Power rangers Thunder force #33 Double helix chapter 9: Absorption

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Previously on Power rangers thunder force...

A hole starts forming in space and a beam of energy starts to snake through the whole.

"At last I am free!"

Astyanax surrounds the ship and sucks every bit of energy from it.

"And now the universe is mine and nobody can stop me!"

And now for the continuation...

The rangers are standing around after the battle with the crewmember from the ship.

"I hope that's the last time we see them. We need to focus on the real threat."

The sounds of screaming break the silence. The rangers run in the direction of the screaming. They see a huge arm of energy sucking up people's energy.

"That must be Astyanax."

They all transform.

"That's enough life energy sucking. It's time for you to be taken out."

The arm answers by hitting the rangers hard and knocking them down. The arm grabs them all and begins to crush them. The rangers scream in pain.

"He's too powerful."

Suddenly they all disappear and reappear in a black void.

"Auros!"

Zanek yells when he sees his mentor.

"You cannot defeat Astyanax in that form. You must meet him in his own realm."

"But isn't he already in our realm?"

"Partially but not completely. That is why he is still sucking life energy so he can ever so slowly completely solidify in this realm. You must stop him before he does that or all is lost."

Zanek and the others all raise their weapons.

"Whatever it takes. Send us there."

Auros opens up a hole and the rangers all step into it. After they are gone another being appears

"You know they can't beat him. It took 4 beings to seal him away eons ago. Mere mortals cannot beat Astyanax."

"Maybe they can do it. The power of humanity is amazing."

"Admit it Auros. You have sent them into a death trap."

Meanwhile far away Andros lands on the planet near the structure. He takes out a scanning device and his data pad. He sees a structure not far away and begins to walk over there. But he is knocked back by a force field of some kind.

"Computer scan for any weakness in the force field."

"The weakest point is 5 meters to the left of you."

Andros walks 5 meters over and scans the area. Sure enough the force field weakens at this point for some reason. He takes out his blaster and fires on it. The field goes down and he steps thought.

"That was too easy. As if someone wants me to go here. Maybe I've finally found him."

Andros approaches the building but can't find an entrance.

"Computer scan for entrance."

The computer comes up negative.

"Damn. Now what?"

He looks closely at the stones looking for any kind of switch or something. He finally sees a faint image a panel behind some stones. He pulls at the stones and is surprised to find that they easily come off.

"It appears to be some kind of hand print scanner."

Andros puts his hand on the plate and a door slides open.

"Why would a building hundreds of light years from my home planet recognize my handprint."

Andros steps through the doorway into near darkness. The door slides shut behind him and he is left in complete darkness.

Meanwhile the rangers are standing in a strange place. It appears to be ruins of something.

"What the?"

Suddenly a figure appears. It's an old man of humanoid appearance.

"Welcome to the negative realm."

Zanek pulls out his blaster in defense.

"Who are you?"

"You mean you don't know me?"

Zanek doesn't answer and keeps the blaster pointed.

"You have been fighting my influence."

"Astyanax?"

"That can't be. We were told you were a viral being."

Astyanax smiles.

"I am but I can take any form I chose."

"That's nice but we are here to stop you!"

Astyanax laughs.

"Oh how many times I have heard that. Though it hasn't been for a seemingly very long time since I last heard that. A time period that your language cannot describe."

Carlos looks at the surroundings.

"What is this place? Something you made up?"

Astyanax shakes his head.

"Oh no. This is just one of the many planets I destroyed before being sealed away in this god-awful prison."

"And we are here to make sure you don't add earth to that list."

"You talk as if Earth and this galaxy is yours. Do you really think you are the first beings to ever exist in this galaxy?"

Nobody answers.

"Arrogant beings."

Suddenly the ruins disappear and are replaced by a star scape. The ranges almost forget the danger they are in as they look in awe at the beauty of the universe.

"Nearly at the beginning of time this universe was inhabited by a race of people that eventually evolved beyond anything you can imagine. They called themselves the first ones. Cause they were the first ones to be in this galaxy."

Suddenly a bunch of ethereal beings appear and fly around the space at ease.

"They ruled."

Astyanax's face gets a sinister look on it.

"Until lower forms of life appear on the planet. They didn't like the first ones. They didn't like having omnipotent beings ruling over them."

Small humanoid like creatures throw rocks at the beings on the planet and destroy idols.

"At first they were a mere annoyance. But they evolved and became much more than that."

The rangers gasp as warriors not unlike themselves are shown fighting creatures sent by the first ones.

"Eventually they evolved themselves into higher forms almost as powerful as the first ones."

A group of more power rangers like heroes show up but they look more like the ethereal beings than the humanoids they once were.

"They called themselves the chosen ones. And took their powers from the cosmos."

The picture shows the warriors clashing with the first ones and winning.

"Eventually the first ones were driven out of their own home galaxy. Can you imagine that? And on top of that all these cosmic warriors threw up a barrier around the galaxy so the first ones could not come back."

A huge barrier appears around the galaxy and the first ones are shown trying to get back in but they are thrown back.

"But before all that the first ones attempted to create a new life form. Me."

A being of ethereal energy like the first ones is born but this one is different.

"They choose to make a viral form. One that could not live without a host. They never knew that I would evolve beyond the need of a host and turn against them."

Astyanax is shown attacking and killing a first one.

"They couldn't defeat me. Only seal me away." Astyanax says bitterly.

Astyanax is shown being pushed into a spatial rip.

"I stayed in this god-awful realm forever until this one day when hope arrived."

The rangers witness the huge wave rocket across the galaxy. Everybody but Zanek bows their head knowing that they were witnessing the result of Zordon's death.

"This energy wave weakened the barrier keeping me here. Enough for me to extend my influence into this realm and take control of a ship."

Astayanax stands back up and throws down his cane.

"Enough stories. It's time to show you my true power!"

To the rangers horror Astyanax begins to transform into something else. Something terrifying. A giant face appears with two giant hands.

"Give me your powers so I can be free."

The rangers all blast the face but it doesn't even faze him.

"You fools. You only give me energy by doing that."

"Rangers let's join together to form the super white ranger!"

Zanek takes out his flute and transforms into the super red ranger. They all bring their swords together and become one. The super white ranger is almost the same as the super red ranger.

"It's time to show what happens to people that mess with this galaxy."

The face smiles.

"Is that supposed to scare me?"

The white ranger combines his blaster with the super sword and fires on the face. Suddenly the face's mouth opens up and sucks the energy in.

"Give me more!"

The white ranger fires more but it just gets sucked in also. Suddenly the left hand grabs the white ranger and starts squeezing. The rangers all fall apart into their separate colors.

"This little game is getting annoying. It's time for me to be free!"

To Zanek's horror Astyanax starts eating the others and with each one he grows stronger and bigger until Zanek is the only one left.

To be concluded...
This is it. Can Zanek stop Astyanax or is this the end? Find out in the series finale of Thunder force.