Power Rangers: Omega Force(Originally an RP)[Season 2 Premiere Episode is up!]

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Okay, just give us the link when it's done.

[DNovaKnight]

The Club is Back

 

http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/thread-203540.html

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Great. Just to let you know, how did we get from the rangers defeating Flayer and Caoimhin returning back to the island to us going to the year 3900? WTF? I still need to know how we got there.

[DNovaKnight]

lol. I'll look into it. If there is such a gap ... I'll think up something. *tries to remember* *hopes for Aya's assistance*

[Kōsuke Ueki]

She's probably busy ATM. She's been gone for a week. She'll be back around today or tomorrow. Who knows? She will only! lol

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Time for the episode before the season finale! Enjoy! But something still bothers me. How did we go from Trey and Caoimhin finishing a conversation to being in the year 3900? Since I had no clue what happened, I had SO many issues to deal with that Kaos Worm and codypops never edited. Anyway, here's the first half of the episode, since it has reached the post limit.

 

[spoiler=[b]Episode 14: Ranger Lavendar: The Truth(First Half)[/b]]

March 13, 3900 ~ Unknown Beach

 

The landscape wasn't exactly pleasant. Jagged rocks and spikes shot outwards from the barren land and deep craters were encrusted in the ground. Debris were scattered of several building remnants. The sky was a dull brown from air borne waste in the atmosphere. Perched on the beach, the unknown pair of rangers looked out on to the horizon and watching the sunset. They had no idea that several rangers from the past had appeared nearby. The Twilight Ranger slumped against the rock. "I wish it was always like this," he said. He turned to his left at another ranger named Damien. "I feel on edge. Where has Brandon got off to?" "God knows," said Damien. He then went looking around. "Hey, there's someone over there! Lets check it out." He then, somehow, runs toward Star. It seems after the rangers had defeated Flayer, a time portal appeared before all the rangers and brought them to when they are now. Unfortunately Star was separated from the other rangers and was unconscious at the time being. Also, Caoimhin somehow became transported to the same location.

 

"Oh great, I thought this was my day off," said the Twilight Ranger. He then kicks the sand before running up the hill looking for Damien. "Do I have to?" "Come on!" yelled Damien. "Royal Millipede Power Activate!" Damien morphs and continues to head towards Star. The twilight ranger hides behind a tree, even though its sunset and no one is around. "Twilight ranger power!" The Twilight ranger comes out fully morphed and looks at the person on the floor, which was Star. Damien pressed a button o"So this was your home, how sad to see such a beautiful world become a desolate planet like thisn his belt. "Activate G.P.S. system!" His black visor slides up, and a green one slides down. "Access data of the nearby ranger!" The computer then begins to process data. Processing...Processing... "Come on!" Ranger Found - Coordinates 5.7.8094612/8.8.7952808. Ranger Star, Lavender Pegasus Ranger. Damien was relieved to get an answer and looked down. "Star...are you OK?" Star began to come to. She looked at the two staring at her. She ignored the two and stood up. "This is...was...my home," she said as she brushed her hair.

 

Meanwhile the other rangers start to stir in random parts of this strange new world. Then they saw Star and ran towards her. Star saw them and asked, ""Shocking what the future can hold isn't it?" Dom coughed hoarsely. He held his stomach in pain. "I hate the future!" he said, getting up finally and stumbling, nearly falling. Ignoring how he ended up with the rangers, Caoimhin said, "So this was your home, how sad to see such a beautiful world become a desolate planet like this." For some reason, though, he said it in a depressed manner. The dust kept blowing around and getting in Joe's eyes so he took out his sunglasses and put them on so he could see through the dust. "How in the world did this happen?" he asked. "Was Vile responsible for this. Or is this whats its going to be no matter what happens?" "That is something only time will tell unfortunately, that's if we do get back to our time, young Joseph," stated Caoimhin. "Before we go wandering off, maybe we should ask the expert, after all Star, this is your time. Can you fill us in?" "Do you think her judgment would not be affected by her emotions?" "Well we at least have to know what we're dealing with." "Fine, but we at least need some shelter."

 

Meanwhile, a boy named Brandon skated through the city as he noticed the debris and destruction. He began to grind on rails to get away from the craters. He had been looking all around the city for Damien and Kai, the Twilight Ranger, for at least 2 hours and still couldn't find them. He started getting frustrated, but still continued to look. "Where could those two be?" he asked. "They never tell me where they are going at all. I always wonder why though."

 

Meanwhile, "Okay, I suppose I should 'fill you in' on the minor details," said Star as she wandered around, looking under rocks and such, but still talking. "The future as you know it or the 'Good' future I should say, was blocked off by a careless reanimation experiment. The perpetrator is long gone, not like that will make any difference." She spat on the ground. "In any case, Vile being re-created altered the future and directed it towards this path. And I won't lie, it isn't pleasant..." She gulped. "...to be in the middle of two potential futures. One tries to overpower the other. The very laws of physics were broken." She spread her hands. "The result is this uninhabitable desert." She wiped a tear quickly from her eye before continuing. "And our 'friends', the Kamen, they were spawned from that chaos. They are the anti-existence of whatever was in front of them. Jesterix was the classic anti-existence of human emotion and ambition. Chronodox is more obvious, he represents Time." She threw a rock over and motioned them forward. "And here is where the 'ranger base' of the future used to be. Time Force was wiped out by the Kamen in one full invasion. Now only small group hiding spots like this one exist." She opened the metallic hatch with a code. "Come in, they can't track us in here..." "Don't worry Star, I predict that everything will return to normal," Caoimhin confidently but calmly stated as he walked into the 'base'.

 

Unbeknown to them, a cyborg-like figure of female stature stared at them. She smiled. "Time travelers..." she began. "How very...fun!" She giggled madly and flew off into the dust filled sky. Brandon continued looking for Kai and Damien. He noticed something in the distance. He stopped and looked at the figure. He then skated slowly to the other side of the buildings to get a better look. "What could that figure possibly be?" he asked himself as he moved slowly. Then quickly, Star turned and saw Brandon. "Oh my, what a cute guy you are," she said. She smiled and brought out a small blaster. It was like a ramp and she loaded it with a cartridge. "Striker Soul. Set and Fire!" She aimed at the ground, and with a bang, Shadow Strikers, though a bit different in appearance, because of heavier metallic armor, appeared from the rocks. "Let's play okay?" She withdrew her blaster and once again, flew away into the sky. Brandon's eye started to twitch as he looked at the Shadow Strikers. "Great, a bad time for me to have skates." He got to a fighting stance, but he was a bit wobbly because of the skates. He looked at the Striker in the middle, then at the others. He moved his hand up a bit. "Let's dance."

 

A Shadow Striker rushed at Brandon head on and punched him in the face. As Brandon fell to the ground, he tripped the Striker and it fell to the ground with a loud thump. 2 more Strikers then ran to Brandon. He just kicked the first one in the face while the second one ducked before the foot collided with its face. He skated around it, to try to keep it guessing. He then tackled the Shadow Striker to the ground and punched it in the face. As he got up, some Shadow Strikers were walking closer to him. "Oh man!" he said to himself. "Gotta do the next best thing." He then skated away from the Shadow Striker, but surprisingly, they were following him. "This really isn't good." Dom shivered. "Great, now we're stuck here," he said. "I won't be any use here anyways." Damien then saw and ran over to him. "Where were you?" he asked. "I thought you were dead!" A Shadow Striker rushed toward him. "Whoa!" He somersaults, climbs and and jumps everywhere still kicking butts. "Millipede Ion Ray GO!" He takes out an ion blaster, and it charges up. Suddenly, a giant laser ball comes out of it and blows away around 4 of them. "Loving it!"

 

Meanwhile, Kai looks around the tattered landscape before noticing Cody has ran off. "Hey Cody!" he yelled. "Where are you going!?" Idiot, why do I bother? thought Kai. He ran off after Cody and saw the strikers. He grinned under his helmet and pulled out the fox blade. He proceeded to run at the shadow strikers and saw how many there was. "Aw, does little babies want to play?" Kai leaped at a striker and punched its face in, then thrusting the fox blade into its chest. Brandon looked at Cody. "Where was I?" he asked. "Where were you? I spent most of my day looking for you and Kai. Then some woman came and brought these Shadow Strikers out of thin air. I've been trying to get away from them." He punched a Shadow Striker and then was kicked in the face by another one. "Man. I'm getting tired of this." He skated towards the Striker and pushed him off the crater into the depths below. Brandon looked around and noticed one Shadow Striker. He punched the Striker in the face as it fell to the floor. He looked at the striker and noticed that it quickly going got up. "Well thats kind of strange. It's either this thing is weaker than I thought, or I'm stronger than I thought I was." Kai pulls his fox blade out of the Shadow Striker and runs after Brandon, but a striker blocks the path and Kai throws his blade but misses, skidding along the floor to Brandon. "Stupid blade!" The twilight ranger gets ready to fight the striker when two more sneak up on him, impossible to notice normally. Kai spins around and kicks the pair over into a rock. Brandon skated towards a Striker as he tried to punch it in the face. The Striker dodged the the punch with ease and charged at him. "This isn't good. By this rate, I won't have the time to morph to my ranger form. Well I'll have to keep fighting normally if I have no other choice."

 

"One more," said Kai. "Take this!"The Twilight ranger rolls forward, grabs his fox blade and plunges it at the final striker's face, smashing its head in. "Where you been?" Brandon looked at Kai. "I've been looking for you and Damien all day," he replied. "Apparently, as I was looking for you, a woman came and sent these Shadow Strikers. All in all, I finally found you, but I don't know where Damien is." He looked around at the city and noticed all of the destruction and debris. "Welcome to our once peaceful town." "Nothing special about these guys," said Caoimhin as he smirked after watching them fight. Brandon looked around. He had the feeling he was being watched. "Could it be that girl from before? No it couldn't be. Shadow Strikers would already be here by now." He looked at the sky. The smog from the destroyed city clouded the air around most of the county. "Who would cause all of this destruction?" "Neither are they that bright if they don't even know who caused all of this," said Caoimhin. Brandon looked at the sky as a blade was falling towards him. He quickly shifed to the side and got up to see two more Shadow Strikers. "Oh great. Thought we finished you guys off. Oh well." He butterfly kicked one Shadow Striker directly in the face. It knelt to the ground as it rushed at Brandon again. "Well then. Bring it on." Brandon dug into his bag and found what he was looking for, a spray paint can he skated towards the Shadow Striker and jumped into the air. He sprayed it in the eyes and face, blinding it and gave it big kick to it's neck. As the Striker fell to the ground, Brandon's foot started to hurt. Apparently, he hit the metal part of its neck.

 

Brandon looked at the last Shadow Striker. "Come on then!" he yelled. As the Striker charged at Brandon, he back flip kicked him in the chin. As Brandon landed, he slipped to the ground with a loud thump due to his skates. "Ow, that hurts." Caoimhin started to sense a strange but oddly familiar presence so he decided to leave the others and went to find the source of this. "Wow!" yelled Kai. "VERY good fighting." The twilight ranger walked forward and thumped Brandon on the back. He then looked around the wreck of a landscape that used to be home. He then walked up to one of the piles of metal and picked up a shard. "This is too easy." Kai threw the shard over his shoulder. "Power down." Kai demorphed. "When can we have a challenge? Hang on. Where did Damien go?" Kai looked around one more time before walking up to Brandon.

 

After searching for some time and being quite far away from the others, Caoimhin soon found the presence that was emitting the aura he felt before. It was a Cloaked figure who had their back turned to Caoimhin. "Who are you?" shouted Caoimhin. "Can't you tell who i am?" the cloaked figure said as he turned around. "It can't be..." He gasped. "It's me?!" Star didn't seem to notice or care about the second Caoimhin. "Don't be surprised," she began. "You're close to immortal, so you did survive over the centuries Caoimhin." She flicked a switch and revealed a setting much like the OMEGA base, only much smaller. She sat at the screen and punched a few keys. "Let's see, there are 3 ranger signals in this time zone." Odd. I thought Time Force was wiped out. she thought for a moment. "Maybe its the project that he was working on..." She typed a few more things in and three rangers schematics popped up. "I thought so. Project SIGMA. Damien's little project no less. I'm impressed he made it that far..." She turned. "Well, if we want to get out of here and back to the past or your time, we need to defeat Chronodox." "So wait, there's 3 rangers out there?" asked Joe? "Even though I'm kinda dizzy right now with all the new rangers popping up, we could use the help. Star, do you know where to find them?" "Of course. Sad to say there aren't many life signals in this 'futuristic nightmare', so tracing three people WITH ranger biometrics isn't exactly hard." She typed and a map came up. "We're in luck. They're right above us, a couple of meters away." She pulled up there files. "Subject, Damien. Subject, Brandon. Subject, Kai." She read them off. She smirked. "Funny. But I guess more rangers would be a good thing." She got up. "Let's go find them then..." She tossed a mechanical key of sorts at them. "That can find nearly anyone. It's set right now on Damien and company."

 

Meanwhile, Chronodox was floating over a large black mass of energy. He spoke. "Of my lord Deos, it is a pleasure to see you." The swirling mass echoed as it spoke. "As you Chronodox. But enlighten me, why have you returned so abruptly?" He bowed. "It is the fault of my negligence and underestimation of the rangers from the past." The mass chortled. "Ah yes, the Power Rangers. Well, they didn't prove a threat when I dismantled the morphing grid piece by piece if you can recall Chronodox." "But my lord, apparently it has been repaired. There are a trio of new rangers, not that it is a problem for they are but children." "Do not make the same mistake twice. Finish them all off. In my current condition, I am not yet able to take care of them myself." Chronodox gave one final bow. "Of course my lord." With that, he disappeared.

 

"So why have you exactly come here Future me?" questioned Caoimhin. "It is so i can warn you about me making the wrong decision," replied Future Caoimhin. "But i need to speak to you alone." "Fine we shall go somewhere else." Then the 2 went outside and off into the distant horizon.

 

Meanwhile Kai paced up and down occasionally looking at Brandon. "What seems to have got these riled up all of a sudden?" he asked. The twilight ranger stopped and looked out onto the sunset, waiting for nightfall, and waved at Brandon to come closer. Kai then made a insulting comment, grinning as he said it. "I think we need a hedgehog tunnel for you, so you don't get hurt while crossing the road."

 

A few miles away from them, Chronodox materialized from a opaque white circle. A soaring figure landed besides him. She smiled. "Hello Master Chronodox," she said. He bore a look at her, face unchanging. "You shouldn't be playing around," began Chronodox. "Things can get a bit odd, especially with our guests..." She stuck out her tounge. "Oh boo you stick in the mud." She crossed her arms. He shook his head. "Come then, I shall teach you the meaning of the word 'erased'." He laughed. Both of them flew over the new rangers, as well as the OMEGA rangers, who now were exiting the base. Star pointed at Chronodox. There you are you twisted clock freak!" she yelled as she morphed and shot an arrow towards him, but the metallic girl blocked it. "Nice try." Chronodox laughed. "Why don't you introduce yourself my apprentice?" She smiled and bowed. "25th Generation of Vile DNA Bot. Putria Repulsa at your fatal service." He pointed. "Eliminate them my dear." "Right." She spread her small robotic wings and dashed forward, claws outstretched. "Gold Ranger Power!!!" Joe yelled as he morphed immediately with Genesis Blade in hand. "I'm tired of all this madness and dodging. You want me fine." Joe stood his ground and when Putria got close enough he unleashed a huge burst of energy from the blade directly at Putria. Kent saw the beast that will be Putria, and quickly summoned his Stego-Staff and pole-vaulted away from her. "Looks like you are having fun there guys," Caoimhin said rather too calmly considering the enemies the others were fighting.

 

Brandon skated towards Kai and noticed some smoke in the distance. "Well that could be something," he said. "I'm gonna take a look at it. I'll be back as soon as I can." He skated towards the sign of the smoke. There was something shining in the distance as well. "Wonder what that could be?" Putria let out a groan from Joe's attack. Putria pointed at Joe. "You, shiny power loser!" she yelled. "You don't mess with me." She stuck out her hand, and a skeletal sword appeared. "My ancestor, Rito's sword. Let me try it on your face!" She dashed forward and slashed hard on the ground, creating a shock-wave, knocking everyone back. Star got up, staggering. She then looked around wildly. "Oh yeah, somewhere..." she said as she held out her hand and shouted, "Operation System Start, Nova 7 Activate!" A small robot assembled itself near her. It nodded and said, "Star! It's been eons since I last saw you." She smiled at the robotic atomoton. "We can catch up later, right now, I need your weapons coding." He nodded. "Of course!" He turned to face Putria. Star grinned and said, "All right. Constellation Crusher, Blaster Mode!" The small robot named Nova flipped and turned into a skinny, almost light-weight blaster. She flipped the switch. A mechanical voice rang out, "3, 2, 1 FIRE! Supernova Burst!" The blast sent Putria flying backwards. Joe turned to Star. "Nice shot." He then saw where Putria fell, ran towards her, jumped in the air and dived down and tried to impale one of her shoulders with the blade.

 

Brandon skated to the side of the building, hoping that he wouldn't be seen. He watched the battle from far away as he recognized some of the rangers. "So these are the Omega Rangers from the past?" he asked himself. "Why are they here of all times?" He dug in his pocket to find his morpher.

 

Caoimhin got up and dusted himself off. "Well if your going to be like that then, I guess I should show you what true power is," he said as his vambrace started to glow. "FLAMES OF HADES, RELEASE!!!" Caoimhin slammed his right fist into the ground and caused steel chains to appear from the ground and started wrapping around his body like a metallic cocoon. Then flame shot through the chains straight to Caoimhin and in a burst of flames the steel cocoon shattered to hundreds of pieces revealing the Hades Ranger.

 

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Hades Ranger[/align]

 

Caoimhin then controlled the shards of steel chains to attack Putria like pieces of shrapnel from a grenade. Some hit her but the others missed but this was no problem for Caoimhin as he charged in between shards and punched Putria with both his hands. The rings around his arms slid to his fists causing an intense percussion force straight into Putria chest causing her severe damage and sent her crashing to the ground a few meters away. Putria was dug deep into the ground by the onslaught. She struggled to get free. Chronodox laughed openly. "See my dear, you get over-hyped," he began. "You need something like this." He twirled his staff and Putria got up. She glowed a bright yellow and opened her eyes. Putria laughed. "I forgot you could do that Master Chronodox!" she yelled as she picked up her sword. "Now it's time for some payback!" She glowed and grew to a humongous size. She mocked them by saying, "Hello, up here power pests!" She laughed. "You guys sort out big and ugly," he shouted. "I'll fight that Chronodox person!" He ran at Chronodox. He jumped up into the air and went to punch Chronodox but Chronodox shifted to the side causing Caoimhin to miss and leave himself open for an attack. Chronodox sighed. "Your nearly as old as I am and yet you fail to see the futility in fighting me? I am much stronger than that fool Jesterix the rangers defeated." He fired a large blast from his hand, which rebounded off Caoimhin. "Let that be a warning shot." "How is that possible? How have you lived for so long without me sensing any of your activities? How far into the future is this place?" "Whoa, Caoimhin's ranger form is awesome!" yelled Joe. "Let's do it guys. Looks like I can show off my Lio zords full powers. Liopleurodon zord. Break the binds of power and resume your original state. May the powers of Zordon flow through you once more and show these wretched monstrosities what all have tried to imitate, but not have been able to duplicate. Liopleurodon Colossus Megazord..." Nothing happened. "What's going on. The Lio zord should be able to be summoned and transform. Unless...oh no." He screamed to the others, "Guys, we can't summon our zords. They must be destroyed in this time and they can't come fro our time. We're at a huge disadvantage."

 

"Great, now when I choose to intervene with this fight," said Brandon. He kept watching as he put his thumb next to a red button on the device, waiting for the right time to morph and intervene. Brandon thought for some time. "Lets go." He he pressed the button and he started to glow bright blue. The morpher disappeared and Brandon gained a sapphire suit with spikes on the back.

 

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Sapphire Hedgehog Ranger[/align]

 

He looked around and he snapped his fingers. Out of one of the craters was a vehicle shaped like a hedgehog. Brandon soon jumped to the top of it and got into the cockpit. "Let's see what this thing can really do." The hedgehog zord arrived to the scene of the fight. The spikes on its back aimed at Chronodox. "Oh man. I know this will get me pretty beat up for this." He was ready for any action. His hands were shaking in the controls. "I just realized. This is the first time I, using a zord. This could be pretty bad."Putria howled. "Aw, what a cute little zord!" she said as she picked up her sword. She drove it into the ground, causing an earthquake near the Hedgehog zord. Brandon used one of the Hedgehog Zord's defenses to the earthquake, rolling itself into a ball. He pushed a button as a spike shot out like a missile towards Putria. "So that's where the spike missiles are. I think I'm getting the hang of this." Putria staggered from the missiles. She looked at him in rage. "No more. I will not be humiliated at all!" She brought down her sword on the Hedgehog zord. Unfortunately, she missed and her sword got stuck. Brandon pushed the controls hard as the Hedgehog Zord spun in place and rammed Putria into a wall of a nearby building. The Zord then got out of the ball and returned to its normal form. "Okay then. Looks like I found some ways to play with you." He smirked.

 

"ANSWER ME!!!" Caoimhin shouted in anger by Chronodox's silence to his questions. Chronodox laughed. "I could have sworn you were told I was the anti-existence of Time?" he asked. "Meaning, I am as old as Time itself, and yet, I am also as young as the smallest and delicate flower. And I literally don't exist. I am a being outside of reality. Even you cannot sense things that don't exist!" "That maybe true but you did answer my last question. How far into the future is this place from when we got sucked into here?" "Oh that is but a trifling matter. But I suppose I could tell you. The time we traveled from is approximately 19 centuries from where we are now. This IS the 40th Century after all." "40th century, that's quite far away from the time frame we came from. And how many for them is there?" Caoimhin asked pointing at the gigantic Putria. "Oh she is the latest in a line of cyborgs designed after the one named Master Vile's DNA. She is quite the handful, but she is the only one, until the next model anyway." He noted Joe's arrival. "If it isn't the Gold Ranger! As I just told your ancient friend here, I am stronger than that Shakespearean fool Jesterix."

 

"Well, without my megazord, I guess I'll go help Caoimhin," said Joe. "I've faced these Deuteros things before. He may need some assistance." Joe ran towards Caoimhin and Chronodox. "Joseph you shouldn't be here," said Caoimhin at Joe. "You're certainly not strong enough to fight him right now. Go and help the others. I'm just having a discussion with Chronodox." "Well, none of us have our zords. So its either help you or drink a cup of coffee. And I don't see any Starbucks here, so this is the only option. Besides, I've faced a monster like this before. He can bend reality itself. We're gonna all have to work together to stop him." "Fine then, you attacking first or me?" he asked Joe. Star nodded. She took aim at Chronodox. He laughed. "Oh my, what am I to do?" he asked himself. "Ha." He floated away, near Joe. "Your ancient powers are irrelevant in this time frame." Star ran over to Joe and said quickly, "Point the Genesis blade at him, I'll do the rest." Chronodox looked at them with interest. "Whatever you say Star," said Joe. Joe clutched the blade and pointed it at Chronodox's face. "Let's see how irrelevant you find this." Caoimhin waited to see what Star and Joe had planned for Chronodox. Star held up her blaster. "Constellation Crusher, Blade Mode!" It scattered apart and rearranged itself as armor onto the Genesis Blade. "Ancient Inferno Crash!" She shouted as the blade was covered in red flames. Chronodox backed away in terror. "Of course, Time Fire. Your as smart as my lord says Ms. Park."

 

Meanwhile, Putria got up. "NO!!!!" she shouted. "I said no humiliation!" She brought her blade down, whacking the Hedgehog zord a few feet. Brandon reacted and fired two more missiles heading straight for Putria. "This is all I can do for now," he said as he looked for more controls. "I wonder if there is anything that could help in this situation." She was hit yet again. She looked down. "I wasn't planning on using this, but whatever..." She stuck out a hand and a second sword appeared. "This is my great ancestor's, Rita Repulsa's greatest heirloom, the Sword of Darkness, which lord Deos managed to recreate!" "So Star Park is your full name?" asked Caoimhin. "Not a common name I must say." He looked at the Genesis Blade. "Do you think I could help strengthen the Genesis Blade a bit more?" "I'll explain EVERYTHING once this is all over," said Star. "And yes, I actually don't mind that at all." She nodded. "Go for it."

 

"Oh man, if only I had the megazord capability," Brandon said as the Zord dug into the ground. About 20 seconds later it came out under Putria in it's spiked ball mode. "Looks like I'm really getting the hang of this." Putria grinned and blocked the Hedgehog zord with both of her blades. "Nice try," she said as she made her swords glow brightly and slashed in an 'X' shape. The Hedgehog zord flew away from the impact. Brandon hit his head against the controls of the zord as it got up again. "I don't think I can take another hit like that. I have to do the next best thing." He pushed a button as a spike moved up and a laser was fired at Putria.

 

Caoimhin nodded then chanted some words, creating ancient symbols on the ground. Caoimhin began to create a dark blue aura in his hands which was made by his powers and was gathering as much as he could before he forced his powers to slowly encircle the blade and empower it even more with the flames of Hades. "Ready to show the force of our combined powers?!" shouted Caoimhin. Joe held the pulsating blade in his hands. Star had one hand on Joe's right shoulder and Caoimhin had one hand on Joe's left shoulder. "Guys, let's do it." "Right!" Star nodded behind Joseph. "Right!" yelled Caoimhin. Joe raised the blade and slashed it at Chronodox. The blade slashed across Chronodox, who screamed in agony. "No! I mustn't displease Deos!" He fell to the floor, with a large crack, the mask broke. Putria stopped and suddenly screamed as well. "MASTER CHRONODOX!" Putria yelled. She spun and hit the floor, glowing until she disappeared. The now doll-like Chronodox became huge by dark energy. A mass of swirling black energy filled the sky. "Power Rangers! You have defeated 2 of my brethren. I must admit that is a marvelous feat. But you cannot fight against your ineminent demise." Star fell on her knees. "D-Deos..."

 

Brandon looked at the Omega Rangers from his Zord and laughed a bit. "It's great to meet the world's greatest Rangers," he said as he passed put on the cockpit. The Hedgehog Zord stayed on the ground and deactivated. Caoimhin suddenly started to punch the ground in anger. "I can't believe...I didn't remember...who that monster was!!!" he yells. "Here we go again," said Joe. "And we're still without megazords. What do we do now? Wait, Star, wouldn't this form be sufficiently weaker like last time? No altering abilities or control. You beat Jesterix with your bow, could the same be with this?" "Has he still got any intelligence left in him Joseph? I NEED to speak to him!" "I'm sure he still has some answers in him, but he's not gonna be in charge of his body. If I can judge a guess, perhaps that mask guards his mind from tampering, and when it breaks it allows this Deos thing to reveal full force into these pawns. The original personality must still remain inside, but its no longer calling the shots." "Is that true Star? Can I still get some answers from him?" "True enough anyway. You still need to beat him or something to the effect of. Once their mask is broken, a Kamen monster has a set time limit before it splits into two halves. Of course, I never saw it happen, but it does." She nodded towards the now groaning Chronodox. "If you beat him and contain him, you'll be able to talk to him." "How do I do that exactly?" "Sorry. I'm out of ideas. Unless someone knows something about our powers that we don't know. And its not like we can put this Kamen thing in a zip-lock bag." "This is the 40th century we're in so it's possible but do we really what to be told whats going to happen in the future?" "If there was a way to call a megazord, I could hook up Nova's programs into it. It would act as an absorber and there is nothing that can bust it out." She nodded towards the Fox and Hedgehog zords. "If those two can call a megazord, I can capture Chronodox." She smiled at Caoimhin. "Future events? I won't tell you that much, but you should have some understanding of the future and my background." "Lets hope they can help, I only need this one important question to ask."

 

The twilight ranger was watching the whole thing, smirking. Star Park? That sounds like some kids play area. Suddenly he yelled out to the hedgehog ranger. "HOW YOU DOING SPIKY FOR YOUR FIRST GO?" He then smirked and pressed buttons on his morpher before slamming his fist against it in a + shape and morphing. "Twilight ranger power!" Maybe I should help them? And suddenly some force took over Kai to run forward and help them. "Brandon! Want a hand?" The twilight ranger pressed a few buttons and spoke into his morpher. "WHERE ARE YOU DAMIEN!?" He then activated his zord to come to him. Suddenly a fox zord bounced out of rocks and the new zord ran towards the hedgehog zord. Kai then jumped into his megazord, pressing remote access for the Anthropleura zord. "Brandon! I need you to help me get remote access over Damien's zord! Be thankful I actually am here at all. Brandon! Get the Anthropleura zord ready!" The twilight ranger then leaned back on his seat in the cockpit of the zord and relaxed, humming to himself. Should of brought a book to read...

 

Meanwhile, Dominic stood behind the rangers, and sighed quietly. "Oh great, there's newbies now," he told himself as he brought out his morpher, and put it on. He put his hand over it, and everything froze around him. As everything was still he drew a golden line in the shape of a sword in front of him. As soon as it was finished, it disappeared and a giant wormhole appears in space. Out of the ranger's sight. Dom walks up to the rangers, and starts to whistle. He isn't morphed and just looks up. "Any day now." "Why is he whistling?" Caoimhin asked Joe and Star pointing to Dom. Star looked puzzled and sent a glance towards Dom. "Oh..." She smiled. "It really does pay to have a demon god for a boyfriend." She walked up to him. "How long will it take then?" She said, giving Dom a knowing look. "How long will 'what' take, Star?" Dom grinned and glanced at Star. "Should be in a coup-" He was cut off as the Ranger's zords arrived. The Jormundgar dug into the earth, using it as if it were water. The Nidhog was the last, hovering in the sky. The only ones missing were Fenrir and the Pegasus. "Odd much?" Dom looked up and eyed the portal. "Okay, I can understand my Zord, but yours?" As soon as he finished that the Pegasus floated down, and the portal closed. "Even better." The zords appeared on the ground. She looked up at Chronodox. "I think its about time to show the newbies exactly what we could do." She smiled at Joe. "Would you like to do the honors Joseph?" "Just don't completely destroy Chronodox," noted Caoimhin. "Hmph. Fine. Then I'll save Collosus form for another time. Alright everyone, Super Primal Megazord arise." The megazord formed and let out a tremendous roar that shook the barren wasteland that is the future. It then took its battle stance. "OK Star, your turn." "Right." She held up her hand. "Celestial Formation; Angelus Purity Megazord!" The zords glowed brilliantly and rearranged themselves. Star boarded it and faced Chronodox. She clicked a few buttons and said, "Constellation Crusher, Extensive Mode." The blaster became much larger. The Angelus picked it up and aimed. "Joe, I'll set up the vacuum to contain him, just keep him stalled while I reprogram it." Star cut the transmission and was furiously tapping away at buttons. "You got it Star. I'll do my best. But I really wanted to try out my new zord form and eviscerate this guy. But we can do things your way." He laughed.

 

The twilight ranger leaned forward and held a button, looking through the Cockpit's glass watching the other rangers. "Hey Brandon, they like they can handle this," he said. "Hows for pizza?" Kai smirked under his helmet and leaned back, thinking to himself. Hopefully they can do this, cause can't really be bothered....wait... Kai suddenly leaned forward and pressed the button again. "Make that Italian." He smirked again and continued thinking in the cockpit selfishly.

 

The super primal megazord slammed its tail against the ground repeatedly and then it spun around and slammed into Chronodox, but it basically bounced off and caused no real damage. Caoimhin jumped on to the shoulder of Star's Megazord. "So what's the plan of capturing Chronodox?" he asked. The megazord fingers became claws and walked over to Chronodox and grappled with him. "Fine, don't answer me then. I'll just help you so i can get answers." Caoimhin then started firing spheres of fire at Chronodox's chest. The blaster was completely ready at this point. Star peeked at Caoimhin through the side of her eye and fired. "Vacuum Reversal." A golden beam of energy hit Chronodox, which dragged him closer and closer until he disappeared. Star held up a little cartridge. "Yes! It was a success. Now, what did you want to ask him Caoimhin?" "Chronodox, I said I was never able to sense your presence at all in my life time but I was wrong. I had sensed it almost 13000 years ago from now. My final question is did you and others of your kind kidnap all the civilians of the Island of Creation almost 13000 years ago?" Chronodox, amidst the swirling contents of the vacuum, smiled. "Alas, that was not my doing," he began. "It was done by a greater power than I. The right hand of lord Deos, and the anti-existence of Life, master Archux. I have no idea where he is however." Deos, listening to what they said, spoke, "Guardian, your people have been erased. Why bother? And Chronodox, you have served me well, however..." A black lightning bolt struck the Angelus megazord, making it burst into it's original zords. Chronodox came out and was completed disintegrated by the bolt. Star was thrown out and landed near the damaged Celestial zords. Seeing this, Joe was angered and he started to charge up the primal cannon and fire it at the swirling vortex where that lightning bolt came from. However another bolt struck the super primal megazord, as well separating the zords. Caoimhin landed not too far away from Star. "They can't be...they can't be erased. I vowed to find a way to free them if I found the one responsible for the kidnapping." Blue flames started to surround his whole body. "SHOW YOURSELF DEOS SO I CAN DESTROY YOU!!!!" A high laugh erupted from the vortex. "You jest. I do not contain a physical form, as I am omnipresent. I contain all of the chaos and uncertainty in the universe. I am more powerful than any of you, including you deity allies. For I am the anti-existence of Reality and Order. I am the deity to erase all those present in existence. And no one shall challenge my reign!" A bolt from the vortex shot out and hit Caoimhin hard.

 

Caoimhin was knocked hard to the ground but stood straight after, anger was flowing through his veins. He lost all control of himself through all the feelings he felt about the incident so many years ago and vengeance was the only thing on his mind. "Is that the best you've got?!" he yelled. "You don't seem as strong as you proclaim! LET'S SEE IF I CAN HIT YOU!!!" Caoimhin's fit of rage caused the flames surrounding his body to gather into his right hand. "TAKE THIS!!!" Caoimhin with all his might then fired a massive pillar of blue fire straight up into the sky but used so much energy he reverted back to his normal form after that attack. He hoped he managed to do some damage. "A valiant effort. Though futile I assure you." The flames entered the vortex. The entire sky flashed blue for a second and then went back to normal. A shadowy figure exited the vortex. He was somewhat like Caoimhin. "Thank you for the energy. I now have a body to move around in. But I need more!" He disappeared in black lightning and a wormhole opened, closing behind him. "You won't be having that body for long. That is something I'm sure of." Then Caoimhin collapsed, exhausted of energy. Joe laid on the ground after he was flung from the megazord. He got up and saw Star had also been thrown and he then saw Caoimhin attack the vortex and then collapses. "Caoimhin!!" he yells as he rushed over and helped him up. "You okay buddy? And did that thing just mirror you?" "I guess so," he said weakly then fainted.

 

Brandon slowly opened his eyes as he regained consciousness. As he woke up, the Hedgehog Zord re-activated. "What did I miss?" he asked as he moved the Zord around looking to see if any enemies were still present. Brandon jumped out of the Hedgehog Zord and and ran to Caoimhin. He looked in his bag for anything that would help. After taking out multiple spray cans and some skate polish, he found a small medical kit. "You really never know when you need it."

 

Dominic walked up to Caoimhin. "Not in the best of mood eh?" he asked as he looked around before sighing. "Well, I'm off. If you guys need help, just call." He bowed quickly and turned around. He walked off a bit, and then stopped. He whistled and a pack of wolves ran over to him, barking madly, but friendly. Brandon's eye started to twitch a bit. "Somehow, it's gonna take a while to get used to him," he said as he put Caoimhin in some bandages. He then got up and put his things in the bag. "Where in the world is Kai and Damien?" Joe tried to call after Dom. "Wait, we're not staying here!!!!" he screamed. "We gotta get back to our time." He then said to himself, "Not sure how though?" "Eh? No I mean I'm gonna see if I can find some info on our new enemies. 'Course it's so much easier when your bi-species." Dominic transformed into his wolf form, and stepped up to the pack leader. Star smiled. "Getting back? Not a problem." She pointed to her morpher. "The Starlight has Time Force technology, thus it could open a wormhole, but I would need a GIANT amount of energy to open one big enough." Joe then tried to pick up Caoimhin and summon the Genesis Blade as a sort of walking stick, but he was too weak to maintain the concentration needed and almost fell himself. He then turned to Brandon. "Mind giving me a hand. BTW, I'm Joe. Thanks for the help back there." The twilight ranger snapped awake and jumped out his zord. He then walked up to the other rangers holding his shoulder. "What I miss?" he asked. "And I must of miss counted these rangers. Brandon!"

 

Sean, also having been throw from the Angelus megazord and wounded tried to get up. "A little help over here?" he said as he pushed a massive piece of wreckage off of him. Kent rushed to Sean and used his Staff to lift all the boulders and rubble off him. Brandon walked over to Joe and helped him up. "The name's Brandon," he said. He then noticed Kai come with his Zord. "Way to wake up too late Kai. The battle's over." He looked at Caoimhin and tried picking him up. "Oh man this guy's heavy." He fell to the ground face first. "Note to self: Do not wear skates when lifting someone." "Woohoo, I missed the fight," said Kai. The twilight ranger yawned and thumped Brandon on the back. "I guess I'll head back to the usual spot. You gonna come? Or do you need your nappy changed because the monster made you poo your pants?" He smirked and started to walk away. Kai changed his mind and turned around, walking towards the group of rangers, still fully morphed. He figured he should find out what he missed while he dozed off. "Why were you here anyway?" asked Kai.

 

"Nameless...Nameless, get up. We both know you're a lot stronger than that," a female voice said. Who said that? asked Caoimhin. Nobody has called me that for 2 millenia. "Seems like you're forgetting who your closest friend is. I'm not surprised though, it's been so long since I've last seen you." Wait it can't be? Is it you Euthalia? "You remember, I'm so glad you have. We are still alive trapped somewhere, you must get stronger to save us." I promise I will become stronger to save you. Caoimhin started to wake up to find Joe and someone else carrying him. "How much energy...are we talking about?" weakly asked Caoimhin, hearing Star at the last second. "Quite a bit," began Star. "When I first used it, I had to use Nova's energy, making him go dormant and deactivate. But transporting a group of people would require an enormous amount of it." Brandon scratched his head, as he was obviously confused about what was going on. "This is why I failed both English and science," he said. "I never got the points." He stopped at a bridge site. "This is where we stop for now." "Well, the Genesis Blade could help a bit, but first, I gotta rest a bit, I can barely remain conscious after that thing attacked. Oh wait, the new Lio form could do the trick, but it's also in pretty bad shape." "I'll see how much energy I have once I've rested enough. I'll do my best to supply the machine with the power you need." Then Caoimhin turned to the stranger carrying him with Joe. "So what's your name kid?" "My name is Brandon." Brandon stated as he looked at Kai. "I'll meet you over there in about an hour. Unlike you, I don't slack off on my work." "Whatever Brandon," said Kai. "Anyways, who's the boss around here? Seeing as Damien has vanished." Kai, the both of us that was remotely close to second in command was me. So, for now I'll take command of the Sigma Squad." Brandon then looked at Caoimhin. "So I'm guessing your one of the Omega Rangers?" "No I'm not one of them. I became a ranger before their descendants were even born." "So that would mean you were born since the dawn of time basically?" Kai then looked at all the rangers from the past and muttered under his breath. "OK, what about the rest of you?"

 

Joe set Caoimhin down against a rock to rest. Joe then walked a few paces and sat down as well to rest. He then looked at Kai. "Well judging from the fact that you actually came to help, I'm guessing you're one of the more competent future rangers," said Joe. Sean struggled to get up and then patted Kent on the shoulder. "Thanks buddy," he told Kent. He then stumbled over to Star and the others. "Well as far as power, I could as well help out with my Super Panther mode, but I gotta gather my thoughts first." Sean then sat down and appeared to go into a meditative state. You all know what I can offer." Kent said, showing off his shield and smiling. "Anyone know where we can hide out?" asked Joe. "What about their hideout?" Caoimhin asked as he pointed to Brandon and Kai. "That's if they don't mind. They seemed to be doing well for surviving in this time." "Well we do have a hideout. But, it's not what you would expect of one." He skated towards one side of the road. "Its through this ally." "That would be best I suppose," said Star. "Let's go." Star still had an uneasy feeling, but didn't push the issue. "What about the zords? Should we just leave them there? Is there any water for Lio?" "The Zords will be at the hideout before we get there due to auto pilot and yes there is water." "Let's get going then. The sooner I get some rest, the sooner I can recover." Caoimhin slowly got up and followed Brandon. He walked down the ally and revealed a boardwalk. He went down a ladder and into an abandoned sewer pipe. There was no trace of smell or garbage ever since his team used this as a shortcut to their hideout. "Its in here." Caoimhin followed Brandon down the ladder. "This is your hideout? It's a sewer pipe."

 

Meanwhile, in a crater mixed with debris and flames, a hand shot out and muffled shouts were heard. The figures face came next, revealing it to be Putria. She was beyond angered. "Curse them!" she began. "Destroying my master. I will tear them limb from limb and enjoy it!" She began to laugh maniacally.

 

"This is the entrance to the hideout," Brandon stated as he continued walking to the end of the pipe. At the end was a base with high tech equipment and the Zords coming out of the water to the storage garage. "This is the base, well part of it," said Brandon. Kent followed the both of them. "I like it..." he says. "I'm surprised you've managed to find enough room underground, Brandon," said Caoimhin. The Lio zord made its way to the water and dove down to the depths to recharge. "Wow, this place is big," said Joe. "Not bad you guys." "At least it will keep us safe for the time being from that shadowy wasteland that used to be earth. I sense there are many evil forces all around us, so we must rest quickly in case we have a repeat performance." "Agreed. That Deos thing appears to be the ruler or whatever, and we have no idea where that things human form went to." "Well you have plenty of room when you have a lot of time and an abandoned sewer system." A camera system looked at Kent and Caoimhin. "Don't worry about the camera. It's part of the defense system I installed." "Is there anywhere for us to rest and recover?" Caoimhin asked Brandon. Brandon pointed to the green door. "That door leads to some bedrooms. You can choose any one you want but don't go in room 432. That room has been evicted for a reason." He then scanned the area if there is any evil activity. Caoimhin went through the green door, went into a room and fell asleep on a bed.

 

Sean bowed his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness." He then went into one of the rooms to rest. Joe looked at Brandon. "We can finish introductions later," he said. Joe walked to a room as well and laid down. He checked under his shirt to be sure that the golden key was still there hidden. He then whispered to the key, If you would actually show up when I called you, you would of come in real handy today, but even if you did decide to show up, after what that thing did to Caoimhin, maybe its for the better. Kent looked around. He decided he liked room 536 and laid on the bed that was supported by a few metal beams and seemed very sturdy for home-made. "I like what you've done here!" he shouted out. "It's great when you have a lot of time on your hands besides skating around and tagging the city!" Brandon yelled as he repaired some of the Zords. "Even though it's fun." Kent saw him and said, "I thought that was my job. I AM he mechanic, am I not?" "Yeah you are. But, I thought I could fix my Zord. I'm actually trying to make it faster, to escape some attacks." He then found a spray can in the circuitry. He eye started to twitch uncontrollably.

 

Technically speaking, Dominic felt right at home. Compared to his human form, his natural form gave him more freedom. And besides, caribou tasted better when he actually killed it. He and the pack he joined had already covered a lot of ground. Although, he hadn't learned anything other than these new Strikers were destroying Mythological related objects. Must be my father. That could explain why none of these wolves know about me. Kai walked up to Brandon. "YOUR defense system?" he began. "How much you gonna take credit for? All you done was put up cameras, 'twas my idea to have 'proper' defenses." He then walked through a side door to the "lounge", or an untidy and badly lit room. We really need a new hang out. he thought. He opened a pizza box on the floor and took a piece of pizza, sitting down on a sofa to eat it.

 

Joe wandered into the lounge after taking a nap and resting. "Phew, now I'm feeling a bit better." Just then he slipped on one of the many discarded pizza boxes on the floor. "Ouch. Now I'm feeling bad again." He jumped up and walked over towards the sofa. "I guess you guys don't believe in butlers, or trash cans." "Thats MY defense system." said Kai. "What was your name?" "The name's Joe." Joe tried to find a seat among all the garbage. "You'd think that however many hundreds of years in the future this is, there would be some cooler gadgets to clean this place. So who are you?" "Kai. And we do have some gadgets. Brandon's in charge of that. Thing is we've had a deal, and I can't get in certain parts of the base." He sat and thought for a moment before leaning back on the sofa, making it creak. He proceeded to flick the chewing gum off the remote and turn on the TV, revealing a blue screen. "Well, as much as I'd love to sit in this grease filled vault, no offense, I wanna go check on my zord and stuff."

 

Brandon looked at the pizza boxes and took them off the floor. "Damien was supposed to bring the right parts for me to make a robotic butler, but he ended up bringing the wrong parts." he stated as he opened a door, which revealed a giant flame. He threw the empty pizza boxes in and closed the door. "Great. Now I need the parts, but from where?" He sat on a chair thinking of where he could find the parts he needed for the robotic butler. "Brandon, can you show me around?" asked Joe. Brandon brought his attention to Joe and replied, "Sure." He then skated to a door. He put his hand in the print and the door automatically opened. In the room was a garage with all the Zords being repaired and cleaned. "Here is the Zord Garage. Here, our repair and washing bots fix and clean our Zords. If you're thinking that we could use one of the wash bots for the base, that won't work." "And you said something about a connection to the ocean." "Yeah it is." "I want to go check on my Liopleurodon zord. He usually likes to heal his own wounds." "Liopleurodon is in a separate room thats covered with water for it to heal. Just this way." Brandon skated to a door. He opened the door to show a giant tank of water with the Liopleurodon Zord in it with more water dropping every couple of minutes.

 

Meanwhile, Sean woke up and wandered out into the mess. "This mess smells more putrid than any monster Vile could ever make up." he said to himself. "Where are the others?" He then began to look around.

 

"Whoa!" he yelled. "I have to say I'm pretty impressed with all this stuff." Joe walked up to the Liopleurodon and checked it out. It made some noises and movements that Joe seemed to understand. "May I see what you've done with Stego?" asked Kent, who now named his zord Stego. "Stego is in the Zord Garage getting repaired and cleaned." said Brandon. "I have yet to put it in a virtual environment, but if I had to chose, it would be with the Sigma Zords in the forest area. And if you guys want, you can use the training rooms downstairs. Just in mind, Rail City is pretty hard to get through." "Well, that's what teamwork is about!" "Thats true. But, you should try it. Its the hardest training session in this base. No one in the Sigma Squad has gotten through it without being hit by something. Its that hard." He skated towards another door that said To Training Rooms. "You coming?" "Sure." Kent said as he entered the room. He had his shield armed as a way of cheating in a sense. "Well, this could be a good time to see if my powers are fully recovered." said Joe. "This will be fun." He turns to Brandon. "Maybe you'll learn a thing or two from us 'old' rangers, and perhaps we'll learn a thing or two from you." Joe walked in the room. "Well, Kent, I see you're already armed, but now it's my turn." The morpher appeared on his arm. "Gold Ranger Power!!" Joe morphed. "OK, now part 2. Genesis Blade!!!!" The Genesis blade appeared in Joe's hands and created a crackling noise in the room. "Let's do this."

 

March 13, 3900 ~ Training Room: Rail City

 

Brandon smirked and opened the door to Rail City. The room was filled with rails going everywhere with a giant city at the bottom. There were some trains and aerial robots in the room to to stop the person from getting to the city. Brandon smirked as he looked at Joe and Kent. "Welcome to Rail City." He stated. "The only way into and out of the city is to grind. If you want to keep your balance in grinding, use the soap shoes next to the door." He jumped off the door edge and on a rail, grinding towards the city. "Been a while since I did this..." Star gulped. She was never much of a grinder. "Oh well..." She jumped onto the railing, sliding down faster and faster, trying to keep her balance. "I REMEMBER WHY I HATE THIS!" She shouted back as she nearly lost her balance. "Hm, let me see..." Joe looked around and found some scrap plates. He bent them to make them like shoes but left a 'rail shaped' cutout through them. He then jumped on the rails. It took him a couple of seconds to catch his balance, but he managed and used the blade as a sort of balancing pole.

 

Brandon continued grinding down the rails. Through all the twists and turns, he managed to keep his balance stable thanks to him being a skater. "The reason we had Rail City installed into the training systems is because since the city was destroyed, usually the only way to certain area is to grind there." he yelled as he jumped off of the current rail and moved to the one below, almost losing his balance in the process. "Watch out of the aerial bots and the train system. They will try to knock you off the rails." "What trains?" asked Joe. Just then a train came barreling at him. He screamed. Joe then swung the Genesis Blade and blasted through it. "Lucky for me these aren't full ton trains and just demos." Brandon looked at Joe as he destroyed the train. "I'm impressed. One person also took down a train in here, but not like that." An aerial robot then charged at him. He jumped on it and opened the back, showing massive amount of wires. He pulled a couple and jumped off onto the highest rail going downwards to the city. The aerial robot hit the wall and it exploded on impact.

 

Trying to get over her fear of heights, Star continued down the rails even faster, coming to a train, which was impossible to dodge at this point. On reflexes alone, she jumped the train, and began to grind on it until it passed. She hit the rails again with a thud. She shouted after Brandon, "I'm going to get you for this later!" She quickly regained her focus. "What?!" he asked in confusion. "Wasn't my idea to put the trains in? Blame Kai for those." He jumped and grinded on the hood of the train. He jumped over to the rail next to Star. "This focuses on speed alone, which is why I got faster both in ranger and normal form." Kai was standing in the door way, but not walking in the room for some reason. "Who switched off the decent practice equipment?" he asked. He took a ball out his pocket and threw at a button on the wall. The system then started to shake. Then he grabbed his skateboard and then skated across the rails, catching up with the others. Then he almost got hit by a train, falling off the rails.

 

Caoimhin woke up to find the others had disappeared. "Where have they gone now?" he asked. Kai skated out of the room, and out the base. After reaching outside he started skating in an old abandoned skate park, flipping and doing loop de loops without a care in the world. He pulled out a old mp3 player and played music while upside down. Whatever Brandon wanted me to do, whatever anyone wanted me for, I don't care right now. he thought. Caoimhin searched around the base but couldn't find the others at all. "I guess I'll go see if they are outside."

 

Brandon noticed the end of the rail heading to the city. "Okay, this is the final stretch." he shouted. "Let's see how far you can make it." He crouched on the rail, giving him more speed and jumped as he reached the end of the rail. He made 3 complete spins while holding his skates. He landed right into the middle of the city. His eyes were wide as he noticed it. He just did a 1080 off of the main rail. "YES! Finally after so long of trying and failing!" Joe was common to the final stretch of his track which cork-screwed downward, but Joe instead just jumped it and managed to land on every other rail again and again until he landed by Brandon. "Hmph, not bad." he said.

 

Meanwhile, Sean watched the guys until he couldn't see them anymore. "This is getting boring." he told himself. "I'll go outside." He went outside and saw Caoimhin. "Hello again Caoimhin. It has come to my conclusion that earlier today, you've obtained your ranger powers." "Your conclusion was wrong." said Caoimhin. "I've had this power long before you were born. I just haven't used them for a millenia." "I see. My mistake. I have never realized you had it in the first place. Well, now I know. Thank you." He turned around and went back inside. "Let's see if my powers are working. Omega Force! Panther Power!" Nothing happened. "Huh? Panther Power!" Again nothing happens. "What happened? Maybe Star can find the problem." He began to look for Star. I guess i should go hunting for the scum of the multiverse who copied my body. Caoimhin thought as he saw Sean go back to the base. When Sean was out of sight Caoimhin ran off into the desert to find Deos.

 

Brandon threw Joe a can of spray paint and skated towards the city wall. "Place your mark Joe." he said. "You and Star have just became the first Omega Rangers to grind in Rail City. I'm actually impressed you did it on your first try. It took me and Kai several attempts." He started spraying the paint on the wall. After a couple of minutes, he was done. His mark was a skull wearing headphones. "Another personal record for me." Joe put the can of spray paint down. "Thanks Brandon, but hopefully we can make it so that this miserable result of a future doesn't exist." he said. He turned to Star. "We need to try to get back to our own time and soon. I have a really bad suspicion that that thing we fought didn't run to another place, but to another time. Our time most likely. Think about it, he seems really good at manipulating things around his will, and the past is the best time to do it."

 

Kai skated off to the usual spot at the beach. He sat down on the rock and lent his skateboard on the rock. Maybe I should head back. he thought. He watched the waves come up on the beach and down again. As Kai sat on the beach, a few hundred feet away, a small condensed cartridge of something hit the ground. The old rusted pipes beneath the ground and piles of cement twisted around the cartridge, and then 10 misshapen mechanical behemoths came out of the ground. These were the same strikers as before and the ones that were quite common in this twisted future. Their arms were made up from however the rubble could be manipulated. They usually had elongated skinny arms that resemble a spinal cord and another arm that looks like a tail. They had spouts on their backs which spewed murky black fog.

 

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Futuristic Shadow Strikers[/align]

 

One sneaked up on Kai, grabbed a hold of him, and then threw him about 10 feet. The other 9 slowly made their way towards the Sigma Base. Kai was thrown onto the ground and was dazed, but he charged at the striker, missing it and hitting his head on the rock. Kai rolled over and then was whacked again by the striker into the rock, knocking him out cold. The striker then advanced towards HQ.

 

Star finished the grinding course, so she landed next to Joe. She nodded. "Deos isn't prone to destruction." she began. "He's a mystery even to me, since each Deuteros loves to eradicate life. But I suppose we should get back to our time." She held up her morpher, and the crystal starlight inside shined. The other morphers glowed their respective colors and shot into the it. A large blue portal, radiating light, appeared. "It'll stay open for a few minutes at be-" she started but the alarms went off. The screen showed the ever closer futuristic strikers. An alarm sounded in the sigma base as Brandon skated to the control room. He saw on the camera a Shadow Striker in the pipes. "Oh, man!" he yelled. "Why now?" He grabbed his morpher and skated towards the pipe. He noticed the Striker as it screeched. "Okay then. Show me what you've got."

 

Joe followed after Brandon. And the approaching striker as well as 8 others on their way. "Not good. Can things get any worse?" Joe morphed and ran at the striker. It threw its whip arm at Joe and wrapped around his leg. It dragged Joe towards him and then lifted him off the ground. Joe was staring at it face to face while upside down. "Ok, problem, but not too bad. I call upon the Genesis Blade!" The blade formed in his right hand and Joe severed the strikers arm that was holding him. Joe dropped to the ground and the striker made a metallic scream in pain.

 

Meanwhile, "Deos, show yourself so I can fight you again!" Caoimhin shouted in the middle of a desert. A crater nearby glowed ominously, until it exploded ina blaze of fire. Out of it came a metallic, yet more human looking Putria. Her eyes were noticeably redder and brighter. She eyed Joe. Pointing her sword at him, she said, "You and me!" she shouted. "A fight to the death." She glowed crimson. "FOR MY REVENGE!!!" She grew large yet again, stomping on half of the Strikers in her outburst. "I sense another source of power near the Sigma base." Caoimhin then looked out into the distance. "I'll deal with you later, Deos." He then started running towards the base.

 

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Okay, here's the other half. It took some time, but I finished.

 

[spoiler=[b]Episode 14: Ranger Lavendar: The Truth(Second Half)[/b]]

Caoimhin soon got near the base and saw Putria and some of them different looking Strikers. "FLAMES OF HADES, RELEASE!" Engulfed in fire he transformed to the Hades Ranger and jumped up into the air and punched Putria in the back of her right leg. She didn't seem to really care. "AWAY YOU PEST! I ONLY WANT THE GOLD!" She howled into the sky, which parted, revealing a dark blue underneath. She looked down at Caoimhin and out of her eyes shot a blue laser, which narrowly missed him. "Hey, big and ugly, if your gonna fire a laser at someone-" Caoimhin put his right hand up into the air and a rifle appeared in his hand. "At least make sure you hit them." Caoimhin then fired his rifle sending a stream of fire at Putria's left eye.

 

She blew upwards, which reflected the fire. She then laughed. She fired a weaker laser, taking care to aim this time. Caoimhin withdrew is rifle and summoned his most trusted weapon, his Falcata, and used it to block the laser then deflect back at Putria, unfortunately, he had one of his rare off days he hadn't had in an millenia and totally missed her.

 

Farther away from the battle. A figure was laying against the ground with binoculars. His thick black hair hid his face from view. He smirked as Caoimhin pulled out a rifle. Guns happen to be reliable, too bad reloading is a pain.. he thought as he grimaced at the laser that was just fired, and pulled the binoculars behind him.

 

Putria grinned with satisfaction. "KARMA IS HORRIBLE ISN'T IT!?" she yelled as she took a breath and blew intense fire from her innermost regions of her mouth. Caoimhin was blasted into the ground at a very fast and intense speed along with rubble covering him on impact of the rocks.

 

Caoimhin laid on the ground in some considerable pain, the rubble slightly crushing him. "Good thing I'm a master of fire, or that could have gone a lot worse." he said to himself. He raised his hands in front of his face, pushing rocks out of the way, and just began staring at them. "How come i feel a lot weaker than usual? It can't be that this power is rejecting me, can it?"

 

A loud bang was heard, as a familiar figure appeared from Putria's flank. It was Dominic, with a rifle of some sort in his hands. He had a neutral expression on his face, but it turned to a grin and the bullet shot exploded into shrapnel. While it didn't do much, it at least caused a smoke cloud to appear. "Anyone miss me?" he asked aloud, with his rifle against his right shoulder.

 

"Come on you stupid morpher, work!" yelled Sean, ignoring all that is going on and making an X on his chest. "Panther Power!" Still nothing happened. Suddenly, he turned around and saw Putria and said, "I'm having the worst day ever." He then placed his morpher up to his face, activating the com link on his most trustful ranger of the team. "Star, are you there? Come in! I need your help now!"

 

Star glanced at Putria, and was in the midst of running. Her communicator went off and to her surprise, it was Sean. "What's wrong?" she asked. "What's the matter? Are you alright? You sound desperate." She noted his voice. She never knew that Sean would actually call her in a time of need, especially when she didn't know what exactly that need actually is. "My powers aren't working! Do you have any reason why this could be happening?" There was no answer back. I hate this! he thought.

 

I'm not going to be overpowered by anyone ever again since that day I promised myself that! thought Caoimhin as he stood up and flames started to cover his body, burning brighter than ever before. His Falcata started to glow and hovered in the air in front of him. Caoimhin started to form a sequence of hand signs causing the Falcata to spin very fast, Caoimhin then spread out his arms in a diagonal direction which shot the Falcata straight at Putria. The sword started cutting into every part Putria's body as it encircled her body. Caoimhin appeared on Putria shoulder with his Falcata in his right hand and stabbed Putria right in the neck.

 

Putria screamed and flew high into the air, grabbing and throwing Caoimhin into the ground. "NO ONE DOES THAT TO ME AND LIVES!" she screams as she held up her sword and began to flip around in her hands, encircling it with fire. After a few moments, the entire sky was ablaze with fire. Above her, Putria held a giant flame saw. Looking at Caoimhin, she smiled insanely. "NOW ALL OF YOU WILL PERISH!" She threw it forcefully, heading straight for the rangers. "Wait for the right moment to strike." Caoimhin said to himself as he watched the weapon fall closer and closer to them. Dom covered his eyes from the blast. "Jeez, that's way to bright for me." he told himself. He grinned though.

 

Joe looked at the massive Putria and this flame wheel blade. "Now's as good a time as any." he began. "Sorry for the delay guys. Nice work Caoimhin, but you should fight fire with fire, or in my case, a raging inferno. Liopleurodon zord, time to show off you new abilities. Now, return to your original form. Arise, Liopleurodon!"

 

The Liopleurodon zord jumped out of the water and grew twice as big. It's blackish armor appeared to melt off of it and was replaced by a glowing golden armor, almost as bright as a sun.

 

"Putria, word on the street is that you're a clone from Vile's DNA. Well, he worked his butt off to either control or copy this zord, so it's only fitting that you're annihilated by it. Liopleurodon Zord, activate Collosus Formation. Collosus Megazord, activate!"

 

The back flipper folded in half then flipped up to make knee blades. The front flippers retracted to form shoulder blades. The head folded down and became body and torso armor. The tail divided in half and became two twin blades. The Megazord was massive. It was only 1 zord, but was one and a half times bigger than any of the previous Zords.

 

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Colossus Liopleurodon Zord/Colossus Megazord[/align]

 

The massive megazord withdrew its two blades and unleashed a horrific number of attacks on Putria. Each attack was mirroring how Joseph wielded the blade inside the zord. After striking Putria 37 times within 30 seconds, Putria fell backwards and exploded. The sky then back returned to normal.

 

The Megazord looked at the other rangers down below. "Sorry for the delay guys." Joe's voice said. The Zord then bent down and removed Caoimhin from the rubble and lifted him up in the palm of his hand. "Thanks for holding her off. You got to be the bravest guy I know for taking on a full blown monster in ranger-size form." "It's fine." said Caoimhin. "She wasn't that tough anyway." "Yeah, the massive death sky was probably a bark that was worse than her bite. Probably overcompensating for notions of her own inferiority." He laughed. "So guys... shall we head back home?" "Home as in the Sigma base or home as in our time?"

 

"Nice entrance Joe, and sick new Zord." said Dom, stunned at what had happened. Joe then heard Dom and turned the Megazord towards him. "Dom, your back." he said, realizing that he was long gone. "Hey, where were you? Did you have fun answering the call of the wild, or Norse mythical beast, I guess in your case?" He then laughed. "It was all good, but I kinda had to jet since it was wolf mating season. Other than that, I think the Strikers might have a weak point. An easy one to exploit. Not to sure about it though." The rifle disappeared from his hands. "I'm not even gonna delve into more detail of what he did." sighed Caoimhin.

 

Joe jumped down from the Collosus megazord. "I never figured you as a gun person, but it kinda suits you." said Joe. You planning on focusing your demon energy to make that into an out of this world weapon?" "That may be because of the shift in reality has caused the power drain." said Caoimhin. "I felt it as well in the battle just then."

 

Star, finally catching her breath, pointed at them. "Figures..." she began, panting. "Now, hurry up...WE HAVE ONLY FIVE MINUTES!!!" She took a deep breath and pointed to her morpher. The Starlight was going out. "If that goes out, we'll be stuck here forever, you understand?!?" "What do we do though?" asked Caoimhin. Joe turned to Star. "Star, Collosus Megazord could hold the portal for us, but I suggest we hurry it up before anything decides to take a trip back to our time." he said.

 

"Aw crud." Dom said. He looked around. I might be a demigod, but I can't manipulate time. he thought. "I thought Nidhog does control time though." said Caoimhin. "Can't you summon her to help or something?" Dominic coughed uneasily and dragged Cao away from prying ears and eyes. "Yea...no." he whispered. "She's not the cooperative type." "Oh ok. Next time, though, don't drag me like that. I'm still in ranger form and my punches could seriously hurt you." Then Caoimhin powered down to his normal form. "Hm, I don't need to morph to punch as strong as you ya know." Dominic replied hastily. "Whatever. Let's just see what your girlfriend needs us to do now to get back to our time." Dom shot a look at Cao. "You know, Demigod/human matching isn't too good in the god world. Believe me, if some gods knew, they would skin me." "Seeing as that has already happened, I think your safe for the time being." "Point taken, but let's just get back home." "Yeah. Well we better follow Star's orders then."

 

Brandon skated down the pipe to the base and noticed on the main computer some files opened. He checked the files and noticed they were all about the Omega Rangers. "Who hacked into the computer?" he asked himself. "These files are password protected. Only the other Sigma Rangers know about it, and they never check the files." He began to type very quickly on the keyboard searching for the hacker.

 

"Uh, guys, you do realize that my powers stopped working, right?" asked Sean with annoyance, also ignoring Joe's new Zord, even though he already saw it. He then turned to Star. "Star, I already told you." "Sean, we can figure out to return your powers when we get back." said Joe. "Perhaps, since this is the future, your panther idol doesn't exist. Thus your powers won't work without it since you draw your power from it. Or am I misinterpreting the whole transaction?"

 

Brandon walked into the room and heard Joe talking about going back. "Well maybe I can help with that." he began. "I mean, there is a possibility that even if you step into the portal, you might get sent into a different time." He then shrugged. "But I don't know. I read the theory in a book." "That would be a big help Brandon." said Joe. "In fact, would it be possible for you guys to come back with us? You could be put to good use and stop this horrible future." "Well that will be a great idea. I mean this city is now only used for army operations with new machines they constructed to fight off terror if there ever is one. This could stop all this destruction and demise from ever happening." "Yeah, okay, Brandon." said Sean. "Let's just get back to our time before we get stuck here forever!"

 

"Great, we could use the help." Joe began. "Lets round up whatever we have to fast. Power down." Joe demorphed, but the Collosus megazord remained still fully functional making sure the Starlight didn't go out. Joe then checked his key around his neck, seeing if it was still there. It was, but it wasn't glowing. Not that he really expected it to be glowing after what he had done and still planned to do. "Sure, I can gather all of the zords and place them into a mechanical pod for them and us to go into the portal unharmed." Brandon stated as he pressed a large red button on the main computer.

 

Meanwhile, in Gargantia's lair, back in the present time, he was looking for the rangers, mostly Sean. Where are those rangers? he asked. It's like they were wiped off the face of the earth. He had been searching for them since they left the Island of Creation, which was a few hours ago. He still searches for them.

 

Back in the future, "I can't believe my powers stopped working!" yelled Sean. His morpher then began to short out. "What's going on? When we go back to our time, I'm going back to the Panther Idol to see what's happening!" Soon loud sounds of metal were heard and soon stopped. "Its all set up. We are ready to launch it any minute." "Well, hurry! The portal's closing fast."

 

"I'll help you guys carry some of your tech stuff." said Joe. "I'll carry it in the Lio." Joe grabbed some boxes and started walking to the Lio zord. And he thought to himself, So Sean's powers aren't working. Huh. Looks like the opportunity is presenting itself sooner rather than later. I better watch this closely. It is not sure what he is thinking, but it seems more related to Sean than he actually thinks.

 

Brandon pressed a button on the computer and the floor in the room moved and started to descend, showing the lower levels of the base. They stopped in front of a giant robot. It was massive enough to carry zords, and it had its own upper body on top of a hover pad. "This is our ride back in time: the GREIF." Brandon stated as he skated to the robot and got into the cockpit which surprisingly had a one-person flying system. "You can get inside the GREIF and find your Zord. All of the ones that have been in the base the whole time are stored in here." Sean entered the GREIF and asked Brandon, "What does GREIF mean?" he asked. It means 'Seize' in German. A German scientist made this model along with many other machines like this for the army."

 

He started up the GREIF as it started floating. The hangar doors slowly started to open and the GREIF was ready to launch. Brandon slowly activated the upper body. "We are now ready for launch." he began. "Everyone please be advised this is the first time piloting this machine, so there may be problems on the way." Joe regained control of Collosus, turned it back to normal Lio form and put it on the ship. "Ok, everyone here?" he asked. Dom stepped into the GRIEF as well. "Looks like my people made some goods things in the future." he said. "Good thing too."

 

"Impressive..." Star said as she walked into the GREIF as well. She turned to Sean, now having thought of his predicament. "I seem to recall a certain other time that happened. But that was years ago. I think Tommy could tell you more about it when we get back." She gave him a smile to ensure him everything would be fine.

 

Brandon checked the people on board. Everyone was accounted for and the hangar doors opened. "Okay everyone, prepare for launch." he said as the GREIF's jets started to activate and soon the magnetic locking pads started to unlock. "Three...Two...One...Ignition!" The GREIF launched out of the Sigma base at high speed and launched out of the destroyed city. "The portal is about 5 miles from here. Let's hope they don't know the Sigma Rangers don't have The GRIEF." He he began to fly towards the portal's direction.

 

"I just don't get it." said Sean, still pondering on how his powers are not working. "Wait. Let me see if I still can talk to my panther spirit." Sean closes his eyes and speaks in his mind. "Oh, great panther spirit, heed my call!" There was no answer. "Oh my God. My powers. They're not just working, they're gone!" Star was in shock. "But how?" she asked. "I mean, the Panther zord itself is still here. What could have happened?" Sean then turns to the Panther Zord and suddenly it began to fade away. "What? How is this possible?"

 

Meanwhile, in present time, Gargantia sat in his lair pondering on what had occurred in the rangers' absence. Vent tried to back-stab me and use my additional powers against me, but he was gravely mistaken. he began. By time he decided to do this, his powers were already drained. He may have set me back a bit, but its no matter. He is now without powers and is now I don't care where. At least he is out of my sight.

 

He then felt the rangers presence again. Ah, so the rangers are finally back on the grid. he began. Where could they have been? It's no matter, for I have been quite busy. With my latest plan I will end all this run around. Vile, that fool, he had a good idea in trying to steal the gold rangers powers; however, a true master shall show him how its done. I've already stolen whatever powers I need from the navy ranger's, but now, I will rob the Orange Ranger of his powers once and for all. But time is still needed.

 

It is no matter. he began. Perhaps I should give him a call and explain the situation to him fully. I mean, I should give him a chance to keep his powers. After all, I'm not really a bad guy. Gargantia then began to laugh psychotically. I'm the worse kind actually. Then he began to speak in a ghost-like voice. Oh Panther Ranger. Paaaaaannnnnther Rannnnngerrrrrrrr... The voice crept into Sean's head like a piercing headache.

 

Back in the future, Brandon moved the GREIF into the vicinity of the portal. As he looked around, he couldn't see the portal anywhere. He turned on the PA System and continued looking around. "Hey Joe, what does the portal look like and where did it come from?" he asked. "I'm looking at the sky and I can't see it at all." "Try looking for any magnetic changes." replied Joe. "And triangulate it to Star's power signal. Yeah, that sounds good."

 

Just then, the voice of Gargantia began to severely injure Sean's mind. "Get out of my head." he said to himself, feeling the piercing headache more and more. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD DEMON!" Sean begins to bang his head against a wall as Gargantia continues to torture him in his mind, nowhere near stopping at all.

 

So, little panther cub... began Gargantia telepathically. Wondering about you sudden missing powers? Well believe it or not, your spirit isn't the only one who left a mark on the other. I left a mark on your spirit as well. You see, we truly are like the cobra and the mongoose. Two halves in constant struggle, but I've have seniority. And am much smarter and have no restraints. See I've been using the seal your spirit placed on me in reverse. Our spirits are linked so I'm draining mine to drain yours. But since Vent was such a dear and was tricked and since I absorbed that army of strikers from Vile, I have more than enough power to compensate the loss. Here's the deal, your powers will fluctuate from time to time within the next 3 days. And then, you'll lose them forever. Unless...you join me.

 

Caoimhin wasn't paying any attention to what happened to Sean, he was too busy thinking about Deos and how he was going to kill him. I hope he returns soon enough. he thought.

 

Brandon looked around as the GREIF started to deactivate then reactivate a second later. He checked the radar and found the portal's signal in the river side. "There we go." he began. "Now we can go back to your time." He activated the booster jets and moved towards the portal.

 

Sean then stopped banging his head up against one of the walls. I'll never join you! he screamed in his mind at Gargantia. The day I join you is the day everyone betrays me! It doesn't really matter what you do. Gargantia began again. Cause one way or another I'll have your powers. And... He then stopped. The conversation link was broken.

 

Gargantia thought to himself, What is this? I sense an ancient presence lately. Is it...could it be...Auric the Conqueror? But how is he here, unless...hm. Striker, come to me. A striker appeared before him. Go to Triforia and see what you can learn. The striker disappeared.

 

Brandon piloted the GREIF into the portal, but as it made it inside, The GREIF was shaking heavily. The alarm signal was on the main computer signaling major core damage. "Oh no." he began. "This can't be happening. This model was supposed to be built for this kind of travel." He pressed his hands hard on the control trying to stabilize the giant machine. The rickety GREIF then made it through the portal and back to the year, 2010. Dom rolled his eyes. "This is so cliche." he said, looking at the ceiling of the GRIEF.

 

March 17, 2010 ~ Angel Bay

 

Brandon looked at the beautiful city before him. He couldn't believe a city like this was the city that was to be destroyed in the future. "So this is what the city was like before it's destruction." he began. "It's better than I expected." He put the coordinates to the Omega base, or anything that was big enough to hide the giant machine. "Why is it that every vehicle at some point brakes down somehow?" he asked. "All these years I've helped the rangers and this seems to always happen, as well as some other stuff." "Murphy's Law my friend, Murphy's law." said Joe. "If something can go wrong, it usually will." "But every time though." sighed Caoimhin.

 

Brandon landed the GREIF on the river side and deactivated it. He walked out of the cockpit and into the Zord storage station. "Okay then, the ship is landed on the river." Brandon explained. "Joe I need your help with finding your base, if you have one that is." He heard some of the zords screech and shriek. "Wonder what that's about." "Can this thing go under water?" he asked. "I'll have Lio zord lead you down there." The Lio zord jumped out and waited in the water. "Well I better go check on my 'pet' since I haven't seen him in a while." said Caoimhin as he disappeared in a pillar of fire.

 

"AHH!" screamed Sean as he came to his knees. He began to be in so much pain that he can't speak very easily. "What's...happening...to...me? Ah, my arm! It's like...my...panther spirit...is connected...to...my...life force!" As he lowered his head, he raised it, facing at the ceiling. "AHHHHHH!" With that a spark hit his brain, blurring his vision. Sean fell to the ground, unconscious and still shaking.

 

Joe thought to himself, Looks like I couldn't have picked a better time to set this all up. But I still can't let anyone suspect anything. He ran over to Sean and saw he was out cold. He picked him up and carried him into the base.

 

Meanwhile, Gargantia got a report back from his striker. The striker screeched at him in an unrecognizable dialect. Gargantia listened intently. "Ah, so young Joesph traveled to Triforia to unlock the rest of his powers. he began. Interesting. And it would appear that Trey kept with tradition and gave the key of Auric to Joe. But why hasn't he used them? Hm. Gargantia turned and ripped into the thin air with his claws, creating a dimensional viewing hole through time. Replay to me what has transpired in the ranger base with young Joseph.

 

He saw how Joseph was hiding the key from the others, how he secretly used Auric, how he and Auric got into an argument in the Lio zord, and how Joseph is recently intrigued by Sean's loss of power. It would appear that our little gold ranger isn't so golden after all. he began again. Looks like he's getting quite consumed with lust for power. I'll have to keep an eye on this. He could prove most useful to me.

 

Meanwhile back in the base, Joe brought Sean to the medical facility. He placed Sean's body on the table and thought to himself. He remembered Aurics words to him. "You are heading down a dangerous path Joseph." Joe didn't care. It was his choice, and no one could tell him otherwise.

 

Meanwhile, a shout from a distance is heard. "ROYAL RANGER POWER!" yelled Damien as he morphed. He jumped and landed next to the other rangers. "Ion cannons!" He summoned two cannons, ready to blast when needed. A demon materializes before Damien. It is Diabolico. "You realize there's no need for that." he began. "There's no monsters or danger at all. Or are you just trying to show off? And where in the world did you come from? Are you supposed to be another one of these future rangers?"

 

Brandon bashed Damien in the back of his head. "Don't use your powers just for show!" he yelled at Damien. He then looked at Diabolico. "Yes we are from the future. We came to this time to stop whatever caused our future to be a wasteland. You must be Diabolico, correct?" "Yes, I am Diabolico." he began. "I'm sure you must be confused as to why I am here, seeing as that I'm a demon and probably am not remembered too kindly. B

 

Damien takes off his helmet. "Gosh!" he yelled. "Sorry about that. Power down!" Damien powered down. "I'm a future ranger, yeah." He then got a glimpse of Angel Bay of the present. "What...happened to our planet?" But as you already said, the future is at stake. And us demons aren't that different from you humans. You've got your good ones and your bad ones. Well it is an honor to meet both of you. The other rangers are inside the base, come with me." Diabolico put a hand on each of their shoulders and teleported them inside the base.

 

"So this is where the demons of legend live, huh?" Brandon asked. "This is really cool." He looked at the room they were in. "I'm glad that we actually went back in time to do this." "I'm am going to go inform Commander Zedren of your arrival. By the way, should you see another 'remembered villain', Ecliptor, roaming the halls. No worries, he is on our side as well." Diabolico bows and makes his way towards the commander's chamber.

 

Just then a shallow voice spoke from behind them. "So you want a fight huh?" The figure was Ecliptor. "We have a training room down the hall on the left. You're all welcome to test your strength in there. It creates a virtual simulation of our past fights. But I think we should all wait for the commander and see what is happening with Sean." "Ok then." said Damien, thanking Ecliptor. "I've been needing to train for a while. Brandon, what happened to Kai?" He put his helmet back on and began to search for Kai on his morpher. "Ranger: Kai. Location: Missing" Damien growled in anger. "Where is he? And what happened to this Sean? May I see him?"

 

Meanwhile, Sean was still in the medical facility, unconscious, and looking like he's in a dream that he can't get out. In Sean's mind was like an alternate dimension where his thoughts and nightmares are coming to life, in a way of speaking.

 

As everyone was in the medical bay, Tommy and Katherine walked out of one of the adjacent rooms. Katherine was helping Tommy, while he was clutching his side. He had a slight look of discomfort on his face. He then noticed the others. "Hey guys." she began. "Welcome back. Where were you?" He then noticed Sean on one of the beds. "And what happened to Sean?"

 

Brandon looked at Tommy and Katherine. "First thing that happened was that he couldn't morph. Then as we were coming back to this time, he fainted. I don't think thats an effect of time travel." He then noticed Tommy clutching his side. "But what happened to you?" "Whoa!" said Tommy. "That's weird. Zedren will probably be able to figure this out. As far as me...AHHH!!" He then clutched his heart and sat down on one of the near chairs.

 

Katherine helped him and then answered, "To be quite honest, we actually don't what's wrong with Tommy. These strange pains started all of a sudden. They sort of come and go, yet we can't identify a source for them yet. He appears perfectly healthy, but yet, he still has the inexplicable sharp pains." Tommy then looked up at Joe and tried to smile. "Seems like I haven't been right ever since I got back from Triforia with you." he said.

 

Brandon looked at Tommy and remembered those signs. "I know what that is!" he began. "Tommy looks fine but he has a virus in his body. It's a really dangerous virus if it isn't treated. We have to give him anti-viral medicine." He then began to go to the medicine cabinet looking for anything he could use. "This feels like no virus I've ever had." said Tommy. "You sure?"

 

Just then the door opened, and the Commander stepped in. He walked over towards Tommy. "Still got the pains?" Zedren asked. "Yeah." replied Tommy. "We were just talking about it." "Well, since we can't do anything physically wrong, I called in a favor to see if there's anything spiritually wrong." Tommy laughed. "I still can't get use to the fact that Zed and Rita are helping us. Sorry." "No problem. It's still a little weird for us too. But you're right. I called my wife and she's gonna see what she can do." He then noticed Sean.

 

"Sean on the other hand, well, that's where things get complicated." he began. "Apparently, Gargantia is robbing Sean of his powers. Both the orange panther spirit and Gargantia are linked. So by weakening himself, Gargantia is draining Sean of his powers. And Gargantia has drained an immense amount of other strength, so once Sean hits rock bottom, Gargantia will still have enough strength to be a very serious threat. But it doesn't end there. Remember that Flayer monster? Well it placed a curse on Sean, and as far as we can tell, one of those effects is making the his spirit energy like a Mist-of-Life effect."

 

"A what?" asked Joe. "Meaning that Sean's aura becomes more apparent. This usually has absolutely no effect; however, if you are controlling someone's spirit, which the Flayer does, or drain it, like Gargantia's doing, it allows the possessor to literally 'breath in' that spirit. Meaning, that once Sean is drained of his powers, Gargantia will then absorb Sean's powers, thus reclaiming any powers he may have lost trying to drain Sean. It's not exactly the desired effect the Flayer had, but Gargantia is of course using it to his advantage. I hope I didn't lose anyone. This all makes some sense right?" Dom sighed impatiently. He eyed both Joe, and the new rookie. He shrugged slightly at himself and walked to his room, deep in thought.

 

Meanwhile, in Sean's dreams, he is in some kind of illusion. It appears that he is in an unknown desert. There are answers that Sean needs, but he will have to wait. "Where am I?" he asked to himself, looking at his surroundings.

 

Back at the base, Joe noticed Dom staring at him before he left. He thought to himself, Hmph. That was strange. Does Dom know? This could prove to be a problem. I better deal with all this soon.

 

Meanwhile Zedren continued to talk, "Sean will continue to lose his powers and remain in the coma state, unless..." He stopped and thought of something. "It may be possible to bring Sean back with his powers, but first he'll have to wake up out of his coma on his own accord. When he does, he will be able to use his ranger powers again; however, he will burn through them, like a fire burns through air in a concealed case. He will eventually snuff himself out. When Sean wakes up he'll have about 2 more fights left in him. Probably less depending on how much energy he uses. Then Gargantia will drain him of his powers. We'll see what Sean thinks when he wakes up. But for now..." He turns to Ecliptor. "Ecliptor, gather any information we had concerning plan Emerald Awakening." "Yes sir." said Ecliptor as he then leaves.

 

"So then if he wakes up, he would only have about a couple of fights left, then he officially loses his ranger abilities?" he asked. "That's kinda weird since he was fine when he was at our...oh no! I need to find Joe!" He then ran out of the medical room.

 

Dominic actually didn't go to his room. Instead, he went outside. He ran towards a forest and made his way deep into the core. He slowed down as he neared a large field. He jumped upwards and landed on a large rock. "Now to wait..." he told himself. Brandon ran down the forest and noticed Dom. "If Dom's here, then Joe must be close." he said as he continued running down the forest. He has to know what happened. he thought. If he doesn't, it could be catastrophic.

 

To Be Continued...

 

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Time for the season finale's first half. Just to let you know, Season 2 will be an RP. So be sure to check in for more info. When it's up, I'll show the link in the first post. Enjoy! Hope to see you all viewing the RP!

 

[spoiler=[b]Episode 15: The Emerald Awakening(Part 1){First Half}[/b]]

Joe walked outside towards the forest. He came into a large open area and called out, "Come on out Wolfy! I know you're here. Or do I have to throw a Frisbee to get your attention?" "Yea, just throw your head this way." said Dominic. "I'll be sure to catch it." Dom continued to sit on his rock. Joe turned around and saw Dom sitting on a large rock. "I take it that you know something about me the others don't. How did that happen?" "My demigod specialty is in souls after all. I can tell." He then hopped down to a lower area of the rock. "Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about that. So I guess you peered into my soul like Auric did. Well, he's not complaining much anymore after I took care of him. And pretty soon neither will you. Now, there's just one thing left to do." Joe didn't even say the words, he just morphed automatically, with the Genesis Blade already in hand.

 

"You may have the powers of a demon demigod, but I have the Key of Auric and the Genesis Blade, and not to mention my fully awakened Gold Ranger powers." he began. "I think that should even the playing field a bit." He took a fighter's stance. "Let's make this a good show."

 

"Well then sorry Joe, it's been a good run." said Dom as he snapped his finger, and a blade appeared in his hand. It was a two-hander, but he wielded it in one hand. "Unfortunately, I can't fight fairly with you since you have that." He then began to motion to the Genesis Blade. He lifted the blade up with his right hand, making it point to Joe. The blade was right above Dom. "Rather ironic don't you think?" he asked. "It kinda all comes full circle. First you and I are enemies, then friends, now back to enemies. I wonder where the circle ends? And as far as you not fighting fair, that's fine. You really expect me to?" "Very well then, make a move." he replied, bringing his hand out in a forward motion.

 

Joe gripped the blade and blasted a wave of energy at Dom. Dom ruffed and brought his blade down, blocking the blast. Some energy went around it and got him. "Not bad I suppose." he said as he then dashed towards Joe, swinging his blade around. Joe tried to dodge the attack, but Dom was faster than he thought and the blade slashed his back. Joe rolled along the ground and got up immediately. "Hmph. Not bad yourself. Too bad it had to come to this." Joe then ran directly at Dom, but at the last second jumped over him and tried to roundhouse kick him. Dominic tired to block, but failed. He was shot back with the kick and got back up. He slashed the sword into the ground, causing a wave of energy to ripple towards Joe.

 

Joe was thrown off balance due to the shaking ground and the ground erupted beneath him, sending him flying backwards. Joe was passing a tree, so he grabbed on a branch with one of his hands, flipped around the branch and landed on top. Joe then used the tree as a spring board, launched himself at Dom and tried to tackle him. Dominic ducked quickly and got back up. He had no time for a counter attack, however. Joe missed Dom badly and tried to quickly get in an attack, but he lost his balance from he force of the dive. Dom swung his blade once more, barely missing Joe's head.

 

Brandon ran down the forest and noticed Joe and Dom in a fight. He thought if he should rather join the fight or wait until Joe was done to tell him what happened. He shrugged and started watching the fight.

 

March 17, 2010 ~ Sean's Dreams ~ Lightning Desert

 

Sean looks around and sees he's in the middle of a vicious lightning storm. "Sean?" said a spooky voice from a distance. He turned his head and noticed a warrior in yellow armor. What he didn't know was that it was the Jungle Fury Yellow Ranger. "You have disappointed me and the powers of the felines. Now you must pay!" She took her fighting stance. Sean got ready to morph. But then..."My morpher, it's gone!" he yells in shock as he puts his head back up and saw the yellow warrior charging at him. She began to do a jump kick and Sean blocks it by crossing his arms. He was still pushed back though.

 

Back in the base, Ecliptor and Zedren spoke quietly. "Commander, I managed to find all our old files on Emerald Awakening." he told Zedren. "Well, how long will it take to get everything back together?" Zedren asked. "Well, if we're starting from scratch, possibly a day or two, but it could be much shorter if we have something to work with." Zedren turned to the other rangers and said, "We'll take things from here. You should all go get some rest. And acclimate yourselves to our time again. This especially goes for you future rangers."

 

"Morpher or not, I will not lose!" yelled Sean back in his dreams. The yellow warrior began to do another spinning jump kick, but Sean counters it and concentrates his energy. "Panther Punch!" Sean knocked the yellow warrior into one of the thunder clouds, the thunder shocks her and she falls to the ground. Very weakly, she said, "You are a powerful warrior, but your next challenge won't be so easy!" The yellow warrior then disappeared into yellow smoke. "Wait!" yelled Sean as she disappeared. "What are you talking about?" he asked himself. Sean was very confused. "What is going on here?"

 

Meanwhile, in the real world, Gargantia was still draining Sean's powers when he spied the fight between Joe and Dom. What's this? he asked himself. So it looks like my notions were certainly true. It looks like golden boy isn't so golden. But then again, it was Dom who was evil in the first place. Oh, how the tables turn! I'll keep watch on this in the meantime. I might just have to pay Joe a visit after this.

 

Meanwhile, in Vile's lair, he was still fuming over these Deuteros monsters. "Those annoyances are truly getting on my last nerve!" he began. "They are just as bad as those power brats. Speaking of which, I haven't checked up on them in a while." He opens a viewing portal and spies Joe and Dom fighting. "What in the world is this? Now this is truly interesting." He sits down in his thrown and watches the portal. He conjures up a bucket of foul looking slimy things and black cup of some equally foul liquid and begins to eat and drink as he watches the fight. "This could be my equivalent of what the earthlings call a sports game or something. I mean, the Lakers vs Magic was okay, but this is a real entertainment for me." He continued to watch and start to cheer at various points and start to root for different sides.

 

Kai woke up, and walked around the base, just looking for a quiet spot for himself. I need a nap... he thought, yawning from the long sleep he had.

 

Back in Sean's dreams, it appears that he now was in Aquitar. He was underwater in some sort of headquarters and then heard another voice. "Welcome, Panther Ranger." He turned and saw a warrior, just like the yellow warrior but very different. This one was blue. It turns out that it was the Jungle Fury Blue Ranger. The blue warrior took his stance. So did Sean.

 

The blue warrior charged at Sean and when he was about to attack, the area somehow changed. He was right next to a diving station. He looked to his right and saw the giant diving tank. He turned back to the blue warrior and he noticed he was gone. The blue warrior then appeared behind Sean. He had turned around, and got knocked into the water. The blue warrior jumped in the water as well. The two began to communicate telepathically.

 

"Give up! You have no chance of defeating me." "There is one thing I learned about being a ranger. And that is to never surrender to any evil no matter how powerful they are. I will NEVER give up!!" The blue warrior tried to punch Sean, but Sean stopped the attack and kicked the blue warrior out of the water. Sean jumped out of the water and looked down at the blue warrior. "Tell me what's going on!" he yelled. "The blue warrior looked up to Sean. "You shall find out soon enough. Other than that, your final challenge will not be so easy. HA HA HA!!!" The blue warrior then dissolved into the floor. "What?"

 

Back in real life, Brandon watched the fight between Joe and Dom. He instantly got bored and took out his morpher. He looked at Joe and got up from his spot. "Hey Joe, can I join this fight?" he asked as he spun his morpher on the palm of his hand.

 

Caoimhin was back at his island, in the cave he and Joseph fought in, he was seeing how Cerberus was. "I can't believe after all these years, I've finally found the ones responsible for kidnapping the citizens of the city!" he yelled. Cerberus growled in response. "I know, I just wish I was able to fight Deos again." sighed Caoimhin.

 

Joe was still battling Dom. They were exchanging blow for blow. In the middle of the fight, Joe blocked Dom, then threw him to the ground, turned to Brandon and yelled, "You pose no threat. So stay out of this! But if you really want, I'll take care of you later." Joe then got sneak attacked by Dom and got knocked down. The fight continued.

 

Just then, Sean then fell through a hole from out of nowhere. He then lands in what looks like the island of Felencia burning. "What happened here." Then suddenly, a pair of nunchaku appeared on the floor. Sean picked it up. "What's going on here?" Just then another warrior in red tried to kick Sean, but he dodged with uneasy timing. It was now the red Jungle Fury Ranger. "Impressive." said the warrior. "Who are you?" asked Sean. "Mind your business and fight!" The two then prepared a stance.

 

Dom grunted and jumped up, slashing at Joe. "Stay out of this Brandon!" he yelled. Joe was hit hard and fell backwards. He slightly got up. "Nice, but don't forget Dom, we're not fighting fair." said Joe. he then stood up. "Golden Radiance!!!!!!" The bright light didn't injure Dom as it usually would; however, Joe used the momentary blinding light to roundhouse kick Dom in the neck hard. Dom took the hit and backed up. "Ah!" He quickly countered with another sword slash.

 

Dom's blade might have not been as powerful as the Genesis blade, but the way Dom could wield it make both equal. Joe then tried to hit Dom with his blade, and Dom tried the same. When the blades collided they made such a powerful energy explosion that Dom, Joe, and Brandon were blasted backwards. The rubble was even felt throughout the city. When the dust settled Caoimhin appeared in the epicenter of the blast. "ENOUGH OF THIS!!!" he exclaimed with high annoyance. "YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A PAIR OF LITTLE KIDS!!!"

 

Dominic quickly regained his footing. "ALL OF YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!" yelled Dom. Another round of energy blasted out from Dom, shooting everyone backwards. His eyes were glowing a fierce darkness, but he calmed down. "Forget it. If you guys want to get caught up with this, at least do it on your own time." He clashed blades with Joe once more. "That's right." said Joe. "This is between me and Dom. I'll deal with you later old man!"

 

Meanwhile as Vile was watching he noticed Caoimhin appear. "Oh no, not that guy again." he began. "He ruined my chances of getting the blade! He's not gonna get in the way of me watching 2 of the biggest pains in my side kill each other. I would send Valon, but his new training is almost over, better not interrupt it. I have a better idea. Blast from the past, literally." Vile summoned another dark portal. This time over in downtown Angel Bay. Just then 4 entities dropped out. A loud howl was heard throughout the city. Joe recognized it immediately, but he was focused on the task at hand.

 

WolfBane howled. "Where are we?" he asked. "The last thing I remember is getting beaten by the Golden dude. That's the second time I've had to say that in my lives." He howled again. "Cut it out." said Jaws of Destruction. "You sound like you have nail in your paw." "Although I do have to admit, This is peculiar." said Vampyris. "Hey guys chill out." said Piranhishead. "All that matters is we're back."

 

Vile then spoke to them. "You're much better than that. You are in this dimension, but are even more resilient that you were in the dark dimension. Now then, go forth and do damage. Lead the rangers into battle. They can't intervene in the fight between Dom and Joe." "Wait, isn't that the guy who we fought in the dark dimension?" asked WolfBane. "Why cant we beat him?" Vile then hit him with an energy blast from thin air. "OW! Yeah, OK. You the boss." The monsters then started causing a huge commotion. There were multiple explosions in the entire city. Vile then looked at all this. "I need a bit more." He made 2 more spirits emerge from the Dark Dimension. It was Gigant-Axe and Ranchor. They joined in on the destruction. Vile sat back in his chair and watched all that was occurring. "I'm gonna need a bigger screen. Perhaps I should look into this HD thing."

 

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Jaws of Destruction/WolfBane/Vampyris

 

Pirhanishead/Gigant-Axe/Ranchor[/align]

 

"You kids and your...STUPID...PETTY..FIGHTS!!!" Caoimhin yelled as he morphed into the Hades Ranger. "If you can't grow up from resorting to such actions then THIS OLD MAN is gonna teach you two a lesson!" Caoimhin raced at Joseph and Dom and did an upwards slash, as is sword formed in his right hand, in between the two clashing blades causing the blades to rise into the air. He quickly reacted by punching Dom in the chest quickly followed by a roundhouse at Joseph's neck.

 

Joe clashed blades with Caoimhin and said, "You're gonna ruin everything. Stay out of this. Why don't you go check out what ever is making all those explosions. Golden Radiance!!!!" The bright light blinded Caoimhin and Joe kicked him backwards. Joe then ran to continue the fight with Dom. "Fine, I'll let you continue your pathetic fight." said Caoimhin as he opened a portal to the city as he had already sensed other beings appear and walked through it an entered the city. "Now who to fight first..." Caoimhin said to himself.

 

Brandon ran to Caoimhin as he spun the morpher in his hand. "I'll take on Gigant-Axe." he told Caoimhin. "I'll try to take him down by myself if I can." He ran towards Gigant-Axe. "Here we go!" A sapphire glow surrounded him as he turned into his ranger form. "Looks like I'm your opponent for the time being." "Fine then so, who will be my opponent then?" Caoimhin asked the other five.

 

"Ah!" yelled Gigant-Axe. "Me no recognize you. You new ranger. Me no like change. Gigant-Axe crush you." He then stood over Brandon. Gigant-Axe was about 8 feet tall. He swung his giant ax and tried to crush Brandon with it. As Caoimhin was pondering who to fight a snake-like creepy voice was heard. "If you need someone to fight, I'll be of service." said Vampyris. "I'll deal with you just like I dealt with Ninjor years ago. Guardians are sort of my specialty." Vampyris then threw up his arms and a strange fabric-like cloth came from underneath Caoimhin and enveloped.

 

Caoimhin just smirked at Vampyris. "Seriously is that all you've got?" he asked as he engulfed his body in flames which made the fabric catch fire and burnt them to ciders, freeing himself. Caoimhin raised his sword ready for the next attack.

 

Dom continued to slice, until they both got to a stalemate. Both of them couldn't break the clash. "So, this is how it really ends?" he asked. "Two good friends fight each other to the death? Then again death comes easy for me." Joe then got up. "Yeah, as far as dying goes, you're beating me 2 to 0." he told Dom. "Allow me to make it a fair 3." Both were exhausted. Would the fight calm down, or only just get worse?

 

Brandon back-flipped out of the way of the attack, barely escaping the slash. "Whoa!" he yelled. "How did I see that coming? Anyway. Let's see what you've got." He charged at Gigant-Axe and butterfly kicked him in the head. It was the only attack he could think of at a time like this. Gigant-Axe missed Brandon so badly that he got his axe stuck in the ground, as he usually did. When Brandon kicked him in the face, Gigant-Axe was surprised and fell backwards with a thud. The ground shook with his fall. Gigant-Axe then got back up. Vampyris also suffered of the fire damage and got angry. He then blasted a barrage of energy blasts at Caoimhin.

 

Caoimhin was hit by a large amount of those lasers but was still easily able to stood up. He then summoned his rifle and fired multiple streams of lasers at Vampyris knocking to the ground. Vampyris quickly recovered and drawn his sword. Caoimhin drawn his Falcata as well as his rifle and took a stance waiting for Vampyris to make the first move. "I learned many new tricks in the Dark Dimension." said Vampyris. "Allow me to show you." Vampyris ran towards Caoimhin with a oddly shaped blade in one hand and his other hand concealed beneath his sleeve.

 

"This is awesome." said Brandon. "No wonder why I chose doing this job." He then charged at Gigant-Axe again. He jumped into the air and roundhouse kicked him right in the neck. Gigant-Axe's neck was really hard and even hurt Brandon's leg. "Ow. Never do that again." "AH!!" yelled Gigant-Axe. "Puny Ranger move too fast. Make Gigant-Axe dizzy. Me try different approach." Gigant axe started glowing red and then impaled his axe purposely in the ground, causing massive plumes of fire to burst from the ground.

 

Brandon jumped on to some street poles one by one and was constantly jumping on them at a fast pace. "Can you catch me?" he asked as he sped up the jumping enough to make a sapphire blur around Gigant-Axe. "Can you catch me?" He jumped towards Gigant-Axe and headbutted him in the stomach. "Didn't think so."

 

"Show me these new tricks then." Caoimhin shouted as he fired his rifle at Vampyris, sending a barrage of fire bullets at him. The blasts hit Vampyris dead on; however, only his cloak was left there. It was empty. Just then the real Vampyris slammed Caoimhin from behind. As Caoimhin stumbled forward the remaining cloak on the ground again wrapped itself around Caoimhin holding him still as Vampyris charged him and hit him with a flurry of sword attacks. Caoimhin appeared behind Vampyris, creating an illusion. "Nothing special if you ask me." he mocked as he raised his Falcata and sliced Vampyris across the back. Vampyris was hit hard. "How did you do that?" he asked. "I thought I was the one with illusion tricks?"

 

Meanwhile Gigant-Axe got up and tried to grab Brandon, but he was too slow and missed. Brandon stopped his attack and was really dizzy. "Whoa." he began. "What a rush." He then noticed that he saw 3 Gigant-Axes. He ran to the one on the right and kicked it, but it was only an illusion of him being dizzy. "That wasn't him?"

 

"My stuff is more actual magic compared to your cheap illusions." said Caoimhin as he lowered his rifle till the barrel was pointing at Vampyris' head "Any last words?" "Well I still have 1 illusion left." said Vampyris. "Let's go to my world shall we?" Caoimhin and Vampyris were encased in a strange energy bubble and their surroundings changed. The sky was red and there were mountains everywhere. "You may be stronger than me, but are you stronger than...US!?" Just then 7 Vampyris copies appeared. "Which of us is real and which is fake?"

 

Meanwhile Gigant-Axe used this opportunity on Brandon and threw him into a building. Brandon smashed through the glass and into some store displays in the clothing store he slammed into.

 

"Lets make it a little more fair then." Caoimhin replied then suddenly two copies of him appeared from behind him, each person only have one Cerberus head on their chest armor; one held the Falcata, another the rifle and the other had no weapons but the rings around his arms seemed a little bigger in size. "Who's gonna make the first move then?" All three of them said in unison, all three in a unique stance each. Brandon got out of the building as he held his right arm. "So you have the muscle to back up that small brain of yours, huh?" he asked as he started running around Gigant-Axe at high speed, which soon became a large sapphire ring surrounding Gigant-Axe. "Well I have the power of speed." He roundhouse kicked Gigant-Axe in the face and ran back into the ring. "Catch me if you can!"

 

Sean was on the ground. The red warrior prepared to punch Sean. But before he does, the red warrior says, "Give up! You have no chance against me!" "That's the one thing I'll never do!" he yells with confidence. "Good." The red warrior picks up Sean. "You passed the test." "Test? What test?" Just then, the fire dims down and the blue and yellow warriors walk up to the two. "This was the test to prove that you could keep going on with or without your powers." "And since you passed it, you now understand the value of life." The 3 warriors then opened their fists and it shows the 3 separate pieces of his morpher. "Go now, Panther Ranger." Sean nodded as the screen turned white and went back to Sean in the medical room. Sean finally wakes up after all of the trouble he went through in his dreams.

 

Zedren saw that Sean woke up. "Sean, Sean, are you okay?" he asked as he walked up to him. "I hate to rush you but Ecliptor, Diabolico and I as well as many of the past rangers have come up with something. But we need you. It's called Project Emerald Awakening. It will restore your powers and more, but your morpher will have to be in working order so we have something to work with." Sean yawns and gets off of the bed. "Okay, what do you want me to do?" he asked. "I'll explain on the way, but it'll solve everything. We have to hurry. Time's running out. Joe's gone rogue and he and Dom are fighting to the death while Brandon and Caoimhin are fighting Gigant-Axe and Ranchor and 4 other monsters that Tommy and the past ranger fought. Things can't get much worse."

 

Meanwhile, in the park as Dom and Joe continued their fight they were absolutely exhausted and could barely stand. Their immediate surroundings as well as much of the park was battle scarred. The were massive craters and shattered trees. "Dom, what do you say we finish this?" he asked. Joe pointed his Genesis Blade towards the sky. ""Liopleurodon Zord: Collosus Megazord!!!" "My pleasure!" He pointed his sword to the air. "Kraken do my bidding! Come forth!" The ground shook as familiar tentacles flung lashed at everything around Dom. The Kraken head rose from the ground, and Dom pointed his blade at Joe. "Let's end this then!"

 

"Ready, set, go!!!" one of the 3 Caoimhins quickly shouted and the one with the rifle began firing a hailstorm of bullets at the 7 Vampyris as the other two ran towards then running between the bullets. The one with the Falcata was slashing about at the enemy when he reached them while the last Caoimhin was using he martial arts skill with the percussion force of the rings to help fight and defend himself. Soon they were all fighting a furious battle, each one of them combating with at least two Vampyris.

 

Back at the base, Ecliptor came running in and said, "Commander, Joe just summoned the Collosus Megazord." Zedren made a facepalm. "Why do things always get worse?" he asked himself, annoyed. "Sean, we have to hurry!"

 

The 10 of them was still continuing to fight, none of them was giving in until the Vampyris' managed to knock down all three of the Caoimhins down to the floor. "Dang it!" he yelled. "I need to sort the fight out quick!" The three of them stood up again and began to scan all of the Vampyris, trying to spot the odd one out of the group as he would be the original.

 

Brandon had to finish this fight as best as he can. He ran towards Gigant-Axe and had a blue blur behind him. "Take this!" he yelled as he punched Gigant-Axe in the chest which seemed weak at first, until the force from the high speed kicked it, making the punch harder than the first. He back-flipped away from Gigant-Axe and shook his hand in pain. "I don't think he's finished after that."

 

The Ragnarok Megazord appeared from behind the Kraken, and Dom jumped into it's center, a portal appearing. "I hope you don't mind." he told Joe. "My megazord is a bit old school." He swung his guillotine around his head, waiting for Joe to make a move. The Nidhog armor shone more brighter than Joe's ranger form, and the spiked helmet gave it an odd viking appearance.

 

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Ragnarok Megazord[/align]

 

Meanwhile, Gigant-Axe was actually hit hard in the ribs and with his rib shattered he couldn't pick up his axe any longer. Of the 7 Vampyris, Caoimhin's noticed that one of them had designs on its cloak opposite from the others, such as a crescent moon on the right instead of the left.

 

The Collosus Megazord drew it's two Collosus blades and charged at Ragnarok Megazord. It dived and rolled along the ground to avoid the guillotine and tried to slash at its legs. The Ragnarok Megazord managed to swing the guillotine at the Lio, hoping to slash it across the chest.

 

That's the one! Caoimhin thought to himself. The three of him soon rushed at him. The one with no weapons punched him in the chest and the rings clashed at his wrists causing a percussion force so strong he was punched in the air. The rifle wielder ran underneath the true Vampyris while the Falcata fighter jumped up high in the air and dropped down impaling the Vampyris in the chest. At the same time the rifle was building up power and fire a pillar of energy underneath Vampyris. Vampyris was completely obliterated as he was force down into the beam of energy coming at him. The three Caoimhin returned to being one as the surroundings turned back to normal.

 

Brandon smirked. He knew just what to do as a final move. Out of the back of his weapons pouch, he took out a blue spray can and started shaking it. "This is it." he told himself as he ran at Gigant-Axe and sprayed him with the spray paint on his chest until he had a blue target on the middle of his chest. Brandon jumped back and ran back at Gigant-Axe at high speed. He punched him dead in the target spot, this time all the force was at him at the same time. "It's over." Gigant-Axe had a hole punched through his chest and he then fell backwards and exploded. Brandon watched as Gigant-Axe exploded. "Good riddance." He ran deeper into the city and noticed Jaws of Destruction. "There you are." he said as he took a rock from the floor and threw it at the monster's head, averting his vision to the now empty spot.

 

The Collosus megazord took a heavy hit on the chest but then drove its blades into the Ragnarok megazord's left shoulder and torn a massive hole, making the arm unstable. The Nidhog's head separated with the arm, making a snake like robot. It curled around the back of the Ragnarok and opened it's mouth, firing golden beams at the Colossus Megazord. "Interesting what my zord can do huh?" he asked sarcastically. The Collosus zord took another fierce blast. It crossed its sabers and reflected what was left of the blast back at the Ragnarok zord and doing heavy damage as well; however, both Collosus blades shattered from the immense energy.

 

The rock bounced off his head effortlessly. "So, a little hard headed I see?" Jaws Of Destruction asked sarcastically. "No worry, I'll cut you down to size." The Jaws of Destruction threw a barrage of razor blades at him. Brandon jumped out of the way. "Your so quick to go into battle, Jaws." said Brandon. "Let's go then, shall we?" He charged at Jaws and picked his side. His tough hide was going to be a problem for fighting a long-term battle. "Gotta watch out for that."

 

Dom grunted and his zord stepped forward. He swung his guillotine around his head, throwing it at the Lio. The ends of the guillotine crashed forward, stabbing itself into the Lio. The mouth on the chest of the Ragnarok opened up, and a sphere of energy appeared, gaining size. The Colossus grabbed the chain attached to the Guillotine, dragged the Ragnarok megazord towards him, the grabbed its mouth and held it shut causing the energy to explode within the megazord. The Collosus megazord also took heavy damage and both Dom and Joe fell from their zords, but only Joe managed to get up.

 

Brandon looked around the area, looking anything he could use. He noticed next to a toy store, there was a paintball gun. "Well its my only shot." he said to himself as he ran over to the toy and grabbed it. "Lets hope this is good enough." He aimed it a Jaws of Destruction and started shooting at him. "I don't think they did anything." The Jaws weren't effected by the paintball. "Do you have any real fire power?" he asked. He then jumped at Brandon and turned his legs into buzz saws and slashed into Brandon.

 

Pirhanishead blew some blueish mist at the 2 Hades Ranger clones and they were frozen solid, but not in ice, more like in a weird stasis lock. "Well Ranger, it looks like you've been left out in the cold." he said in terms of a pun. WolfBane then stampeded and rammed hard into the remaining Caoimhin.

 

Meanwhile, Joe got up and saw Dom on his back, demorphed, and severely wounded. Joe demorphed as well, and could barely see straight. His clothes were ripped and his key of Auric showed. He then heard clapping. Very well done Gold Ranger. said the voice. Nice to see your true colors come out. Joe got up and saw a figure standing before him. It was Gargantia. I don't believe we've had the honor of meeting yet. I'm Gargantia. "So...you're Gargantia." said Joe. "Nice to finally meet you." You've certainly got a deceptive mind; hiding Auric from the others and then getting even more power and such; and now with Dom out of the way only that Caoimhin stands in your way. But if you killed a demon, you can kill him as well, with some help from me. "Why thank you, but don't be so modest. You used Sean's own idol against him; and you can drain his powers from it now."

 

Gargantia then holds up his hand and Sean's idol appears. Of course. he began. In fact hold on... Then the idol began to glow orange. At last, all his powers are gone. And I don't sense Sean anymore either. Hm. I guess he's still in a powerless-induced coma. Anyway, would you like to join me? You obviously don't need anymore power, but we would be a much better team than those pathetic rangers. What do you say?

 

"It'd be an honor; but I think I'll take over solo." he told Gargantia. "I turned down Vile before, so what makes you think I'd join a half whit like you? At least Vile had skin and the guts to make his own monsters." A sharp tongue I see. You are making a mistake. It'd be better for us to be an evil duo. "Hmph. You said it yourself, I don't need anymore power. With Auric, i don't need you or anyone. I'll get rid of the ranger and destroy you, Deos, and Vile, unless, maybe, I'll have you guys as servants and you serve me." What if I were to attack your little girlfriend Izabel? "So? I couldn't care less anymore." You fool, give me that key! Gargantia rushed Joseph and slammed him into the ground and then ripped into his shirt causing a massive scar and then Gargantia grabbed the key. Joe was on the ground and could barely move, he was still sore from his battle with Dom.

 

Brandon back-flipped away from the attack, but his arm was still hit by the buzz-saw. "Ah!" he yelled. "Well that didn't work." He looked at his spray can bottle and then at Jaws of Destruction. He threw the spray can at one of the monster's spikes. The contents of the can sprayed in the monster's face. "There we go." He ran towards the monster and punched him hard in the face, the spikes on his arm also scratching into Jaws of Destruction's face. Jaws stumbled back and couldn't see a thing. He tried to clear his eyes, but he couldn't sine his fingers were claws and he was scratching his eyes and making it worse.

 

Meanwhile, Gargantia held up the key of Auric and said, Great and powerful Auric, I summon thee! There was a blinding gold light and Auric appeared. "Who asks for Auric the Conqueror?" asks Auric in a booming voice. "Speak your name and purpose. Wait, I know you. You are Gargantia, enemy of all that is good. What purpose do you have? You are not worthy to hold my key." Well neither is he. He points to Joe on the ground. "Ah yes, young Joseph. A very tricky and manipulative person it appears." You know? "Of course. Why do you think I never answered his calls anymore? I peered into his soul and saw his true objective. And I refused to be with him for that end." Yes! You see, I heard he was trying to overthrow the ranger and use you for evil. Thus why i intervened and stole the key back. Sadly, I was too late. He already killed one of the rangers. And drained the orange ranger, guardian of Zordon and his powers. I stole this idol from him before he could absorb it. I am trying to make up for some of my past deeds. I hope you can accept this.

 

"Don't listen to him Auric." said Joe weakly. Auric then electrocuted him with energy. "AHHHHHH!!!" "Silence you!" yelled Auric with his booming voice. "i know what you wanted from day one. I warned you that there were repercussions and that you were heading down a dangerous path. And you have arrived. You get what you deserve." He turns to Gargantia, "I thank you for not killing him. He violated the Rules and it is my right to even this." Thats why I left him. said Gargantia.

 

Joe tried to say something but Auric shocked him again. "This is what I warned you of young Joseph." he continued. "Auric raised his blade. It glowed bright gold and he then impaled Joseph with it. It went straight through him. Joseph was motionless. "There, it is done." Just then Dom started to slightly move and then Gargantia shouted, He's waking up. But his demon form is taking over. He has the evil demon spirit of Fenrir in him. "Fenrir! Demon! Oh my. Not on my watch." He then walked over to Dom and then impaled him with the Golden Blade. Now Dom was motionless.

 

Caoimhin slowly got up after getting knocked down by his clones. "I guess it's a two on one fight then." he said to the two. The clones dissolved to nothingness and two heads appeared on Caoimhin's chest armor with him wielding both the sword and the rifle and charged at the two of them firing his rifle in the process.

 

Thank you great Auric. said Gargantia. "Well my job isn't done yet." said Auric. "I think you should keep the panther idol safe in your possession." Really!? "Nope." Auric then blasted Gargantia with a massive blast and he flew back. What was that? Why would you do that? I hold your key so you serve me. How about I break this key and keep you locked away forever? Just then two familiar voices were heard. "Please, allow us." said the two. Just then an energy blade of black and gold energy sliced into Gargantia, throwing him back again. When he got up he saw the culprits. It was Joseph and Dominic, both fully morphed with their powers restored. What is this??? "A trick of course." said Joe. "You said it yourself, I have a tricky mind. Little did you know you were the one I was tricking." "Aren't Auric quite the actor? And instead of killing them, my gold blade restored them and their zords to full power and health. All what you just witness, was staged, and you Gargantia, were your own part in our grand scheme."

 

But what about the discussion you and Auric had undersea in the Lio, or why Auric never called, or why you and Dominic fought? Gargantia asked. "Well when I got back from Triforia, I figured one of you guys would be watching, so I hid it. And Zedren said one of you would do something big, so I figured if you thought I went bad, I'd have an ace up my sleeve and I could do that." He points to the panther idol and Gargantia realized it was smashed. "And Dom could peer into my soul as well, and he decided to help make it more believable."

 

No! he yells. Now I cant drain the power. You fools. Oh well at least Sean is gone and powerless. He then looked and noticed Auric's key was broken too. Ha! Auric will now be sealed away forever! Nothing happened. Joe looked at Auric, Auric at Joe, then at Dom. Auric pretended to quake. "Oh no, what should I do?" he asked sarcastically. He then laughed. "You bony fool. You really think that was the real key? It was a copy. The real key protects whoever holds the key." Then who has the key? "I think that's my cue." said a tall beautiful brunette girl, stepping out from behind a tree. It was Joe's girlfriend Izabel. But how? Why? Whats going on?

 

"Joseph knew that Izabel could be used against him like Vile originally tried, so he told Iza everything and gave her the key." he explained. "And yes even though he broke a few of the cardinal rules of being a ranger, the end here justifies the means." I don't believe you. Strikers attack! A group of strikers appeared and attacked Iza, but when they tried to grab her, they were vaporized by a golden light. "Key of Auric protects the holder from all, remember?" asked Joe. I don't care. I'll take all you on! "Well, as much as Auric, Dom and me would love to rip you to shreds, we're not your biggest problem." So then who is? "I am!" said a voice from a distance.

 

The figure was walking up the hill behind Gargantia and revealed himself. It was Sean, unmorphed, and with a strange reactor attached to his heart. What????!!!! Gargantia exclaimed in annoyance. But how??? I drained all your powers. Where did you get these from? How is this happening??? "There were times when I didn't understand what's going on. When I was in that coma, I was introduced to 3 warriors that resemble the spirits of the cheetah, jaguar, and tiger. The 3 tested me a to show that I could handle my powers. As soon as I woke up, Zedren took me to a deep part of the base. He showed me a special emerald that attached to a reactor belt and placed it against my heart. And now that I see the hidden powers of the panther spirit, I'd like to see your strongest move. I assure you, you will regret ever being created in the first place."

 

Dominic moved once more, this time a large blast of dark energy erupted from his body, and he got up. "YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL ME SO EASILY?!" yelled Dom out of random. "I'M IMMORTAL!" Dominic did not bother to morph, and an aura of darkness surrounded him, blasting around his hands. "YOU WILL DIE UNDER MY WATCH." He turned towards Joe and a wave of darkness blasted around him, wrecking the forest easily and causing a large crater. A large thunder cloud appeared above Dom a large figure with a claymore came crashing down, slashing through Dom. The figure evaporated when it was finished, and Dom fell to the ground knocked out.

 

Brandon started growing tired. All he was relying on was his will and speed, which against Jaws of Destruction, wasn't a good combination. He rushed at him once again and punched him in the face. It was a very weak punch, and against Jaws of Destruction's tough hide, probably didn't do anything.

 

Auric covered Dom in a gold veil and Dom was teleported back to base. "He'll be fine." said Auric. "His demon spirit just got out of hand. The human part of him knew the reason for the fight, but the demon part was still threatened. But he'll be fine." "Well thats good, but lets go help the others." said Joe. He turned to Sean. "Great to have you back buddy. And be sure to give Gargantia a nice punch for me." Joe Auric and Izabel ran off to the others.

 

I don't care how many new powers you get, I'll destroy you! yelled Gargantia as he then sent to black tentacles made of shadow from the ground heading towards Sean. "We shall see." said Sean. "Emerald Shine!!!" A giant shine from the emerald in Sean's chest obliterated the 2 tentacles and blinded Gargantia for a short time. Sean then placed the wrist with his morpher on the emerald, transforming the morpher. He then made an X. Then in slow motion, Sean said, "Omega Force: Emerald Panther Power!" He lowered the X, making the sun shine on the emerald, beginning the transformation.

 

Once the transformation was complete, his appearance was unlike his last. It was much like a crossover of Iron Man, due to the emerald resembling the Arc Reactor, a wolverine, due to the claws on hands and feet, an alien from Ben 10, due to the look of the chest overall, and a Power Ranger. It was unlike any of the other rangers' looks.

 

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Meanwhile, the Jaws of Destruction was about to hit Brandon hard with a chain saw when Auric intervened and blocked with his sword. "It is not right to hurt the good while Auric is around." said Auric as he hen punched the Jaws of Destruction and sent him flying. Izabel then helped Brandon up. "I guess you're one of the other rangers." said Iza. "You okay?" Just then a familiar sailor voice was heard. "Aye, I remember thee." said Ranchor. "I attacked you and that boy. Allow me to finish the job." Auric then walked over and covered Brandon in a gold light and Brandon was back at full strength. "I suppose that should even the playing field a bit."

 

Pirhanishead and WolfBane took heavy hits from Caoimhin, but they were still coming. Pirhanishead had tied up Caoimhin and WolfBane was getting ready to charge, but then Joe came out of no where and slammed into WolfBane. "OW!!" yelled WolfBane. "You again?" "Hey, I was afraid they destroyed you already." said Joe. "Good. Cause I would of been upset if I didn't get to finish you off again." Joe's presence broke Pirhanishead's concentration and Caoimhin easily broke out of the chains. Joe then turned to Caoimhin "Sorry about before buddy. I had to pretend to go evil to stop Gargantia from absorbing the Panther powers. And super sorry about calling you a...well...you know. I promise I'll make it up to you." "Whatever, just help me and Brandon out." said Caoimhin. "I would have finished them sooner but Vampyris took me into his dimension." Caoimhin struck Pirhanishead in the chest with his sword and rifle in an x shaped, slicing and firing into him. Joe charged his blade and made 7 slashes into WolfBane and the static charges that were left on WolfBane's wounds exploded. WolfBane and Pirhanishead head both fell backwards and were destroyed.

 

"So who's left to destroy then?" Caoimhin asked Joe. "Well if Vile revived all the ones Andros and I fought in the Dark Dimension, I'm guessing Jaws of Destruction is somewhere here as well." said Joe as his earpiece rang. it was Izabel. "Joe that thing at the beach that attacked us that time is back." she said to Joe. Joe turned to Caoimhin. "And apparently Ranchor is back. He was one of Vile's earlier monsters. But Brandon and Auric are taking care of them. Oh, and Sean is fighting Gargantia." "So what should we do then, young Joseph?" Caoimhin asked "Who do we fight?"

 

Brandon returned to his full strength. He looked at Izabel and Auric. "Yes, I'm okay now." said Brandon. "Thanks for coming. If you didn't I would've been shredded ranger." He looked at Ranchor. He broke a spike from his suit and held it like a staff. "Let's see what you've got." He charged at Ranchor at full speed and hit him upwards with the spike, most of the force straight at his chin. Ranchor was hit hard and with the weight of his anchor on his back he snapped his neck. "What will you have me do fair maiden?" asked Auric. "I guess destroy that thing." said Iza. "With pleasure." Auric raised his blade and slashed Jaws in half. The two parts of Jaws and Ranchor fell backwards and exploded.

 

"Ah!" yelled Vile in anger. "This is getting annoying. Now powers of all that is evil and foul, make all my monsters grow." Just then, Vile used his wand and all 6 monsters grew to huge size.

 

Meanwhile, Joe and Caoimhin saw this and Joe remarked, "I guess thats what we fight." He then smirked. Joe and Caoimhin ran over to Brandon and Auric and Iza. "You all okay? I think it's time we take this fight up a notch as well. You all ready?" Caoimhin took off his helmet revealing his face to Izabel. "You must be young Joseph's girlfriend." said Caoimhin. "So nice to meet you." He then bowed to her like a gentleman then turned to Joe. "You need any help with them?" Izabel bowed as well very respectfully. "Very nice to meet you as well." She then turns to Joe and smiles sarcastically. "Perhaps you could learn a thing or two from your friend here about manners." Joe puts his hand to his helmet and shakes his head. "Here we go." said Joe. "Can we do this later?" Izabel giggled.

 

Joe then turns to Caoimhin and said, "I think we can use all the help we can get. Wait, you have a zord too. I've gotta see this. Wait, was it the big Cerberus thing that tried to eat me when we fought?" "Uh, yeah it was." began Caoimhin. "He apologizes for it though, you know the test an all that." He then put his helmet back on. "Ready Cerberus!?" Outside the city a massive gate appeared surrounded by a fiery aura, and the gate swung open as a large beast forced it was through. "Cerberus attack!" shouted Caoimhin again and Cerberus immediately responded by firing orbs of energy at the 6 monsters.

 

"I'm sorry for leaving so soon but as you can see Izabel, there is something that needs to be attended to." said Caoimhin as he bowed to Izabel again and jumped into Cerberus. "Cerberus transform to fighter mode!" Cerberus gave a mighty roar as he began to stand up, his tail detaching from his body while the two side heads folded backward against it's back with his front paws changing to hands. His main head folded forward to it's chest revealing the Megazord's head. "Now we're ready for a fight!" yelled Caoimhin as the Cerberus Megazord grabbed his detached tail which is now a extremely sharp blade.

 

 

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Iza again looked at Joe and smiled. Joe walked away. "Show off." said Iza. Joe laughed. "Yeah, like I'm one to talk." said Joe. "Lets go Lio! Colossus Megazord activate!" The Collosus Megazord appeared, fully ready to fight.

 

The Cerberus Megazord charged at the six monsters at an immense speed slashing at everyone of them before stopping, turning around, and launching a wave of energy at the enemies. The six faltered back and forth under the surprisingly immense attack. For a lone megazord, the attack was incredibly forceful.

 

The Collosus megazord then dragged its two blades across the ground and made a cyclone that slammed into 3 of them. "We're not going down that easily again!" yells Jaws. Jaws disappeared into the ground, just then the sound of a buzz saw was heard. He then appeared as a massive buzz saw between the Cerberus and Collosus megazords. The attack was very strong and sent the two megazords to the ground.

 

"Well that was a bit of a underhanded move." stated Caoimhin as the Megazord stood back up. "I'll take him on." He was pointing at Jaws. Jaws just smiled as he went it to the ground again but Caoimhin and Cerberus was prepared this time as the chains on the Megazord's arms were glowing and extended into the ground. As the massive saw buzzed towards Cerberus, he was shocked by the surprise attack as chains wrapped around his body and lifted him into the air before slamming him back down to the earth.

 

Brandon looked around and couldn't find Kai or Damien anywhere. He sighed heavily. "Well, looks like I'm doing another solo attack for Sigma." said Brandon. He took out his morpher. "Send out Sigma Megazord and GREIF." After a couple seconds of waiting, the Sigma Megazord and GREIF flew into the fight. Brandon jumped and got into his respective cockpit in the Sigma Megazord. "Here comes Sigma and GREIF." "I guess thats even the odds a bit more now" smirked Caoimhin. The Cerberus slashed his sword, which was covered in fire, at Jaws.

 

Meanwhile, You impotent fool! yelled Gargantia in agony. You won't stand against me in my giant form. Gargantia grew huge and almost crushed Sean. "Oh yeah?" replied Sean. "We'll see." He calls Zedren. "Zedren, is my new zord ready?" "It's all ready Sean." said Zedren. "And due to the fact that this was many years in the making, it's even compatible with the Collosus megazord. You'll have all the fire power you need either way."

 

Jaws fell backwards, but got up. "Sadly for you we are all connected." said Jaws. "If 1 falls, the others can revive him. You must destroy us all at the same instant, and you don't have the kind of fire power for that." Izabel and Auric watched the fight. "Can't you help them?" she asked Auric. "Why of course I can." replied Auric. "I am Auric the Conqueror. Allow me to make this true and honorable. Stand Back." Auric then grew to super size and joined the others.

 

"Interesting. So how are we going to do this guys? You wanna count to 3 and fire at the same time?" asked Caoimhin. Brandon used the Sigma Megazord to charge at Ranchor and tackle him to the ground at full force. While The GREIF took out two weapons from it's pack, an automatic laser and a flare gun. It aimed both weapons at Gigant-Axe and fired everything it had in the weapons' clips at the axe wielding beast. "Brandon stop firing. We won't defeat them like that!" Caoimhin shouted.

 

"I'm not controlling the GREIF!" said Brandon. "It seems to be on auto-pilot." He then tried putting in the code to turn off the auto-pilot. It wasn't working. "What? Something must be wrong." He put in the code to stabilize GREIF's offensive system. This time, the code worked. The GRIEF lowered it's weapons and Brandon sighed. "That never happened before."

 

Meanwhile, "Great, thanks Zedren." said Sean as he took out the emerald in his chest and placed it up to the sun. "Emerald Panther, Awaken!" Suddenly, a giant part of the ground opened up. What was inside was a giant platform rising. What was on it was a lion-like zord ready to roar. It was the Emerald Panther Zord. For some reason, it had a strange appearance to Liger Zero from Zoids. "All right! Let's do this!"

 

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Joe received a transmission from Zedren. "Joe, Sean has a new zord that is compatible with your Collosus megazord." he explained. "He'll be on his way shortly after he deals with Gargantia. This new zord will have enough fire power to obliterate all the monsters you guys are facing now; however, weaken them first, don't destroy them though. They can only regenerate if a fatal blow is dealt. Once they are weakened and Sean arrives and combines with Collosus, have all the zords blast at once." "Will do." said Joe. "Sounds like a plan." Joe then radioed the others. "Guys, we have to keep fighting, but only to weaken them, not destroy. Any fatal blast will make the revive, but they can't revive if we don't kill them. We'll wait for Sean to finish up and then we'll go from there. Sound good?" "Excellent!" said Auric. "Auric likes this plan. Teamwork leading up to the kill and teamwork at the moment of the kill. Auric likes the sound of that. What say the rest of thee?""We just need to work together all of us to destroy all six of them at once." said Caoimhin as the Cerberus charged at the six of them slashing his sword into them. "That should weaken them a bit."

 

You fool! yelled Gargantia. It matters not how powerful you have gotten, nothing will defeat me! "Oh really?" asked Sean. "Emerald Claw Strike!" The zord jumped up and slashed Gargantia with its claw. "Caoimhin, wait for me. I'm almost done." "No you're not! I will make sure you won't succeed! "Ok Sean but do you need any help?" asked Caoimhin. "Don't worry, I got this. Emerald missiles, fire!" The Emerald zord blasted missiles from all of the missile launchers, weakening Gargantia very much. AHHH!! I'll get you next time you brat! Gargantia faded away and returned to his lair. "Okay guys. Here I come." The zord then ran to the other rangers.

 

The Cerberus Megazord continued to fight against the monsters, slowly weakening them while getting knocked down himself a few times in the process.

 

The Sigma Megazord and The GREIF both wield their long ranged weapons in front of the monsters. "FIRE!" commanded Brandon as both machines started firing their weapons on the monster present until they ran out of ammo in their clips. "I hate having to reload in battle." Both of their weapons were being reloaded, which seemed like a long time, at least to Brandon it does.

 

As Brandon was reloading, which was in fact longer than he expected, the Emerald Panther Zord began slashing at Ranchor and Gigant-Axe, knocking them back by a small amount. The zord landed in front of the others. "Sorry about that guys." said Sean. "He slowed me down." He then turned to Joe. "You ready?" "Always." said Joe. "Okay then!" Then the two yelled out, "Omnizord: Emerald Missile Mode!"

 

The Emerald Panther's eyes and the Colossus's eyes glowed in unison. The legs came off the panther zord and attached to the chest of the Colossus. The Colossus Megazord's arms moved out and the hind legs of the panther moved in between. The front legs attached to the abdominal section of the zord. The zord then crackled with immense powers. From what it is shown, it seems the dark green areas are concealed missile launchers.

 

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Sean appeared in the Colossus cockpit at his own control station. "You know it's kinda nice having others in here." said Joe. "You know, too big for one." He laughed and then radioed the others. "OK. Everyone ready? Prepare your weapons and fire on Sean's command." He then turned back to Sean. "I'll give you the honors." "Ok Joseph." said Caoimhin. "Cerberus, you know what to do." The Cerberus Megazord roared as the two side heads flipped onto the megazords shoulders, mouths wide open with energy gathering inside it while the middle head raises it's upwards with it's mouth open and gathering energy as well. "Just give me the signal guys."

 

"Ready, Joe?" asked Sean. "Ready." replied Joseph. "Just say when to fire, guys." said Caoimhin. "Okay. Emerald Shine Fury!" The missile launchers blasted gold and green lasers at all 6 monsters, leaving them barely clinging to life. It drained their strength and reduced their defenses, leaving emerald colored statues. "Come my friends, Sean has nearly wiped them out." said Auric. "Let us finish this auspicious occasion of teamwork." Auric, the Cerberus Megazord, GRIEF, and the Sigma megazord all unleashed their attacks which shattered the frozen remains of the monsters. Auric turned to all the rangers and said, "You see, that is the power of teamwork. When you work together, nothing can stop you. These words Auric speaks are truth." "Nice work everyone." said Joe. "Let's get back to base. I'm sure you all have a lot of questions." Caoimhin jumped out of Cerberus as he changed back to his beast form and went back through the portal back to the Island of Creation. Caoimhin landed near to Izabel.

 

Brandon typed in the program in both of his machines to go back to base. The Sigma Megazord complied and walked towards the base, but the GREIF was still there. "Something is definitely wrong with GREIF." he stated as he put in the code again. It didn't work. "Oh no. Don't tell me it expired." The Emerald Panther's legs broke apart from the Omnizord, turning it back in the Collosus Megazord, and reattaching to the Emerald Panther Zord. The Collosus Megazord returned to its latent form and returned to base. Joe jumped out as well and when he hit the ground he demorphed. Izabel ran over and they embraced each other. She then smiled at him. "You know, you being a ranger and all kinda explains a REAL lot." she told Joe. Auric shrunk back to normal size. "Well, Auric has done his work here." he began. "Shall you ever need me Izabel, just call." He then disappeared in a bright golden flash. The key around Izabel's neck then glowed equally gold. "So I guess Izabel is allowed in the base then." stated Caoimhin. Izabel turns to Caoimhin and smiles. "Well whether I'm allowed or not, I'm coming."

 

Brandon kicked the GREIF, and the code finally activated. It flew back to base. Brandon sighed heavily. "Something tells me that the worse has yet to come." he said as he looked at the group. "Well I guess that takes care of them. But, something doesn't feel right." He then noticed what was a computer chip. "What's this?" He examined the chip carefully. Joe noticed Brandon looking at some piece of equipment oddly. "Hey buddy, whats up?" Brandon looked at Joe. "There was a reason why most of them had been tougher than they already were, as I could tell from there records." He showed Joe a computer chip. "This chip. A L.E.E.C.H computer chip. It sends giant shock-waves to the user's applied area and enhances the function about 10 times the normal level." He got up. "But, how is it in this time?" "Wait, what do you mean 'this time'?"

 

Caoimhin powers down back to himself smiling at Izabel. "Well if nobody would let you in, you could always call for me to help." he told her. "Well I'm very flattered, but I can handle myself." she replied. "Ask Joe, he'll tell ya. Right Joe?" Joe looks towards Caoimhin. "Yeah." he began. "Caoimhin, you may the strongest being I've ever met, but what Iza wants, Iza gets." "Well if she does need me for anything, I don't mind answering her calls." remarked Caoimhin. "I guess I should head back to my planet soon."

 

Meanwhile, Vile noticed this disturbance as well. "I don't remember them being that strong." he began. "What happened?" He scanned the area and noticed a strange energy signature. "Hm. This isn't a magical aura. So it's not Gargantia or me. But what? What could it possibly be? I must look further into this!"

 

"Is something wrong Brandon?" Caoimhin asked, finally paying attention to Brandon. Brandon then showed the chip. "It was made in 2043 for military use on extra agonizing missions." he began. "It continued it's use in my time line for the world army." He then gave the chip to Joe. "It seems we may have an enemy from the Sigma's time line." He demorphed and picked up the remaining chips on the ground. "Well there was that Deos character and his minions at that time period." stated Caoimhin. Brandon got up and looked at everyone. "I don't have the slightest idea. But, I think it could be someone from the world army." He looked at the chips. "They could have tracked these chips, so we have to be ready." Sean demorphed and walked over to everyone. "I'm already ready with my new powers." he said. "Great...more people to fight." sighed Caoimhin. "I usually have stuff like this sorted out by now." "Great." said Joe. "That's just what we need, another enemy. And this one seems to be smart. At least Vile and Gargantia seem to be dimwitted." "Like the time Vile tried to fool me back on my planet." added Caoimhin.

 

Meanwhile in Vile's Lair, Vile had just heard of what Joe had said about him and Gargantia. "DIMWITTED?!?" he screamed in anger. "How dare he call me dimwitted! He will pay dearly! I'll make sure of it!" He then continued to research the strange power signature.

 

Izabel laughed. "Vile tried to trick you guys?" she asked. "Oh I've got to hear this story sometime. I just remember when he attacked us with that anchor thing. Wait, future? Joe, you said there was one person from the future. How many exactly are there?" "Well, Star was the original." he began. "You'll meet her later. And now there's Brandon, as well as Damien and Kai." "Okay, so 4 people from the future. And 2043 doesn't seem that bad. You mean we have time travel technology in like 35 years? Or are you guys from a later time period?" "It was a later time period Iza, but it doesn't mean it will still happen like this. We may have caused a time paradox."

 

"40th century, if I may correct." said Brandon. "And trust me, it's not what the media thinks the future will be like. It's a lot worse. A barren wasteland due to world wars starting in 2045 and still continuing." He put the chips in his pocket. He opened his bag and placed some rocks inside it. "Gee." she added. "Thanks for the hopeful outlook on the future. Wait, 40th century? Time paradox? Okay. Now you all officially lost me. Monsters, Ranger powers, demons. All of that I'm okay with getting. But time is very confusing to me. Thus why I can't stand the movie Back to the Future. Its funny, but SO confusing!" "Well if you've lived for a long as I have, there isn't many things that might surprise or confuse you."

 

Brandon looked at Iza. "It would seem confusing at first, but, in due time, it will seem simple." he said as he checked his pocket and found a small device. "I wondered where this would be."

 

Then, out of nowhere, a cloaked man came in. "Not really, if you watch enough Science Fiction you'll get it!" said the man. He then removed his hood to reveal his natural red hair. "What they are saying Izabel, is that nothing is set in stone and time is always changing. Even now it is, yet we will never know what changes occur because we are all set on one path and we can never see what lies in front of us, only what lies behind." Sean looked at the red-haired man. "You seem very familiar." he said to the man, beginning to think. Izabel was shocked by this new visitor. "And who are you, and how do you know my name?" she adds. Joe looked for a second very hard and realized something. "Wait, Chris?" he asks. "Is that you?" "Chris? Oh yeah, I remember. What kind of ranger was he? Never mind. I remember." Who'd to think that Chris would return after a long absence from everyone? The White Serpent Dragon Ranger has returned.

 

"How have you been? And where have you been? Actually, you can fill us in later. Let's all go back to base." "I remember seeing him in my glass orb." noted Caoimhin. "Anyway, I think it's best if you guys returned to your base now." "Maybe we should return, if now only to catch up." said Chris. "I agree. Let's go." The rangers return to base, and the zords back to their proper areas. The rangers, Zedren, and other various members all meet in the briefing room. "Well I now I have some explaining to do, but Chris, you first. Where were you and what happened?"

 

"I'd prefer to hear what Joseph's actions were all about." added Caoimhin. "Well as I said, I was pretending to go bad." said Joe. "It was Zedren's idea." "Thanks for passing the buck." replied Zedren. "Actually we both did. I told Joseph that he'd have to stay vigilant since Vile and Gargantia were getting desperate. But I didn't know how he'd do it."

 

"You're not too bad with the buck pass yourself." said Joe. "Well when I got back from Triforia, I had a feeling someone would be watching me, which they were. So I had a strong conversation with Auric, thus forcing him into reading my soul and thus he learned what I really had in mind. I then went to have a romantic dinner with Iza where I told her everything. I figured vile and such would be too bored to listen into our date, so I told her and gave her the real key of Auric. And I didn't see her since then as to not create any idea that I may have given anything to her. And then we fought Chronodox and the rest is history. Then I saw that Dom read my soul as well, and that could make things a little more believable with a fight. Make sense now or is there any other question?" "Well I would like you speak to you privately somewhere." "You're gonna kick my but for calling you an old man aren't you?" He laughs. "Sure, let's go." He turns to Iza. "If I'm not back in 20 minutes, send Auric. And if its too late just know that I love you." He smirks and then walks out.

 

Caoimhin and Joseph stepped into a separate room and Caoimhin closed the door behind him. Suddenly Joe could be heard screaming. And then...SMASH. "HOW DARE YOU CALL ME 'OLD MAN'!!!!" he screamed. And then...BANG.

 

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Okay, here's the second half. Sorry about that. And if ANYBODY complains about an emerald ranger or a Liger Zero Panzer ripoff, it will be treated as spam. Anyway, the story ends here. To see more, watch the RP when it is posted. Hope you all had fun reading it.

 

[spoiler=[b]Episode 15: The Emerald Awakening(Part 1){Second Half}[/b]]

=30 Minutes Later...=

 

Joe was holding an ice pack to his head. "I'm sorry for my actions Izabel." he began. "I feel terrible for acting that way especially as you thought i was a gentleman before." He then bowed to Izabel in a note of apology. Izabel went over to Joe and helped him. "You okay?" she asked. "I'm fine." Joe replied. "I would of fought back but...1. that would of made it worse, and 2. I kinda did deserve it. And after dating you I'm used to getting knocked around." Izabel then back-slapped Joe. "Excuse me Caoimhin, but I think you missed a spot on Joe." WHAT!?!" Izabel puts her hands against Joe and another towards Caoimhin. Kidding, I was just kidding." Caoimhin patted Izabel on the shoulder. "I wouldn't of hit him again anyway. I guess I better head off to my planet now. It was nice to meet you Izabel and Joseph. Next time I won't be so easy on you if you call me that again." Caoimhin opened a portal and walked into it.

 

Chris seemingly stepped back during the whole incident. He knew the newcomer was a good guy but didn't know if he could be fully trusted. "Well, who was that?" he asked. "That was Caoimhin." replied Joe. "Oh yeah, you really missed a lot while you were gone. I'll tell you the full story later, but a while ago Vile was taking my powers since the Lio zord used to be used for evil. he even turned the megazord against us. So Zedren told us to head to the Island of Creation, an island on a planet on the furthest end of the galaxy. And there I met Caoimhin who was the temple guardian. He helps us out from time to time should we need him." "Don't forget what you obtained to regain your powers." added Sean. Christopher looked at his morpher. Maybe I'm no longer needed. he thought. Maybe I did all that work for nothing. No, a Ranger must not think those things. "Ah, another Ranger. Always good to get some backup every once and awhile."

 

"Oh yeah, what Sean meant was this." said Joe as he extended his hand and the Genesis Blade appeared in it. "This is the Genesis Blade. It links me to my powers and is quite the powerful weapon. And as far as other ranger, we've had some definite changes in personal. Sean as you see has new ranger powers. Star is now a ranger. Brandon, Kai, and Damien are from the future. John is MIA, being a ranger wasn't his thing. And Jaden returned, but he's MIA again. And Vent turned evil and is now no where to be found, but I don't think he's around anymore since he hasn't been with Gargantia. And we have a new evil ranger with Vile named Valon, and he's quite a handful." "There's still more you know." said Sean. "I don't remember what they are but I know you left some things out. Like, how we got to the future." Joe then filled in all that happened.

 

Brandon was using a microscope as he looked at two computer chips, one which he 'borrowed' from the emerald panther's unused parts and the L.E.E.C.H computer chip. He looked at Joe. "Hey Joe, did Zedren make Emerald Panther or was it re-molded?" he asked as he continued looking at the computer chips. "Not sure." Joe replied. Zedren overheard.

 

"Well it was a bunch of combined technology, but yeah, in total it was all home made." he began. "The emerald panther however is an ancient zord and held the power of an ancient animal. Actually believe it or not, the panther spirit Sean originally had was like a subsidy of the emerald panther. So, the technology was all us, but since the spirit was already around, it was slightly remolded i guess. It's like how, back when I was Lord Zedd, I made the ninja spirits into the Shogun zords. The technology was mine, but the spirits and thus power was preexisting. Why do you ask?"

 

Brandon looked at Zedren. "I wanted to know since it still had some existing parts of the original, but I wanted to know if you used current existing technology because I don't want Vile and Gargantia to get a hold of the L.E.E.C.H chips." he explained. "If it's possible, I could find who has been dealing them to the 'devious duo'. "If it's from the 40th century, we may have a problem." May I take a look?" asked Zedren. "Sure." replied Brandon. Zedren looked at the piece. "Wait, I recognize this, well slightly anyway. This has a certain type of alloy in it. It appears as though, besides power, it admits the quality of this alloy. This is Machine Empire technology. But they would never create something like this since it's only compatible with biological components. Tell me, in the 40th century, was any technology used from them, or at least imitated? I know this isn't the Machine Empire, Mondo's been gone for years, but who ever did certainly have an intellect superior to their...this is very bad indeed."

 

"Well the L.E.E.C.H chips have the same components as this one from the Machine Empire." he began. "That must mean that the world army must have either recreated it or used the exact same ones." As Brandon said that his eyes widen. "Oh no. Those chips must have been tracked. We have to be ready. The world army may bring machines into this time to take the chips at all cost. To them, its more valuable than human life itself."

 

Chris looked at Zedren. "So your Zedren!?" he began. "I was told that by a source that you might be able help me with something. It is an artifact that I found in a place called the Temple of Power. The person I got this from said you destroyed it." Chris unattached the object from his morpher and handed it to Zedren. It was a round gold coin-like object with a bird depicted on it. "The person also gave me the other five. I don't know how useful they will be, but he to take them nonetheless." "Wait. Are those Ninjetti Power Coins? They've been gone for years. I doubt they still have their Ninjetti powers since the powers come from within; however, there should be enough strength in them left to merge them and make a new power coin. Is that what you had in mind?" "Ninjetti?" asked Sean. 'What is that?"

 

"The Ninjetti animal spirits were some of the strongest spirits around." began Zedren. "I tried many times to be rid of them when I was evil. Those are the same spirits I turned into the Shogun zords and planned to use against the rangers. Eventually they were destroyed, I assumed, in an explosion at the old command center, but I guess they somewhat survived. Morphing with them would be too dangerous. If you can't have an outlet for the power it can cause severe pains and almost kill you. I'm pretty sure I should be able to transfer what power is left in there and create a new Ninjetti power coin. However, I must be honest, I don't know if that'll transfer into a new zord or not. Or if there will even be one."

 

Brandon continued tinkering with the two computer chips and used an electrical pulse on the L.E.E.C.H chip, but it wouldn't shut off. "What?" he asked himself. "That was 16,000 volts! How come it didn't overload and shut down?" He shacked it again and still it wouldn't overload. Diabolico walked up to Brandon. "If you're afraid of them tracking it, I can place it in a demon hole." he told Brandon. "It's sort of like a dimensional tear that only a certain level of demon can make. It has one way in and one way out." Brandon looked at Diabolico. "That will be a good idea. Though I'm not sure if they already tracked us. Diabolico, are you able to find out if there any physical disturbances around this town?" He then gave the computer chips to Diabolico. "Never underestimate the power of a demon general." He laughed. Diabolico disappeared and then reappeared over the city in a giant astral form of himself. His body from the shoulders up appears in a spirit form over the city. Brandon put the equipment away and looked at Diabolico's solid body still in the base. "Is there anything unusual there or are we safe?" he asked as he took out his morpher, ready to morph if there was an enemy near.

 

Zedren then spoke to Chris. "Chris, it may be possible to infuse your dragon spirit with the Ninjetti. There were legends that the Falcon spirit would be passed on, but in a different form. Perhaps, thats why your zord was always slightly different. Perhaps, your spirit was meant to be Ninjetti. The other power coins could awaken it. It's worth a shot." Chris looked at Zedren. He knew of the Ninjetti and the Ninja Zords. The Ape, Bear, Frog, Wolf, Crane, Falcon. It could be possible that considering the cultural influence of the Ninja Zords, Ninjor could have designed a seventh 'Dragon Ninja Zord'. "Would it help if we fused the coins with the Omega Force Morphing Grid?" he asked. "I mean, if the Omega Dragonzord is a former Ninja Zord wouldn't the coins react with the Dragons own energy and repair themselves?" "I believe so. Let's go try that."

 

Diabolico watched over the city. He sensed nothing of interest. But then he got a massive power reading from the park. It sent shivers down his spine he was about to go check it out when the sky went dark. "Hmph, just an eclipse." he told himself as he gave it a second look. "WAIT! There's no eclipse planned for today, or even this year." He looked up and saw a massive ship approaching the ranger base. Diabolico returned to his body and immediately went to the outside screens to show everyone what he had seen.

 

Brandon went outside and noticed the ship. The ship stopped close to the ranger base and the three jet boosters stop. As the ship was falling to Earth, the back two jets became legs and the front boaster became a giant claw. As it landed, the machine was visible. The metal on the main part of the tripod machine was blue with cameo designs and sported '09' on the side of the machine. "Oh no." said Brandon. "It's one of the world army's destruction robots." He then took out his morpher. The machine raised its claw up in the sky and the bottom of the claw glowed a purple tint. It dropped the claw hard on the ground, cracking the surface it hit. "GREAT GALAXIES!" yelled Auric. "I am getting annoyed with these interruptions. I'm going inside that ship and rip it apart from the inside." Zedren then turns to the others. "While we do the procedure, go help Auric and destroy that machine out there." Zedren informed Chris and the other rangers. "Right." said Sean. He made an X and yelled, "Shards of Emerald, Spark!" Sean morphed, went outside, and prepared for what comes out of the ship.

 

Brandon noticed the tripod-like machine. He was in dead shock at what he saw. The armor was new and polished and the claw had enough power to crush the city in an earthquake. "This must be a new model." he said to himself. "I don't have any information on this." He looked at Sean and Auric. "Sean, Auric. We have to stop this thing from terrorizing the city. That claw itself could cause major damage to this town's bedrock." "Alright, let's do this!" yelled Sean. "Ready Auric?" "Of course." replied Auric. "Auric is always ready to deal out justice. Let's make it so that these cretins will never return. Let us go inside and destroy their data things, so that they can't trace it to our location or time again. Some of you hold it off while some go inside. I will go inside. The rest just attack its outsides and keep it busy." "No. I'm coming with you, Auric. I'm the one that knows about the world army's technology. I can try to hack into their transmission and tell them that they have recovered the L.E.E.C.H chips. It's time they need the learn not to mess with the past." "Very well my intelligence-gifted friend. You shall come with me. Everyone else, stall that behemoth." Auric thrusted his sword into the ground and he and Brandon disappeared.

 

As Brandon and Auric got into the ship. There were walkways, lots and lots of walkways. Brandon could see the central core. As he saw it there were a couple of guards surrounding it. "Auric, for a machine this big, there are maybe three central cores." he explained. "We need to find all of them and take them out. After that, the machine is as good as destroyed." Auric saw those guards and said, Well if there's more cores than there are more guards." he began. "And we wouldn't want them to spoil the surprise for us. BEHOLD THE MIGHT OF AURIC!!!" The guards were then surrounded by a gold bubble and were thrown up and down repeatedly to shake them up. Then Auric and Brandon stepped into the bubble as well. "Here you may scream like the little cowards you are, for no one can here you. And neither can you reach the control screen. Brandon, after you. Show them who they are messing with."

 

Brandon smirked deviously as he looked at the guards. "Gladly." he replied as he broke off two spikes from his suit and they combined together to become a staff. At rapid speed, Brandon continuously started beating the guards with the staff into the point they would be knocked out for about the rest of the day. "That takes care of them." "Good, good." he told Brandon. "Job well done my speedy friend. Now, I'll keep watch while you do whatever it is you are going to do to the machine. Then we shall move onto the others." Auric turned his back and kept watch. Brandon did a salute then ran to the first central core. He hacked into the system and started putting in codes. In less than five minutes, he finished. "This one's offline. Lets go to the other." He then ran down the walkway. Auric puffed out his cape and then followed after Brandon.

 

Meanwhile, back outside the mech, it tried to slam its claw onto the city, but the Collosus Megazord caught it and was trying to grapple with the machine. "I could use some help over here!" yelled Joe. "I'm coming Joe!" yelled Sean. "Emerald Panther, arise!" The emerald panther zord appeared and slashed the mech with its claw. The Collosus stumbled back a little bit. "Thanks a lot buddy. The servers were starting to overheat. We have to stall for more time for Auric and Brandon. After that, we'll merge and finish this thing off. They have to dismantle it from the inside so it can't be traced." "Right. By the way, if you remember when my old panther zord blasted fireballs, watch this. Emerald Panther, Sonic Roar!" The emerald panther roars in a shining sonic wave that stuns the mech. "That ought to take care of it for a while." "Nice shot Sean." Joe then activated the com link to Brandon. "Brandon, we've got things covered here. We'll roll with the punches. You two just get things done on your end."

 

Brandon continued running down the walkway and noticed the second central core under them. "Auric, the second core is directly below us, so there will probably be alot of guards there." he said as he called in Joe. "Joe. Were at the second core. Be advised that when we actually shut that one down, it may go into danger mode." "Brandon, I have a very fun idea." he told Brandon. He then turned into his tiki statue form and landed in Brandon's hands. "Ok. Now throw me down there. i wanna have some fun with them." Brandon nodded and threw Auric down to the guards. One guards picked up the tiki Auric and looked at the others. "Who do you think dropped this?" he asked the others. They just shrugged.

 

As the guard turned around holding the tiki, Auric spoke. "He's such an idiot and he sleeps with stuffed bears." The guard turned around. "What did you say?" he asked. The other guards looked at him and said they didn't say anything. The guard turned around again and the Auric spoke again. "W"hat an idiot. Not only is he ugly, but he is also apparently deaf and stupid." The guard turned around again. "That's it." He attacked the other guards and they quickly subdued him. Then 2 guards took him to a prison cell, leaving only 4 guards.

 

A female guard picked up Auric and then he spoke again. "Hey, how you doing?" The guard then smacked the other guard and walked off. The male guard tried to follow to apologize. He handed Auric to one of the two remaining guards. The two guards looked at all that had happened and then looked at each other. "What was that all about?" one of the guards asked. Just then Auric spoke again. "I don't know, but you have very cold hands." The two guards looked at each other and then at the tiki. Auric then became his human size again and said, "Do you know who I am? Do you know how many evil beings I have destroyed? Do you know how powerful I am? You two honestly think you can do anything to stop me. You don't even have name tags. Why don't you just fall down?" The two guards then did what Auric said and played dead like the cowards they are. "You're up Brandon."

 

Brandon appeared next to the second central core. He hacked into the machine's files and shut down this core. "Okay this one's done." he told Auric. "Let's hope there's only one core left to shut down."

 

On the outside, Joe and Sean could see the machine's claw come off. With a screech it moved the head over to the back. A small laser cannon took its place as the machine was walking backwards, shooting at the two enemy mechs. The Colossus Megazord took a heavy hit and fell to the ground. "This thing is really starting to get on my nerves." he told himself. "It has crazy fire power and its armor is insane. Wait, I have an idea. Kent where are you? I have an idea."

 

Brandon ran down the walkway and found the last central core, but was heavily guarded. "Man, I should've known about that." he said to himself. Then Brandon had an idea. "Hey Auric, can you transform other people?" he asked. "Do my powers not impress you yet?" he asked. "Do you test me? Auric does not like to be pushed." He was poking Brandon's chest and seemed angry. "But I'll ask, what do you have in mind?" "Okay. If I know the world army, they are suckers for little kids, especially babies. So, I need you to turn me into a baby to distract the guards. They won't resist it." "This is a very strange request. But as you insist." Auric waved his hands slowly in a circle and then pointed both palms at Brandon. He was covered in a god light and became about a 2 year old. He wore gold and blue ancient looking clothes. "You merely look like one, but you aren't 2 again. If you are attacked or make an attack the disguise will evaporate." "Well they won't attack me since I'm a toddler." Brandon said as he quickly moved to the other walkway.

 

He put on the toddler act by making himself lose balance at times when he was walking. A female guard noticed him and picked him up. "He's so cute." she said. "How did this little guy get in here?" Brandon then started to fake cry, making the guards panic and find something to calm the baby down. When it was all clear, Brandon hit himself in the head, wearing off the cloak. "All clear." he said. Auric walked up behind him and back-slapped him. "You could of just made an attack yourself instead of hitting yourself." he told him. "But it was most entertaining. Now then, go shut down the final generator."

 

Meanwhile, "Kent, can you hear me?" asked Joe. "I have an idea but I need the Stego Zord." "Ok sure." said Kent. "No problem. Stego Zord. Arise!" The Stego zord came out in its usual manner. "Ok. Let's see if this will work. Zedren said the true Lio has inspired and can inspire many weapons, so maybe, it can be sued on one of our own. The old form was able to control other zords, so hopefully this can do the same." The Colossus Megazord blasted the Stego zord and it changed. It became black and red and seemed a lot stronger.

 

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Colossus Stegosaurus Zord[/align]

 

"OK, here we go!" yelled Joe. Then Kent and Joe yelled at the same time, "Omnizord: Blade Mode!" The Colossus Megazord's eyes glowed and the Stego's glowed as well. The Stego broke in half side ways. The spike on the tail stood horizontally straight. The front leg moved up and then backwards to be paired with the hind leg. It then attached to the Colossus's arms.

 

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Omnizord: Blade Mode[/align]

 

"Okay, I'll step back and let you handle this." said Sean as the Emerald panther zord moved back from the mech. Sean put his morpher up to his face. "Brandon, are you almost done?" "Don't go too far Sean." said Joe. "After Kent and I slash this things armor apart, you'll combine with us and then we'll blast all its weak spots with everything we've got." "I know, Joe. I'm just going to wait until you're ready for me."

 

Inside the mech, "Give it time Sean." said Brandon. "There are three files for this thing." He was hacking into the first file. After ten minutes of hacking, he shut down the first part. The machine started to go into danger mode. It moved his head to its normal position and opened hatches on his head. Some lasers were being fired.

 

To Be Continued...

 

[Ayasato-chan]

Oh wait.... On the Ranger Lavender episode... I believe me and DNK made a prolouge to it explaining Chronodox fought with the rangers and then, in the imminent battle, they were all transported to Star's time... I just don't know where that prlouge is.

[Kōsuke Ueki]

When it's found, I'll make it a Lost episode.

[DNovaKnight]

[spoiler=[b]Episode 16: Emerald Awakening (Part 2) aka Season One Finale[/b] - by Ayasato]

The giant machine roared as the Collosus Megazord, with it's new armaments, took interest in slamming it's mighty blades against the cold metallic armor. At first, it appeared to do nothing, but because of the speed and strength of the zords, the armor began to steadily weaken, as it became covered in dents and scratches the size of fully loaded minivans. Joe shouted out in glee,

 

"Alright! Let's bring this bad boy home! Ready Kent?"

 

"You know it!" replied the black ranger as they continued to fight the machine. It raised it's mighty claws and swiped downwards, aiming for a fatal blow. Sean pushed the controls forward as he cried out,

 

"Not on my watch you pile of scrap!" as the Panther lurched forward, knocking the machine down. The moment it hit the ground, a sizable earthquake shook the surronding area. Joe gave Sean a thumbs up and said almost amusingly,

 

"Nice hit! But we could've handled it." Sean rolled his eyes as he replied.

 

"Can't have you have all the fun right?" In their musings, the machine was back on its feet, ready for round two. Rising to the challenge, the two zords stood ready to fight again. However... something wasn't quite right. lightning started to trail the sky as it glow red. A fierce vortex ripped open from the sky, revealing a powerful hurricane. It's winds projected the machine into the sky, disippating into the vortex. Joe, Sean and Kent all had the same reaction as they shouted,

 

"Whoa, what is that?!"

"Don't look at me, I don't know!"

"Hey Brandon, you got any idea what this is?!"

 

Brnadon, although half way through the second encyrption file, saw what was going on. He shook his head, but was clearly worried. "It reminds me of a time hole, but it doesn't look right." A new transmission came in, this time it was Star.

 

"Rangers, especially SIGMA rangers, please listen!" Star was obviously worried as she spoke swiftly and almost gibberishly. Brandon answered the transmission first.

 

"It's Brandon here. What's the problem Star?" Joe snapped his fingers,

 

"Of course, Star knows about the time stream more than anyone. So Star, you got any idea what we're dealing with here?" There was a brief pause before she answered,

 

"A temporal reset." From the silence, she deduced that they had no idea what she meant. So, she clarified.

 

"I mean there have been to many temporal anamolies. Too much time traveling and messing with the time stream. Chronodox was the anti-existence of time, so, while he was around, it didn't matter how many times you changed the past or future, since he always could balance it out. But since he's gone, the time stream is on the verge of collapsing on itself." THAT got some reactions. Particularly from Brandon.

 

"You mean we're all goners?!" Star replied quickly,

 

"No. It drained my ranger power temporarily, but I used all of the Starlight's power to reset the time line... but the thing is... if you don't return to the future now, you and the other SIGMA rangers will be gone forever. You have to return to your own time, as fast as you can." Auric, who was still accompanying him, directed his response to Brandon.

 

"Go. Auric shall finish here. Now hurry! Time is of the essence young Brandon!" Brandon nodded as the third encryption file opened and finished, leaving the core to shut down. Brandon, satisfied that his mission was complete, morphed and exited the base. Looking up into the sky, he said,

 

"Okay, I'm ready." Star nodded on the other end as she said slowly,

 

"The other SIGMA rangers are being transported already, since I managed to get to them first. All you have to do is point your morpher to the vortex. The time hole will do the rest." Brandon nodded as he looked up to his new friends.

 

"...See ya guys. We'll try to stop the world army on our side... but if you ever need us..." Kent stopped him.

 

"Yeah, we'll give you a call. Although I wonder if millenia long transmissions count as long distance calls?" That got a good chuckle out of Brandon as it did Joe. Speaking of which, Joe in turn said,

 

"Don't worry about it... you're part of the team now. Time and space don't mean a thing." Brandon smiled under his helmet.

 

"Thanks guys... it means alot." Without further delay, Brandon brace himself as he pointed his morpher towards the eyes of the time vortex. In a few moments, he disappeared in a bolt of sapphire lightning as the entire base disappated into the vortex. The sky then went blue again, as if nothing had happened. Calling off their zords, Sean, Joe and Kent teleported back to the Omega Base, with Auric in tow. Although losing the SIGMA rangers was a blow to the team again, the rangers felt a bitter sweet victory. They had succeeded in thwarting the world army's attempts to fiddle with the past. Although, once he heard the story, Zedren was curious about one small detail.

 

"Say, Star?"

 

"Yes?"

 

"If the time line reset itself, then wouldn't you have to also return to the future?" Star shook her head.

 

"There's two reasons why that isn't a problem for me..." Zedren was now curious. He inquired further,

 

"Oh... and they are?" Star spoke lowly,

 

"The first reason is that... well... THIS keeps me out of the time stream. So time doesn't affect me." She held up the Starlight. She continued, "The second reason... is that my connection to this time's morphing grid. I'm binded to it. So, unlike the SIGMA rangers, who established their powers in my time, I recieved my ranger powers in this time. In essence, time doesn't affect me as it would you or the other rangers." Meanwhile, the other rangers were still wondering about the result of today's battle. Although it was a success... they still had a sense of diminishing self-confidence.

 

Outside of the Omega Base, a partially opaque figure, who resembled a fluid Caoimhin, smiled. "Ah... nice to see the rangers made it back safely. But they are of no concern to me now... I must find my dear knight... he should be in this time as I can recall..." With that ominous statement, Deos disappeared, literally evaporting where he stood.

 

 

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Okay, NOW it's finished. I actually had the thought of Part 2 as the Intro episode, but I like it, seeing how it ended on a high note, even though it doesn't look it completely.

 

Anyway, you, DNova, and Ayasato did great on this episode. You rock! :D

[DNovaKnight]

[spoiler=[b]Episode 1:Rangers Fall, Evils Rise (aka Season 2 Premier)[/b]]

 

Despite the decline in the team members for the Rangers, Vile grew more and more enraged at the current situation. “Even with lesser numbers, these power brats are getting on my last nerve. And to make matters worse, not only does Gargantia have his own agenda, but these Dueteros Kamen are also becoming more and more troublesome. And I’ve yet to learn anything about these beings’ aim. It appears Deos – their leader - is all that is left. I have no reason to think there are any more of them, but then again … I can’t be sure. And even if Deos is alone, he managed to absorb tat guardians powers and assimilate his form. With all things considered, I must take precautions. Vile opened a looking portal into the park. “Now then where did I leave that thing. Ahh, yes. There it is.” Vile spied the egg he placed in the park weeks prior. “Oh my, how it’s grown. Perfect. It’s time for you to be born.”

Vile started to change the view of the portal and continued to search. “Now then, where to look next. Ahh. Quite interesting. Orion’s comet. I believe the original rangers used that very comet to destroy Ivan Ooze. Sort of dramatic irony don’t you think. Now comet, you instrument of Ivan’s death, redeem yourself and be transformed into an instrument of the rangers’ death.”

Vile again started to scan locations and spied upon the island of creation. “hmmm. That miserable guardian Caoimhin has truly been one of the most insufferable. Without him young Joseph wouldn’t have gotten the Genesis Blade. Without him, Kent’s powers would not have become from an ancient source. He’s interfered far too much. Though … as much as I’d love to corrupt and brainwash him, he’s far too strong to control. But wait …” just then he spied a human size Atlas (still over 7 feet tall) emerging from the mountain. “Ahh. Perfect. A titan. His powers would be enough to match that of Caoimhin’s and since he’s been trapped in their for eons, there is no way he is up to his usual full strength. The perfect pawn. Now former guardian, it’s time for you to assault the very powers you swore to protect. Zordon may have been your former master, but you are mine now. Unleash your full might, the might of the last Titan!”

Almost simultaneously, Vile’s wishes were set into motion. In Angel Bay park there was suddenly a loud crash. Some people looked up expecting thunder, as others already began to pack up their picnics and curse the weathermen who had predicted a beautiful day. Unbeknownst to them, it wasn’t thunder, but actually the sound of Vile’s egg starting to crack open. After a few more earth shattering crackles, the massive tree the egg was hiding in actually snapped in half from the immense weight. Some brave people went to go check out this phenomenal sized egg. As they approached they saw that it was about 6 feet high; however, there was a hole in the top. One person peered in and remarked that it was empty. Seconds later a loud scream was heard. It was a woman pointing towards the sky. As the gentlemen looked up, they saw what appeared to be a very intricate kite. They wonder what the big deal was, even though it did look a little too scary to be a child’s toy. As they looked closer they noticed there was no string to it, and it actually wasn’t that low to the ground – which means it was actually quite large. As they pondered this they then saw something unexpected … it flapped it’s wings. The same idea flashed in their heads immediately – RUN. But it was too late, the creature already was on top of them.

In space, Orion’s comat started to glow and emit sparks of some sort. It then slowly hardened even further and morphed into a strange alien humanoid shape as it entered the atmosphere. One of the orbiting satellites detected this anomaly, however, sadly the scientists at NASA just believed it to be a glitch.

On the Island of Creation, as Atlas emerged from the cave, he thought about all the things he’d seen. His struggles with the Olympians, how he tried to defy Zeus, how Zeus punished his followers (the Atlantians) by sending them to the bottom of the ocean, how Zordon released Atlas from his binds to protect the Genesis Blade, as well as to redeem himself. “It’s nice to finally put all that pain and hatred behind me” Atlas sighed. Just then a voice rang in his head “It’s too soon for that my four armed friend. I need that hatred to help me.” It was Vile. Atlas grabbed his head, “No, stay out of my head. I’ll never serve you.” Vile laughed, “You don’t have a choice in the matter. You’re far too weak to resist even the simplest of mind control. Thousands of years of torture will do that to a man … or Titan in this case.” He laughed again. Atlas screamed in pain as his boy was encased in armor. “It’s still missing something, but what”, Vile remarked. “ Aha!” A blade then appeared in Atlas’s grip. “A fitting weapon don’t you think.” “Yes”, Atlas groaned. “The perfect way to destroy Caoimhin and the other Rangers. hahaha”

Vile closed his viewing portal. “It seems as though I have composed a team of my own. But I lack something the rangers have, a leader. Young Joseph is their leader and sure … his fight will most likely be alongside Caoimhin against Atlas, but I still need a leader of my own. And who better to trust than myself; however, my days of battle have long since passed. If only I could transfer my powers to someone. Oh but wait … I’m Master Vile, of course I can. I don’t even need a body. It’s time I manifest my powers into something truly fierce. Something that reflects me. My destiny was changed thanks to that fool Broodwing, so I shall make one that can change destiny himself. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this years ago. But I’ll need much raw power for this. As well as sacrifices. And I have just the materials I need.” Vile summoned every remaining striker he had in his possession. He then reached into his cloak and pulled out the gem he sealed Broodwing into. He electrocuted it and Broodwing was released. He fell on the ground breathing heavily. “Vile, you released me? Why? What do you want from me now?”

“Why my silly friend” Vile spoke “you have one final thing to offer me.”

Broodwing responded “I have nothing but disgust and hatred for you. That gem you sealed me in kept me in a constant state of pain. I would tear you to pieces if I could.”

“That’s it!” Vile joyously exclaimed. “I want you anger and hate. All the evil you can muster. For you and my evil strikers, born of the shadows themselves, will form my greatest creation.”

“What?!?”

Vile smirked, “In other words, I have no more use for you or my strikers. You’ve all served me well. Well … at least the strikers have. You just get to be the spark of my greatest creations.” Vile raised his staff and immediately all the strikers began to disintegrate, as well as Broodwing.

Broodwing tried to mutter some last words “Vile … you’ll … get … yours ….”

“Oh I’m soo scared” he mocked

The ashes began to take a new form, something much more horrific. Vile laughed “Now darkest shadows and darkest thoughts … become a form of true evil. A form as merciless as Fate itself.”

The creature's form became uncertain as the stars, before finally turning into something designed by fate itself. A phantom, wrapped within decaying robes of deepest nights, chains hung across its chest, uniting the two shoulder pads it wore. Billowing sleeves covered its arms, with hands like death coming from their ends. A hood covered its head, with shadows masking its head. the midsection revealed grey and malnourished abdominals, which heaved lightly to the creature's breath. Long black robes covered its legs, with a cloak of grey smoke descending from around it's waist, faces of indescribable horror appeared and vanished. “Destiny has called, and here I shall answer. I am yours to command Master Vile; as is destiny itself”, the creature answered in a dark and lamenting tone.

 

----------------------Later that day, in Angel Bay Park ----------------------

 

Chris (White Serpent Dragon Ranger), Jadin (Crimson Sabertooth Ranger), John (Red Raptor Ranger) met up in Angel Bay Park, not knowing what had happened there only a few hours prior.

“Why exactly did you call us here Chris? Seems like a waste of time?” Jadin looked at Chris slightly annoyed.

“Well that was a little harsh", John offered. "But yah. This seems a little out of the ordinary.”

Chris tried to explain. “Look, with the Sigma squad gone, we are short 3 powerful members. We have to make up for that.”

Jadin rolled his eyes. “Uhhh … they weren’t part of the team to begin with. Their departure just puts us where we were. No more, no less. Just right where we were.”

“That’s my point. We are the same, but Vile isn’t. Not to mention we have soo many more enemies than when we first started.”

“Sorry Chris, but I kind of agree with Jadin." John admitted. "We’re good as is. Joe, Caoimhin, Dominic, Sean, Star, and Kent can handle things. We’re just minor back up.”

“Don’t forget Izabel is now part of the team." Jadin reminded. "I mean yah, she’s no ranger, but she’s got Auric. I truly don’t see why you are soo worried.”

“Things may be fine now. But what if we’re faced with something worse."Chris tried to reason with them. "We’re just breaking even. And if we are back up … shouldn’t we be on an equal level and not beneath them? We can’t just sit back. It’s the fate of the world here.”

Jadin rolled his eyes again. “You seriously worry to much.”

John put his hand on Chris’ shoulder. “Things will be fine. Trust me. If something happens, we’ll adapt when it happens. We can never predict the future, so no use in preparing.”

Chris tried to fake a reassured look on his face; however, he thought to himself ‘just because we can’t prepare for the unknown, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.’

As they continued on walking they thought it seemed a little strange that there was no one in the park on such a beautiful day. They soon came upon a picnic ground that was completely trashed. Benches shattered, tress snapped into twigs, deep lines in the ground that look like claw marks. “What in the world happened here?”, thought John.

“We should call the team.” Chris said

“Please, we can probably handle this ourselves. But whatever, I’ll call.” Jadin sneered. Just as he pulled out his communicator to make the call, there was a loud screech. They looked up and saw something speeding straight towards them. Before they could react, it already had slammed them to the ground and flew off. It then circled and collided with them again. This time after the attack, it landed a few feet away. “You’re gonna pay for that you over grown canary,” Jadin declared.

“Really, that’s a bold claim?” Vile’s voice suddenly echoed all around them. Two snake spirits (on of gold and the other of purple) materialized and combined to form Master Vile.

“Here we go" Chris regretfully admitted, almost as though this was exactly the situation he was just worrying about. "…. OMEGA FORCE: White Ranger Power”

“Red Ranger Power” John shouted.

“Crimson Ranger Power” Jadin joined.

The ranger morphed and took a fighters stance. “We better call the others”, Chris advised.

“Oh don’t worry about that”, Vile sneered. I expect them to be here soon anyway. But in the mean time, let’s chat.”

“We have nothing to talk to you about”, John declared.

“Oh well that’s fine. I am the one who will be doing the talking. Or if you prefer, I can just skip the explanation and finish you now.”

Jadin laughed “Wow. Looks like someone’s full of himself. By all means Vile finish us.” He said sarcastically. “Anything to make you shut up.”

“Well if you insist my sabertoothed friend. Tetrarchs, come serve your master.” Just then, what appeared to be a meteor crashed into the ground to the left of where Vile was standing. As the smoke cleared, a tall, humanoid, yet still alien, machine of some sort took shape. It was about 7 feet tall. One arm was a massive sword, while the other had some sort of boxing glove apparatus.

A few seconds later the ground started to shake, almost as though footsteps were causing an earthquake. A lone figure appeared from the horizon. As he neared, the rangers could see that it was massive 4-armed giant. It was almost 10 feet tall, and covered in blue and gold armor, with a crimson red cape billowing in the wind. He took his place between Vile and the machine monster.

Finally, black smoke billowed from all around the park and condensed into a single form standing to the right of Vile, between him and the bird creature. He was the only one who was actually regular human height (about 6 foot). He looked like the grim reaper, and appeared to have the shadows actually attached to him.

The rangers were at a loss for words. “You wanted me to skip explanations, so I’ll get right down to it”, Vile admitted. He looked over towards the shadowy figure who had just appeared and said “Silence them.”

The Tetrarch listened to Vile's orders. Its hood dipped slightly. “Destiny cannot be changed, my lord, but it can be redirected”, the figure stated in a solemn voice. “Do not fear, those rangers will be destroyed easily” he announced as several shimmering threads appeared before him. Each thread was the color of one of the 3 rangers present. The Tetrarch formed a black sickle in one of his hands, and he took aim. “Destiny; however unchangeable, can be … cut short” he announced and with one swing, severed all three threads. In that instant, the rangers’ powers backfired on them. They were immediately inflicted with sharp pain and demorphed. They struggled to get back on their feet, but were far too weak and passed out. Chris barely managed to stay conscious long enough to see his morpher turn black and disintegrate.

 

---------------------- Back at the Ranger Base ----------------------

 

There were a volley of horrific painful cries. Seconds later, Commander Zedren made an emergency announcement over the intercom. “Will all rangers and personnel please report to the briefing room immediately for Code Red Scenario. This is not a drill. Code Red Scenario. All rangers and personnel report to the briefing room immediately.”

The base was in an uproar. Diabolico and Dominic emerged from their demon-sparing-match in the training room and headed immediately to the briefing room. Kent awoke from his nap and met up with Ecliptor and Andros who were also heading to the briefing room. Sean and Auric were in deep meditation when the alarm sounded, but they immediately joined the rest. Kat and Ashley wheeled Tommy, still suffering from unknown pains, to the room. Joseph and Izabel left their room and caught up with Star. “Star, what in the world is Code Red Scenario?” Joseph screamed over the blast of the sirens.

“I have an idea, but I can’t be sure. But to give you perspective … remember when Dom blew up the base? That was only code blue.” Joseph’s and Izabel’s conveyed shock and horror. All three picked up speed and ran into the briefing room entrance hall where they met the others. They all quickly exchanged glances and questions. Just then Zedren opened the door and let them into the newly expanded briefing room. As they entered, they spied Caoimhin reclining in Zedren’s chair. “Well it certainly took you all long enough.”

Joe looked pleasantly shocked, “What are you doing here? I was just thinking about calling you.”

“Please. If I would of waited for you to play that flute, I would of grown older.” Caoimhin smirked

Zedren walked in. He looked like a wreck, but managed to attempt a smile. “Caoimhin showed up as soon as I noticed the anomaly. I’ll explain.” He looked at Caoimhin. Caoimhin understood, stood up and allowed Zedren to take his seat. He motioned to everyone else to take a seat. He then took a deep breath and began to speak. “I’m sure you all heard those scream before. Well those … were the zords.” Everyone looked shocked and puzzled. “Three in particular, the white serpent zord, the crimson sabertooth zord, and the red raptor zord.” He paused and tried to hold back some anger. “They’re gone.” Everyone’s hearts skipped a beat. And immediately all barraged Zedren with questions. He raised his hand to ask for silence, and he got it. He continued. “Somehow Chris’s, Jadin’s, and John’s powers have been destroyed. And with them - their zords.”

Star spoke, “Sir, was it the morphing grid? Was it compromised.”

Zedren shook his head. “That’s what I thought at first, but that wouldn’t explain the zords’ disappearance. Caoimhin luckily provided the answer to me.” He turned to him as if to plead that he tell his part.

Caoimhin turned to face the group. “I’m sure you all remember the tablets on the Island of creation that depict the ancient zords.” Everyone nodded. “Well the serpent zord as you remember was a ancient one. Its image was mysteriously erased from the tablets at the same time those cries were apparently heard. I immediately came here to inform you all, only to find out from Zedren that the zords themselves had disappeared.” He then motioned to Zedren to conclude the situation.

Zedren continued, “It’s not that the connections to their powers were destroyed, but rather the powers themselves. As of the moment, we have no idea how this could of happened, but we must remain vigilant. Whatever did this has a truly dangerous power.”

The word ‘power’ struck a chord with Diabolico and reminded him of something. “Wait” he shouted. “I don’t know if it could be connected, but a few days ago when I was scanning the city and the World Army attacked from the future, I sensed … something powerful. I lost focus on it with the interruption, but it came from Angel Bay park.”

“Do you think it could be the same thing? Why didn’t you tell us about this sooner.” Zedren said in a slightly harsh tone.

“I’m dreadfully sorry sir. I can take you all to where I sensed the power levels.”

“It’s alright Diabolico. What’s past is past. Take the rangers to the location. The rest of us will remain here and see if there is anything we can do to try to make sense of the situation.” The rangers all nodded and prepared to depart with Diabolico.

Joseph took Auric to the side and asked that he and Izabel remain at the base. I think it’d be better for you guys to stay here for protection until we have an idea of what we’re facing. “

“Well if you remember, since you gave the key to Izabel for protection, you put Izabel in charge of Auric. You don’t really have much of a say anymore.” Auric smiled tring to lighten the situation. “You don’t need to worry of her safety,” he reassured.

Joseph’s tone got even more serious, “But if this thing could destroy all traces of those powers, I’m afraid of what else he could do.”

“A valid concern. Fine. Auric shall delay young Izabel here, but if you need assistance. Please. Don’t delay in calling.”

“We won’t. Thanks buddy.”

“Anytime.”

 

----------------------Moments later, in Angel Bay Park ----------------------

 

Joseph, Caoimhin, Dominic, Sean, Star, and Kent all touched down with Diabolico leading them. They immediately found Chris, Jadin, and John passed out on the ground. The rangers tried to awaken them, but they were still far too weak from the backfire. “They’ll need a lot of rest.” Star said as she held the Starlight over them Their powers are indeed gone. There is nothing we can do.”

“Could we give them new powers? Like what happened when I lost mine?” Sean asked.

“Sadly no. For one, making powers aren’t that easy. We had been working on the Emerald Powers for quite sometime. It would take us years to create new ones. And more importantly, their bodies aren’t as receptive as your Sean. Their bodies wouldn’t be strong enough.”

“Well if you ask me you should all be worried about your own bodies” a voice suddenly said. The rangers all turned and saw Master Vile walk out from behind a tree.

“VILE!” They all said in unison.

“RANGERS!” He said in a mocking voice. “Haha. Did you expect anyone else?”

“Sorry. But with Gargantia, Deos and Loki … we kind of forgot about you as being a threat.” Dominic snickered.

This struck a definite nerve with Vile, but he tried to compose himself. “Now now wolf-boy, is that any way to speak to your former master? And I was going to consider giving you a chance to rejoin me.” He paused and looked away. “Kidding of course”, he turned back and smirked.

“Get to the point Vile”, Kent said annoyed. “We have more important things right now.”

“Oh, you mean like your friends’ sudden loss of power?” Vile smiled.

“How did you know about that?”

“Haha. My dear boy. Allow me to show you all first hand.” Vile then snapped his fingers. Nothing. The rangers kept alert, but still saw nothing. Just then Diabolico felt that energy signal again.

“It’s here. That power I sensed is back, and it’s even stronger.” He said in a frantic voice. The rangers still didn’t sense anything, but then a huge blast erupted from beneath them. They were all thrown about 15 feet in various directions. They were stunned, but still okay. As they got back on their feet, they saw 4 figures standing between them and Vile.

Sean turned to Diabolico, “Are any of those things the thing you sensed?”

“Yes,” he responded. “The bird looking one is the one I sensed, but all of their power levels are enormous. Each higher than the last.”

Vile now spoke as the rangers regrouped “Allow me to introduce you all to my team, The Tetrarchs. The avian looking fellow on the right is GriffEnd, the master of mobility. Just try to catch him off guard. Actually, just trying to catch him in general is nearly impossible. The alien looking fellow on the left is Meteor Knight. They say the best offense is a good defense, or was it the best defense is a good offense. Either way, he’s the master of both – since he uses both in every situation. I realize that doesn’t make much sense, but it will if you are stupid enough to attack him.” He paused for a moment and let this information sink in. He then motioned to the tallest of the group. “Now allow me to introduce you all to the 3rd Tetrarch. Although ... I'm sure at least two of you already know him" he looks over and smiles menacingly at Joe and Caoimhin.

“I've never seen that guy in my life, but something does seem familiar.” Joe admitted

"I have sense its strength before. And the stench of Tartarus is very strong. Yet, I can't tell who this creature is." Caoimhin deduced

"Allow me to give you a hint guardian,” Vile offered. “He gave your ancestors quite a bit of trouble, or rather they were troublesome to him. Depending on how you look at it."

"Many have given my ancestors some trouble, so how could I possibly know who this is?"

Vile laughed “True indeed.”

“Wait” Joseph realized. “Tartarus? You mean where I found the blade? The only monster I saw in there was that gorgon. I mean I'm sure there's more, but that's all I saw.”

Vile knew Joseph was close. “Are you sure that’s the only entity you saw?”

"Yeah. The only other thing in there was .... wait. Caoimhin, please don't tell me that's..." Joe got a disgusted look on his face. Almost as though he didn't wish to accept what he just realized.

"You recognize that creature, young Joseph?"

"Remember when I emerged from Tartarus with the Genesis Blade, well ... I didn't do it alone. There was someone there. A Titan named Atlas. He aided me - and made me promise not to reveal his presence to you for fear that you might hunt him like Zeus and Hades did. But I believe ... that monstrosity is him ... or at least was." Vile could be heard laughing in the background.

"Atlas! But how? There's no way he could have escaped on his own."

"I remember when I spoke with him, he told me that Zordon had freed him ages ago and returned a portion of his strength and magic. In return, Atlas was to watch over the blade. I guess with the blade gone, so too was Atlas's bondage to Tartarus." Joseph reasoned

"Then I shall send him back to Tartarus myself" Caoimhin began to chant ancient words and created a vortex. Chains flew out of it and wrapped around Atlas' arms and legs. "Return to Tartarus and forever suffer for your treachery."

"What are you doing?!" Joe shouted, but just before he was about to consider interfering, Atlas flexed his mighty muscles and shattered the chains as well as the vortex. The resulting explosion sent Joe, Caoimhin as well as the other rangers flying back again.

Vile laughed "Hahaha. Valiant attempt guardian, but Atlas is far too strong to be sealed away like that. Now, mentally he was as weak and brittle as they come, but I've restored his strength to full. You only have a portion of Hades strength, but you are not Hades himself. It'll take much more than that to stop him.”

"I'm not about to let my ancestors down. I will send him back to Tartarus somehow, today" Caoimhin got back up and then morphed into the Hades Ranger.

Vile laughed again. “Before the fun starts ... allow me to introduce the leader of this group.”

"Wait, Atlas isn't the leader?" Star spoke up

"Oh God no my dear. Allow me to introduce the true leader, think of him as the physical manifestation of not only my power ... but of destiny. He's the one responsible for your friends’ condition.” He motioned to Chris, Jadin, and John who were still unconscious. “Allow me to introduce ... Legion" He motioned towards the last Tetrarch, who stood there menacingly.

“Now originally I decided to make this team with the hopes of rivaling you all; however, I am pleasantly surprised at how much these 4 have exceeded my expectations. So this is how I look at it. GriffEnd will take care of all you. MeteorKnight will deal with Gargantia. Atlas will handle Loki. And finally, Legion here will handle Deos. They are the perfect tools for the job, don’t you think?” He asked the rangers.

“Well I think someone is a little full of themselves.” Kent replied. “Hope you’re not too hurt when we ruin your plan by destroying these four right now.”

“Hahaha. And you said I was full of myself”, Vile laughed.

“I’ve had enough of this.” Joe declared angrily right before he morphed. Sean and Kent nodded in agreement and morphed as well.

“Looks like I’ve found 4 new punching bags”, Dominic smirked and then morphed as well. Star smiled at him and then morphed as well. Diabolico grabbed Chris, Jadin, and John and tried to move them a safe distance.

The six rangers took their stances while contemplating how to divide up their attacks. All they knew was that they couldn’t afford to underestimate these 4 monsters. If Vile was telling the truth about these Tetrarch’s then this would be the begging of the toughest fight of their lives…

 

[Fallen Hero]

EDIT: Interesting episode and with the White Serpent Dragon and Panther zords gone the rangers are one megazord down as well. Shame for Ayasato.

 

Still, it'll be fun finding out what the Tetrarchs are like in battle.

[Kōsuke Ueki]

My zord isn't gone. My zord was never mentioned to be gone. The Orange Panther, yes, but the Emerald, no. Oh, and DNova, have you forgotten about the rule of Script Format? Even with Fics, it's not allowed. Sorry.

[L0rdL0ss]

Power rangers?

[Nexev]

And I still don't know what I look like....

[Fallen Hero]

My zord isn't gone. My zord was never mentioned to be gone. The Orange Panther' date=' yes, but the Emerald, no. Oh, and DNova, have you forgotten about the rule of Script Format? Even with Fics, it's not allowed. Sorry.

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I know the panther zord isn't gone completely but i can't see your new zord still being part of the Angelus Megazord again, which it was part of if you look back at the drawing, but it doesn't matter now as the White Serpent Dragon is gone right now anyways.

[Proto]

Same with me Nexy, but I think that we'll look okay!

[DNovaKnight]

What do you mean script format? I'll fix it

 

Edit: OK, fixed :D If anything else is wrong just let me know

[Kōsuke Ueki]

How about you do what I did with the Season 1 Episodes? Split the paragraphs so I'll know what is happening a lot easier.