Andross's Odyssey

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls." ~Unknown

Jaysin was sitting up in his bed wearing a red sleeveless shirt, black sweats and black shoes. He hardly got any sleep last night, his dreams were filled with nightmares, and paranoia gripped his heart and mind. He couldn't believe he was even thinking about killing his team to free them from The Corruption and to make matters worse, he wasn't even sure if The Corruption was a living entity or if it had truly indoctorniated them. He needed to know what The Corruption was and if being connected to it was really changing their mentality.

Jaysin wandered the dark halls until he found his way to another storage room. He stopped at the door and wondered what he was doing. He felt so lost, so filled with paranoia and it made him angry. He pounded on her door. Inside Kim stirs awake throwing off her covers sitting up tiredly. She looks over at her door getting up wearing back booty shorts with a white trim and a pink muscle shirt.

"Yeah, yeah, give me a moment" Kim gets to her feet walking across the cold hard ground to the door. It opens and she sees Jaysin standing in her doorway, he was always standing in her doorway. Kim looked him up and down. She reaches out with her right hand tracing the burn scars going up his left arm and the left side of his face to the blind eye. A dim light flickered above him. Jaysin tilted his head giving her a dark menacing look, but when Kim's caressed the left side of his face, he closed his eyes and gave into her touch.

"Kim…" Jaysin says weakly and tiredly. Kim looks up at Jaysin, she knew him long enough to know when something was troubling him. Kim runs her right hand down Jaysin's face and down to his left hand. She lightly pulls on his left hand. She pulls him into her room as the door closes behind them. Kim moonwalks leading Jaysin to her bed and they sit down. Kim holds both his hands and they rest their foreheads against one another closing their eyes.

"What's wrong Jaysin?" Kim leans her head back opening her eyes looking at Jaysin who kept his eyes closed and his head down.

"I can't sleep, and when I do I have nightmares" Jaysin says tiredly.

"The Arbiter?" Kim assumed outloud.

"Not just him, but everyone else…" Jaysin adds. Kim tilted her head and gives a curious look at him.

"Others?" Kim inquires.

"At night, I see there faces. The faces of all the people I have killed. They are waiting for me in that bright awful light…" Jaysin tells her, his voice trailing of as does his mind to a ruined city under a bright light. Emerging from the buildings are the people he killed using his zord, and the champions of light he defeated for the forces of evil. They all surrounded looking like undead versions of themselves reaching out to him.

Jaysin looked up suddenly with his eyes wide open. He was breathing hard for a moment before he relaxed himself looking over at Kim, who gave him a blank stare. They sit there in silence staring at one another.

"Does it ever bother you? Does it keep you up at night?" Jaysin inquired.

"No" Kim said coldly.

"You just don't care? How many lives you destroy? How many people you kill?" Jaysin gives Kim a pleading look.

Kim flashes back to Earth 2-17, the Cenozoic Earth. She remembers her doppelganger laying face first in the dirt dead. Jason Lee Scott, the cenozoic red ranger crawls over to his Kim, his armor retracting itself. The ash covered and bleeding Jason reaches his left hand out to Kim trying to shake her awake but she remains lifeless. Jason turns over on his back to see Kim standing there in her ranger slayer power suit.

""Please…" the dirty blonde hair teenage Jason holds up his hands. Kim smiles sadistically under her helmet before slowly driving the blade of her evil bow through him. She took great pleasure watching the blood come out of his mouth and his eyes roll in the back of his head. She loved the feel of the blade slowly being pushed into his body as he made gurgling and choking sounds. It was erotic for Kim as she let out a slight moan before pulling out her bow. She tilts her head and smiles.

"Was it good for you?" Kim walks over to her doppleganger and takes her power coin smiling evilly under the helmet. Kim snaps back to reality looking at Jaysin then replies to his question. "No, no I don't" Kim replies grinning wickedly at Jaysin. Jaysin hung his head low while Kim tilted her head in a curious manner.

"You slept with that other Jaso-"

"I did, and like I said before your the only Jaysin that matters the others are just my toys" Kim snickers. The lights flicker above, Jaysin looks up then back at kim and when it went dark his eyes slightly widened. In the darkness Kim's eyes were glowing a dark pink color but when the lights came back on her eyes where there normal brown hew.

"Your a psychopath" Jaysin said heartbreakingly.

"Yes I am, but you're a sociopath Jaysin" Kim admits it.

"What?" Jaysin blinks at her.

"I have no conscious, no empathy, and I feel no remorse for my actions. But you have a limited ability to feel empathy and form emotional attachments with others. Case in point with Billie and I, but you don't feel anything for all the people you killed. You are capable of empathy in certain limited circumstances with us but not with others" Kim gives Jaysin a psych 101 lesson.

Psychopaths are unable to form emotional attachments or feel any real empathy. Emotions are foregin to them, they know that they should be feeling something but they don't feel anything except in a very superficial sense, goodness, evil, love, horror, and humor have no actual meaning, no power to move them which makes psychopaths capable of hurting others without guilt or remorse. Psychopathy is the most dangerous form of anti-social behaviours and it was without question in Jaysin's mind Kim was a very sick and dangerous individual.

Psychopaths try to make up for this impairment by being skilled actors. Kim was a charming and persuasive capable of faking emotions when in truth she didn't feel anything at all. Kim studied Jaysin's distressed facial expressions. She saw the doubt written across his face and smiled. She knew how to manipulate him and further enslave him to her desires and machinations.

"Baby, you only need to believe in is what you see" Kim tells him coldly. Jaysin looks up at her. "If you see me as your friend I'll be your friend. If you see me as your lover, I'll be your lover. If you need me to save you, I'll be your saviour. If you see me as your god, I'll be your god…" Kim said in a dark eerie voice reaching out caressing the left side of his face. Jaysin gave into her touch.

"Kim-"

"Sshh, lay with me" Kim whispers darkly pulling Jaysin close. They lay in her bed with Jaysin's arms wrapped around her and his head buried in her chest. She kept one leg over him and held him close. She sung a dark hym slowly running her hands through his hair until he fell asleep in her dark twisted embrace.

~7 hours later~

Jaysin sits up awake looking around to find himself alone in Kim's bed. He looks around to see a digital clock by her night stand reading 10:05 a.m. Jaysin ruffles his hair. He had been sleeping for roughly seven hours when he came to have his 3a.m. talk with Kim. He quickly got up walking toward the door when a pink glow catches his eye. He turns to the left to see a makeshift shelf with a glass enclosure with the cenozoic pink power coin resting on a small coin holder with an index card that read Earth 2-17 (Cenozoic Pink Ranger Coin).

Jaysin blinked then backed up. Kim was collecting trophies, from the earth's she was visiting or going to visit like a serial killer who collected pictures, random objects, or body parts of their victims to remember them by...it was memorabilia. How many earths will they visit before they find The Arbiter? How many other trophies will be added to Kim's shelf he thought. He felt he should be disturbed and horrified by this, he knew he should feel something of revulsion or disgust but he just didn't feel anything. He was mildly concerned about her behaviour however, given Kim's Psychopathy there was no baseline he could establish for her to compare her mentality before being connected to The Corruption and after.

Jaysin walks out to what they have dubbed the main hall of the hanger bay. There Jaysin saw Billie with bags under her eyes sitting in her chair telling new Zach what to do and how to plug in the cords into the Cenozoic Alpha. Once done she activiated him. He sprang to life and immediately tried to fight before Jaysin could react Kim and Zach where restraining him while Billie hitting some keys and began deleting the current Alpha-5's programming. Jaysin watched unmoved as Alpha-5 squirmed and struggled, pleading and begged quickly forgetting everything.

Their Alpha-5 was watching from the monitors as a glowing red cyber dot full of red zeros and ones in the background. He was chanting "Delete, delete, delete!" over and over again in sets of threes like his program had somehow become corrupted as well. Once the other Alpha's A.I. programming had been deleted, their Alpha-5 uploaded himself in the Cenozoic's Alpha's body and took it over. Alpha-5 sprang to life, his circle yellow eyes turning red.

"Ayh, ayh, ayh, I live, live, live!" Alpha-5 extended his arms high into the air, happy to be free from cyberspace and back into a body. "Freedom, freedom, freedom! One can go crazy, crazy, CRAZY! In that place!" Alpha-5 rejoiced looking over his body. "Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Mistress Billie!" Alpha-5 wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her. Billie just smiled and rubbed the top of his head.

"Your welcome Alpha" Billie said softly. Kim sits on top of the table to the right of Billie's command chair and Zach was to her left crossing his arms. Kim was back in her black leather jeans and a pink crop top while Zach wore his dashing outfit that consisted of black slacks and a black dress shirt with a white undershirt.

"Nice of you to join us boss" Zach said respectfully acknowledging Jaysin's presence.

"Sleep well baby?" Kim winks at him. Jaysin makes a sarcastic smile at her.

"Update Billie" Jaysin orders crossing his hands. Billie looks over at him turning her chair to him. Alpha-5 turns to face Jaysin jumping up and down.

"Look master Jaysin, I got my body, body, body back!" Alpha-5 rejoiced once more.

"Is he ok?" Jaysin gave Billie a concerned look.

"Some of his programming didn't upload fast enough before his original body was destroyed, add that to the year or so he spent alone in the darkness of cyberspace before we actually got all our systems up and running and yeah you'd be a little off to Jaysin" Billie defended.

"So what you're saying is his data has become corrupted?" Jaysin implied. Billie just narrows her eyes at Jaysin.

"He's fine, he is still the same old Alpha-5" Billie defended once more.

"With some glitches" Jaysin implied.

"Don't worry about Alpha, he is ok. Really!" Billie implied. Jaysin didn't want to argue the point rubbing his eyes.

"Fine, just give me the update Billie" Jaysin orders. Billie nods turning her chair back to her monitors.

"We got a video message from Andross-"

"Who?" Jaysin perks an eyebrow. Billie sighs and face palms herself.

"The red space ranger" Billie reminded Jaysin.

"Continue" Jaysin orders. Billie plays the video clip Andross sent them. He is among some of the most heroic and noble individuals in all their universe. The United Alliance of Good, being lead by a smooth handsome humanoid rock figure shining a bright light from the cracks and imperfections on his body. He was stunning and awe inspiring to behold.

"Who is that Billie?" Jaysin asks with a troubled look on his face.

"Bright Spectre, he is the ultimate embodiment of goodness and righteousness" Billie answers.

"Too, funny, too funny, too funny!" Alpha-5 adds. Jaysin glances at Alpha-5 and shakes his head.

"Why is that?" Jaysin inquires. Billie pauses the video and brings up a separate window with the profile on a molten rock looking monster that seemed larger then life just like Bright Spectre but not hideously misshapen. Jaysin sighs heavily. "Let me guess his doppleganger from some other earth?" Jaysin asks uncaringly.

"Yes, Dark Spectre the terror of the universe" Billie said admiringly.

"Well, let's worry about the Spectre in our universe!" Jaysin orders and signals Billie to continue the video. As they watch they see Bright Spectre introduce his second-in-command and Queen of the Universe Karone. She stood there with a long sword, wearing black leather boots, leggings, and a black vest that complimented her gorgeous looks and golden blonde hair. "Let me guess she has a doppelganger in another earth to?" Jaysin said uncaringly.

"Yes, Queen Astronema, and she is a nasty little piece of work" Billie pulls up multi pictures of Astronema in her black leather bodysuit, armor breastplate, and her different colored hair styles. Jaysin gives a wicked grin, Kim narrows her eyes at him knowing that lustful look in his eyes. She hated when someone else took away the attention that was due to her from Jaysin.

Billie continues the video and they see the space admiral Divatox and her minions plus a host of heroic champions. Andross was covered in a brown cloak in his ranger suit surveying the area when Billie pauses the video holding up her right hand pointing at what Andross wanted everyone to see.

The Darklord Zordon's head floating in his containment tube with chains around it being constantly guarded. In a 360 degree cordon.

"They have Zordon! They have Zordon! They have Zordon!" Alpha-5 panics. Jaysin narrows his eyes. Soon they watch a champion get suspicious of Andross and his cover is blown. They watch as he fights his way free and flees to the Astro megaship in hot pursuit by Karone's forces. Then the video cuts out.

"At least we now know were our master is" Kim giggles evilly. Zach is pacing back and forth.

"They have your guys mentor! Were going to go after him right?" Zach asks outloud.

Jaysin was already putting a rescue operation together in his head when Billie firmly and flat out said "No, we are not". Jaysin and Kim both gave a shocked look at Billie, both couldn't believe she would say that.

"Are you serious Billie? This is our master we are talking about here! He has been like a father to us all! And you want to abandon him to the mercy and judgement of the universe?" Kim yells outloud.

"We aren't going after him, they are!" Billie turns her chair and points her right hand out past Jaysin. Jaysin, Kim, and Zach turn their heads to see who Billie was pointing at. T.J., Casey, Carloss, Ash, and Justin walk.

"Aren't those the people you had me call off my attack for?" Jaysin looks back over to Billie.

"Yes, T.J., Carloss, Casey, and Ash will join Andross and become the Space Rangers. They will go after Zordon. They will contend with Bright Spectre and Karone-"

"You want to trust them to save Zordon?" Kim gestures her right hand at them looking at Billie. "They have no experience as Power Rangers!" Kim adds.

"Even, there doppelgangers had a year or so experience as the Turbo Rangers in some other Earths" Alpha-5 added.

"Give us a chance, we wont let you down! I speak for everyone here, we want this!" T.J. step forward and boldly spoke out.

"They will be fine, they have Andross, a veteran ranger leading him unlike us when we started out and we did just fine under YOUR leadership" Billie emphasizes looking at Jaysin who just glared at her.

"So what will we be doing if there going after Zordon?" Zach inquires outloud leaning against the desk with his arms crossed.

"Were going after The Arbiter" Billie grins evilly.

"You found him?" Jaysin blinks looking up at Billie.

"Yes! Earth 3-18, there is a power ranger robot clone army pulling massive amounts of energy from the grid. That earth lit up like a christmas tree in the multiverse. The Arbiter will be performing one of his purge interventions and that's when we will get him" Billie laughs insanely.

"What about me? What am I chop liver?" Justin steps forward holding his hands out. Billie stands up tilting her head looking down on Justin.

"You have no future on this earth" Billie scolds.

"Wha-" before Justin could finish Billie reached in her sling with her right hand pulling her dino blaster out and blew a hole in Justin's forehead. His body went flying back and hit the ground hard. This startled everyone. The would be space rangers flinched in fear and horror. Zach looked horrified, Kim giggled evilly and Jaysin just stood there wide eyed. This was not his Billie, his Billie would not do something like this...would she?

"BILLIE!" Jaysin yelled in anger. Both Kim and Billie notice Jaysin's good eye had turned a blood red color. "What the hell?" Jaysin yells at her.

"What? He was useless. We don't have the means to create the turbo ranger powers and none of us want to babysit an immature loudmouth evil kid. I did him a favor" Billie flicks her black dino blaster like a switchblade returning it to its dagger mode and slides it back into her sling.

"He was a kid!" Jaysin snaps at her. Billie tilts her head narrowing her eyes at Jaysin.

"And how many children have been victims in your zord's rampage?" Billie reminds him. Jaysin was struck silent clenching his fists in anger. "Now save your rage for The Arbiter my friend" Billie suggests to him. "Alpha-5 go throw away the garbage" Billie uncaringly gestures at the dead Justin.

"Ayh, ayh, ayh, roger, roger, roger" Alpha-5 says extending his left arm grabbing Justin's left leg and drags him out to their dumpster and tosses the body in. "All, done, all done, all done!" Alpha-5 says and starts cleaning the hanger bay.

"Damn girl, thats evil. I love it!" Kim said with a sadistic look across her face. Before anything else happens the alarm goes off. Billie jumps into her seat turning the chair around bringing up the monitors of their satellite in space. Everyone turns their attention to the screens to see the Astro megaship enter Earth's atmosphere being pursued by the Forces of Karone who attempt to shoot him down.

"Billie! It's Andross! I'm coming in hot and I'm bringing the party to you!" Andross comes on screen. His dirty blonde hair was parted with a grey streaked bang hanging in front of him. He wore a silver jacket and pants, with thick black boots and a red shirt.

"This is Billie, were rolling out the welcome mat. Have those four morphers ready" Billie orders turning her chair to T.J., Carloss, Casey, and Ash. "You wanted to be power rangers? Your up" Billie glares at them. T.J. nods turning back to them.

"Lets go!" they nod and follow T.J. out the hanger bay. The Astro Megaship crashes into the barren expanse. Andross grabs the four space morphers from the vault staring at them, hoping Billie choose well for him not really wanting to trust her or be part of a team but he has little choice at this point. Andross races out to see T.J., Casey, Carloss, and Ash fighting the forces of Karone head on. When they get overpowered by a Champion descending from the Heavens Andross has them fall back regrouping with them handing them their morphers.

"Do as I do!" Andross orders. They copy his body movements. "Let's rocket!" they input the same code as him 335, and they each morph into what would be known as the Space Rangers. Carloss the black ranger, Casey the pink ranger, T.J. the blue ranger, Ash the yellow ranger and Andross leading them as the red ranger. Together they defeat Karone's minions and her champion.

Zach and Kim watch the battle impressed, Billie leaned back in her seat lowering her head with her eyes closed with an evil smile confident in her plan. Jaysin was the only one who stood there with his arms crossed filled with anger. Once the battle was over, Alpha-5 and Ninjor got to work on the repairs to the Astro megaship while the space rangers in there uniforms according to their colors stood before the platform where Zach, Kim, Billie, and Jaysin where.

"Once the repairs are finished I'll take my team and will go after Zordon and this time I wont fail" Andross tells Billie.

"At the same time Zach, Kim, and I will travel to Earth 3-18 to kill The Arbiter" Jaysin adds.

"Just make sure when you kill Zordon you make it quick" Billie adds. Andross nods, but upon hearing that Kim and Jaysin turn their heads to Billie.

"I'm sorry, I must have missed heard you. Come again?" Jaysin turns Billie's chair to face him and all his rage. With out fear Billie glares up at Jaysin.

"Did I stutter? I told Andross when he kills Zordon to make it quick. It's the least we can do for him" Billie replies.

"This is our master Billie! We can save him!" Kim adds in standing next to Jaysin's left hand side. Zach just stood off to the side, keeping his eyes on the space ranger's reactions with one hand in his pocket on his brother's morpher.

"In Earth 11-98, Andross's doppelganger kills Zordon in a final battle against the forces of evil. The light energy burst forth wiped out all evil from that universe-"

"SO?" Jaysin yells at her.

"So, we kill our Zordon, dark energy will burst forth, killing all the forces of good-"

"We wipe out all our enemies in our universe in one fell strike" Kim giggles evilly seeing the horror of Billie's plan playing out in her mind.

"Karone gets turned evil and becomes Astronema and I get my sister back" Andross adds.

"And with no one to oppose us, we rule our universe and are free from any distractions, so we can put everything we have into defeating The Arbiter" Zach chims in.

"Very smart Billie" Kim playfully points her finger at Billie with a wicked smile.

"That's all well and go but you're forgetting one thing we lose Zordon!" Jaysin reminds them.

"His death will not be in vain and he would WANT us to do this Jaysin" Billie looks up at him.

"Plus, the master's era is done. Time for us to step out of his shadow and rule" Kim laughs out loud evilly.

"So we all are in agreement?" Billie eyes everyone.

"Some sacrifices are worth the cost" T.J. adds in.

"Were in" Carloss, Casey, and Ash say in unison. Zach and Andross nods.

"I'm so excited!" Kim snickers. They all look at Jaysin who stares back at each one of them.

"Very well, to the death of Zordon and the destruction of all that is good!" Jaysin says with an evil smile, but not confident smile...