WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Power Rangers #12, available now from Boom! Studios.
The Power Rangers have faced their fair share of dark days as of late, and the Omega Rangers are currently living through the bleakest of them all. While their allies back on Earth are grappling with the shocking revelations that have recently been made, the Omega Rangers are busy dealing with the reality of other harsh truths. Not only have the Omegas experienced firsthand exactly how devastating the Empyreal threat really is, but in Power Rangers #12 (by Ryan Parrott, Francesco Mortarino, Raul Angulo, Jose Enrique Fernandez, and Ed Dukeshire) they've learned that it is their very presence that has doomed the universe.
When the Omega Rangers first began their search for the Yellow Emissary, it was in the hopes that the god-like figure would be able to help them overcome their latest enemies, the powerful Empyreals. Instead, the heroes were rebuked by the Emissary, who warned them that they would bring with them only death. As it turned out, the Empyreals are tied directly to the Emissaries, and each time an Emissary is destroyed another Empyreal replaces them in our dimension. This made the Omega Rangers into the perfect beacon for the Empyreals' to trace, and as soon as the team found the Yellow Emissary their enemies arrived to destroy it. With the final Emissary dead, the last of the Empyreals is able to join their brethren, bringing the Omega Rangers' predicted fate to horrific fruition.
The Omega Rangers were already aware of the danger posed by the Empyreals, but they had no possible way of knowing how closely tied they were to the interdimensional terrors. They had no way of knowing that the Empyreals and Emissaries were directly linked together either, especially after having been so far behind their enemies at nearly every step of the way.
What they have now witnessed leaves the team shaken to their core, and it all could have been avoided if they had only heeded the many warnings they had been given. Lord Drakkon's attempts to convince the Rangers to flee from the fight had been taken as cowardice, but the Yellow Emissary couldn't have been more clear. Now that the Omega Rangers have given the final Empyreal the means to cross over into our dimension, there might not be any hope left of stopping them.
Even if the Omega Rangers had kept themselves far away from the Emissary, it is hard to imagine that the Empyreals wouldn't have found them before the heroes discovered a way to stave off the threat. That they hastened this outcome isn't doing them any favors, nor has it left them with any lesson that they are likely to make good use of.
With the situation more dire than ever and no real allies left to turn to, the Omega Rangers are officially on their own. The Rangers must now find a new way to deal with the incredible threat they are facing or risk never facing another threat again.