Skullatin was through with these failures and was taking it out on his subordinates as Deratin and Battina were thrown against the wall. He walked over to Malatis as he was about to be next.

"Master, it's not our fault." Malatis said.

"Really? Tell me whose fault it is that had all nine of the dimension diamonds together and didn't bring a single one that also added a ninth ranger?" Skullatin said. Malatis had no answer to that. Skullatin grabbed Malatis and tossed him to the others. "I've had enough with all of your failures."

"Well, you haven't done any better." Deratin talked back.

"Deratin, watch your tone." Battina said.

"What do you mean you brat?" Skullatin said.

"We're always coming up with some plan and getting someone to go take on the rangers." Deratin said. "You haven't done that yourself." Skullatin thought about that, but he was step ahead.

"That's why I called someone who I can rely on." Skullatin said and held up his sword up to Deratin. "Next time, you better watch your mouth. Now, time for you to meet someone who is a living storm." He pulled away and made way for a new minion. This minion was dark like a storm cloud that had two pieces shaped like yellow lightning bolts coming out of his shoulders with yellow fangs. He also carried a sword with the blade shaped like a bolt. "Say hello to Volturner."

"I am at your command." Volturner said.

"Volturner, I want you to do what these failures could not do." Skullatin said. "I want you to go and destroy the rangers and bring me those dimension diamonds."

"Can he really do it?" Malatis said.

"Watch me. You haven't seen what I can do." Volturner said.

…

Rangers' Base

Ichigo was brought into the base. Since the silver dimension diamond bonded to him and all of his friends were taken away. The rangers informed him of the situation and the story of the nine dimension diamonds. Even after Ichigo returned to his normal body, the silver dimension diamond remained on his wrist

"That just about wraps it up." Runo said.

"So this Skullatin guy wants all nine to rule over everything?" Ichigo said.

"That's right." Starosiv said. "Ichigo, the silver dimension diamond bonded to you to help us fight against him."

"Yeah. Welcome to the team." Sakura said.

"We're glad you're here." Ash said.

"What are you talking about?" Ichigo said. "I'm not becoming part of your brightly colored costume wearing team. I don't even know you people."

"Yeah, but we're a team now." Korra said.

"We understand that this might be hard for you. It was hard on all of us, but we're in this together." Hiccup said.

"I don't remember asking for any help." Ichigo said. "I don't really care about your dimension diamonds or any of this stuff. I'm only interested in getting my friends back."

"Dude, we get it, but there's nothing we can do. We don't know where Skullatin's ship is and giving the dimension diamonds to him is something we can't do." Davis said.

"Davis is right." Sakura said.

"Yeah, well that doesn't matter to me. I'm going to do this by myself. So you better just stay out of my way." Ichigo said and he left it at that as he walked right through the portal.

"That was a little rude." Runo said.

"Perhaps we just need to give him some time. So much changed for him so fast." Atem said.

"I hope you're right." Yusuke said.

…

Ichigo

Ichigo went back to his home dimension after he left the rangers. He went back in search of clues to where all of his friends and family are, but there wasn't a sign of them anywhere.

"Rukia! Chad! Where are you guys?! Uryu! Orihime!" Ichigo called out, but he wasn't getting a respond from anywhere. He wasn't going to give up though. He was going to keep at it until he finds them.

"Looking for something, ranger?" Ichigo looked right in front of him and was faced with Volturner.

"Are you working for Skullatin?" Ichigo said.

"Yes I am. What's it to you?" Volturner said.

"Give me back my friends! What have you done with them?" Ichigo said.

"I don't got a clue as to what you are talking about." Volturner said.

"Don't play dumb with me. Give them back right now or you'll be sorry." Ichigo threatened and held up the dimension diamond. "Energize!" He unleashed his power and morphed. He held out his weapon and attacked.

"Bring it on!" Volturner said as he went to meet the attack. The two of them had their weapons lash against each other. "Is that all you got?"

"You haven't seen anything." Ichigo said. He rolled over Volturner's back and was going to slash him down, but he blocked the attack and pushed Ichigo's weapon out of the way.

"Not impressive." Volturner said as he slashed against Ichigo's chest and knocked him down. "I thought a ranger would be more of a challenge."

"You haven't seen anything." Volturner looked up only to be met with two feet kicking him and pushing him back. He looked and saw all the other rangers have arrived to help Ichigo.

"Ichigo, are you alright?" Runo asked as she tried to help him up.

"What are you doing here? I told you that I don't want your help." Ichigo said.

"Newsflash, we're all rangers now. We're in this fight together." Yusuke said.

"I'm actually glad you're all here." Volturner said. "It saves me the trouble of hunting all of you down and gives me the opportunity to eliminate all of you at once." He held out his sword and electricity was starting to course through it. "Lightning, strike them down!" He pointed to the sky and lightning came out of nowhere and struck all the rangers.

"That didn't bother me." Ichigo said as he tried to act tough and got back up. Ichigo went to attack, but Volturner blocked his attack and slashed him a few times and knocked him down.

"Oh no." Runo said as she managed to get back up and ran to help him.

"Say goodbye." Volturner said as he lifted his sword to finish Ichigo off and swung them down, but Runo used her claws and blocked it.

"I don't think so." Runo said as she tried to strike him, but he blocked the attack and got passed Runo's defenses. He had electricity through his sword and slashed against Runo's waist and she was dealt a great amount of damage, even got through her suit.

"Runo, no!" Ash called out as Runo collapsed.

"Oh no." Ichigo said.

"Now to finish the job." Volturner said.

"I don't think so." Ichigo said as he slashed against him and kicked him back. All the other rangers gathered around Runo, but she wasn't moving.

"Is she alright?" Korra asked.

"I'm not sure." Sakura said.

"We have to get her out of here." Atem said.

"Ichigo, let's go." Hiccup said as they grabbed him and carried Runo. The portal opened up and the rangers passed it and made an escape.

"You can run, but you can't hide rangers." Volturner said.

…

Rangers' Base

"The rangers got Runo to the base, but she had a bad injury. Sakura was doing her best to heal her up, but it was a tough one.

"Is she going to be alright?" Nebulon asked.

"I don't know. I've never seen this kind of injury before, but I'll do what I can." Sakura said.

"I told you to stay out of my way." Ichigo said.

"Are you serious? What's wrong with you, jerk?" Davis said.

"Runo just risked her life for you and you don't even care?" Ash said.

"I didn't say that I didn't." Ichigo said. "Runo got hurt on her own mistake. I told you that I didn't want to work with you guys and you clearly didn't listen. That's what got her hurt."

"Yeah, but you're alive because we didn't." Ash said.

"We get that you didn't sign up for this. None of us did, but that's no reason for you to be a jerk about this." Korra said.

"You don't know anything about me." Ichigo said. "I won't tell you this again. Stay out of my way." Ichigo was done talking about this and just left the rangers and caused a great rift between him and them. All of them waited around for Sakura to heal Runo. It took some time, but Runo was able to wake up.

"Runo! Are you alright?" Sakura said.

"Yeah. I'm alright. Where's Ichigo?" Runo said.

"Who cares at this point? That guy obviously doesn't care about us." Davis said.

"How could he act so cold?" Atem said.

"The silver dimension diamond must have made some mistake to bond to him." Yusuke said.

"The silver dimension diamond made no mistake." Starosiv said

"But, Starosiv, Ichigo doesn't want our help. He obviously didn't care that Runo got hurt trying to save him." Ash said.

"That's not entirely true. He did try to protect her when it happened." Nebulon said.

"Rangers, there's more to Ichigo than you think." Starosiv said and he knew because he knew everything about Ichigo from when the silver dimension diamond bonded to him. "You see, the only reason Ichigo would ever want power is to have the power to protect. All he wanted was to protect those closest to him and try to with others. Perhaps that everyone he cared about was taken by Skullatin, he feels like he has failed."

"We get that. How do you think we feel?" Korra said.

"All of us want to save our friends and family, but Ichigo wants to do it alone." Hiccup said.

"When Ichigo fought alongside his friends, he was hesitant to accept their help." Starosiv said. "He didn't want him to risk their lives for him. He might feel the same about us since he doesn't know much about us."

"Are you saying Ichigo is acting this way to protect us?" Ash said.

"But no matter what Ichigo does, Skullatin is going to come after each of us to get the dimension diamonds." Runo said.

"Then, you must have Ichigo understand that. It's the only way he can truly work with us." Starosiv said.

….

Ichigo

Ichigo was sulking about this whole thing. He hated how he acted with the others, but he didn't want anybody risking their life for him.

"Alone again." He looked and saw Volturner came back and was looking to settle things.

"I've just about had enough of you. Let's just end things here." Ichigo said as he held up his diamond and morphed.

"Gladly." Volturner said as both of them pulled out their weapons and went to attack. Ichigo swung down, but Volturner blocked it. Volturner slid his sword against Ichigo's, but Ichigo was able to avoid it. Volturner swung down, but Ichigo moved back. Ichigo jumped up and swung down, but Volturner blocked the attack. Volturner kicked Ichigo back and build up power again. "You are strong, but let's see how you handle this." He spun his sword slowly and a magic circle appeared around Ichigo and lightning came out and was zapping him.

"What is this thing?" Ichigo said.

"Storm Circle!" Volturner said. A ray of lightning shot out from the circle and Ichigo was being zapped from all sides. The attack was devastating and it knocked him off his feet. "You never stood a chance by fighting me alone."

"Who said he is alone?" The other rangers arrived and came between them.

"You'll have to get through us first." Ash said as each one pulled out their weapons.

"Don't do this." Ichigo said, but none of them listened as they went to attack.

"You're all history." Volturner said as he fought them all of. Ichigo didn't understand why this was happening, but each ranger managed to get a word in.

"Ichigo, we finally understand." Ash said.

"We get that you only ever want to protect others." Davis said.

"He know that you feel you failed, but you haven't." Sakura said.

"All of us had our friends and family taken by Skullatin, but that's what brought us here." Korra said.

"We all want to save those we care about, but we can't do it alone." Atem said.

"We all need to work together. It's the only way we'll save everyone." Runo said.

"That's right. We're in this together. We look out for each other." Hiccup said.

"We get that you don't want us to risk our lives like this, but we all have our personal matters to settle with this guy." Yusuke said.

"How sweet." Volturner said as he pushed through all of them. "Too bad it will be your last words." He repeated what he did and the eight rangers got trapped in the circle. All of them were getting zapped and Ichigo couldn't let this happen.

"I can't believe even after how I treated them, they came to help me." Ichigo said. "All of them are really suffering the same way I am." He tightened his grip and he wasn't going to let this happen. He understood now.

"Say goodbye, rangers." Volturner said.

"Wrong again." Ichigo said as he jumped over the other rangers and slashed Volturner down. "Slaying Moon Slash!" Ichigo unleashed the slash wave and blasted Volturner and destroyed him and the other rangers got free. "Are you all alright?"

"Yeah…thanks to you." Ash said.

…..

Skullatin's Ship

Deratin was actually laughing at Skullatin as they all saw Skullatin was the one that failed this time.

"Looks like you owe us an apology." Deratin said, but Skullatin grabbed and twisted his arm.

"Fire the Enlarger or else." Skullatin said.

"I got it." Battina said as she pressed the button and the Enlarger was shot through dimensions.

…..

The Rangers

The beam came down and Volturner was revived and became a giant. Ichigo didn't know what to think since this is the first time he saw something like that happen.

"I don't suppose you guys have anything to fight that?" Ichigo said.

"Don't worry. We can handle this." Runo said.

"Summon Zords! Zords combine!" The rangers called their zords and turned into three Megazords.

"Dimension Megazord: Wild Spirit Formation."

"Dark Magician Megazord."

"Moon Megazord."

"Those three toys can't stand up to me." Volturner said. He shot out lightning and blasted each of the megazords, but the rangers were doing their best to hold on.

"This guy is as strong as ever." Sakura said.

"We're stronger." Ash said.

"I'll lead the attack." Atem said. His Megazord swung his staff and thrusted it forward and hit Volturner, but Volturner fought back.

"Move out of the way." Korra said. The Dark Magician Megazord floated away and the Moon Megazord took aim with his cannons and blasted Volturner.

"Come on. I'm not beaten yet." Volturner said.

"That's about to change. Ash, guys, finish him off." Korra said.

"You got it." Ash said as the Dimension Megazord pulled out it's claws with green fire coming around it.

"Wild Spirit Slash!" The six of them said. The Megazord slashed down on Volturner and he couldn't take it anymore.

"Looks like I struck out." Volturner said as he fell and met his end as he was destroyed. Ichigo looked up and was amazed with the fight that just happen up there.

"I'll admit, you guys are amazing." Ichigo said.

…

Skullatin's Ship

Skullatin was angry again and this time it was at himself. Deratin kept laughing at him, but Skullatin grabbed him and threw him against the wall again.

"Why are you taking it out on me for your failure?" Deratin said.

"Because you're being disrespectful and I feel like it." Skullatin said. "Just you wait. Even with their being nine rangers, their luck will run out eventually."

…

Rangers' Base

With a new attitude, Ichigo came back with the rangers to their base and they all decided that they needed a fresh new start with each other.

"Thanks for coming to help me. Runo are you holding up alright?" Ichigo said.

"Yep. I'm feeling like myself again." Runo said.

"Good and I'm sorry for how I acted earlier. I didn't mean to make it seem like I didn't care." Ichigo said.

"It's alright. You just have your own way of protecting people, but you're not in this alone." Ash said.

"Ash is right." Starosiv said. "All nine of the dimension diamonds have came together. With that done, you all can use your combine powers and we can defeat Skullatin for good. Once that is done, you're friends and family will return. As long as you stay together, there is no enemy you can't overcome." All of them knew that now. Ash held out his hand and each of the rangers put theirs on top of his.

"Power Rangers!" All of them cheered for the team has been fully completed.