"Come, let's us destroy the city for our new master," the fire monster said and began to walk away. With no control over himself, Zhane followed.

To Be Continued...

Chapter 4
Beep! Beep! The Mega Ship's alarm sounded.

"Hey, someone's attacking Angel Grove," said Ashley. She pushed a button to see the attacker on the main view screen. "Oh my!" Ashley punched several more buttons. She contacted Andros whose face appeared on the screen.

"Hey, Ashley! What's up?" he asked, noticing her worried face.

"Andros, Zhane is attacking Angel Grove," she said quietly. The Red Ranger looked grave.

"Well, duty calls," Andros replied. "Round up the other rangers, Ashley. We're going to Angel Grove."

"But Andros! We can't fight our best friend!" Ashley protested.

"We can if he's attacking innocent people." Andros looked away, and then quietly said, "Let's go."

Five beams of light left the Mega Ship and headed towards the Earth. The Rangers landed on a street in Angel Grove, fully morphed. Screaming people rushed towards them as great balls of fire hit buildings and cars.

"Who's that?" TJ asked, pointing to the fire monster. The monster answered TJ's question arrogantly.

"Ahh, Rangers, how good to see you! I am Flame Thrower, and I'm here to destroy you and Angel Grove!" He laughed maliciously, then continued to blast every building in sight.

"Flame Thrower! If you want to destroy Angel Grove, you'll have to go through us first!" Andros yelled defiantly.

"We'll see about that!" the monster replied. He set a fire at his feet and let it cover him. Suddenly, he grew a hundred times his original size. "Ha ha!" he laughed. "Still want to challenge me?"

"Absolutely!" Andros responded. He nodded to his team.

"We need Astro Megazord power now!" they shouted in unison.

Out in Earth's orbit, the Astro Megaship transformed in to the Astro Rangers Megazord. Flame Thrower began to blast the city with heat and fireballs as the Astro Megazord landed and faced him

"You won't be any match for me and my partner," scoffed the monster and he blew fire breath at the Rangers.

"What partner?" asked Ashley.

"Suddenly, the Megazord's alarm screamed as it was hit in it's back. "HAHA!" laughed the monster as it attacked their front before spinning around and attacking the city.

"Found it!" cried Alpha 6. The little robot had stayed with the Delta Megaship to research what was wrong with Zhane.

"What did you find?" DECA asked over a ship-to-ship comm. channel.

"One possibility could be the golden orbs of Kalfa," said Alpha. "According to legend, the sorceress Kalfa created 12 golden orbs that gave her power. However, this power came from the Dark side of the morphing gird."

"Which explains why it would be affecting Zhane," interrupted DECA

"Exactly," agreed Alpha. "Normal magic doesn't usually affect the rangers because of their link to the light side of the morphing gird, but because it's from the Dark side, it would consume him."

"It talks about how Kalfa was defeated, but her orbs couldn't be destroyed. So, they were scattered all over the five galaxies never to be spoken of again," Alpha finished reading.

"Andros said that there were only three orbs on the chain," DECA said.

"Yes, but according to this next part, we have a problem. The orbs were designed to link to a power source so someone could manipulate it. But you and I both know that the Dark side has manipulative powers of its own. The Dark side of the grid has taken over his body as it did with Kalfa. The good new is that Zhane's mind is still in tact, just trapped inside his body," said Alpha.

"Then how do we free his mind?" asked DECA.

"I'm not sure yet," whimpered Alpha. "It doesn't' say. But I have one ally I can ask."

TBC