UPDATED! (15/12/2012)

Dylan could have sworn he had been battling the Grinders for over an hour now. Even when he put all of his efforts to defeat them, the Grinders just kept on coming. He couldn't help but feel exhausted.

Feeling the need to end this, he jumped over everyone so he could go after Venjix. Luke had the same plan as well. Before any of them could attack, Venjix practically threw them into an already destroyed shack causing them to demorph.

Dylan hated to admit it but this Venjix guy is pretty strong. He tried to pace his breathing before getting up and noticed how Like is struggling to stand on his two feet.

"I can't give up..." Luke told himself.

Dylan couldn't help but smirked, "You don't give up easily don't you?" he asked.

Luke stopped trying to stand and sat down on the ground while facing Dylan, "I could never give up when everyone is counting on me," he replied.

Dylan chuckled softly. Deep inside, he really admired Luke's determination. He doesn't easily give up. He remembers the conversation he and Troy had when he had just joined Project Pirate. Dylan couldn't handle it and he was going to leave the team. Troy wasn't fond of the idea and they started to have a heated argument. Troy kept on going how Dylan easily gives up in everything and Dylan actually listened to him. He then made a promise to himself to not give up even when things get tough.

Dylan managed to get up and helped Luke up to his feet. "Well then, if that's what you want, then we're going have to do this together as a team," he said.

Luke hesitantly offered his hand but took it anyways. He was confused. Why the sudden kindness? "You want us to work together? I thought you hated me and my team," Luke said.

"As much as my team hated your team, it was only because you were after the thing that was ours. I mean, we're pirates. We hate it when people take what's ours. However, Megaforce and Project Pirate shares the same fate and mission and that is to protect the Earth from the forces of evil. We might as well do it together," Dylan answered him.

Luke smiled at the blue Pirate ranger. He's not a bad guy after all. He's right; the only way out of this is to work together. Fighting doesn't solve anything. The two exchanged friendly handshakes and head out.

Lexi was currently on top of an abandoned truck overlooking where Venjix was standing. She was planning to jumped on Venjix and slash him with her Pirate Saber. She waited patiently until Venjix was completely still. Lexi got into position and counted to three. However even before she reached to saying three, Jess jumped out of nowhere and attacked Venjix.

Lexi was mad that he plan had to go to waste but she still jumped on Venjix which prevented Jess to give Venjix the final attack.

"What are you doing?" Jess shouted furiously.

"I had a good plan but you ruined it! I was supposed to get him!" Lexi replied, still on Venjix's back.

"YOU ARE RUINING EVERYTHING!" both of them shouted at each other at the same time.

"So, trying to get me huh?" Venjix questioned before he managed to get Lexi off his back and throwing her body at Jess which caused them to be thrown inside the temple, breaking the rooftop.

Lexi and Jess struggled to get up but they still had the energy to go on.

"See what you did!" both of them said at the same again. "Stop copying what I'm saying!"

Then they both stared at each other and then started to giggle. "It's amazing how we're both in sync with each other huh?" Jess asked, smiling.

"I guess. This goes to show that great minds think alike," Lexi replied at the fellow yellow ranger.

"Ok, I have a plan, I contacted Luke earlier. He should be here waiting for my signal. We'll create a distraction while he gets Venjix. I'm sure that after that, we'll be back at home and take on Dark Crosser," Jess explained.

Lexi tried to insert all the information in her head, "Wow, that's really planned out," she managed to say.

"Of course it is. What's life without plans? Organization is the key to success," Mona replied.

"You're very pumped," Lexi commented.

"Of course I am. I don't want Earth to be taken over by some evil forces. Megaforce worked hard to keep the peace on Earth. We're not going to let anyone takeover," Jess replied. She then turned around to Lexi with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry for being mean to you. I guess I just feel competitive that there's someone else out there taking over the job of saving the Earth."

"It can't be helped. I would have done the same thing. Competitiveness is my nature," Lexi assured her.

"Well come on then, we have an ugly monster to defeat together," Jess said.

Jess and Lexi were standing by the temple but were still out of sight from Venjix. They finally agreed on a plan to distract Venjix so that Luke and Dylan can swoop in and get Venjix when he least expects it. Lexi managed to spot Dylan and Luke on top of a tree and she gave them a signal saying to wait for their queue.

"Ok, remember the plan?" Jess asked.

"Of course. This will be a piece of cake," Lexi replied her with confidence.

Both of them ran in front of Venjix, like a dumb person would do and gave him sad pout. Dylan and Luke knew their plan is in motion.

"We give up!" Lexi said dramatically. "There is no way we could defeat a great warrior like Venjix."

Jess nodded in agreement with a fake sad look, "We are no match for you. We surrender."

It didn't take Venjix a second to think it through. He bought the girls acting and started to act proudly. "Well I am a recruit of Dark Crosser for a reason. Plus I was very impressive back in the day until I was defeated by those no good –."

Before Venjix could continue, Dylan and Luke had attacked his back and soon found his weak spot. Dylan stabbed his sword in Venjix's back so that he could barely move properly.

"What's going on?" Venjix demanded.

"You have just been duped!" both Lexi and Jess replied happily before taking out their morphers and morphed into their ranger forms.

It didn't take much to get rid of Venjix though. Now that his guard was down, all they had to do was put all their weapons on full power and attack Venjix until he was banished. When Venjix was banished, everyone celebrated happily and soon they were teleported back to where they were last at.

Although the celebration, they hoped the rest of their friends managed to make it back safely.

Meanwhile with Blair, Johnny, Dawn and Finn, they were eventually found by the Quantrons and were already morphed to fight them. Ecliptor was watching them from a distant as he watched the rangers getting owned by his foot soldiers.

As soon as Quantrons slashed all them, to Ecliptor's surprise it wasn't them after all. The four rangers turned into water. Ecliptor walked to the scene. He has never seen anything like that before. Something was definitely up. Suddenly shots were sent to his back. He turned around and saw the real rangers.

"But how?!" Ecliptor said.

Finn lifted up a Power Card and showed it to him. "It was all thanks to the Camoumirage Power Card," Dawn said.

"But I can't take all the credit. It was Johnny's idea in the first place," Finn said.

"And now we're ready to take you down for good, Ecliptor," Johnny said.

"Let's go Johnny," Blair told him.

Johnny and Blair took out their Pirate Sabers and fought with Ecliptor. Dawn and Finn soon join in to fight them. Ecliptor unfortunately put on a good fight against the rangers.

"You're never going to defeat me, Power Rangers," Ecliptor told them even though he was already tired out. Blair tried to slash him but he grabbed Blair's Pirate Saber. "Nice try pink ranger. You're going to have try way harder to get rid of me."

Finn and Dawn then blasted Ecliptor at his weakest point and he finally released Blair. The four rangers activated their weapons in full power and got ready to blast at Ecliptor.

"Phoenix shot!" Dawn called out.

"Shark Bowgun!" Finn called out.

"Double Pirate Blaster!" Johnny and Blair called out.

With all of their combined powers, they managed to defeat Ecliptor together. Ecliptor fell to his feet and exploded right in front of the rangers.

"We did it!" Dawn exclaimed happily and started beating Finn and Johnny excitedly.

They were all then teleported back to where they last were. Unfortunately, they didn't have a soft landing as they landed on top of some people.

"GET OFF ME!" someone said. Blair quickly identified to voice. It was Lexi; and she did not look thrilled of them landing right on top of her and the rest of the rangers.

"We're all here!" Johnny exclaimed excitedly and started to hug Lexi and Dylan to which the both of them pushed him back.

"Not all of us. Troy and Toby isn't back yet," Dylan informed them.

"I wonder if they're having trouble," Johnny said.

"It's fine. I hope they soon realize that they have to work together to get out of wherever they are," Luke responded.

In another dimension, Troy and Aiden were running around the office building trying to protect every frozen people at the same time fight off the Loogies so the people won't get hurt.

Troy, in his ranger form, tried to get away from the firing lasers from Vrak. It seemed that Vrak knows his every single move no matter where he is. In addition, the Loogies manage to find him. After fighting them off, he saw Toby, not in his ranger form, struggling to get rid of the Loogies. Toby must have gotten hit hard by the lasers. By instinct, Troy took out his Pirate Blaster and had it in full power to get rid of the Loogies quickly.

Toby then dropped to the ground in exhaustion and Troy tapped him on his shoulders, "I'll take it from here," Troy stated.

Toby was about to protest but Troy ran off before he could. Not settling to take a break, Toby decided to follow him. Toby followed Troy until they got on the lobby and he hid himself so no one would find him.

However Toby did manage to see what was going on. Troy was running but stopped at one point. When the lasers were coming after him, instead of dodging, he stood still until the lasers hit him and forcing him to demorph.

Toby was confused by Troy's actions until he understood why Troy did it. Troy was actually protecting a group of people behind him.

Suddenly, another set of lasers were shot again in the same direction and Toby took out his morpher and inserted a Defenstorm Power Card to prevent the lasers to hit Troy.

Troy was surprised by Toby's help. After being so arrogant towards him, Toby still helped Troy. Troy then noticed something weird in the shield that was protecting him. He noticed a small flying object that looked like a bat but had a camera as body.

That was how Vrak knew where he was. He had invisible flying cameras follow Troy around. Troy then took out his gun blaster and shoots the flying object until it died.

After the shield and the flying object were gone, Vrak came to Troy, helping him to get up.

"Are you ok?" Toby asked.

Troy tried not to make eye contact, "You didn't have to do that," he replied.

"It's a reflex," Toby responded with a polite smile.

He then turned to look at the people Troy had protected. There was a tall man that looked like he's in his late 40s holding a briefcase with a bunch of other men surrounding him holding papers.

Troy, as if reading Toby's mind started to explained why he did what he did. "That's George Evans. He's one of the best business tycoons in the country. He's also my dad."

"So that's why you quickly identified this building," Toby commented.

"It's hard not to. I used to come here all the time when I was little. I just love how big it is for me to play around and make my own adventures here. My dad stopped bringing me here after my mom left though," Troy continued.

Toby remained silent to let Troy finish his story. "Every day I see him growing more bitter and forcing me to work hard to get into an Ivy League College so I could get a business degree and take over his company in the future," he continued again while he looked at his father's frozen face.

"But you don't want to?" Toby guessed.

Troy simply shrugged, "I don't know what I want to do with my future honestly. I can see so many responsibilities are on my dad's shoulders and he's always so stressed out. I don't want to be like him."

Toby nodded his head in understanding and then spoke, "But isn't that the same as being the leader of your team? All responsibilities are in your hands."

"Yeah but this is different. I willingly want to be a ranger and leader because it's something I enjoy doing. I don't know if I will enjoy being a business tycoon," Troy responded.

"You don't know yet that you won't enjoy being a business tycoon. Who knows, it might be fun," Toby replied.

Troy did not look convinced, "I don't think so. I don't want to be uptight like my dad. It's just complicated and we're never having this conversation again.

"Fine then, let's join forces for now. We will both work together to defeat Vrak and then Project Pirate and Megaforce will work together to defeat Dark Crosser," Toby said. "What do you say? Team?" he asked while offering Troy his hand.

Troy smiled in agreement and shook Toby's hand, "Team."

"You know, you may be a pirate but you're not like any other pirate," Toby said to him.

"Let's not get mushy right, short stuff. Let's just go find Vrak and get the hell out of there," Troy responded to him.

"Come on, I bet I know where he is," Toby replied as he let the way.

The two of them ran towards the information counter at the second floor and Toby was right. Vrak was right there. Vrak was surprised to see the two red rangers not dead yet.

"You two?" Vrak exclaimed.

"Why so surprised Vrak?" Troy questioned as he shoots Vrak but he managed to dodge it. But Toby managed to jump high to shoot Vrak with his laser gun from above until Vrak let go of his weapon.

"Let's kick this to high gear," Toby said as they put their weapons to full power.

"DRAGON SWORD, FULL POWER!," Toby called out as he slashed Vrak in direct contact.

Troy followed his lead. "PIRATE SLASH!" Troy called out and he sliced Vrak, causing him to fall and explode. Troy sighs in relief to finally manage to get rid of Vrak and keep his dad safe at the same time.

Soon, both of them were teleported to where the rest of their team was.

"Troy!"

"Toby!"

The two red rangers turned around and saw every one of their friends made it back safely.

"Are you guys ok?" Toby asked everyone.

"It was no big deal," Jess replied.

"You had no idea what we had to go through," Luke added.

Toby smiled at his team and turn to the Pirate rangers who were just reunited. "So Troy, how about it? Do you agree for us to join forces?" he asked Troy.

"We are Earth's only hope for survival," Finn added.

"Plus, we all make a pretty good team," Dawn said.

Troy made eye contact to his teammates who all nodded in approval. He turned to Toby and gave him an assuring smile, "Let's do this."

Suddenly a black smoke flew passed the ten rangers and stopped in front of them. It was Dark Crosser holding the treasure chest of ranger keys.

"Congratulations on your escape rangers! I'm sure you must be very proud of yourself and ran out energy right?" Dark Crosser asked all of them.

"Unlikely," Dylan responded to him.

"Well then I guess I could show you guys what I have," Dark Crosser said as he took out a big gun-looking machine and the treasure chest of ranger keys that were stolen from the rangers.

"The ranger keys!" Johnny exclaimed.

"What are you going to do to them?" Lexi demanded as the Dark Crosser dumped the entire ranger key inside the machine and as it activated, he shot it to the sky. The rangers looked behind them to see what they did not expected. It was in fact a group of Power Rangers, in human form.

"Play nice now," the Dark Crosser said as he disappeared in a thick black smoke, leaving the 10 rangers and with the group of evil rangers set to kill all of them.

"You've got to be kidding me," Dawn spoke in disbelieved.

"I didn't realize there were a lot of them," Blair said as she scanned her eyes at the 17 groups of Power Rangers in front of them.

"I don't feel right about fighting this. It makes us seemed like we're the bad guys," Jess said.

"Well we don't have choice. Someone has to do it," Lexi replied, her eyes still on the group of rangers in front of her.

"Plus, we're Pirates? If we don't like something, we get rid of it," Dylan added.

"Yeah but it doesn't feel right to fight our predecessors," Luke argued lightly.

"This is going to be a tough," Finn added.

"Either way it's going to hurt but it's better if we fight back. It's the only way to protect Earth, right?" Johnny asked the two red rangers.

"These powers were given to this planet to help protect the people of Earth; not to use it against them. We can't afford to show everyone including Dark Crosser or the Zangyack Empire that we're quitters," Toby stated.

Troy smiled at his fellow red ranger and nodded, "It's time to get in gear then," he said as he took out his ranger key. The rest of them took out their morphers, ranger keys and Power Cards to get ready to morph.

"MEGAMORPH!"

"IT'S MORPHIN TIME!"

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