DISCLAIMER Morphin, Zeo, & Space, as well as Justin (Stewart):Saban. JLA, Titans, Young Justice, and all associated heroes:DC. You all know the rest. You get the feeling I’m headed for a nervous breakdown with all of these people in my stories?
The Technis Imperative
by C.A. Turner
Over the African jungle, a flying golden woman with firery red hair was doing battle with a seeming space probe. Shooting starbolts out of her fingertips, she wondered why this thing was after her in the first place. She had no more time to think about such things, however, as the probe shot out capture cables, and pulled her into it.
Starfire captured. More to apprehend.” A mechanical voice spoke.
JLA Watchtower
Rocky DeSantos, Adam Park, Tanya Sloan, Jamie Zedden, Kat Hillard, & David Truehart were with the Flash & Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. They were assembling a new GPS tracking system when talk went over to a new possibility of another team of Teen Titans. Tanya asked “Flash, you used to be a Titan, what was it like?
“Hard to describe. It was a rollercoaster of a ride that I got off of way too soon. Why do you ask?”
“With talk about the Titans possibly getting back together, I was really wanting to know about them, how they were, pretty much everything.” Tanya was about to ask more, when the Watchtower violently shook.
“Now, what?” Hawkwoman snarled.
Now a group of survailence pods, the same type of thing that attacked Starfire, was determined to do some damage here. Kat quickly spoke into her comm unit, shouting “Trey, get your butt up here, NOW!”
In 2 minutes, Trey showed up. “Kat, why are you screaming into the communicator like a wild woman? You didn’t…WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY?”
“That’s what we need to find out. IT’S MORPHIN TIME!” David yelled.
“ZEO RANGER 1, PINK!”
“ZEO RANGER 2, YELLOW!”
“ZEO RANGER 3, BLUE!”
“ZEO RANGER 4, BLACK!”
“ZEO RANGER 5, RED!”
“ZEO RANGER 6, PURPLE!”
“GOLD RANGER POWER!”
Hawkman contacted both Hal Jordan & Isis, who joined them in seconds. Soon, 12 heroes were fighting an entire fleet of capture pods hell bent on capturing…
“FLASH! Get out of that thing’s way! It really wants you bad!” Adam shouted, then jumped in. “ZEO 4 POWER PUNCH!” Adam kicked, threw, and just trashed the pod any way he could. Another one, however, was right on top of him, and…
“ADAM!” Tanya screamed.
“That thing’s gonna pay! How do you like being suckerpunched at light speed, creep?” The Flash bellowed as he shot towards the creatures, literally tearing some of them to shreds. However, there was another one which caught him.
In the following order: Adam, Flash, Rocky, Tanya, Trey, Jamie, David, & Kyle, these heroes were captured and the pods with them shot away. One remained, and made it’s target known: Kat.
But this time, Kat was able to find out something about these creatures. Mainly, they are going around capturing former Titans members for some unknown reason. Anger flooded her as she placed a tracking device on the departing pod, and just threw herself into a majorleague battle with the one left. “Capture my friends, will you? EAT ZEO POWER KICK, YOU BASTARD!” and just proceeded to tear it to pieces.
“I don’t get it! It seems to be capturing former Titans members, then it decided to nail almost all of the Zeo Rangers? Why?” Hal Jordan asked Kat.
“A better question would be why did it seem to miss me. It’s also caught Flash & Kyle. We need to get the others up here, now. I’ve got a feeling we may be in for some serious trouble here.” Kat responded.
Nothing more was said. Hal hit the JLA communication system, set for level 3, member-wide priority. Seconds later, Black Canary, and all 7 of the Lightstar Rangers were at the Watchtower. “Now what fresh hell are we dealing with?” Aisha Campbell, the Purple Lightstar, asked.
“I think we’d better wait until the rest of the JLA is here. One of them may be able to find out what’s going on.” Hawkman told her.
“I’m with Kat. I have a feeling we better find out soon.” Hawkwoman finished.
The teleporters gave another quick hum, and soon, the Morphin Rangers, the Thundercats, and Isis, Wonder Woman, & Batman were there, along with a late Superman, & Martian Manhunter. Batman, it seems, had already been observing the pods, and traced the energy source. No one liked the answer.
” TITANS’ TOWER?” a stunned Superman bellowed.
“Makes sense. It explains why it wants former Titans. What it doesn’t is why it wants the Zeo Rangers.” Jason Lee Scott, the Red Ranger frowned. Trini Kwan, the Yellow Ranger, was keeping a close eye on Jason. Jamie, his girfriend is the Purple Zeo Ranger, and was among it’s captives. He was holding it in, but…
“We’ve got more problems. Look at what’s coming at us!” Samantha Dean, the Purple Ranger shouted. It looked like every bit of space debris was coming towards the moon, specifically the Watchtower.
“WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS ABOUT?” Tommy Oliver, the White Ranger, snarled.
“It looks like the Watchtower has suddenly become an intergalactic off-ramp. These are space vehicles…including the AstroMegaship! Now, we’ve really got something to worry about!” Billy Cranston frowned.
Batman added “Things just keep going from bad to worse. We’re losing control of certain electronic devices here, except for the life-support systems, thank God.”
“That’s bad enough. What’s worse is another one of those pod thingies is back, I guess to finish capturing the Zeo Rangers. This time, I’m gonna let it take me to where the other Rangers & Titans are being held at. I just need some kind of advantage over it.” Kat said.
Taking this as a cue, Hal concentrated, and made a duplicate of his power ring. “Unfortunately, it has the same yellow weakness as mine, it’s not at all like Kyle’s. Be careful.”
Soon, Kat found herself on Earth, on Titan’s Island in Manhattan. “Now to find out why these things want us so badly.” Using the duplicate power ring, Kat burst her way out, almost at the same time, Kyle did the same thing, as did Adam, and Nightwing. “Holy…will you look at all who’s here! Why us?” Adam puzzled.
I suspect we’d better find out soon, and I can’t help but feel this is only the beginning.” Nightwing added.
“Yeah, but what? And who’s behind this?” The Flash had just broken out of his prison-pod, and joined the others.
“I’ve got an idea, but no one’s gonna like it. Anyone remember a guy called Cyborg?” Adam asked.
“We should.” Flash frowned, referring to himself & Nightwing.
“Well, a couple of weeks ago, this one other former Titan, Changeling, was telling me all about Cyborg, then Cyberion. He soon became part of this mechanical conciousness, and soon Changeling left him. Apparently, he’s trying to re-establish his human side, and began gathering former Titans.”
“HOLD IT! Reverse. Nightwing & Flash, I understand. And Donna, Raven, Starfire, & Changeling make sense. But what do some of these other Titans, not to mention me and the Zeo Rangers have to do with this. None of us have ever even met him.” Kyle grumbled.
“I understand what Adam’s talking about now. In Cyborg’s current state of…mind, so to speak, he can’t differentiate between Titan teams. But, where do the Zeo Rangers come in in all of this?” Kat asked.
“Why is this…Cyborg, whoever he is, catching the Zeo Rangers as well as the Titans? What the hell is this all about?” Robin asked. He had a not too pleasant encounter with them, just before they rejected him.
“I couldn’t answer that one, but here’s one I can. Why are the so-called ‘New Gods’, along with former Leaguers, attacking Titans’ Island?” Jason asked.
“I’m not sure of the why, but I know we’ve got to stop them right now! The Titans & the Zeos are down on that island somewhere. Knowing some of these idiots with God complexes, they’re liable to raze the entire island just to get whatever the hell they want, and then some, especially Orion.” Superman snarled.
“Darkseid’s son? The stakes just got worse. He doesn’t care about innocent people, just mindless carnage.” Tommy shouted. “We’ve got to get down there and stop those idiots NOW!”
In seconds, the Rangers had contacted Young Justice, and told them to let the Geo Rangers know what was going on, and to contact the Thundercats…just in case. Once on the island, Batman advised everyone, “Be careful. If Cyborg’s conciousness is still intact, it may still have suffered some ill effect, and may see us as unknown enemies, and have brainwashed the former Titans against us. Be careful, everyone.”
“TURN AROUND AND GO BACK NOW! This is our capture! Leave!” bellowed a rather brutish-looking fiend.
” ‘New Gods’ HAH! ‘New, Deluded, Pathetic, Power-Hungry, Selfish, Moronic Bastards with God complexes’ is more like it!” Jason snarled.
Orion snarled “Take care, and keep a civil tongue, boy!”
Metron, always sitting in his Mobius chair, added “You do not know who you address, dancing like ants on a hill before…” This was as far as he got. One lightning bolt for Orion, and one for Metron, shut the pair up, a gift from Isis. “I see if anything, Jason’s description of you was an understatement. Now, we have some friends of ours who need our help, and we are not about to let you sons-of-bitches stand in the way of that.”
“Who cares about a few inconsequential lives when a very powerful souce is down there that can power our weapons for eternity? Loss of life is necessary in a battle.” Solara declared.
For the first time since the Justice League had known her, or her fellow Rangers for that matter, Trini completely lost her temper, and exploded “I DON’T BELIEVE YOU INCONSIDERATE, SELFISH, BLOODTHIRSTY, MURDERING SCUM! WE DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THAT HERE! ON THIS PLANET, ALL LIFE IS SACRED! YOURS POSSIBLY BEING THE ONE EXCEPTION TO THAT!”
Diana gently took her aside. “Trini, please. Losing your cool won’t help here. I know they’re total scum, but try not to let them get to you. We won’t let them stop us from saving our friends, Â that I promise you.
“I know, and I’m sorry about that, Wonder Woman, but…”
“Believe me, Trini, I’ve wondered about how people like that are created. To hell with them, they’re not worth the hassle.”
“I’m glad to see one of you is trying to calm your mad pups!” Lightray snarled.
“I could tell you guys the same thing, but you’re such huge piles of walking horse manure, it’s impossible for me to care. Now, for the last time, get out of our way, our friends need help, and I for one am not about to waste one more second with the likes of you!” Wonder Woman told them.
“ENOUGH OF THIS! It matters not who is hostage, or that fact, even. We need a new power source for our new weapons, and that is it! Now begone!” Highfather, leader of the New Genesis group, tried to order.
“Yeah, so you can power up your death machines against Apokolips, which is only slightly worse than you cruds. Not on your life! We are rescuing our friends!” Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger, shouted.
Orion snarled “I believe the saying is ‘You and what army?'” . At that point, the Thundercats, Young Justice, & the Geo Rangers arrived. Together with the Lightstar Rangers, the JLA, & the Morphin Rangers, Kim snarled “THIS ONE!”
At this point, the former Titans members, along with the Zeo Rangers, had gotten themselves free, but not before winding up in a few holographic fantasy existences. “Now I know Cyborg is behind this, misguidedly creating false lives for each of us. But, we have to talk to him, try to get him to stop.” Tanya spoke up.
The former Wonder Girl, now called Troia, added “We better hurry and get topside. From what I hear, the ‘New Gods’ have gotten some former Justice Leaguers to help them steal Cyborg and use him as a power source. Something’s also happening on the moon as well.”
“Yeah, someone is turning the moon into a intergalatic dumpsite, and it’s also causing havoc with the Earth’s weather. But first, let’s send those ‘New Freaks’ packing!” Rocky yelled.
“Leave it to me! I’ll take care of this!” Starfire shouted, and shot off a series of high intensity starbolts, smashing the once-secure steel ceiling, leaving the Zeo Rangers & the Titans a way out of their enforced habitat. On top, however, they joined right in against the New Gods.
“To hell with us, huh? Funny, that’s exactly how we feel about you bastards. In other words, get gone!” Trey, the Gold Ranger, shouted, and fired a blast of Golden Zeo energy at the attackers.
“Fools! Begone!” Orion yelled, and shot a searing blast at Trey.
“TREY!” Tanya yelled. Turning back to Orion, she snarled “You filthy, worthless, selfish son of a bitch!”
“Yes, that does describe my father very well, but mind your tongue, and leave him be, girl!’
Kim, Zack, Tommy, Samantha, Billy, a slightly calmer Trini, and Jason put the UltraBlaster together, Jason shouting “Man, we’ve had about enough of you! FIRE!” The blast slammed into Orion, sending him into several trees, finally putting him out. “Burn in hell, slimeball!” Jason snapped.
Metron fired a concussive blast at the Morphin Rangers, but the Flash sent it right back at the New God. He then vibrated the Mobius Chair he was sitting in into several billion bits.
Former Leaguers Fire, Ice, Tasmanian Devil, & Plastic Man tried their best, but were soon overcome by an angry group of Zeo Rangers, who caused them to use their powers against each other. “STRIKE THREE! THEY’RE OUT!” Rocky grinned
Each time the New Gods tried a gambit, the Earth heroes defeated their efforts. Within the hour, they were sending the New Gods back to New Genesis with their tails between their legs. “You slimeballs caused this, stay away from our planet, we’ll send your mess back to you!” Kat snarled.
“Now the problem seems to be how to take back the moon from a disembodied Titan. How do we do that?” David frowned.
“No problem there. Simply go to the moon and talk to him.” Rocky frowned.
“Rocky, just exactly what do we talk to? He’s a disembodied spirit that’s currently possessing machinery and inadvertenly causing all kinds of weather chaos here on Earth, we just can’t strike up a casual chat with the guy.” Adam snapped.
Jamie looked at Adam and asked “Why not. In my short time as a Ranger, I’ve seen weirder things happen.”
Kat seemed to take charge at this point. “The best people to do that would be the original Titans, and Raven. Let’s get them here, and tell them all of this.
Raven was already on top of things, contacting Titans Nightwing(the 1st Robin), Troia (the original Wonder Girl), Flash(Kid Flash), Arsenal(Speedy), and Tempest(Aqualad). The Zeo team was the ones joining them, along with the Thundercats. As they headed for the now unrecognisable moon, both Wonder Woman & Jason looked up worriedly at Raven’s golden soul self as it headed into space with it’s passengers.
“Don’t worry, we trained them well. They’ll be all right.” Hawkman told them
Both nodded, then looked up, unconvinced.
Once on the moon, the heroes disembarked, with one extra addition. “You may all exit now.” Raven told them.
Before everyone’s startled eyes, Starfire exited the golden soul-self of Raven. “Before anyone says anything, he’s my friend too, and I feel I should be here.”
“OK, now that we’re all here, how do we contact him?” David asked.
“Like this.” Trey told everyone, and used his golden staff to create a warming glow around the area.
After that, the Titans & Zeo Rangers began to vanish, until Nightwing was standing alone with one aspect of Cyborg, the human side he so desired. With him was Adam and David. Both tried to talk to him to make him understand the type of chaos that was going on with Earth’s weather because of his control of the moon.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Thundercats had returned to Earth to help the others keep the planet safe. There was plenty to do. Former Titan Terra, and Black Geo Ranger Franklin Park were trying to stop a piece of New Genesian spaceship from crashing to the surface, killing thousands if it did. The Thundercats called on theRangers... Dino zords…
Tracy: I NEED SABRETOOTH TIGER ZORD POWER!
Chris: I NEED MASTODON ZORD POWER!
Bill: I NEED TRICERATOPS ZORD POWER!
Laurie: I NEED PTERODACTYL ZORD POWER!
Keith: I NEED TYRANNOSAURUS ZORD POWER!
Quickly forming the DinoMegaZord, they tried to stop it’s descent into the atmosphere. It broke in half. But that other half just seemed to stop in midair. All soon discovered why.
“WONDER WOMAN!” all seven shouted.
The Amazon Princess was holding the other half in midair, and quickly tossed it back into space. “We’ve got to hurry. Things are falling to every part of the planet, and we’ve got to stop them.”
Back on the moon, the Titans and Zeo Rangers had just made contact with the one formerly called Cyborg, and had him release control of the moon. When he did that, however, all hell just broke loose.
“GOOD GRIEF, THIS PLACE JUST BECAME A INTERGALACTIC OFF-RAMP!” Rocky shouted.
A round metallic sphere floated up to them. Raven knew what it was. “The Omegahedron! I must get this back to Earth, along with Cyborg’s soul, but what about all of you?”
“We’ll be fine. Go!” David yelled.
“Raven! I’ve got a very desperate idea! Put his soul into the Omegahedron. Hurry, you can’t hold it much longer!” Isis yelled.
Soon, having been funnelled into the round object, he took control of it, forming it into a almost humanoid shape, but colored gold. Groggily, he asked “What the hell happened?”
Soon, everyone on Earth had stopped all of the falling New Genesis debris, and the moon had restored itself to normal. The Titans, however, were still aboard errant space debris, with the Zeo Rangers. “Can we interest you guys in a lift back to Earth?” Tanya asked them.
“WE NEED SUPERZEOMEGAZORD POWER, NOW!”
The huge rocket, composed of 6 Zeozords, made its way towards them, and soon all fit aboard, although a little tight. Rocky, being Rocky, smiled at Kat. “You know, up against you, I notice you’ve got a nice little…”
“DON’T MAKE ME HURT YOU, DESANTOS!”
2 weeks later, in the JLA Satellite, the Leaguers, Rangers, & Titans had got together. Robin and the Titans had some important news.
“As you know, the Titans are getting back together, and we would like the Zeo Rangers to be a part of our group. How about it?” Nightwing asked them.
Kat, Tanya, Adam, Rocky, David, Jamie, & Trey gave a huge WHOOP, Kat finally speaking for everyone. “You bet.”
Kyle added “With Hal back on the team, you really don’t need 2 GLs, but the Titans may need one. I’m going with them, at least for now.”
Troia grinned “Welcome aboard.”
Robin added “I’m leaving too. Young Justice needs some help, and I can give it to them.”
Batman smiled at his young partner. “I think you made the right choice, kid.”
Jamie grinned at Jason. “How about that, I’m a Titan. This is gonna rock.
Jason said nothing. He just took his girlfriend into his arms, and gave her a soft long kiss.
The End