"I will not except that we've been beaten, I'm bringing the Falconzord," Tommy insists to the others over his communicator. He calls his Zord and rides it to the battlefield where he is met by the image of the fallen Megazord and broken sword. He docks with the giant robot to create the Falcon Ninja Megazord, which sends the power levels of the Zord back to full. It returns to it's feet and moves towards the gigantic armoured monster, grabs it by the arm from behind, turns it round to face the Rangers and punches it in the face. A kick drops the monster to the floor, the Zord then takes to the air, circles the creature before hitting it with a double flying fist attack. The monster absorbs the attack and doesn't even look like it will lose its feet. At this point the Rangers are lucky they can't see Tommy's face through his mask, as they would worry if they saw their fearless leader with a look of stunned terror on his face.
"My turn," laughs Power-House, who then punches the mighty machine, which just tumbles to the ground.
"Power levels dropping to dangerous levels," Adam warns.
"We can't defeat him Tommy," Billy tells him, "if we don't
retreat now we're done for."
"We can't run," Tommy whimpers in shock.
"We don't have a choice," Rocky points out.
"Fine," Tommy resigns as he sees the monster rearing to attack again, "let's go."
The Rangers teleport away just as the Zords take a hit that topples it and shatters the protective covering that shield the cockpit. The space that the Rangers just left is covered with shards of crystal that would have rip the Rangers apart.
* * *
The Rangers appear in the command centre, helmets under their arms and tails between their legs. Zordon attempts to comfort them, but Tommy is almost inconsolable, feeling that it's his fault that they had to retreat. Worried that he froze when he was faced with a fear, he was almost ready to hand in his Power Coin. Zordon explains that the reason the monster was unbeatable was that it had access to the Power of Romonovy. Zordon explained that Romonovy, a morphological protector like himself, had gifts that could increase the powers of any creature. When the creature passed on he was not left in protective land, he was assigned to a crept, and his powers were stored in a crystal that was placed in a Shogun Samurai's helmet. The samurai had learned the secret of immortality, and is his eternal guardian. Zordon notes that one of the Putties that attacked the command centre wore the helmet, making the first place they should look for clues the crept of Romonovy.
* * *
"It worked, the Rangers have fallen," Zedd exclaimed with a sense of overwhelming joy.
"Maybe you came up with a good plan," Rita agrees without good grace. Then she realises the flaw with his plan, "what if the Rangers go after Herotica and he helps them."
"What can he do, we have his powers and his master is long since dead."
"Not according to one myth, it says that he still lives, that he has kept part of his power back, in case it ever falls into evil hands."
"Myths don't scare me woman," Zedd laughs, "what matters is the facts and the facts show the Rangers are no more."
"Not the first time we've thought that," she mutters to herself.
* * *
The Rangers have powered down and teleported to Romonovy's crept, the place is in a bad way, even for a crept, a fight has happened here, recently. As the Rangers move through the room towards the main chamber, where Romonovy is kept, a man, slightly taller then the Rangers in a samurai's armour, rushes at them to attack, he screams invaders. The Rangers avoid his first attack easily, but Rocky is taken down by a sweep, the samurai puts a foot on fallen Rangers chest and his sword to his throat.
"Who are you," Kat asks before he does the unspeakable to Rocky.
"I am Herotica, the guardian of the Crypt of Romonovy," the samurai answers.
"Love what you've not done to the place," Rocky breathes.
"Who are you."
Tommy steps forward and speaks with pride, "we're the Power Rangers."
"Let me guess, Zordon sent you. I take it the creeps that took my helmet cleaned your clocks, ohy, Zordon should have known better" the samurai chuckles, letting Rocky back to his feet.
"Is there anyway to defeat the monster," Aisha asks optimistically.
"Anything can be defeated, no matter how powerful, if you use the right plan."
"What is the right plan," Rocky asks.
"The first is not to have sword put to your throat, ohy. Don't worry boyes, we can beat this problem the old boy in there set up a plan in case this happened, I tried to tell him it would never happen but he was paranoid, you know."
"It has happened," Rocky pointed out, Herotica just smiled at him. He then walked into the chamber with Romonovy's body.
He returns with a small box, he explains to the Rangers that the Power of Romonovy, is in fact not his power, or at least not all of it. No one creature can wield the full power, it is to great, that was why Romonovy sealed off sections of his mind, it is also why he continues to live in the eternal slumber. The powers left within Heortica's helmet are more powerful then any force on the planet Earth, but they are matched by the power of the Shadow Crystal. He opens the box revealing a gem that seems to suck light into it.
"Now, this crystal represents the darkness inside Romonovy," Herotica explains, "if you enter the worlds within the crystal and pass the test he will give you the power you need to defeat this new menace."
"We'll do it," Tommy said, speaking for the whole group with confidence.
"Ohy, slow down man, I haven't told you what you'll be going up against in there."
"So your going to tell us what we face," quizzed Adam.
"Let me guess, it's an unspeakable evil," Rocky sighs, "a creature of pure terror."
"That goes without saying, it is from your own world of terror however, inside this crystal you will meet your worst fear."
"We need the power to save the world," Tommy tells him, "we have to take the chance."
"Then I wish you all the luck in your world." The crystal beams the six teenagers into its self. "Well that's the last we'll see of them, pity I quiet liked them." He sits on one of the benches and takes out a book.
* * *
Tommy picks himself up off the ground, looks around himself he sees a sky that is deep purple, a stony ground is beneath his feet. He tries his communicator, but it is down he, and he assumes the other Rangers, have to go through this alone. He walks a while, deciding to explore the landscape. Not far away he finds a small deserted settlement, he quickly finds out why it is deserted a man-spider statue has come to life.
"This is from the universe of terrors," he laughs, "this should be easy, it's morphing time."
Only problem was that it wasn't, he reached for his morpher but it wasn't there.
* * *
In a world that looks similar to the world Tommy landed on, but with a green sky and a pink sea, Rocky is enjoying the down time that he's experiencing, until he hears the sounds of laughter from the other side of the ridge he is resting on. He looks over the edge and sees Adam and Aisha with another person, who looks like a face from the past, but it couldn't be him could it they seem to be in the shadows. Suddenly a monster attacks the trio, Rocky reached for his morpher but it was not there, the figure with his friends turned towards him, it was Jason Lee Scott, the original Red Ranger. Jason takes something from behind his back and suddenly he is the Red Ranger once again, he easily wipes the floor with the monster. Once the monster is dispatched the others congratulate him, and Rocky realises he has been replaced.
* * *
Billy finds himself in an ancient Roman coliseum, in the centre of the arena, a quick look round shows the attention to detail that has gone into creating this incredible building. Unfortunately his admiring of the craftsmanship is cut short, as a gate opens at the far end of the arena and three skeletons in Roman armour enter, one has a spear, one a net, and the other has a sword and shield.
"A fight Ranger," a disembodied voice calls out, "you must defeat these knights in mortal combat, in this contest your intelligence will do you no good."
* * *
Aisha is swimming in a giant river that seems to cover the entire planet she has landed on, she is finding the swim exhilarating, until she is confronted with a 'gator monster. Her first reaction is to reach for her morpher, it's not there, she tries to swim away from the monster, but it is faster in the water then she could ever hope to be. It catches her and dunks her head under the water, and begins to drown the poor girl.