The original Green Ranger and the Goujen were charging for the helpless Power Rangers. They lost their uniforms, their weapons, their power coins and their hope. But the Aquitian Rangers didn't lose their thirst for water!
"Water! Water!" they moaned, as they fell down. Some rangers held them.
"Tommy, no!" But the original Green Ranger and the Goujen kept coming closer and closer and closer! Then... From a scream and a kick, the original Green Ranger fell down. The Goujen fell down from three strikes.
The Rangers turned around to see a Zeo Ranger in a purple uniform with a hexagon shape on her helmet.
"Starting this party without me? How could you?" she joked.
"Aisha?" Everyone was surprised.
The Purple Zeo Ranger charged for the original Green Ranger and knocked him down. Then she drew her Zeo axe and cut the Goujen into pieces.
"All right, who's next?" the Purple Zeo Ranger demanded. She got her answer when the Emperor Ludgit waved his staff to her and Aisha became as helpless as the other Rangers.
"I guess I'm out of date," sighed Aisha.
"No, you're not," said Kimberly gently.
"We've tried our hardest and we've been no better than you," added Adam.
"STOP!" ordered the Emperor of the Ludgits. Everyone stopped. "Everyone seems to be having problems with this tournament. Tomorrow we shall move to the Giant Stadium in the outskirts and then they shall fight against the Zords! Put them in the dungeon!"
The Ludgits cheered as the Power Rangers and Patley were dragged away.
Soon they were thrown in their dark, cold and rocky and dungeon cell. But they had one, or two really, bright sides.
"Zordon!"
"Alpha!"
"Rangers! It is indeed a miracle to see you. All of you," Zordon smiled.
"I never lost hope," said Alpha Five.
"Zordon, I must tell you that the Emperor kidnapped Tommy again and made him the Evil Green Ranger again," Jason said.
"And we need water!" moaned Tideus.
"Alpha, help the Aquitian Rnagers get their water," Zordon ordered.
"Right away, Zordon," replied Alpha. The little robot helped the Aquitian Rangers to the puddle. It was dirty, but they considered themselves lucky to drink water nonetheless.
"I know about Tommy," Zordon told the other rangers. "I know what the Ludgits are capable of."
"You mean you bumped into them before?" asked Zack.
"Yes, Zackery, they are my oldest enemies before I had to fight Rita Repulsa," answered Zordon sadly.
"You were there and you led my species to battle against the Ludgits," added Patley.
"Yes, Patley. I led them, but I was quickly banished by the Emperor and his staff. I tried to come back, but I got caught in the battle with Rita and I failed."
"Zordon, it's not your fault," sympathized Trini.
"Yes, you did come back and you never gave up," added Patley.
"But how are we suppose to get out of here?" asked Kimberly. "We couldn't defeat Tommy or that monster and now we'll be fighting something bigger tomorrow!"
"If you don't believe in yourselves and surrender, you will fail," Zordon said.
The Rangers stood there, thinking about what they could do.
The next morning, the Rangers were transported to the Giant Stadium. They were standing before the original Green Ranger and the Goujen.
Jason exhaled and braced himself. "I did it before once, Tommy, I can do it again," he whispered.
The Rangers braced themselves too, despite no powers and no weapons. But as if that wasn't bad enough, they saw an entire battalion of Ludgits and then they morphed into the Power Ludgit Rangers! They wore the uniforms and they had their weapons.
"Okay, guys, let's try it!" ordered Jason. Then he and the other rangers charged for the Green Ranger and the Ludgit Rangers. They fought as best as they could, but the Ludgit Rangers were no match for them; not because they had the uniforms and the power weapons, but they managed to mimic their every moves of each and every one of them.
That's how it seemed to everyone, except Kimberly when she was thrown into a section of the wall near her. She saw a hole there and she crept through.
"Oh, this is so gross!" she complained, as she passed through the tunnel of cobwebs and dust. Then she heard moaning. She followed it and peeked around the corner to see...
"Tommy!" she shrieked as she ran to him. He was in chains and he looked very weak.
"Tommy?" repeated Kimberly. "It's me, Kim. What's happened? How can you be here and be out there – Wait a minute! That one up there must be an evil clone. Come on, Tommy!"
Kimberly tried to break the chains off, but it was no good. She gave up, but then she saw something that seemed useful...
Back at the stadium, the Rangers were thrown to the ground. They were badly beaten up and the Aquitian Rangers were drying up like fish.
"Now, Power Rangers, you shall now be finished!" laughed the Evil Green Ranger. "Starting with you, Jason." He began to strike, but then he was pushed away.
"Is everyone all right?" asked Kimberly, running on the stadium.
"Is that the real Tommy?" asked Trini.
Everyone was then seeing the original Green Ranger fighting the original White Ranger! The Green Ranger knocked the White Ranger down and prepared to strike him, but the White Ranger drew out Saba his old sword and put him in the Green Ranger's chest. The Green Ranger vanished into thin air.
"Tommy! It's you!" the rangers cheered as they ran to greet them.
Then the White Ranger's uniform vanished, leaving a confused Tommy to wonder what happened.
"What happened?" he asked.
Then they all turned around to see the freed Ninjor fighting Ludgits with his swords.
"That was your old White Ranger power morpher that had little power left," answered Ninjor. "I see you did not waste it in vain. Now, if you'll excuse me..."
Ninjor jumped right to the Emperor's balcony, knocked down the guards and sent his staff out of the Emperor's hand and flying in the air, knocking the power morphers off! The Rangers found their own power morphers and they quickly morphed back into the Power Rangers.
"This is more like it!" cheered the original Black Ranger.
"Yeah, now we can do some good!" added the yellow Zeo Ranger.
"So can we now we've got our suits back!" praised the black Aquitian Ranger. The other Aquitian Rangers joined him in agreement.
"All right! Let's draw our weapons and get our Zords back!" ordered the Red Zeo Ranger. The Rangers drew out their weapons and they ran for the Emperor, but then the ground rumbled. Behind them, the giant gates opened and the Ninja Zords and the Shougun Zords appeared before them.
"I will not be defeated that easily," said the Emperor. "I have a few tricks up my sleeves." Then he picked up the original Green Ranger's flute dagger and began playing it.
What joined the Zords was more Zords – the Dragonzord, the Dinozords, Titanus the Carrierzord, the Thunderzords, the Tigerzord and Tor the Shuttlezord.
"Oh, great!" moaned the green Zeo Ranger.
"What do we do now?" asked the original Pink Ranger.
"Oh, man! We need a miracle!" sighed the blue Zeo Ranger.
"A miracle you shall have!" yelled a voice. Everyone looked up to see Auric the Conqueror landing next to the old Zords.
"Auric? Where have you been?" asked the red Zeo Ranger.
"I've landed on the moon since our last encounter and I've been trying to get back to Earth, then I heard you guys were in trouble so I thought I could come here and lend a hand," Auric answered.
The Zords charged for Auric. Auric drew out his weapons and started knocking the zords down, one by one.
"Well done, Auric!" cheered the Power Rangers.
"Piece of wire cake!" smiled Auric modestly.
"But this won't be!" The Emperor jumped down, grabbed his staff and made the each Zord turn into their megazords and then into their ultrazords.
"Oh, darn!" sighed Auric. He knew he didn't have a chance, but anyway he braced himself prepared himself. Ninjor jumped from the Emperor's balcony, grew bigger and turned into his warrior mode. Four ultrazords against two giant robots? Not a chance!
"Ninjor! Auric! We gotta help!" cried the blue Zeo Ranger.
"Billy, what do you suggest?" asked the red Zeo Ranger.
"Well, I don't have anything that will bring the Zeo Zords or the Super Zeo Zords here," answered the original Blue Ranger.
"Maybe I can bring Pyramidas here!" suggested the Gold Ranger. So he tried to summon Pyramidas with his staff and it seemed to come but, when it seemed to make it halfway, it stopped and then it vanished completely. "I don't understand it," said the Gold Ranger.
"I have the shield around this planet, so no one and nothing can get in," smiled the Emperor evilly.
"Come on, guys, let's get him!" ordered the red Zeo Ranger.
The Power Rangers charged for him, but he vanished. Then he giant gates opened again and there came another strange-looking zord-like machine. It looked like a giant Ludgit in an amour and it drew out its war hammer!
"Behold the Ludzord!" cried the Emperor inside the machine.
The Ludzord knocked Auric and Ninjor down to the ground. They seemed very weak.
"I've got it!" cried the original Blue Ranger. "Let's try jumping into the Ninja and Shogun Zords and defeat the other Zords."
"What?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Well, I don't have a better idea!" snapped the original Blue Ranger. "Besides the other zords must be fake. We saw the original Zords destroyed by Rito."
"Yeah, you're right," said the red Zeo Ranger. "Come on, guys!"
The Zeo Rangers jumped into the Ninja Megazord and saw no one in it. The original Blue Ranger fiddled with the controls, but nothing happened and the machine was rumbling about.
The Aquitian Rangers had no better success with the Shogun Megazord.
"It's not working!" yelled the yellow Aquitian Ranger.
The original Blue Ranger had been thinking. "Maybe it's all coming from the power of the Emperor's staff. We must get inside the Ludzord and destroy it."
"Okay, let's go!" ordered the original Red Ranger.
The original Power Rangers jumped into the Ludzord. The Emperor turned around and attacked the Rangers with his staff, but the Rangers had their power weapons out and the original Red Ranger's sword broke it into pieces.
The Rangers and the Emperor fell out of the exploding Ludzord. The Dino Megazord and the Thunder Megazord vanished completely and the other Megazords were in the power of the Power Rangers.
"Good job, you guys," said the red Zeo Ranger.
On the ground, the Power Rangers jumped up and saw the Emperor inspecting his staff.
"It's all over, your highness," said the original Red Ranger. "Give it up!"
"Never!" snapped the Emperor. "With this last power in this staff..." Then the Emperor grew ten times his normal size. "Now I shall destroy you Power Rangers and the universe will be mine!"
"I don't think so!" cried the red Zeo Ranger. "Come on, guys! Let's do it!"
"Right!" replied the other Power Rangers.
The Falconzord connected itself with the Ninja Megazord. It flew in the air and knocked the Emperor down with its fists. The Shogun Megazord jumped into Titanus and they gave all they had to the Emperor.
As the Emperor exploded into pieces, the Ludgits moaned and groaned as they turned back into Jayturses, much to Patley's happiness. Soon the stony, rusty and deserted civilization was back to what it once was: a civilized civilization, with everything looking brand new and everyone being happily busy. What's more, the whole dusty brown planet had water and green trees and planets.
The next day, before anything else, guess what they did? They crowned the new Emperor of the Jayturs Civilization. Who? Patley, that was who.
After he was crowned, he went to the stadium where the Power Rangers, Ninjor, Zordon and Alpha Five waiting by the Zords.
"Before you go, I want to thank you very much for saving the Jayturs race and for ridding the world of the Ludgits, Power Rangers," said Emperor Patley. "And thank you, Zordon, for coming back."
"Thank you for letting me fulfil an ambition I longed to achieve," said Zordon.
"Are you sure you want to stay here, Auric?" asked the blue Zeo Ranger.
"Yeah, they've offered me a home here," answered Auric. "But if you need my help on Earth, I will come."
"Oh, thanks, Auric," smiled the red Zeo Ranger.
"Goodbye," said Auric and Emperor Patley to the Power Rangers, who waved and said, "Goodbye" back as they were teleported off the surface of the planet.
Back on Earth, the Command Chamber was rebuilt and the power was back on.
"Thank you very much, Power Rangers and Friends," smiled Zordon. "Thank you very much for answering my call of need and for helping finish a battle I long fought. Wherever you go now, it's entirely your choice and may the Power protect you."
"It's been a pleasure working with you once again, Zordon," smiled Delphine. "Come on, Billy. Let's get back to Aquitar."
"Coming," Billy said. Then he turned to his friends. "It's been fun, guys. I don't mean just this mission; I mean all the good times we've had together."
"It wouldn't be awesome without you," said Zack sadly.
After a big hug from all of his friends, Billy and the Aquitian Rangers teleported away.
"Well, time we were off, too," said one of the bodies of Trey.
"Thank you, Trey, for coming," said Tommy, shaking hands with the body.
"We wouldn't have missed it for the world," said the second body.
Then off Trey went.
The original Power Rangers returned their Power Coins to Ninjor. "Thank you very much for aiding us, Ninjor," said Kimberly.
"Don't mention it," said Ninjor. "Now I must return to the Temple. Farewell." And he teleported away.
"I'm sorry I ruined your spare Zeo morpher, Zordon," apologized Aisha, giving the broken morpher to Alpha Five.
"Don't worry, I can fix it," said Alpha.
"Besides, it was good to see you again," said Adam, hugging her.
"It's moments like these that make me feel proud to choose you as Power Rangers," said Zordon. "Even though you are leaving, I always view you as Power Rangers, when when you left before."
Later, at Angel Grove Park, Tommy and his friends sat down at a picnic. Then who should bump into their picnic, but Bulk and Skull?
"What do you guys think you're doing?" asked Tanya as they were looking through their picnic.
"We search the whole park, asked everyone and we still can't find Lt. Stone's cake," replied Bulk, panicking.
"Yeah, if we don't find it, he'll have our heads," added Skull.
"BOYS!" yelled the voice of Lt. Stone. Bull and Skull sheepishly turned to face him. "Have you found the cake yet?"
"To tell you the truth, sir, no," answered Bulk.
"Well, I have," said Stone. He reached for something in his pocket. It was... the cake!
"You had it along?" gasped Skull.
"Yes," answered Stone. "You see, boys, all this time you were on a task: To find the cake. One thing you didn't do: give me questions, so that's why you failed the challenge. You know what failure means, boys?"
Bulk and Skull just gasped and screamed. Then they ran off.
"Hey, come back here, boys!" yelled Lt. Stone, chasing them.
Tommy and his friends laughed at this. Then, when sunset arrived, it was time for everyone to go their own way. Alpha Five met up with them and he sent Aisha back to Africa, he sent Kimberly back to Florida and he sent Trini and Zack back to the World Peace Conference. Jason said goodbye to his friends and he walked off.
"It's amazing how powerful friends can be," sniffed Alpha.
"Yeah, you're right, Alpha," smiled Tommy, putting his arm around him.
THE END
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers to Power Rangers Zeo created by Saban Entertainment