The Legend of…
Part Six
Prologue
To remove context you have to be willing to break the rules. To know your situation you must perceive to what is not even possible or probable. I know the simplistics of life and every possible angle there is to it.
Unfortunately, now there is more to learn than the little world we were on. There is more to crack down on. Realistically looking at ourselves we are not those who you might believe we are. No we are far more. We have become figures of what would seem a literary tale, taken away from previous mythos.
I know who I am and what I can do, but I also know it's not my nature. Is it the situations? Or is something more driving us just like a writer would push a pen? Answers are easy it is the decisions that are made that are difficult.
We find ourselves fighting a monster, a thing who has already taken the life away from a Ranger belonging to another group. And we find ourselves hanging by a thread, the four of us.
We are the Spirit Rangers. A brief introduction is not necessary as you might know who we are. No need to sound repetitive. But the one thing we can not help is the decisions of letting the other Rangers take revenge for their fallen comrade. A woman named Thuy, The Yellow Power Ranger.
This creature who calls itself Goldar is one to have much pride. That will be his downfall.
"Green Snake Spirit, Employ!"
The one Ranger powering up right now is a jolly, good wanker by the name of Billy. A good kid seems to be in the wrong places at the wrong time. But can't deny the heart he has. I watch as his snake-like nature moves in closer to Goldar. Almost coiling and hissing at his prey. What are you up to Billy; this is no time for games.
In the distance I hear Elizabeth call for her lioness spirit. We are getting our arses handed to us. Never noticed how much of an angel she looks like when she's covered in that luminescent energy. She circles Goldar as well as he continues to just pound the Power Rangers to bloody pulps.
"Hiya!"
The Blue Power Ranger, named David, approaches towards Goldar with his Lance. Unfortunately without a plan he's just going to…ouch! Didn't think these mystical helmets could be cracked open so easily. It was like a nut cracker working at Christmas through the endless amounts of nuts. Nice try though, if you're a glutton for pain.
Excuse me? You're wondering why I'm just standing here telling you this story. Well if you haven't figured it out by now I'm a thinker. And transforming myself won't help move things any quicker. Especially since this has been going for a couple hours as it is.
Billy and Elizabeth seem to be playing it smart just circling as the other Rangers try there hardest to bring down Goldar. But it would seem he is a bit much. I imagine he is upset as to how he was portrayed on their show; Bunch of politics and propaganda if you ask me.
Wait what is that? It would seem the fearless leader has emerged form the smoke and debris. Pip, what an extraordinary young lad, a boy unable and unkempt of himself and of the way he lived his life. This is not man with nothing and this is no longer a man with "great expectations." He is different and he is whatever a person wants to be. He is whatever anyone will view him. To some, a nobody, a character to hate because he is incapable, or to others a character of great potential and acceptance. He is Pip. He is "the nation's" Pip and no one else.
"Red Simian Spirit, Employ!"
I must say this is the first I've seen him do this. He tries to hard to do things on his own. Unreliable of great power given to him, I imagine he was trying to prove something. But no longer.
The Spirit Force rips into him. He observes for a second and looks towards my way, I feel him smile underneath his helmet. He joins the other two in circling Goldar. The Black Power Ranger tries to attack him with his battleaxe.
Goldar swiftly blocks with his sword and it would seem he delivers a smashing head butt to him. Hard to tell from the angle I'm standing at. Billy, Elizabeth, and Pip glowing in energy just circle as Goldar is busy with the Power Rangers.
Something strange about what my mates are doing though. It would seem their energies seem to be interacting with one another's. Hm. Difficult to know what Pip's plan is. He is unpredictable if anything.
The Green Power Ranger and the Red Power Ranger move in to Goldar having an even exchange. The Pink Power Ranger, she is quite a looker, if I say so myself. Come again? How can I say that in this situation? Easy I just did. No sense in stressing. Cooler heads always prevail if I think so myself.
Anyway before I was so rudely interrupted by your mere inquiries, The Pink Power Ranger tried her Bow and laser arrow attack. Fire tears through Goldar and he manages to go down to a knee. Unfortunately, they didn't know how to capitalize. Goldar grabs the Pink Power Ranger by her head and…oof…Never have I seen anything so brutal as to burying someone's head into the ground with a single slam.
In the distance, what is that I hear? A small rumbling is the ground collapsing from the fight or is it something far greater. Goldar leaps twenty or so feet into the air. Pip, Elizabeth and Billy just continue to focus on their energies, intertwining with each other. Becoming one?
Goldar comes down with full force creating a giant explosion and a wave of energy flow through the surrounding area. I can't see a thing the smoke is so thick. Wait, I can see my partners energies still standing. The rumbling continues and gets closer. Strange things pass through my feet but I cannot see a thing just yet.
The smoke finally clears up and the rumbling has stopped. My god what an occurrence this is. Pip you're pretty smart if you came up with this. If Goldar cannot be defeated by The Rangers than maybe just maybe he can be defeated together with them.
I stand to find myself partnered with gorillas, apes, lions, and snakes. Vile creatures I think but if they're allies on this day. Then so be it. Goldar looks slightly intimidated as I imagine every animal has probably escaped form every zoo in the vicinity of twenty-miles?
Goldar tries to move but the intertwined energies of my partners render him within the circle. The creatures move hurriedly towards the target. And then I see my opening.
The gorillas and apes are the first wave through the field of energy pounding Goldar's armor, weakening it. Real smart. Never thought to use our powers that way. Actually I am a little jealous I didn't.
Goldar continues to get pounded more and more trying to swing his sword when suddenly the lions find themselves into the circle clenching their claws and their teeth into every one of his limbs. Immobilizing him his armor begins to come off piece by piece.
Hmm. My opening seems to be getting a lot better. No one will ever believe I'm going to do this. After all we are Spirit Rangers.
End Prologue.
Goldar tries his hardest to fight off the animals while Pip, Elizabeth and Billy the Kid, focus all their energies into a spherical cell. Holmes begins to channel his energy a different type of energy unlike anything we have seen before.
The snakes bite into Goldar injecting him with their venom he does not seem to weaken. The other Rangers are out for this round as they lay all across the battlefield. Goldar stares at the Spirit Rangers who happen to be holding him captive. He tries to attack but finds no way as he just continues to get slowed down by all the animals.
He falls to the ground and stares up to find snakes biting at his very face. Annoyed he stands once more and begins to pound on the gorillas and the lions. He tosses many at a time.
Holmes finds himself chanting until from the sky begins to rain frogs. He continues to chant and the frogs get ever so closer to him.
"Why have you summoned me? No mere mortal can summon a spirit goddess!"
"Great Heqt. I am no mere mortal for I have lived over one hundred of earth's years. I've summoned you to provide us with a help from the beyond spirit to rid this evil we face."
The frogs begin to gather together to form what would imaginably be a woman, no a goddess. The goddess Heqt looks behind herself through the many eyes of all the frogs that make her up.
Goldar after gaining some leverage grabs his sword and dashes towards Elizabeth. He begins to knock on her energy field, forcefully. The Power Rangers are helplessly unconscious and the other Spirit Rangers are bound. All they can do is watch helplessly without breaking the cell. One of the few flaws to this tactic.
"A spirit for a spirit." Heqt makes the request. Holmes announces it.
"Great Heqt! A spirit for a spirit it shall be!"
Heqt sways her arm through the air and then the frogs she was made up of begin to levitate towards the sky. Vanishing into it there is nothing more.
Goldar manages to break through knocking Elizabeth unconscious and leaving Billy and Pip weakened to the point of immobilization. He picks up his sword covered in snakes and makes an attempt at striking down Elizabeth when suddenly a strange yellowing energy stops him.
"This is impossible…It can't be!" Goldar's voice trembles with what he is seeing. A small Asian girl covered in yellow light. The light takes the form a translucent Power Ranger suit still revealing the Asian girl. She blocks his sword with her forearms.
"Get her out of here!"
Holmes moves in and grabs Elizabeth out of the way. Pip manages enough energy to grab Billy and take flight to a more secured area.
"What's going on, Sherlock?"
"The Dickens, that's what's going on!"
Pip has a confused look on his face.
"I'll kill you again. And this time I will take even more pleasure in doing so."
Goldar pulls his sword back to an attack stance. The Asian girl stands majestically into a fight stance.
"A spirit for a spirit…" the Asian girl makes sure her words are heard before the villain engages her.
The Power Rangers unable to have any more energy to stay powered up end up powering down to themselves. And to their disbelief they see the spirit of one of their own. Tears come down their eyes as they do nothing but watch in truest of fear, sadness, and happiness.
Goldar attacks with a wind slash which the Asian girl so easily blocks. Right behind the attack was Goldar swinging and slashing at the girl he once murdered. The fight takes on like something out of the ending of an RPG video game. Goldar as much on the offensive as possible while the Asian girl defends graciously.
She punches at him just once and then continues to do so until he is thrown back into a building. The Rangers all look in astonishment at the battle that is taking place above them.
"How?"
"Does it matter? Kick his ass!" Austin screams across the way but his words die before they can reach her.
Goldar slices the building he crashed through and tosses the end at the girl. The Asian girl braces for the impact and glows stronger than before slicing through the building with just her energy. Behind the building Goldar attacks immediately as to catch her off-guard instead it just leaves him open t her attacking him.
"You murdered my body. You desecrated it. And you believe you can win. Since the beginning of time there has been good versus evil, and yet knowing what history has to say about that, you chose your side. Evil can never win except in the voids of your fruitless minds."
She hits him with every bit of her soul she has until he is found wanting. He is a bloody mess. Everyone watches from below as he tries to surrender.
"A spirit for a spirit…I forgive you now."
She hugs Goldar and in doing so she removes his spirit, turning his body into ashes. The ashes fall and glide through the sky landing scattered across the town. But his spirit unlike his body shows a more benevolent being, without the armor.
"I am sorry." A tear rolls down his face as he begins to dissipate into the sky.
The Asian girl begins to descend towards the ground where there are familiar people she knows. Her spirit translucent and covered with the energy of her former Ranger self. Fading back and forth between the two.
She approaches Holmes and the Spirit Rangers first.
"Thank you for giving me one last chance to see my friends and more than anything to be a part of something that was worth exploring."
She walks over to the Power Rangers or at this point Austin, Jason, David, Walter, and Amy. They are bruised and badly beaten but nothing can keep them from the emotional outcome of this event, being able to see their former partner, their friend one last time.
"The Rangers will always have a place in my heart. And remember there will always be threats and maybe even bigger ones than this but no matter stay strong and remember why we fight and why we give our lives."
"Where will you go now?"
"Home…where I will always be remembered."
The Asian girl begins to disappear until she is completely gone.
"Never forget."
The last words are heard and fade with the rest of her. Amy breaks down and cries on Jason's shoulder. Everyone tears away not showing any embarrassment or reservation for doing so. And with that it's finally over.
Hours later…
"What will you gentlemen do now?"
"Rebuild Angel Grove. Continue protecting the people here."
Pip shakes Austin's hand.
"From the bottom of our hearts, we wish you well."
"No. From the bottom of our hearts thank you for giving us our friend. Even if it was for a few moments. We will never forget that."
The Spirit Rangers begin to teleport and so they do. The Power Rangers wave and hold in closer to each other. Welcome to the end.
Back on the command station Billy, Pip, Elizabeth, and Sherlock await for the commander.
Sectus arrives with his head held high and paperwork in his hands.
"At ease. I've called you here to say how impressed I was with the way you handled Lokar and Goldar. You have proven to be a great team and there fore your next mission will most likely be the hardest of your lives."
Elizabeth smirks "We're ready for anything, sir."
"Good. Take these."
He hands to each one of them paperwork.
"Sir? What this?"
"Your most difficult mission to date; to resume your lives from when you left and to live it. We were wrong in keeping you away for so long and finding out the way I'm sure you all did."
Pip looks at Elizabeth and she returns the looks with a grin.
"Sir? What if..."
"No, "ifs" Pip. This is an order. You will report to sector G for mind debriefing and then you will return to your time to where you all belong. You get me?"
All: "Yes sir!"
"Dismiss! And I don't want to hear another word, so get out!"
Commander Sectus Leang turns around as to not see them and their faces. They all exit one by one.
"Yeehaw! Back to the brothels and the life!"
Billy rushes ahead. Followed by Holmes who nods at Pip and Elizabeth.
Pip stops Elizabeth.
"You finally get to go back to Mr. Darcy."
"You can go back to your Estella."
"For what any of this is worth I'm sorry for everything."
"Pip I'm no longer naïve and I know I'm strong. This never happened."
She reaches in and kisses Pip on the cheek and turns away from him leaving him in shock and continuing to move on.
Nothing more for them. In the next few moments they had their minds altered to forget everything that had occurred since their enrollment. And soon they found themselves back to their periods of time. It's difficult to say whether they all had a happy ending but does it matter when one knows how great they really were.
End.
Epilogue.
The Being arrives at a machine-made planet with no sign of organic life. The planet populated by robots that can disguise themselves into many objects including vehicles and such, survive on energy.
Something the parasite craves for as well. Stepping onto the humble planet the being begins to destroy the robots living on the planet. In a not so far distance on the planet, a big red truck sends a distress beacon as he watches everything unfold on screen.
The Red Truck, leader of the Robot Rangers, calls for his allies.
"Autobots! We have a class-5 situation on hand. We are to use extreme prejudice as this "being" has destroyed worlds and is looking to destroy ours. We cannot let this happen! Autobots, Transform and rollout!"
Famous last words from someone so brave. The Robot Rangers fight until their untimely demise. The Being destroying everyone in site and everyone on the planet known as Cybertron, moves and looks in wonder at the planet.
"This is my home. I will make this my home since it carries such an artificial sense of life. I will destroy everything and watch it unravel from here."
His voice echoing as if two people talking at once. He finds the Red Truck opening his chest.
"Commander…we…have… perished…god…destroying worlds…"
The Red Truck searches until he finds the ultimate weapon, The Matrix. Before fading away the Being looks at the Robot with curiosity. He activates the Matrix destroying all of Cybertron, leaving nothing more than the Being to float on. Behind him the universe still is unraveling.
Elsewhere:
An officer approaches the commander's quarters.
"Sir, we just received word from Optimus Prime. They apparently encountered the alien entity that is destroying worlds."
"And what is the status?"
"Cybertron is gone. From what we got from the transmission it was a desperate attempt by Prime by using the Matrix to destroy the entity."
"Was he successful?"
"Afraid not sir. The entity somehow survived and it's headed towards this direction."
"Hm."
"What should we do sir?"
"Form a new group. They will have to be a backup if we lose our forces. Make sure they are young and reckless."
"Sir?"
"You heard me lieutenant."
"Yes sir."
Sectus Leang looks out the porthole to see the end of the universe and a light a far distance away. The officer exits the quarters and nothing more than fear and dread come over Commander Leang.
End Epilogue.