A/N: Welcome to part II of part 2 of 'Black Hole Fury'. The Astro Force rangers have been defeated by the Black Hole Ranger with some additional help from Haggar. Now, with the rangers captured and at Zarkon's mercy, he's ordered them to be executed on the moon of Drakina and it will be televised to everyone in the galaxy. A mysterious cloaked man has stowed away aboard the shuttle that is taking the rangers to Drakina in an attempt to rescue them. What will happen? Read to find out! Enjoy!
On Drakina, the rangers were now in the center of a large stadium where thousands of Galra sat in the seats all around the building. Each ranger was restrained to a stone pillar, their hands chained above their heads and midsections tied to the pillar centers. Matt, in his Black Hole Ranger suit was standing right next to the pillar that had Lance restrained to it, and in his hand was the sack that contained their morphers and power cards.
"I told you rangers, defeating the Galra empire would all be for nothing" Matt told them. Pidge was struggling to break free, but her chains and ropes were tied too tightly.
"Pidge, stop struggling. The ropes are too tight, I couldn't even break free of them" Shiro told her. As requested, Pidge stopped struggling and sighed in defeat. Lance, seeing how sad she looked, decided to speak to her.
"Pidge, I wanted to tell you something" Lance said. It caught Pidge's attention and her eyes turned towards him.
"If we do actually die on this planet and we don't escape, there's something I wanna tell you. I love you" he told her. This made her give off a saddened smile on her face.
"Aw, Lance. That's so sweet" she said.
"You know, if we manage to escape I'd like to take you out for dinner sometime" Lance offered.
"If we don't die here tonight, I'd really like that" Pidge replied. Drums now went off all over the stadium and the audience went silent. Out of one of the doors came out five robotic Galra sentries with larger guns that looked different than the ones they normally carried, they looked like cannons with purple spikes running down the barrel and down to the trigger. The further the sentries got closer, the more the rangers could feel their hearts racing. Zarkon stood up from the larger corner of the stadium where a throne sat and watched with a smile as the executioner sentries approached the rangers with their cannons in their arms. The mysterious cloaked figure stood on top of the large screen which displayed what was going on in the field. Once the sentries stood about five feet away, the drums stopped beating and Zarkon spoke into a microphone on a stand.
"Citizens of the Galra empire, and inferior being across the galaxy. Tonight you shall witness the deaths of the most infamous rebels in the history of the galaxy... the Power Rangers!" Zarkon shouted, making the audience erupt with loud roars of cheer.
"With these, the most powerful cannons the cosmos has ever seen, the rangers meet their demise as the piercing heat melts not only through their chests, but the hopes of everyone across this galaxy who dares defy my rule!" Zarkon continued. The sentries then began setting up tripods to set the cannons on and the drums resumed their playing. After the cannons were set on the tripods, they looked up to Zarkon.
"You may fire when ready" Zarkon said to them on the microphone. The sentries nodded one time and loaded the cannons with large glowing orange shotgun cell looking bullets. Keith, Hunk, Shiro, Pidge, and Lance shut their eyes tightly and prepared for death to take them. Just as the cannons were about to fire, a golden blur rushed past the cannons and their barrels were sliced in half and landed on the ground. The rangers opened their eyes back up and saw what became of the former instruments of their demise.
"What the...?" Shiro asked aloud.
"What did that!?" Zarkon demanded to know. The golden blur rushed past the sentries and their bodies exploded into pieces when the blur ran right through their chests. The blur then attacked the cameras and the screen was deactivated. The golden blur then ran past the pillars where the rangers were tied to and the ropes and chains were destroyed.
"I can't believe it, that thing just helped us" Pidge said in disbelief.
"Whoever or whatever that thing is, I'm sure glad he's on our side" Hunk said happily. The blur then landed on top of the door where the executioner sentries entered and revealed themselves to be the cloaked figure who crept aboard the ship. Horrified, all the Galra in the audience ran out of the stadium and now it was empty, the only ones inside being Zarkon, the rangers, the Black Hole Ranger, and the cloaked figure.
"Emperor Zarkon, you have not only tried to kill the Power Rangers, but you have also tried to rid the galaxy of hope. And now I'm here to take your Black Hole Ranger down, and destroy more of your soldiers!" the figure called out. He took off his hood to reveal the face of Carter.
"Guys, look! It's Carter!" Keith called out pointing to Carter.
"Just who do you think you are, foolish human!?" Zarkon roared in outrage.
"My name is Carter Grayson, a former firefighter and a former Power Ranger as well, now I serve as the mentor to these new rangers. And NOBODY messes with MY rangers" Carter said before pulling out the sleeve of his robe a power card. The entire thing was blue and it had a golden hawk-like on the front with gold electrical pathways surrounding it. The rangers gasped and were wide-eyed in surprise.
"Guys, it's another power card!" Pidge exclaimed.
"That must be the weapon he was looking for" said Shiro said. Carter then removed his robe and revealed what he now wore underneath. Instead of the mechanic's jumpsuit he usually wore, this time his outfit was similar to what the rangers wore, a black long-sleeve waffle-pattern shirt, a vest that was blue and had the picture of a bird inside a gold circle over where his heart was, and dark blue skinny jeans as well. On his right arm was a morpher gauntlet only it was gold and dark blue, and on the sides there was a folded gold wing near where the semicircle would be on the end, and on the left and right sides of the button were two glowing green eyes, and on top was the design of a beak.
"Check it out! A morpher gauntlet!" Lance said when he saw the gauntlet.
"But that could only mean..." Keith said but stopped. Carter pressed the button on the gauntlet and spoke up to Zarkon.
"Hope you don't mind I join the party, Zarkon. Because this whole stadium is about to get lit!" Carter said before he placed his own power card inside and it shut by itself.
"Phoenix Force, Supercharge!" Carter shouted out. With a bright golden glow, armor surrounded his body and he was now a ranger. His helmet was gold-colored and looked like a bird's head, the wings on the sides of his head, the visor inside the top and bottoms of the silver beak, and the green eyes above that. His suit's top and bottoms were dark blue, on his forearms were golden gauntlets with two sets of short blades with sharp edges that sat side-by-side with one another and had golden gloves too, the boots were gold too and went up to the bottoms of his knees much like the rangers' boots. He had chest gear similar to the Black Hole Ranger's, but it was gold and there were no spikes on his shoulder guards, and instead of a menacing face on the front of the chest-guard were two green gems that looked like eyes and on the bottom of it looked slightly curved downwards like a bird's beak, and on his gold belt-buckle was a phoenix.
"With the power of the Phoenix, Astro Force Phoenix Ranger!" Carter shouted before two objects appeared in his hands. They were two golden swords in the shape of a stretched out bird's wing and above the hilt was a green circular gem with a black phoenix symbol in the center, and on the bottoms were the heads of eagles.
"What!? Another ranger!?" Zarkon asked in outrage at the sight of the new ranger that stood before him.
"Way to go, Carter!" Hunk cheered.
"Black Hole Ranger, destroy him!" Zarkon ordered. Matt dropped the bag that contained the rangers' morphers and power cards and pulled out his own power sword.
"It will be my pleasure, master" Matt said before he charged towards the Phoenix Ranger. Carter then jumped off the top of the stadium's entrance with a front flip and made a slashing motion with one of the golden wing blades.
"Wings of the Phoenix!" shouted Carter, the blade glowed bright yellow and when he made the slashing motion, an energy wave made entirely of fire struck Matt quicker than his own power sword could try and deflect it. It struck the chest-guard and made him fall flat on his back.
"How does it feel to be beaten at your own game, Matt?" asked Carter.
"Stop calling me that! That's not my name!" the Black Hole Ranger shouted as he got back up and charged at Carter again. The two rangers began battling one another in bladed combat, Carter was able to block with both blades and even create an open for an attack in which he slashed the chest-guards and backsides of his chest armor which created sparks when the blades struck the silver metallic guards.
"How is this happening!? I'm supposed to be unstoppable!" Matt called out in anger. Carter then leaped high up into the air and extended one of his legs in a kicking motion.
"Flaming Phoenix Kick!" Carter shouted and fire began surrounding the leg that was stuck out. The kick went to Matt's helmet and his visor was completely cracked and the glass fell to the ground and he was flung back against the wall where the back of his body cracked the stone walls.
"My visor! You broke my visor!" the Black Hole Ranger snarled. Carter stared deep into Matt's exposed purple eyes and held both blades up in a defensive position.
"You're history!" Carter said before he did a back flip and landed on a glowing object which just appeared. The object was was a long skateboard that had a phoenix head on the front, on the sides were the wings.
"Solar Surfer, engage!" Carter said as he piloted the board towards the Black Hole Ranger and out of the Phoenix' mouth on the board shot out multiple glowing yellow fire balls which struck Matt in several places and knocked him down. The Solar Surfer then disappeared and Carter stood in front of the fallen Matt who was now standing back up and covering his injured chest with his arms.
"Wow, that Phoenix Ranger sure is tough" Shiro said.
"Tough? Are you kidding me? He's the one who's really unstoppable!" Pidge said. Matt growled while standing on his wobbly knees.
"You thought you could steal this victory so easily from me?" he asked. Carter then pointed one of his swords at him.
"Stand down, Matt. I don't want to have to hurt you even more" Carter warned.
"You showed me your secret weapon, now I show you mine" Matt said before he placed his middle and index fingers of his right hand up to the sky.
"Black Hole Dragon, arise!" he shouted. Out from the sky came forth the corrupted Draco-Zord which sat on the edge's of the stadium walls. When it roared to the sky, it let out a large blast of black flames before it looked down at Carter and tried shooting another blast at him, but all Carter did was raise both his swords up and it absorbed the flames and the colors changed from black to yellow.
"Nice try, but the spirit of the Phoenix feeds of the flames and feels no pain from not even a single ember!" Carter told Matt as he made a slashing motion again with both swords and two fiery waves in the shape of an X shot up to the Draco-Zord and hit it right in the chest, which caught the corrupted Zord off guard and made it fall down to the ground, causing the ground to shake slightly.
"You're not the only one with a powerful Legend-Zord" Carter said before his swords disappeared and placed one arm against his chest while the other was raised up to the sky with an index and middle finger raised up to the sky.
"Spirit of the mighty Phoenix, awaken!" he called out, from the tips of his fingers shot out a bright yellow beam of energy to the sky. All the rangers looked up to see a large Zord covered in fire and it cried out like a falcon. When it sat on the edges of the walls, the flames disappeared and a large golden bird with glowing green eyes appeared. Everyone was in awe at the sight of this new Legend-Zord that stood before them.
"Behold, the Phoenix-Zord!" shouted the Phoenix Ranger. The Phoenix-Zord opened up it's beak and shot out three rounds of glowing yellow fire balls at the Draco-Zord's head, each of them hitting the forehead or the sides and rendered it powerless.
"Let's see how well your bird stands against this" Matt said before crossing his arms against his chest armor in the shape of an X and called out another command.
"Black Hole Dragon, transform!" just like before during the first battle on Volcanus, the Draco-Zord took a whole new form and become the Fury-Zord. He jumped into the mouth and landed in the command center. Carter then saw multiple Galra sentries heading towards them with guns and then turned towards the rangers.
"Rangers, you take care of those sentries. As for me, I'm gonna pluck that arrow out of the Fury-Zord's chest and break the curse" he said. Shiro and the others nodded and ran towards the large bag and picked their morphers out and mounted them back onto their wrists.
"Astro Blaster, Supercharge!" called out the rangers. All of them now had their suits and helmets on and they all took out their power swords as well. While the rangers did battle with the sentries, he placed his hands on his chest armor and called out a command.
"Phoenix-Zord, transform!" he called out.
A/N: There you have it! Carter has been revealed to be the mysterious cloaked savior of the rangers, and the secret weapon he's been talking about it the Phoenix card, which gives him the power to be the newest member of the team, the gold Phoenix Ranger. Now that he was able to take down Matt so easily, let's see what Carter has up his sleeves to taking down the Fury-Zord in the next update! Please review, thanks!