Words from the author:

Dear readers,

I know some of you have been waiting this chapter for a long time. Some of you might even have stopped waiting for it. For this, I apologize. My life has taken a few turns over the past few months and not all of them were good. I can't promise to be quicker to post the next chapter but I can promise that I have not given up on the story nor have I forgotten it. Please just be a little patient with me.

Sincerely

Neoangelius

Chapter 3: Five as one.

In the sky high above Bastian's house, the Pterozord was flying in circles, doing low altitude passages and all kinds of other stunts. Located in the head of the zord was the secret cockpit inside which Amelia had taken place. The cockpit was a yellow room two meters deep by two meters wide. The ranger was standing in from of an altar looking console, on the console there were two hand shaped crystals upon which the ranger had placed her hands. The crystal were connecting her mind with the Pterozord allow her to control it with her thoughts.

"How do you like it Amelia?" Pterozord asked Amelia via her morpher.

"This is too cool. How are you doing Jack?" Amelia answered.

As she did so she tilted her zord slightly on the left allowing her to see the ground where the Tricerazord was running through the forest. The Tricerazord's cockpit was identical to the Pterazord except that it was blue.

"This thing is a real bulldozer." Jack said.

"I have a name Jack, it's Tricerazord." The blue zord said through the communicator.

"Whatever." Was the only answer Jack gave.

Suddenly, something raced past the Tricerazord with such speed that the behemoth nearly fell over.

"What was that?" The blue ranger asked as he looked around for the unknown speed.

Up ahead of his zord he saw the Raptorzord.

"Guys, we need to get back. Bastian detected Evolien activity." Donny said over the radio.

The three rangers and their zords quickly made their way back to the mansion.

oOo

In the basement of the house, Bastian, Max and Sophia were watching the main screen. The image showed and old iron factory outside the city.

"What have we got?" Amelia asked when she, Jack and Donny entered the room.

"A portal is currently opened and the Evolien seem to be moving a lot of equipment." Bastian answered.

"They won't stay there for long, you need to go now." Tyrannozord said over Max's morpher.

"Ready?" Max asked as he pulled out his key.

"Ready." Sophia answered as she did the same.

"DINO CHANGE." They said at once as they inserted the key inside their morpher.

Sophia brought her arms to her sides as her body started to glow and Scutellozord appeared behind her. She did a backflip jump that made her go through her zord. When she landed, she was wearing her ranger suit. Her helmet then appeared.

Max brought his arms to his sides as his body started to glow and Tyrannozord appeared behind him. He did a backflip jump that made him go through his zord. When he landed, he was wearing his ranger suit. His helmet then appeared.

Bastian entered a command into the console and a portal opened . The five rangers quickly jumped through.

oOo

The rangers emerged from the portal at the entrance of the factory. Directly in front of them, they saw a group of jurassadrones loading crates onto a box truck. With the jurassadrones stood another creature. This one was smooth and slick compare to the foot soldiers. Its body was grey all over, its face was shaped like the face of a greek statue but the eyes were red.

"Get them." The monster ordered the jurassadrones when he noticed the rangers.

"DINO SABERS" The rangers yelled as they drew their side arm and ran at the enemies.

The two groups collided and a huge brawl followed. The rangers fought diligently and were easily coming on top of the drones. However, during the battle, Jack noticed that enemy commander was nowhere to be seen. As the blue ranger looked around, he noticed his target had climbed aboard the truck was trying to drive away.

"Oh no you don't." The ranger said.

Jack ran and held on to the truck as it left the scene. By chance, the driver didn't immediately noticed the stow away. The vehicle was speeding up, making it harder for Jack to hold on to it. The young man was being shaken around when suddenly the truck passed over a bump that nearly made him loose his grip. The driver of the truck, the grey monster looked in the rear view mirror at that moment, as a reflex, to see what he just rolled over and saw the blue ranger hanging on the side of the truck.

"Well, well. Time to jettison some weight." The creature said as he grinded the side of the truck against a nearby building.

The collision made Jack loose his grip and he was on the ground before he understood what happened. The force of the impact caused him to forcefully demorph.

oOo

The other rangers had dispatched the jurassadrones rather easily but had lost a lot of time doing it.

"That's right, you better run." Amelia yelled when the drones tried to flee.

"Guys, where's Jack?" Sophia asked when she noticed someone was missing.

"I think he went after the truck." Donny answered.

"Bastian, do you have Jack's location?" Max spoke through his communicator.

"I do, 400 meters North East of your position. Max, he's down." Came the answer.

The four rangers ran to the location as the blue ranger regained consciousness. A bit of blood was dripping from his forehead and he had burn marks all over his body. Jack tried to rise himself up

"Easy, easy. You took a serious hit." Sophie told him as she kneeled beside him.

"I'm okay." Jack said as he got to his feet forcefully and took a few steps. "Oh crap."

The blue ranger fell into consciousness again and hit the ground once more.

oOo

Jack woke up a few hours later. He took a moment to look around. He was submerged in a liquid inside a tube in a horizontal position. Someone had stripped him down to his underwear and had put an oxygen mask over his face. Outside the tube he could see a screen showing what seemed to be vital stats, his vital stats he realise. Then the blue ranger noticed Bastian entering commands into a console. The fluid in the tube was drained and the tube opened.

"How do you feel?" Bastian asked Jack.

"What is that thing?" The young man asked.

"A healing tube. The liquid you were submerged in is a compound that increases white blood cell production. Recovering from a serious injury takes hours instead of weeks." Bastian answered as he handed Jack a towel.

"Why did you put me in there?" The blue ranger asked as he dried himself.

"You had a concussion, three broken ribs a dislocated shoulder and then some. If it were not for that machine you would have been out of commission until Christmas time." Bastian answered with an angry voice then he took a deep breath and said in a softer voice. "You shouldn't have gone alone after the truck. You guys are stronger if you stick together."

"Sorry but I'm not a team player." Jack threw back.

"And that is your weakness. I have been at this long enough to know that the lone wolves die badly and they die alone. But if you five rangers can make your hearts as one, miracles will happen. Until then, just watch their back and they will watch yours." Bastian said as he was about to leave the room. "Oh and there's shower over there, use it."

oOo

After he had washed up, Jack joined Bastian in the control room. His mentor was busy working on computers. The screens showed maps of the city, footage from camera here and there and other informations that told the blue ranger that Bastian was looking for the truck.

"Any luck?" Jack asked

"No but it shouldn't be too long. You guys destroyed all his drones, he's gonna need new ones to unload his truck." Bastian answered without away from the screens.

The elevator door opened and the other rangers walked in with boxes of Chinese food. Sophie noticed Jack was up and talking with Bastian.

"Hey, are you alright?" She asked him.

"Yeah, I'm great. That machine of his does miracles." Jack answered her.

"Guys, I just found our monster. He's back in the old factory and he's bringing in some additional jurassadrones." Bastian yelled.

The five rangers ran over to the screens. The image showed the monster from earlier with a portal from which two dozens jurassadrones were emerging.

"We have to stop them." Max said.

"But what if they try to bail on the truck like last time?" Donny asked.

"Well, I have something in store just for that situation." Bastian said as he got up his chair.

He took a small remote control from his pocket and pointed it towards one of the wall in the room. The wall slowly faded away and behind it were five motorcycles. Each bike was a sport motorcycle black in color with lines on the sides that were the color of the ranger they each were meant for.

"Behold, your new dinocycles." The young man announced.

The five ranger looked at the motorcycle in amazement.

"Wait a minute, aren't those the bikes you bought from my place?" Jack asked.

"Yes but I did a little modification to them." Bastian answered.

"What kind of modifications?" Amelia asked as she sat on her motorcycle.

"I installed a morphing interface. Basically, when you morph, the machine morph with you, unlocking weapons and armor plating for the motorcycle. Use them, I doubt they'll be able to outrun you with that truck." Bastian explained

"Alright guys, let's do it." Max said.

The five rangers stood side by side with their morphers and dino keys at the ready.

"DINO CHANGE." They yelled in unison.

The five rangers brought their arms to their sides as their bodies started to glow and their zords appeared behind them. They did a backflip jump that made them go through their zord. When they landed, they were wearing their ranger suits. Their helmets appeared last.

The five rangers hoped on their motorcycles, as they did so, a small device on the gas tank lighted up. There was a glow of the rangers' color that covered the vehicles starting at the front and moving towards the back of the machines. When the glow died out, the motorcycles had transformed completely. The bikes were now entirely of their ranger's color, the front was shaped at the image of their dinozord's head with laser canons on each side.

"Portal opened, go for it." Bastian said.

The ranger speed through the portal with their bikes.

oOo

At the old factory, jurassadrones were emerging from a portal and hurrying to get on the truck. Then a second portal appeared and the rangers emerged from it one by one riding their new dino cycles. Panic erupted among the jurassadrones as they were being blasted away by the high powered lasers. One by one the rangers made a passing through the group of drones reducing the number of enemies. Seeing his troops being crushed, the grey creature threw out the truck driver and took his place behind the wheel. The large vehicle sped away in a cloud of dust.

"MAX." Jack called out as he saw this.

"Let's go. Donny, you and the girls wrapped things up over here." Max said as he and the blue ranger went after the runaway truck.

"With these things, piece of cake." Donny answered.

The three remaining rangers made short work of the drones using their motorcycles to their advantage.

oOo

Jack and Max were hot the tracks of the truck carrying what few jurassadrones had time to get on board. The three vehicles were travelling on a dirt road with pot holes every now then. The two rangers were getting closer to their target when the backdoor of the truck slammed opened. Inside, a group of jurassadrones aimed laser riffles at the two heroes and rained down a wall of destructive lights upon them.

"Now what?" Jack asked while dodging the shots.

"Follow my lead." Max said as he sped up and placed himself on the left side of the truck.

The blue ranger did the same but on the right side.

"Aim for the fuel tanks. DINO MAGNUM." Max ordered as he drew his sidearm and opened fire.

Jack mimicked him and a few seconds later the truck exploded. The two riders skid their bikes to a stop side by side.

"Another day at the job." Jack said as he hit fist with Max.

"Guys, I'm getting strong energy readings from your position." Bastian said over the communicators.

"What kind of readings?" Max asked as he brought his morpher close to his face.

"The kind you get right before monsters grow to gigantic proportions." Came the answer.

Hearing this, the two young men slowly turned towards the burning remains of the truck. A ball of green light rose up from the debris and hovered twenty feet up in the air. Then lightning erupted from it and sucked in metal and other materials as it rebuilt the monster in giant size.

"Hum…Bastian?" Max said with a voice full of uncertainties.

"I know, the dinozords are already on their way to meet with you guys." Bastian answered.

oOo

The five rangers stood side by side as they watched the giant monster stomping away towards the city. Then the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard coming from the other directions as the zords came to the scene running, except from the Pterazord which was flying.

"Let's go guys." Max said.

The rangers turned into balls of light each of their own color. The lights flew off and entered the heads of the dinozords. The rangers rematerialized themselves inside the zord cockpits.

"All right, let's get him." Jack yelled.

The horns of the Tricerazord started to glow as the mechanical beast charged the monster. The two behemoths came into contact with a loud crash. The impact threw the zord away but the other creature was barely phased by the attack.

"Careful Jack." Amelia said as her zord did a passing near the monster.

Lasers were fired from the Pterazord's wing and hit the enemy with negligible effect.

"My turn." Max declared.

The Tyrannozord fired a beam of energy from its mouth into the ground. A crack appeared into the Earth as the attack made its way toward the target and hit hard. The grey monster took a few steps back but didn't seem hurt by it.

"This isn't working." Amelia said.

"He's gonna reach the city soon." Donny announced.

"Oh no." Sophia yelled.

"No he's not. We're stopping him here and now." Jack declared.

"Agreed." Max answered.

"I'm with you." The green ranger said.

"Me too." From the yellow ranger.

"So am I." Finally the white ranger said.

The rangers' morphers suddenly started to glow. Bastian words then came back to Jack's mind.

"I feel something." The Tyrannozord said. "Let's go."

The Pterazord grabbed the Scutellozord and took off into the sky. The Tyrannozord ran forward as its torso turn at 90 degrees towards the right. Its tail detached itself and was thrown into the air as the head moved to the middle of the left side of the torso. The Tricerazord jumped and attached itself where the tail was, the lower jaw was replaced by a five fingered hand. The Raptorzord did the same where the head used to be and its lower jaw was also replaced by a right five fingered hand. The Tyrannozord then jumped into the air as the Pterazord let go of the Scutellozord and flew under the combined zords to attached itself under the Tyrannozord's head and its wings positioned themselves on each sides of it. The Scutellozord transformed into a giant humanoid head and attached itself atop the Tyrannozord completing the Megazord which then landed back as the Tyrannozord's tail planted itself into the ground in front of it to form a giant sword.

The five rangers materialized inside a common cockpit. Max was in the center, with Amelia and Jack at his left and Sophia and Donny at his right. In front of them was a large console with five orbs, each the color of a ranger, to pace their hands on to control the megazord.

"Rangers, behold the Dino Megazord." Bastian said as he watched on a giant screen in the command center.

oOo

The Dino Megazord and the monster ran at one another. The monster tried to punch the megazord but it blocked the attack using the Tricerazord's head as a shield. The rangers countered with a slash from the tail turned sword. The hit caused the creature a lot of pain.

"You're going down." Jack said.

"DINO MEGA SLASH" The five rangers yelled at once.

The megazord's sword started to glow as it was filled with energy. Then the robot hit the monster once more with its weapon. The Evolien stumbled and fell to the ground before it exploded.

"Good job Rangers." Bastian said over the communicators.

oOo

Nighttime had fallen and all the rangers had gone home except for Jack who stayed at Bastian's place a little longer. He was on the balcony in the back of the house watching the dinozords sleeping. The other man joined him and offered the blue ranger a bottle of water.

"Thanks." Jack said as he accepted it.

"You did well today. I know how hard it must have been trusting the others." Bastian said.

"How would you know?" Jack asked.

"I saw the scar on your back. The kind of wound that can only be made by a knife and from someone you didn't expect to stab you." Bastian answered.

"I was love with a girl once and so was my best friend. So he tried to kill me and you know what. While I was in the hospital, she left me for another guy." Jack said with an ironic smirk. "But that's not what I meant when I asked how you knew."

"I know, and maybe someday I'll tell you my secret." Bastian said before he went back inside.

Jack stayed silent for nearly a full minute before he laughed at the realisation that Bastian tricked him into spilling his guts. Then he thought for a moment. Bastian knew too much all of this to simply be a background support tech.

"Who is he really?" Jack asked himself.