EPILOGUE
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“Power down!” Another unified call resounded and their
morphs evaporated in a superfine mist of energized particles.
“Good work, Rangers,” Sean said,
nodding approvingly. He stepped down
from his station. “The Omega Blaster
will serve you well in your battles to come.
Packs quite a wallop if I do say so myself.”
“If this is what you all came up with,”
Ashley noted, “I can’t wait to see what the Zords are
like!”
Angela chuckled from her station. “I promise you…you’ll be blown away. That reminds me: I have to get back to the refabrication bay.”
And Angela made her way to the hyperportal.
“Blown away, huh?” Maya asked and then
noticed that Jason, Bill and Sean were trying their best to not look directly
at her. She looked down at the bikini
she still wore and frowned. “It’s
horrible, isn’t it?”
“Uhhhhh…”
Bill offered, his mouth agape slightly.
“I’ll tell ya
later,” Ashley laughed.
“By the bye, Sean,” Jason started,
“Thanks for the card, though I didn’t need the scare associated with ‘em.”
Sean laughed. “Bah!
They’re just for effect!”
They all shared a laugh at that.
The room was quiet, save for the
buzzing of flies. Vhund’s
forehead touched the ground as he prostrate himself before his master, fear
creeping into his heart with every passing second – a dagger of panic sliced
through him when Docor Ruzan
finally spoke.
“You
said that you would not fail me again, Vhund,” Ruzan’s deep baritone echoed in the room. “You
lied.”
“I...I am sorry, master,” Vhund stammered and kept his voice above a hoarse
whisper. “They…They are more tenacious than we…I…anticipated. I beg your forgiveness. Please.”
Ruzan stepped down
from his throne and petted Vhund on his bald
pate. “You lied to me, Vhund. And, you know how much I hate being lied
to. I hate it so much, in fact, that no
one has lied to me in over a century.
I’m not about to tolerate it now.
I will definitely not tolerate
it from my general.” He paused and
then looked down at Vhund. “Contemplate
this…in the Pit of Sorrow.”
“MASTER!” Vhund looked up, a
fearfully wild look in his eyes. “PLEASE, MASTER, NO!”
Ruzan snapped his
fingers, two Darklings appearing and grabbing Vhund by the arms. “See to it that he screams loud enough – as
an example to these other two failures!”
A gesture with his chin towards Prima and Iaxious before he nodded to them. They took Vhund
away who screamed and pleaded. Though he could have easily have overpowered
the Darklings, his master’s word was absolute law.
“BEGONE!” Ruzan screamed to
the other two who quickly left the room lest their master’s anger bore upon
them. He turned and stared at a mystical
viewport, watching the city of
Fin