Epilogue
The other rangers run at the military mass.
Armies meet.
The rangers are surrounded by darkness.
Trini and Billy fight.
They empty out their souls unto the monsters of darkness.
Powerful warriors of evil.
They know Jason will handle Zedd.
They Know Zack will handle Goldar.
But that is not their concern.
They only have to deal with the apparent crusade they have ignited.
They are currently stabbing and slashing and cutting, at a symbol of oppression.
And this fight is only a step in the long path to the universe's freedom.
Zedd's armies span every inch of it.
And their responsibility, not as rangers, but as the people they have become, is to rid it of absolute evil.
To give liberty to every sentient being.
Their responsibility.
It's gone beyond a burden.
Now it is just what they must do.
They have come to accept it.
Billy:"Zack is dead!"
Trini:"What?"
As she decapitates her enemy:"What?"
Billy:"Zack is dead, over there."
She looks past the hordes of troops.
And sees her comrade lifeless.
Trini:"Whatever the cost! We fight!"
Billy:"So be our fate! We fight"
//log.on/yellow/trini/02/ So be our fate. I would give anything to live in happiness. But I cannot. I am a Power Ranger. And being so, I fight. More than just responsibility. At this point I fight because that is what I am. And I will not ignore my destiny any longer. If I die on this battlefield, today. I will die in vain. For this is merely the beginning. Jason was lost before we left Earth. But I never forgot our absolute purpose. To save this entire universe. We, as in the Power Rangers, as in Billy and I are all they have left. We are the only bit of hope this universe will ever have. So I pray we don't die. /log.off/yellow/trini/02/
Billy continues to take the lives of his attackers.
As does Trini.
Only twenty remain.
And their moral is low.
They are aware this may very well be their graveyard.
Yet they continue to fight to the very end.
And the rangers hold to.
And fight.
Until only four are there.
Trini and Billy stand together.
Alone.
Exhausted.
Two more vermin to eradicate.
They charge at each other.
Trini's sword tears through the trooper.
He falls.
When she turns her head to look upon her lover in victory.
Her eyes see.
He is down.
His attacker as well.
But Billy is down.
She runs to him.
Trini:"Are you hit bad?"
Billy:"I don't think so."
He de-powers his suit.
Trini does the same.
At that moment she knows.
Trini:"Your bleeding out."
Billy takes her hand as his insides escape him.
Trini begins to cry.
Billy:"You knew this would happen. You knew that only one of us was going to survive this. And I am grateful it was not me. You're life was always more meaningful. Trust me when I say: you deserve to live over me. Just make sure every breath you take is one of purpose. Don't let a single second go wasted. I'll be waiting for you when the time is right. Stay strong Trini. This universe was never nice to me. It was never nice to any of us. You were the only thing that ever gave me a reason to want to live. In a way I've been dead a long time. And brought back to life when I loved you. Perhaps I can be revived again. To love you once again. Nevertheless, this is my end. But not yours. So live. live. live."
Billy chokes on the blood oozing from his mouth.
And he dies.
Trini holds her lover's body and lets herself cry.
This universe destroyed them.
The Power Rangers.
Now, only one has life.
And it is one of infinite servitude.
When Zordon called upon those teenagers, he killed them.
Sentenced them to a short-lived life of hell.
In a way he was their executioner.
Sending them into a world of pain.
He looked on them as units.
Not even human.
Simply units, capable to act in his stead.
A heartless old man got what he wanted.
A liberated Eltar.
A liberated universe.
But in doing so, sacrificed far to many.
As it can be said in a story book.
And they lived happily ever after.
The universe that is.
The ranger's fate can be described as opposite.
As sacrifice.
Evil is no more.
The Power Rangers are no more.
"The ends justify the means"