At the air base, Steven and the girls returned to the main control room. "What are you doing back here?", Group captain Gordon asked. "Shouldn't you be dealing with monsters that grow giant?"

"That's the funny thing.", Carrie replied. "It turned out that Galvahex had already dealt with a lot of the monsters before we could get to them, for some reason. And then he engaged Wayne in what he claimed was a resolution to their conflict. Just who's side is he on now?"

"What about Mark?", Steven decided to bring up. "We haven't heard from him in a while. Where's he?"

"Flying Officer Goodman was lured out to the quarry to fight against Algrin. The last visual we have of the fight is him ordering the Rover Launcher to fire on his position. The visual feed blew out soon after that."

"We have to help him.", Lulu insisted. "Even if he is fine, none of us have managed to beat that creep in a straight fight by ourselves. We've only driven him off."

"Even then, we still suffered some temporary losses.", Carrie said, sadly. She was thinking of the beatdown that Algrin had inflicted on Wayne. "We need to get there as fast as possible."

"But how?", Steven asked. "The vehicles are in maintenance and once it's started, we can't halt the process."

"We do have a jet fighter here.", Gordon revealed, to be met with stunned faces. "This IS an air base, after all."

"It's better than nothing.", Lulu said as they set off running to use the vehicle.

In the quarry, the Rover Launcher's beam was still headed for Mark and Algrin. However, Algrin breathed a green laser from his mouth which overpowered the Rover Launcher's beam, sending it back to its target. The resulting energy overloaded the Rover Launcher, causing it to explode. "No!", Mark called out.

"You're open.", Algrin declared. He broke free of his opponent's grasp and threw him back, before blasting him with another laser from his hand. "You were a fool to come here. My new power is something you can't beat."

"Come to think of it, you have seemed a lot stronger in this battle.", Mark wheezed out. "I've never felt anything like this before."

"Indeed. There won't be anymore holding back." Algrin laughed as he transformed into his Berserker Mode, now glowing with a red light. "I have the powers of the entire Dominion at my disposal. What chance do you have?"

Mark pulled himself up. "Probably none. But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up now. I've lost too much to do that right now." He looked over to the unconscious body of Mary. "And I intend to take back what I still can." He drew his Wing Saber and ran forward.

Algrin summoned Tann's rapier. "Even in the face of defeat, you refuse to roll over and die. How annoying." He then ran forward to continue the fight.

Back with Wayne in the industrial district, Galvahex was still approaching him, wielding his opponent's Wing Saber in his remaining arm. All seemed hopeless, until Wayne saw the robot's own discarded components, allowing him to formulate a plan.

"So this is how it ends.", Galvahex stated, wheezing. "You've been a worthy opponent. Farewell, Black Ranger."

"Exactly my sentiments.", Wayne said in response. "Especially since I'm about to win this."

Galvahex could register the seriousness in his opponent's exposed right eye. "Are you insane?", he asked the Ranger. "I'm immune to every weapon in your arsenal. You have nothing that can even scratch me." He brought the stolen Wing Saber down on his opponent.

"My arsenal, maybe.", Wayne said as he slid out of the way of the blow, in the direction of Galvahex's dropped Gatling Cannon. He then picked it up and aimed it. "But what about something from YOUR arsenal?"

"Ah.", was all Galvahex had to say, failing to have calculated this outcome. He still could barely register it as Wayne shot him with the weapon, damaging his armour and causing him to throw his stolen weapon up into the air. Wayne then caught the sword and stabbed the robot in his exposed area before any further computations could be made. There was only one suitable reaction to the situation. "Ha ha ha."

Wayne was confused. "Did I miss a joke or something?"

"It's just so funny. I built that weapon so that I could defeat you in battle.", Galvahex informed him. "I didn't imagine that it would be used for the opposite purpose. Mary was right. I AM developing human emotions."

Wayne initially joined in the laughter, until he fully took in what the robot had said. "Wait, you know Mary? We're you aware she was posing as Halatia?"

"Of course I was.", came the reply. "I was helping her keep her relapse into her old self a secret from Algrin, Fwelf and later Tann. As soon as it became impossible to keep the secret, I located her amongst the wreckage from Orpheus and returned her to you under the pretence of a showdown."

Wayne had a realisation. "So you've been helping us for some time. If that's the case, then why didn't you come over to our side? Help us fight against Algrin and his plans for the Earth?"

"I couldn't. Not with the limitations of my programming. But thanks to you destroying my central processor, I am no longer bound to do anything for him. Maybe whatever my processor is used for in the future will not be bound by such limitations. Oh, and tell Mary that 'Oscar said "Goodbye".' With that said, the light in his eyes faded, and the Galvahex model robot known as Oscar knew no more.

Wayne stood up, a single tear in his eyelid. "'The rest is silence.'", he said before receiving a message on his communicator. "Who is it?"

"It's me.", Mark's voice wheezed from the other end. "Algrin's beating me faster than I can fight back. I need help. Follow my signal."

"I'm on it.", Wayne replied before hanging up. He immediately altered the frequency on his communicator to call his Jet Cycle to him.

In the quarry, Mark eventually fell to his opponent from exhaustion. "What's the matter, human? Stand up and keep fighting.", Algrin growled.

"I can't.", Mark wheezed in response. "You're too powerful for me to take on alone. If I fight you single-handedly, I'm going to fall from exhaustion."

Algrin laughed. "So you're finally giving up then? Good." He summoned his own weapon. "You and your girlfriend will have all the time you need for yourself in the next world."

"Not so fast, you creep." Algrin looked up to see Lulu, Steven and Carrie jumping down, with all three firing lasers from their Sky Enforcers. The force of the blasts knocked the madman's sword out of his hand and sent him staggering. "We're not about to let you just kill our firmed, unless you can beat all of us first.", Carrie declared.

"When the 5 of us work together, we can override our own limits.", Lulu stated.

"This is the last battle for Earth and you can be sure we're going to win it, no matter what it takes.", Steven added.

Mark got himself up and went over to the others. "Give it up, Algrin. Even with your added power, we have you outnumbered.", he declared, having taken the time to get his breath back.

Algrin climbed to his feet, materialising a small amulet, resembling the Rangers' change bracelets. "You may have the advantage in numbers, but this should even the odds." He pressed a button on the small device.

"Wait!", Steven realised. "What're you…?"

The amulet began playing an orchestral piece of music, as it became enveloped in black fog and floated out of its owner's hands. When the smoke cleared, the music halted and there was a familiar, mostly black version of the Red Ranger standing "Red Dark!", the figure declared.

"But how?", Lulu asked. "I thought we destroyed him."

"No.", Mark corrected her. "We only destroyed his teammates. Before we could do anything with this guy, he vanished as the night came back. I thought he couldn't come back without Lumidillo."

"I was trapped in a sub-dimension, unable to directly interact with any living creature.", Red Dark explained in his distinctive voice, a raspier version of Mark's. "Eventually, I found a way to facilitate communication with the real world through Algrin here. I promised to help him in his conquest of destruction, in exchange for one request."

"Namely, revenge for the loss of his team, by destroying the Red Ranger of the real world.", Algrin finished for him. "A task I'm going to allow you to finish now." Red Dark ran forward and grappled with his original, taking both of them to a different part of the quarry. "Now then, that merely leaves you three for me to kill."

The three Rangers all engaged Algrin in combat, with him summoning different weapons to deal with them. When Lulu came towards him with acrobatics, which lead into an attempted sword strike, he used Halatia's sceptre to defend himself and blast her back. Then Steven tried using his rock throwing, followed by running up the mad Viscount with his Sky Enforcer. Algrin used Fwelf's gauntlet to teleport out of the way and then set off a small explosion to knock the Yellow Ranger back. Then Carrie tried shooting at him with both her Beak Blaster and her AviAttacker. He merely absorbed these hits and zapped the White Ranger to the ground. "It's no good.", Carrie stated. "He has the powers and weapons of all our major enemies."

"Not all of them.", Algrin looked up to see Wayne approaching, holding Galvahex's Gatling Cannon in his arms. He fired the weapon at Algrin knocking him back. "Courtesy of our robotic semi-ally, I managed to get this."

Algrin laughed heavily. "I knew that machine couldn't be trusted. But you could, Black Ranger." He used Fwelf's gauntlet to teleport close to Wayne and grab the weapon. "After all, you've completed my power set." He then grabbed at Wayne's broken helmet, pulling it apart with incredible force that sent the wearer flying. "Before, I was powerful enough to create an endless army of Bio-Roids. Now, I am invincible!"

Out in the city, Gliderak was leading the various military personnel against the army of Bio-Roids. But as Algrin had said to the Rangers, the army could continuously replicate whenever one of them was killed. In effect, this created an army that never ended. "They just keep coming.", Private Dawson exclaimed. "What do we do?"

"We keep fighting them.", Gliderak called back. "Even if they eventually overwhelm us, we keep fighting them until our last breath. But we'd rather do that then allow this planet to fall to these invaders."

"He gets it." Everyone turned around to see Captain Rolfe, accompanied by Sergeant Brent, both carrying pistols in their hands. "If this planet's going to have its fate decided by this battle, then what kind of leader would I be if I wasn't there on the front lines."

"So let's show these faceless goons what real military might is.", Sergeant Brent shouted out. Everyone raised their hands in the air and continued their charge.

In the quarry, Mary came to to see Mark fighting with his Darkness copy from the incident that restored her freedom from the Dominion's control. "What'd I miss?", she asked.

"Algrin's absorbed the powers of all the Dominion's leaders.", Mark called out as Red Dark swung his Schwartz Saber at him, only narrowly missing. "And he pulled his guy out whatever hole we threw him into purely to kill me." He dodged a shot from the Darkness Ranger's Black Blasters

"You're out of your league, Red Ranger.", Red Dark tutted. "I have access to every weapon you have at your disposal, plus memories of every word you've ever heard."

This gave Mark an idea, as he remembered what Lulu had said earlier. '"When the 5 of us work together, we can override our own limits."' "You may have all the weapons I had when you were created. But I've got a little upgrade since then." He pulled out his AviAttacker and aimed it at his doppelgänger.

Thunder Attack!

The electric blast hit Red Dark, sending him backwards. Mark then took the opportunity to go over to Mary and cut open her chains, releasing her. "Now, get out of here. It's not safe for you without any powers."

"No, I'm staying here.", Mary shook her head. "I have just as much place being here as you, powers or no powers."

Wayne heard from across the quarry, as Algrin continued mockingly confronting him and the others. "Not even your fancy suits can help you stand up to my newfound power."

Wayne stood up. "Our power comes from more than just these suits.", he declared angrily. "We've defeated the likes of Uuhcura, Kurorg and Tann through our own intelligence and skill, not through some stupid suits. I COULD create another copy of the helmet you just ripped up, but I won't. I'm going to face you and you're going to see the face of your opponent is Wayne Burley, not the Black Ranger."

Lulu stepped forward to his side. "He's right. I didn't get picked to wear this suit. Well, I did, but that was before I showed that I was perfectly capable of doing the job, suit or no suit." She took off her helmet and threw it away. "That's why I'm not going to be wearing my helmet either. Your opponent for this evening will by Lulu Goodman, not the Blue Ranger."

Carrie was the next to step forward. "I'm a doctor. And if there's one thing I've learned in my medical career, it's that you can always have a better effect on the patient if they can see your face." She removed her own helmet and threw it away. "Your doctor for tonight will be me, Caroline Brown."

Steven was the last of the group to step forward. "I don't really have a speech to give, so I'll just say that I get the point of what they're saying. I'm going to take you on, not as the Yellow Ranger, not as Steven Hartford," he took off his helmet and tossed it over near the others "but as my real self, Marvin Hinton!"

In the control room of the air base, Aluze reported something that seemed dire. "We've lost the feed from the Rangers, Jangar. What does that mean?"

Gordon shook her head. "That should only happen if they're dead or their helmet cams have been disconnected from their heads. We can only hope it's the latter."

As the four Rangers prepared to face the mad Viscount one last time, Mark blocked another hit from his dark counterpart. "I'm not sure what the others are up to, but it's given me an idea." He knocked Red Dark back and removed his helmet. "Allow me to talk to you. Not as the Red Flying Ranger, but as Mark Goodman, USAF Flying Officer."

"Do what you want.", Red Dark laughed. "It will make it a lot more satisfying when I finally kill you."

"And what do you think will happen to you after that?", Mark asked. "Look at Mary here. She used to be one of Algrin's colleagues and now she's basically just waiting to be killed by him."

Mary was a little annoyed by this description, but she still caught on to what he was trying to do. "Do you really think Algrin will let you carry on serving him, if I'm an example of how he treats his subordinates?"

Red Dark thought about it. "You two make a good point. I'm not going to be truly free unless I remove my real enemy. Algrin!" He turned around and made for the red-glowing Dominion Commander.

"Thanks for that.", Mark said to Mary. "That's bought me some time."

"Time for what?", Mary asked, confused.

Mark didn't answer, instead pulling up his communicator. "Connect to central computer. Command function override, code 10"

Override accepted.

Across the quarry, Algrin was still fighting the others to a standstill. "I'll admit, that you humans are strong." He then swung Tann's rapier, creating a ripple that knocked the 4 down again. "But I'm stronger! Nothing any of you can do can stop me."

"But what about me?", Algrin turned around to be greeted by Red Dark slashing him down. "You were never going to allow me to join you in your conquests. You just wanted me to get rid of the Red Ranger so you could defeat the others easily, am I right?"

"You are correct, shadow creature.", Algrin snarled as he knocked the Darkness Ranger back, allowing him to summon Galvahex's Gatling Cannon. "But since you're not going to do that anymore, I guess I'll have to dispose of you."

Before he could fire, Red Dark kicked the weapon out of his hand and grabbed on to Algrin. "You've only lasted so long in this battle because of those powers you stole from your subordinates. I'm going to take them into myself!" The glowing red aura surrounding Algrin transferred to the Darkness Ranger, who pointed his Dark Blaster at himself and summoned Fwelf's gauntlet. "My friends and allies, I'm coming to join you." He clicked his fingers and fired the Blaster.

There was an explosion, which knocked Algrin backwards and caused Red Dark to dissolve into dust, the words "Stop Algrin" blowing in the wind. All that remained of him was his weapons.

In the city, the Bio-Roids were about to overwhelm the humans, when they all vanished. "What happened?", Corporal Jarvis asked. "Where'd they go?"

"I think", Gliderak said in response "the Rangers happened. They must've cut off the source of those Bio-Roids. Our battle is over now. As for theirs, I'm not sure."

In the Quarry, the battle with Algrin had become a lot more easy for the Rangers. Wayne and Steven were able to replicate a variation of the same attack they had used against Shutterbug, only this time, Wayne used his Sky Enforcer's Burst mode to fire at Algrin, knocking him back. Steven then ran forward and delivered a punch with his own Enforcer, which sent the Mad Viscount flying."

Carrie and Lulu prepared to attack, the former with with her two firearms and the latter with her Wing Saber. After Carrie fired a few shots, Lulu threw her own Beak Blaster to her. "Here, catch.", she yelled as she threw it.

"Thanks.", Carrie said as she grabbed it. She then plugged it into her AviAttacker to form a Sonic Smasher, before inserting her Wing Saber into her own Beak Blaster to make a Hyper Cannon. "Let's see how he handles a double dose of firepower."

The combined force of the two weapons sent Carrie flying backwards, but it did leave a mark on Algrin's body. "I still… rule… over all.", he wheezed out.

"Yeah? Rule this.", Lulu declared, as she ran forward and deliver a flurry of slashes to the warlord. "This is for Avior. And this is for all the destruction you've unleashed on Winter Valley. And this is for all the emotional hurt you and your minions have put us through." The last slash pushed Algrin back against the rock face.

But even this did not faze the madman. "Your weapons are still too weak. They cannot defeat me!", he declared.

"On their own maybe." Algrin looked up to see Mark holding the same combination of weapons he had used against Uuhcura. "But I bet you can't stand up to all of us using all our weapons all together."

"What's he planning?", Carrie asked. "Didn't he get hurt last time?"

"I don't think it matters.", Wayne replied. "Let's just do what he says."

"Okay.", the other two nodded.

Within seconds, the five had assembled their weapons in the same configuration: Beak Blasters plugged into AviAttackers, with a Wing Saber installed in the scope to form a second barrel and held in their right hand, where their Sky Enforcers were active in Burst Mode. "Target Lock!", they all declared, aiming their weapons in Algrin's way. "Fire!"

The combined force of the five blasts surrounded Algrin with fire and sent the Rangers flying backwards. As they got up, their suits crackled and dissolved out. "What happened?", Lulu asked. "That's never happened before."

"My guess is that the suits couldn't handle the amount of power we were putting out.", Wayne replied. "So they shut down in response to the output. But really, I have no idea."

"Does it matter?", Mark questioned. "We beat Algrin. We stopped the Dominion from invading our planet. It's over."

But then Algrin emerged from the flames, now back in his regular form. "Not over…" he wheezed. "Never over…."

Mark sighed. "Don't you know when to give up? We've already beat you. Admit it."

"You merely destroyed my Berserker form.", Algrin said in response. "But I'll create another. As soon as I've ripped the power out of your…."

But he was jerked forward before he could finish. Everyone looked up to see that Mary had stabbed him in the back with his own sword. "Now guys.", she said as she moved out of the way. "Finish him off now."

"With what?", Steven asked. "There aren't any weapons we can use."

"Oh yes there is.", Mark said as he dashed for the Schwartz Saber and Black Blaster that Red Dark had left behind. He combined them into a Hyper Cannon equivalent and fired at Algrin.

Algrin took the blast and began sparking. "No, this can't be. I can't lose to the likes of you. I shouldn't…" Then he collapsed to the ground and exploded.

"Now, it's over.", Carrie stated. "He can't possibly survive that. Now what do we do?"

"We go back to base.", Mark told her. "We tell Gordon that the crisis has passed and then we work on what happens next."

And so the 6 of them walked away, as Algrin's helmet fell to the floor, exploding as it hit the ground.

Back at base, the 5 were stood in a line as Gordon addressed them, just as they had done back when the team had first united. Only this time, Mary, Caldwell, the Avions and Captain Rolfe were all present. "That was utterly reckless!", Gordon yelled angrily. "There's a reason I had that safety lock installed after your battle with Uuhcura. And yet you go and override it, damaging your Morphers' very expensive, virtually irreplaceable power cores." Then she mellowed at. "However, I will acknowledge that it did ultimately win you your battle against Algrin. Bravo, Rangers. The Dominion is no longer a threat. Word has already been sent out and the reconstruction of Winter Valley will commence within a few days. Now then, I'd like to know what you intend to do with your lives, so that I can make arrangements."

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Mark stepped forward, his "Morpher", as she had called it, in his hand. "Well, since there's no longer a threat to face, the I no longer need to be a Ranger, or an active serviceman.", he said, as he put the bracelet in her hand. "Therefore, I'd like to announce my official resignation from the US Military."

Everyone was shocked to hear this, except for Mary and Gordon. Instead, the latter smiled. "I'm proud of you, Mark. When I first met you, you were willing to do what I asked, no questions asked. But since then, you've grown capable of making your own decisions, such as not staying in a job I basically enforced upon you at a young age."

"A dangerous one at that.", Mary added. Then she went over to her boyfriend and kissed him. "I'm just glad you're going to be safe."

Wayne was the next to step forward. "I used to think being a soldier was everything to live for. Now, I see it's nothing to consider glamorous or cool. It's just suffering for everyone involved on both sides." He handed over his own Morpher. "I think I'll stick to science from now on. You know, try and make a better world for the next generation to grow up in."

Gordon smiled at this as well. "I thought something like this would happen since the day I recruited you. I was hoping that working in a science position might calm down your hotheadedness that caused your injury. I never imagined that actually getting back in the field would produce results."

Steven stepped forward and handed in his Morpher. "I don't really want to continue in this place, since I'll probably be going back to my own period, as soon as Wayne can finish working on the warp coil, or whatever it was that brought me 22 years into the future."

"No, I didn't think you would.", Gordon said to him. "I can only wish you luck in returning to your own place Steven. No, Marvin."

Lulu was the next to step forward, but she was a lot more reluctant than any of the male members. "I'm in a weird place.", she confessed. "I want to go back to being a regular person, but I want to ask if I can keep the 'morpher', or whatever you called it."

"If you do, it'll be a as a keepsake.", Gordon told her. "With the damage the power cores sustained, another use will cause the device to disintegrate from the strain." Lulu decided silently to hand the bracelet over. "Now then, I do have something for you." She pulled out a cheque. "This should cover all the times that your Swallow was damaged or threatened. Let it not be said I don't give my word."

That just left Carrie as the only one. "This broken power core, can it be repaired?", she asked.

"Yes, it can.", Mary said to answer her question? "Why do you ask?"

"I was thinking of going into space with Jangar and the Avions.", Carrie replied, to everyone's shock. "Earth May be safe, but what about all those other planets under threat of conquest by the Dominion? And the ones already conquered? Someone has to help them out."

"Are you sure about this?", Aluze asked her. "There's no guarantee that we'll be able to succeed, or that you'll be coming back to Earth at all."

"I'm a medic, we're willing to do anything for a patient's wellbeing.", Carrie said in response. She then turned to Wayne. "We may not have been together very long, but I'm not going to forget you when I'm out in space."

"And I'm never going to forget the time we spent together.", Wayne assured her, as they went in for a hug. "Just promise me that when you've finished up or felt you've done enough…"

"I'll come back for you.", Carrie finished for him, as the two went in for a kiss, much to everyones' surprise.

Captain Rolfe waited for the moment to pass, before he made his announcement. "Rangers, for your service to this planet and your role in defeating the aliens trying to conquer us, the President has decided to give each of you a blue ribbon."

"This'll be awkward, since I'm supporting the other guy.", Mark commented, as a vertebrae in his spine started to act up. "Better make it a Purple Heart.", he joked.

Days passed, with the majority of its members now civilians and the head having officially disappeared (to cover for Jangar's return to Space with her crew), Project: Jetman was officially abandoned. After the damaged equipment (other than the Morphers) was restored to functional condition, it was placed in storage in the long-abandoned Nest. Galvahex's body was examined for anything that could be useful, being stored alongside the remains of Orpheus when it was determined there wasn't. Reconstruction began on Winter Valley, with estimates putting the earliest the population could begin to return at 3 weeks. The now-temporarily unemployed heroes who had defended the Earth (aside from the absent Carrie, who had left her own world behind, perhaps forever) now sat in a military bar. While Mary bonded with Lulu over an incident with a typo on her application (concerning her Science Major), Mark sat at a table and discussed the future with Wayne and Marvin. "What do you think you'll do now?"

"For now, I'm just waiting for the opportunity to go home to open.", Marvin answered. "When that happens, I'm probably going to stay low for a while, to avoid causing any nasty paradoxes concerning our adventures."

"Well I've got to actually build the time portal from the warp drive.", Wayne replied. "After that, I think I might turn my attention towards advanced artificial intelligence." He fingered the chip in his pocket, extracted from the head of his robotic rival following their final battle. "After all, you never know what the future might hold for that kind of research. And what about you, Goodman? You've spent most of your adult life in military service. What happens to you now that you're out?"

"Well, I still have what I learned in Fashion Design 101.", was Mark's answer. "I'm going to basically settle down as a moderately successful design business, living my dream and providing a service that won't ever be unnecessary."

"That's good for you.", Wayne said, raising his glass for a toast, which was reciprocated by the other two. "After all, dreams are important for the future of Earth, just as much as scientific research and the past. As long as we think about them and hold hem all dear, the world will always get better."

So this is the end of the regular story. There'll be a last chapter that functions as an epilogue, then the work will be complete. Any continuation will be up to you, the reader.