Chapter Eight: Reach out for the truth!
Command Center...
As the recovering Rangers watched the monitor, Minato and Jason arrived.
"Guys!" Kimberly screamed as the two rangers rise up from the floor.
"Is everyone alright?" The leader of the Mighty Morphin team asked about their current situation.
"It seems that Tommy attacked the Command Center, damaging Alpha and the computers that kept us in touch of Zordon." Billy explained as he finally finished the repairs on the long time ally of their mentor.
"Ai Ai, What happened?" The small Android exclaimed before being helped up by the pink Power Ranger.
As the teens from Angel Grove pondered on their next move, The former S.E.E.S. leader appeared to be shaken by the sudden arrival of his old Persona and his lack of control.
"Minato?" The blonde android asked her long time friend, who's looking down.
"..." The teen said nothing as he was lost in tragic thoughts.
"You shouldn't worry about it, I mean if you haven't summoned Thanatos..." Yu began to explain trying to reassured his predecessor until their leader interrupted.
"...That's the thing, I couldn't control him, if Elizabeth haven't stop me, I could have killed them!"
"...Minato..." Aigis expressed her concern before Minato grabbed his chest in pain.
"Hey! You're ok?" Zack screamed as he and Aigis helped their friend up.
"I don't know...But it feels like my heart is ripping itself out."
After saying this, the Bluenette breathed heavily much to Aigis and the others' concern. However, this too was interrupted by Alpha. "We need to help Minato, but those Zords will destroy Angel Grove before..."
"Go..." The leader of the Dino Thunder team's reply shocked the two teams of youths.
"Hey, you can barely stand, we can't just leave you here." Kimberly tried to talk the youth to keep him from hurting himself any worse.
"We'll stay here, Kim, besides we can't stop those Zords without any of our own." The grey haired teen explained to his ally, to reassure her.
Trini and Jason, though concern, knew that the offworlder's condition will cause more problems if he return to the fray and with no zords of their own, they would not fair any better against the mecha. "Alright, we will go." The Asian heroine said to their ally before the Red Ranger chimed in.
"Aigis, take care of him. K?"
"Understood!" Aigis nodded as the Rangers jumped back into battle.
The City of Angel Grove.
"Let's beat these zords!" Zack screamed as his and the other four Zords combine into the single Megazord.
"You'll never stop me!" The Shadow Dino Thunder Ranger cried out as she commanded the trio of the zords to attack our heroes.
"Wanna bet!" Jason mocked as the large mecha managed to knocked down the smaller attacking zords into two tall buildings.
"Damn you!" The shadow cursed before she activated the missiles to shoot at her foe.
"What's happening?" Trini, panicking, asked aloud before Billy realization.
"We can't fully control the Megazord without Zordon, our Power's Draining!"
As the team lost control, the both the Dragozord and Stegozord attacked the taller mecha causing more damage to the Megazord. "We can't hold on much longer!" The pink ranger panic as sparks emit in the cockpit hit the Rangers.
However, the rangers' situation became worse as the Green Ranger appeared and jumped into the cockpit. "For Empress Rita!" The mind controlled Tommy yelled as he attacked his friends forcing the rangers to eject from the towering Machine.
After all five rangers fell to the ground, The green colored ranger commanded his ally to send the zord to the ground. "Send these to hell!"
After saying this, the yellow shadow ranger shot the ground behind the Megazord. "NO!" Jason screamed as the heroes watched their zords fall back into the earth.
"I'm not done yet!"
To put salt in the wound, Tommy jumped at the Red Ranger sending the rivals into a portal into another realm.
"Jason!" Zack screamed as the portal vanished. However, the ground shook again as all three rouge Zords attempt to squash the unarmed Rangers.
"Time to crush you like the bugs you are!" The Shadow Yellow Ranger gleefully mocked the four rangers while Rangers ran for their lives.
Meanwhile, In the Quarry.
The two rangers of opposite colors seemed to be evenly matched as the duo continued to exchanged blows.
"Ryoji...You are a part of Minato, yet, how and why you are here still confuses me, as well as how this Rita demon has control over you..." Elizabeth thought to herself before knocking her foe down and pinning him underneath.
"Stop this now! This is not how things are supposed to be!" She warned him but his stubbornness continued as he kicked the young woman off of him.
"Looks like your time has come to an end." The mind controlled Ryoji laughed as he fully charged at the ranger with his sword drawn, until...
"HEY, ASS-HAT, GET OFF OF HER!" A young male's voice cries out as a teen with brown hair and in a black Yasogami High uniform knocked down by drop kicking the villain.
"How dare you?" The red visor ranger questioned as the teen took out a pair of Kunais.
"Me, that's who!" The young male exclaimed as the Black Ranger approached her new ally, recognizing the teen.
"It's been a few months, Mr. Hanamura." She said in her usual tone of voice.
"Sheeze, I rather be called Yosuke...Wait?" Yosuke asked the white haired woman before Goldar appeared once more to dispatch two groups of Putties.
"Time for part two of our plan!" The ape sneered."Putties attack!" Goldar screamed as the goons charged at the offworlders.
As they charged at Yosuke first, he managed to take down at least three of the group of fifth teen, cheering. "They guys are so weak, it's kind of pathetic!" Before being jumped on by the remaining foes.
"Mr. Hanamura?" Elizabeth asked as the ten she fought were quickly defeated in embarrassing ways.
"I'm okay! Just more ticked off..." Yosuke said before casting Garu with his Persona, Jiraya, to send the last few of Rita's minions flying.
Goldar was annoyed by the entrance of the new hero. "Great, I don't need this kid ruining our plans!"
"Hey! I can kick your ass anytime, you monkey!"
"Gurrrrrrr, why I outta..." The ape growl until the Abarekiller grabbed his shoulder.
"NOT NOW! We have our orders, you idiot!"
"FINE! I'll kill you later!" He yelled as the two villains vanished by teleporting.
"Yeah, run away! Like I want to see you freaks again!" Yosuke yelled as Elizabeth unmorphed, confirming his theory.
"Whew, so I was right." The browned haired teen of Inaba smiled before the two heard the commutator beeping.
"I'll be there in a second or two with another friend!" This concerned the new offworlder but he kept quiet before Elizabeth answered the youth with. "I'll explained in a short moment. Just grab my hand."
Command Center.
"Wait, Elizabeth, What do you mean another friend?" Alpha asked but to no avail. Meanwhile,Narukami watched the struggle between the rangers and the trio of terrible mechs, a few thoughts kept echoing in his mind as his blood boiled.
"I can't just watch this, but..." He then looked at Aigis taking care of Minato along side Alpha five, who is trying to reestablish commutations with both the rangers and Elizabeth."Neither of us can just leave him like this...Minato looks like he might die, then what will the point of ridding our Personas be for?" Things in the grey haired youth's head looked grim until Elizabeth appeared before an old friend appeared beside her.
"...Huh?" Yosuke asked as he looked amazed at his new surroundings.
"Yosuke? How did you get here?" Yu questioned his friend in his usual deadpan tone.
"Hey, Partner. Wait a second, where the hell are we this time?!" The brown haired teen cried out before Narukami explained the full details of the last five weeks.
"Okay...As crazy it sounds, it makes sense that something like this would happen...I mean, a week ago, we were fighting against and with that Ragna guy."
As he said this, Alpha walked towards the three, surprising Yosuke. "It appears we are getting the signal back to reach Zordon."
"Whoa! When did Ms. Kirijo created you?"
"Who?" Alpha questioned before the young Hanamura asked tried to pry more information from the small machine.
"I bet you're like Labrys, ready to kick all kinds of..."
"Umm...Yosuke..." Aigis explained much to the teen's embarrassment.
"Oh sorry about that, Aigis...Wait, who's this guy?" He noticed Minato, who was struggling with keeping awake.
Minato, upon hearing the other Persona User, tried to rise up, but couldn't see as his continued to hurt. "Minato! You should lie down before things get worse!" Aigis cried out as he was grabbed by the android.
"He is that guy that Aigis must have spoke of, but I thought..." The persona user of Jiraya thought to himself as he helped Aigis with calming the former member of S.E.E.S down.
"Huh? Who...Who are you?" The blue head asked weakly as the two helped him to sit on the floor while leaning his back on one of the tall computers.
"A friend of Yu, but you really need to chill!"
"Alright everyone, that should do it!" Alpha exclaimed as the vision of the wizard's head appeared back in his tube. "Welcome back, Zordon!"
"It's good to be back, what has happened since my connection was interrupted?" Zordon asked the group.
Elizabeth explained that besides the Shadow yellow ranger, the other clones were defeated by the young heroes, but now, Rita appears to have the upper hand she and her minions have control over three Zords which are currently destroying the city.
"As I feared, However, this could be the perfect chance to begin your plan, Elizabeth."
"Huh?" Minato asked weakly, as he slowly rose back to his feet, much to the protest of the others. As he managed to sit once more, a familiar book appeared. "Is that...?"
"Yes, I have managed to re-purposed the Persona Compendium to help us fight Rita. This book will allow us to gain access to the arsenal that belong to the ranger forms we currently possess."
"That is impressive." The blonde thought aloud until Elizabeth sighed in disappointment.
"However, it seems to have few imperfections..."
This puzzled the four offworlders before the former velvet room worker explain the one of the problems. "The weapons must belong to the team that we are using currently, If we used another team's weapons then the timeline will be in pieces and in turn, we would how you say sighting the canine's screw?"
"Umm...do you mean screwing the pooch?" Yosuke smiled before she nodded.
"So basically, it could mess things up big time...wait, that also should mean..." Yu grasping the situation before realizing that they could help the other rangers. "Elizabeth, could you summoned something like the MegaZord?"
"Of course, however, we still need to worry about Jason, Tommy, and Ryoji."
Upon hearing this, Minato morphed back into Dino-Thunder Red. "I'll go..." As he regained some energy to finally stand on his own feet.
"You sure? I mean, you could barely stand a mere moment ago." The head phoned teen asked however, Minato didn't fall down as he walked towards Zordon."
"Zordon, I need to have some of your power, do you have enough to heal me for at least a hour?"
The wizard though quietly to himself before answering, "Yes, however, normally this power would destroy a human's body, do you think you can handle it?
The Red Dino thunder Ranger nods, much to the shock of the others.
"Ai ai ai, Minato, are you sure?" Alpha questioned the youth, before he answers with.
"Yeah, Hopefully if I dismiss Orpheus or the ability to summon my Personas, then this will give me enough strength to fight Ryoji. But first, I need to find out where they are."
"Will this even work?" The leader of the Investigation team asked.
"Not sure, but I doubt any of us can stand here and do nothing.
"Minato..." Aigis thought to herself but upon seeing her loved one's determination, knew he was never going to back . "Alright, Elizabeth, Yu and I will summon the zords to help the others, Yosuke could you..."
"Yeah, I'll go with him! Besides, like him, I can't let others fight for me just to stand here!" The Hanamura youth smiled after answering.
"Thanks. Minato, be careful, alright?"
"Of course!" The ranger smiled underneath his helmet as the two left after morphing into the Yellow and Blue Dino-Thunder Rangers.
"Are you two ready?" The former dweller of the Velvet Room asked.
...
The prison world of Darkness.
"Ugh..." Jason moaned in pain as he was outnumbered by the two evil Rangers. "C'mon. Is that all you got?!" The red mighty morphing ranger mocked before getting sucker punched by his rival, sending the teen back to the floor.
"Is this all the thorn in the empress' side have? How embarrassing!" The mind controlled Tommy laughed before The Abarekiller kicked Jason's side.
"We should finish him now!"
"Why? He has no morpher. We can beat him until he joins our side!" The green ranger explained much to the aggravation of the mind controlled Ryoji.
As the two argued, Jason noticed where Goldar left the teen's morpher at.
"I'll just finish him off here and now!"
"Like hell you will!" The unmorphed yelled as he rose back to his feet and charged at Ryoji while running towards the morpher. Ryoji attempt to shoot at the teen, however, the Red Mighty Morphin' Ranger slide down and grabbed his morpher.
"Red Ranger!" The heroic teen yelled as he morphed back into his ranger form.
During this time, Both Yosuke and Minato arrived outside of the prison cell block. "Wait, shouldn't be where that Jason guy is at?" The brown haired teen questioned before the bluenette explained through his helmet.
"My plan for you is..."
Few minutes later in the cell.
Jason and Tommy fought each other until the red ranger could barely stand while the Abarekiller watched from a throne high above the battlefield. "This is annoying...Oliver needs to hurry!" His thoughts were interrupted by a load explosion as The Red Dino Thunder Ranger appears.
"Geez, if you're really Ryoji, then you're one hell of lazy ass!" The ranger mocked as the so-called Ryoji jumped off of the high throne.
"So, it's about time you have arrived..." He said coldly before landing a mere few inches away from the three rangers.
As the two stared at each other, Minato surprisingly unmorphed. "What?" Jason cried out as the blue haired teen made a demand.
"Unmorph now...If you are Ryoji Mochizuki, then you're not a cowardly enough to fight an unfair fight, just like me!"
This actually worked as the Abarekiller unmorphed to reveal a teen with slicked black hair and blue eyes along with similar facial features to the Arisato teen.
"Alright, let's fight...To see who's the true Arisato Minato!" Ryoji yelled as the two charged at each other and continued to fight hand to hand. The duo exchanged blows, punch by punch, kick by kick. Until the former Nyx Avatar jumped backwards.
"Just as I thought..." Minato thought to himself as he brought out his Evoker.
"Is that really going work? You can summon your Persona without that toy..."
"What are you afraid of?" Minato smirked as he aimed at his head and surprisingly summoned Thanatos.
This shocked the Rangers and The Abarekiller. "No!" Ryoji screamed as his disguised began to fade to revealed a strange combination of Minato and his other side with glowing yellow and red eyes. "HoW? HOW DiiiiDDDD-COUldLDLLDLDLD YOOOOUUU-UUU Tell?"
Minato smiled as he recalled one detail. "I am able to summon Thanatos, sure it does hurt that's the thing." Thanatos began to transformed back into his human form, Ryoji.
"I am Thanatos and Ryoji. Without one the other shouldn't be able to appear...So, when I appeared after Rita and Goldar caught me, I was able to explained to my other side about their plans, though it was painful for us."
"Ugghhhhh...Then I'LL JUSt Morph-HHH INTO MY RANGER FORM TO KILL YOU ALL!" The fake screamed as he attempt to morph back into the Abarekiller. However, Yosuke arrived with a certain white and black candle with a red flame.
"Looking for this?" The brown haired teen joked. The fake Ryoji attempt to attack the teen until the real Ryoji transformed back into Thanatos and grabbed his morpher and tossed it back to the young Hanamura.
Jason watched in awe before running to the side his friend, much to the confusion of Tommy. "Running away?"
"I'll save you in a bit, Tommy, but right now, They need my help."
Tommy watched in silence as Jason rejoined the group, slowly regaining his senses before vanishing.
"Alright, How do I..." Yosuke asked the leader of the Mighty Morphin' team.
"Usually, I just yell Morphin Time...But just come up with your own...I guess."
"Alright...LET'S MORPH!" The headphone teen yelled as he became the White Dino Thunder Ranger.
"Let's knock this creep down!" The fifth ranger of Dino Thunder commanded as he and the other two rangers managed to quickly defeat the Ryoji copy. After the clone vanished and the real Ryoji returned back to Minato, the cell began to fade.
"Let's go help the others!" Jason commanded. Minato summoned the portal to escaped from this other realm.
Part ONE: TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's Note:
Hello, It's Dh Here, and I have decided to make this story into parts, with each season being a part this multi-Part Story.
Anyway, there are few questions that might come up or have already that I chose to answered even if these questions never come up later.
One: Why is Minato the leader?
Well, to be honest, I am used to writing Makoto/Minato often in my fanfics but when you think of it, Minato has the power of the Universe Arcana and did save the world before Yu Narukami and his team. So, saying if he has been revived then that means he should still be at his maximum strength. Though, There might be some disagreements between the two leaders in the future.
Two: How does the characters from the Persona Universe understand English?
Again, Me, being lazy, but If I think of this question, I hate to say this but might as well be true, The powers that send the four here (Others later on of course.) gave them the ability to speak English as if they can speak it like their Native Language.
And finally:
Three: Where are certain parts/Stories from the Power Rangers series not in this fanfic.
I have been trying to watched the series again on Netflix. However, When I started this story, I did not have a sub to the service nor have I watched the series in over a decade, but between reading a challenge and watching the reviews from Linkara, I decided why not and make the fan fic.
Anyway, I might do five or less chapters in Part one of Long live the Power and see what crazy ideas I might come up with. Wish me luck, review, See next time and have an excellent day!
