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AN: For this chapter only the OC Jason will be referred to as J as to not cause any confusion.
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All the rangers arrived at the base the day following the battle with the Fallen Rangers, and had told AV and Jazz about them.
"So we have more trouble...great." Jazz said through gritted teeth as AV nods
Chris looked around "Where's Maya at? She's usually here before us." he asked and looked to Abby.
"She'll be back soon. Something about bringing a guest with her." Abby says.
Logan nods "So I guess we just wait then huh?" he said sitting down in a nearby seat.
"I wouldn't get comfy. After all we're heading somewhere special today." Maya's voice called out as she arrived in the HQ with a man who AV instantly recognized.
"Grandpa!" AV said and goes to the man hugging him.
"I'm not that old yet Avalon." The man says. He was at least as old as Dr. O wearing a red athletic shirt and sports pants with athletic sneakers.
The team looked him over and Logan couldn't help but chuckle "Okay. What's this guy doing here Maya? He can't be that important to be late." He says and Maya glares as Sora looked at the man getting the strange feeling of deja vu.
"Actually this man is extremely important. Everyone this is Jason Lee Scott." Maya says introducing him and looking towards Logan in particular as she continued.
"The former Red Mighty Morphing Power Ranger. The Earth's first team of rangers." She added on and Logan sputtered embarrassed.
Jason let out a laugh "There's no need for the add on Maya, and Red wasn't my only color." He pointed out as Maya nods. It was then that an image of Zeo Gold flashed to the rangers before vanishing.
"Which brings me to the reason I brought Mr. Scott here." Maya said as the other's look to her confused.
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After a few hours drive the team arrived on the outskirts of Angel Grove, California and began to follow the two through a particular path.
Maya herself was smiling as she recalled this path "This sure brings back memories." She said as Jason nods
"I remember coming down this way that day when everything began." Jason said as J gave the older man a quizzical look.
"Coming down? From where?" he asked and Maya points ahead at what looked like a large building.
"There. The Command Center. The base of four different ranger teams." Maya said and they all worked their way there and got inside.
The two ranger veterans looked around fondly as the current team looked at it in awe. Sora and AV though looked at it a strange feeling of familiarity coming over them. As if they had been here before.
"Whoa this is some base." Sara said as she looked around.
"But why are we here?" Marcus cuts in knowing most of the group was thinking the same thing.
Maya looks to Jason who steps up "Earlier today I was alerted by an old friend that three individuals looking like rangers broke into the Command Center..." He says and signals them to follow.
He takes them to another room and they see a large hole blasted into the ground "They're are some old tunnels that run beneath this place from a second command center built in case of emergency long ago. If they've blasted through to it I can only think of one thing they'd be after." He said looking to Maya and she nods.
"The Zeo Crystals. The source of the Zeo Ranger's powers." Maya said as the group look to one another.
Maya then turns to them "That is why brought you here. The Zeo Crystals are extremely powerful, and if those Fallen Rangers were to get a hold of them..." She says and they nod.
"Yeah. To say that would be bad is an understatement." J says.
"So what? We're supposed to jump down, look for the Zeo Crystals, beat up the Fallen Rangers, and return up here?" Logan asked and Maya nods.
"Yep." She says and Sora looks to them.
"I don't know about you, but I think we have a better chance against them in the tunnels. Less likely to run into all three at once. So if we have to fight we stand a better chance." Sora said.
Sara nods "We split up, find them, and get out before they know what hit them." Sara says as Jason grabs a rope from the side and lowers it down for the rangers to climb down.
"Good luck." He tells them as the rangers then proceed to climb down some of them being much more reluctant than the others.
When they arrived down they were in what looked like ruins of something similar to the command center above. There was also holes blasted into the walls revealing tunnels.
"Well…I think we know which way each went. Let's go." Sora says.
Marcus steps up "So we split up? Groups of three right?" he asked and AV nods.
"Well I'm going with AV. No arguments." Jazz said
"Then I'm going with them to." J said and Sora nods.
Logan and Chris looked to Eva "I'll help keep track of the little one." Logan says.
"I'm going with Eva." Chris says.
Sora looked to Sara and Marcus "I guess that leaves the two of you with me then." She said and each group goes to a different hole in the wall.
Sora looks to them all "Okay guys we're likely going to lose communications once we enter these tunnels if we haven't already. So just be careful, and don't do anything that could possibly bring the tunnels down on us." Sora tells them all.
The groups nod and all three groups walk off into the tunnels. Yet what they didn't know was that someone else was also in the tunnel in search of the Zeo Crystals.
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With Eva's group the silver clad girl was thinking "You alright there Eva?" Chris asked in concern.
"Yes. Just thinking." Eva said.
Logan raised an eyebrow "About what?" He asked her.
"The Fallen Rangers. There was something about them that I couldn't help but notice about them." Eva says.
"You mean there coloring right? I noticed that to." Chris said and Eva nods.
Lucas looked at them confused "Coloring?" he asked them.
"You didn't notice the additional colors on them?" Chris asked as Logan rubs his head.
"I wasn't really paying attention to that. I was much more focused in how much pain I was in from the white girl's punch." He retorts as they continued down the tunnel, and it was then an explosion rocked the area, and Fallen Black was thrown back into the area.
Coming into the area as well was a familiar face to Eva who gets into a fighting stance "Yimsim!" she called out as said creature looked at her.
"Well well. If it isn't the silver ranger, and I see you have some new friends." He says as Fallen Black gets up and looks between the two.
It was then that Chris saw what Yimsim had in hand. Two sparkling crystals of green and yellow "The Zeo Crystals!" The three rangers called out seeing them.
"Indeed. Now I have a master to return to." Yimsim says and tries to teleport out, but it failed.
"Why isn't it working?!" He exclaimed as Fallen Black chuckles.
"Looks like your little thing doesn't work this deep underground." he says simply as the three rangers took out their Data Cards and morphed before then bringing out the core Ninja Storm Data Cards and changed into them.
"I hope the others are having a better time than myself." Eva thought.
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With AV's group they were already involved with a fight against a group of Gearz, Erasers, and to top it off Fallen White was there clashing with AV.
"Give up." Fallen White says simply as she shot at AV with her triple barrel blasters. AV rolled out of the way and shot at her with one blaster and another at the oncoming Gearz that rushed at her.
"Anyone else thinking that this is completely unfair?" J says as he knocked a combined group of the two minions away with his staff.
"Nope. That's just you." Jazz says as she cracked her whip knocking an enemy down. She then threw it out grabbing an enemy by the ankle and threw it about knocking into other enemies before it to vanished from all the damage it took.
AV and Fallen White continued there fight blasting at each other "You two look around! The Crystal's have to be around here!" AV called out as Fallen White did the same as well as ordering the Erasers to stop the rangers.
Jazz swung her whip knocking the enemies away as she and J ran farther in being followed by the Erasers.
It was then that they came to a dead end where their was absolutely nothing. They turned to the Erasers ready to continue fighting as Jazz had a hand to the walk and felt something.
"Huh?" she says then looks to J.
"Jason. Give me some time. I think that I found something." Jazz tells him and J nods charging at the enemies as Jazz began to chip away at the wall and noticed a pink and blue glow starting to come from the wall.
"Unlock the Legend!" J called out changing into Ninja Steel Gold and swings the blade at the enemies.
"Oh yeah! Now let's try something else." He says bringing out a gold star and setting it into a space of the blade.
"Ninja Spin!" He calls out spinning the star. He then rushed forward at incredible speed slicing the enemies and knocked them into the air before jumping high himself. He then came down hard causing a small explosion that made the tunnels rumble.
Jazz looked over "Hey careful! Don't try and bring the place down on us all!" she exclaimed. It was then a section of the wall gave way revealing the Blue and Pink Zeo Crystals.
"Yes!" Jazz said grabbing them. Back with AV and Fallen White the two had finished all the Gearz and were now fulling fighting each other, but restrained as to not bring the tunnel down on them.
Both charged there blasters and released large blasts of energy aimed at each other.
"This is going to take a while."
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With Sora's group they weren't fairing that well at all. They had gotten in deep in there tunnel, and had managed to find the Red Zeo Crystal, but the moment they found it was when the trouble had started.
With her incredible speed Fallen Silver and effectively knocked Sara and Marcus out of ranger form injuring them in the process.
Fallen Silver and Sora were now clashing blade to blade "You made this all to easy red girl. Just hand over the Red Zeo Crystal, and no harm will come to you." Fallen silver said and then kicks Sora away.
Sora grunts and calls on another data card "Not happening. Unlock the Legend!" she says and turns into Dino Thunder Red.
Fallen Silver acted surprised before chuckling "Oh that's won't help you." She says slightly confusing Sora. Fallen Silver slides a card out from her belt revealing a white card with the Dino Thunder symbol with black stripes on it.
"Because I can do this, Falldown!" She calls out and swipes the card across the scanner on her arm and a bright white light covered her and in place stood a female Dino Thunder White ranger dagger in hand and ready.
Sora tensed up and both were covered in the respective aura's of their current ranger color "Super Dino Mode!" Both called out.
"What they?! You can do it to?" Sora said as DTW chuckles and swings the dagger causing black like arrows to appear.
"Of course I can. Our powers are engineered from some equipment we borrowed from one of your rangers." She says and points the dagger forwards which the black arrows flew at high speed and struck her several times.
Sora cries out in pain as she was knocked to her base form and on the ground. DTW reverted back to Fallen Silver and summons her blade.
"Oh you poor thing. Still so defiant, and now I'll just be taking my prize." She says reaching down trying to grab the Red Zeo Crystal out of Sora's closed hand.
"You see we bypassed that special barrier keeping the True Power at bay. That's why we're stronger little girl. And that's how things will stay." Fallen Silver says, and stomps on Sora's arm trying to get her to release the crystal.
As she did this Sara and Marcus got up and morphed then rushed forward tackling Fallen Silver.
"You aren't getting it. Period!" Sara said as Marcus kicked her back.
"Yeah, and you had better leave Sora be." Marcus says to her as Sara rushed over to help Sora up.
Sora nods in thanks then looks to Fallen Silver "Sorry, but the crystal stays. You guys aren't welcome here." Sora said as she began to glow with a red aura and the two with her's morphor's shine.
In a burst of light Sora was out of her ranger form and stood in her Phoenix Priestess form her staff at the ready. Marcus and Sara grabbed the data cards that appeared and turned into Zeo Red (Sara), and Zeo Blue (Marcus).
It would be along the other tunnels that a few of the others would change into the other ranger forms except for Zeo Gold.
Sora taps the ground with the staff encasing Fallen Silver's legs in stone and Sara follows it up punching Fallen Silver back towards Marcus.
Sora then seems to almost fly forward as a strong gust of wind flowed through all the tunnels. She struck hard with her staff and then strikes again her staff this time on fire.
Fallen Silver fell to the ground "T-That was unexpected. Fine. You win...for now." she says and disappeared in a green light as her tech began to function.
The red aura around Sora vanished and she collapsed as Sara and Marcus caught her canceling their morphs.
"Let's get back. Though what exactly was that?" Sara asked.
"I don't know, but we should check with AV and Eva to find out more about it. No more secrets." Marcus says.
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All nine rangers were up in the command center as Maya was tending to Sora. Six of the rangers looked to the other two as Jason was off to the side watching them all.
"So Sora turned into that again..." AV says after Marcus and Sara recounted the tale of what happened in the tunnel.
"Again?" Many of them asked her as Eva nods.
"Sora and AV are...special. Whenever their emotions hit a fever pitch they have these special forms they can take. AV looks like an angelic princess, and Sora looks like a phoenix priestess." Eva explained as AV nods.
"Except our forms aren't complete, and whenever me and Sora go into those forms we pass out instantly after." AV picked up from Eva.
Logan raised an eyebrow "Is there any other kind of secret you want to tell us?" he asked and AV bites her lip looking to Eva.
"It's okay. Go ahead." Eva encouraged and AV sighs nodding. She closed her eyes a moment before opening them again revealing rainbow colored eyes surprising the others except Eva and Jazz.
"What the?" Logan said while Sara had her hand held to her mouth in surprise. Chris and Marcus looked at her bewildered finally J actually seemed the least surprised.
"Rainbow eyes. How is that even..." Chris started as Jazz sighs.
"AV isn't completely human. It goes back to her mother." Jazz said and began to explain about a bit.
"Woah..." The others said amazed as Jason left going to Maya in the infirmary with Sora.
Maya turns to him and he holds his hand out which had the Zeo Crystals "Take good care of them Maya." He says handing them to her.
Maya looked at him a bit confused "The crystals or my team?" Maya asked.
Jason smiles "Both. You've made a great mentor Maya, but you still have some things to learn." he told her and then left the command center.
Sora groans starting to wake up as Maya pockets the crystals and rushed over to Sora "Easy their Sora. Don't push yourself." She says as the other's came in.
They went over to Sora to check on her as Maya stayed back watching them smiling a bit. Yet inside she was troubled after hearing the stories of what happened in the tunnels from everyone. She wasn't any closer to figuring out who the human one out of the Fallen Rangers was.
"This is getting to much. I need to get my mind off this all." Maya thought and shakes her head.
"Alright everyone. Let's head on home." she tells them and the rangers nod as they all leave.
And that is all for Episode 10 and the Zeo tribute. Now with the Zeo Crystals in hand they have an additional source of power, and there are not many secrets left between the team. Though the mystery of who the human one is out of the Fallen Rangers is still unsolved...or is it? As for what the intention behind the Zeo Crystals are I will reveal soon, and it has always been my intention to have the Fallen Rangers to have the same powers as the Lore Keepers, but have the True Powers from the start. Anyways till next time this has been decode9!