The rangers had convened back at The Cave, their fight with the Hunters having left them tired and bruised, and gathered around the table as Jenna ran upstairs to talk to Alex and assure their friend they were okay. As the silver ranger did that Drake walked over to the computer and used it to bring a holographic projection of the Psycho Rangers, swapping red for silver and adding in Knirex. With the image in front of them Calder began to mod them so that they looked more like the Hunters while Drake added in the image of each of the Triassic rangers.
"So I'm just going to say it, Hunters," Amy remarked with a sigh.
"Yep," muttered the blue ranger.
"They're like our own personal Psycho Rangers…" Kris whispered rubbing her temples.
"Only this time I don't think there'll be infighting," Calder groaned rotating his shoulder.
"I don't think so either, at least not in the same way," Drake agreed walking back to the table, "but this isn't going to take as long as the Psychos either."
"What do you mean Drake?" Alpha asked confused, "the Psychos were some of the toughest villains the rangers ever met and if the Hunters are based off of them…"
"I mean we're going to take them out as quick as we can without letting them get the drop on us."
"And how do you propose we do that?" Calder questioned looking at the red ranger.
Drake sighed and shook his head.
"I'm not sure, I'm still trying to come up with a plan," he admitted, "and I'm open to any suggestions."
The rangers all frowned, Jenna entering the headquarters and looking around at each of them.
"So what have I missed?"
"We're trying to come up with a way to take out the Hunters," Trey filled her in, the silver ranger nodding in agreement, "Alex okay?"
"She's coping, Kira is taking her home right now and she knows we're all safe so that's good," she replied looking at the figures on the table, "do we have any idea how we're going to beat them?"
"No not yet," Conner replied shaking his head, "and we might want to think of something quick, now that Primora knows how strong they are it's only a matter of time before they're back."
"Jenna don't you and Alpha have something up your sleeves for this?" Amy asked the silver ranger, Jenna biting her lower lip.
"I...we might, but it's in the prototype phase so there's no telling what might happen," she admitted with a sigh.
"See what you can do to get it working Jenna," Drake requested, "I have a feeling that whatever it is we're going to need it."
~PRTS~
Primora couldn't have been happier with the results of the Hunters' first attack. Well the Hunters having gotten the Primordial Shards would have been nice but she would take the victory. And as she sat on her throne planning the next attack the Hunters celebrated.
"Ha did you see their expressions when we showed up?" Hunter Green laughed.
"That was nothing compared to when we started to toss them around like ragdolls," the pink hunter added smugly.
Hunter Blue and Yellow laughed in agreement, the silver hunter standing off to the side quietly as Knirex stood next to Dez and Magus. Knirex had to admit that the attack had gone incredibly well, better than he had expected, but he was miffed that the forcefield had been lowered. In fact Dez was suppose to have been there to make sure that nothing would have happened to it.
"So Dez do you mind tell us as to why the forcefield, that you were suppose to be protecting, was lowered?" the samurai asked, looking at the smaller figure.
"Are you implying something Knirex?"
"Only that, had you done your job, the former red ranger wouldn't have lowered the forcefield, perhaps might have even been recaptured," Knirex pointed out.
Turning to face him he was pleased to see that Dez was glaring at him, a ball of purple energy in his hand.
"Watch your tone sword wielder or you'll find out that what little magic I have left is enough to eliminate you," The spellcaster warned, Knirex scoffing in response.
"You barely have enough magic to eliminate an insect let alone m…"
He was cut off as Dez fired the ball in his hand, the attack striking the samurai in the chest. With their leader attacked the Hunters were quick to move, surrounding the spellcaster and aiming their crossbows at him.
"Attack our leader again…" Hunter Silver hissed at him.
"And we'll show you what happens...," the green hunter growled.
"When you cross one of us," Hunter Blue finished.
Dez turned his palm towards Hunter Blue, the other Hunters pulling back on the drawstring of their weapons, ready to fire in a second's notice as Knirex reached for his sword. Watching this Primora shook her head and slammed her spear against the ground to halt the activity, the group looking over to her as she stood up from her throne.
"You have done well Hunters, in fact had the former red ranger not interfered then you might have succeeded," She praised stepping over to them.
The Hunters bowed to Primora, happy for the praise they were receiving from her.
"But might have is not good enough."
"Empress?" the leader of the Hunters asked confused, lowering his hand from the hilt.
Primora grinned at the samurai, holding out her hand as a small bag appeared in it.
"Unfortunately the rangers will be expecting the Hunters to attack as a group again, they'll be coming up with a plan to combat them all at once."
"They might even attempt the color switch they did back when they were the Cyber Rangers," Magus spoke up, stroking his mustache in contemplation.
The Empress nodded in agreement, a wave of her hand creating five gems of pink, blue, yellow, green, and silver. Each gem fell to the bag and a glow emitted from it.
"What is that for?" Hunter Green asked, his curiosity peaked.
"There is a gem for each of you in here, it shall decide who shall be the one to attack their ranger counterpart," Primora grinned, "this is to assure that none of you are interfering with the other's plans whoever is picked shall attack their ranger and the rangers will be picked off one...by...one."
"And me Empress?" Knirex questioned.
"Once the other rangers are taken care of, and the Primordial Shards in my hand, the red ranger will fall, this will cause him to seek you out for a fight giving you the fight you've been longing for," came a cool reply, "as I had promised."
Reaching in Primora pulled out a soft pink gem, holding it out for them to see.
"And it appears that Hunter Pink shall be up first,"
The other hunters groaned while Hunter Pink laughed victoriously taking the pink gem from the Empress and turning it over in her fingers.
"Perfect, by the end of the day the pink Primordial Shard will be ours," she promised with a bow.
"Yeah yeah just make sure you don't fail pink," Hunter Blue demanded, shoving Hunter Green out of his way.
Pink scoffed,turning her back to her comrade and walking over to the orb Primora used to watch the Earth. The image inside flickered to show Kris at the Youth Center practicing her gymnastics.
"Oh don't you worry blue, I'll beat little miss. Pink, and I'll be sure that I'm the first to take the Primordial Shard for our empress," the pink hunter promised with a chuckle, "she's about to find out that we're more dangerous than the Psycho Rangers."
~PRTS~
A few days had passed since the arrival of the Hunters and, much to their dismay, the rangers had yet to come up with a plan to beat them. Jenna and Alpha said they might have some sort of the plan but without it being concrete they weren't wanting to get the other rangers' hopes up. So the team decided to take a mental break and go do whatever with the order from Conner to be careful of attacks and call if a Hunter showed up.
Drake and Trey had headed out to Trey's uncles garage to work on a couple bikes they had found. Calder had said something about a new video game he wanted to get and play. Amy had gone roller skating around town, while Jenna hung back with Alpha to work on whatever it was they thought might help against the Hunters. Kris herself had decided to go to the Youth Center and practice gymnastics before heading to the park and drawing.
Finishing her forms on the balance beam Kris jumped off and on to the mat, walking over to her bag as she wiped herself off. She had been at this for a couple hours and figured it was time to switch it up by heading to the park for part two of her day.
'Hard to believe there are being as strong as the Hunters,' Kris thought to herself, giving Alex a wave as she left, 'but then again there's always a part of the ranger story when they fight against near impossible opponents.'
Reaching her favorite place in the park, one that overlooked the pond with a perfect view of the sunset, the pink ranger set out her art supplies and opened her sketchbook. As she looked over the view her pencil glided over the paper and started to sketch the pond, and she horizon in front of her. It wasn't original to her, she had drawn this view hundreds of times, it was her first landscape drawing but it always helped ease her mind to draw something simple. Hunter Pink appeared in a flash of pink lightning, walking out from behind to tree to spot her target off in the distance.
"There you are pink, the first ranger to fall," the huntress whispered clenching her fist, "but I can't just openly attack you, not yet, I have to draw you into a trap first."
Kneeling down she plucked a rose and twirled it around between her index finger and thumb to examine it. With a nod she used her power to transform the rose into a bolt for her crossbow and spun around to make sure the pink ranger was still there.
"With this rose bolt I'll place that sickeningly sweet ranger under a trance that will lead her into my trap and from there I'll not only take her down but her shard shall be mine!" She cackled as she took aime, "Rose Storm!"
The bolt fired just above the pink ranger, bursting and releasing rose petals to fall down upon her target. As she continued her drawing Kris frowned as rose petals continued to fall onto her sketchbook, picking one up and looking it over in confusion.
"What the...but the roses are on the other side of the park…"
"Kris…"
Kris looked up at the sound of her name, looking around for whoever it was that called out to her. Her eyes locked on to Drake standing off by the tree line, leaning against one of the trunks and grinning at her. Confused the pink ranger stood up, dropping her sketchbook to the ground and frowned at him.
"Drake? What are you doing here I thought you were with Trey at the garage?"
Drake shook his head and motioned for her to follow him and he pushed himself off the tree and headed into the woods. Her confusion growing Kris ran after him, forget her stuff as she followed her team leader. Walking over to where her target was originally sitting, Hunter Pink as she watched the events play out, certain that if she was able to she would be smiling.
"That's right pink ranger follow your precious leader right into my trap," the huntress shivered gleefully, "and even if you realize what's going on it'll be too late to even stop it."
Spinning on the spot Hunter Pink vanished, heading towards where she would launch her attack and take the pink Primordial Shard. Kris's head was spinning as she ran through the woods, chasing after Drake and calling out for him to stop. This wasn't like the red ranger at all, he was normally so direct in what he wanted that it was concerning for her when all he did was call out to her and motion for her to follow. So she followed in the hope that she could catch up with him and ask what was going on but it seemed he was getting farther and farther away from her with each step.
"Drake...Drake hold up!" she called out to him in a hope that he would stop, "Drake Kampell this isn't funny!"
Drake looked back and motioned for her to follow him again, continuing his way through the woods and making her huff in annoyance. One thing was for certain, she was going to have a few words with the red ranger later. Finally Kris managed to reach the ranger leader in a small glade, the pink ranger walking over to him and fixing him with a glare.
"Alright then mr. red ranger why did you bring me all the way out here?" she asked placing her hands on her hips.
Drake turned to face her and grinned stepping forward to stand right in front of her and reaching out to take a hold of her hand.
"Kris I can't...believe you were so gullible."
"Huh?"
A gust of wind brought a flurry of rose petals to obscure her vision, Kris able to see enough to watch 'Drake' vanish. A spine chilling laugh echoed through the glade as the flurry died down to reveal that she was now standing in the midst of a rose garden and standing in front of her was none other than Hunter Pink.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me," the pink ranger groaned, the huntress laughing in response.
"What's the matter pink ranger you don't seem to happy to see me, and yet you were so willing to follow your precious red ranger."
The two began to circle around each other, Hunter Pink holding out her hand.
"Now make this easy and hand over your Primordial Shard."
Kris frowned and pulled off her morpher from her belt, holding it out in front of her.
"How about this instead, Triassic Roar!"
Sighing and shaking her head, Hunter Pink stared at the ranger in front of her and loaded her crossbow as Kris drew her Dino Blade.
"Very well pink ranger we'll do this the fun way."
In a blur of pink Kris was knocked off her feet and onto her back, Hunter Pink reaching down and grabbing the front of her shirt. Lifting her off the ground the huntress tossed the pink ranger into the air and fired a few arrows that hit her before she fell. Gasping as she hit the ground, Kris recovered as quick as she could, picking up her Dino Blade and blocking Hunter Pink's next attack. Standing up Kris directed her blade at her opponent and attacked, the Hunter avoiding each swing with ease and then retaliating. On one of Kris's attacks Hunter Pink managed to grab her wrist and twist it, forcing Kris to release her weapon before getting kicked in the back.
"You see little pink you can't beat me," the huntress stated picking up the sword as Kris scrambled to get up, "no matter what you do, I'll always be better."
"Yeah and what makes you think that?" Kris panted getting into a fighting stance.
"Simple, I'm stronger…"
The Hunter vanishing in another blur of pink, dashing pass the ranger and slashing her heavily.
"Faster…"
Another dash attack, this time with Hunter Pink adding in more to prove her speed.
"And I have more pink energy then you."
The huntress tossed the Dino Blade into the air, drawing the string on her crossbow and firing several arrows and striking Kris before catching the sword again. Kris took a couple steps back and looked up to see that Hunter Pink, now holding the ranger's weapon again, was channeling dark pink energy through the sword. Taking a step forward Hunter Pink vanished once again and slashed her opponent multiple times. Hitting the ground Kris groaned and rolled onto her stomach as Hunter Pink stabbed the sword into the ground.
"Do you see how outmatched you are pink ranger?" the huntress asked as she vanished into a flurry of rose petals, "now then try to last a little bit longer, I want you to suffer."
~PRTS~
Jenna groaned as she lifted her arms above her head to stretch, her back popping pleasantly with each movement. She had been down in The Cave for a while now working on her and Alpha's latest project, only leaving to clean up and sleep, and it was starting to show with the bags under her eyes.
"I don't know Alpha maybe this just wasn't meant to work," she sighed leaning back in her seat, "maybe we just need to start thinking of some other way to beat the Hunters."
"But Jenna we're almost done," Alpha told her, the silver ranger rubbing her neck, "all we need to do is connected the power from the silver Primordial Shard."
"But that's the problem my shard isn't wanting to connect for some reason!"
Jenna let out a frustrated sigh and spun around to look at what they were working on. Laying on the table, with wires attached to it, was a cannon like weapon with a t-rex head at the front, and dino claws on the side gripping the head. The head itself was subject to change depending on which ranger was supplying the most energy.
"This could potentially help us defeat the Hunters but if we can't get it to work then what will we do?"
"What we always do when forced into a tough situation," Conner remarked entering The Cave, "come up with another plan."
Jenna gave the older ranger a sad smile and looked back at the cannon like weapon, her heart falling slightly as she looked at it.
"Maybe we should start looking for that way then…" She muttered under her breath.
Conner smiles and patted her shoulder as he looked at the weapon. He knew that those two would figure it out they just needed time to think, and unfortunately that wasn't something easily come by in their line of work.
"You got this Jenna," the older red ranger encouraged her, "just take a deep breath and think it through."
The silver ranger nodded and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath as she tried to think of a solution. One of the more logical solutions would be lessen the power of the silver shard with in the weapon but that would lessen the power that the cannon itself had. Another would be to...yes that would work, or at least it should work.
"Alpha do we have a diamond based conductor we could use?" Jenna asked opening her eyes.
"I'm afraid we don't Jenna," the robotic companion shook his head, knowing what she was thinking, "but it's possible that Dr. Mercer might have one."
"I'll give him a call and see what we can do," Conner offered, smirking proudly at the silver ranger.
Consecutive beeps went off a second later, catching the groups attention..
"Okay that's not the typical siren," the older red ranger frowned.
"That's because it's not, I made this after our first encounter with the Hunters," Jenna explained getting to work, "you guys said that we disappeared off the radar so this alarm is to tell us if any of us vanish like that again."
"That's a good idea," Conner muttered watching the screen, "so who's gone missing?"
"It looks like...Kris went vanishing somewhere near the park."
"Head that way and we'll alert the others," Conner ordered, Jenna nodding and getting up, "while you do that Alpha will finish this up."
"Good luck Jenna," Alpha called out.
~PRTS~
The team had rushed over to where Kris's last known location was, Jenna picking up the sketchbook and looking around.
"That's definitely Kris's, it's what I gave her for Christmas," Drake groaned looking at it.
"Okay so this is where she started, where did she go?" the yellow ranger asked nervously.
"When I checked the satellite it showed her heading towards the woods," Jenna said pointing in the direction she saw on the video.
"Then what are we waiting for, let's go!" Trey said heading off.
The team ran through the woods, calling out for Kris as they looked for her. It was frustrating for them that they couldn't find their friend, even more so when they had an idea that it was more than likely the Hunters that had captured her. However they also knew that losing their temper would also hurt more then it would help.
"I can't find her," Jenna said as they regrouped after looking for a while.
"Me either," Calder groaned.
"She's got to be here somewhere, we just need to keep looking," Amy remarked looking around still.
"Amy's right maybe we missed something," Drake agreed.
"Hey guys over here!"
The four looked over towards the direction that Trey called to them from, seeing the blue ranger motioning them over. Running over to their teammate the group wasn't the least surprised to see a small dome of pink energy that seemed to continually shift in appearance, a flurry of rose petals surrounding the dome. Frowning, Calder reached out and tapped the dome, a surge of electric energy shocking him and sending him flying backwards into a tree.
"Ow…"
"Well we definitely found where they took Kris," Trey muttered helping the green ranger up, "the question is…"
"How are we going to get in there?" Drake finished his friend's thought.
Jenna bit her lower lip and tapped her thigh as she tried to think of something, a image of her weapon flashing through her mind.
"I think...I think I have something," she muttered tapping the button on her communicator, "hey Alpha you got a second?"
"Of course Jenna what do you need?" Alpha replied seconds later.
"We believe we found where the Hunters took Kris but it's surrounded by a dome of energy," the silver ranger filled the robot in, "is there anyway that my Tricera Spear will be able to pierce the dome long enough for us to get in?"
"Aye yi yi yi, that's wonderful that you found her but I'm not certain as to if you'll be able to do that…"
Alpha moved the satellite image to find the rangers, the monitor in front of them showing the five rangers in the woods. Typing in a few more commands Alpha started scanning the energy of the dome trying to find something that would help as Conner's eyes gave a brief flash of red.
"If Jenna is able to hit a weak spot with her Tricera Twister then that should be enough to break the dome," Conner offered to Alpha.
"A brilliant idea Conner, Tommy would be proud!" the ranger robot stated getting to work.
"So if we find this weak spot we can break through?" Jenna asked hopefully.
"Right."
"After scanning the energy dome I think I may have found the week spot that we're looking for," Alpha chimed in, "the issue is that the spot is on top of the dome and is very small, Jenna would have to hit it with pinpoint accuracy."
"If anyone can do it, it's Jenna," Drake stepped in patting her shoulder, "we got this."
Looking up at the dome the rangers lined up and took a hold of their morphers, all of them holding them up.
"Let's do this," Drake said clicking the side of his morpher.
"TRIASSIC ROAR!"
~PRTS~
Kris yelped as she barely managed to dodge a volley of arrows sent in her direction, the pink ranger panting as she placed her hand over her chest.
"Come on pink ranger," came the taunting voice of the huntress, "try a little harder, it's no fun if I defeat you without you fighting back."
"Hard to fight back against someone who cowers in the shadows," Kris called back picking up her Dino Blade, "so why don't you stop hiding."
A arrow came flying from behind, striking Kris in the back and sending sparks off of her, allowing for a second arrow to hit her while she was vulnerable. Falling to the ground Kris groaned and tried to get up but was forced back on to the ground as Hunter Pink stepped on her back.
"Poor little pink, you've taken quite the beating haven't you, in fact you look like you're about to give up," Hunter Pink laughed applying more pressure.
"You know you talk an awful lot," Kris grunted trying to push herself up, "and I'm beginning to think maybe you Hunters don't know us at all."
Reaching down Hunter Pink grabbed a hold of her and tossed her to the side again. Using the tree to push herself up Kris turned to face the Hunter got back into her fighting stance.
"You think that just because you're stronger than us, that you're faster than us, that it makes you better?"
"As a matter of fact I do," the huntress replied, "you can't win pink,, you're in my world right now, barely able to stand, and mere seconds away from losing your Primordial Shard."
Before Kris could reply she noticed a spark of silver energy above them, the energy continuing to grow. Smiling Kris turned her attention back to the Hunter in front of her.
"Because we know how to do something you don't," the pink ranger retorted, "we know how to work together."
The dome that they were in shattered and Hunter Pink stepped back from the pink ranger, shielding her face from the flash of energy.
"Kris you okay?" Drake asked as the team ran over to their friend, Jenna and Amy hugging her.
"I'll be alright, but how did you guys find me?"
"Easy, me and Alpha made an alert for if any of us went missing like last time," Jenna explained proudly, "so when that went off it only took me a minute of two to check to see who vanished and where they were."
"Awesome," Kris grinned high fiving the silver ranger.
"Celebrate after we took care of this Hunter," Trey ordered pointing at Hunter Pink.
"Trey's right let's wrap this fight up and fast," Drake agreed with a nod as they all pulled out their Dino Blades, Jenna shouldering her spear.
Hunter Pink growled as she saw the other rangers joining her target, her temper mere seconds from exploding as she clenched her fist, a dark pink aura surrounding her.
"You five shouldn't be here, this isn't your time," she hissed at them, "now scram and let me do my job."
"Not when that job involves harming one of our friends," Calder retorted quickly.
"Yeah that's not the way we roll," Amy added smirking.
Not feeling the urge to remark on how sickening that was, Hunter Pink took aimed and fired another volley of arrows at the team, the ranger slashing them out of the sky before they could be hit. Letting out roar of anger she rushed forward and attacked again, this going right pass the others and attacking the pink ranger herself.
"Whoa!" Kris yelped as she was knocked away, "and here I thought having you guys here would be helpful."
"Not surprising that she only has eyes for you," Jenna noted, joining the pink ranger, "maybe there's a way we could use that against her."
"You suggesting using me as bait?"
Trey and Calder fell to the ground in front of the two, both girls looking to see Amy and Drake doing their best to fight the Hunter but in her enraged state she was proving to be more than able to handle them.
"Alright let's do this," Kris agreed standing up, "hey over here you pathetic excuse for a huntress!"
Hunter Pink spun on the spot and glared daggers at the pink ranger, drawing back on the string of her bow and firing at her. Going into the splits Kris managed to avoid the attack and then spun her back leg around to sweep kick the charging Hunter. With Hunter Pink in the air Jenna launched her own attack and hit their opponent, the others seeing what they were doing joining in with their own attacks.
"You...you rangers…" Hunter Pink gasped struggling to stand, "You won't beat me, you can't beat me."
"From the looks of it we are beating you," Kris replied with a smirk, "and now it's time to finish this."
"I think it's time to break out what me and Alpha have been working on, hopefully it's finished," Jenna said activating her communicator, "Alpha is it…"
"The silver energy has been connected and it's ready to go Jenna," Alpha replied without missing a beat.
"Alright!" Jenna cheered excitedly, "Kris why don't you call the Dino Buster."
"Sure thing Jenna," Kris nodded holding out her hand, "Dino Buster!"
Circling her hands in front of her, a pink energy surrounded them and the cannon that the two techs had been working on appeared in her hand. Now in her hands, pink energy filled the tubes on the sides and the cry of a pterodactyl swapped out the head of the dinosaur from the red ranger's to the pink's.
"What is that?" Hunter Pink asked confusion seeing the new weapon.
"This is what will bring the end for you," Kris replied aiming at her, "Dino Buster, Final Blast!"
A mix of energy formed a ball at the mouth of the cannon, a swirl of the team's' colors, as the pterodactyl cried out again. The same prehistoric forest that surrounded the team when they used their Dino Blades surrounded them now as Kris pulled the trigger, firing the ball of energy and at the other end all Hunter Pink could do in her state was watch until it struck her and exploded.
"And that's the end of that," Kris said turned her back to the explosion.
"Alright!" Trey cheered as the team joined her.
"That's one Hunter down!" Amy counted excitedly as Calder looked over the Dino Buster.
"Oh man this looks awesome, how did you make it Jenna?"
"Yeah I'm curious about that myself," Drake remarked looked at it as well.
"Oh that's easy, I looked over some of RJ's blueprints and modded them to work for the six of us," the silver ranger replied tapping the head of the cannon, "This will change based off who is using it."
"Epic," Trey said taking a hold of it, "Can I give it a shot?"
"No way I want to!" Calder said trying to take it.
"Hey girls first!" Amy said pulling Calder away.
"ARGH!"
The team spun around and gasped as they saw Hunter Pink pushing herself up, the huntress helmet cracked with energy spilling out from it.
"Y-you, will NOT beat me!" she roared.
Pink lightning flew from the damaged Hunter and her body started to transform and grow in size. Once she was done transforming the rangers were faced with a giant monster, Hunter Pink no longer retaining her previous form and instead now having the head of a pterodactyl and the wings to match. Her body, while still humanoid, was covered in feathers and she had bird feet with no arms or hands.
"You've pestered me for the last time pink ranger!"
"Whoa it's been a while since we've seen a monster grow," Calder yelped as they looked up at her.
"Yeah tell me about it," Drake chuckled, "You still know what to do?"
"Is that suppose to be a joke?" Trey smirked.
"Dinozords Arise!"
The zords let out a roar/cry as they came out from their hiding spots, the rangers jumping into them and taking control. Surrounding Hunter Pink each ranger used their special attack, but with a couple powerful beats of her wings she knocked the zords away before they could hit her, the only managing to his was the Pterodactyl zord.
"Gah you pink brat I'll knock you out of the sky!" she declared, flapping her wings and taking off.
"Yip!" Kris yelped before flying off.
The two fliers tore through the sky, Hunter Pink firing attack after attack as she tried to hit the Pterodactyl zord. From down on the ground the zords gathered and the rangers watched the action from within.
"Kris!" Drake called out as she flew off.
"Don't worry guys I've got this, besides it's not like you can really help up here."
"Kris is right, without being able to fly there's nothing we can do," Jenna groaned shaking her head, "even with my Tricera Beam attack I'm not sure I could hit her."
"Oh man we're useless down here," Amy groaned as she watched Pterodactyl do a barrel roll to avoid an attack.
"Yeah but what are we doing to do, it's not like any of our zords can fly," Trey replied clenching his fist.
"We're...just going to have to see if Kris can knock her down or defeat Hunter Pink herself," the red ranger muttered shaking his head, "hopefully she'll be able to knock her down."
Up above the two were locked in aerial combat with neither side giving an inch. Seeing another attack heading her way, Kris directed the Pterodactyl zord to make a loop and line her up behind the transformed huntress.
"Better watch your back, Ptera Cry!"
The pterodactyl zord cried out, the sound waves hitting Hunter Pink in the back and knocking her down a bit. Spinning to face the zord the Hunter started to flap her wings to kick up a strong current of wind, the wind forming into a twister.
"You think that will stop me," she laughed harshly, "here's a real attack, Petal Twister!"
Rose petals quickly joined the twister and Kris found herself trapped in the swirling maelstrom. Trying to escape the ptera zord cried out as it was knocked back inside, even firing off an attack did nothing but cause more petals to appear.
"Ah hahahaha, you'll never escape my Petal Twister pink ranger, and there's nothing your friends can do to free you either," Hunter Pink laughed at the ranger's dismay.
"Oh man we gotta get her out of there," Jenna said as Kris failed to escape once again.
"Yeah but what are we going to do?" Calder asked looking back and forth between the two combatants.
Drake frowned as he watched their pink ranger, his mind racing until he thought of something.
"Trey we need a Raptor Slash."
"Um that's all well and good bro but I can't exactly reach them while down here," the blue ranger pointed out.
"That's why you're going to rush up my zord's back," the red ranger explained, his idea dawning on his friend.
"Now that's just crazy enough to work!"
The Raptorzord roared and rushed over behind the T-Rex zord as it positioned itself. Leaning down to give it's fellow zord a ramp the red zord looked back and nodded, the blue zord kicking at the ground before running up the back.
"Face it pink ranger you can't escape and none of your friends can help you," Hunter Pink laughed, watching Kris trying to escape, "this is the end for you."
"Might want to rethink that!"
"What?"
Hunter Pink spun around in time to see the blue ranger's zord heading her way, with its claws flowing.
"Raptor Slash!"
The hundreds yelped as she was hit, falling to the ground hard. As she fell the twister holding their fellow ranger faded away, the pterodactyl zord flying over to the others.
"Thanks for that guys, I thought I was going to be blown away," Kris remarked giving them a thumbs up.
"Not on our watch pinkie," Calder grinned.
"Glad you're out of there but now we got another problem," Drake pointed out as Hunter Pink stood up.
"Mrgrgrgr you rangers have ruffled my feathers for the last time," she growled glaring at them, "now hand over the pink ranger."
"So what's the plan?" Jenna asked the others, "no one besides Kris's zord can fly."
"And that's where I come in…"
"Hey wait a second I recognize that voice," Amy muttered, "Hayley?"
"Wait Hayley Zitkor?" Trey asked in shock.
"Do you know another Hayley that's help the power rangers?" Hayley asked, sounding like she was shaking her head, "now listen to me, the Pterodactyl zord isn't just there to look cool on the Dino Surge Megazord it's also there to enable flight mode."
"Whoa whoa whoa," Calder interrupted quickly, "you're saying our megazord can fly?"
"Yes Calder that's exactly what I'm saying, that will give you the aerial boost you need for battle," Hayley explained to the team, "Not surprising Conner forgot to tell you about that."
"No kidding thanks for this Hayley," Drake said excitedly.
"My pleasure Drake, oh and Jenna good job on that Dino Buster, we were impressed."
Jenna smiled, happy that she was being praised by a genius like Hayley, before returning to the task at hand. The rangers grinned and nodded to each other, ready to fight.
"Dinozords combine!" the five called out, the zords easily moving and connecting to each other.
Hunter Pink flapped her wings upon seeing the Dino Surge and Cenozoic Megazords, the Hunter taking to the sky to avoid any attacks.
"Not good enough rangers, you won't be able to hit me from down there."
"That's what you think," Kris retorted confidently, "try this on for size, Dino Surge Megazord flight mode!"
The Dino Surge Megazord roared as the wings on its back spread out to its maximum wingspan. A few beats was all it took to lift the megazord off the ground and the five found themselves flying through the air til the hovered in front of Hunter Pink.
"No that's impossible!" she shrieked in defiance.
"What's the matter you're looking a little pale," Trey teased, "just because you can fly…"
"Doesn't mean we can't," the yellow ranger finished for him.
"Even so you'll have to catch me first rangers," Hunter Pink hissed at them, "and I don't plan on making that easy for you."
Taking off Hunter Pink quickly but some distance between them, but the megazord followed after so she wouldn't get too far away. The two flew through the open sky with Hunter Pink narrowly avoiding them, all the while Jenna watched from the ground.
"Come on guys you need to knock her out of the air and gain the advantage," she muttered to herself as a plan formed in her head, "or maybe they just need to get her closer to the ground, guys you need to get her to circle around and dive down."
The megazord spun in the air as Hunter Pink flew around them in a confusing pattern, the inside feeling like their heads were spinning.
"That's easier said than done Jenna, she's flying circles around us," Drake groaned holding his head.
"And here I always thought I loved roller coasters," Amy said feeling like she was about to vomit.
"Trust me if you can get her closer to the ground I can use the Anklyozord…"
"To anchor her down and give us a clear shot!" Kris finished, catching on to the plan, "that's brilliant!"
"Looks like we have a plan then," the yellow ranger grinned.
"Yep now let's put it into action," Drake nodded, the rangers holding out their hands.
The Dino Surge Megazord took off to chase after their opponent, Hunter Pink laughing maniacally as they attempted to catch her.
"Face it rangers you'll never catch me, you," she taunted flying around them, "you might as well give up!"
"That's the one thing we'll never do," Kris retorted angrily, noting in the back of her mind that they had one last move they could pull, "Drake give me control of the Megazord there's something I want to try."
"Be my guest."
The two switched places and the Megazord stopped for a second before heading straight up.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Hunter Pink demanded flying after them.
The two flew higher and higher with Hunter Pink attacking them. The attacks missed however as the higher up they got the more the sun got into the huntress's eyes. As the Megazord spun around a flash of light hit Hunter Pink straight on making her shriek and shield her eyes.
"There's the opening!" Kris remarked, "time to make our move."
Shifting so that it was directed towards the Hunter the Megazord kicked her hard enough and with enough speed that she was forced to follow. Screaming and lashing out in an attempt to free herself Hunter Pink found herself getting closer and closer to the ground.
"Whatever you have planned it won't work, the Hunters will take all of you down," she shrieked in defiance, "Empress Primora will be victorious!"
"Oh just shut up," Kris retorted, "Jenna now!"
Looking behind her Hunter Pink saw the Cenozoic Megazord below them spinning it's wrecking ball.
"My pleasure," Jenna replied as she tossed the ball at them.
Spreading its wings the Megazord caught an updraft and put some space between them as the chain wrapped around the Hunter's waist, pulling her down and slamming her to the ground.
"Gah let me go!" Hunter Pink demanded as she struggled to free herself.
"You Hunters are going to learn," Kris said as the Megazord landed, "the power rangers will never lose to anyone as evil as you or Primora."
"DINO SURGE MEGAZORD, TRIASSIC BURST!"
"NO!" Hunter Pink cried out as the attack hit, the Hunter exploding as she fell to the ground.
The Cenozoic Megazord walked over to the Dino Surge and the two knocked the back of their hands together, Drake grinning as he punched his open palm.
"Now that was a Triassic Win!"
~PRTS~
Primora clenched her fist in anger as Hunter Pink was defeated. Off to the side Magus watched and muttered to himself in shock as well, the monster creator confounded by such a defeat, while Knirex and Dez remained quiet.
"I...see," Primora hissed, "the rangers are quite the resilient team to defeat one created with such power, that or we were simply too hasty in our attack."
"Empress this is not your fault," Knirex bowed, "any failures due to the Hunters fall on my shoulders."
Primora remained quiet, her eyes trained on the orb in front of her as she reached over and picked up the piece for the pink hunter. Crushing it in her grip.
"You're right it's not my fault," she whispered, her eyes narrowing at the pink dust in her hand, "but neither is it yours."
Knirex stood straight and looked at the empress, Primora twisting her hand so that the dust fell to the ground.
"My Empress?"
"The rangers showed up quicker than we thought, Hunter Pink had the pink ranger on the ropes but was cut off too fast," she surmised as she felt herself calm down, "even though she had trapped her target it doesn't do if they can find their friend, so we'll call this a learning experience."
Primora stood up and took the bag of gems from Magus, reaching in and pulling out the second one.
"No next time, we'll plan it more carefully," she smiled deviously as she held up a green gem, "won't we?"
A/N: yay I'm...sorta back? You know you all probably expect this by now and i regret that it takes me so long to get chapters out. Really it does, I just feel so freaking drained lately but with a new year quite literally around the corner I can't wait to see what's coming up. Be on the look out for the next chapter of Different Shade of Red, cause in all honesty those take me less time then these chapters, and hopefully it won't take me months to update this story this time, until then this has been the TriaasicDragonRanger and may the power protect you during 2019!