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Post by GoseiYellow on Oct 12, 2024 15:57:47 GMT -5
"It's not often I'm referred to as friendly, but I'll take it." Methos casually sipped on a glass of wine. "To answer your questions, I'm Methos. Like your friend and like Lord Dra..er Zephyr, I am an immortal. You're on my Mystic train, the Solar Streak, a vessel with the ability to travel between dimensions. Currently, we are in a pocket dimension, safe from DRAGO forces."
"What about Joey? What happened to him?" Amy asked.
Methos sighed. "You're not going to love this answer. While he did take Zephyr's head and his abilities with that Quickening , or that big lightning storm for the uninformed, it looks as if Zephyr's dark energy was so powerful, it has overtaken your friend."
Lenny shook his head while keeping his distance from the team, mainly Jaguar, who on the other hand felt his heart nearly stopping.
"Tu dois te moquer de moi!" the SPD Yellow Ranger exclaimed in French.
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Post by wwff3 on Oct 12, 2024 16:02:53 GMT -5
"How would they free him?" Wayne asked not necessarily opting to help but was sure they would want a clue how to bettwr help these teammate plus it'd give Nitro time to distance and gameplan while SPD dealt with that.
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Post by Mr.Silver on Oct 12, 2024 16:37:58 GMT -5
"Je ne plaisante pas." Methos shook his head in response to Jaguar, even with his French being a little rusty, he still remembered some bits due to the time he's spent in the country over the centuries.
"How would they free him?" Wayne asked not necessarily opting to help but was sure they would want a clue how to bettwr help these teammate plus it'd give Nitro time to distance and gameplan while SPD dealt with that.
"They? He's the only reason your heads aren't smashed in the dirt and now you choose to abandon him!?" Amy snapped.
"Hold on. The question is sound albeit mixed with cowardice." Brooklyn said, standing near Amy so she didn't go lunging at anyone.
"You have a few options, but none of them are good." Methos began. "If he takes the head of an immortal whose good energy is plentiful enough, it might suppress the evil energy, allowing Joey to take control, but immortals that pure are hard to find. The second option is the simplest. Have a non-immortal take his head. If there's no immortal nearby, there's no quickening. The other option would involve locating the holy spring to give him a chance to fight the darkness internally."
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Post by wwff3 on Oct 12, 2024 16:53:48 GMT -5
"So you expect us to help you when you've been trying to kill us, arrest us, and sabotage us every twist and turn. And we're supposed to help someone we hardly even know, for All I know he had the same intentions as you all." Wayne reasoned. "It's Pauls Call, we don't answer to you." He said not maliciously either, he looked on the ground holding his ribs. The only other person that knew him was Paul so they were more than likely going to follow the Red Ranger's lead on this.
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Post by Mr.Silver on Oct 12, 2024 17:23:51 GMT -5
"There's a lot wrong with this situation, but there's one thing I know for sure. Joey would have done right by us and if anyone has issues helping him, think of it as helping the planet. If we purge Zephyr's dark juju, we can take DRAGO off of the board for good. No DRAGO means a successful mission and a successful mission means SPD leaves us the fuck alone." Paul spoke up, looking at how this can be spun to the team's advantage.
"Hold on." Brooklyn spoke up. "DRAGO is too big of an org to just disappear once this is dealt with. It won't be as simple as you claim."
"It sounds like you're trying to move the goal post, Brooklyn, so cut the shit." Paul shot back.
"I'm not moving shit. You're just being shortsighted." Brooklyn turned and slammed his open hand against the nearest table. "We were home free. This wasn't part of the plan." His intention was to say that to himself, but was louder than he realized, allowing everyone to hear him.
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Post by FangZeronos on Oct 13, 2024 10:29:53 GMT -5
"We were home free. This wasn't part of the plan." His intention was to say that to himself, but was louder than he realized, allowing everyone to hear him.
Flynn looked at Brooklyn, raising an eyebrow. "What do you mean "part of the plan"? What the fuck is taht supposed to mean, Brook?" the Green Ranger asked
"What fucking plan? get your buddy back, take our shit and put us back in the hole in teh ground you dug us out of because you don't want us doing your job better?" Kestra asked, clearly pissed off.
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Post by Mr.Silver on Oct 13, 2024 11:21:01 GMT -5
"No. After clipping Prometheus, Joey told me of the deal he made with Zephyr. At first, we wanted to take our chances and take him on right then and there, but we knew he was too strong, so we agreed to move forward with Joey working for him, using Zephyr to train him to get stronger and when we found our opening, we'd take his head. The plan worked. It was nearly perfect, but the one thing we didn't account for was this dark style quickening."
Amy heard all of this and her anger began to rise. "So this entire time, he wasn't undercover for the CIA? He was with DRAGO and you knew and you didn't tell me?! Why?!"
"He didn't want you involved, just in case there was blow back and I agreed." Brooklyn spoke with regret in his voice.
"Which is where they come in." Amy said, pointing at the Nitro team.
"Yes. The suits didn't want government involvement, but Finley agreed to meet us half way with those five. They were a perfect smokescreen with how crude and dysfunctional they are. The whole theft and breakout was perfect in distancing them from us for a while so that Zephyr wouldn't be as suspicious.
"So wait." Paul raised his hand. "So us stealing the morphers and busting out of Delta Command, was that part of your plan too?"
"No, but it worked out well, so we rolled with it. It's why we didn't go all out in bringing you all back right away." Brooklyn responded. "Everything was working as it should. The only hiccups we ran into were the dark quickening and before that, Ken's death. Had he just kept his mouth shut for two minutes, he'd still be here." Brooklyn sighed, revealing their plan and intentions over the last several months.
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Post by conjuries1108 on Oct 13, 2024 13:11:06 GMT -5
"Wow." Corrie said taking a seat and trying to process everything she was hearing. "So what now? Big plans revealed and all of that.. what do we do now?" She asked.
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Post by GoseiYellow on Oct 14, 2024 1:38:40 GMT -5
Hearing the revelation from Brooklyn, Lenny shook his head, "Sounds heroic. Not," he muttered quietly under his breath.
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Post by Mr.Silver on Oct 17, 2024 15:00:15 GMT -5
"We find Joey and get him to come to his senses. This isn't the first time a Ranger has been possessed, so we can follow that path to set him free and once he's free, we dismantle DRAGO once and for all." Brooklyn said plainly, already getting back to business.
"We?" Paul scoffed. "Our teams working together was a one time deal."
"I agree. Now that the cat is out of the bag, SPD will handle this as soon as we bury Ken and throw you five back in cells." Brooklyn shot back.
"Absolutely the fuck not! My team needs to be able to protect themselves in the event that Joey can't escape spirit Zephyr." Paul snapped.
"And we can't be spread thin with two men down trying to take our enemies on two fronts!" Brooklyn responded with the pair beginning to argue.
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Post by conjuries1108 on Oct 17, 2024 15:29:18 GMT -5
"I am NOT going back to a cell with psycho out here trying to kill everyone." Corrie said getting back to her feet and walking to stand next to Paul.
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Post by wwff3 on Oct 17, 2024 16:02:03 GMT -5
Wayne looked over at SPD feeling sympathy, they lost 2 friends, one in death. He shook his head. "You're down two Rangers... under your command and trickery... Had you filled in your team at the last second maybe the Blue Ranger wouldn't have charged in. Deception has blown up in your face twice now Brooklyn... And with Drago in your friends body on addition to having access to that ranger suit, you've got bigger problems than us. B-But I'm not going back in the cell either... so if we have to fight..." Wayne said trembling a bit as he did t want anymore violence.
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Post by Mr.Silver on Oct 17, 2024 16:13:42 GMT -5
"Don't be stupid, kid." Amy spoke up, immediately defending Brooklyn against a shortsighted and at least partially incorrect take. "Ken lived as he died. Even if everything was done differently, it wouldn't have changed the outcome. I hate that he's dead but don't you dare go pointing fingers when you don't know a damn thing about him!"
"Hold on!" Methos spoke up. "All of this arguing is beginning to annoy me. Brooklyn, there were definite flaws in your plans, but Ken's death wasn't one of those flaws. Had it not been for the Dark Quickening, you all would be in the clear. On the other hand, this team of Nitro Blaze has earned added consideration...BUT, if they're no longer fighting Zephyr, then jail is appropriate given their other crimes. BUT if they continue the fight against DRAGO, they need to be added, not impeded or hunted." Methos finished, laying it out for both teams.
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Post by FangZeronos on Oct 18, 2024 1:06:26 GMT -5
Flynn sighed, folding hsi arms. "Brooklyn, there's been mistakes made on both sides. We're down two, so unless you two can miraculously come up with a new Red and Blue Ranger in five minutes, we dont' hae much choice but to let the Nitro team stay loose and fighting. That gives DRAGO a target while we can work on a way to fix Joey," he said. "And besides, these five were ballsy enough to hack your tech and go on the lam, so that counts for points in my book."
Kestra sat down, listening to the conversation. She bit her lip and folded her arms. "Compromise. You let us keep our gear and fighting against DRAGO and we send occasional reports taht detail what we've done. Anything outside the "fighting DRAGO and hoping not to die" category gets you on your asses and we go back in the hole," she said.
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Post by conjuries1108 on Oct 18, 2024 17:20:41 GMT -5
Corrie folded her arms and shrugged. "I second Kestra and Methos. We started this, I for one am not good at walking away from something before it's finished." She said with another shrug.
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