you to figure it out" Jaysin looks over and for the first time in a long time he sees Billie smile.
"Welcome back Alpha!" Billie leans back in her chair.
"Good to be back Mistress Billie and I'm ready to serve!" Alpha replies.
"Oh?" Jaysin says outloud.
"I have been going through and processing all the information we have been gathering from other Earths from the probes Mistress Billie has been sending out" Alpha 5 explains.
"Theift, murder, and now spying on other earths in the multiverse? We kinda of deviated from our original purpose don't you think Billie?" Jaysin inquires.
"It's all to find The Arbiter" Billie explains. Jaysin gives her a skeptical look.
"Where is Kim right now?" Jaysin hadn't heard from her in a while.
"The Cenozoic Earth…" Billie replies.
"Cenozoic Earth?" Jaysin asked confused.
"Yes, Earth 2-17 if you will. A very young, yet very powerful and primal force based Earth. The power scaling there along with their direct connection to the morphing grid makes them a very powerful team with their Dino Megazord having nearly limitless power compared to our old clunky megazord"
"Also their zeo crystals provide life on five different worlds, and if pulled from the planet is equivalent to a hundred million nucler weapons exploding at once. That's why they religiously protect it, because if they forces of evil got it like their Rita or Zedd they could destroy the Earth easily" Alpha 5 interjects.
"They also have suits of armor with a power scaling near that of The Arbiter-"
"And you sent Kim their ALONE Billie? What the hell were you thinking?" Jaysin yelled at her.
"I told Kim what she was in for and she said it would be good training to get back in the game and a good warm up before The Arbiter. Like a teaser before the movie" Billie laughs evilly. Jaysin just stood there clenching his fists.
"Their Alpha 5's body and combat capabilities are amazing Mistress Billie!" Alpha 5 says in a coveted tone bring up images of Alpha training with the rangers. Billie and Jaysin look on impressed.
"Say no more Alpha" Billie sends a message to Kim.
"What are you doing?" Jaysin asked curiously.
"A souvenir from Cenozoic Earth" Billie says playfully.
"Your going to have Kim steal their Alpha and bring him back here?" Alpha 5 says excitedly.
"Yup, then I'll transfer your data and into the android body and boom freedom of movement" Billie giggles.
"Freedom of movement" Alpha 5 replies evilly.
"What about the existing Alpha 5?" Jaysin inquires already knowing the answer.
"It's just a A.I. computer program, it's not important so I'll just delete it" Billie replies coldly.
The casual manner in which Billie treated their Alpha 5 like a person and saw other Alpha 5's of other Earth's as deletable programs bothered him as well as a complete disregard to the lives of their doppelgangers.
"DELETE, DELETE, DELETE" Alpha 5 chanted evilly. Jaysin just sighs shaking his head sadly.
"Anyway, it's time to transfer the green ranger power to you so you can once again be the Red Ranger with Dragonzord Power" Billie hands Jaysin the green power coin from Earth-Prime. Jaysin grabs his helmet putting it back on the takes the coin walking back getting in place. He makes a fist around the dragon coin holding it up as lighting bolts from Billie's transfer machine pulse and strike around his hand.
There was a moment of pain where Jaysin fell to one knee with green lightning running through his suit before a flash of green light. Jaysin stood tall with the golden cuffs around his upper arms on each side, the golden dragon shield with a black holder on his right side for the Dragon Dagger. Jaysin looked down feeling immensely powerful once more.
Jaysin couldn't believe how good and powerful he felt, with power like this he felt he could stand a chance against The Arbiter and crush anyone else who got in his way. Suddenly all doubts and reservations he had about Billie's growing disturbia faded away with the feeling of this raw corrupting power he felt.
"Oh Billie this is amazing, you really have out done yourself" Jaysin replies feeling his suit and Dragon Shield.
"I know, know I spoil you and give you all the cool toys" Billie says in an evil and playful tone. Jaysin walked up the steps to Billie's station standing behind her.
"It's stable and might I dare say even stronger then when you had this power originally" Alpha 5 tells Jaysin bringing up the old readings when his power was connected to the grid and the readings of his power connected to the Corruption.
"Good because were going to need all the power we can get to defeat The Arbiter" Jaysin says in an evil dark fluid voice. A glowing red eye can be seen through the right side of his black visor.
A portal opens up in the Zord Hanger Bay with the Gravezord walking through taking its place in the bay with Kim teleporting to the ground with busted up Cenozoic Alpha. Ninjor pauses on the Dragonzord build to look down as Billie and Jaysin turned around to see Kim in her power suit walking toward them dragging a sparking and defeated Alpha 5.
"Welcome back" Jaysin stands above her with his arms crossed. Billie to his left sitting in the chair.
"That was quick, I just sent the message a few minutes ago about needing a body for Alpha-"
"I had already broken into their command center and defeated Alpha when I got your message" Kim holds up a bloody cenozoic pink power coin.
"Their rangers-" Billie was about to ask but gets cut off by Kim.
"I kidnapped my doppelganger and disguised myself as her, then one by one I took out the rangers starting with the yellow, then the black, almost got found out by a male black version of you, got rid of him, then slept with their Jason-" as Kim explains Jaysin cuts her off.
"You did what?" Jaysin cuts her off. Kim notes the jealousy in his voice and laughs evilly.
"Don't worry, it was just for fun, your the only Jaysin for me" Kim tells him in a flirtatious voice.
"Continue your report" Billie interjects.
"Right, then I took on both our doppelgangers and man where they powerful, I almost lost but as you can see I'm still standing and their not" Kim giggles evilly. "It was so touching watching them crawl to one another before I finished them off and relieved my doppelganger of her power coin which I used to break into their Command Center, disable their Alpha 5, kill their Zordon-"
"You killed Zordon?" Jaysin asked in a dark but shocked tone, uncrossing his arms. Kim tilted her head at Jaysin.
"Yeah, why not? It's not like it was our Zordon. Then, I got your message, scooped up Alpha and all the while my Gravezord pulled the zeo crystal out from beneath crispy cream donuts and the last thing I saw before waving bye, bye to that shit hole was it going up in flames. It was beautiful" Kim holds out her arms awaiting praise. Jaysin clenches his fists.
"You destroyed another Earth?" Jaysin yells out her. Kim lowers her arms tilting her head at Jaysin.
"Yeah, it's not like it's our Earth, who cares?" Kim snapps at him.
"I do! if we go around killing our doppelgangers and destroying planets we are no better then The Arbiter!" Jaysin snaps at her.
"Your right! Were better! More effective killers!" Kim said in a dark flirtatious voice. Jaysin took a step about to punish Kim when the alarm went off. Billie turned her chair around Kim looked up at the monitors. Jaysin just glared at Kim.
"Report Billie!" Jaysin snaps at her.
"The motion sensor alarm was triggered in the ruins of the old Command Center, you and Kim better check it out" Billie recommends.
"Roger that" Jaysin replies signaling kim to Follow him.
"Right behind you baby" Kim grabs her helmet following after Jaysin looking up at Ninjor. "When your done with the Dragonzord look over my Gravezord" Kim spits out her orders to Ninjor.
Ruins of the Command Center,
A young black man with long dreadlocks, black dress shirt, black slacks, with black dress shoes shifts through the rubble finding the damage black ranger morpher. Two beams of light flash on him. He slowly holds up both his hands standing to his feet.
"Who are you?" Kim demands, wearing her normal clothes. Pink shoes, black leggings, short dark blue jean shorts, with a pink crop top and a black leather jacket. Jaysin stood on rubble behind in his red shirt, black jeans and shoes.
"Now there is a voice I haven't heard in years" the man turns around slowly. Kim and Jaysin give shocked expressions.
"Zackary?" Kim said astonished. Jaysin just narrows his eyes at him.
"It's not Zackary, it's his twin brother Zach" Jaysin reminds Kim. Kim just looks back at him nodding remembering the "Zack" twins.
"Yeah, our parents that it be funny if we had the same name but spelled differently" Zach says dryly.
"What are you doing here?" Kim inquires.
"I saw your return after a year of silence, I was hoping to full fill my brother's legacy as the black ranger and get my revenge on his killer" Zach explains waving his left hand back and forth letting them capture the notice of the damage morpher in his hand.
"Thomas is already dead, but we could use another ranger" Kim looks over to Jaysin who thinks it over.
"What do you say boss?" Zach inquires. "Will you let me honor my brother's bloody legacy as an axe murdering black ranger?" Zach gives Jaysin a wicked smile. Jaysin just stares at him for a long moment in silence.
"No" Jaysin answers. Kim and Zach look stunned at him.
"Why not?" Zach demands to know.
"Because you still have a choice, you don't want this life" Jaysin says tiredly.
"What do you mean?" Zach wanted to know.
"In the beginning it feels good, power, freedom, but years down the road you'll wake up one day and realize your whole life has been devoted to death and destruction and you wont know why…" Jaysin explains tiredly.
"My brother was the black ranger, it's my legacy! I'm going to be part of this weather you like it or not...boss" Zach tells him. Zach shoves past Jaysin, Jaysin lets out an annoyed sigh. Kim just smiles leading Zach back to the hangar bay.
Zord Hanger Bay,
Jaysin had delayed his getting back to the base in order to think, he had become deeply troubled by Billie's growing malice and Kim's murdering sociopathic tendencies. More then anything he was disturbed by their growing disregard for their doppelgangers and the natural order of the multiverse.
When Jaysin got back to the hangar bay Kim had already filled Billie in on Zach's wish and was already hard at work with him sitting next to her fixing his brother's old morpher. Billie was smiling acting like a teacher to her student while Zach did all the work. Kim looks over to Jaysin with an evil smile. Jaysin frowns walking, Kim looks at Jaysin walking away with a concerned look on her face.
Later that night Jaysin was tossing and turning his sleep. He had made his room in an old storage room filled with boxes and a cot. He was wearing black sweats and no shirt while under the covers of a red sleeping bag. Jaysin was covered in sweat as he was tormented with the memories of the dead rangers and The Arbieter preaching how he was the first ranger and how he must purge the grid of the Corruption.
His mind was tormented with the memory of losing his fight to him. He wondered who The Arbiter was, what did he mean by he was the will of the morphing grid and if he was the will of it, did that mean the morphing grid was a living force? If so Then does that mean the Corruption was a living force to and did it have a ranger of its own to enact it's will? Suddenly Jaysin was falling through the pure blue light of the morphing grid, then suddenly it became corrupted by a black greenish light with feelings of anger, rage, and hate. Suddenly among the light Jaysin saw Billie with the most hateful look and blood coming out of her eyes with her glowing blue eyes looking at him in the darkness.
Jaysin snapped awake covered in sweat. He rubs his head deeply disturbed and realizing he didn't know what the Corruption of the morphing grid really was and why lThe Arbiter wanted it to be purged. Jaysin thought about how much more powerful the Corruption made their original ranger powers and even thought there was no harmful physical effects Jaysin wondered if the Corruption poisoned the mind.
He thought about their advances in technology the past year. Billie was smart but was she this smart? And then there was Kim, she was much more vicious then she had ever been. She went so far as to destroy a planet. Jaysin looked over at his morpher on the box next to his cot. What changes were going on with him? Jaysin thought for a moment and had grown more angry and paranoid then usual.
Jaysin frowns grabbing his morpher looking at it. Were they becoming more evil corrupted versions of their evil selves and not aware of it? Would him and Kim eventually have health problems like Billie? Will the Corruption kill them over a set period of time? Jaysin's mind was tormented and plagued by many questions to which he had no answers to. He wish Zordon was here, he always knew what to do. He missed being able to go to Zordon when he felt lost.
Jaysin puts his morpher on the box and hangs his head low with his bangs covering his face. He sits alone in darkness with his right eye glowing red with rage and his mind filled with paranoid thoughts of doubt and distrust toward the others fearing they have become indoctrinated by the Corruption and not aware they are acting as a puppet to the The Corruption of the Morphing Grid. If so, then he needed to purge them and free them from their lives. Jaysin started to laugh insanely in the darkness...
