Part 7
Jarrold Scott, the Green Ranger and leader of the newest team of Power Rangers stood staring up at the sky. It had been a long time since he had seen the sky this clear and even though he know that he should be looking for his EagleZord he wanted to admire as much of this beauty as he could.
The young man was slightly older than most members of the team and knew that they had their work cut out for them if were going to finish the job that the previous team had started. Jarrold scarcely remembered the days that the Vandairre didn't rule the world. He and his sister had been taken young. He remembered a picnic and a visit from a family friend. He remembered practicing martial arts with the family friends son in the backyard of his families house. It struck him as odd that he couldn't remember the name of the boy, even though they seen each other everyday and he was sure that this was his best friend.
Most of all Jarrold remembered the Vandairre soldiers that suddenly appeared. His father and their friend fought the soldiers but things didn't go well. Jarrold was hit in the head and knocked unconcious. When he awoke he found himself in a small room with his sister laying in a corner crying. The young boy craddled his little sister in his arms and rocked her until she stopped crying. He didn't know what had happened after he went unconcious but it was obvious that their parents didn't make it out of the fight.
Over the next few days the boy would learn that he was being held in a prison camp by a group of aliens that wanted to take over the world.
Jarrold had tried to escape several times but had never been able to. The guards would always catch and then punish him. At first they would simply lock him up in a dark room for a day or two, but after his fiftieth attempt they became so frustrated that they would began to beat him.
Many of other prisoners saw what had been going on and took the young man and his sister under their wings. Some of the prisoners had been in the military, martial artists and other fighters of all types. They began to teach Jarrold and his sister many fighting skills.
The brother and sister absorbed everything that they were being taught. They even went so far as to watch the aliens during their training sessions to learn as much about them as they could. At one time they two had even managed to escape for two days but Tara had gotten ill and was captured. Jarrold, afraid for what they would do to his sister, turned himself in. The slave master beat him for hours but didn't touch Tara just as he had hoped.
That night Tara attempted to escape or at least faked an attempt in order to draw out the slave master. Several of the slaves rebelled and attacked the slave master killing him. Jarrold was pointed out as the leader so he and his sister were moved to a slave camp until the day that they encountered Jason, given the coins and became Power Rangers.
Jarrold shook his head to clear it and bring himself out of his daydream. He looked around a little more and and then pick up the small bag that he was carrying and started to walk. 'I wonder how everyone else is doing, they should all be back by now.' he said to himself. 'I hope so because when I get mine that skunk Barberon is going to pay. And then after we're done with him, the rest of the Vandairre are going to get the same thing.'
"So there you are Green Ranger!" Barberon said as he appeared in front of Jarrold. "We've been looking for you. Your friends have managed to all get away thus far, but once my soldiers finish with you the others won't stand a chance against us."
"You can't beat us Barberon. You tried how many times already, but we still keep beating you. Now that they have their Zords what makes you think you could possibly beat us. You can't even beat me."
"Jarrold, I don't have to beat you. That's what they're for." There as a bright light and literally dozens of Vandairre soldiers stood in front of Jarrold. "If you manage to deal with them there are hundreds more where they came from. Have fun, I'm going to destroy your pathetic little friends." Barberon disappeared and the soldiers ran in to atack.
Jarrold looked on at the sheer amount of soldiers that Barberon had left behind. He know he could take these guys one on one, even by the dozens but this was ridiculous. There had to be a least fifty or more soldiers. 'I'd better be careful' Jarrold thought.
"It's Morphin Time!" he yelled as he pulled out the green Power Morpher. "Eagle!" The sky grew dark and a cloud formed above the soldiers. Three lightning bolts struck Jarrold and his body began to crackle with electricity and his clothes were stripped away. The energy crawled up his body and he began to encase first his legs then his body. Next his arms were covered and the lightning exploded from his body leaving his ranger outfit. The chest shield began to form and his helmet appeared above him. The helmet appeared and lowered down to cover his head.
The now morphed Green Ranger turned to face the stunned Vandairre soldiers. Their mouths dropped at what they had just seen and they couldn't decided if they should attack or run away from the Ranger.
Captian Rebecca Sawyer looked over her troops. They were all so young, most being under the age of 15. She had been with this group for a few years now but, she had always been one of the oldest even before their original commander and first officer had died. She remembered that day well, there had been a Vandairre attack on a village and their small squad had responded. Major Greer and Captian Mitchell lead the team into the battle, but things seemed to be going bad from the beginning. A fire broke out in a house and the ran in to make sure that it was all clear. There was a scream and the Captian ran in to check on the Major. There was another scream and the Captian came running out holding a little girl. Rebecca then a lieutenant, grabbed the little girl out of Captain Mitchells arm "Take her I have to go back in to help Carter" were the last words that Rebecca would ever here from the person that had come to be an older sister and even the mother that she never had.
"Dana let me go." Rebecca shouted. Dana ignored or didn't hear her and ran in after the Major. Rebecca placed the little girl in the arms of another squad member and ran into the building into the building after them. They building was filled with smoke and fire. Rebecca looked through the smoke and gasped at what she saw. There they were, not 10 feet away from her were a Red and a Pink Power Ranger, fighting some type of flaming monster. They were losing badly, the Red Ranger had been sent through a wall and was unconcious and the Pink Ranger, as hard as she tried could not handle the monster. Rebecca ran to help the Red Ranger up but could'nt make it through the heat. She had felt as if she would melt. The Pink Ranger grabbed the monster and pulled it away from Red but the monster was too strong and shrugged her off. It then grabbed the Red Ranger and lifted him up by his neck. The Pink Ranger ran to grab the monster from behind but couldn't get a good grip on him.
The Red Ranger looked at Rebecca and said in a voice that she know belonged to Major Carter Greer "Becky the team is yours. Take care of them." He then turned to the Pink Ranger and the two nodded at each other and that is when Rebecca Sawyer realized what was going on. She was about to watch the only parents that she had ever known sacrifice themselves to save the team and this village.
"Carter, Dana don't do it." she cried out. The two rangers pulled out there weapons and fired simultaneously at the monster causing it to explode. Rebecca was thrown from the building and when she awoke the battle was over and the squad was standing over her. No one would tell her what happened that day and she didn't press the issue. After that day the others followed her without question and they had been through a lot together but she still missed being around others her own age. That's why she was so happy when the others showed up. But the thing that made her even happier was the fact that the Power Rangers were back. She couldn't help but wonder if Carter and Dana were in this group. If it was true then that meant that they had some how survived.
"Captian Sawyer are you okay?" Leslie asked, as she walked over to Rebecca. "If you need some one to talk to I'm here."
Rebecca couldn't stand being around Leslie. She know that the girl had a major crush on Jarrold and it made her sick. Leslie was always so cheery and the more happy that she was the more upset Rebecca would become. The Captian liked the young man to but this was more of a stop drooling over him and let him make up his mind thing. "I'm fine Leslie" she said, trying her hardest to be nice and not reach out and choke the girl. "I just need to be alone." Rebecca got up and walked away leaving Leslie standing there.
"Okay Captian, but remember if you need to talk I'll be around." Leslie then turned around and walked away.
"Leslie!" Tara called out as she caught up to the Pink Ranger.
Leslie turned around and saw Tara standing behind. "What's up?"
"So that means two of us made it back." Tara said.
"Make that five of us!" Mark said, as he Bryan and Jason joined the girls.
"No make that seven of us." came Ashlyns voice. "Now all we have to do is wait for Jarrold."
The others all turned around half expecting the Green Ranger to walk up to them.
"I wonder where he is." Leslie said obviuosly concerned.
'Barely avoided that one' Jarrold sighed as he rolled out of the way of the soldiers sword. The Green Ranger then brought his leg up and kicked the weapon out of the soldiers hand, the Green Ranger then executed a handspring into a front flip and caught the sword. He spun around bringing the weapon over his head and striking another soldier in the arm. Jarrold was holding his own but he know that against this many opponents that it was not if he could win but how many he could take out with him.
"Give up Power Ranger, you can't beat us. There's only one of you but there are dozens of us. You may be able to take out some of us but eventually you will go down. Not even a Power Ranger can take this many warriors at a time." The soldier then rushed at Jarrold, who responded with a spin kick in the head.
"Why won't you guys understand that you can't beat me. I can take all of you without wasting a breathe to do it." The Green Ranger was no where near as confident as he was trying to sound. "You jerks are a waste of my time. He hoped by making them mad that they would make mistakes and give him a chance to get away so he could find his Zord.
With Barberons open threat against his team and the levels of power that the warrior seemed to possess Jarrold knew that the rangers would be in serious trouble if he didn't get back to them soon.
"Worried about you friends Green Ranger?" one of the soldiers taunted. "Well don't be I'm sure Lord Barberon will take good care of them. Especially those cute little female rangers."
"Maybe when he finishes he'll give them to us." Another soldier suggested.
'Their just trying to goad me into making a stupid mistake like I did to them earlier.' Jarrold thought. 'Well let's make em think that they won.' "NOOOO!!!" he screamed, rushing head first into the waiting soldiers.
They quickly surrounded him and began to move in.
'Now I have them just where I want them' "Storm Sword!" he shouted. The large staff-sword appeared in the Green Rangers hand and he raised it into the air. A few of the Vandairre present had been there when this new Green Ranger had made his debut. But every soldier on Earth had heard of this weapon and while few believed that it was as powerful as they had heard, even fewer were willing to test out that theory.
Jarrold pointed his weapon at the Vandairre soldier that had seemed to be the spokesman for the group. "What are going to do with that, poke me in the arm?" the said arrogantly. "Don't you rangers ever learn? We crushed the last group of rangers and you'll get the same."
"Are you going to talk or are you going to fight?" Jarrold mockingly asked.
"You asked for it ranger." the lead soldier said, pointing to Green Ranger. "This is our planet now and you'll learn what happens to lower life forms that try to resist us."
Jarrold obviously took offense to that and swung his Storm Sword at the soldier, slicing him in the chest. The soldier feel down clenching the gaping wound. "Anyone else want some of this?" The Green Ranger asked.
The soldiers stared at their fallen spokesman for a moment then looked up at the Green Ranger as he stared at them as if choosing which of them to strike down next. One of the soldiers stepped forward and reached for his weapon and took aim. Green quickly raised his weapon and sliced the soldiers own in half. "For the Emperor, Attack!" the soldier cried.
Jarrolds eyes went wide as about sixty soldiers pulled out their blasters and took aim. 'This isn't going to be pretty at all' he thought to himself.
The soldiers all opened fire on the Green Ranger. Thinking quickly Jarrold ducked under several of the blasts, jumped over several more, flipped away from a few more and finally lifted his weapon to deflect the last few. "Is that all you got?" he laughed. "You'll have to do a lot better than that if you want to take me out."
The attackers became very frustrated and ran at the Green Ranger firing their weapons. "No one insults the honor of the Vandairre Empire and lives." the new leader told Jarrold.
"That shouldn't be a problem since you have no honor anyway."
Jarrold and the soldier glared at each other for moments before either said another word. "I was hoping to save this for the other rangers but he'll kill you just as easily as them. Gorbash destroy him." A huge bronze colored monster with long orange hair walked from the center of a group soldiers that had been standing away observing things."
The monster obeyed it's commander and ran to attack the Green Ranger.
"Man this isn't my day is it? I hope that my zord is close because I have a feeling I going to need it!" Green said as he moved into fight Gorbash. Jarrold communicator sounded but he couldn't answer.
Captian Sawyers eyes scanned over the battlefield, she had expected the Vandairre to attack the Power Chamber but not this soon. If they got inside and found their way to the inner sanctum there could be trouble. She had never been in the inner halls of the rangers base but knew that they must have had secrets in there that wouyld be dangerous if they feel into the wrong hands. She had never been in the inner sanctum herslf but she had thought many times about the things that the Power Rangers had inside and shuddered at the thought of these aliens getting their hands on them.
Bryan ran up to Captian Sawyer and shook her arm to get her attention. "Captian I have bad news. The Vandairre are advancing and our forces are getting whipped out there. We've already taken heavy loses and I don't think that we can last much longer.
"I better call the Power Rangers. I don't think they'll be to happy if they come home and found out we let these guys wreck the place." She reached down to grab the wrist communicator that they had given her.
'If she hears my communicator our cover will be blown' Bryan thought to himself. "Captian I'm going to find the others. I need to make sure that they're ok." he told her.
"Go ahead we need everyone that we can get." she told him as she pressed the activation button on her communicator "oh yeah and you can call me Rebecca we're the same age"
"Thanks Becky." Bryan said as he ran off to find his friends.
"Don't call me Becky!" she shouted. 'Man I hate that.'
The soldier grunted as Tara hip-tossed him. "Maybe next time you'll think first before you try to pick on someone smaller than you." she said shaking her head at him. "You okay Mark?" she asked the Black Ranger as she offered her hand to him.
"I'll be fine as soon as I get rid of this headache." he joked.
Tara put her arm around her friend. "Mark I know that you were there by my side while I was hurt and I appreciate that."
"No problem we're friends aren't we? Now duck!" he grabbed Tara and pushed her to the ground, an energy blast passing just inches away from her head. "Now we're even."
"Have you guys seen Jason?" Bryan asked the pair as he stopped to catch his breath. "Barberon is making his move on the Power Chamber and we have to stop him."
"You go find Jason and we'll get Leslie, Aron and Ashlyn." Mark told Bryan.
It was important that they found Jason, not only because they needed him there as a fighter but also for they fact that he was the teams second in command. With Jarrold away they needed a leader and Jason was it. "Good let's get on it."
"Right!" Mark and Tara said in unison. All three rangers looked at each other and then shrugged their shoulders and turned to go find the others. As they walk off Tara kicked the soldier that she had just taken down and then stepped on his back.
The others stared at her. "I hate these guys" she told them.
Ashlyn turned to see that on of the kids in her unit was being pinned down by fire from a soldier. The boy couldn't have been more than twelve years old and he was obviosly frightened. Ashlyn moved in quick and kicked the rifle out of his hand. The soldier turned around to see who had done it and was met with a fist to the jaw. He rubbed his jaw the reached out to punch her in return. Ashlyn brought up her leg and used it to block the attack. The soldiers arm was thrown to the side and Ashlyn hit him in the chest with a double reverse kick. The soldier fell down unconcious grabbing his chest and gasping for air. The boy came out for his hiding place and ran over to Ashlyn. "Are you okay?" she asked the boy.
"I'm fine, thanks." the boy told her.
"Good, take this and go help out on the field." she said leaning over to grab the rifle that she had relieved from the soldier.
The boy grabbed the weapon, nodded and ran off to join his teammates in the battle.
Ashlyn looked around to see if there was anyone else that needed her help. When she was satisfied that everything was okay her she decided to go see if she could find the others.
Leslie kicked the soldier in the head and turned around to face the one that stood behind her. "Why don't you guys just get off our planet?" she asked as the soldier approached her.
"Sorry cutie but this is our planet now, but if you want to come over to the winning to team I'll make sure that you taken care." the soldier said.
"There's no way that I would touch a slug like you." Leslie told him.
"Well then I guess you can die." he returned.
"Try me loser!" she said, confidently. Leslie Cortez wasn't much of a fighter and had never tried to be one, but in the last few weeks she had gained confidence from hanging around her new friends and was willing to do her best to defend them. It also didn't hurt that she learned really quickly and watching the others had given her the chance to learn a few moves.
The soldier threw a kick at the Pink Ranger, which she easily avoided and countered with a chop to the back of the neck.
The soldier grabbed his neck and then turned around and lifted his hand as if to slap the girl. Leslie ducked under the hit and swept his legs out from under him, causing him to fall and land on his head.
Tara and Mark stood with their mouths open. Neither had expected to see Leslie so thoroughly wipe somebody out. "Where'd you learn to fight like that girl?" Tara asked, as she walked up to Leslie.
"I just picked up somethings from you guys. I hope I did okay." Leslie answered.
"Okay. You must be kidding. Less than a month ago you could barely handle walking and now you're a lean mean alien fighting machine."
The three rangers all laughed for a few moments and then all feel silent. "I can't stand those aliens. I don't know how they could look like us and be so evil. I'll be glad when we're rid of them." Tara said.
Tara turned around and saw Aron standing behind them stopped dead in his tracks. The girl put her head down realizing what she had said. Everyone looked over at Aron, who walked over to them as if he hadn't heard what Tara said. "We'd better get going." Aron said.
The team all walked past him, except for Tara who stood back "I'm sorry." she whispered.
"It's okay. I understand how you feel. I thought the same way before I met you guys, but now I know that all aliens aren't bad." he said as he walked away.
Tara held her head down thinking about what had just happened.
"Duck!!!" Jason yelled as he jumped over Bryan and drop kicked the soldier that was behind him. The soldier went down hard and hit his head on a rock.
Bryan had managed to find Jason and Ashlyn but had also managed to bring 15 soldiers with him. Bryan had knocked one of the soldiers out early in the fight and managed to relieve him of his sword. He had handed the weapon to Jason since he could never grasp the delicacies of that particular type of weapon. Jason was spectacular with the weapon and had managed to take several of the soldiers down quickly. Ashlyn was almost as good and with just a large stick that she had picked up had taken out a few more of the soldiers.
'I didn't realize that these guys were that bad' said to himself with a chuckle 'I'm glad that I got out odf it before I had to fight these two.' One of the soldiers reached in to punch him but because Bryan was fast and leaned back the unlucky guy over extended his reach and began to fall forward exactly as the Blue Ranger had planned. Bryan grabbed his arm and finished his fall backwards dragging the unbalanced soldier with him sending them both flying towards Ashlyn, who performed a spin kick and sent him flying into the remaining 2 soldiers.
The three rangers turned to face each other just seconds before their communicators sounded six the familiar six chime alert. Jason automatically lifted his arm to answer his. "White Ranger here." he said.
"Rangers thank god!" came the voice of Captian Sawyer.
"What can we do for you Captian?" Jason asked.
"I've been trying to reach you for some time now. Barberon is at at the front door and he's pretty mad. My team is busy with his soldiers and even if they were'nt my teams not equipped to handle that monster."
"We'll be there as soon as possible Captian. White Ranger out." Jason lowered his communicator and faced the others we have to get over there now.
Tara, Mark, Leslie and Aron came running over a mound and joined the others. "We heard the captian Jason, so what's the plan?"
"We tried to wait for Jarrold as long as we could but we have to go." Jason answered.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Leslie asked.
"Yeah we're all clear." Mark said.
"Let's do it!" Ashlyn called.
"Right!!!" they all cried out in unison.
"It's Morpin Time." said Jason.
The rangers all pulled out their morphers and raised them into the air. "Dragon!"
"Panther!"
"Cheetah!"
"Bull!"
"Fox!"
"Lynx!"
"Phoenix!"
The Power Rangers all stood in their uniforms and looked over over the mound at the Power Chamber. Barberon was stalking through the desert to the rangers base and even at this distance they could see that he had murderous intent in his eyes.
"We better get down there fast." Jason said as he grabbed the power mopher on his belt to activate it's teleporter.
'I need to take these guys out fast.' Green Ranger told himself after hearing the communication between Captian Sawyer and Jason. Jarrold spun around and and lowered his weapon, twisted the hilt and pulled it apart into it's two seperate components. "Now you guys are in trouble." Jarrold to the Vandairre soldiers as he charged them with the weapons.
Gorbash looked at the Green Ranger for a moment as if deciding if it wanted to attack. The monster then ran head first into Jarrold and was met by a double reverse kick to the chest. Jarrold followed this attack up by bringing his weapons across the monsters chest "Thunder Slice!" Green called out as he finished his manuever.
The monster went down clutching it's chest. "Like I said if that's the best you've got then you're in trouble."
"No Green Ranger, you the one that's in trouble." the soldier then pulled out a vial of the liquid and throw it at Gorbashs' limp body. The monster screamed as the magic that caused it's his body to expand took effect.
"Perfect. This is really what I need." Jarrold said as the monster reached down to grab him.
Jarrold rolled out of the way and then threw his larger blade at the monsters hand. Gorbash swatted the weapon away and then lifted this foot to step on the ranger.
There was a loud noise that sounded like the cry of a bird that caused everyone to stop and look in the sky to see where it had come from. Over the horizon they could see what appeared to be an extremely large eagle. The bird dove at Gorbash, knocking him over. It then flew over Jarrold.
"You must be the EagleZord." Jarrold said as he lept to the giant birds back. He then made his way to the cockpit and entered, taking the controls and turning to face Gorbash. He pulled the controls and steered straight up and dove dove at the monster raking the beast across its back with its talons.
The monster fell over and exploded. The soldiers saw this and scattered in all directions in their panic to get away from the ranger and his new Zord.
"Let's go help my friends." Green Ranger told the Zord.
"Stop right there Barberon." White Ranger ordered. "You're not getting in there."
The monster turned and looked at the rangers "So you guys just don't want to accept that you can't beat me huh. Well this is the last time that we're going to do this. You have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. You destruction will be swift. Prepare to die."
"That's right Barberon, this is the last time that we do this. You're going down." Purple said.
"Yeah this is our planet." Pink said.
"You're not welcome here." Black added.
"So leave now before we send you and you Emperor back to where you came from." Blue finished.
"I'd like to see you try." Barberon mockingly said.
"Better be careful what you wish for for. You just might get it." Red said as he stepped in front of the others.
"If that's the case what I wish for is your destruction. Oh looks I'm about to get my wish."
"You want a piece of us. Come and get it." Yellow told the alien monster.
Barberon took that as an open challenge and called on his hammer and threw it at the Yellow Ranger. Ashlyn did a cartwheel out of the way, but was clipped in the leg by hammer. Ashlyn went down and grabbed her leg screaming in pain. "See what your arrogance and smart mouth gets you Yellow Ranger. Now you get to die along with the rest of the rangers that have challenged me." The momster said, bringing up his hammer to smash her with it.
"Plasma Storm!" Tara said as she battered Barberon with fire from her bow.
The warrior dropped his hammer and fell back. Tara continued to fire until Barberons body began to actually glow puple as he was was bombarded with the bows energy.
Captian Sawyer watched the battle from a safe distance over the mound that the rangers had just come from. 'These guys are incredible' she thought. 'The Vandairre don't stand a chance with them on our side.'
The warrior reached for his hammer and swung at Tara. She was not anxious to be caught at the end of that weapon again. Unfortunately she didn't see where she was going and crashed into a tree in her rush to dodge the attack. The impact didn't hurt her but there was enough force to make her drop her weapon. Barberon once again brought his hammer down, Tara rolled out of the way just in time but he hit her bow smashing it to pieces.
"Hey you jerk! I liked that bow." Tara shouted. The Purple Ranger propelled herself into the air with a flying kick but was swatted away and landed in the middle of the other rangers.
"Try that one with me!" Black said, diving head first towards his target.
Barberon didn't try to stop him. Instead he grabbed the back of the Black Rangers chest armor and shoved him forward, using his own momentum to send him flying past the others and almost to the mound that Captian Sawyer was standing on.
Captian Sawyer ran down the mound and help the Black Ranger to his feet. "Are you ok?" she asked.
"Yeah the only thing that he hurt was my pride." the Black Ranger said, dusting himself off. He started to stumble a bit.
"Are you sure. You don't look like you in any condition to fight that guy."
"Look I appreciate your concern but my friends need me and I'm going to help them." Black argued.
"Ok." Captian Sawyer said, taking a step back to give him room.
The Black Ranger started to limp back towards the fight.
'Man those guys are tough' Rebecca said to herself 'I just hope that when the time comes that I'm that strong.'
"You may have been able to take the kid out but how about trying that with me." Blue Ranger said, walking towards Barberon.
White Ranger grabbed his arm and held him back. "Hold on we need to wait for the others." he told the Blue Ranger.
"What are you doing Jason?" Bryan asked the. "We need to take this guy out fast."
"You saw what he did to the others, we need to work together. Once we regroup we'll hit him with everything we've got simultaneously."
"Why are you trying to be so careful. This guy has killed hundreds of people and you want to dance with him."
Jason turned to face the Blue Ranger and grabbed him by his chest armor, lifting him off the ground. "Listen to me Bryan, Barberon is dangerous and could destroy any of us without giving it a second thought."
"That's the reason why we have to take him out now. The others can join in when they get here.
"Listen he killed my mom and I want to take him out just as badly as you do but we need to be smart about it."
A spark of realization came over Bryan, this guy had killed his mom and he was willing to wait for back up. If Jason could be calm in the face of this then certainly Bryan could be calm. "Ok White Ranger what do we do?" Blue asked.
Jason lowered the Blue Ranger and the others gathered around them. "We're gonna take him down." he said. "Pull out the hardware."
All of the rangers called out their weapons except for Tara, who's weapon had been totally destroyed. She stepped back and let the others take the forefront.
"Let's take him down!" Aron told the others.
The Power Rangers charged at their full strength.