Chapter 10: Showdown in the Canyon
Bellatrix was walking around searching for a place to complete her ultimate triumph; conquering Harry Potter, and driving the whole world into darkness again. She searched high and low for a place to battle. She finally came across a huge canyon; she surveyed the landscape and decided that this would indeed be to place to finish her adversaries. She then summoned Greyback and her newly created army of bizarre warriors to the canyon and prepared to call out the Rangers.
The Command Center warning siren began to wail more loudly than it ever had before; the Rangers rushed in and wondered why the siren was so deafening.
'Why is the warning bell going off so loudly?" Ginny shouted above the noise.
"Its only that loud when there is an emergency that threatens the end of the world." Tommy answered her, "let's look at the Viewing Globe to see what it is."
They all turned in the direction of the Viewing Globe and saw why the emergency siren had increased its noise level. There stood Bellatrix and Greyback with what looked like an army of foot soliders.
"How did she make an army so quickly, I didn't think her wand was that powerful." Hermione wondered.
"Its not, her wand was never that strong, even back at the Battle of Hogwarts." Ron replied. "If my mom could critically wound her who says what happened to her wand while she was on the run."
Harry was quietly watching the Viewing Globe, listening all the while to everybody trying to formulate a theory on why Bellatrix had conjured an army seemingly out of nowhere, his eyes scanned the wand in her hand, but the Viewing Globe was blurry so it was hard to make out the shape of it.
"Tommy could we get the Viewing Globe to magnify the image so I can get a better look at her wand?" he asked.
"Sure thing Harry, Viewing Globe magnify image," he instructed. The picture now came into focus and Harry was now able to make out the wand in her hand, and he felt his stomach drop.
"Guys, its Voldemort's wand!" he exclaimed.
Everybody looked at the image, and their eyes grew horrified.
"How was she able to find his wand Harry? I thought it was destroyed when you finished him," Ginny asked.
"Well we never did find out what happened to his original wand, he must have discarded it after he gained possession of the Elder Wand, he put it in a place where he thought nobody would find it, but apparently Bellatrix did." He explained.
"It makes sense, she was his most devoted follower, she practically hung on his every command." Neville concurred.
"Well, now that the mystery of the army has been explained, I guess the next question is how do we fight it?" there's only 7 of us and it looks like at least 60 of them." Kimberly chimed in.
"Yeah the odds are not in our favor here." Hermione added.
The two leaders, Tommy and Harry looked over the dejected looks now forming on the team's faces, neither could blame them, but in their time together as Rangers they had learned that no matter the odds, they would always stick together till the very end.
"Come on guys, we have faced these kind of odds before, I trust you remember how many Death Eaters we fought during the Battle of Hogwarts." Harry reminded his friends.
"Yeah but we had more even numbers then Harry, now we won't have all the extra help we had back then," Ron said.
"As long we have each other, we can win any fight, no matter how difficult the circumstances." Kimberly said.
"Then I say we bring the fight to them, if they want a war, then we'll give e'm one!" Ginny shouted fiercely.
Everybody agreed and they all gathered together and teleported out of the Command Center heading toward the fight of their lives.
Meanwhile...
Greyback was pacing angrily, just itching to get his hands on the Rangers;
"Where are they, I thought they would notice the army by now Lestrange! He snarled at her.
"Patience Fenrir, they will come, as long as they're precious city's in danger, you can count on them showing up to stop it," she said with an uncharacteristic calm. "but I do agree with you, let's speed up the process shall we?"
She raised Voldemort's wand to the sky and yelled "Mosomodre!" A green burst of light shot out into the sky and started to form the Dark Mark and its image covered the battlefield.
"That should be enough to send them our way and to their destruction!" she cackled.
As soon as she said it, 7 streaks of colored light tore through the Dark Mark reducing it to smoke; they continued their way down until they reached the canyon floor. After they touched the ground, the forms of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Tommy Oliver and Kimberly Hart took their place.
"Now it begins." Bellatrix thought to herself. She turned her attention to the Rangers.
"Last chance Potter, tell me where you and your friends are hiding Lord Voldemort!" she said loudly.
"Has anyone ever told you sound like a broken record Bellatrix? I don't know how many times I have to tell you he is dead, get over it!" Harry shouted back trying to contain all of his pent-up energy.
That was all Bellatrix needed to hear, she made the signal to her army to join her.
"Well then I guess destruction it is then Potter!" she shrieked.
Harry looked to all of his friends, who shared his determination, and made the call;
IT"S MORPHIN' TIME!
"Tigerzord!"
"Dragonzord!"
"Mastodon!"
"Pterodactyl!"
"Triceratops!"
"Sabretooth Tiger!"
"Tyrannosaurus!"
The familiar energy swam throughout their bodies, and within moments they were in their Ranger form, they all drew their weapons and stood together ready to defend the earth.
The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife, no one was making a move toward the other, when it reached a fever pitch, Bellatrix finally ended the silence with a single word;
"ATTACK!"
Both teams charged towards one another and the battle was on!
Tommy and Kimberly charged towards their familiar foes, the Putties. Saba and the Dragon Dagger gripped tightly in their hands, they reached their targets and started to hack and slash their way through them, the Putties were usually pretty easy to beat, but with the added power boost from Voldemort's wand this group fought differently, every time one of the Rangers made connection with them, they seemed to get right back up instead of crumbling to pieces like normal. They started to overwhelm Tommy and Kimberly with multiple punches and kicks. The two Rangers had no choice but to fall back.
Harry was doing battle with a group of Krybots, his Power Sword was working in steady form catching a piece of each of them; he had never seen robots before especially ones with martial arts skills, he swung his sword down through one, but they continued to press on and started to converge on him, one of them landed a powerful kick to his chest and drove him back, he decided to pull back before one of them landed another deadly shot, he would not give Bellatrix the satisfaction of a victory at this moment.
Ron ran towards the Rin-shi, his axe held high ready to go, he struck two of them but with all their hopping around it was hard to get a clear shot. He kept trying to strike them but they hopped their way out of danger, it was incredibly frustrating, instead of losing his temper, he calmly rationed he could not make any progress with them and fell back.
Neville was busy fighting Tyrannodrones, his lance twirling through the air he had early success in knocking them down, but like all these soldiers they got right back up and advanced on him, he swung his weapon towards one of them, but it caught the blow and kicked his lance free from his grip, the creature picked it up and landed a dreadful shot to his mid-section and forced him back.
Ginny drew the other robot quotient of the army, the Grinders. Her daggers were working furiously striking anything she could reach. She landed a couple of great shots but also was unable to take them down hard. She continued to fight her hardest but she was swallowed up by their numbers and driven back towards her friends.
Hermione decided against a direct approach to her opponents; the Kelzacks. Her bow had long distance capabilities and she chose to hang back and try to pick them off one by one. She drew the arrow back and let it fly; it made contact with one of them, she drew another arrow and fired it, also making contact with them, but eventually she ran out of arrows and the Kelzacks took advantage of the situation by charging at her and started to pummel her with punches and kicks, she tried to fight back but there were too many of them and she like all the others was forced to re-group.
After their unsuccessful battles, the Rangers gathered together to figure out a new strategy, but were un-able to come up with any answers;
"Damn, I never thought a battle would be this hard!" Ron said frustrated.
"Yeah, Voldemort's wand gives them a boost of power, our weapons have little effect on them!" Ginny added.
"Guys, we can figure this out." Tommy said trying to defuse the building aura of uneasiness. "We just need to put our heads together and come up with a plan of attack."
'Yeah we can't start fighting amongst ourselves, or that would give them more of an advantage then they already have." Hermione said calmly.
Amid the back and forth between the Rangers, Bellatrix was positively glowing with evil, she made a motion to her army to finish them off, they all charged towards the Rangers, who stood ready to fight, but they didn't reach them fast enough. A powerful blast came from behind the Rangers, they ducked and it caught some of the army full bore and destroyed a dozen of them. After the dust cleared the Rangers turned towards the direction where the blast came from. Tommy and Kimberly were shocked to see that the wielders were their students!
The students rushed up to the Rangers to check on them, after making sure everybody was OK, Tommy rounded on his students.
"Where did you learn how to do that?" he demanded.
"In your classes Professor Oliver, we just took it up a notch," Sydney answered.
"How did you even know to come here?" Kimberly asked.
"We saw the symbol in the sky, and we do happen to watch the news Ms. Hart." Conner told her, "We just thought you guys could use some help, so that's why we're here.
"Well, you guys need to go back home, this is our fight, we don't need in-experienced students in this battle." Tommy said sternly, "You guys don't even have morphers."
"With all due respect Professor O, you're wrong about this; when the end of the world seems like more like a certainty than a possibility, you need all of us to help you, and we happened to bring some power of our own." Conner replied, "Guys show e'm."
All the students raised their hands up, attached to each of them was a morpher, except for Sydney's which she held in her hand. Harry examined the situation and made a conclusion.
"Alright guys, you can help us, we are going to need all the assistance we can get on this." He told them.
Tommy dis-agreed; "No Harry, they are too young to do this, I think we're fine with who we've got."
"Tommy, they need to grow up sometime, how will they ever learn if they aren't given a chance to prove themselves? I fought Voldemort when I was 17, I didn't have any prior experience to hold him off, just the spells I learned in school, so I think this is a chance let your students learn on the job, plus you can see how well you taught them." Harry replied back.
Tommy couldn't fight this logic, Harry was right; they had to grow up and fight for what they believe in, and if that was fighting Bellatrix and her army than so be it; he turned to his students and said;
"Very well, you want to have a chance to fight for what you believe in, you got it," he told them. "I don't need to tell you what happens next."
The students stepped forward and activated their morphers and they made their respective calls:
"Ninja Storm, Ranger Form!" Dustin yelled
"Dino Thunder, Power Up!" Conner shouted
"SPD, Emergency!" Sydney screamed
"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!" RJ called
"RPM, Get in Gear!" Dillon roared.
A few moments later, the students stood before the army in their Ranger gear. Conner wore red, Dustin wore yellow, Sydney was dressed in pink, RJ had purple on, and Dillon was wearing black.
Bellatrix had been observing the whole time; she thought to herself "What chance do the brats have against my army; it makes no difference whether there are 7 or 12. I will still be triumphant." She arrogantly motioned for the Rangers to come get some. The Rangers took up her offer and charged towards the army with a new vigor.
The tide started to turn almost immediately, the students were ready for anything; they fought off on-comers like it was nothing. It became obvious to Tommy that his students were more than ready for this fight, and it was obvious to Bellatrix as well her smile quickly turned to a scowl watching the fight.
Conner and Harry rushed towards the Tyrannodrones, Harry was cutting them down with ease; Conner had a sword of his own and took part in slicing and dicing his way through them. The creatures were on the run; Harry turned to Conner and motioned for him to finish them off.
"Alright Conner, show me what you've got!" he shouted.
Conner nodded and said loudly into his morpher, "Battlelizer Power UP!" Armor flew up around his arms and legs, and twin cannons were mounted on his back. He kicked off the ground hard; the cannons now appeared on both of his shoulders;
"Battlelizer cannons FIRE!" he commanded. Massive amounts of energy shot out of the cannons and it hit the Tyrannodrones full force, they collapsed and exploded in a shower of fire.
Hermione and Sydney were now taking on the Krybots, having earlier run out of arrows, Hermione found that her bow could also be a useful weapon and was using it to batter the robots. Sydney used her Delta Blaster, dropping them left and right, but a more powerful blaster was needed;
"I've got something special for these guys," Sydney yelled. She reached for her morpher and said. "SPD, SWAT Mode!" Armor enveloped her entire suit, and her gun now possessed twin barrels, she brought her Delta Enforcer to her chest and signaled to Hermione for her to pull out her own blaster.
"Alright Hermione, you ready to do this?" she asked her.
"Yeah, let's turn these guys into scrap metal!" Hermione responded.
They both charged towards the Krybots, both of their blasters pumping round after round into them, they hit all their targets and a few moments later the Krybots were pieces of scrap all around their feet.
Dustin and Ginny teamed up against the Kelzacks, Ginny was working her daggers fiercely, striking anything that moved. Dustin called for his weapon:
"Lion Hammer!" he exclaimed. A powerful mace like weapon now appeared in his hands, he and Ginny were surrounded by the Kelzacks; they stood back to back and grinned at each other under their helmets and began to work their magic, daggers and hammer working in perfect harmony, they tore a swath through the Kelzacks, and another piece of the army fell.
RJ and Neville ran toward the Rin-Shi, his lance now back in his possession Neville twirled it furiously making contact to slow down the hopping warriors, RJ used his martial arts skills, using knees and elbows he was kicking the Rin-Shi around with ease.
"Neville, I'm going to need some room, so stand back!" RJ shouted Neville's way, Neville got the message and backed away, RJ raised his morpher and said,
"Wolf Beam activate!" he brought his arm containing his morpher down, and then he made a swift movement upward, a saw like energy blast roared out of his morpher and cut the Rin-Shi down to size.
Ron and Dillon took on the Grinders, Ron's axe was slicing through the metal like it was butter, Dillon touched his belt and a weapon appeared in his hand;
"Rocket Blaster!" he yelled, he began to fire his weapon all around him, taking down the Grinders with each shot, Ron continued to hammer them with his axe, taking a high-low approach. The Grinders were reduced to severed nuts and bolts.
All that was left of Bellatrix's once unstoppable army were the Putties, Harry was practically salivating to end it,
"Guys let's bring e'm together!" he called to his friends, they all joined him;
"Power Axe!"
"Power Bow!"
"Power Daggers!"
"Power Lance!"
"Power Sword!"
Harry took point behind the Power Blaster, and wasted no time in shouting the command;
"Power Blaster FIRE!"
The energy beam shot out of the weapon, and the Putties crumbled to nothingness.
Her once-powerful army now reduced to cinders; Bellatrix signaled to Greyback to retreat and fight another day. They ran towards the end of the canyon to apparate out, but their path was cut off by the student Rangers.
"Going somewhere?" Dustin inquired.
Tommy and Kimberly reached where everyone was, Harry and his friends soon after. Bellatrix and Greyback were surrounded, but Tommy motioned to his students to fall back.
"Guys, I am very proud of you, I have taught you well but I need you to stay out of this one, these guys killed our friends, so it's personal now," he said to them.
"Sure thing Professor Oliver, they're all yours!" Conner agreed.
The 7 Rangers now stood and faced the two people who had caused them nothing but heartache and suffering.
"Well Lestrange, it's your move, you're not going to run away from a fight are you?" Harry snarled.
Bellatrix seethed with anger, "No Potter, I'm not running away, Fenrir can handle 4 of your Rangers, but you 3," pointing to Harry, Ron, and Hermione "are mine."
Greyback took advantage of the banter and made a dash towards an open area of the canyon. Tommy, Kimberly, Neville, and Ginny gave chase, and they started to battle.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione now faced Bellatrix, she gripped Voldemort's wand tightly, but she did not attack.
"What's the problem Bellatrix, not so confident when its 3 on 1?" Hermione said with a touch of anger in her voice.
"No you filthy Mudblood, I want to do this the old-fashioned way, you want to fight me we're dueling with wands only, which means no added powers."
"Fine if that's how it has to be, let's do it." The three of them de-morphed and brought out their wands. Ron took the first shot:
"Stupefy!" he roared. A blue blast came from his wand but Bellatrix was ready "Protego!" she yelled and a barrier formed around her. Multiple spells were shouted and the fight was under-way.
Greyback was toying with the 4 other Rangers, tossing them around with ease, they tried attacking separately but Greyback rejected them one by one. They all gathered together to form a new plan.
"This guy is freakishly strong, we need a new strategy!" Kimberly yelled.
"Let's use our weapons and attack him all at once!" Tommy proposed.
Everybody agreed and grabbed their weapons, Neville attacked first rushing toward Greyback his lance held high, his swung it with all of his might and struck a solid blow to Greyback's mid-section, he staggered back a bit but Ginny was on him in an instant her daggers connecting with his arms and legs, Greyback was on the defensive, Tommy and Kimberly leapt high in the air and brought their weapons down hard to Greyback's skull and he fell with a thump.
"Alright, how about we use a new weapon to finish this guy off?" Tommy yelled to the rest of them.
"What do you have in mind?" Kimberly asked him.
"I need you and Neville to toss me your weapons" Kimberly and Neville did so; Tommy caught both of them and connected the hilts together. "Saba-Lance online!" he shouted.
Greyback had recovered some and was able to make it to his feet, but Tommy was ready to end it. He charged towards the wolf-man and started twirling the Saba-Lance so fast that it was almost a blur. Greyback was getting dizzy just watching it. Tommy swung the weapon so fast that Greyback never saw it coming, it struck a fatal blow to his chest; he fell down and didn't move.
In the midst of her battle with the trio, Bellatrix saw her henchman fall and she doubled her efforts to not join him in death, she pointed her wand at Ron and yelled "Crucio!"
Ron started to writhe in agony on the ground, but Hermione took his spot quickly and she yelled "Stupefy!" the blast caught Bellatrix on the shoulder and she was driven back.
The battle raged on for another 10 minutes, each person shouting every spell they had ever learned, Bellatrix was slowly gaining the advantage, she took Hermione down, followed by Ron until she faced Harry. Both held their wands high;
"Scared Potter?" she asked him.
"You wish!" he said confidently back. "Ron, now!" he dove aside and Ron pointed his wand at Bellatrix's hand and yelled "Expelliarmus!" Voldemort's wand flew out of her hand and landed far away from where she was. Now that she possessed no wand, Bellatrix made a frantic dash towards Voldemort's wand. The trio had recovered and saw their opening to end the fight against dark magic. A huge boulder was directly above where Bellatrix was running.
"Boys, how about we end this miserable bitch's existence?" Hermione shouted not even bothering to hide the fury in her voice.
"Damn, what got her all riled up?" Ron asked Harry.
"Well Bellatrix did torture her, so I guess its turnabout fair play." Harry concurred. His eyes narrowed and he spoke in a hushed anger "Let's end this."
The three of them all pointed their wands directly at the boulder and roared "STUPEFY!"
The force of the triple spell loosened the boulder and it started rolling down towards Bellatrix, she turned and ran away from it, but the boulder was too fast, it crushed her, killing her instantly.
It was pandemonium afterwards; everybody was hugging and pumping their fists with overwhelming satisfaction, dark magic was no more!
After all the celebrating was over, Harry walked to where Voldemort's wand lay and picked it up, he snapped it in two pieces and threw it into the nearby lake. If anybody wanted to use it again, they would have to go through him to get it.
Everybody gathered in the Command Center. Tommy stepped forward and addressed Harry and his friends.
"Guys, I can't thank you enough for helping Kim and I get justice for our friends, we are forever in your debt, if there's anything you want just ask;" he said.
"It's funny you ask that, because the five of us were talking, and we'd like to remain here with you guys, you know just in case." Harry answered.
"Yeah, it's fun being a Power Ranger!" Hermione chimed in.
Tommy and Kimberly looked at each other and nodded in agreement,
"That would be wonderful; it's going to be nice having some more girls around here." Kimberly grinned at Hermione and Ginny. "I know that the male students will be pretty happy too."
Tommy looked to all of his friends both old and new and felt a strong feeling of redemption, he had a purpose again. He called to them.
"Alright guys hands in."
Everybody put their hands in, and yelled "POWER RANGERS!"