Rumours of Thunder Chapter 21
By Mintaka14
Once more, they powered up, and Kira called the power of the pterodactyl, settling her pteragrips firmly in her hands as they came to her.
Mesogog narrowed his reptilian eyes at them, head snaking back and forth as he snarled.
"This is it," Conner decided. Of one accord, the Rangers charged into battle.
Kira threw everything she had at the beast until she felt herself knocked flying. Dr O, Ethan and Trent fell hard beside her, but they were the distraction that Conner needed to attack Mesogog from behind, leaping to wrap his arm around the creature's neck as he fought to choke Mesogog. It wasn't enough, and Mesogog shook him off like a bug.
The prehistoric monster hit Trent and Ethan with a blaze of power that knocked them down, and turned on Dr O. As Kira turned, she could see the Black Ranger slam backwards into a car. Mesogog flexed a hand, pinning him there as lightning flashed through Dr O. His whole body clenched and shook with the force, and Kira stumbled in fear.
She was moving, screaming at Mesogog to back off, before Dr O had even hit the ground, and the monster bared teeth at her, shoving the car at her with a backhanded blow. Kira didn't even pause, catapulting over the car just before it could slam into her. She was airborne, intent on Mesogog, as he swept up his claws to catch her in the lightning fire. Kira felt it blaze with agonising ferocity through every vein in her body.
She fell.
Afterwards, Kira was never sure how much of that battle she missed before she regained consciousness, but when she finally came to and managed to stagger to her feet, Conner had Mesogog trapped in the fiery red beam of his Battle Blast cannons. As Mesogog slammed into a pile of metal drums and concrete, crackling with lightning, the Red Ranger landed, and they all stumbled towards him.
"You did it, Conner!" Kira cheered, but the broken concrete exploded and there was Mesogog, uglier than ever.
Then there were two of him.
"He's replicating!" Conner yelled. The Mesogogs blurred and split into four.
"One was bad enough," Ethan said in disbelief. "How do we fight them all?"
"Guys, we have to use all our powers. It's the only way," Dr O said, and Kira could hear the regret in his voice.
Conner turned to him, frowning, then he squared his shoulders. "Right," he said, and Ethan and Kira nodded their acceptance as Trent said, "Do it, Conner."
Without a second thought, Kira turned to Conner, her hand on his shoulder, and willed everything she had into him, and saw the others doing the same. She saw Conner thrust his hand into the sky, golden and livid, and light poured out of him, boiled up into the air, became a writhing form over them all. Her breath was coming harder now, heart pounding, but still she forced this bright energy through her fingertips into her team-mate. She could barely make out the outline of Conner's form in the brilliant light, turning the golden air around him to scarlet fire.
Behind Conner, his hand on the Red Ranger's back and his head bowed, was the Black Ranger, and Kira sucked in a painful breath.
She bit down on the cry of agony that tried to escape her, and the snaking light surged and grew teeth, a glorious Triassic shape that roared in triumph, swelled, and slammed down to devour Mesogog in an explosion as the evil creature raised his arms in useless self-defence.
The concussion stole Kira's sight, took all sound with it, and almost drove her to her knees as it took the last of her strength. She staggered, and planted her feet wider. As her vision cleared, she stared around vaguely, but there was nothing there. No sign of Mesogog. No sign of his minions. Just four teenagers and their science teacher standing in the rubble with oddly-coloured, lifeless rocks in their hands.
And two would-be reporters, scrambling over the wreckage towards them, with the woman who had been Elsa in their wake.