Chapter Seven: What a Night.
Divatox walks over to her nephew, Hacker, who is currently devising a new plan to take out the rangers. "Are you sure you can deliver the goods?" Divatox ask. Hacker looks up from his plans. "I can assure you that the rangers will be no more pretty soon." Hacker said.
Waiting at the docks, TJ nervously awaits Ashley's arrival as he fumbles through his pockets to find it. At last, he grabs the breath-freshener spray. He opens his mouth and gives it sprits, but puckers up his lips in disgust at the taste of it, quickly trying to spit it out. He is wearing fairly casual clothing. But then, something catches his attention, out of the corner of his eye. TJ's breath is taken away at the sight of Ashley as she approaches. She wears a beautiful, yellow dress with a long slit in the skirt, revealing her legs as she walks toward him with a smile. Her earrings glisten.
"Ashley you...um...look great." TJ stumbles over his words. "If I had known that you were dressing up for this, maybe I would have dress up to." TJ said looking at him casually dressed. "Yeah it wouldn't hurt." She said flashing him a smile. "But you still look good yourself." She said.
"I said you look great." He reminds her.
"Yeah but you can't out due the girl now." She adds. But their conversation is interrupted as the giant boat arrives. It is tremendous. An entire ship converted into a restaurant on the sea. "Our ride?" she asks with a puzzle look on her face. He motions her to take a step up on the boat. "You ride awaits you my lady." TJ said in mildly bad English accent. She smiles stepping on to the boat. The restaurant has now left the docks and is rowing slowly across the sea, with a magnificent view of the city from the window, where Kent and Sara are seated. The two of them make brief eye contact, both hopelessly unsure of what to say.
"How did you do on the Algebra test?" is the only thing that comes to his mind. She processes the question figuring that he was nervous. "I did alright for myself." She answered. "I'm sorry maybe I should have ask what the dress code was going to be." Ashley said looking down at herself. "I think seeing me like this puts pressure on what ever it is that were doing. That it makes it seem like we're dating." Ashley said.
TJ looks from his plate. "And we're not?" he ask. He had been hanging with Ashley for quite some time now. At first it was two friends hanging out but to him it did seem like they were on dates. "Um well I don't know what really qualifies as a date." Ashley said. "Well do you want date me?" Her hand stumbles across the table for a glass of water, which she quickly sips in order to avoid answering the question....
Elgar along with his cousin Hacker beside him appears before the base of the mountain. Hacker holds a large black obelisk under his arm. "We must act quickly before the rangers catch wind of our plan." Hacker said. Elgar looks around seeing the close is clear he grabs the obelisk. Black lighting drives from the obelisk into the cement. As Hacker reads some kind of incantation from a piece of paper that he was looking at on the ship. The ancient markings leapt off the paper and into the cement. But before he can complete his spell, three streams of blue, green, and pink collide with his back, though it does not seem to harm him. He and Elgar look up to see the Blue, Pink, and Green rangers accompanied by, rushing at them, the three rangers' Auto Blasters smoking in their hands.
"You know the drill stop right there." Green ranger demands holding his auto blaster at Elgar's hands. Hacker turns to face the rangers. He grins finally meeting the rangers face to face. "Well rangers last time we didn't get a chance to meet. But I'm sure you're a fan of my previous work with the Megazords." Hacker gloats.
"That was you. You almost destroyed the city with our zords. To think that you could use our own zords against it." Pink Ranger said. Hacker continues to gloat and strut around the place at his work. "Well rangers you have interfered with my plans and now you must die. Cybertrons attack." Hacker said pressing a button on his arm. Out of his arm the cybertrons burst out of a green grid quickly leaping into battle with our heroes, minus two members of their team. These cybertrons were a cross between piranatrons and quantrons.
Green ranger sends a foot spinning across a cybertronhead with such force that it causes it to twist around 180 degrees. But the creature's head snaps back into place with a snarl as it sends it claws angrily slashing into his chest. Green Ranger is thrown into a spin, but when he stops, the Thunder Cannon is in his hand, which he uses to blast through the tron's eyes causing the beast to instantly burst into an explosion of green glitter, which showers all around him before he takes on his next enemy.
Pink Ranger is kicked off of her feet, but the moment her back hits the ground, she jumps back up again, with her Star Chargers in hand, which she quickly sends shooting through an cybertron eye She yanks it out, only to send it backwards, into another eye, the two creatures flying to green glitter as she twirls the weapon around her.
Blue Ranger's Auto Blaster is kicked out of his hands, but he leaps back up, catches it in the air, and fires into the eyes of the cybertron below as he flies backwards.
Green Ranger shrieks past another set of cybertrons rushing right toward Hacker in an attempt to end this battle quickly. But before he can reach him, Elgar jumps up from behind, springs off of Hacker's shoulder and drives a stone fist into Green Ranger's chest, which throws him back, sparks bursting from his armor as he is sent skidding across the street. And before the warrior can even rise, Hacker has already locked his cyber grip around his ankle, lifted him into the air, and hurled him right into the side of a car. The collision is so powerful that he is blown clear through the door and into the back seat of the vehicle, only for him to be blasted by a ball of flame from Elgar's vengeful saber.
BOOM!! The car explodes, and Green Ranger is thrown from the flaming debris and into the sidewalk. His suit is on fire, and greatly damaged as he struggles to stand on one knee, gripping the pain in his right arm. The green ranger moans as he falls to the ground. His green turbo powers fade away from his body leaving him in his civilian clothes. "See what has happen to your friend rangers. This could very well happen to you." Hacker said pointing at the fallen green ranger.
"Should we contact Ashley and TJ?" Blue ranger said finishing off two cybertrons. Pink ranger kicks a cybertron into a trashcan. "I don't want to ruin their date. You should have seen the dress I help her pick out." She replies.
"Dress what dress. He didn't say it was that kind of an outing. He went out in his regular clothes." Justin said. Hacker returns to the obelisk and continues his incantation, as the ancient words on the page light up once more entering the cement. And, in reaction to his words, an incredible wave of red light explodes from the obelisk and sweeps through the streets with a monstrous roar. Suddenly, every living thing the light touches begins to turn to cold, frozen statues of stone. Carlos and the two rangers are all stopped dead in their tracks. Helpless. Several quick images flash by as the obelisk's light rushes through one city block after another.
At the Power Chamber Alpha begins work on a set of devices when he is hit by the wave becoming a statue. Dimirtria is affect as well becoming a statue in her tube. Back at the boat restaurant's awaits the response to his question "Well" he asks. Ashley has finished the last drop of her water. Sure she had been having a great time with TJ but was she really ready to pursue a relationship with him. Ashley gestures to the window, where she and TJ both watch in shock as everyone on the docks is turned to stone.
At last, the boat has returned to the docks, as the few who have not been touched by Hacker's powers spill out, all confused. "Divatox" Ashley and TJ say at the same time. "Alpha" TJ said into his communicator. He looks up at Ashley, as there is no response. "Cassie, Carlos, Justin, anybody." TJ said into his communicator. Still there is no response. "Do you think we can teleport?" Ashley asks. Before the two could teleport a school of Piranatrons burst out of the ground all holding shackles in their hands. Civilians try to run, but most are caught and immediately cuffed by a Piranatron and held prisoner, as the last survivors of the city.
Ashley is approached by a piranatron, but it is quickly met with a swift foot that swipes it to the ground. TJ stops his attacker with a right hook to the jaw, as the two of them try to fight off as many as they can. They desperately rush through the crowd, fighting to keep the frightened citizens safe, but there are too many piranatrons and far too many people to protect. Ashley grabs on to TJ's right arm holding him back from fighting anymore piranatron. "Too many of them we have to pull our resources together." Ashley said.
"But what about all those people? It's our job to protect them." TJ said trying to break free from Ashley's grip. She drags him away, knocking down all those that oppose them, as they must flee.
TJ and Ashley run into an alleyway between two stone buildings. TJ peers around corner of the building. Once he sees no piranatrons following them he steps back to Ashley. "Ok what now?" TJ said looking at the yellow ranger. "You're the leader here. Of course you know that Divatox is behind this." Ashley said.
"I'm not sure about that. I mean she froze us once before but I don't think this is really apart of her style." TJ said.
"Well she has been doing a lot of things that doesn't seem like her. Let's not forget the drugs and turning our megazords against us. So turning us to stone might not be so far out of her new style." Ashley said. We briefly see several quick images of Hacker, Elgar and the piranatrons searching the entire city. Shattering windows, going through offices, demolishing houses, cars, anything that might hold what they are searching for.
"We need to find those orbs. Once we have them this city is going to be rock like never before." Hacker said to the school of piranatrons. TJ and Ashley enter Ashley's house after a very long walk from their location to their current position. Ashley falls on the wall giving her support. "I have to check on my parents." Ashley said pushing herself off the wall. TJ nods his head. Ashley heads up stairs to her parent's room, she finds them on the bed turn to stone. She sits on the floor looking at them from the floor. TJ mulls around in the living room. He goes to the glass door, he is startle at the fact of piranatrons are snooping into the back yard.
TJ opens the door to the back yard. "Welcome to the neighbor hood" TJ said grabbing a lawn chair tossing it on to a piranatron. Elgar and Hacker run into the backyard hearing the disturbance a few blocks away. "What is every bad guy in the world going to show up into the backyard?" TJ said. "Well got to go." TJ said jumping back into the house. Two piranatrons chase after but meet the door as TJ closes the door in their faces. TJ turns around running through the house. Two more piranatrons bust through the glass.
Ashley walks down the stairs just as TJ is coming up the stairs. "Guys my carpet." Ashley yells. She turns around heading up the stairs as TJ pushes her up the stairs. "Going up the stairs isn't a good plan." Ashley said deciding what room to hide in. She goes to the linen closet grabbing him in with her. The two of them hold their breath as the piranatrons are heading finally reaching the top of the stairs. Ashley and TJ exchange glances as their bodies press up against each other.
Elgar and Hacker make their way to top of the stairs. "Find them I don't know how they weren't affected by the obelisk at Mommument Park?" Hacker said entering into different room. Elgar walks into Ashley's parents. "Shouldn't we be looking for the orbs instead of the rangers?" Hacker asks. Once we grab the orbs if these two rangers are still around it won't matter." Elgar said. A piranatron nears the line closet that houses the two ranger teens. They let out their breaths very slowly. TJ gives her a look. Ashley grips the doorknob.