Epilogue
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
~Earth 3-29, Hades Universe…
The ship for Karone, the queen of good floats dead in space. The ship had all windows blown out and irreparable damage all through out and around the ship. In the command center of the ship, Karone herself in her black leather boots, pants, and vest lays dead on the ground and next to her a pile of ash that was Ecliptor, the honorable knight. A few feet ahead laid her evil brother Andross dead with his own drill sword rammed through his chest. Just beyond him was the broken tube of the Dark Lord Zordon.
With the destruction of his tube a powerful Z-Wave of dark energy spread throughout the Hades Universe and killed all the forces of good turning them into ash and dust. This was not unlike the event in Earth 1-98 where Zordon sacrificed himself to release a Z-wave of pure energy destroying all the evil in that universe. The other four Space Rangers where dead on earth in the ruins of the destroyed city of Angel Grove.
Survivors would claim it was another ranger who shot down from space into the Earth in a golden light. From there this ranger with his rage and immense power brutally killed the remaining Space Rangers and left their bodies on display in the city after his zord, a floating gold and red pyramid destroyed Angel Grove. Proclaiming he was the one who killed the old fool Zordon and stamped out goodness across the universe. He proclaimed his name to be Tryanno, The Ruthless King...
In those days, men became lovers of themselves, lovers of wealth, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to elders, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather then lovers of God, some would have the appearance of godliness but proved false to its power. This became the state and spirit of the Hades Universe. Ways seeming right to individuals lead only to darkness.
Tyranno looked upon his earth, and it was ruined; all flesh had ruined its way on the earth. The earth and the whole Hades Universe was filled with violence. Tyranno looked upon man from his zord in those days observing that man's wickedness was great and that every inclination of his heart was only evil all the time. With goodness gone, and the Grid purged of the rangers connection to it save for his own which was being hidden by the Corruption. Tyranno was the last ranger of Earth 3-29.
Afterwards, he disappeared and was not seen for a number of years, and The Arbiter never came back to Earth 3-29. Then one day when goodness started to return to the universe and the Power Rangers where needed to answer the call of evil and oppose the growing forces of light, King Tyranno returned...
Terra Venture, was a space colony searching out for a new place for humans to live. It was being terrorized by the Lost Galaxy Rangers and was being protected by Trakeena. Today however, the space colony floated dead in space. The dome was shattered and due to the vacuum pressure of space everyone outside was sucked out into the void of space and killed. Others who were in buildings either froze to death when the power eventually shut off and no help came or suffocated due to lack of oxygen.
The petrified world of Mirinoi was destroyed and broken apart. On one of the floating rocks was the alter with the broken blades of the Quasar Sabers along with the floating bodies of the lost galaxy rangers and Mike, the Manga Destroyer. All victims of the same evil and malevolent Ranger known only as Tryanno who years later wiped out goodness and brutally killed the Space Rangers.
Mariner Bay, a city in flames with no one to save them. In the underwater base home to the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers, an organization of eco-terrorist and extremist battling angelic forces was brought to nothing. Their base, underwater was destroyed and all the workers were killed and their home became their watery grave. The Light Speed Rangers could be found floating dead among thousands of other bodies where the base once stood. Another city and another team brought to ruin by The Ruthless King.
Turtle Cove, The whole city and the surrounding cities where all destroyed and swallowed up in a massive crater that can be seen from space when the floating island in the shape of a turtle called the Animarium fell due to the Pyrasaurus Megazord (A megazord combination of Pyramidas and The Red Tyranno Zord) was used to destroy the Animarium and send it crashing into the ground below and wiped out a third of the earth's population. Including the island of Japan, the home of the Super Samurai Rangers. The Wild Force Rangers, The Super Samurai Rangers and everything they are and were, was wiped out. The crater is the only evidence they existed at all.
Blue Bay Harbor, another city that laid in ruins. The Wind Ninja Academy home to the evil Ninja Storm Rangers known for their lethal manipulation of the elements to carry out assassinations across the globe and for terrorizing Blue Bay Harbor, a city full of victims for them to practice their skills on. The academy was destroyed and the Ninja Storm Rangers were killed with their bodies mounted on giant wooden stars on a hill for all to see by King Tyranno.
Reefside, California, home to the angsty and destructive teens who became the Dino Thunder Rangers trying to stop Mesgog from turning the world into dinosaurs. They fought leaderless until one day this intensely evil and malevolent Tyranno showed up. He killed them and destroyed their city. Among the flames a photographer captured an image of what looked like a Power Ranger standing there laughing. Some would say it was the Gold Zeo Ranger others would say it was the original Red Ranger.
The truth however was far darker. Like Tommy Oliver of Earth 1-93 who fused the green ranger powers with the white ranger powers and became Lord Drakkon. Jaysin Li Scotts had corrupted the gold ranger powers with his red ranger powers. Insane with rage after the crisis and vanishing into the corruption of the Grid. The Corruption returned him home to Earth 3-29 in a terrifying rage. He lashed out against his world and the legacy of the Power Rangers, that attracted The Arbiter and ultimately cost him Billie.
Once Jaysin heard rumors of the Crown Aurora and how it had the power to grant the wish of the person who held it. He sought to let the OverDrive Rangers find it, once assembled Jaysin reigned destruction on Heartford manor. Among the surviving rangers in their destroyed base Jaysin took his Golden power sword killing reach surviving ranger by slowly pushing his sword through their hearts thanking them for their service and assistance for helping him get the crown.
In his madness Jaysin fought The Sentinel Knight and Overdrive Red when they combined their powers to try and prevent Jaysin from getting the crown. Jaysin defeated them as easily as The Arbiter defeats every ranger team across countless worlds. The Sentinel Knight tried to plead with Jaysin asking him what more could he want or desire? He already controlled the world as King Tyranno, and he has brutally killed all rivals and people in his way, what more could he want? Jaysin didn't answer. He just struck Sentinel Knight a killing blow.
In the ruined base Jaysin took off his helmet setting it down walking among the rubble picking up the crown holding it in both hands with a dark look. The years have not been kind to Jaysin. His hair was long and unkempt, he had a bread with a grey streak of hair going down the center chin and like Drakkon, he had black veins creeping up the side of his right neck and cheek.
"I want Billie! GIVE HER BACK!" Jaysin commands the crown in a dark, sickly, and evil tone.
The crown glowed bright and when the light dissipated Billie was standing there as she was before she was infected with the corruption. Billie shook her head like a person waking up from a long dreamless sleep. She was wearing her fabled blue shirt, white long sleeve under shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. She shakes her head remembering her death and the events of the crisis. When she looks up to see Jaysin standing there with an insane look in his eyes and a wicked grin she is taken aback by his appearance.
She could tell a long time has past since the crisis. She could see the dark rings under Jaysin's eyes, the tired sickly look he had. She remembers how powerful the Corruption makes one feel, but she also remembers the physical and psychological effects it has on the mind. It looked like he had been under its influence for years. No telling how much he has changed or what he has done in her absence.
"Jaysin?" Billie calls out to him in a soft tone. Jaysin tilts his head at her.
"That's not my name" Jaysin whispers to her.
"Jaysin!" Billie said with more force and authority in her voice.
"THAT'S NOT MY NAME!" Jaysin yells out everything sparking and exploding around them. "No, my name is Tyranno!" Jaysin whispers evilly to her cautiously approaching her with Billie backing up slightly.
This was her Jaysin, but he was different...wrong…the lights flickered on and off. Billie looked at him reaching out with her right hand running her fingers along his burn scars on the left side of his face. She really saw him for what he truly was...this power...this pain...her Jaysin had vanished during the crisis but was reborn from that loss into Tyranno. What she saw when she looked into his eyes as he relaxed against her touch was a deeply wounded soul. It was the same look she saw when the dinozords where destroyed, when Kim left him for Thomas, when Thomas took control, and when she died in his arms.
Jaysin fell to his knees, his arms at his sides and his head hung low with the crown Aurora on the ground to the left of him. Billie got on her knees with a concerned look. She glances at the crown and reasons that is what he used to bring her back from death. She wanted to reach out and wipe away the single tear she saw running down his cheek but she didn't, she knew better.
"Tyranno...what have you done? Whats happen since the crisis?" Billie asked.
"Terrible things, I have done terrible things…" Jaysin replied.
"I don't understand, what terrible things?" Billie looks on deeply worried for Jaysin's mental state.
"Without you...I was pushed so far into the dark...I…If you couldn't have a tomorrow, why should others?" Jaysin said in a truly sick and evil tone then turned his head away from her. Jaysin became silent. Billie looked around then walked over to a working computer looking up the world events in the past few years. Billie's eyes widen in horror at all the actions Tyranno has done in her absence. She saw the images of the aftermath of death and destruction he left in his wake. Some of the images made even her sick to the point she found herself almost vomiting in her mouth. She turned off the monitor looking back at Jaysin with a broken heart.
Billie walks back over to him looking down at him with profound sadness for what he had become. Billie bent down reaching out for his morpher. She stops looking up at Jaysin who stared at her intently like he was trying with all his will power to hold back an unspeakable impulsive rage. Billie taps his morpher and demorphs him. A red and gold light shine and disappears leaving Jaysin sitting there in a black cargo pants, a red t-shirt, and black boots.
Billie looks at the golden morpher in her hand with the Zeo circuitry instead of it saying power rangers around the border. A power coin with the Zeo six symbol engraved in the background with a tyrannsaur's face and tail around the symbol with engraved lighting at the edges in front of it. She feels Jaysin's arms around her waist as he rested his head next to her belly holding her close to him.
"Your still my girl right?" Jaysin asked in a unhinged voice. Billie wipes some of the tears from her eyes with her left hand looking down at him and rests her left hand on his shoulder.
"Forever your girl…" Billie replies lovingly knowing he inflicted great horror on those who had a tomorrow and went even further then that out of love to have her back when he found out about the Crown Aurora.
She was both happy and horrified by his actions and the lengths he went to to make the universe pay for her loss and the lengths he went to get her back. The tears in her eyes were tears of joy of being alive again. Being brought back by him, and tears of sadness for what he had to become and what he had to do.
Billie gives a disgusted look at the morpher and what it turned Jaysin into and she tosses it away among the rubble. Jaysin pulls away looking like a kid who just saw his dog get hit. He cried out and went to after it but Billie grabs his hand, he turns his head looking at her hatefully getting to his feet and grabs her by the throat lifting her off the ground choking her.
"WHY?" he demands.
"You don't need it anymore...Jaysin…" Billie struggles under Jaysin's grip. She could see he was mentally fighting with himself like a man tormented by voices in his head.
"BUT WHAT IF HE COMES BACK! I NEED MY POWER!" Jaysin yells at her bringing Billie to her knees choking her with both his hands. Billie simply smiles reaches out with her right hand caressing his burn scars. The events of the Crisis coupled with the encounters with The Arbiter left Jaysin a truly broken and unstable individual. Billie saw it, felt his insane grip on her throat. His rage, his paranoia, but most of all she saw the fear of The Arbiter's return in his eyes.
"It's over...your the last ranger...there is no need for him...to...come...here…" Billie pleads. Jaysin loosens his grip in realization of what he had almost done backing away curled up in a corner slamming his fists on the ground over and over. Billie crawls over on all fours to Jaysin holding him in her arms. "It's ok...I forgive you…" Billie tells him in a low whisper. Jaysin just clings to her. "It's ok...will be ok...you're still my Jaysin right? Your the only one WORTHY of being my Jaysin..." Billie asks him pulling away. Jaysin looks up at her upon hearing the words worthy.
He looks over to the morpher to see himself as King Tyranno in his meshed up fused red and gold zeo ranger power suit standing upon the bloodied bodies of the defeated rangers with everyone in subjection to him in the darkness. Then he looks over to Billie who stood there with her warm smile shining with light and the choice was clear. Tyranno's rage couldn't drown out the love Jaysin had for Billie. Jaysin's will won over Tyranno's rage. Afterall, Tyranno's rage was born from the loss of Billie. The voices and the hallucations of his former team members he had been tormented and haunted by also disappeared and became silent with Zackary, Kim, and Trinidad disappeared with smiles on their face into the dark.
"Yeah, I am" Jaysin smiles. Billie helps Jaysin to his feet, then she catches Jaysin eyeing the crown. "What about that?" Jaysin asks. Billie walks over to it and grabs it making a wish. The crown glows shooting up into the sky and breaking apart with each gem flying off to a different planet and the crown relanding somewhere else on earth.
"Ready to go home and show me this beautifully evil dystopian world King Tyranno created for us? The fulfilled dream of the Original Five?" Billie stands on top of some rubble holding out her hand to Jaysin with the sun shining in.
Jaysin nods reaching out for her hand as they leave, leaving his morpher on the ground next to some rubble in the darkness of the ruin base of the OverDrive Rangers. The Power Rangers of Earth 3-29 were no more, and the Grid was purged and cleansed of anyone using its power.
They embrace an unknown future, but a future of their choosing together protecting each other and their world from any threat. Squashing good as it rises and killing any rangers or forces that breach their world that may attract The Arbiter back to their dimension...
The End...for now...
The Arbiter will return in Power Rangers Unworthy, youtube series…
