Power Rangers Thunder Force #15: the gem

A ship is flying through space and is being attacked by the explorer ship.

"Don't let him get away. He has something on board that will make a monster unstoppable." Astayanax
says.

"Fire all weapons and target the engines." Thunder orders.

The weapons officer complies and the engines blow out on the other ship.

"Darn it. You did too much damage. It's out of control." Thunder yells.

"Is it gonna crash on earth?" Astayanax asks.

"Probably." The scanning officer responds.

"Then let it go. We will get it after it crashes." Astayanax says.

Meanwhile on earth a man is plowing his field and sees a fireball streak from the heavens and crash with an
explosion. He sees that it landed in a nearby field. He runs over and finds the spaceship.

"Wow. It's an alien spaceship. I'd better look in it before the government gets here." The farmer says.

He looks through the wreckage until suddenly an alien falls out of the hatch and weakly crawls forward.
When he sees the farmer he holds up a gem.

"Please make sure this doesn't fall into the wrong hands." The alien says in weak English.

"Hey that sure is pretty." The farmer says taking the gem.

The alien stops moving.


And now for episode 15…


Cassie is visiting her relative in the country. Janus is joining her.

"So is this the only relative you have in the country?" Janus asks.

"Yeah the rest of my family doesn't believe in living in the country. They have more stricter Asian
beliefs." Cassie says.

"Ah this is great. I haven't gotten to go out to the country in awhile." Janus says putting her car seat back.

"Yeah. I haven't gotten out to see my cousin for along time also." Cassie says.

After a half an hour, they finally pull into a long driveway that leads to a large farmhouse. Janus and
Cassie step out to stretch.

"Oh love that country air." Janus says taking a deep breath.

A man in his 20's comes out the front door of the farmhouse.

"Ah Cassie. I haven't seen you in ages." The man says.

"Hey cousin Mark." Cassie says.

"Mark?" Janus asks.

"He had his name changed to something more American." Cassie says.

"Oh don't tell me you have gone and told your friend all my secrets. Don't believe anything bad she tells
you about me." Mark says laughing.

"Naw. She hasn't told me anything bad about you. Yet." Janus says smiling.

"Well come on in. We can't just stand around here yaking all day." Mark says.

He gestures for the girls to follow him into the farmhouse, which they do. Janus is in awe at the size of the
farmhouse. She walks into the living room and is surprised to find a cable TV with an antenna outside.

"You have cable?" Janus says.

"Hey we're civilized out here too. Actually it's satellite TV. But I get all the same channels and more."
Mark says.

"I am kind of tired from the drive over here. Do you mind if I take a nap?" Cassie asks.

"Sure. The guestroom is upstairs. I already had my maid fix the bed." Mark says.

Cassie looks at Mark funny.

"Okay okay. I'm joking. I don't have a maid. But I am not ashamed that I can do housework. Sides who
else can do it if I don't." Mark says laughing.

"I am tired but I can't sleep until I get a tour of this place. Cause otherwise I am too hyper." Janus says.

Cassie walks upstairs.

"Well. The tour wouldn't be a tour without seeing the huge farmland. I have ten acres. All full of almost
every crop there is. Or at least all the legal ones." Mark says winking.

Janus is lead out to the outside and into a riding mower.

"It's too much to walk. Do you mind if I take you on a mower tour?" Mark asks.

"That's fine with me." Janus says.

Mark starts up the mower and heads out along the crops. He points out where and what each crop is. He
frowns when he comes to a barren part.

"Now that's strange. There used to be an abundance of corn here." Mark says.

He gets off and takes a piece of ground between his fingers. He then sniffs it.

"That is not a normal smell for ground soil." Mark says frowning.

"What could be the problem?" Janus asks.

"I could be mistaken but this soil smells like it has been radioactively poisoned. But that can't be right.
There are no power plants nearby. And if there was a dumping ground here, this would have happened
along time ago." Mark responds.

Mark takes out a walkie-talkie and pushes the talk button.

"Hey Joe. Can you get on over to the corn field right away?" Mark asks into the talkie.

"Sure." Joe responds.

A few minutes later Joe appears on another riding mower.

"What's up boss?" Joe asks.

"Look at this. The ground is radiated or something. All the corn is gone." Mark says.

"Whoa. It wasn't like that yesterday when I looked." Joe says surprised.

"Let's go look around for anything that could be causing this." Mark says.

They all get on the two riding mowers and ride around away from the good crops. Suddenly Mark sees
something that makes him gasp on the horizon.

"What is it?" Janus asks.

"That's what I would like to know." Mark says.

He shifts the mower into high gear and quickly goes to the thing he saw. A crashed space ship. Janus
gasps herself when she sees it.

"Oh my god. It's a crashed ship." Janus says.

Mark gets up and looks at the soil around the crash.

"I am betting that the crashed ship is causing the radioactivity." Mark says.

Suddenly a bunch of Virii and Xtlc appear.

"Okay what did you do with the gem?" Xtlc asks.

"What gem?" Mark asks.

The virii rush forwards and hold him.

"Don't act stupid. The creature in this ship was holding a gem that my master wants. Now what did you
do with it?" Xtlc asks menancily.

"We haven't seen a gem since we got here. This ship is partially on my neighbor's land. He might have
picked this gem up." Mark says.

"Fine then we will go and find this neighbor of yours. But I am taking this one hostage just in case you get
any ideas." Xtlc says to Janus.

They disappear and take Mark with him.

"Hurry. Go and get Cassie. She might be able to help me with this problem." Janus says.

Joe nods and jumps onto the mower and rushes off with it.

"Now what would that guy be wanting with a gem from outer space?" Janus wonders.

After a few minutes, Joe returns with Cassie who has a worried look on her face.

"Where did they take Mark?" Cassie asks.

"They said they were going to find his neighbor. He said his neighbor might have got the gem they are
looking for." Janus says.

"Oh my god. Joe told me about this thing along the way but I never imagined." Cassie says.

"We have to go and save Mark." Janus says.

"I am gonna go back and call for some help. You head on over." Cassie says.

Cassie takes off and hides behind a haystack. Little does she know that Janus sees her morph when she
went to talk Cassie into going with her.

"Oh my god. So Cassie is a ranger also." Janus says shocked.

Cassie sees Janus standing there shocked.

"Did you see me before I morphed." Cassie asks.

"Yeah and it's okay. I also have seen Ashley morph. So you are a power ranger?" Janus says.

"Yeah. Well let's go to the neighboring farm house and quickly." Cassie says.

Janus jumps onto the mower while Cassie races towards the farmhouse. Once they are there they find the
virii and Xtlc threatening the homeowner.

"Give us the gem now." Xtlc says threatening.

The virii tighten the grip on the homeowner.

"I am telling you that I don't know what you are talking about. I have never heard of or seen this crashed
space ship." The man says.

"Hey pa. I forgot to tell you what I found earlier." Another boy says.

He stops when he sees the virii and Xtlc that are holding his father.

"Uh. I can see you're busy. I will tell you earlier." The boy says.

"It's the gem. He has it." Xtlc says eyeing the gem in the boy's hands.

The virii take off after the boy after he starts running away. The boy doesn't stand a chance and the virii
take him and grab the gem. They then return the gem to Xtlc.

"Ah finally. I have succeeded at something. My master will be very pleased." Xtlc says.

Cassie and Janus look distraught.

"Destroy them." Xtlc says.

He snaps his fingers and the virii become one vicious looking monster then he disappears with the gem.

Cassie fights the monster but she is grossly under-powered without the others. The virii monster knocks
out Cassie. Suddenly Janus starts hurting and becomes the gray warrior.

"That's enough. You have hurt my friend and terrorized my friend's family and neighbors. It's time for
you to pay." Grey says.

The virii responds by slamming itself into Janus but she stands her ground. The virii fires a group of
energy beams at Janus, who easily dodges them.

"Is that all you can do?" Grey asks.

As if in response, the virii monster separates and surrounds Grey than becomes solid. Trapping her inside
of it.

"Arghhh. Can't move." Grey yells.

At that time Cassie wakes up and sees Grey in trouble.

"That's enough damage. Spatial power." Cassie yells.

She gathers energy from the cosmos until she has gathered one big black ball of energy.

:"No wait. You might hit me too." Grey says.

"Oh yeah." Cassie says losing her ball.

She rushes forward with her swords and tears through the mass. It separates from Janus and becomes on
big monster again. Cassie finally makes her space ball again and fires it at the virii monster. The monster
blows up and there is nothing left of it now.

"Power down." Cassie says.

She then rushes over to her cousin and neighbor.

"Are you okay?" She asks them.

They nod weakly. She looks and sees Grey turn back into Janus.

"Wait a minute. You're the gray warrior?" Cassie asks.

"Yeah I guess I am. That would explain the memory lapses I have sometimes." Janus responds confused.

"They have the gem now. I wonder what it is and what they will do with it." Cassie says serious.

"We have the gem. But more important we now know who the gray warrior is." Astayanax says looking at
the picture of Janus on the view screen.

Meanwhile at Frankenstein's lab, he is finished with his testing of Bulk and Skull.

"My vaccination worked a little. But I fear it won't work against everything. Oh well it's a start."
Frankenstein says.

"God that was the sickest I have ever been." Bulk says weakly.

Skull just nods. Frankenstein looks at his data and frowns.

"I am afraid that my scans of the virus has just confirmed my fears. It's the most powerful virus I have
ever seen." Frankenstein says.

"So what does that mean?" Bulk asks.

"That the big one is coming. A strain of virus that is so powerful that it could easily wipe out humanity.
This powerful virus has only verified that this super virus will come. It's only a matter of time."
Frankenstein responds grimly.

The end…

What will the explorer ship do with the knowledge that Janus is the gray warrior? Find out next time.