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infinite-hearts-333 · 3 months ago

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YOOOOOOOOO

Moon the story is FANTASTIC!!!! I adore how you wrote Thorn, you hit their character perfectly 🥺🥺🫵🏻🫵🏻

The bit were their holding Zane had me grinning like a mad man HEHEHE THEY WERE SO WORRIED FOR THEIR BESTIE 💥💥💥💥

So naturally I had to draw it ✨

Also ofc I had to include a little drawing of them once Zane was out of isolation. Thorn was very worried, and was very happy once Zane got all better again ✨✨

The Rescue

The Rangers go and rescue Zane from Asta.

Warning: This fic will include some creepy behavior, mentions of experiments and s**cide.

North and the Rangers were getting ready to head over to Lichi 70, a planet that was abandoned for a long time. They were told that one of the cult’s priests was there. And luckily, it was the one that took Zane, Asta.

North puts on his goggles before he hears a voice behind him saying “You going to save your kid, right Brat?”

North turns his head and sees Lizzy with her arms crossed, leaning against the doorway.

“Of course I am. I’m not letting this Asta guy control and manipulate him any longer.” North replied.

North remembers a few times where they saw Zane fighting on the side of the cult, they didn’t know why he was doing so.

The captain still remembers the look on Zane’s face. Anger. Pure anger. And not just that,it seemed like he wasn’t hurt, betrayed.

What did that bastard priest tell him?

“Well, then I’m coming along.” Lizzy said.

“Absolutely not, it’s too dangerous.” North said.

“I ain’t asking, Brat. That kid is important to me as much as he’s important to you.” Lizzy says.

North sighed, knowing that he can’t argue with her forever.

“Fine. But be careful, I heard Lichi 70 was said to be crawling with cult members.” North said.

“I hear ya, Brat.” Lizzy said.

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The ship lands on Lichi 70. The Rangers, including Lizzy, headed outside and saw that there was no red smoke, but still, they should keep their helmets on, just in case.

“Alright, let’s find this priest.” North said. The Rangers nodded before they began searching for where Asta and his cult, or at least Zane, could be hiding.

North was looking over a bunch of boulders to see if any cultists would show up.

While he did this, North was too focused that he flinched a bit which snapped him out of focus before turning to see Zelda.

North sighed in relief. “Hey, Zelda.” He said.

“Hey.” Zelda said. “How…How are you doing?” She asked.

“Not…good.” North replied, holding back the tears that threatened to come out. “Zane is out there, being manipulated to fight us. And none of us know why.”

“….Do you think it has something to do with his mother?” Zelda guesses.

This caught North’s attention. “That could be it. But…it doesn’t make sense. Zane’s mother was said to be killed by a cultist. And even is she wasn’t, she’d never join the cult cause she was a loyal Space Rider.”

“Hmm…” Zelda thinks. If this did involve Zane’s mother, then what could it be about her that made Zane turn against the Space Riders?

“Hey, Brat! Your ferret and lizard friends want you!” Lizzy called out.

North and Zelda went over to a cave entrance where Merrit and Thorn were waiting. It looked like Merrit had something in her hands.

“What is it, Merrit?” North asked.

Merrit opened her hands, which revealed a small robotic turtle. It opened its blue eyes and looked up at the Rangers.

“A turtle robot?” Sunny said.

“Me and Thorn found it buried in the ground inside that cave.” Merrit explained, pointing at the cave her and Thorn were in.

“But why—“ Sparky gets cut off when the robotic turtle’s shell opens up, revealing a USB inside it.

“What the…?” Lizzy said, confused.

North picks up the USB and takes a look at it. “What was this doing in it?” He said.

“Dunno. But it seems like this little guy was waiting till someone found it. A Space Rider, maybe.” Merrit said.

“How does it even know that we’re Space Riders?” Sunny asked.

“I think it’s because after it came out of the ground, it just…walked up to us.” Thorn said.

“Yep. Didn’t run away or anything.” Merrit said.

“So, what do you think is in this USB?” North asked.

“We can take it back to the ship and see.” Sparky said

“I think we should wait until after we rescue Zane.” Sunny said.

“Sunny’s right. Zane needs us right now.” North said, putting the USB back inside the robotic turtle’s shell, which closed after.

“But we still don’t know where he nor the cult could be.” Zelda said.

Sparky looked at the cave that Merrit and Thorn were in. He squinted his “eyes”, seeing what looked like faint red smoke, coming from inside the cave.

“I think we found them.” Sparky said.

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The Rangers and Lizzy headed down the cave to see that the red smoke was becoming clearer to them.

“Well, we found the red gas. Where’s the cult, though?” Lizzy said, looking around.

“Just keep your guard up. They could be anywhere, waiting to ambush us.” Merrit said.

The group stood by each other’s side, looking around to see where any cultist could be hiding.

Suddenly, a dark chuckled echo throughout the room.

“Well, well. If it isn’t the Space Rangers.” That voice. It was Asta.

“Hmm, and I see you brought Lazy here with you.” Asta’s voice said, referring to Lizzy, who gritted her teeth.

“Where are you, coward!?” Lizzy exclaimed.

“And where’s Zane?!” Thorn shouted, baring their fangs.

Asta chuckles again. “Straight to the point, are we? Do not worry, Zane is alright. He’s here, in fact.” The priest spoke.

Zelda saw a pair of red eyes in the darkness before they stepped out of it, revealing Zane, who…looked awful.

“Zane…” The Golden Rider said softly.

“Why are you back?” Zane asked, venom in his tone.

“To rescue you, obviously.” Sunny said.

“Well, you wasted your time coming here.” Zane said. “I already found my place here. In the cult. In…The Prototype’s joyful paradise.” He said the last sentence with hesitance.

“Now, kid. We know damn well that you don’t mean that.” Lizzy said.

“Of course he does! Why wouldn’t he mean it?” Asta said, appearing behind Zane, putting a hand on the blue wolf’s shoulder.

“I must say, it’s nice that you cared so much about Zane that you were willing to come here all together to bring him back.” Asta said, his grip tightening on Zane’s shoulder.

“He’s a fellow Space Ranger and our friend! Of course we would!” Thorn said.

“Well, it’s a shame that he had to take up your time, especially since he already made his choice.” Asta said.

“Mierda! The red gas is messing with his mind, just like every other cultist it messed with! It’s manipulating him, and we know you are as well!” Sunny said.

“Hehehe…Oh, I didn’t have to, he joined of his own free will. Especially after coming to a terrible realization.” Asta said, looking at Zane, whose eyes were covered by the shadow of his hair.

North can tell that Zane wasn’t feeling comfortable, especially by Asta’s side. The blue wolf wants him and the Rangers to help him, but…he can’t.

“Zane…Is it about your mother?” North said, which got Zane’s attention.

“…Yes.” Zane replied. “Remember how my mom and her team disappeared years ago?”

“Yes?” Zelda said.

“Well…as it turns out, Asta here used to be on my mother’s team.” Zane said. “He…used to be a Space Rider.”

“Him and mom were kidnapped by the cult after a mission went wrong. They were tortured by breathing in the red gas after refusing to join the cult. The gas managed to get to their heads, to where they willingly joined the cult.”

“Asta…managed to climb up the ranks, becoming a priest and making mom his second in command.”

“He and mom…became close…but because mom was married to my dad, she couldn’t be with Asta. So…she took her own life.” Zane tells the Rangers what Asta told him. The blue wolf felt guilty telling this.

Merrit looks at the robotic turtle in her hands and remembers the USB inside its shell. She then thought of something.

“But what if she didn’t join willingly?” Merrit said. “What if she was trying to find a way to escape?”

“I doubt it, the gas consumed her mind. She was under the Prototype’s control.” Zane said.

“Well, I doubt that. Your mother was a smart Space Rider who was strong-minded. She had to still have been herself.” Merrit said.

“Oh, there’s no way. The gas will consume the mind of anyone, no matter how strong it is.” Asta said.

Merrit clenched her hands into fists, while making sure not to break the robotic turtle.

“Anyway, that’s enough chit-chat. This is where you will meet your end.” Asta said. “Get them!” He shouted and a bunch of cultists came out of hiding and ran towards the Rangers, ready to kill them.

The Rangers begin fighting them off.

Sunny used his feathers to use his illusions powers which made a stick. The pegasus used the stick to hit the cultists that came at him, while also using his martial art skills, kicking and punching them.

Merrit summoned a vine and a leaf shield. She swung the vine like a lasso and used to trap a cultist in it and drag them on the ground or into a wall.

Sparky’s hands turned into guns and the dog started blasting it at the cultists that came at him and Zelda, who was fending off the cultists using her powers.

North aimed his hands at some cultists, ice forming below and trapping them. He forms an icicle in his hands and slashes it at the other cultists.

Thorn slashed their claws at the cultists that came at him and whipped their tail to push other cultists into the walls and onto the ground.

Lizzy kicks and punches the cultists in the faces.

Zane watched as his former crew fought off the cultists and took care of them. He looked up at Asta, who he heard was growling.

“This is getting nowhere. Zane, finish them off.” Asta ordered.

Zane looked at his crew, who were waiting for something to happen, hoping that the blue wolf would come to his senses and go back with him.

Asta noticed that the blue wolf was hesitating. “If you want, I’ll take care of them-“

“No!” Zane said quickly. He clears his throat. “No. No, I…I got this.”

Zane takes out his spear and walked slowly towards the Rangers. Said crew saw Zane coming up to them.

“Zane. Come on, kiddo…I know you don’t want to hurt us.” North said.

“Quiet.” Zane growled. He then sprinted towards them and the spear’s tip glowed, electricity forming around it.

He aims it at the Rangers and lightning came out of the spear, going towards the crew before Sunny used his illusion powers and created a shield to protect him and the others from the lightning.

The pegasus then ran over to Zane and the two got into a fight with their stick and spear, clashing them against each other.

Sunny kicks the blue wolf away. And soon, Zelda and Sparky joined in, Zelda dodging where the spear was gonna hit her before she used her foot to knock Zane over onto the ground.

One of Sparky’s hands becomes a gun and aims it at Zane.

“It’s over Za-“Zane kicks Sparky away from him. The robotic dog flew into Zelda before he shot his gun up in the air, a bang heard.

Merrit and Thorn were up next. Merrit aimed her hands at Zane and vines grew underneath him and keeping him restrained.

“Thorn! Knock him out!” Merrit said to the lizard.

“I’m sorry, Zane!” Thorn said before they went to knock out the blue wolf, who was ready for this to be over.

“Oh no you don’t.”

The vines restraining Zane were cut off and Asta appeared in front of Thorn and used a flail weapon to push Thorn away from Zane and flailed them into a wall.

Asta sighed. “That was a little unfair, don’t you think?” The priest said.

North gritted his teeth and aimed his hand at Zane and Asta.

Crackling was heard underneath Zane and the blue wolf looked down to see his foot was encased in ice.

North then flapped his wings and flew towards Asta before he picked him up by the cloak and threw him into a wall.

Merrit then ran up to Zane and headbutted the blue wolf, knocking him out while also causing the ferret’s head pain.

“Ow ow ow! My head!” Merrit said, rubbing her head.

North goes and holds Zane and sees how the blue wolf looked exhausted. He also saw the scar above his eye.

Lizzy must’ve noticed it too cause North heard her mutter “That son of a….”

Thorn gets up and rubs their head before they saw Zane unconscious. They quickly went over to him and took him from North.

“Zane? Buddy?” Thorn said with worry.

“Don’t worry, Thorn. He’s just unconscious. He’ll be okay.” Merrit reassures the lizard. “Ow.” Before the ferret felt her head hurt again and rubbed it.

“Jesus…I knew Asta was some crazy bastard but I didn’t think he’d be…like that.” Lizzy said.

“Did you know him, Lizzy?” Sunny asked.

“Barely. I just heard that he was hated by the other priests cause they thought he was insane as hell. I also heard that he did some ...experiments.” Lizzy said the last word with hesitance and some venom in her tone saying it.

Thorn heard groaning and saw that Zane was shifting in their arms.

“Zane! It’s okay, buddy. We’re gonna get you out of here.” Thorn reassures the blue wolf.

Cackling was heard. The Rangers saw Asta getting up, taking his mask off and continued cackling like a madman.

“You think I’m just gonna let you go? WELL THINK AGAIN, YOU BASTARDS!” Asta said. He then takes out a container that had red liquid in it and a needle that he had against his neck.

The Rangers recognized the container. “Oh shit.” Merrit said.

“I ain’t letting you take Zane from me. And I ain’t letting ANY of you leave this place alive!” Asta said, a crazed look in his eyes.

“PREPARE TO MEET YOUR END, SPACE RIDERS!!!” He screamed before he stuck the needle in his neck, the red liquid entering his body.

Asta puts his hands over his face, chuckling quietly before he started to laugh maniacally as he grew into a horrid monster.

The monstrosity known as Asta continued growled and roared as he used his claws to harshly push the Rangers in the walls. Thorn managed to get out of the way as they held onto Zane tightly but not enough to hurt him.

“Give me Zane, lizard.” Asta said, his voice distorted.

Thorn held onto Zane, shaking their head. “No! I won’t let you hurt him again!” They shouted, baring their fangs.

“Oh, you’ll be the one hurt if you don’t hand him over.” Asta grinned widely.

Lizzy saw Zane’s spear on the floor and ran to grab it, ignoring North and the other telling her to come back.

Lizzy gets the spear and aims it at Asta's ear. She then throws it towards the ear.

Asta looks behind and saw Lizzy and chuckled, amused by what she did.

“Oh, Lazy. You try to play the hero and you fail miserably. How funny is that?” Asta said.

“Your ear’s bleeding.” Lizzy said bluntly.

“Like I care.” Asta replies.

Thorn growled and was about to transform before a small voice caught their attention.

“Thorn?” The lizard looked down and saw Zane, who was awake, his black scleras and white pupils shown.

Thorn smiled, tears forming in their eyes. “Zane, you’re awake!” They said with relief, glad that the blue wolf was up.

Zane groaned, rubbing his forehead that throbbed with pain. “Wait…how are you-”

“NORTH!”

Thorn and Zane looked and saw Asta, holding North against the wall.

North tried fighting Asta to protect Lizzy but only ended up getting overpowered by the monstrous priests. His arms were pinned to his sides as he was in the priest’s claws.

“Take one more step and I’ll make your captain a bloody mess.” Asta threatens the other Rangers and Lizzy.

Zane looks at this with worry, he looks down and sees his spear on the ground. The wolf then thought of something.

“Hey Thorn.” He said before he whispered to the lizard.

North squirmed in Asta’s hold as his crew watched helplessly since their captain was at the mercy of a monstrous priest.

“Asta!” A familiar voice shouted from behind the priest. It was Zane, who was aiming his spear at said priest.

“Let. Him. Go.” Zane said with a growl.

Asta chuckles before looking at Zane.

“Careful, Zane. Wouldn’t want to hurt your captain now, would you?” Asta said, still holding North.

Zane gritted his teeth.

“Come now, pup. You’re really gonna go back to them after learning about your mother’s darkest secret?” Asta said.

Zane kept his spear aimed at Asta. His hand was shaking as he tried to keep his grip on it.

“Leave. Him. Alone.” Zane said. “Don’t….hurt him…Don’t hurt any of them…”

Asta laughed cruelly. “Is this your pathetic attempt at begging? Poor little pup.”

“Please…I’ll…I’ll do what you say…just let them go…” Zane said. “And don’t hurt them…”

“Kid…” Merrit said.

“Hmm…very well. But first, drop the weapon. And I’ll let the captain go.” Asta said.

Zane obeys and drops his spear, and Asta puts North down on the ground. Zelda and Sunny go to help the dragon up.

“Z-Zane-“

“Don’t! Just…don’t…” Zane said. The blue wolf looks up to Asta. “Can I tell you something? Just…a little secret.”

“A secret? Hmm, sure.” Asta said, lowering his face down to Zane, who kicked dirt and small pebbles into the monstrous priest’s eyes, making him scream as dirt got in his eyes.

“GAH! You little-“

Zane quickly picks up his spear and aims it at Asta. The spear glowed as huge bursts of lightning came out of it, heading towards the monstrous priest, electrocuting him.

“That’s for my mother!” Zane shouted. He forms an electric orb in his hands and used his spear to swing it at Asta like a baseball, electrocuting the priest again.

“That’s for taking her from us!” The blue wolf shouted.

Electricity surrounded Zane, his body starting to glow and eyes becoming white.

“And this…”

“…IS FOR MAKING ME ATTACK MY FRIENDS!” Zane shouted.

A week later, after the mission…

Zane was in quarantine. He may have come back to his senses, but he was still affected by the red gas.

Asta changed back to his normal form but before the Rangers could get him, a cultist grabbed and took him along with the other cultists.

Zane sat down in his hospital room, looking at his hands. He hears walking and looks at the glass and sees North, Merrit, Lizzy, and Thorn. North, Lizzy, and Thorn got him some “get well” gifts and cards while Merrit was holding a laptop.

“Hey, buddy. How you feeling?” Merrit asked.

“Like shit.” Zane replied before sighing. “Have you guys found info on Asta’s whereabouts?”

“Nope. But we did find something while looking for you.” Merrit said.

“What did you find?” The blue wolf asked.

“A small turtle robot. It was buried in the ground in a cave and had a USB in its shell.” North said.

“The rest of us watched it and…you’ll need to see it for yourself.” Merrit said.

The ferret opens the laptop and shows Zane a video. The video starts up, showing

“M-Mom?” Zane widened his eyes, seeing his mother, Ophelia, in the video.

“Phew…it’s working…thank goodness.” Ophelia said.

“Hello, to whoever finds this. My name’s Ophelia, and I’m a Space Rider that was captured by the cult.”

Ophelia coughs. “If you are watching this, then it means I’m already dead. Despite my…former friend not giving me much red gas, I can…feel it trying to take over my body.”

“But that’s not what I’m here to talk about.”

As Ophelia was talking about what she had learned during her time in the cult, Zane was listening carefully while in disbelief.

Ophelia coughed some more. “Heh…Looks like…the gas is getting to me…”

“If anyone finds this…please…give my son Zane this message.”

“I’m sorry, goofball. I know I promised I’d be home…and I’m sorry I won’t be.

“But your mother was the happiest woman when she was with you and your father…She never stopped loving you two…never…” Ophelia’s voice begins to break, about to cry.

“This is really…mom…” Zane said.

“I love you Zane…Take care of yourself…” Ophelia said.

The video then glitches out at the end, stopping the video there.

Merrit closes the laptop.

“I think we all know what she did next…” Merrit said. Everyone stayed silent as they knew about Ophelia’s fate already.

The blue wolf just looked at the floor in disbelief, tears forming in his eyes. He blinks to let them stream down his face.

“Mom…” Zane said, voice cracking.

“Kid…” Lizzy said.

Thorn didn’t want to see Zane cry. If they could, they’d hug him right now.

“I’m really sorry Zane…” North said.

“D-Don’t be….” Zane said, tears still going down his face. He looked up at the four, smiling while the tears flowed.

“At least I know…that she was loyal till the very end…�� The blue wolf said, sniffling before he wiped his tears.