Chapter Two:
Return Of Zordon
Back in Lord Doom's flying fortress in his royal throne room, Lord Doom stands up from his throne. The dark emperor is dressed in a long black robe, trimmed in silver armor. His shoulders are adorned in the same bone looking armor that covers the Demonite warriors, but his is accented with large golden spikes encrusting two large emerald jewels. Lord Doom's face, which is a black stone grimaced face barely noticeable under his huge, ornate silver and golden spiked headdress topped with a ruby orb. As the dark emperor looks over the thousands and thousands of small cylinders full of the prisoners from Eltar, presented to him by the general of his army, General Nerissa. She is a very tall and strong looking woman. She has long straight hair of coal and is dressed in primarily black, with armor in shades of pink and purple, her face is framed with a small scaled battle helmet with what appears to be antenna sticking out of the top of it, she stands before the dark lord and the general states
"Sire, the attack on Eltar was a complete success and all of the inhabitants have been apprehended, all but one human and his android escaped in a small spaceship."
Lord Doom's eyes widen and they begin to glow a bright crimson shade "All but one, general? You say all but one was apprehended? And you call that a success?" questioned the overlord as walks down the steps of his throne to the trembling Amazon warrior.
"I don't care if the android escaped, but you tell me that a human being with life energy escaped our attack? This simply will not do general; I find that you are failing entirely too much to allow me to continue to keep you in my employment."
"Please sire, give me another chance!" pleads Nerissa as she grovels to her knees, "I will do much better next time, I promise you my lord!"
"I'm tired of your empty promises Nerissa, I'm tired of giving you another chance and then another and another and still you constantly fail me." Lord Doom sighs and then turns his back to the frightened warrior as she shakes and he now begins examining the cylinder containers, all glowing brightly till he comes across one that isn't glowing so brightly but more of a dull twinkle. Lord Doom picks up the container and says,
"This one is far too weak and feeble to become one of my warriors of evil or even empower me to lift a hand far be it help me rule the universe, but it would be a wrong to let it go to waste though."
The evil ruler then slams the cylinder on a table, causing it to quit moving and then opens the container and drinks the orb of light and chuckles "but it does make a good snack!" and then the emperor lets out a laugh so sinister it causes the hair on the back the Nerissa's neck to raise and she closes her eyes in disgust. She then begins to find her getting queasy with the smell of rotting meat and feels hot breath hitting her face, as she opens her eyes she's startled to see Grunt, Lord Doom's large alien pet he is a Vandelorian pig monster; taken during the destruction of small planet Vandeloria millions of years ago, the evil emperor took a strange liking to the disgusting beast and keeps him at his side constantly like most would a faithful dog or cat.
The large stone doors in the back of the room open and Tybolt, a red skinned shape shifter dressed in a bone-like or organic armor, enters the room and announces, "My lord sensors indicate that we have obliterated all life in this region of the galaxy, the next closest planet with life force seems to be a small planet called, Earth. Should I set a course for this planet, sire?"
Lord Doom turns to the shape shifter and calmly says "Of course, set course immediately" just as he turns to leave the throne room, the pinkish tinted orb catches Tybolt's attention. "Sire, permission to speak freely?" he asks.
"You may, but what is this about Tybolt?" replies Lord Doom in a manner almost appearing to be annoyed by the whole situation as he heads back to his throne with Grunt following him closely behind.
"This orb here, it isn't your stand life force orb" explains the red skinned Venusian "it appears to have different type of energy; this one could be a powerful addition to your army, master. More than just a meaningless foot soldier, don't you think my lord?"
Lord Doom looks very curious about this as does Nerissa who is now back to her feet standing alone close the doorway at which two Demonites walk in from. Tybolt opens the container and frees the glowing orb that quickly transforms back into Alana, who falls to the ground; she makes a run for the door but is quickly apprehended by the two Demonites. Lord Doom chuckles with amusement and states, "Foolish woman, where do you think you are going? Your planet has been destroyed along with your family, you have and are nothing. You now belong to me!"
Alana struggles against the hold of the Demonites trying desperately fighting to break free as Lord Doom walks closer and closer to her, tears begin to fill her eyes as her entire body is filled will fear. The evil lord looks deep in her eyes for a moment, walks over to Tybolt and says "I like her spirit and drive, she looks to be a feisty addition to my court." General Nerissa interjects "But she is pregnant and useless sire, there is not need for her let me dispose of this maggot!" as she wields her short sword and heads directly for Alana.
"Silence Nerissa!" commands Lord Doom as he raises his arm, releasing a lighting bolt so strong it sends the female general flying back against the wall, knocking her unconscious.
"Sire, her being pregnant could be an advantage, since instead of one life you have two, perhaps we can add two powerful additions to our royal court, ehh?" adds Tybolt.
"Point well taken, Tybolt," states the evil lord and as he raises his arms energy beams emerge from his scarlet glowing eyes and Alana begins a transformation. Where the once beautiful pregnant Eltarean woman stood there now were two powerful warriors. One a strange looking witch-like warrior, who was dressed in black and gold armor adorned with a purple cape, on her head was a large winged helmet. To her right stood a huge, barbarian warrior dressed entirely in black with his upper body covered in silver metallic armor. His shoulders, head, and partial face were covered by what appeared to be a bone or skeleton armor. Both of these savage warriors were equipped with large, jeweled, ornate long swords.
Lord Doom begins to examine his newly created warriors of destruction and explains to the female "I think I'll name you Demona and you are now the head general of my dark army." After making this statement he looks back to the now conscious former General Nerissa. The emperor grins in delight as he sees the look of disgust on her face. He next walks over to the army's new general and asks her,
"What were you going to name your unborn child?" For a brief moment the expression on Demona's face shows compassion and sorrow, she replies,
"Why Elros my lord." Lord Doom nods and with approval, raises his hand shooting a lighting bolt at Demona's head, causing what little emotion was in her to be wiped away leaving her a cold and cruel creature as he walks away he states "Elros it is." He then turns to address his warrior,
"Lt. General Elros, you will assist General Demona in leading the dark army in my intergalactic quest for universal domination. You will be assisted by the newly demoted Commander Nerissa."
Now back on her feet the commander, shows more disgust on her face and slams her blade to the ground, causing a bit of commotion, causing everyone to turn and look at her.
Lord Doom replies "Do you have a problem with my decision, Commander?"
Nerissa quickly goes to the floor, picking up her sword and kneeling, groveling "No, my lord, I would never question your judgment. You are my master and I am here to serve you."
Lord Doom then turns to walk away and states, "Good, Good, you haven't met your end today, Nerissa. But remember you can very easily be replaced." With this statement Lord Doom turns, chuckling under his breath, behind him waddles Grunt, looking back at the kneeling commander and he just hisses what appears to be a laugh. Next Tybolt, Elros, and Demona walk quietly behind the evil lord following him out of the throne room. Just before the large doors close the room off we hear a Demonite say to Lord Doom "Master we have set course towards Earth and should be there shortly." Then the large stone doors slam shut, leaving Nerissa alone in the silence of the dark room the only light coming from the on the walls of shelves.
Back to another part of the galaxy the small XR-10 spacecraft is floating aimlessly in space, with no thruster power at all. Although the small craft is now free of the meteor field it is still within danger. The ship took a severe beating during the explosion of Eltar and it's practically damaged beyond repair. Inside the ship the professor and his android work on getting the engines back online even if just for a temporary timeframe.
"Astral One, do you think we can get this ship mobile again?" questions Elledan.
"I'm not sure professor, the power couplings appear to be fried beyond repair, we may have some replacements in the back,' responds the robotic assistant as she heads toward the storage area of the spacecraft. While the two of them work on repairing the engines and power coupling they are unaware of the ship being pulled into a nearby black hole. By the time the ship's sensors alert them it is too late and there isn't enough time to pull the ship out of the black hole's atmosphere.
"Astral One, you've got to get the engines online we're caught in the pull of a black hole!" exclaims Elledan as he tries to replace the power couplings as fast as he can.
"Professor, I've restored power to engines. It's a good thing we brought so many of the aura crystals I was able to harness some of their power as fuel as well as jump start the power core of the warp drive!" Proudly proclaims the little android.
Even with the ship's thrusters on maximum power they are not able to break free of the space anomaly and are pulled into the black hole, which appears to be more than just a standard black hole after a few scans from the ship are completed by Astral One "It appears that this isn't your everyday run of the mill black hole, professor," the android explains, "it is actually an inter-dimensional time warp, this could take us millions of light years away from our part of the galaxy taking us to safety, but it also could take us millions of years into the past or future. That part I'm not so sure about it will require much more scanning and analysis to determine that outcome." The robot continues "I don't have much information about this type of time warp programmed into my memory banks or downloaded from the control panel's information center."
Outside of the ship, the interior of the black hole would change from solid black darkness to a brighter shade of grey and then gradually turns into a kaleidoscope of pastel colors with a bright white light in front of them. In the far distance we see a moving object but neither one of our ships crew members can easily make out what they are seeing.
"Astral One, are you able to get readings on that object?" questions Elledan.
"Yes, it appears to be some kind of life form, but my readings are very weak, so I'm not sure if it will live much longer," replies his assistant, "should we take a closer look at it, professor?"
"Certainly" responds the curious scientist, as the ship gets closer to the object Elledan and Astral are able to determine it is a human being floating uncontrollably inside this inter-dimensional location.
"Professor, I'm getting much stronger scans now. It appears to be another Eltarean human, but from the vitals and scans that I'm receiving it appears that this individual has been stuck in this time warp for millions of years. His information though does not appear to be in the database, so his identity is still unknown" provides Astral One.
Elledan is drawn to the monitor, as he stares at the monitor, looking very closely at the strange prisoner inside this space anomaly, the figure is a mysterious grayish, white skinned man, in a silver colored cape-like costume with a high collar on it. The man is completely bald, with no hair at all including eyebrows. He also doesn't have actual ears either, just "C" shaped holes where ears would be like all Eltareans. The stranger would be withering and flaying around in orbit inside this time warp.
"I wonder," says Elledan as he uses the monitor to zoom in on the face of the individual, suddenly the scientist drops his hands to the control panel in shock, with his eyes widened and all color leaving his face, Elledan replies "My star, it can't be."
"What do you mean professor, what is it?" responds the clueless android assistant.
"No, not what Astral, but who" replies Elledan, "it's Zordon, the famous mighty sage of Eltar. It was said that there isn't a being alive that is stronger than him, but he's been gone for years."
"Where was it believed for him to be, professor?" again questions Astral One.
"Dead…." Responds Elledan, and they both just look at each other with stunned looks on their faces.