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Mario: Here we go!


*Intro*

(Rita rises up from her canister with her monsters)

"Ah, after Ten-Thousand Years I'm free! It's time to conquer earth!"

(The scene changes from Rita to the Command Center where two streaks of blue lighting hits the sides of an large plasma tube which forms Zordon)

"Alpha, Rita's escaped. Recruit Five Teenagers with Attitude!"

(Scene flashes again to Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Trini and Zack being transported into the Command Center in streaks of Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow and Black and when they appear, streaks of lighting cover their bodies, changing them from their civilian attires into the power rangers.)

(Brief flashes of the Dino Megazord rising from of the ground and a sign that has "Mighty Morphin" On the top in small letters and "Power Rangers" appearing in big bold gold lettering with a lightning bolt between the Words "Power" and "Rangers," the flashes finally stops on the "Power Rangers")

"Go, Go Power Rangers!"

(Shows Jason training with Bruce to The Red Ranger leaping into the air and slashing through the putty's torso, from left shoulder to right hip)

"Go, Go Power Rangers!"

(Shows Trini meditating in the rose garden to the Yellow Ranger punching a putty in the chest before kicking it in its head with a hard kick then scene changes to Zack flipping over a fence of a car dealership to the Black Ranger jumping in the air, spinning in it then slashing his ax straight down the middle of a putty.)

"Go, Go Power Rangers…"

(Shows Kimberly twisting in the air into the palms of her squad mates to The Pink Ranger bending backwards until her hands touched the ground to avoid a strike by a putty then lifted her legs up, kicking the oncoming putty under its chin then scene flashes to Billy working on his computer before scene flashes to show the Blue Ranger giving a double clothesline to two putties that were running side by side.)

"…You Mighty Morphing Power Rangers!"

(The Final scene shows the five rangers standing side by side, With the Black Ranger standing sideways with his arms crossed, the Red Ranger with his arm point pointing in front of his body with his hand balled into a fist, Pink Ranger with her hands shaped as a heart, Yellow with her back turned and her arms crossed with her head looking back and Blue hunched forward with his left arm hanging in front of his body, their respective zords behind them but also a dense green mist seen wrapping around their legs.)

*Intro End*


The Legend of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Chapter Three
The First Challenge


Angel Grove
The Scott Residence
Jason Lee Scott

"And today, we are still talking about the five mysterious heroes that saved the Harbor Distract of Angel Grove from these strange monsters."

Jason was walking down the stairs of his house when he heard the cute voice of the Angel Grove News Reporter reporting about the exploits of yesterday's battle between his friend and Rita's Putty Patrol. "While there were casualties during these strange creatures' assault on out city, it was the group of five colored champions that came to our rescue."

Jason walked into his kitchen to see his mother and father watching the news, completely into what they were seeing and when Jason saw the screen, he was enraptured by the sight of his team battling the putties.

He honestly couldn't believe that his team was this good.

Especially Billy.

True, he had been teaching the computer whiz some martial arts but he never pegged Billy as more of a wrestler but as he was watching as much footage of Billy's fight, he could see it.

But regardless, seeing his team like this made him feel like something bigger than himself and he hoped his friends saw this as well.


Angel Grove
Angel Grove High
Jason Lee Scott

"Dude, tell me you saw the news today."

Jason gave Zack a large grin to convey his answer and together, the two shared a loud high five before embracing in a brief hug. "Dude, we were wild and out of control," Jason said as he and Zack walked briskly down the hall towards the lunchroom.

"Yeah, to think we can deal out that much damage to them…It's very awesome to think we are true blue superheroes," Zack whispered with a large grin on his face and as much as Jason wanted to tell him that they had only did one battle, he was truly stoked as well.

"If all of our battles go like that, it'll make saving the world super easy," Jason replied with a nod of his head before he then looked at the clock and said "Trini is about to leave class soon and I want us all to have a team meeting,"

Zack nodded reluctantly and walked off with his friend with a pout but then he asked "So what is the meeting about?" Jason tilted his head and quirked a brow at this.

"Well it's simple. Since our first battle went well, I want us to train more so we stay on our game…Not to mention another few things we'll talk about," Jason replied as he slipped his hands into his pockets.

The first thing was the training but the second and what may be the most important was codenames.

He did not want to get into a situation where one of them were hurt and they screamed their real names out.

Especially considering how much the news actually got in terms of noise during their fight yesterday.

But there was one more thing but this one all of them would have to speak with Zordon about.

They had to tell their parents.

He knew they would absolutely freak out about this but the issue was that if one of them were severely injured or even died in the line of duty, their parents need to prepare for that but then he paused in that thought.

Death.

That hadn't occurred to him at all due to the glow of their first victory…

No, he couldn't let that be thought about right now.

He needed to focus on everything else.

That single, dark thought on this new adventure could wait a while.


The Moon
Rita's Palace

Rita Repulsa
(Theme of Rita's Palace – The Imperial City, Kazas from Legend of the Dragoon)

"Finster!"

Finster walked into the palace room when Rita yelled out for him and gave a brief bow before answering with a polite "Yes Lady Rita?"

Rita got up from her throne and took her scepter into her hands and stepped in front of Finster and asked "Is my monster ready for action?"

"Of course Lady Rita," Finster shuffled to the entrance of his lap and opened the door saying "May I introduce, the mighty Minotaur!" Coming out of the room was a brown furred Minotaur with a large club in its right hand and large shield in other with leather armor around its hips.

Rita gave a smirk as she cooed out to Finster "Ah, an excellent choice Finster!" while her hand was running under Finster's very furry chin, making the monster kick the ground shyly

Rita was sure that the meddling Zordon would know of this monster. The Mighty Minotaur was the monster that his very own group of rangers faced off against after he had destroyed Zordon's home village on the ancient Earth.

This monster was responsible for many deaths in his village but she knew that while this one would shake him up, she had many of other monsters from their joint past that will slowly break him into surrendering.

"Lady Rita, I have returned from the Netherworld as your ever loyal champion" The monster said as it bowed in front of the sorceress in respect before returning to its full stature.

Pleased with his instant obedience, Rita rose up from her throne and shouted "Now, my loyal Mighty Minotaur, I want you to go down and cause as much havoc as you can and when those rotten Power Rangers show up, crush them beneath your hoof!"

"In your name Lady Rita!" The monster roared out before his form wavered until it disappeared.

Rita then looked at Baboo and Squatt and said "You two know what to do." The two monsters nodded before disappearing in a blue swirl.


Angel Grove
Angel Grove High Cafeteria
Trini Kwan
(Theme of Angel Grove High – Afternoon Break from Persona III)

It was lunch time at Angel Grove High and Trini found herself sitting alone at her usual table, munching on her food, listening to her music in peace when she happened to notice both Jason and Zack standing in line with their lunch trays in hand.

Trini watched the two of them for a moment, watching as Zack told a joke to Jason, which caused the latter to laugh and Trini felt herself frown a bit, her eyes lingering on Zack for a moment before she shut her eyes.

An image of a sleeping Zack, his head resting on Trini lap as the two of them sat beneath her family's cherry blossom tree appeared in her mind suddenly before she stamped it out immediately and thought 'No…Those times are gone now…' with a bitter tone in her voice.

Why?

Why did her mind keep going back to him?

He had done something unforgiveable to her and yet she kept thinking about him…About their time together…

It burned her up inside that she missed what they had...

"Zack, you need to be more careful…" Trini remembered saying to him after another incident of his heroics.

"I can't help it…Anytime someone is in trouble, I have to help them. It's what my folks would have done…" She remembered Zack replying to her but all Trini could remember the hidden sorrow in his eyes when he said it.

"You have to promise me that this will be the last time. I don't want to lose you or anyone else," She remembered herself saying, trying to urge him to stop with his heroics.

She remembered how conflicted he looked for a moment before he nodded and told her "I promise. No more…"

But he had lied…And it cost her something truly important…Trini balled up her fists tightly as she scowled bitterly before she said "I need to stop thinking about this..."

"Stop thinking about what?" Jason's voice suddenly said, which caused her to look up at his in confusion. It was then she saw both Jason and Zack looking at her in concern and she quickly swallowed up the angry and conflicting thoughts in her mind.

"N-Nothing," Trini responded with a stammer.

She saw that neither Jason or Zack didn't believe her but he said "Well whatever it is…Just tell me. I'll always be there to listen."

Trini nodded and murmured "Thank you…" before she spoke up louder and asked "You two are late. What happened?"

"I was trying to pry out what Jason wanted to talk about but Jason Tight-lips didn't want to spill anything more than training," Zack said as he sat down at the table while an amused Jason sat down beside him.

Trini gave a small "Ahhh…" before she looked at the two and asked "So where are our resident Pink and Blue combo?"


Angel Grove
Angel Grove High Gymnasium
Kimberly Ann Hart

"Hey Kimberly, you ready to do this?"

Kimberly glanced at her fellow ranger Billy and gave a small grin.

"I'm so ready." Kimberly replied but with a look from her friend caused Kimberly's grin to melt away.

"I don't know Billy…I don't want to goof up out there in front of the judges. It's our only shot for me to get into the cheerleading…If I fail at the last moment…I don't know what I'll do…Especially since I promised my mom I would try for it…" Kimberly admitted sadly.

Kimberly's mother had been pressuring her for months to try out for cheerleading due to the older Hart being the coach for the Angel Grove Saints cheerleading squad.

Kimberly originally didn't want to do it due to her mother being head coach as well as wanting to go into gymnastics but her mother convinced her that cheerleading would help her hone her athletic ability more and if she wanted to make the Olympics, she had to keep honing her skills.

While Kimberly didn't truly believe that, she promised her mother she would at least try.

With Billy being like her brother, she had to drag him along for moral support but now she found herself thinking 'What if I am unable to do it?'

Kimberly wasn't aware that Billy had noticed her panicked expression and placed a strong enough hand on her shoulder, catching her attention.

"Kimberly, if I didn't think you could handle this new addition to your life, I would have pulled you aside to tell you," Billy told her with a smile on his face. "Unless I was incorrect in my assumptions and you believe your skills are subpar?"

Kimberly gasped before she narrowed her eyes at her best friend. He was trying to trick her mind and make her go out there by insulting her skills but she knew his trick…unfortunately, it still wiled her up.

"No way! You sit tight Billy and watch me go out there and do what I do best!" Kimberly announced while standing up to meet Billy's confident gaze.

Billy nodded and said "I shall be cheering for you over her Kimberly. Good luck. I know you can do it."

Kimberly nodded happily and took a deep breath and walked to the doors that went to the gym and took a deep breath.

She looked as if she wanted to back out from this but she had to calm her nerves. She knew she could do this. She had to do this or else she would be letting down her mom and Billy and she couldn't do that…

Kimberly then took a deep breath as she watched her squad doing it's dancing and waited just at the right time and ran out the double doors and began to back flip to her group, which split away except for two, who were kneeling on the ground and when she got towards them, she forced herself off the ground, twirling in the air before both of her feet fell into the palms of her squad mates.

After a quick five second break to make sure she was firmly in their palms, she felt them raise her into the air forcefully, making her jump high into the air, spinning around in the air before forming a small ball and splitting apart at the last second to land on the ground on her hands, where she flipped back to land on her feet.

A grinning Kimberly began to sway side to side, her squad following her movements before everyone began to dance in synchronized manner, each move Kimberly did was being followed by her squad mates until Kimberly flipped backwards to two of her partners, who lifted her up in the air then tossed her, making her perform three summersaults in the air then landed onto the group of five that was below her.

It was a mere three seconds later when the group tossed her forward, causing her to spin in forward before landing on her feet, her body sliding around fully where she then punched the air but then it grew quiet until the judges stood up and gave them an applause, making Kimberly form a relived look on her face.

"That was very good Ms. Hart, we will contact you in a few days to let you know our decision," The female judge stated, causing Kimberly to bow in thanks before bouncing off to where Billy was watching with a proud expression on his face.

He knew she could do it.

"Did you see that Smart Guy? I was able to do it, no problem whatsoever," Kimberly boasted while bouncing on her toes.

Billy nodded and shared a small hug with his friend before looking at the clock on the wall and frowning a bit.

It was lunch time and Jason had scheduled their first team meeting.

Kimberly seemed to notice this as well because she suddenly wringed her hands, a habit she does when she is nervous and said "We need to hurry before Jason gets an attitude."

"Aye, and we both know how Jason changes when he undergoes an attitude shift," Billy told her before the two ran off.


Angel Grove
Angel Grove High Cafeteria
Kimberly Ann Hart and Billy Cranston

"Hey guys, we could barely see the table over here," Billy said as he sat down between Zack and Trini while Kimberly sat down next in between Jason and Trini.

"It's super secluded over here, who found this spot?" Kimberly asked after she took a drink of her water?

"Trini did," Zack responded while munching on his bag of Doritos happily before he smacked away Jason's hand when the leader tried to take some chips out of his bag.

"Wow. This is the perfect spot to talk about our duties as rangers. Everyone is far away enough not to hear us and its dark enough over here so no one will know who we are. Great job finding this meeting spot Trini."

Trini looked at Jason for a moment and gave him a salute before going back to her food, making him stare at her for a moment but then he said "Guys, if we're going to be rangers, we need to talk about a few things."

"Like what?" Billy asked with a tilt of his head, sitting plate which had his beefy rib sandwich before him.

"Well, when we are in uniform, we shouldn't call each other by our real names but by color," Jason stared immediately, eyeing his four friends and teammates.

Trini nodded in agreement at this and sat down her peanut butter and jelly sandwich and replied "I get it. Because just in case our family members and people from school are nearby."

Billy nodded and leaned in his chair and added "Plus, we all saw that we were on the news. Any reporter would tell that our voices are voices of teenagers in high school and if we said our names, they could easily look our names up, find us here and then who knows what could happen."

"Well, If Rita doesn't know our identities yet then she could find out if our cover is blown and kill us when we are at our weakest and not only us, but our families as well…" Zack concluded with a sigh.

"Yeah, and considering the fact that we don't have any idea when she'll strike, it's only best that we use our color as codenames," Jason concluded while crossing his arms.

"…Guys, I have to say, I'm a bit nervous about our next battle," Kimberly said gently after drinking her soda, her eyes gazing at the table beneath her while wringing her hands nervously, causing the other table members to look at her.

"I mean, we fought those gross putty things yesterday and managed to kick butt…But what if she sends something stronger down here on her next attack?" Kimberly asked, her eyes turning to Jason.

"Truth be told Jason, she is correct," Trini told her friend, eyeing him from the side. "We all know a good bit of martial arts or some skill related. Except Billy for now…"

"Well…That's actually funny because yesterday, he was busting out some rather unorthodox World Wrestling Federation type wrestling moves," Zack said with a teasing grin to his friend.

Billy blushed at this while his friends glanced at him.

Everyone within their group knew that he enjoyed watching wrestling on TV after school on Monday and Friday nights.

He wasn't expecting that to be his go to fighting style when this began. He had a theory that subconsciously, he pulled moves from the various bouts he had seen to help him in battle.

It was a good theory but he hasn't had the chance to see if it was founded.

"It was just instinct I suppose…" Billy muttered softly with a smile.

"True but regardless, we all did get pretty lucky but if Rita sends someone down before we can get to training, then we'll defeat the monster by working toge-." Jason started but without warning, all of their power coins began to glow brightly before all of them were suddenly enveloped in the light of their respective ranger colors and transported out away, with no one in the cafeteria none the wiser.


Angel Grove
Command Center
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
(Theme of the Command Center – Backside of the TV from Persona IV)

Zordon watched as the five light forms of his rangers came towards the ground but instead of standing, all of them materialized then fell on the floor on their butts, causes them to wince lightly.

"Ow…" Zack said with a frown towards Zordon.

"A little warning next time old man?" Zordon couldn't help but chuckle Zack's words but he quickly became serious again.

"One of Rita's monsters is attacking the city," Zordon told them, before they could even get out their "Hellos" or "What is going on?"

All of the ranger stood up and composed themselves as quickly as possible and turned to the viewing globe to see a two legged minotaur attacking downtown with a group of putties.

"We need to get down there quickly!" Jason announced before glancing at his team but then Alpha shuffled in front of them with a small chest in his hands.

"Before you go Rangers, I must give you these," Alpha told them while lifting the top of the small chest up revealed five silver bracelets.

"These are your communicators. These will help you stay in touch with each other and us so if there is a monster or if one of you are in danger, you can tell the other rangers or us." Alpha said proudly.

Zack was the first one to take one and wrap it around his left wrist, saying "Thanks, I'll be using this baby a lot."

"Rangers…There is something else I must share with you…" Zordon's booming voice announced but it sounded more softer, as if he really didn't want this to come out. The rangers turned around to look at their leader with a look of confusion on their young faces.

"What's wrong Zordon?" Kimberly asked in concern.

Zordon's head moved to the side, causing his face to blur as he did so, seemingly in hesitation but after a moment, Zordon said "This monster…He was one of Rita's Generals during my battle with her…Be careful and be wary…."

The five rangers nodded at their leader's words and stood in a straight line, each of them pulling out their morphers but as they got ready, Zordon had one more thing to say to them.

"Rangers! You're first true test has arrived! Do not fear and do not hesitate. Let the power flow through you and defeat this foe," Zordon told them with a fierceness in his voice they had not expected but his words did the trick as fury resonated within their souls.

(Theme of Morphing - Infinity Mijinion Stage from Megaman X6)

"Understood!" Jason exclaimed before turning to his head to the left at Zack and Trini, who nodded at him before he turned his head to his right, where Billy and Kimberly nodded their heads. In unison, each of them placed their hands on their chest then with a thrust forward, all of them shouted "It's Morphin time!"

And with a small click of the switch on the right side of their morphers, all of their power morphers opened up and their coins began to glow brightly, streaks of lighting going across them.


Morphing Zone
Zack Taylor

"Mastodon!" The moment Zack shouted this out, he found himself falling in the black abyss, his body covered in a purple aura and as he fell down the abyss, he saw his power coin in the middle of a purple glowing orb floating below him.

With a smirk, Zack reached out and knocked his fist into it as hard as possible, causing purple and white lightning to shoot out of it and encased his entire body with the lightening before his smirking face became incased as well and after five seconds, the lightening exploded from his body, revealing the Black Ranger.

With a crash, The Black Ranger slammed into the icy ground into a crouched position with his fist against the ice and as his rose to his feet, his personal zord, the Mastodon appeared behind him with a purple outline and blew its trunk loudly as The Black Ranger summoned his Power axe and placed it on his shoulder.


Morphing Zone
Kimberly Ann Hart

"Pterodactyl!" Once Kimberly shouted this, she found herself floating upwards at a fast pace in a black abyss, her entire body covered in an pink aura.

When she saw her power coin in a pink glowing orb above her, she grabbed it, brought it close to her lips and kissed it and the moment she did, pink and white lightening exploded from her orb and encased her head before encasing her entire body.

And after five seconds, the lightening exploded from her body, revealing the Pink Ranger, who flew out from a Volcano and landed on the ground in a kneeling position.

As she rose up to her feet, her personal zord, the Pterodactyl appeared behind her with a pink outline and flapped its wings as The Pink Ranger summoned her Power bow and arrow and pointed it forward, the tip of her arrow sparkling.


Morphing Zone
Billy Cranston

"Triceratops!" Running in a black abyss with blue aura floating around him, Billy saw his power coin, which was in the middle of a blue glowing orb quickly coming towards him.

Narrowing his eyes, Billy leapt forward and allowed his forehead head to collide with the orb, causing blue and white lightening to cover his head then his entire body in mid-run.

After a few seconds, the lightening exploded from his body, revealing the Blue Ranger, who came charging out of the sands and skidded to a stop and as he did, his person zord, the Triceratops roared behind him as the Blue Ranger summoned his Power Lance and spun it twice before stabbing it into the ground.


Morphing Zone
Trini Kwan

"Saber-tooth Tiger!" Similar to Billy, Trini found herself running in a black void with an yellow aura flowing around her as well. Seeing her power coin in a yellow orb, Trini let herself get close to it before opening her arms, letting the orb smash against her chest before she wrapped her arms around it to crush it, causing yellow and white lightening to encase her torso then the rest of her body.

After a few seconds, the lightening around her body exploded, revealing the Yellow Ranger, who dashed through the wild rain forests before leaping into the air and landed on the ground bent knees.

As she rose up, her personal zord, the Saber-Tooth Tiger appeared behind her with a yellow outline and growled menacingly as the Yellow Ranger summoned her Power Daggers and twirled them before placing one on her right shoulder and the other pointing forward.


Morphing Zone
Jason Lee Scott

"Tyrannosaurus!" In the black void, with red aura flowing around him and his Power sword in his hands, Jason was charging to his power coin which was hovering in the air with a red orb around it.

With a leap, Jason raised his blade and sliced through the orb and the moment he did, red and white lightening encased his sword then his entire body before it exploded, revealing the Red Ranger. The Red Ranger landed on his feet and leapt up into the air from the earth.

With a forward front flip, the Red Ranger landed on the ground in a crouch before quickly rising and slashed his blade in a downward arc before stabbing it in the ground as his personal zord, the Tyrannosaurus, appearing behind him with a red outline and roaring in victory.


Angel Grove
Command Center
Zordon

Once the rangers were fully morphed, all of them turned around to Zordon gave their goodbyes before the five transported to downtown Angel Grove, leaving Zordon and Alpha alone.

"Be careful Rangers…This will not be as easy as your battle yesterday was…" Zordon whispered softly.

He knew he was wrong for not telling them that he knew who this monster was. That he knew how devastating its power was but he had faith in the rangers to do what they must.

He just hoped he wouldn't pay for hiding his past.


Angel Grove
Downtown
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

When the five appearing downtown, they saw the putties and the Minotaur destroying anything that crossed their way and that made Black angry enough to walk towards them immediately while saying "Come on, we have to stop them before anyone gets hurt."

Red shook his head while placing a hand on Black's shoulder, making the ranger turn his head to look at him.

"I know Black but I have a plan…" Red looked around and looked to a roof nearby then pointed to it with both index and middle finger while saying to the Pink Ranger "Pink, can you get to the rooftop of the building next to us?" Pink looked to where Red was talking and gave her leader a nod.

"Good. You will be our sniper. When we give the signal, you will fire your arrow towards the Minotaur. Blue, you stay behind and guard her so she can take the shot. She will be the key to our victory. The rest of you will follow me."

The four nodded and while Red, Black and Yellow ran towards the group of enemies, Blue summoned his power lance as Pink summoned her power bow and together, the two made their way to the roof of the building, rushing past the tons of people that were trying to escape it, yelling out "Excuse me!" or "Pardon me" or "Get out of the way!"

When the two made it to the roof, they were met by Squatt and Baboo, the taller monster watching the destruction while the short one recorded it but then the taller monster noticed the two and took a step back in fear.

"Oh Squatt my good fellow, we need to go," The short monster was bobbing its head to the carnage that was being recorded.

"What? Why do we need to go?" Squatt asked while looking at his friend but then the stumpy monster saw what his friend was looking at and squeaked in terror at the sight of the two rangers. "O-Oh, hello rangers, we are the mighty Squatt and Baboo. Beware our awesome might!"

Blue and Pink slowly looked at each other then back at the two monsters and with small chuckle from Blue, He crossed his arms as Pink pulled out an arrow from the arrow holster on her back and notched it on her bow, aiming it at the two before firing it towards them.

The two screamed in panic and disappeared in two blue swirls just as the arrow hit the left blue swirl.

But when the two thought everything was clear, ten putties appeared in front of them from those same blue swirls, causing Pink and Blue to scowl beneath their masks.

"Of course it couldn't be easy," Pink muttered in annoyance while Blue chuckled.

"Alright Pink, let's do this!" Blue ran forward and delivered a hard right hook to a putty then grabbed its head and used it as a battering ram, hitting another putty in the chest before leaping up and dropkicking the two off of the roof.

Pink waited for two putties to come at her and maneuvered around the putties fists expertly and grabbed their heads and slammed them together before pushing the two off the roof then using her bow to fire two arrows to two more putties that where running towards her, making them explode into clay.

"We need to kill these things so we can help the others," Pink said with a worried tone in his voice before using her bow to smack three putties across their faces, making them spin in the air before falling onto the roof floor.

Blue nodded and rolled on the ground before leaping up and slamming his full weight down on the three putties that Pink had smacked down, making them groan in pain before dispersing into clay then he got up, turned around and ran towards a putty and leapt forward and rammed his knee into its jaw hard, making it fall into clay.

"I'll take care of these guys! You just make sure you can get a clear shot of the monster!"


Angel Grove
Downtown
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

The Minotaur roared in fury as a crowd of people rushed away from him and his small group of putties but a male adult tripped over a rock and fell to the ground.

The man turned around to see the Minotaur standing above him and tried to crawl away but the monster stepped on the man's left leg, causing the man to scream out.

"That's right you puny human! Scream for my master, Lady Rita, Scream!" The Minotaur added more pressure onto the man's leg, causing the male to wail in agony.

The Minotaur lifted up its club and roared out "Do you hear the scream of this mortal, Lady Rita?! He screams for y-"

Without warning, he was interrupted by two feet kicking him in the face, sending the monster falling back into the group of putties. "You know, I saw Lady Rita once and I would scream too if her ugly mug was all up against my helmet."

Hearing the insulting remarks to his mistress, The Minotaur looked up to see Black standing before him, his axe resting on his right shoulder, unaware of the smirk on the teen's face.

"You dare insult Lady Rita?!" The Minotaur roared out as he climbed onto his feet but when he got up on his feet, he swung his club towards Black but the Ranger used his axe to block the swing.

Without warning, Yellow and Red flew over his shoulders and kicked the Minotaur in the face once more, sending the Minotaur stumbled backwards but remained on his feet.

"Putty Patrol, attack!" the putties made a garbled yell then charged forward to the rangers who quickly engaged them in combat.

Black slashing his axe through two of the putties that were next to him then he dashed forward to the Minotaur with his axe coming up from off the ground while the Minotaur swung his club down, causes both of their weapons to clash, showing the two warriors in sparks briefly.

"You will pay for talking about Lady Rita on this day, worm!" Minotaur shouted.

"Well today ain't that day!" Black retorted before leaning his head back and swinging it forward, smashing his helmet against Minotaur's head, making it stumble backwards where Black took the chance and swung his axe down Minotaur's chest, causing a brief sprinkle of sparks to fly from its chest.

Black then twisted his body and laid a hard kick to the monster's chest, making it stumble back again.

"Impressive mortal…" The Minotaur murmured but then he leaned his body back and let out a loud roar before hunching forward and charging towards Black at top speeds before ramming his two horns into Black's chest, sending the Ranger f lying backwards into a car, a rain of sparks flying from both his chest and his back.

'Hell! That shit hurt!' Black groaned out in his head as he lurched forward from the dent in the car on one knee, holding his chest lightly as he leaned on his axe but when he looked up, he saw the Minotaur charging towards him, horns first.

Black leapt over the charging monster and kicked the back his head, making the monster slam into the side of the car.

Black landed and rolled on the ground and blocked a kick from a putty with his axe then leaped up and slammed the top of his helmet into the putty's chin, making it soar into the air before falling on its shoulders, its lower body leaning in the air.

"Nice job Black! You made the thing mad," Red shouted out while punching a putty in the face before turning around and shooting his blade blaster, hitting a putty that was sneaking behind Yellow as she tossed a putty to the ground.

"Just what we needed," Yellow drawled out while using her left power dagger to slash a putty in the face before kicking the putty to another putty that was near it.

"Well excuse me for doing what I do best," Black said while pushing two putties to the charging Minotaur before rolling to the side to avoid another charge, making the Minotaur smash into a building wall that was behind him.

Yellow kneed a putty in the chest before dashing backwards then leaping forward to knee it in the face, making it fly in the air then slam onto the ground then asked "So pissing off monsters that want to kill you is what you do best? And here I thought you were smart, Mr. Hero."

Black rolled next to her and stood up, rubbing his knees knocking the dust from off of them as he said "Well…Yeah. Someone has to have humor on the team," with a teasing tone in his voice, thumbing the right side of his helmet then crossing his arms in front of his chest while Yellow shook her head with her left hand in front of her helmet.

"Idiot…" Yellow hissed out in annoyance before she said "But then again, what I can expect from you of all people?" with a bitter tone in her voice.

Black turned his head to her and asked "What is your deal today?"

Without warning, Red appeared behind them and put his hands on their shoulders and said to the two "Guys, we need to focus on what's at hand instead of arguing."

The two rangers turned their heads to Red but while Black nodded, Yellow shrugged his hands off her shoulder before the three heard a large crash coming from the right of them.

Minotaur came crashing out of the building and straight into the three rangers, managed to not only his horns into Red's chest but clotheslining Black and Yellow in the waists, causing sparks to fly from all three of the rangers' bodies.

The Minotaur continued to run until he slammed all three rangers into the side of a bank wall then crashing through it, sending all three rangers flying backwards through the bank then slamming into the hard oak made desks, cracking the desks severely then falling onto the ground.

"Oh shit…That hurt." Yellow said while lying on the ground, slowly moving her hands to her sides to push her off the ground.

"Yeah…I thought the same thing when it happened to me the first time," Black replied while using the desk next to him to stand on his rather shaky feet.

"We need to avoid that at all costs or else this thing will kill us," Red murmured while forcing himself onto his feet, holding his chest in pain.

The Minotaur growled as he swung his club in his hands, slowly advancing on the rangers, saying "It is time I send you three to Hades in Lady Rita's honor…And nothing will save you three…"


Rain: And I'm ending it right here. Cruel I know but it had to happen. I decided that this chapter will set up future story arcs with Kimberly and Billy as well as to give a hint to exactly how deep Zordon and Rita's rivalry well go. What will happen to the Rangers against the Mighty Minotaur? Find out next time on… The Legend of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Mario: See you next time!