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Final Hope Interlude 3 - The Phoenix Falls · The Multiverse Collective

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We are travelling back in time around four, 4504 thousand 600
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years and we see a young Zordon on the planet Eltar after just
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completing a mission to save the universe from the Charybdis.
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How what? I'm going to let you do this.
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What does Zordon look like here? For whatever you want out and
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it'll be cannon. Wow, OK, well, hot damn.
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All right, throw me on the. Throw me on the on the tracks
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like that. OK, so this is just like right
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after he defeats Krivdis. Yeah, him and his Ranger team.
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You know, Zordon is the Golden Ranger, the the Phoenix Ranger.
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He is the leader. He has the best connection to
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the morphine grid out of all, all the ranges.
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You know, it's just been a long, arduous battle, so, you know,
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so, yeah. How's he looking?
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How's he feeling? So I I see I see the scene
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opening where like this is just literally after crib.
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This is body hit the ground. So there's still like a plume of
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smoke in the background and still like echoes of rumbles
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from when he hit. And I think kind of coming down
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like about to hit that that superhero landing, but move.
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He's just like levitating down instead of that drop.
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And he just lands in that 3 point stance, stands up, looks
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around and you hear in the helmet, everybody good,
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everybody all right, We lose anything, lose anyone.
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As he as you look around, you see before teammates, all of
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them battered and bruised, but everyone seems to be surviving.
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You see the blue Ranger, he, the blue Ranger is the nymph Ranger,
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and he's like, yeah, I'm all good.
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Going to take a couple of weeks to recover after that fight
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though. Yeah, but like, is anything
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broken? Initial scans show everything's
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fine. Good.
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Good. That's all I like to hear.
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All right. Anyone else?
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Everyone else. Good.
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We ready to move on. You see all all the rest of the
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Rangers put the thumbs up and just start plugging.
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Fantastic. Was I given any direction as to
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what to do with Karibdis once defeated?
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Or are we just kind of leave Karibdis there, walk off into
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the sunset? Coco Power Ranger.
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Exactly that we never see what happens to the monsters after
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the. Defeat.
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All right, so I guess we're done here.
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We'll leave the rest to clean up.
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And he'll start walking. And as he's walking, you'll see
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just his helmet split right down the middle and then just start
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to fold back. And as it does, you see Zordon
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he is about, let's say he's about 65, just like like Roman
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statue esque, kind of like chiseled face and just like
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natural good looks. He has like 2 scars and somehow
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they're just miraculously placed in the most opportune places to
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not draw from his face or his rugged charm and good looks.
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But it accentuates it. So you see that and it comes
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back. And as it keeps cutting back,
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like his eyes are closed at 1st and then opens up to, you know,
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get used to that change of light and you see that he has just
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almost, they almost look like they're glowing, but they're
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not. They're just that brilliant deep
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hue of emerald. Nice.
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You know, we see you walking off into the distance and into the
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sunset. You know you've just saved the
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universe. You know, you you get back to
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your base of operations and imagine at this point, you know,
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the Marfan grid doesn't have a lot of protection.
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It's, you know, you're very early on in the eons of life for
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this sector of the universe and you see, you know, the Morphin
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Grid, it's just this massive tube with loads of different
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multi coloured lights shooting all through it.
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And you know, you've just got loads of different computers and
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consoles around. And on these screens that are
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floating around the places you see hundreds if not thousands of
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messages of thanks from people across the universe.
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You know, you're being hailed as a God, the God, the God of the
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Rangers for everything you've done in in the prior years to
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fight in the Cribdis and now the defeating the World Eater
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itself. You know it's something that no
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one thought was going to happen. And you, you and your team of
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Rangers have just miraculously pulled the biggest win out of
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nothing. And you know that the job's
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never done, ever. You know, you, you as Sodom
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would get back and you'd know something else is going to
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happen next week or next month. There's going to be another
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threat that you need to go and deal with.
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So you imagine you, you go back and you just get straight back
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into prepping for the next big thing that is going to be
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threatening you yourselves as Power Rangers or the universe as
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a whole. You know, time goes by, you
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defeat countless other people. Read a repulsor.
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You steal her away on the moon of a young planet called earth.
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You fight Ivan News and steal him away on the planet Earth and
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bury, bury his tomb so you know people can't find where he is.
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And all these things keep happening and you keep getting
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all this praise as the one you are, like the the man you are,
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who everybody relies on for everything.
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And then one day while you're at the base, you start seeing
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anomalies on your computers. And it seems like there's some
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sort of instability with the morphing grid and the universe.
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And it seems that these fluctuations of different
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energies that you've never seen before that could only be
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described as gateways to hell. As you look at the videos from
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different planets, when you see these tears in the sky, you see
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different beings that you'd never would have encountered
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before, before the tear closes itself and you, you know
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something, you know something significant is happening on a
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fundamental level. You know, you've got to find a
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way to, to sort it out. You know, what would what would
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your reaction be to a universal threat that is is bigger than
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the previous one? When when the the the camera
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pans over all the alerts and everything going off of and then
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turns back to Zordon sitting at sitting at the computer looking
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at all these alerts. He will most certainly 100% have
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just not really a high and tight because he is not going to be
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that high, but essentially just a fade, like a really low fade.
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And he just completely clean shaven and it's just sitting
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like sitting upright and you'll see his eyes like it goes from
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the screen to his face and you just see his eyes darting all
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over the board. But the rest of them is
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extremely calm. He's not freaking out.
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His eyes are darting because it's taking in a lot of
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information at one time because he is raised to take every
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single take, every situation, analyze it, go through numerous
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possibilities of what could and could not happen and then start
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formulating plans immediately off the bat.
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So that's what he's doing right now.
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He's looking around and then as he does that for about a good 30
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seconds, he calculates like the dangers to to everyone.
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There's, he never really calculates danger to himself
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because he feels that he was raised for this, he was bred for
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this. This is what he was destined to
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do. So as long as he keeps his, his
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wits about him and his head on his shoulders, he doesn't have
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to worry about whether it's too dangerous or not.
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If any of the other Rangers are going, he's going.
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And so he just makes quick little calculations about, you
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know, who needs to worry more about dangers that we're going
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to face going into this. And he'll just sit there and
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you'll see his hand kind of typing on a little pad and it's
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just assigning percentages for like danger levels to each one
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of the Rangers. And then he'll just hit a button
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and it sends it out to all the Rangers, letting them know, hey,
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this is going on. And it's really just a detailed
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itinerary of like, what's going on, what his plan is, you know,
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what everybody can expect. And it's just, it's a lot for
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just the hey, there's something going on alert.
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But this is how he goes. This is how he he handles
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things. So if you roll, have you got
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dice with you? 2D6 we need all.
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Right, so you say grab 2D6. Yes, So what I want you to roll
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is 2D6 plus your savior modifier which is 3.
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OK, let me find you, D6. Oh shit, they're everywhere.
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Oh God, they're in my raccoon wounds.
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I got to find special sword on dice now.
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There we go. OK, OK, so yeah, look like you
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can't really see, but my hands are packed with dice and there's
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still more in the bag. Fun fact, Adam from running
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trainers got me this bag. The reason being is because I
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horrified him so bad that he did it.
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All my dice. Oh God, in one hand.
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Nice. But yeah, I remember we were on
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a like a TTRPG talk show and they were talking about dice.
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And I was like, yeah, I got a bunch of dice.
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I just kind of leave them in a box here.
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And he was like, and she was like, hey, just take this.
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And I was like, OK, thanks. All right, so 2D6 plus.
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Savior. Savior.
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Hot diggity Dang. All right, that is plus Savior
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10. OK, cool.
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So the information you send out is perfect, down to the letter.
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Everything you need, it's got where everybody needs to be,
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everyone where everyone needs to be situated, what they need to
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do, the timings of their actions, everything, everything
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down to the last minute detail is there.
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And you know, this is as you say, you've been raised for
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this. You know, you know that you are
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doing this no matter what this is, you know, it's, it's part of
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the job. A couple days go by and you
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know, all this, all these tears in reality are coming through.
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They're getting bigger, they're getting more prolonged.
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Things are passing through. Thankfully, the Rangers are
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always there in time to thwart the attacks.
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But you know, there's, there's stuff like giant dinosaur
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monsters that you've never seen before, stuff like that, you
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know, stuff that isn't from this universe as far as you are
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aware. And you know, after, you know,
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getting to a tear before you know, you've calculated where
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it's going to be, you get there. And after you do these tests on,
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on the tear and you know these, these tears that they're filled
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with some sort of malicious energy, something that you can't
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quite place. The only, only place you've ever
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known to have energy, some anything sort of close to this
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is the Monaro's Creek Casino, which you know that that's been
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there before you were born. And nothing ever changes there.
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Everything's always the same. Everybody's always there at the
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same time, the same people every time you go.
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So you're not, you're sure it's not them, but this is not
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something that you think you can stop with just being a Power
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Ranger with the ability to morph.
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You know it. It's something more, something
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that you're going to have to find a way to dissipate before
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things get out of hand. You spend weeks on this, and I
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mean day and night, 72 hour days, 4 hours sleep, 72 hour
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days. You are constantly tearing
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yourself down to find a way to basically stop these incursions
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happening and and they're getting worse there.
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There was one on Zealand Prime that just stayed open and it
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still hasn't closed. Things are coming through and
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you need, you've had battalions of warriors and Rangers be there
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the whole time just to make sure nothing comes through that will
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destroy everything. Oh, can I, can I add something
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onto that? Yeah.
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Can it be that at first Zordan was just hitting each mark like
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perfectly? As soon as it's getting ready to
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open, we've got Rangers there, we're locking it down, closing
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it, boom. But then the thing that started
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him down the spiral is at first he, you know, he it was to a
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point where he'd land, walk out and stand right where it's about
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to open. And just so he can hurry up and
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knock it out quick and move on to the next one.
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Just, you know, he had it. He had it that precise to where
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it was going to spawn. But as this went on, as the
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weeks went by, you notice like he noticed that it was over a
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degree from where he thought it was.
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And it started like that, where they were small, insignificant
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changes to these things. There were irregularities,
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things he couldn't control or predict.
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And as it went on, it started to get bigger and bigger and more
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noticeable by other people. And that sent him down that
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spiral like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't, I don't like that.
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This is starting to be, I have all the information.
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Why am I not as prepared as I should be?
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Like this is supposed to come up, be here for this amount of
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time. We can take it out and then keep
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going and then get he started going into the, you know, the 72
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hour days trying to figure out what is going on, what's causing
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these anomalies. And then yeah, that's, that's
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like you said, there's one that showed up most recent that just
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will not close. And we've done everything that
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we've done in the past to close them, and this one just won't
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close. Yeah, 100%.
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And I feel like all this, you know, as you said before, he's
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good looking, he's well groomed, he looks after himself, he looks
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on top all the times. And I feel like we come we come
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to him as he sat at his at his desk or computer in in base and
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the camera pans to him and you know, he's just got stub like a
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really stubbly bed sort of like this getting not not fully
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there. Yeah, it's, yeah.
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It's starting to just. It looks very unkempt.
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He's got like deep bags under his eyes.
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He looks like he's, he's lost quite a bit of weight just from
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doing nothing but focusing on this.
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Yeah. He just doesn't look good.
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Yeah, he does not look great. Yeah, we sat there and he's that
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focused. He doesn't notice that there's a
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person stood behind him. Well, howdy, stranger.
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You look like you. You could use a little help
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there. Yeah.
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Wait, who? Who?
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Who are you? What?
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The name's Balaam. I'm I'm not from round here but
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I think I can help. Am am I in my room at this
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point? You are, I think you're like at
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the the consoles still doing your 72 hour shift, you know,
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and this guy's just sort of appeared out of nowhere.
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How how did you even get in here?
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And he's looking around, he starts bringing up trying to
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look for like logs for anyone that lets someone on you know,
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into the base or anything you. Don't need to worry about that
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Zordon. You know where I come from.
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An entry is just just another means of talking.
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He's going to like slowly, kind of like he's going to look up at
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the individual and then as he's staring at them, his hands going
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to move and he's just going to like shut down the console,
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close. It just starts closing all the
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files and shutting down. And then he's just going to
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stand up slowly and turn and look at this person.
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Am I looking up, down straight at them?
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I'd say probably pretty much eye level with each other and and
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you look at this person and for some reason you can't really
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make heads or tails of what the face looks like you, you get the
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barest minimum. Just like descript, It's got a
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mouth, it's got a nose, it's got eyes.
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He's like blinking often and like starting to rub his eyes
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because he's like, OK, OK, I guess I've been up a little too
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long. That's why my eyes are not
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focusing. That's what he's thinking.
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And he's wearing black, like a black trench coat, black
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waistcoat. He's got a cowboy hat on.
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He's got a derringer at his side and cowboy boots with what they
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called again, the staff. Spurs.
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Spurs on them and he's just like, yeah, yeah, you're letting
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yourself slip, bud. OK, I don't know who you who you
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are, who you think you are or what you think you're doing, but
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this is a this is this is a secure location and you need to
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leave. Sir, Sir, Sir, I am.
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I am just here to help you with your, let's say, break in time,
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break in space. It didn't take a scientist to
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notice that the the Rangers are failing to stop these tears.
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We are not, we are taking care of them in a in a very express
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and professional level. And I don't know where you're
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getting this information from. Every one of them have been
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closed to this point and the one that we're working on now will
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be closed very soon. So I don't know where you're
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getting this information that we can't handle it because we have
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done it up until now and will continue to do.
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Yeah, but that's just the ones you know about.
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And he clicks his fingers and all the screens come back on and
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you see all these other fully open tears that you hadn't even
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had in your calculations over the last couple of weeks.
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They hadn't even appeared to you that they would be opening here.
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And he's like, you know, I, I can't just on these screens
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alone six or seven planets that have no ranges to save them.
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How do I even know that's, that's, that's, that's actually
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real? That's, that's a nice little
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magic trick you did there. Great.
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I, you know, we all know how to, how to, how to do tricks with,
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with electronics. So unless you have some proof
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that these are actually happening, which I seriously
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doubt because if you look here and you'll start typing and
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bringing up all like all this spreadsheets and everything like
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tracking all the opens and tears and like.
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You know, it's like a, it's just a big Excel spreadsheet of when
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it opened, how they took care of it when it closed, like it's
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completely itemized. Yeah, Balaam comes over to you
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and he's just like, I'll show you, and he puts his hand on
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your shoulder and clicks again, and you're one of these planets
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and it's just chaos and destruction around you.
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Where the hell are we? What?
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What is? Do you need to see more?
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He looks out and he'll put, he'll try and push him off and
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try and go save somebody. He'll like try and call this
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suit to him. The the suit comes and you morph
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into your golden armor and you know, you run off, but it's too
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late. There's there's nobody.
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The planet is gone. It's overrun with these
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quadrupedal red monsters, you know, and they're just
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absolutely, they stopped killing people and they started just
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tearing the world around them apart.
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It looks to looks to you that they're trying just to get to
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the core of the planet. And as you know, as you're
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witnessing this, Balaam comes up to, and he's just like I told
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you, you know, excuse me, these planets, they're not in your
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equation there. He's like, no, this isn't
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possible. And he like whips out like he
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goes into his little like his little UI on his on his, his his
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visor and starts like triangulating where he is in the
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universe to figure out what planet this is.
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And then he's going to cross reference that between like, you
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know, finding out what the the actual status of this planet is
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just to like he, he's doing all he can right now.
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He's freaking out. He's doing all he can to prove
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that this is fake because there is no way that he didn't know
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something and wasn't prepared for something and cannot handle
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something coming up. That is not the purpose of the
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Gold Ranger. You are on the planet Cygnus 7B.
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OK. And like I'm, I'm cross
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referencing trying to see if I can find any information on, on
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this planet or like it's, you know, if there's any live
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cameras that I can tap into just to see the status of what's
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going on. Let's have you roll because this
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is a dice rolling game. Let's roll.
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Let's roll 2D6 plus Superior. All right.
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Oh, no. Oh no, that is A4 plus you said
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superior, so 7. OK, so you can look into the the
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cameras that are are about and you see that they were wiped out
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the same day the the energy appeared for some reason, it
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just didn't translate back. And then you also see the calls
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for help, the hundreds and thousands of people calling the
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Rangers for help that just didn't reach.
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And like, I'm just like, I'm forwarding through it,
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forwarding through all the like footage that I can find, all the
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information. And then it gets up to today,
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like current time, you know, one of the live feeds are still on.
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I'm looking around and it looks exactly the same as what I'm
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looking at now. So like, he is starting to have
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a panic attack because he is realizing that he thought he had
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everything handled. He thought, you know, he is the
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gold Ranger. Everything is, you know,
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everyone is protected. As long as he's around, you
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know, no harm shall come to anyone.
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This is his purpose. And now to come find out you've
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only been doing, you know, at best 1/3 of your job.
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Yeah, the lamb has stood there and he's like, I told you, man,
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I can. I can make it go away, All of
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it. We, we can fix.
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We can. I don't, I don't need you.
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We can fix this. Now that I know and I can add
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these calculations in, I can make sure that we know when
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things are going to start happening so we can take care of
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it and this does not happen again.
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He puts his hand back on your shoulder and snaps again, and
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you're back in base and he goes, well son, I'm going to give you
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this card here, and when you realize the Rangers aren't cut
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out for this, I'll just give me a call and I'll be back.
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And then poof, he disappears. He looks at the card for a
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minute, takes a deep breath and I'm not going to need this.
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And just, like, tosses it to the side and just gets back on the
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computer and starts going crazy. Like he's adding all sorts of
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new calculations that he's going above and beyond, even his level
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of going above and beyond because he feels that what he
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was doing up until this point was inadequate and that he's
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missed a lot. And he has of failing as the
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leader of the Rangers. Yeah.
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And, you know, for a, for a time, for a couple days at
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least, you know, all these new calculations, the working,
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you're saving planets, you go into planets, you're saving
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people who had already been, you know, attacked and had a
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prolonged, prolonged attacks. And you know, you get in there
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and you're making those difficult decisions and you're
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saving countless lives. But then one day again,
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something happens out of your calculations, and this time the
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tear wasn't on a planet, it was in the middle of space,
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something you hadn't accounted for.
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And the fleet of just giant bombers fly out, start attacking
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planets in the nearby sector to it.
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It's not just that. Another tear forms at the same
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time and giant robots with men pilot piloting them come through
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and they start attacking everything and all these things
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start surmounting, adding up. Demons who look like humans and
25:56
act like humans come through and they're stealing people's lives
25:59
with these deals that seem amazing in the time.
26:03
But when when you see the corpses, the people who have
26:06
made these deals, you can see there's nothing.
26:08
Normally there's an angelic sort of presence after somebody
26:11
passes and you can tell that they've passed on peacefully.
26:14
But these you see the faces and the bodies and they look like
26:18
they've been tortured and they look like everything they've
26:21
done has not been worth it. It's, it's like the very essence
26:26
of themselves. The souls have have been taken
26:29
and used to power something else.
26:31
And you know, the, these occurrences, they keep piling on
26:34
and piling on and piling on until there's a point where even
26:39
Zordon, you can't keep up with what's going on.
26:43
You know, you're putting calculations in for one tear.
26:48
And then on your screen, another 3 or 4 will flash up.
26:50
And the Rangers in your team, they can tell that you know,
26:54
you're just, you're about to lose yourself into this madness
26:58
at the cacophony of, of all these numbers and calculations.
27:03
And they track, they're trying to help you.
27:05
But I feel like at this point Zardon is just 100% devoted to
27:10
saving everybody. Yeah, I, I, I agree.
27:13
I think at this point, like everybody's worried about him
27:16
losing himself, but I think at this point it's already
27:19
happened. He is so obsessed with making
27:24
sure with, with covering up for all those failures he's had and
27:27
not letting it happen again. He's gone extremely into
27:31
OverDrive to the point where he's not himself.
27:35
He he tries to grab micro naps whenever he can just because he
27:40
knows physically his but he can't, can't keep going without
27:44
him. But other than that, he is
27:45
severely like severely, severely slacking on sleep and just
27:54
really out of it. Like a lot of times they come
27:56
and hey, here we, we got you something to eat.
27:58
You know, we haven't eaten. And he just ignores them or they
28:01
try and, you know, talk to him. You know, hey, you need to, you
28:04
need to take a rest. You need to take a break.
28:06
Somebody can take over and he'll snap on him and then go back to
28:09
doing what he's doing. And yeah, he is just a a shell
28:14
of who he used to be. And like everybody can see, he's
28:18
he's unintentionally driving everybody away because of his
28:23
obsession with what's going on right now.
28:25
Yeah. And you know that weight, the
28:28
weight of carrying the universe on on your shoulders, It's it's
28:32
an it's an immense weight for for one person to carry.
28:39
I'm going to roll something here.
28:41
Yeah, you know, for for one person, it's, it's, it's a lot.
28:45
But for, you know, the individual who appointed himself
28:50
the savior of all life and to find out that you've been
28:55
severely slacking in your job, you're not even, you know, not
28:59
even 50% of the hero you thought you were.
29:02
You know, your entire identity, which is being a hero.
29:05
You find out that you are just severely slacking and now all
29:08
that it does a lot to you definitely does not do anything
29:12
good to your your psyche, especially if you have no idea
29:17
of who you are outside of that. Yeah, 100% it.
29:21
It's basically like growing up in the, it's like when you see
29:24
these people who grow up in the in the forest and they come to
29:27
civilisation and they just can't sort.
29:29
They sort of can't get to grips with what's going on.
29:33
Jesus, I'm burping a lot. I can smell that one.
29:39
And I think one day, you know the trigger warning for death
29:43
here for people who are listening.
29:45
If you don't want to listen, Skip 5 minutes ahead and it's.
29:48
All right, I'll be back in 5 minutes.
29:51
One day you, you go out with the Rangers and the calculations are
29:56
completely off. Everything you've you've
30:00
programmed in and thought was going to happen doesn't happen.
30:02
And you see the, your Ranger team at the end of the battle,
30:06
you're the, the last one standing.
30:07
The the other four members of your Ranger team, they've,
30:11
they've all passed on. They've been pierced through by
30:14
this giant tree monster thing who just completely gutted them.
30:21
And through the power of the phoenix Martha you, you managed
30:25
to escape that fate. You know the story goes, the
30:28
phoenix falls and it rise again. You know that's something you
30:32
you'll have to live with forever.
30:33
And thankfully, through rising again, you know your body's back
30:36
to its peak condition. You feel back again.
30:39
But the men, the mental toll of seeing these people, who I'm
30:44
assuming he did see his friends, but he didn't know how to tell
30:47
them they were friends. It's a lot of toll for one man
30:50
now. Now he's alone, facing a
30:53
universe of potential terrors. And you know that that's got to
30:58
deal with a fucking absolute ton of psychic damage to a Oh yeah,
31:03
to a man. So I just imagine, like you
31:07
said, they're fighting this giant tree and you see, you see
31:12
him just like he's ordering around people and he's just
31:15
looking on in horror as they're all just getting destroyed.
31:19
And then he goes and tries to save one of them and he gets
31:23
pierced himself. And then like he goes to drop
31:26
down, but then the power of that suit kicks in like, you know,
31:30
hits him with a quick like a big region kind of Nova.
31:34
And so, you know, he comes back and then looks around.
31:38
But at that point, he doesn't know how long he was out.
31:41
He could have been out for a minute, an hour, a day.
31:44
But when he gets when he comes back, he looks around and
31:47
there's just the bodies of all of his teammates and friends all
31:51
over the ground. He looks just as bad as they'd
31:55
like. His uniform looks just as bad as
31:57
theirs where it's ripped, torn, pierced through, like half of
32:01
the helmet is destroyed, that everything underneath like his
32:06
actual body has been healed and rejuvenated so it looks brand
32:12
new. Like he, you know, hasn't taken
32:14
any damage, but you just see out of the side that's broken.
32:19
You see his eye is just wide and darting all around trying to
32:24
process what's going on and figure out like he's his brain
32:29
is doing everything it can to prove this is not real, this is
32:32
not reality, this isn't happening.
32:34
He didn't let this happen. And I think after like after he
32:40
goes and like grabs one of the Rangers and starts like trying
32:43
to shake him and talk to him. And then it just like his mind
32:46
breaks and he realizes that everyone is dead.
32:50
And it was because he couldn't save them.
32:53
He led them to this. He brought this upon them.
32:55
He was supposed to save them. He was supposed to save
32:58
everybody and he can't even keep his team safe.
33:01
And I think he just drops to his knees and just lets out just a a
33:06
soul shattering screen. And it's just like the the
33:10
camera just kind of pans out like looks at him from above and
33:14
starts to back up as he's just staring.
33:17
And you see out of you see the half that is still there that
33:22
just looks a little scuffed and damaged.
33:26
But then you see the broken part open and you just see the pain
33:29
in his face as he's screaming out in tears or just draw
33:34
running down the side of his face.
33:36
Yeah. And you know, it's, it's a lot.
33:40
He's he's not having. You are not having a good time.
33:44
I think you were you get back to base and this might be the first
33:50
time when you've got back to base where you don't start doing
33:53
calculations. You start, you know, not not
33:56
every single time you've been out recently.
33:58
It's fight, fight, fight, get back, find the next one, fight,
34:01
fight, fight, get back. And now it's just you sit down
34:04
and it's more of AI can't I can't win this.
34:07
You know, you're completely dejected.
34:10
And as, as you sat there just sort of in a daze and sort of
34:16
you're trying to figure out the next step, you notice in the
34:19
corner of your eye that card, the, the card of Balaam who said
34:26
he could stop it all all those weeks ago.
34:29
You know, everything's going through your head.
34:31
What, what if he was lying? What, what if he's just trying
34:33
to, to play me for a fool? But I think in the end, you, you
34:38
call and again, you, you pick up, pick up this piece of paper
34:43
and you start dialling it in. And as soon as you dial that the
34:45
final number and it's just, it don't even ring, it's just
34:49
Zordon. You took a bit longer, but I'm
34:53
back. Are you ready to make that deal?
34:56
How do I know? How do I know you can go through
34:59
with it? How do I know you can hold up
35:00
your end of the bargain? Well, put it this way, nobody
35:05
had made deals with deals with before.
35:06
Has that any problems? Yeah, that's a likely story.
35:10
Oh. OK, OK, OK, let me let me show
35:13
you this. It clicks and the screen comes
35:15
on and it shows a tear just just opened, freshly opened.
35:20
And he goes, this is the power I have.
35:22
And he clicks and the tear closes.
35:24
And every being that was on the planet, that wasn't from this
35:27
universe gets sucked back in and he goes, that was a freebie just
35:32
to just to sweeten the deal. Fine, what do you want?
35:37
I want the phoenix Martha. It here's how the the deal will
35:47
stem you. Give me the Phoenix, Martha, and
35:51
I will ensure that you survive to see and protect the universe
35:57
forever in its eternity. And I I will close all of these
36:02
tears and make sure they don't happen again, at least for not a
36:05
very long time or until I die myself.
36:07
Which from my calculations isn't happen anytime soon.
36:11
I've been alive for several thousand years and I still look
36:14
this great. I want I I also want the power
36:22
to stop these ribs. You know, you let's, let's make
36:28
the deal more interesting. I mean, we both know these,
36:31
these creatures, these apparitions of the, the Marthas,
36:35
they're all mythological and they all have a place in this
36:39
universe to to roam and grow, to become able to inter intertwine
36:46
with Rangers like yourself, the ones from your freshly passed
36:51
away, the comrades. My condolences by the way.
36:55
They have returned to this plane to to regrow, to be able to go
36:59
back and become that strong again.
37:02
How about I, I make it so you watch over them to make sure
37:06
they will always be ready. How about I make it so you can
37:10
always look after Rangers and make sure that you know you are
37:13
sending them out unrighteous missions?
37:15
Yes, give me the power to make sure that this does not happen
37:19
again. OK.
37:22
And then he grabs you on the shoulder, clicks, you're you
37:29
appear on Earth. This is the this is the site
37:32
where the the most energy is coming through.
37:38
This is where I can close it all.
37:40
And you stood on the mountain ranges of this little area.
37:43
And it's just a little village at this point.
37:45
And you know, these aren't even humans at this moment in time.
37:48
These are something before these are, you know, Neanderthals
37:53
compared to what humans are in the year 3198, which is where
37:59
our current story takes place. And, you know, he goes one day
38:04
you'll get a team who maybe surprised you.
38:09
So when you are ready, Zordon, I want you to take off that Martha
38:17
and place it in my hand. And when you do, I'll make all
38:20
your worries disappear. He like, he grabs the morpher
38:24
and looks at it and he looks at him and then looks at the screen
38:29
and he starts like squeezing the morpher in his hand as he's
38:31
looking at the screen and then looks back behind him at just
38:38
just the empty, empty headquarters behind him were all
38:44
of he remembers all the different times that he's had
38:47
the meetings with his Rangers and just them lounging about
38:52
helping out, like all the different experiences they've
38:55
had together. And he's he's just like
38:59
processing all that. Then it just kicks back right
39:03
over to everything he saw as they were being destroyed.
39:07
And the camera zooms in on his hand as he's moving it towards,
39:13
you know, towards this being to give them the the morpher.
39:17
And you see that he squeeze it so much that you start to see a
39:21
little blood trickle down his arm and he's just like hands it
39:25
to them and turns his head. You've you've made an excellent
39:29
choice. So Don so and he's holding this,
39:33
Blam's holding this morpher in his hand and he's sort of
39:37
flipping it and catching it. And he goes, my boss is going to
39:41
love this. And he clicks.
39:44
And from where he stood, just a massive ripple explodes from
39:48
him. And you see on the screens all
39:50
these tears in, in reality, the the closing, everything that's
39:54
come out from the other side are getting pulled back in and all
39:58
the damage that has been caused is being reversed.
40:01
The Rangers who were once your team mates.
40:05
I find the back. For the the back to being alive
40:08
and well. And you know it's everything,
40:12
all the planets you've lost, every person you've lost the
40:15
back. And then this pain hits you and
40:20
the next thing you know you you've collapsed on the floor.
40:24
But it feels like you've you've passed on and you've died.
40:27
But the next thing you know, you are in this tube and your
40:33
consciousness is wired into, into the morphing grid, into
40:36
reality. And you, you look through this
40:39
tube and you see all consoles and everything.
40:42
And you see Balaam stood down, he said.
40:44
I never said I'd let you keep your corporeal form, now did I?
40:49
This isn't what we agreed on. Just how?
40:51
What am I supposed to do in here?
40:53
I told you you're going to going to look after those mythical
40:57
beasts of yours and raise some ranges and in the meantime, I'm
41:02
going to be taking this and you put pockets the phoenix Martha
41:05
and he goes this. Isn't what we agreed on.
41:09
Oh. No, no, no.
41:10
This isn't what you agreed on. It's what I agreed on.
41:13
You didn't ask for specifics. You asked for the power to keep
41:16
people going and stop the the tears coming back.
41:20
You can stop them with the knowledge you have now and you
41:24
your body doesn't become fatigued.
41:26
You don't have to take breaks. You can do all the calculations
41:30
you want, but now you'll be leading a different team from
41:33
the HQ. I've kept my end of the deal.
41:36
You asked for the power to be able to to stop this from
41:38
happening ever again, and I've given it to you.
41:41
So if that, I bid my adieu and he clicks and he's gone.
41:48
And then, yeah, he's just like screaming in this tube.
41:53
And, you know, we see it's all done.
41:56
You know, say this is thousands of years back, you see Zardon is
42:01
through these different areas and we see all these different
42:03
areas of Rangers coming through into into the base and Zardon
42:08
leading these Rangers. Let me come up to the to the
42:13
present day where we see Murphy and Max and Spencer as they've
42:18
just got onto the Perth to to fly off.
42:20
And this is the first time in the thousands of years that
42:24
you've been in this tube where you think to yourself, maybe
42:28
this wasn't the right decision to send them, this threat that
42:33
you and your Rangers struggled to defeat all those thousands of
42:36
years ago. It's come back now.
42:39
You're sending 3 Power Rangers, only three to deal with this,
42:44
this universal threat, which shouldn't be here by all rights,
42:49
because, you know, you killed it thousands of years ago.
42:53
And as you're sat there, well, floating there really, and
42:57
Balaam appears again because hello, old friend.
43:02
What the hell are you doing here?
43:05
Oh well, you know, when you fail to stop something from a
43:09
different universe breaking in. I thought maybe, maybe you'd
43:14
given up. You know I'm not giving up until
43:18
I get that back from you and I stop you myself.
43:24
That's that's that that's really funny is hard on I do not own it
43:29
anymore. My my boss, Lilith, she she owns
43:34
it and she was ever so happy to have received it for for this
43:41
press. And you know, we we don't have
43:45
the Morphin grid where where we are in our multiverse.
43:51
But I just just want to let you know, the moment this universe
43:56
crumbles, if those Rangers fail, I'll be taking that Morphin Grid
44:01
next. Yeah, yeah, you've got to come
44:04
through me before you do that. And I've fallen through your
44:07
crap one time. I will not do it again.
44:10
Hey, I gave you exactly what you wanted, Zardon.
44:13
You wanted the power to stop those tears.
44:16
You wanted the power to to be able to watch and stop it from
44:20
happening again. And when this Corruptus came
44:22
from a different universe, a different multiverse, you didn't
44:27
stop it. You you just just floated there
44:30
and watched. You know that this this is going
44:35
to be fun to sit back and watch. But unfortunately I've got I've
44:39
got some prior arrangements to get to maybe me and you can have
44:42
a powwow soons all done and maybe speak over some martinis
44:47
or something. Just wait.
44:50
Just wait till you see what my Rangers can do.
44:52
And again he disappears. Enough of that mediocre out
44:57
there, the man says, cruising around in the stroller.
45:00
I got ice in my veins like a cut in Minnesota.
45:03
Why not show you how I'm built? Come a little closer.
45:05
It's a lot of heart. Be smart.
45:07
Oh, we gotta glow. We can restart, give head start.
45:10
Still get the same result. I'm about mine.
45:12
Don't you get it? Confused.
45:14
I'm a win. Win again.
45:15
Yeah. That's all that I do.
45:16
I got that all. Give me.
45:18
Yeah. Turn me up.