MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS in THE EIGHTH COIN - Part 2
Written by DTM666
Disclaimer: The author would like to clarify that Power Rangers and its characters is owned by BVS Entertainment and not the author.
Note: Thanks to those who left a review - so here's the second chapter of this quick story, earlier than intended. Just to make sure there's no confusion; any mention of "Megazord" in this and future chapters refers to the Thunder Megazord. I feel it quite redundant to have to type Thunder Megazord every single time I need to reference it, especially since it's the only Megazord featured. So enjoy and don't forget to leave a review.
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This is beautiful, Tommy thought, just beautiful.
Earlier today, the Power Rangers had been summoned to fight Pirantishead, who had been resurrected again along with two of Rita Repulsa's old creations, Fang and King Sphinx. The battle was short and ended with the monsters destroyed and the Power Rangers victorious once again. Of course, that wasn't the end of it.
For the second time today, the Power Rangers had been summoned into battle. This time, a peculiar monster calling himself "Coke-Master" was rampaging in Angel Grove park. When the Rangers found the monster, he had grown immediately thanks to one of Zedd's growth bombs. As the Rangers summoned and combined the Thunderzords to battle Coke-Master, White Ranger battled the small nearby group of Putties led by Goldar. He managed to effectively clear the way of the putties, leaving only the deadly Titan in his path.
"If you have anything better to do, monkey-brain," Tommy commanded, "I suggest you do it before I finish you."
Goldar snarled. "Your arrogance will get the better of you, White Ranger!"
"Huh," huffed White Ranger, "We'll just see about that."
While White Ranger battled Goldar, the Coke-Master fired several beams of energy at the Megazord, slowing it down somewhat. Coke-Master continued firing beams as the Megazord pulled out its saber and began to deflect the beams back at Coke-Master. All of the deflected beams struck the monster and momentarily stunned him.
"This guy simply doesn't know any new tricks." Red Ranger commented, "Let's finish him off."
Its eyes illuminating from the helmet, the Thunder Megazord held the saber forward. Energy crackled around the shining blade and when it was glowing at an almost blinding intensity, the Megazord swung at the Coke-Master, slashing across its chest. The monster almost whined in agony before it tumbled to the ground and exploded into nothingness.
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On the moon, Lord Zedd looked on through his super vision as the battle on Earth progressed, where he just witnessed the Thunder Megazord's victory over his Coke-Master monster. A devilish grin formed on Zedd's face, but it wasn't really visible thanks to the fleshman's iron mask. Things were going better than he had anticipated.
"Now to activate Phase 2."
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The rock quarry of Angel Grove Construction Yards was relatively silent, the deep hole barren and void of life despite being midday. From the distance, air manipulated itself to form the shape of a small spacecraft roughly several meters in length. The side of the ship opened up, revealing a flight of stairs downward. From the ship, smoke and mist escaped in the interior of the vessel, where the hunter and possessor of the Eighth Coin emerged. When the hunter was about several feet away from her vessel, she gave a quick nod and soon the ship slowly levitated upwards and blasted into the sky.
The hunter surveyed the surrounding city carefully. Whoever gave her information on the coin and the whereabouts of the Eltarian sage was accurate in the relative primitiveness of Earth society. Before she could progress further, she felt a warm sensation from her pouch. From the pouch, she pulled out the power coin and saw it glowly brightly, shifting colors every split-second. The hunter could almost feel the growing power from this relic...
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As with every other battle he's had with the White Ranger, Goldar was seriously taking a beating. The quick reflexes of the former Green Ranger were too much for the Titan to handle. White Ranger continued his relentless assault until he managed to knock down the Titan. Before he could anything else, he was knocked back by an explosion that erupted out of nowhere. When Tommy recovered, he looked up to see a green-armored warrior, holding a broadsword in his hand.
"Too much for you, isn't it, Ranger?" the warrior grunted.
Tommy responded with a grunt. "Not yet, ugly."
"Tommy!"
He heard the call of the Pink Ranger from the distance as he saw the five Power Rangers emerging from the smoke. They kept their distance from the warrior and went into their battle stances.
"Is that the Dark Warrior?" Billy commented, "Zedd's pulling all stops with Rita's old monsters!"
Rocky shrugged and pulled out his Blade Blaster, setting it to maximum level. "Less talk, more shooting."
The Rangers pulled out their blasters and fired several shots across Dark Warrior's back. Unaffected by the attack, he Warrior turned his attention to the five Rangers and took them down with a running dash attack that involved striking all five Rangers with one sword slash. This maneuver left the Warrior to White Ranger, who pulled out Saba and fired beams from the saber's eyes. The Warrior was momentarily stunned by the attack, but was soon flanked by a second Dark Warrior, who was armed with a chain. White Ranger noticed the chain flying at him and quickly grabbed ahold of it. Using the Warrior's momentum, he yanked the chain so that the Warrior would crash onto the debris-filled street. White Ranger leapt over the two Dark Warriors and joined up with the other Rangers, who were quickly recovering from the attack. When all turned to face the two Dark Warriors, they noticed that a third Dark Warrior was present, this one holding a two-bladed sword.
"Ah man!" Rocky whelped, "Another one?!"
"Zedd must really be desperate to dig out Rita's old monster rejects," mused Billy, "Let alone copy them."
"We have to fight them out, Rangers," White Ranger called, "Let's do it!"
The Rangers continued to attack the Dark Warriors head on. Even if they hadn't fought a battle earlier on, they were still hard pressed to take on two fully-powered Dark Warriors. Eventually, the Rangers capitalized on a mistake by one of the warriors and managed to summon the Power Cannon to finish them off. Just as they had done so, a giant pighead wearing a Roman gladiator's helmet leapt at the Rangers, who managed to avoid contact with the flying pig projectile. The Rangers reformed a second Power Cannon (as the first one was discarded when they jumped out of the pig's way) and fired a concentrated shot at the pig, vaporizing it on contact.
"Great," Pink Ranger mused, "Is Zedd desperate enough to pull Pudgy Pig out of mothballs?"
"Desperate enough to send one," Blue Ranger said, pointing away from the Pudgy Pig before them, "let alone twenty more!!"
All the Rangers turned to find a small group of Pudgy Pigs, each of them holding green pitchforks and giant dinner knives. The Rangers found it obvious that they would get outnumbered real fast at the rate. Without much hesitation, shots flew from the Power Cannon like a pea-shooter, destroying a Pudgy Pig that would get replaced by two more. Soon, the Rangers found themselves not only fighting a growing army of mutant pigs, but they were also fighting off the growing fatigue that was diminishing their ability to defend themselves, as the constant development of Pudgy Pigs were wearing them down.
"We can't keep up with this forever, Tommy," Red Ranger yelled, "We have to withdraw!"
"No!" White Ranger countered, "We almost got 'em!"
The blasts being shot from the Power Cannon were slowly losing their strength, as it took two or three blasts to eliminate each Pudgy Pig, and it didn't help matters that more were coming. Just when it seemed the Rangers were about to be overwhelmed, everyone was assaulted by a bright flash and loud shrieking sound. The Rangers dropped the cannon and held their heads to block out the shriek, while the remaining Pudgy Pigs were all destroyed. The shriek and flash died down and the Rangers found themselves alone in the middle of a battered town square, confused as to what just happened.
"Let's get back to the Command Center," White Ranger finally said, "Maybe Zordon can explain what's going on."
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He saw the Rangers defeating the trio of Dark Warriors, he saw the Rangers being overwhelmed by a plethora of Pudgy Pigs, he saw the flash that had cleared the area of those hog monsters, and most of all, he felt an overwhelming surge of power that wasn't like anything he had felt in recent times. Lord Zedd immediately believed a higher power was at work here, which didn't bother him, but it wasn't anything he was completely familiar with, which did bother him. And yet...
I feel as though I've felt this before, he thought, something I haven't felt in ages.
Zedd slowly marched past Goldar towards his throne, although the fleshman's staggering march didn't escape the Titan's notice. He didn't want to bring that up, much less upset his master. Instead, he opted to deliver news that were given to him by Finster.
"My lord, I have just received word from Rita," Goldar reported, "She says she will be returning from Delmar Prime in one Earth week."
Zedd nodded. "Leave me, Goldar. I have some thinking to do concerning the next step of my plan."
To be continued