So guys, the story is about to start picking up. The first invasion attempt is here and the rangers, along with Kamen Rider Chalice, have to combat them for their beloved city. There will be some epic monsters popping up in this chapter as well as chapter 11. Thanks again for all of the support and sorry I have been shotty on my weekly drops. This one is actually on time I believe lol. Enjoy and remember IT'S MORPHIN TIME!
Chapter 10 - Out Numbered
There was a blur. His eyes burned as he awoke to the various lights facing down upon him. He tried to move but couldn't. He looked around to notice he was strapped to a bed, a machine healing the gash across his chest. Hez groaned when the pain set in. His memory slowly came in as he started to frantically look around for his friends. He spotted other beds, Katrina was next to him on the left. She was covered in bruises that were seemingly vanishing at the hands of the healing machine. To his right was Neil, who was in much worse shape with an x cut into his chest and a slash across the stomach. His head wasn't allowed to move enough to look for the others. The pain was immense and becoming too much to bare. Hez struggled to keep conscious but it was no use as he fell back into a deep sleep.
His eyes shot open as he sat up. He quickly realized he could move and looked around. Most of the beds were empty but there was still one bed full. The bed to his left, still filled with Katrina's sleeping body. The others slowly walked into the room.
"Hez you're up, we thought you lost too much blood." Aj said as he ran to Hez.
"Is she… " Hez trailed off.
"She's fine bro," Brian said. "She's gonna pull through but she took a lot of damage in that fight. For now, we need to regroup. Zordon filled us in."
"What"S the situation?"
"Goldar survived and Zordon had no idea. Goldar was the second in command to Rita as we already know but the former team had their troubles even seemingly killing him. Angel Grove is now under siege by Goldar and an army of putti not to mention the number of monsters made by Finster. There are four monsters, then Goldar and let's not forget the Beetle Borgs. Even if they haven't shown their faces." Brian explained to Hez.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Neil asked. "Let's get back out there."
"Yea that definitely worked the first time," Donna said sarcastically. "We almost died fighting Goldar so we can't just charge into battle. This time we need a plan."
NC started pacing, "what exactly can we do?"
"We can split up and attack them all at once. Goldar can't be in more than once place at more than one time right?" Aj said.
"Splitting up isn't the best idea. If we face Goldar, we face him together." Brian said, "dividing our strength will just make it easier for him to pick us off."
"He has to be recovering from the battle himself," NC added, "he hasn't been spotted on the scanners, just his henchmen and can take out the monsters and deal with him last."
"But how do we deal with him?" Neil asked.
"Together," Katrina said as she stood up from her bed. Everyone looked at her as she stood. "We have trained for this moment, our friends and family are out there and we are the only ones who can stop these pricks. So let's go out there and show them you don't fuck with Angel Grove!" The Rangers walked into the command center, heads held high, bodies healed and motivations clear. Zordon wasted no time teleporting them to Angel Grove. They landed in the southern part of the city and could see the destruction and putti running free. Their eyes narrowed as they faced down the horde. They slowly stepped forward into a stride. The stride became a run and the run became a sprint. The rangers charged into battle. They showed no mercy in disposing of the putti. Kicking with full force. Punching as if their lives depending on every shot thrown. Hez pushed his way into a home along with three putti. The first threw a punch that Hez parried with his left hand. His right was used to block the right side of his face then slammed down to deliver a hammer fist to the neck of the putti. As it's neck crumbled and head fell to the floor, Hez charged the other two putti, catching their faces in his palms and slamming them into the ground.
Outside, Katrina landed spinning hook kick after spinning hook kick, knocking the head of putti off and sending them flying in various directions. Neil found an axe from a fire truck. He twirled it and brought it on an angled swing, crashing the blade through the middle of a putti. He spun, reset his feet and drove the axe down, splitting another in half. NC ran in a full sprint and jumped into the air, he elongated his body to drop kick a putti off a car. As he landed on the car, he kipped himself up and swept the head of a putti clean off. NC flipped off the car and blocked a punch then countered with a hook and high round kick. He hardened his guard when he realized more putti were coming.
AJ and Donna were surrounded. Donna side kicked a putti and it bent over. She wasted no time as she doubled back and got a running start to jump off it's back and get her legs wrapped around the shoulders of another putti. Donna leaned back and pushed her hips in the same direction her body moved to flip the putti over her, sending it crashing on its neck. AJ knife hand strikes a putti in the chest hard enough to create a hole in the chest then backhanded it. As another three a punch, he side kicked the knee, breaking it as he turned in full force to deliver an elbow to the head.
Brian cartwheeled out the way of a sidekick then delivered an outside crescent kick. He used his left arm to block a punch and raised his right knee to check a leg kick. He swept one and turned his hips quickly while jumping up to deliver a spinning back kick to another. He took a full step back to evade a jump kick then twisted his hips and bent his arm to deliver an elbow followed by grabbing the neck of the putti and leaning backwards, flipping it over into more. Brian started to sweat.
"There's too damn many!" Hez yelled as he found two lead pipes and used them to block and counter attacks.
"Keep fighting!" Brian yelled as he punched another.
"We can do this, just keep it up," Donna said. Then an energy beam shot out at Katrina, sending her flying into a car. Neil axe kicked a putti and fought his way to Katrina. Hez spotted where the beam came from and saw a grey creature. It had the face of a skull with a helmet on. It's body a mass of muscle fibers outlined in bone.
"Welcome rangers," the being said, "your existence ends here!"
"He's mine!" Hez yelled as he wrapped the belt around his waist and ran as he slid the card into the buckle. The grey being charged Hez as he ran through the purple doorway with a beetle designed onto it. As he emerged he had the armor of Kamen Rider Chalice, armed with his bow that he pulled into two blades. The being attempted a jump kick but Hez sidestepped it and slashed at its back. Black blood rushed from the gash but it had no effect as the being still countered with a back kick, causing Hez to stumble backwards.
"Hez wait for…" Aj was cut off by more putti cutting him off as he struggled to stay standing while they attempted to take him down. Unable to reach for his morpher, Aj struggled to power them off of him. Hez continued to battle with the being.
"Do you really think a mortal can defeat Bones the Undying?!" The being said.
Hez classed his blade with Bones', "I'll kill you all myself if I have to!" Hez pulled away and blocked an axe kick from above then swept Bones. As he fell, putti charged Hez but he slashed them to their demise before they could even act in aggression. Bones drew a sword from dark energy and they two clashed over and over. Their blades constantly smashing together before Hez jumped up, pulling his knees to his chest and kicking out into Bones's chest. Bones fell and rolled to recover but as he lunges forward he was met with a spinning hook kick that landed flush on where the temple would be on a human skull. Bones continued to try to stand but was blasted in the shoulders by Hez's bow.
Hez drew a card from a book on his belt and slid it into his bow. This card grew and turned into pure energy as Hez drew back and aimed for Bones. "For Angel Grove," Hez yelled as he released and a large green energy beam shot from the bow, completely obliterating Bones and the putti surrounding him. His scream echoed as the putti stopped their attack. Hez kneeled down, breathing in deeply at the amount of power he just used. He didn't leave the battle unscathed. His left arm was slashed. The rangers formed a line in front of Hez.
"It's our turn, ready rangers?!" Brian yelled.
"Ready!" His team replied.
"It's morphin time!" Brian yelled as the bright light flashed and faded in an instant, revealing the six power rangers. The rangers charged into battle, cleaning out the remaining putti. Everything fell silent, too silent for a city under attack.
"I don't like this," NC said.
"It's never a good sign when it's quiet." Aj said as he turned around to a large spiked club being swung at his head. As he ducked, Katrina fired a blast at the being but it had seemingly no effect. It stood there, shoulders hunched and breathing heavily. It's head had large horns that curled upwards. The upper body muscular and covered in fur down to the shoulders and upper chest. It held a large club in one hand and a shield with four curled spikes in the other. As it breathed through its nose, its massive torso heaved. Putti began to surface around it.
"See, when it gets quiet, bad stuff always happens." Aj said as he pulled out his power sword.
"Silence you mortal fools," the beast spoke. "I, the Mighty Minotaur, will destroy you all so my master Lord Zed can finally seize this wretched planet."
"Bring it on," Neil said as the rangers rushed towards Mighty Minotaur. Hez opted to take on the putti as he jumped almost twenty feet into the air, clearing Mighty Minotaur and extending his leg to kick a group of putti. He landed in a roll and stood up to continue fighting. The rangers surrounded Mighty Minotaur as they attacked. He stomped his massive hoof on the ground, shaking the earth and throwing the rangers off balance. With a spin, he swing his club at NC, sending him flying and sparks from his body. Neil clashed his Power Axe with Mighty Minotaur's club. Aj lunged forward to slash Mighty Minotaur but his blade met with the shield.
Aj was thrown from the force used when Mighty Minotaur pushed his shield forward. The shield was then used to bash the edge against Neil's helmet. Katrina fired off more energy arrows as she circled around to his blind spot. Donna jumped off Katrina's shoulder to gain distance to slash as Mighty Minotaur's chest, gushing black sledge from the chest as Mighty Minotaur stumbles back.
"Keep up the pressure!" Brian said as he dashed forward and slashed Mighty Minotaur across the abdomen, spraying more of the pitch black blood. Aj came from the other side to slash across the neck. Donna and Katrina came in an X formation, shooting large holes into Mighty Minotaur's chest before he was slashed again. Neil and NC jumped into the air to add force to their downward swings as they brought their lance and battle axe down onto Mighty Minotaur's shoulders. Mighty Minotaur kneeled, his body mostly covered in his own blood below the neck.
"You mortals truly believe you can win this war? I am but a low grade of warrior. There are two others here, watching you. They will pick you apart and show you what true fear is." Mighty Minotaur's said, "you will die a death without glory, without honor and without meaning. Your every effort is meaningless to repel us. We will avenge Rita Repulsa and conquer this forsaken planet!" As Mighty Minotaur's yelled, the blood sprayed more from his muscles flexing as he projected his voice. The rangers watched as his body dropped and withered away.
"That's two down," Hez said as he finished off the last putti. "We need to end this now before…" he was cut off by an energy beam causing an explosion behind the team then in front of the team. They were engulfed in flames as their bodies flailed in the air only to crash down to the ground. The cackling sound of a woman laughing was heard as the Rangers slowly recovered to their feet. Her laughs grew closer as she emerged from the smoke.
"You've made it this far but how will you fare against two of us at once?" The woman said as a cat like creature wearing an Egyptian headdress appeared behind the smoke besides her. The battle was far from over.