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This was the day after Sledge and Poisandra's wedding. Lord Arcanon insisted on exploring Earth, just to make sure no one survived. Some thought he was just paranoid about Zenowing and Heckyl. He just never told anyone about it, not even Singe.
One of the tentacles on Arcanon's ship latches onto Earth and slowly starts pulling it over. Just so Lord Arcanon and the group can get over to it and actually land the ship instead of letting it float in space.
“This is so exciting!” Poisandra says checking out her wedding ring again for probably the third time that same day.
“Finally. Those worthless humans… they are subdued, if there are any alive. Kill them, they're quite interesting creatures. Beating evolution and everything thrown at them… however they won't survive the destruction of their home. Heckyl and Zenowing are dead as far as we know.” Lord Arcanon says as Singe was piloting the ship down. The tentacle lets go and quickly connects back to the ship.
“Lord Arcanon, other warlords may be interested in the destruction of the power rangers and Earth. What do we do?” Fury questions, Lord Arcanon simply chuckles. “Let them come. They won't stand a chance against me.” Lord Arcanon clenches his fist and smiles. “The defense system will tear through their ship like paper, and if those warlords survive that. They'll have to survive me. Taking over the universe will be child's play!”
Singe carefully lands the ship, only kicking up some rubble. The tentacles release out and start connecting to the egg shells the greenzillas hatched out of. Speaking of the greenzillas, they're busy lounging around in the sun. Bellies full, getting nice and warm as they relish in their destruction of Earth. Amber Beach was destroyed. Wrecked buildings, dead bodies, fires, nothing was left from the zillas. Curio had a knack of petting them, which they seemed to enjoy very much.
“He's dead.” Doomwing says waving some smoke and dust from the air. Ugh! It's so dusty around here…” Doomwing coughs and Singe just walks by kicking a dead body in his way. “It's not that bad Doomwing” Singe snips back, getting to a nearby building and whistling. “Ooo! We got something interesting over here!” Snide walks over and laughs to himself. “It seems even the traitor met his end!” Heckyl’s leg was sticking up from the rubble. A clear sign he was dead. He didn't survive Earth's destruction just like Lord Arcanon predicted.
“What a fool.” Lord Arcanon mutters walking away. “Not even he could survive my destruction… what a shame.” Lord Arcanon says, not even bothering to dig up the rest of the body. In his mind, that is Heckyl's burial. Forgotten, alone, and probably horrified.
“Poisandra! Ha! Come here… I found you a nice wedding gift!” Fury calls out as Wrench scans some rubble for any signs of life. Poisandra happily skips over. “Do you? It better not be anything gross” Poisandra crosses his arms. Fury just laughs and pulls out a severed human arm.
“Tada!”
“Oh Fury! That's disgusting!” Poisandra screams, jumping back and kicking Fury in the stomach causing him to drop the arm, then making Wrench jump and cringe.
“Augh! It's not that bad! That's something Singe would do.” Singe just scoffs and walks away from the group. “At least Sledge would appreciate it… I'll find something better.” Fury grumbles walking away as Sledge glares at Fury for scaring his dear wife.
“Here. Is this better?” Fury says, placing a small diamond in Poisandra's hand. “I found it, apparently there was a jewelry shop nearby.” Fury crosses his arms and huffs. Poisandra giggles and throws her arms around Fury making him stiffen up. “Oh Fury thank you! You adorable kitty!” Fury shoves Poisandra off of him. “Yeah yeah whatever.” He shakes out his mane and walks away.
Once Singe was left alone. He was checking other buildings, when he heard a… meow?
“Mew! Mew!” Singe turns. Looking around, it almost looked like a mold spore that grew legs and meowed. But it was a very… VERY small baby black kitten. Clearly the runt of the litter. Abandoned, or the only survivor. Singe knows Lord Arcanon probably wouldn't let Singe keep the kitten… Poisandra would want it as a wedding gift… but… he found it… so technically…
“Mew!” Singe picks up the little kitten and just stuffs it in a nearby bag he found. And calmly goes back to searching for any survivors to murder. Like he didn't just adopt a kitten… he'll definitely get away with this.
“So what are you doing with the Greenzillas?” Wrench asks, watching as Curio keeps happily rubbing their bellies. Lord Arcanon scratches his chin. “Hmm… they could be good guards for my castle. I already have the perfect planet for my castle and its town” Lord Arcanon says, turning to Wrench. Who nods in agreement. “Still no sign of Zenowing's body… Do you know where he landed?” Wrench asks, pulling up his machine and scanning the area again. Lord Arcanon shakes his head.
“Everything looks so similar… it's impossible to tell. There's a low chance he would've survived, if he did. He'll starve here.” Wrench shivers, that was… dark to say the least. “I see…” he mutters. Wrench gets back to work. Looking at the destroyed buildings… hm maybe those dino chargers work, assuming the zords are completely destroyed.
“There's… I can't find any survivors!” Doomwing caws out, making Singe roll his eyes. “That's a good thing! Every human is simply-”
“Mama?” Singe and Doomwing look at each other. Before smirking and chuckling. Doomwing clears his throat. And starts copying the sound of a motherly figure.
“Yes dear? I'm over here! It's safe!” He says as Singe holds back his laughing. Sadistic Singe. There's more shuffling and eventually a little boy comes out, covering in dust and blood. Blood that definitely isn't his. “Mama? Where are you… I'm scared!” He calls out, at the verge of crying.
“I'm right here dear… just come to me…” The kid looks around, he walks over to Doomwing. “Mama? You aren't… my mama…” he mutters. Singe sneaks his way over. “Of course I'm your mama… I sound like her don't I?” Doomwing says stepping closer. The kid steps back, starting to weep. “I want my mama! You're not my mama! My mama won't wake up!” The kid starts sobbing, and Doomwing simply opens his arms.
“Come here… come here” he mutters as the kid shakes his head. “You aren't my mama! You aren't my mama!” He yells as Singe gets closer, carefully pulling out his blaster.
A shot rang out.
Blood spilled on the ground. It was nothing to Singe and Doomwing. Just another worthless human eradicated from this world.
“Haha! Good one!” Doomwing says, clapping Singe on the back, before looking at the bag. “What's with the bag?” Singe looks up and smirks. “Oh this? Just… stylish! I thought it looked good.” Singe is obviously lying, it's obvious in his tone.
“Singe. What's in the bag?” Doomwing steps closer, before hearing a small “mew!” He immediately jumps back. Singe chuckles. “What?” He says reaching in and pulling out the small black kitten. Causing Doomwing to stagger back more. “G- GET that thing AWAY from me!” He squawks.
“Oh this? This little cutie?” Singe says holding the kitten closer, it meows, Doomwing trips and falls landing on his back horrified. “Get it away! Shoo! Shoo!” He calls out “It's just a kitten! It won't hurt you!” Doomwing staggers back again, absolutely horrified by the small cat. “No! No no! Get it away! GET IT AWAY!!!” He screams. “It's just a little baby kitten! She won't hurt a fly! Come on~”
“I'll tell Lord Arcanon you have a kitten! I'll do it!” Doomwing says looking at Lord Arcanon, who pays no mind to them, petting his snake Serpentera.
“Fine!” Singe says before gently putting the kitten in the bag. “If you don't tell Lord Arcanon… I'll keep the kitten away.” Doomwing nods. “Deal… just… Just keep that thing away from me…” he stutters, before rushing away making Singe pat the bag, the kitten meows again.
“What's he running for?” Snide mutters. With the recent… death of his enemy. Snide feels more at ease. Until he turns to go back into the ship and… “Why- the door is open.” The door wasn't open before. He saw it close! Snide walks closer and enters the ship. It seems normal… looks normal. Snide doesn't trust it. He steps inside and starts searching around. The viviks are normal, so are the guards. Once he checked the prisoners no one escaped… Maybe Snide is losing his mind after all.
“There has to be an intruder… somewhere.” Snide mutters looking around. Going through every hallway, every nook and cranny of Arcanon's base. He even manages to find himself in the engine room. Yet… there was no one. It was like a ghost walked in. Or something caused the door to open but never be closed. Once Snide heads back out everyone else was there. Planning to leave Earth, let it rot. Or rebuild itself. Whichever one happens first… Lord Arcanon will take care of it.
“Where were you?” Lord Arcanon says approaching Snide. “Lord Arcanon! I believe there is an intruder on your ship.” Lord Arcanon scoffs. “If there was that intruder would be dead on the ground. The security systems would've caught up to him or her already. Don't worry Snide. Don't be so paranoid.” Lord Arcanon walks away. Glancing at the suspicious bag, Singe keeps hiding from him. But paying no mind.
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The ship left Earth rotting. Just as it came, it left. It was night. Wrench was more or less concerned over the open door Snide saw. But he didn't see anything on the security system. Singe was too busy with his new cat to notice.
“There you go… good girl” Thankfully Singe did find a pet store, destroyed but it had some stuff in there. The kitten was happily suckling away at some kitten formula Singe managed to salvage. Now all he had to do was hide the kitten from Lord Arcanon… forever. As fate has it… it didn't go well. Singe's door bursts open.
“Singe! I've had enough! What the hell is-” Arcanon pauses. Singe was sitting on his bed, feeding a small… kitten. “Lord Arcanon!! I- I can explain! I just found her… alone and I felt bad and took her in! Just… don't send her through the airlock!” Singe studders, worried as Lord Arcanon walks over and picks up the kitten. Who hisses at the new scent, stumbling around in Arcanon's claws.
“Hm.” Lord Arcanon watches the small thing. Eventually starting to stroke it with one claw. “You know I don't allow animals on the ship besides my sweet Serpentera.” Lord Arcanon says as Singe tilts his head and smirks, Singe is one of the only people allowed to get snippy with Lord Arcanon. Perks of being the right hand man. “Then why are you petting her?”
“Shut it Singe. I'm not petting, I'm examining.” Lord Arcanon snaps back. Rolling the kitten around and poking her belly. “Why is she so…rotundant” Lord Arcanon sits down and looks at Singe. “She was just eating… here.” Singe starts feeding the kitten again. Who meows and starts suckling again with its ears wiggling again. Arcanon huffs and once the kitten is finished. He places it on the bed. Standing up.
“You can keep…”
“Her.”
“Her. Yes… you can keep her. But you feed her, water, play, and take care of her! Including her litter box! If that cat messes up or breaks anything in this ship! She's going to the airlock!” Arcanon slams the door and huffs. Walking to his room. Singe gently rubs the kittens back. “Medusa… that's a good name.”
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Wrench had just finished making his rounds again. He's checked everywhere. He hasn't seen anything. “The wind must've blown the door… maybe someone bumped into it” he quietly says to himself walking down the ship's hallways to head back to his room and sleep. He can finally get some well deserved rest. That was until… something moved in the shadows.
“Huh? Who's there?” Wrench calls out. Silence. As would be expected, no one would respond to that! Wrench grabs his axe. Snide was right. There is someone on the ship. Wrench starts sneaking through the halls. Trying to find this shadow watching and waiting. Waiting to strike… possibly. Wrench whips around the corner. Without thinking he swings his axe.
“Augh! Wrench! Stop stop it's me! Damnit it's me!” Someone shouts. When Wrench flips on the light. Fury is there. With the axe barely missing his neck. “You almost killed me you fucking maniac! What the hell are you even doing anyways?!” Fury yells, grabbing Wrench by his shoulders and getting in his face. “I- I thought you were an intruder! I'm sorry!” Wrench says, Fury lets go and throws Wrench's axe back. “Well maybe CHECK WHO YOU'RE SWINGING AT NEXT TIME!!!!”
“Okay okay!” Wrench steps back. “Why are you awake? Did you see that shadow as well?” Fury nods. “Thanks to you… they're probably long gone now hiding. I'm surprised no one has caught them yet.” Fury says heading down the hall with Wrench following. “They have to be here…” Wrench mutters turning the corner and seeing a black shadow-like figure disappear once again. They both chase after it, but once Fury and Wrench get there. There's nothing.
“How… where- I saw something!” Wrench says. The place was empty once again. Fury kicks a wall, before the alarms start blaring. Intruders?!
“I knew it would catch them eventually! Come on!” The ship was in a panic. Vivixs and Spikeballs rushing around panicking as everyone else woke up confused. “What's going on? Was Snide correct after all?” Lord Arcanon says seemingly to sleep in his regular outfit… or he just changed really fast.
“There's a ship approaching my lord. What do we do?!” A Spikeball says. “Let them come.” Arcanon replies”
“They won't survive…”