Power Rangers: Public Enemies Chapter 27, a power rangers fanfic

Power Rangers: Public Enemies

Chapter 26: End of the Civil War- (Midnight)

"Billy?" Kat spoke through the communicator. "What are you doing?"

"Hello kitty cat. How is your white fur today? Is it dirty?" Billy chuckles. "Is kitty's fur dirty. Are her paws dirty?"

"Billy?" Zack is concerned. "What's..."

"Are you watching now?" Billy stands over the ruins of Angel Grove, suit case in hand. "Are you watching real closely? Like, REAL closely?"

"Billy...?" Andros is trembling. He holds his stomach, as if he is in immense pain.

"So...that's what we are all good for, isn't it? Watching. We don't act, we watch. We all love to pretend we don't see evil, do we?" Billy chuckles.

"Billy? The hell you talking about?" Zack spoke out. He has a horrible feeling in his stomach, like he is about to witness something horrible.

"Zack, last year, you, the rest of the Rangers, and myself included acted to help keep the peace amongst the rioters. For all the other Rangers, it was an act of duty. But for us, the Mighty Morphing, it was an act of redemption." Billy wipes a tear from his eye. "We watched..."

"Billy...we couldn't get to her in time..." Zack's hand is trembling. "Stop blaming yourself for her death!"

"How can I? I watched her die, Zack! I sat there, helpless as Dex and Trini died at the hands of Dregon!" Billy opens the briefcase. "I have tried for five whole years to make her sacrifice worthwhile. I keep remembering the last words I ever spoke to her...'It will not be in vain'... But it was..."

"Billy! Hush your mouth! You and I both know 2010 was out of our hands!"

"But it was in our hands. If not for us, 2010 would not have happened. Or, have you forgotten how we were so lax in 2009?" Billy begins taking out the Crystals of Gaia one by one. "Maximov and his cohorts operated so under the radar that we couldn't even detect them. As if that wasn't enough, no one, and I mean NO ONE thought to assemble at least a team of Rangers until Mesogog summoned his Sinister Six. Remember that, Zack?"

Billy places the last Crystal on the ground, remembering that day...

Zeltrax stood proud, flanked by Furio, Scorch, Goldar, Retinax and Darkonda. Zack and Ethan ready their weapons, knowing fully well they were outnumbered and outmatched. Mesogog appears behind the Rangers, chuckling.

"Meet my newest force, Rangers. I call them my Sinister Six. I'd take this opportunity to monolog about their strength, but...I feel a demonstration is more appropriate." Mesogog snaps his fingers.

Furio rushes towards Ethan, his sword at the ready. Though Ethan is ready to block the blade, he does not expect Goldar to strike him from behind with a powerful kick, which sends him flying towards Furio's hungry blade. As sparks fly off of Ethan's suit, Darkonda jumps to the air, and lands on Ethan's back, continuously stomping on his head.

Scorch and Retinax strike at Zack from both sides, keeping him on guard. However, an unexpected strike from behind, courtesy of Zeltrax, causes him to lose his guard. Scorch and Retinax then strike Zack down, demorphing him. He lays on the ground next to Ethan, terrified of Mesogog's new squad...

"We allowed Evil to slip through our fingers. We allowed ourselves to believe we had the right to a life as ordinary civilians, that we could take a break from being a Ranger." Billy begins to tremble as tears flow down his face. "And do you know why we did that?"

Zack, Kat, Andros and the rest lay in silence.

"Because we are used to it. We are used to the idea that we can punch out once we're done fighting our villains. That once we are done, we can hang up our Morpher." Billy is crying. "But we can't. We don't have that right. Once a Ranger, always a fucking Ranger! Once you're given this Morpher, a quiet life is out of the question! You're not allowed to be free, you're not allowed to retire, to have kids, to have a wife or to even have a house! No! You have to be on call all the fucking time, just in case this ONE villain shows up with no Ranger team to oppose it!"

Billy's tears dampen his shirt, bu he remains strong as the Crystals float around him. "She was supposed to be married, Zack. Trini and Dex were gonna get married, have kids and live happily ever after. But no...there wasn't a Ranger team in 2005, so WE we're the ones who had to fight Dregon. And look what happened..."

The earth underneath Billy begins to shake. The energy from the Crystals cuts off all communication between Billy and the Rangers. "But it's never going to happen again..."

Meanwhile...

"We have to get the fuck out of here!" Blaise takes the Poseidon Ultrazord's control away from Bella, and violently pilots the Zord away from the battlefield.

"Blaise calm down!" Bella pushes Blaise away. "The hell, man?"

"I think we should do what he says, Bells." Arthur is shaking. "Blaise is never wrong about this kinda thing."

Suddenly, the Ultrazord began to howl by itself, splitting itself unto the individual Zords that formed it.

"The fuck! It's never done this before!" Arthur bellows from the Blue Shark Zord. He watches as the Mighty Whale Carrier Zord howls in fear. Suddenly, all the Mu Zords began to howl.

"Ugh! They've never done this before!" Wind holds onto her ears. She gets knocked back by the force of Chip's attack.

"Even now they continue to attack..." Kenneth ponders while inside the Yellow Crab Zord. "Bella, what do we do?"

Bella, in her Red Dolphin Zord, ponders her options. "Retreat! We can't ignore the fact that our Zords seem afraid of something!"

"Sounds good to me!" Arthur breathes a sigh of relief.

All the Mu Guardian Zords began to retreat. It was at this time that the Wild Zords and Jungle Fury Zords began to howl as well.

"Damn it!" Taylor struggles to stay on her feet. "What the hell's going on?"

"The Zords are scared!" Cole realizes. "Taylor, we gotta retreat!"

"Oh my God..." Taylor falls down due to the Kongazord continuously shaking and howling. It was then that it split itself up into its various individual Zords.

"Ugh..." Alissa shakes her head. "Look! Even the Jungle Fury Megazord is breaking itself! This is a bad omen..."

"We're retreating to safety!" Cole orders. All the other Wild Force Rangers follow Cole's lead to safety.

"The Wild Force and Jungle Fury Rangers have retreated!" Kelsey observes.

"We can finally stop the Mystic Force..." Carter feels in his gut that he should also retreat. "We should retreat too..."

"Why?" Joel interrupts. "I mean..."

"The Wild Zords, Jungle Fury Zords and Mu Guardian Zords are all sentient, right? And they all, at the same time, began to howl. They were scared of something..."

'So...we retreat too." Dana infers. "Let's get...Carter! There''s soldiers down there!"

"Damn it!" Carter slams his fist onto the control panel. He opens the communicator. "Soldiers! We need to get out of here!"

'There are still civilians in the city!" General Miles speaks through a megaphone. "And we cannot retreat until we stop the Mystics! If we don't stop them here, we won't know where they will strike next!"

"Damn it..." Carter reflects on his options. "Guys...get the hell out of here. I'll take care of this."

"No." Chad pats Carter on the shoulder. "Forget it."

"We're with you." Dana holds Carter's hand. Kelsey and Damon give him a thumbs up.

"Then...let's hurry."

In the Overdrive Megazord...

"I've had enough.." Will grabs the intercom. "Mystics! Stop right now!"

"Never!" Nick roars.

Ronny grabs the intercom. "Guys...please...look around you... Look at what happened to Briarwood."

"Who cares!" Vida slams her fists onto The Overdrive Megazord's Torso.

"Isn't this the town you grew up in? Isn't this where you lived? Where your parents lived?" Ronny appeals to emotion. She uses the Megazord to point to the beach. "Remember how you guys swam in that ocean?"

"No..." Chip calms down slightly.

"Where's your mother, Chip?" Carter speaks through the Megazord's speaker. "Where is she?"

"Huh?"

"I asked you, do you know where she is?"

"Uh..." Chip lands on the ground, seemingly processing the question.

"Let me tell you where she is. She's underneath that rubble over there." Carter dispassionately points to a large pile of rubble. "You killed her."

"No...how would you know?" Chip gets angrier.

"Look for her, if you can."

"I couldn't have killed her..."

"Vida! Where are YOUR parents?" Carter asks with as little emotion as possible.

"What..." Vida tries to process the question.

"Did you, by any chance, tell them about Madison's death? Did you mourn alongside them? Or..." Carter points to a burning building. "Did you kill them in your rage?"

"No...we couldn't..." Vida falls to her knees, shrinking to her regular shape.

"You did. You killed everyone you could get your hands on." Carter's voice is slowly getting angrier. "You didn't give a rat's ass about who you hurt."

"It was the Government's fault! They locked us away and treated us like shit!" Nick protests.

"And look around you! Do you think that excuses you from what you did here?" Carter's voice is full of fury. "Count them! Count the corpses!"

"It wasn't our fault..." Nick's voice has gotten far weaker now. "We were tortured...and the Overdrives killed Madison...!"

"No! Rose killed Madison! After HE- "Carter points to Chip. "-Killed Mack! The only thing you three are doing is taking a vicious cycle of revenge too far!"

"No..." Chip is angry and confused.

"By the way Chip. Do you even know why Mack was there?" Chad speaks up. "He was going to help you escape! That's right, he wanted to help you! And you killed him!"

"I..." Chip breaks down. "I didn't..."

"You didn't know? You didn't mean to?" Joel speaks angrily. "You're not excused either way!"

Chip and Nick shrink down. Along with Vida, all three de-morph, laying on the ground. Vida spots a familiar building. She gets up, and searches through the debris. She finds a sign. It reads 'R-O-(missing letter)-(missing letter)-P-O-(Missing letter)-I-(Missing letter)-M'. A wave of memories crash through her mind, remembering the happier times she shared with her sister. Vida suddenly begins to break down in tears. Ronnie gets out of the Overdrive Megazord and hurries towards Vida, embracing her.

"Ronnie?" Kelsey watches in awe. "What? But she killed Rose!"

"And I hate what she did!" Ronnie looks at Vida with pity in her eyes. "But I can't let her suffer like this... they all need medical help..."

"Carter...she's right. Their psyches are completely broken at this point." Dana jumps down and lands on the ground. "Sending them to any place that is not a psychiatric ward will most likely kill them."

"Well..." Carter leads the rest of the Lightspeed and Overdrive rangers down. "I say...we do the right thing. Let's get them some professional help."

"Yeah..." Will kneels down besides Nick. "I don't know if they deserve it, but I do know it would be shitty of us to lock them in jail again..."

"They sure as hell don't deserve it." Dax speaks up. "I mean, look! I've never any monster do this level of damage!"

That was when the remaining soldiers showed up. "We're taking them in!"

"Hell no." Carter steps up. "These ex Rangers are under our custody. And before you even think about citing how much destruction they have caused, or how dangerous they are, I have three words for you: Piedra del Diablo."

"What..." The soldier is flabbergasted.

"From now on the Rangers will be having a voice! We're not just ordinary citizens! We are a force! A force that places the life of its embers on the line constantly, to fight the monsters YOU can't! If you think we're going to be pushed around further, you are mistaken!"

"You traitorous..."

"Us? Traitorous? No. We are citizens. Citizens who lived ordinary, unassuming lives before donning the Morpher. Citizens who gave up their comfort, their safety, and tragically, some of us have given their lives for the sake of people like you. We donned the Spandex so you could sleep soundly at night, so your kids could go to school, so you people could see yet another sunrise." Carter gets angrier by the second. "After we fought evil, after we gave so much, what the hell did we ask for? Did we ask for medals? Did we ask for holidays bearing our names? Did we ask for fame? For money?"

The soldier is unsure how to answer that.

"We asked for peace and quiet. We fought, we served, we did our share. And all we asked is that we could go back to living unassuming, anonymous lives. But no! The Government...no, the PEOPLE wouldn't have that! Shit gets bad, what the fuck happens? People started turning on each other! The sunrise we fought so hard for heralded a day of treason and discontent! And when things got at their worst...we donned the Spandex again. To keep kids like YOU safe!"

The soldier, as well as the ones behind him, are nervous now.

"The Government decided to blame the Power Rangers for their little mess. That's fine, you know? I admit, sometimes there's collateral damage, and not a day goes by when I don't wish it never came to that. But it does. We try our best, we fail sometimes. But we at least strive to keep people like you safe. So, when the Ranger Act came about, some of us resisted. Want to know why? Because we are still citizens, and the Act was a violation of our rights! But, some of us were OK with that. Some of us decided to be good little Americans and give up our basic rights so big daddy Government could keep the people sleeping soundly. But then three Rangers decided to act cute, and attack helpless soldiers. So what does Big Daddy Government do? They go look for innocents Rangers, INNOCENT Rangers, and lock them up! And as if that wasn't bad enough, you torture them!"

The soldiers begin to step away from Carter.

"And THIS...THIS is the end result of your Government's actions. You torture people, you lose them, they strike back at you, and hard. All because you needed scapegoats." Carter calms down. "Well, the Power Rangers won't be your scapegoats anymore. If you need scapegoats, go find someone else. From now on, you people are on your own. If Lord Zedd ever comes back from the dead, then may Heaven help you, because the Power Rangers sure as hell won't. We will remember how you all abandoned us when we needed help the most."

Carter turns his back to the soldiers, and signals his team to take the Mystic Force. A single soldier regains his composure. "Hey. If you wanna call the old man out, you knock on his door, not yell at his dog."

Carter turns around. "Good advice."

The Overdrive Rangers are stunned at Carter's display of authority. Will steps up. "Carter, what the hell did you just do?"

"I shrugged." Carter's eyes are stone cold.

"Wow..." Ronny turns away. She suddenly notices everything getting brighter. She looks up at the sky. "What's that?"

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"The fuck?" Taylor is stunned at the sight. She, as well as the rest of the Wild Force, Jungle Fury and Mu Rangers had found shelter in the mountains.

"That was...an atomic bomb, right?" Max falls to his knees at the sight of the mushroom shaped fireball.

"Yeah..." Alissa sits down. "Wow..."

"Holy crap..." Casey watches with shock and terror. "Hey...where are the Lightspeeds?"

"And the Overdrives...and the Mystics?" Bella looks around. "They never followed us..."

"Holy..." Realization hits Cole. "No...I'm sure they're OK..."

"I..." Danny is unsure what to say.

"My God..." Blaise is trembling. "Wind...hold me..."

"Don't worry honey, I'm here..." Wind's eyes are misty. She and Blaise hold each other in a trembling embrace.

Suddenly, the earth below them shook violently. Unbeknownst to them at the time, the whole world was suffering a major earthquake.

In what was once Angel Grove, the ground splits, allowing the unholy demon to escape from Hell.

"Arise, Baal! Arise, and fill my hands with blood!" Billy yells out at the gargantuan demon as tears flood his face.