In his secret chamber, Algrin was overseeing his secret project with the Fusionlizer. The plan was to take the cells of the dead Queen Uuhcura and transplant them onto another, living body. This would theoretically create a monster with all of the Queen's strengths, but with none of her personality, resulting in a mindless beast to boss around. When the human with the perfect DNA appeared on his lap, he had decided to use that as the receiver in the transfer. However, the result was a half-human monstrosity, that seemed to have trouble moving one half of itself. "It seems that the human body cannot support the cells of the Queen in their current state.", he noted. "Perhaps if I were to transfer some living cells from her species, the fusion process could be stabilised. If only I knew where Tann was, so I could use him."

Outside the chamber, Fwelf walked by He was still annoyed that Galvahex had managed to outsmart him by erasing the evidence of his duplicity. This had left the dwarf looking for a way to get evidence the robot couldn't dispose of. So he was going to recover the time machine the human had come with. If he could get it to work, he could hop back to earlier and record the robot's betrayal personally. But when he got to the storage room, the machine was gone.

Down on Earth, Mark and Carrie were in the air base's sickbay, tending to the unconscious Mary. "Is she going to be alright?", Mark asked.

"It's difficult to say at the moment.", Carrie said in response. "She's suffered a lot of exposure to the elements and it makes her chances of recovery much slimmer than they would normally be. We're lucky we got to her before she succumbed completely." She saw that she was doing nothing to reassure her friend, who looked even more down than before. "Hey, come on. Cheer up.", she said, putting her hand on his shoulder. "Focus on the positive. Mary is alive."

"So is Tann.", Mark replied. "After all, if she got out, then what's to say he didn't?"

Before they could continue their conversation, both received a buzz on their communicators. Both answered to see Gordon on he other end. "Everyone, please meet me at the hotel meeting room in 20 minutes. I've got something urgent to share with you."

"Guess duty calls.", Mark said as he and Carrie made their way out of the room, leaving the patient on her own. As such, neither noticed her hand twitching slightly.

In an alleyway within Winter Valley, Tann staggered forward and learnt against the wall. "I've lost everything.", he said to himself. "My servants, my sister, my empire. It's all the Rangers' fault." He then pulled out the remains of Uuhcura's sapphire, which he had pocketed a while ago. "It's time I did something to fix that."

In the hotel, now abandoned by guests and staff since the Orpheus incident, the 5 Rangers and 4 support crew members gathered along with the woman they knew as June Gordon. "Okay, Gordon. What's so important that you needed to call us out here?", Wayne asked.

"As a matter of fact, I wanted to discuss the future.", was Gordon's answer. "Thanks to our recent defeat of Orpheus, we have managed to recover our lost support crew from enemy captivity. In addition, one of their leaders has been removed from the equation following that battle, thanks to the Rangers."

"This is the part where she gives us the bad news.", Lulu commented.

Sure enough, no-one was prepared for what was said next. "So it is with full confidence in your abilities that I announce both my resignation as head of Project: Jetman and my intention to depart shortly."

"What, you're leaving?", Steven asked, with some concern. Which the other Rangers knew made some sense, as she was one of his oldest confidants and possibly his best chance at returning to his own era. "But the Dominion…"

"… is in tatters.", Gordon finished. "They have nothing resembling a succession left after the loss of Tann. So while you can clean up what's left of their earth operation, myself and the Avions will go into space and wipe out their individual outposts one-by-one."

Ratcliffe could see that van Lyden and Lefee were confused by this. "Basically, she's been an alien living on Earth all along.", he clarified for them.

The Rangers in general we're still broken down over this news, but Mark composed himself. "When will you be leaving?", he asked.

"In a couple of days.", came the answer. "Gliderak and Aluze need time to work on our ship. We're salvaging parts from my old ship and mixing them with leftover components from the Falcon Corde and orders from NASA. Speaking of which." Gordon then went over to Wayne and gave him a component. "This is the spare warp drive from my ship. It's what sent Steven - Marvin - 22 years into the future."

"I get your idea.", Wayne told her. Then the alarm began to sound. "What's that old saying? No peace for the wicked?"

Caldwell went over to a console. "We've got trouble. An energy surge has been detected at the harbour warehouse district."

"Well, what're we waiting for?", Mark asked. "Let's get over there."

Some time later, the Rangers descended towards the docks, fully morphed. "Okay, everyone. Be on your guard.", Mark instructed. "We don't know what we might run into. Be ready for anything."

While they were searching, they came across an irate sailor. "Where the heck is everyone? Is it too much to ask for some decent help around here?"

"I'm sorry, Mark.", Lulu said. "I tried, but I wasn't ready for that."

Carrie went up to the man. "Sir, this city is currently a quarantined area. You shouldn't have come ashore here.", she explained.

"I needed to refuel me boat.", the sailor said in response. "I need t' be gettin' me supply of liquor and cigarettes to New York. Now are ye gonna be helpin' me or not?"

Before the conversation could continue, which probably wouldn't have ended in the sailor deciding to leave, something burst forward from behind the nearby barrels, resembling a humanoid snake. Most of the people there didn't recognise it, but Mark did. "Equiptile! I thought I beat you once."

Equiptile ran forward and grabbed the sailor, latching onto him and taking control of his body. He then picked up a stick and transfigured it into a sword, running forward with it. Equiptile then used his sword to slash at the 5 Rangers, knocking them over. He then turned and ran off.

"So, you've already beaten this guy?", Wayne said to Mark. "How did you do it?"

"Follow me and I'll show you.", came the answer, as the 5 set off running after the revived alien.

In the city, Tann growled at his fragmented sapphire. "This one doesn't have enough chaos phantom energy within itself. I need more." And so, he began chanting again.

In a quarry, the Rangers had caught up with Equiptile, who had summoned a group of Bio-Roids. Wayne took out a few with his Wing Saber, while Carrie did likewise with her Beak Blaster. Lulu flew through some of them, while Steven used one of the Bio-Roids as a projectile to knock a few more down.

"Good work team.", Mark said after all the Bio-Roids had been taken out. "Now we just need to free that sailor and take out Equiptile. Aim for his back. It's where his weak point is."

"Got it.", Carrie said, aiming her AviAttacker. She set it to aim for the alien's back and fired, disorientating Equiptile so the sailor was free. "That's phase one over and done with, now what?"

"We call in the big guns.", Mark replied. "Rover Launcher!"

Cannon Mode! Maximum Firebird Impact!

The blast hit Equiptile, destroying him once more. Only instead of an explosion, a whiff of black smoke was what emanated from where the alien had stood. "That's a new one.", Steven commented.

Before anyone could question it further, they received another call on their communicators. It was from van Lyden. "Rangers, we've picked up two more signals in different areas. You should split up and go to these two sets of co-ordinates. The co-ordinates flashed onto the Ranger's visors, as the call ended."

"Okay, team. We have a mission.", Mark said. "Lulu and Steven will handle the first location's monster, while Wayne and Carrie handle the second one."

Steven was confused. "Aren't you coming?", he asked.

"I've got something I need to check out.", was the response. "So let's split up ga…"

"Don't you even dare to try and finish that sentence, Goodman.", Wayne interrupted. Then he and Carrie set off for their location, while Lulu and Steven went to theirs.

Mark was now alone. "Something's causing these signals to pop up.", he thought. Then he brought up a map on his read outs, with the three locations marked. "I just need to triangulate where it is."

At the first location, Steven and Lulu came face-to-mandibles with their opponent. "Cannant!", Lulu said. "I thought we got rid of this guy."

"We'll just have to do it again.", Steven assured her, charging in with his Sky Enforcer. Lulu sighed in acceptance and joined him, brandishing her Wing Saber. During the ensuing fight, Cannant barely tried to defend himself, or fight back. Eventually, when Lulu slashed him hard enough, the alien exploded into the same black mist as Equiptile, which now enveloped the two Rangers. When it cleared, they were now laughing evilly.

And in the second location, Wayne and Carrie met their opponent, the Hybrasect that the former had dubbed Kurorg. "What is this, returning villains week?", Carrie asked, annoyed by the situation.

"I hope not.", Wayne said back to her. He leapt forward and began slashing at the Hybrasect. "I hate reruns.", he said as he stabbed Kurorg. However, like Cannant with the other two, Kurorg exploded into black mist, which enveloped Wayne and reached to affect Carrie as well.

In the city, Mark had managed to triangulate the source of the energy and travelled to that location. "Well, I knew you were still out there, Tann. I just knew it."

Tann smiled at being uncovered. "Well, well. Mark Goodman. How fortuitous for me that you, the source of all my troubles, were the one to find me. By the way, how is your little girlfriend? Still reeling from what I did to her?"

Mark was angered by this. "This ends here, Tann. You have no superiors, no inferiors, no powers and any reinforcements you could muster up don't even know you're alive. Why not just face it? You're finished."

"I am still Tann! Conqueror of 39 worlds.", was the deposed overlord's response. "I will not allow myself to rest until I have repaid you for the loss of my soldiers." He pulled up his arm, as if to check a watch. "And your wrong. I do have some reinforcements coming in any minute now."

"What're you talking about?", Mark asked. Before he could get an answer, the other 4 Rangers flew down from the sky. However, instead of greeting him, they all drew their Beak Blasters and fired at him. "Some greeting.", Mark commented, as he picked himself up."

"Those phantom soldiers I summoned were merely phase one of my plan.", Tann stated, as he laughed evilly. "My real intention was to fill all of your friends with Chaos Phantom Energy, transforming them into my allies. Like I said, you took my soldiers from me, Mark Goodman. I am merely returning the favour."

"So you've done something to their brains.", Mark stated. "One of your monsters already tried this one a while ago. I just have to get them to detransform and then morph again."

Wayne slashed at him before he could do anything. "Too bad you're not going to get that chance, Goodman. Because I'm about to finish you here and now."

Lulu pushed Wayne aside. "Out of the way. If anyone's going to kill Mark, then it'll be me. Then maybe I'll be in charge of this team."

"You?", Steven said as he butted in. "Don't make me laugh, short fry."

"They can't agree with each other anymore.", Mark thought to himself. "Tann's brainwashing worked too well. I've got something of a reprieve, it seems."

As he thought this, he was attacked by Carrie. "Don't think because the other 3 are hesitating that I'll do likewise.", she said. "I never hesitate."

"That's a good thing.", Mark said. "Because neither do I." He summoned his Sky Enforcer and ran towards her, with the White Ranger doing the same.

Onboard the ship, Galvahex detected the battle on the scanner. "Lord Algrin, I think you should observe this."

Algrin emerged from his chambers, in a huff. "What is it, robot? I'm in the middle of an experiment."

"It seems that the Ranger team are fighting among themselves.", Galvahex said in response. "It also seems that the late Emperor Tann is actually still very much early."

"What?", Algrin blurted out as he looked at the screen. Sure enough, Tann was standing there, clutching his right hand. Algrin's attitude improved. "I have a special place for the Emperor in my project. Go down and collect him."

"I have a better idea.", Galvahex replied. "I have something I'd like to try out." Something stepped out of the shadows, astonishing Algrin.

Down in the city, Mark had been downed by all 4 of his teammates. "Do you think I might get a last-minute rescue?", he asked.

"Oh I think you might just get one.", Carrie replied. Then she turned around and fired on the brainwashed Rangers. "In fact, I'm sure you might."

Tann was furious. "What? But how? You should've been totally within my power."

"Too bad your little gas attack barely touched me.", Carrie answered him. "My friend Wayne took the brunt of it, while I just played along."

"It doesn't matter how many of you are unaffected.", Wayne said, brandishing his sword. "Because we're still the greater force by sheer numbers."

"Can you buy me some time?", Mark asked Carrie. "I only need a few minutes."

"I can give you about 2.", was Carrie's answer. She then engaged the brainwashed Lulu and Steven, countering and defending from both their blows.

"Wayne then swung his Wong Saber at Mark, who blocked with his own. "It doesn't matter what plan you're trying to pull off, Goodman.", the now-evil Black Ranger gloated. "We'll defeat you before you can begin it."

"I don't need to defeat you to carry out this plan, Wayne.", Mark told him. "All I need is time." He summoned up his communicator. "Connect to central computer. Command function override, code 10."

"Override accepted.", a computerised voice on the other end.

Wayne realised what Mark was trying to do. "Wait, what are you -?"

"Computer, disable Black, Yellow and Blue power chips. Command code zero zero zero disable B Y Bl(pronounced like bell), zero!"

"Command accepted.", the voice on the other end stated. "B Y Bl chips now disabled."

Before Wayne, Steven or Lulu could react, they were overcome with a mild shock. The chips within their communicators flew out, reverting them to their human forms. Mark grabbed Wayne's chip, while Carrie grabbed the other two. "If you want these back, you'll have to beat me first.", she gloated before running off, with her two pursuers.

Wayne merely smiled creepily. "I know what you're trying to do. You want me to take the chip back so I can regain my Ranger powers, but the shock of morphing again will revert my mind to its normal state. I was there when Lulu got affected by Crystallia too."

"Well then.", Mark said, demorphing himself. "Looks like you and I are going to have to settle this the old fashioned way."

Across the city, Steven and Lulu were still fighting against Carrie, who held a clear upper hand against them. WhenLulu tried charging forward, Carrie merely grabbed her by the hood of her jacket and flung her. "Haven't you learned anything kiddo?", Carrie said. "You might be good, but I'm still better."

As she finished talking, she was grabbed from behind by Steven. "Now, Lulu. Grab the chips."

"You're not the boss of me.", Lulu said, despite opening up Carrie's hand anyway. However, what she saw was not what she wanted. "Only my chip's here. I guess I'll have to beat the location of the other one out of her." She put her chip back into her communicator and morphed. "Let's Fly!" As before the shock of morphing returned her mind to normal. "What? Where am I?"

Before Steven could react, Carrie fought herself free and overpowered her friend. "Okay Lulu, I'm gonna need you to demorph."

"What? Why?"

"I hid the yellow power chip in your hood.", Carrie clarified. "You're gonna need to demorph if we're to bring him back to normal."

Back on the other end of the street, Mark and Wayne's fistfight continued, with neither showing signs of abating. "Come on, Wayne. You don't really want to do this.", Mark said, hoping to calm his friend down. "Do you really hate me?"

"Believe me, it's incredibly easy for me to loathe you.", Wayne said in response. "You caused me to get kicked out of the military,"

"You did that to yourself.", Mark pointed out.

Wayne ignored him. "Plus you're Mr. Big shot-Gordon's-personal-favourite-among-us. Since she picked you out all those years ago, you've basically been her golden child, fighting to get the bad aliens off this planet. And you never questioned her until Avior pointed out the holes in her story. I bet she'll have no trouble making you her successor when she leaves."

Mark immediately stopped fighting when he hear this. His voice also lost all emotion. "Truth be told, Wayne. Given the choice, I'd rather have never gotten involved with Gordon. All I want is my normal life back."

"Tough, since I'm about to make sure you don't get any type of life after this."

But before Wayne could finish his opponent off, he was knocked backwards by a flying kick from Lulu. "How was that, coach?"

"Not bad, but your timing was slightly off.", Carrie replied, accompanied by a now un-brainwashed Steven. "Now we just need to hold him down long enough for his chip to be reinserted."

"I think I can do that.", Steven nodded as he went to hold down the legs.

Mark took the opportunity, running forward to put the chip back in its place. He then reached for the Change Bracelet, pressing that as well. With a flash, Wayne was now morphed once again, with his conscience restored. "What happened?", he asked.

"Tann forced you to fight me, but I freed you.", was Mark's answer. "Speaking of which."

Tann came lumbering forward. "Noooo! This shouldn't be. This was supposed to be my victory."

"Anyone else getting tired of this guy?", Mark asked. He and the others all morphed, with his arm pulled up with the communicator on it. "Rover Launcher!"

Cannon Mode! Red Black Yellow White Blue Charge! All Charge, Combine! Maximum Firebird Bombardment!

As the blast flew forward, Tann felt everything around him stop. At first he felt relieved, until he heard the sound of clanking metal footsteps coming forwards.

As the smoke cleared, the Rangers were all shocked to see Algrin standing there in his Berserker Mode. "I'd like to thank you, Rangers.", he said with a much deeper voice than usual. "You've helps me deal with my last obstacle to ultimate power."

"You mean thanks to us, this guy is the new leader of the Dominion?", Lulu asked as she indicated Algrin. "Way to make me feel bad about winning."

Algrin then blasted the 5 with lightning from his hand, before vanishing into thin air.

Sometime later, Tann woke up to find himself in a clear glass capsule. "Where am I?", he demanded to know. "Whoever is foolish enough to contain me will pay with his life." He reached for his gauntlet arm, only to find the gauntlet had been removed, leaving him with a scarred hand.

Algrin stepped forward, still in his Berserker Mode. "I should thank you, my Emperor. Thanks to you, I've been able to complete an experiment. As to what the experiment is, well just look in the capsule opposite you." Tann looked to see the dead body of his sister Uuhcura. "Ah yes, I neglected to tell you that while the Rangers did kill your sister, myself and my followers were instrumental in that defeat. Since then, I've been using her body both to improve on my own and to create a new type of foot-soldiers. Now I intended to use her body and revive it as my ultimate creature of destruction. But I needed a supply of living cells from her species to complete the process. "Yours should suffice."

Tann got angry at this. "Algrin, you traitor! Release me at once! Let us settle this matter with your execution."

Algrin ignored him and flicked a switch on the Fusionlizer. "Goodbye, 'my Emperor'." The machine whirred into life, dissolving Tann and Uuhcura into base cells, that were then begun to be grafted onto the body of what was once Yas Rushton.

"Soon, my creation.", Algrin gloated. "Soon the Earth will fall beneath your might. And the Dominion will have no choice but to accept me as their new leader."

Elsewhere in the ship, Galvahex assessed his experiment. "The test wasn't conclusive. The time machine made for a most admirable Hybrasect. It's ready to be deployed in the battlefield." Within the darkness, a single glow of red emanated.