Crisis On Infinite Earths: Nothing For All

"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

~Outside Draven's Fortress,

"Surprise blockheads!" Brody and the Ninja Steel rangers with their ninja star morphers spin the star itself.

"Ninja Spin!" They all said in sync transforming into the Ninja Steel Rangers. The five make quick work of Draven's Basherbots.

~Inside Draven's Fortress,

Alarms keep going off while Draven walks the halls frustrated, wondering what this alarm is about.

"More Intruders. How follish" Draven says outloud to himself. Draven watches the monitors. "No one can stop me now" he pulls out an arrow and it glows with a pink energy.

~Outside Draven's Fortress,

"We're just getting started" Brody announces. His team takes down another squad of basherbots outside Draven's Fortress drawing security away so Tommy and his team have an easier time sneaking back in. Subsequently, this also allows the fight between The Arbiter and Jaysin in the Courtyard to go unnoticed by the Rangers and the basherbots.

"Taste my wrath, Rangers!" Draven walks out on the roof overlooking the front of his fortress. He takes aim with his bow and arrow. Draven fires an arrow into the air, it splits apart raining dozens of arrows on the battlefield.

"Look out!" Calvin called out alerting the others. The rangers do their best to deflect the arrows with their swords but there is just too much for them to deal with. The arrows explode all around them knocking them to the ground. Draven fires more explosive arrows at the rangers.

"Don't worry guys, I'll take him out!" Brody heroically races forward through the hail of arrows and explosions. Brody grabs a ninja star off his belt. "Ninja Star, Warrior Strike!" he calls out. Brody throws the star at a tree and grapples across the river swinging up to Draven all the while deflecting his arrows to protect his friends. Brody slams into Draven. They both go tumbling off the roof and roll across the ground,

"You'll pay for that!" Draven looks hatefully at the Red Ninja Steel Ranger. Brody and Draven began exchanging blows. Brody's sword sparks off the blades of Draven's bow. At the same time Calvin fights his way through basherbots going up the stairs along the side of Draven's massive fortress to regroup with Brody. Aiden swings on the outside of the fortress using his blaster to take out more basherbots on his own. Sarah leaps high into the landing on one of the walkways built all around Draven's fortress fending off more basherbots as she tries to make her way to Brody.

Draven easily overpowers Brody and knocks him away. Brody doesn't give up, he uses his Ninja Star to turn his sword into a bow and fires energy arrows at Draven from a distance.

"My turn! Arrow Blast!" Brody yells out in an arrogant but happy tone. Draven deflects all the arrows using his bow. They run parallel to one another firing explosive arrow after explosive arrow causing serious environmental damage to the outer gates of Draven's Fortress. "Your going down!" Brody boast. Brody and Draven leap high onto adjacent roofs continuing to fire at one another, but it was Brody who was able to hit him with several arrows bringing Draven to the ground.

"No!" Draven groans on the ground in pain.

"Surprise!" Brody happily gestures like a young man who seemed so innocent and devoid of any true darkness or horror in his heart. Always hopeful and optimistic. He feared nothing, no matter how powerful or dangerous the situation seemed to be. The other Ninja Steel Rangers regroup with Brody surrounding Draven. "Let's finish this creep!" Brody takes the lead once more.

"Yeah, as a team!" Aiden poses.

"Super Ninja Strike!" Brody turns his bow back into a sword and presses one of the buttons on the blade.

"Steel Slash!" the rangers call out. A blur of red, yellow, pink, white, and gold light strike Draven from all sides. Each ranger striking Draven while glowing with energy of their respective ranger colors. "Final Strike!" they called out in sync all of them striking Draven at once. There was a massive explosion. A pillar of fire shoots high into the air for all to see…

~Fortress Courtyard,

The Arbiter was about bringing his sword down upon Jaysin when the sound of the explosion echoed in the distance. The Arbiter looks seeing the pillar of fire, in that moment he was distracted the power axe was hurled through the air striking The Arbiter's sword, but due to his iron grip and immense strength it didn't even budge from his hand. Instead the Power Axe ricochet off of it getting stuck in the wall.

The Arbiter looks at the axe then turns head looking toward the fortress. He looks up to see a black ranger on the roof in a ranger slayer styled suit with armor chest plate with a white diamond shape on it and a puffed up collar as well with white inlays.

"Zach Tailor of Earth 3-29?" Arbiter looks on confused unable to since this ranger's connection to the Morphin Grid as well or the pink ranger next to him.

"Oh don't forget about me, Kimberly Hearts of Earth 3-29! But you can call me Overlord Pink!" Kim laughs evilly. She quickly draws her bow and fires an arrow at the face of The Arbiter. The Arrow exploding in pink energy and dust before him. The Arbiter stumbles back temporarily blinded and in pain dropping Jaysin's body to the ground. "Zach, get Jaysin! I'll cover you!" Kim orders. She leaps high into the air firing arrow after arrow landing gracefully on the ground. The Arbiter deflects each aarrow as they explode where they land.

Zach hits the ground running hard. The Arbiter teleports in front of him to strike but Zach sees it coming and grins evilly. Zach leaps up missing the strike then pushes off The Arbiter's right shoulder leaping into the air rolling across the ground next to a defeated Jaysin. Zach gets to his feet pointing at The Arbiter.

"Not yet! But don't worry you'll face Overlord Black soon enough!" Zach says in an evil tone. The Arbiter looks back at him annoyed then gets hit in the chest by another of Kim's arrows. Kim walks forward cautiously rapid firing arrow after arrow. The Arbiter skillfully deflects each arrow.

Zach bends down grabbing Jaysin and drags him next to a standing pillar and leans him up against it. Zach gets down on one knee and frowns when he looks over Jaysin to see he is really hurt.

"Hey boss you okay?" Zach asks with a concerned voice. Jaysin weakly opens his good eye to stare up at Zach.

"Zach?" Jaysin says weakly leaning his head off to the side seeing Kim in the back ground keeping her distance from The Arbiter while keeping him on the defensive with her arrows. "You guys came?" Jaysin looks back over to Zach.

"Yeah, Billie's plan" Zach places his right hand on Jaysin's left shoulder.

"Good old Billie, she'd never abandon me" Jaysin coughs, laughing in pain. Zach just frowns.

"Never" Zach looks back over at Kim then back at Jaysin. "Get some rest, will handle The Arbiter" Zach informs Jaysin.

"You can't win rookie" Jaysin lets out a heavy sigh.

"I know…" Zach agreed standing up looking down at the defeated Jaysin. "But I can still by you some time to recover your stamina" Zach selflessly replies back. Jaysin looks up at Zach and smiles, then reaches into his pocket and holds up his right hand to Zach. Zach looks at the Dragon coin in Jaysin's hand and looks astonished looking back at Jaysin.

"Take it, I didn't get a chance to use it, but maybe it can give you the edge you need" Jaysin orders weakly finding it hard to breath. Zach bends down taking the coin in his left hand and nods. Zach turns his back on Jaysin getting ready to go support Kim when Jaysin tells him, "Your brother would be proud of you." Zach smirks under his helmet.

"Thanks boss" Zach holds out his right hand summoning his power axe from the wall and into his right hand. Zach holds up his left fist. "Dragonzord! Green Ranger Power!" Zach calls out. A green glows bright from his left hand. A transparent golden dragon shield appears around Zach's chest. Transparent gold cuffs around his deltoid muscles and the Dragon Dagger on his right hand side in his case. Zach leaps forward getting between The Arbiter and Kim as the two attempt to double team him.

~Outside Draven's Fortress,

The flames die down around the Ninja Steel Rangers. They look on with shock and horror. Draven had a barrier around him protecting him from the final ninja strike that should have killed him. The rangers try desperately to put there weight into the swords and force their blades through the barrier but it is a wasted effort.

"Nice try, Rangers" Draven laughs at their wasted efforts.

"Our blades can't get through" Brody looks around seeing each of his ranger's struggle to push there blade through Draven's barrier.

"You'll never beat me" Draven tells them expanding his barrier and collapsing it forcing the rangers back. Draven uses his bows to strike each ranger down to the ground with ease.

"Let's go before he sees us" Levi recommends. The Ninja Steel rangers temporarily retreat in a puff of smoke to disguise their movements. Draven runs through the smoke trying to find them but when the smoke clears they are gone.

"Where did they go?" Draven grunts, annoyed. "You ninja rats won't escape me!" Draven tries to taunt the rangers out into the open. Draven walks away, in the background a sheet falls leaving Brody and Sarah standing at the steps of the outer gate alone.

"He's gone. Let's go inside" Sarah recommends implying they can try to kill him later once they deal with the impending threat the Mega-Aarrows present.

"Guys, where heading into the fortress" Brody relays the message to the others in the ear mic of his helmet. Meanwhile, Draven walks the garden looking for the rangers.

"You can't hide forever, Rangers" Draven continues his taunts in there hide-and-seek game they were playing. The other four Ninja Steel Rangers watch Draven wander around aimlessly looking for them.

"Okay, that's great" Calvin replies to Brody on the comms. "We'll keep searching for the Mega-Aarrows, too" he informs Brody and Sarah.

"Let's find another way in" Hayley suggests.

~The outskirts of Draven's Fortress,

The robo rangers form up in there platoons at separate locations in open fields outside of the fortress preparing to invade other ranger dimensions as the barriers between dimensions in the Antiverse grow weaker.

~Draven's Fortress Control room,

There was a trail of defeated basherbots and dismantled robo rangers leading to the outside of the control room. Trinidad Kwan, the Yellow Overlord Ranger races through the hallway using his Power Daggers to slice through the opposition. Like the other Overlords, he had the ranger slayer style power suit, with two grooves on the back of his belt, beneath his lower back to hold his Power Daggers. He had the black suit, yellow diamonds on the chest, pop-up collar with yellow inlays and yellow armored greaves and gauntlets.

Billie, Overlord Blue was turning the hallway following the carnage carrying her Power Lance in her right arm. While in her ranger form she had full use of her body and no subsequent pains. Her power suit was in the ranger slayer fashion, black with blue diamonds, armored grieves and shoulder pads, her dino blaster on the back of her belt and a loop on each of her hips to hold her Power Lance when she split it in two seperate weapons. She also had a long battle dress going down to her ankles with a V-cut on the left side exposing her left leg as she walks.

"Man, I have missed this" Trinidad laughs out loud evilly. He skillfully uses his Power Daggers to slice through his opponents. "I never felt this powerful before" Trinidad laughs drunk off his own power. A blue blur speeds by and with what looked like one quick strike Billie slew the last of the basherbots and robo rangers that stood before them and the control room.

"And it's only going to get better now that we're all back together again" Billie says in a possessive tone standing straight up looking over her shoulder at Trinidad.

"So long as the Jay-man doesn't come between us again" Trinidad reminds her in a jealous tone.

"Jaysin, is my best friend and the closet thing I have to family. He wi-"

"Always be a priority to you. I know, I know" Trinidad finishes her sentence having heard this argument before. "Still doesn't take away my uneasy feelings of jealousy toward him" Trinidad reminds her. He stabs a robo ranger who was crawling to safety.

"You seriously want to do this here?...Now?" Billie turns her body looking annoyed with her lover.

"Yeah, from the very beginning it's always been Billie and Jaysin, the two at it again" Trinidad said with jealousy. "He always has your love and loyalty" Trinidad points his dagger at her, stomping on a basherbot.

"Yeah, because he is like a BROTHER to me!" Billie replies angrily. Stabbing her Power Lance into a Pink Turbo Ranger robot clone.

"And let's not forget childhood love!" Trinidad reminds her.

"By the Vile God, your never going to let this go are you?" Billie spins her lance in the air gutting the robo ranger who tried to sneak up behind her.

"Just admit it! If he was an option you would prefer to be with him over me!" Trinidad yells out, then throws his dagger at a basherbot who falls at Billie's feet. Billie pulls out her lance, bending over picking up the dagger and hurls it at a basherbot running up on Trinidad. Trinidad just looks over his shoulder then uses his right hand to knock the other basherbot in the face, knocking him to the ground. Trinidad bends down and yanked out his dagger from the basherbot's face. Billie was silent and that told Trinidad all he needed to know.

"I'm with you, I'm yours. Jaysin is my family. That's it!" Billie snaps at him.

"Is that why he gets all the cool toys like the Dragonzord and the Dragon Dagger?" Trinidad inquires jealousy. Billie groans stopping at the door to the control room looking over at Trinidad.

"Oh my Vile God! Is this about not having a zord?" Billie inquires.

"Well, it's not like I can get back the saber tooth tiger dinozord because its a body part to Kim's Gravezord and the Thunderzord-"

"Trini! We will steal you a zord from another earth once we are done here I promise you" Billie groans.

"Thank you, I just want the same if not more, since I'm your boyfriend. I deserve the cool toys to" Trinidad reasoned. Billie just facepalms herself and runs her hand down her helmet.

"I will get you a cool zord that can rival the Dragonzord once we're done here plus a special fan service just for you" Billie flirts with Trinidad.

"I love you Billie" Trinidad says out loud. Billie just smirks under her helmet and shakes her head. They both enter the Control room and dispatch the basherbots so Billie can hoop into the chair and access Draven's computer mainframe. Billie leans her lance up against the desk and removes her helmet setting it on the desk in front of her. Trinidad removes his helmet and sat it down on the desk as well standing off to Billie's right hand side. He watches Billie pull out a usb drive and sticks it into the computer.

"What's that?" Trinidad inquires, then crossing his arms with a skeptical look.

"Remote uplink for Alpha" Billie answers him hitting a few keys and begins hacking Draven's network with Alpha-5.

"Anything good so far?" Trinidad inquires looking at the monitors.

"Just this" Billie answers him and brings up a diagram of the Antiverse with the Morphing Grid on it. Trinidad was smart and was quickly able to make sense of it and became deeply disturbed by the energy levels and readings being displayed.

"If this is correct-"

"Due to the heavy strain Draven put on the Morphing Grid it's going to burst through the Antiverse like a dam that will flood and destroy a city" Billie sums it up with her illustration.

"But if the barrier between earths gets torn down like Draven wants then-"

"Death to all, death to all, death to all!" Alpha-5 chims in over the monitor.

"That idiot! He didn't double check his numbers!" Billie leans back in her chair frustrated.

"If the barrier between Earth's is down when the Antiverse is destroyed the resulting shockwave will hit every other Earth and dimension out there destroying everything in its path, including our earth!" Trinidad points out.

"However, if the barrier is up when that happens only the Antiverse will implode and become nothing" Billie lets out a sigh. "Jaysin was right to oppose Draven" Billie regretfully admits. She hated when she had to admit she was wrong about something.

"So we need to…" Trinidad paused for a moment. "Help the other rangers from the other earths put a stop to this...crisis…" Trinidad groans outloud.

"If you want a future with me, then yes we do" Billie adds. Trinidad raises up one brow tilting his head looking thoughtfully over at Billie.

"What's the plan?" Trinidad asks her. Billie pauses for a moment bringing up all the security scams to see the courtyard with the defeated robo rangers, Jaysin sitting up on a pillar while Kim and Zach fight The Arbiter. Another monitor shows the Ninja Steel Rangers trying to find the Mega-Aarrows while giving Draven the run around. Another shows Tommy and his team racing down the hall to the capture rangers below them.

"Nothing, we are going to have to trust them to handle it while we handle The Arbiter" Billie reasons to herself outloud.

"You sure?" Trinidad gives her a worrisome look.

"Yeah, we are the only ones that have a chance against The Arbiter because our power is connected to the corruption of the Morphing Grid. Their power is connected to the Grid so The Arbiter being the will of the Grid will massacre them. The best thing we can do is lead The Arbiter away and deal with him giving them the time they need" Billie explains.

"Is there anything else we can do? There are still alot of robo rangers left" Trinidad points out. Billie rubs her chin thinking about that then asks Alpha to bring up the specs on the robot clones. She quickly skims the designs finding what she was hoping for then starts hacking their signal and with Alpha-5 writes a command order.

"Yeah, bad guys like Draven always turn on his partners. The robot clones have self-destruct devices. I'll send a command to trigger them and no more robot clones" Bille grins evilly.

"Didn't you want them to throw at The Arbiter?" Trinidad asks. Billie points at the screen with Jaysin on it. "Right, didn't work. So there useless and can't risk them invading our world. What a waste…" Trinidad frowns. Billie gives him a quizzical look.

"Why is that darling?" Billie turns her head back to the monitors.

"Just remembering Zackary, he was a player. I could see him asking you to reprogram that pink turbo and the yellow mega force ranger so he could have his own personal ranger harem" Trinidad laughs evilly picturing Zackary with a harem of pink turbo and yellow mega force robot clones servicing his every need and desire.

"Yeah, Zackary would have asked me to do that" Billie giggles evilly.

"How is his twin?" Trinidad inquires.

"Eh, not like his brother, that's for sure. I also think he might have a thing for Kim" Billie assumes. Trinidad just shakes his head.

"Just what we don't need another love triangle" Trinidad makes a disgusted face then turns his head to see robo rangers rushing in. Billie looks back to see them and gives an annoyed face.

"Darling, Alpha and I need a little more time. Care to entertain our guests?" Billie flirts. Trinidad pulls out his dagger with his right hand.

"Be my pleasure, my lady!" Trinidad does a courtesy bow, then walks forward with the blade of his dagger glowing with a yellow energy. He starts to skillfully defeat each robo ranger in a skilled choreograph way that honors the korean-chinise art of fighting. While Billie gets ready to trigger the self-destruct countdown within the robo rangers. She glances up at one of the monitors to see Tommy and his team about turn into the cloning room where the other rangers who have been captured by Draven are currently being held.

~Cloning room,

"There they are!" Tommy yells out pointing into the cloning room. His team races in and goes on the attack. Tommy, Koda, and Wes over power and defeat their respective basherbots that were guarding the room.

"Quick, blast the computers!" Gemma orders from behind Wes who protected her flank. Wes and Gemma hold up there blasters and start firing on the computers. Then they shoot the restraints on the captured rangers. Kat, Antonio, Rocky, T.J. and Gia open their eyes and quickly sit up alarmed.

"Whoa. Wes, what happened?" Rocky shakes his head looking around.

"Last thing I remember, I was meeting with Tommy when some kind of Rangers attacked" Gia recounts. They all get up and regroup with Wes.

"That wasn't Tommy, and those weren't Rangers either. They're Lord Draven's robots" Wes corrects her.

"Draven? I was hoping I'd never hear that name again" T.J. jumps into the conversation.

"It looks like he's giving the robots, Ranger powers" Kat speculates trying to get caught up with everyone.

"Ranger powers will make his robots tough to beat" Antiono adds in looking pissed off and ready to fight. Tommy runs up to the group. "Hey, Tommy, thanks for saving us" Antiono tells him and gives him a respectful nod. "So, what do we do now?" We gotta stop his plans" Antiono adds, none of them knowing the real danger there in when the Antiverse implodes while the barrier is down, nor the danger The Arbiter posses on the other side of the fortress fighting the Ranger Overlords.

"Come, lets go!" Wes orders.

"This way" Koda takes the lead with Wes. As they run out Tommy is the last one to leave the room surveying the area when he gets dropped kicked by the Robot Tommy.

"You?" Tommy looks up startled.

"Who better to destroy the real Tommy Oliver than me" Robot Tommy says evilly.

"But unless you've got a Master Morpher, you ain't nothing but a cheap copy" Tommy replies holding up a golden morpher that was coinless and had the zeo circuit imprinting instead of it saying power rangers around the slot.

"Master Morpher?" Billie continues to monitor the situation in the cloning room. She watches the interaction with interest leaving Alpha-5 to finish the command to trigger the self-destruct in the robot rangers. Even with the ranger powers, the robots could not best Trinidad who held the line and prevented any from getting past him to Billie.

"This copy's gonna kick your butt" Robot Tommy grunts then transforms into the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.

"It's morphin time! Zeo Ranger Five Red!" Tommy calls out with the Zeo power coin materializing in the morpher. Both Tommy's clash with there weapons drawing sparks with the Robot Tommy getting pushed back.

"Your Zeo power can't defeat me!" Robot Tommy scolds him.

"Tigerzord, White Ranger Power!" Tommy pulls out the Morpher and uses it to morph once again to one of his previous ranger forms. The zeo coin turns into the tigerzord coin.

"No!" Robot Tommy dashes forward but Tommy kicks him away back flipping and transforms into the White Ranger.

"Incredible!" Billie stands straight up from her chair with an astonished look on her face.

"What?" Trinidad strikes down the last robot ranger to enter the room, then turns heading over to Billie's side leaving dozens of dead robot rangers all across the ground of the control room.

"That Master Morpher allows Tommy to use any one of his previous ranger forms" Billie said with an excited tone.

"So?" Trinidad looks at the monitor wiping sweat from his forehead.

"We need to get that Morpher for Jaysin! With that he could access his Red Ranger, Red Ranger with Dragonzord Power, and his Gold Ranger powers when ever he wanted to!" Billie rubs her hands together with an evil grin.

"Off course Jaysin would get it, he gets all the cool toys" Trinidad said in a jealous tone. "And I suppose I would get the Green Ranger Powers and the Dragonzord as a hand me down since he wont need them" Trinidad shook his head disgustedly.

"No, I'd get you a good zord and a way to augment your powers so you can rival him" Billie said reassuredly. Trinidad looks over to her.

"Really?" Trinidad asks.

"Yes" Billie lies, not believing anyone could be greater then Jaysin in her mind. "You are my boyfriend after all" she adds.

"Take your best shot!" Tommy strikes a combat pose with Saba. They fight once more leaping off the walls and fighting mid-air with the real Tommy besting the Robot Tommy once more knocking him to the ground. Tommy pulls out the Master Morpher again to use…

"Dragonzord, Green Ranger Power!" Tommy calls out. The dragon coin appears in place of the tigerzord coin and Tommy transforms into the Green Ranger. "Time to finish you!" he yells out and goes on the attack once again. Tommy overpowers the robot Tommy and strikes him down in defeat with the Dragon Dagger. "Face it, you're just circuits and sensors" Tommy reminds the Robot Tommy of his true nature. "You're nothing like me! You have no heart!" Tommy adds in.

The robot Tommy self-destruct with the real Tommy racing out the room. Everything begins to collapse and fall apart.

"All done, all done, all done!" Alpha-5 tells Billie who cuts his access and signals Trinidad to grab his helmet. They felt the rumbling. They quickly put their helmets back on, Billie grabs her Power Lance and they race to the window leaping out as the floor gives way and flames shoot upward. They land on top of a lower roof then leap off the ground into the fortress garden.

"Well, the rest is up to them. I did all I can to help them with the robot clones" Billie tells Trinidad.

"Now we just keep The Arbiter busy?" Trinidad asks. Billie nods. "If what you told me is true and he is as powerful as you say he is and we can't defeat him-"

"Then we just stall him out, until the other rangers stop Draven. When the Antiverse collapses it will take The Arbiter out with it" Billie explains to him.

"Good insurance policy. I love it!" Trinidad says confidently.

"Billie, Trini, it's Kim! If you two love birds are done fooling around we could really use your help!" Kim yells over the comm.

"Roger! Were moving!" Billie replies and signals Trinidad to follow her lead as they race across the garden.

"Hunnie, what happens if the other rangers lose?" Trinidad asks already knowing the answer.

"There will be nothing for all" Billie replies in a dark tone...