Chapter 10: Force From the Future.

"Come get me Tommy!" A large humanoid shouted. He was a cyborg by looks, clad in sleek black metal. His right hand held a large blade and his left was wrapped around a woman's throat.

"The big guy is busy," a voice called from behind the armored man right before a laser slammed into his left shoulder causing him to drop the girl, "but I'll take you on Zeltrax."

Zeltrax turned quickly, lightning firing from his sword. His attacker leapt from the rooftop he had been standing on. The lightning destroyed the place where he had stood. The woman watched as she backed away, noting the man's white cap fly from his head to reveal a mane of lime green hair.

"Time for, Time Force!" He called pressing his fingertips to his Morpher. A green suit materialized around him seconds before he hit the ground. "I'm your opponent. Force from the future, Green Time Force Ranger."

"I've never seen a ranger like you," Zeltrax scoffed, "but if you are that eager to be defeated." Zeltrax raised his arm and a duel disk formed.

"I've been waiting to try this out," Trip smiled beneath his visor as his own duel disk appeared.

"I'll take the first move then." Zeltrax pulled his opening hand, matched by Trip. "I summon Tyrannodrone Soldier in attack mode and set two cards face-down for my opening move." A vicious looking reptile with scythe-like arms appeared. (1200/0)

"Then I'll go," Trip drew his card, "I summon Psychic Snail in attack mode. Now I'll activate my spell card Emergency Teleport which allows me to summon another psychic monster from my deck so I bring forth Psychic Commander." A purple and yellow snail as well as a green man riding a flying tank appeared only to vanish. "Now I tune my Snail with my Commander to summon my Psychic Lifetrancer!" A woman with green skin in a purple bodysuit took the monsters place. Her Left arm and leg were made of steel.

Psychic Lifetrancer is an Earth attribute Synchro Monster with 2400 Attack points and 2000 Defense Points. Once per turn the owner of this card may banish one psychic-type monster in their graveyard to gain 1200 Lifepoints.

"Now Lifetrancer destroy his Tyrannodrone!" Trip called throwing out his hand. The girl raised her steel hand and a black orb formed. It shot and hit the drone, ripping it apart and sucking it into a black hole.

"I trigger my trap," Zeltrax barked, "Biological Recombination. With my continuous trap on the field, every time you destroy one of my dinosaur monsters, I can summon another with a lower level from my deck, but its effect is negated. I call forth Tyrannodrone Defender!" A new reptile took the first one's place, its scythes enlarged into shields. "And my soldier has his own ability. When he is destroyed by battle I get to summon two more to take his place."

"Three monsters," Trip's eyes widened beneth his helmet, "I can take it. I set three cards and end my turn by activating my monster's ability."

Trip: 5200

Zeltrax: 2800

"My move foolish child," Zeltrax drew a card giving him two in hand. "I tribute my two soldiers to summon Zeltrax, Mesagog's General."

Zeltrax, Mesagog's General is a Dark Attribute Dinosaur Monster with 3000 Attack Points and 2000 Defense points.

"Now I activate my General's ability. I bring back one of my Tyrannodrone Soldiers by banishing a creature of the same level from my graveyard. And now I will activate my trap, Black Bio Ritual. This trap allows me to ritual summon a dinosaur monster by removing from play creatures on my field. So I banish my soldier and my defender to summon Fossilador, the Mind Manipulator."

Fossilador, the Mind Manipulator is a level 7 dark attribute ritual moster with 2200 attack points and 2000 defense points.

Trip stared down the two creatures before him. The first was a copy of Zeltrax, nothing too special. The second was a skeletal tyrannosaur. However, Zeltrax wasn't finished. "Both of my creatures have special abilities as well. First my copy will use his. By banishing a spell or trap card in my graveyard from play, I can destroy all of your spell and trap cards."

Trip was thrown back by and energy blast that ripped through his traps. He hit the ground and groaned in pain. "Now my Fossilador has an ability as well. By discarding the last card in my hand I can take control of one monster you control until the end phase. Its can't attack be tribute or used as Synchro material, but I think you'll find the numbers add up to your demise green ranger. Finish him!"

Zeltrax's creatures charged. The fossil knocked Trip into the air and Zeltrax cut through him with his sword. Trip hit the ground and demorphed. Zeltrax moved to him as the holograms disappeared. "Tell me where Tommy Oliver is now!" he commanded.

"I'll never tell you anything," Trip said defiantly as he tried to stand. Zeltrax slammed his boot into Trip's chest, knocking the wind out of him and cracking a few of his ribs.

"That wasn't a request." Zeltrax said calmly. He raised his foot only to bring it down on Trip's wrist, shattering the bone just above his Chrono-Morpher. "Unlock it." Zeltrax ordered.

"No," Trip panted in pain.

"Well there is another way to remove the DNA lock on your Morpher." Trip's eyes widened.

"How do you know about that?"

"The Emperor knows all about your little time force as well as the Space Patrol from the future." Zeltrax raised his sword one last time. Blood seeped from Trip's lips as the blade pierced his heart. The crystal on his forehead shattered as his life faded away. Zeltrax merely laughed and ripped his sword free. "You will still be useful for me," he whispered, lifting Trip's body by his lifeless neck, "I have a message to send." He ripped the Morpher free and walked away, dragging Trip's feet as he did so.

Author's note: Sorry about the pauses in updates. I'm working on a lot of projects at the moment, but I will continue to do what I can.