Well, this was certainly a change from how things had been going, but it could prove to be interesting. So, not being one to back down when trouble arrived, Tom grabbed a nice staff about 6 feet long, and remembering an old Clint Eastwood western movie he'd seen long ago said, "There's nothin' like a good piece of hickory." Tom ------------------- The Royal Battle had been going on for about half and hour with both sides taking a major hurting yet nobody actually dying. There was, of course, the exception of nameless ensigns, stormtroopers, and robot soldiers from various dimensions. Above the planet a single ship came out of hyperspace and immediatly began dodging Borg cubes. Luckily, The Gallant had been given shield clearance a couple of months ago by TPL. Chipper looked over at Kuwani as they slipped through the planetary shields and said, "Well, I see what the distress signal was about." "Looks like a rumble!" said Kuwani excitedly as she popped the hatch and dove into the air. She cast her re-enlarge spell as she fell and returned to her normal size before her parachute opened and she drifted down till she was about 50 feet off the ground. She then cut the line and landed in the midst of a Gummi Bear/Ogre battle and immediatly put her skills to good use. Chipper pulled his ship up in a quick manuver to avoid some incoming fire from a pair of Kilrathi darket light fighters. He continued to juke and slide his ship back and forth to avoid the incoming fire. "Somebody get those cats off my tail!" Chipper yelled into his comm. A moment later the first darket exploded as Christopher Blair's excalibur figher put a friend or foe missle into it. The second enemy ship blew up as the Millenium Falcon hit it with it's quad laser cannon. "Where the heck are all these guys coming from?" yelled Chipper to nobody in particular. Karl's voice answered over the comm, "Its a battle for everything that is good to keep everything that is bad from winning." "How do you know that?" querried Chipper. "Q told me." "Well that explains why the Enterpise-E is up there fighting alongside the Millenium Falcon," observed the JediChipmunk. "I'll provide air cover." Just then The Raptor piloted by Dragonus uncloaked behind him and hit The Gallant with some sort of energy beam. "Strike that," said Chipper as his ship lost control and plowed into the ground a few yards from where a tiger, a bear, a gorilla, a wolf, a red-tailed hawk, and a blue scorpion-tailed centaur with eye- stalks and no mouth were facing off against some Hork-Bajir and an even larger blue scorpion-tailed centaur with eye-stalks and no mouth. Chipper climbed out of the wreckage and surveyed the landscape. Before him were miles and miles of good guys teams facing off against miles and miles of villians plus all their generic but easy to kill henchmen/robots/drones/clones. "This is going to be a long day," muttered the JediChipmunk and ignited his lightsaber. Chipper -------------------- Julie had been fighting with a passion rarely seen nowadays, one that made others suspect she was possessed. Her eyes lit up like a million candles as she sliced down nameless enemies left and right, the only blood on her clothes being from the bad guys. All is going wonderfully until she heard a chilling voice. "Drop the sword," it said silkily and angrily. Julie looked up and saw the villian of her own creation, Mittens the cat, holding her claws dangerously close to Shadow's throat. "Drop the sword or I'll slice him open," Mittens said. Julie suddenly lost all her courage and slowly set the sword down. Mittens threw Shadow down, and Julie felt a piercing pain in her back. She turned and saw that Sewernose stabbed her with her own sword. She gasped in pain and fell to the ground as the two bad guys fled into the crowd. "Julie!" Shadow shouted. Julie was bleeding horribly; she took Shadow's paw and looked up at the mouse. "I...I was glad to do it..." "You don't look glad to me," Shadow noted. "Shut up," Julie replied. Suddenly she found herself surrounded by loads of other Rangerphiles, fanfic characters, and Rangers--even the ones who weren't too fond of her were at least keeping a polite silence. Some of the more tenderhearted Rangerphiles had tears in their eyes. "It's okay," Julie smiled, cringing. "I mean--what an ironic way to die, right? Stabbed by my own sword..." "Not that ironic," an anonymous voice noted. "It's not like you knew how to use it..." Julie sat up and ripped the sword out of her back, then hurled it at the anonymous voice. The ensign was struck in the foot, and spent the rest of the battle hopping around in pain. "No, really," Julie said, laying back down. "There's no way I'd rather go than with you guys..." Everyone got out their handkerchiefs. "Chip," Julie cried, "I'm sorry for what I did to China Chip, and for making you so miserable... Gadget, you'll always be my hero..." She smiled at all the Rangerphiles and quoted a line from the Anime series 'Fushigi Yuugi'--"I'm...glad to have...met all of you..." She continued ranting and saying her goodbyes and the like--"At least...I missed...almost a whole...semester...of school..." The crowd continued to watch, but their sad faces slowly turned to smiling ones. Julie didn't notice. "Hey, TPL," Monty asked once the news got all the way around the circle of onlookers, "when are y' gonna tell Julie you already healed her with your ray gun?" TPL just shrugged. Julie --------------------- Julie continued to wail in agony, not realising that she had been healed, ('cause it still hurt quite a bit!) "Oh the humanity! I regret that I have but one life to give! Tis a far, far better place I go then I have ever gone! Goodnight, sweet prince! Parting is such sweet sorrow! What a world! What a world!" "Somebody better tell her before I have to hurt her myself!", Monty said. "Dont' worry.", Tom told Monty, giving him Julie's sword that he had recovered from the poor ensign's foot. "Here, hold on to this." Tom then moved closer to where Julie was lying, but with his back to her, pretending that he didn't know she was there. "What?", he said, making sure to speak loud enough so that Julie heard him. "She's healed? Dang! Now no one will get her Gadget doll!" Tom suddenly felt a firm tap on his shoulder, and turned to see Julie standing before him. "Uh,", he said. "What I meant to say is, I'm glad you're feeling better!" "Okay! Where's my sword!", Julie yelled. "I want my sword, and I want it now!" Monty could only chuckle quietly to himself as he kept Julie's sword hidden out of sight behind his back. Tom ------------------- [...unWARP!!!] Good evening. The jaguar was about to walk out the door, but a furry purple paw held his shoulder. He turned around and saw. . . "Fifi!!! How did **U** get here??!!" "Je ne se pas. Je was zhust reading in mon Chevy et je waz here." "Well, darling, it's nice that U could make it. We're kinda stuck in a fight-for-the-good-of-all-dimensions-battle. Would U like to join?" The skunkette grabbed her tail and replied, "(sigh), je guess so." Just as they walked out the door, three more people appeared. "Lords of light!! What happened, Ariel?" "I don't know, Thundarr!! My spell was ONLY supposed to make a campfire!! Excuse, me, could U please tell us where and when we are?" The jaguar replied, "U're on Planet Earth, 1998 A.D." "Earth?! 1998?! Impossible!! U should have been destroyed by a runaway planet 4 years ago!!!!" "RRARARRARARRARWRASRAWRARRRAWAWRAWRAWRAWA!!!!!!!!!!!" "No, Ookla, I don't think someone forgot to carry the 3," said Ariel. "Just a question, are U good guys or bad guys??" "THUNDARRRR!!!!!" They all whirled to see a cyborg-like person in front of them. He had a nice smile, but he was definitely evil. "Well, Thundarr, looks like U can't get away from me, can U?" "Gemini!!!" replied the Barbarian. "I suppose U're the one behind all this???" "I wish I was. But all I did was strike up a deal with every evil force in all dimensions, and I ended up here to finish U. Now. . ." His head swiveled, a metal mask covered his happy face, and another, on the back of his head, opened to reveal a VERY evil-looking face. "PREPARE TO FACE THE WRATH OF GEMINI!!!!!!!!!!" High above the Earth, the Enterprises were fighting alongside the X-wing, Y-wing, and A-wing fighters, when- "Captain, more ships are coming in!!" "Can U identify them, Mr. Borg?" "Negative. But I'm getting a hailing signal from one of them." "On screen." The ship appeared to be a spaced-up version of a WWII destroyer. A man appeared on the screen. "This is Captain Wildstar of the Argo. I take it that the Earth is under attack?" "Yes, it is," replied Picard. "And. . ." "Captain Wildstar!! There are Gamilon and Bolar ships approaching!!!" "I thought the Gamilons were our allies!!" "Sir, I don't think this is 2201 A.D. anymore." "Gamilons?" asked Picard. "Keptin, another space station is approaching!!" "On screen, Mr. Sulu." More than a space station, it looked more like a comet. "Switch to tactical!" ordered Picard. Data analized, "Sir, it appears to be a large asteroid with a small city on its top half, surrounded by a force field!" "The Comet Empire!!!" exclaimed Wildstar. "Captain, I believe I have detected an anomaly in this battle. It seems that for every force fighting for good that appears, some 3.4 evil forces appear to counter it," said Data. "So? Are U telling us we CAN'T win this battle?" asked Skywalker. To be continued / Continuarį / Seguirį. . . . Until next time, remember. . . I AM THE J.A.M. Good evening. [WARP!!!] The J.A.M. ---------------- The Battle continued in both space and on land, and it wasn't going very well. On Land the good guys were suffering TERRIBLE losses: Wescott and Tammy were cut off and were literally fighting to the death, Julie Bihn, though not dying, was severly injured and it would take several hours before TPL's ray effect would completely heal her. Monty and his folks were hurling the bad guys to various places but were getting weary, the JLA was doing there best but, unfortunately, the bad guys had thought of everything and had brought ALL the things that could kill them(Kryptonite, etc.), Roy Grissom, Dale, and Foxglove were holding several of the bad guys reinforcements at bay and they showed no sign of stopping. Chip watched all of this from the command bunker he was in, *I can't just stay here and watch these people get killed, what true leader wouldn't fight and die with his troops*, suddenly an image of Gadget popped into his head, *I hope she is ok.* Just as he was thinking this, Indy had called him down, something about a starship hailing them. Chip could hardly believe that a starship was hailing them until he saw a frenchman who called himself Jean-Luc Picard said he was here to help. "Well, who would've thought that the Enterprise would've come here to help", Indy said. "I sure wouldn't of", Chip said, "wait a minute, what are those several green dots, Indy?" Indy looked at what Chip was pointing at and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. "I don't believe it!" he said. "What don't you believe?" Chip asked. "Chip, you know how you and everyone else said we needed help, well we have it. There are 300 ships out there on OUR side." "Compared to the 600 ships on the other side." Chip said. Indy shrugged, "300 is better than none." Captain Kirk sat on the bridge of the Enterprise-A looking on the viewscreen as thier fleet neared the enemy fleet. Everyone had contacted each other and a Picard of the Enterprise-E had told them why they were here. "Distance from the enemy fleet?" Kirk asked. "200 miles, captain." Sulu said. "What do you make of them, Spock?" Kirk asked. Spock looked at his computer screen. "I have identified some of them by thier markings as 'new' types of Romulan ships, the others are ships I have never seen before. They appear to heavily armed." "Captain, I'm recieving a communique from the Enterprise-E", Uhura said, "They want us to come alongside the Battlestar Galactica and attack with them." "Sulu, take us thier." Picard looked at the tactical display with a frown on his face, *I wish Q would just snap his fingers and get rid of our enemies sometimes*, of course he knew Worf wouldn't like that at all. "Data, is there any way we can send troops down there to help them with that shield of thiers up?" Picard asked. "Possibly", Data said, "thier shield is a Type-F 600 harmonic-12. If we modified the transporter to beam lifeforms at 1200 harmonics, we should be able to send them help without them having to drop thier shield." "What about the enemy, if we can do it, can they?" Picard asked. "I have already scanned the fleet and the majority of them lack the technology to beam at 1200 harmonics, some of them do not even have transporter technology.", Data said. "Would our away team survive?" Picard asked. Data began calculating formula in his brain, "I believe so, but than again this has never been tried before, I reccomend that once modified, we should beam a tricorder to test it and ask if they have received it." "Very well, how soon can it be modified?" Picard asked. "It can be done in ten minutes." Data said. "Make it so," Picard said, "Number One, I want you to prepare an assault team to help the Rangers on the ground, I will have the other ships send troops as well." "Aye, sir." Riker said, "Worf your with me." Commander Adama walked on the bridge of the Galactica. he was still a bit confused, the last thing he remembered was the Galactica passing through a Milky type of Galaxy and then him and his ship is plunged into an ultimate battle of good vs. evil. Suddenly a starship with the markings 'U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-A'. "Colonel Tigh, hail that ship." Adama said. "Yes, Adama." Tigh obeyed. An image of Kirk appeared on one of the screens. "Yes, this is Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, and you are?" "This is Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galactica, may I ask what you are doing near my ship?" "I was told to stand beside you, now why I have no idea, I don't even know what we are supposed to do." "Same here, but lets fix that", Adama said, "Tigh, get me the Enterprise- E." Picard appeared alongside of Kirk. "Yes, Galactica, is there a problem?" "No, sir. I'm sure we all understand why we are here, but the question I have is 'how' are we going to defeat the enemy. Does anyone have a plan?" Adama asked. There was silence showing that Picard didn't have a plan as of yet. "Adama, we are being hailed by a ship." "On, screen Tigh." A calamari with bulgy eyes appeared on top of the screens of Kirk and Picard. "This is Admiral Ackbar, commander of the New Republic Fleet. I have been listening to your conversation and I believe I have a plan." Everyones ears percked up at this and eagerly listened to the Admiral's plan. "So that is what we are going to do." Picard said to Chip, "We will take care of them in space so that should take the heat off of you." Chip gave a sigh of relief, so far the Borg had really been hammering at thier shield, so much in fact that Indy had gone downstairs to reroute more power to it. "But what about us down here?" Chip asked, "We are losing a lot of ground, I don't think we can hold out much longer." Picard looked behind him and nodded, "We have already taken care of that, I want you to look behind you and let me know if you see something appear." Chip looked behind himself and saw a device of some type appear out of thin air. "Is anything there yet?" Picard asked. "Yes," Chip replied, "a small grey box thing has just appeared." "Open it up and tell me what happens." Picard said. Chip picked it up and opened it, as he did he saw a small screen light up and several schematics appeared. "I opened it and all these drawings of other ships appeared." Picard gave a sigh of relief, "Good, I'm going to send you some troops to help you on the ground, more should be on the way. Picard out" Picards face dissapeared from the screen and just then several humans and a non-human appeared just like the tricorder had. "Hey, Chip. I just boosted the power and AHHHHH!" Indy yelled in fear because he thought the bad guys had penetrated thier shield. A man with a beard walked up to Chip, "I'm Commander William T. Riker of the Starship Enterprise. I have brought an assault team to help the Rescue Rangers, could you tell me where thier leader is." "Your looking at him.", Chip said. Riker was a bit taken a back at this, not expecting that an animal, much less a chipmunk, would be leading the Rangers. Of course he had a bigger shock in for him once he found out that the Rangers were ALL animals. "Chippo! Its the enemy! They have AHHHHHHH! AN ANIMAL!" Monterey yelled, "Keep away you monster!" Riker turned to Worf, "This is Lieutenant Cmdr. Worf. he will be leading the second flank of the assault force." "I'm a Klingon." Worf said. "Too right." Monty said. "What were you saying Monty", Chip asked. "Eh, Oh. The enemy has advanced really far, they are just 5 miles from here." Monty said, "and Chip, they've overrun the position where Gadget was. We don't know if she is with the others who went to the fallback positions." At this Chip felt all the life drain out of him. Just the thought of Gadget being dead or captured was horrible to him. "From where are they advancing?", Riker asked. "From in front of us, mate." Monty said. "Mr. Worf, take your flank to that area and hold them off. I'll form several lines of defense in case they overrun your position. When I give you the word I want you to fallback to our position and await further orders." Riker said. "Yes, sir." Worf said and led his flank out. Riker took his flank out and they began to dig several ditches and place several force field generators. Chip sat down and began to weep, Indy noticed this and walked up to him. "Don't worry Chip, Gadget is a survivor, just like you. She is okay." Chip looked up at him and suddenly a look of bitter resolve came on his face. he stood up and gathered several weapons and went outside. "Where are you going Chip?" Indy asked. "Doing what I should've been doing when this mess began, I'm going to fight with the others and find Gadget." Indy realized there was no use in arguing with him, instead he got his weapons and followed Chip. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." he said. Well, that is the end of Part 3, I hope everyone is enjoying my ideas here so far. I also hope I can participate in the FINAL battle of this adventure. Bye, Some Brother P.S. Let me emphasize that Gadget is not dead nor captured. Just that no one(except the people with her) knows if she is alive or dead. Some Brother ----------------- Hannibal Smith pulled Gadget out of the way just before a Kilrathi death ray could get to her. "We need a plan here!" Hannibal said. "Let's get all the brainy folk we have together and see if we can't work something out to send all these evil dudes packing." Gadget was just about to agree, when their position was overrun. Kilrathi soldiers, Stormtroopers, and Romulans were advancing fast. Gadget looked around for help, then grabbed a Starfleet officer's communicator. "Chip, this is Gadget, over. We need reinforcements on the west side. We're being overrun!" Chip heard the message and sent out what he could, but the forces were scattered thin over the planet now. The crews from the various Enterprises did help, but the masses of evil storming them were a real strain. Suddenly, a Kilrathi appeared above Gadget and Hannibal, wielding a sickle-like instrument, and threatened to bring it down on her. Gadget cringed and cried out, and then her goggles glowed. A high-pitched hum filled the air, and a heretofore unheard voice shouted... "Thunder...Thunder...Thunder...Thundercats, HO!" A large portal ripped open and the Kilrathi soldier ran for it as the feline saw what was coming through. The thundertank roared through, as well as several of the other Thundercat vehicles. The covering on the tank come up, and Lion-O stretched forth the Sword of Omens. He pointed at the oncoming hordes, shouting, "Ho!" The sword cut forth a massive energy bolt, enveloping hundreds of soldiers, knocking them unsconscious. Gadget leaped up, running to and hugging her old friend. "Lion-O! I didn't think you were coming!" "Mumm-Ra held us up awhile, but we're here now! You know Panthro, Cheetara, Tygra, the kids and Snarf. Here's some new additions to the team, Lynx-O, Pumyra and Bengali." Gadget greeted them all, then turned to Panthro. "We're in real trouble here, Panthro! The forces of evil from every dimension have gathered to try to destroy the Rangers! We're holding our own, but we need a plan to stop them." Panthro thought a moment, then snapped his fingers. "Wait a moment. There is someone who could stop all of this! Everything!" Hannibal Smith and several other heroes were there now. "Who is this superbeing, Panthro?" Hannibal asked. "Wiz-Ra," Panthro replied. "He was the mightiest defender of good in ancient Earth times. He was sent into the seventh dimension by the evil Mumm-Ra." "The seventh dimension!" Gadget cried. "Then he's inaccesible to us, unless we could build an interdimensional portal!" "Looks like we are going to need some brains on this one," Hannibal said. "Then look no further!" a voice yelled from behind them. "It is I, Dexter! I heard your call for help and I have brought the greatest minds in all herodom with me!" Indeed the roster was impressive. Besides Dexter, there was Handy Smurf, Reed Richards, one the Guardians of OA, Charles Xavier, Gyro Geerloose, Wildcat, and many more. "All, right folks, here's what we've got to do!" Gadget said. She filled them in on what they needed, and they immediately began working on blueprints for a hyperdynamic interdimensional portal. Indy ---------------- Using a Class-3 replicator, the group of geniuses quickly starting fashioning the hyperdyamic interdimensional portal. Richards, who was working next to Panthro, asked the muscular feline about the being they were trying to free. "Pardon me if I sound dubious, but what power does Wiz-Ra have that none of us does?" Panthro never looked up, but started explaining. "Wiz-Ra possesses the enchanted golden helmet of Fa-Noor, which gives him the greatest power in the universe. The power to control any mind he wishes. He could literally stop all of this with a single thought." Richards nodded, also not looking up. "Sounds good to me. Meanwhile, Johnny, Ben and Susan will work with your team to keep the evil forces away from us and the equipment." The device was being put together as fast as possible, but even with Gadget organizing the effort, it would take time. Then, the enemy saw what they were doing. Dr. Doom was leading an assault, combined with Mumm-Ra and several hundred supporting minions. "Flame on!" the Human Torch said as he took to the skies. Bashful Benjy, who was joined by Monterey Jack (the Thing had always been a secret hero of his), had only one thing to say: "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!" The Invisible Girl used her force field to protect the equipment and the builders, while the Thundercats and the rest of the Fantastic Four battled hard. If they could just hold out... Indy ----------------- Karl had been replaced at the defense console, and not a moment too soon. He got a cold soft drink upstairs in the Coffeehouse and tried to catch his breath as he walked back down to the defense center. Everyone else was busy, so he studied the shield generators while he finished the soda... Then suddenly gave a chuckle of pure malice. He reached up to the shield region controls, and gradually pulled them in. The protected area slowly shrank until it barely covered the atmosphere of the planet, allowing the generators to store a massive over- supply of power. "Wait for it... Wait for it.." He muttered happily as the enemy ships detected an imminent shield collapse and approached the planet to add their firepower to the assault. "Now!" Karl flipped the region controls back to their former position, and hundreds of enemy craft were swatted and crushed as the impenetrable force field expanded almost instantly. "Force fields, they're not just for defense any more!" Karl quipped. Chip groaned. "It's ok to destroy the enemy with tricks like that, but spare us your lame jokes!" Karl ----------------- The good guys on the western side of the battle were doing pretty well compared to the fighting going on near the center of the battle, which was of course the Coffeehouse. This was probably due to the fact that the western front was mostly composed of namesless drones and bad guy fighters. Whereas all the big villians were either fighting in space or converging on the Coffeehouse. Chipper the JediChipmunk, the Animorphs, Hercules (the Disney version), and Optimus Prime had just forced Viser Three, Megatron, and a few nameless cronies into a retreat. Chipper flipped on his personal communicator and signaled the head base. "We're kicking butt out here. How is the other fronts?" Karl's voice answered him, "We are falling back. Too many to hold. And the position Gadget was holding was just overrun!" "Oh plevit," Chipper muttered an old intergalactic word he had learned from an alien named Kreeblim. (Read the My Teacher is an Alien book series to get it.) "Ok, everyone move out!" said the tiger leader of the Animorphs through thought-speak. "Gottcha," said the JediChipmunk as he led the rest toward Gadget's last known position. Above the planet the battle was raging furiously as ever and the ships were starting to show some battle-dammage. "So we are outnumbered three to one?" said Admiral Ackbar. "We must retreat." "You always want to retreat," yelled Lando Calrisian from the Lady Luck. "I say bring em closer and engage them at point blank range." "Wouldn't that be suicide?" asked Troi her useless spot on the bridge of the Enterprise-E. "Not neccessarily," answered Data, "we may be outnumbered three to one, but a more than half of those enemy ships are inferior, many of the fighters don't even have shields." Just then with a sharp flash of light much like one of Q's entrances a huge Mega-carrier appeared in the midst of the battle. "This is the Terran Confederation Ship Midway here," came a voice over the comm. "We were told that one of our greatest heroes, Christopher Blair, is fighting here for the sake of all that is good, we are here to help." With that the carrier began to disgourge dozens of fighters that also entered the fray. "We have a weapon that is capable of taking out an entire fleet, but it can't be used when the fighting is already next to us. The weapon is also a one-shot only device, so we only get one chance." "Then aim it at the Death Star!" came back the reply from just about every good guy ship there. "Will do," with that, the Midway slowly turned,aimed, and then fired its massive plasma weapon at the approaching Death Star. The Death Star, which was now only about 30 minutes away was caught dead center. It didn't blow up in the spectacular way the last two did, but it did stop moving and the superlaser was taken out of commission. "Well it seems we have been given an extension on how long it will this battle can last," remarked Picard. "Hail the teams that called themselves Voltron and The Power Rangers and tell them to have their big robots converge on that Super-Star-Destroyer. Tell Voyager to pull up next to the Midway and help them if they need it. Have the Defiant fall in next to us and assist us with some of those Borg cubes. The New Republic fleet looks like it could use some help with them." 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