Episode 2: The New Omega, Part 2
Despite the fact that ten robots armed with various weapons were running at her, Saria didn't seem the least bit phased. In fact, she was smiling a decidedly evil smile.
"So, someone decided to give me a welcome party." she said. "I'm touched. Of course, I doubt anyone ever bothered to tell you tin cans just who you were messing with."
She raised her right arm to her face, holding the wrist in front of it, revealing a red morpher with a giant O on it! Raising her left arm high into the air, she yelled into it.
"Red Omega Activate!"
With her left arm still raised in the air, she was filled with the powers of the Red Omega Morpher, transforming her into the Red Omega Ranger! (Author's Note: Using the DaiRanger suits for the Omega suits. If you need a link to a picture of them, it'll be in the first review, was too long and got edited out by FF's sytem.)
David and Carrie watched in shock with the growing crowd.
"A Power Ranger?" David questioned. "Here? Now?"
Saria smiled beneath her helmet as the five Supreme Warriors armed with blasters raised their guns, then moved her left arm forward, as if she was telling them to try and shoot her. They certainly did, blasting with their weapons, but Saria rolled underneath and through the fire, then leaped up. She split her legs in mid-jump, catching two of the SWs in the face with her feet. A third rose his weapon at her but she quickly kicked it out of his hands, then a few more kicks and punches and he was down with the others.
The other two rose their weapons and fired, one managing to hit Saria, but she didn't seem to be all that much effected. Instead, she pulled out a long red sword.
"Omega Saber!" she proudly announced as she jumped up into the air again.
She came down with a spiral that sent both of the last two blaster-packing Supreme Warriors down to the ground with their fallen comrades.
Saria smiled as she put her right foot on the chest of one of the Supreme Warriors and then turned her head to the five SWs carrying small silver swords of their own.
"Fight me if you dare." Saria said.
They charged forward as Saria stepped over the downed SW and began battling the next five. She easily disposed of all of them in a row, blocking their sword strikes and firing back with her own, until all ten Supreme Warriors sent out by Dr. Tomino were down and out.
"You look less like a threat and more like a scrap heap." Saria commented with a triumphant laugh as she turned back around.
Aboard the Supreme Station, Dr. Tomino was growing more enraged with every passing
moment he watched Saria dismantle his group. He slammed his fist down onto the
table next to him.
"I'll show you a scrap heap, you pathetic, cocky little Ranger!" he fumed before pressing a button on the intercom. "Launch the Supreme Assault Robo prototype immediately!"
"Yes sir!" the voice replied.
The 10 Supreme Warriors laying helplessly on the ground soon disappeared in
a flash of silver, and Saria turned back around to face the crowd. Near the
front was David and Carrie, and that's exactly who Saria was looking at.
"Now, we need to talk." Saria said, pointing at David.
But before David could even reply, two missiles blasted the land on either side of Saria, the explosions flinging her to the ground!
"Who dares blast me?!?" Saria yelled as she climbed back to her feet and turned back around.
Above her, she had her answer.
He was a silver robot, much like the Supreme Warriors, only far more bulkier with many more levels of armor. His forehead wore a red S on it above his metallic face. On each shoulder sat a missile launcher, while his chest seemed bulkier than the rest of his body. Each arm revealed a slot where something could come out of, while his feet revealed thrusters for flying. The robot stared down at Saria as its eyes glowed red.
"I am the Supreme Assault Robo." it announced in its cold, metallic voice. "My mission is to terminate any and all alien intruders. Civilians, please depart from this area at once."
Most of the humans listened to the SAR, but David and a few others stayed behind, still watching.
Carrie tugged on his arm, trying to get him to come with her.
"Come on, David, you heard that robot thing, we have to get out of here!" Carrie pleaded with him.
"I can't." David replied quickly.
"Well, why not?"
David thought it over for quite a few moments. Why couldn't he just leave? Why was he drawn to this strange alien woman?
He didn't know. But he knew he couldn't leave her there alone.
"I just....can't." David replied, then turned to Carrie. "I'd understand if you went."
"If you're staying, I'm staying." Carrie said, shaking her head.
Meanwhile, the Robo launched two more missiles that Saria managed to dodge by running and rolling. She leaped into the air with a jump kick that managed to knock the SAR back to the ground, but didn't fare very well in hand-to-hand combat. The Supreme Assault Robo blocked both her punches and kicks with his heavily armored arms, then slammed into her head with his bulky forearm before punching her in the gut with his right hand, then finally kicked her in the stomach with his left leg, sending her down to the ground.
Saria reached desperately for her Omega Saber she dropped when the first missiles were launched, but the SAR replied by stomping on her back, forcing her to collapse. She knew she couldn't take much more of this.....but then, she spotted David.
"Da-David!" she managed to yell. "I need your help!"
David knew he should have just ignored her- she was a stranger, who he owed nothing to- but he couldn't. Something inside of him told him that he had to help her. And despite Carrie reaching to grab him, he ran forward.
"Do not get in my way, civilian!" the Supreme Assault Robo yelled, and knocked him aside with his hard right forearm.
The distraction allowed Saria to crawl backwards and get back to her feet, and she helped David back to his feet.
"Take this." she said as a blue version of her Omega Morpher materialized in her right hand.
She put it on David's right wrist.
"Hey....that looks just like that thing you had on." David said, surprised.
"Yes. It's yours." Saria told him. "Yell 'Blue Omega Activate!' and help me in battle."
"I can do that?" David questioned.
"Yes! I know you can!"
This was all too much, too fast, and David knew it, but at the same time that same feeling inside of him told him that he should trust her.
"I'll do it." David said as he moved his right arm to his face and put his left arm down on his side. "Blue Omega Activate!"
The power of the morpher filled him, and he was soon morphed into the Blue Omega Ranger!
"Wow, this feels amazing!" David said as he felt the power running through him.
But the Supreme Assault Robo was less than pleased.
"I tried to avoid attacking in order to avoid further damaging you, civilian, but I can no longer do that!" the SAR said. "You are now the enemy!"
Its chest plate suddenly opened up, revealing four holes where laser fire soon shot out of, blasting David to the ground!
"David!" Carrie yelled from the sidelines.
Saria leaped forward with her Omega Saber drawn, however, and slashed the Robo across the chest, knocking him backwards. She turned to David.
"Don't take that from him, fire back!" Saria said.
"How?"
"Call on the Omega Blaster, it's your weapon!" Saria instructed him. "Use it wisely!"
David nodded.
"Omega Blaster!" he yelled, and soon in his right hand he was holding a rather large blue gun. "Whoa!"
"Well don't just gawk at it, use it on him!" Saria said as she struggled with the SAR.
"Right!" David said, and fired the weapon at the Supreme Assault Robo just as Saria moved out of the way.
"Arrggh!" it yelled out as it was blasted to the ground.
Saria stood next to David, pointing her sword and the downed robot.
"Had enough yet?" she asked him with a smile.
"I will not give up!" it replied, and suddenly stood up and used its thrusters to head back into the sky- far higher than Saria or David could hope to reach- and blasted them with down missiles.
Saria and David climbed back to their feet, then narrowly rolled out of the way of two more missiles.
We can't win like this. Saria thought. I really didn't want to do this, but...
Saria turned around to David.
"Listen.....I have one more morpher for one more Ranger, whose the only one who can get the Supreme Assault Robo out of the sky." she said. "Do you know anyone you trust that can help us?"
David nodded, and grabbed Saria by the hand, running back towards the sidelines of people as they dodged two more missiles. David grabbed a surprised and frightened Carrie.
"We need your help, Carrie." David said. "I need your help."
"This is insane!" Carrie yelled. "We're protecting someone you don't even know!"
"I can't explain why, Carrie, but are you going to help us or not?" David asked her. "We're kind of short on time- it won't be long before the SAR decides blasting innocent civilians is worth destroying us and starts opening fire again."
Carrie lowered her head, as a single tear dripped out from her right eye. She rose it again, and looked at David morphed in his Ranger suit....and nodded.
"Take this then, and yell 'Yellow Omega Activate'." Saria instructed as she handed Carrie a yellow version of the Omega Morpher.
"Yellow Omega Activate!" Carrie said, and instantly she was filled with the power of Omega, morphed into the Yellow Omega Ranger! "This actually feels kind of cool!"
The Supreme Assault Robo, meanwhile, was none too happy to see another Ranger morph into action- and neither was the man watching it through his eyes.
"Another one!" Dr. Tomino said slamming his hand down on the table.
"How many of these menaces must we deal with?"
Dr. Tomino quickly turned to his computer keyboard and began typing away.
"I'll override the Supreme Assault Robo's built-in desire to leave civilians unharmed, leaving him only with the mission to destroy the Omega Rangers, no matter what the cost!" Tomino said as he began furiously typing away. "There! Done!"
From above in the sky, the Supreme Assault Robo's eyes glowed red.
"Civilians are expendable!" he said. "Must destroy Omega Rangers!"
Hearing him say that, the three Rangers turned back to the SAR.
"We can't let him kill these innocent people!" David protested to Saria.
"That's where she comes in." Saria said, pointing at Carrie. "Say 'Omega Wings' and you'll have the power to fly up there and stop him!"
Carrie nodded.
"Omega Wings!" she said, and suddenly a pair of yellow wings emerged from her arms. "Alright, time to stop this creepy robot!"
She flew high into the air, dodging a pair of missiles and some gunfire from his chest, then began glowing yellow as she flew faster and faster. Finally, she became nothing more than a yellow blur that tore right through the Supreme Assault Robo, send him hurtling back to the Earth at a lightning-fast speed.
He picked himself back up from his landing position, down but not out.
"Alright, David, follow my lead!" Saria said. "Throw your blaster into the air, because it's time to form our ultimate weapon!"
"Right!" David said, and threw his Omega Blaster into the air.
Saria jumped up and the Blaster opened up. She placed her sword inside of it, and it closed again, as she fell back to the ground with it.
David grabbed onto her right arm, holding the new weapon together with her.
"Omega Sword Launcher!" she yelled. "Fire!"
The sword flew at the Supreme Assault Robo, nailing him right in the chest. He fell to the ground, smoke pouring out of him, as the Omega Sword returned to Saria while Carrie landed next to her.
"This is completely impossible!" Dr. Tomino said in a rage as he quickly
pressed the Escape key on his keyboard.
"Now to finish off that robot!" Saria stated, but before she could
do anything the Supreme Assault Robo disappeared in a flash of silver.
Saria sighed.
"Saying that never leads to anything good." she said sarcastically.
She turned back around to see David and Carrie standing there, obviously more than a bit confused. Saria looked at David as she demorphed.
"Demorph and come on my ship with me." Saria said.
"Well....I do want to know what's going on, but not unless Carrie can come as well." David replied. "After all, she is a Ranger now, is she not?"
Saria sighed.
"Things can never be simple, can they?" she asked no one in particular. "Fine. Bring the girl, let's just get the hell out of here before whoever that was sends back-ups."
David and Carrie nodded, demorphing as they got into the Omegaship with Saria. The Omegaship took off, leaving the few bystanders left to watch it soar up into the sky, high above the UCLA campus.
Carrie watched out the window on the second deck of the huge Omegaship as the
ship flew out of the atmosphere and into space.
"Wow." Carrie said. "The Earth looks so pretty up here in space! Pictures don't do it justice."
David nodded as he looked out the window with her.
"It's just another planet." Saria snapped, obviously not in the mood for astronomy. "There's prettier ones out there."
David and Carrie turned around to Saria, who was stretching her long legs against the wall of the deck.
"Well, are you ready to do that whole 'explaining' thing now?" David asked her, a bit annoyed.
"Yeah." Saria replied. "Just stay with me here. It's gonna be long. It all starts quite a long time ago, in another dimension...."
Inside the robotics laboratory in the Supreme Station, Dr. Tomino watched as
many eager scientists worked on his Supreme Assault Robo.
"How long will it be until he's at 100%?" he asked them as they welded metal, closing 'wounds' that were opened by Saria's sword.
"It won't be long." one of the scientists replied.
"Good." Dr. Tomino said as he turned back around. "I was expecting Saria to find a way to harness the Omega Orb's power, but Power Ranger technology! That's unexpected, and surprising."
"I guess it should help your standing in the eyes of the world leaders, sir." the same scientist pointed out. "After all, you did make a point to them about evil Rangers and not being able to depend on them. It seems as if they are our enemies this time."
"Yes, of course." Tomino said. "But they will be no match for my highly advanced robots, Power Rangers or not. We'll wipe these new Omega Rangers right out of existence as soon as my Supreme Assault Robo is done being repaired!"
Another white lab-coat-wearing scientist walked up to Dr. Tomino.
"Excuse me, sir, but the people working on the Supreme Beam need you to come make some final adjustments."
"That's fine." Dr. Tomino replied. "I'll be right there."
The scientist nodded as he walked off.
Once my Supreme Assault Robo gets powered-up by the Supreme Beam, he will be unstoppable! thought Tomino.
"....and so the Omega Prince, myself, and Mayri were the only ones sent
into the portal that lead to the Neutral Dimension, where our bodies would disintegrate
into mere dust, but our spirits would be reborn centuries later into new human
bodies." Saria said, finishing the first part of her story (Author's Note:
See the Prologue).
"That's a very entertaining story and all, Saria, but what does it have to do with us?" Carrie asked her. "Are you telling us that...."
"Just a second!" Saria said, cutting her off. "Let me finish. So anyway.....Just like the Omega Prince and Mayri, I was reborn 19 years ago, into a human named Cara Ekonin. Cara was born on the planet Arkon, a highly advanced technological wonderland that's much like a highly advanced Earth. I screamed silently inside Cara, but I could do nothing to take control of her. Except, one day some six months ago, Cara was on a hiking trip through the forests between major Arkon cities Denji and capitol city Arden. She came across a weird, glowing cave, that seemed to have a dark light coming out of it. Inside of it, she found the strange darkness to be coming from a glowing black Orb."
"The Omega Orb, I presume." David said.
"Right." Saria replied. "Curiosity got the best of Cara, as she touched the glowing black orb....and suddenly, she was no longer in control of her own body. I was."
"So now Cara is....inside you, unable to control her own body?" Carrie said in disbelief. "That's a disgusting story!"
"It's no better then what I had to put up with for 19 years!" Saria shot back.
"Can you two stop fighting so I can hear the end of this story, and I don't know, maybe how it relates to ME?!?" David finally yelled.
"Sorry." Carrie said a bit meekly.
"Yeah, you should be." Saria shot back. "Anyway....so now that I was in control, I snuck home like nothing was wrong. Cara's father happened to be a highly advanced scientist and engineer who was one of the main people involved in the Space Ranger Project, creating one of the most highly advanced Ranger technologies ever to exist. All of the information still existed on his hard drive, so knowing his password from Cara's memories, I hacked in there."
"Why?" Carrie asked her.
"Because I knew I needed power to take this universe back for the Omega Clan, you dolt." Saria shot back. "And I was only a normal human, I don't know how the Omega Lord originally connected the people of Mirai to the Orb biologically, so I had to go a different route. Using the date on the Space Ranger Project, I created three morphers- originally planning to work things out with a reborn Mayri, I created the Red Omega Morpher for myself, the Blue Omega Morpher for the Omega Prince, and the Yellow Omega Morpher for the reborn Mayri."
"So does that mean what I think it means?" Carrie asked, still looking over at David who was staring at the tiled floor of the ship.
"Yes. David is, in fact, the reborn Omega Prince. You, Carrie, are just a normal human who was in the right- or wrong, whichever you consider- place at the right or wrong time."
"So what do you want with me?" David finally spoke up.
"I tracked you all this way so I could expose you to the Omega Orb and bring back my Omega Prince." Saria replied.
"You can't do that!" Carrie yelled. "David has a life! He's a human being! He can't give it all up just so you can get your evil lover back! Forget it!"
Saria smirked.
"I notice that you're the one objecting, and not David."
David still stared down at the tile.
"David.....tell her you don't want to do it!" Carrie said. "Tell her you won't do it!"
He still didn't reply.
"I don't CARE what he wants, and I don't care what you want either!" Saria screamed. "If you want to live, I suggest you-"
But suddenly, the Omegaship was rocked by a powerful laser blast, knocking all three off their feet.
"What was that?" Carrie asked.
Saria ran out of the deck and towards the bridge, and after looking back at David, slumped on the floor with his eyes still staring at it, Carrie followed her. She found Saria sitting at a desk looking at a computer screen.
"I'll bring it up on the main screen." Saria said. "Look."
Carrie looked up.....and saw the Supreme Station.
"What is that?" Carrie asked.
"It looks like a really, really big space station." Saria replied.
"Look at that symbol!" Carrie said. "It's the same one that was on that robot that attacked us!"
"It's the same group, alright." Saria said, gritting her teeth. "It's firing its sub-cannons at us, shields are already down to 80%!"
Suddenly, the station changed to the face of Dr. Tomino.
"Greetings." he said. "I am Dr. Tomino, founder of the Supreme Taskforce."
"What do you want with us?" Carrie desperately asked him.
"Surrender the alien filth onboard your ship at once!" Tomino replied. "If you do not, the sub-cannons will continue to fire until this ship is completely destroyed!"
Carrie looked at Saria, whose teeth were gritted and her eyes lowered as she started at Tomino, then back out the open door at David, still sitting there in a heap on the deck.
"A member of the Omega Clan does not surrender to a lowly Earthian!" Saria screamed.
"Foolish!" Dr. Tomino screamed back. "You will be killed! All of you!"
His face disappeared from the screen of the Omegaship, as the Supreme Station began opening fire once again.
Next Episode: Conflict in Space
With David an emotional wreck from the revelation, it's up to Saria and Carrie to avoid being destroyed by the Supreme Taskforce! But is Carrie willing to help Saria? Saria knows that Carrie doesn't like her and doesn't trust her, so what will happen when the two girls are all that prevent their complete destruction?
