Reprocussions (CLOSED)

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"Fleshling, wake up."

A square, metallic foot prodded the downed form, a teenager with short and thick hair wearing a black shirt and dark-blue baggy pants. The lad's clothes were loose and heavy as the metal toe prodded him, then loudly stepped back. The kid opened his eyes slowly opened as he looked around, stones and low lights from glowing stones. Odd, this wasn't home, this was far from it.

"ugh... Anyone get the number of that truck?"

He put a hand to his head, feeling the throbbing of his temples, like his brain was on fire and trying to burst out the sides. A voice with a metallic whine to it responded.

"No, and if I did I wouldn't care."

The machine turned its head, glass eyes resembling a large pair of shades as it spoke again. "Got a name, human?" The teenager rose to his feet slowly, he had an athletic build, in shape with out being remarkably slim, and he seemed to get himself straightened out quickly. "Call me Zach... And what do I call you?" he looked at the machine, easily over 7 feet tall and in the form of a humanoid, though with harsh angles and a boxy appearance, his body a chromed off-purple with lighter areas. "Normally I don't give my name to organics, but since we're the only people around... Call me Rumble." Zach put his hand in his clothes, felt what he was looking for, then turned his head down the hall. "What about them?" Rumble shrugged, tilting his head. "Wellll..." The girl raised her head and smiled, hands clasped. "I am Zelda, Princess of Hyrule." She had a voice like silk, and skin as pale as the moon. The short man, roughly four feet tall with a great beard tucked into his belt spoke gruffly, pushing the sky-blue hood back from his lined face. "Thorin Oakenshield, King Under the Mountain, at your service."

Zach gave a bow to the princess and shook hands with Thorin, "Cool, I've never met royalty before." Thorin chuckled. "I never met a being like Rumble before... But it seems we're all still lost in this maze." It burned Thorin to admit this, since Dwarves were exceptionally good at traversing mazes and tunnels. Zelda gave a small sigh, she had been following Thorin and Rumble for a while, but her guides didn't seem capable of leading her out of this strange labyrinth. Admittedly they were lost within the floors of the Downward Spiral, They could be miles underground or high above the clouds for all they knew, stuck in the windowless structure which seemed bigger on the inside then on the outside.

"This place is crazy, huge, and has doors leading to some pretty messed up places, and I'd bet my boron compressor that one of those doors leads back to Cybertron, heck I bet all our homes are around here somewhere..." Thorin nodded, hands on his belt as he looked up at the Decepticon. "Well spoken, Rumble. But I've not been in a hall or cave like this before, and Zach is the first living being we've seen in some time..." Zelda smiled and looked to Zach. "What is your home like?" Zach gave a rather nervous smile, as an honest to goodness princess had taken an interest in his home. "It's home, I miss it and my friends... I wonder what happened to them..."

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Deep within the tower, something stirred, intruders were detected wandering the innermost corridors and snaking through the hallways not meant for mortals to trod. The Downward Spiral detected unwelcome guests, and the Downward Spiral would defend itself. Just as a living being's own body defends itself, the tower let out its Antibodies, its white blood cells. There came a loud thud as air was pushed aside and a bright flash as matter was called into being. Two individuals appeared. One had light blue skin and wore dark blue greeves, a dark leather harness, and a fur loincloth. A similarly dark blue cloak and hood covered his skull head and he held a large staff in his hands.

The other appeared with a silver mask akin to a massive monstrous grin, black glass forming a large visor. Exposed red muscles surrounded with a metal frame and tubes carrying strange liquids. He held a large staff of solid metal with a pronounced Z at the top and his exposed brain was crowned with a metal ring and another, smaller Z emblazoned the front of this head-dress. He looked to his skull-faced companion then ahead, walking through the tower. Just as the human body's defenses have white bloodcells, the Downward Spiral dispatched Skeletor and Lord Zedd to deal with all interlopers they came across.

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"I and Twelve of my kinsmen were on an expedition, heading to my home of Lonely Mountain with a Wizard and an expert Burglar..."

Zach listened to Thorin's story as they walked, glued to the tale as he traveled down the winding corridor. Rumble and Zelda behind them and sharing their own discussion about their homelands, the worlds of Cybertron and Hyrule, respectively. They trekked on through the labyrinth though they all felt it, the weight in their hearts. They knew they were truly, truly lost.

Then it happened.

There came a loud rush, The wall next to the party flew open, a spray of stone shards and a force so great it threw the group back. Rumble hit the ground with a loud clatter, then opened his arms as he sat up, trying to catch the fleshlings. "Woah, Easy!" He looked at the two figures standing before them as Zelda, Thorin, and Zach got to their feet. Both figures held great staves, and they crossed and lowered them. Another great rush hit the Cybertronian and his humans, sending them further back as the walls of the Downward Spiral shuddered and started to crumble, Jagged rocks fell from the ceiling as the group was sent sprawling against the walls. Lord Zedd and Skeletor had made their presence known.

"Two can play that game, you freaks..." Rumble got to his feet. "This here's decepticon turf!" With a loud "TCHK-CHK-BZZT-CHK!" His arms changed, fists and forearms shifting and forming two massive Piledriver rams. "Wanna tumble with Rumble?! YOU'RE ON!" With a shuddering force he slammed his piledrivers into the ground again and again, the makeshift battlefield cleared by the two sorcerers. The ground shook and started to split open as Zedd and Skeletor lost their footing, dropping to their backsides as the floor crumbled away from them. The two were buried by the rubble as Rumble laughed. "Stick that up yer tailpipes!"

A hand game through the wall behind him and grabbed his arm, slamming him into the masonry and pulling him from his friends. A tall man in a leather coat and shades, hair slicked back, stared at rumble. "Asta La Vista, Baby." The man pumped his shotgun then fired, the slug ripping a hole in Rumbles chest from whence fiery red smoke rolled forth. Zelda turned and stared in horror at the man, then put her hands together and began a low chant. Thorin Oakenshield grabbed the handle of a blade at his belt and pulled forth Orcrist: The Goblin Cleaver, an Elven Blade he had recovered on his journeys. Skeletor and Lord Zedd had pulled themselves from the rubble as Zach had stepped back, watching in terror at the battle unfolding.

Zelda's chant finished as the princess of Hyrule held out her hands, a flash of Dinn's Fire striking the leather-jacketed man and consuming him in a blaze of flames. Thorin leaped down in a single bound, Orcrist flashing and loudly ringing as Zed moved his staff up to catch the Dwarf's blow. The man in the coat turned his head, skin burned away and glowing red eyes set in his exposed metal skull facing the princess. Zach threw himself into action as the metal "Man" hefted his shotgun, only to have it kicked to the side as he opened fire, the shot ripping through the air and embedding itself in the stone floor near Zelda, who stumbled back in shock and almost fell into the hole Rumble had opened. Zach threw punches and kicks, striking the machine before him, but was struck back, the blow throwing him to the wall.

Thorin stumbled back and dodged to the size, a ball of fire thrown by Skeletor forcing him to give up ground and allowing Zedd to recover. "Blast these infernal beings!" Zach looked around then realized what he must do, he reached into his clothes and produced what looked like a lump of gray plastic, a gold coin in the center of it. He slid his hand into the grip on the back of it then placed his feet firmly on the ground. "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" He thrust his hands forward, brandishing the device. "MASTADON!" With a sudden rush of energy and light his body was encased in a black suit, a stylized helmet on his head and a large Power Axe in his hand. He hefted the axe and thrust his hand out, striking a pose. "BLACK RANGER!" the discharge of energy from him morphing caused feedback in the morphing grid, a large explosion and a plume of black smoke behind him.

The Cyborg turned its head and hefted its shotgun to fire again, but Zach turned the axe in his hands, cocking IT like a shotgun as well. "Power Axe, Cosmic Blaster mode!" He fired from the now-exposed barrel at the bottom of the Axe, the shot hitting the robot and throwing it back, ripping its metal skeleton apart and sending it sprawling down next to Rumble's body. The Power Ranger ran over to Zelda, reaching to catch her but it was too late, she fell into the hole, heading down to where Thorin was trying his best to battle Skeletor and Lord Zedd, the latter of whom had noticed his old enemy: A Power Ranger.