Power rangers Thunder force #29 Zanek's legacy Chapter 5: Zanek's song.

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Previously on Power rangers thunder force...

The rangers are forcefully taken to the cells after their swords are taken away. But Turlok stops them from taking Carlos.

"Oh no. I have a special use for him."

Turlok leads the guards into a room where Carlos is forcefully thrown in.

"I want you to meet a new warrior of mine."

A strange figure appears in the darkness.

"Actually you may know him already."

The figure steps into the light. It's T.J.

And now the conclusion...

Carlos is facing off against T.J.

"T.J. you have to fight it man. It's me Carlos."

T.J. smiles and does a hard kick to Carlos's head making it snap backwards.

"I know."

Carlos recovers blocks another kick.

"I won't fight you."

T.J. does a sweep and knocks Carlos onto his back.

"I do!"

"I won't hurt you."

T.J. takes a bladed staff and points it at Carlos's throat.

"I will."


""Zanek's song.""

Janus finds herself in a dark room. Suddenly a blinding light floods her eyes and she tries to shield them.

"Who are you? Who's there?" Janus calls out to the light.

Suddenly the chair comes to life with energy and Janus screams in pain.

"I will ask the questions around here."

A figure with his face covered walks forward holding the gray sword.

"Tell me how to use these powers. They won't work for me."

"I won't tell you anything."

The chair comes to life again and Janus screams more.

"TELL ME OR DIE!"

Janus spits blood at the man's feet.

"Go to hell."

The man takes the sword and cuts Janus's hand with it. She screams in pain as blood starts trickling out of the cut.

"You like it when the sword is used against you?"

Janus faints.

"Didn't think so."

Meanwhile Cassie is being held in another room. Suddenly a vision floods her sight. It shows Zanek.

"You liked him didn't you?"

"Leave me alone!"

"But you couldn't save him could you?"

"Shut up!"

Cassie screams as energy flows through her.

"You never tell me to shut up. YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

"I couldn't do anything to save him. He choose to sacrifice himself."

"That's just a load of excuses. You could have stopped him. You could have gone in there with him."

Tears flood from Cassie's eyes.

"No there was nothing I could have done."

Suddenly the picture of Zanek comes to life.

"You bitch. I thought you liked me and you let me die!"

"Zanek. I'm sorry."

"Sorry isn't going to bring me back to life!"

Cassie screams in pain from both an energy flow and from the memories. In other room Karone is also being subjected to vision.

"You are called Astronema aren't you?"

"No that was in the past. I am Karone the blue power ranger now."

"But you don't deserve to be a power ranger. You are only one cause of a loss of a team member."

"They needed me."

A vision of Karone taking the blue sword from the med lab is played out.

"They didn't ask for you. You took it for yourself."

Karone tries to remember why she took the blue sword without asking but cannot.

"WHY!"

"I don't know."

Karone screams in pain as energy flows from the chair.

"YES YOU DO! NOW SAY IT!"

"I wanted to atone for my past. I would do anything to atone for it."

"But you will never atone for what you did."

To Karone's horror images of what she did as Astronema flood her vision. He taking over planets and destroying ones that refused to buckle under. Her hurting the rangers. And finally her death at the hands of the red ranger and her coming back to life with his tears.

The vision disappears and a strange looking man with a third eye appears.

"I can see your future and I want to show you something."

The third eye looks at Karone and she finds herself in another vision. One of her taking a pink sword and becoming the pink ranger. But this time she is far away in another galaxy.

"What is this?"

"This is your future. You will take over for a dead power ranger again."

"No!"

"Is that all you will be? A replacement for lost rangers?"

"NO!"

"You don't belong in either team."

"I do. I am a valuable member."

Meanwhile in yet another room Ashley is strapped to a chair.

"Ashley." A familiar voice says.

"Andros?"

Andros steps out of the shadows.

"Oh Andros please save us from this pirate ship."

"Why should I? I thought you loved me and I find you are cheating on me with that mind reader."

Ashley starts crying.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know when or if you would return from your quest."

"And that gives you a right to cheat on me?!"

"I'm sorry!"

"You said that already and I don't believe you. Bitch!"

Ashley screams in pain.

"You aren't Andros. Andros would never hurt me."

Andros laughs and changes into another humanoid being.

"You're right. But you will wish it was him."

The guy steps forward and puts his hands on the opposite sides of her head. She screams in pain as electricity shoots between his hands. Meanwhile at the boarding bay some security guards are getting bored.

"I don't know why they have us sitting here all the time. Like somebody is really going to board without a ship."

Suddenly the whole air lock blows out and a figure steps through. He quickly blasts the guards and re-holsters the blasters. The figure looks like the red ranger in spandex suit form but it's bigger and more bulkier. He also has samurai swords and blasters. The mysterious ranger cuts his way through the bay doors and starts heading down the corridor. He easily blasts anyone that appears.

"Activate scanning device."

A light comes on his visor showing a map of the station.

"Scanning device activated."

"Search for power rangers' life signs."

The map shows 4 life signs close together and a 5th in a different area.

"I'll go after the 4 first."

The mysterious ranger fights his way into to prison bay. He cuts his way into each room and rescues the rangers from their captives.

"Who are you? Zanek?"

The mysterious ranger doesn't answer.

"We have to go get the last ranger."

Meanwhile in the other room Carlos is still blocking hits from T.J. after he kicked the feet out from under T.J. before he could impale him with the staff.

"I won't hurt you. I won't fight you."

Suddenly in a huge explosion the mysterious ranger enters the room.

"Who the hell?" T.J. yells spinning around.

"Computer activate anti virus program."

After a few seconds the computer responds.

"Virus created."

The mysterious ranger takes out a gun and fires it on T.J. It changes him and he slumps forward.

"Let's get out of here."

The 6 rush to the cargo bay blasting everybody on the way. They finally steal a shuttle and fly down to earth.

"RANGERS!" A loud voice screams.

"Oh oh."

Turlok appears and his aura is bigger than ever.

"Whoever the hell you are. You are going to pay for damaging my ship and rescuing my playthings."

The mysterious ranger takes out a small card.

"Can you take a credit card?"

The mysterious ranger puts the card into his weapon and blasts Turlok. The blast flings him back several feet. He gets up madder than ever.

"Damn you. Nobody but nobody hurts me."

Turlok flings a huge ball of energy back but the mysterious ranger throws up a shield and blocks it.

"Computer read and find frequency of power suit."

The computer comes to life as the mysterious ranger blocks more shots from Turlok.

"Frequency found. Ready to fire primary weapon."

"Fire!"

The gun fires a wide spread blast that hits Turlok head on. The power suit is nearly destroyed.

"This whole planet will pay for this!"

Turlok pushes a button.

"Self-destruct system initiated."

"So what. So you are going to kill yourself. What is that going to do to the planet?"

Turlok laughs.

"You don't know the power of this suit. It has been gathering energy from all over the cosmos. I guess that the resulting explosion will be so great that it will not only destroy this planet but the moon as well."

"No!"

"Transform. We have to finish him off before it's too late." The mysterious ranger yells to the others.

"Right."

They all transform.

"Converge your weapons on that center part. That seems to be the weak point."

The rangers all fire on the center chest point but Turlok is able to dodge in time.

"Ah forget the time."

Turlok pushes the button and a big explosion hits. Everything goes white but suddenly it disappears.

"What happened?"

Suddenly a huge face appears in the sky. Astyanax's face.

"Thank you for that energy. I needed that to be partially free once more."

"NO!"

Astyanax picks up Turlok and crushes him easily. Turlok's screams are quickly silenced.

The rangers all point their weapons.

"Oh don't worry. I have no need to destroy you yet. But soon I will be free and this whole world will be my playpen."

Astayanax's face disappears. All the rangers power down including the mysterious ranger. Revealing that it is Zanek.

"Zanek!"

Cassie rushes forward in tears and hugs Zanek.

"Welcome back buddy." Carlos says smiling.

Later on Karone stands over T.J.'s hospital bed as he recovers. She holds the blue swords.

"These are really yours you know? Take them back."

T.J. shakes his head.

"No. Not after all I did. I almost killed my best friend."

Karone frowns and puts the swords next to the bed and leaves. T.J. looks at the swords and cringes at the memory of what happened to him the last time he used their power.

To be continued...
There's only 5 episodes left. First up the deadliest plague to hit humans since the black plague hits angel grove. Can it be stopped or is this the end? This and more in the final 5 chapters of the double helix saga.