Chapter Three
Jason:"Know that this is the end! I am the executioner!"
The Zords teleported into Eltar's planetary defense.
An army composed of triple the amounts of the mechs that assaulted Earth.
They close in.
Orbital cannons project energy in their direction.
The most efficient form of slaughter initiates.
In the space surrounding Eltar, five warriors rage war upon the most feared empire in the universe.
The most feared army in the universe.
The Power Rangers use all their might to achieve victory.
/com-transmission/billy-rangers/"Watch left! Mortars!"/com-transmission/billy-rangers/
/com-transmission/tommy-rangers/"Dead ahead! Incoming!"/com-transmission/tommy-rangers/
Zack:"Take this!"
He fires a rocket into a battleship.
Jason's Zord gets hit with the blast of the devastated ship debris.
He just hits the truster and unleashes himself upon the 200 machines directly in front of him.
Jason:"I am the Angel of Death!"
He shoulders a mech into another while dodging a few missiles and fires his rifle, taking out an oncoming squadron of military fighters.
/com-transmission/zack-rangers/"Fighters! They got nukes!"/com-transmission/zack-rangers/
/com-transmission/trini-zack/"Pull down!"/com-transmission/trini-zack/
She uses her controls to grab hold of a battlecrusier and hurl it into another.
/com-transmission/trini-billy/"Fire!"/com-transmission/trini-billy/
Billy fires his beam cannon on the clashing ships.
The explosion rocks the nearby radius.
Ships and mechs explode all around.
Zack plows through heaps of wreckage with a few mechs attached to him.
Zack:"Bitches! Die!"
He hits the brakes and they are trusted forward; a few burst shots from his rifle sends those pilots back to the hell they came from.
/com-transmission/jason-rangers/"Form up!"/com-transmission/jason-rangers/
The five battered soldiers unite into a formation.
They are headed for a military space station.
/com-transmission/billy-rangers/"Brace for impact"/com-transmission/billy-rangers/
The hanger bay doors open.
Thousands emerge from within.
Trini:"You should not have done that."
She immediately fires her last nuke rocket at the incoming mechs.
The station explodes along with the oncoming troops.
/com-transmission/tommy-rangers/"Backup!"/com-transmission/tommy-rangers/
/com-transmission/zack-tommy/"I got you!"/com-transmission/zack-tommy/
Tommy is being bashed by bullets and kamikaze mechs.
He manages to pry one off and cut through it with his power sword.
Zack arrives via a massive thruster burn.
The two huddle together; surrounded by oncoming attackers.
/com-transmission/zack-tommy/"Missiles!"/com-transmission/zack-tommy/
/com-transmission/tommy-zack/"I'm out!"/com-transmission/tommy-zack/
Zack lets loose his remaining missiles and unsheathes his blade.
/com-transmission/zack-tommy/"Than we stand and fight!"/com-transmission/zack-tommy/
Tommy pumps his heart with a few more stims and lets out a howl of pain mixed with energy.
He slams his thruster and clutches his sword.
The two of them unchain their precise butchery upon Zedd's troops.
Zack:"There is no mercy here!"
He splits a mech in half.
Across the battlefield.
Trini kicks of a cruiser and thrusts her saber increasing this battle's body count.
Jason:"Let their bodies fill the skies. Let all the people of this forsaken planet know. The ultimate force is here. I'm coming Zedd! Are you ready?"
Jason tears a mech into pieces with his Zords mechanical hands.
Sheer bloodshed.
Billy flies through the explosions and armored corpses of this dying space.
20 more armor clad beasts pursue his Zord.
He halts his engine boost and does a summersault.
While his body almost beaks, he pulls thrusters to maximum.
Wielding two swords now, Billy cuts his enemies into scrap metal.
Tommy pulls his blade out of a mechs sternum and kicks it into the atmosphere.
Jason:"Feel the wrath of the Power Rangers! We come to take the lives of all who serve Zedd!"
At that moment a nuke hits Jason's Zord in the backside.
He doesn't see his as a problem, rather as a solution.
As his Zord plummets through the atmosphere at it's insane velocity the metal armor that once ensured safety now peals off; leaving only the skeleton of the almighty warrior.
Jason ejects from his metal ally.
He must go this one alone.
The two killing machines plunge side-by-side into Eltar's surface.
And the armies it holds.
Jason thanks god for these seconds of rest and then empties his supply of stims.
This is his second coming.
And it's going to be a hail of destruction.
Jason:"You thought you knew pain! You thought you knew death!"
He descends on the royal city.
And unsheathes his sword.
Jason:"I am pain! I am death! Welcome it; because you can't escape my blade!"
As he plunges through the air he reaches a battalion of troops.
Before he hits the ground his sword is trust through the shoulder of the commanding officer and travels strait into it's heart.
Jason lets out a battle cry as his feet meet the soil of Eltar for the first time.
He then starts his assault.
The other rangers are still in orbit battling the hordes of Zedd's fleet.
Tommy:"Jason went down! I'm going after him!"
He descends on Eltar, and the royal city while removing his Zord's power sword from another victim.
Trini:"Check. Green went planet-side. Shift main assault toward the ion cannons!"
BIlly:"Check!"
Zack:"Let them meet my blade!"
The three rangers unload the last of their ammunition.
Billy:"I'm out."
Trini:"This fights over!"
Zack's Zord collides with a cruiser.
He ejects and propels toward Trini.
Zack:"Trini, Watch you rear!"
His fingers reach a grip on the metal surface of her Zords leg.
They depend on the planet leaving a graveyard in their stead.
Billy:"Plot coordinates, royal to the royal city."
Jason's toes lift off the granite floor he stood on and casts his death-stroke on another soldier.
When he lands so does the corpse he decapitated.
He stands in street.
From the structures above the frightened citizens look upon a god.
They remember.
What they did.
How this all came to be.
They aren't innocent bystanders.
But they are the people that this red ranger is fighting to save.
From a tyrant they fought for.
Now they have enough years of oppression in their memories to look upon this god in hope.
Jason knows all this.
And he uses hit.
With the commanding voice of a god, he chants:"People of Eltar! Do you see what I am! Do you recognize what I'm doing! Right here! Right now! I am your savior! I am the executioner! This is my Blade! It is meant for Zedd's head! I will not fail! I promise you freedom! But I ask you, now, as your world crumbles! As I fight along side my brothers, for you! I ask now that you stand with us! Take arms against this empire that enslaves you! Fight for your brothers, your fathers, your sons, your sisters, your daughters, your mothers! Anyone who has lost their life to this! A war that has been fought for too long! Today it ends! In this very moment it ends! Stand with me and fight! For this is the end! You have a responsibility to all that have perished! To all the fallen warriors of the past! A responsibly to fight! I raise my sword now and point it at the royal palace! That is where I am headed! For all those who stand beside me! I promise victory!"
And with those words, Jason ignites the fire inside his heart.
His inner vengeance.
His only motivation.
And his legs propel his rage toward Zedd.
Toward his end.
Jason lets forth a roar.
It is the sound of his tormented soul.
Citizens follow him.
He has his army.
They march forward.
To the gates.
Tis the last stand.
As the wave of violence, that is Jason and the enraged citizens of Eltar, clash with armored monsters; the blue ranger's Zord crumbles the ground beneath it.
Millions are crushed to death as the Zord hits Eltar's surface.
The sonic wave travels through the battlefield.
From the mech emerges another savior.
Another warrior.
The blue ranger.
Turrets pour bullets through the bodies of millions.
The scale of this siege is nothing short of staggering.
Billy jumps into the mass of bloodshed with his blade in hand.
Jason slashes his way through the massacre.
He has one objective.
Zedd.
Trini's Zord burns through the atmosphere.
Zack is met with an unwelcoming blaze.
He is loosing his armor, as well as his skin, in the descent.
Trini:"Hold on!"
Zack lets forth a shriek of agony.
She sets the engine burn speed to maximum.
The flaming mass of metal that is the yellow ranger's Zord breaks through the troposphere and continues to burn through the sky.
Zack kicks off the melting armored unit and dives into the battle.
His eyes are on the towers.
The black ranger calls for his rocket launcher and while dropping at incredible speeds he lets loose a missile into the turret that rest atop the tower.
Then he fires another missile at the ground, killing a few, as he is propelled back above the fight toward Jason.
And the gate.
Trini's Zord plows through the side of the stronghold's great wall.
She ejected moments before.
Therefore she is fighting along the outskirts of the palace.
With her brothers.
At this point the Eltarian army is at a point of surrender.
They have lost countless numbers.
Billy:"We have won!"
Zack:"This is not the end!"
Jason screams for Zedd.
As he lifts his sword toward the gate.
Jason:"I've come for Zedd! His blood will run! Show yourself!"
And with that.
The Royal palace gate doors slide open.
Zack:"O shit!"
Everyone shifts from their current murders, and stare.
Trini runs toward the front line.
Zack:"Form up!"
Now as the massive doors open four rangers and thousands of revolutionaries stand with their weapons in hand.
Jason:"This is it."
Zack:"Where is Tommy?"
Billy:"Forget him! Use your stims. Now!"
Jason:"ZEDD!"
He runs alone at the slowly opening gateway.
His bloody sward at his side.
At that moment the doors complete their rotation.
Revealing the royal guard.
A hand selected and specially trained platoon of 1000.
Trained from birth.
They are the perfect soldiers.
Jason collides with a titian; Goldar.
The leader of the guard.
Jason:"Motherfucker!"
The other rangers run at the military mass.
The armies meet.
The rangers are surrounded by darkness.
Zack smashes his shoulder through the Spartan-like warriors standing between him and Jason.
Goldar to Jason:"You will die knowing that Zedd is alive. That this empire still stands. We will conquer this entire universe, including your Earth. Do you have any last words, ranger?"
Jason's blade bounces off Goldar's.
He is holding his own.
Jason:"Die!"
As he screams, his saber enters Goldars chest, tears through his armor, and meets his black heart.
With Goldars last breath he thrusts his blade forward at Jason's neck.
And all the force of evil within him shatters ranger armor, ranger flesh and Ranger life.
But not Jason's.
Zack threw himself in between Jason and Goldar.
Zack threw himself into death.
Goldar falls dead.
Zack bleeds out profusely as he lay limp on the cold blood stained granite.
Jason weeps over his dying brother.
Zack:"This is my time. You know better than anyone, this world had no place for me."
Jason:"This world had all the place for you. I can't let you die without you knowing what you where. A hero."
Zack:"Thank you."
As the they cry together.
Zack, the black ranger, gives one last gasp for life, and fails.
Jason:"NO!"
The howl of emotion that Jason lets out lets the people of this battle know.
Lets the rangers know.
As their swords clash.
As death closes it's hand on them.
They all know.
Jason doesn't need stimulants to give him power.
He is outside this fight.
He is more that a warrior on a battlefield.
He is a force.
A spiritual force of emotion.
With one goal.
One last responsibility.
Zedd.
Jason lifts his head.
His body follows.
As does his sword.
Jason:"I am the executioner! This is my Blade! It is meant for Zedd's head! And I will not fail!"
His emotion guides him through the slaughter.
As everything around him screams for life, and is denied.
He is not there.
Completely disconnected.
As if the battle were not taking place before him.
Systematically killing only to reach what lies ahead.
His entire being aimed at the man standing directly in front of him.
The Zedd, in full armor.
Wielding the blade of darkness.
Standing battle ready.
Awaiting his oppenent.
Anger in both their veins.
And so, Jason enters the royal courtyard.
He is covered in blood.
His face in tears.
The two lock eyes.
Jason takes a battle stance and raises his sword.
As his brothers fight for their lives against the ultimate foe.
Jason stands with his eyes locked.
Frozen at the sight.
Zedd:"The great red ranger. I look upon thee and all I see a battered soldier. A man with nothing left. Your already dead. I just have to make you accept it. You call yourself the executioner? The only thing that is being executed here, is you."
Jason has nothing to say.
The only reaction he can give is his heals leaving the ground.
His toes pounding the surface.
His legs pumping.
His arms raising the incarnation of Jason's spirit.
He brings down the blade.
Slams it into Zedd's forearm.
Slicing off a hand that is composed all evil.
Blood splashes out.
Zedd doesn't scream, doesn't even react.
Instead he hurls his sword through the air.
Jason ascends, evading the swing.
Zedd shifts his weight and strikes another blow.
Jason lands in a sliding motion and removes the lower section of Zedd's leg, below the kneecap.
As Zedd falls so does his blade.
Directly into Jason's abdominal.
Shattering his ribs.
And Tearing his organs.
Zedd lands on Jason.
The two lie there.
Unable to move.
Dying together.
Jason:"This is not the end."
Zedd:"You are dying. My wounds are not critical. Although I my never have my limbs. You will never have your life."
Jason:"Wrong. It is you who will not have your life."
Zedd:"Ha."
Jason might be dying but he still has the use of his right arm.
More importantly what that arm possesses.
His almighty sword.
With his last breath he inserts his blade into Zedd.
Killing his instantly.
Jason gets his peace.
At a price he was prepared to pay.
Zedd and Jason bleed out on one another.
The tyrant is dead.
The empire is destroyed.
Jason is to be the greatest hero.
But he is not.
He is a man who lost it all.
Like Zedd said.
"A man with nothing left."
Gladly sacrificing his life for vengeance.
That is all Jason needed.
He never cared for any freedom.
He never cared for any peace.
Only his own personal vengeance.
As the rangers sweep past the guard.
Jason gets his peace.