Power Rangers Thunder Force #19 Lightning strikes part 1.

Previously on Power rangers…

"That is the second servant I have lost. I am tired of your failures Thunder." Astayanax yells.

"What are you gonna do?" Thunder asks scared.

"I always wondered what would happen if I used one of these on you." Astayanax says.

A spore appears in his hand and he grins evilly.

"No my master. Please. I will succeed. I promise." Thunder yells back away.

"You better succeed." Astayanax says.

The spore merges with Thunder.



"A massive thunder storm has struck angel grove. A storm worse than anything in recorded history. City
officials are recommending people to turn off their power until the storm is over to avoid power surges." A
reporter says.

A huge bolt of lightening strikes down someone right behind the reporter.

"This is Rita Ricardo reporting." The reporter says.

The camera light goes off.

"Okay let's get the hell out of here. My boss must be nuts to put a reporter in a situation like this." Rita
says.

They rush for the van and get in. The cameraman tries to start the van but it won't turn over.

"Damn it. What a time for the battery to go dead." The cameraman yells.

Suddenly another huge bolt of lightening strikes the van.

"Arghhh." Rita yells.

"Don't touch the metal parts." The cameraman says.

But the electricity somehow jumps the metal and fries the two people inside the van. Meanwhile at the
studio, the weatherman is reporting on the storm.

"The storm has been going on for an hour now. There is no end in sight but the warning to turn off all
power is still in effect. This channel will go off the air right after I finish the weather." The weatherman
says.

"Oh you will be in for a long wait. For this storm will never end." Astayanax says laughing evilly.


And now for episode 19…

Cassie is in her house cowering from the tremendous and frightening thunderstorm going on outside. She
paid heed to the warnings and has no power on in her house. The phone rings and Cassie walks over to
answer it. Before she can touch it however, the phone blows up. Cassie screams. Meanwhile Zanek is in
his mobile lab doing scans of the storm. Auros appears.

"This isn't a normal storm is it?" Zanek asks.

"No. I can feel that Astayanax is behind this somehow." Auros says shaking his head.

"But how?" Zanek wonders frustrated.

He is concentrating so hard that he doesn't hear a beeping coming from his bag. A huge bolt strikes the lab
but its special alloy absorbs it and sends it into the ground. The loud thunder sound breaks Zanek's
concentration and he finally hears the beeping. He zeroes in on it and pulls out his warning device.

"Of course. A monster has been created. Is it possible that the monster is so powerful that it is taking the
form of a whole storm?" Zanek asks.

"Ever since I met Astayanax, I have learned to never throw away any possibility." Auros responds.

Zanek pushes some buttons on the scanner.

"Oh man. The readings on this one are off the chart. I have bad feeling about this." Zanek says.

Zanek pulls out his communicator.

"This is Zanek. Listen in, I have some information on this storm." Zanek says.

The others acknowledge.

"It's a monster. I am not sure how but the monster is so powerful that it may have been able to take on the
form of a storm." Zanek says.

"That's twisted." Karone says.

"How can we stop this monster if it's a storm?" Carlos asks.

"I have a weapon that I think will force the monster to concentrate into a smaller form than a storm." Zanek
says.

"Let's all meet outside angel Grove Park. Morph before we get there." Carlos says.

The others agree and Zanek leaves the lab.

"Be careful." Auros says.

"I will." Zanek says.

They all meet at the park entrance and plan. Zanek pulls out a large weapon.

"This is the weapon I was talking about. I need to find what's close to the epicenter of this storm first."
Zanek says.

Suddenly a bolt of lightening strikes really close by and makes all the rangers jump.

"God that was close. Let's do this now. I don't like being out during a storm." Cassie says.

Zanek gets out his scanner and looks around with it. He points to the west side of the forest and they all
follow.

"Oh my god. What the hell is that?" Janus asks.

She is looking at a big ball of energy that is floating above the ground.

"Looks like we have found the source of the storm." Zanek says.

He raises his weapon and fires on the epicenter. But instead of working, the globe fires a fierce beam of
lightening right at Cassie. It strikes her and she falls to the ground twitching.

"Cassie." Ashley yells.

"Auros. Beam her out of here now." Zanek yells.

Cassie disappears.

"I hope she will be okay but we need to deal with this now." Zanek says.

Zanek raises his weapon again.

"No. If you fire that thing again then it will attack us again." Ashley says.

"I set the wrong frequency. That was more of a feedback." Zanek says.

Zanek fires again and this time the epicenter goes wild and all the lightning comes together to form one
monster of pure energy.

"What is it?" Janus asks.

"It's made up completely of energy. It's unlike anything we have faced before and its power is off the
charts." Zanek says.

The being changes into a beam of energy and shoots right through the rangers, knocking them all down.
The being changes back behind them.

"Wait a minute. The scanner is now saying that this monster is still made from a virus. Computer scan and
create an anti viral program." Zanek yells.

The computer quickly beeps and Zanek points the needle weapon at the monster.

"I will teach you to hurt my friends." Zanek yells.

He fires the needle but it passes right through the monster and embeds itself in a tree.

"Oh my good. It's not solid enough for the needle injection system to work. We need the zords." Zanek
says.

"What about becoming the white ranger?" Ashley asks.

"No. We need Cassie for that. And even if we still had her right now, I don't think it would do any good."
Zanek responds.

"We need the Megazord." Carlos yells.

The zords all appear and everybody but Cassie jumps into their zords. The zords come together to form the
Megazord.

"Computer scan and create a anti viral program." Zanek says.

The monster fired a constant stream of energy that envelops the megazord. Inside the megazord is shaking
violently.

"It's draining our energy." Carlos yells.

"Computer. Change the frequency of the zord's energy. Let's make it taste bad." Zanek says.

The change helps for a few seconds but the drain continues.

"Damn it. He's changed his frequency also." Zanek says.

"Anti viral program completed." The computer says.

"Fire." Zanek yells.

The cannon powers up and fires on the monster. It seems to work at first but suddenly the energy
backlashes against the cannon and blows it up.

"He overloaded the cannon. Now we have no way to get rid of this virus." Zanek says.

"Ultrazord." Carlos says.

The megazord changes its configuration and gets its big double-edged sword.

"Computer. Activate main weapon." Zanek says.

The others look at him weird.

"That is made of energy. The monster is made of energy. Don't you think this will have no affect?" Carlos
asks.

"I am not gonna use it to fire energy. I am gonna use it to take the energy. Like we did with the monster
that was created with Janus's energy." Zanek says.

"Main weapon ready." The computer says.

"Weapon in collect mode, FIRE!" Zanek yells.

All the panels in the chest start forming a sucking energy motion that brings the monster towards them and
it disappears as they suck it all in.

"It worked." Zanek says.

Suddenly the consoles go wild.

"What's going on?" Carlos yells.

"He is still alive. He is integrating his energy into the zords systems. Abandon ship." Zanek yells.

They all jump out the Ultrazord. The ultrazord suddenly disappears.

"It's gone." Zanek says sadly.

"Let's go check on Cassie." Carlos says.

They all teleport.

"How is she?" Ashley asks Auros.

"Not good. The chock scrambled her brain waves. She is in a coma." Auros responds.

Janus turns on the TV and gasps.

"Guys look at this." Janus says.

They all look at the TV and see the Ultrazord attacking the city.

"This is really happening. The power rangers, our supposed city protectors, are attacking us now." The
announcer says.

The Ultrazord turns towards the camera and fires a blast that takes it out. The signal goes bad. The rangers
just stand there stunned.

To be continued…

Next week the rangers will face their greatest enemy, their own weapon.