Connor skidded to a halt on the gravel road leading to Trent's.
"Oh my god!" Kira said, turning the bike sharply so that she didn't hit him.
Connor seemed not to notice the yellow ranger behind him, instead he saw that Anton Mercer was being kidnapped.
Connor ran to his aid, kicking over Banes and punching them until they dissolved like so many of their counterparts had.
"Anton Mercer." Connor said, helping the good doctor onto his feet. "Are you okay?"
"Fine... fine.." He muttered, clearly not fine.
"You need help." Connor muttered, trying to think of anywhere else they might be able to get some help.
"I'll be fine... what about Trent? Where is he?"
"Trent went on a mission with Dr. O." Kira said, demorphing.
"I think something bad's happened ot them." Anton confessed.
"Why?" Connor asked.
Anton thought about it..."Because I created TyraTriTera... when I was Mesogog."
Anton Mercer quickly recounted the tale of the accidental clonings done during his time as the reptilian antagonist to the Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
"So TyraTriTera is Mesogog's sick son?"
"Not exactly... my best guess is that Mesogog's DNA merged with the clone's combining their DNA even further..."
"But weren't they already combined? They were clones right?" Kira pointed out.
"Well this combined their mental craving for power... and if it mixed with the right chemicals in the lab..."
"From the explosions." Connor recalled, thinking about the time the Power Rangers had led a full scale raid on Mesogog's island fortress.
Mercer nodded, "There's more... Lothor."
Connor and Kira went wide eyed, remembering the evil space ninja that nearly beat the Power Rangers Ninja Storm... but he disappeared after they teamed up. No one had seen or heard from him since.
"Makes sense that he would work with TyraTriTera." Connor figured.
Mercer shook his head, "Mesogog captured him, turning him into a figurine as a prisoner."
"Like the Time Force did to their prisoners." Kira remembered.
Anton nodded, "If Lothor's DNA mixed with Mesogog's..." He trailed off.
"Then he'll be more powerful than all of the Dino Gems." Connor said finally.
Anton Mercer nodded.
"We need to take him down." Connor said, thinking about all the work Josh had done to get them this far. He couldn't let it be in vain. "We'll need all of the Power Rangers, past and future."
"Connor that's crazy talk. The Power Rangers aren't exactly organized like that, and there's no time to send them a letter." Kira reminded him.
Connor tried to think about Josh and how he would have done it. They had Jason and Kim back at the base, they could call the first generations... but what about the others.
"Dr Oliver." Connor snapped his fingers. "He knows pretty much all of them."
"But he and Trent went on that mission..."
"Well, we'll wait for him to get back and find as many of the rangers as we can in the meantime."
"You realize nothing's ever been done like this to this scale." Anton pointed out, knowing some things about the ranger history. He could vaguely recall his trusted friend, Tommy Oliver, telling him of a time when the Red Rangers assembled to defend Earth from the Machine Empire years ago...
"I know." Connor said, looking at Kira. "But we need their help."
Kira nodded grimly, things were looking bad.
Connor squeezed Kira's hand, "It's going to be okay. As long as we're together."
Kira agreed... I mean if she could teach Connor to swim, who knows what they couldn't do?
...
Krista and Ethan were outside training when they appeared in swarms.
Ethan buzzed everyone inside quickly while he was in the middle of fighting for his life.
Using his special dino gem power, he activated his unique ability to have diamond hard armor arms, making it easy to block attacks and strike with his forearms.
He kicked and punched, rolled to the side to avoid strikes, hoping that the student was doing okay.
Krista caught on immediately, as countless other rangers had before her. She blocked, kicked, jumped and flipped, pushed, punch, and rolled her way to the top of a growing pile.
"Hiya!" Krista yelled, getting in close, releasing a fury attack of strikes/punches that lead to a very confused group of people emerging from Dr. O's house.
"Reminds me of the Cephalozord." Ethan stated, admiring her handy work.
Krista looked around and felt pretty good about herself, especially when she saw that her wrist had started to glow.
"The dino gem's energy finally bonded with you." Ethan said, "Now you can use its powers in fights."
"Cool!" Krista exclaimed.
Jason looked at her with pride on his face, he ran her through a handful of training sessions in the past couple of weeks and no matter how much she wanted to quite... he wouldn't let her. And she wouldn't let herself.
The group ran back to the secret underground base, checking the city for similar attacks. Ethan looked at it in horror, recognizing each of the addresses that had been attacked.
They all belonged to the Dino Thunder rangers.
Ethan got Kira on the communicator channel,
"Hey Ethan, we're on our way in. But we've got two civilians as well."
"Copy that, I'm sending the Hovercraft cycle." Ethan said, keying in a few commands and using his blue ranger override to send it away from himself.
"Thanks." Kira responded, hanging up.
"Let's do it." Ethan said, looking at Krista who looked confused. "Morph." He explained.
"Oh... right."
"Dino Thunder, Power Up, Ha!" Ethan called, feeling the familiar ting of the morphing grid coursing around him as he once again became the blue ranger.
"Sapphire Dino Thunder Power Up." Krista yelled, morphing into the sapphire ranger.
"Tricera!"
"Cephalo!"
The two seemed pleased with themselves and went to check on Eric Mcknight.
He was back in the red ranger suit, but he was struggling to stay alive. People weren't built to live in those things.
...
Josh was stuck strung up by the Banes he fought so hard to beat.
"How does it feel Emerald ranger, to fail so spectacularly?"
"You would know." Josh spit.
Black energy encompassed the young boy in green making him scream.
"I don't want to kill you..."
Josh scoffed.
"I don't have to kill you." TTT amended. "You could be spared if you give me what I demand."
"Have you tried On Demand... any show you want... touch of a button."
More dark energy continued to torture the emerald.
"If this is your destiny... then I will tear apart your world. I will destroy your alliance of rangers... purge this planet of their filth. And I will free you just long enough to lay eyes upon the barren waste you worked so hard to preserve... then I will kill you."
"Have you considered joining theatre?" Josh coughed out, "Seriously... you're so... melodramatic. You'd be great in Glee Club... AHHHHH!"
"I want what he knows." TTT grumbled to the gold plated bane.
"Yes master, we have found their hideout." Sleeto informed his leader.
"Then raze it. Wipe clean them."
"By your command." Sleeto and the Gold Plated bane said in sync.
