Chapter 1

"Finster!" called out the evil intergalactic witch, the infamous Rita Repulsa, as she made her way furiously towards a lab filled with clay sculptures that were only a few inches tall, and occupied by a large machine in the color of bronze. When she didn't get an answer after a couple of seconds, she violently slammed the bottom of her moon-like staff at the floor.

"You barked, your evilness?" a short being, who resembled a very white dog emerged from his working spot. He had a pair of glasses over his eyes, and a blue band wrapped around his forehead. He wore navy blue overall, hung by round metallic plates.

"Finster, I need you to make me a monster." Said Rita, as she looked through Finster's inventory, wiggling her fingers as if petting the clay sculptures.

"Well of course." Said Finster, as he stood by her and searched through another line of monsters, "Which should I make? An antelope that can shoot water? Or maybe a rhino that chews on cars? I know! A motorcycle that can penetrate a Ranger through his mouth and destroy him from the inside!"

"No, no, none of that!" growled Rita, "I want you to make me a monster that will annihilate Jason, the Red Ranger once and for all!"

Finster held his index finger high in the air, as he made a 180 turn on the spot, and walked back to his desk. He picked up an old, brown book and opened it. He quickly browsed through the book's pages, until he stopped at one of them. Finster then picked the book up and put it in front of his mistress. He pointed his index finger at one of the pictures, and said: "Do you remember King Sphinx?"

"How could I forget? That monster was a complete failure!" said Rita, and turned her head from the book, searching for an interesting monster somewhere around Finster's lab.

"Yes, but he also helped us realize the Red Ranger's greatest weakness: he's powerless when he's separated from the others!" said Finster, while rubbing both his hands together excitedly.

"Last time we tried that, his friends found him!" said Rita, dismissing his plan.

"True, but I have a plan that will work. Do you remember the Dark Maze?" asked Finster, as he browsed through his monster book once again.

Rita's eyes lit up as she recalled the Dark Maze. It was every villain's dream, a spot, caught between dimensions, built like a maze with only one way to get in and one way to get out. A maze filled with every trap and danger possible and impossible. The maze included thing so twisted that even Rita's evil mind couldn't think of. Every villain in the universe might have wanted the maze, but it was all Rita's. Last time she used it was possibly 12,000 years ago, with it she defeated Zordon's warriors on Golluck 22, and conquered the planet.

"Yes! Finster you're brilliant! The Dark Maze is exactly what we need." She said, ecstatic. "What are you waiting for? Create a monster that will lead the Red Ranger directly the Dark Maze!"

"Right away, your evilness." Replied Finster, as he grabbed a fresh piece of clay and a knife, and began giving shape to his new monsters.

"Once the Red Ranger is destroyed, the other Rangers will fall at my feet!" called out Rita, and laughed evilly.