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Chapter 14 – Back to action Pt 1.
"Mastodon"
"Pterodactyl"
"Triceratops"
"Sabre toothed tiger"
"Tyrannosaurus!"
"Zeo ranger 1, Pink"
"Zeo ranger 2, Yellow"
"Zeo ranger 3, Blue"
"Zeo ranger 4, Green"
"Zeo ranger 5, Red."
"Heeeeyaaaaah" The rangers shouted in unison, morphing and landing back inside the lab.
"Man, that feels good." Zack exclaimed, staring at his suited body for the first time in years.
"It's been way too long." Billy said.
"This is so cool. I forgot how amazing it feels." Kimberly added.
"Guys, how are we going to do this?" Adam asked, looking at Jason and Tommy.
Jason glanced at the screen and saw the monsters attacking people in the park, destroying trees and flowers, destroying everything they touched.
"We don't really have an option. We have to ensure the publics safety and get there as soon as." Jason said.
"You're right." Tommy said to the original red ranger. "There's seven monsters. And there's ten of us."
"We can do this." Rocky said, clenching his fist.
Jason turned around to Trini and Kimberly. "Damn, I forgot how well you wear that suit." He quickly and quietly mumbled to his fiancé, momentarily checking her out in her pink ranger suit. "Kim, you and Trini stick close together and watch each others backs okay?"
"Jase, we got this." Kimberly ensured her partner, moving to hold his gloved hand.
"Yeah. Don't worry about us." Trini added, grabbing Zack's hand.
"I am teleporting you to the park now rangers." Alpha said, pressing a button on a control panel.
"Whoah. This. Is. Awesome." Jason shouted, flying through the air so fast that you couldn't even feel how fast you were moving.
"I almost forgot what this felt like." Kimberly screamed.
"This is totally prodigious." Billy shouted, seconds away from landing.
The rangers landed in Angel Grove Park, at the site of the monsters causing mayhem.
"Hey you over there. Pick on someone who can fight back." Jason shouted at Silverback at least twenty metres away, who had just picked up an innocent civilian by the scruff of their neck.
"Huh. Ten power rangers?" Silverback roared in shock, putting down the civilian who ran for his life.
"This can't be." Scorpina added, looking at the rangers in astonishment.
"Surprise!" Zack shouted. "It'll be more even this time."
"Hey pig. Leave them people alone. Why can you never stop eating." Kimberly shouted at Pudgy pig who was devouring the food of a family's picnic, the poor family were frozen on the spot but took their opportunity when the monster looked at Kimberly and ran for it.
"Who do you rangers think you are! You will not defeat us, so why even try?." Silverback shouted.
"Oh, we will defeat you. And I will make you pay for what you did you overgrown monkey." Rocky shouted.
"Monsters. Attack!" Silverback roared, pointing his sword at the rangers, nervously eyeing Rocky.
"Eye eye commander." Growled Eye eye guy.
"You defeated me last time, but I will exact my revenge." King sphinx shouted, leading the charge against the rangers."
"I am the mighty Pineoctopus. Do you remember me? I hope so because I am going to destroy you."
"Oink, oink, I'm hungry." Pudgy Pig squealed.
The monsters charged towards the rangers, Spidertron's weird clicking noise making Zack cringe.
"Looks like Silverback and Scorpina will be taking a back seat." Jason said to the rangers who were all standing tall in a straight line." Five monsters, ten of us. Pair up and take them two against one."
"Right." The rangers shouted collectively.
"Kim, you stay with me." Jason told his fiancé.
With the monsters now just a few metres away, the rangers paired up. Kim and Jason, Zack and Adam, Tanya and Trini, Tommy and Kat, Billy and Rocky.
The rangers wasted little time and took the fight to the monsters.
Kimberly shot an arrow at king sphinx, hitting him square in the chest, Jason followed up and landed a series of kicks and punches that rattled the ancient Egyptian monster.
King Sphinx threw a few punches at Jason and Kimberly, who's suits absorbed the force of the strikes with ease.
"Don't underestimate him. Remember his powers Kim. He can clap his wings and de-morph us. Splitting us up in the process." Jason told Kim who was by his side, both rangers keeping the monster in front of them.
"I can't forget that. He wanted you alone last time. I'll make sure he doesn't get that this time." Kimberly said, shooting another arrow at King Sphinx as the monster got to his feet.
A number of further arrows sent the monster back to his knees and Jason took this opportunistic moment and charged the monster, swinging his power sword as they collided.
Zack and Adam, the two original black rangers targeted Zack's nemesis, the Spidertron. The spider monster attempted to catch the two rangers in its web but the rangers dodged him easily. The monster was too slow. Zack had fought the spider monster before and knew what he had to do. The black ranger called on his power axe whilst Adam hit the monster with a torpedo kick. Zack took the chance and swung the power axe at the spider, slicing it open all over the body whilst Adam used his twin green Zeo axes and joined in, blitzing the monster causing green blood to spill everywhere.
Trini knew Pineoctopus well. This was the monster that turned her cousin Sylvia into cardboard. Trini knew however that their ranger suit prevented them from turning into card. Pineoctopus hit the two yellow rangers with a number of strikes but the rangers took them and shook them off.
The original yellow ranger and the yellow zeo ranger combined the power daggers and Tanya's Zeo twin batons, which looked like a pair of yellow nun chucks, and attacked the monster with speed and ferocity before the monster could even start an attack.
Billy and Rocky wasted no time at all, with Rocky the aggressor. Rocky had his Zeo bladed tonfa's ready and used them both to attack Eye eye guy with a vicious flurry, causing the monster to freeze in shock leaving Billy to use his power lance to destroy the alien. Once destroyed however, Eye eye guy somehow managed to reform. A bunch of his eyeballs that covered his grotesque body floated in the air and the monster re formed as though he had never even been touched.
Eye eye guy charged up and shot an energy blast from his disgusting body which knocked the rangers down temporarily.
"Let's attack together." Billy said wisely, getting up to his feet.
"Yes. Lets do this, send this monster back to hell." came Rocky's reply.
"This pig is so hideous." Kat commented, her and Tommy circling the grunting pig.
"He sure is. Jason told me he swallows weapons, so don't get too close." Tommy told Kat who was about to lunge in using her Zeo power disc. "Let me go first and you attack from behind." Tommy said to Kat who nodded her head in agreement.
The red zeo ranger charged at the pudgy pig with his star riser sword. Attacking and keeping the monster at arms length, utilising the swords long reach. Once the monster's attention was solely on Tommy, Kat creeped up behind the beast and sliced him like a honey roasted ham with her power discs.
"What is going on? Why are these monsters being defeated so easily?" Silverback inquired.
Scorpina shook her head in disbelief. "I don't know. I followed Finster's recipe best I could."
"Well you obviously made some mistakes." Silverback snapped.
"Well go and get those rangers yourself then, if you're so great and mighty." Scorpina retorted.
"I will. Let's see if the rangers can finish our monsters first, and then we'll pick up the scraps."
Kimberly shot a number of arrows, hitting the monsters head, stunning him. Jason powered up his sword and swung it at King sphinx, slashing at his head and then through the body. King sphinx fell to the floor and burst into flames.
Zack and Adam powered up their axes and hit the monster in various areas around its hairy, round upper body. The monster fell down in a large wisp of smoke and disappeared.
Pineoctopus was already unsteady following the ferocious attacks from the yellow rangers. Trini hit the monster Square in its large chest, sending him to the floor. The rangers jumped up high in the air and landed onto the monster with their weapons piercing the monster, ending its attempt at terrorising Angel Grove.
Rocky and Billy charged up their weapons and attacked Eye eye guy in one fluid move. The weapons tore at the monsters outlandishly hideous body, but this time, there was no coming back for Eye eye guy who hit the floor and blew up like he had fallen onto a land mine.
Tommy powered up his star riser whilst Kat charged up her Zeo power discs. They sent a joint energy blast and Pudgy pig who's head blew up as soon as the energy blasts hit it.
"Rangers, it appears as though you have vanquished all of the monsters." Alpha's voice through everyone's communicators.
"No this can't be!" Silverback thundered.
The rangers all turned around having defeated the monsters and faced Silverback and Scorpina.
"You failed Scorpina. Gasket will not be happy." Scorpina told his fellow evil soldier.
"We'll worry about that later." Scorpina responded.
"You are correct my golden arachnid. Let's finish these rangers ourselves." Silverback raised his sword high up into the air. "You may have defeated Scorpina's monsters. But you won't fair as well with me."
"You have a price to pay you silver son of a bitch." Rocky screamed, running towards the Persifcan warrior.
"No Rocky. Don't!" Jason screamed, attempting to go after the blue zeo ranger, being held back by Kimberly. "Kimberly, he's toast. We need to help him."
"Yes. WE! Not just you." Kimberly argued.
The rangers nodded their hands heads and collectively ran after Rocky who was meeting Silverback halfway, both of them running towards each other like a piece of metal and a magnet.
"Put down your weapons and let's do this like true warriors. We shall see who the alpha is!" Silverback shouted, dropping his sword.
Rocky dropped his baton-like bladed tonfa's and greeted his adversary with a side kick to the chest. Silverback took the kick like it was a floating petal hitting his chest and threw a backhand which connected hard with Rocky's helmet.
Rocky shook off the powerful blow and threw a jab, straight, spinning back kick and a rising knee. Only the knee connected, the rest of the strikes were dodged expertly.
"Is that all you have? Weakling." Silverback growled, grabbing Rocky by the arms and throwing him high up in the air, catching him in his shoulders and throwing him backwards onto the floor, crashing his body on top of his.
Rocky's breath was blown out of his body with the impact of the slam. He lay there struggling to breath, thanking God when he saw the rangers attack Silverback.
Jason and Zack were the first ones to attempt to destroy the evil Silverback. Zack attacked the beast's legs with sharp, rapid kicks whilst Jason attacked the Alien's humongous abdomen with a swift combination of kicks, punches and knees.
Tommy and Adam joined in shortly, Tommy connecting with a series of kicks to the monsters head, Adam attacking the silver clad monkey with a rapid flurry of punches. The rangers were swarming Silverback and he couldn't defend all the strikes. Down to one knee, the other rangers joined in and continued their relentless onslaught.
Scorpina slowly and leisurely walked over towards the rangers, in no apparent hurry to help her fellow soldier.
Silverback managed to get a glimpse of Scorpina and had to act fast. He waited until the rangers closed in on their strikes and using his brute, animalistic strength, he swung outwards and managed to send the rangers flying backwards with a huge shrug.
Silverback raised his arm and his sword obediently appeared in his huge hand, just as Tommy and Zack lunged forward for another attack. Silverback used his efficient sword skills and slashed both rangers across the chest causing sparks to fizz off the ranger's suits, sending the two rangers to the floor.
Silverback twisted on the spot and swung his blade at an oncoming Jason and Adam, slicing them both on their abdomens, he didn't stop there, the giant ape brought down the hilt of the sword on Adams helmet, crushing the green Zeo ranger's head, Adam thankful for his helmet but he still felt dizzy. Jason ducked from a followed up punch but was caught with a kick to the chest, sending him backwards onto the floor.
Kimberly shot an arrow at Silverback which hit him in the arm.
"You think this little arrow will harm the mighty Silverback?" The monster growled, pulling out the arrow and throwing it at the pink ranger, hitting her in the helmet and knocking her backwards.
Trini, Billy, Kat and Tanya surrounded the beast, just as the rest of the rangers were getting to their feet.
"Come on. Lets see what you have got." Growled the Persifcan.
The blue and yellow mighty morphin power rangers attacked first. Using their weapons to slash and stab at the beast, Tanya and Kat quickly followed with various strikes, proving too much for the huge monster who started to back off, flailing his arms around him to try and deflect the blows. He breathed a sigh of relief once golden blasts from Scorpina's sword hit his adversaries.
"Finally, you arrive in time to help your friend." Silverback snarled, standing to his feet.
"Ally, not friend." Scorpina murmured, moving next to Silverback and facing the ten power rangers who had regrouped and were getting ready to attack once again.
"Rangers. There's ten of us. There's two of them. It ain't exactly fair, but since when did evil ever play fair." Jason said.
"And the fact that they're fucking aliens. I mean, actual aliens from different planet, and they have a big advantage." Zack laughed back.
"Exactly. So it evens out. We've kicked Scorpina's butt before." Jason picked up his power sword from the floor. "We can kick upgraded Goldar's butt too."
A chorus of approval and shouts of encouragement rang through the park from the rangers who were pumped up for this.
The power rangers wasted no time in using their number advantage and took the fight to the monsters.
Rocky, Jason, Tommy, Zack and Trini targeted Silverback, Adam, Kat, Tanya, Billy and Kimberly went after Scorpina.
Silverback disregarded his words of fighting without weapons and utilized his excellent skills with his sword to avoid the rangers from destroying him. Yes, the rangers were inflicting a lot of damage on the silver warrior, but Silverback was doing just enough to keep in the fight.
After a few minutes of fighting, the rangers close to finishing Scorpina knew they needed to adjust and help out the rangers battling Silverback. Scorpina was being beaten down by the five rangers and was laying on the ground at their mercy.
Adam and Tanya decided to jump to the other team and help finish Silverback once and for all, and get a bit of revenge for Aisha.
They were about to put an end to it but arrows hitting them all in the backs painfully stopped their plan.
"Huh. What's this." Jason said, sparks fizzing from his suit.
"You rangers really believe you can defeat us?"
A female, robotic voice broke out through the quiet sound of battle..
"Archerina!" Tommy said through gritted teeth.
"And Gasket!" Jason added.
"I am afraid to tell you rangers, your time is now up!" Gasket said proudly. "You pesky little cockroaches have annoyed me for the last time." Gasket raised his dark green sword. "Prepare, for your demise."
Gasket and Archerina used their magic and pulled their fallen warriors over to them. Gasket standing beside Scorpina and Silverback next to Archerina.
"We should get into our teams and take on two of them each." Jason said.
"Yeah. That sounds good." Tommy responded, his Zeo team standing around him, the original team surrounding Jason just as the monsters came walking towards them, almost stalking them.
"I want Silverback." Rocky said, anger and pain evident in his voice.
"Cool. Zeo rangers take monkey and Archerina." Jason turned to look at his team of rangers." We'll go for the other two."
"Right." They shouted obediently.
"Here they come. Let's finish this rangers." Tommy shouted, the zeo rangers running towards Silverback and Archerina.
Princess Archerina shot a few arrows which the rangers successfully managed to avoid, and they continued running towards the two monsters.
"Don't worry Silverback. I have more skills than just shooting arrows." Archerina told her soldier.
"I know, my queen." Silverback growled, raising his sword.
"This Gasket dude is a real pain in the ass. But he's good with his sword." Jason shouted, glancing at his rangers as they ran towards Gasket and Scorpina. "Can you and Billy take Scorpina if Zack and Trini help me beat Gasket?" He asked Kimberly.
"Yes Jase." She replied, sending him a quick glance.
"We are familiar with her capabilities. We can take her." Billy said.
"Cool. Billy, look after Kim okay." Jason said, readying his sword as they approached their enemies.
"Relax Jason. I can handle myself."
Tommy, Adam and Rocky battled Silverback. His sword fighting skills were truly extraordinary. It was taking each of them to fully focus and use all their knowledge to stay in the fight with the beast.
Silverback used his quick and powerful sword strikes to smash each ranger down in multiple occasions, but the rangers were gauging his timing and his flow, ready to block and begin their own attack.
Both Kat and Tanya had fought Archerina previously and they knew her well, especially Kat since she fought her alone once.
Princess Archerina was a formidable foe. Very well versed in hand-to -hand combat and proficient with her bow which was also used as a sword of sorts with it's razor sharp limbs and tips cutting the two rangers and almost slicing through their suits. Kat and Tanya dusted themselves off and readied their Zeo weapons.
"You think those little toys can help you?" Princess Archerina scoffed.
"There's only one way to find out." Kat responded, glancing at the yellow zeo ranger.
Rocky, Adam and Tommy were now getting used to Silverback's fierce sword techniques. They blocked and defended Silverback's strikes and they then went on the offensive and utilized their weapons well, inflicting damage on their foe.
Tommy used his sword to attack the monsters abdomen, slashing away at his armor encased body, slowly beginning to damage the metal and each blow inflicting pain that passed through. Adam and rocky used their weapons to dance around the beast and attack various body parts that were not being defended.
"This is the end of you!" Rocky screamed, slashing away at Silverback, cutting his cheek with his sharp weapon, blood splattering onto the blue ranger's visor.
Prince Gasket was heavy, clicked when he moved, and sounded like C-3PO, but he was well-versed in battle. The Prince of what remained of the machine empire effortlessly evaded the attack from Zack, Trini and Jason, avoiding their attempts to strike him, and countered with quick, sharp slashes from his green sword.
"Man, he's quick." Zack said, getting up from the floor.
"I think you should ditch the axe for attacking." Jason told the black ranger. "You're the fastest on your feet. And the axe is slowing you down."
"He's right Zack." Trini said to her husband.
" I think you should distract him with your quick feet and strikes and we'll go in with our weapons." Jason said, standing up to his feet.
"Right. Let me show this robot some hip-hop-kido."
Billy and Kimberly had fought Scorpina many times before. She was an imposing, menacing foe. True, they had fought her many times before and defeated her but with the help of the other rangers. They had to do it with two now.
Scorpina was probably the quickest sword fighter from all of the bad guys, but she certainly lacked the strength of Gasket and Silverback. Billy and Kimberly knew this. They bade their time and sacrificed a few blows from her sharp sword and waited for an opening.
"Now!" Billy said, sticking his lance in to Scorpina's shoulder blade, causing her to stand still in agony.
Kimberly readied her bow and shot numerous arrows directed to the monsters body, she did a little fist bump when she saw the arrows lodge themselves into the armour-less parts of Scorpina's body.
Duck, weave, spin on the heels, Zack danced around Gasket, making him miss every single lunge with his sword. "Stay still you pesky little human." Prince Gasket screamed.
Zack raised his axe and defended a heavy blow from the sword.
Jason and Trini took this small, opportunity and unloaded on the robot. Trini rapidly slashed away at him with her power daggers and Jason used his trustworthy power sword to carve into Gasket's metallic body.
Prince Gasket went down onto one knee, Jason landed with a spinning back kick to his chest, sending him flying into a tree trunk.
Tommy saw that both Silverback and Princess Archerina were floored and in a vulnerable state.
"Guys, let's finish them off." He shouted. "Zeo spinning power kick!"
The five zeo rangers leapt up into the air and spun aggressively, gaining momentum before they darted towards Silverback first, and then Princess Archerina with such speed, that the naked eye wouldn't be able to see them. They landed safely on the ground with both the monsters incapacitated.
"Rangers, let's bring them together." Jason ordered.
"Right." His teammates shouted.
"Power axe!"
"Power bow!"
"Power daggers!"
"Power lance!"
"Power sword!" Jason shouted, landing the sword on top of all the weapons which were all now combined into the mighty, power blaster.
The rangers stood together and focused all their powers on to the weapons and boom! A powerful beam shot at both Gasket and Scorpina, blowing them 20 feet backwards and into the grassy ground underneath them.
The zeo rangers having defeated their foes, ran up to the mighty morphin power rangers.
"Hey, I think we've done it." Rocky said jubilantly.
"I'm not too sure Rocky. Don't they explode into minuscule atoms and dissipate into the air?" Billy questioned.
"What?" Rocky replied.
"You know. Don't they blow up?"
"Yeah. You're right. But they only look unconscious to me." Jason commented.
"Silverback bleeds though guys. I'm sure he and Archerina couldn't have withstood our spinning power kick." Tommy added.
"You better think again, look!" Kimberly screeched.
The rangers looked on as Prince Gasket helped Scorpina out from the ground and back to their feet. Princess Archerina pulled up a wobbly Silverback and walked over to her husband and Scorpina.
"You think you could destroy us that easily?" Princess Archerina screamed.
"It will take more than that to defeat us." Prince Gasket said defiantly. "Unfortunately, Klank is no longer with us. But have no fear, Gasket is here." Prince Gasket raised his arms up into the air and the ground began to shake and quiver. The rangers felt as though they were stood on a large piece of Jell-O.
"What's going on!" Jason shouted, his voice just about discernable through the rumbling.
"You will find out soon enough." Prince Gasket said, his body beginning to tremble in tune with the ground shaking.
There was a brilliant flash of light and all of a sudden, the rangers were looking up at a gigantic Prince Gasket.
"Oh shit." Jason mumbled, realising what just happened.
"We're done for!" Kat cried.
"I'm guessing you didn't come up with a way to get our zords back?" Zack questioned Billy.
"Unfortunately, all of the zords are obsolete. Apart from the zeo megazord." The blue ranger replied.
"Well, can we get a hold of them? Rocky asked.
Billy shook his head. "Negative. Myself and alpha tried but, they seem to be locked away in the zeo zord holding bay. We couldn't gain access to them."
The rangers toppled to the floor like a set of bowling pins when the giant Prince Gasket stomped his foot down.
"I will squash you rangers like cockroaches." His voice reverberated around Angel Grove like a megaphone in an underground bunker.
The power rangers scurried back to their feet and looked at each other, desperately searching for a way to defeat the giant Prince Gasket standing over them…
……To be continued .
