Chapter 11: Consequences

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"You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences." - Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

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"Rangers, there are consequences with your powers," Hayley notified them, "Whomever touches the amthest stone will be as stone," she stated as she read through her findings.

All the rangers gasped. There were consequences for having their morphing powers again, but they had to save Kimberly. Time was wasting away as the rangers fought the minions.

Every minute counted on these teams. With combining force, each defeated every one of them. However, it wasn't so easy. In combined strength, every force made a powerful beam that shot through the blazing areas of Angel Grove Park, which phased most of them out.

Ivan laughed as he continued commanding his minions to the rangers. Z and Bridge formed a chamber for blocking the enemy as they tried helping Tommy out. Within reach, the box with the amthest diamonds was lying in there glistening as they tried to retrieve them.

Suddenly, within their grasp, Z could almost feel the box at her reach, when she and Bridge were casted into stone. Now, there were three that were made into stone, but the others still remained as they fought off the villain.

"Oh no!" Nadira exclaimed, "Bridge and Z are turned into stone too," she gasped as she covered her mouth.

"Don't worry, we'll save them!" Lucas said with a nod, "If only I could grab it my…" he trailed off as he tried grabbing the box.

"Your end is near rangers," Ivan snickered, "Soon, you all will be stone and the Power Rangers will be no more," he laughed as he grew into a gigantic form of himself.

As their eyes grew wide, the rangers called on their zords. Knowingly, they knew what to do since their planned diversion, four formed zords from Wild Force, Zeo, Turbo, and in Space ensued trouble into the moon.

With the others down on earth, they continued fighting the many foot soldiers that Ooze had left behind. While looking at the hour glass, time went by faster as the countdown of domination was to exceed.

"You'll never get away with this," Kira pointed up at the man that overlooked her from the ground, "We won't let you make us stone," she huffed under her breath.

"Try me," he snarled as he blew some of the rangers away, "Try and stop me because tonight you all will be doomed," he laughed foolishly.

In summoning the zords, each attempted to fight off the legendary villain with every kick and force they had while in their cockpits. Eventually, a reverse of zords helped as they all formed different zords by using Justin's Rubik's cube effect.

From one zord to another, each made different forms of zords, which became one huge fighting machine. Each built through different zords, each fitted like a puzzle as they formed an ultra fighting machine that contained possibly eight to ten, or even more changeable effects.

As time slowly ticked away, the hour glass continued to tilt more sand into its container as more rangers were placed into stone. Tommy, on the other hand, still had some help on the ground as he fought off every monster and minion.

"We must try to stop Ivan!" Conner shouted as he saw the other rangers in their zords placed into a stone-like beings, "Wait, isn't there a side effect to this," he questioned Billy.

"There is," Billy hinted, "You and the remaining rangers must get the box to Tommy. This time, without turning yourselves into stone," he stated as he pointed to the box.

"But, what if we do?" Ethan asked questionably as he scratched his head from his helmet, "Unless…" he gasped.

"Ethan, spill it," Karone said as she saw her blue spandex friend thought, "We don't have all night you know," she acquired.

"If we switch the amthest diamonds with fake ones, the spell would be broken."

"Yes, let's head back. I have an idea."

The remaining rangers fled back to their hiding spot as the city of Angel Grove continued to be destroyed through stone. Tommy sighed as he anticipated the next diversion.