Chapter Twenty Eight. The Fires Of Time.


Previously On Poke Rangers G-Force...

Dorlinda offered a box to Crane, telling him that the contents within it would one day be his. When he was ready. Last time, the rangers were distraught after the loss of the two Megazords at the hands of Jirona and Darkia's Shadow Force. But, Dorlinda had anticipated the event, and gave them the Time Battlers and the Dialga Carrier to battle the threat. Using the new zords, they managed to stop the evil shadow rangers, before turning onto a new problem. Earlier Danni walked in on three of the rangers morphing. But, Crane managed to convince her not to reveal the secrets of their power, even managing to gain an offer of help. Meanwhile, Dorlinda noticed something out of the ordinary...


He was morphed. That's all he knew.

Looking around the area, he knew that a monster was there. One of Regli's creations as stalking him, somewhere that he couldn't see the creature.

"Where are you?" he whispered, desperately looking around for what he knew was out there.

Yet, he felt unbelievably hot. His body was sweating under his costume. Was this the work of the being watching him. Make him so hot that he combusted internally. But, where would that leave the other five rangers without him?

"Where are you?!" he shouted, the sweat gushing across his face under the helmet. It was almost enough to blind him, the moisture ripping across his vision. "Hello! Anybody!"

"Nobody can hear you," a sinister voice whispered, the sounds echoing from behind him. Turning to see where it came from, he was greeted with the sight of nothing. Nothing tangible. "This is a path that only you can walk!"

With those words, an even more sinister laugh followed them, the sound forcing him to flinch. The heat surrounding him intensified...

And then he burst into flames. Screaming as the intense heat raked across him, burning away his uniform. Setting his skin alight, his muscles, his bones...

Still screaming in the agony that he had perceived, Crane jerked awake. Instantly patting his body down to check that he was still complete, he managed a sigh of relief. His body was covered completely in sweat, not a dry spot of skin on him.

"What was that?" he wondered, taking deep breaths. Somewhere deep in the back of his mind, he could tell that something was wrong. Something bad was going to happen.


G-Force. G-Force.

The G-Force Rangers look at the camera.

Somethings coming from the future, something you can't beat.

Regli glares at the camera, before shaking his fist. Dorlinda rolls his eyes.

Somethings coming to the past, something that might spell...

There's a streak of red light, and Crane looks at the camera. Crane Edwards. Red G-Force Ranger. Created by Blue Bongo.

The End.

There's a streak of green light, and Mitzi looks at the camera. Mitzi Arnold. Green G-Force Ranger. Created By Jeanne Reveur.

The End is here, so you better pray for G-Force!!!!!

There's a streak of blue light. Duo turns around and looks at the camera. Duo Roronoa. Blue G-Force Ranger. Created by Jmb2nami

G-Force!!!!

There's a streak of yellow light. Chip turns around and looks at the camera. Chip Larson. Yellow G-Force Ranger. Created by Sage Monarch.

G-Force!!!!!! Go G-Force!!!!!

There's a streak of pink light. Paige turns around and looks at the camera. Paige Martinez. Pink G-Force Ranger. Created by Famousgirl01

G-Force!!!!!!

A streak of silver light. Scott turns around and puts a thumbs up at the camera. Scott Devaney. Silver G-Force Ranger. Created by Blue Bongo.

Always one step behind you, always three steps forward.

The G-Force rangers form the Force Cannon, and blast something with it.

Together, as a team, there's no one we can't beat.

The Rapidash Zord streaks forward and joins with the back of the Lapras Zord.

There's no height we can't reach.

The Lapras Zord joins with the Roserade and Manectric Zords, to form the body.

G-Force. G-Force!!!!!

The Clefable Zord forms the arms, completing the formation of the G-Force Megazord.

Protectors of the past and the future

The G-Force Megazord brings out the sabre, and uses the Slash of Time.

Go G-Force!!!!!"

The Metagross Zord emerges from the ground and fires a Hyper Beam attack from its mouth.

Next, the G-Force Megazord and the Metagross Zord combine to form the Meta-Force Megazord.

Poke Rangers G-Force.

Poke Rangers G-Force. Created by Blue Bongo. Verger region created by Blue Bongo. All rights reserved.

Poke Rangers Gooooooooooooo!!!!!


"So, you guys got anything on at the moment?" Danni asked, looking over to both Mitzi and Chip. "Any monsters..."

"Woah!" Chip interrupted. "The words, be careful what you wish for ever spring to mind? We don't really get a heads up before they come to destroy this place. Just when they're attacking."

"How does that work, exactly?" she wondered.

"Well, we used to watch it on the TV reports," Mitzi admitted. "See that something bad was happening, and go to it. Now, we just wait for Dorlinda to..."

"Who?"

"That's just a really long story," Chip offered, seeing Crane come over and drop down onto the couch across from them.

"Someone looks terrible," Danni said.

"Didn't sleep well," he admitted. "Haven't for a while. Every night, I've been having this dream. One where I burn alive. Ever since..."

"Since when?" Mitzi wondered. "You didn't think of mentioning this to any of us?"

"I've been having them on and off since we first met Dorlinda," Crane said, suddenly looking sheepish. "First they would happen once every week. Then, just recently... I... They've been happening every time this week. Every time I shut my eyes, I burn alive. And, it's really starting to annoy me."

"Maybe you should talk to Dorlinda," Mitzi remarked. "Maybe he can..."

"There's a chance that he's responsible for it in some way," Crane retorted. "Don't know how, but I'm not going to..."

Even before he could finish speaking, the morpher at his wrist began to beep.

"Think he might want to speak to you," Chip said, watching Crane get up and head outside.

"So, who actually is Dorlinda?" Danni wondered.


"I hope for your sake that you are ready to improve on your last project," Regli growled, looking at Jirona. "It is time to take the brute force approach. Our last few approaches, of stealth and subtlety, have failed. So, summon up two powerful monsters and let us rip them to shreds."

"I have just the monsters, my lord," Jirona replied, turning away to head into his workshop. "They will be with you shortly."

Over on the couch, Chimzor looked over to Pura with bemusement.

"Haven't all our approaches been ones of brute force so far?" he wondered. "The only one that really wasn't would have been Z-Kecla. Other than that..."

"Don't mention that to him," Pura muttered.


"So, what is it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Crane asked, looking over to Dorlinda. "Sounded like you called me here for a reason."

"I did," the Lord of Time replied, sat down in his recliner. "I do need to talk to you."
Sighing as he finished speaking, he gestured for Crane to sit down. Which he did, after thinking it through for a few moments.

"Anything strange happen to you lately, Crane?" Dorlinda asked. "Anything at all? Ever since you met me perhaps."

"Were you just listening in on the conversation that I was having with Mitzi, Chip and Danni?" the red ranger asked, the suspicion laden in his voice. "And decided that you should try and clear things up?"

"I do need to clear things up," the Lord of Time insisted, looking over to the table. "Do you remember when we first met. I had offerings to both you and to Scott. I gave Scott a Patroller, but I told you that your gift wasn't ready for you yet."
Getting up from his seated position, he strode over to the table and plucked the same silver box up off it. Turning back, he held the item up to Crane, allowing him to see it.

"You have any strange dreams lately?"

Brushing the thoughts away from his mind, Crane's only focus was upon the box.

"What is that?" he wondered, surprised that Dorlinda was showing it to him so readily. "What's inside it?"

Shrugging, the answer that the Lord of Time gave him wasn't what Crane would have expected.

"I don't know."

An answer that was almost enough to render him speechless as he heard it.

"I can't open it up," Dorlinda said, handing it to the unmorphed red ranger. "It's for you and you alone. I acquired it in a game of chance thousands of years, sensing something about the power that it contained. Yet..."

"You don't have a clue as to what's inside it," Crane summarised, trying to prise open the box with his hands. It didn't give, leaving him straining to try and do it.

"Like I didn't try that," Dorlinda quipped. "Last night, it started to sing to me. I thought for sure that it was ready to be opened."

With a final grunt, Crane gave up trying to pull the two halves of the case apart. It was almost a futile gesture.

"Although, I could have been wrong," the Lord of Time admitted. "All the legends that I have been able to find on that box tell that it can only be opened when the time is right."

"So, what about the dreams I've been having?" Crane asked. "Where do they come into it?"

"Your dreams started to happen ever since you first laid eyes upon this sacred item," Dorlinda replied. "It is a sign that you are ready to take control of the powers held within this box and use them however you choose to."

Crane placed it down on the table in front of him, musing over the information that he had been given. All in all, he was arriving at the conclusion that Dorlinda wasn't playing with a full deck.


"Attention!" Jirona shouted, springing out of his workshop into the main area of the cave. "I present to you my two most powerful warriors so far, my lord."

Everyone sat around in the main living area turned to see what the monster maker had come up with this time, viewing the outcomes with interest.

Following Jirona, the first of the two monsters was a Tentacruel shaped monster stood on a pair of Sandslash shaped legs. At the ends of the blue main body, were the trademark tentacles, each of them tipped with at least three razor sharp claws. The red sacs were filled with a deadly poison, the white eyes piercing in their gaze.

The second one, was even more strange in its appearances that the first one, if that was possible. Stood nearly seven feet tall, with four muscular arms. It wouldn't be too bad a guess to realise that it came from a Machamp, but the ends of the arms were tipped in the blades of a Gallade. The helmet of which was also upon the head of the monster. Looking around, the rest of the skin was a shaded mixture of white and grey. And, the onlookers could see that a pair of Scyther wings were on its back as well.

"Interesting mixes," Darkia remarked.

"I give you Tentaslash and Quadroblade," Jirona exclaimed, proudly. "My two ultimate trump cards. They are undefeatable, virtually."

"What do you mean, virtually?!" Regli demanded. "I want more assurances than that!"

"Rest assured, my lord," Jirona offered. "They will be more than enough to destroy the Poke Rangers. They will be ripped to pieces by this time tomorrow."

With those words, the two monsters vanished away from the cave. Ready to wreak destruction upon Eon City.


"So, what did Dorlinda want?"

The question came from Paige, as the six sat around the table saw Crane come to sit down across from them.

"Just to offer me something that turned out to be a bit of a bust," the red ranger replied, his voice slightly annoyed by what had happened. "I mean, what was the point of that. Just to tell me a bunch of half assed crap about a metal box that he apparently won."

"You're in a bad mood," Duo observed. "Any particular reason that we should know about?"

"Well, I've been having really bad dreams again," Crane said. "And, I think that Dorlinda knows more than he's willing to tell."

"You're doubting the Lord of Time?" Danni asked. "Why? I mean... Hasn't he earned your trust?"

Before Crane could answer, the communicators went off. All six of them.

"Speaking of the..." Crane started to say, before changing his mind. "Okay, Dorlinda, what's up?"

"Rangers, there are two monsters rampaging through Eon City. Be very careful, they look dangerous."

"You mean Regli stopped sending down monsters that were cute and cuddly?" Mitzi asked, sarcastically. "I'm both hurt and amazed."

"Less sarcasm would be appreciated at this time, Mitzi," Dorlinda replied, before offering his final words. "Hurry up and get down there before they completely wreck the entire city."

With that, the Lord of Time rang off, leaving just a sharp burst of static rippling from the communicator system.

"Well, I guess we're about to do this again," Paige muttered.

"About time that we were thrown into action," Chip said, as the six of them got up to head for the doors.

"We'll be back soon," Duo called, looking over to a still seated Danni. "Duty calls!"

Hearing those words, she couldn't help but shake her head. Sure, she'd become friends with the six of them, but she felt more than useless knowing that they were out saving the region from monsters while she did nothing.


Riding onto the scene on their G-Force Patrollers, the six rangers immediately found what Dorlinda had been talking about. Tentaslash and Quadroblade were slowly working their way through the city, almost as if they were looking for something.

"For us, perhaps?" Crane shouted, jumping off his bike. "Don't suppose that you're selling cookies?"

Tentaslash responded by directing a Sludge Bomb in his direction, the red ranger throwing himself to the side to evade the attack. Just barely.

"And, I'm thoroughly sick of monsters trying to poison us," Duo quipped, taking up a fighting stance. "Let's kick some ass and go home."

"Might not be that simple," Mitzi offered to him. "They do look tough."

"That's only in the eye of the beholder," Chip told her.

"Three on one each," Crane said, coming out with the plan. "Pick your attacks carefully, and we'll win."

"Let's make this really interesting," Quadroblade grunted, a squadron of Gollins appearing around them. "Now, how are you going to plan ahead?"

"Actually, go for whatever you can hit," Scott shouted,holding out his hands. His Steel Hammer appeared within them, ready to be used in battle.

Crane did the same, his sword materialising. Within moments, the rest of the rangers' weapons emerged.

"Let's do this," Paige called, before they charged.


Charging into the army of Gollins, Mitzi swept her weapons through a pair of them, the remnants of the foot soldiers crumpling down to the ground as she did so. Duo fought beside her, using the blunt end of his Jet Cannon as a means to deal damage into the Gollins at close quarters. Even as the Gollins around them fell, Quadroblade charged in to the fray, throwing attacks from his four arms into the two rangers. The sudden vicious fury of the four pronged attacks raking against them were incredibly overpowering, the blows throwing them down to the ground.

Across from them, Paige and Chip also fought against the Gollins, attacking with their weapons to cut through the foes with relative ease. Chip speared one with his Thunder Lance, almost splitting the Gollin in front of him into two pieces. Her Metronome Daggers charged up, one with ice and one with a psychic type energy, cut through a Gollin to the right of her. The left hand came back across and speared another behind her, the psychic type energy dealing a high amount of damage to the Gollin.

Turning back, she caught a glimpse of Crane and Scott trying to fight Tentaslash. She realised quickly that the emphasis was on the word trying. The many tentacled appearance of the monster might have looked ridiculous, but the way he spun around, throwing them out in a powerful sweeping motion was high effective. The sheer force of the attack thrown in their direction was enough to keep them back. And, they just kept on coming, the two rangers thrown down to the ground by the velocity of the strikes.

She lept forward through the air, bringing her daggers up to try and strike into Tentaslash from behind. But, a trio of his claws came up and sent her crashing back, Paige thumping against a trashcan as she flew through the air.

Chip came charging in next, his Thunder Lance raised high to try and block the initial attack from the monster. Then, he could...

But, Quadroblade had other ideas. Somehow, his arm stretched out to nail Chip in the small of his back. From the force of the blow, the yellow ranger was sent flailing forward, right into the middle of Tentaslash's attack. Yelling in pain, he was sent down to the ground along with the other rangers.

Staggering back to his feet, Duo raised his Jet Cannon to blast the opponents. Even as he tried to pull the trigger, Tentaslash launched another Sludge Bomb at him, the force knocking him over. Groans of pain emerged from his mouth as he tried to get up, but failed.

Only Crane managed to get to his feet, holding his sword in front of him.
"You will not succeed," he said, gasping for breath. "Whatever happens, I won't let you."

"Tough talk, red ranger," Quadroblade laughed. "For someone who looks pretty worn out to me."

"Just a facade, I think you'll find," Crane retorted, leaping forward through the air. He was trying to bring his sword down into the body of Quadroblade. Only for the monster to extend out his arms and land several rapid fire punches into him. Then, Tentaslash got in on the act, throwing another of his sweeping claw tentacled attacks into the red ranger. He wasn't done yet, even following up with another Sludge Bomb that crashed into Crane.

As he hit the ground, the red ranger demorphed instantly. Groaning in pain as he lay there.

"Crane!" Paige shouted.

"He looks badly hurt," Duo said, the other five rangers still unable to get up after the furious attacks that had been dealt to them earlier.

"Come on, man!" Scott shouted. "Get up!"

Manfully struggling to try and get back to his feet, Crane was unable to do so. Gritting his teeth as he lay there, he scrabbled at the dirt to try and get up. Nothing he wanted more than to keep on fighting.

And then, somehow inexplicably, he vanished away in a stream of red light.

"Where did he go?" Mitzi said, before groaning as she realised Tentaslash and Quadroblade were now focusing their attentions upon the five of them.

"Come on!" Scott urged, managing to crawl up onto all fours. "We have to..."

He was cut off by a sudden attack from Quadroblade, the foot springing forward from fully ten feet and kicking him up into the closest building. The silver ranger yelled in pain as he crashed through one of the windows.


"What the fudge!" Crane yelled, dropping down to his knees in the Time Hole. The sudden teleportation had taken him completely by surprise, meaning that he hadn't been able to brace himself. But, most of the painful wounds garnered in his fight with Quadroblade and Tentaslash had vanished.

"Benefits of the Time Hole's properties," Dorlinda smiled, looking across to him. "Acts like a Pokemon Centre for you rangers."

"Why did you pull me out of there, Dorlinda?" Crane demanded, angrily.

"Afraid to say that I didn't," the Lord of Time replied, gesturing to the box on the table. "That did."

Crane turned away over to it, seeing a faint red glow emerging from within the cracks around it.

"What the...?" he said, stepping over towards it. He took the box up in his hand...

And the two halves split open within his palms, a small ruby red amulet dropping down onto his skin as it did so.

"It can't be!" Dorlinda hissed, both in surprise and awe. "I never thought that I would see this again."

"What is it?" Crane wondered, feeling the surprising heat of the gem against his hand.

"This item was something that I created over six thousand years ago," Dorlinda replied, still slightly dumbstruck. "I stared within the fires of time and I stored their evanescence within this amulet. Over time, I knew that they would gestate and eventually offer great power to the one who they chose to wield them."

He smiled, taking Crane's hand and closing his fingers around the small item.

"I think that is is time that you unleash this to your full potential," he said, the smile evolving into a grin. "Use it wisely, for its power is great."

The unmorphed red ranger nodded, looking over to the screen where his friends were still fighting for their lives.

"I need to help them," he insisted, nodding to the pictures. "I'm ready."

"Knew that you would be," Dorlinda said, sweeping out his hand. "Okay, go!"

With those words still echoing in his ears, Crane vanished away in the stream of red light.


"We can't beat these things!" Duo yelled, as he was hit with another clawed tentacle attack from Tentaslash. He was absolutely gasping for breath at this point, almost on the verge of demorphing. Already, his morpher was beeping rapidly, telling him that his powers were on the verge of fainting.

"They're too powerful," Chip added, getting up from where he'd been hurled by an attack from Quadroblade. Only for his legs to buckle and give way.

"And, I thought that you would be a challenge," Tentaslash snickered. "Instead, we destroy five weak rangers. Where's your leader now? Chose to flee and save his own skin."

"Lucky, because we would have flayed it from his body had he stayed," Quadroblade added with a grunt. "After all the legends we heard about noble and powerful red rangers, we're disappointed really."

"Well, let's see what I can do about that."

Almost shocked into silence by the sudden announcement, the two monsters turned to see a morphed Crane behind them.

"I might have gone," he admitted. "But, I'm back now."

Under his helmet, he couldn't help but let out a grin.

"And, I brought a little surprise with me," Crane continued, bringing the amulet out in his gloved hand.

"What is that?" Mitzi asked, struggling to get up.

"A little gift from Dorlinda," Crane explained, holding it high above his head. "Now, let's see what it can do."

Taking a deep breath, he gave the command.

"Fires of Time!" he yelled. "Activate."


Just like the dream, it happened from out of nowhere. The flames emerged from within the amulet, taking a drastic hold of him. But, unlike the dream, they didn't hurt as their white hot wake passed across his uniform. Instead, it felt rather refreshing.

And then, the armour started to form. A heavy silver trim ran up the legs, also wrapping around the tops of his boots. Next, it ran across his belt, making it a shiny silver colour. But, the most drastic changes were on his upper body. Similar to the silver chest plate that ran across the front of a Dialga, a large hunk of silver armour passed across his shoulders and upper body. The gem in the middle of it burned with a furiously flashing red flame, the silver trim extending out across his arms as well. And, his visor turned a dark silvery-blue colour.

Holding out his arms to take up a fighting stance, Crane glared at the two opponents.

"Are you ready for round two?" he demanded.


"Woah!" Chip muttered. "When am I going to get one of those."

"Don't think that you do, mate," Duo told him.

"Damn," he said, suddenly feeling slightly exhilerated by what might happen in front of them.


"So, you got some fancy new armour," Quadroblade grunted. "Big deal."

"You might say that now," Crane replied, slowly striding around in a circle, keeping both eyes on the two monsters as he did. "But..."

Clenching his fist as hard as he could, the fires of time spoke to him. Telling him what to do.

"You're about to feel the force of ages," he quipped, charging forward, the sword in his hand. "And, it's going to sting."

Completely taking Quadroblade by surprise, he was on him in a flash, the Horn Sabre raking across the monster's body. Quadroblade yelled in surprise, still not able to get away as Crane slashed at him, the flames already rising across his sword.

"You're about to feel the burn of the fires of time," Crane shouted, thrusting out to cut a scorched cross across Quadroblade's stomach. "Fire!"

From the gem on his stomach, a white hot Overheat shot out to completely obliterate Quadroblade from view.

"I like this already," Crane said, turning back to Tentaslash. "Now, it's one on one."

"Hmph," the monster snorted, starting to spin around at a lighting fast speed. His tentacled claws whipped through the air faster than the eye could follow, ready to severely injure the first one that came near him. "Try and hit me, if you can."
"Sounds like a challenge," Crane roared. Already, he was starting to get used to the power flowing through him. "But, one thing's for sure. I'm going to hit you alright."

Holding his fist up, he brought it back against his chest, punching the gem back into the metallic armour upon him.

And, in that action, time slowed down almost to a standstill.

Grinning under his helmet as he jogged forward, Crane could now step between the tentacles. Now, they were just sluggishly floating through the air.

With nothing to stop him at all, he brought back his sword and ran it through Tentaslash several times, before leaping back. Knowing that time would restart, just about...

Now.

As he watched, Tentaslash seemed to self-destruct, collapsing down to the ground in a heap before exploding.

"Awesome," Crane exclaimed, turning back to face his friends. "Fires of Time! Return!"

Even as he spoke the words, the armour vanished, leaving just his normal ranger uniform.

Cheers rang out from the other rangers as they began to crowd around him.


"This is starting to take the...!" Regli began to say, furious at what had just happened. "Nocto, get down there and..."

"I'm already right on it," she said, vanishing away in a flurry of feathers.

"I'm not to blame for this!" Jirona yelled from his workshop.

"Quiet, you!" Darkia shouted. "You are partly to blame for it."


"Man, that's awesome," Scott remarked, suddenly feeling awestruck. He was glad that it didn't show under his helmet. "Where did you get that?"

"Dorlinda," Crane admitted. "Funny how he has a way of giving us what we need whenever we need it completely. First the Time Battlers and now this."

"That might just be the coolest thing I've ever seen," Paige admitted. "What did you do to Tentaslash?"

Under his helmet, Crane let out a grin. That had been something that he had enjoyed.

"Stopped time," he said, trying to sound modest.

Behind them, a whooshing sound could suddenly be heard, as Nocto blazed down into the field.

"This isn't over yet, Rangers!" she warned, narrowing her eyes down at the remains of both Quadroblade and Tentaslash. Her voice took on the flat, emotionless tone as waves of psychic energy burst from her eyes, wrapping against the two monsters in its gentle caress. "You are both feeling very sleepy. You feel yourself growing much bigger."

At her words, the two monsters stood up and managed to grow several times taller, until they towered over the rangers.

"Guess it's time for round three," Crane said, bringing the morpher to his mouth. "Dialga Carrier, mobilise!"

The six of them seeing the vehicle rumbling across the horizon, Scott brought his own morpher up to his mouth.

"Metagross Zord, arise!"

As the Dialga Carrier brought itself to a halt, the cargo doors at the chest and back swept themselves open, the Time Battlers jumping out of their containment.

"Let's give it to them," Crane shouted, as the five rangers were transported into the cockpits of their Time Battlers. Scott was transported into the onrushing Metagross Zord.

"Okay, Time Battler One, online!" Crane said.

"Time Battler Two, online!"

"Time Battler Three, online."

"Time Battler Four, online."

"Time Battler Five, online."

With the zords bursting into life, the five machines ready to attack, they moved in to face off against Tentaslash and Quadroblade.

The Breloom launched several punches into Quadroblade, who retaliated badly by throwing a series of blade attacks into both the Breloom and the Hariyama. Spinning around, he landed a Brick Break into the Metagross Zord as well.

Tentaslash also went on the rampage, spinning around with his trademark, the spinning tentacle slash. Howls emerged from the Infernape, groans from the Poliwrath and grunts from the Gallade.

Not content with that, the Sandslash monster followed up on the Infernape, blasting it with a Sludge Bomb.

"Argh!" Crane shouted, trying to shake the thick purple substance away from his Time Battler.

With the Infernape immobilised for the moment, Tentaslash turned back to thrash into the Poliwrath and Gallade with another spinning claw attack.

"Rangers!"

The sudden call of Dorlinda's voice through the communication system was enough to draw their attention.

"What is it, Dorlinda?" Crane asked, finally managing to free his Time Battle from the viscous substance that had covered it.

"As you did with the G-Force Megazord, you need to combine your five Time Battlers to get the best out of them. Only then will you be able to defeat these two monsters. Do it now!"

"Roger that," Crane replied. "You ready to do this, guys?"

The other four rangers all confirmed that they were.

"Okay, then," the red ranger said. "Begin transformation."

He pushed down on the button below his control levers, knowing that the other four were doing the same.

And then the transformation began.


Their legs sinking into the body, the Gallade and the Hariyama shortened down to half their regular size. Their heads collapsed back to create holes in the top of their bodies, while the arms folded into the body to create a pair of legs. The Breloom leaped up into the air, its two legs fitting into the holes with a certain snugness. Next, the Poliwrath jumped up, the arms and legs combining to form a pair of arms for the new Megazord. The swirl on its body pushed itself out to add to the armour. Then, the Infernape lunged in, the head turning around to form the head of the Megazord. The majority of the Infernape's body completed the chest of the Megazord, while the limbs added to the arms to increase the power within them. The five rangers appeared in the cockpit, Crane sat in the centre, Mitzi and Chip sat to his left, while Duo and Paige were to his right.

"Timestrike Megazord online and ready to battle," Crane said, placing his hands on the controls of the Megazord. "Now, let's see what we can do."

"Nice one," Scott called, the Metagross Zord thundering over to stand by the Timestrike Megazord. "Now, let's go and kick some monster ass."

"Reckon we can combine with the Metagross?" Chip wondered.

"One step at a time," Mitzi said, looking back to him.

Thundering forward, the Timestrike Megazord landed a punch into the face of Quadroblade, the sheer force enough to force the four armed monster back.

"What do we have in terms of weapons?" Paige asked, looking at the screen in front of her.

"Let's see..." Duo said, doing the same. "Ah... I've got nothing."

"Rangers," Dorlinda called, his voice rippling out through the communication system. "You have the Noble Blades."

Before anyone could ask what they were about, Tentaslash launched another Sludge Bomb towards them, the thick purple substance covering the Poliwrath armour across their chest.

"We're still functioning okay," Chip offered, looking at his screen. "Barely penetrated the shields."

Quickly responding, Crane directed the Timestrike Megazord into throwing a flurry of strong sharp punches into Tentaslash, the monster howling like a Mightyena as he felt the attacks smash him across the battlefield.

"My turn," Scott said, lining up his sights. The crosshairs blinked rapidly, as they locked onto Quadroblade. "Hyper Beam, fire!"

The jaws of the Metagross Zord slowly slid open, before expelling out a powerful burst of golden light towards the monster. In an instant, the four armed monster was completely destroyed, decimated by the powerful attack.

"It's all up to you guys now," the silver ranger yelled. "Give it to him with everything you've got."


"Right," Crane said. "Noble Blades, materialise."

The hands of the Timestrike Megazord slowly raised up, a pair of swords appearing within them. On first glance, they looked very similar to the blades that had been on the elbows of the Gallade Time Battler Five minutes earlier.

Something that wasn't lost on Paige.

"They look familiar," she muttered, as Crane directed the Timestrike Megazord into slashing away at Tentaslash. The two blades cut away into the skin, the monster screaming out in pain. He tried to launch another spinning tentacle slash, but the swords came up again and hacked the appendages into a fraction of what they had been moments earlier.

"And, it's time for the Guillotine," Crane shouted, the Noble Blades coming up. "Time to finish this off."

The two swords crackling with a bright white energy, the Timestrike Megazord swept out with the weapons, the attack cutting through Tentaslash's body. The monster let out a final shriek, as his body was seperated into two pieces, both of which hit the ground and exploded into thousands of pieces.

"He's no more," Duo shouted, the five rangers in the cockpit turning around to congratulate each other on the victory.


"I don't know why you even bother any more!" Regli shouted, throwing a large rock at Jirona in disgust. "Would it really be so much trouble for you to create a good monster at some point."

"I didn't know that the red ranger would get a Battilizer and the rest of them would have a new Megazord," Jirona protested, trying to duck away from being hit.

"Excuses, excuses," Regli growled, angrily.


"That was awesome," Chip said, repeating the thoughts of many as the six of them returned to the Pokemon Centre. "New Megazord."

"Yeah, looked like a powerful beast," Scott remarked. "Still could take you in the Metagross though."

"That Metagross couldn't..." Duo started to say, before being interrupted.
"Again, Dorlinda comes through," Crane said. "Right about now, I would think that Regli is getting pretty worried."

At the table where they usually sat, they could see Danni holding a camcorder. Watching something on it.

"What's that?" Paige asked, as they all crowded round to find a seat.

The red haired trainer looked up with a grin, as she slid it over.

"Nice battle," she said. "Filmed the majority of it. Right up to where Crane kicked those two monsters asses with his strange armour. Even saw the new Megazord."

"You filmed it?" Mitzi asked, surprised. "Why?"

Hearing the question, Danni could only shrug.

"Seemed like the thing to do," she replied. "I was half considering that I could sell it to the media outlets for some quick cash. Or, I could put it on the Internet. Or, I could just keep it for my own personal use."

"Whatever you say," Duo said.

"It doesn't show the part where I demorphed, does it?" Crane asked, suddenly sounding slightly nervous about that concept.

She shook her head.

"It did, but I edited it out."

"Well, thanks for that," he said, leaning back in his chair. "Ah, considering how today started, it hasn't turned out too badly."


Author's Notes.

So... Another chapter complete.

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