Son of War
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Chapter 3 – Prophecy
"Whoa, it says here that the Ninja Rangers defeated like hundreds of space mutants at one time," Ethan told his teammates from what he read on his laptop. He, Kira, and Connor were sitting at a table in Cyberspace.
"After fighting them, I believe it," Kira replied.
"Oh come on, they weren't that tough," Connor said. "I'd fight them right here, right now."
Then suddenly, the doors burst open and three people marched in. There were two guys and a girl, dressed in black ninja outfits. Their brows were furrowed, not because they were thinking too hard, but because they were supposed to look mean and evil. Each of them had different accents on their suits. The guy on the left had yellow (Dustin) and the girl on the right had a light blue (Tori). The guy in the middle had red accents (Shane) and he sent a blast of wind to blow Connor, Kira, and Ethan out of their seats.
"Can I get you anything?" Connor asked him angrily, "a donut or a maybe muffin?"
"I try to stay away from sugar," Shane replied. "It makes me hyper."
"Oh I'd hate to see him when he gets hyper," Ethan said.
"Get up!" Tori demanded. "We have some unfinished business to attend to."
"Dude, she's kinda cute, don't you think?" Connor replied as he and his teammates lined up in front of their counterparts of the other three.
"Yeah, in a crazed ninja-terminator sort of way," Ethan agreed.
Kira slapped Connor (who happened to be the one standing next to her) on the arm. "Would you two focus here?"
"Right," Connor said.
"Can we get on with this?" Shane asked, walking forward towards the three.
"We're not going to fight you here," Connor replied as he and his friends advanced as well.
"Then we'll just have to destroy you then."
"We'll meet wherever you want, but you come alone."
"Why should we agree to that?"
"It's called honor," Kira said. "I thought you ninjas knew all about that."
Shane glared over at her. The six of them glared at each other for a long time. "Fine," he finally said, "under the Hubbard Bridge, in one hour, the six of us, no one else."
"Fine, we'll be there," Connor replied.
And then the ninjas were gone, leaving nothing but a faint vein of their colors.
"Ninja streak?" Ethan chuckled, impressed. "Oh, how cool is that?!"
Connor and Kira looked disapprovingly at him, shaking their heads.
"Guys look," Hayley said. Lori and Tommy rushed to her side at the main computer.
"What is it?" Tommy asked.
"If these readings are right, there's a blanket covering the whole, originating from Blue Bay Harbor."
"Can you zoom in to where it's coming from?" Lori asked.
Hayley didn't answer, typing rapidly. A moment later something popped up on screen. It was a grassy field on the edge of a forest. A sinister purple light shot out from the huge gaping crack in the middle of the ground. She and Tommy gasped sharply at the sight. Lori's jaw tightened, her worries confirmed.
"The Abyss of Evil," she breathed.
"The Abyss of Evil?" the adults asked her.
"The Abyss of Evil is where the monsters go after they're destroyed. Last year, Lothor targeted Blue Bay Harbor because that was where it was located, just outside the city. He deliberately had his space aliens, destroyed so they would overload the Abyss and break it open. The Ninja Storm Rangers fought honorably against all the revived monsters, sending them back into the pit, but Lothor managed to steal their Ranger powers. When that happened, Tori, Shane, and Dustin used their inner-ninja powers to send him into the Abyss as well. Now it looks like the Abyss has been opened again; Lothor must've escaped. I'll bet anything he's got something to do with the Evil Wind Rangers.
"Lothor used to be Kiya Watanabe, the twin brother of Kanoi Watanabe, the Sensei and mentor of the Ninja Storm Rangers. It would be so easy for Lothor to disguise himself as Sensei and trick the Rangers. He's already done it twice with the Thunder Rangers, making them think that Sensei and the Wind Rangers were their sworn enemies, until their journey to the Cavern of Lost Souls and friendship freed them of Lothor's brainwashing."
"So is that what will be needed to awake the Wind Rangers from their current state?" Hayley asked.
"I don't know," Lori said. "I don't know what Lothor has done."
"I hope brainwashing is the only thing he's had time for," Tommy muttered.
An hour later, the Connor, Kira, and Ethan stood under the Hubbard Bridge.
"So if they use special powers, we use special powers," Connor was saying to the others. "If they morph, we morph, sound good?"
"Does to me," Kira answered
Whoosh!
And then they were knocked off their feet by a full gust—the ninjas had arrived.
"Man, do they have to keep doing that?" Kira asked as they got back up on their feet to face their opponents.
"Fools!" cried Shane. "You actually showed up."
And the battle began. It was red on red, guy on guy, girl on girl. All of them had special powers. The ninjas had their control of their elements (air, water, and earth) and the Dinos had their powers from their Dino Gems. Shane used his power of air, flying and blasting out gusts of wind. Connor, in return used his super speed. Tori used her power of water, shooting blasts of water only to be deflected by Kira's Ptera-scream. And Dustin used his power of earth, tunneling and disappearing underground, popping up behind Ethan, who protected himself with his Dino-skin. The battle was on!
Lori was running as fast as her short legs could carry her, racing for the Hubbard Bridge. Panting, she saw the battle from ahead. Oh no, she was too late!
From a distance, she saw Shane ask, "Shall we?"
"Oh yeah," replied Tori.
"No wait!"
The three ninjas froze before they morphed and looked over. Lori's head jerked over as well as she joined the three Dino Rangers (who greeted her silently). Three guys jumped the fence and were walking over towards the ninjas. One of them wore a black robe with green accents. Another wore a ninja outfit similar to the other ninjas, but had crimson accents. The third however, was dressed in civilian clothes: a jean jacket, t-shirt, jeans—hang on…
"Wait a minute, Blake?" Kira realized. "That's how I know you, you're a Power Ranger!"
For a split second, Lori wondered how Kira knew Blake at all.
"Good, 'cause we could use all the help we can get," Ethan said.
"We're not here to help you guys out," Blake replied as he and his company turned and stood in front of the evil ninjas, facing the three Dino Rangers. "We stick with our own kind."
"Lothor has shown us the error of our ways," added the big white guy (even taller and broader than Connor) dressed in the crimson-accented ninja suit. Lori recognized him at once: Hunter Bradley, Blake's brother.
"Whoever doesn't follow us, we'll destroy," added the Asian one in glasses, his long black robe flowing in the wind—Cam.
"This is going to be great!" Dustin said, clapping his hands.
"Wait, first you have to take these," said Cam, holding out three Power Disks for the three evil ninjas. "A little power boost, direct from the Abyss of Evil."
Connor, Kira, and Ethan were a little surprised, but they pulled themselves together and started forward to try to stop their opponents from getting even more power. Lori put a hand out to stop them; she knew something they didn't. She knew who the three newcomers that jumped the fence were. Connor, Kira, and Ethan looked down at the little girl with raised eyebrows, but her set face told them she knew what she was doing, so they froze in their steps and watched.
"But we already have our powers," Tori was saying said.
"Not these ones," objected Hunter.
"You better be right about this," Shane said, taking his own.
"Believe me, you won't be sorry," Cam said. Tori and Dustin took their own Power Disks and the three evil ninjas flicked off the ones that were on their morphers, putting the new ones in its place. When they attempted to morph, an energy bolt (in their own color) hit them and they fell back.
"Oh dude, what happened?" Dustin asked as Hunter pulled him up. "Ah, my bell is seriously rung!"
Lori let go of the breath she didn't realize she was holding. A relieved smile spread across her face. They were back! Leading the Dino Rangers, Lori went over to the six ninjas. "Shane, Tori Dustin!" she cried, "are you guys okay?"
"Lori?!" the three asked.
"Hunter, Cam," Kellen said, acknowledging the two newcomers the Dino Rangers did not know. "Blake," she added with a nod.
"How did we get here?" Tori asked. "The last thing I remember was--"
"Lothor," Blake answered, cutting her off. "He's back."
"Yeah, we know, Sensei told us," Shane said.
"That wasn't Sensei," Hunter told him.
"No dude, I know Sensei when I see him," Dustin said.
"No, it's Lothor," Blake insisted.
"Okay, unless it was Lothor dressed as Sensei, huh?"
"Okay, this is all highly amusing," Connor said, cutting in, "but does someone want to tell me what's going on?"
"Let's get back first," Lori said. "I think Tommy would want to hear this."
The others agreed and they headed back to the base.
"Welcome to the Dino Lab," Lori said to the Ninja Rangers as they entered the cave.
"Dude, you guys totally copied off of us," Dustin said, shaking his head, "Underground, super high tech, secret entrance…"
Lori and her friends laughed. "That's Tommy," she said, leading them over to her god-father.
"It's an honor meet you, Rangers," Tommy said, standing up to greet them, shaking their heads. "This is my friend Hayley…and your friend, Sensei Watanabe."
After greeting were made, Hunter, Blake, and Cam told their story. After seeing the destruction the three Wind Ninjas had done, Cam reunited the Bradley brothers and they went to the Abyss of Evil to try to find their Powers. Only down there, they came across Lothor's right hand man (or alien or was he a cyborg?), Zurgane and a bunch of Kelzaks. Their fight ended with having Hunter and Blake dangling off the side of a cliff, Cam trying to hold on to them, but was slipping.
"We were about to fall inside, but Dad got there just in time," Cam was telling the others.
"We faked being on Lothor's side to get you to take your right Power Disks," Hunter said to Shane, Tori, and Dustin.
"It's a good thing you guys showed up when you did," Connor said to Hunter, Blake, and Cam.
"Good thing for you guys," Shane said.
They all laughed.
"Whatever, dude," Connor said.
"I'm just playing man, you guys fight like rock stars," Shane replied.
"I, for one, will take that as a compliment," Kira said. Trent smiled. Cam and Lori exchanged amused looks while Dustin and Ethan tapped fists.
"We're glad you here, but it's time to get down to business," Tommy said, interrupting the laughter.
"Tommy is right," Sensei said, standing up. "We have a serious problem on our hands."
"This could take all of us to defeat him."
The ten young Rangers smiled at each other, nodding. This was going to be good.
Beep Beep Beep! Beep Beep Beep!
The alarm on the main computer rang. The quarry came up on screen, loaded with Tyrannodrones, Triptoids, Kelzaks, all the foot soldiers, plus a couple generals.
"We got company," Hayley said as everyone crowded around the computer.
"It's time," Tommy said. "Let's show them what teamwork is really all about."
The eleven Power Rangers ran all the way to the quarry, leaving Lori, Hayley, and Sensei at the Lab, watching from the main computer. The Rangers stopped on a ledge and looked down on the army of monsters led by Elsa and Zurgane.
"Get ready," Elsa was telling her monsters.
"It is time," Zurgane said when he saw the Rangers arrive.
"Let's be careful," Tommy said. "But let's get it done."
"Are you guys ready?" Connor asked.
"Ready!" the others answered.
"Dino Thunder, Power Up!" called Connor, Kira, Ethan, and Tommy.
"White Ranger, Dino Power!" summoned Trent.
"Ninja Storm, Ranger Form!" cried Shane, Tori, and Dustin.
"Thunder Storm, Ranger Form!" yelled Hunter and Blake.
"Samurai Storm, Ranger Form!" said Cam.
"Ha! Ha!" echoed from the two teams.
"Tyranno!"
"Tricera!"
"Ptera!"
"Brachio!"
"Drago!"
"Dino Thunder!" cried the Dino Rangers.
"Power of Air!"
"Power of Water!"
"Power of Earth!"
"Crimson Thunder!"
"Navy Thunder!"
"Samurai Power!"
"Ninja Storm!" cried the Ninja Rangers.
The eleven of them jumped down to the ditch. "Ranger Power!"
Elsa drew her sword. "Ah!" she cried, leading her army in charging at the Power Rangers.
"Kick it!" Connor shouted.
The Rangers themselves charged back at the villains. The six main Rangers in primary colors each hopped onto their motorcycles (Raptor Cycles for the Dino Rangers, Tsunami Cycles for the Wind Rangers). The Black and White Rangers jumped on their ATVs, Cam riding on the back of Trent's. The Thunder Rangers didn't care to ride, just ran to their opponents, Thunder Staffs in hand.
Connor and Shane teamed up on two monsters (Lothor's bodyguards), Ethan and Dustin did the same against other generals. Girls fought girls, Kira and Tori teamed up on Elsa. Blake and Hunter fought Zurgane with a little help from Tommy. Trent and Cam battled the Wolf Blades. All weapons were pulled out, from the Ninja Swords to the Thunder Shields; the Tricera Shield, Brachio Staff, Crimson Blaster, Navy Antler, Samurai Saber, Drago Sword, basically every Ranger's personal weapon as well as their primary standard ones.
As the fight went on, power ups were called upon. The Dino Rangers went into Super Dino Mode. Cam had his Super Samurai Mode. Connor called the Triassic Ranger while Ethan used his Hovercraft Cycle. The two Red Rangers then morphed into their Battlelizers and shot down the final monsters.
"Nice move you guys," Connor said.
"Back at you, bro," Shane replied, clasping Connor's hand.
"All right!"
"Yeah!"
"Huh?" all the Rangers asked when they saw the green flash from the sky and two girls showed up. The Ninja Rangers recognized them immediately. Kapri and Marah, the bumbling nieces of Lothor and cousins of Cam. They used to be evil, but were now on the side of good.
"Oh hey guys!" the two of them exclaimed as they ran over to the Rangers. "Hey Cam!"
The Green Samurai Ranger walked up to greet them. "What are you doing here?"
"Is that anyway to treat family?" Kapri asked.
"Yeah," Marah added, "especially since we brought you a present." She showed them a bottle she was holding. "Check this out." Marah uncorked the bottle and a red-purplish smoke came out. It flew up and landed behind the Rangers.
"It's our students!" Shane exclaimed.
Kapri and Marah looked at each other. "Now," they nodded and threw off their evil space alien outfits, revealing them in ninja suits accented with pink for Kapri and orange for Marah.
Shane and the other Rangers ran over to check on the ninjas-in-training. "Everybody okay?" the leader asked.
Cam walked over to Kapri and Marah, who put their arms on his shoulders and leaned against him.
"You didn't think we really went bad," Marah said. "We were just pretending."
"Again?" Cam asked.
"Yeah well, we're slow learners," Kapri answered.
From the Lab, Lori smirked. It was nice to see her old friends team up with her new ones. She may not have been in battle, but she knew she was a part of it all and that made her feel good. She can make a difference.
"So when are you guys leaving?" Connor asked the Ninja Storm Rangers as they held a celebration lunch party at Cyberspace in honor of their recent victory and Blake's big win at the race.
"Not for a while."
Everyone whipped around in shock. Hayley had closed the café so the Rangers didn't have to worry about their identities; so who was this new guy? Lori was the only one to recognize the stranger immediately.
"Justin!" she exclaimed, running over to him at once, jumping into his open arms. The teen picked her up and gave her a tight bear hug, laughing happily to see his friend again.
"It's good to see you too, Lori," he said when he finally set her back down. "I see you've been busy since you left Angel Grove."
"I take it, with you being here now, that I could say the same about you."
"Well…" Justin shrugged. "I did bring along some old friends." He stepped aside to reveal some people that Lori couldn't be any happier to see.
"I can't believe you're all here in the same place!" Lori cried, greeting them. "Andros, Ashley, TJ, Carlos, Cassie!"
"Hey, what about me?"
"Zhane!" the little girl wrapped her arms around the guy, her face buried in his stomach, hiding her wide smile of joy, which stretched from ear to ear.
"Andros," Lori heard Tommy said, shaking his hand. "It's good to see you again."
"I don't know if I can say the same to you," replied the guy with long hair, striped with blonde and brown.
"I take it you're not here on vacation then."
"I wish." He paused; looking around at the room full of people who had suddenly stopped doing whatever they had been doing and staring quietly at the seven newcomers.
"It's okay," Tommy told him. "These are the Ninja Storm Rangers, and the Dino Thunder Rangers, they're all friends."
The newcomers tensed a little, eyeing the little girl that was now standing next to Zhane, his hands on her shoulders.
"Lori knows as well," Tommy added.
"You told her?" Justin asked in surprise.
Tommy turned to him. "Justin," he smiled. "I haven't seen you in a long time. You've grown."
"It's been seven years, Tommy," Justin replied.
"And do you remember what we told you about your identity as a Ranger when you first became one?"
Justin grinned, remembering, and recited, "It's for me to know and them to find out."
"That's right," Tommy said, clapping the teen on his shoulder. "You of all people should know how bright Lori is."
Justin nodded, chuckling.
"I can't believe you guys didn't tell me you were the Power Rangers," Lori said to her oldest friends. "I could've helped you so much."
"We're the Space Rangers, we were in space all the time," Cassie said.
"Yeah, and it was way too dangerous. You were six years old when we were Earth's defenders," Ashley added. "What could you have done? There were people—monsters, hunting us from all over the galaxy."
"Hunt!" Lori gasped, suddenly remembering. Her face was suddenly very serious now. "Do you guys remember any humans that hunted you? They wore black leather, shirts inside that matched your Ranger colors?"
"I don't remember any humans that wanted to destroy us," TJ said thoughtfully.
"Are you sure?" Lori pressed.
"Why do you want to know, Lori?" Carlos asked.
"This is important!"
Then the girls gasped. "The Psychos!" they exclaimed, remembering.
"Psychos?" Lori and the new Rangers asked.
"Yes. The Psycho Rangers were Astronema's team of Evil Rangers," Cassie answered. "They had the power to morph into human form. I remember there was that one time, when there were just the three of them left, and they scoured the city looking for us. We couldn't speak 'cause they recognized our voices, we couldn't use our morphers or communicators because they already knew those sounds."
"Yes! And they almost had you, Cassie," Carlos agreed, nodding, "until Zhane dressed up as a clown and with tricked them with a voice recording."
"The Psycho Rangers," Lori muttered.
"Are you okay, Aeron?" Zhane asked quietly in her ear.
"Were the Psycho Rangers destroyed?" Lori asked the Space Rangers.
"When we fought them on Earth, they were digitized. Later, we fought them again on Terra Venture with the Galaxy Rangers, and yes, I think we destroyed them," Andros said.
"Lori, do you know something we don't?" Tommy asked, his tone warning her that she better spill it.
"I…I…The day I found the Lab, I fell into a sinkhole in the woods and wandered the caverns, leading me to the dinosaur skeleton that triggered the hidden entrance, but I wasn't there by accident. After Connor, Ethan, Kira, and Trent walked me home, a group of people rang the doorbell. There were five of them, wearing red, blue, black, yellow, and pink under black leather. They were looking for someone named Mallory, and the way they described her, she looks exactly like me…right down to the red eyes."
"And you think those were the Psychos?" Andros asked.
"I'm pretty sure," Lori nodded.
"And I'm pretty sure we destroyed those freaks," TJ said.
"So am I," Carlos said. "But maybe we should keep an eye out for them, just in case."
"Good idea," Cassie agreed, nodding.
"Let's get back to the point," Tommy said. "You didn't come here on vacation, so why did you come here?"
"Alpha said there's a large evil here, in Reefside," Andros answered. "We came to check it out."
"No worries," Shane said. "It was Lothor and his goons. They escaped the Abyss of Evil, but we've put them back where they belong."
"Yeah!" the others still sitting around the tables cheered. The Space Rangers looked at each other, then at Tommy and Lori with raised eyebrows in confusion.
"Never heard of it," Carlos said.
"No idea what you're talking about," Ashley said.
"No," Justin said. "The evil that brought us here is a lot bigger. He's still out there…somewhere."
"Do you know who or what it is?" Cam asked.
Justin nodded grimly. "Maligore."
"Maligore?!" Tommy gasped. "No!"
"Who's Maligore?" Connor asked.
"Maligore is a super powerful monster, so powerful he was imprisoned away in the volcano of the Serpent Temple on the Lost Island of Muiranthias in the Nemesis Triangle (a parallel dimension in the middle of the Pacific Ocean) by the Liarian wizard, Lerigot," Tommy told them. "Almost eight years ago, a space pirate named Divatox tried to capture Lerigot, and use his Golden Key to pass through the Nemesis Triangle and free Maligore. Lerigot fled to Earth, to seek his friend, Alpha 5. However, Divatox captured Lerigot's family, forcing him to give himself up. That was when Zordon gave us our Turbo Powers, and Justin joined the team, taking the place of Rocky, who had injured his back practicing for a martial arts tournament."
"With the Turbozords, we boarded the phantom ship, the Ghost Galleon, and sailed towards the Nemesis Triangle, our Turbo keys allowing us to pass safely just as Lerigot's Golden Key allowed Divatox's submarine to do the same," Justin said, taking up the story. "On Muiranthias, we became too late to stop Divatox from freeing Maligore from the Pit of Eternal Fire. However, we were able to form the Turbo Megazord and defeat the dubbed 'Great Flame of Destruction."
"Maligore is also the brother of Dark Specter," Andros added. "Dark Specter was the grand monarch of evil, the head of the United Alliances of Evil, until Darkonda stole the Super-Torpedo (a missile with the power to destroy an entire planet with one shot) and destroyed him. Zordon's energy wave may have destroyed every villain in the UAE, but with Maligore's reputation and power, it would be no problem for him to assemble his own army."
"Where is he now? We have to stop him before he finds an army!" Hunter said.
"Too late," Lori said. "The Abyss of Evil is wide open. Lothor's gone; Maligore can have total control of all those monsters now."
"She's right," Justin agreed grimly.
"Then what can we do?" Trent asked.
"We fight," Lori shrugged. "What else is there to do?"
"Easy for you to say, you're not the one who has to go out there," Blake said.
"It's not my fault I'm not a Ranger," Lori replied. "I've always wanted to be one."
"Actually," TJ began, but several icy glares from the older Rangers shut him up.
"What?" Lori asked him.
"Uh, nothing," he said, "never mind."
Lori gave him a confused look. She hated when people don't say what they're really thinking. The uncomfortable silence dragged on.
"Some celebration this turned out to be," Kira muttered, trying to lighten the mood. Several people snickered, Lori wasn't one of them.
"Maligore's going to attack Earth, that's for sure," Justin said. "The question is: how are we going to stop him?"
"Isn't there strength in numbers?" Tori asked. "Can't we just rally up all the past Rangers? Surely with all the Power Rangers, we can defeat him together."
"But the problem is, not every Ranger still have their powers," Hayley said.
"Then this is it?" Ethan asked. "We don't even get a chance?"
"There's always a chance, Ethan," Tommy said. "As long as there is one ounce of good in one person, there's a chance."
"I think it's time," Zhane said suddenly. Everyone turned to stare at him. He turned to Andros, then Tommy. "I think this is it."
The two team leaders nodded in agreement. "You're right."
"What's he right about?" Lori demanded at once. "What's going on?"
Andros sighed. "There's a story that every kid on KO-35 knows. A monster rises up from the lava, from an eruption of a volcano, and seizes the planet, ruling it in tyranny. A small child finally fed up, steps forward and defeat this monster, freeing the civilians and rebuilding paradise."
"How's a bedtime story supposed to help us?" Connor asked.
"That's what we thought it was, a bedtime story," Andros agreed, "until Zordon told us it was true."
"Zordon?" Justin asked.
Zhane nodded. "We have to find that boy, and fast."
"Boy?" Sensei asked. "How do you know it is a boy?"
"Because the prophecy goes: War is destined to destroy Earth, until one can be unearthed; magnetic, assisting, and always kind, that is the one you must find. Evil and sin, tolerating none, that shall be the Chosen One; that shall be the Son."
"Where can we find this…Son?" Cam asked.
"That's the thing Zordon didn't tell us," Andros said.
"We'll find him," Lori said confidently. The others looked at her. She nodded. "We just have to believe."
I tried to keep it as close to the episode as possible, but if there are any mistakes, oh well!
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