Chapter Thirty Eight. Burn Bright Ye Lonely Heart.
Previously On Poke Rangers G-Force...
Darkia and Chimzor came up with a way to utilise the powers of the Eclipse Stone, a device that could combine their powers and multiply them beyond their wildest means. This after Regli had given his ultimatum to the crew. They had three chances to destroy the rangers, or he would take matters into his own hands. Using the power, the newly evolved Dark Chimzor managed to single handedly hold his own against Crane, Duo, Mitzi, Chip and Scott without breaking a sweat. Even their zords were no match for the super powered monster. Until Paige managed to sneak down into the caves and defeated the embodiment of the Eclipse Stone, removing the powers that had been bestowed on the hapless duo. Within a few minutes, they had imploded, their scheme foiled. Meanwhile, Paige and Danni retrieved a package for Dorlinda. An envelope that contained some sort of map...
"I hate you!"
"Yeah, well that's because you're a bitch!"
"Jerk!"
"Whore!"
"Is it me?" Chip asked, sitting down in the Pokemon Centre to look over at Scott, Danni and Mitzi. "Or, is the atmosphere about to turn ugly?"
"It's probably you," Scott said, leaning back on the couch. "It's not ugly..."
"Hope you walk out of here and die! Walk into the middle of the damn road and get hit by a car!"
"Although, it's possibly uncomfortable," Danni concluded, as the arguing couple both stormed out of the Pokemon Centre through different exits.
"Wonder what caused that," Mitzi wondered.
"Here's an interesting angle," Danni offered. "What's it to do with us? Unless one of them turns out to be a genital eating monster."
At those words, both Scott and Chip shuffled in their seats uncomfortably.
"Well, aren't you full of surprises," Scott finally said.
To their surprise, as he finished speaking, there was an explosion outside the Pokemon Centre. Something that forced them to jump out of their seats.
"Well, that can't be good," Mitzi said, as they went heading for the exits.
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.
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 looks 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.
A streak of black light. Danni turns around and looks at the camera. Danielle Tanner. Black G-Force ranger. Created by Joseph Winter.
There's no height we can't reach.
The G-Force and Timestrike Megazords appear.
G-Force. G-Force!!!!!
Dorlinda shakes his head. Crane transforms into his Batillizer.
Protectors of the past and the future
The Metagross and Houndoom Zords attack
Go G-Force!!!!!"
The Transwarp Ultrazord fires its Roar of Time attack.
Poke Rangers G-Force.
Poke Rangers G-Force. Created by Blue Bongo. Verger region created by Blue Bongo. All rights reserved.
Poke Rangers Gooooooooooooo!!!!!
"Holy toledo!" Chip said, as they stepped out to see a car in flames. The man from the argument before was collapsed to his knees, laughing at the sight.
"You enjoying your trip to the 1970's?" Mitzi asked, as she reached back into the Pokemon Centre for a fire extinguisher. Tossing it over to Scott, she grabbed another one up and the two of them moved to spray water on the flames.
"Just felt like a toledo moment," Chip remarked, hearing the sirens in the distance. "Wonder why he tried to kill her."
"Psychopath, maybe?" Danni suggested. "Some people don't need a reason to act like assholes."
"The average human, no matter how much of an asshole, does not turn into a deranged killer overnight," Chip reminded her. "I smell something Corphishy about this."
It was a few hours later, and Chip was wondering why the act of brutality he had seen earlier was affecting him. Normally, he would have said that been a ranger had desensitised him to violence. Yet, this hadn't been a monster that had attacked a human, it had been human on human assault. And, he could have sworn that he had met the man in the Pokemon Centre a few days earlier while going back to his room. And, he'd seemed... Well, normal.
"Unless I'm wrong," the yellow ranger muttered, laying back on his bed. "Well, since there's no ranger business to attend to, I might as well look into it."
Getting up, he headed for the door, determined to find out what was going on.
"Who the heck are you?" the man asked, as he was escorted into the room. "You're not my lawyer."
"Apparently, I am," Chip said, leaning back in his chair. "Well, that's what I told them to get in here. Even got some genuinely fake credentials just for the job. Amazing what you can find on the internet."
"You want something in particular, or just come to gloat? Hey ho, here I am. In jail because I tried to burn someone alive by setting fire to their car."
"No offense, but that's a good reason to be in jail."
"So, you're here to gloat? You a gloater?"
"No, I'm here because I wonder why you did it," Chip replied. "I saw you a few days ago in the Pokemon Centre, and... Well, you didn't seem like the homicidal type. I'm not here to judge you, I just want to know what happened."
"You want to know what happened between me and my girlfriend?" the man asked him. "She was a pain in the ass, that's why I tried to torch her. Guess part of my knew that it would never work."
"Knew what would never work?" Chip asked.
"I only met her a few days ago," he said, leaning back in the chair. "Met her on the web."
"You met her via online dating?" Chip wondered.
"That website," he confirmed. "The new one. Lonely Hearts. Even went out to the special landmark they put up in Oldwood Town to meet her. It went great at first, had a good meal, few drinks. Some of the... Got lucky that night."
"Yeah," Chip grinned.
"That was yesterday," the prisoner confirmed. "Woke up this morning, and... Well, I just had the urge to murder her."
"That's not natural," Chip replied, disbelief in his voice. "You just rolled over and thought that it was a good idea to commit an act of murder?"
"Knew you wouldn't believe me."
"I'm not saying that I don't believe you, I just think that something doesn't seem right."
With that, the door swung open and an Officer Jenny came charging in, a shocked look on her face.
"Who are you again?" she demanded. "Tell me why there's a lawyer outside when..."
"I think I might be in the wrong place," Chip said, quickly. "I'm just an old friend. When did I say I was a lawyer?"
"So, you were cautioned by the police," Paige said, as she looked over at him. "You ever think that what you just did was a stupid thing to do?"
"Several times," Chip replied. "And, hey I took a risk."
"A dumb risk," Duo commented. "What would have happened if you'd been locked up? What were you thinking? What we have done had Regli decided to launch a full scale attack?"
"Well, I wasn't," Chip said. "And, something was bugging me."
"So, you're trying to investigate why that guy torched a car with his girlfriend in outside the Pokemon Centre?" Paige wondered. "Why?"
"I've said it before," the yellow ranger replied. "But, something really doesn't seem right in this thing. So, I looked on the internet to see what I can find."
"Go on," Duo said. "What did you get?"
"All across Verger in the last week," Chip replied. "There's been a stack of violent attacks. No link whatsoever, except that they'd all been using the same dating website. Lonely Hearts."
"So, what do you think?" Paige asked. "That can't be a coincidence."
"Now, do you understand why I took the stupid risk?" Chip asked. "Wouldn't have known about the link unless I'd done that."
"It was still a dumb thing to do," Duo told him. "But, shall we go and check that Lonely Hearts monument out?"
"Let's go," Paige said. "Take the Patrollers."
With that, the three of them got up and headed for the exit.
"Well, that's just a cliche," Duo quipped, as they arrived at the monument that Chip had been told about. It looked like a giant Luvdisc, striking a confident pose. "I hate that Pokemon. With a blinding passion."
"Why?" Chip asked. "It's just a harmless Luvdisc."
"I don't trust anything that is pink and shaped like a heart," Duo replied. "Just..."
Walking over to the statue, Paige looked back at him with a quip, as she read the plaque at the bottom of the monument.
"Here lies the supposed most romantic place in Verger," she read aloud. "In honour of that, we erect this statue of our mascot to... Be honest, Duo. The reason you're annoyed is because you're not here with Danni, isn't it?"
"How many times do I have to say it?" the blue ranger asked. "There's nothing going on between me and Danni."
"Oh, please," Chip remarked. "You could cut the tension with a knife sometimes."
"Not the only thing I'd like to cut with a knife at this moment in time," Duo muttered, darkly. "Anyway, are we meant to be searching this thing for whatever is turning people homicidal?"
With that, he picked up a chair and heaved it at the monument. A dry crack burst out as it hit the statue and created a huge gap in the middle of the structure.
"Touched a nerve," Paige commented.
"You want to start talking about private lives?" Duo shot back. "What about you and Crane?"
"What about me and Crane?" Paige asked.
"Well, there was that thing with your sister," Duo replied. "How come you asked HIM? Out of all the guys that you know."
"Because... Well, he was closest."
"Yeah, right."
As Duo strode over to look at the damage he'd caused to the monument, the three of them were surprised to see a squad of Gollins leap up from out of nowhere.
"Does this prove or disprove your theory?" Paige wondered, as the foot soldiers quickly moved to attack. And, just as quickly, the rangers went to defend themselves.
Chip lunged forward, punching one of the creatures in the face, before grabbing the stunned Gollin and spinning around to hurl it into one of its team mates. Not taking a moment to rest, he sent a back kick into the one coming up behind him. Paige jumped into the air and hit two Gollins rushing in to attack her with a split kick. With the two staggering away, she flipped over and punched another in the location where the kidneys would be on a human. Yet, the Gollin just laughed at the attack. A sound that was harshly cut off as the pink ranger whacked it in the face, sending it crashing to the ground.
Meanwhile, Duo was fighting three of them, keeping them at bay with his attacks. He hit the one closest to him with a pair of lightning fast punches, sending it staggering back. Then, he dropped down into a crouch, spinning on his standing leg to sweep his other leg underneath them and hit them down to the ground. Jumping back up, he stamped on the face of the one closest to him, before dragging his attention to the Gollin that was still standing. Still moving, he leaped out and struck the creature with a hooked kick to the stomach that sent it down to the ground.
With the Gollins defeated, their unconscious bodies vanished away, leaving the rangers alone with the monument.
"Anyway," Paige said. "Where were we?"
"Explain this plan to me again."
Hearing the command from her boss, Pura looked up at Regli with a smirk.
"Well," she said. "I had Jirona create the perfect monster. Discotech. Even now, she's rustling around on the Internet, enticing gullible humans to use her website. Then, using her attraction gathering device..."
"You couldn't think of a better name for it than that?" Chimzor asked, rhetorically. He was sprawled out on the couch, rubbing an ice pack against his burns. They still remained from the previous battle with the rangers. Darkia hadn't been seen for a while, having spent the last week or so complaining of migraines and partial blindness. Neither had take the side effects of being seperated from the Eclipse Stone well.
In response to his joke, Pura brought her tail up in her paws, and snapped it against his burnt body. Something that forced him to leap up and scream in pain.
"Anyway," she continued. "Using her attraction gathering device, she steals any semblance of love from the two humans, replacing it with hate. Soon, they're at each others throats and we've got chaos on our hands."
"So, unlike the pathetic first chance that you all had," Regli remarked, looking over at Chimzor with barely concealed venom. "This one actually sounds like it might work."
He couldn't help but snort as he walked away.
"Eclipse Stone, what a joke."
"There appears to be some sort of machine in here," Duo reported, looking at the crack in the middle of the Luvdisc monument. "Although, I don't quite know what it is."
"Why would there be a machine in a statue?" Chip wondered. "Does it look like..."
Before he could finish speaking, Paige brought up a hand and traced her fingers across the eyes of the Luvdisc.
"Think it might be a camera," she said. "The eyes act as a lens. Can you see a film in there?"
"Yeah..." the blue ranger replied, dolefully. "Think it recorded me hurling the chair at it?"
"Probably," Chip told him.
Whistling casually, Duo reached down in and started to pull the film out and expose it to the light.
"What isn't known won't hurt anyone," he said. "So, what now? We find where the Lonely Hearts website is based and pay them a visit."
"Sounds like a plan," Paige replied. "How are you intending to do that?"
"Personally, I'm not," Duo told her. "It's nearly impossible to find that out. You'd have to be a supremely good hacker to do it. Which is why we're going to find one."
"How about seeing if Dorlinda can do it?" Chip said. "I mean..."
"That's probably the best course of action," Paige muttered.
"Okay, so what's the problem?" Dorlinda asked, looking around at the three rangers that appeared in the Time Hole. "What do you need from me?"
"Can't we just swing by and say hello?" Duo quipped. "You miss us, man? And, who says that we need something?"
"You do though," the Lord of Time replied. "Don't you?"
"Yeah..." a deflated Duo said. "We need to find the source location of a website."
"Well, that's an unusual request," Dorlinda said, surprised. "Why?"
"We think that a monster might be using a dating website to cause chaos," Chip told him. "And doing a pretty good job of it."
"I'll see what I can do," the Lord of Time said, striding over to the computer and typing in a few commands. "What's the name of this website?"
"Lonely Hearts," Paige told him. More tapping resumed.
"So, we do what in the mean time?" Duo wondered. "Go and forget about it until you call?"
"If you want to," Dorlinda replied. "Although..."
His screen beeped.
"We have a match."
"That was quick," Chip said, surprised.
"This isn't just one of your primitive twenty first century super computers," Dorlinda replied, with a sniff. "This is a fortieth century super computer. After a combination of a certain pink impostor and a power overload trashed my other one. I took a little jaunt over there and picked one up."
"So, it works faster than the speed of light?" Duo wondered. "That's jus fantastic. You ever play internet poker on it?"
"How do you think I furnished this place?" Dorlinda asked. "Combination of internet poker, Pokebay, theft from the future and also the odd favour for someone."
"Well, I think we just got a window into your life," Paige quipped. "So, where do we go?"
"Warehouse in downtown Red Moon City," he told her. "I'll try and rustle up some support for you. See who I can get. Bye bye."
With that, he activated the transporter to send them teleporting down to the coordinates.
"Couldn't find Crane, huh?" Duo asked, as the three of them saw Mitzi, Scott and Danni appear in beams of green, silver and black light.
"Nah, just us," Scott replied. "Why, you miss him?"
"He's off the radar," Mitzi said. "Probably going through a tunnel or something."
"So, let's get in there and see what we can find," Chip remarked, looking up at the huge warehouse.
With that, the six rangers moved through the door, entering the building.
"This place is pretty empty," Paige commented, as they headed for the stairs heading towards the upper level. "Maybe it's just a... Front for something."
Indeed, as she had said, the lower floor of the warehouse was completely empty. With just a few empty crates scattered around and a strange smell emerging from one of the corners.
"Let's see what's upstairs," Danni told her.
While walking up to the next level, the six rangers heard a laugh. A dry sinister exclamation of glee.
"That can't be good," Duo said, as they started to run.
"Precious precious precious!" the monster laughed, before turning to see the six rangers charge into view. "Oh, I wondered how long it would take you to find me here."
"Not another one," Duo groaned. "I really hate that thing."
He could see that the monster was a giant Luvdisc with a pair of Metagross-like legs and arms. She was wearing a pair of shades and had the hair and hands of a Jynx. Behind her, there was a laptop which was currently open. Across one of her eyes, she held some sort of mechanical device which was blinking with a red light.
"That is one fugly creature," Scott commented. "And, it's up against some pretty stiff competition."
"Hey!" the monster complained. "Like you're so perfect. So full of... Love?"
"Huh?"
"Taste the Discotech beam!" she shouted, blasting both Scott and Mitzi with a strange orb of shimmering blue water. An attack that raked across them.
"What the...?" Mitzi exclaimed, spluttering.
While the green and silver rangers tried to recover from being doused with stagnant water, the others moved to attack. Duo charging over to hit Discotech with a flying kick, only for the monster to grab his ankle and twist him down to the ground.
Before Chip, Danni and Paige could move in to attack, the monster backed off, holding them back with a Psychic attack.
"I don't have time for this," she said, nervously grabbing up her laptop. "Later rangers."
With those words, she vanished away into nothing. Leaving six very confused Poke Rangers.
"Well, that was interesting," Paige said, as Duo picked himself up. "You guys okay?"
"Fine," Mitzi replied. "Just wet."
"What was that all about?" Scott wondered. "Soak us wet and annoy us?"
"Maybe it failed," Danni said. "Maybe it was meant to explode, but didn't."
"Now, we just need to wait until she shows up again," Chip said, doefully. "Damnit, we should have stopped her this time."
"Let's just get out of here and try again tomorrow," Duo remarked. "She won't hide for long."
As they headed for the exit, Scott reached up and rubbed his eyes. Groaning as he did so.
"Damn, whatever was in that water smarts," he said. "Think I'm going to hit the sack and..."
"It's three thirty in the afternoon," Paige told him.
"So, a monster's using the Internet to..." Crane started to ask, surprised at what he'd just been told by his friends. Chip, Duo and Paige were sat across from him, all drinking various beverages from the bar. After the attack from Discotech, Duo was sporting a bruise under his right eye from where he'd hit the ground.
"Yeah," Chip replied. "Strange huh. We cornered the thing in a warehouse, but she vanished pretty quickly. Zapped Mitzi and Scott with some sort of attack, threw Duo into the ground and then vanished."
"I take it that's where the..." Crane started to say, looking over at the blue ranger and pointing at the bruise.
"No, I walked into a door," Duo replied, sarcastically. "Repeatedly."
"Sorry I asked," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "So, what happened after that?"
"Well, Scott went home complaining of headaches," Paige reported. "And, shortly after, Mitz did the same."
"And, that doesn't strike you as odd?" Crane asked.
"Actually, now you mention it..."
"I HATE YOU!"
With that scream from outside, something came crashing through one of the Pokemon Centre windows, startling everyone inside. Something that the rangers recognised to be a familiar figure.
"What the cake!?" Chip exclaimed, as the groaning figure sat up to brush glass out of his hair.
"I'm going to rip your face off!" he yelled, jumping back to his feet and heading for the door.
"Oh crap," Duo said. "It happened to Scott."
"And Mitz," Paige groaned, as the four rangers got to their feet and headed outside.
"This isn't going to end well, man," Chip commented, as they saw the two unmorphed rangers fighting in the grassy area outside the Pokemon Centre. Fortunately, with it being early morning, not many people were around. "What if they morph to try and..."
"They're not thinking straight," Crane said. "We need to get them out of here right now. As far away from each other as possible."
"So, what's your plan?" Paige asked. "Or, are you making it up as you go along?"
"I only do that half the time," Crane told her. "But, I've got one now."
"So, let's hear it."
As he punched Mitzi in the face, Scott thought he heard the sound of motorcycle engines. Making his mind up to ignore it, he brought his boot up to kick her and...
... Was promptly grabbed at the collar of his jacket by someone that he couldn't see. Looking around, he could see a morphed Paige streak past and grab Mitzi at the same time. Her Patroller let out a roar, before heading off into the distance. Craning his head around, he could see that a morphed Duo had done the same thing to him and they were now heading in the opposite direction from Mitzi and Paige.
"You'll pay for this, Duo," he shouted, angrily.
"So, that was the big plan?" Chip asked, incredulously. "Daylight kidnapping."
"Hey, it worked," Crane said. "Come on. Let's get over to the Time Hole and see if Dorlinda's managed to get a trace on the monster."
"But, what about those two?" Chip wondered, looking over to where Paige and Duo had vanished away into the distance. "What if Scott or Mitzi break free and try to get back at each other."
"Cross that bridge when we get to it," Crane said, as the two of them teleported away in streaks of red and yellow.
When they arrived at the Time Hole, they found Danni already there pacing up and down, while Dorlinda worked away at the consoles.
"You got anything?" Chip asked. "Anything that might lead us to the big bad?"
"Hello Dorlinda, glad to see you Dorlinda, it's a beautiful day Dorlinda," the Lord of Time said, sarcastically. "Oh Dorlinda, that's a nasty limp you're sporting. Oh Dorlinda, is that a new shirt you're wearing?"
"So, not much luck then," Danni summarised.
"I'm currently tracing the signal location that I used to track her before," Dorlinda said. "But, it's bouncing all over the place. Not staying in one location long enough for me to lock on."
"Well, that's just inconsiderate," Crane muttered. "What about our other problem? In that Mitzi and Scott want to kill each other?"
"I think you probably handled that as best you could," Dorlinda said. "But, it does leave us underpowered."
After yelling at Duo to let him go several times and being ignored the same number of occasions, Scott finally decided to take matters into his own hands. Gritting his teeth together, he kicked out towards the rear wheel of Duo's Patroller, wincing as his boot met with the moving wheel. The Patroller jerked slightly to the side, causing Duo to yell in surprise. Drawing his breath again, he struck out again and this time sent the bike skidding out off the road.
Trying to ignore the pain, and glad that he hadn't died, Scott jumped up to see where Duo was. The blue ranger was picking himself up, but a few feet away from him.
"Guess you came out of it better than I did," Scott said, angrily wiping a trickle of blood away from the side of his mouth.
"Scott, we don't have to..."
"Psychic source... Steel Force!"
With the combination of his vocal command and using his morpher, Scott transformed into his silver ranger armour.
"Relax, Duo," he replied, angrily. "My quarrel isn't with you. Rather with someone else."
He brought his morpher up to his mouth.
"Metagross Zord, arise!"
"Err... Guys!"
Duo's voice came through the console, alerting everyone within the Time Hole.
"We might have a problem," the blue ranger told them. "Scott forced me off road. He morphed and called on the Metagross. He's just gone chasing after the two of them. I would follow, but my Patroller is trashed."
"It never rains, huh?" Danni said. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good," he said. "Suit took most of the damage. It's better than the standard gear for motorbike riding."
"Well, that's good to know," Chip muttered, sarcastically.
"Somebody better get in touch with Paige," Crane said, walking over to the communication console.
"Crane, you better see this."
"Hey, let me go!" Mitzi yelled. "I want to claw his eyes out and..."
"Sure you do," Paige shouted back. "I'm only saving you from yourself, Mitz. You and Scott!"
"I hope Scott chokes on his own saliva. Hope that..."
"Yeah yeah," the pink ranger said, before seeing a shadow on the ground. One that was getting bigger as it fell towards her Patroller. "Hey, what the heck is...?"
Too late, she saw the sight of one of the Metagross Zord legs falling down across towards her.
"Uh oh."
Bowing her head in, preparing to feel it all end, Paige knew that she'd failed.
Yet, the next thing she knew, the sound of the leg hitting the ground rang out. And she and Mitzi were a few feet away from the edge of the silver limb. Behind them, wearing his batillizer armour, was Crane.
"Nick of time kinda guy," he replied. "You're both welcome."
"Thought I was done for," Paige said, as he let both of them go. "Too bad about my Patroller though."
"Your Patroller?" Crane asked. "Hey, I wasn't about to..."
"No, thanks for doing it," she replied. "What about him?"
Her question was directed at the sight of the Metagross Zord that was turning around to flatten them as they spoke.
"Overheat Cannon, fire!"
Crane yelled out the command, the white hot flames bursting out to crash into the face of the mechanical Metagross. Both Paige and Mitzi let out a sigh of relief as the attack managed to send it crashing back.
"Okay," Mitzi said, seeing the Dialga Carrier roll into view, the zords belonging to Duo and Chip already appearing. "Now, I'm going to finish him off."
"No, wait!" Crane shouted, before watching her vanish away into the cockpit of the Breloom Time Battler.
"This is fantastic!" Regli exclaimed, as he watched the Breloom Time Battler and the Metagross Zord square off against each other. "They'll destroy each other."
"But, just to be sure, we should send Discotech back down to help finish them off," Nocto suggested. "With those two zords fighting each other, and the monster, they'll be overwhelmed completely. They'll try to save their friends and end up dead themselves."
"I don't think that's a good plan," Regli said, dryly. "I think that's a bloody fantastic plan. Nocto, you and Discotech get down there right now."
"Zen Headbutt!"
At Scott's command, the Metagross Zord leaped forward to smack into the Breloom Time Battler. If it had connected, then the other robot would have surely gone down in a heap.
Only for the Houndoom Zord in Battle Mode to lumber in and take the blow. The psychic effects didn't harm the dark type machine, but the physcial attack was enough to send it crashing back into the Breloom.
"Stop interfering!" Mitzi yelled. "Let me at him!"
"Yeah, like that's going to happen," Crane said, as he brought the Infernape Time Battler over to try and stop the Metagross Zord. "Flamethrower!"
The jaws of the ape-like machine coughed up a blast of fire from deep within its body, covering the silver zord in flames.
"Hey, don't make this personal, Crane," Scott shouted. "Because, I really don't want to attack the rest of you."
The Poliwrath and Hariyama Time Battlers stepped in front of the Metagross Zord, blocking its way through to the Breloom. The Houndoom Zord was still holding it back, with the aid of the Gallade Time Battler.
"As long as it's five against two, we should have a reasonable chance," Duo said.
"Hey, rangers!"
As Discotech lumbered onto the scene, the Gallade looked over to the Poliwrath, Paige holding an expression of disgust under her helmet.
"You had to say it, didn't you?" she asked.
"Okay, folks," Crane said. "Change of plan. Danni and Duo, try and take down Discotech. Paige, you try and stop Mitzi. Chip, we're going to see if we can stop Scott from doing something he might regret."
"There's no regret when the love is gone," Discotech trilled.
"Okay, attack now!"
At Crane's command, the zords moved in to attack. The Gallade and the Breloom started to punch each other, the Breloom launching several punches per second. All of which were easily taken by the Gallade, who struck back with a Psycho Cut and sent it crashing back.
"Come on, Mitz!" Paige shouted. "Snap out of it!"
"Never!"
Meanwhile, the Poliwrath and the Houndoom made to attack Discotech. Using a cunning strategy where the Houndoom Zord would face against any psychic type attacks thrown at them, and the Poliwrath Time Battler would deal with any water type attacks.
Just as the monster was getting frustrated, Danni drove the Houndoom Zord forward and hit Discotech with a Dark Bomb attack, sending her crashing back with the super effective move.
Having slightly less luck, were Crane and Chip. Despite getting their blows in; the Hariyama with an Arm Thrust, the Infernape with another Flamethrower, Scott struck back, hitting them both with Psybeam attacks.
"Dorlinda, can you see any way that we can stop this?" Crane asked, guiding his zord back to its feet. "It's tricky to deal with three of them at the same time."
"Actually, I'm scanning the monster as we speak," the Lord of Time replied. "And, I think I might have a way to deal with this problem?"
"We're all listening," Paige replied, as the Breloom Time Battler hit her with a Seed Bomb. "Because, this is going to turn nasty really quickly."
"Okay, you see that device over her eye?" Dorlinda asked. "Getting some funky readings from that, my rangers. Think it might be the source of her power."
"Alright then," Danni said. "Let's do this."
"Just needs the right amount of power to deal with it," Duo said. "So..."
Crane spun the Infernape Time Battler around, and sent a Mach Punch whacking into the Metagross Zord. With a groan, the machine went crashing down to the ground.
"Won't keep me down for long," Scott snarled. "And, I'm going to crush each part of your zord into separate pieces of scrap."
"Oh shut up," Chip muttered. "Somebody smash that thing over her eye and we can all go home."
"Might not be that simple," Duo said. "But, I'll oblige. Waterfall!"
A mystical veil of water appearing out of nowhere in front of the Poliwrath. Within seconds, the blue zord lunged up the side of it and punched Discotech in the eye, instantly smashing the strange piece of metal that had been there.
And, as the monster let out a scream, Scott and Mitzi stopped trying to kill each other. Their zords both stood down from attacking.
"You guys back?" Danni asked, backing away.
"Well, can't speak for Scott," Mitzi said. "But, I've still got the urge to kill something. Mainly that monster."
"It's all yours," Duo replied. "Go nuts, you need us, we'll be bowling."
"You're going down, Discotech!" Scott shouted.
"Seed Bomb!" Mitzi yelled.
From the mouth of the Breloom Time Battler, the attack burst out and struck Discotech in the face. Forcing her to shriek in pain.
"Close Combat!" she continued.
Continuing its assault, the Breloom sprang forward and landed several powerful strikes into the monster. Still, she yelled in agony, her pain not letting up.
"After you, Scott," Mitzi said. "Finish the bitch off."
"No!" Discotech screamed. "Wait! Please!"
"You've sent out your last e-mail," Scott quipped. "Hyper Beam!"
The jaws of the Metagross Zord dropped open, forcing out the powerful orange beam. Upon hitting Discotech, the monster instantly exploded into thousands of pieces, leaving the rangers triumphant.
"Thank Arceus that's over," Chip said.
"You're telling me," Mitzi replied.
"Everyone okay?" Crane asked, from the cockpit of the Infernape Time Battler.
"Well, I feel like a fool," Scott offered.
"Does anyone else want to tell him?" Duo quipped.
"So, you're over the homicidal tendencies?" Duo quipped, looking over at the two rangers. "Just checking, because I might want to get out of here if you aren't."
"Completely over it," Scott said. "I'm in such a better mood now. Now, I'm not thinking about violence."
"I feel slightly bad now that we got off lightly and everyone else who was affected by Discotech didn't," Mitzi remarked.
"At least nobody else won't be hurt," Chip said. "Suppose we can be thankful of that."
"Yeah..."
Author's Notes.
Well... I hope you liked that.
Actually, I enjoyed writing this one.
Thanks for the reviews. All appreciado.
Honestly, I couldn't think of a better name for the monster.
I'll try to update soon. If the bloody site will let me.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
That next chapter will be a crossover, with one of my other stories, entitled The Hero Of Gaitham. Part One.
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