Disclaimer: Saban owns the rangers, Zordon, Divatox and Lord Zedd. I'm just the puppeteer who jerks the strings.
A/N: Here it comes, my favorite villain, and a change of zords. By the way, soon, three of the rangers will be gone, and not in some dumb peace conference cover up. The new rangers will appear most likely between chapters 10-12, on the one-year anniversary of the teens being chosen for rangers.
Chapter 8-A Greater Evil Emerges
ANGEL GROVE MOTOCROSS COURSE
It was Saturday, and the six teens were competing in a motocross event for the orphaned children of Angel Grove. The teens always loved charity events, and had been training for the event for months, teaching others how to ride the ATVs. This would be the perfect day, and strangely, Rita hadn't been acting up much since the conversion of Samantha.
The rangers were going to rejoice soon, because it was almost one year ago that Zordon chose them to become power rangers and protect the Earth. What a celebration that would be.
DIVATOX'S PALACE-2525
Divatox sat watching her enemies, the power rangers, racing on a dirt course. Rita had not tried nearly enough as she should have, and a change was needed.
"Guards, release prisoner 1321, bring him to the throne room. He and I must depart for the past," Divatox said, rising up.
RITA'S PALACE-1994
Rita observed the rangers on Earth, and was beginning to plan her attack. Suddenly the wind blew, and another time portal opened inside the palace as Divatox stepped out.
"Hail Queen Divatox," Rita said, bowing.
"Save it, R! Listen, I've been observing you from the future, and you have not been doing half of what I expected from you. So, an old adversary is replacing you, I believe. His name is…Lord Zedd," Divatox proclaimed as lightning struck, thunder crashed and an earthquake shook the palace.
A large serpent like zord began flying toward the palace. Its low roar was causing the earthquake. The movement stopped as a plank descended, and a door opened. A man, at least Divatox assumed it was a man exited the craft.
The reason for the assumption was that Lord Zedd's skin had melted away, and his muscles and flesh were revealed, along with silver tubing veins to assist him living. Zedd's eyes had been burned, and were replaced with a ruby red visor lense. Atop his head was a type of band with a large Z sticking up from it. Zedd wielded a large staff, also with a Z on it.
"I AM LORD ZEDD! EMPEROR OF ALL I SEEK!" he exclaimed as he entered the castle.
"Why may I ask am I being replaced, with him?" Rita asked.
"He has a much better record of destruction than you, more magic, and a greater…wand," Divatox said, smiling at Zedd.
"Prove it," Rita said.
"Well, motor mouth, I have eliminated our foes on Mirinoi, and I am about to convert this tacky shack into a regal palace," Zedd said as he turned, zapping white energy out of the Z on his staff, and transforming the small, shabby palace into a large dark one.
Divatox turned to Rita and said, "Now, Rita, you're fired,"
Rita glanced back at Zedd, and then to Divatox and said, "What happens to me and my minions?"
"Your minions will stay here, that is, only Goldar," Divatox said as she eliminated Squatt and Baboo. Zedd then destroyed Finster.
"You, are no longer fit to live in the dungeons," Divatox said, shoving her into the middle of the room. As Rita stood up, Divatox charged her staff, zapping Rita, Zedd followed, and soon an explosion occurred, killing Rita.
"You have your orders," Divatox said, jumping into the portal.
Lord Zedd walked to the balcony, and emitted a red ray, scanning Earth for something to create his first monster with. He found a piranha in the Rampoon River, and decided to recreate Pirantis-Head, the monster he eliminated Mirinoi's rangers with.
ANGEL GROVE MOTOCROSS COURSE
At the third stop, Samantha heard her communicator going off, and the other teens went over to a wooded area.
"Go ahead Zordon," Samantha said.
"Teleport to the Command Center immediately. There is an severe situation growing," Zordon said.
The rangers pressed buttons and disappeared in six streaks of light.
THE COMMAND CENTER
The rangers landed in the Command Center.
"Zordon, what is it?" Kyle asked.
"Rangers, over the past 10 hours, a dramatic change has occurred with our nemeses. First, Rita Repulsa has been eliminated by Divatox," Zordon said.
The rangers began cheering as Zelda hushed them.
"Unfortunately, she has been replaced with a far greater evil. Observe the viewing globe," Zelda said as the rangers turned.
"The being you are seeing is Lord Zedd. A higher evil, responsible for eliminating every power ranger in the dimension we came from," Zelda said.
"Now he has unleashed his first monster, Pirantis-Head. Defeat this monster rangers, and show this new foe your powers," Zordon said.
"We will Zordon," Joan said.
The rangers turned, removed their morphers and said, "IT'S MORPHIN TIME!"
DOWNTOWN ANGEL GROVE
The rangers were teleported to Pirantis-Head's location and pulled out their power weapons.
Pirantis-Head laughed and said, "Let's see how you do against Zedd's putties,"
Twenty putties appeared, only they were much different. To start, they were dressed in white, had red eyes and had a mysterious Z on their chests.
The rangers furiously fought with them, but they did not go away. The putties were much tougher, throwing the rangers back. It looked like they were to win, but it was Samantha, who kicked the Z on their chest, crumbling the putties. The other rangers did the same, and the putties were soon gone.
LORD ZEDD'S PALACE
Up on the balcony, Zedd spoke, his body glowing a furious red.
"Let's see how pathetic those zords are against an enlarged monster," Zedd said as a silver orb appeared.
He hurled the orb off the balcony and down to Earth.
DOWNTOWN ANGEL GROVE
At the rangers' location, a silver orb hit Pirantis-Head, and exploded. He grew to an enormous size, and the rangers already knew their plan of action.
"We need dinozord power!" the original five said as their zords awoke.
The giant Pirantis-Head chuckled and said, "These zords won't be running like this again for a long time,"
He removed a large flute, which had two fish heads on it, and began playing. Suddenly, the dinozords were turning blue, becoming frozen, and now they were powerless.
"NO!" Greg yelled.
"How did he do that?" Cindy asked.
"That's not possible," Ross said in disbelief.
"Don't worry guys, I'll call on the power of the Dragon Zord," Samantha said, pulling out the Dragon Dagger. The Dragon Zord arose from the murky depths of Angel Grove Harbor, and was ready to fight.
Pirantis-Head began playing his flute, and the Dragon Zord became frozen in mid-step. Samantha pulled hands away as the Dragon Dagger also became frozen.
The rangers stood together, and teleported away, retreating from battle.
THE COMMAND CENTER
The rangers arrived at the Command Center and removed their helmets.
"Zordon, that monster was enlarged and it froze our zords," Kyle began.
"That's not all, look," Zelda said pointing to the viewing globe.
The rangers saw as Pirantis-Head played his flute, and the Tyrannosaurs and Dragon zords began wreaking havoc throughout Angel Grove.
"What do we do now?" Joan asked.
"We can't do anything," Kyle said.
Zelda turned to the downtrodden rangers and said, "There is one thing we can do,"
"What?" the rangers asked.
"We will use the thunderzords," Zelda said.
A/N: The Zedd beginning will be over in the next chapter. Ciao for now.