Issue One, Act One
Day of the Portal
Scene Four Check or Checkmate?
Drone I charged its shoulder silos, boosted by Andros' circuit and all available power, leaving the replica to float steadily as the silos were unleashed with a fury which rattled nearby planets.
Andros, his fingers working lightning-fast at the control panel, the ship heated intensely from the inside out. Punching in his final commands, the Megaship was propelled with high velocity before shutting down the engines all together.
The Cranial Drones had been a planned distraction. But it was the Megaship which had been Andros' primary tactic all along; getting it close enough to the prison core for a single concentrated crash. The Karovian had no doubts of his victory. Failure on his behalf was too alien to acknowledge. This war, he thought, has cost too many lives. The only way to justify this is for a Ranger to do his duty.
The silos thundered onto the prison, the impact, this time, heard a mile away. As Andros peered, he though he could see the infant screaming, with wide open and staring straight at him. But then, the infant cackled, cooing with pleasurable ease. Next to Zhane's death, it was the most disturbing thing Andros had ever witnessed. The Megaship speared with parts of it combusting and igniting.
A new tentacle pointed its end towards Andros himself.
"Give me your best, you rugrat bastard."
After a brief standoff, each tentacle, one-by-one, jabbed through space. The first one impacted the ship with great force, enough to rock the insides. Within, the tentacle steered through hollow hallways and smashed dents in the walls and collapsed ceilings. The hangar holding the Mega Winger was targeted next. Stalking the vessels, two tentacles simultaneously speared both the Winger and drone I. Fuel tanks were penetrated and began a destructive chain reaction.
Cranial Drone I was ripped apart at every angle conceivable, most of them soon after exploding and sending out powerful shockwaves. Inside the Megaship, the Winger's fiery implosion severed the end of its destructor tentacle; the remainder of which retracted immediately back to the prison.
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A shooting fireball raged through Karone's cryo-chamber. Tremors followed as it engulfed everything in its path. The shaking was with the fury of a dozen pachyderms. Karone's eyes began to open up as the rattling continued. And as they opened, the peaceful mist that flowed over her precious face and against her sleeping body was all at once swallowed by the flames. The incineration of her dormant body was instant.
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Andros didn't concern himself with how much damage was done or left undone, for he only desired the chance for one Megaship strike. He needed this decoy.
"We're reaching perimeter range, Deca. Engage accelerators!"
As the tentacle disengaged the drone I debris, a massive shadow bore down on the prison. The Megaship was on course.
Andros' fingers waved over his controls anxiously, not jittering in the slightest. He stared into the eyes of Unagi Garenth.
The Megaship propelled itself through an independent energy inhibitor; vacuuming energy debris from all around to launch.
With the Cranial Drones destroyed, only the Megaship was left to contend with the prison itself.
Unagi Garenth observed the incoming inferno with clear sight; his body curled into fetal position and a disturbingly joyous smile surfaced on his face.
Impact...
The silence of space prevailed once more, with only smoky energy debris to occupy it...
The galaxy was an area of dust particles and debris...
What energies remained now surged through all circuitries of the Zord pieces as most floated magnetically into the energy prison; assimilated immediately. No ships were left for Unagi to worry himself over. His threat had passed.
However, the next event which transpired caught Unagi off guard.
It began with lightning strikes appearing from nowhere, which nonsensibly vanished as quickly. It was a repeated pattern with multiplied strikes. The brightness of the strikes began to light up a type of alien scenery in the dead air of space. The prison itself was now stricken by the succeeding lightning bolts.
Unagi determined it to be a rift in spatial fabric, due to the vision being as if it were projected on a flat screen, a screen which transparently divided down the center of the prison. The vision soon became much clearer as more lightning strikes lit it up. It showed a ship, gray in nature and shattered beyond recognition.
However, on one of these pieces, there were markings. They were letters embedded into the metal, scorched letters which displayed half of a name. It read "E-R-P-R-I-S-E C."
The vision plate was now a permanent guest and almost twice the diameter as it remained inserted into the prison's center. The lightning strikes had gone. The plate, determined to be a portal to another universe completely unknown to him, displayed various ruins and vast races of life forms which he'd never before encountered, life forms, which upon instinct, he wanted to taste the life force of. They were not like any Ranger he or his armies had rivaled with. They were beings of flight, speed, and strength alien to that of the Rangers, as well as their suit designs. One of them in particular caught his eye, though he did not yet understand why. This one being seemed average enough, with the exception of the emblem on his chest which was triangular, trapping in the red letter "S."
Scene Four Check or Checkmate?
Drone I charged its shoulder silos, boosted by Andros' circuit and all available power, leaving the replica to float steadily as the silos were unleashed with a fury which rattled nearby planets.
Andros, his fingers working lightning-fast at the control panel, the ship heated intensely from the inside out. Punching in his final commands, the Megaship was propelled with high velocity before shutting down the engines all together.
The Cranial Drones had been a planned distraction. But it was the Megaship which had been Andros' primary tactic all along; getting it close enough to the prison core for a single concentrated crash. The Karovian had no doubts of his victory. Failure on his behalf was too alien to acknowledge. This war, he thought, has cost too many lives. The only way to justify this is for a Ranger to do his duty.
The silos thundered onto the prison, the impact, this time, heard a mile away. As Andros peered, he though he could see the infant screaming, with wide open and staring straight at him. But then, the infant cackled, cooing with pleasurable ease. Next to Zhane's death, it was the most disturbing thing Andros had ever witnessed. The Megaship speared with parts of it combusting and igniting.
A new tentacle pointed its end towards Andros himself.
"Give me your best, you rugrat bastard."
After a brief standoff, each tentacle, one-by-one, jabbed through space. The first one impacted the ship with great force, enough to rock the insides. Within, the tentacle steered through hollow hallways and smashed dents in the walls and collapsed ceilings. The hangar holding the Mega Winger was targeted next. Stalking the vessels, two tentacles simultaneously speared both the Winger and drone I. Fuel tanks were penetrated and began a destructive chain reaction.
Cranial Drone I was ripped apart at every angle conceivable, most of them soon after exploding and sending out powerful shockwaves. Inside the Megaship, the Winger's fiery implosion severed the end of its destructor tentacle; the remainder of which retracted immediately back to the prison.
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A shooting fireball raged through Karone's cryo-chamber. Tremors followed as it engulfed everything in its path. The shaking was with the fury of a dozen pachyderms. Karone's eyes began to open up as the rattling continued. And as they opened, the peaceful mist that flowed over her precious face and against her sleeping body was all at once swallowed by the flames. The incineration of her dormant body was instant.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Andros didn't concern himself with how much damage was done or left undone, for he only desired the chance for one Megaship strike. He needed this decoy.
"We're reaching perimeter range, Deca. Engage accelerators!"
As the tentacle disengaged the drone I debris, a massive shadow bore down on the prison. The Megaship was on course.
Andros' fingers waved over his controls anxiously, not jittering in the slightest. He stared into the eyes of Unagi Garenth.
The Megaship propelled itself through an independent energy inhibitor; vacuuming energy debris from all around to launch.
With the Cranial Drones destroyed, only the Megaship was left to contend with the prison itself.
Unagi Garenth observed the incoming inferno with clear sight; his body curled into fetal position and a disturbingly joyous smile surfaced on his face.
Impact...
The silence of space prevailed once more, with only smoky energy debris to occupy it...
The galaxy was an area of dust particles and debris...
What energies remained now surged through all circuitries of the Zord pieces as most floated magnetically into the energy prison; assimilated immediately. No ships were left for Unagi to worry himself over. His threat had passed.
However, the next event which transpired caught Unagi off guard.
It began with lightning strikes appearing from nowhere, which nonsensibly vanished as quickly. It was a repeated pattern with multiplied strikes. The brightness of the strikes began to light up a type of alien scenery in the dead air of space. The prison itself was now stricken by the succeeding lightning bolts.
Unagi determined it to be a rift in spatial fabric, due to the vision being as if it were projected on a flat screen, a screen which transparently divided down the center of the prison. The vision soon became much clearer as more lightning strikes lit it up. It showed a ship, gray in nature and shattered beyond recognition.
However, on one of these pieces, there were markings. They were letters embedded into the metal, scorched letters which displayed half of a name. It read "E-R-P-R-I-S-E C."
The vision plate was now a permanent guest and almost twice the diameter as it remained inserted into the prison's center. The lightning strikes had gone. The plate, determined to be a portal to another universe completely unknown to him, displayed various ruins and vast races of life forms which he'd never before encountered, life forms, which upon instinct, he wanted to taste the life force of. They were not like any Ranger he or his armies had rivaled with. They were beings of flight, speed, and strength alien to that of the Rangers, as well as their suit designs. One of them in particular caught his eye, though he did not yet understand why. This one being seemed average enough, with the exception of the emblem on his chest which was triangular, trapping in the red letter "S."