The Storybook Dimension

Title: The Weakest Color
Summary: Bridge, the SPD Green Ranger, is forced to betray the Power Rangers in order to save humanity.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Action/Adventure
Rating: T

—

Chapter 23: Hide and Seek

—

Broodwing landed in front of Piggy’s restaurant and paced in barely contained rage. Viciously kicking aside an upturned chair, the mercenary surveyed the empty parking lot and trailer.

Someone had scrawled their name in graffiti across the front of the restaurant, and the metal counter was partially torn off its hinges. The restaurant was obviously abandoned. Piggy would have to be incredibly foolish to return here, the first place anyone would look for him.

Broodwing scuffed his feet in the dirt. He looked up at the towering buildings of SPD headquarters and wished all the ills of the universe on its inhabitants and one green ranger in particular.

‘He’ll pay for this,’ Broodwing thought. ‘Maybe I should turn him in to the other rangers.’ [Read more →]

Summary: Many years in the future, Warren Peace finds himself at the mercy of an old friend. Warren X Will slash.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Tragedy
Rating: T

—

Chapter 5: A Calculated Risk

—

Will Stronghold

—

There’s a one in five hundred thousand chance that you’ll be struck by lightening, one in ten million that you’ll be president of the United States. The overall odds of being canonized are twenty-million to one, but I think my odds are far steeper than that.

[Read more →]

Title: The Weakest Color
Summary: Bridge, the SPD Green Ranger, is forced to betray the Power Rangers in order to save humanity.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Action/Adventure
Rating: T

—

Chapter 22: A Matter of Time

—

“No way!”

“You can’t…”

“… not Boom!”

The command center was in an uproar. Cruger tried to speak several times, but kept getting interrupted. “Attention! Now, one at a time.”

Sky, who had been silent until then, spoke first. “Sir, why do you think Boom is involved?”

That was an easy question. Cruger was silently grateful that Sky was so level-headed. “There have been two incidents involving information being stolen from our computers. We’ve managed to trace it back to Boom.”

[Read more →]

Title: The Weakest Color
Summary: Bridge, the SPD Green Ranger, is forced to betray the Power Rangers in order to save humanity.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Action/Adventure
Rating: T

—

Chapter 21: More Important Than Friendship

—

Piggy was a coward. It wasn’t the usual kind of cowardice, which came quickly and left just as fast. Piggy’s cowardice was part of his personality, an ever present instinct for self-preservation.

“I – I know that I’ve caused lots of trouble,” Piggy stammered, trying to look genuinely repentant, “and maybe I haven’t been the best person around, but everyone makes mistakes, right?”

The ranger didn’t seem convinced.

[Read more →]

Summary: Many years in the future, Warren Peace finds himself at the mercy of an old friend. Warren X Will slash.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Tragedy
Rating: T

—

Not Today

Chapter 4: The Price of Order

—

She heard the news at a wedding. Warren Peace, the superhero now known as Phoenix, had been captured and by none other than Devastator himself. Evelyn Frost adjusted her skirt, running the statement through her mind once, then twice, testing for the truth.

It had been a long time since her and Warren had been on speaking terms. Nevertheless, she had never wanted him captured or dead, especially at Devastator’s hands. It seemed a lifetime ago that Warren had taken her to the prom at Sky High.

Evelyn allowed herself a slight smile. He had been so cute back then. In fact, he was handsome even now, in a sort of dark and wild way. But Peace was unpredictable, dangerous even. She knew that better than anyone.

[Read more →]

Title: The Weakest Color
Summary: Bridge, the SPD Green Ranger, is forced to betray the Power Rangers in order to save humanity.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Action/Adventure
Rating: T

—

Chapter 20: Choices and Decisions

—

Sometimes, Cruger felt like his job consisted of arranging the pieces of a large and impossibly complex puzzle. There were a thousand clues, a thousand pieces of information. And he had to put it all together, no matter how many pieces were missing.

“I have the report on the lab accident,” Kat said, entering his office. Cruger sat up a little straighter. Whatever she found must be important; Kat almost never asked to speak to him privately. “The explosion was a diversion. Around the same time, the camera outside of your office was disabled. I also checked your computer – someone has hacked into it to steal important files.”

“Which files?”

“Everything on the SWAT upgrades.”

Cruger growled under his breath. That information was undoubtedly in Troobian hands by now; so much for that secret weapon! “We should modify the SWAT upgrades,” Cruger decided. “There’s still a chance that we can add something and take them by surprise.”

It all depended on how much time they had left. Cruger would bet his Shadow Saber that Gruumm was planning something big, and the Troobian was nearly ready to make his move.

“Most of my equipment was damaged in the lab explosion, but I’ll see what I can do,” Kat said. “If possible, I’d like to borrow Sophie as well.”

“Take whatever you need. This project is to have the highest importance.”

Kat hesitated. “Doggie, there’s something else.”

[Read more →]

Summary: Many years in the future, Warren Peace finds himself at the mercy of an old friend. Warren X Will slash.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Tragedy
Rating: T

—
Not Today

Chapter 3: An Untitled Tragedy in Three Parts (Part 1)

—

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole

—

Will Stronghold

—

Torture is an interesting thing. It breaks some and makes others malleable, even cooperative. In certain people it only hardens resolve, making the victim cling even tighter to their principles. I know this from experience. Some supervillains torture indiscriminately, but I am not one of those.

I don’t hold back out of kindness or any sense of nostalgia. I know myself better than that and, more importantly, I know Warren better than that. I would be willing to bet my fortune on the fact that he is, even now, planning some sort of escape.

I could torture him, but he expects that.

It was always expected that I would become a great hero and follow in my parent’s footsteps. Instead, I have become one of the most feared villains in the world. I’ve killed more superheroes than I can count, and that’s not even including civilians and sidekicks. I’m in the running to be the greatest mass-murderer of the twenty-first century. At this rate, my record might even hold into the twenty-second.

Warren, on the other hand, was always expected to be a powerful supervillain, just like his father. You can see how that turned out. Warren was always determined to defy expectations and to walk his own path. That’s how he wound up locked in a cage in my laboratory.

[Read more →]

Summary: Many years in the future, Warren Peace finds himself at the mercy of an old friend. Warren X Will slash.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Tragedy
Rating: T

—

Chapter 2: Me, Myself and I

—

Gwen Grayson

—

My name is Gwen Grayson.

No, no. That’s not how it goes. Let me start over.

My name is Royal Pain, but nobody calls me that anymore. In fact, no one has called me that since Lash came to the dungeons. He didn’t last long, but it was long enough for me to remember who I was, and who I was supposed to be serving.

I liked being called by my name. For a while there, I’d almost forgotten it. In this place, I’m just Gwen or Grayson or simply ‘you’.

You take out the trash. No, not you. We. We’re going to take out the trash.

I laugh, and it sounds thin and high. I’m beginning to think that I’ve become as insane as that hideous gremlin who raised me. Living two lives can do that to you; I have no idea how Baron Battle can stand it, the whole dying and living and dying again. Even though, I suppose, I only lived once and never truly died.

We. We never truly died.

[Read more →]

A/N: Continued by popular demand! A big thank you to everyone who commented on this story. You can read the prologue here.

Summary: Many years in the future, Warren Peace finds himself at the mercy of an old friend. Warren X Will slash.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Tragedy
Rating: T

—

Chapter 1: Tempt Fate

—

Will Stronghold

—

The last time Warren and I spoke, and by that I mean really spoke to each other instead of screaming threats, was five years ago.

It was two years after our high school reunion. He may be brash but he’s not completely oblivious; things were changing, and we both knew it. I tried to tell him. I tried to make him understand.

It wasn’t my fault. I never meant for it to happen.

The second statement was more true than the first. I’m not going to say that I lied to Warren that day, any more than I lie every day when I wake up and look in the mirror. But it wasn’t quite the truth either, and we both knew it.

Part of being an adult is taking responsibility for your actions, he told me.

Hearing those words from Warren Peace was strange, humorous even. It was something Layla would have said. She should have been telling me these things, but she wasn’t there, and nothing I could do would change that.

The next time I saw Warren was the day the Bureau of Superheroes took him for questioning about the escape of Baron Battle.

[Read more →]

Title: The Weakest Color
Summary: Bridge, the SPD Green Ranger, is forced to betray the Power Rangers in order to save humanity.
Author: Seren Maris
Genre: Angst/Action/Adventure
Rating: T

—

Chapter 19: The SWAT Upgrade

—

Bridge walked the hallways in a carefully calculated route, every few minutes passing by Kat’s lab. One by one, he watched as the science staff left, heading home to their families or maybe, in a few cases, an empty apartment.

Not for the first time, Bridge envied them a little bit. True, they weren’t power rangers – but whatever happened, they could leave it all behind at the end of the day.

He saw Boom leave and, a few minutes later, Kat left as well. Bridge took a deep breath, and entered the room. Walking past a counter, he pocketed a small beaker of glowing green chemicals.

There was still two assistants in the lab, working late on their projects. The first ignored him completely, absorbed in her work. The second, however, looked up and greeted him. “Hey, Bridge. Do you need something?”

Bridge tried not to fidget nervously. “No, I was just looking for Boom.” On the table to his left, he could see Dr. Keppel’s experiment laid out on a table, with the asteroid fragment suspended in a vial of clear liquid. Waiting until the lab assistant looked away, Bridge slipped the green chemicals into the vial.

“Sorry, he just left,” the scientist said.

“It’s… it’s okay,” Bridge replied, before backing out the door. “I’ll come back later.” As soon as he turned the corner he started to run.

[Read more →]