War
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that" ~Martin Luther King Jr
~Antiverse, Draven's fortress~
Draven was a samurai looking monster with a two-toned face. His right side was blue while the left side of his face was white. He stood before the cloning machines with an evil robot version of Tommy Oliver standing next to him. They stood there watching from right to left as the machines sent robots from the ceiling and cloned the captured ranger powers. The robots took on the appearance and likeness of the rangers they were cloned from.
From right to left was Kat, the pink turbo ranger from Earth 1-97. Trent Mercer, the white dino ranger from Earth 2-04. T.J. Johnson, the blue space ranger from Earth 2-98. Gia Moran, The Yellow Megaforce Ranger from Earth 2-14. Rocky Santos, the Mighty Morphin Red Ninja Ranger from Earth 1-93. Tommy Oliver from Earth 2-17 and finally Antonio the Gold Ninja Ranger from Earth 2-11. Draven looked pleased as his robo rangers fell in line marching to various units.
A portal opens up catching the attention of Draven and the robo tommy. Jaysin walks through the portal as it closes behind him. He stands there with his short black jacket, red shirt, black dickie pants, and black shoes. Draven and robo Tommy turn and face him with their robot rangers taking on defensive fighting stance.
"Jason?" Robo-Tommy tilts his head with a wicked grin but upon second glance Robo-Tommy knew from his memory banks that this Jason's appearance did not match his Jason. The Jason in his memory did not have the left side of his face burned and scarred.
"Not your Jaysin" Jaysin corrects the Robo-Tommy looking at him with disgust.
"I see, your a Jason from another dimension" Draven reasons.
"Correct, I'm from Earth 3-29 in the Hades Universe where good is evil and evil is good...apparently" Jaysin informs them.
"I see an evil version of our Jason" Robo-Tommy grins, liking this development.
"What brings you here to the Antiverse and my castle?" Draven inquires.
"Your making a robot clone army to conquer all the other earths in the multiverse" Jaysin smiles evilly pointing his finger at Draven.
"Let me guess you want in?" Draven lifts his head rubbing his forehead with his right hand. Jaysin was silent tilting his head at him. "You want me to leave your dimension in your control once I conquer it assume?" Draven states outloud, but notices Jaysin just stares at him in silence not answering.
"You do that?" Jaysin inquired curiously.
"With the countless dimensions out there I will come to rule, I need people I can trust to leave in charge" Draven answers him back.
"And what pray tell must I do to have your backing?" Jaysin laughs sarcastically.
"Have you and your rangers bow to me and fight for me when I call" Draven informs Jaysin. Jaysin stops laughing and glares at Draven.
"I will not bend the knee to you" Jaysin replies in a dark tone.
"Then we have come to an impasse" Draven replies.
"Seems so. You wont leave my Earth alone?" Jaysin looks at the ground smiling.
"And you wont bend the knee. If your not with me you're against me and it's time for you to go" Draven glares at him.
"Oh it's time for something alright" Jaysin laughs insanely pulling out his morpher from his pocket. Robo-Tommy and Draven are blinded by an awful red light and suddenly they are savagely attacked by a ruthless and vicious red ranger who quick draws his sword and dino blaster firing wildly and striking down the robo rangers and basherbots who try and subdue him.
The Robo-Tommy is knocked to the ground by an energy blast from Jaysin's dino blaster. A couple more fly past Draven and one accidently hits Tommy Oliver's cloning machine and causes it to malfunction. Draven pulls out his bow slinging dozens of energy arrows at Jaysin who races toward him using his sword to deflect them all and strikes Draven to the ground. Jaysin finds himself surrounded by the robo rangers.
From the hallway energy blasts can be seen coming out from the open archway with the robo rangers slamming into the wall and exploding. Jaysin runs out and quickly makes a hard left cutting down more robo rangers and basherbots in his path. Draven yells and orders the Robo-Tommy to check on the cloning machines and secure the Mega-Arrows while him and the robo rangers give chase to Jaysin down the hall. Robo-Tommy takes himself and some basherbots to grab the arrows and double back to the cloning room.
"There's no time to waste, leave the Mega-Arrows here and get back to work!" Robo-Tommy orders and walks over to Antiono who is unconscious on the cloning machine. "Hello Antiono, did you miss me, Gold Ranger?" Robo-Tommy pressed some buttons on the terminal as more clones are made of T.J. andAntino. "Join the other soldiers!" he angrily orders the clones. He walks down watching new robot clones being made. "Looking good, Rocky" he taunts. Suddenly, Tommy regains conscious from his malfunctioning machine. He immediately turns invisible transforming into the black dino ranger firing off a volley of energy blasts from his staff.
"STOP HIM! Don't let the prisoner escape!" the Robo-Tommy orders. Robo-Tommy races to engage only to be struck down by another energy blast. The real Tommy super speeds out of the room striking down more basherbots. "We've gotta catch him. Move, move!" the Robo-Tommy orders. The real Tommy did not know why his cloning machine malfunction, he was just thankful it did so he can escape and find a way to save the others. Upon hearing the explosions from down the hall Draven breaks off his chase with Jaysin and doubles back to the cloning room.
"What's happening here?" Draven demands holding out his arms while some basherbots run past him. Robo-Tommy comes to a stop not wanting to explain there is another Power Ranger loose on the grounds causing havoc.
"One of the Rangers damaged the robo-cloning computer and escaped" Robo-Tommy explains pointing at the damaged cloning machine that was linked to the others. Draven walks over and inspects the damage.
"It's not just one computer, my whole robo-ranger factory is shut down" Draven explains showing no emotion but turns around and grabs Robo-Tommy by his dark green jacket and yanked him close like a father grabbing his son by the collar and dragging him for discipline. "I shouldn't have trusted you" Draven sighs in anger and shoves Robo-Tommy away. "Fortunately, my robot army is already big enough to take over every dimension" Draven coldly informs Robo-Tommy. Draven walks into the main hall followed by Robo-Tommy to see a whole army of robo rangers standing at attention. "March, robots! March!" Draven orders.
Three towering wooden doors swing open as they march out in the open in unison. Draven leads Robo-Tommy back to cloning room to where Robo-Tommy had sat down the Mega-Arrows. Two basherbots pull open the lid revealing the three arrows.
"I will fire the first Mega-Arrow to begin tearing down the barriers" Draven grabs the top arrow with his right hand. "You hide the rest of the arrows somewhere safe until I need them" Draven orders.
"Yes, Lord Draven" Robo-Tommy replies in a dark angry tone bowing to his master.
"If ANY Ranger tries to stop me, they'll be too late" Draven laughs evilly.
Elsewhere, on the outside bridge of Draven's fortress, Koda the Blue Dino Charge Ranger from Earth 2-15, an earth where dinosaurs are not extinct. Koda is being followed by Earth 2-17 Ninja Steel Power Rangers, along with Gemma, RPM Ranger Operator Series Silver from Earth 2-09. A dystopian earth ruled by an evil rogue A.I. known as Venjix. They are currently being lead by Wes Collins, Time Force Red Ranger from Earth 2-01. They quickly subdue the guards and run across the bridge but come to a stop.
"That's Draven's fortress" Koda points across the river.
"Holy cow" Gemma looks on amazed at the sheer beauty of the fortress surrounded by a dense forest. Then she remembers the horror that awaits them. A evl tyrant who wants to shatter the barrier between dimensions and invade their Earths and conquer them. Gemma's face turns serious remembering what happen when Venjix was left unchecked in her Earth. "We're close. Come on" she says with hope in her voice encouraging the others that they can do this, they can win this battle for the dimensions no matter how hopeless it may seem. They race across the bridge only to be cut off at both ends by Draven's basherbots.
"We've got company" Haley Foster, the White Ninja Steel Ranger stops and warns the others.
"Oh, they've got a cannon! What do we do?" Preston Tien, The Blue Ninja Steel Ranger adds-in. The rangers take a defensive fighting stance.
"Ugh, there behind us to" Calvin, the Yellow Ninja Steel Ranger warns the others.
"We're trapped!" Gemma yells out.
"Uh…" Haley tries to quickly formulate a plan.
"We're like sitting ducks" Aiden Romero, The Gold Ninja Steel Ranger groans outloud. Koda walks out in front of them.
"Rangers never give up!" Koda takes an aggressive fighting stance. Just then an invisible force races to their aid defeating the basherbots with just one brutal hit each.
"What is that?" Haley wondered.
"Look out" Calvin calls out as the rangers move out of the way to avoid the mysterious figure.
"It's taking them all out" Sarah Thompson, The Pink Ninja Steel Ranger states the obvious. The basherbots start to explode along with the cannon they brought.
"RUN!" Wes orders. They run.
"Hey, it's coming straight for us!" Preston warns. The invisible figure stops before them. The rangers take a fighting stance ready for anything. The mysterious person makes himself visible and reveals himself to be Tommy Oliver, the Black Dino Ranger.
"Tommy?" Wes calls out to him, not sure if its the real him or a robot clone. Tommy powers down standing before them with his arms open and a warm smile on his face. He wore a black hoodie, with a dark green jacket, blue jeans with a faded whiteness to them and red tennis shoes.
"Ah. You're okay" Gemma says relieved.
"Yeah" Tommy replies. Wes comes up and gives him a hug. "They didn't know that the Black Dino Thunder Ranger can turn invisible and when I came to, I used that to escape" Tommy explains. "But the other Rangers, they're being held in his dungeon" Tommy adds breaking from his hug with Wes and points across the river to the fortress. "He's cloning them into a massive army of Ranger-powered robots" Tommy warns them of Draven's plans.
"A Massive army?" Gemma says with worry and concern written all over her face.
"That's why he wants to tear down the barriers?" Aiden chims in looking over at the fortress. "He's gonna invade all the ranger dimensions" Aiden looks back at the team.
"We gotta stop him" Tommy tells the team.
"Hey, someone's up there" Preston calls out grabbing the attention of the others. They all rush the guard rail to look while Preston pulls out binoculars to get a closer look. "Look, on the fortress roof!" Preston calls the others to see Draven with his bow and a Mega-Arrow in hand. "It's Draven!" Preston lowers his hands in fear.
"Uh-oh. What's he up to?" Sarah wonders outloud. Wes takes the binoculars and takes a closer look for himself.
"No! We're too late!" Wes said with frustration in his voice wishing the other Time Force Rangers where here so he knows how all this will turn out. In moments like this he really missed his beloved Jennifer Scotts. They all watch as he fires the arrow. "He's fired the first arrow!" Wes points out. The arrow soars high splitting the heavens open like broken glass.
"The barrier's breaking apart!" Sarah yells out.
At the same time down the intersecting hallways of Draven's fortress random robot ranger body parts along with whole ones that have been cut down with a sword litter the ground leading out to a massive courtyard where Jaysin was desperately fighting off wave after wave of robot rangers. He was surrounded on all sides with no escape, no help, and no one knowing he was in trouble. Jaysin used his lightning fast reflexes and swordsmanship to cut down the robot clones as they came at him and kept the pressure on them using his dino blaster to destroy others or knock them away.
The sound of the sky breaking caught his attention. He looks up to see Draven on the roof and the barrier breaking apart. "Blast it!" he thought to himself. In that moment he was distracted he was shot in the back by twin arrows from the Pink Turbo Ranger clone. Jaysin let out a cry of pain turning around blasting the Pink Turbo Ranger. He turns his head and the Blue Space Ranger clone is coming from the air dropping his across Jaysin's chest. Sparks fly from his chest. The force of the hit flips in the air and slams into the ground. He quickly kicks the Blue Space Ranger clone away recovering his sword slicing him in half.
Jaysin tumbles back weak and tired when a white blur knocks him to the ground. It's the White Dino Thunder Ranger clone who races multi-striking Jaysin across the chest with his dagger as he is recovering to his feet. Jaysin fights through the pain catching the clone's right arm with his left then runs his sword through him. Jaysin spins the body around and tossing it into a crowd charging robot rangers.
The Yellow Mega Force Ranger clone tries to take him from behind but Jaysin eyes her reflection in the blade of his sword and quickly spins around slicing her in half. Jaysin was breathing hard looking up seeing more and more charing him. Jaysin sighs tiredly. He was too proud to call for help and not wanting to admit he is in way over his head he pushes through the pain, anger, and hatred and fights on.
~Earth 3-29, Ruined Zeo Zord Hanger Bay~
The alarms goes off as Billie races up the steps to her chair with Kim and Zach behind her. Billie hopps in her chair using her right hand to bring up the tear in the sky that can be seen on every earth across the multiverse. Zach is on Billie's left hand side with Kim on her right.
"Draven's making his move" Billie said with frustration in her voice.
"Draven?" Zach asks out loud not knowing who that is.
"He is a warlord who rules the antiverse. He has been kidnapping rangers across the Multiverse and has been making robot clones with ranger powers. He is planning to break the barriers between the earth's and invade" Billie quickly brings them up to speed.
"Are you serious? You KNEW about this and didn't tell US?" Kim spins Billie's chair to face her.
"I was planning to align ourselves with him and use antiverse as a base and use the clones to overwhelm The Arbiter!" Billie snaps back.
"Really? Billie? And you think this Draven would just I dunno let you do that?" Kim gives Billie a skeptical look.
"I was going to have you kill him and his partners so we would go unopposed" Billie explains her plan to Kim. Kim backs up laughing out loud.
"Off course you were because I'm nothing but your f**king personal assassin now" Kim continues to laugh outloud insanely.
"Great plan, but looks like our boss is the one being overwhelmed" Zach points to a window of Jaysin racing through robot clones on the screen cutting them down one after another not stopping least they over take him and destroy him.
"WHAT?" Billie and Kim say out loud in unison turning to face the monitor enlarging the window.
"What the hell is he doing there?" Billie says out loud.
"Getting himself killed apparently" Kim crosses her arms and narrows her eyes.
"Didn't like your plan, didn't like your plan, didn't like your plan!" Alpha-5 comes up twitching like a tweaker due to his corrupted programing. Billie turns to face Alpha-5 with a disturbed look then looks back up at the monitor.
"Jaysin you idiot" Billie sighs leaning back in her chair thinking of how to salvage her plan.
"What's the plan Billie?" Zach asks. Billie bites her bottom lip deep in thought. Kim looks over at Billie noting that she had the same look on her face when she told everyone of her plan to kill Zordon. Kim widens her eyes in anger knowing that look on Billie's face, "was she planning on sacrificing Jaysin now to obtain her goals?" Kim thought to herself.
"Are you f**king kidding me right now? Your thinking on how to salvage your plan over rescuing Jaysin?" Kim yells. Billie was silent. "Now your going to sacrifice Jaysin? OUR JAYSIN! For YOUR PLANS!" Kim yells turning Billie's chair to face her once again. Both Zach and Billie see Kim's eyes glowing a dark pink color. Kim had a psychotic look on her face. Jaysin was hers and she didn't like it when people messed with her things.
"Wow, things look terrible" a mysterious voice says emerging from the darkness walking up to them with his hands out and a silly grin on his face. Recognizing the voice that breaks the ice they look over.
"No f**king way?!" Kim turns her head dropping her hands to her side.
"Trinidad Kwan? I thought you were dead?" Zach walks forward with a bewildered look on his face.
"Trini's back! Trini's Back! Trini's back!" Alpha-5 jumps up and down rejoicing.
"..." Billie turned her chair and when she saw her long dead lover standing before her wearing his trademark yellow flannel unbuttoned shirt, white undershirt, tan cargo pants, with his black boots, and his sexy spiky asian hairstyle. Billie was stuck speechless and dumb.
"Yeah, rumors of my death are just that, rumors" Trinidad giggles evilly looking up at Billie the girl he has loved since highschool. Billie was breathing hard like she was about to have an anxiety attack. She quickly pulls out her black dino blaster standing up pointing it at Trinidad. "Hey, Billie, hunnie its me!" Trinidad puts up his hands.
"LIAR! OUR TRINIDAD IS DEAD! YOUR JUST SOME DOPPLEGANGER OR CLONE OR-"
"It's me Billie" Trinidad pleaded. He saw she was about to pull the trigger when Kim stepped forward snatching the blaster from Billie.
"I wanna hear this" Kim demands to Billie's displeasure and scorn. Billie gives Kim an ugly look , then looks back at Trinidad.
"Talk fast" Billie says seething with hate in her voice. Blood runs down her cheeks from both her eyes.
"I caught win that Thomas would be trying to out Jaysin, Zackary, and myself-"
"How did you know?" Billie demands very skeptical.
"I caught him going through my bag and he had my morpher in his hand. I went to take it from him and he pulled his back and said some lie about there being an issue with the morphers and that Zordon was collecting them for you to take a look at" Trinidad tells them truthfully. "I knew he was lying, he told me I'll see you at the Command Center and walked me to my car, that's when I knew something was wrong-"
"You died in a car accident!" Billie scornfully reminds the others.
"He cut my break line and I lost control of the car and crashed into that store, what's not known was I bailed out at the last minute. I hit and killed someone so I took there clothes, put them in mine and threw the body in the car and let everyone believed I was dead" Trinidad hangs his head low.
"Liar!" Billie says hatefully.
"I'm not lying!" Trinidad snapped back looking up at Billie.
"Then why didn't you tell me you survived!" Billie demanded.
"I was going to really, then I found out Jaysin was displaced as leader and replaced by Rocky and I couldn't...risk Thomas finding out...I couldn't risk your safety…" Trinidad lowers his arms and his head. Billie frowns wanting more then anything to believe him. "Truth is, Thomas scared the hell the hell out of me. Jaysin was the only one who could best him one-on-one" Trinidad admits shamefully. Billie hardens her heart against Trinidad.
"I don't believe you" Billie looks at Kim holding out her right hand demanding her blaster back. Kim steps back shaking her head.
"I wanted to tell you so many times Billie, I even snuck back to Angel Grove but when I saw you with Delphine...I saw you had moved on from...I just couldn't do that to you…" Trinidad looked away. Billie turned her head back at Trinidad.
"I can prove it's me Billie" Trinidad looks up giving Billie a hopeful look.
"How?" Billie demanded.
"By telling you something only I would know about you" Trinidad says.
"Oh yeah? Things have changed since your time. We are aware of multiverse of earths with different variations and doppelgangers of us out there. How do I know your not some other Trinidad from some other Earth coming to invade us as a sleeper agent?" Billie laughs sarcastically and paranoid. Kim and Zach give her worried looks. Billie's had been losing her sanity on reality for the past year now. However, Trinidad was no idiot he was smart. He crosses his hands and rubs his chin deep in thought when a light bulb goes off in his head.
"Fine, given the rules of the multiverse, for every choice and action there is an earth out there where we say or didn't or do said choice. So I'll tell you something only the real Trinidad of this earth would know" Trinidad grins evilly.
"What's that?" Billie gives him a hateful look.
"You curl your toes when you have an orgasim and you dig your nails deep in my back like your going to peel a f**king orange" Trinidad reveals. Billie is taken back, shocked, and stands there blinking at him. "That's something only I who have slept with you would know. Things would have happened differently in that situation on every other Earth because-" Billie runs leaping into the air catching everyone off guard. Trinidad holds out his hands and catches Billie as they embrace one another.
Zach and Kim just stand there in silence with Alpha-5 watching the exchange. Billie and Trinidad look each other in the eyes. Trinidad holds Billie by her waist and Billie throws her right hand behind his neck and the two start vigorously making out with one another not wanting to be away from each other a second longer. It was clear they were love sick for one another. Zach smiles happily for Billie and looks back at the Monitor to see a bolt of lighting flicker on the screen and cut through scores of robo rangers with a dark figure emerging from the smoke and debris, then makes a b-line right for Jaysin.
"Oh f**k" Zach points at the screen. Kim looks up and is quickly on edge.
"Is that The Arbiter?" Kim yells out. Billie pulls away looking back at the monitor. Trinidad looks up to see as well. Jaysin had his sword stabbed in the ground and was hunched over it on one knee breathing hard among scattered body parts of the dead robot rangers with The Arbiter walking over their bodies toward Jaysin.
"Tears in reality, robot clone armies, serial killing robocop looking ranger, just another day in Angel Grove and another day we have to bail Jay out of trouble like always" Trinidad laughs so does Billie.
"Yeah, Zach, Kim, and I need to go-"
"We need to go Billie, I lost you once already I'm not going to again!" Trinidad tells her.
"Then you will need this master Trinidad" Ninjor walks out from the shadows holding out sabertooth tiger power morpher. Trinidad smiles taking it from Ninjor looking over it.
"How-" Billie was going to ask but Ninjor cuts her off.
"Jaysin wanted me to fix it, I assumed to give back to you as a memento of Trinidad" Ninjor assumed, not really knowing the real reason why Jaysin wanted it fixed, just glad he did.
"Thanks…" Trinidad paused a moment looking at the strange ninja looking creature.
"Ninjor, and I have the power of NINJA!" Ninjor yells out holding up his hands. Zach, Kim, Billie, and Trinidad cringed at the sound of his voice and how he said that.
"Looks like we have five rangers again" Trinidad smiles.
"No, Billie doesn't have a morpher and can't even use her right arm. She-"
"You know nothing Kim" Billie cuts her off reaching into her sling to pull out her fixed blue ranger morpher. Kim just shakes her head.
"Fine, you want to get yourself killed be my guest" Kim replied sarcastically.
"It wont come to that, I'll protect her-"
"No, we will protect each other" Bille places her right hand holding her morpher on Trinidad's shoulder and gives him a loving look.
"Whatever! I DON'T CARE! Lets just go be Power Rangers and go save Jaysin before The Arbiter KILLS HIM while we waste time TALKING ABOUT IT!" Kim yells out impatiently. They all smile evilly.
"Let's show The Arbiter what the real Ranger Overlords can do!" Billie laughs evilly...
