Back at Dai Shi's, Casey leaned forward against the caged door

Back at Dai Shi's, Casey leaned forward against the caged door. He looked over at the three hourglasses. Each hourglass had little colored sand left at the top. Time was running out, and fast. Lily leaned against the wall that had the Cheetah on it, and Theo just sat on the floor, grabbing on to the cage door.

"Are you guys holding up alright?" Casey asked, moving his head slowly to look at them.

Lily sat still.

"I feel like I've been hit by a train." Lily said, her usual peppiness long gone.

"Same here. I don't know how much longer I can stand being like this." Theo said weakly.

Casey punched the cage door loudly. The loud band caused Lily and Theo to look over at him, they were startled by his actions. Then Lily stood, walking over to the side of her cage, reaching through the bars, putting her hand on Casey's.

"Don't worry, Casey, RJ will get us out of this." Lily said, the sweetness in her voice returning.

"Yeah, he is our master. I'm sure he'll be here to save us soon." Theo said, looking up at Lily and Casey.

Casey just looked over at the hourglasses, the sand draining to the lower side quicker and quicker.

"Some leader I turned out to be. I get my teammates captured and locked up in a cage." Casey said while weakly panting.

"Casey…"Lily started almost not knowing what to say, "None of this is your fault. None of this could really be helped. You did the best you could. We all did."

"The only person to blame for any of this is Dai Shi." Theo said standing, walking over to the side of his cage to where Casey was. Casey gave a small nod, not truly convinced that he wasn't a failure.

"Maybe we should try contacting RJ again. Maybe we'll get through to him this time." Lily said, trying to make the others feel better.

"I'll give it a try." Casey stated as he pushed a button on the side of his helmet. "RJ! RJ, are you there?! Can you hear me, this is Casey! RJ!" Casey shouted, but he got not reply. Casey slid his hand down his helmet in defeat. He didn't know what to do. They were trapped and getting weaker with each passing moment. All he knew was he and his friends had little time left.

Then Casey let put a pained cry. He took a few steps back and hit his knees. He looked at his hands.

"You alright there, Case?" Theo asked, he sounded deeply concerned with his friend.

"Casey?" Lily said, to worried to say anything more.

Casey continued to look at his hands. Then his body glowed a faint red, and his ranger powers left him. There Casey sat, without powers in his red training jacket. After seeing what had just happened, he looked over at Theo and Lily.

"That can't be good…"Theo stated, looking at Casey. He saw Lily look over at him in panic.

"I don't know how that just happened." Casey said.

Then he, Theo and Lily looked over at the hourglasses. Each one had what appeared to be about two hours left. Then, as if on cue, Theo and Lily began to glow their own color as well. Then Theo and Lily found themselves out of their ranger form as well. Lily sat on the floor, and Theo stood leaning against the cage door. Casey looked at his weak team members, then to the floor.

"Please hurry, RJ." Casey said softly to himself.

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Back with RJ…

RJ stood face to face with the newly reconstructed reptile. RJ hid his concern by trying to sound unfazed.

"So you can reconstruct yourself at will. So what? That's not so great" RJ joked, hoping that by doing so, his worry would fade away.

"I can do a whole lot more. Wanna see?" Slizard said, glaring at RJ.

"Not really. But I've got a feeling that you're going to show me anyway." RJ stated, doing his famous hand gestures.

And with that, Slizard grew into a very large version of himself.

"Wolf Pride Megazord!" RJ yelled, calling upon his zords to form his Megazord.

Each of the large beings struck an intimidating pose at the other.

"Ready for a real battle? A battle to the finish?" Slizard yelled, trying to sound tough.

"You got it scale brain!" RJ taunted.

Then Slizard began the battle with his default attack.

"Sand Attack!" Slizard yelled, firing an extreme amount of sand at RJ's Megazord.

"Really? I didn't see that coming." RJ replied sarcastically. Then RJ spun around and around. Which caused his Megazord to do the same. RJ had spun around so quickly, that the sand bounced right off of him.

"No luck! Try this on for size!" Slizard retaliated by throwing shell-like missiles at RJ. Sending RJ and his Megazord plummeting to the ground.

"Ugh!" RJ groaned, "There's got to be a way to get rid of this guy!" he finished racking is brain for any possible plan to defeat this monster.

Then RJ spotted a water tower that wasn't too far away. Upon seeing this, RJ formed a plan.

"If the water tower is hit at just the right impact, the water will ruin all of Slizard's sand!" RJ thought. "I just have to lure him to the water tower."

Then from within his Megazord, RJ stood to his feet, which made the Megazord rise to it's feet as well. Then RJ made a bee line for the water tower.

"Running away? I thought you had the courage of a wolf? So much for that!" Slizard shouted coldly, giving chase to RJ very quickly. Once RJ reached the water tower, he stopped. He saw that Slizard was approaching fast. He didn't have long to make his move. He only had one chance. If he missed he'd be destroyed himself.

"C'mon…just a little bit closer…"RJ said quietly to himself.

"You're finished Wolf Ranger! Hyah!" Slizard yelled, leaping at the Violet Ranger, "Shell Shocker!!" Slizard cried, firing a massive amount of rock hard shells at RJ. And at the last possible second, RJ leapt out of the way of fire. The shells punctured multiple holes in the water tower, causing water to shoot out everywhere. Slizard got drenched with the water and became immobilized.

"No!! I HATE water!! Get it off me!!" Slizard cried out loudly, trying to make out a move, but was frozen in place.

"Now's my chance! Spun Fury!" RJ called out loudly, jumping, his Megazord doing the same. Out of the leg of the Megazord shot out a sharp blade that carried a violet glow. The violet blade hit the soggy lizard and turned him into stone. Then, shortly after, exploded into bits.

"That vile reptile's toasted!" RJ celebrated happily. Then something on the ground caught RJ's attention. He leapt from his Megazord on to the ground. He saw a sand portal, much like the one that had taken Casey, Theo and Lily. He peered down into the quicksand.

"I'm coming rangers." He said, then, with that he jumped in to the sand.