Mean Green part 4
The Green Ranger looks down at the young woman helplessly in front of him, knowing the instructions he's been given is to destroy her, and that a single swing from his reared back sword would do just that. He then remembers the events of the previous day, helping this same girl as she was attacked by Lord Zedd's slaves (isn't that what he is now, he thinks), then spending the rest of the day with her. He thought that he would like it in this town. For a few seconds Eddy's willpower is stronger then the combined power of the Green Ranger and the Sword of Darkness. Those few seconds of strength are all it takes to stop, he rejects the Sword of Darkness, throwing it across the battlefield and teleporting away. Moments later the rejected weapon disappears as well.
In the park, Spi-Dor is moving towards the fallen White Ranger, seizing the opportunity the monster jumps towards its pray intending to land fist first on the hero's chest. At the last second Tommy rolls backwards and regains his feet, he then past the creature and up the trunk of a tree, flipping off when the momentum slackens turning the kick into a Ninnjetti fly kick sending the monster into a tree.
"This isn't over Ranger," the creature calls before vanishing.
"How can this have happened," Lord Zedd bellows. "We had all the Rangers at our mercy and yet they all live. The White Ranger recovering I can understand, he has done it before for," The Green Ranger appears in the throne room, "but you," Zedd's attention shifts to the newcomer, "you let them get away. Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"Yes I do," Eddy boldly exclaimed "I am no longer under your spell, I am my own man, and these," he shows the case containing the five stolen power coins, "are going back to there rightful owners. The Power Rangers."
As the defiant youngster attempts to teleport himself and the power coins back to the command centre he is blasted by Zedd, interrupting the escape attempt, but Zedd is not fast enough to stop the power coins disappearing. Lord Zedd then forces the Sword of Darkness into the Green Rangers hand, allowing the spell to retake the brave warrior.
Tommy has returned to the command centre and found the Rangers bruised, beaten, but ultimately unhurt. He asks what's happened, and is told about the attack by the Green Ranger, how he had them down and then when it looked like he was about to finally defeat the Power Rangers he wouldn't.
"Or maybe couldn't," Adam adds.
"He had a curved sword as well," Rocky tells the Leader.
"It was the Sword of Darkness, Tommy," Billy, the only contemporary of Tommy as the Green Ranger, explains.
"The Sword of Darkness," Tommy repeats shocked, "but that was destroyed by Jason to free me from Rita's spell, when I first became the Green Ranger." He then considers what the Green Ranger told him when they first met. "The path I trod he now walks, that's it I know how we defeat the Green Ranger."
"How," asks Aisha with disbelieving optimism.
"If we destroy the sword it should break the spell on him."
"We can't be certain that he is under a spell," Adam warns.
"He is," Kat agrees, "that's why he speared us, he's fighting the spell with everything he has in him."
"How can you be certain it's the sword," Billy asks, "just because it was your trigger doesn't mean it's his."
"Yes it does," responds Tommy.
Before any of the Rangers can respond to Tommy's claim a Green shimmer appears in the doorway of the command centre. Rocky is the first across to it, discovering that it is an ornately decorated case, the others are by his side by the time he opens it. Once it is opened the Rangers see,
"The power coins," Adam enthuses.
"The Green Ranger sent them back to us," Kat says with glee, "I knew he was free from the spell."
"He'll be under the spell as long as he wields the Sword of Darkness," Tommy reminds her, "he just managed to resist it for a while."
"Well," Rocky tells his white suited friend, "whatever the case, we have our powers back now, we've got a monster to smack down and a planet to save."
"Or in other words," Aisha concludes, "it's morphing time!"
The Rangers arrive in the park just as Spi-Dor and the Green Ranger appear.
"Okay guys," instucts Tommy, "I'll face the Green Ranger, you deal with Spi-Dor, as quickly as possible."
"Right," all the others agree in unison, they then divide up, the White Ranger luring his green counterpart into the woods where he first encountered Spi-Dor, the others attacking the monster as a team.
The monster is kept off balance by the contrasting skills and styles of the Rangers until Rocky calls for the Rangers to bring the power weapons together and create the powerful combined weapon that has destroyed many monsters in the past. The energy waves fire from the weapon hitting the monster.
"There doing it again," Lord Zedd moans, "another of my monsters is about to fall to the Power Rangers. I will not allow it to end like this, make my monster grow." Zedd throws a bag to his fallen monster, the bag then explodes releasing a gas that makes the monster go from seven foot to thirty foot. "Now the Power Rangers are doomed."
"Oh please," a voice from behind Zedd mocks, "like I haven't heard that before."
The Lord of evil turns and sees his wife, the evil Rita Repulsa.
In the woods the White and Green Rangers are duelling with there respective weapons, Saba and the Sword of Darkness, neither gain or giving an inch, as has always been the case in the confrontations between these two.
"You are no match for me White Ranger," the evil warrior tells his foe, "I'm better at being the Green Ranger then you ever were."
"Maybe, but I was the Green Ranger back before you knew what a Power Ranger was. I'm better now then I ever was then, I know what I'm fighting for."
The only response the Green Ranger is something that removes all doubt in Tommy's mind about the identity of his foe, all that is said is the exclusively British insult, the one word phrase "poufter."
Suddenly the Green Ranger hits a flurry of attacks disarming his opponent and as he is about to finish the job he is called back to Lord Zedds lunar base.
The other Rangers are now faced by the giant sized version of the monster they had just been fighting and thus called on their Hero Zords, which quickly morph together to form the Hero Megazord. They call on their sword of power and begin to confront the monster, it doesn't take long for the Rangers to get the upper hand, using the sword to cut through the webbing the monster uses or deflect it's blasts.
"This is my wife," Lord Zedd explains to his recalled warrior, "and she has given me a wonderful idea. It is time you learned of your greatest weapon, the Dragonzord."
Lord Zedd then releases a beam of energy that centres on Eddy's hand resurrecting the long vanished Dragon Dagger.
"Now go my Green Ranger," Lord Zedd continues, "call apon the power of the Dragonzord and destroy the Hero Megazord."
"As you wish, my lord," the Green Ranger tells him and teleports back to the battle.
The Hero Megazord has just knocked Spi-Dor to the floor with a strong punch when they decide that now is the time to finish the monster. They rear the sword of power back and are about to swing after it has absorbed enough energy to defeat the monster, but before they can deliver the powerful final blow an old familiar tune is heard from a flute.
At the docks work is done for the day, fortunate really as from the waters the mighty Dragonzord rises and moves towards the park.
"What's happening," Kat asks the others.
Billy answers, "the Green Ranger has called on the Dragonzord. We're in a world of trouble."