Power Rangers: A Legend Retold

The Search for Titanus

Jason looked out as the red shimmering stopped and he felt his body whole again. He could feel the change in gravity and heard himself breathing heavily as his armour became the only reason he wasn't asphyxiating.

He looked over at Tommy who was also morphed and clad in the very costume he had tried to kill both him and his friends wearing. He nodded as a curtesy and began to walk, barely able to gain his footing at first from the lack of gravity until finally the suit compensated. He secretly hoped Tommy was having more trouble.

"Zordon said it should be dead ahead" Jason called to Tommy through the microphone in his helmet.

"He also said to watch out for defences" Tommy replied.

Jason merely shuck it off and continued walking, he would let that one pass.

"Gung Ho my ass" Jason muttered to himself.

Finally after what must have been only a couple of hours but felt like a day, they came across some strange ruins. It looked almost like a temple, with alien scripture on it. Jason looked this over as Tommy moved in to do the same.

"Jason" Tommy called over "I think this is the place."

Jason walked over and looked at where Tommy had placed his hands on the stone. Engraved and embossed in the pale white stone was a creature looking very similar to a Brachiosaurus.

"Seems so" Jason said dryly and walked beyond the outer bounds of the ruins.

Before Jason could walk only a few steps the ground began to shake violently, Tommy ran over as five metal creatures emerged from the sand.

"Guards?" Asked Tommy.

"Mabye" Jason frowned under his helmet.

The machines were humanoid, bipeds with sharp blades for hands and one red light for vision. They took to a fighting and extended their hands, from what was once the bladed hands we now two long, sharp blades on each arm.

"Looks like this is going to harder than we thought" Tommy said and withdrew his dragon dagger and lord sword.

"Yeah" Jason replied as his sword and blaster appeared in his hands.

They decided to move in, attacking before the guards had chance to. Jason ran head on into on them and brought his sword down, hearing faintly the metal clang as his sword and the bladed hands met, he didn't have long to plan his next move as from behind two move came. He lifted off with his boots and came down behind the two approaching ones and raised his sword ready for them.

"Who's first?" He said confidently.

Meanwhile Tommy was thrown down by one as another moved in behind him. Tommy stood quickly and raised both his weapons to either side of him toward them. He shot off with his boots and came down to deliver a dropkick to the first one but yelped as the mechanical guard swatted him away with his right blade. Tommy went flying and landed hard on the rock and sand floor of the moon.

Jason ran in full speed with his weapon horizontal and caught the two bladed hands of the one nearest to him underneath, he used all his strength and power to push up exposing the torso of the creature and quickly stabbed into the metal chest, watching the sparks fly and the machine fell lifeless. He held on to the sword and tried to withdraw it another was coming at him to his left, he brought his blaster up and fired getting a direct shot to the single red eye, blinding it. He then quickly delivered a spinning kick knocking the robot guard down, withdrew the sword from the first one and came down with a hard stabbing motion. After a few sparks, and what might of been cries of pain from the creature it finally fell lifeless. However Jason had been concentrating so much on it he didn't notice as the first one he had engaged came up behind and aimed his arm to run him through. Before Jason could even tell what was happening he turned to see the metal guard lifeless at his feet with Tommy standing over it, in the background the other two Tommy had been facing were already scrap.

"Thanks" Jason reluctantly nodded as he realised what Tommy had just done "you saved my life man."

"I'm aware of that" Tommy replied he put away his weapons.

"You just can't take a compliment can you!" Jason walked over, aggression in his voice.

"I was just telling you I knew" Tommy shrugged.

"Yeah, thats the point. I was trying to thank you" Jason sneered.

"And I was trying to say I knew. What is it with you Jason? Ever since I've joined this team you have had this attitude with me" Tommy shot back.

"I've had an attitude?" Jason said in disbelief "all you do it sit around a mope about how you nearly handed Earth to Bandora and Zedd on a silver platter!"
"And all you do is be a whinny little bitch with me because you know you can never have Kim because she wants me and not you!"

"You son of a bitch!" Jason hissed in rage.

With that Jason launched for him and delivered a straight punch to Tommy's helmet knocking him down to the floor. Jason dived for him and soon two two were rolling over the ground and exchanging wild punches. Tommy rolled on top of Jason and got in two hits before Jason pushed Tommy off and sent him flying over to ground next to him. It was then Tommy simply stopped to Jason's surprise and put his helmet in his hands in a curled up position.

"You don't know what its like Jason!" Tommy's voice quivered as Jason stopped and listened "I was there puppet. They used me to destroy and to kill and I couldn't stop them. They fucked with my head and made me believe all this shit about Earth, about Zordon, about you all. Then it just got to point that I wouldn't listen to you, no matter how hard I tried I just obeyed Bandora's every command. I caused so much death! Could you live with that? Could you let Kim be near you when you know what you've done? The reason I haven't let her in is because I am afraid of what she will find, and because I know I don't deserve to be happy after what I did."

Jason sighed, watching Tommy and didn't need to see beyond the helmet to know he was having a breakdown of emotion. He stood and wiped the grains of sand from himself, walked over and extended his hand to Tommy.

"Thats why you have to try that much harder now" he pulled Tommy up "to help us beat those bastards. It don't matter what you have done, thats the past and it wasn't you, we know that. What matters now is we find this Zord and us it to blow anyone who dares come near Earth to kingdom come. Okay?"
Tommy let out a breath and nodded "yeah, thanks man."

"Anytime" Jason replied.

"And thanks for saving me, anyone else might of put me out of my misery" Tommy added.

"Well" Jason straightened "you just returned to favour so it looks like we're even."

Tommy laughed and extended his hand again.

"Friends?" Tommy offered.

"Partners" Jason nodded as he shook it.

With that they turned back toward the centre of the ruins and raised there morphers, with their power coins, up as they had been told to do so.

"How did is go?" Jason muttered to himself, he then clicked his fingers as he remembered "Titanus we are the Zyu Warriors and we call upon you in our time of need!"

As Jason finished the words he had memorised back at the Command Centre the ground once again began to shake, this time far more violently as the ground beneath them broke and parted. The two quickly used their powers to jump clear as from below Titanus emerged and let out a roar. It was huge, they were told it was the carrier Zord for their others but they didn't expect this. Two large cannons were poised at either side of the long neck.

"This baby looks like it can do some damage" Jason smiled.

He nodded toward Tommy and the two walked over to the Zord, ready to bring it home, ready for the battle ahead.

***

Back at the Command Centre the others waited on news of their friends mission. Kimberly in particular was getting restless.

"How long has it been now?" She asked, stepped forward.

"Five point six hours" Alpha responded.

"Shouldn't we call them or something?" Kim looked at Zordon.

"They will call us when they are on their way back. Do not fear Kimberly, I trust they will return safe and sound with the Zord" Zordon told her.

Kimberly was about to say something else when the chamber turned red and the alarms wailed. The other Rangers rushed over around the console as Alpha checked the cause.

"What is it?" Billy asked running over with Trini.

"The Proximity alarm" Alpha said "I am picking up a Zedorian armada nearing Earth."
"They why didn't Jason and Tommy call?" Kimberly gulped, fearing the worst.

"They seem to have entered the Solar System at the opposite end to where Saturn and its moons are currently rotating" Alpha replied.

"Then they won't even have picked them up" Zack commented.

"Correct" responded Zordon "and they are far from our communication range at this time, you will have to hold Zedd's forces until they return."

"A whole armada?" Trini gulped.

"We can do it! We hold until Jason and Tommy get back with the new Zord" Zack said to her.

"We are the only hope Earth has" Billy turned to his girlfirned and added in agreement.

"Thats it then. Lets do this" Zack stepped forward "its morphing time!"

"Masterdon!"

"Pteryadactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Sabretooth Tiger!"

The four of them headed out to their Zords and into battle. Billy was right, they were the only thing standing between Zedd's forces and Earth. They must hold, at any cost.

Next Time: The penultimate battle gets underway. Will the Rangers be able to project Earth and stop Zedd's forces? And what will it cost? Find out in Doomsday.