Will jumped into the air, bringing out his power ax. Dora-Sphinx spun around and revealed his sphinx form. Will brought down his ax and the sphinx blocked it with his staff. Will spun around hoping to nail him with a roundhouse kick. The sphinx leaned back to avoid the attack. Their weapons clashed more.

"Riddle me this, Black Ranger," the Sphinx said. "When you need me, you toss me away. When you're done, you bring me back. What am I?"

"I'm not playing your games," Will said.

"I'm not asking you to play games. I want you to answer my riddles. If you don't, I'll beat you up and down the street. The only way to beat me is to answer my riddles. So what am I?"

"I don't know," Will said. The sphinx looked disappointed.

"An anchor, dumbass." The sphinx knocked Will's arms upward and whacked him in the chest with his staff. Sparks erupted, knocking Will backward.

"I'm a math and science type of guy," Will said. "Not literature."

"That sucks for you then," Sphinx said. "I stay in a corner but a travel around the world. What am I?"

Will attacked again but couldn't land a single blow. The sphinx either dodged or blocked his attacks.

"I don't know," Will said. "A box in the corner of the plane?" The sphinx was disappointed again.

"Wrong again, Black Ranger." He hit Will again with his staff, resulting in Will to be thrown to the ground. "Think outside the box. The answer is a stamp. You know? The corner of an envelope?"

"I'd much rather beat your ass right now without the riddles," Will said.

"It can't be so straight forward," the sphinx said. "You have to learn to adapt to the situation, or you will lose. Now, what was the largest island before Australia was discovered?"

Will flipped his ax around to its blaster mode. "Well, Australia. It was still there just undiscovered." The sphinx widened his eyes.

"Nice j…" The sphinx was knocked back by the Power Ax's laser blasts. He flipped it back around to its ax mode before sprinting in to attack. He got in one strike before the sphinx was able to block the rest. "You surprised me."

"I can do much more than that," Will said. He came in with another attack that was blocked by the staff. They held the position for a moment before Will kicked the sphinx in the chest. The blow caused the sphinx to stumble back. It didn't cause as much damage as Will would have liked.

Will leapt backward to give himself some space from the sphinx. He needed to catch the sphinx off guard somehow. It seemed to be very good at reading attacks and the only time he's been able to land hits on it was after answering riddles correctly. He wondered if it was because its focus faltered when he answered correctly or if his own focus faltered after getting an answer wrong. Could that part be all in his head. There didn't seem to be any real trick to it.

The sphinx looked ready to attack again. Will cocked his arm back and launched his power ax at his opponent. The sphinx easily dodged the simple attack. Will pulled his arm back and the sphinx realized what had happened a little too late. He turned around just as the ax's blade struck him.

The sphinx shot to his feet, aiming his staff at Will. Energy bolts lashed out from its tip in rapid succession. Will dove to avoid getting hit as small explosions erupted around him. He threw his ax again and the sphinx dodged again by ducking. The ax was stuck in the tree behind the sphinx.

"Your trick isn't going to work again," it said as he fired more energy bolts at Will. Will ran around to avoid the blasts and darted behind another tree. He pulled out his Blade Blaster, extending its blade. He sprinted toward the sphinx, who was firing more energy bolts.

Suddenly, the sphinx was struck in the back by an energy blast. The force sent him flying toward Will, who took a swipe across the sphinx's face with his blade blaster. Will then spun around and kicked the sphinx out into the street. The sphinx stood up dazed from the attacked. At first he didn't know where the other blast came from but then remembered the ranger's ax also acted as a blaster.

"You're more clever than I give you credit," it said. "Attaching a wire to your ax and using it to fly back at me with the first attack was good but making me think you were doing the same attack when I reality you were trying to keep my focus on you while you used another tree as a pulley to pull the trigger of your ax and shoot me in the back was even better. That was nice."

Will wielded his ax once more and charged again. Their weapons clashed, causing sparks to fly with each point of impact. Will hooked the staff with the lower tip of his blade and pushed it down. With his free hand, he punched the sphinx in the face until dropped his staff and jumped back to give itself some distance. Will kicked the staff away. He flipped his ax to its blaster mode and fired at the sphinx.

The sphinx started to flap its wings viciously. The wind became so strong that it pushed back the energy bolts and sent them back at Will. Will was knocked back and was on the ground. He started to stand up but was kicked by the sphinx who had now recovered his staff. It was raised its staff and was going to strike another blow. He brought the weapon down hard and fast but it was suddenly stopped by another staff.

This other staff belonged to a silver power ranger with orange and black accents with red emergency lights on the shoulders. The ranger battled the sphinx back to give Will some room to get to his feet. Five other rangers ran up to Will. The team consisted of a red, blue, black, yellow and pink ranger as well as the silver one fighting the sphinx. Their core colors ran down the sides of their uniforms and white ran down the middle of their torso and on the insides of their legs. They had a logo on their chest that Will assumed to be a compass.

"Seven on one isn't entirely fair," the sphinx said. "But I guess I'll disappear into the night."

"It's daytime, dumbass," Will said.

"That's because 'disappearing into the day' doesn't sound as cool or make any sense, dumbass," the sphinx said.

Will took aim at the sphinx with his ax but the creature just popped out of existence. Will let out a huff before lowering his weapon. The other rangers surrounded him.

"Are you okay?" the red ranger asked.

"Yeah, I'm good," Will said. "Thanks for the assist."

"We didn't know there were other rangers in the area," the blue ranger said.

"There's not supposed to be. I'm from an Ohio team and some how I ended up here in the past."

"How much further in the past?" the red ranger asked.

"Eighteen years," Will said. "What team are you anyway?"

"We're the Expedition Rangers," the blue ranger said. "Black here, wanted us to be called Operation Overdrive but we are more like explorers looking for certain powerful artifacts than anything related to driving. What about you?"

"My team doesn't have a name," Will said. "Our motif is legendary animals but we were just formed not too long before I ended up here. Which I need to say that tomorrow, two kids are going to shoot up that school and the sphinx we just fought is behind it."

"All right," the red ranger said. "How can we help?"