Before leaving the battle area, the rangers power their morphers down and de-morph. Ghest chooses to keep his costume on for now, as he does not wish his identity to be discovered in such an open area. This is okay with the rangers and they get into their various cars and motorized vehicles and drive back to their headquarters. Ghest flies along above them. As they pull into their garage, Scott notifies Dr. K that they've arrived.
"We're back" he tells her "and we've brought the stranger. Are you ready to meet him?"
She abruptly stands up from her computer desk in the laboratory and responds.
"Negative, Ranger Red. Keep him right where you are and I will be down to join you."
She rushes to hide various programs from the computer screen and thinks to herself how reckless it was for the rangers to have just brought an unknown and potentially dangerous individual right into their sanctuary and place of residence.
"Nobody's looking at my data" Dr. K says to herself as she heads from the lab to join the others. "I don't care how-"
She makes her way to the garage at the moment Ghest dematerializes his costume off.
"-tall and handsome he is."
She shakes it off, and regains her focus. Ghest's species doesn't classify themselves by race, but he appears to be African American. He decides to start the introductions.
"My name is Fries Mahoghan and in battle, I am called Ghest. I come from a world in another dimension called Diactalon and my people are called Morphozoids. Some criminals from my world decided to travel to Earth and conquer it, so I followed with my family and my teammates, but this was an alternate Earth to this one. I recently learned that my suit's powers include a teleportation ability across other dimensions, so I tested it out and arrived here."
"Alternate worlds?" Dillon skeptically asks. "That's ridiculous."
"On the contrary, Ranger Black" Dr. K interrupts "During my days in Alphabet Soup, I participated in a number of experiments in wormhole technology and researched countless theories on the validity of different worlds occupying the same dimensional space as our own. An ancient legend even spoke of a mythical Sacred Treasure, containing coins that granted their users the means to travel to these places. However, such an item is obviously just a myth."
"Well, maybe it is" Fries says "but I'm telling you the truth. I'm not from here, wherever this actually is. I get the feeling I'm not on Vancouver Island anymore."
"This is Corinth." Scott tells him. "The last place on Earth that Venjix hasn't destroyed."
"Who is Venjix?" Fries asks.
"Venjix is a living computer virus" Summer explains. "Three years ago it took control of the entire planet's computers and unleashed an army of robots to destroy the Earth."
"That's terrible" he responds. "Nothing like that was going on the Earth I came from. Everything there was just, well, normal. And you guys are here to fight them off? Who are you?"
Scott looks surprised. "I thought Ziggy explained all that during the fight with the Grinders."
"He told me that he was your leader and your most powerful member, and you all look up to him."
The others give Ziggy dirty looks.
"You said that?" Scott says, looking directly at Ziggy.
Fries continues. "Yeah, and he added that the girls are all crazy for him."
Summer and Gemma make disgusted faces.
"I would have to be crazy in order for that to occur", replies Dr. K. Ziggy looks disappointed by the response.
"I am Dr. K", she continues. "I invented the Ranger Series technology to defeat Venjix' armies. Scott operates the Series Red morpher, and though he might make decisions that go against my judgement, he has proven himself a capable and effective leader. He is well complimented by Flynn and Summer, respective Series Blue and Yellow operators. Flynn possesses great mechanical ability, and both are driven by their unique hearts. Dillon operates the Series Black morpher, and came to us with no memory of his former life and has been turned part machine by Venjix. Though his attitude may be perceived as "difficult" from time to time, he has left little doubt in our minds to his noble intentions. Gem and Gemma operate the Series Gold and Silver technology, and are my oldest and dearest friends. They stood at my side even when I was facing certain demise at the hands of my captors.
Gem and Gemma grin, as in most situations.
Ziggy clears his throat, and then asks "Aren't you forgetting someone?" in a lighthearted tone.
Dr. K's face instantly turns serious. "Ranger Green does not possess the physical or emotional requirements one would normally hold to wield the Series Green morpher, and his few actual skills, notably the use of shadow puppets and routine running of his mouth, serve little to no assistance in battle. Despite this, he has not been destroyed by Venjix, so is therefore doing something right."
"I assume there was a compliment somewhere in all that" Ziggy replies.
"Okay, that explains who the rangers are, but I still don't know what an attack bot is" says Fries.
"Attack bot?" asks Scott. "What about an attack bot?"
"After I arrived, Tenaya mistook me for an orange ranger, and then said that if I was here to stop her attack bot then I was early."
"Attack bots are highly advanced humanoid combat ready machines that Venjix sends to infiltrate the city and do battle with the rangers" Dr. K explains. "I believe from Tenaya's remarks that one has already been sent.
She starts to run back to the lab.
"I'll track it from my computer. You go on ahead."
The rangers jump into their vehicles and take it to the streets, with Fries flying above.
"Rangers, I've located the attack bot" Dr. K communicates to the team by radio. "It has surfaced from underground just two miles west of you."
The heroes arrive and see the large deadly robot causing havoc. This attack bot in particular is shaped like a giant radiator with arms and legs. The rangers and Fries morph into their costumes, the rangers using their morphers and Ghest at will. As the robot turns to face them, Gem and Gemma take out their Cloud Hatchet daggers. From where they stand, Gem shoots a blast of energy with his at the attack bot, and Gemma a blast of ice. The ice blast disappears on route, and the energy blast has little to no effect. Ziggy summons his Turbo Axe and runs in to do battle with the robot. The closer he gets, the more uncomfortable things get for him.
"Whoa, who turned up the heat?" he remarks.
It's so hot near the robot that he can barely manage to lift the axe, but when he does he notices something disturbing: The blade is slightly melting. He runs back to the others before it can get damaged further.
"Guys, I could barely get close to it", he tells them. "It was like a blast furnace."
Scott, Flynn and Summer combine the Street Saber, Turbo Cannon and Zip Charger into the larger Road Blaster. They fire at the robot, but the blast diminishes on the way just like the dagger blasts did. They got the attack bot's attention with the attempt, and it shoots a long stream of fire at them. Dillon runs ahead of everyone right in the path of the flame and activates his suit's invincibility shield to protect himself and the others. The shield only lasts for five seconds, which was barely enough to outlast the stream.
"I'll handle this" Ghest tells the rangers. "The Ghest force is heat based. I can take that kind of pressure."
He hovers above the ground and flies right in the robot's path. It releases more flames, and Ghest flies higher to dodge them.
"Spikes of Fury!"
He activates his blades and uses them strike the robot from several corners, disabling it's flamethrower. Ghest lands and fires one of his own heat blasts to finish him off. The robot falls behind him and explodes.
From it's factory lair, the Venjix virus is monitoring the battle.
"Begin the download!" it commands.
