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This chapter will feature a Villain General with a corny name, so beware of the corny-named-monster!
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Episode 2: When Swords Collide!
In Khaos's Prison Base, Khaos was pacing around the hallways, pondering on ideas about getting rid of the Rangers.
"Those Power Fools will pay for what they did to my monster, won't they, my servants?" Khaos asked as he turned to two people.
One of them was a human girl with blonde hair wearing a purple dress and black, spiked bracers on both arms.
The other one was an ugly plant monster. It had long roots wrapped into a leg-like shape and two large whips for arms; he had a large mouth with razor-sharp teeth and five large leaves stood out of his head, and his entire body was colored a dark shade of forest green.
"Of course, Master, they'll pay for what they did, even if we have to go down their and give them a beating by ourselves!" the plant monster growled as he pounded his chest with the two whips.
"Master, why don't you send down Eater-Weed to destroy the monsters?" the girl asked as the plant monster grinned, happy with her plan that involved him.
"You just reminded me why I decided to free you from that prison pod, Wendi. Eater-Weed, take some of the Psycho Bots down to Earth and attack the Rangers," Khaos commanded as the Eater-Weed stormed out of the room, howling with glee.
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At the AES Lab, each of the Rangers was doing something. Axel was seated in a small chair, reading a Spider-Man comic book. Miranda was helping her mom with something in a private room, while they had Jerlito working on a separate project. Honour was reading a book about Rome, while AJ was in the Training Room, practicing.
Suddenly, the alarm went off, causing all of the Rangers to pile into the Lab, looking at the monitors everywhere.
The monitors showed Eater-Weed slamming his whip-hands at buildings and people, while the Psycho Bots blasted and attacked everything.
"Rangers, Khaos has sent down one of his generals: the Eater-Weed! He has an endless appetite and his arms are actually very strong and sturdy whips," Commander Tate warned the Rangers as Eater-Weed wrapped his whips around a man, eating him whole.
"Rangers, suit up!" Axel said as the Rangers ran out of the Lab.
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The Rangers appeared at the port district of town, where warehouses, boats, and other areas were located, where the Eater-Weed had an army of Psycho Bots attacking citizens.
"Come on, Psycho Bots; gather me up a nice big lunch!" Eater-Weed called out as he started to wrap whips around other people.
"Alien Alert!" the Rangers called out as they all appeared, morphed, and pulled small pistols from the sides of their uniforms, blasting at the Eater-Weed.
"Good, the main course is here! Psycho Bots get them!" the Eater-Weed growled as the Psycho Bots charged at the Rangers.
"You guys handle the Psycho Bots; I've got the overgrown weed!" Axel called to the Rangers as he pulled out the Jet Blade and slashed his way through the Psycho Bots.
"Dumper Axe: Quake Mode!" Jerlito called out as he struck the ground with his Dumper Axe, striking the Psycho Bots with the shockwaves moving through the ground.
"Sub Cannon: Torpedo Blast!" Miranda called out as she blasted torpedoes into the ground, making them ride across the shockwaves, destroying many of the Psycho Bots.
"Mega Sniper!" Honour called as she jumped into the air, blasting a huge beam of energy at the Psycho Bots, blasting it straight through their heads.
"Drill Spinner!" AJ called as he ran his Drill Spinner through a large line of Psycho Bots.
"So the Rangers can defeat the Psycho Bots, I'll still have a buffet of humans!" Eater-Weed said as more Psycho Bots dropped down around the Rangers, trying to sneak away.
"Think again!" Axel called as he kicked a crate out from beneath a large pile, causing all of the crates to land on the Eater-Weed.
"Who did that?" the Eater-Weed asked as he rose out of the rubble from the broken crates.
"Look behind you and you'll see!" Axel shouted as he jumped up and slashed the Eater-Weed's back.
"You were a fool to fight me alone, Red Ranger!" the Eater-Weed said as he slammed one of his whips at Axel, who ducked and rolled to the other side of the Eater-Weed, pulling out his X-Pistol, blasting at Eater-Weed's back.
"If I'm the fool, why are you losing?" Axel taunted as he blasted Eater-Weed again, only to get swatted at with Eater-Weed's whips.
"Dumper Axe: Quake Mode!" Jerlito called as he hit the ground again, sending out an even larger shockwave than before.
"Watch it, Jerlito, or you might just destroy us and the monster!!" Axel warned Jerlito, who just ignored him.
"Don't turn your back on an enemy, kid!" Eater-Weed said as Eater-Weed's vines lashed out at him, wrapping around him.
"Mega Sniper: Lock On!" Honour called out as her Mega Sniper aimed itself at the Eater-Weed's head, pulling the trigger. The blast of energy flew into his opened mouth, only for him to glow red.
"All you're doing is feeding me power!" he said as steam suddenly poured from his mouth. He dropped Axel and suddenly tossed himself on the ground, holding his throat with his whip-hands. Energy poured out of him, and all of the people he had eaten were released.
"You haven't seen the last of me, Rangers!" he growled as he teleported away, heading off to the north.
"He won't be showing up in this town for a long time!" Honour said as the Rangers all lined up, ready to head back to base.
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Eater-Weed appeared in front of Khaos and Wendi, while Khaos turned and glared at him, his eyes filled with anger and evil.
"You fool; you were supposed to destroy those Power Rangers!" Khaos said as he blasted a beam of electricity at Eater-Weed, while Wendi just sat and cackled at Eater-Weed's pain.
"And you; it was your idea to use him in the first place!" Khaos said as he blasted Wendi with a separate surge of electricity, stopping abruptly before walking away from them.
"This time, I'll send down a monster instead of one of you nitwits," he growled as he walked into the long hallways of prison pods and holding cells, where monsters were frozen.
"Gladius the Knight, awaken from your frozen prison!" Khaos said as he eventually reached a small room where he blasted open a small pod, when a new monster appeared.
Gladius was wearing a black cuirass with golden markings all over it; he also had two silver shoulder-plates, silver boots, and a white knight's helmet, revealing his black skin and two large eyes. He had long black arms, eventually stopping at silver gauntlets, both wielding two fencing swords.
"It feels good to be free from that small little pod," Gladius said in a high voice, just noticing Khaos.
"I'm the one who freed you, Gladius, and you serve me," Khaos said as Gladius lunged to strike at him with his twin blades, only for Khaos to grab and toss him on the ground, aiming a clawed hand at Gladius's throat.
"So what do want me to boss?" Gladius asked nervously as Khaos removed his claw from Gladius's throat, giving the knight enough time to get up.
"You are going to go down to Earth with my foot soldiers, the 'Psycho Bots', and destroy the Power Rangers," Khaos commanded as Gladius nodded, following him to his main area.
"The two of you have the chance to redeem yourselves. Go down to Earth with Gladius and destroy the Rangers," Khaos said as he blasted all three of his minions down to Earth.
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The Rangers had arrived back at the Lab and prepared to get back to what they were doing earlier.
"Finally they're complete!" Jerlito said as all of the Rangers piled into the Lab's backroom, where Jerlito was standing in front of a line of differently colored motorcycles, each colored like a Ranger.
"What are those things?" AJ asked as they all approached the vehicles.
"They're the A-Cycles; you can use them as transportation while morphed and un-morphed," the Commander, who was standing behind the Rangers, said as alarms sounded from the Main Lab.
The Rangers, the Commander, and Jasmine all piled into the Main Lab and looked at the screen, where Eater-Weed, Gladius, and Wendi, who was wearing a purple suit of armor, where attacking the city with an army of Psycho Bots.
"Rangers, this is the perfect time to use the A-Cycles, so move out!" the Commander ordered as all of the Rangers ran into the Backroom and jumped on their cycles, riding out of the building.
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The villains had been attacking the New Tech Bridge, a large high-tech bridge linking New Tech City to the rest of the world.
"Where are those Power Rangers?" Eater-Weed asked as he started to whip everything in sight with his arms, while Gladius jumped into the air and spun, slashing the buildings with his swords, while Wendi revealed a large war-blade.
"You wanted us, so here we are!" Axel called out as the Rangers appeared, riding their A-Cycles. They all jumped off of their cycles and activated their Morphers.
"Alien Alert!"
All of the Rangers morphed and landed on their A-Cycles, stopping them a few feet away from the villains.
"Hello Rangers, I'm Wendi, one of Master Khaos's most trusted soldiers, and this is Gladius, not that it'll matter when we're done with you," Wendi said as she spun her war-blade around, surrounding it with dark energy, eventually sending a large slash of energy at them.
"I'll take care of her, guys!" Honour said as the Rangers scattered, dodging the blasts coming from the Psycho Bots' blasters.
"I've got the overgrown weed!" Jerlito said as he kicked a Psycho Bot to the ground, activating his Dumper Axe.
"Miranda, AJ, take care of the Bots, I'll handle the Tin-Man," Axel said as he activated his Jet Blade, running toward Gladius.
AJ and Miranda activated their weapons and ran in two separate directions. Miranda hid in the shadows beneath the bridge, luring five unexpecting Psycho Bots under the shadows.
She kicked two of them into the water below, short-circuiting them, while she pushed in the last three, only for more to appear.
"Catch me if you can!" she challenged as she back flipped into the water, tricking some off them to leap into the water, while she blasted the ground, causing it to cave in beneath the rest of them.
AJ had jumped on top of a pile of old boxes and random stuff people had thrown on the ground, sneaking around in the rubble, when two Psycho Bots grabbed him and tossed him over the pile of barrels, causing him to drop his Drill Spinner.
"You've done it now!" he said as he elbowed one of the Psycho Bots that grabbed him, knocking its head off. He kicked the other to the ground and turned to take on the rest of them.
One of them had attached the Drill Spinner to his hand and activated it, but he couldn't control it, so he thrashed around wildly, even destroying some of his teammates.
"That's pathetic!" AJ said as he pulled out his X-Pistol and aimed it at the Psycho Bot's head, destroying the robot and grabbing his weapon.
The Eater-Weed slammed his tentacles/whips on the ground near Jerlito, who jumped above the two tentacles, throwing his Dumper Axe at the Eater-Weed. The Axe slashed Eater-Weed's side, cutting some of the roots forming his body. The Dumper Axe came back around and sliced the other side's roots.
"Dumper Axe: Laser Mode!" Jerlito said as the Dumper Axe revealed a hidden laser blaster, while he fired away at Eater-Weed, destroying some of his roots.
"Mega Sniper: Sword Mode!" Honour called out as her Mega Sniper converted into a sword, which she used to slash at Wendi, who blocked it with her war-blade.
"Twin Saber-Slash!" Wendi called as her war-blade changed into two smaller swords, slashing energy waves at Honour, who blocked them with her sword.
"Mega Sniper: Sniper Slashes!" Honour said as her sword was covered with energy from the blaster mode.
Waves of energy coming from their swords collided, causing explosions all around them, while Gladius jumped into the air, spinning and slashing the area around them.
"Get back down here, Tin-Man!" Axel said as he jumped up on top of a building.
"All right, whatever you say, Red Ranger!" Gladius said as he jumped down and slashed an X across Axel's chest.
"Now this guy's getting annoying!" Axel said as he fell to off the side of the building, landing in a pile of boxes, while Gladius jumped onto the ground, where the other Rangers were.
Gladius sliced his swords at AJ, spinning the swords beneath the Drill Spinner and knocking it to the ground before he kicked AJ into a wall. Jerlito charged forward with his Dumper Axe and swung at Gladius, who ducked and slashed at the Green Ranger's legs and chest, kicking him to the ground.
"We're out of here! Good luck, Gladius!" Wendi said as a large purple vortex appeared above her and Eater-Weed, which they jumped into and disappeared.
Gladius charged at Honour and slashed at her, only to be blocked at by the Mega Sniper, while Miranda charged at him, only to get her weapon swatted away and being kicked rapidly, leaving Honour to fight the swordsman.
"Face it Yellow Ranger, you're through!" Gladius said as he slashed the Mega Sniper and slashed an 'X' on her chest, launching her backwards.
"OK, this guy is really getting on my nerves now," Axel said as all of the Rangers got up and lined up next to each other.
"Why don't we combine our attacks like we did with Doggy Bomber? It worked then, it should work now," Miranda inquired as Axel nodded and all of the Rangers pulled out their weapons.
"Mega Sniper: Sword Mode!" Honour called out as her weapon charged up and changed into an energy charged sword.
"Dumper Axe: Quake Mode!" Jerlito shouted as his weapon glowed green and grew larger.
"Sub Cannon: Ground Mode!" Miranda said as she stabbed her weapon into the ground and charged it.
"Drill Spinner: Tornado Tackle!" AJ shouted as the Drill Spinner attached to his arm even more and spiked out, spinning quickly.
"Jet Blade: Wind Slash!" Axel said as his sword glowed red and wind swirled around it.
The Rangers released their full power attacks at the knight, who stood there, awestruck at the display of power, which was strong enough to destroy him.
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"You fools! How could you mess a job as simple as helping Gladius destroy those Rangers! I should destroy you two for this incompetence!" Khaos growled as purple lightning shot out of his hands, electrocuting his two soldiers.
"We're sorry Master Khaos, we thought he could destroy them alone," Wendi said as the lightning ceased.
"I have to do everything by myself don't I?" Khaos questioned to himself as he walked out onto his balcony and stretched out his hands, sending lightning and energy out of his hands.
"Monster liquidize; grow in size!" Khaos growled as the energy beamed down and shot the remains of the knight.
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As soon as the energy struck the remains of the knight's armor, it turned into silver liquid and expanded, growing him into a larger version of himself.
"You guys look like ants from here, and soon you'll be like ants; crushed beneath my boot!" Gladius shouted as he stomped at the ground where the Rangers stood, barely missing the Rangers after they rolled out of the way.
"All right, we need Zord power!" Axel said as the Zords suddenly arrived at the scene.
"Well, that was quick," AJ said as the Rangers jumped into the Zords, mashing buttons everywhere in the cockpit.
"Zord Mode: Ready!" Axel said as all of the Zords assembled into the Alien X Megazord, which stood in a fighting stance.
"You ready to rumble, Gladius?" Jerlito said as Gladius pulled out two large swords from the sides of his armor.
"I'll chop you in two!" Gladius roared as he charged at the Zord, only to be grabbed and tossed into the air, landing on the ground.
"Alien X Megazord: Sniper Mode!" Honour stated as a sniper rifle popped out of the Zord's arm, causing a targeting eyeglass over the Zord's 'eye'.
The sniper rifle shot a beam of energy at Gladius, shooting through the knight's arm, causing mini explosions all over Gladius.
"I'm not through yet!" Gladius shouted as he charged forward, albeit the fact the arm that got shot exploded and fell to the ground.
"Alien X Megazord: Drill Glide!" the Rangers shouted as glider wings popped out of the Megazord's back and the drill spun quickly. The Rangers charged at the monster, drilling straight through the knight, who blew up.
"Red Ranger, I'll get you, even if it means destroying you in the afterlife," Gladius said as he exploded, leaving the Megazord standing behind his smoking remains.
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Khaos laughed as silver energy and purple lightning erupted from his body, leaving Wendi and Eater-Weed confused.
"Why are you laughing, Master? Gladius was destroyed, wasn't he?" Wendi asked as the lightning shot Wendi and shocked her, lifting her into the air and dropping her to the ground.
"I've found a new way of getting rid of them, and it's foolproof!" Khaos shouted as he walked off, changing from demon form to the appearance of Klaus.
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Finally it's done! Now, you've just got to wait and see what Khaos/Klaus meant.