Krogan and Johann were meeting in secret within the flagship to discuss a very important topic to the two of them.
"Have you worked out what Viggo is planning?" Johann asked.
Krogan nodded. "Indeed and it will certainly put Drago in his good books. He's already proven himself to be in his good graces after crushing a little rebellion and strengthening our armies resolve."
"He must be taken care was immediately, before he has a chance to present his plan to Drago," said Johann.
"I already have someone on the job," Krogan smiled.
Viggo was in his laboratory working on his secret project and it was close to completion. In fact he was so close that he was going to report to Drago the very next morning, but then something happened.
The cave which he was working from began to shake violently, he quickly turned and saw emerging out of the tunnel was a creature made of rock. Every single footstep he took caused the entire cavern to shake and immediately realised who this intruder was.
"Quake," Viggo glared. "What are you doing here?"
"To bury you under a mountain," Quake smiled as he slammed his foot on the ground. The moment he did the support pillars in the cave crumbled and the ceiling was about to cave in. "Have fun."
Quake then immediately ran to the exit just before large boulder fell on top of its sealing it completely. A rock then fell on the computer components that Viggo was standing next to and an explosion occurred. Viggo roared in pain as the left side of his face was on fire, but he had no time to douse the flames.
He ran towards one of the side entrances within his laboratory as quickly as he could, fighting against the pain on his face. He could see light at the end of the tunnel, he was only a few seconds away from getting to safety when the entrance caved in.
"Is it done?" Krogan asked looking on the screen which depicted Quake.
"I buried an entire mountain on him, there's nothing left of his lab and there's no way he could have survived that," Quake assured.
Krogan smiled. "Excellent."
Johann looked at Krogan. "What about Viggo's research, Drago will demand what became of it."
"Fortunately I had the foresight of copying every single one of Viggo's files," Krogan smiled. "We should have enough brain power within our own forces to complete his research, but for our own benefit."
Johann smiled. "For once it seems as if nothing can go wrong."
Hiccup and the other Rangers were busy training at the gym, they were currently playing basketball with five members on each side. Both Hiccup and Astrid were captains, on Hiccup's side were Ragnar, Fishlegs, Snotlout and Eret while Astrid had Heather, Valka and the twins.
Gobber agreed to act as referee in just smiled at the match.
"I see that they're staying in shape," said Stoick as he approached Gobber.
"Aye, don't want them to slack," Gobber nodded.
"They have been doing fine work," said Stoick. "Though personally I think they could do with time for themselves."
"Oh, they do do that," Gobber assured. He then looked at Stoick curiously. "So how are things going between you and Valka?"
"Great," Stoick nodded. "We've been mostly discussing about Hiccup and Astrid relationship."
"Don't tell me you question the match," said Gobber stunned.
"What? Of course not, why I treat Astrid as if she is my own daughter," said Stoick dismissively. "In fact am hoping that she will become my future daughter-in-law, the only question is when."
"I imagine that Hiccup will pop the question after all this Drago business is over and done with," said Gobber. "Speaking of which how are things going with the council?"
Stoick sighed. "Mildew is still causing a fuss, but he's outvoted. Wrinkly and Gothi are pleased with the progress were making, especially after the large victory we have had against Drago."
"Thanks to no small part of your own son," Gobber smiled.
Stoick nodded. "Aye, and I could not be prouder of the boy."
Toothless then appeared and approached Stoick. "Skullcrusher has just made contact, he's discovered something that concerns over us."
Stoick looked at him. "Any details we should know about?"
"He says that it would be safer to talk in person with the Rangers, he said the information was too important to be passed on on unsecured channels, but he mentioned that it had somebody do with Drago's generals."
Stoick nodded and looked at Gobber. "Tell the Rangers to get cleaned up and meet me on the Dragkons home planet as quickly as possible."
Gobber nodded.
Hiccup and the other Rangers soon found themselves on the Dragkon home world. In fact this time they landed in there capital city. The city itself was in ruins and there was a little signs of any kind of life, it had been the main battleground between the rebels and Drago's army for over a decade it was only due to recent events they were able to fully retake it.
"Place seen better days," said Snotlout.
"At least still standing," said Heather positively.
Astrid looked at Hiccup. "Any idea why we were told to come here?"
Hiccup shrugged. "Gobber said that Skullcrusher will give us the full briefing in person. My Dad and Toothless should already be there, but apparently has something to do with Drago's generals."
"Which means it's very important," said Fishlegs.
"Maybe it a chance to take another one down," Snotlout smiled.
"With Drago's forces losing ground on many worlds it would be a perfect opportunity to eliminate another," Eret agreed.
"True, but even with Drago's forces and their weakened state his generals are still nothing to be sneezed at," said Valka.
"Let's just see what they want first before we let our imaginations run away with us," Ragnar advised.
They soon reached what remained of the town hall which now served as the resistance headquarters. It was certainly well guarded with many patrols of resistance fighters standing guard outside the perimeter.
"I'm surprise they haven't started rebuilding?" said Heather noticing the ruins around them.
"They want to, burst with the war Drago their reconstruction might just end up being destroyed again," said Hiccup.
"Certainly would be a waste of resources," Ragnar agreed.
"You know I would like to come back here again once it's rebuilt," said Astrid.
They soon entered inside the town hall were Stoick and Toothless were talking to Skullcrusher.
"You can't be serious that we should trust him," said Stoick.
"Believe me I feel exactly the same as you do," Skullcrusher huffed. "However, what he says is true then it is a matter of concern for all of us."
"They're here," said Toothless.
"I see you couldn't wait for us until you started an argument," said Valka.
"I'm just raising some concerns," said Stoick.
"And what concerns me those be?" Hiccup asked.
"Concerns that concern every single one of us," said a very familiar voice.
Skullcrusher sighed and stepped aside and their eyes widened, because tied to a chair was none other than Viggo. However, the left side of his face had been badly burnt and his left eye was now completely wiped.
"Viggo?" Hiccup gasped.
"What's he doing here?" Eret demanded.
"Helping," said Viggo.
"That's a good one," Snotlout snorted.
"Given our past history I wouldn't mistake you for being cautious," said Viggo. "However, I can assure you that my allegiances to my lord and master have completely changed." His eyes then turned towards Eret. "No different from the Gold Ranger here."
"But you were higher in the hierarchy, I was merely a messenger," said Eret folding his arms. "You practically have Drago's ear so why turn on him?"
"Actually I'm not exactly turning on him, but on Krogan and Johann," said Viggo simply.
"Come again?" said Hiccup.
"The two of them have not enjoyed the being so close to Drago, especially given their recent failures. Now I'm not saying that my own missions have been successful, but unlike them I really would provide much more helpful means to assist Drago."
"You mean like calming rebellion within your own ranks," said Toothless.
"That was my handiwork," Viggo admitted. "They then decided that it was time to get rid of me, I suspect that they were the ones that tipped you off about my brother's attack."
"But why join forces? Surely they would fight against one another for the top post," said Hiccup.
"Indeed, and they no doubt will now, but they have a common enemy my brother and I and they knew they had little success eliminating us separately so they decided to do it together. They already finish off my brother and then they decided to finish me off.
"They sent one of their grunts named Quake to destroy me and my and they very nearly succeeded. Fortunately for me, they underestimated the resistance scouts who rightly considered the collapse of an entire mountain rather suspicious. I was very near one of the exits to the mountain, by some miracle I managed to survive and then they dug me out."
"Which brings us to hear and now," said Skullcrusher. "This gout immediately recognised him and sent him over to me. Viggo surprisingly was very loose lipped and told me that he was working on a devastating and that would wipe out the Rangers completely."
"Why tell us?" Hiccup asked raising an eyebrow. "Surely you could have bought your life with something not so damaging to your own cause."
"Because of the damage that my project could do is the reason why I'm telling you," said Viggo. "I do not trust in the hands of the likes of Krogan and Johann."
"And what is this project?" Astrid demanded.
"Time travel," said Skullcrusher.
"Are you messing with us?" said Ruffnut.
"That's a bit of a leap us," said Tuffnut.
"Never heard of the Time Force Rangers?" Viggo asked.
"Yes, they came from 1000 years in the future to trace a dangerous criminal by the name of Ransik. He came to 2001 with a mutant army to conquer humanity, if the Time Force Rangers had stopped him who knows what might have happened," said Ragnar.
"The Time Force Rangers made great efforts in order to preserve as much of the timeline as they possibly could. The world had to protect itself in order to deal with an enemy from the year 3000, that meant reverse engineering technology that they left behind Berk is one example is it not?"
Stoick grunted. "It's true, we did scavenge certain machine parts in order to build the city."
"However, they weren't able to salvage everything," said Viggo. "More precisely there was Ransik's ship, that had never been recovered. It took a lot of painstaking research to find it, but I succeeded."
"You then started to meddle with time travel," said Ragnar. "Do you have any kind of idea what the repercussions could be?"
"Oh, believe me I know," said Viggo. "If you think that I was going to wipe you from history, you need not worry. I was merely going to nudge history in a more favourable direction."
"That sounds reassuring," Heather muttered.
"Time travel is a funny thing, if I made a big enough impact I could easily cause a paradox and who knows what the end result might be. However, if I just simply notched certain events like moving us decimal point I could create a whole different outcome."
"You are planning to prevent us from ever becoming Rangers," Hiccup assumed.
Viggo laughed. "I must say Hiccup, you are extremely sharp."
"But your research was destroyed wasn't it," said Skullcrusher.
"The research in my lab most certainly, but I am willing to bet that Krogan make sure that you download it as much as my research as he possibly could before destroying my lab. And I can assure you that he will use it like a blunt instrument and damage history well beyond repair."
"You mean he won't do a gentle nudge, he could try and eliminate us," said Ragnar.
"I don't want to be wiped away from history," Snotlout cried.
"Oh, it will be far worse than that," Viggo assured. "He might even try to weaken Earth before our arrival, cause the entire planet to be skewed by war. Of course this will also affect the resistance, if there are no Dragon Spirit Power Rangers then every one of their victories would be erased."
"And your own self-preservation has nothing to do with it?" Astrid questioned.
"Oh, I have no illusions that I will be spared from Krogan's meddling," Viggo assured.
"We need time to consider your offer," said Hiccup.
"Of course, of course, but be aware that time is very much against you, literally," Viggo reminded.
Skullcrusher left some trusted soldiers to guard Viggo so they could discuss his offering private.
"You seriously can't be going along with this," said Snotlout.
"I did hear that Viggo was working on something big before I defected," said Eret.
"I'm not willing to trust him, but we can't simply ignore the threat this big," said Skullcrusher.
"He could be making it all up," said Heather.
"Actually what makes me believe him most of always the story he's told us," said Ragnar.
Hiccup looked at him. "You mean if he wanted a lie he would come up with something a bit more believable?"
"It's more like we don't know that time travel is possible," said Ragnar. "The Time Force Power Rangers are proof of that and there were mentions of another group of Power Rangers for the future known as SPD."
Skullcrusher looked at them. "How could you possibly know about SPD?"
"What is SPD?" Tuffnut asked.
"Space Patrol Delta, you could basically call them intergalactic policeman," said Toothless. "They were the ones I have supplied us with the weapons we need in order to fight back against Drago."
"Why aren't they helping directly?" Astrid asked.
"Because they have their own battle," said Skullcrusher. "And we are strain from the point."
"Agreed," Stoick nodded. "And I agree with Skullcrusher, we can't trust Viggo but neither can we ignore fit of this magnitude. Hiccup you and your team will take Viggo and investigate, you best bring Ragnar along with you as well."
"And the rest of us?" Valka asked.
"If this is indeed a trap we're going to need you and the other Rangers to act as backup," said Stoick.
"We'll be fine Mum," Hiccup assured.
With that agreed Hiccup and the others took a transport and started to follow the directions Viggo gave them.
"Remember, if you even think about betraying us, I will personally make sure that you will be thrown down in the deepest darkest pit and to never come out," Astrid warned.
"Noted," said Viggo. "But relax Lieutenant, I have no intentions of doublecrossing you."
"Pardon me if I'm not reassured by that," Astrid grunted.
Snotlout was driving the truck and looked at Fishlegs. "Can you believe were doing this?"
"What getting help from a war criminal or searching for time travel technology?" Fishlegs asked.
"Both."
"Well I'm not exactly excited about it," said Fishlegs admittedly. "But one can only think of the implications if we are able to time travel."
"No, no one should have that kind of power," said Ragnar.
"I agree," Heather nodded. "Imagine what people do have they discovered they could change history. They could change every single misfortune ever had into a triumph, but no one would know what the consequences would be."
"The Butterfly effect," said Ragnar.
"The what affect?" Ruffnut blinked.
"It's a theory, some people believe that a tornado is formed by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. There is also the grandfather effect, which resolves by preventing your grandfather from having your father and your father from having you."
"This is way over my head," said Tuffnut.
"The point is changing even a fraction of history is dangerous, we may not feel it in the present birdie would certainly affect the future. For instance, if Winston Churchill had died during the First World War he wouldn't have become Prime Minister during the Second World War and chances are we would have called a truce with Nazi Germany, then they would be more focused on Russia and as a result the entirety of Europe would have changed completely."
"When you put it like that it sounds pretty bad," said Snotlout.
"Viggo was planning on making a few nudges in history, enough to change key moments in history without any grisly consequences. Like if Rosa Parks hadn't gotten on that specific bus in 1955, then that would mean that subjugation in America would still be going on today."
Viggo looked at Ragnar. "You certainly have a very active mind when it comes to time travel."
Ragnar shrugged. "I watch quite a bit of Doctor Who."
Viggo frowned. "I do not know what this Doctor Who is, when you been travelling with Galactic warlord you don't have the option of watching television."
"Must be very boring," said Hiccup. "I mean destroying this and enslaving that."
"It is a bit routine," Viggo agreed. "But whatever you may think of me, I would not my former associates destroying the galaxy as we know it."
"No you would prefer to rule over it," Heather muttered.
"Is there anything you can tell us about this Quake character?" Hiccup asked hoping to change the subject.
"Oh, he's under Krogan's commend and a very loyal one at that," said Viggo. "That is how I knew Krogan was behind the assassination attempt on my life. He is able to create earthquakes by simply stamping his feet, which means fighting him in a closed space is not the wisest."
"So we have to get him out in the open," said Astrid.
"But that is easier said than done, he knows very well what his weakness is so coaxing him out is not going to be easy. I imagine that he is holed up in some sort of structure and he won't come out, not unless he is confident that he can beat you in open ground though sadly your reputation precedes you so that is not likely to be the case."
"You're not being very helpful," Heather glared.
"On the contrary I'm telling you everything you need to know," said Viggo. "And you do have a certain advantage over him."
"And what is that?" Hiccup asked.
"You have me."
As Viggo predicted Quake was indeed in a military structure, he had been rewarded by Krogan and now had taken up the commanding forces on the Dragkon home world.
"I assure you that the resistance will be crushed, I'll accomplish more than Viggo could ever could," Quake assured as he was talking to a hologram of Drago.
Drago narrowed his eyes. "Be careful what you say, I tend to keep people at their word. I'm still amazed the resistance were able to track down Viggo's lab."
"Their scouts were clearly more skilled than Viggo anticipated," Quake smiled.
"Don't forget you will have only received this command, because Krogan speaks quite highly of you," Drago reminded. "And given his recent failures over the past few months, that is not a degree pedigree. Fortunately for you I seem to be lacking in generals and I have no time to be too choosy and since two last generals gave their approval I shall heed their advice. Though I do warn you if you do fail me your time as commander will be very short."
"I assure you that will not be the case," said Quake.
"Be sure that it isn't," said Drago. "Your first priority is to recapture the capital, before the resistance fortify the area. Due to the confusion within our ranks over the past few weeks they have gained much ground around the planet, including southern hemisphere and most of the colony worlds have been recaptured."
"I'm still surprised that they were able to keep on fighting the so long," said Quake honestly.
"Before his untimely demise Viggo research into the structural hierarchy of the resistance. It seems that each single cell only knows the identities of certain cells, that way through capture they cannot compromise their entire organisation."
"But how do they stay in contact?" Quake asked confused. "Surely they must have sent reports to some sort of command structure."
"Viggo believes that they have a secret transmitter and only one of them relays reports to central command. Trying to locate one of these has not been easy, because apparently they are rigged to explode without inputting the correct passkey. And trying to capture one of these agents alive is not easy as they fight to the death."
"Well, now that I'm on the job I'll crush the resistance just like that," said Quake snapping his fingers.
Drago narrowed his eyes. "Then I look forward to hearing your next report."
The hologram then faded and Quake just leaned back in his chair with his hands behind his neck.
"Oh, this is the life," he said.
Then a Drakenoid entered the room and whispered something in his ear. Upon hearing the report his eyes widened and he shot to his feet.
"What do you mean that Viggo is alive?" Quake demanded.
Before waiting for the Drakenoid to answer, Quake accessed the monitor and saw Viggo fighting his way through Drakenoids with his sword. He could not believe his eyes as Viggo approached the gates.
"Impossible," said Quake horrified he quickly turned to the Drakenoid. "Tell no one of this and inform other companies that we are suffering from communication difficulties."
Quake knew that some of the soldiers in his army were still loyal to Viggo and if it came out that he had attempted to murder him then he would be done for. Not to mention what would happen to him if word of this reached Drago's ears. Even if he spoke out against Krogan, he knew that the man would just simply deny his involvement, he would be left out to dry.
"Our crushing myself and this time I make sure that he doesn't get up again," said Quake and stormed out of the room,
Viggo was smiling as the doors the military complex opened and Quake exited, looking quite annoyed.
"Expecting someone else?" Viggo asked resting his sword on his shoulder.
"You're supposed to be dead," Quake growled.
"Then perhaps you should have done a better job then," said Viggo.
"I'll finish it now."
Quake then charge towards Viggo and with every step he took the ground shook, but Viggo just stood there. Then suddenly Fishlegs appeared from out of nowhere in his Ranger outfit and then slammed his hammer right in his face.
Quake was moving too fast to stop and so he literally got hammered and was not backwards. Then while he was trying to regain his senses Snotlout appeared and struck him across the face with his mace. He groaned in pain and then suddenly Heather's whip wrapped around his neck nearly strangling him, but she was merely propelling him for Ragnar who came charging in with his shield and slammed it right in his chest.
Quake looked at Viggo. "So you allied with the enemy."
"We have a common interest," said Viggo simply. "To eliminate you and your boss."
"When Drago finds out…"
Viggo smiled. "You let me worry about that."
Hiccup and Astrid then suddenly appeared and dealt some devastating blows with their weapons while Quake was still being detained. Quake roared and seconds later he exploded, leaving a trace of himself behind.
"I told you my plan would work," said Viggo looking at Hiccup.
"Using yourself as bait was risky," said Hiccup looking at him.
"I knew that there all you would play your part well," Viggo smiled.
Heather looked at Hiccup. "I still say this is a bad idea."
Hiccup looked at Viggo. "Now that Quake is gone what about the information you promised?"
"I have no doubt that Quake secure the files at its headquarters hard drive," said Viggo with his hands behind his back. "We merely have to download the files."
Suddenly a beam shot out from the sky and land on the remains of Quake and within seconds he grew to super-size.
"It would seem as if Krogan knows that we took down Quake," said Viggo. "If you would take him down I can grab the files."
"Not alone, I'm coming with you," said Ragnar.
"Still don't trust me?" Viggo assumed.
"We have a mutual goal, but other than that we have nothing else."
"Fair enough."
Hiccup watched as Viggo and Ryker entered the complex. "You guys ready?"
"Yeah!" they nodded.
"Dragon Spirits unleashed!" they yelled as they thrust their hands into the air.
Immediately they began to transform into the Dragon Spirits and almost instantly they began to combine into the Dragon Spirit Megazoid.
"Dragon spirits combined! Dragon Spirit Megazoid!" they five of them yelled.
Leading waste any time to move in and engage Quake in close range.
"We have to make a move as less as possible to buy Ragnar and Viggo time," said Hiccup.
"We can't keep this up for very long," Astrid groaned as they were having a wrestling match with Quake.
"I can already feel my strength fading," said Heather.
"Hold together," said Hiccup.
Meanwhile Ragnar and Viggo were making their way through the complex in order to retrieve the data.
"It should be here," said Viggo as they reach the communications room. "I just need to hack into the computer."
The entire place shock violently.
"Just remember we're on the clock," Ragnar reminded and used his shield in order to protect them from falling debris.
"It shouldn't take me too long."
Outside Quake was overpowering the Rangers and forced them down onto one knee.
"We could blast him," Snotlout winced.
"And that the debris could land on the facility," said Hiccup.
"I don't how long we can keep this up, Hiccup," Fishlegs whimpered.
Quake then put a massive step foot forward causing a massive earthquake.
Viggo immediately pulled out a data drive. "I have it."
Suddenly the ceiling gave way and it would have been far too big for Ragnar to shield them. Viggo then quickly shut Ragnar to safety and the debris landed on top of him, trapping him from the waist down.
"Viggo!" Ragnar yelled and rushed to his side. "Hold on get you out of there."
"No time," said Viggo and held out the data drive. "You must get this data drive back to your commander if you wish to stop Krogan's madness. Leave me!"
Ragnar was utterly speechless, but he knew he had no choice and so he took the data drive. "I'm sorry."
"Go!" Ragnar yelled.
Ragnar then turned around and ran down the corridor just as the entire ceiling fell upon Viggo.
Ragnar then reached his Morpher to his mouth. "I have a data drive, you can now crush that pile of rocks."
Hiccup smiled. "That's just what I wanted to hear!" He then looked at everyone, who were straining. "Let's do it guys!"
"Dragon's Rage!" they yelled as the outstretched their hands forwards.
A massive beam then erupted from their chest and it went straight through Quake destroyed him completely.
Once all was said and done, Hiccup and the others met up with Ragnar and he told them the full story.
"I can't believe it," said Hiccup shaking his head. "Viggo is gone."
Ragnar then held out the data drive. "He rescued me and gave me this."
Heather could scarcely believe her ears. "Why would he do something so heroic?"
"Maybe just wanted payback on Krogan and didn't care who did it," said Snotlout.
"It's still heroic," said Fishlegs.
Astrid looked at Hiccup. "What do we do now?"
Hiccup took the data drive from Ragnar. "Now, we make sure that Viggo didn't die in vain."
Krogan meanwhile was on Drago's flagship and approached his master.
"My Lord, me and Johann have just finished completing Viggo research," said Krogan humbly. "With your permission we would like to proceed with the plan."
"I wish that Viggo was still here to lead it, but we must push on," said Drago as he looked at Krogan. "Proceed with the plan, Krogan."
"With pleasure, my lord," Krogan smiled.