Chapter 13- Distress Call from the Future
Cestria bowed her head towards the floor, sobbing, and ignoring the question the White Aquitan Ranger had asked her. She knew she'd be forced to speak sooner or later, but she hoped the Rangers would turn their attention on the earthen intruder.
"Cestria, I demand to know why you are throwing a fit on the floor?" said Delphine, the female leader of the Aquitan Power Rangers.
The sobbing Aquitan sighed, deciding to break her silence, and stood up. "I have broken the code of Aquitan Supremacy, I've entered the temple of forgotten secrets, and I've stolen the Staff of Conviction. I have sinned,"
Delphine nodded her head nobly. "I see, and why have you committed these unspeakable actions?"
Cestria looked at Billy's puzzled facial expression and then back towards the ground. "I decided to keep a burden off of Billy's hands, the knowledge of Zordon's capture. I now realize that my decision was made from selfish intentions of my own, I knew that he'd rush off to Earth and leave me behind," she turned to Kimberly. "I knew that he'd rush back to his home planet, to see her, and his other Ranger friends. I love him,"
"So, your actions were speaking on the power of love?" asked Aurico, the Red Aquitan Ranger.
Cestria nodded her head, catching a brief glance at Billy who was staring sadly into her eyes. "There's something else I've been keeping from you,"
Before Cestria could continue speaking, Delphine stepped forward and silenced her. "I'm afraid that must wait, and you are to be judged for your actions by my myself, and my fellow Rangers, for now, report to your quarters," She turned to Billy. "There is something more severe at stake,"
"Severe?" Kimberly asked, making her presence in the room more noticeable.
Instead of answering Kimberly directly, Delphine greeted her. "Welcome to Aquitar Kimberly, although we didn't have the pleasure of meeting you during our time on Earth, we have heard fond memories about you from Billy," she then took a more serious tone. "The Galactic System received a distress signal from the year 3000,"
"Butâthat's in the futureâ?" asked a puzzled Kimberly. "I don't understand"
Billy stepped forward and turned to his friend. "Kim, during my time here on Aquitar, with months of research, I've discovered that the future has already occurred, every second, every minute that we take has already happed. However, these events can be altered, if someone from the future manipulates the past," Billy replied, using a plethora of small words, hoping his friend would understand.
"Precisely," added Delphine. "We obtained a message from a future police force, apparently, it has been discovered that history has re-written itself,"
Cestro stepped forward. "According to Time Force, a prototype Centurion droid was scheduled with a warning message meant for Zordon's team of Power Rangers, however, for reasons currently unknown, this droid was never scheduled for time warping,"
Delphine nodded. "The message the droid carried warned of a full scale war, structured by the galaxies most perilous evils. Divatox would have intercepted the message, before the Rangers, and forwarded a warning to the monarch of evil himself. This would have prolonged the events of the message, and Dark Specter would have gone back to planning stages,"
"What would have happened?" Kimberly demanded to know.
Tideus, the Yellow Aquitan Ranger looked at Kimberly. "We too asked for more information, while in contact with the future, but they informed us that any further information would cause a flux of events to never happen."
Billy spoke up. "Wait a second, what was the point of their message, if they had no intentions of any more information?"
"Billy, I think I know what's going on," Kimberly spoke up. "I never had a chance to tell you, but Jason, Trini, and Zack have been captured by Lord Zedd. I think this war has begun now,"
"Captured?" Billy asked, his thoughts hindering farther into a pit of fire. "This can't be happening," he told himself. "We have to help them!"
"The girl is right," Corus answered. "However, rescuing them will be harder then you might think Billy,"
Billy nodded his head. "Right, we'll need to construct a rescue plan, and if I can remember the floor plan of the Moon Palace, we may have a good chance,"
"Floor plan?" asked Kimberly.
"Yes," Billy answered. "The Moon Palace once housed the ancient spirits of the Morphin Masters, before the United Alliance of Evil corrupted it. Zordon constructed a map during one of the wars that took place on the moon,"
"Very clever, Billy." Delphine replied. "We shall start right away,"
"Daddy? What are you doing? Why can't I watch that cheesy Japanese show based on those spandex wearing twits we are fighting?" a teenage girl in white leather, and long hot pink hair whined.
"I'm insuring your future, my dear," a man who wore a silver plated mask over half of his face replied.
"My future with the Blue Ranger?" the girl asked.
"PUH!" the man replied. "You deserve better then him, a man who will buy you anything you want, however, I am insuring that those Time Force Rangers will never bother me again. Pack your bags my dear, we may be saying good bye to the year 2001 for awhile,"
"Oooo! Are we going back to the future daddy?" the girl asked.
"Unfortunately, no, Nadira," the man answered. "Not until I have those Power Rangers right where I want them,"
"Then were are we going?" Nadira asked.
"Someplace where there are sorceresses who wear their hair in cones, where Power Rangers are teenagers, and where I can finally ensure that the future will be all mine," the man laughed evilly. "In other words, you'll find out soon enough"
To Be Continued
Note: This chapter was written to set up the next one, which is why it was so short. I bet some of you are asking yourselves why I've written the Blue Centurion out of the story, and why Time Force has contacted the Alien Rangers. I don't want to give away too much, but if some of you remember, in Forever Red, it was hinted at the Jason already knew Wes & Eric, because he stopped in front of them saying "some of you more than others,". So yes, I am going to explore that hint, and since Blue Centurion was indeed a robot sent from the future, I thought it will work perfectly. I hope you enjoy it!
BTW, the website was accidentally taken out of last chapter, but seeing as how I'm still working on getting it up, I'll post it within the next few chapters.