Chapter 11

(Later at Zordon's chamber…)

The Rangers were back at the ship as Alpha led them into Zordon's chamber.

"Welcome back Rangers." Zordon greeted them.

"Zordon, Rita's going around town killing people to gather gold." Carrie said. "We need to stop her."

"I know." Zordon said. "However the five of you are not ready to battle Rita yet."

"Come on, there's five of us and one of her." George said.

"Rita was once a Ranger like you, and she also has other powers which you do not." Zordon reminded them. "And she was able to defeat my team and we had far more experience than you five do, not to mention you cannot morph yet."

The Rangers were all silent.

"Go with Alpha." Zordon said. "You must train."

The five teens followed Alpha out of Zordon's chamber and to the training chamber. Today there were five different coloured stands each of which held a different weapon.

"Today Rangers we will begin weapons training." Alpha said. "On the stands in front of you are your individual weapons, each of which goes with your corresponding Power Coin."

Carrie stepped towards the red stand which held a large sword with a thick knife like blade and bulky sabre grip. She picked it up and swung it experimentally a few times, the weapon feeling much lighter than it looked in her hand.

"Cool." Carrie said.

Sue went to the pink stand which held a recurve bow that had a blade on the outsides of the curve.

"I can see it can be used to fight, but uh, where are the arrows?" Sue asked.

"Just pull back on the string." Alpha replied.

Sue did so and suddenly an arrow appeared knocked on the string. Sue experimentally pointed it at the wall and fired, the arrow penetrated all the way to the feathers.

"Whoa, that is awesome." Sue exclaimed.

George went to the black stand and picked up a large two handed double-bladed axe. He gave a few experimental chops, the big weapon humming as he waved it about.

"Man this will do some damage." George stated.

Tommy went to the blue stand where there was a staff-like weapon with blades on either end. He took it and twirled it around trying to be like the martial artists he'd seen in movies. However as he tried to spin it around behind his back he dropped it to the ground.

"Think I'm going to need some practice." Tommy said as he picked it back up.

Erika approached the yellow stand last. On the stand was a pair of weapons that greatly resembled sais. Erika picked them and did a few practice thrust.

"You know this is kind of like Raphael from the Ninja Turtles, he was always my favourite." Erika commented.

"Didn't know you watched Ninja Turtles." George said.

"From time to time." Erika said.

"You can discuss TV shows later, Rangers." Alpha interrupted. "For now you need to practice and master your new weapons."

(Later at Chamberlain Jewelry…)

Abbey Finn was the owner of Chamberlain Jewelry, the only fine jewelry store in the town. It was about 7:15 p.m. and it had been a slow business day so Abbey decided she would close up early. With all the talk of some killer going around killing people to steal their gold people were probably not wanting to purchase any jewelry right now. Abbey hoped that the killer would be caught and brought to justice or her business might end up suffering greatly.

Abbey was just about to head into the back to begin closing up when the door opened. Abbey looked to see a somewhat disheveled looking woman enter the store holding what looked to be a golden staff or scepter which had a large green gem mounted on it in one hand.

"Um, can I help you?" Abbey asked warily, there was something off about this customer.

"I want gold." The woman replied. "All of it."

"Um, excuse me?" Abbey responded; the request didn't make sense.

"I want all of the gold." The woman repeated.

Abbey didn't know off the top of her head how much all of the gold in her store cost, but she knew it was several millions of dollars' worth of jewelry; and this woman didn't appear to have that much money if she even had any at all.

"Okay and how exactly do you plan on paying for it?" Abbey asked suspiciously.

"Paying?" The woman asked.

"Yeah, if you want all my gold it's going to cost you a lot of money." Abbey replied as she stepped from behind the counter and slowly approached the woman.

"Money?" The woman inquired.

Abbey was beginning to think that this was some kind of prank.

"Look unless you have money to buy something, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Abbey stated.

Suddenly the woman reached out with her freehand quicker than Abbey could react and grabbed Abbey by the throat and lifted her into the air, Abbey's feet dangling off the ground.

"I do not buy, I take." The woman stated and smiled showing several gold teeth.

Abbey suddenly realized that this woman was the so-called Gold Killer the police were looking for. Before she could scream or do anything however the woman snapped Abbey's neck and dropped her corpse to the ground.

The woman then walked over to one of the cases which contained dozens of engagement rings and smashed the glass with her bare fist. She then placed her scepter in the case and all of the gold liquefied and then pooled together leaving behind the various gemstones. The puddle of gold then traveled to the woman's scepter and added itself as the scepter grew to become more of a staff.

The woman then went about and did the same with all of the gold in the store. Once she had she looked at her staff and smiled.

"Soon Goldar, soon." Rita said.

To Be Continued…

Finally we see Rita. Meanwhile the Rangers are training with their weapons, but will they be ready and able to stop Rita? And we got a nice little ass-kicking scene in there from Erika. There will be more of that coming up in the next chapters as the Rangers face Rita and her Putties for the first time.

Also thanks to everybody who has reviewed so far. I noticed there was some talk in the reviews about a White Ranger and Green Ranger. I would just like to state that Rita is the Green Ranger (that gem in her staff is the green Power Coin) and there will be no White Ranger. I don't intend to write anything beyond their battle with Rita. That said I appreciate your comments and suggestions none the less and please keep those reviews coming.