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The rangers were all dead. The energems only belonged to Lord Arcanon. However, something was wrong. The universe was in grave danger but, with the dark enegrem it's still corrupting the regular energems… Lord Arcanon still can't complete his final goal. Rule the universe.
“Meanwhile you were out having fun!” Poisandra shouts, shoving Sledge over again. Everyone steps back. A little concerned for… their old boss. Lord Arcanon just huffs and tunes Sledge and Poisandra's arguing out as he looks at the energems. Despite having immense power, they're still struggling against the dark enegem, they're not even bonded to anyone anymore!
“What?” Lord Arcanon mutters as Doomwing glances over and carefully takes the silver energem inserting it into his sword. It seems to work fine there.
“How… hmmm….” Lord Arcanon ponders… the silver energem seems to be immune when it's trapped in Doomwing's sword. Interesting. Perhaps the energems need to be bathed in darkness to withstand the dark energem’s powers. He needs to find the rangers base before those damn eggs hatch!
“We need to get the ship in the air!” Sledge says confidently, until immediately getting put in his place by Lord Arcanon. Who has other, definitely more important plans up his sleeve. He is the boss now anyways.
“Hold it, Sledge! The energems won't work. We aren't leaving this planet until we find the rangers base and steal everything they have! If we steal their equipment… we could possibly make our own dino chargers… and use the rest of the zords. Or make our own…” Lord Arcanon snaps, turning back to Sledge, almost smacking Singe and Doomwing with his shoulder spike.
“How much time do we have until those greenzilla eggs hatch?”
“Two hours…” Sledge sheepishly says, but before Lord Arcanon could do anything. Snide buts in. “Hold it! I know where their base is… it's somewhere in that dinosaur museum! It's only a coincidence they all worked there…and that purple ranger was the owner. It has to be there!”
Lord Arcanon thinks for a moment. “Hmm… You're right… it would make the most sense. Good work Snide. I knew I could rely on you… I don't believe those… human pests, have noticed the missing rangers yet… the museum should be closing soon. We need to hurry. Then without another word, Lord Arcanon starts walking, everyone starts following, through the burning Mccadden forest, that smells of rotting flesh and smoke. Into the streets of Amber Beach where people flee in terror, with no rangers showing up, they can only assume the worst has happened. All the way to the Amber Beach Museum. It's quiet now, only one guard is closing up the museum for the night.
“Sorry, the museum is closed. You'll have to come back tomorrow." The guard says, not realizing what danger he truly is in.
“I don't think this planet will have a tomorrow!” In an instant Snide grabs the guard and throws him into the water. Holding him down while grabbing the keys. “Aha! Surely one of these keys will unlock the rangers base… now which one?”
“Why does one guard need so many keys? There must be a lot of secret areas in there! Ehehe!” Curio giggles while Fury crosses his arms and simply kicks the doors down shattering the glass, thankfully the alarm wasn't set up yet. Leaving no one having any idea of what is going on. “There may be more than one entrance and exit. Our best bet would be in the cafe or dinosaur exhibit.” Fury says confidently.
“Or… maybe in the back of the museum, not open to the public? Ever think about that hairball?” Singe says, flicking his tail and smirking to himself.
“Why you little-!” Fury rushes towards Singe, before Lord Arcanon blasts him back. “Enough! Both of you! Or I'll turn you both into museum exhibits!” Arcanon snaps, Snide then returns and walks into the museum looking around.
Singe rushes off to go check the back of the museum, while Fury goes to check the Dino Bite Cafe.
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“Ugh… finally peace and quiet!” Singe says stretching, and flapping out the wings on his back, before walking around in the back of the museum, boxes, old cars and dust scatter every corner and surface of the area. “Do these people ever clean back here?” It's going to give me a headache… Singe keeps looking around. Something out of place, something that shouldn't be there.
“There's only dust.. And boxes. But I won't let Fury get the best of me! Surley-” Singe pauses. A… dinosaur head. Unpacked. That's not suspicious at all. Singe chuckles to himself and jumps right up to it.
“Well! It must be my lucky day! This looks exactly like a ranger base!” Singe kicks down the wood blocking the entrance, there's a slide. Well… it wouldn't hurt to investigate… without anyone knowing… he can just say he was, making sure nothing dangerous was down there! Yeah! That'll work just fine! Without any other sort of hesitation. Singe flings himself right down and onto the slide, heading straight into the rangers base.
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“If they worked here, there has to be something here!” Fury yells, kicking a chair over and looking around. “Where… there has to be a quick entrance and exit somewhere!” He keeps searching. Behind the back counters, the manager's office, under the sink, stove, anything! “Ugh! Why is it so hard to find some stupid entrance!” Fury keeps looking, to no avail. Eventually making his way to the employees only area. A nice break room, some comfortable chairs, a vending machine with snacks… which Fury pays no mind to. Except that… suspicious door.
“Hm?”
Fury questions, walking over. Tearing the door off of its hinges and stepping inside. It's not an employee only room at all! It's a damn elevator!
“Aha! Those idiot rangers had a hidden elevator this whole time! Ehehe…”
He steps inside, pressing the… only button that can be used, down, and simply descends. When he does come out and the doors open, it leads to a massive hallway… and… is that Singe?! What is he doing down here?!
“Singe!” Fury yells rounding the corner to a surprised Singe. “What… how?!” Fury studders out as Singe simply trots on over, placing a hand on his shoulder, like he's taunting him.
“Oh Fury… I heard cats are good at finding things… I'm surprised I managed to find the ranger base before you, hm? Maybe you're not as smart as I imagined.” Fury stays silent, that damn smirk on Singes face… in one move Fury goes for a punch, with Singe dodging. Until they ended up starting to beat each other up. No one is around to break up the fight anyways. Taking out your pent up rage on your mortal enemy usually works to resolve problems… at least in their minds.
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“I'm not seeing anything!” Curio complains. “Well, it's not like they would have a massive sign pointing straight at the entrance to their base now would they?!” Doomwing squawks, and ruffles his feathers. “They would probably have it underground, not in the museum itself!”
Snide pauses, his sword hitting the floor. He realizes, Of course! It makes sense they would have it underground! Where else would their base be!
“That's it!” Snide says, causing everyone else to back up.
He raises his sword into the air and starts slamming it into the ground, causing the museum and its artifacts to shake and tumble, some even breaking due to the force. After a minute or so, a massive hole breaks through the ground. Leading right into the rangers base.
“Perfect…” Lord Arcanon whispers. Jumping down he lands in the pile of rubble. “This base was under the museum the whole time! Ha! We should've expected the rangers to do a move like that!” He says, as Singe and Fury grunt and get up, making Lord Arcanon whip around. Expecting Zenowing… even Heckyl.
“Ah! There you two are! Get up, it doesn't matter how you both got down here. Just start taking everything you can! Go on… hurry down all of you!” Lord Arcanon speaks, an annoyance in his tone. As they all start looking around curiously.
“Wow! Look at this!” Doomwing says rushing straight over to the charging station. “You were right Lord Arcanon! We can make our own dino chargers again with this! Haha! I don't need those basic ones anymore!” Wrench curiously walks over and takes the laptop.
“This is useful as well! I can hack into it and help you with those dino chargers Doomwing!” Wrench happily says getting a nod of approval from Doomwing as they carefully add it into the cart. While Singe was busy helping Lord Arcanon get the crystals out.
“Ack! Come on! Almost there… Maybe we should take the damn wall at this rate!”
Singe says as his sword goes flying and almost takes down an… empty medical kit. “Someone has been here… Zenowing…” Singe says as Lord Arcanon grabs the sword and throws it back to Singe. “That doesn't matter. He won't survive Earth's destruction.” Singe huffs and goes back to trying to extract the crystals. Lord Arcanon just stands there watching. Before Poisandra walks over.
“Soo… you know how me and my Sledgeums have a wedding right?” She says smiling and blinking innocently at Lord Arcanon, who just groans.
“Yes I do know… what about it?” He says turning to Poisandra. “Well… I still need a gem for my ring…” she says innocently leaning on Lord Arcanon. “And?” Lord Arcanon steps back. “Perhaps… I could have the pink energem?” She says innocently, causing Lord Arcanon to roll his eyes. “Fine… I know who gets what energems. You can… have the pink energem.” He says, making Poisandra cheers and even hug Lord Arcanon. “Yay! Oh thank you Lord Arcanon!”
‘Yes yes… whatever.” Lord Arcanon mutters as Sledge walks over. “We have around an hour left until the eggs start hatching.” Lord Arcanon grunts and nods. “Hurry up! We have an hour left!” At this rate they're all just throwing stuff in they might not even need. Notebooks, diaries, of course the crystals and dinosaur DNA.
“Look Fury! It's you!” Wrench shows Fury the notebook, it's just a nicely drawn picture of Fury with an entire page about him and what he does. It is the red ranger's old notebook. Of course he would hate Fury the most. “Huh… who else?” Fury says yanking the book and flipping through it. Snide slowly peeks over. “Get back to work! We don't have much longer and I don't want to be trapped here!" Snide says annoyed, before walking away again.
“Me, Doomwing and Singe… we need to get our transport ship and move it back to our base. You and your crew can meet us there for the destruction of Earth.” Lord Arcanon orders. Before simply turning to Sledge and grabbing him, gently placing the black energem in his hand. “Don't. Get any ideas. You know what will happen, Sledge.”
“Yes Lord Arcanon… I understand…” Sledge mutters out, only hearing Lord Arcanon, Singe and Doomwing leave. Come on… let's get all of this stuff back to the ship, and then to Lord Arcanon's base to watch Earth's final destruction!
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“Hurry up you fools! Those eggs will hatch any minute now!” Lord Arcanon yells, Singe and Doomwing are not far behind. Due to Doomwing and Singe's wings. They were quickly able to make it to Amber Beach City… by carrying Lord Arcanon, who cannot fly.
“Why hasn't that egg hatched yet… shouldn't it be time?!” Doomwing says as they jump across another building. With Lord Arcanon far ahead of them.
The ground starts shaking, causing Doomwing, Singe and Lord Arcanon to pause as they watch the greenzilla in Amber Beach hatch, it roars, breaking windows and wanting to destroy anything in its path. They take off running again. Singe's ship is already in view as they jump to the final building and start making a run for it. Not just for the ship, for their entire lives.
“That greenzilla is powerful… look at it go!” Singe compliments watching the zilla wreck buildings by just a smack of its tail or a swing of its hand. “Singe!” Lord Arcanon snaps, grabbing Singe by the ear and starting to drag him back to the ship. “Alright alright! I was just curious… There's no way Zenowing or Heckyl would survive that beast and all the others scattered across Earth!” Singe chuckles to himself as Doomwing was already getting the ship ready to fly back to Arcanon's base.
Alright… here we are. Singe says as the ship powers up and closes its doors as Lord Arcanon and Singe sit down. They're all… a little squished. The ship takes off into the air and starts flying around Amber Beach. “Singe… where the hell are you going?!” Doomwing says trying to get some space between them as Singe grunts trying to scoot away. “I'm just looking around at what the greenzilla is doing! Singe says flying dangerously close to the greenzilla as it destroys a building, and happily consumes a few people inside.
“Ahaha! Look at it go! How adorable…” Singe says, flying ever so slightly closer. Before Lord Arcanon notices. “Hey! Is that… Zenowing?!” Lord Arcanon immediately grabs the wheel and steers the ship away from the zilla and right to where Zenowing is flying. “Fire the cannons! Lasers! Everything!” He orders. Doomwing and Singe immediately get into action as a laser gun and cannon starts firing at Zenowing who flies around into buildings dodging them.
“Bastard… he's hiding.” Lord Arcanon mutters, trailing outside the building watching. “Come on out…. Singe. Get out and chase him down.” Singe nods and opens the door, flying out to chase Zenowing and lure him out before the greenzilla notices them.
“Sledge's ship took off.” Doomwing says turning to Lord Arcanon. “We need to hurry.” Lord Arcanon only grunts in response as Zenowing and Singe come shooting out of the building. Zenowing chasing Singe down and slowly gaining on him. “Now! Fire Doomwing! Now!” Doomwing prepares the cannon, and it goes flying. However it misses and slams into a nearby building causing it to crumble. Singe starts flying through buildings to try and lose Zenowing while the greenzilla starts taking down and making the area even more dangerous to be in.
“Stand down Zenowing! You won't win! No matter what you do, just accept your fate!” Singe says, clashing swords with Zenowing before landing on the roof of a building. “I'll get my revenge Singe… after what you and Lord Arcanon did to the rangers!? I'll kill you both!” Zenowing screeches, Singe quickly switches to his blaster and staggers Zenowing. Lord Arcanon comes out of the ship and jumps out landing behind Zenowing. “Give up Zenowing… it will be much easier just recombining with Doomwing.” He says stepping closer as the lasers point right at Zenowing.
“Zenowing… give up. You won't survive.” Lord Arcanon says. Zenowing tenses up, his wings flap. “Don't you dare Zenowing!” Zenowing charges forward and grabs Lord Arcanon taking off high into the sky. Singe immediately chases after him with Doomwing not far behind.
“Let me go, you vermin!” Lord Arcanon shouts as he struggles to escape Zenowing's grasp. “I'm just getting my revenge, Lord Arcanon! This is what you deserve for killing the rangers… and Keeper! You ruined my life! This is what you deserve for torturing, destroying and ruining billions of lives!”
“You know Zenowing… you're acting a lot like Doomwing…. Evil, driven by a force that he can't control, rage, I still believe Doomwing has some form of control over you.” Zenowing pauses. He looks down at Lord Arcanon. “I… am… NOTHING LIKE HIM!” Zenowing yells flying higher. “I DON'T HURT PEOPLE FOR FUN! I DON'T LISTEN TO YOU! I AM NOT BRAINWASHED BY ANYONE! I'M DOING THIS FOR REVENGE… AND AVENGING EVERYONE YOU HAVE RUINED AND KILLED!!! NEVER… NEVER. COMPARE ME TO SOMEONE LIKE HIM!!!!”
Zenowing then throws Lord Arcanon down. Singe starts following after him as Doomwing gives chase to Zenowing, who is still seething with rage after what Lord Arcanon said.
“Curse you Zenowing! Lord Arcanon shouts before Singe reaches out and grabs him, throwing him and getting Lord Arcanon to land on his back… somehow. “You really got to him!” Singe says smirking as he starts following Doomwing. Arcanon just shrugs and keeps hold of Singe.
“Come back Zenowing!” Doomwing yells as he chases after Zenowing. He grabs his sword and flips over, catching Zenowing on his wing causing him to fall, almost smashing straight into Singe and Lord Arcanon. “Nice work Doomwing!” Singe says as they fly back down to the ship. The greenzilla thankfully didn't notice the commotion… thankfully.
“Let's go. We have a wedding to attend… and some energems to corrupt.” Lord Arcanon says getting back into the ship. The two simply follow, as they start up the ship again and take off into the depths of space, seeing Sledge's ship far into the distance.
“...”
It was silent for a bit.
“Thank you Singe.” Is all Lord Arcanon says. Singe turns to Lord Arcanon, a little perked up and smiling.
“You're welcome Lord Arcanon” Singe says before going back to piloting the ship.
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Lord Arcanon's base is a bit different to Sledge's ship. It's not really a ship at all. More like a space station. It really looks like a blooming flower, if the flower had tentacles growing out of it to grab planets and galaxies… and was an entire massive base of operations for army building, universal takeover, and containing prisoners.
“Here we are.” Sledge says, parking the ship, a walkway comes out, protecting the group and all the prisoners being transported from flying off into space. “Come on! Hurry up! Lord Arcanon isn't a patience monster… he has the space bullions ready for you Master Sledge. He's already working on corrupting and making the energems immune to the dark energem.” A spike ball guard says as he starts leading the prisoners away. “How did he get here before us?” Snide mutters. Before looking around. He swears he recognizes this place… somehow.
“Over here!” Singe calls out from a hallway. “We have a perfect birds eye view of Earth's final destruction! Isn't it glorious?” Singe says sitting down in a chair and watching Snide.
“Isn't this wonderful!” Poisandra happily skips over to the window, Curio close behind. Earth will be destroyed in no time with those greenzillas, and then we can have mine and Sledge's wedding!
Singe nods, “Lord Arcanon… is a little busy. We can discuss money.. And weddings… once he's done.” “Dinner will be ready soon… I am not sure if Lord Arcanon, Doomwing and I will attend. Make yourselves comfortable!” Singe says innocently watching them, then he points at Wrench and motions for him to follow. Wrench obliges and starts following Singe through the ship. “We need your help Wrench… we did steal the data of the dino chargers. However, without that little computer you stole. We… cant corrupt the dino chargers. We need you to hack into that computer and turn on the charging station.” Singe says, it's an order. Not a question.
“Yes sir! You can count on me!” Wrench says as they enter the laboratory, filled with machines, experiments and even test subjects… that have gone horribly wrong. Those poor people have been through the wringer with the dark energem. Wrench ignores all of this, he walks over to the computer and gets to work trying to break in. Lord Arcanon watches silently. The energems were all placed in tubes with the dark energem at the top. Ready to “fix” the other energems as Lord Arcanon would say.
“Got it!” Wrench says. Doomwing perks up, a little impressed. That was fast. “Now… if we just go here… this connects to the charging station. Now… we need to flip these switches here.” Lord Arcanon just steps back watching. Curiously… who knew Wrench could be this smart? “It should be ready, Lord Arcanon! Just… flip the switch and… hide, if something goes wrong.” Wrench says backing up and getting behind a table. Lord Arcanon scoffs and flicks the switch. The dark energem starts flickering, energy comes pouring from the tubes and into where the other energems are encased. Singe and Doomwing make a run for it. Hiding behind anything they can. Wrench rushes out of the room. While Lord Arcanon stands there.
“Lord Arcanon! Move! What if something goes wrong?!” Singe shouts. Lord Arcanon just huffs in response. “I'm stronger than that Singe.” He scolds turning back to the machine. Which is now shaking, the energems are flickering, trying to fight back against the power of the dark energem.
“This is why the rangers were so… weak… they just couldn't handle the power of the dark energem.” Lord Arcanon cackles to himself. Before the machine… explodes in his face. Sending him flying and smashing into a table. “Ack!” Singe rushes over and grabs Lord Arcanon. “My lord!? Are-” “Get off me Singe! The energems… they're perfect.” Lord Arcanon gets up, effectively shoving Singe on the ground as he carefully removes the energems from the tubes. They only have a darker color to them. They aren't damaged, and they aren't being affected by the dark energem.
“Hehehe…. AHAHAHAHA! I'M UNSTOPPABLE NOW!” Arcanon yells laughing manically, before rushing away. Causing Singe and Doomwing to follow, but Lord Arcanon is just too fast. “What's going on- there was an explosion and-” an entire planet flies past the base. Something is going on up there. “What… what the… Lord Arcanon… where is he?!” Sledge says looking around as more planets, stars and even galaxies start flying around. “What the hell is he doing… he has to be on the roof!” Singe and the others take off and up some stairs, making it to the roof of the base. The tentacles are already grabbing planets and crushing them into bits, while Lord Arcanon stands there. He's controlling the universe, everything inside of it.
“Lord Arcanon?! What… you're going to destroy the universe if you do this! You're going to kill us all!” Sledge tries to reason with Lord Arcanon, who is paying no mind as he stands there, shaping and morphing the universe and its inhabitants to his command. “Nothing can stop me Sledge! The universe is mine to control! Everyone will bow before me, and my command! My rules! No one can stop me now! Infact… I'll create my own planet just how I like it! My own universe!” Lord Arcanon holds out a hand to the sky and starts moving the planets again. Taking chunks of some off and creating a completely new planet just on a whim.
“Be careful!” Wrench says seeing an entire planet break into two and almost crash into the base. After a couple minutes, Lord Arcanon stops and puts his hands down, he turns to the group. “Isn't it beautiful?” He says walking closer. “My own universe… no one can tell me what to do… It's mine to command!” Lord Arcanon laughs again. He's right in front of them now. The energems lie in his hand. The key to the universe and its control. “Each of you will get your own energem. Use it wisely.” He glares at Sledge for a moment.
“Singe.” Lord Arcanon says, Singe steps up, he holds out his hand and Lord Arcanon places the red energem in his palm. Singe simply nods, accepting it and bowing to Lord Arcanon. Everyone else does the same. Doomwing with the silver energem. Snide gets the blue energem. Sledge, black energem. Fury, gold energem, Wrench, green energem, Poisandra, pink energem.
“What about me Lord Arcanon?” Curio says jumping up and down, Lord Arcanon simply pats his head. “You're too young, Curio… perhaps when you're older.” That just makes Curio pout and turn away, before doing a very small bow and stomps away in a huff. “Now… we have a wedding to attend, I presume?" Lord Arcanon questions, Poisandra squeals and hugs Sledge. “I'll put on my wedding dress!” She then rushes away.
Lord Arcanon turns back to his new toy… the universe itself. Is finally under his control. He can rule with an iron fist. He finally completed his ultimate goal. The universe is his to command.