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I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OF POWER RANGERS MYSTIC FORCE! I ONLY OWN THE OC!
Shoutouts:
In Briarwood, everything around the rangers was in gray and no one was happy. "On, no." said Maddie.
"The Rock Porium!" said Xander. Suddenly Toby was pushing his cart as he goes past them. "Toby?" Vida asked.
"Hey, guys." he said as he pushes his cart towards them. "I was worried about you. I thought that…who are they?"
They turned to look at Nick and Lily, before looking back at Toby. "What?" Maddie asked.
"At least he's still got his sense of humor." said Nick and Lily nodded in agreement.
"No, seriously, who are they?" Toby asked again.
"Toby, what happened to Rock Porium?" asked Vida. "What happened to all the color?"
"You-You're trying to mess with me." Toby said. "You don't remember how the darkness took over?"
"Huh?"
"Four months ago."
"Guys, something's happened." said Nick. "The world as we know it has changed. Four months ago is when Lily and I first came to Briarwood, and we became…you know who."
"Hey, guys, do you hear?" Toby asked. "I've got…music. I still listen to it even though it's been banned."
"Banned music?" asked Lily and Chip.
"Toby, who banned it?" asked Chip. Suddenly Hideaks appeared through a spell seal and walked up to Toby, grabbing whatever he was holding. "Hey, that can't do that!" shouted Toby.
"Let's ranger up." said Nick, but when they went to grab their morphers, they weren't there.
"Our morphers." said Xander.
"We better get to Rootcore." said Nick.
"Yeah." said Vida and soon as Nick goes to the tree, he fell back.
"Let's take the long way." said Lily.
Down in the underworld, Imperious is happier than ever. "My plan worked perfectly!" he said. "We now have a world where those pesky power rangers never existed..."
"Yes!" said Necrolai.
"…erased from everyone's memories except their own." Imperious continued. "I want them to always know what they've lost. I'm a genius!"
Out in the forest, they ran towards Rootcore, only to find out that it was lively as they knew it. "No." said Chip. "No!"
"This can't be." said Lily, turning herself into Nick's side. They walked up and Xander picks up what was left of "The Xenotome".
"What happened here?" he asked, looking at the others.
"What happened everywhere." said Nick, kicking a piece of what was left of a broom stick.
"Get away from here!" Udonna's voice shouted as she comes up running, bearing a broomstick as a weapon. "My home. Get away. Mine. Go, go!"
"Udonna, don't you remember us?" Maddie asked softly as Lily tightly hugs Nick around his waist in fear. "You taught us everything we know. Especially Lily. We're the power rangers. We're the mystic force."
"Liars." said Udonna. "The legendary ones never came. I waited for them. They never came. Only the darkness, only the darkness."
"Huh?"
"I'm scared, Nick." said Lily, looking up at her brother. "Udonna never behaves like this."
"I know. I've got you." said Nick, rubbing her back.
"There you are." said Clare as she walks up to Udonna. "I've been looking ev…"
She then looks at the rangers as they laughed nervously. "Who are you?" she asked. "So you better no try and harm us."
"Clare, we would never harm you." said Xander.
"You know my name?" whispered Clare. "You must be one of them!"
"No. I'm not one of them." said Chip, stepping forward. "None of us are. Believe me. We're your friends."
"We just want to help you…both of you." squeaked Lily.
"Clare, it's the truth." said Nick. "Listen, please tell us what happened. What happened to Briarwood? What happened to Rootcore? What happened to you and Udonna?"
"Don't you know what happened?" Clare asked. "There's no more good magic in the world."
Later that day, they walked further into the forest. "Let's see. We've lost Jenji. We're no longer the power rangers. We no longer have any magic. In fact, there's no longer any good magic, and the world's ruled by the dark forces." said Chip. "This is officially as bad as it gets."
Suddenly Koragg appears in front of them. "I've been looking for you." he said with his sword drawn out. He then puts his sword into the ground. "We need to talk." Koragg tells them.
"We don't talk, not to you." said Nick as he pushes his way through. Koragg growls as nick picks up his sword. "Hey! Hey!" Vida said as Xander, Chip and Lily try to stop him. "Hey! Hey! You know me, Nick. I love the battle as much as the next guy, but let's hear what he has to say."
"Come on, Nick!" said Lily.
"We have no more magic, Nick." said Maddie. "It's over." She then takes the sword out of his hands and give it back to Koragg. "We'll talk."
"The world we knew has changed." said Koragg. "You must tell me what you know of this."
"All we know is that our world changed soon after Solaris and I lost his genie to that…bulldog and the yeti." explained Vida.
"Of course." said Koragg. "Your knight lost his genie, and Imperious made him grant a wish that the power ranger never existed."
"Oh, boy." said Lily.
"Okay, how about the bulldog and the yeti?" asked Xander.
"Fightoe and 50 Below…they work for Imperious, and they are as much my enemy as they are yours."
"What?" Chip asked. "Am I missing something? You and that mummy have been trying to turn us in to vapor for months, and now you're saying that you don't like the new guys because they got rid of us?"
"Not because they did, but how they did it and how they tried to get rid of me." Koragg tells them. "But most of all, those two are planning to overthrow the master."
"So, you want darkness to rule the world, but not if they don't do it nicely." Nick said, disbelievingly.
"Without honor, victory is meaningless." said Koragg, storming up to Nick. "It is the one thing in this world that no one can take from you."
"Why can't you battle them by yourself?" asked Lily.
"I would battle them myself, but my magical powers have also been taken away. But I can help you get your powers back and defeat Fightoe and 50 Below." he said, facing them.
"And you guys took his sword away from me." Nick said and when out of nowhere Lily hops on his back and starts hitting her fists on his head. "Ouch! Lily, get off!"
Xander pulls Lily off him, saying, "I'm fine. I'm cool."
"No, no, no, no. Think about this." said Xander. "What choice do we really have? We know the outcome the way things are now. At least Koragg's way might have a fighting chance."
Following Koragg, he said, "You must go to the Tribunal of Magic and ask them to reverse the wish. It's the only way."
"There's a Tribunal of Magic?" asked Lily.
"And you're gonna take us to them?" asked Vida.
"The tribunal resides in another dimension." Koragg explains. "I no longer have the magic to transport you. You'll have to go with him."
"Far out!" said Chip. "Fire Heart!"
They started laughing as they walked up to him. Suddenly Fire Heart breathe his fire at them. "He doesn't remember us." said Maddie. "We raised him from an egg."
"He even called me sister." said Lily.
"No, you didn't. You never found the egg." Koragg tells them. "I did. I raised him. He's my dragon. Northrax Untham Sondor! He will take you now."
"Thanks." said Nick.
"Go with Honor." said Koragg.
"Let's do it!"
Fire Heart takes flight, leaving Koragg in the dust and Phineas stands beside him. "Is that them? The ones you spoke of?" Phineas asked.
"Yes." he tells him. "And our alliance ends here."
"Good bye…friend." Phineas said, watching him leave.
"This is amazing!" shouted Chip as they were flying over the forest. "You guys got to admit, this is one exciting adventure. Oh yeah! Not knowing where we're going to get there. Not even knowing if we're gonna get back!"
"Yeah, really exciting." said Nick, looking over his shoulder. Suddenly they were being ambushed in the sky. "Going somewhere?" Necrolai asked.
"Huh?" they said as they turned around.
"There she is!" shouted Nick.
"If I die from this, I'm haunting all five of you!" screamed Lily.
"Hold on, guys." said Nick
"Gotcha now." said Necrolai. She then attacks and Fire Heart returned fire. "Go, Fire Heart!" shouted Nick and Fire Heart knocks her out of the sky with his fire. "All right!"
"Look!" shouted Vida, point at what was ahead.
"Hey, is this it?" asked Nick.
"I'd say so." said Chip.
"I hope so." said Lily. Fire Heart aims his fire and a portal opens. "Everybody, hang on." said Nick as he wraps his arms around Lily.
"Whoa!" they shouted as they went through the portal. In the other dimension, everything was in color. "Thanks, Fire Heart." said Xander.
"What is this place?" asked Vida as they looked around.
"Uh, guys, I'm not sure about this place anymore." said Chip. "I mean, I know I said it was an exciting adventure and all, but…I think we'd be better off going back to Briarwood."
"Hey!" Nick shouted as Fire Heart takes off. "Hey, hey, hey, hey! There goes our way out of here."
They started walking through the desert with Nick carrying Lily on his back. After a while, Xander said, "You'd think they'd at least have some signs out here."
"Ya think?" asked Lily.
"Sure, something like, "Secret Tribunal of Magic, three miles ahead"." said Vida sarcastically.
"Yeah, well, at least we would know if we were headed in the right direction." said Maddie.
"Lily, I'm tired of carrying you around." said Nick, placing her down. "I need a break."
"Ok." said Lily and starts walking ahead of them. Suddenly a monster rises up from the ground. "Why have you come here, humans?" he asked.
"That's none of your business." said Nick and Xander goes up to him.
"Let me handle this one." he tells him. "Hi. The name's Xander. We just flew into this dimension on a dragon, and we're looking for the Tribunal of Magic."
"Tribunal of Magic?"
"Yeah."
"Then you're headed in the right direction." said the monster.
"Excellent." said Xander and the others smiled. "Then we'll just be on our way. Let's go."
"But to get to the Tribunal of Magic, you have to get by every warrior that's tried to get there and failed." he explains. Suddenly, warriors who had failed popped up and were ready to battle them. "Well, if that's the only way." said Vida as the warriors came running down the sand dune and the rangers ran to fight them.
Nick and Lily grabbed a couple sticks to fight two of the warriors that were coming at them but were knocked to the ground. Vida did her best while fighting another set of two warriors. She grabs both their hands and threw their swords down. Chip, Maddie and Xander where holding their own as all six rangers continued to fight until the warriors were defeated.
"Well done." the warrior said to Nick, then hands him a key. "You've earned this. Use it wisely."
"A key to a treasure chest?" asked Chip. "Maybe it's a key to a castle, or maybe it could be a key to a…"
"Door." said Nick as they finally come to a stop and sees two doors.
"That's odd." said Maddie.
"Well, this is interesting." said Vida.
"More interesting than my math work." said Lily.
"But you hate math." said Nick.
"I do and I will hate it till the day I die." she replied.
"Two doors in the middle of nowhere…leading to nowhere." Vida said as she walks behind one of the doors and nothing happened to her as she came back around.
"Uh, sis?" Maddie asked as she had the key in her hand and walks up to the white door. She then puts the key into the lock and opens it to reveal a colored world, Toby was in the store with customers. "One at time. One at a time." Toby said to the customers as they gathered around him at the register. "Of all the days to be late. Where's my team?"
"Guys, its Briarwood." said Vida. "It's the Rock Porium, even the color's back."
"Poor Toby." said Lily, smiling.
"You need small." Toby said to a customer.
"Guys, its home." Vida said.
"And it looks like Toby needs our help." said Chip. "What are we waiting for?"
"Wait." said Maddie. "I know this sounds weird and weirder coming from me, but that's home and safe, and I don't think it's the door for us."
"You may be onto something, Maddie." said Lily as she walks up to her. "Toby may look like he needs our help, though struggling as he is right now."
"You're right. It doesn't sound like you." said Xander. "Guys, the Tribunal of Magic is offering us a way home. I say we take it."
"I say we don't." said Nick. "We came to find a Tribunal and reverse the wish. We go home now because we're scared or it's an easy way out or it looks like everything's back to normal, then we deserve to live the rest of our lives without magic."
"Right now, I would deal with not having magic, even though I prefer having it." Lily said. "The five of you have been relying so much on your magic that you don't even care anymore."
"Lily, you don't mean that." said Chip.
"Yes, I do, Chip." said Lily then tears started to fill her eyes as she spun around to face them. "I volunteered to bake the cake for the one year anniversary but, yet Maddie conjured it up. Vida used her magic on the turntables. You boys ignored Udonna when you conjured pizza without even thinking about going into town and getting one yourselves. Then you decided to use magic to decorate the store without doing it the old fashion way. You guys became lazy."
"I didn't think of it." said Xander as Lily blinks away her tears.
"Neither did I." said Maddie.
"Nick and Lily are right." said Vida. "We didn't come all this way to take the easy way out."
Maddie nodded, closing the door and it disappears. "Then our only choice is to go through this door." said Chip and opens up the black door, revealing a vortex.
"What happens if it gets worse once we're inside?" asked Xander.
"Only one way to find out." said Lily, running into the vortex.
"Then it gets worse." said Nick, as he and the others followed his sister. Once Chip closed the door, it then disappears into the ground. The rangers suddenly rose out of the water, fully dry. "I like this dimension." said Lily. "It's really nice."
"This is intense." said Xander.
"Look." said Vida as three of the most powerful beings appeared.
"You are the first to get to the Tribunal of Magic in three centuries." said the being in white.
"You are wasting our time and yours." said the being in black.
"They have made it this far." said the being in red.
"Suddenly, I feel that this is some sort of yin yang dimension." said Lily, looking at the three beings.
"Why do you think that, young one?" asked the being in white, looking at her curiously.
"I'm not trying to be rude, ma'am, but how I see it, your clothing represents the yin yang symbol." said Lily, then points to each one. "You represent yang, your friend in black represents yin, and I believe the gentleman in the red represents anything neutral."
"She's young and yet seems to be wise beyond her years." said the Light Tribunal.
"I hardly doubt that." said the Dark Tribunal.
"They are entitled to be heard." said the Neutral Tribunal, then looks at Nick. "Speak."
"Hi. The name's Xander." said Xander as he introduced himself.
"Enough. We do not care about a name." said the Dark Tribunal. "Why are you here?"
"I think you better handle this one, Nick." said Xander, glancing over at him.
"Well, uh, to cut to the chase, there is this bad guy, Imperious, who stole our genie and made him grant a wish." Nick explained to the Tribunal. "He wished that the power rangers never existed."
"You are the power rangers?" asked the Light Tribunal.
"Yes, ma'am. We were until Imperious made the wish." said Lily.
"Yeah. I'm yellow. He's red. This is…" Chip started but was cut off by the Dark Tribunal.
"Enough. Go home." he said. "There is nothing we can do for you."
"Wait. Wait. Wait a second." said Nick. "We were told that you could reverse a genie's wish."
"We can." said the Light Tribunal.
"But we won't. Go!" shouted the Dark Tribunal.
"I don't believe this." said Maddie.
"Neither do I." said Lily.
"Let's go." said Vida.
"Wait." said the Neutral Tribunal, causing them to stop. "Why is it that you want this wish reversed?"
"Because our magic has been taken away from us, and dark magic now rules the world." said Vida.
"So your world still has magic." said the Dark Tribunal.
"Well, yeah, but it's dark and evil and icky." said Chip.
"We do not judge good or evil magic." said the Neutral Tribunal. "We just ensure that there is magic."
"Okay, guys, seriously." said Xander, getting impatient. "You can't say dark, evil magic is the same as having good, wondrous magic."
"No. It isn't the same." said the Light Tribunal.
"I'm curious. Just how was your genie stolen?" asked the Dark Tribunal.
"We had been in battle after battle." said Nick. "We were tired and my sister was hurt. All but my sister asked Solaris to use his genie, and when he did, Jenji was captured."
"And who was responsible for this loss?" the Dark Tribunal asked again.
"No one was responsible. It just happened." Nick shouted as he walks up to them in anger. "Sometimes things happen."
"It would serve you best not to raise your voice." said the Neutral Tribunal. "We're not the ones responsible for losing your genie."
"And what? You're saying we are?" asked Nick.
"The look on your sister's face agrees with you." said the Dark Tribunal and Nick looks over at his sister.
"Nick, think really hard about what you're telling them." said Lily as she and the others walked up to him. "We all know that I'm not the one at fault here."
"I think it's best we change the subject." the Light Tribunal said to the others before looking at the rangers. "Let's see. What would you do if we were to grant the reversal of the wish?"
"We would go back and fight the darkness and restore the world the way it was." said Maddie. "And there would be color and laughter, and people could be free."
"And Toby would have his store back, and we'd all have music." said Nick.
"And Udonna would have Rootcore." Vida chimes in.
"And we'd have our dragon back and Lily would have her scooter whenever she comes into the store." said Xander.
"And I'd have my cape back." said Chip, causing the others to look at him. "What? It may not mean much to you, but it does to me."
"If you decide to reverse the wish, I would be able to do my school work in the store." said Lily.
"They present a good case." said the Light Tribunal.
"Yes." Nick whispered.
"We need to confer." said the Neutral Tribunal as both light and dark go towards him. A few minutes later, they faced the rangers. "We admire the ability it took to get here." said the Neutral Tribunal. "We applaud the case you presented to us. By the powers entrusted by us, we do not grant your request. Go home."
"Come on!" said Nick as the Tribunal sends all six rangers home and they appeared back in the black and white world. "All that way…and we failed." said Vida.
"I won't say that I told you guys because that's not who I am." Lily said.
"That's true." said Nick.
"But I will in fact say that I did tell you guys that I felt that this would come back and bite us." Lily tells them. "But you guys didn't want to listen to someone like me."
"I can't believe it's over." said Xander.
Back at the Tribunal of Magic, they watched the rangers. "No, don't give up." said the Light Tribunal.
"It's what the human species does." said the Dark Tribunal. "It's easier to give up than to keep fighting."
"It seems that our judgement was just." said the Neutral Tribunal.
Turning around, the rangers see Hideaks approaching them and started to push them forward.