Crisis On Infinite Earths: All for Nothing
"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie." ~Shannon L. Alder
"When the sky turns red, he is going to fire that second arrow" Wes Collins looks up to the heavens breaking apart like glass in fear. Different dimensions can be seen throughout the heavens of the Antiverse. The breaking of the barrier puts an unspeakable strain on the Morphing Grid that flows through the Antiverse connecting it to every other dimension across the Multiverse.
"And once he fires the third one, were all toast" Sarah looks at the group shaking her head in despair.
"We have to stop him!" Calvin stresses to the group.
"Lets split up" Haley recommends to the group.
"Well find the chest, that's where the last two arrows will be" Brody Romero, the Red Ninja Steel Ranger steps forward volunteering his team of rangers to go after the Mega-Arrows in hopes to prevent Draven from firing anymore.
"And I'll lead you to the dungeon so we can rescue the other rangers" Tommy steps forward patting Brody on the shoulder. "Wes, your team is with me" Tommy takes charge as they split into two groups and go on the offensive.
~Courtyard: Draven's Fortress,
Jaysin sighs tiredly sweating under his helmet watching The Arbiter charge the blade of his sword in a flaming red energy and strikes the ground creating and powerful shock wave instantly destroying all the robo rangers in their area. Jaysin goes sliding across the ground with sword in hand. He sits up stabbing his sword into the ground and uses it to pick himself up off the ground and back to his feet. He stumbles back leaning his head up with his hands at his side and the blade of his sword touching the ground. The Arbiter stands before him silently observing him.
"I knew you wouldn't be able to resist coming here" Jaysin laughs evilly. The Arbiter tilts his head slightly confused but remains silent. Jaysin looks annoyed stabbing his sword in the ground. "Don't remember me?" Jaysin removes his helmet and glares intently at The Arbiter with his blood red eye. "Off crouse my face has seen better days, but hey it's not everyday a ranger from another earth comes to MY earth and BLOWS UP MY COMMAND CENTER!" Jaysin yells.
"Jaysin Li Scotts, former Gold Ranger of Earth 3-29" Arbiter acknowledges coldly but with slight curiosity and slightly disturbed by the fact he can not sense Jaysin's connection to the Morphing Grid.
"Now you know who your fighting and it wont be like the last time" Jaysin says with utter malice in his voice putting his helmet back on. "Back to action!" Jaysin calls out. "Overlord Red!" Jaysin strikes a fighting pose. The Arbiter stands there unimpressed looking at Jaysin, then at the robot clones dead on the ground then up at the fractured sky showing countless ranger dimensions.
"Foolish children...you all threaten the balance of the multiverse…" The Arbiter says shaking his head. His dark fluid monotone voice conveying no hint of emotion, he looks over at Jaysin who returns to a relaxed position but still on guard. "I have been to countless worlds were countless rangers…" The Arbiter pauses. "You all think you're some sort of heroes? To be just? To be worthy of the power you have been given?" The Arbiter holds out his hand gesturing to everything going on all around them.
"I am worthy!" Jaysin replies darkly.
"NONE of you are worthy!" The Arbiter snaps at him. "Time and time again I have watched as the powers of the Morphing Grid have been manipulated and misused!" The Arbiter justifies the reasons for his actions and why he has taken the actions he has. "Ranger Overlords!" The Arbiter points at Jaysin with his right hand. "Shattered dimensions!" The Arbiter points to the sky with his left hand looking up at it then back down at Jaysin lowering his hands to his sides. "Robot clone armies!" The Arbiter tilts his head holding out his hands all around them gesturing to the dead robot clones scattered about the courtyard. "You're all more like parasites to me leeching power you all lack the responsibility to wield!" The Arbiter stated.
"I'm different! I Deserve my pow-"
"You don't deserve it" The Arbiter cuts Jaysin off. "NONE of you do!" The Arbiter proclaims righteously. "So I'm taking it back! You ALL are unworthy!" The Arbiter reminds Jaysin. Jaysin reaches out with his right hand gripping the handle of his Power Sword pulling it from the ground taking an offensive stance.
"I'll show you and the Grid...I AM WORTHY! I am the King Ranger!" Jaysin says with anger and hate in his voice.
"You are the king of nothing!" The Arbiter stated. He was confident in his ability to win no matter the situation or circumstance. The Arbiter holds up his sword. Jaysin charges at The Arbiter, their swords spark and ring through the air. Jaysin puts all his weight pivoting with his left leg. Jaysin's blade slides up Arbiter's blade drawing sparks and distorts the air around them forcing The Arbiter back. The Arbiter immediately stops himself with his right leg looking up like he was disgusted with Jaysin's display of strength and power.
The Arbiter takes great strides as him and Jaysin draw sparks, matching each other blow for blow to The Arbiter's annoyance. However, it was Jaysin who was losing ground being forced back with each blow he parried from The Arbiter. They continued to pace around each other exchanging strikes with The Arbiter growing more annoyed. The Arbiter runs his left hand across the blade as a flaming hot energy covers it.
The Arbiter attempts to land a decisive blow but becomes angry when Jaysin not only blocks the attack but holds his ground against The Arbiter's overwhelming physical strength. Jaysin uses both hands, his right hand on the handle and his left on the blade to push The Arbiter's blade off to the side spinning around trying to strike The Arbiter but misses his visor by mere centimeters. Jaysin quickly in the same motion halts his movement by pivoting his right leg back and with both hands on the handle of his sword brings it up parallel to his helmet for a frontal thrust.
Jaysin's blade becomes white hot cracking with corrupted red energy. It was his signature finishing move, Jaysin's Lighting Strike he has used to defeat many champions on his own. Jaysin lunges at The Arbiter who takes a step back to bring his sword down upon Jaysin, both blades hit the ground causing a small explosion. From the dust kicked up The Arbiter is flung back but unharmed. The Arbiter lands on both feet sliding back to a stop looking up to see Jaysin emerge above him from the cloud of dust unleashing a horizontal strike upon him.
The Arbiter blocks with his sword drawing sparks once more as the blades slide off each other. The Arbiter uses his immense strength to force Jaysin with just one push of his right arm. The Arbiter went to charge but stopped after putting his left foot forward watching Jaysin spin around in the air swinging his sword landing back on his feet sliding back. The Arbiter teleported in a flash of lighting attempting to end this fight with the swing of his blade by taking off Jaysin's head.
Jaysin uses his lightning fast reflexes to block the attack. The block distorts the air around them forcing them both a step back. Jaysin attempts to race around The Arbiter but he counters running parallel to Jaysin in the courtyard both striking there blades at one another. The Arbiter lands the first two hits off the fight. Drawing sparks from Jaysin's upper armored leggings and leaving a scar across the left side of his helmet by the eye of the tyrannosaurus design.
In a furious rage, Jaysin charges The Arbiter evading his strikes while closing the distance between them. There swords meet once more, both putting their weight behind trying to force the other back. They stare at each other through the visor of each other's helmets. The Arbiter knew the people from Earth 3-29's Dimension were dark and deceitful individuals. When backed into a corner like Jaysin was they were lethal. Arbiter knew Earth 3 was the source of all evil in the multiverse, it's people's morals were uprooted eons ago. He looks at Jaysin Li Scotts as just another false pale shadow of the real Jason Lee Scott.
Arbiter saw Jaysin as a selfish, self-entitled, arrogant, haughty, sociopathic version that embodies all the worst personality traits of the true Jason Lee Scott. This Jaysin was nothing in the grand scheme of life. Just another symbol of evil that needed to be purged. The Arbiter would bring death to Earth 3-29's the symbol of evil.
"I will never die, not until the mission is done" The Arbiter leans in applying pressure forcing Jaysin back.
"What?" Jaysin said under a strained voice.
"I will eradicate you! I will lay your crushed body in the streets as a symbol I have won!" The Arbiter said in righteous tone, justified and confident in any action he took would be for the goodness and benefit of the multiverse. Jaysin despite putting all his weight into his sword was sliding back against The Arbiter. "This is only the beginning of the horrors to come!" The Arbiter proclaims.
Jaysin uses his left hand to deliver a powerful punch to the abdomen of The Arbiter. The Arbiter takes one step back and immediately halts his movement looking over at Jaysin. Jaysin recoils his left hand in pain taking notice that punching The Arbiter's armor felt like he was punching a brick wall. Jaysin steps forward as lighting from above charges the blade of his sword he trust forward only to have The Arbiter moves his hand in a flurry of eleven lighting fast successions driving Jaysin back. Jaysin stumbles back looking up astonished. The Arbiter for being bulky heavy armored ranger moved so fast Jaysin almost couldn't perceive his movements.
The Arbiter rushes forward striking at a near godlike speed Jaysin struggled greatly to deflect his powerful swings. Jaysin could see the glowing blue eyes of The Arbiter from his visor. The Arbiter brought his sword down across Jaysin's chest drawing sparks. Normally this would cause one to flip and hit the ground, but given the angle in which The Arbiter brought down his sword, Jaysin is flung back like a person caught up in a gale force wind causing Jaysin to slide across the ground. The Arbiter takes a moment and looks over at Jaysin who was on the ground barely moving.
Jaysin felt like he got hit with a dump truck, he rolled to his side curling up in the fetal position, exhausted and in great pain. He could barely breath after that strike. The Arbiter stood there watching silently. Jaysin struggles gasping for breath to get back to his feet. Once he is on his feet he was hunched over with his left hand across his chest, trying to regain his composure.
"I wont lose!" Jaysin declares hatefully and out of breath.
"You have already lost, you just don't realize it yet" The Arbiter corrects him.
"It's not over yet!" Jaysin scolds The Arbiter.
"I have been to countless worlds and have fought countless Jason's who have uttered the same things you have said and I have purged them all from the Grid. You are no different and no more special then they were" The Arbiter stated. Jaysin just stared at The Arbiter for the first time in his entire life feeling feelings of true horror and shock.
"What?" was all Jaysin could mouth out.
"We have fought countless times and I have killed you countless times" The Arbiter answered bluntly. "Not one of your doppelgangers proved worthy and neither will you. Run, fight, you all die in the end" The Arbiter informs Jaysin letting him know his feeble attempts to defeat him are in vain. Jaysin's red eye could be seen glowing through his visor. He thinks about all his doppelgangers out there and all the possible variations of himself who have stood their ground against The Arbiter and have died. In his mind he see's Arbiter standing on a mound of dead Jasons. Some in various styles of the original red ranger suit, some in various styles of the gold ranger suit, and one in a suit he did not recognize.
Jaysin was consumed by unspeakable rage at the thought of just being another Jason The Arbiter took down like another notch on his belt. Jaysin lunges forward driven by pure rage wanting to show The Arbiter, Zordon, Kim, and the whole multiverse he was different...special! Red lighting sparked around Jaysin. His rage and his will made his connection to the corruption stronger.
The Arbiter for the first time looked taken back, Jaysin had red lighting all around him similar to the blue lighting that often appeared around The Arbiter. The Arbiter dashed forward covered in blue lighting, both their swords blazed with a fiery aura as they struck each other in the chest throwing each other back. Jaysin stopped his slide and lunges forward like a feral animal. The Arbiter looked up astonished once more thinking "Is his connection to the corruption becoming stronger? Or is his rage fueling his connection to the corruption? Regardless, his power is growing unstable. He is a danger to all and must be purged!" The Arbiter quickly thought to himself.
Jaysin moved in a red blur appearing above The Arbiter expelling massive amounts of energy from himself and his weapon. For one brief moment in the distortion of energy around Jaysin was a golden light. Jaysin's blade found the core center piece of The Arbiter's chest plate causing a massive explosion kicking up dirt all around them and for the first time he could even remember...The Arbiter felt pain from the decisive strike.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl, Jaysin's left foot had just hit the ground from striking The Arbiter when he moved at godlike speed striking Jaysin eleven times before his other foot hit the ground. Jaysin saw it all and could do nothing, this was The Arbiter's finisher. The Arbiter struck Jaysin full force with each swing not holding back. Jaysin had made him angry. He hated the Overlord Red, he saw him now as something worse then a parasite leeching power from the Grid. No, to The Arbiter, Jaysin was an aberration, an abomination among his doppelgangers, and he needed to not only be purged but needed to be exterminated.
The final strike caused an explosion that sent Jaysin sliding across the ground smashing into the far wall across the courtyard. The Arbiter was angry he had to exert that much force to defeat an opponent. He took a moment to collect himself. He looks across the courtyard to see Jaysin firmly planted in the cracked and broken wall his sword on the ground before him. The Arbiter assumed as soon as he was was driven into the wall by the force of his hit his body tensed up causing him to drop his sword.
The red lighting dimmed around Jaysin as he his suit dematerializes around him. Blood ran down the left side of his face. His sword dematerializing in red energy. The Arbiter teleports in a streak of lighting before Jaysin, then reaches out with his left hand grabbing his throat. The Arbiter viciously pulls Jaysin from the wall watching Jaysin stumble forward in pain falling to his knees, all the while keeping a firm hold on his throat. Jaysin's hands dangled at his side. Jaysin was so weak and exhausted he couldn't even struggle he just looks up defiantly at The Arbiter. The Arbiter stares down at him.
"Where did you get this power from? Who gave it to you?" The Arbiter demanded to know. Jaysin just grins evilly. The Arbiter looks down at Jaysin in disgust of his arrogant pride in the face of his own defeat. "You should have taken our first encounter as an act of mercy-"
"F**k your mercy!" Jaysin spits blood in The Arbiter's face.
"So be it!" The Arbiter raises his sword to cleave Jaysin in two and put an end to him once and for all. In that moment Jaysin watches The Arbiter raise his sword and realized all of it, everything he stood for and fought for...it was all for nothing...
