Power Rangers Cyber #22 The trials of the rangers chapter 4: out of the past
Previously on power rangers…
"Did you get the data from the battle?" Traitos asks.
"Yes. I will upload everything we got." Jarod says.
"Good. I said that nobody defeats me and gets away with it and I meant it. I won't rest until I have the
head of the masked ranger on a pike." Traitos says.
"Yes my lord." Jarod says bowing.
Dale is talking to someone on her wrist communicator in her quarters.
"How has the trials gone so far?" A voice asks.
"Excellent. The first three passed." Dale responds.
"Who is next to be tested?" The voice asks.
"The one called Andros." Dale responds.
"Ah his trial will be difficult. He must face his past." The voice says.
"This past could destroy him mentally." Dale says.
"If it does then he isn't worthy." The voice says.
And now for episode 22…
The ship is still heading for home but something is wrong with the engines.
"What's going on?" Janus asks as the ship is rocking back and forth.
"The engines are malfunctioning. I can't figure out why though." Joshua answers.
"Find the nearest inhabitable planet and land." Janus says.
Joshua nods. Outside the ship rockily the ship heads for a planet nearby and lands. They all exit the ship
and look around.
"Please you have to help me. My baby, someone has taken my baby." A woman screams running up to the
rangers.
"Please calm down mam and take us to where we can talk some more." Janus says.
The woman walks towards a house and motions for them to follow her. They enter the house and see
nothing but a young boy sitting on a chair rocking back and forth and nothing else.
"This is her brother." The woman says.
"Now please tell us what happened if you can." Janus says in a calming voice.
"I don't know exactly. He was playing with my daughter outside and I heard a scream. I ran out there and
he was just standing there and she was gone." The mother says crying.
"So he must of saw something." Matt says.
"And he is in shock." Janus says looking at the non-responsive brother.
"He hasn't said a word since I found him outside after the scream." The mother says.
Meanwhile Andros is standing off to the side silent. But inside his head an inner turmoil is raging.
"Help me Andros." Karone screams as Darkonda is holding her.
"Karone." Andros screams.
Andros tries to reach out to her but the further he reaches, the farther away she seems to get.
"You will never see her again." Darkonda says laughing.
Suddenly they both disappear and are replaced by Astronema.
"Hello dear brother." Astronema says.
"NO!" Andros screams.
He looks around and realizes that he said it in the real world also as everybody is looking at him.
"What do you mean no? You won't help me?" The mother asks crying.
"No. No wait. I'm sorry. I was just reliving a nightmare." Andros says.
"Of course we will help you in any way we can." Janus says still looking at Andros in concern.
"But I can't see much that we can do without any witnesses." Matt says.
"I can go over the site where you found your son and scan it for any strange readings." Joshua says.
Janus nods at Joshua and he walks over to where the mother points.
"Could anyone else have seen it happen other than your son?" Matt asks.
"If someone else did then they aren't coming forward. When I saw your ship land I thought someone that
wasn't from this planet and therefore isn't as emotionally involved could help." The mother responds.
"Should I go around asking some people?" Matt asks Janus.
"Not by yourself. You're a stranger and they will be turned off by strangers asking questions." Janus
responds.
"It will be okay if I go with him." The mother says.
They both walk off towards the town.
"I'm gonna try to talk to the boy." Janus tells Andros.
Andros nods but just stands there. Joshua is still scanning the area.
"Hmm. No strange residual energy. The scream and her not being there so soon after it would suggest
some kind of teleportation." Joshua says to himself.
"Unless it was a monster." Andros says after walking over.
"We can rule out the Phalanx and all the other species we have encountered thus far." Joshua says.
Janus is inside talking to the boy quietly.
"I am here to help you and your sister. But I can't do that unless I know what happened. You must have
seen it happen. Who took your sister?" Janus says.
The only answer the brother gives is to rock back and forth harder.
"Oh. I'm sorry you had to go through such a life-changing event so early in your life. I know what it is
like to not only lose a loved one but right before your eyes." Janus says remembering the death of her
brother.
Matt and the mother are walking around town looking for help.
"Please I need help. My daughter has disappeared. I am looking for anyone that saw something." The
mother says.
"Don't you think that the only ones that saw it happen are the victim and the perpetrator?" A man asks.
"Her brother also. But he is in shock and isn't talking." Matt responds.
"I didn't see anything. I was taking a nap." Another man says.
Finally they come to the last house that contains an old lady with binoculars.
"I saw something strange. I was looking at the hills over in that direction. I saw two kids playing. A boy
and a girl. I looked away and I heard a scream. I whipped the binoculars back and caught a glimpse of a
strange shimmering being surrounding the girl and then she disappears. The brother was looking right at it
when it happened." The old lady says.
"My poor baby." The mother says crying.
"Big deal. This thing happens all the time." The old lady says.
"What do you mean?" The mother asks.
"I have seen plenty of kidnappings but soon after it happens everybody forgets except me. Everybody
always thinks I'm a kook. 'I don't have a daughter. I only have one child.' Is what they tell me. But I
know the truth.
"It could be a being that takes children and then makes the people of the city forget the child." Matt says.
"But then why do I remember?" The mother asks.
"Something must have been different this time. Maybe there were no witnesses before this time. Other
than this lady of course." Matt responds.
Matt's communicator comes to life.
"Matt come back to the main center. Joshua has found something." Janus says.
Matt and the mother say goodbye to the old lady and rush back to the main center of town.
"I didn't come up with any kind of energy signature but I am detecting a strange wave of energy that is
directed at the boy." Joshua says.
"We met with a woman that claims that this has happened many times before but nobody remembers but
her." Matt says.
"We all thought she was a kook." The mother says.
"Could this energy beam make people forget their short term memory?" Janus asks.
"It's possible." Joshua responds.
"But then why is it only focused on one boy instead of all of us?" Janus asks.
"We were thinking that maybe this is the first time that anybody close to the kidnapped witnessed the
kidnapping." Matt responds.
"So whatever it is focusing it's energy on suppressing the boy." Janus says.
Andros is once again silent and experiencing his nightmare.
"You didn't save me so I became this." Astronema says.
"No. I was too young to do anything about it. He was too powerful." Andros says.
Suddenly the energy being reappears in front of everybody. It starts to walk towards the house with the
brother in it.
"No it's after my son." The mother yells.
"Not if we have anything to say about it. Cyber suit engage." Matt yells.
"Cyber ranger alpha beta." Matt yells.
"Cyber ranger delta." Cynthia yells.
"Cyber ranger Gamma." Joshua yells.
"Cyber ranger omega." Janus yells.
They all turn towards Andros but he is still in his nightmare world.
"He's out of it. We are gonna have to deal with this ourselves." Matt says.
They run up to the energy being but are reflected back by some energy barrier.
"That's far enough. We will not let you take another child." Matt yells.
They all take out their blasters and fire on the monster but the weapons do nothing at all. The monster
enters the house.
"No please. Don't let it take my boy." The mother screams now hysterical.
"No I did save you." Andros yells in his nightmare world.
"Not when it really counted." Astronema says.
"Yes it did count. You were dead and my love and power brought you back." Andros says.
He remembers the time that he walked down the ramp from the main base ship with Astronema's lifeless
body in his hands. He sets her down and cries calling out her name. His tears suddenly change her into
Karone and she comes around.
"Thank you for saving me." Karone says.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you that day." Andros says crying.
"It's okay. Like you said you saved me when it counted. When my life was at stake." Karone says smiling
weakly.
Karone and Andros embrace for a minute.
"Your friends need you. It's time to let go of the past and help them." Karone says.
Andros snaps out of his nightmare and sees the rangers fighting against energy being.
"Masked ranger power." Andros says putting on his mask.
Andros rushes at the monster but he is stopped by a voice in his head.
"Stop." The voice says.
"Wait." Andros says.
The other rangers stop and so does the monster. The monster turns to face them all.
"What's going on Andros?" Janus asks.
"It's talking to me in my head. He wants to talk to the mother through me." Andros responds.
Andros lowers his head and then raises it again but something has changed.
"You remember me don't you?" The being asks.
"Why would I remember you?" The mother asks.
"You were once a historian were you not?" The being asks.
"Yes I was. Wait a minute. I do remember seeing you somewhere." The mother responds.
"But not in person." The being says.
"Yes. In the history archives. Oh my god." The mother says putting a hand over her mouth.
"Yes it is I that your ancestors made a pact with to save your species 200 years ago." The being says.
"What pact?" A man who walked up during the conversation asks.
"200 years ago a great disaster made your species sterile. Without my help you would have been extinct
within about a century." The being says.
"That is preposterous. Then why are we able to reproduce easily now?" The man asks.
"Cause I came with help. Using my power and DNA I made it possible for your species to reproduce
again. But it came with a price. A request. I said that one out of every 8 children would have my
incredible power and ultimately become like me. I only asked that you would give me those children and
you could keep the normal ones." The being says.
"Okay supposing this is true, why aren't we giving up our children today?" The man asks skeptically.
"Because 50 years ago your ancestors chose to forsake me. To keep the children that were special. They
thought that I wouldn't do anything about it." The being responds.
"So you have been taking the special children without our help." The mother says.
"And erasing their memories so they forget they ever had those children and never know there was a
problem." Matt says.
"Yes." The being says.
"Then why are you taking both my son and daughter?" The woman asks.
"Cause they are twins. In extreme rare cases if twins are special then both of them are special." The being
answered.
"This is bull. You are taking our children and we won't stand for it." The man says angrily.
"No he's right. It's all coming back to me. I read all about it when I was a historian. But for some reason I
forgot about it when I stopped to raise a family." The mother says.
"We need to bring it up with the council but I hope that we can agree to continue our pact." The mother
says.
"I don't like it that much but I am willing to keep an open mind if the council agrees." The man says.
Andros snaps back to normal.
"I'd say it's time to leave now. Let's go repair the engines." Janus says.
"Thank you so much for helping us find out what is going on." The mother says shaking Janus's hand.
"No problem. I am glad to help people." Janus says smiling.
They return to the ship and Janus and Joshua take a look at the engines.
"I am not seeing anything wrong with these engines." Joshua says frowning.
They enter the ship and do an engine test.
"They are working just fine." Joshua says.
"But that's impossible. They were barely functioning when we landed." Matt says.
"I don't know why but they are fine now." Joshua says.
"Well anyway let's get off of this planet and continue home." Janus says.
The ship lifts off and continues its journey. Meanwhile the dark core is taking control slowly of each core
lord.
"You cannot take control of us from that core. We made it so one of us couldn't take complete control of
the core." Two says.
"You fools. I took control of the original core. I am all-powerful. Do you think that I can't take control of
your two?" Dark core asks laughing.
"You will not succeed." Three says.
"Yes I will and when I do the people that tried to destroy me will pay." Dark core says.
To be continued…
Next week is Janus's turn. A planet is on a collision course with its sun. It has the technology to divert
disaster but the technology hasn't been used in centuries and has been forgotten. Can Janus help use it or
will she and the rangers die with the planet trying.
Previously on power rangers…
"Did you get the data from the battle?" Traitos asks.
"Yes. I will upload everything we got." Jarod says.
"Good. I said that nobody defeats me and gets away with it and I meant it. I won't rest until I have the
head of the masked ranger on a pike." Traitos says.
"Yes my lord." Jarod says bowing.
Dale is talking to someone on her wrist communicator in her quarters.
"How has the trials gone so far?" A voice asks.
"Excellent. The first three passed." Dale responds.
"Who is next to be tested?" The voice asks.
"The one called Andros." Dale responds.
"Ah his trial will be difficult. He must face his past." The voice says.
"This past could destroy him mentally." Dale says.
"If it does then he isn't worthy." The voice says.
And now for episode 22…
The ship is still heading for home but something is wrong with the engines.
"What's going on?" Janus asks as the ship is rocking back and forth.
"The engines are malfunctioning. I can't figure out why though." Joshua answers.
"Find the nearest inhabitable planet and land." Janus says.
Joshua nods. Outside the ship rockily the ship heads for a planet nearby and lands. They all exit the ship
and look around.
"Please you have to help me. My baby, someone has taken my baby." A woman screams running up to the
rangers.
"Please calm down mam and take us to where we can talk some more." Janus says.
The woman walks towards a house and motions for them to follow her. They enter the house and see
nothing but a young boy sitting on a chair rocking back and forth and nothing else.
"This is her brother." The woman says.
"Now please tell us what happened if you can." Janus says in a calming voice.
"I don't know exactly. He was playing with my daughter outside and I heard a scream. I ran out there and
he was just standing there and she was gone." The mother says crying.
"So he must of saw something." Matt says.
"And he is in shock." Janus says looking at the non-responsive brother.
"He hasn't said a word since I found him outside after the scream." The mother says.
Meanwhile Andros is standing off to the side silent. But inside his head an inner turmoil is raging.
"Help me Andros." Karone screams as Darkonda is holding her.
"Karone." Andros screams.
Andros tries to reach out to her but the further he reaches, the farther away she seems to get.
"You will never see her again." Darkonda says laughing.
Suddenly they both disappear and are replaced by Astronema.
"Hello dear brother." Astronema says.
"NO!" Andros screams.
He looks around and realizes that he said it in the real world also as everybody is looking at him.
"What do you mean no? You won't help me?" The mother asks crying.
"No. No wait. I'm sorry. I was just reliving a nightmare." Andros says.
"Of course we will help you in any way we can." Janus says still looking at Andros in concern.
"But I can't see much that we can do without any witnesses." Matt says.
"I can go over the site where you found your son and scan it for any strange readings." Joshua says.
Janus nods at Joshua and he walks over to where the mother points.
"Could anyone else have seen it happen other than your son?" Matt asks.
"If someone else did then they aren't coming forward. When I saw your ship land I thought someone that
wasn't from this planet and therefore isn't as emotionally involved could help." The mother responds.
"Should I go around asking some people?" Matt asks Janus.
"Not by yourself. You're a stranger and they will be turned off by strangers asking questions." Janus
responds.
"It will be okay if I go with him." The mother says.
They both walk off towards the town.
"I'm gonna try to talk to the boy." Janus tells Andros.
Andros nods but just stands there. Joshua is still scanning the area.
"Hmm. No strange residual energy. The scream and her not being there so soon after it would suggest
some kind of teleportation." Joshua says to himself.
"Unless it was a monster." Andros says after walking over.
"We can rule out the Phalanx and all the other species we have encountered thus far." Joshua says.
Janus is inside talking to the boy quietly.
"I am here to help you and your sister. But I can't do that unless I know what happened. You must have
seen it happen. Who took your sister?" Janus says.
The only answer the brother gives is to rock back and forth harder.
"Oh. I'm sorry you had to go through such a life-changing event so early in your life. I know what it is
like to not only lose a loved one but right before your eyes." Janus says remembering the death of her
brother.
Matt and the mother are walking around town looking for help.
"Please I need help. My daughter has disappeared. I am looking for anyone that saw something." The
mother says.
"Don't you think that the only ones that saw it happen are the victim and the perpetrator?" A man asks.
"Her brother also. But he is in shock and isn't talking." Matt responds.
"I didn't see anything. I was taking a nap." Another man says.
Finally they come to the last house that contains an old lady with binoculars.
"I saw something strange. I was looking at the hills over in that direction. I saw two kids playing. A boy
and a girl. I looked away and I heard a scream. I whipped the binoculars back and caught a glimpse of a
strange shimmering being surrounding the girl and then she disappears. The brother was looking right at it
when it happened." The old lady says.
"My poor baby." The mother says crying.
"Big deal. This thing happens all the time." The old lady says.
"What do you mean?" The mother asks.
"I have seen plenty of kidnappings but soon after it happens everybody forgets except me. Everybody
always thinks I'm a kook. 'I don't have a daughter. I only have one child.' Is what they tell me. But I
know the truth.
"It could be a being that takes children and then makes the people of the city forget the child." Matt says.
"But then why do I remember?" The mother asks.
"Something must have been different this time. Maybe there were no witnesses before this time. Other
than this lady of course." Matt responds.
Matt's communicator comes to life.
"Matt come back to the main center. Joshua has found something." Janus says.
Matt and the mother say goodbye to the old lady and rush back to the main center of town.
"I didn't come up with any kind of energy signature but I am detecting a strange wave of energy that is
directed at the boy." Joshua says.
"We met with a woman that claims that this has happened many times before but nobody remembers but
her." Matt says.
"We all thought she was a kook." The mother says.
"Could this energy beam make people forget their short term memory?" Janus asks.
"It's possible." Joshua responds.
"But then why is it only focused on one boy instead of all of us?" Janus asks.
"We were thinking that maybe this is the first time that anybody close to the kidnapped witnessed the
kidnapping." Matt responds.
"So whatever it is focusing it's energy on suppressing the boy." Janus says.
Andros is once again silent and experiencing his nightmare.
"You didn't save me so I became this." Astronema says.
"No. I was too young to do anything about it. He was too powerful." Andros says.
Suddenly the energy being reappears in front of everybody. It starts to walk towards the house with the
brother in it.
"No it's after my son." The mother yells.
"Not if we have anything to say about it. Cyber suit engage." Matt yells.
"Cyber ranger alpha beta." Matt yells.
"Cyber ranger delta." Cynthia yells.
"Cyber ranger Gamma." Joshua yells.
"Cyber ranger omega." Janus yells.
They all turn towards Andros but he is still in his nightmare world.
"He's out of it. We are gonna have to deal with this ourselves." Matt says.
They run up to the energy being but are reflected back by some energy barrier.
"That's far enough. We will not let you take another child." Matt yells.
They all take out their blasters and fire on the monster but the weapons do nothing at all. The monster
enters the house.
"No please. Don't let it take my boy." The mother screams now hysterical.
"No I did save you." Andros yells in his nightmare world.
"Not when it really counted." Astronema says.
"Yes it did count. You were dead and my love and power brought you back." Andros says.
He remembers the time that he walked down the ramp from the main base ship with Astronema's lifeless
body in his hands. He sets her down and cries calling out her name. His tears suddenly change her into
Karone and she comes around.
"Thank you for saving me." Karone says.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you that day." Andros says crying.
"It's okay. Like you said you saved me when it counted. When my life was at stake." Karone says smiling
weakly.
Karone and Andros embrace for a minute.
"Your friends need you. It's time to let go of the past and help them." Karone says.
Andros snaps out of his nightmare and sees the rangers fighting against energy being.
"Masked ranger power." Andros says putting on his mask.
Andros rushes at the monster but he is stopped by a voice in his head.
"Stop." The voice says.
"Wait." Andros says.
The other rangers stop and so does the monster. The monster turns to face them all.
"What's going on Andros?" Janus asks.
"It's talking to me in my head. He wants to talk to the mother through me." Andros responds.
Andros lowers his head and then raises it again but something has changed.
"You remember me don't you?" The being asks.
"Why would I remember you?" The mother asks.
"You were once a historian were you not?" The being asks.
"Yes I was. Wait a minute. I do remember seeing you somewhere." The mother responds.
"But not in person." The being says.
"Yes. In the history archives. Oh my god." The mother says putting a hand over her mouth.
"Yes it is I that your ancestors made a pact with to save your species 200 years ago." The being says.
"What pact?" A man who walked up during the conversation asks.
"200 years ago a great disaster made your species sterile. Without my help you would have been extinct
within about a century." The being says.
"That is preposterous. Then why are we able to reproduce easily now?" The man asks.
"Cause I came with help. Using my power and DNA I made it possible for your species to reproduce
again. But it came with a price. A request. I said that one out of every 8 children would have my
incredible power and ultimately become like me. I only asked that you would give me those children and
you could keep the normal ones." The being says.
"Okay supposing this is true, why aren't we giving up our children today?" The man asks skeptically.
"Because 50 years ago your ancestors chose to forsake me. To keep the children that were special. They
thought that I wouldn't do anything about it." The being responds.
"So you have been taking the special children without our help." The mother says.
"And erasing their memories so they forget they ever had those children and never know there was a
problem." Matt says.
"Yes." The being says.
"Then why are you taking both my son and daughter?" The woman asks.
"Cause they are twins. In extreme rare cases if twins are special then both of them are special." The being
answered.
"This is bull. You are taking our children and we won't stand for it." The man says angrily.
"No he's right. It's all coming back to me. I read all about it when I was a historian. But for some reason I
forgot about it when I stopped to raise a family." The mother says.
"We need to bring it up with the council but I hope that we can agree to continue our pact." The mother
says.
"I don't like it that much but I am willing to keep an open mind if the council agrees." The man says.
Andros snaps back to normal.
"I'd say it's time to leave now. Let's go repair the engines." Janus says.
"Thank you so much for helping us find out what is going on." The mother says shaking Janus's hand.
"No problem. I am glad to help people." Janus says smiling.
They return to the ship and Janus and Joshua take a look at the engines.
"I am not seeing anything wrong with these engines." Joshua says frowning.
They enter the ship and do an engine test.
"They are working just fine." Joshua says.
"But that's impossible. They were barely functioning when we landed." Matt says.
"I don't know why but they are fine now." Joshua says.
"Well anyway let's get off of this planet and continue home." Janus says.
The ship lifts off and continues its journey. Meanwhile the dark core is taking control slowly of each core
lord.
"You cannot take control of us from that core. We made it so one of us couldn't take complete control of
the core." Two says.
"You fools. I took control of the original core. I am all-powerful. Do you think that I can't take control of
your two?" Dark core asks laughing.
"You will not succeed." Three says.
"Yes I will and when I do the people that tried to destroy me will pay." Dark core says.
To be continued…
Next week is Janus's turn. A planet is on a collision course with its sun. It has the technology to divert
disaster but the technology hasn't been used in centuries and has been forgotten. Can Janus help use it or
will she and the rangers die with the planet trying.