Part 4
Jason Scott appeared on the moon and took a moment to look around. He was still never able to come to terms with the fact that so many of the aliens that attacked the Earth had chosen to use it as a base of operations. Even after being a Power Ranger for as long as he had it seemed weird to him to think about alien being using the Earths own satellite as a staging grounds for their attacks.
Jase had only been to the moon once before himself and it was quite a unpleasant memory. His first time here was also a rescue mission and also for a Ranger. Ironically it was also the Yellow Ranger.
He thought back to the time when Kimberly had been taken captive by one of Nicandros monsters and the other Rangers had been all but incapacitated. The Yellow Ranger had been poisoned and there was very little time to save her. Without giving it a second thought Jason had Billy activate the teleporter and send him to the moon.
Luckily the monster turned out to be relatively weak and Jase was able to defeat it quickly and return Kimberly to the Power Chamber where Billy was able to find a cure and revive her.
While this mission had a lot of similarities to his previous visit it there were also a lot of differences. Main among them was the fact that this time it didn't just mean the life of one person. No this time the fate of everyone in Angel Grove, not to mention the entire world depended on his success. Jase took another moment to contemplate the situation. It seemed that whenever a Ranger was captured or went missing he was the one that ended up traveling to the rescue.
Now here it was right in front of him. Ritas moon palace. He knew it was here but had never been inside. This was the place that the Rangers first enemies had used as a base of operations. Of course Lord Zedd had come and taken over soon after. The Machine Empire had come while he was away at the teen peace conference but they used their own base instead of the already standing Moon Palace. After the machines were defeated the Moon Palace had remained empty.
Jason entered the massive front doors and was amazed by the sheer size of the place. It looked big on the outside but once he entered he got a true feeling of how large the place actually was.
'Well better not waste anytime.' The former leader of the Rangers said to himself. Jase pulled out the small tracking unit that Tara had given him and moved in the direction that it told him would lead to the Yellow Ranger.
Jarrold had ordered the other Rangers to regroup. The Vandairre had gained the upper hand and the fact that Scorpina and her monster had come to personally lead the attack didn't help. Mark had been almost knocked unconcious by a swift attack from Riptor and his chest armor had been all but torn to shreds by the monsters claws. Bryan was bleeding underneath his helmet as the the result of a failed attempt to engage Scorpina by himself. The other Rangers were all in various stages of injury from attacks by the seemingily unlimited supply of vandairre soldiers.
The Green Ranger reached for his wrist and activated his communicator. "Pink Ranger where are you? We need that back up now." he said.
"Right here." came the reply. He looked up and realized that the reply had not come from his communicator but instead from just a few feet behind him. The Power Rangers turned around and saw that the Pink Ranger had indeed come in with dozens of reinforcements. The young freedom fighters instantly ran into the defense of their heroes and began taking Vandairre soldiers out with combinations of weapons fire and what little hand to hand fighting that they knew.
"Fire Whip." Leslie called out. The flaming weapon appeared in her hand and she charged into the battle striking a soldier with a blow from her weapon and sending him into infinity.
This seemed to be the inspiration that the others needed as they to began to fight harder. Vandairre soldiers began to fall swiftly and their number actually seemed to be decreasing.
"Okay guys let's try this again." Jason said. "Ice Blade!!!" Once again the unique curved weapon appeared in his hand.
Tara looked over the control panel once more, finished the last of her calculations and entered then entered some instructions into the computer. "There now when Jason activates his recall signal it'll bring them back." she said. "Now to see how the others are doing."
Tara walked over to the Viewing Globe and looked over the battle that was happening. The others seemed to be winning but still with that monster and all of those soldiers, not to mention Scorpina, they were going to need all of the help that they could get. "It's Morphin Time!!!" she called out while reaching behind her to back grab her Power Morpher. "Dragon" Tara completed her transformation into the Purple Ranger and then reached for the teleportation button on the control panel. In a bright flash of purple energy she was off.
The Green Ranger took down another soldier as he made his way to Riptor. The monster turned around and spotted him and moved into attack. Green lifted his Storm Sword to hit the monster but before he could strike Riptor the Alpha charge towards him and struck with his massive claws sending the Green Ranger into a spin and crashing through a building.
"Fire!" Captain Sawyer called out. Her troops took aim and let loose with a blast from their rifles.
Riptor saw the blasts coming and easily dodged them and charged at the youngters. Just as he reached them a purple flash of light materialized in front of him. The Purple Ranger took aim with her Plasma Bow and fired. The impact of the blast sent the monster flying backwards. Tara reached forward and a small purple portal appeared. She released her weapon and it disappeared into the void.
Tara turned around and spotted her older brother as he was pulling himself from the building. She moved over to him and held out her hand to help him stand. "Jase is on his way to get Ashlyn. They'll be here in a little while."
"Good we really need her out here." The Green Ranger replied.
"Looks like this place is pretty empty." Jase said. "Good it'll make it a lot easier to find Ashlyn and get out."
The former Power Ranger moved around a corner and then looked down at the tracker that Tara had given him. "Looks like she's this way." he turned another corner and saw three soldiers standing there. He ducked his head back quickly "looks like I spoke to soon. Oh well her goes." With that he turned the corner and charged at the soldiers.
They saw him coming and pulled out their weapons. "Stop right there." one of them said.
Jase continued to move in. The soldiers took aim. "I said stop or we will fire." The soldier ordered.
Jase simply ignored the soldier and ran at him placing a kick directly into his midesection. The soldier collapsed and dropped his weapon. Jase picked up the energy rifle and rolled out of the way just as another soldier was about to open fire. The shot missed only by a fraction and Jase responded by firing his newly acquired weapon directly at the soldiers helmet. The shot hit the soldier and all but vaporized the warrior on the spot.
The third soldier turned to run but Jase fired his weapon hitting the retreating soldier in the back of the helmet and destroying him also. "Now I couldn't have you go calling for back up could I?" he asked.
The former Ranger continued in the direction that Taras device told him he would find The Yellow Ranger in. Soon he entered a room the appeared to be some type of dungeon. It was dimly lite inside and he hadn't thought to bring a flash light. "I don't suppose the have a power switch in here." he said to out loud.
"Who's there?" came a female voice.
Jason moved over to the sound of the voice and could see the shadow of what appeared to be a female figure. "Ashlyn is that you?" he asked.
"Yes it is. Who are you?" she responded.
"The Rangers sent me to get you out." he told her.
"Scorpina has the key."
"That's not a problem at all. Stand back." Jase moved over to the cell and took aim at the lock mechanism. With one quick shot he destroyed the lock and stepped in. "Are you okay?" he asked.
Ashlyn stepped closer to him. "I'm fine but we have to get out of here. Scorpina has my coin and morpher."
"Great, that isn't good." Jason reached down to activate his communicator.
"If your trying to call the others it won't work. I've been trying to get in touch with them since we got here. The communicators don't work in this area." she informed her rescuer. "By the way do you have any idea where we are?"
"On the moon." Jase to her. "Now let's get out of here. The others are going to need their Yellow Ranger."
Ashlyn leaned her head in to take a closer look at her rescuer. A look of shock came over her s she realized that she had seen this man before. "You're Jason are you? You gave Jarrold and Tara their Power Coins?"
"Yeah now let's move." he said grabbing her arm.
Ashlyn followed him into the corridor that he had come out of and they saw the several soldiers were moving in towards them. "Great this is the last thing that we need right now."
"You should surrender Power Rangers. There's no way that you can win." Scorpina taunted.
"Oh yeah, how about like this. Plasma Bow!!!" Purple called out. The weapon once again materialed in her hand and she fired. The weapon came close to hitting Scorpina but Riptor intercepted the blast with his claws and then charged and began to attack the Rangers. His movements were so fast the they didn't have time to react and all found themselves on the ground in a matter of seconds.
"Man this is no good." Red said.
"That guys just two fast for us." said Pink.
"Yeah we need the Yellow Ranger." White added in.
Jason put his arm around Ashlyn waist and then touched the recall button on his communicator. The two disappeared just as the soldiers moved in on them.
In a streak of Gray and Yellow light they reappeared in the Power Chamber. "Scorpina has mounted a fairly large assault on the city and the Rangers went in to stop her." They both moved over to the Viewing Globe and looked in on the battle that was taking place in Angel Grove.
The two watched as the Rangers were being taken down by the monster that Scorpina had brought along with her. "Jason could you zoom in on that monster please?" Ashlyn said.
After a few touches of the control panel the monsters features came into view. Ashlyn gasped and then nearly fell over. Her body began to shake violently and she clenched her fists so tight that her knuckles started to turn red. "TREVOR!" she said in a low growl.
Jason moved over to Ashlyn and put a hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong. You look likeyou know that monster."
"He used to be human. That monster was at one time my boyfriend. He is responsible for the deaths of 250 men and women that I considered a family. He's a traitor and now I can see why." Ashlyn paced back and forth for a moment. "Jason I want you to teleport me to Angel Grove."
"But you said that Scorpina has your morpher and coin." Jase objected.
"Just do it." she snarled.
Jase shrugged hsi soldiers and with no further objection activated the teleporter and sent Ashlyn in battle.
The Yellow Ranger materialized a few feet away from Scorpina and moved to approach her.
"Ah Ashlyn I see that you got out of my little prison. How was your stay there?" Scorpina laughed. "Well it doesn't matter that you're here now you still don't have this." she said holding up the Yellow Rangers morpher and coin.
The Pink Ranger saw this and lashed out with her whip striking Scorpinas hand just before Riptor could get there to intercept the attack. The morpher and coin flew through the air and Riptor moved into catch them before Ashlyn could reach them but Black and Blue both lept at him with flying kicks that sent him falling away just as the Power Morpher reached Ashlyns hands.
"Now that these are back in the right hands there's only one thing left to say." Ashlyn held the items out "It's Morphin Time!!! The coin appeared in it's place within the morpher and began to glow yellow. "Cheetah!!!" In a flash of yellow Ashlyn Starr had transformed into the Yellow Ranger.
The now morphed Yellow Ranger looked over to see Riptor tearing through the Black and Blue Rangers as punishment fo their interference. She quickly moved over and cut him off as he moved in for the second wave of his attack. "Quick Blade!!!" she called out. "Hyper Sonic!!!" in a move the seemed left a visible trail of sonic energy lingeting behind her the Yellow Ranger move ran in and cut through Riptor with her Quick Blade.
"Wow where did that come from?" Green gasped.
"Trevor I know that's you over there. Give up before we wipe you out." Yellow ordered.
"Sorry sweetie the name's Riptor now and you're going down like the rest of your friends." the monster answered.
"Okay if that's how you want it. I gave you a chance." The Yellow Ranger looked back at the others and nodded "Okay guys let's pull out the artillery.
The other Power Rangers all nodded at her and reached forward to summon the signature weapon.
"Ice Blade!!!"
"Elemental Staff!!!"
"Aqua Axe!!!"
"Storm Sword!!!"
"Flame Sais!!!"
"Fire Whip!!!"
The weapon came together just as before and Pink pulled it in with her weapon. They fired a blast from the weapon that hit the monster dead-on before he could move and just as before the Power Blaster fell apart afterwards.
"I'm going to have to do something about that." Purple said.
"Worry about it later. Looks like we're in for some big trouble." Yellow said as she pointed at Riptor, who was pulling out a vial of the Vandairre growth potion.
"We need TitanZord Power now." Green called out.
"Red Ranger, Bull, TitanZord Power!"
"Black Ranger, Panther, TitanZord Power!"
"Purple Ranger, Dragon, TitanZord Power!"
"White Ranger, Lynx, TitanZord Power!"
"Blue Ranger, Fox, TitanZord Power!"
"Yellow Ranger, Cheetah, TitanZord Power!"
"Pink Ranger, Phoenix, TitanZord Power!"
"Green Ranger, Eagle, TitanZord Power!"
One by one the TitanZords appeared and the Rangers lept up and took control of the semi-sentient machines.
"Okay guys let's wrap this up fast. Form the Mega TitanZord."
The Zords all underwent their various transformations and combined into the form of the Mega TitanZord.
Scorpina looked at the massive Zord and then decided that she certainly didn't want to tangle with it at this time. 'That thing is even bigger than the other MegaZords' she thought. "Don't worry Rangers, I'll be back to take care of you later." she said while teleporting away.
"Power Sword Online" the Rangers said in unison. The ultimate weapon of the Mega TitanZord appeared in its hand and charged with energy.
"You're going down Trevor." Yellow said. "Cut him."
The Power Sword came down and impacted with Riptor and sent him crashing to the ground.
Something that the Rangers didn't expect happened. Riptor didn't explode as all of the other monsters had. Instead he reverted to his smaller size and and lay unconcious on the ground.
Yellow lept from the MegaZord and ran to grab him but he recovered, still very groggy and teleported away just before she reached him. "Damn." she said.
The remaining Vandairre soldiers saw that their leaders had left and quickly turned to follow suit. They retreated, dropping their weapons and trying to move out as fast as they could to avoid getting squashed by the massive robot warrior that was now there.
The Rangers stood in front of Captain Sawyer and each shook her hand. "Thanks Captain." Green said
"No problem Green Ranger, thank you."
Green nodded his head and then looked at the others. "You guys ready to go?" he asked. They responded by placing their left hands on the Power Morphers and raising their right hands in the air to teleport away.
The eight teens rematerialized in the Power Chamber where Jase was waiting for them.
"Power Down." Green said as he unmorphed and returned to his alter ego.
"You guys are awesome." Jase said as he moved close to the Rangers.
"We appreciate all of your help." Tara told him. "Maybe you could tell us some stories about your day."
"Thanks, but now I have to get back to the city. I have some catching up to do." Jase told them. "But I'll be around."
Tara reached down and activated the teleport control on the control panel and sent Jase off to Angel Grove.
"What do you think was up with that monster?" Bryan asked.
"He's not exactly a monster and he'll be back." Ashlyn said. "I think that there's some things that I should tell you." she started as the others gathered around her.