Chapter 2
Far away, in the distant galaxy, on a distant, lone moon, there was a full, blown-out party.
Queen Machina and King Mondo was having a special toast, goblets filled with cog oil.
"To the happy conquest of Earth and the cosmos!" Queen Machina cheered. Goldar, decked out in spit-polished armor, was happily waltzing with Rita Repulsa, with her gray hair let down and done up fancily with ribbons.
"ENOUGH WITH THE PARTYING!" shrieked a evil voice.
The various villains partying abruptly, and the villains immediately stopped and turned around from their activities and looked.
A monster that looked exactly like Maligore had spoken, a wingless, bat-like creature that seemed to made up of lava, towering high-rise size, one of his lobster-like claws resting on a very familiar plasma tube. The energy tube of Zordon, White Morphin Master.
"I have an announcement to make," the lava-like monster said. "Since there are no more pesky Rangers to get in our way, I will nominate Astronema in charge of conquering Earth."
"WHAT?" Divatox cried out in outrage, banging her right fist against the metal table. "I destroyed the Turbo Rangers myself! I saw their destruction of the Power Chamber myself! I should be nominated for conquest of Earth. That young thing?"
She rudely gestured to a shapely woman, sitting at the head of the table, with shoulder-length purple hair done up in silver babbles and wearing black leather armor. The woman shot a venomous look at the space pirate and gave her the finger. Turning towards the lave monster, she said very respectfully, "Thank you, Dark Specter."
"You are very much unwelcome," replied the lava-like creature, turning towards the other villains. "The reason why I nominated Astronema for this job is that she doesn't take all of her leisure time to figure out a way to defeat the Rangers. She uses military tactics to get the job done right-and quick. It took you a full year to figure out a suitable plan to defeat the Turbo Rangers. And besides, she is quicker to take over entire solar systems than you.
"Now, to business," continued Dark Specter, "on the way to his home planet, Eltar, I suddenly came upon Zordon and his pathetic helper, Alpha 5. I captured him and disposed of Alpha. I have no use for machines that won't work for me. I captured Zordon for a specific reason: His energy is more powerful than me. So I am now draining his life energy into me, even as we speak. After a while, Zordon will die. And none of his pesky Rangers will come to rescue him!"
After this monologue, all the villains burst into cheers.
"Let us have a toast," Lord Zedd, raising his glass goblet, filled with lava juice. "To the destruction of Zordon!"
The other villains, including Astronema and Dark Specter, joined in the toast.
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"There," I said, twisting a red wire in place. "The teleportation system is up and running."
"There we go," T.J. said, screwing back the control panel on one of the damaged computer consoles in place. "I'm amazed the teleportation system is salvageable and so is the locator system. But they're only working at fifty percent."
Cassie threw me her communicator. "Here's mine. Hopefully, it's power cell will be enough to temporary charge up both."
"I don't think so," T.J. said. He undid the latch on his red communicator and threw it to me. "Here's mine. I think we should use up all of the power cells in our communicators to locate the former Rangers and teleport them, and hopefully, get all of us to Phaedos."
And soon after, Ashley's, Carlos's and mine's were joined up with the two other proffered communicators. I had opened them up and directly connected them to the power cells of the teleportation and locator systems. All in the minimum of fifteen minutes.
"Let's hope this works," Cassie said, her fingers crossed. Ashley and Carlos just looked tense.
"Here goes nothing," I muttered, pressing buttons on the locator system. "Let's go find Tommy first. He still must be at the NASCAR track. The last I've heard from him is that he wanted to practice car racing full time." I anxiously typed in the coordinates, then hesitantly pressed the teleportation button.
A white flash of light appeared before us, materializing into the familiar figure of Tommy.
"Hey, guys! How's-" Tommy abruptly stopped when he saw the damaged remains of the Power Chamber. "What happened here?"
"You remember Divatox?" I asked.
Tommy nodded.
"Well, she discovered the location of the Power Chamber, raided it, and placed detonators on them, destroying it. We've lost the Turbo Powers for good and so is the Zeo Crystal."
"Justin thought of a good idea to recover our lost powers," Carlos said. "We've decided to fix the locator and teleportation systems and teleport you the other former Rangers back here to become Rangers again. We, too, are going to Phaedos with you."
"What happened to Dimitria and Alpha 6?" Tommy asked.
"Dimitria left to get help. Alpha 6 is damaged. I can't repair him without some special tools. But those went up with the Power Chamber, also." I answered.
"Who are you going to teleport in now?" Tommy asked.
"Billy and Kimberly. I'll put in the coordinates for Florida and Aquitar," I said, quickly pushing in the coordinates for those specific locations. "This is obviously going to strain this to the maximum. I don't think it can do more than Billy and Kimberly. Florida is farther away from Angel Grove, and Aquitar is like three hundred light years away from Earth itself." I typed in the coordinates in the teleporatation guide and pressed ENTER.
Two more streaks of light came in and materialized into the former Rangers, Billy Cranston and Kimberly Hart. Soon after their arrival, the console exploded in a shower of sparks.
"What happened?" Kimberly asked in wonder and in shock.
"Introductions later," I said anxiously. "The more time we waste, the less time Zordon is going to live."
"What…"
"You say Zordon is in imminent danger?" Billy asked, shock filling his face. "What happened?"
"We gotta bring the majority of former Rangers here!" T.J. exploded. "We have to fix the coordinate and teleportation panels!"
"I think we can summon our remaining residue powers to bring back the former Rangers," Billy said. "We gotta make a circle. C'mon, stand in a circle, everyone."
Uneasy, we made our way from the rubble and arranged in a circle.
"Raise your arms into a V and make sure each of your arms are touching a different person's arms."
We did, though reluctantly.
"Now, focus on the power inside of you. Close your eyes and look inside yourselves."
I closed my eyes reluctantly and focused on the residue Blue Turbo Power that remained inside me. I focused as hard as I could, and mentally, "felt" other minds of the others and their respective powers. I focused all my power out and on the remaining Rangers we had not brought back.
I opened my eyes, to see that everyone was glowing their respective colors. Tommy, however, was glowing a bizarre mix of green, white, and red, but an image of the White Falcon rose from his chest. Katherine was glowing pink also, and a faint image of a combination of a pink butterfly and a crane reached out from her chest and joined Tommy's. I felt the very essence of Mountain Blaster reaching out from me, joining Cassie's Wind Chaser, Carlos's Desert Thunder, T.J.'s Red Lightning, and Ashley's Dune Star extending from our chests and slowly joining Tommy and Katherine's conjoined powers.
Once Kimberly's Crane, Billy's Wolf, and Jason's Tyrannosaurus had joined our combined powers, the power turned into a glowing rainbow of light and suddenly extended into the sky, reaching outward into the heavens. The light turned so brilliantly bright, I had to close my eyes from being blinded by the brightness.
Then, just as suddenly as it had come, the light dissipated and a felt a great emptiness inside me, as like a huge chunk of my soul had been taken out. I slowly opened my eyes to see a bewildered Katherine, Rocky, Adam, Aisha, Trini, Jason, and Zack standing in our narrow circle.
I also saw, to my joy, a fully energized teleportation and coordinate
panel.