Ch.5 Warriors of a New Dawn

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"White Ranger?"Psycho Black shouts, "What did you just say to me you little brat?" before recollecting herself, She glides her hand over her helmet as if slicking back her hair before continuing."First a green ranger now a white one? You guys keep popping up like cockroaches. Our lord may have lost his touch at genocide. Luckily I haven't lost mine." She prepared her spear.

"I didn't know talk was all the empire was good for these days." Ayala taunts, trying to buy to as she quickly scoured the heroic hud in her visor trying to learn all her abilities as quickly as possible. It worked.

"Countless rangers from countless generations fell by our lord." Psycho Black exclaimed," Do you honestly believe two pathetic little newbies on this backwater planet will make any kind of impact? Your homes, your planets, your entire galaxies will be torn asunder just like mi..." She stops herself.

"I see." Ayala interjects "So rather than fight the empire, you religated yourself to licking their boots?"

"Better to live as a slave than die like a dog." Psycho Black explains, "A lesson I'd be more than happy to teach you." Just then Psycho black rushes in spinning her spear around in a similar fashion to how she did before expecting the Heroic White ranger to use ranged laser fire at her approach. To her surprise, the white ranger did not reach for her Heroic Enforcer at her side instead she prepared to take on the spearhead with her bare hands. A fool's errand.

Just as the blade of the spear made contact The White Ranger's hands glow a dull white light. As Ayala whispered, "Omega boosters" just then a light enveloped both her hands and feet making them as hard and swift as any weapon. Psycho black could only watch in awe as the White Ranger stopped the blade of her weapon with her bare hands. It felt as tho time stood still for a second. Then in a single motion, she both kicked the spear out of her grasp and delivered a swift kick to psycho black's midsection. Psycho black tumbles back, and before she could recover Ayala unleashes her next strike, this time targeting the ground. Knocking a cloud of ash and dusk into the air.

Psycho black regains her balance then unable to see she shouts, "You dare soil my battlefield with such cheap tricks? Where's your sense of honor?"Just then a flying knee connects with the side of her helmet. Sending her rolling. "Aahh!"

"Honor?" Ayala exclaims still hidden by the cloud of dusk, "My honor died with my friends on the battlefield. This is war, or did your Lord forget to mention that." Just then another kick hits Psycho black before she has time to stand knocking her into the air like a dodgeball taking flight. As she came down a flying kick was waiting for her knocking her into a mob of machine soldiers. "I refuse to let something like honor be the reason that my soldiers aren't coming home."

When the dusk finally cleared the brilliant white suit Ayala had dawn was covered with dirt and ash. Soiled by the very battlefield that tainted her young life. "What kind of Ranger are you?" Psycho Black yells trying to make her way to her feet.

"You make a good point." Ayala agrees, "I just got Sam's power five minutes ago, I can't honestly call myself a ranger just yet. So for now, just call me Warrior." As she says this Ayala charges her fist striking the ground again. And, just as before a cloud of dusk rises shrouding the battlefield. However, this time Psycho Black is ready for it. Quickly she reaches for her spear and spins it at an incredible speed, blowing the dusk away. But, when the dusk clears neither the White nor the Green rangers are nowhere to be seen.

Psycho black was enraged once she realized she had been tricked. The Resistance now noticing the rangers were in the clear opened fire on Psycho Black's position causing her to wince in surprise. She looked to Psycho Red for aid, and while he was indeed watching closely he showed no signs of helping her. She motions to the machine Soldiers, "Find them!" She shouted throwing her spear into one of their chests.

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Ayala grips Roy tightly helping him limp to the crash site of his ship."That was pretty impressive... White Warrior." Roy smiles.

"Oh great, you choose now of all times to tease me?" Ayala blushes helping Roy rest against a rock next to his ship. While she figures out how to open it.

"What? I was being genuine." Roy notices Ayala frantically trying to open his Vector, "What're you doing?"

"Isn't it obvious?"Ayala shouts, "You're missions over you find another Ranger. You can go now, it's too dangerous here."

"And leave you to face those Psycho Rangers alone?" Roy's brow crinkles, "Not gonna happen!"

"I thought you were the logical type." Ayala exclaims opening the door to the green vector, "If you're trying to get home to your sister you've got a lot better chance of doing that if you're anywhere but here."

"I am thinking logically." Roy explains, "If I leave you here, you're dead for sure. Then we'll be down one ranger and the twistedness enveloping the galaxy will have one less obstacle in their way. I'm no fool, Ayala. I know that I can't save my sister alone. And, if being by her side was my only goal I never would have taken the title of power ranger."

"..." Ayala was speechless. Why was this boy willing to put his life on the line for people he didn't know for a planet doomed to fall. She just didn't get it, could she be that selfless.

"Ayala the galaxy needs us." Roy takes her hand. "And to save my sister I'll need your help."

Ayala's eyes drift to the ground submitting to the Green Ranger's unreasonable demands, "Well do you have a plan? I might have been able to catch them off guard this time but next time we might not be so lucky."

He nods, "We'll need your Vector too if this is gonna work."

"My Vector?"

"Yeh, it was separated from mine when I entered your planet's atmosphere. Coincidently I'd need two vectors to enter hyperspace to leave this star system anyway so retreat was never really an option."

Ayala hits him on the back of the helmet shouting, "You idiot! So you're trapped here? You could have led with that instead of giving me that whole speech."

"Hey take it easy," Roy puts his hand up trying to calm her down."I'm not trapped here because of finding you. The vector is connected to your Morpher. You can bring it to you with the press of a button."

Ayala Sighs, "Just tell me what we have to do."

Psycho Black still enrage leads the charge breaking the resistance frontline. Unleash her frustrations on rebels that were powerless before her. "Blame that wretched White Ranger for my newfound epiphany. This is war after all anything goes."She explains taking delight in each and every rebel fell by her hands. Suddenly green and white lasers rain from the heavens striking the heart of the Machine's empire's ground forces. "What?" was all Psycho Black had time to say before a laser impacted close enough to knock her off her feet.

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Suddenly a dazzling White Jet like Space ship entered the arena. Blowing the Machine Empire's forces to and fro. In low orbit just above the atmosphere, the Green vector stayed back sniping from a distance taking out points of interest like mobile machine repair plants, anti-air rockets, and armor-piercing equipment. As well as scanning the area. "Woohoo!" Ayala Shouts, "We should've started with these."

Psycho Black looks up at the white ship zipping around decimating her forces. "Damn you, White Ranger. Just how many times do you plan to make a mockery of me." With fire and smoke all around her Psycho black resolves to destroy the enemy in front of her. "That's it! I'll use it, I'll use that power to destroy them all."She starts to reach for her Morpher only to suddenly stop. "What you?... You dare stop me now."

"I won't let you. Not again."

"But why?" Psycho Black shouts, "Our enemy is right in front of us. And we have the power to make them disappear."

"Every time we use that power, we become less and less ourselves."

"But is that not my purpose?" Psycho Black grabs her head in agony, "To do that which you promised you would but couldn't. To protect our homeland."

"With this new era of Rangers could come a new dawn."

"But... We've already submitted ourselves to Lord Drakkon."

"Maybe we gave up too soon"

"Traitor..." Psycho Black whispers before falling onto the ash-covered battlefield, unconscious. In a flash, Psycho Red is by her side. Slowly he walks over to her and kneels down

"Our Lord didn't send me to conquerer this waste of cosmic dust." Psycho Red said to himself, He sent me to keep an eye on you. And by the looks of things his suspicions were correct. She still has too much influence over you. As broken as you are, our Lord still needs you." He looks to the nearest machine soldier, "There isn't anything of interest for us here. We're falling back.

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Suddenly the Machine ground forces start a swift retreat despite the fact that they outnumbered the rebels 5 to 1. Ayala is surprised as she continues mowing know the machine's infantry with her ship. "Roy you seeing this? They've started retreating, I think you're plan is working."

That's a little too convenient Roy thought to himself. "This was just a distraction." Roy explains, "My plan was to keep their attention on the ground so I could scan for the ship that shot me down from low orbit and destroy it with the Heroic Starship."

"Oh, whatever! We kicked major mechanical ass." Ayala laughs.

"Careful." Roy tried to explain, "There's still a threat hovering somewhere in orbit." Just then his scanner went crazy." As a large ship came seemingly out of nowhere whizzing pass his vector to the ground below, behind enemy lines. Before Roy realized what was going on the ship had already made its way to the ground, hovering just behind Psycho Red with Psycho Black in his arms in epic fashion. "What in the?"

Psycho Red looks up at the green and white ships raining fire down upon the machine army below and smiles. "It's been a while. But, finally, I can put the misguided ideals of the Red Ranger to rest." The hanger of the ship opens up and he enters slowly but surely. The thousands upon thousands of machine soldiers still on the battlefield begin to short circuit and shut down.

The land erupted in shouts of woahs and awe and shots being fired into the air as the realization of victory finally washed over them. Ayala takes off at full speed towards the lower atmosphere a smile ever-present on her face as well as tears streaming down her face. She sees Roy's vector in the distance and immediately rockets towards it stopping just above him so that she could jump out of her Vector onto his. She opens his cockpit and exclaims her voice still trembling from the excitement of their victory, the golden sun radiating from just beyond her white seemingly glowing suit, complemented by the stars of the night sky. "I love it... I love being a Power Ranger!" Roy's eyes grew wide from the majesty of her entrance and the Boldness of her words, he couldn't think of anything to say. So he didn't say anything he just let the Majesty of the moment last for as long as it possibly could.