(Backing music plays, Rangers shown battling, including the Neo Cycles)
To protect the world, from devastation! Go Neo, Go Neo, Go! (Kris, Red Ranger, Arcanine Zord shown)
To unite all peoples, within our nation! Go Neo, Go Neo, Go! (Greg, Blue Ranger with Thermo Booster, Octillery Zord shown)
(Kurtis, Green Ranger, Sunflora Zord shown)
To denounce the evils, of truth and love! Go Neo, Go Neo, Go! (Anna, Pink Ranger, Togekiss Zord shown)
To extend our reach to, the stars above! Go Neo, Poké Rangers! (Rei, Yellow Ranger, Manectric Zord shown)
(Backing music plays, Ritchie, Silver Scizor, Scizor Zord shown)
Poké Rangers Neo! (Jessie, James, & Meowth glaring at Cassidy & Butch)
Poké Rangers Neo! (Jimmy meeting with Dr. Nanba)
Poké Rangers Neo! (Giovanni sat on his throne)
Po-ké Ran-gers! (Neo & Rocket Megazords, and Mega Insectazord battling)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Rocket Rangers shown)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Rangers with Neo Weapons, Rangers with Neo Blaster, Scizor with Insecta-Ray)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Whitney, Miborg in Sanctuary)
Po-ké Ran-gers! (Kris and Rocket Ranger using Battlizers, fighting in the air as a rocket takes off behind them)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Donny, Carl & BT peaking out of a bush, Nanene and Kyle shown at a table at Golden Youths)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Kris/Megazord using Legend Armour)
Poké Rangers Neo! Neo! (Rangers with Laser Sabres)
Po-ké! (Neo Garuda Megazord using Brave Bird)
Ran-gers! (Ranger teens at Golden Youths)
Neo! (All six Rangers stand before season logo, credits below read "Characters created by Psyduck Ranger – Super Jack, Cassie Chan Astro Pink, Daniel the Dragonfly, anonymous, Phoenix Espeon, and Nintendo; Everything Else by Psyduck Ranger – Super Jack")
Chapter 37; Rocket Riot
The Rocket Rangers were stood in line as Giovanni gave them another lecture after their failure. None of them were paying an attention.
Cassidy and Butch giggled on the sofa as they, along with Jessie, James and Meowth watched the punishment being dealt.
"This is inexcusable! After everything I said, you still directly disobeyed me, and allowed the Pink Ranger to carry out her own plot. Alone! Well!? Are any of you going to say anything!?" Giovanni barked.
Simultaneously, the tiniest blue spark of electricity crackled on the top right of the Rocket Rangers' visors. It was almost invisible.
"Yes. Yes I am. I'm sick and tired of listening to all the garbage you come out with, Giovanni!" Rocket Red yelled.
"I beg your pardon!? How DARE you speak to me like that!?" Giovanni screamed in horror.
"Easily. You make all of us sick. From now on, we're in charge. We're not listening to the likes of you any more!" Rocket Green argued.
"Hey, you can't talk to do Boss like dat!" Meowth cried, leaping off the sofa in his Boss' defence, "He's in charge around here, and if t woin't for him, you guys wouldn't even exist! Show a little respect, and do as he says!"
"And you can shut it as well!" Rocket Yellow cried, grabbing Meowth by the neck, and holding him up in the air. She squeezed hard, and when she finally relinquished her grip, Meowth fell to the floor in a slump, his neck half the width of what it should be.
"Meowth!" Jessie and James cried in sorrow.
"We're out of here," Rocket Blue said. Giovanni leapt at them to stop them, but they avoided him, and left down a lava hole that had been created moments before by Rocket Red.
"Why those insolent little bas-" Giovanni began, but he paused as Meowth sat up.
"Boy, dat's really a pain in da neck…and one less life, too…" he commented.
"Right…all of you, now, find them! They cannot be allowed to live! Do whatever it takes to completely destroy them! And bring me back their lava! NANBA!" he called, and his scientist entered the throne room, "You and I are to search as well, they must be eliminated at all costs! And get Hypnotinza as well! The Rocket Rangers must be ANNIHILATED!" Giovanni bellowed.
Meanwhile, at Golden Youths…
"…And then the guy said "That's no Snorlax, that's my wife,"!" Adelie cried, and the other teens shook their heads at her immaturity.
"I don't get it," Kyle said.
"Because Snorlax are fat," Adelie explained, but Kyle just blinked, "As in the guy thought the other guys wife was so fat that she was a Snorlax!"
"I don't get it," Kyle said bluntly.
"You wouldn't…" Adelie sighed.
"You wanna make something of it!?" Kyle cried.
"Ok guys, there isn't anyone here who hasn't seen your little routine a million times," Nanene said.
"Good point, where's BT at? And Donny and Carl too for that matter?" Kyle asked.
"Tell me about it! Donny's supposed to be working right now! I can't handle all this with the paperwork I've got to do too…" Jimmy sighed, trying to serve several customers at the same time.
"Doesn't Whitney handle that?" Anna asked.
"I have a pretty broad job description, ok?" Jimmy asked rhetorically, going off to serve more background characters.
"Oh yes! Top of the tables once again!" Greg cried, finishing a game of Super Jail Break 15. He even had a disturbing victory dance to go with it.
"Congratulations, I guess that means you're almost as good as me. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go to the little girls room. Come on, Adelie," Nanene said, trying to drag Adelie with her.
"What? Why, I don't need the loo," Adelie said, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Yes, but I do, and I'm a girl, march!" Nanene cried, pulling her along by the arm.
"And here I thought she was against sexism," Kris said, shaking his head.
"Anyone for more drinks?" Kyle asked, and the Rangers all nodded.
By the time he'd brought in the next round, and the girls returned from the toilets, the Rangers were nowhere to be seen, and they all frowned.
They'd left in a hurry after receiving a call from Miborg in the Sanctuary, telling them of mutant activity near the gym. They weren't to be disappointed…
On their way, however, they passed by the flat of everyone's favourite trio; Donny, Carl and BT (who had deactivated his holographic projector for comfort, it really itches).
"Now this is called a light switch. When the thingy is more near you at the top, it means the light is on-" Donny told him.
"Yeah, and trust me, you do not want to lick a light bulb when it's on!" Carl told BT seriously.
"But when it's nearer you at the bottom, it's off, so there's no light. And when you push it, the outy end switches!" Donny finished.
"Guys, we have light switches on Kaku," BT told them with a small smile.
"You do!? But then why don't you get electrolocuted by them, isn't Kaku liquidy?" Carl asked.
"Yeah, but I don't get why you're not electrocuted, tests show that gaseous oxygen conducts ecklecktricity very well…" BT stated.
"To the Internet!" Donny cried, pointing high in the air.
Meanwhile, outside the gym…
"Well, well, well if it isn't our least favourite trio plus friends," Ritchie said as the six Rangers approached Jessie, James, Meowth, and Neo Grunts.
"Prepare for trouble, but you're not in danger…"
"Make it double, we're after the Rocket Rangers!"
"Not the crummy motto again…" Rei moaned.
"Yeah, and you know, you really need to find another word that rhymes with Ranger," Kurtis informed them.
"Hold on, what's that supposed to mean!? "We're after the Rocket Rangers"!?" Greg asked.
"Dat's right! Dose slimy Wurmples betrayed da Boss!" Meowth cried.
"You're kidding?" Kris asked.
"No. And now they're out their, trying to take over the world for their own gains, and the Boss doesn't want that," Jessie said, shaking her head.
"So we need your help. We have to destroy the Rocket Rangers but we know that we couldn't ourselves," James said.
"So you want us to do it for you?" Anna asked.
"We want you to help us!" James argued.
"Or else!" Jessie said, and the Neo Grunts stepped forward, and James did a double take.
"You think you can threaten us? Like we're scared of you losers," Kris said, and the Rangers took up a fighting stance.
"Attack!" Jessie cried, pointing forward, and the Grunts ran towards the Rangers.
Without even bothering to morph, the Rangers tackled the Grunts with ease. Rei ducked a swing to her head from one, and headbutted it in the gut, catapulting it against its fellows behind it.
Anna ducked down and raised her fist, hitting each of the apparently male Grunts where it hurts, knocking them down into a pile one by one as they ran at her in line.
A large group surrounded Greg, randomly kicking and punching away, as Greg managed to crawl out through a small gap. He stood up and watched them with pity.
"Now they're weak and stupid!" he cried. He swiped his leg, knocking several of them to the floor, and the rest simply tripped over those who'd already fallen.
Kurtis and Ritchie were using ninja doppelgangers to simply overwhelm the Grunts with strength in one-on-one fights, using brute force to knock them out.
Kris had Grunts running at him from all sides. He fell to the floor, causing the Grunts to Headbutt each other, dazing themselves. Kris got back to his feet, and dealt them uppercuts, one by one.
"Oh come on, how wimpy are these things!?" Jessie gaped. She looked over at James, who appeared to be straining himself with something, and as the final Grunt fell to the floor, James let loose.
"STOP!!" he bellowed, attracting everyone's attention.
"Look, all we want is your help to defeat our mutual enemies! Why do we have to fight over that!?" he cried.
"Ha! Please. The nine of you could team up against me right now, and still I'd crush you all! In fact, you Rangers would stand a better chance without those losers!" Rocket Blue said, walking towards the group from round a corner.
"You! Now we can destroy you and get back your lava!" Meowth cried, pointing a bony claw at the mutant. Rocket Blue didn't even acknowledge his comment.
"Where are the other Rocket Rangers!?" Kris asked.
"They're taking care of the rest of their gang across the world," Blue said, pointing at the trio, "Mind you, since they knew I'd be dealing with you guys, they leant me these," he added, clicking his fingers, and the three remaining Rocket Zords (Dusknoir, Arbok, Donphan) appeared behind him.
"Not a problem! We've handled them before – when they've had two or three more in number as well – so we'll handle them now!" Ritchie called.
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Neo Access!"
"Silver Scizor power!"
"Neo Megazord: Rock 'n' Roll mode!" Kris called, as the Rangers summoned their Zords, complete with Golem.
"Ritchie, you should tackle Rocket Blue," Kris commanded, and Ritchie nodded affirmatively.
"And if you guys wanna help, then go help him!" Greg told the trio.
"We're on it!" James said, running ahead with Ritchie, and the confused pair of mutants that were Jessie and Meowth shortly ran after them.
"Bullet Punch!" Ritchie called, landing in a quick-hit on Rocket Blue, and sending him back several feet.
"Oh yeah, one nil!" Ritchie cheered.
"How'd you mean?" James asked.
"You need to learn type advantages. He has ice powers. Ice is weak against steel," Ritchie explained.
"Wrong!" Rocket Blue called, launching himself at Ritchie and tackling him to the ground, "My ice powers came from the Glalie Zord. Keep up! Without that, I'm drawing my strength from the other three. Normal damage plus our natural high defence means-OOF!" moaned the mutant, as he was lifted off Ritchie by James' Psychic.
"Maybe so, but poison type makes you weak to psychic attacks!" he yelled at Rocket Blue, before adding to Ritchie, "Who doesn't know their types?"
"James, why are we helping the Scizor twerp?" Jessie whispered angrily to James, standing right alongside him, with Meowth on the other side.
"We agreed that we'd work with the Rangers to destroy the Rocket Rangers, our common enemy…didn't we?" James asked.
"Ok…new plan! We get da Silver freak to help us take down Rocket Blue, den we take down him and steal his Zords!" Meowth cried.
"Still within ear shot," Ritchie pointed out cheerfully. Jessie and Meowth smiled nervously.
James relinquished his psychic hold on Rocket Blue, and Jessie leapt forward with Poison Tail, Meowth with his claws outstretched for Slash. However, Rocket Blue regained his composure midair, and batted them away with a spinning kick.
Ritchie returned to his feet, and summoned the Scissor Claws to attack.
Meanwhile, the Neo Megazord had to endure a constant triple barrage of attacks, such as Shadow Claw, Poison Sting, and Mud Bomb. To counter, the Octo-arm caught the Mud Bomb, and using a Water Pulse, blasted it at the Dusknoir Zord, catching it off guard and halting the attack. However, that left them open to the Poison Sting, though being such a weak attack, it did little damage.
"You know, Poison Sting really shouldn't do any damage, I mean, this thing is made of metal, you know?" Kurtis pointed out.
"Hold on tight!" Kris warned. Using the enemy Zords distraction, he quickly launched a Rollout attack, causing the entire Megazord to fold in on the Golem torso, and roll into all three of the Rocket Rangers Zords, not once, but twice each.
"Wow. It's like bowling," Rei commented nonchalantly.
"How can you think about stuff like that WHEN WE'RE ROLLING THROUGH THE AIR!?" Greg screamed.
"Whose idea was it for this thing to not have seatbelts!?" Kurtis agreed.
Dusknoir then came back with a Night Shade, giving the Rangers no vision, however, they were able to make out the Arbok Zord as it leapt at them and used Wrap. The Donphan Zord then came in with its own Rollout, which the Arbok Zord narrowly avoided.
"Giga Impact!" Anna called. The Megazord practically exploded, causing the Donphan Zord to halt its attack, and all three Zords to go flying.
Rocket Blue managed to use the temporary darkness to his advantage.
"Black Rocket, Arbo-Gun! Fire!" he called. The weapon exploded around the four opposing mutants without them even seeing it.
"Now to finish you off, once and for all!" he called, as daylight began to return. However, before he attacked, he placed his hand to his ear.
"What? No, that's impossible – but he! Very well…but I have the Scizor and – fine, I'll be there right away," he said, seemingly to no one, "Well, freaks, I hate to say it, but it looks like I've got to jet – or should that be rocket?" he asked rhetorically, before fazing out like a cheap Star Trek effect.
"That was weird – but where's he gone, what's happening?" Ritchie asked, as the other Rangers fell alongside the mutants in formation.
"Well it sounded like he was talking to someone – maybe one of the other Rocket Rangers?" James suggested.
"Ok, good call Jimbob, so what exactly did he say?" Greg asked, shocking all but James with the nickname.
"Something about being impossible and he'll be there right away," Ritchie reported.
"Ok, so that'll be where one of the other Rockets are, how do we find them?" Anna asked.
"You're the psychic one here, you must be able to trace them or something!" Rei told her.
"Not quite, now that they're sharing powers they all have the protection against the psychic type offered to them by Rocket Reds ghost powers," Kurtis pointed out.
"Even Rocket Green?" Rei asked, and Kris nodded.
"But I can track the Boss!" James pointed out. Jessie and Meowth shared a hidden grin as James closed his eyes to concentrate, "I'm getting an island…"
"There are a lot of islands in the world though…"
"…And pokémon…"
"A lot of pokémon too…"
"But no people…it's hot…blazing hot! A volcano!"
"An island volcano with lots of pokémon but no people…" Kurtis pondered.
"Cinnabar!" all six Rangers cried in unison.
"Then let's go!" James said. A vial of lava appeared in his hands, which he smashed, and the nine of them jumped in (all Rangers but Blue very reluctantly).
Moments later, Whitney walked out of the gym, noticing the damage nearby and scorch marks on the ground.
"Oh man, did I miss a rave?"
Shortly, on the deserted molten heap of Cinnabar…
"Oh come now! Surely I created you to be stronger than this! Giovanni taunted the Red Rocket Ranger.
"I can't believe he's beating me…" Red sighed quietly.
The Rangers, Jessie, James and Meowth appeared a short way up the side of the volcano, and merely watched the battle below, hidden behind rocks.
"We're here," Rocket Green said simply, as he materialised alongside his leader, along with Rockets Yellow and Blue.
"And I've destroyed that Hypno freak," Rocket Yellow reported.
"Excellent," Red praised.
"Oh, so you've called for the cavalry, eh? Fine, I can still take you all down!" Giovanni laughed, and he ran forward, "Power Gem!"
The gem on his forehead glowed, and rocks shot at all four Rocket Rangers from all directions. As they fended the rocks off, Giovanni continued his onslaught.
"Earth Power!" his attack raised the earth around the four mutants itself, and buried them. However, they merely walked right through it.
"The power of the ghost type," Rocket Blue chuckled.
"Now to take you down! After months of having to slave under you, we'll finally be free of you for good! Battlizer!" Rocket Red called, summoning his shining armour.
"Rocket Mode! Final Strike!" Rocket Red hissed. He activated the extension that previously only Kris had been able to use, and launched himself at Giovanni.
"Don't make me laugh," Giovanni said, defending himself with Protect.
"Did you really think I'd give you enough strength to defeat me, should this situation arise? It's laughable!" Giovanni hissed. As he said this, Cassidy, Butch and Nanba jumped out of two lava holes.
"Fine! If we can't defeat you, then our Zords surely can!" Rocket Blue barked, and the three Zords appeared in the same fashion as the Rocket Rangers new teleportation.
"Sir, should we-!?" Butch began.
"No, Beef. I can handle them." As he said this, Giovanni pulled out a vial of lava from his suit pocket, which he drank, growing to immense proportions.
Giovanni wiped his mouth, but didn't provide an opening for the Zords to attack. He grabbed the Arbok Zord by its tail and swung it round, knocking down the other two, and disorientating the Arbok Zord. He then let it go, throwing it onto the Dusknoir Zord.
"You call that a challenge?" bellowed Giovanni. His voice was much deeper than usual.
"Come on," Rei whispered, to Kris and Kurtis. They were puzzled at first, but then nodded in comprehension, and stood up.
"Not so fast!" Jessie cackled, also standing up, along with Meowth.
"What now?" James sighed.
"If you think you're gonna get dose Zords, you're dead wrong! Nah, scratch dat, you're dead!" Meowth told them. Anna, Greg and Ritchie stood up between them and the other Rangers, all cocking their heads to one side.
"Um…kidding! Er…April fools?" Jessie said, and Meowth chuckled nervously.
"It's May," Anna reminded them.
"Oh, er…right…gotta go!" Jessie said. She and Meowth dragged James to where Nanba, Cassidy and Butch were waiting below.
"Now to end you!" Giovanni said, reaching down to pick them up, and he began to crush them in his hand. However, Giovanni dropped them as he felt a static shock, and he saw that their entire bodies were crackling with the same blue lightning that had sparked them off before.
They crackled for a few moments, which lasted an eternity for everyone concerned. However, when all was said and done, the Rocket Rangers had been reverted to nothing but lava. Nanba quickly leapt forward and scooped it into a very large vial.
"And now the Zords are mine once more," Giovanni said, stepping forward.
"I don't think so, Giovanni!" Kris yelled, atop the Dusknoir Zord.
"I don't think so either!" Kurtis added from the Arbok Zord.
"Yay, I've finally got the Donphan Zord back!" Rei cried, lying down and hugging her Zord.
All three Zords let out their cries.
"No you don't! As if I'd let you get away with the Zords! The time has finally come for us to do battle, Poké Rangers!" Giovanni cried. However, as he said that, the volcano began to erupt! The three Rangers stood high on it quickly ran down to try and avoid it.
"Very well. There is no point in all of us burning to death. I shall spare you this time. But do not cross me again, or I will destroy you!" Giovanni yelled. Nanba splashed some lava on his foot, and on the ground, shrinking his Boss and opening a lava hole, through which they all retreated.
"Might I suggest we do the same!?" Greg cried.
"Chimecho Zord, Teleport!" Anna called. Her Zord quickly zapped them away, leaving the deserted island to burn once again.
What was the blue lightning, what did it do to the Rocket Rangers, and how and why did it occur? I'd say tune in next time, but these answers wont come until next season!
A/N: Damn that announcer who happens to be Whitney. She'll give away all my secrets eventually…secrets? What secrets? I had trouble with this chapter, what with it being almost ENTIRELY battle scenes. However, I did it, with decent length, and I think the battles are pretty good. So now all five Rocket Rangers are gone. However, take note, none of them were actually destroyed by the Rangers – they were an equal match. However, Giovanni nearly took them down…what could that mean for our heroes? Who am I, the announcer? The Rocket Rangers are to reply. See ya!