Interlude - Lunar Raid
1993
The Moon
Rita didn't know what to think. She had met time travellers before, but never a version of herself from the future. She could only imagine the extent of her failure from the fact that her future self was a spirit possessing a robotic shell. Her physical body must have been destroyed in the future and she had seen how vengeful and merciless her future self, Robo Rita, as she preferred to call herself, had been. Chaos Magic was an abomination, that tore through the barriers of reality and slowly devoured the spellcaster's soul. It might give tremendous power, but it comes at a terrible cost. She did understand why Robo Rita was doing all this though… Her future self had no intention of surviving this endeavour. All she wanted was for her to succeed! Robo Rita was sacrificing her very existence for her and Rita would honour that.
With the knowledge she has received regarding the future, she can strike Zordon where it hurt… Killing defenceless teenagers was too much, even for her, but knowing and seeing how much their future selves had cost her, she did not have much choice in that matter. It was either them or her.
Robo Rita mentioned that she was married to Zedd… As if! And the way she talked of him, she was in love… with that skinless flesh suit of a maniacal monster!
She despised Zedd and absolutely hated that she was under his servitude… Well not for long, if she could help it. It was always her plan to destroy him and take over his empire once she attained enough power to best his dark magic. Her future self may have strayed from the plan but she wouldn't.
She would best both Zordon and Zedd.
And why stop there?
With the knowledge she now had, she could best even the likes of Dark Spectre.
After all, it was just a matter of timing.
The cloaked time shuttle landed near the moon palace and Jen looked at her team – Cyra Drake, Marv Shih, Vesper, Eddie Eubank, Joe Shih, Chloe Ashford, Uma Shah and Priya Pal.
"Stick to the plan and do it by the book." She told, her withering gaze lingering on the Hyper Force rangers, who looked down sheepishly. While their team was one of the best rangers in the known multiverse and had saved all of existence many times, their methods were unconventional and had caused a fair share of timeline anomalies.
"Alright." She nodded, activating her morpher. "Time for Time Force!"
"It's Morphin Time!"
In a flash of colours, they summoned their armour and teleported inside the castle, hiding in the shadows, and observing Rita's court.
Rita tapped her fingers on the armrest of her throne while Baboo and Squatt bickered with each other. Finister was no where to be seen, presumably setting up his laboratory and Goldar paced from one side of the balcony to the other.
"We haven't heard from her yet, mistress!" He growled at Rita.
"Keep a little faith, Goldar." She rolled her eyes. "She is me, after all. Let her take down the shield that is protecting Earth and then we will launch an invasion unlike any other!"
"Yes, my mistress." The titan mumbled reluctantly though it was obvious how impatient he was.
Jen gritted her teeth.
Robo Rita was not here, which meant they were after the time ship.
While Jack and Matthias were capable on their own, Robo Rita was on a whole other level. They needed a mystic to defeat her dark magic and both their resident magic experts were with her. They needed to head back right now.
Before she could signal the others to return to the ship, the shadows burned away as Rita ignited a bright flame from her staff and smirked at them cruelly.
"Goldar, destroy these fools who thought they could sneak up on me!" She screeched and right on cue, Finister arrived in the hallway with an army of putties and monsters following him.
"We need to take them out now." She decided.
"But Jack and Matthias!" Marv called out concerned.
"We will get to them after we take care of them!" She shouted back, drawing her chrono sabre.
"Oh girlie, you have no idea whom you are about to face!" Goldar snarled, baring his fangs as he leapt at her.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. This chapter was originally supposed to be a super-sized finale but due to real life stuff, I can't focus on writing as much. I don't know when the next update will be, but I will complete this story eventually. Thank you, all the readers and reviewers, for your constant support. :)
