Power Rangers Cyber #25: madness
Previously on power rangers cyber
A huge beam of energy shoots out towards Odin.
"The oncoming weapon is off the charts. If it hits we are finished." Joshua says.
Matt stares down the screen as the weapon envelops the screen and goes white. Everything in Matt's vision
goes white and he feels nothing. Down on the nearby planet the natives look in awe at a huge fireball
streaks across the heavens.
A huge celebration is occurring on earth. People are cheering as the heroes are being led down from the
ship. The heroes look good other than being battle worn and scarred.
"We are proud to welcome the heroes that saved earth from the evil Phalanx." A voice yells.
The heroes stand up on the stage and bow in front of an audience. A soldier with medals of honor walks up
and gives each hero a medal one by one.
"If it wasn't for them we would probably all be assimilated." The voice yells.
Later on they all group together.
"Can I ask you guys something?" Janus asks.
"Yeah sure." Matt says grinning.
"How did we end up here?" Janus asks.
And now for episode 25
"What do you mean how did we end up here?" Matt asks confused.
"I mean I don't remember how we got here. In fact I don't remember anything of getting any close to
earth." Janus replies.
They look at each other.
"Uh I was worried about this. On one of our last missions we landed on a space station that had been
abandoned for some time. While investigating we found some canisters that you accidentally set off. The
gas knocked you out. We thought it might affect your memory." Joshua says.
"I just don't remember any of that." Janus says confused.
"Let's go to the rec. room and talk about it. I think you should sit down and relax." Matt says.
They all walk down the corridor and enter a rec. room. They all sit down.
"We were on the space station and we found everybody had died of mysterious circumstances." Joshua
says.
Joshua's voice fades away as Janus suddenly feels sick and collapses. When she opens her eyes everything
is almost dark except for a lantern. She sees her fellow rangers standing over her with worried looks on
their faces.
"Oh good she's regained consciousness." Joshua says.
"What happened?" Janus asks.
"You were knocked out by the gas in the canister." Joshua says.
"I was having a dream. A dream that we were back on earth. We had already saved the earth from the
Phalanx and got medals of honor." Janus says.
"Wow that's one dream I wish would come true soon." Matt says.
"It will." Joshua says.
Janus stands up shakily with help.
"It was so real." Janus says sadly.
"It could have been the result of the gas. A hallucination." Joshua says.
"Yeah. So my memory sort of fails me as to why we are here." Janus says.
"Well we are here to explore an abandoned space station. We didn't notice anything strange until we
found a space frozen body and a blown out airlock. It looks like somebody tried to take a space walk
without a suit." Joshua says.
Janus winces.
"We docked with a good space dock and entered through it. After finding that the air was still breathable
we took off our space suits." Joshua continues.
Janus starts to feel sick again and everything starts to spin. She collapses on the ground once more. When
she opens her eyes she is once again on earth with the rangers looking at her with concerned.
"Wha? What happened?" Janus asks.
"You fainted for a few minutes." Joshua answers.
"I was dreaming or hallucinating this mission you were starting to talk to me about. But in this dream they
say that this is all a hallucination." Janus says.
"Oh man. The gas must still be affecting her." Joshua says worried.
"But this hasn't happened to her ever since we cured her." Matt says.
"It maybe has something to do with her starting to remember the forgotten mission." Joshua says.
"Are you okay? They said that they are gonna give us a celebratory dinner in 10 minutes. Do you think
you are well enough to join us?" Matt asks.
"Yeah I will make it. Besides, how would it look if the leader of the mission didn't accept her own
celebration meal." Janus says smiling weakly.
Janus slowly stands up with the help of her fellow rangers. They slowly walk her to the main hall and sit
down. Slowly people start to file in. When they are all in they start to clap slowly.
"A toast to great officers that adapted to a unexpected mission and fulfilled it." A man says standing up.
"A toast." All the people say.
Janus puts her glass up to toast but the glass seems to turn non-solid and she drops it. Everything once
again becomes blurry and out of focus. She falls down on her chair. Once she opens her eyes she is back
on the space station with the rangers.
"Man you didn't get hit by the gas that time. It must still be affecting you." Matt says.
"I was back on earth again." Janus says standing up shakily.
"Why is it that again. Why not another hallucination?" Joshua asks.
"Maybe the gas is making her hallucinate what she wants to be real. To be home." Matt says.
"Your right about that. I do want to be home." Janus says.
"Well while you were unconscious Cynthia found a working data module. She has the scanner hooked up
and translating right now." Joshua says.
"Good. Maybe that will answer our questions as to what happened here." Janus says.
"Something tells me it has something to do with the gas and it's affects." Joshua says.
Meanwhile Andros is looking at a panel and pushing it. Suddenly the panel falls away and reveals a dead
decomposing body.
"Oh god." Andros says plugging his nose.
"Why would someone put a body here?" Janus wonders.
"To hide a body. Like as if the person murdered this person." Joshua answers.
"Murdered? That air lock accident may not have been an accident." Janus says.
"I have found a log entry that may be informing." Cynthia says.
They all gather around the data screen as Cynthia activates the log.
"Everything is going terribly wrong. Two of my men have disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
The experiment must go on. I must know what affects the gas has on humans." The man on screen says.
The video ends and restarts at a later time for the next log. The man has an even worse looking face.
"I have found one of my men." The man says. He almost hurls right there and says, "Oh god. He was all
over the place. Mutilated like a butcher to a pound of beef. I have a murderer on board. I fear that my
other missing man was also murdered. And that they aren't the last. The research on the gas has been put
on hold until I find the murderer."
The screen once again jumps to another time.
"We have a suspect. My god Raska. How could you? We found him standing over and mutilating another
body. He nearly took out the officers that subdued him. He used to be such a peaceful man. What could
have happened to change him into such a violent sick man?" The man says.
The screen goes dark.
"That's all I can get for now. The rest of the logs are damaged but I can retrieve them. I just need some
more time." Cynthia says.
"Okay but try to do it as fast as you can. I want to get out of this place. Gives me the creeps." Janus says
shivering.
"Yeah we are so close to returning home." Matt says.
The word home echoes in Janus's head and she gets sick once more and collapses. This time she isn't that
surprised to see her back on earth again.
"This is crazy. I don't know which is real anymore. Both sides are convincing in saying that the other is
fake." Janus says.
"You dreamed about the space station again?" Matt asks.
Janus nods weakly.
"Come-on you heroes. They want to make an announcement." A man says.
"Are you sure your okay to get up and go around. You keep on fainting. I'm worried about you." Joshua
asks.
"Yeah. I need to keep doing things in both worlds in hope that I can figure out which one is real." Janus
says.
They reluctantly help Janus out of the room and head for the main ceremony room. When they enter
everybody starts to cheer.
"Haven't we already been through this?" Joshua asks.
"They have come up with something incredible from your data files. Please step up to the stage." A man
responds.
"I have a incredible discovery to report. In the data files of the ship that the special ops people came back
in, we have found data from two hyper speed jumps. We are now examining that data and looking for
possible usage on our ships." The guy at the podium says.
Janus looks around and is shocked to see a phalanx grunt in the audience. Janus screams and faints again.
She once again wakes up on the space station.
"Man the gas really lasts long." Joshua says.
"I have repaired some logs. Shall we watch?" Cynthia asks.
"Do you have to ask?" Matt responds.
On screen the same man appears again.
"Even with Raska in custody another body has been found. My god what is happening to this place?" The
man says.
The screen jumps forward once more.
"My own men attacked me for no reason. They seemed as mad as Raska was. Is something driving
everybody on this station mad? Will I be next?" The man says.
The screen jumps forward to the final log. The man is now unshaven and has a crazy look to him.
"I'm the last one. I have killed them all cause they all wanted to kill me. Hah I didn't give them the
chance. I have found out what the gas does to humans eventually. It drives them mad. But how did it get
the people not exposed? That I do not know. I have precious few moments to find a cure before I lose all
my sanity. Hah hah they looked so shocked when I slit their throats. I have fits of madness but I still have
some control. But the moments of control get smaller and smaller. Hah hah they all want to kill me. I
won't give them the chance. Time to eject myself from this station." The man says going back and forth
between insane and sane.
"Oh my god. Then the guy in space outside the blown airlock?" Janus starts to say.
"This presents a very bad problem. You have been exposed to the gas. That means you should be driven
mad eventually." Joshua says.
"We could be exposed too. He didn't know how the others got infected when they weren't exposed." Matt
says.
Janus feels faint again and collapses. She wakes up back on earth but something is wrong this time. She is
laying in a hospital bed and everybody else is looking at her sadly.
"Oh good she's awake again." Joshua says then leaves to get a doctor.
"What's going on?" Janus asks.
"You're dying." Matt responds sadly.
"What?" Janus asks shocked.
"We don't know. The doctors don't know. But something is killing you slowly. It may be residual traces
of the gas or something else. But the bottom line is that you don't have long to live." Matt answers.
The doctor rushes into the room and does some scanning of Janus.
"No change. Or at least anything good." The doctor says shaking his head.
"No. There must be something you can do." Janus says frantically.
"I'm sorry. We haven't seen anything like this before." The doctor says.
Suddenly Janus starts to get weak and everything goes numb. The monitor starts beeping wildly as her
heart fails.
"No! You have to fight it." Joshua says.
"I still don't know which reality is real. But if I were to gamble one on it would be the space station cause
my friends need help. If this is real then I am gonna die anyway." Janus thinks.
"Goodbye my friends for now." Janus says weakly.
Her eyes close and her body goes limp. She wakes back up again on the space station
"Same place again?" Joshua asks.
"Yeah but I have died in that one. Therefore I think that this is what is really happening." Janus responds.
"I will make sure that you don't die in this one." Joshua says smiling.
Janus smiles back.
"Have you come up with a possible cure?" Janus asks.
"Cynthia has found the lab and found what was labeled as a cure. I guess the scientist made it just before
he was murdered and nobody ever found out about it." Joshua responds.
Cynthia injects everybody with the cure.
"Well now that we have solved the mystery let's get out of here." Janus says.
The others agree and they all head for the air lock and board the ship. The ship detaches itself from the
airlock and starts to fly away. Suddenly Janus feels faint again but instead of fainting she starts to see
flashes of another reality. One where she is being held captive in a chair with a Phalanx doctor looking
over her.
"No!" Janus screams.
The ship reality shatters completely and the real one comes to be.
"Darn it. She has broken free from the hallucinogen. She is stronger than the others." The doctor says.
Janus breaks free from the chair and knocks out the doctor.
"Cyber ranger omega." Janus says.
She immediately takes out her blaster and slowly sneaks out into the corridor.
"Stay away from me." A familiar voice yells in the next room.
"Matt?" Janus asks.
A grunt comes running out of the room where Matt's voice was coming from. Janus quickly blasts him to
oblivion and rushes into the room.
"Are you okay?" Janus asks.
"I'll be better once you free me." Matt responds.
Janus frees Matt and they both run to the corridor.
"Do you have any idea where the other rangers are being held?" Janus asks.
Suddenly a laser blast hits Janus in the back and knocks her down. Behind her holding the just fired blaster
is Matt.
To be continued…
Next week escaping is only the beginning. The masked ranger faces his final battle for now.
Previously on power rangers cyber
A huge beam of energy shoots out towards Odin.
"The oncoming weapon is off the charts. If it hits we are finished." Joshua says.
Matt stares down the screen as the weapon envelops the screen and goes white. Everything in Matt's vision
goes white and he feels nothing. Down on the nearby planet the natives look in awe at a huge fireball
streaks across the heavens.
A huge celebration is occurring on earth. People are cheering as the heroes are being led down from the
ship. The heroes look good other than being battle worn and scarred.
"We are proud to welcome the heroes that saved earth from the evil Phalanx." A voice yells.
The heroes stand up on the stage and bow in front of an audience. A soldier with medals of honor walks up
and gives each hero a medal one by one.
"If it wasn't for them we would probably all be assimilated." The voice yells.
Later on they all group together.
"Can I ask you guys something?" Janus asks.
"Yeah sure." Matt says grinning.
"How did we end up here?" Janus asks.
And now for episode 25
"What do you mean how did we end up here?" Matt asks confused.
"I mean I don't remember how we got here. In fact I don't remember anything of getting any close to
earth." Janus replies.
They look at each other.
"Uh I was worried about this. On one of our last missions we landed on a space station that had been
abandoned for some time. While investigating we found some canisters that you accidentally set off. The
gas knocked you out. We thought it might affect your memory." Joshua says.
"I just don't remember any of that." Janus says confused.
"Let's go to the rec. room and talk about it. I think you should sit down and relax." Matt says.
They all walk down the corridor and enter a rec. room. They all sit down.
"We were on the space station and we found everybody had died of mysterious circumstances." Joshua
says.
Joshua's voice fades away as Janus suddenly feels sick and collapses. When she opens her eyes everything
is almost dark except for a lantern. She sees her fellow rangers standing over her with worried looks on
their faces.
"Oh good she's regained consciousness." Joshua says.
"What happened?" Janus asks.
"You were knocked out by the gas in the canister." Joshua says.
"I was having a dream. A dream that we were back on earth. We had already saved the earth from the
Phalanx and got medals of honor." Janus says.
"Wow that's one dream I wish would come true soon." Matt says.
"It will." Joshua says.
Janus stands up shakily with help.
"It was so real." Janus says sadly.
"It could have been the result of the gas. A hallucination." Joshua says.
"Yeah. So my memory sort of fails me as to why we are here." Janus says.
"Well we are here to explore an abandoned space station. We didn't notice anything strange until we
found a space frozen body and a blown out airlock. It looks like somebody tried to take a space walk
without a suit." Joshua says.
Janus winces.
"We docked with a good space dock and entered through it. After finding that the air was still breathable
we took off our space suits." Joshua continues.
Janus starts to feel sick again and everything starts to spin. She collapses on the ground once more. When
she opens her eyes she is once again on earth with the rangers looking at her with concerned.
"Wha? What happened?" Janus asks.
"You fainted for a few minutes." Joshua answers.
"I was dreaming or hallucinating this mission you were starting to talk to me about. But in this dream they
say that this is all a hallucination." Janus says.
"Oh man. The gas must still be affecting her." Joshua says worried.
"But this hasn't happened to her ever since we cured her." Matt says.
"It maybe has something to do with her starting to remember the forgotten mission." Joshua says.
"Are you okay? They said that they are gonna give us a celebratory dinner in 10 minutes. Do you think
you are well enough to join us?" Matt asks.
"Yeah I will make it. Besides, how would it look if the leader of the mission didn't accept her own
celebration meal." Janus says smiling weakly.
Janus slowly stands up with the help of her fellow rangers. They slowly walk her to the main hall and sit
down. Slowly people start to file in. When they are all in they start to clap slowly.
"A toast to great officers that adapted to a unexpected mission and fulfilled it." A man says standing up.
"A toast." All the people say.
Janus puts her glass up to toast but the glass seems to turn non-solid and she drops it. Everything once
again becomes blurry and out of focus. She falls down on her chair. Once she opens her eyes she is back
on the space station with the rangers.
"Man you didn't get hit by the gas that time. It must still be affecting you." Matt says.
"I was back on earth again." Janus says standing up shakily.
"Why is it that again. Why not another hallucination?" Joshua asks.
"Maybe the gas is making her hallucinate what she wants to be real. To be home." Matt says.
"Your right about that. I do want to be home." Janus says.
"Well while you were unconscious Cynthia found a working data module. She has the scanner hooked up
and translating right now." Joshua says.
"Good. Maybe that will answer our questions as to what happened here." Janus says.
"Something tells me it has something to do with the gas and it's affects." Joshua says.
Meanwhile Andros is looking at a panel and pushing it. Suddenly the panel falls away and reveals a dead
decomposing body.
"Oh god." Andros says plugging his nose.
"Why would someone put a body here?" Janus wonders.
"To hide a body. Like as if the person murdered this person." Joshua answers.
"Murdered? That air lock accident may not have been an accident." Janus says.
"I have found a log entry that may be informing." Cynthia says.
They all gather around the data screen as Cynthia activates the log.
"Everything is going terribly wrong. Two of my men have disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
The experiment must go on. I must know what affects the gas has on humans." The man on screen says.
The video ends and restarts at a later time for the next log. The man has an even worse looking face.
"I have found one of my men." The man says. He almost hurls right there and says, "Oh god. He was all
over the place. Mutilated like a butcher to a pound of beef. I have a murderer on board. I fear that my
other missing man was also murdered. And that they aren't the last. The research on the gas has been put
on hold until I find the murderer."
The screen once again jumps to another time.
"We have a suspect. My god Raska. How could you? We found him standing over and mutilating another
body. He nearly took out the officers that subdued him. He used to be such a peaceful man. What could
have happened to change him into such a violent sick man?" The man says.
The screen goes dark.
"That's all I can get for now. The rest of the logs are damaged but I can retrieve them. I just need some
more time." Cynthia says.
"Okay but try to do it as fast as you can. I want to get out of this place. Gives me the creeps." Janus says
shivering.
"Yeah we are so close to returning home." Matt says.
The word home echoes in Janus's head and she gets sick once more and collapses. This time she isn't that
surprised to see her back on earth again.
"This is crazy. I don't know which is real anymore. Both sides are convincing in saying that the other is
fake." Janus says.
"You dreamed about the space station again?" Matt asks.
Janus nods weakly.
"Come-on you heroes. They want to make an announcement." A man says.
"Are you sure your okay to get up and go around. You keep on fainting. I'm worried about you." Joshua
asks.
"Yeah. I need to keep doing things in both worlds in hope that I can figure out which one is real." Janus
says.
They reluctantly help Janus out of the room and head for the main ceremony room. When they enter
everybody starts to cheer.
"Haven't we already been through this?" Joshua asks.
"They have come up with something incredible from your data files. Please step up to the stage." A man
responds.
"I have a incredible discovery to report. In the data files of the ship that the special ops people came back
in, we have found data from two hyper speed jumps. We are now examining that data and looking for
possible usage on our ships." The guy at the podium says.
Janus looks around and is shocked to see a phalanx grunt in the audience. Janus screams and faints again.
She once again wakes up on the space station.
"Man the gas really lasts long." Joshua says.
"I have repaired some logs. Shall we watch?" Cynthia asks.
"Do you have to ask?" Matt responds.
On screen the same man appears again.
"Even with Raska in custody another body has been found. My god what is happening to this place?" The
man says.
The screen jumps forward once more.
"My own men attacked me for no reason. They seemed as mad as Raska was. Is something driving
everybody on this station mad? Will I be next?" The man says.
The screen jumps forward to the final log. The man is now unshaven and has a crazy look to him.
"I'm the last one. I have killed them all cause they all wanted to kill me. Hah I didn't give them the
chance. I have found out what the gas does to humans eventually. It drives them mad. But how did it get
the people not exposed? That I do not know. I have precious few moments to find a cure before I lose all
my sanity. Hah hah they looked so shocked when I slit their throats. I have fits of madness but I still have
some control. But the moments of control get smaller and smaller. Hah hah they all want to kill me. I
won't give them the chance. Time to eject myself from this station." The man says going back and forth
between insane and sane.
"Oh my god. Then the guy in space outside the blown airlock?" Janus starts to say.
"This presents a very bad problem. You have been exposed to the gas. That means you should be driven
mad eventually." Joshua says.
"We could be exposed too. He didn't know how the others got infected when they weren't exposed." Matt
says.
Janus feels faint again and collapses. She wakes up back on earth but something is wrong this time. She is
laying in a hospital bed and everybody else is looking at her sadly.
"Oh good she's awake again." Joshua says then leaves to get a doctor.
"What's going on?" Janus asks.
"You're dying." Matt responds sadly.
"What?" Janus asks shocked.
"We don't know. The doctors don't know. But something is killing you slowly. It may be residual traces
of the gas or something else. But the bottom line is that you don't have long to live." Matt answers.
The doctor rushes into the room and does some scanning of Janus.
"No change. Or at least anything good." The doctor says shaking his head.
"No. There must be something you can do." Janus says frantically.
"I'm sorry. We haven't seen anything like this before." The doctor says.
Suddenly Janus starts to get weak and everything goes numb. The monitor starts beeping wildly as her
heart fails.
"No! You have to fight it." Joshua says.
"I still don't know which reality is real. But if I were to gamble one on it would be the space station cause
my friends need help. If this is real then I am gonna die anyway." Janus thinks.
"Goodbye my friends for now." Janus says weakly.
Her eyes close and her body goes limp. She wakes back up again on the space station
"Same place again?" Joshua asks.
"Yeah but I have died in that one. Therefore I think that this is what is really happening." Janus responds.
"I will make sure that you don't die in this one." Joshua says smiling.
Janus smiles back.
"Have you come up with a possible cure?" Janus asks.
"Cynthia has found the lab and found what was labeled as a cure. I guess the scientist made it just before
he was murdered and nobody ever found out about it." Joshua responds.
Cynthia injects everybody with the cure.
"Well now that we have solved the mystery let's get out of here." Janus says.
The others agree and they all head for the air lock and board the ship. The ship detaches itself from the
airlock and starts to fly away. Suddenly Janus feels faint again but instead of fainting she starts to see
flashes of another reality. One where she is being held captive in a chair with a Phalanx doctor looking
over her.
"No!" Janus screams.
The ship reality shatters completely and the real one comes to be.
"Darn it. She has broken free from the hallucinogen. She is stronger than the others." The doctor says.
Janus breaks free from the chair and knocks out the doctor.
"Cyber ranger omega." Janus says.
She immediately takes out her blaster and slowly sneaks out into the corridor.
"Stay away from me." A familiar voice yells in the next room.
"Matt?" Janus asks.
A grunt comes running out of the room where Matt's voice was coming from. Janus quickly blasts him to
oblivion and rushes into the room.
"Are you okay?" Janus asks.
"I'll be better once you free me." Matt responds.
Janus frees Matt and they both run to the corridor.
"Do you have any idea where the other rangers are being held?" Janus asks.
Suddenly a laser blast hits Janus in the back and knocks her down. Behind her holding the just fired blaster
is Matt.
To be continued…
Next week escaping is only the beginning. The masked ranger faces his final battle for now.