Chapter Eight: A Perfect Ending to a not so Perfect Night
TJ and Ashley had no choice but to bust out of the door. The push the piranatrons out of their way as they run down the stairs, their turbo morphers appears on their arms. "Shift into Turbo" they both yell morphing into their ranger suits. "Elgar you continue to look for the orbs I will go after the rangers." Hacker said leaping down the stairs.
TJ shuts the door behind them as the run into the street. The door flies off the hinges landing to the left of them. As Hacker steps out of the house, TJ turns around facing the cyborg. "You have to go to Monument Park. That's what's causing all of this. I'll deal with the walking net here." TJ said. The Yellow ranger runs off heading towards the obelisk's location. "So I get my chance at fighting the Red ranger lucky me. The Green ranger tried to take me on but I prove a bit much for him." Hacker said popping his neck.
"Are you going to talk the entire time or can we get this over with?" Red Ranger asks. Not waiting for Hacker to answer the Red ranger tackles the cyborg to the ground. Hacker doesn't even make a sound he grabs the Red ranger by the neck tosses him away like a rag doll. The Red ranger lands on his left shoulder first before skidding across the cement until he slams into a parked car. Or rather a car that once was in motion now turned to stone.
"I'm impressed as far as you escaping my spell but your fighting skills are well below decent." Hacker said walking over to the ranger. With his auto blaster already in hand Red ranger fires his weapon at Hacker. He smacks each blast away from; the stray blasts land on the ground scorching the asphalt. Hacker leaps up, whacks the weapon from her hand and angrily slams both his fists down onto his shoulders, knocking her to her knees with such force that it rips cracks into the cement and sends sparks shooting from his suit.
Red Ranger tries to stand on feet Hacker kicks the red ranger in the gut lifting the ranger and the car over. "Aaagh!!" Red Ranger yells, he slides back to his feet.
"Are you alright?" Ashley asks in his helmet. Red ranger curls his fist as he turns to face Hacker. "I'll be all right are you there?" he ask. The yellow ranger leaps to the top of a gazebo looking from her position she can see the monument park. "Just a few more steps." She reports. "Good I'm almost done with this guy." He replies. He pulls out the second turbo key the phantom ranger handed him days ago. "Double shift" TJ yells sticking the key into a morpher. His suit becomes sleeker and shinier like before. His ripped muscles show through his suit, as it seems to shrink on him.
Hacker opens his hand and sends a storm of electricity shooting from his palms. The turbo sword normally wield by the red turbo ranger extends into a lance then doubles itself. The new red ranger twirls his turbo lances in front of him knocking the electricity back to its sender. With that, Red Ranger jumps into the air; he flies across the sky as his two lances glow with intense red energy. "Turbo lasers" Red Ranger yells. The energy formed on the lance are fired as two streaks of lasers that rip out of the air and land square on the chest of Hacker. A few computer parts and wires fly off his body.
The Red Ranger still air bound begins to spin him around vertically. He becomes a red tornado of energy. "Spin Out" the red tornado spin upward then spins downward at the cyborg. The attack is so powerful that the ranger breaks right through the cyborg's thick body and out of his back. Hacker, with a huge smoking hole in his chest, stumbles around, red bolts of power surging out of the hole and into his body until he falls into a red explosion.
Ashley appears to the obelisk's location. She stabs her turbo sword into the obelisk destroying it and its hold over the people of Angel Grove. With that, a second wave of light sweeps through the city- one that returns all those that had been affected by Hacker's spell to be instantly reverted back. The other rangers are brought out of stone confinement as well, with Yellow and Red Rangers greeting them with laughter.
Carlos looks up from the ground looking for Hacker to attack him. He crosses his arms in front of him prepared for the attack. He looks to the Red Ranger extending his arms to him. Carlos grabs the ranger's hand helping him up. "Thanks man. We got to hurry we don't know what Divatox got plan but it has something to do with an obelisk." Carlos said.
"Yeah we got that solve like hours ago. We just wanted to keep your mouth shut a little bit longer." The Red Ranger jokes. Carlos swings on his buddy wrapping his arm around the back of his neck. "You want to be a wise guy do you?" Carlos asks playfully.
"It's a long story but I'm glad this night over with." Yellow Ranger said looking at her friends. She then looks over at the Red Ranger. Her minds wonders back to where they left off at the restaurant. "TJ we" she starts to say but something happens a transparent image of Divatox appears in the sky above them. "You think you've won the day, Power Rangers, but you've only just begun to feel my wrath!!" Divatox laughs. Divatox's image laughs as a storm of lighting come streaking out of his eyes and hit the ground with a destructive wave of explosions, which completely consumes the four rangers and Carlos below.
Carlos hits the ground hard, flames cracks wildly around his body. There is little time for him to recover from the attack. TJ leaps on top of the Hispanic teen taking another blast from Divatox. "How you doing buddy?" TJ ask between gasp of air. Carlos looks up at the red ranger on top of him. He could only imagine the pain that could be read on the Red ranger's face if not blocked by his helmet. "Probably a lot better than you." Carlos jokes hoping to ease the tension in the air. One of the lighting bolts strikes the cyber pile that once was Hacker. The bolts lift the cyber parts into the air rebuilding them into a giant Hacker. "No one messes with my family." Divatox roars.
Off in the distance miles from the rangers, Elgar and a few piranatrons walk into a cave. "Bring in the orbs." He yells out of the cave placing his hand at his corner of his mouth.
"You think you can join the fight?" Red Ranger said pulling up the Hispanic teen. Carlos holds on to his shoulder then looks up at the giant Hacker. "Oh yeah we have a score to settle. Shift into Turbo" Carlos said morphing back into his Green Ranger powers. "Rangers you're going to have to combine the two Megazords again in order to get the most out of the repaired zords." Alpha said over their communicators.
"Turbo Rescue Megazord online." Red Ranger said doing some funky hand movements in the process. The Red and Blue Turbo Rangers enter into their Turbo Zords. While the other three rangers enter the cockpit of their Rescue zords. The two sets of zords combine together once again for the second time in their usage against Hacker. The newly revived Hacker grunts as he finds himself facing off against the Turbo Megazord. The titanic figure began to march at the monster with the Turbo saber drawn. But before they can approach him, Divatox's image lets loose another stream of bolts ripping explosions up all around them. The Megazord is thrown back and onto a large set of warehouses, it's fall ripping a crater through the streets.
Though damaged the megazord is able to get its footing once again. The chest light blasters of megazord fires at the image of Divatox's face; the blast causes the villain's image to disperse into nothingness as her angry scream echoes across the city. Frightening even Elgar in a cave far away from Divatox's image.
"Time for this to end. We need Axt.power now" Carlos said summoning its mega cannons to its side. "Fire" Carlos said. The two weapons fire on Hacker. The cyborg howls as the blasts rips through his body with relentless force, until he is finally silenced fallen on his back and explodes.
Even though they have been through a lot this very night. TJ and Ashley find themselves lying on the beach looking up at the sky. Thoughts of today's events race through their heads. All that had happened with each other. Everything they have ever been through together. And the question he posed at dinner was still not answer. She sighs moving over to him. "Is it possible for us to manage to have this and not complicate it with given it a label such as dating, boyfriend, girlfriend?" she ask.
He laughs for it was the same thing that was racing through his head. You must have been reading my mind." He said.
"Huh?" she asks, they both sit partially up from their blankets. "Are you sure your ok with this?" she ask not wanting to hurt his feelings. He leans over kissing her. Her body begins to go through a series of tingles and surges as they continue to kiss. He leans back causing her to mount on top of him as they kiss. They stop for a brief second gazing into each other's eyes. "So I take that as a yes?" Ashley said, the return to their shared kiss.