Power Rangers: A Legend Retold

The Sixth Power Coin Part 7

Trini and Billy sat on the rocks surrounding the Command Centre, watching the sun set. Billy looked down at Trini who was rested on his shoulder and smiled, she returned it warmly. He then turned his attention back to the golden beauty before them and sighed.

"You think this is really it Billy?" Trini asks calmly.

"I don't know" Billy replied, his mind seeming elsewhere.

Trini lifted her head off of him and sat up straight.

"Whats wrong?" She asked.

"I'm just thinking about something me and Jason were talking about at Zedd's base. It was about killing Zedd's men, like do we have the right? Jason gave me a good answer but the question is; what about Tommy?"
"I'm sure..." Trini began but was cut off.

"Guys!" Zack called over to them "the alarms are going nuts, Bandora's attacking Tokyo!"

They looked at it other, rushed to their feet and went inside. Kimberly and Alpha were there watching the news and trying to get as much as they could from it.

"...One Japanese citizen said that Godzilla himself was attacking. What we can confirm is that its a giant machine similar to those which have been attacking constantly since the alien known as Bandora begun her assaults. However I am told this giant machine resembles far more the strange dinosaur like ones who seem to have been protecting us. Has the other side of this alien war turned on us? The world leaders are at this very moment meeting to discuss the defences of this planet from both sides and the Japanese army has been sent in. May God help us all" reported the anchorman.

"It must be Tommy" Kimberly spoke up "Bandora said his dagger would give him control of his own Zord."

"If its a Zord the Japanese army will be crushed like a bug, the news said they are evacuating the city but casualties are already way too high" Zack said helplessly.

"Then we're Earths only hope" a voice spoke up from behind them.

The group turned and smiled, running over as Jason walked gingerly down the catwalk.

"Jason, you ok man?" Zack asked.

"I'll live" Jason smiled back faintly.

"We were really worried" Kimberly added.

Jason looked over at her and smiled for a moment, he then grew serious and walked to the centre platform.

"I didn't like what I was hearing though. You guys want to give up?" He turned to them.

"Look Jace, ee can't beat him. Look what happened to you last time" Kimberly replied.

"Bullshit Kim! I for one can't wait to get hands on this guy after what he did to me. He got lucky but round two will be very different" Jason said sternly.

"Then you don't know?" Billy asked.

He looked over at Kim who lowered her head.

"Know? Know what?" Jason demanded "Kim?"

"The Green Ranger...its Tommy" Kimberly finally said.

"What? You 'friend' from LA? That son of bitch!" Jason frowned.

"No Jason you don't understand. Its not his choice, Bandora told him a bunch of crap about Zordon being some evil Tyrant with us as his army. I also think they did something to his mind, did you here him? He's mad, being controlled somehow" Kimberly told him.

"Then thats one more reason. You see Kim? Guys? We can't give up. We have to save Tommy from Bandora and from himself" Jason said to them all.

"What if he can't, what if he have to kill him?" Trini asked.

"I wont let it come to that. Maybe we can get through to him" Jason replied.

"And if we can't?" asked Zack.

"Then I will deal with it. It will be my duty to perform" Jason told them.

"Rangers! Dragonzord is tearing Tokyo apart. I will continue working here" Alpha interrupted them.

"Right" Jason nodded "come on guys. Its Morphing Time!"

The all nodded and raised their morphers to the sky, ready for what would surely be the long, hard battle ahead.

"Masterdon!"
"Pteryadactyl!"
"Triceratops!"

"Sabretooth Tiger!"
"Tyrannosaurus!"

***

Dragonzord brought its foot down as it took another giant step and looked down as the last of the tanks and soldiers tried to flee. Around it buildings and the various other aircraft and tanks that had attacked lay as burning wrecks. Tommy stood on top of Tokyo tower now looking down at the mass destruction his Zord had caused. He knew it was necessary to destroy the heart of current civilisation to clear it for the new pure one that would replace it, but yet he still found himself heavy hearted having caused so much death and destruction. Over the course of several attacks since their arrival Bandora and Zedd had destroyed most of the planets military forces and with it Earths independence. Now he and Zordon's Power Rangers would battle for the Earth and its peoples future.

He commanded his suits mouth guard to open,revealing his mouth and bringing the flute up to it. He blew into it and played a variation of the command tune. This arrangement sounded like more of a march compared to the beauty of the first piece.

Dragonzord let out a might roar, the five circled orbs with another at the centre glowed in response to the command like a giant remote. It brought up its hands, its ten fingers being replaced with ten missiles which promptly fired at the targets ahead. The tank blew up in a dazzling blast as the nearby men were knocked back and set ablaze, soon dead. Tommy played the tune again,commanding the Dragonzord to continue its destruction of the city. This time it roared and span around, its giant tail smashing through three tall buildings, demolishing them. The giant Dragonzord let out a booming roar, almost to let its dominance be known.

Tommy raised his head in satisfaction, he was enjoying this now,the dark nature of a sadist flowing through him. At that moment he felt the ground rumble and turned his head toward the open land beyond the city. There marching toward Tokyo were the Power Rangers Zords. Tommy merely let out a chuckle.

"Come get me" he sneered and then raised his com unit to his mouth "they have arrived Empress. Your plan is working perfectly."

***

Jason piloted the Tyrannosaurus with determination as he approached Tokyo city. He looked up, seeing the green dot on top of Tokyo Tower, and then down at the large metal dragon attacking the city.

"Alright guys there they are. Prepare to..." Jason began to tell the others.

"Jason!" Billy cut off "two signals right above us!"
Above them the two mark two battle suits landed and mobilised. Goldar and Scorpina brining them the bare on the Zords.

"Alright guys listen to me" Jason communicated with the others "I will go and stop Tommy and the Dragonzord. You all keep these bastards busy."

"Right" Zack replied "go Jace, we'll cover you."

"Jason" Kim cut in "please try and save him."
"I'll do my best" Jason sighed.

With that the group split up, Tyrannosaurus continuing toward the city whilst the others broke away toward the battle suits.

Sabretooth Tiger crouched and pounced onto Scorpina's suit, taking it down and continuing to attack as the others moved in. Billy fired his main cannon as Kimberly moved over Goldar's suit and did the same. Goldar's suit reeled as it took damage, it then opened its arms and brought out the main chain guns. Goldar moved the left arm up and fired,aiming high and moving the arm across at the Pteryadactyl. Kim let out a cry as she took several direct hits, sparks flying all around her.

"Kimberly! Are you ok?" Zack called.

"I am going to have to pull out while and let the computer makes some repairs" she replied.

"Right! I'll cover you" Zack acknowledged.

The Masterdon moved it, bringing it trunk up toward Goldar's suit and shot a load of cryogenic gas his way. Goldar's guns stopped firing as he tried to cover up but failed, his suits left arm was frozen solid.

***

Meanwhile Tyrannosaurus had by now nearly reached the Dragon Zord. Jason, trying to do all his could, turned on his exterior speakers.

"Tommy! Bandora's driven you mad, let us help you" he called through them.

Tommy did not answer but simply brought his flute up and played again. The Dragonzord gave Jason his response as it fired a volley of missiles, hitting the Tyrannosaurus hard. Jason shook his head and moved his Zord in for a direct engagement, the small arms of the T-Rex coming down and being blocked by those of the Dragonzord's as the two giant Zords locked up in hand to hand combat. The scene resembled something of Japanese monster film as they traded blows. Dragonzord then swung around, sending its tail toward Tyrannosaurus like a whip, it hit directly on target and send the Tyrannosaurus flying through a nearby building. Tommy looked on in pride and played the flute once again. The Dragonzord moved in on its target.

"Alright Dragonzord, I'm coming aboard" Tommy said and shot off with his boots, landing on Dragonzord and entering its cockpit.

He pressed the com unit as in front Tyrannosaurus stumbled to its feet.

"Jason, its no use. My Zord is far more powerful" Tommy said cockily.

"We'll see" Jason replied.

With that Jason brought Tyrannosaurus up on its tail and came down with a dropkick, knocking Dragonzord down.

***

Pteryadactyl descended from the clouds, ready to get back into the battle.

"Trini, hold it there, I got a clean shot" Kim communicated to Trini.

"Understood" Trini responded.

Sabretooth Tiger had Scorpina's battle suit in its jaws, its teeth clasped around its forearm and pulling to keep it in place. Kim swooped down, took aim and fired her main guns. They hit directly on target, Scorpina's suit fell backwards as parts of its abdomen was dissolved away to burning craters. Down and out.

***

Dragonzord brought down its long arm and slashed as Tyrannosaurus's chest, its sparked upon impact. Tyrannosaur returned the blow swinging its own tail and missing as Dragonzord ducked out of the way. Tommy then commanded the Dragonzord's tail end razor blades to activate. They span with fury, the strong metal tail now able to cut through anything. He got in a punch to Tyrannosaur's chest and swung its own tail around at the T-Rex Zord. Jason however had been ready and caught the tail with Tyrannosaur's arms and held it for a moment before using every ounce of the hydraulic arms to push the tail away. Jason then brought Tyrannosaurus's head down and fired the main blast weapon from its blast shot across the grey pavement of the city's streets and hit directly on target, sending Dragonzord flying to the ground, far too damaged to continue the battle.

***

Masterdon and Triceratops came up together continuing the attack. Goldar's battle suit moved in on them, its left arm has now broken off and lay on the ground below. It swang with its right knocking the Masterdon over on its side with a strong punch as it came in.

"Billy, I can't get upright! Fire everything you got!" Zack communicated to Billy.

Billy aimed the main cannon and fired just as Goldar's suit turned around. It was a direct hit to the chest sending the battle suit crashing to ground with its companion. Goldar had no choice but to leave this suit as he had left the one before it and eject to the skies, ordering his wife to do the same. Scorpina let out a breath and pressed the ejection button, ascending with him.

"There leaving. We did it! Hell yeah!" Zack called out to the others.

"For now" Trini sighed.

***

Tommy was filled with anger, enraged that his Zord was too damaged to stand.
"This isn't over" he hissed in anger.

He headed for the hatch and left the now horizonal Zord, shooting off with his boots to a nearby skyscraper. Jason followed jumping out of Tyrannosaurus, letting himself free fall to the top of another building. Tommy brought his target vision online, targeted the Red Ranger and took to the sky, headed straight for him. Before Jason knew what was happening he was being tackled from the building, falling to a lower roof below. Jason landed hard, Green Ranger on his feet a few feet away. Jason held himself and winced as he stood.

"Its over Tommy. Let us help you" Jason tried to reason with him.

"It will never be over. I will not surrender to the likes of you and to the alien who you have handed our planet to on a silver plater" Tommy snapped back.

"I got news for you pal, Bandora and Zedd are the invaders here. They want our powers for themselves. Zordon's no tyrant, he was a scientist, their slave. He's trying protect this planet and this whole Dod damn galaxy from Zedd!"

"Lies!"

"Oh Yeah" Jason said and held out his arms at the city "look at this. This what they want, for our powers to be used to do this so they can take Earth like the have many other worlds. Zordon is trying to stop what happened to his planet happen to ours. The line must be drawn here! Zedd will not take another planet! We will stop him, his forces and anyone who chooses to side with him."
"What about Kim huh? Was she all part of your plan?" Tommy replied.

"Tommy you rambling, whatever they did to you, its driving you mad man!"

"You took her from me! Now you trying to trick me to surrendering to you and your Zordon!"
"Kimberly made her choice! And she choose to be selfless and save this planet rather than let her personal life get in the way. Me and her aren't an issue, she chose you Tommy. She chose you over me and as much as that hurt I understand. All you need to do is let us help you" Jason pleaded.

Tommy lowered his head for a moment in thought, Jason moved forward thinking he had finally gotten to him. Suddenly Tommy raised his head again.

"No!" Tommy cried out and darted for Jason.

He came with a punch smashing into the arm Jason brought up to block it, the other arm and another block. Tommy then went for a kick and Jason swatted it away. The madness and resulting rage had clouded his mind and as a result his attacks were wild and mistimed. Finally he ran in for flying kick with a scream of rage; Jason grabbed it, got in three hard punches to the green helmet before tossing him over the edge of the building, watching as he crashed to the ground below.

Jason descended and landed on his feet. He looked at the fallen Green Ranger and began to walk over as behind the others ran toward them. Billy ran in front of Jason and knelt down beside Tommy, checking his pulse.

"Is he?" Kim asked.

"No" Billy looked over "he's alive. But we better get him to the Commander Centre, the machines might be able to help him."

Jason nodded in satisfaction and powered down. Almost immediately he collapsed to the ground, exhausted and wounded.

***

Jason walked from the medical area and into the main chamber of the Command Centre were the others were gathered for what they hoped would be Zordon's reactivation. Alpha worked over the consoles as the others greeted Jason who was now looking much better.

"Those droids are pretty good, we should keep them online" Jason said and as walked up behind Alpha.

Alpha moved his hand over from where he had inputed the final code and pressed the button that would start up the main core. The Rangers heard as below the core came to life again and began to pulse, the data fed toward the main tube. In it alien data code began to form, shaping a face. Zordon was back on line.

"Rangers. It is good to see you" Zordon's voice boomed.

"You to Zordon" Jason smiled.

"Alpha has inputed the data that had brought me up to current events. You saved you fellow humans, yourself and this planet while still not taking Tommy's life. It was hard battle and you all have surpassed my every expectation. I am very proud of you."

They all looked at each other with smiles and turned back to him.

"So" Jason sighed "whats next?"
"Zedd's base and forces have taken heavy losses. I am sending to them now and order to leaving you solar system. Zedd will retreat and no doubt come back with the full strength of his entire empire. We must prepare for that day, I fear the worst is yet to come. Until then however you are all safe to return to your lives."

"Zordon" Trini spoke up and looked over at Billy "do we have to go home? I mean I was just getting used to our new place."

"Yeah" Kim added "would be shame."
"Besides, we can't very well change schools again" Billy added.

Jason smiled at them and looked back over at Zordon "I think we want to stay in Angel Groove."

"Very well" Zordon replied "then the six of you will live there."
"Six?" Jason asked "Tommy too?"
"He is now one of you. The coin has chosen him and while it may take time for him to come with terms with what he has done, he is once again himself and I am told at this moment awake" Zordon told them.

The all looked at each other for a moment before Kim spoke up.

"I'll go" she said.

She walked over toward the right catwalk of which Jason had come. Before she reached it she turned back to Jason.

"Jason. Thanks" she smiled at him.

"No problem" Jason nodded with a sigh.

She nodded back and continued to walk up the catwalk.

***

Tommy sat on the bed, twiddling the Great Dragon power coin between his fingers and staring at it. Grief had overcome him the moment the medical droid has returned his mind to normal and he had awoken. He knew he couldn't control or change what he did, but he remembered every waking moment of it. He looked up as he heard a knock on the door.

"Can I come in?" Kimberly asked.

"Sure" he nodded.

She came in slowly and placed her hand in her pockets "you ok?"

"I'll be fine" he replied.

With that she came over and put her arm on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.

"It wasn't you. Your mind had been fucked with and God knows what else" she looked down at him.

"I know" he responded, not looking up "I just need to be alone for awhile, you know?"

"Oh" she withdrew her hand "ok."

Kim walked toward the door and looked back over, he still hadn't moved. She was about to speak but decided not to. Instead she left, leaving him to his thoughts.

Tommy stopped moving the coin and brought it closer toward him. He looked at it markings on it and knew it represented everything he had done. In that moment he vowed to himself that he would never again use it for destruction, that he would dedicate himself to using it for good and to redeem himself, if only in his own eyes.

In that moment he clasped the coin in determination, lowered his head and cried.

END

Next Time: The Rangers have some much needed downtime and train for battle ahead. Meanwhile Tommy is having a hard time fitting in and coming to terms with his actions under Bandora's control.