MMPR/X-Men: Duelin' in D. C.!
Washington, D. C. has been the site of many historic moments: the end of the American Revolution, Presidential inaugurations, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, just to name a few. But on this day, it is being invaded by Magneto, Lord Zedd, and Goldar, along with Zedd's Putties and Tengas.
Magneto, Zedd, and Goldar watched as Zedd's minions wreaked havoc. Shaking his head as people ran, Magneto said, "Homo Sapiens. Always afraid of change."
Goldar laughed, but suddenly stopped as his hypersensitive ears picked up a noise. Goldar looked up as a black jet came into view. He said, "We've got company!"
Zedd looked up, but Magneto didn't. He had picked up the Blackbird's presence minutes ago. Instead, he shook his head again before saying, "Charles. Always sending his children to do his dirty work."
"And no doubt those pesky Rangers are with them," snarled Lord Zedd. He turned to Magneto and said, "Let's greet them, shall we?"
Magneto smiled and said, "Let's." Magneto then held his hand up. Even from this distance, he was able to magnetically freeze the Blackbird in mid- air.
As Rogue piloted the jet, she felt it freeze up. "It won't move!"
"Magneto, no doubt," said Colossus.
The White Ranger looked out and said, "And it looks like Zedd's about to finish the job!"
He was right. Zedd fired energy from his staff, destroying the Blackbird. As the explosion died down, Goldar said, "You got them, my Lord!"
"Don't count on it," said Magneto. Zedd seemed inclined to agree.
Magneto's theory was proven right as they saw three streaks of white light and one streak of pink light land on the ground. Once they materialized into the White and Pink Rangers, Rogue, and Colossus (in human form), there was a long stare down. Finally, Tommy said, "Zedd, Magneto, this party is over."
Magneto smiled and said, "On the contrary, my dear boy, it's just begun!"
"Putties! Tengas!" ordered Zedd. "Attack!"
Rogue took to the air as some of the Tengas went airborne. Though outnumbered, she was stronger than them. She knocked several out with just one hit to each of their jaws. One Tenga grabbed her from behind. "Oh, no you don't!" retorted Rogue. She flew backwards, managing to grab two more by their beaks. She slammed back-first into a pillar close to the Lincoln Memorial, knocking out the Tenga on her back. The two she had by the beaks, she slammed the backs of their heads onto the ground, crushing their skulls, even though there was no blood.
Tommy pulled out Saba and said to Kat, "Think you're better with the sword?'
Holding her Blade Blaster in blade mode, the Pink Ranger smiled underneath her helmet and said, "I KNOW I am!"
With that, the two Rangers charged. Tommy sliced through a Putty, then quickly turned around and sliced another. He then turned to his left, and brought Saba down right on another one's skull (if it had one).
Kat ran in and sliced a Putty. Three more tried to approach her from different directions, but she did a full ballerina-like spin, taking out all three. Smiling underneath her helmet, the Pink Ranger said, "Who says ballet and fencing don't mix?" At the sound of a caw, she looked up and saw five Tengas attempting to pounce on her from the air. She switched her blaster to gun mode and fired five shots, all five of them hitting and killing their targets.
Tommy did something similar as he pointed Saba's tiger head, causing him to shoot eyebeams at five other airborne Tengas. Saba said, "Bullseye!"
Tommy said, "You got good aim, Saba!"
Saba retorted sarcastically, "You think?"
Colossus, meanwhile, changed to armored form and was having a grand old time with his weaker opponents. Neither Putty nor Tenga was a match for him as he easily swatted away the ones on the ground. Two Tengas attempted an aerial assault, only to meet both of his fists. One airborne Tenga jumped on him from behind, but Colossus was able to grab it and throw it into two charging Putties.
All of a sudden, Colossus was picked up by a strange force. He was then thrown into a statue of Thomas Jefferson. "Uh!" he said as he made impact.
Magneto shook his head and said, "Peter, Peter, when are you going to learn that your metal form makes you uniquely vulnerable to my manipulation?"
"Colossus!" yelled Rogue as she attempted to fly to her lover's side. However, she was taken down by flaming energy.
Goldar laughed and said, "Uh, uh, uh, not today." He then picked up Rogue's fallen body by the 'X' on her chest. He put his sword to her stomach and said, "I've heard that you're invulnerable. How about we put that to the test?"
Rogue then gritted her teeth and snarled, "Don't . . . mess . . . with the Rogue!" She ripped her left glove off and touched his face.
Goldar screamed as he felt himself weakening. "What . . . are you doing to me?"
Rogue smiled and said, "Everything that's yours is now mine, sugah." Goldar then slipped into unconsciousness.
The White and Pink Rangers ran over to tend to Colossus, who was trying to shake the cobwebs out of his head. They looked up as Lord Zedd and Magneto approached. His staff glowing red, Zedd said, "White Ranger, you and I have a score to settle."
Saba at the ready, Tommy growled, "Bring it on, grill-face."
Zedd charged and Tommy charge back. Saba and Zedd's staff clashed so violently that sparks flew.
Kat holstered her Blade Blaster, knowing that it would be useless against Magneto. She stared him down, before he asked, "You think you can beat the Master of Magnetism, Pink Ranger?"
"Maybe I can, or maybe I can't," answered the Pink Ranger. "I'll either stop your reign of terror, or die trying."
"You want me? Come and get me."
"No. As a Ranger, I will not escalate this duel unless you force me."
Magneto frowned and said, "Fine." He then hurled magnetic energy at the Pink Ranger, causing her to scream as she was taken down. As she struggled to her feet, Magneto smiled and said, "You survived. Maybe you're stronger than I thought."
Kat then tried to charge Magneto, but he put up a magnetic force field, shocking her before taking her down again. He then heard Rogue's voice say, "Hey, buckethead!" He turned and Rogue fired fireballs from her eyes. The shots bounced harmlessly off the force field, but they were hot enough that some of his costume was burned, giving Magneto superficial burns. Magneto gave a teeth-gritted yelp, lowering his force field. This gave Kat the opportunity to kick him in the chest, knocking him down.
Tommy and Zedd continued to duel. The White Ranger turned a forward flip on the ground, avoided a hit from Zedd's staff. Zedd growled and fired energy from his staff, which Tommy narrowly avoided. Saba then shot his eyebeams, but they deflected off the staff and hit Tommy in the center of his chest, taking him down.
As he approached the White Ranger's fallen body, Zedd said, "This is the end, White Ranger." He prepared to fire more energy from his staff, but it was shot from his hands. "What?"
He turned to see a ready-to-fight Cyclops as Jean and the Red Ranger stood at his sides. "Did we miss the party?" asked Rocky.
Almost an instant later, all of the X-Men and the Power Rangers teleported to the scene of the battle. Zedd tried to pick up his staff, but received a hard right hand to the jaw, courtesy of Rogue. "Not so tough without your staff, are ya, Z-man?" Zedd managed to get his staff and shoot Rogue out of the air, but was hit in the chest by another optic blast from Cyclops.
Goldar, now recovered, grabbed his sword and was about to charge, but his sword was taken from his hand by Jean's telekinesis. He was then kicked from behind by the Green Ranger. He stumbled and fell. He got back up, only to be knocked back down by Jubilee's fireworks. "Take that, you Wizard of Oz reject!"
Wolverine couldn't help but smile at his wife's comment. Then he saw his old friend Colossus and said, "Hey, Colossus, let's treat monkey-face to a Fastball Special!" Colossus approached Wolverine and gladly obliged, picking up Wolverine, kicking back like a pitcher would do, and throwing him, claws extended, as hard as he could toward Goldar. Goldar screamed as Wolverine's claws pierced his armor and went into his chest. Fortunately for him, his armor took the brunt of the attack. Besides, stab wounds weren't that big of a deal for his race anyway, depending on how the stabbing was done.
Goldar got up, clutching his injured chest. Zedd approached him and said, "This isn't over, Rangers!" They then teleported out.
Magneto snarled in anger as he watched his supposed "allies" turn tail. While he watched, Kat and Aisha leapt onto the shoulders of Billy, Rocky, and Adam, prepared for the Blade Blaster Tower Formation attack. The five Rangers put their Blade Blasters together and said, "Fire!" A red energy triangle inside a blue one surrounded by a yellow ring then made its way towards Magneto.
Magneto turned to see the attack coming and put his magnetic force field back up just in the nick of time. But he was unable to keep hold of it as Storm lifted him up in a tornado. This gave Trini the opportunity to fire gold energy balls from her staff as she cried, "It's time for a Gold Rush!" This time, he was hit and fell to the ground hard.
Amazing, he was able to get to his feet! He then hurled magnetic energy at everyone, with no regard for anything else around him. Most were able to dodge, and those who were hit, would be okay. Among those that were hit by the magnetic energy was Storm. As the 16 heroes struggled to get to their feet, Magneto gritted his teeth and said angrily, "You think you can beat me? Even on my own, I am still far more powerful than all of you!" He then stretched out his arms and flew into the air. Scrap metal from various parts of the city began flying towards him. He seemed to be using it to construct a gigantic weapon.
Jean yelled, "Kurt, his helmet!"
"On it!" said Nightcrawler. He teleported into Magneto's magnetic force field. "I'll take this!" He then yanked Magneto's helmet off of his head and teleported out.
"No!" yelled the Master of Magnetism as he dropped the scrap metal to the ground.
With his helmet gone, Jean began to attack him telepathically. Magneto screamed as Jean entered his mind. Slowly, but surely, Magneto dropped to the ground and on his knees. No matter how hard he tried, he could not force her out. But because Magneto was indeed trying to resist, Jean was beginning to strain. Cyclops held onto her, trying to steady her. The strain was too much though, as Jean was forced to drop the attack and fell back into her husband's chest, nearly unconscious.
Magneto was on his knees, weakened and trying to catch his breath. Before anyone could do anything, Magneto unleashed one more round of magnetic energy. Just as before, everyone was forced to dodge. Even though it wouldn't kill him, Nightcrawler was one of the unfortunate one to get hit, causing him to drop Magneto's helmet. Though weakened, Magneto was able to bring his helmet to himself. He weakly got to his feet. Seeing the X-Men and Power Rangers on the ground or struggling to stand, Magneto knew he had a chance to destroy them. But in his weakened state, he wasn't sure he would be able to finish the job. So instead, he slipped his helmet on and said, "I'll be back," before flying away.
To Be Continued
Washington, D. C. has been the site of many historic moments: the end of the American Revolution, Presidential inaugurations, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, just to name a few. But on this day, it is being invaded by Magneto, Lord Zedd, and Goldar, along with Zedd's Putties and Tengas.
Magneto, Zedd, and Goldar watched as Zedd's minions wreaked havoc. Shaking his head as people ran, Magneto said, "Homo Sapiens. Always afraid of change."
Goldar laughed, but suddenly stopped as his hypersensitive ears picked up a noise. Goldar looked up as a black jet came into view. He said, "We've got company!"
Zedd looked up, but Magneto didn't. He had picked up the Blackbird's presence minutes ago. Instead, he shook his head again before saying, "Charles. Always sending his children to do his dirty work."
"And no doubt those pesky Rangers are with them," snarled Lord Zedd. He turned to Magneto and said, "Let's greet them, shall we?"
Magneto smiled and said, "Let's." Magneto then held his hand up. Even from this distance, he was able to magnetically freeze the Blackbird in mid- air.
As Rogue piloted the jet, she felt it freeze up. "It won't move!"
"Magneto, no doubt," said Colossus.
The White Ranger looked out and said, "And it looks like Zedd's about to finish the job!"
He was right. Zedd fired energy from his staff, destroying the Blackbird. As the explosion died down, Goldar said, "You got them, my Lord!"
"Don't count on it," said Magneto. Zedd seemed inclined to agree.
Magneto's theory was proven right as they saw three streaks of white light and one streak of pink light land on the ground. Once they materialized into the White and Pink Rangers, Rogue, and Colossus (in human form), there was a long stare down. Finally, Tommy said, "Zedd, Magneto, this party is over."
Magneto smiled and said, "On the contrary, my dear boy, it's just begun!"
"Putties! Tengas!" ordered Zedd. "Attack!"
Rogue took to the air as some of the Tengas went airborne. Though outnumbered, she was stronger than them. She knocked several out with just one hit to each of their jaws. One Tenga grabbed her from behind. "Oh, no you don't!" retorted Rogue. She flew backwards, managing to grab two more by their beaks. She slammed back-first into a pillar close to the Lincoln Memorial, knocking out the Tenga on her back. The two she had by the beaks, she slammed the backs of their heads onto the ground, crushing their skulls, even though there was no blood.
Tommy pulled out Saba and said to Kat, "Think you're better with the sword?'
Holding her Blade Blaster in blade mode, the Pink Ranger smiled underneath her helmet and said, "I KNOW I am!"
With that, the two Rangers charged. Tommy sliced through a Putty, then quickly turned around and sliced another. He then turned to his left, and brought Saba down right on another one's skull (if it had one).
Kat ran in and sliced a Putty. Three more tried to approach her from different directions, but she did a full ballerina-like spin, taking out all three. Smiling underneath her helmet, the Pink Ranger said, "Who says ballet and fencing don't mix?" At the sound of a caw, she looked up and saw five Tengas attempting to pounce on her from the air. She switched her blaster to gun mode and fired five shots, all five of them hitting and killing their targets.
Tommy did something similar as he pointed Saba's tiger head, causing him to shoot eyebeams at five other airborne Tengas. Saba said, "Bullseye!"
Tommy said, "You got good aim, Saba!"
Saba retorted sarcastically, "You think?"
Colossus, meanwhile, changed to armored form and was having a grand old time with his weaker opponents. Neither Putty nor Tenga was a match for him as he easily swatted away the ones on the ground. Two Tengas attempted an aerial assault, only to meet both of his fists. One airborne Tenga jumped on him from behind, but Colossus was able to grab it and throw it into two charging Putties.
All of a sudden, Colossus was picked up by a strange force. He was then thrown into a statue of Thomas Jefferson. "Uh!" he said as he made impact.
Magneto shook his head and said, "Peter, Peter, when are you going to learn that your metal form makes you uniquely vulnerable to my manipulation?"
"Colossus!" yelled Rogue as she attempted to fly to her lover's side. However, she was taken down by flaming energy.
Goldar laughed and said, "Uh, uh, uh, not today." He then picked up Rogue's fallen body by the 'X' on her chest. He put his sword to her stomach and said, "I've heard that you're invulnerable. How about we put that to the test?"
Rogue then gritted her teeth and snarled, "Don't . . . mess . . . with the Rogue!" She ripped her left glove off and touched his face.
Goldar screamed as he felt himself weakening. "What . . . are you doing to me?"
Rogue smiled and said, "Everything that's yours is now mine, sugah." Goldar then slipped into unconsciousness.
The White and Pink Rangers ran over to tend to Colossus, who was trying to shake the cobwebs out of his head. They looked up as Lord Zedd and Magneto approached. His staff glowing red, Zedd said, "White Ranger, you and I have a score to settle."
Saba at the ready, Tommy growled, "Bring it on, grill-face."
Zedd charged and Tommy charge back. Saba and Zedd's staff clashed so violently that sparks flew.
Kat holstered her Blade Blaster, knowing that it would be useless against Magneto. She stared him down, before he asked, "You think you can beat the Master of Magnetism, Pink Ranger?"
"Maybe I can, or maybe I can't," answered the Pink Ranger. "I'll either stop your reign of terror, or die trying."
"You want me? Come and get me."
"No. As a Ranger, I will not escalate this duel unless you force me."
Magneto frowned and said, "Fine." He then hurled magnetic energy at the Pink Ranger, causing her to scream as she was taken down. As she struggled to her feet, Magneto smiled and said, "You survived. Maybe you're stronger than I thought."
Kat then tried to charge Magneto, but he put up a magnetic force field, shocking her before taking her down again. He then heard Rogue's voice say, "Hey, buckethead!" He turned and Rogue fired fireballs from her eyes. The shots bounced harmlessly off the force field, but they were hot enough that some of his costume was burned, giving Magneto superficial burns. Magneto gave a teeth-gritted yelp, lowering his force field. This gave Kat the opportunity to kick him in the chest, knocking him down.
Tommy and Zedd continued to duel. The White Ranger turned a forward flip on the ground, avoided a hit from Zedd's staff. Zedd growled and fired energy from his staff, which Tommy narrowly avoided. Saba then shot his eyebeams, but they deflected off the staff and hit Tommy in the center of his chest, taking him down.
As he approached the White Ranger's fallen body, Zedd said, "This is the end, White Ranger." He prepared to fire more energy from his staff, but it was shot from his hands. "What?"
He turned to see a ready-to-fight Cyclops as Jean and the Red Ranger stood at his sides. "Did we miss the party?" asked Rocky.
Almost an instant later, all of the X-Men and the Power Rangers teleported to the scene of the battle. Zedd tried to pick up his staff, but received a hard right hand to the jaw, courtesy of Rogue. "Not so tough without your staff, are ya, Z-man?" Zedd managed to get his staff and shoot Rogue out of the air, but was hit in the chest by another optic blast from Cyclops.
Goldar, now recovered, grabbed his sword and was about to charge, but his sword was taken from his hand by Jean's telekinesis. He was then kicked from behind by the Green Ranger. He stumbled and fell. He got back up, only to be knocked back down by Jubilee's fireworks. "Take that, you Wizard of Oz reject!"
Wolverine couldn't help but smile at his wife's comment. Then he saw his old friend Colossus and said, "Hey, Colossus, let's treat monkey-face to a Fastball Special!" Colossus approached Wolverine and gladly obliged, picking up Wolverine, kicking back like a pitcher would do, and throwing him, claws extended, as hard as he could toward Goldar. Goldar screamed as Wolverine's claws pierced his armor and went into his chest. Fortunately for him, his armor took the brunt of the attack. Besides, stab wounds weren't that big of a deal for his race anyway, depending on how the stabbing was done.
Goldar got up, clutching his injured chest. Zedd approached him and said, "This isn't over, Rangers!" They then teleported out.
Magneto snarled in anger as he watched his supposed "allies" turn tail. While he watched, Kat and Aisha leapt onto the shoulders of Billy, Rocky, and Adam, prepared for the Blade Blaster Tower Formation attack. The five Rangers put their Blade Blasters together and said, "Fire!" A red energy triangle inside a blue one surrounded by a yellow ring then made its way towards Magneto.
Magneto turned to see the attack coming and put his magnetic force field back up just in the nick of time. But he was unable to keep hold of it as Storm lifted him up in a tornado. This gave Trini the opportunity to fire gold energy balls from her staff as she cried, "It's time for a Gold Rush!" This time, he was hit and fell to the ground hard.
Amazing, he was able to get to his feet! He then hurled magnetic energy at everyone, with no regard for anything else around him. Most were able to dodge, and those who were hit, would be okay. Among those that were hit by the magnetic energy was Storm. As the 16 heroes struggled to get to their feet, Magneto gritted his teeth and said angrily, "You think you can beat me? Even on my own, I am still far more powerful than all of you!" He then stretched out his arms and flew into the air. Scrap metal from various parts of the city began flying towards him. He seemed to be using it to construct a gigantic weapon.
Jean yelled, "Kurt, his helmet!"
"On it!" said Nightcrawler. He teleported into Magneto's magnetic force field. "I'll take this!" He then yanked Magneto's helmet off of his head and teleported out.
"No!" yelled the Master of Magnetism as he dropped the scrap metal to the ground.
With his helmet gone, Jean began to attack him telepathically. Magneto screamed as Jean entered his mind. Slowly, but surely, Magneto dropped to the ground and on his knees. No matter how hard he tried, he could not force her out. But because Magneto was indeed trying to resist, Jean was beginning to strain. Cyclops held onto her, trying to steady her. The strain was too much though, as Jean was forced to drop the attack and fell back into her husband's chest, nearly unconscious.
Magneto was on his knees, weakened and trying to catch his breath. Before anyone could do anything, Magneto unleashed one more round of magnetic energy. Just as before, everyone was forced to dodge. Even though it wouldn't kill him, Nightcrawler was one of the unfortunate one to get hit, causing him to drop Magneto's helmet. Though weakened, Magneto was able to bring his helmet to himself. He weakly got to his feet. Seeing the X-Men and Power Rangers on the ground or struggling to stand, Magneto knew he had a chance to destroy them. But in his weakened state, he wasn't sure he would be able to finish the job. So instead, he slipped his helmet on and said, "I'll be back," before flying away.
To Be Continued
