Episode 3: Conflict in Space
Dr. Tomino watched as Saria defiantly announced that she would not be surrendering, and instead of getting angry, he only laughed.
"You fool! If you will not surrender, then my brand-new Supreme Fighters will shoot your Omegaship down, and we will take you by force! Launch the Supreme Fighters!"
Dr. Tomino disappeared from the screen of the Omegaship.
"What are the Supreme Fighters?" Carrie asked Saria, a bit worried.
"How the hell should I know?!?" Saria said matter-of-factly. "I'll bring up the outside on the main screen."
She punched a few keys on the dashboard when suddenly the picture of the Supreme Station out in space appeared. From a small launch bay in the middle of it launched five silver fighter ships, each with the red "S" on its hulls!
"Those things must be the Supreme Fighters!" Carrie yelled out.
"I never would have guessed." Saria said with a roll of her eyes. "Get on the other dashboard to the right and work the weapons, I'll handle evasive maneuvers."
"I don't know how to do that!" Carrie yelled as she ran over to the dashboard.
"Pretend it's one of your Earthian videogames, or something, because you sure as hell can't pilot the ship." Saria pointed out. "It isn't that hard, look at the little screen for targets and press the laser fire button when you've got them in your sights."
"Left button for left cannon and vice-versa with the right button, correct?"
"I think she's got it! Maybe she's not as slow and brainless as I originally thought!"
"Thanks." Carrie replied sarcastically.
From the same spot on the floor he's been in since Saria's revelation, David watched as the two girls managed to come together, avoiding a fury of fire from the five Supreme Fighters. His eyes were particularly locked onto Saria.
She may be evil, but she sure is beautiful. David thought to himself. Well, maybe I think she's beautiful, or maybe the Omega Prince does and I'm just conveying his spirit's emotions. How can I even tell who I am and if my thoughts are my own anymore?
Saria steered the ship to a sharp left, narrowly dodging fire from two of the Supreme Fighters.
"Now, Carrie, they're perfectly lined up with our cannons!" Saria screamed.
"Right!"
Carrie pressed both buttons at once, and the Omegaship's two cannons on either side of the bottom of the ship fired. Both Supreme Fighters were nothing more than dust soon.
"Two down, three to go!" Carrie said proudly. "You were right, this IS like a videogame!"
Saria rolled her eyes as she blasted the thrusters of the ship into overdrive, dodging more fire from the remaining three SFs.
"I'm going to act like we're running away from these Supreme Fighters, then spin around all of a sudden." Saria said. "When I do that, fire the lasers immediately, they should be lined up perfectly and you should be able to get two of them."
"Sounds like a plan." Carrie agreed, and indeed Saria's plan worked like a charm, as when the ship turned around Carrie fired and soon there was only one more Supreme Fighter left.
"Hahahaha!" Saria laughed. "I'd like to see this puny Earth doctor threaten me now!"
Suddenly, the ship rocked as if it had been hit again, and then stopped moving.
"What's going on?" Carrie demanded.
Saria looked at the screen- where she saw how close they were to the Supreme Station! It was firing a blue tractor beam at them, and it had them caught!
"We're trapped in the Supreme Station's tractor beam!" said Saria.
"Well, don't just stand there, get us out of it!" Carrie yelled.
What does she think I'm trying to do? Saria thought as she rolled her eyes.
Suddenly, Dr. Tomino appeared on their main screen once again.
"I may not be able to defeat you in space, but on the ground you will be no match for my improved Supreme Assault Robo!" Tomino proudly stated.
"Where exactly is there ground around here, you moron?" Saria demanded of him.
"How about the moon?" Tomino replied with a grin, and the appearance of it replaced Tomino on the ship's main screen.
"He's right, Saria, we're right above the moon!" said Carrie.
The tractor beam quickly whipped outwards and to the right, sending the Omegaship flying with it.
"My tractor beam's length is unmatched!" Tomino announced.
The ship was sent hurling down to the moon at incredible speeds, until finally it came to a harsh crash landing, as the tractor beam disappeared.
Saria and Carrie climbed back to their feet.
"Well, what are you waiting for, launch us out of here!" Carrie said nervously.
"I....can't." Saria replied meekly. "The ship's launching gear, among other things, was damaged by that insanely rough landing. It will take a while for it to repair itself."
The screen of the Omegaship flickered back to life, revealing the Supreme Assault Robo and 7 more Supreme Warriors having launched from the Supreme Station hovering above! They were approaching the Omegaship's landing area!
"We have to stop them until the ship's repaired." Saria said. "Get David out of his little state of shock and meet me out there!"
Saria ran out of the bridge and onto the deck, then into an elevator to take her to the ship's front exit.
Carrie, meanwhile, walked onto the deck, and leaned over to David.
"Listen to me." Carrie said quietly. "I'm going to go out there and use the Omega Pistol's restrain function to tie Saria up and hand her over to Dr. Tomino."
"Why would you do that?" David asked somewhat absent-mindedly.
"Well, to end all this!" Carrie said in a huff. "We're not aliens, we aren't the ones Tomino is after!"
"But..."
"Don't, David. We can worry about that later. Now are you going to help me or not?
"I-I don't....I don't know..."
Clearly seeing she wasn't going to get any help from David in his current state, Carrie just took her morpher out in a huff.
"Yellow Omega Activate!" she said, and morphed into the Yellow Omega Ranger.
Meanwhile, Saria emerged out of the Omegaship on top of a slight peek overlooking
a valley. Down below her was the Supreme Taskforce's minions.
"How do you plan on battling me on the moon?" Saria said with a wink. "All I have to do is use the anti-gravity to bounce around out of your range until my ship is done repairing itself, and then boom, I'm out of this shitty little solar system."
"That would be a problem." the Supreme Assault Robo agreed. "Gravity field, activate!"
The SAR opened its chest hatch and out of it came two beams of light. It went up into the air, then turned into a dome, covering several miles worth of land on the moon.
Saria tried to jump, but found the gravity to be the same as on Earth's.
"Damnit." she muttered.
"Now, you will be obliterated!" the SAR announced.
Before any battle could even get underway, however, Saria was suddenly shot in the back- by Carrie's Omega Pistol in Restrain mode! The small gun released a laser web that caught Saria, knocking her to the ground where she could no longer move.
"What the hell?!?" Saria said, surprised and infuriated. She turned her head to see the already-morphed Carrie standing over her. "You bitch!"
"Yes, being called that by you really hurts." Carrie said with mock sadness in her tone.
Carrie turned around to face the robots....but suddenly, red energy surrounded Saria, and the laser web was gone! Carrie turned around to see Saria standing there.
"How did you...?" Carrie went to ask.
"You think I wouldn't have a way to escape a function of a weapon that I made myself?" Saria asked her in disbelief. "What an idiot. Red Omega Activate!"
Carrie watched as Saria morphed into the Red Omega Ranger, and drew her Omega Saber.
"Surrender and I might let you live." Saria said as she posed with her Saber.
"I'll never let you make David like you, you evil whore!" Carrie screamed back.
Back inside the Supreme Station, Dr. Tomino watched through the Supreme Assault
Robo's eyes as the two Rangers faced off with each other.
This could be entertaining. Dr. Tomino thought. Perhaps this Carrie could be a powerful ally. Well, we shall see soon enough.
Dr. Tomino sat back in his chair as he watched the battle unfold.
Saria charged forward with her Saber, attempting to slash Carrie. Carrie side-stepped
it however, and gave Saria a quick kick to the face. Saria gritted her teeth
beneath her helmet and jumped up, trying to slash Carrie again- but once again,
Carrie moved, this time jumping as well.
"Omega Wings!" Carrie yelled in mid-air, as the wings retracted.
She flew upwards, out of Saria's reach, and pulled out her Omega Pistol, placing it into the normal mode and firing. Despite rolling through, Saria was still hit, and was slowed down.
"Now's my chance!" Carrie said. "Omega Blur Attack!"
Carrie flew faster downwards towards Saria until she became nothing more than a blur of yellow. Before she could hit Saria, however, Saria leaped to the left, dodging it, and pulled out her saber.
"Omega Slash!" she yelled, as Carrie turned back around only to get slashed on the right shoulder, wounding her and knocking her to the ground.
Saria stood over Carrie, and placed the Omega Saber at her throat.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just kill you right here and get it over with." Saria said, just as a still-confused David was emerging from the Omegaship.
David watched as Saria had the saber at Carrie's throat.
"NO!" David yelled. "Don't do it!"
Saria hesitated, looking over at David. The moment of hesitation would cost her, as suddenly the Supreme Assault Robo launched dual missiles, both direct hits on Saria. They blasted her right out of her morph, as Saria fell to the ground, unconscious.
"SARIA!" David yelled, as he ran over to her.
He leaned over her body, grabbing her neck to hold her up. However, Carrie stood back up, left arm holding her right shoulder.
"Get away from her, David." Carrie said as she grimaced in pain.
"Carrie, you're hurt!" David said, and tried to grab her. Carrie moved away.
"Just get out of here." Carrie said.
"What are you going to do?" David asked her.
"I'm going to end all this madness."
She then looked down at the confused robots below.
"Tell your boss I have what he wants." Carrie told them.
The robots nodded, understanding.
"Tomino Hologram, launch!" the Supreme Assault Robo said, as its chest plate opened up once again and began transmitting the image of Dr. Tomino.
"Hello, Carrie." Tomino said. "I hear you have something I want."
"How did you know that already?" Carrie asked him, a bit surprised.
"I can see and hear anything my robots see and hear." Tomino said with a confident smile. "But anyway, you want to hand over Saria to me?"
"Yes. In exchange for the freedom and safety of myself and David."
"Wait a second." Tomino said, shaking his head. "There is no deal that involves the freedom or the safety of that alien scum the Omega Prince."
How can he possibly know that? Carrie thought to herself, as both herself and David gasped in shock.
"But David is not the Omega Prince!" Carrie pleaded with him. "He's a kind young man with a big heart and a lot of creative talent, from the planet Earth! He's not an alien!"
"He is alien scum inside, no matter what you say!" Tomino screamed. "There is no deal without the Omega Prince! No alien scum shall be allowed to live! And if you sympathize with and protect an alien scum, then you are no better and will also be killed! Robots! Attack her at once!"
"What do we do?" David asked her.
Carrie gritted her teeth.
"We fight."
Next Episode: Battlezord Cometh
With the robots approaching a wounded Carrie and an increasingly confused and upset David, can these two somehow fight the group off? And will Saria fight with them, or will she attempt to extract her revenge on Carrie? And what of the Supreme Beam- what will it do to the Supreme Assault Robo if used? All will be revealed on the next episode of Power Rangers Omega- Battlezord Cometh!
