Author's Notes: Finally done. Whoo. Please review!
The Astro Megaship touched down in a patch of wilderness. It was in the Great
Mountains of the Chinar Territory on the planet Exokian. Their goal here was
to steal the Royal Gem of the Chinar.
Inside the bridge, DECA let the Rangers know they had landed. It had been a few hours since they left earth.
"I don't feel good about this, at all, guys." said Ashley. "I mean, the Royal Gem has been a part of the Chinar Royal Family for centuries, and the Chinar Royal Family has been a major help in pushing for peace with the Androkan. They've always been a peaceful group, at least for quite sometime."
"I know what you're saying, Ashley, but do we have any choice?" Carlos asked her.
"We could try to locate where the Andro-xens are keeping Zhane and Karone." T.J. said.
"And raid it to get them back." Cassie said, filling in the pieces.
"No!" Andros exclaimed. "It's too risky! If Kat realizes that we're not going to get the Royal Gem for her, she'll just order the Andro-xens to kill Zhane and Karone. I can't......we have to go get it."
"But even if we get the Royal Gem, who's to say that she won't just kill them anyway?" Carlos asked him.
"I've got it!" Ashley exclaimed. "The five of us will attempt to locate the Andro-xens and find Zhane and Karone. While we call upon Kimberly and Tommy to get the Royal Gem."
"Are you joking?" Cassie asked her. "Ask the Rogue Rangers for help? Why would they help us?"
"They used to be real Power Rangers." T.J. said. "I know Tommy will help us. He'll understand."
"Fine." Andros said. "We'll do it."
"What?!?" Carlos asked him. "It's crazy! We can't trust them!"
"We don't have any other choice!" Andros exclaimed. "Whether we like it or not, the Rogue Rangers have much more power than we do. The five of us may not be able to defeat Deconin, the Guardian of the Royal Gem. He's an undefeated warrior prince, remember? Those two, however, will at least be able to put up a fight."
"Andros is right." T.J. said. "We don't have any other choice. Open a line of communication with the Rogue Rangers back on Earth."
And a few hours later, the Green Astro Battleship touched down where the Astro
Megaship had landed. Only now, it was gone.
"Off to find the Andro-xens." Tommy said from the bridge.
He turned to Kimberly, who was sitting on the bridge with her head down in her knees.
"Are you sure you're up for this, Kim?" he asked her.
She raised her head, and Tommy instantly knew something was wrong. Because on her face was a smile. Not a normal, happy-go-lucky kind- more like a sick and twisted kind.
"Oh, I'm ready." Kimberly said, grinning that sick and twisted grin. "I'm ready for them."
Tommy knew something was up, and placed his hand on her right shoulder.
"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked her.
"Fine. Never been better!" she replied, as she stood up. "Robotic Ranger Power!"
The dark energy that was now one with her body become apparent, running all over her body as some sort of black electricity. Tommy, who had never actually watched her morph (too busy morphing himself), gasped as the black electricity became her morphing suit. Finally, her helmet formed around her head, completing the morphing process. She rotated her neck, almost as if she was stretching.
"Those powers aren't normal, are they?" he asked her.
"Nope." Kimberly replied. "I don't know how to describe it, but.....I can feel the dark energy running through me whether I'm morphed or not. It's a part of me. The energy flows through my veins. It's how these powers are so, well, powerful."
Tommy nodded, and then pressed 335 on his morpher.
A few minutes later, the Green Astro Ranger and the Robotic Ranger were running
up a cliff, towards the secret lair where the Gem was kept. Instantly, five
Chinar warriors- three male, two female- teleported in front of them.
The Chinar was an ancient race of warriors whose bodies are composed entirely of stone. The males were armed with long swords while the females were armed with a pair of daggers.
The Chinar warrior in the center stepped foward to speak.
"Power Rangers, this area is sacred Chinar territory. Please turn back or we will be forced to engage you in combat."
"That's what I figured." Tommy said.
He drew his Green Astro Saber and ran foward, dueling with two of the male Chinar warriors. He matched their sword strokes easily, and slashed them both to the ground.
Kimberly ran foward at the other male Chinar and the two females. Their slashes seemed to do nothing, and she easily sent them down to the grassy floor beneath them with her superior hand-to-hand skills.
"This is your last chance to surrender and let us pass." Tommy said.
The Chinar didn't respond, and simply ran foward. Tommy ducked his sword strike.
"GREEN ASTRO POWER SLASH!"
His saber glowed with green power as he slashed the first Chinar male warrior in the chest, sending him down to the ground with an explosion, and then leaped into the air and did the same to the other Chinar male he was fighting.
And with all five Chinar warriors down, Tommy and Kimberly continued to run up the steap peek, battling other Chinars- and easily disposing of them- along the way.
Meanwhile, the Astro Megaship landed in a metallic forest. Everything- the trees,
the ground- was made of a silver-looking metal.
"An artifical world." T.J. said. "It's amazing."
"A long time ago, everything on this half of the planet just died off." Andros said. "Nothing would ever grow here again. No one knows why. Eventually, the Chinar created what we now refer to as an artifical world, and the Androkans were originally created to maintain the artifical side of the planet. However, someone placed a thread of sentient intelligence into the system that controlled the Androkans, and eventually it spread until the Androkans were an intelligent, sentient race- who often disagreed with their former masters. Hence, the wars that have come since then."
The others nodded as they began to exit the Astro Megaship.
"That's quite the story." Ashley said.
"Yeah, it is." Carlos agreed.
They stepped outside, stepping down onto the metallic floor.
"Well, I've had run-ins with both the Chinar and the Androkans before, but I've never faced the Andro-xens before." said Andros. "They are known around the galaxy for their battle skills, especially their leader, RXN-09. I don't know if we can beat him if we are forced to meet him in battle."
"I'm very glad to hear that I am respected."
The Rangers turned their heads- and standing there was RXN-09, flanked by four other Andro-xens behind him, all carrying Androkan rifles.
"Your puny cloaking devices could not hide your ship from our superior sensors." RXN-09 said, as if to explain the shocked looks on the Rangers' faces. "Now, for disobeying Katherine and coming here rather than getting her the Royal Gem....you shall be terminated."
"We'll see about that." Andros said. "LET'S ROCKET!"
The five morphed Rangers then charged into battle, each taking on an Andro-xen- with Andros facing RXN-09. They desperatley tried to avoid the gunfire of the Andro-xens but were usually blasted to the ground before they could get in close enough to do any damage. The five Rangers re-grouped, rolling backwards and standing up together in a formation.
"Astro Blasters!" Andros yelled.
All five Rangers drew their Blasters and fired, but the shots were reflected by some sort of invisiable shield around the Andro-xens. RXN-09 simply laughed in his disturbingly mechinaical way.
"Well, that was pathetic." RXN-09 spoke. "You Rangers are way out of your league."
And the five prepared to fire again and finish the Rangers off once and for all.....when they no longer had guns to fire with.
Because floating above the Astro Rangers' heads.....was Kimberly, fully-morphed in Robotic Ranger powers. She flew above them and released another wave of black energy on the Andro-xens, shattering their reflector shields and knocking them to the ground.
"Since when can she FLY?" Cassie asked in disbelief.
"The powers of darkness and evil are well-beyond your comprehension." Kimberly answered from above, further confusing the Rangers.
She flew foward and downward at once, catching RXN-09 with a cyclone kick that sent him flying backwards into an artifical tree, tearing right through it. He tried to drag himself up as the other four Andro-xens simply looked at her with a look of nothing more than pure shock.
"You....you....who are you?" one of them sputtered.
"The only name you shall know me by.....is The End." she replied.
She landed, and charged up her dark energies.
"ROBOTIC DARK ENERGY BLAST!"
The huge blast of dark energy hit all four of the Andro-exens, and at once they exploded in a ball of flames. The Astro Rangers, meanwhile, looked on in awe.
From behind that, RXN-09 dragged himself back to his feet, and pointed his Androkan rifle at Kimberly. He was nervous, his fingers shaking as he went to pull back on the trigger.
But in a flash of green light, he met the same fate of his comrades- exploding in a ball of flames.
Tommy appeared where RXN-09 had once stood, Green Astro Saber raised into the air. And in his other hand- was the Chinar Royal Gem.
"You got the Gem?" Andros asked him. "What of the Chinar warrior prince, Deconin?"
"Killed him." Kimberly said simply.
"You KILLED the Chinar warrior prince?" Andros said in disbelief. "You weren't supposed to do that!"
"He was in our way." Tommy replied. "You asked us to retrieve the Royal Gem, didn't you?"
"And plus, we just saved your asses." Kimberly added. "How about a little gratitude?"
Before the Astro Rangers could further reply, Tommy and Kimberly disappered just as quickly as they had appeared- without giving them the Royal Gem. As they did so, Zhane and Karone came running from the direction of the Andro-xen building.
"How'd you guys get out?" Cassie asked them, just as Andros went and hugged his sister.
"After they watched what those two other Rangers did to RXN-09 and those other Andro-xens, they let us go and ran." Zhane said. "Guess they didn't want to end up in the scrapheap like their leader. Who were those two, anyway?"
"Whoever they were, they sure were powerful." Karone said. "Don't think I would be able to match that power as Astronema on my BEST days."
"Those were the Rogue Power Rangers." Andros replied with a slight sigh as he let go of Karone.
"What do you think they're going to do with the Royal Gem now that they have it?" Carlos asked him.
"I don't know." Andros admitted. "But let's get back to Earth so we can find out."
"This is COMPLETLEY unacceptable!" Katherine raged to her various
minions inside her HQ. "Those goddamn Rogue Rangers have MY Royal Gem?
Who knows that those two loose cannons are going to do with it?"
"According to the report we have, Katherine, the energies the Robotic Ranger are emitting are growing with each battle." a worker at a computer desk said. "Look."
Kat leaned over her shoulder to look at the power levels.
"The only way that could happen would be if Kimberly is accepting the dark energy." Kat said. "Letting it become a part of her. If she's got dark energy inside of her already, she can make the powers grow along with her. However, I don't know what kind of effect that will have on her body or mind. This could be a disaster."
"If her power levels get much higher, Kat, she may become invinciable." the worker replied.
"That's totally unacceptable." Kat said, standing back up and turning around. "We have to figure out a way to stop her and her little boyfriend soon."
Meanwhile, Tommy and Kimberly stood out on top of a large cliff on the query
outside Angel Grove. Tommy raised the Royal Gem in the air, and began chanting
something in a strange language.
From inside the Astro Megaship, Carlos saw what was happening on the screen.
"Andros, come here, you might want to take a look at this."
Andros walked over and looked at the screen, seeing the demorphed Tommy and Kimberly standing on the cliff.
"What language is he speaking?" Carlos wondered.
And suddenly, everything clicked for Andros.
"That's why they agreed!" Andros exclaimed.
"Huh?" Carlos asked, confused.
"That's Chinar he's speaking." Andros said. "They didn't want the Royal Gem to help us get Zhane and Karone back....they wanted the Royal Gem so they could perform the ritual in order to quickly find and recieve the other three Mirai crystal shards! Get the others- including Zhane, we'll need his help- and come on, we have to get down there!"
Tommy continued chanting as the six morphed Astro Rangers teleported into the
valley below the cliff. Kimberly saw them and smiled a dark smile.
"TOMMY!" Andros screamed. "You can't do this!"
"I can't? And who's going to stop me?" he asked.
"We are!" Zhane yelled back.
"Really?" Tommy asked him. "Well, I know someone who has something to say about that."
And he began chanting again as the Royal Gem glowed a bright white....and from behind him, Kimberly stepped forward. She leaped down off the cliff- fully demorphed- and stood in front of the Rangers.
"You're not going to stop Tommy." she said.
And with that- still demorphed- dark energy began to run through her. Instantly, she grew, and grew, and grew. Until she was larger than any Megazord.
She looked down at herself, and wondered why her clothes grew with her, but her socks and shoes hadn't. She shook her head, and then looked down at the six Rangers, looking very insignificant and smaller than her little toe.
The Rangers strained their necks to look up at her.
"How....how....how did she do that?" Cassie stuttered.
"I'm going to squash all of you like bugs, and you'll never interfere in our plans again!" she screamed, dark energy still running through her veins.
She rose one giant foot, and prepared to bring it down on the Rangers....
To Be Continued....
