Episode 01: It's Morphin Time!

Well, first off, the ship they're on is called a Astro Megashuttle in a call forward to Rangers In Space! And yes, it was launched by NASADA. Again, another call forward.

The NASADA Astro Megashuttle traversed the sea of stars on its voyage towards Planet Ῥαμνουσία. Planet Nemesis. It is a roaming planet which only approaches Earth once every 170 million years. When Nemesis approached Earth once again for the first time within the memory of modern civilization, an Earth space mission is set up to explore this world with a group of experienced astronauts who were chosen for this historic mission. This particular mission even received extra funding from the owner and CEO of Xanatos Enterprises, David Xanatos. He cited a particular curiosity regarding this planet and he was happy to assist with the mission. No expenses were spared in upgrading The Megashuttle and their astrosuits.



The new style of suits were looser and more form fitting than the old school bulky space suits which made moving easier. They incorporated some armor into the suits along with higher durability which made traversal safer. The new suits could provide them with thirty-six hours of oxygen. 2.25 times the amount that the old style suits could provide. The electromagnetic boots and gloves would allow the astronauts to attach, hang onto and walk on ferrous floor, walls and or hulls of a spacecraft during weightlessness, on top of allowing them to walk around the cabin of a spacecraft.

The suits were ideal for the maiden voyage to this unexplored alien world.

The Megashuttle was no slouch either. It was outfitted with the latest technology and comfort including the Xanatos Tech Artificial Gravity Generator the NASADA Scientists had installed in the ship which allowed them to move about freely while inside the ship.

The plan was simple. Land on the planet, stake their claim, put the flag down, explore, collect some samples and make their reports. Bring all samples back to the Blue Moon Colony for examination and study.

Quick, clean, simple.

What could possibly go wrong?

Zoe Porzio kept her face against the window with a big smile on her face as she stared out at the vast beautiful sea outside. A dark blanket, contrasting with blacks and yellows, and the occasional white, which is shaped as a circle and sometimes a crescent. There are stars which dot the blanket in a intricate pattern. This is space and Zoe couldn't be happier. She was like a little kid going to a theme park. Zoe was practically bouncing in her seat in anticipation of their arrival on the roaming planet. This was going to be the greatest exploration of their lives and she got to be a part of it!

"Someone's had her coffee today." Romeo Bartnick joked.

Zoe turned around to face him. The smile never leaving her face. "Can you blame me? This is a brand new world man and we're the first people in history to check it out! Maybe the last ones ever! Nobody else is with us! This is it! It's all us baby! This is going to be so cool!"

"Professional as always, eh Zoe?"

"I am the very symbol of professionalism my good man."

"Okay everybody!" Martin Babbin placed a handful of cash on a table. "We're coming up on our destination soon so lets place all bets. What do we expect to find and what do we hope to find? I've got $100.00 on aliens!"

"Heh, not much of a bet. It's probably just going to be another barren empty alien planet. We'll step out, make some observations and stick the American Flag in the ground. Quick, clean, simple. So, $100.00 on finding nothing."

"Come on Jerome, where's your sense of adventure?"

"On the ship with the rest of us. I'm just being realistic." Jerome Lonon insisted.

"Heck with it, I'm with Martin. $50.00 on finding sexy green women." Kaiden Kats joked and threw the cash down.

"And just for that, I'm siding with my Jerome." Alayna Laure laughed.

"Must you trample upon my dreams?" Kaiden asked her in a faux offended tone.

"Why not stop now?" She smirked.

"If we run into Spock, I've got dibs. Just putting that out there." Maggie Oliver added in and threw down her cash.

Peter Gisin split his cash into two small piles and put one pile on each side of the table. "I'm hedging my bets. Maybe we'll find something, maybe we won't, we won't know until we land."

"Hey now that's not fair. You have to pick one or the other." Maggie insisted.

"Ehhh to be fair, I never said that." Martin pointed out. "Just that all bets are final."

"Maaan that's messed up. You're making this up as you go along."

"It's your own fault for not asking Mags."

"Fine, fine, you're right." She relaxed in her seat with her legs crossed and her hands behind her head. "But just so you know, don't get too comfortable with your winnings, Pete. I'm going to be taking all of it in our next poker game."

"Bring it on Mags! I'm going to rob you blind!"

"Good luck with that." She smirked.



"Heads up everybody! This is your Captain speaking! Everybody drop what you're doing and suit up! We're coming up on Nemesis! Repeat! We're coming up on Nemesis! We are approaching an alien planet everybody! This is not a drill! It's time to suit up!" The crew of the ship dropped everything and ran to put on their spacesuits. They took off their clothes in their respective locker rooms and got dressed in their jumpsuits before entering a set of capsules attached to the walls. The capsules glowed and shined and beeped as the suits were formed up around them. In a flash of light the suits were energized and solidified around the astronauts!

Once the astronauts are all suited up they exit the capsules and hurry across the ship to check out the Cockpit.

"Have you found it? Have we finally found it? Are you serious?"

"Oh yeah." The pilot beamed. "This is definitely it....and it is utterly gorgeous."

The crew looked out the window at the alien world they were approaching and were starstruck. The planet was so beautiful it was shimmering! Light was radiating off of it and illuminating the stars around it! It was a beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, astonishing light that they couldn't help be drawn into. It was so hard to believe that this gigantic diamond was traveling the stars lighting up the void of space wherever it went! The color didn't register on the normal spectrum of light as they registered it but they didn't care. It was so beautiful. 



"We have to land on it." Maggie spoke up in awe.

"We have to land on it." Kaiden repeated. 

"Look how beautiful it is. We're the first people to land on this diamond." Zoe whispered.

"It's so beautiful." Romeo sighed.

"I can't wait. We have to land on it." Hubert replied in awe. 

Paisley could only stare at in silent amazement.

"So beautiful." 

"Amazing."

"Look at it."

"We have to land on it."

"We have to land on it."


"We have to land on it."



"We have to land on it."


"We have to land on it."



"We have to land on it."





Dora.....

Fitting when you realize who's lucked up in there.

It was beautiful. It was incredibly beautiful. Even through their suits the beauty of this alien world was captivating. It drew them in and once they stepped off the shuttle they could only stare out at this magnificent alien world for a solid minute before they were able to speak again. "Hot damn. We're really here....someone...someone say something."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Maggie chimed in while planting the American Flag in the ground. The crew saluted it before continuing.

"You know that isn't what he meant to say right?"

"Details, details. We're here so lets get to work!"

The Captain let the drones fly up into the sky where they would be able to observe and map out the area with the info being fed into their helmets HUDs. While they were flying in the sky the crew started working on collecting samples. Using their tools they begin gathering samples from the grass, rocks, soil, flowers, etc and placing them in containers and bringing them back inside. Every time they went inside and came back out they went through disinfection procedures and did the same for their gear and containers. Once they finished gathering samples from one area they flew the ship to another and repeated the process. It was a slow and gradual process but it was the best way to do it. Slow and steady.

Meanwhile the drones continued to fly through the skies of Nemesis giving the crew a bird's eye view of the planet's luster! They even found a couple of rivers where they scooped up the alien water for collection. Most importantly, they kept their freaking suits on throughout the entire process!

"This is so amazing!" Zoe squeed. "Alien water on an alien planet! I cannot wait to get this back to the labs!" She placed it in a containment unit on the ship.

"What'd I tell you honey? This planet is a money pot!" Paisley laughed and they clasped hands. "We're going to be rich and famous after this!"

"I'm going to be taking a looong vacation to the Bahamas after this. How about you?"

"Saaaame! I'm going to be living it up until our next mission!"

"Just remember guys. It's all about the work and exploration." Romeo reminded them.

"Yes sir!"

"So where are we going to next?"

"We've got so much already....but a few more won't hurt." The Captain shrugged. "Let's see...the drones are currently...oh. Oh Wow. Oh My God."

"What? What is it?!" The crew asked in excitement.

"Look for yourselves. We just found an alien structure."

The crew checked the HUDs of their helmets and they saw exactly what he was talking about. A large towering temple like structure in the middle of the planet. It was composed of strange material the likes of which they had never seen! It was a bizarre temple that resembled a spiral pyramid of sorts with a large Z on the front of it! The drones tried to fly in for a closer look but they started sparking and shaking while the video started getting static until the drones suddenly fell from the sky!

None of the astronauts paid this any mind though! Their eyes were transfixed on the temple in all its splendor! They could feel themselves drawn to it in awe!

"We have to go there." The crew said together in unison. "We have to go. We have to go. We have to go." The pilots returned to their positions while the crew got strapped in!

"Just look at it! We absolutely have to check this place out! How could we NOT?! This is the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! We could be on the verge of discovering intelligent alien life! This is going to be amazing!" The pilots got the shuttle up in the air and flew towards the temple. "Listen! I'll get us as close as I can but we'll have to hoof it afterword. We can't risk crashing the ship!"

Maggie groaned and rubbed her head.

"Mags? Are you feeling alright?" Martin asked her.

"Y-yeah...fine. I think I'm just a bit overwhelmed is all." She closed her eyes and rested in her seat. "This is going to be incredible. The greatest discovery in the history of mankind everybody. I'm sure it'll be okay. Right?"

Dora

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I had to.

"Screw it, I'm the one who opened it, right?" Maggie swallowed. "I might as well go in. Not like we're going to learn anything staying out here." She scooped up a couple rocks and she cautiously stepped inside.

"Uh, Mags? What's with the rocks?"

"Because I've seen enough adventure movies to know that sometimes you need rocks to set off traps."

"There are traps in there?!"

"I don't know. Maybe?" She shrugged and continued inside. Slowly. Cautiously. Carefully. One step at a time. She tried to keep an eye out for anything weird but seeing as how they were stepping into a futuristic alien temple, weird was right out the window. She looked left and right as they walked down the hallway. There were more symbols carved into the alien metals on the wall that they couldn't make out with little blue Z's emblazoned in the center of them.

"Hey, uh, you think these do anything?"

"Don't touch them. We don't know and we don't want to know."

They continued down the hallway up to another door with what looked like a handprint scanner. "Okay, so, what now?"

"Well, we're just going to have to try it."

"How? We can't take our suits off."

"So I'll just press my glove against it."

"How will that work? This thing is probably coded to alien fingerprints and handprints or whatever!"

"True buuuut by that logic pressing my hands against the front door shouldn't have worked either."

"That's fair."

"I'm going for it!" Maggie took a deep breath, signed herself and placed her glove on the scanner and closed her eyes. She felt a warming tingle travel up her body through her suit. It was a nice feeling. A nice pleasant feeling like a warm hug from a loved one or a loving embrace. A memory flashed through her mind of her playing war with squirt guns with little Tommy in the backyard while Tony and John worked the barbecue and Angela cheered them on. Except it wasn't just flashing through for her. She was watching it. She was standing there watching the memory unfold from the sidelines. She watched herself laughing and playing with her nephew and and brother and her family. She watched the whole day's events unfold full of love and laughter together until it all ended in a flash.

Her eyes opened back up and she gasped as the door slid open in three sections and she took a few steps back but thankfully the crew grabbed her. "Woah. That...that was surreal."

"MAGS! MAGS! You okay?!" Romeo asked her.

"What just happened? Are you alright?" Hubert asked.

"Come on talk to us Maggie!" Zoey called out to her.

"I-I'm...fine. I'm fine. I'm alright. We're good. I think...that thing was testing me somehow."

"How?"

"I don't know! It did...something to me. It was like it was looking through my mind. My memories. It was seeing if I was a good person. Or something like that. I don't know how to explain it."

"Okay, screw this. If this thing is messing with our heads like that? We are getting the fuck out of here!"

"Y-you're right. Screw the expedition! We need to-"




"Proceed. We've come too far to stop now."

"You're right. This is the discovery of lifetime. We can't stop now."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

"We have to go inside."

They straightened up and cautiously proceeded further inside.

The next room was downright amazing! Not only was it far bigger than the hallway they were just inside of and was a metal cathedral formed out of the same alien metals as the rest of the temple with massive pillars the size of buildings stationed around the room with new alien writing on them that was similar to the writing you would see on a memorial wall in an alien language.



At the top of each pillar was another symbol representing some kind of weird creature. One pillar had the picture of an eyeball emblazoned on it. Another had a skull. Another had a bee. Another had a fish. A shark. A pumpkin. A mantis. A unicorn. A knight. A pig. A mole. An oyster. A parrot. A bird. A scorpion. An ape. A toad and many others.

As they walked through the cathedral they couldn't help but notice that, statistically speaking, the scorpion, ape and toad symbols had the most names escribed on them.

"Okay what is this? Some kind of memorial? To what? To who? To fallen aliens?" Maggie asked.

"Did...did those things?" Zoey pointed to the symbols and then slowly lowered her fingers down as she looked down a pillar. "Did they...kill all those names?"

"Well, what choice we do we have? We've already come this far and besides we've got plenty of oxygen left. I say we go for it. We have to find out what's down there. Not just for us! But for mankind! This is the greatest discovery in mankind's history and if we don't explore it now? We'll never get another chance! Humanity will never get another chance! For generations!"

"That's right! This is our only chance to investigate! We have to do this. We owe it to scientific progress to investigate this place thoroughly!"

"YEAH!"

There was a chorus of cheers from the others and then they filed into the elevator and Maggie peered over the keys. "Alright...here goes nothing!" She pressed a random button. "Uhhh...basement please?"

"𐎸ⳕᛰ𐭕⿴ᜈ𐊔ꮤⲉゝꮤⲉ! ฿𐎸𓄽ꮤ‰ꮤ𐭕🝛 𒎙𐊔⿴⿴𓂊 ⳕ⿴‰ł𐭕ゝ 🝘𐑎!!" An alien voice chimed as the elevator door closed. Maggie yelped and jumped back to the others.

"What did I do? What did I do?"

"How the hell are you working this place?"

"Hell if I know!"

The elevator began to glow as it descended the temple and a quiet relaxing musical tone began playing in the elevator over the low humming of the elevator itself.

"Elevator music?" Zoe asked inredulously. "This place has elevator music? The hell?"

"Everybody stand together! Back to back!" Romeo told the team.

"What good will that do?"

"Uhhhhh....I-I don't know. It seemed like a good idea."

"He's got a point. We don't know what could be waiting for us."

"Could anything be alive down there?"

"Who knows? This place logically shouldn't exist."

"...Soooo how are we going to explain this when we get home anyway?"

"We'll bring back proof and explain everything we saw. If we've got tangible evidence of this place they'll have to believe us."

"Even about the elevator music?"

"I will get back to you on that."

The astronauts conversed until they finally, finally, finally reached the bottom floor and the elevator doors opened again. They were greeted with a long hallway leading to a doorway on the far side.

"Well this is weird."

"Single file I guess." They walked out of the elevator and it closed up behind them. They paused to look back at it, nodded and walked towards the door.

"There's more carvings on the wall. What could it all mean?"

"It's impossible to tell. This is alien technology and architecture. Whatever happened here, it was big. I feel like they want to keep something locked up in here."

"LIke what? What could possibly still be alive in here?"

"No way to tell."

"S-should we even be here then?"

"It's too late now." Maggie replied. "We have to keep going."

The crew walked down the long, long hallway taking in the magnificent alien architecture until they reached the door and it opened up to reveal a wide open circular room with a single gigantic sarcophagus in the middle of the room surrounded by six stone monks who were fused with the ground from the waist up with their heads bowed and their hands clasped. The sarcophagus itself was both amazing and eerie to look it was. It was long and golden with bizarre alien symbols and writing etched into it. The upper half had a beaitufl blue diamond like materials on top of it with golden lines running through it and a red ruby in the middle of it all and the top top of the sarcophagus had a humanoid head of a woman with her hands over her eyes. The moment they entered the room the ruby began to brilliantly glow and emit shimmering lights that illuminated the whole room! Most of the astronauts dived out of the way but Maggie was caught by the red lights and her own eyes lit up and she began walking towards the sarcophagus.

"M-Maggie? Mags? Maggie where are you-" Zoe started after her and she got caught by the light as well and froze in place momentarily before she began walking towards it as well!

Jerome and Kaiden tried to go after them but were hypnotized by the red light as well! The others tried to go after them but were stopped by Romeo and Hubert. "WAIT DON"T! I don't know what's going on but we have to keep our eyes closed and covered! It's doing something to them! If we try to go into there it'll happen to us as well!"

"So what do we do?!"

"I-I don't...I don't know!"

The astronauts gathered around the sarcophagus, two on each side, raised their shaking, trembling hands into the air and then they slammed them down on the gem! The red light began flashing rapidly like a warning sign and crackling red energy began traveling up their arms and swiftly conducting around their suits as the astronauts screamed in pain!

"AAAAARRRGGGHHH! UUUGGGGGHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The astonauts screamed as they continued to try and take the ruby off of the sarcophagus against their own will!

"OH HELL NO!" Romeo snarled and ran out into the room. Caution be damned his friends were screaming in pain! He grabbed the gem and Jerome and began to feel himself being shocked as well! The rest of the crew jumped in as well in desperation and began pulling and yanking on their friends and the gem! The entire crew screamed in pain until they were finally able to overcome the gem's power and pull it out of the sarcophagus! The entire crew fell back and landed on their backs as the gem flew out of their hands and across the room!

"Aaaahhh....ohhhh...Goood...what happened?"

"It hurts. It hurts."

"I'm hurting...all over...what was that?"

"What are we doing here?"

"Is...is everybody okay?"

The lid of the sarcophagus began shaking and trembling.

"Guys...guys...sound off..."

"Please...everyone okay?"

"Are we alive?"

The lid's shaking grew more violent and the rest of it began shaking as well!

"Unngghhh...guys? Wh-what did we just do?"

"What's happening to it?"

"Where's the gem?"

Suddenly the roof of the sarcophagus was blown off by by an unseen force from below! The crew screamed and ducked as the lid of the sarcophagus was flung through the air and crashed into a far wall.

Maggie turned over on her back and slowly rose up and looked over at the sarcophagus reached up and grabbed onto the side of it and green smoke began blowing out of the sarcophagus. Another gnarled hand reached up and grasped onto the other side of it. A tall humanoid figure with way too long humanoid arms stood up amidst the billowing smoke and the pilots began to hear a haunting sing songy voice speaking to them.

Do-do-ra-ra! Do-do-ra-ra! Dora-Dora-Dora! Do-do-ra-ra! Do-do-ra-ra! Dora-Dora-Dora!" The alien figure swayed back and forth as an alien staff looking object flew out of the smoke and into its hand as she continued singing. The creature pointed the staff at her mouth and began projecting her voice like she was singing into a microphone! "Do-do-ra-ra! Do-do-ra-ra! Dora-Dora-Dora! Do-do-ra-ra! Do-do-ra-ra! Dora-Dora-Dora! Ł 𒔲𐎸🝛ꮤ ⳕ𒔲ł𐊔ⲉ𓂊ꮤ𐭕 ł ᛏ🝘𓄽🝛 ᜈ𐎸𐭕🝛 🝛⿴ ฿🝘𐊔𐊔ᨈ 🝛𒔲ꮤ‰! ᜈ𒔲ꮤ𐭕 ł 𓄽ꮤꮤ 𐎸 ⳕ𓂊ᨈł𐭕ゝ ⳕ𒔲ł𐊔ⲉ ‰ᨈ ‰ł𐭕ł⿴𐭕𓄽 ゝꮤ🝛 ꮤᜏⳕł🝛ꮤⲉ! ł'𐊔𐊔 ฿ꮤ ł𐭕 𐊔⿴ω ꮤ ᜈł🝛𒔲 𐎸𐊔𐊔 ⿴𒎙 ‰ᨈ ‰𐎸ゝłⳕ𐎸𐊔 𐑎⿴ᜈꮤ, ł'𐊔𐊔 𒔲𐎸ω ꮤ 🝛⿴ 𓄽🝛łⳕᛰ 🝛⿴ ฿ꮤł𐭕ゝ 𐑎𐎸🝛𒔲ꮤ🝛łⳕ𐎸𐊔𐊔ᨈ ᜈ⿴𓂊𓂊łꮤⲉ!"

The smoke billowed up to the ceiling in a tornado and the humanoid figure rode it up into the air while she spun around with it and then more multicolored smoke burst out of the sarcophagus from all sides before she suddenly jumped down from the smoke cloud, landed on her feet, raised her hands to the air, turned around and took a bow. They could see the creature more clearly now. It was a tall, naked, reptilian-insectoid looking alien humanoid woman with green skin, an exoskeleton armor covering her body, reddish-orange eyes with cross-shaped slitted green pupils, a small nose and two horns growing out of the back of her head. She grinned with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and pointed her staff at each of them in turn, did a pirouette and raised her staff to the ceiling as she loudly announced her name.

"𐊔ł𓄽🝛ꮤ𐭕 🝘𐑎, ᨈ⿴🝘 𒎙⿴⿴𐊔ł𓄽𒔲 𐑎ꮤ⿴𐑎𐊔ꮤ, ł 𐎸‰ 🝛𒔲ꮤ ゝ𓂊ꮤ𐎸🝛ꮤ𓄽🝛 ᜈł🝛ⳕ𒔲 ⿴𒎙 𐎸𐊔𐊔! BANDORA!"



The Bandora Alien twirled tossed her staff in the air, caught it in the other hand and twirled it a few times and then she tapped the end of her staff on the floor and cleared her throat.

"𐭕⿴ᜈ 🝛𒔲𐎸🝛 ‰ᨈ ł𐭕🝛𓂊⿴ⲉ🝘ⳕ🝛ł⿴𐭕 ł𓄽 ⿴🝘🝛 ⿴𒎙 🝛𒔲ꮤ ᜈ𐎸ᨈ, ł ᜈ⿴🝘𐊔ⲉ 𐊔łᛰꮤ ᨈ⿴🝘 🝛⿴ ł𐭕🝛𓂊⿴ⲉ🝘ⳕꮤ ᨈ⿴🝘𓂊𓄽ꮤ𐊔ω ꮤ𓄽. ᜈ𒔲⿴ ⲉ⿴ ł 𒔲𐎸ω ꮤ 🝛⿴ 🝛𒔲𐎸𐭕ᛰ 𒎙⿴𓂊 ‰ᨈ 𒎙𓂊ꮤꮤⲉ⿴‰?" She offered the crew. Of course nobody there could understand her bizarre alien language and they were still hurt from removing the gem so they stayed put. "Ⳕ⿴‰ꮤ 𐭕⿴ᜈ ⲉ⿴𐭕'🝛 ฿ꮤ 𓄽𒔲ᨈ." She paused and looked around the room as if suddenly remembering something and she walked up to the sarcophagus again and put a foot on it and leaned inside. "𒔲ꮤᨈ ゝ🝘ᨈ𓄽! 𒔲ꮤꮤꮤꮤꮤꮤᨈᨈᨈ! 𐎸𓂊ꮤ ᨈ⿴🝘 ł𐭕 🝛𒔲ꮤ𓂊ꮤ? 𐎸𓂊ꮤ ᨈ⿴🝘 𓄽🝛ł𐊔𐊔 𐎸𐊔łω ꮤ?" She called into the sarcophagus. "𒔲ꮤꮤꮤꮤꮤꮤᨈᨈᨈ!" She called again louder. While she was in the middle of doing this Maggie rolled over on her stomach and began crawling across the floor and over to the gem. "𒔲ꮤᨈ! Totbat, Buckback, Priripcan! ᜈ𐎸ᛰꮤ 🝘𐑎 𐎸𐊔𓂊ꮤ𐎸ⲉᨈ!" She tapped her staff against the sarcophagus. Maggie reached the gem and reached over to pick it up.

Bandora heard this and suddenly lunged towards her. She leaped across the room only to stop in front of Maggie as she turned around and shoved the gem in her face. "STOOOP!"

Bandora jumped backwards and landed next to the sarcophagus her eyes wide. "🝛𒔲ꮤ 𓄽𐎸ⳕ𓂊ꮤⲉ 𐎸𓂊‰𐎸🝘ᨖł𓂊ł𐭕ꮤ ゝꮤ‰ ⿴𒎙 𓄽ꮤ𐭕🝛𐎸ł 𒀏!" She named it in shock.

Maggie didn't understand what she called it but she pulled herself to her feet regardless still gasping in pain from the electric shocks. "Ohhh, you don't like this do you? You don't like it? Then get back in there. Right now!"

"Maggie what are you doing? This is alien life! This is why we're here! It hasn't even attacked anyone!" Zoe insisted.

"Think about it Zoe! That...thing has been influencing us this whole time! We never would've fried ourselves trying to pull it out otherwise! We wouldn't even be here! We've only been able to think clearly after we took it out! This place, this temple, it's a tomb! That thing was meant to stay in there! It wanted us to let it out!"

"I...I think you're right." Romeo tried to pull himself up but then collapsed back down. "Go! Go! Force it back in!"

Maggie took a few steps forward. "Now, you're going to get back in there and we're going to seal you away again and you are going to stay out of our heads!"

The creature narrowed her eyes and tilted her head to the left. "Schruhenge creuhture. Do yu chrule inteend to dreuhteen me?"

This shocked the entire crew. "Is...is it speaking English?" Hubert asked.

"Eenglizh?" Bandora questioned. "Eenglizh. Eenglizh. KAK!" She rolled her neck. "Iz duht eowr luhenguuhge creuhture? It iz vere zimple."

"What the hell?"

"It's...it's learning. Its learning our language."

"How? How can it hear us?"

"Your language. It is very simple to understand. Allow me to introduce myself properly now. I am Bandora Repulsa! The Greatest Witch In The Universe!" She pointed at Maggie. "You! You accused me of altering your minds and...you were correct." She turned back to the sarcophagus and kicked it. "This thing has been in my mind for a very long time until I was able to wrest control away from the AI and hijack it. From there, I utilized its technology to send out a psionic distress call to draw in any nearby lifeforms into this tomb to free me." She sighed. "It took a long, long, time...I'm not sure how long I've been in there. Eons I suppose. Or more. I lost track of time."

"You see? You see? She admits it! We have to stop her now! She can't go to our planet!"

"Where is your planet anyway, creature?"

"We're not creatures, Bandora, we're Earthlings!" Jerome snapped at her.

"JEROME NO!" The rest of the crew yelled at him.

"Earth...Earthlings? You're still around?" She asked in surprise. "You've reached space? Wow. I'm actually impressed. For such simple minds that is a considerable feat."

Kaiden raised her hands. "Wait, wait, wait, Bandora, please. You're the first evidence of alien life we've ever met. Please lets just talk this out."

"Like hell." Maggie snarled. "She's going back in there. Now back up witch!"

Bandora lowered her arms and studied Maggie for a moment before she grinned again. "Or you'll what?"

"Or...I'll use this to fry you."

"Prove it." She challenged.

"Okay, okay, I can do that. I can do that. Yeah, I'm gonna fry you! Right now! Abrakadabra Alakazam!" She called out. Nothing happened. "Avada Kedavra! Shazam! Kadabra! Go! Go! GO GEM GO! MAGIC GEM BLAST! SOMETHING! DO YOUR MAGIC GEM THING! LIGHTNING BLAST! SOMETHING!" Maggie cried out in desperation.

Bandora began to laugh as other alien arms rose up out of the sarcophagus behind her. "Ahahaha! Ahahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHHH!" She began walking towards her. "Silly Earthling. You don't know how to use it, do you?"

Maggie began backing away from her while shaking and tapping the gem. "Come on! Come on! Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeonplease! Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!"

Bandora lunged at her and grabbed onto the gem! Maggie yelped and fell backwards as the gem started flashing and red sparks of electricity began crackling around her body and shocking her! Bandora screeched and backed away from Maggie who crawled away against the wall over to the others. As the red lights continued flashing out of the gem the monks rose up out of the ground up to their feet and lowered their hands from prayer as their forms changed into a more humanoid stone piglike form as dark blue spiked armor grew out of their torso's, wrists, shoulders and legs and heads as weapons appeared in their hands: An Iron Bo Staff, A Steel-Headed War Hammer, A Steel Scythe, A Steel Alloy Double Edged, One-handed Sword and A Tempered Steel-headed Spear.

The pig guardians began stomping towards Bandora as the astronauts regrouped and more aiens began pulling themselves up out of the sarcophagus. Bandora backed away from the guardians as she continued fighting with the gem's magic while the electricity continued to shock her. A bright red light began to surround Bandora and swirled around her as the light from the gem grew brighter and brighter. More energy surrounded her in streams as it took the form of a cage around her. The Pigs surrounded the cage weapons at the ready in case. The light flashed around her rapidly and grew brighter and brighter forcing the astronauts to bow down and cover their heads and close their eyes! The energy swirled around Bandora like a violent tornado as she screamed in pain and anger only for her to screams to slowly die down and she raised the gem up and all of the energy died down and flowed back into the gem and then from there up her arm and through her body where it flowed upwards into and through her body freely. Bandora fell to one knee laughing in between panting for breath.

"The Braxarae Gem Of Sealing Evil's Bane. The vengeance of Sorcery 7's Royal Family." She identified the gem. "Hehhhhhhhhhh. A powerful source of magic but a mere power source to me if nobody is around to activate it's magic." The energy of the gem was swiftly absorbed into her body until it died down and the gem turned from bright red a dull lifeless grey. She sprung into the air just before all of the weapons came crashing down on her and landed behind the guardians. Bandora turned back around to face them and crushed the gem into powder in her hand.

"The Shimmermist Family fails again." She blew the dust of the gem out of her hand onto the floor. "Heh, heh, heh. Hah, hah hah, hah hah! HA HA HA HA HA!!" She raised her staff and the magical energy she'd absorbed transformed the staff into its true form: A long, ornate staff with crescent-shaped head that has a crystal as a focus embedded on it. The crystal is a more spherical replica of the gem whose magic she'd just absorbed. "Welcome back my DoraSceptre Lunar Staff!" She twirled the staff overhead and then she lowered it and pointed it at the stone guardians. "And you guys...Andresian Gatekeepers. Stone Guardians crafted from Utraitium Soil. A good idea for security guards but it'll take more than what you've got to keep me here. I have been locked up in this tomb for centuries and I. AM. LEAVING!"

A young girl with a toned athletic powerful physique performed her morning relevé workout. To do a relevé, you must rise up on the pointe or demi-pointe from flat feet often using a little spring from a demi-plié, during which both feet are swiftly drawn up. Relevés are a part of basic ballet and are very important while doing many dancing tricks and turns. They are pretty simple if done in the right way.

She began in the first position with her feet in a "V" shape and kept her back straight with her legs externally rotated and her weight even and her spine long and tall and her arms rounded, relaxed and low in front of her body. She began to stand on her toes and pressed through the heels of her feet and pulled them up to stand on her toes. She stood there for a few seconds and gently placed them back down again while keeping her legs strong, straight and externally rotated, engaging her core and keeping her shoulders lifted and back. She made sure to keep her weight balance and that she was not on her big toe or little toe too much. Furthermore she made sure her heels were turned in and level. She rose slowly with grace while keeping her back straight and arms relaxed and finally she returned to her first position to finish before starting her workout all over again.
During a relevé, focus on engaging your core; having your turnout; controlling and engaging your inner thighs, bottom, and hips; and pulling your knees up.

This workout of course was inspired by Misty Copeland. As one of the most skilled ballerinas in the world, you can bet that Misty Copeland does everything she can to stay in peak condition. To keep her muscles strong and flexible, Copeland's daily training begins long before she puts on pointe shoes—she starts every morning with 20 relevés on each foot, which non-dancers might recognize as calf raises. Calf raises are one of the hands-down best ways to make sure your lower legs are keeping up. They're ultra-simple and effective, and there's no equipment, space, or extra time required—you can do them while you're brushing your teeth or waiting for your coffee to brew. Just like her she trained to do this every day to build herself up.

She kept this up until completion and smiled to herself. Another successful morning exercise. She'd been pushing herself extremely hard all her life and then extra hard after a certain...incident last Christmas involving some douchebag home invading delinquents and a frantic night of home defense. It took forever to get everything put back together. Thank Heaven for insurance and family and friends. If Buffy and the others hadn't been there? She didn't want to think about it.

IF there was a bright side to the whole disaster it was that she and her sister were keeping in touch more than ever now, along with their friends, and the criminals were locked up in prison. She would prefer Arkham Asylum but it was unfortunately fictional. She couldn't have everything regretfully.

"Kimmy! Kimmy! How's it going up there? Are you ready for school yet?" Her mother called up to her.

"Getting ready, mom!" Kimberly called back and rushed to the shower with a series of alternating pirouettes and cartwheels.

Trini repeatedly struck the training dummy with fists, knees, legs and elbows as she practiced her martial arts maneuvers.

She struck the arm and caused it to spin and caused it to turn and then she hit it back again while also being sure to drive in hits from her fists and elbows to the dummy and its arms and mixing in kicks on the lower parts of the dummy. A diagonal elbow strike, a downward elbow strike, a front elbow strike, a thrusting elbow strike, a side elbow strike, a straight blast, and kicks to the dummy while also mixing in hard hitting strikes at the same time. She lashed out with rapid fire flicker jabs to open up the workout before she moved on to the rest of it.

After unloading her jabs on it she switched it up to her starting combination: A left vertical elbow, a right knee strike, a right downward elbow, a left uppercut, a right-left-right-left cross, a right elbow, more flicker jabs, right-left-right crosses, a right low kick, a right uppercut, a right spinning elbow, a left hook kick, jabs, a straight right, a right hook kick, jabs, straights, crescent kicks, spinning kicks, jabs, straights, left hooks, right hooks, and then she repeated the workout over and over again. But in her mind she wasn't striking the training dummy. She was dishing out the hurt to those jerks who'd attacked Kim's house. She threw a punch into Justin Burns' nose, elbowed Farai Jukwa across the face, kneed Zane Lynn in the stomach, unleashed a chain punch on Osamu Tezuka, kicked Bobby Sanders, crushed Stanford Winner, unleashed a chain of elbow strikes on Tina Noell, grabbed Nelida Valensis' arm and unleashed a few hard punches into her mouth before finishing it with an elbow strike to the jaw, nailed Kristen Blakeslee's face and stomach with a Yamazuki Double Punch and finally finished off Marie Claire le Monde with a nice long combination of punches. Right cross, left cross, straight right, short right, overhand right, hook, left hook, right hook, short hook, long hook, body hook and she finally finished it off with a direct haymaker to the dummy/Marie's smug face.

Trini Kwan thought of herself as a relaxed and easy going person who was nevertheless willing and able to fight when she had to. She let most things slide off her back and only really used her martial arts knowledge for defense. But those jerks had crossed a line. You don't just break into someone's house like that and expect to walk away. The Onyx Lions had been a thorn in their side for a while anyway with their poor delinquent behavior but attacking Kim's house was just too far. Suffice to say Trini and her friends had banded together like never before and beaten them down. The Onyx Lions and the thugs they brought with them had been carried out on stretchers by the paramedics. It had taken time, effort and teamwork but they'd helped fix up the Hart Household in the aftermath and repairmen did the rest. Now Kimberly's house was back to normal and more secure than ever.

Now they were free to continue their lives while The Onyx Lions were imprisoned with permanent black marks on their records. Meanwhile Bulk and Skull had gathered up whatever swag the gang had left laying around, hid it and then sold it all on the internet. Trini had momentarily pondered if that had all been planned out from the start....but that would be giving those two way too much credit.

Trini finished her training workout with one last punch to the dummy and then she lowered her arms to her sides and then she slowly rose them back up, placed her hands together and lowered them in front of her chest. She closed her eyes, relaxed and took a deep cleansing breath, expanded her belly and kept her shoulders relaxed, held it in briefly and then slowly blew it out before slowly repeating the exercise and focused on her breathing. As she breathed in she inhaled through her nose and exhaled through her mouth, still expanding her stomach and keeping herself still until she felt all of her stresses and worries fade away and her state of zen returned. Sometimes all you need to do is let out what's stressed you in the past and then return to your center.

After she finished her training exercise and loosened up Trini turned around and got changed out of her clothes to go take a shower.

After showering and cleaning herself up, Trini returned to her room and got dressed in a black jeans and a yellow t-shirt. She grabbed her bag, double checked everything was inside and zipped it back up. She quickly fled her room and descended the staircase to find breakfast and a note waiting for her on the table.



Trini laughed. "Now that is how you leave a breakfast note. I love you guys too. Forever and ever." Trini placed her hands together and bowed. "Time to eat." She smiled and enjoyed her Banh Xeo Crispy Pancake Breakfast. Bánh Xèo is basically a crêpe or pancake made from a basic blend of rice flour, turmeric, and coconut cream, along with other ingredients. The filling includes shrimp, pork belly, and bean sprouts. It’s got that irresistible crispy, yet delicate, golden brown crust. And the inside of the bánh xèo is filled with delicious flavors: pork and shrimp, and sprinklings of mung bean, onions and bean sprouts. After enjoying her amazing breakfast Trini cleaned up the kitchen and washed her hands, grabbed her bag and rushed out of the house. It was time for another day of school with her friends.