Power Rangers: Steam Force

Ch3: Test Run

Lohan stood over a desk, reading through the letter before him. At the bottom it beared the governor's symbol. He didn't like what he had in mind but he knew it was absolutely necessary. At least he wouldn't have to deal with six teenagers for one day of the week. TJ would have to stay behind of course but he would have something to do. Being a dead man does have its ups as well as its downs. He was in deep thought about the orders, sure he had to follow them, that didn't mean he liked them. His quiet time alone was interrupted by a suave gentlemen bursting through the door to his office. Followed by a scrawny secretary that was pretty afraid of what was going to happen next.

"I'm sorry sir, he just barged in here claiming he had to talk with you, said he had some sort of business with you. I'm not entirely sure what it is but he forced his way in before I could find out." The young secretary told his boss, slightly shaking in fear of him.

"Dismissed boy, I'll speak with this man, if I have need of security you will know." Lohan ordered.

The boy gave a nod before leaving and closing the door behind him. Lohan turned and piled his documents away before placing them to one side. He sat down at his desk and pointed to a seat opposite his, which the man sat down on.

"You know who I am and what I want. So tell me courier, what is your name?" Lohan asked as he searched his drawers for another file.

"My name is Welkin Stross. I am a professional goods courier for those with deep pockets and I don't ask questions if those pockets are deep enough." The man told him, he had a strong germanic accent, it was only apparent that he was German when he spoke.

"Nice to meet you. For this assignment, you'll need to know everything about it. So if you're sitting comfortably." Lohan paused. "I'll begin. Due to my position in the ranger program, I oversaw all progress on the morphers. Since its original shutdown, there are problems with getting the technology needed to create any more morphers, which may be necessary if the Terrasoids use the captured morpher against us. If I didn't have another option, you wouldn't be here. I have a colleague in a large town a ways off from here. It seems that his ranger program succeeded when taboo mystical occurrences happened and five teenagers stepped up to battle an evil dark lord of a time forgotten. Recently they even got a new ranger in their team. But that's beside the point. You see, if you meet up with him and his team, I'm sure they can supply us with what we need to carry things on. What do you say?" He finished.

Welkin thought it over for a minute. "You do know that there is a thing called too much information. Just saying 'go meet my friend and get components and data from him then bring it back here.' Will suffice in the future. Other than that. I'm in." He told the man as he adjusted his hair.

"I will work on my social skills, now it's time for you to get to work, I'll expect to hear from you in a few weeks. For today just enjoy Vicdon. And if you run into any monsters let the rangers handle it, I see you carry a gun but that won't help against these Terrasiods." He replied back.

The two men shook hands and Welkin got up and walked out of the room once he had exited the building he had a thought. 'Power Rangers hmm? Interesting. I knew this guy had an ace in the hole with what he was paying but those. I'm impressed.' Then he carried on walking away while humming a song in German.

[Steam Force]

At the operations station, TJ was sat reading a book while Ayana sparred with Lloyd and Lucas in a interchanging fight. Alex was tinkering with an old vacuum tube computer over by a workstation Mia was writing something out in a notebook. Interrupting the different activities was Lohan, who gave a yell to order them into the briefing room.

Once the were lined up, Lohan spoke to them. "TJ, you are dismissed, what I have to say doesn't apply if you're legally dead. As for the rest of you. Due to action taken by the governor, you rangers have to attend school once a week. This is all part of the propaganda so that he can keep his position in power. So if you'll all follow me." Lohan turned to the exit.

As he did, the five rangers followed, some with annoyed looks on their face. For others that weren't wealthy enough to attend school. One such as Ayana, was wondering what the whole situation would be like. At least she didn't have to be near TJ for a time, that was a good thing in her eyes at least. Mia was happy about the situation. At least this time she would have some friends to talk to, even if they were rather new friends.

[Steam Force]

Inside the hive, Stinger let out a furious roar and slashed through a drone before him. It seemed that it had brought some bad news. He was unleashing his anger for a few more seconds until he was interrupted by the voice of his Queen.

"Stinger, what on earth is the matter?" She asked as she walked over to her throne. Taking her seat, she placed a hand on her chin. "Go on, tell me what has gotten you so upset?" She waved her free hand at him.

The wasp like champion knelt before speaking up. "It is a matter of urgency. Someone has breached the royal hatchery and taken a hatchling. The royal hatchery houses our most powerful of kin. If we do not retrieve this child then whoever has taken it will lay waste to us. Allow me to deal with this." He elaborated.

The Queen thought for a moment. She had taken a hatchling and transformed it into a humanoid form, he was growing well now and had just about reached the walking phase. Soon he would traverse the halls of the hive. Perhaps now would be the time for her to reveal her plans. "That is not necessary, I will explain on the way. Follow me." Nyllia rose from the throne and walked through the corridors with her most trusted champion following close behind.

[Steam Force]

The five rangers had been sat in classes and experienced the day to day running of the school by the last session. For the most part, it had been an interesting experience and it was clear that Vicdon invested a lot into the future of students. It had come to almost an end and the last lesson seemed to drag on. History with Mr. Connolly. He was a buff middle aged man that seemed out of place as a history teacher. As usual there would be a backstory which would explain why he didn't fit, yet no student cared about that or the history subject for that matter. True enough that he is hard on the students. Mia for one had been given three strikes already and was one away from detention. Unfortunately her morpher buzzed and she picked it up to listen in.

"This is TJ calling, we have a monster problem and I need the five of you to back me up!" He called through the comm. "tell the other rangers that there's trouble and get over here quickly. Oh, gotta go, almost took a hit then." He cut off.

She turned her head to the sight of Mr. Connelly. An angry face looming over her. All the words she heard were "Detention." As he swiped the morpher from her, obviously not knowing what it was. She managed to convey the message to the others before the bell rang but had to stay behind and retrieve her morpher, if she could.

Half an hour after the bell rang, the other rangers must've been fighting by now. Strangely enough she had been locked in the classroom and had heard no word from Mr. Connelly since. Something had to have gone wrong for this to have happened. And now she had to plan an escape route.

[Steam Force]

TJ had called five minutes ago and still no word. He was outnumbered by drones and an eight legged, beady eyed Champion who had named himself Spinarach. The blue ranger pelted some drones with his pipeblade before backing off. He panted to try and catch his breath. 'This is much more difficult without a team to fight with. Hope the others get here soon, Mia seemed to get cut off by something. Should be fine, I just hope they got my message.' TJ thought as he batted the numerous drones attacking him. He was becoming overwhelmed by the sheer force and numbers of the drones and he was just about ready to give in when the other four rangers came into the fight to back TJ up.

"Glad you guys could make it. I could only get a hold of Mia and she was gone after a few seconds, she isn't here so I presume that something happened to her." He thanked the others.

Lloyd turned to him. "Yeah, she's sorta in detention. I'm sure that she'll be fine, but we'll have to fight without her." He informed the blue ranger.

The five rangers turned forward to the massed Terrasoid swarm. Each pointed their pipeblades at the drones and charged forward. The street was rather empty thanks to the monsters, the only problem was is that it was a residential area and they would have to be careful of any damage and to watch out for civilians that could be returning home.

[Steam Force]

Mia had finally rummaged through enough drawers to fortunately find a spare key in front of the door. She was wondering how the others had been doing without her. After unlocking the door and heading out of the main entrance, she looked over to where a radiant glow persisted for a few seconds before vanishing.

"Looks like the handiwork of the rail cannon. But it can't be!" Mia exclaimed in disbelief. she wasn't there to operate it. Then again she wasn't in possession of her morpher…

[Steam Force]

Back in the fight, TJ was happy to have a team to back him up this time. Lloyd kicked a few drones towards him which he dispatched. Ayana and lucas were back to back slashing down drones left right and centre, finally Alex was wading through the enemy and taking out drones as she went by with her pipeblade.

Walking down the street was no other than Mr. Connelly. He was focused on studying the black steam morpher to discover exactly what it did. Then he hit into a large figure. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry about that sir." He apologised. Then lifting his head to see that he had in fact walked into the Terrasoid champion Spinarach.

"Oh you will be sorry!" It hissed. Spinarach lifted one of its large hairy legs and sweeped at the teacher.

Mr. Connelly fell backwards and the steam morpher flew out of his hands. He was knocked to the floor and the morpher landed upon his wrist. In an effort to catch it, he accidentally pushed the lever forward initiating the morphing sequence. He closed his eyes in fear as a bright light began to emanate from him before turning to steam.

When he opened his eyes, he was morphed in the black steam force suit. He got up and met the gaze of Spinarach, who was phased by the sudden transformation of an ordinary person. He examined the suit he was now in, impressed by its design. Then he saw the other rangers finish off the remaining drones and decided to run over to them.

The five were confused by the sudden appearance of a black ranger that wasn't who it usually is. "Huh, who're you?" Lloyd asked as the teacher came up to them.

"I'm a teacher, and apparently one of my students is a power ranger." Mr. Connelly told them.

TJ stepped in. "Well whoever you are we're gonna need your help. Press in the number sequence 1-0-1 and follow us. Got it?" TJ asked the temporary ranger.

"Got it." He acknowledged before pressing in the sequence and summoning the pipeblade.

The six of them ran at Spinarach who swiped out to keep them away. TJ and Lucas boosted up Alex and Ayana so that they would land behind Spinarach while the other four rangers kept the champion's attention away from the two girls with their weapons.

"Summoning Steam blaster!" The white and yellow ranger's said in unison.

0-7-3 … shipping … steam blaster … arriving

The two of them watched as the blasters formed in their hands. In front, the others were keeping Spinarach busy with their pipeblades. The two of them aimed at the back of the head and unleashed blaster fire into the Terrasoid who fell down in reaction.

The six of them regrouped in one line and Lloyd spoke up. "It's time to finish this guy. Let's summon the rail cannon!"

"Rail cannon?" Mr. Connelly asked with confusion.

"Just follow our lead teach." Alex told him as the others held out their arms and pressed down on the keypad.

0-3-4 … shipping … rail cannon … arriving

As the large ordinance appeared, the rangers took their positions and Mr Connelly was guided to his.

"Loading compression shell!"

"Aiming rail cannon!"

"Locked and loaded!"

"Firing rial cannon!"

The energy shot out, transforming into a train and different coloured carts. It hit through Spinarach and caused a multicoloured explosion of light to destroy the spider like Terrasoid. Once he was gone, the spores dropped down to the surface again and rejuvenated Spinarach into a giant. The rangers looked up at the monster.

They were about to call upon the rail riders when an exhausted voice called out to them. "Hey guys! Thought you could use a hand."

"Mia!" They replied with surprise.

She saw the black ranger and ran up to him. "Sorry sir but I'm gonna take my morpher back now." She told him as she pulled it off his arm. Mr. Connelly demorphed back to his old self as Mia placed her morpher back on her wrist. She held it out and pushed the lever forward. "Full stem ahead!" She shouted as she transformed and her ranger suit replaced her when the steam lifted.

"Let's call the rail riders!" The red ranger shouted.

From their gigantic storage shed, each ride powered up and drove along the lines. Eventually elevating above the rails into the sky. The six rangers jumping up into their individual zords.

"Red express rider engaged!"

"White mono rider engaged!"

"Blue speed rider engaged!"

"Green tram rider engaged!"

"Yellow bus rider engaged!"

"Black passenger rider engaged!"

"Coupling Zords! Steam titan Megazord engage!" They announced as the white and blue riders took position as the legs. The red rider transformed into the body and attached to the legs. The black rider separated and joined with the Megazord body to create the shoulders and finally, the yellow and green riders transformed into arms and attached to the rest of the machine. The steampunk head popped up and the Megazord was once again ready.

"Steam titan Megazord, ready!"

The titian charged forward and landed an uppercut to the Terrasoid who stumbled back in recoil. The megazord hit with a sidekick to Spinarach yet his spider legs blocked it and spun the megazord around, slamming it into the ground. The megazord got up quickly and landed a few rapid kicks with the speed rider before levelling out.

"I've had enough of toying around! Time for you rangers to get caught in my web!" Spinarach yelled out in surprise to the rangers. He spun around and shot thick rope like spider silk at them and wrapped the megazord up tight. "And now to finish you off!" He enthused.

He reared his legs to pounce at the megazord yet as he was about to leap, he was distracted by the hum of an engine. He turned his head and saw a biplane fly past him as he planted his legs back down on the floor. "What the hell?" Spinarach asked as he watched it fly away.

As he turned around he was met with a strong punch from the megazord which had released itself from the web. Standing to fight, the rangers inside adjusted some controls.

"Max speed! Collision strike!" They announced as the megazord ran with extreme speed before hovering using the jets of steam as it became horizontal and lifted its fists forward. It smashed through the Terrasoid and blew it to pieces as it set alight. The steam titan megazord stood upright and relaxed in victory.

[Steam Force]

The biplane soared over the skies and above a great forest. Welkin sat at the helm operating the plane. Just up ahead was his destination. "Looks like Castelan is just up ahead. Now I need to find this Doctor Blake the old man was talking about." Welkin told himself as he lowered the plane down to prepare for arrival…

|Steam Force|

And that is chapter 3 of steam force. Apologies it is so late but I had technical difficulties and I was sorta sick. Anyways, I'm all better now and can get on with writing again.

This chapter was just an idea I had for a temporary ranger just to change things up a little bit. Kivo is going to be revealed to the rest of the Terrasoids soon and the mystery man has been revealed to be Welkin Stross. You'll find out more about him later on. Plus, if you didn't understand the last scene, he's headed to the town Mythos is set and he'll be making an appearance there soon. Leave a review and tell me what you think of this chapter and the next chapter of Mythos should be here in the weekend.

Next chapter: Dark dealings

Synopsis: When the rangers are out for the day, someone from Lucas' past turns up and gets them into a sticky situation involving a Terrasoid. Can they work everything out? Find out next time in Power Rangers: Steam Force.