//------------------------------// // Episode 2: A Siren Pirate's Life for me (Part Two) // Story: Power Rangers Galactic Pirates (Mykan's Starfleet Humans) // by Cobrawolf_Meiji2012 //------------------------------// The four females were on the run as the Kill-Ray Fighter fired on them from above, blue bolts of plasma striking the ground and causing explosions on the ground behind the Sirens and Mei. “Somehow, I blame you for this, Sonata!” Aria yelled as she ran. “I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!” Sonata yelled back. While they ran, the Kill-Ray started flying lower and then started to transform! Four long crab-like legs appeared on the bottom of the craft as tentacles and two large crab-like arms with giant pincers came out of compartments that were on the ship. The Stingray-like tail arched over its back like a scorpion as a satellite dish-like device ‘blossomed’ from the tip of it. The Kill-Ray had transformed into its walker mode. Its legs soon touched down on the ground and started chasing after them, its tail-mounted death ray firing at them. It was when the ray struck the ground near them that the four felt the ground suddenly give way! The Sirens and Mei soon fell down into a crevasse that was under them. They fell down into the darkness. (Que Intro) At the Village, Miranda approached Tethys. “It seems that those Bar-Barracuda we sent after that Lelanian were all destroyed.” She said. Tethys Turned to the saurian warrior. “Destroyed? How?” She demanded. “Three aliens attacked them and protected the Lelanian, but one of our fighters managed to blast them into an old lava tunnel and they are sure that the four are dead.” Miranda answers “I am not going to take any chances!” Tethys said, before turning to an area of ground that her shadow was on. “I will send one of my most powerful Ghoula after them to make sure they will not interfere.” with that, her shadow suddenly started to lengthen and extend as the Khu’Sun Symbol appeared on it. “Arise my commander from the depths of darkness! Arise Abyss-Maelstrom!” It was then that out of the shadow appeared two green glowing eyes and a fanged smile with some off tentacle with a light on the end of it. the shape rose out of the shadow, which then broke to reveal a monster that looked like a Deep-Sea Angler Fish with two muscular arms and two legs, wearing red Harem pants and holding a Trident. “Ghoula Abyss-Malstorm at your service, Admiral!” the monster said, bowing. “Good,” Tethys said, “We have a few interloping do-gooders running around that may try to stop us from taking the power of Captain Starhawke! I want them and their little otter friend destroyed!” “Yes, Admiral!” the Monster said, “Once I am done with them, there will not even be an Atom of them left!” “How come we always keep falling into stuff?” Aria asked sarcastically. The four girls had fallen into the crevasse, she was, in fact, a very old lava tube from when the nearby mountain was once an Active Volcano. But yet the girls did seem to have luck on their side as the tube was filled with some sea water and a pile of seaweed that had piled up inside the tube had broken their fall. The Bad news was there appeared to be no way out! “It seems we are stuck here.” Adagio said, “and if there is a way out to the Ocean, I think those things will be waiting.” It was one thing that the other would agree on with her. Unless the things thought they were dead, then they would be waiting for them on the surface. “I think we should get away from the hole we came down from.” Aria stated, “If those things think we are still alive, I think they will come after us.” “Well, let's find a way to get out of this place then,” Adagio said. Soon the four were walking away from where they landed and headed inwards. Oddly enough, there were some smaller cracks that had allowed light to come through, which while dim, allowed the Sirens and Mei to see their way through the lava tube. While they were walking, Sonata was talking with Mei. “Don’t let Dagi and Aria’s rudeness get you down.” The Blue haired Siren said, “They are that way because we had our bottoms kicked by a few people we knew and well.......disliked. They are nice on the inside, for realizes!” All Sonata got was an annoyed grunt from Aria. While that was happening, Adagio noticed light up ahead. “Hey!” she said, pointing to where the light was coming from. “I think there is a way out of here!” Soon all four females headed for where the light was coming from and soon saw that it was coming from an opening leading to somewhere. They could also smell fresh air coming through, which meant it could be an exit from the lava tube. The four reached the opening and soon crossed through it into the bright sunlight and into a jungle......growing in the middle of an old Volcanic Caldera. “Well, at least we are not in a lava tube,” Aria said sarcastically. Mei looked around and suddenly realized where they were. “This is the Holy Mountain!” She exclaimed in shock and some horror as it was said that no one was allowed to even go to the mountain. “Holy Mountain?” Adagio asked, confused “We are inside Mount Zordon, It is Forbidden to even be here!” Mei said, a look of fear. “Because of the ghost ship?” Sonata asked. Mei turned to the blue-haired siren, looking confused. “What Ghost ship?” she asked. “The ship over there,” Sonata said, pointing through a gap in the jungle and to the center of the caldera. Right in the middle, was a very large looking ship that looked like a Spanish Galleon. “Ok, I am officially weird out,” Aria stated, “How is there a freaking galleon in the middle of a volcanic mountain on some world that is perhaps LIGHT YEARS away from Earth?” “Um, I would say the same way WE got here, but I don’t know how we got here,” Sonata answered, which ended up with Aria bopping Sonata on the head. “We should NOT be here!” Mei yelled, turning to Aria and Sonata with fear in her eyes. “It is where the Great Zordon hid a Great Power! No one is allowed in the Mountain, not even we who Protect it!” “Great Power?” Aria asked, “Like some sort of magic?” It was then that Sonata noticed something. “Hey! Where’s Dagi?” Sure enough, Adagio was not around. While the other three were talking, Adagio had slipped away. Aria groaned in the realization where Adagio was heading and why. “She is heading for the Galleon!” Aria exclaimed, “You know how she is about Treasure!” One fact about the Sirens was that they had been on Earth for a very long time and Adagio was once a pirate queen who went after Spanish Treasure Ships in the late 1500s. So it would be no surprise that she would decide to go and loot the Galleon of any treasure, namely nice gold or silver shiny Jewelry. “We better stop her before she gets us in bigger trouble!” Aria soon said, starting after Adagio with Sonata and Mei following. Back at the village, the sound of a whip cracking on the back of someone filled the air as one of the Bar-barracudas was whipping the poor Kahuna, who was tied to a post. Tethys was walking back and forth like a predatory feline, anger on her face. “Ask you again you foolish old man.” The Space Pirate demanded, glaring at the Lelanian before yelling “WHERE IS THE POWER?!?!” The Kahuna only glared at her. “I will never tell you or any evil being!” He declared defiantly. “The Power will never be allowed to fall into the hands of evil!” “Ugh! This is useless!” Tethys exclaimed, turning around and letting her tail slam into the Kahuna, hard. “You and your ‘morals’!” As she started walking away and the Bar-Barracuda started whipping again. Tethys heard something that sounded like someone yelling ‘NEWTON!!!!!!’ and It was. The sound of someone falling from her ship and landing on the ground was enough to make Tethys grumble as she already could guess who it was. “I knew I should have locked that closet better,” she grumbled as she saw two beings in the sand, picking themselves up. Two beings that were total idiots and the bane of Tethys’ own sanity and existence, One of them was a literal walking skeleton in a leather jacket and black leather pants wearing a Stahlhelm on her head with two skull-like buns popping out of the top with two ‘pig-tails’ made of bones. She was known as Hecate. the other one was known as Punker, who looked like a mix of a Parrot and a Porcupine also wearing a leather jacket but had a pink tutu on. “WOW! THAT WAS FUN!” Hecate exclaimed before pulling her own head off and shaking out some sand and placing the head back on. “Yes indeed! Jumping off a ship 300 feet in the air! SHOUBOP!” Punker said, adding a ‘Shoubop’ at the end. It was then that they saw Tethys, glaring at them even though the two nitwits ignored the glare or did not see it. They were given to Tethys by her rival, The Grand Chancellor of the Khu’Sun Horde. They were the very bane of her existence. Speaking of that....... “Hey, Boss! You got a call on your mirror!” Hecate said, holding up a very well crafted hand mirror. The reflective surface was made not of glass, but black obsidian stone polished to reflect like glass. But there was also another thing about the mirror; it was a magic mirror and was used as a communications device. Tethys grabbed the mirror from Hecate and looked into it as it started swirling and an image appeared on it, that of a red avian being with a black beak and claws on the wings. Great, The bird-brain is calling to gloat. Tethys thought sarcastically before answering the communication. “What do you want, bird-brain!?” she demanded. The Avian, known as Dark Phoenix, glared back. “You push your luck, Admiral.” She hissed before continuing. “I am here because The Empress demands a report on the search for those ‘Legendary Powers’ that you seem to have no luck in finding.” “I will get the Powers,” Tethys retorted, “If only these stupid Otters would give me the bloody location!” “the Empress is getting tired of your lack of progress.” Dark Phoenix stated. “Find those powers or you will be sleeping with the fishes.” and with that, the Grand Chancellor cut off the communication. Tethys glared at the mirror. “I will show that walking featherhead who will be sleeping with the fishes!” Tethys grumbled loudly. Then she turned to the horde of Bar-Barracudas “Tear the rest of this place apart! I want any clue to the location of the Power found! NOW!!!!!!!!” and with that, she marched away from where the Bar-Barracuda was whipping the Kahuna and towards the Kahuna’s hut with Hecate and Punker following behind her. Standing outside, Miranda looked at Tethys. “I take it Dark Phoenix decided to call?” The saurian warrior asked. Tethys growled. “One of these days I will put that stinking bird into a toaster oven and cook her alive!” She yelled, “The Empress is losing patience and she demands the Power be found now!” “I hope we find that damn Power.” Miranda said, “These primitives do not have any Precious metals or jewels! Just stone and wood idols and bloody seashells!” Kodiak Kossack was tearing up the inside of the hut. “These useless Mekh-meshki don’t even have fine art or food!” He said, growling, “Just Stupid Rez'ba po derevu!” He pointed towards a carved wooden board that was on a shrine. It had some sort of scene. Tethys looked at it with disgust, only to suddenly realize something was odd about it. then it hit her! It was a carving of the Mountain and over it was a Star-Galleon! to be more precise, The Galleon of Captain Starhawke!. Ripping the board off the wall, Tethys ran back outside to get a better look at it, Miranda and Kodiak Kossack following. Hecate and Punker also following. Seeing it in the light of day, it was all too clear that the carving was, in fact, that of Captain Starhawke’s Star-Galleon Zord over the Mountain. That was when Tethys soon realized it was the location of the Galleon.......AND THE GREAT POWER! “The Bloody Power was right in front of us the whole time!” Tethys exclaimed, “They hid it in the mountain!” She soon turned to her fellow Khu’Sun. “Prepare all forces!” She ordered, “It is time we claim the Powers of Starhawke for the Empress and the Khu’Sun Horde!” “Ooo! Mountain Climbing!” Hecate said, “I can finally get to wear Lederhosen!” “Same here!” Punker answered. “O chert voz'mi, net!” Kodiak Kossack said, “The very idea of you two in Lederhosen makes me want to drink bleach!” “Enough of your Yammering!” Tethys ordered, before turning to Miranda. “Send a Message to Abyss-Malstrom, Have him join us to storm the Mountain.” “What of the Interlopers?” Miranda asked. “Forget them, they are no threat to us.” Tethys said, before turning to the Kahuna, “As for this old bastard, he is useless. Crucify Him.” Two of the Bar-Barracuda soon went to the old Kahuna and started to untie him and dragging him away to his fate. While Tethys laugh, knowing that at last, the Power would be hers. Back in the caldera, Adagio had reached the Galleon. The only thing blocker her from entering and looking for Treasure was the fact the ship was in a lake. “No matter.” She told herself, “I am good at swimming and I will just swim to the ship!” “ADAGIO!” came the yelling voice of Aria right behind her. Adagio turned and saw Aria, Sonata, and Mei heading her way. The Otter-girl looked afraid as if they were doing something wrong, which might have been the case as Mei had said that it was ‘holy ground’, not that Adagio cared. She never did care are anything religious. “Adagio, what in the HELL do you think you are doing!?!” Aria demanded, glaring at Adagio. “What does it look like I am doing?” Adagio answered sarcastically. “I am getting on that boat and getting rich! That Ship has to be full of treasure and I am going to get it!” “Great, You just had to go treasure crazy while we are stuck on an alien world!” Aria retorted, still glaring at Adagio. “How do you think we will ever get back to Equestria or even Earth? We don’t even know what Universe we are in for crying out loud!” “I don’t care if we are in freaking New Jersey!” Adagio exclaimed back with a glare that could make anyone back off. “I will get whatever treasure that is on that ship and I will find a way off this world and back to Civilization!” “And how will you do that if those things out there looking for us!?” Aria demanded. “I doubt we will be able to escape this time! This is not like back on Earth when we slip away when plans go wrong! We were lucky to survive two defeats back on Earth and escaped from Conva two times, but I don’t think we will be allowed to walk away if those things find us!” While the two were going at it, Sonata and Mei were watching the fight unfold. Sonata not that much phased by the argument as she had always seen this happen ever since the first day they met back in Seaquestria Elementary School. (That argument was started because Aria had placed a whoopee cushion on Adagio's seat.) It was while she was watching the argument, Sonata noticed something in the water. It was slowly rising from the water, like a turtle's head coming out of a pond. But the triangular shape was very familiar to anyone who ever lived in the sea, a shape that caused fear to anything that knew what it was. A Shark fin... A very BIG shark fin. Sonata soon started sputtering, pointing to the ever-rising fin that was heading right for Adagio and Aria. "Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh..." She started trying to say. Both Aria and Adagio had stopped their fighting, looking at Sonata like she was some type of rabid animal. "Sonata, hat in the Abyss are you babbling about?!" Adagio demanded, glaring at her. "SHARK!!!!!!" came the scream, this time it was from Aria. She had seen Sonata point towards the water and turned and saw the shark fin, which looked very orange and metallic looking. Adagio also turned and saw the beast heading for them. "RUN FOR IT!!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, causing all four to turn tail and run for their lives like no tomorrow as the thing crashed onto the shore, metal teeth snapping like a bear trap. the emerald green eyes glared as it roared at the fleeing beings before suddenly flying out of the water and into the air. The four females were running through the greenery trying to escape the flying mechanical nightmare that was coming after them. "What the hell is that thing!?!" Aria yelled, ducking under an overhanging branch. "It is one of the Guardians!" Mei yelled, "We have trespassed on Holy Ground and They are going to punish us!" "Good going, Adagio!" Aria yelled, looking at Adagio as they ran. "You had to anger a...wait," She turned to Mei, "You said 'they'?" It was then that two more things, both also mechanical sharks, leaped out of the water and also flew towards them. "Great! More of them!" Adagio yelled. "Nice going guys!" Sonata yelled back, "This time I did not do it!" "Shut up, Sonata!" Adagio yelled in reply. As the three mechanical sharks got closer, Adagio saw a thick growth of bushes that looked good enough to duck into. "Quick! Dive into the brush!" She exclaimed and dove for the growth. The other three diving in over her as the orange colored shark, which looked like a Great White, flew past, followed by the other two mechanical beasts. The three soon turned and after going around the area, headed back to the lake the ship was on and dove back in. After the three robotic sharks left, the four females poked their heads out of the bush they were in. "Ok, will someone explain why we were being chased by robot sharks?" Aria demanded. "I think our little otter friend knows about them," Adagio said while glaring at Mei. "They are the guardians of the Mountain, placed there by the Great Zordon himself," Mei replied. "They guard the power that my people were to protect from the forces of evil." "Great going, Adagio." Aria hissed, glaring at the leader of the Sirens. "You just had to try anger a bunch of robotic watchdogs and almost gotten us chewed up by them!" It was then that one word suddenly started ringing in her head. "Wait!" She exclaimed as she turned to Mei. "Did you say Zordon?" The Lelani female nodded and both Adagio and Aria groaned while Sonata just stared at them quizzically. "Why are you groaning?" the blue Siren asked. "Remember what happened on Earth back before the whole Battle of the Bands and the whole Demonite affair? back in the 1990s?" Aria said, reminding her of their time on Earth before those events when they had visited a city known as 'Angel Grove' just when it was attacked by an alien witch known as 'Rita Repulsa' and the appearance of the first team of Power Rangers. "Um..................I forgot." Sonata answered, her memory not very good on things that did not involve tacos or furies at times. "The how about this?" Adagio answered, "The last time we were on Earth when we got teleported along with the tower we were in?" It was then that Sonata's one track mind finally clicked to the misadventures back on Mystic Island when they faced off against Sunset Shimmer's team of Power Rangers. "Oh!" She replied, "Wait, are you saying those big scary shark-bots are in fact zords?" "Let me think about that...YES!" Aria said, "Zords built by Zordon, the founder of the first Power Rangers Team on Earth!" "Oh!" Sonata said again before she soon said "What has that got to do with us being here now?? Aria soon did a face-palm and growled in frustration at the other siren and her very short term memory. Even as this was happening, the four females did not notice the humanoid looking thing that was coming up behind them, sneaking up like a ninja. Or would have if it did not step on a trig and snapped it, causing the girls to turn around to see the thing that looked more like it was a bunch of plants that formed a humanoid shape. And caused them to scream, like scared hamsters, well, almost all of them. Aria was not one to scream at a monster, she was one to fight one. Not waiting for the thing to try anything, She leaped at it and with her left fist, punched it right in the gut. The hit forced the thing back a bit only for Aria to do a spin kick right at the head, knocking it down. One the thing was down, Aria was on top of it and was beating the crud out of it, with the others joining in, ready to kick Monster butt. Only for the thing to start talking. "Ow! HEY! I Give! I Give!" it said, trying to surrender. That was when Adagio realized something. "Wait a Minute! this is a Ghillie suit!" She exclaimed as she grabbed a hold of the 'head' and yanked it off, reviling that shaggy Dark brown hair of a young human male, in his late teens/early 20s. His skin was tanned and by all looks, appeared to be a Beach-Bum. "Whoah!" He said, holding his hands in surrender, hoping not to get beaten again by the four females that were still hovering over him. "Now, babes, can we talk about this before beating me up?" He continued. The four looked down at him with confused looks before Sonata turned to the others and asked: "Can we keep him?" A rustling in the nearby caught the girls attention and they turned their heads to the source as a voice soon sounded nearby. "Mr. Dude," It said in what sounded like a British accent, "If you have angered another Terrapin, I am not going to help you get it off your toe!" Soon out of the bushes came out a person, or it looked like one. It looked human, but the head was blueish colored, bald with two fins where ears should have been, a small nose and small mouth with two large Black eyes. The being stopped and looked at them with a bit of surprise. "My dear word, You should have told me we had visitors!" It exclaimed. The four females just stood there in shock, until Adagio decided to say something. "Probe Sonata, she had no brain!" Adagio said, pointing at the blue Siren who just glared at her. The Lelanians ran for their lives because they were. In the air, Kill-Rays attacked, firing on the fleeing otter-people or dropping firebombs, burning many to death in the firestorm that resulted from the bombs. On the ground, thousands of Bar-barracudas charged through the undergrowth, killing even more of the fleeing Lelanians, with Kill-Rays in walker mode following, blasting everything in their path. Walking among them were Tethys and her crew, armed and ready to take what they wanted. And two of them were busy being idiots in Lederhosen and yelling 'Ricola!' while going with Tethys, much to the annoyance of the other. "Ugh! why did they have to put on that stupid lederhosen!?!" Miranda complained, sickened by the sight of a walking skeleton and a Pukwudgie in lederhosen. "Never mind that!" Tethys said, whispering, "as soon as we find a lava lake, we will dump them in it!" Tethys soon turned back to the Mountain itself, raising her cutlass high. "Soon we shall have the Power and Nothing will stop us!" Back in the Mountain itself, the group of six were nearing a small clearing that had the remains of a crashed spaceship in the center of it. the clearing was very close to the same lake that held the ship and the shark zords. The crashed ship was a saucer-shaped craft with a green colored dome. the thing itself was mostly undamaged save for some blast marks on it, but as the Alien, Professor Zorg B. Grey, said, its engines were beyond repair. "And even if I could repair it," Zorg said, "I do not have any fuel to get off this planet or even to get back to Planet Intella! So I am stuck here along with you all. Unless one of you four ladies have a full Quadors of fuel on you, I doubt anyone of us will be leaving any time soon." "To be honest, I doubt any of us can get back to where we belong." Aria said, "Not with those things out there." "Ah, those creatures you said were after you." Zorg said, "By the way to described them, I can say they are Bar-Barracuda, foot soldiers for the Khu'Sun, which means we are more likely to be killed if they ever find us." "So, how come you crashed?" Sonata asked. "To tell you the truth I had no choice in crashing." Zorg answered, "I was doing a survey of the Meltelia System when I just happened to run into a squadron of Kill-Rays that were in the area. I decided that it would have been best to get out of the frying pan before I was tossed into the Fire and charged of my hyperdrive, only to get hit by a few blasts before he jump-started. That fried the Navigational systems and caused a blind jump to this planet and a crash landing into this caldera! It was by the luck of the Elders of Eldar that I survived. But I was stuck here and still stuck. In fact, I was here along for four Parmonths before Mr. Surfer Dude landed out of the sky!" The human male, named Surfer Dude, held up his hands, "Whoah, dude! It was not my fault on that one! Like I should have totally Not surf near the Nemesis Triangle, but nope, had to take that narly bet by those dudes back at Blue Bay Harbor and I got sent here, falling on The Profess. Still, man, that was one wild wipeout, dudes!" "You can stop calling us 'dudes', 'dude'," Aria muttered under her breath. The group soon approached the crashed ship as Zorg continued talking. "Since I have no way to get home, I have been studying the caldera and the ecosystem of this place, also trying to investigate why a Free Seas- class Star Galleon is doing in the middle of a lake." "So, why is a Galleon floating in the middle of a lake?" Sonata asked, very confused, which earned a face-palm from Aria. "What?" Sonata said, wondering why Aira did the face-palm. "Anyways," Zorg stated, "I have been using drones to explore the world outside, as I did not want to draw unwanted attention from the locals." with that, he walked to his ship and dug through it, pulling out a small computer and a saucer-shaped device that appeared to be some type of drone. "These drones are equipped with cameras and a cloaking device, the best for studying natives without interfering with them." "Well, I think that you might not have to 'interfere' anymore because there is a lot of interfering going on out there," Aria said. "Mainly that alien army that is after us!" "Yeah, about them," Adagio said, then turned to Zorg, "can your little drone thing fly up to check with those fish-faced freaks are after us still?" "I will prepare to launch it as soon as I can," Zorg said as he started prepping the drone for taking off. "In the meantime, we should figure out how to get to that ship!" Adagio said, still thinking about getting to the Galleon and trying to get any Treasure on the ship. Aria growled in frustration. "Have you forgot the fact that there are three killer SharkZords in the lake guarding said ship?!" She stated, glaring at Adagio "Also How are you going to get there? Ask it to come over to us?!" "Um...Aira." Sonata said, point towards the lake, "I think it heard you." Everyone turned towards the lake and to their shock, saw the Galleon moving towards the shore by itself! It was sailing for them but there was no one on board. Adagio smirked then turned towards Aria. "Ask and you shall receive, eh, Aria?" She said snarkily while Aria just glared daggers at her. The Star Galleon continued to move to the shore, heading for the group. As it came closer, they saw that it appeared to be more metallic and robotic. The sails where metal sheets colored ocean blue while the hull of it was a bright red. Soon it stopped right next to the shore, in front of the group. A ramp lowering seemingly to allow them to board. "Come into my parlor." Adagio said, looking to her sisters and the other three beings. To be continued