A/N: Part I of my new series, entitled Project Phoenix. As a disclaimer, this series is inspired by Kctimes2's The Adoption (one of the best stories I've ever read here). It will be a Tommy/Kim/Jayden series eventually. We've got two chapters and an epilogue after this one before we end this story and move on to the main event.
A/N 2: In the meantime, this part of Project Phoenix is what I think should have happened with Kim at the Turbo movie and afterward. This Kimberly was never brought back by Lerigot thanks to some decisions she made and now she is a cruel, violent, vicious conqueror. This chapter would be the continuation of her conquests; this time she goes to Andresia and Mirinoi for totally different reasons.
A/N 3: Usual disclaimer. Power Rangers doesn't belong to me.
Chapter 7: Andresian Annihilation, Mirinoi Mashing
September 2011
Eltarian Capital City
"Gratha is all yours, my Lady. 100% under your control," Stilio said. Stilio was standing in the Royal Grathian Palace...or rather, what was left of it after it had been utterly conquered by Flammia's dangerous army.
Stilio, who commanded a dangerous battalion of deadly spiders, was a close friend of Vipera and her sector of Temptatonians and after several conquests, Flammia had used the monetary value she had acquired from the various planets she'd conquered to hire Stilio and his dangerous army. Certainly, it wasn't the first or last group of dangerous beings she'd been able to hire for her conquests, but the way Stilio and his battalion of Arachnids had so easily conquered a powerful planet was impressive.
It would strike at the heart of the Rangers too because it was really close to Aquitar.
"Excellent. Remain on the planet as its ruler in my name until I give you further orders. Lady Flammia out," said Kimberly's evil half as she cut the connection.
While the good part of Kimberly that remained certainly didn't feel sorry for Dimitria or Diana that Inquiris had been conquered, the planets that her evil half had so easily taken afterwards were a different story.
She had now conquered Inquiris, Andresia, Mirinoi, Edenoi, and the last three struck right at the heart of the first set of Rangers; Eltar, where she currently was ruling with an iron fist, KO-35, home of Andros, and now Gratha, closer to Aquitar and where Divatox had tried to take over before.
All of these planets really deserved a better fate than what they got, thought the part of Kimberly that remained. The only good part that kept her sane was that she felt the spirit of the Phoenix growing stronger.
The only thing that could take down her evil half. Her very own flesh and blood was admirably holding off a tough opponent back home. Maybe she'd see a better time if that happened...hopefully.
She found herself reflecting again, this time on a couple of conquests in particular. The conquests of Andresia and Mirinoi. Both deserved better fates for different reasons.
Flashback
January, Earth year 2007
Dark Fortress Mark II
"You made another good choice, my Lady," Draco said. "The best part about this planet is this; it's simply a small mining planet. They barely have any sort of army. We can brutalize the people and then take their riches."
"As great as that would be, I have a better idea," Flammia said, an evil smile creasing her face. "We conquer their planet and make their people have a fate even worse than death."
"I think I know what you're thinking, Auntie, if I can guess," young Nepa said. "We make them work their own mines for our benefit?"
"Yes, absolutely. The last planet it was easy to order for mass carnage because I hated two of the most prominent people on it. I actually feel a bit of pity for this planet because they have little to no way of defending themselves," Flammia said, pressing a few buttons on her ship. "We won't need to go down there after what's about to happen. Well, I will go down there to get the terms of surrender but none of you need to. If they want their pathetic lives to continue then this planet will be ours."
The well strategized placement of the blasts that ensued rocked the mining planet to its core, and that's when Flammia used the Dark Fortress Mark II controls to tap into the planet's communication system.
"Citizens of Andresia, I am Queen Flammia, and your planet as of this moment now belongs to me, the Great Flame of Destruction!" Flammia shouted, deep laughter echoing off the walls of her ship. "For those of you who resist, and I see some of you now, take a look at what I am doing to your planet!"
One of the strategized blasts in particular had hit the core of the planet and it was causing earthquakes all over the planet.
"If you want me to spare your pathetic lives, and your planet," Flammia said, "you surrender to me right now and you will work the mines for me. I suggest you make up your minds quickly...after all, it would be a shame to see a planet so rich in value get destroyed."
Flammia could see the people were upset, and so was the King, but there was nothing they could do about it...the planet as a small mining planet had one long protector and he was working on escape as we speak. As it turned out, that lone protector would have to leave the planet again for his safety at a later date...for the very same reason.
"I'll go get the terms of surrender," Flammia told her group of warriors, then turned to a lizard creature and his pack of very similar footsoldiers. "After that, Lacerta, you are to command what happens on this planet. Your top job is to make sure these people work the mines for us or be punished. I doubt that will be difficult to do."
"Yesss, they don't have much to work with," Lacerta answered. "I doubt it will be that hard."
End Flashback
Kimberly's evil half and her warrior Lacerta had both been correct...the planet had no protection and it was an easy conquest. But it was extremely significant for Flammia as far as monetary value.
Her army was still young, and though she'd conquered a couple of planets, it hadn't really caused a blip on the radar screen. Inquiris hadn't seen Rangers in thousands of years, and Andresia had literally no protection at all.
But Kimberly and her evil half knew what it meant. Andresia mined some of the finest diamonds in the galaxy and the people of the planet were mining those diamonds for her evil half and her army. The monetary value she would get from this planet would help Flammia down the road. It would help her acquire top of the line weaponry and soldiers as she continued adding to her vast, expansive army.
She knew that the planets her evil half wanted to conquer had stiffer protection. Edenoi was the home of Alpha 5 and the Masked Rider, Mirinoi was the home of the former Lost Galaxy Power Rangers with the exception of Karone who had taken up residence on Earth with Zhane, Triforia had Trey and who knew what else, Eltar was Eltar, Aquitar had Billy and the "fish Rangers" as she called them and Earth was Earth.
The next planet her evil half had gone after was Mirinoi. Mirinoi, which unbeknownst to everyone in the galaxy but she and her evil half, held a bargaining chip that would prove very valuable at a later date. This attack had been particularly brutal.
Flashback
March, Earth year 2009
Mirinoi
Flammia watched in glee as she oversaw the attack on the planet. The planet was already overwhelmed and, as usual, leading the charge were Draco and his deadly Flamers and Scorpina and Nepa, who led a battalion of Tengas into the battle.
What was left of Kimberly's good half...and Flammia didn't know how that still persisted...was no doubt cringing as the Lost Galaxy Power Rangers, who had predictably taken up the Quasar Sabers again when the planet had been attacked, were being overwhelmed.
"Agh!" Leo Corbett shouted as Scorpina and Nepa performed a double slash on him. Leo had been brutalized for 30 straight minutes and no one had any idea how he he was holding onto his morph.
"These two bitches make Trakeena look like a choir girl!"
"Tell me about it!" Maya and Kendrix said as they fought Draco and were going nowhere doing it. "This guy's hard as a rock! Who are these guys anyways?"
"Your worst nightmare," Draco rasped. "You're going to wish you were fighting Trakeena and Scorpius once we finish this off!"
Not 20 minutes later, the battle was decisively over; the Rangers morphs failed and the Quasar Sabers were broken, and all collected by Flammia's army. The Rangers were short handed to begin with as Mike the Magna Defender was out on business on Earth, and the force of Flammia's army was simply overwhelming.
"Powerless Rangers, how does it feel to lose?" Flammia taunted. She had every right to, she'd beat a powerful team.
"My Lady, can we just kill them now? It's less Rangers to deal with," Scorpina said.
"No, I have a better idea. Take them to my ship and have them thrown in the dungeon. They will be useful later."
"In the meantime, General Adonis," Draco said as he turned to one of his top Generals, "you and some Flamers take this planet over and keep it under control in our Queen's name. I will be checking in from time to time."
"Let us go you bastards!" Kai said.
"Now now, Powerless Blue Ranger is that any way to talk to the person that's going to keep you alive? At least for now?" Flammia said as her army dragged the six Power Rangers to her ship.
"You won't get away with this, witch!" Maya said.
"Oh spare me, the bad guys have heard that plenty of times. We already have gotten away with it. And news flash honey, I'm not just some witch," Flammia laughed as she reached the ship with her newest captives.
End Flashback
Of all the planets she'd conquered, until the more recent ones, Mirinoi had hit her the hardest, for the simple reason that Mirinoi had former Power Rangers on it. And a very good group of former Power Rangers it was.
Unlike her evil half who constantly trashed Trakeena for not destroying the six Rangers that her evil half was currently leading onto the Dark Fortress Mark II, the good side of Kimberly that still remained knew how evil and twisted Trakeena and Scorpius truly were. Their army was no picnic either.
The good side of Kimberly especially felt for Kendrix Morgan-Corbett (now Leo's wife) who had been through so much in her life. Kendrix was a fellow Pink and Kimberly admired her as she felt Kendrix had successfully upheld the Pink legacy.
It was what it was though, Jayden had to be kept alive at all costs, even if it meant taking a group of Rangers hostage and taking another planet.
The bad part now was that her evil half was starting to to feel comfortable and things were getting out of control. Her evil half was so ruthless now as had been demonstrated in the fight with the overmatched Lost Galaxy team that it wasn't even safe for evildoers to be around her evil half. If they weren't on her team Flammia could easily get rid of them in much the same way she'd dominated Lothor twice.
Kim's good half, upon reflection, knew it was only a matter of time before her evil half started to take aim at planets that were significant to Zordon and his first set of Rangers. Let's face it, if you were going to conquer the universe, you could only conquer so many planets like Andresia and Mirinoi, and Tommy and the gang had cared very little about the ties to Inquiris.
Unfortunately for planets like Edenoi, Eltar, KO-35 and Triforia, they were going to and had now suffered the same fate that these other planets had.
It was a sad story, but there was only one person who could be the cure...and if he didn't survive Master Xandred, then it was all over.
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