"Power Rangers: Psycho Matrix"
Book Two: "Twisted Element"
Chapter 4: "Ranger Spectrum"
Disclaimer: Zordon, Dimitria, the Psycho Rangers, a special guest star, and the characters who inherit the powers of the Prism Rangers are not mine. Everyone and everything else is.
Author's note: This is the end of the Kirai Ranger saga. However, the real end will come in the next chapter (or two). When I said in the first chapter not to expect any crossovers, I meant not with Ninja Storm. By the way, I know Tommy's appearance with Kimberly in this story kinda conflicts with his presumably single status in Power Rangers Dino Thunder, but I wrote this before Dino Thunder premiered. For convenience's sake, let's pretend this story is set in analternate PR continuity.
The next day was largely uneventful, save for students chatting about the Kirai virus attack and how the Psycho Rangers had defeated it. Fortunately, no one seemed to recall the five teens that had melded with them.
"That was the coolest thing I ever saw!" a student exclaimed.
"Yeah," agreed another. "The Psychos rock."
"The red one's cool, for a fire-wielding dude," a third student contributed.
"You wanna know who's really cool?" a girl asked. "Blue."
As for the Psycho Rangers themselves, they were currently at a lunch table pretending to pay no attention to the chatter.
"We have our own fan club," Darien said, deadpan.
"I always wanted to be adored by millions," Faith said in mock narcissism.
"You're so vain," Kieran replied in mock offense, joining in on her joke.
"I've been monitoring the fan sites," Tsukimaru said. He pulled open his laptop and showed it to the other five Rangers. There were seven icons, one for each Psycho Ranger and one more for the whole team. "Each of the icons links to our fan sites. You can guess which is for whom."
"Ooh, let's check out the sites my adoring fans have made for me," Faith said, playing up the faked narcissism.
The six cruised their fan sites, finding links like "Golden Lightning," or "Crimson Blaze," or "Ice Blue Dark Warrior," or "Blackened Earth," or "Rose Madness," or "Argentine Mystery," or "Darkness Six."
"That's a lot of fan sites," Kaitlyn said as they scrolled down the list of links.
"Not just fans," Tsukimaru replied darkly. "We've got a few detractors, too."
"Everyone has critics," Faith said in a tone that blended sage with nonchalant.
"This site's runner claims that the Psycho Rangers 'are insane vigilantes whose actions threaten the same innocent lives they claim they're protecting,'" Liam said.
"This site's run by someone who survived the Psychos' attacks on Angel Grove five years ago," Kaitlyn said. "She says that the Psychos are homicidal monsters who can't be trusted."
"I knew that would come back to haunt us someday," Darien said.
"What are you checking out?" Raye asked, coming up to join them with Wayne and Devin. She craned her neck and saw what the Rangers had been looking at previously. "You ask me, everyone deserves a second chance. Just because someone hurt you doesn't give you a right to hold a grudge and try to discredit them when they're trying to do good."
"Had no idea you were that idealistic," Devin said.
"Wait," Tsukimaru said, looking through the site some more. "Her daughter was assaulted by the Psycho Rangers at the beginning of the Angel Grove attacks."
"You mean when the Space Rangers were around?" Wayne asked.
"Yeah," Tsukimaru replied.
"No wonder she's got a grudge," Kaitlyn said. "To be honest, I'm not so sure I'd be as understanding as Raye if someone were to attack my kid like that."
"What's your name?" Raye asked Tsukimaru.
"Terry," Tsukimaru replied, using the alias Dimitria had made for him.
"You look familiar," Raye said. "I think I might've seen you before, but I don't quite know where."
"Probably a fashion magazine," Devin cracked. "He's pretty enough for one."
Tsukimaru ignored it, continuing what he was doing. "I'm checking out the message boards right now. A lot of people are protesting her claims about the Psychos, saying that they're good guys now and they're probably trying to atone for what they did." He paused. "She fired right back at them, telling them that years of therapy for her daughter were undone when she saw the Psycho Rangers in the news."
A look of guilt appeared on the faces of all six Rangers. Inside the main five's minds, their Psycho selves' hearts were tearing.
We did this, Psycho Red said. We ruined an innocent girl's life. Never mind that it didn't matter to us, then it made it even worse! And who knows how many other people's lives we ruined?
Psycho Pink was railing at Zordon, as if he could hear her anguished and angry cries. Why did you put us back in this world! Did you do it just so that we'd die of guilt once we discovered our hearts! Are you satisfied now, old man! ARE YOU!
"Kieran?" Raye asked.
"Yeah, Raye?" Kieran replied, his voice heavy.
"You ok?" Raye asked. "You and your friends look like you're about to cry."
Tsukimaru signed off from the Internet and closed the laptop.
"We're ok," Kieran lied.
After school, the six Rangers walked down to the teen center to do their homework. Tsukimaru had finished within only a few minutes.
"You're smart," Kaitlyn said. "Puts me to shame."
"No, I'm not really," Tsukimaru replied. "Earth mathematics and sciences are just simpler than those where I come from." A hooded look of self-loathing came into his golden eyes upon those last four words. Kaitlyn knew exactly how he felt, for she felt it, too. She was Psycho Yellow now, and thus carried her memories.
"Just try helping us out a bit," Kaitlyn suggested, in an attempt to break the tension.
Suddenly, a special live news report came on. It reported another attack from the Kirai Rangers. As par for the course when such things happened, the Rangers found an excuse to slip out.
"Let's put these powers to some actual good," Kieran snarled, his voice filled with anger and hatred, both felt by his alter ego for himself.
"Psycho Spirit Fusion!" the five Rangers shouted.
"Twisted Aura Exchange!" Tsukimaru shouted.
"Aurora Riders!" the five Psycho Rangers shouted.
"Aurarider!" Psycho Silver shouted.
Their riders came to them and the six Psychos jumped on them and drove to the scene of the attack. When they arrived, they found the Kirai Rangers trashing everything, blasting it with bolts of purple-black lightning, their own powers, or blasts of warped air.
"Stop right there," Psycho Red snarled.
"Sure, why not?" Kirai Red replied. "There's no fun in random chaos. Now, meaningful chaos? There's something to that."
"Meaningful?" Psycho Pink asked. "You find this meaningful?"
"It served a purpose," Kirai Pink replied. "And that was bringing you six down here."
"Poor tormented Psychos," Kirai Blue sneered. "Don't you get it? You can't be good. No matter how many times you make the world safe for kids and puppies and Christmas and all that crap, they'll never fully trust you. Someone will always see you as the evil bastards that tried to destroy Angel Grove."
Psycho Blue let out an insane howl of rage and lunged at his hateful counterpart with his Psycho Axe. Kirai Blue easily countered with the Kirai Tomahawk and viciously slashed the twisted Blue Ranger.
Kirai Red threw his twin swords into the air and fired bolts of purple-black lightning at Psycho Red, following up with a black fireball. He caught his swords as they fell and crossed them for a fire attack he called:
"Dark Fire Cross!"
The cross of black flame shot right through Psycho Red.
"Miserable bastard!" the twisted Red Ranger snarled. "Phantom Fire Wave!" He fired a wave of unholy fire at his hateful counterpart.
Kirai Pink was lashing at Psycho Pink with two rose whips. She did a graceful twirl in midair, lashing the twisted Pink Ranger with one whip and withdrawing it as the other closed in. Kirai Pink lashed with both at the same time, which turned out to be a bad idea, as her Psycho counterpart grabbed both whips. Ignoring the pain of the thorns biting through her gauntleted hands, Psycho Pink used the whips as a slingshot to kick her hateful equivalent.
Psycho Yellow and Kirai Yellow were in a duel of slings. Both were firing bursts of yellow energy at each other. Both had taken up the tactic of dodging each other's attacks as they themselves attacked. In other words, it was like fighting a mirror.
The Black Rangers were fighting each other as well, Kirai Black slashing Psycho Black with the Kirai Double Edge and Psycho Black slashing back with the Psycho Rod.
Finally, Psycho Silver and Kirai Silver were shooting bolts of silver and black-and-silver lightning at each other. They were also shooting blasts of silver energy out of their combination gun-sword weapons. Then they slashed each other with the blades when they got up close.
"Eclipse Wind Slash!"
"Black Wind Slash!"
Both the Psycho Blazer and the Kirai Gunblade had wind swirling around their blades. Their respective wielders, Psycho Silver and Kirai Silver, slashed each other with them.
Finally, both teams of Rangers regrouped. "Let's end this!" Psycho Red snarled.
"Yes, let's!" Kirai Red agreed.
"Twisted Element!" the Psycho Rangers shouted.
"Deathly Element!" the Kirai Rangers shouted.
Both sets of Rangers fired their elemental energies at each other, resulting in destructive recoil that blew them all back. In addition, the shockwave from the attack triggered reverberations in the ground and cracked or shattered windows within a five-block radius.
The two Ranger teams got up, Kirai Red smirking evilly underneath his helmet. "This isn't over, Psycho Rangers. Your end will come."
"In the meantime, sayonara!" Kirai Black added as he and the other Kirai Rangers warped away.
"Damn it!" Psycho Yellow snapped, kicking at a piece of rubble in frustration. "We can never beat them! Every time we try, it always ends up in a draw, or they pull back when they're perfectly capable of killing us where we stand!"
"They're prolonging this," Psycho Black said. "They enjoy kicking us around."
"Let's get back to the teen center," Psycho Blue suggested. Then with the other four Psycho Rangers, "De-Fusion!"
"Exchange!" Psycho Silver shouted.
The demorphed Psycho Rangers returned to the teen center, and Tsukimaru helped them with their homework, enlightening them to shortcuts that weren't known to Earth scientists. However, the shadow of the Psycho Rangers' past hovered over them like a suffocating miasma.
The six Rangers returned to the Neji Chamber, despondent.
"What troubles you?" Dimitria asked.
"No matter how much good we do now, it won't change what we did then," Kieran spat bitterly.
"The past cannot be erased," Dimitria replied. "It cannot be changed, except at great risk. All one can logically hope to do is learn from it. You cannot let guilt and self-hatred rule you, lest it destroy you."
"We can't beat them," Faith said. "The Kirai Rangers, they're just too powerful for us."
"Perhaps you could use some help," a voice said.
The six Rangers turned to see a male figure dressed in a black suit with pieces of gold armor over it, a gold belt, and gold-trimmed white gloves and boots. The helmet was completely black, with gold outlining the visor. He carried a staff which top was adorned by the visor emblem.
"Gold Ranger," Dimitria said. "It is good to see you."
"Hello, Dimitria," the Gold Ranger replied. He looked at the six Rangers. "So you are the ones who possess the powers of the Psycho Rangers."
"Yeah," Kieran replied. "I'm Kieran, Psycho Red."
"Liam, Psycho Blue."
"Faith, Psycho Pink."
"Kaitlyn, Psycho Yellow."
"Darien, Psycho Black."
"Tsukimaru, Psycho Silver."
"I know that the Kirai Rangers are too much for you to handle by yourselves," the Gold Ranger said. "It is understandable, as they defeated many of the galaxy's best warriors before they were sealed. I am here to grant you the power of those that defeated them three thousand years ago. I do not expect you to use those powers yourselves, though."
"But I know seven who can," Dimitria said.
In Angel Grove, a town not that far away from Los Angeles, Kimberly and Tommy Oliver were in the park, watching the sky as the sun began to set. It had been a long, hard road for them to get where they were, metaphorically speaking.
In the beginning of their relationship, they had been two of the first Rangers recruited by Zordon, pink and green. After Tommy's powers had permanently burned out, he had left Angel Grove for a while, only to come back as the White Ranger, wielder of the Saba Sword and pilot of the White Tigerzord. After Kimberly's Pink Ranger powers had been drained by the loss of her Power Coin, she had left for the Florida Pan Global gymnastics competition and Kat had become the Pink Ranger. Shortly after the Power Coins had been destroyed and Tommy had become the Red Zeo Ranger, Kimberly had broken up with him by letter. It had taken Tommy quite a while to get over it, and he'd dated Kat for a while, but they came to terms with the fact that friendship was all that could be between them. After the Murianthas incident with Divatox and giving up the Red Turbo Ranger powers to T.J., Tommy had found Kimberly again and they'd reconciled.
In time, the long-estranged couple had rediscovered their love for each other, even discovered that it had never really gone away. Two years ago, they were perfectly ready to serve as best man and maid of honor for Jason and Trini at their wedding, but after Trini's death, they'd figured that life was too short and gotten engaged themselves. Now they were married.
It wasn't always easy; nothing worth having was easy. It didn't help much that a year ago, Tommy and Jason had resumed their Red Ranger powers and gone off with a bunch of other Red Rangers to fight the remnants of the Machine Empire. Jokingly, Kimberly had suggested that she and the other former Pink Rangers get together for their own mission. She and Tommy had had a good laugh over that one. They were very happy with each other, though.
However, their happy life was to be disrupted again, as a teleportation beam carried them away in balls of red and green light.
On Aquitar, Billy was as happy as he could be. The Aquitian technology never ceased to amaze him, even after six or seven years spent on the watery planet. Of course, he was even happier with his wife Cestria. Every day with her was paradise. The only flaw in their relationship was that Billy was quite the workaholic, and would spend far too much time cooped up in a lab, which wasn't too different from what he did on Earth. In extreme cases, Cestria would have to resort to some persuasive methods that could be described only as . . . below the belt.
Anyway, Billy was almost finished when blue light coalesced around him and removed him from Aquitar.
In Africa, Rocky and Aisha DeSantos were caring for an injured lion cub. They had been friends for quite a while in Stone Canyon before moving to Angel Grove and becoming replacement Red and Yellow Rangers for Jason and Trini. After the business with Master Vile and the Zeo Crystals, Aisha had gone to Africa to care for sick animals. Rocky had stayed to become the Blue Zeo Ranger, and after passing the position of Blue Turbo Ranger to Justin, he'd joined Aisha in Africa. They'd fallen in love, and gotten married.
As hard as their work was, they enjoyed it, and being with each other. They were to get a break from their work, for indigo and yellow lights surrounded them and carried them away.
Jason lay on his bed, recalling his relationship with Trini. They had started out as friends and fellow Rangers, red and yellow. After passing on their powers to Rocky and Aisha, they'd gone on to the Switzerland Peace Conference. It was there that the seeds of love had blossomed. It had been hard for him to leave her to become the Gold Ranger, but he had no choice, as no one wanted the golden powers to fade or be used for evil. After the powers had threatened to kill him from the inside, they'd been transferred back to Triforian Prince Trey, the original wielder.
After the Murianthas business with Divatox, when he and Kimberly had been kidnapped as sacrifices for a fiery demon named Maligore, Jason had returned to Trini and their relationship became official. Three years ago, Trini had proposed to Jason and he had accepted. Two years ago, they would have been married, if not for some drunk driver ramming Trini's car. He'd lived, but she hadn't.
It still ate him up inside, even to this day. However, Trini wouldn't have wanted him to spend the rest of his days moping. So, he had resolved to move on with his life and be able to look back on his days with Trini with a smile, not tears.
His life as he knew it now was about to be disrupted. Orange light formed around him and carried him away in a shining ball.
Kat Hillard was just reflecting. After graduating from high school and passing on the Pink Turbo Ranger powers to Cassie, she had studied dance at Julliard. She had graduated with flying colors and was now a famous dancer. Ah, how she loved to dance.
She missed her friends, though. It always seemed that after you were done being a Ranger, you ended up drifting away from your friends that were still Rangers or had retired as well. Of course, that was probably because now they could all focus on other things besides saving the world.
Now it seemed as if she would get another chance to save the world, as she was carried away in a ball of purple light.
The seven former Rangers landed inside the Neji Chamber.
"Dimitria?" Tommy asked.
"Greetings, Tommy," Dimitria said. She looked at all seven of the former Rangers. "Greetings to you all."
Jason looked, and saw the Gold Ranger. "Trey. Long time, no see."
"It is good to see you again, Jason," the Gold Ranger said.
"What brings you here?" Kat asked. She looked at the Psycho Rangers. "Are you Rangers?"
"Yeah," Faith replied. "Psycho Rangers."
"Psycho Rangers?" Jason echoed.
"Andros, T.J., and Leo told us about the Psycho Rangers once," Tommy said. "From their description, the Psychos were total bad-asses, insanely powerful and insanely fixated on destruction."
"One out of two," Darien said. "Yeah, we're seriously powerful in morphed form, but the destruction isn't our thing. Not anymore."
"I should bring you up to speed," Dimitria said. "Recently, the Kirai launched a campaign to take Earth's life force. Zordon called upon the spirits of the Psycho Rangers and merged them with human bodies and souls. These six here," she looked to the Psycho Rangers, "can call upon their powers whenever needed."
"But those powers aren't enough, anymore," the Gold Ranger continued. "The Kirai have resurrected their own Ranger force and their Rangers are even stronger than the Psycho Rangers. The only ones to ever defeat them were the Prism Rangers of Triforia."
"Let me guess," Billy said. "You want us to wield the Prism powers."
"But how?" Rocky asked. "We've seen what happens when Triforian energies are hosted by human bodies. Our physiology is just too different from yours."
"You will only need to hold the powers for this particular mission," the Gold Ranger replied. "Afterwards, you will relinquish them." A flash of golden light later and Prince Trey stood before them in his gold-trimmed black royal robes. The emblem adorning the top of his staff opened and multicolored light blazed from it. The rays stopped at the former Rangers' hands, and when the light faded, prism orbs were revealed. In the light of the Neji Chamber, the prisms glowed with all the colors in the color spectrum.
The prisms glowed again, but one color, and a different one for each. Kimberly's glowed red, Jason's glowed orange, Aisha's glowed yellow, Tommy's glowed green, Billy's glowed blue, Rocky's glowed indigo, and Kat's glowed purple. Then the prisms leaped out of their hands and whirled around their wrists, creating a bright light. The light faded, revealing rectangular devices with the prisms inserted in the far end. Bladed black rings, trimmed in each Ranger's particular color, surrounded the prisms. The devices were all decorated with a golden Y.
"Red?" Kimberly wondered. "Me?"
"Yes," Trey replied. "The original wielder of the Red Prism Morpher was my ancestor, Princess Traia. You will be the Red Prism Ranger."
"Looks like I'm back in green," Tommy said.
"Yes, Tommy," Trey confirmed. "You are the Green Prism Ranger. Jason, you are the Orange Prism Ranger. Aisha, you are the Yellow Prism Ranger. Billy, you are the Blue Prism Ranger. Rocky, you are the Indigo Prism Ranger. Kat, you are the Purple Prism Ranger."
The alarm went off suddenly.
"The Kirai Rangers have felt the power that defeated them rise again," Dimitria said. "They are awaiting you, believing that this time they will be victorious."
"Let's go," Kimberly said.
All thirteen Rangers were teleported to the site of what would be the final battle with the Kirai Rangers. That site happened to be an abandoned construction site.
The Kirai Rangers were there, in their human forms. Kirai Red was an Asian teen with spiky blood-red hair and ruby eyes. Kirai Blue was a dark-skinned Hispanic teen with electric blue hair and eyes. Kirai Black was a Native American with midnight-black hair and blue-black eyes.
"Hello, Rangers," Kirai Red said, an evil sneer on his face. "Ready to die?"
"Try asking yourself that question," Tsukimaru retorted.
"Ready?" Kieran asked.
"Yeah," Faith replied.
"Morphing's like riding a bike," Tommy said. "You do it once, and you'll always know how to do it."
"Then let's do this," Kieran said.
"Psycho Spirit Fusion!" the five Psycho Rangers shouted.
"Twisted Aura Exchange!" Tsukimaru shouted.
In flashes of multicolored light, they morphed.
"Ready?" Kimberly asked.
"We're ready, Kim," Kat replied.
"Seven Ray Change!" the Prism Rangers shouted, spinning the bladed rings on their morphers to trigger their transformation.
A gold-trimmed white Y covered the front of the Prism Ranger's uniforms. They wore gold-trimmed white gloves and boots with gold-buckled white belts. The helmets had black visors with silver mouth-plates.
"This is so very awesome," Kimberly said.
"Good to be green again," Tommy said.
"True blue," Billy said.
"With you there, Billy," Rocky said. "Although mine is a more purplish color than yours."
"I always did look good in purple," Kat said.
"Yellow is where it's at," Aisha said.
"Not quite red, but then I was gold, so I guess I can get used to it," Jason said.
The Kirai Rangers drew their morphers. "Kirai Matrix, Ranger Power!" they shouted, changing to their Ranger forms.
"Psycho Weapons!" the Psycho Rangers shouted, drawing their weapons.
"Prism Weapons!" the Prism Rangers shouted.
"Prism Bow!" Kimberly shouted, drawing a red-and-black bow.
"Prism Saber!" Jason shouted, drawing a silver-bladed sword with an orange handle.
"Prism Daggers!" Aisha shouted, drawing a pair of jeweled daggers.
"Prism Scythe!" Tommy shouted, drawing a scythe.
"Prism Lance!" Billy shouted, drawing a blue lance with three blades on each end.
"Prism Axis!" Rocky shouted, drawing twin axes.
"Prism Baton!" Kat shouted, drawing a purple-and-gold baton.
"Kirai Weapons!" the Kirai Rangers shouted, drawing their weapons.
The Rangers all went forth into battle, Psycho and Prism versus Kirai. Psycho Red and Kimberly took on Kirai Red. Psycho Blue and Billy fought Kirai Blue. Psycho Yellow and Aisha fought Kirai Yellow. Psycho Black and Tommy fought Kirai Black. Psycho Pink and Kat engaged Kirai Pink in battle, and Jason and Rocky backed up Psycho Silver against Kirai Silver.
Kirai Red was moving at warping speed and Psycho Red and Kimberly were managing to keep up.
"Kaleidoscopic Arrow!" Kimberly shouted, firing multicolored energy arrows out of the Prism Bow.
"Psycho Sword, Jade Lightning Slash!" Psycho Red shouted, slashing Kirai Red with a sword charged with green electricity.
Psycho Blue and Billy were slashing at Kirai Blue with their weapons. Kirai Blue was evenly matched with Psycho Blue with his tomahawk, but Billy had a dual-bladed lance, and that put him at quite a disadvantage.
"Kaleidoscopic Double Slash!" Billy shouted, striking Kirai Blue with both ends of the lance, which glowed with multicolored light.
Psycho Yellow and Kirai Yellow were firing at each other with their slings while dodging back and forth. Psycho Yellow finally tagged Kirai Yellow, and then Aisha leaped off her shoulders and struck Kirai Yellow with her daggers.
Psycho Black and Tommy fought against Kirai Black. Kirai Black had Psycho Black at a slight disadvantage with his double-bladed staff, but Tommy lashed with the Prism Scythe. Then he and Psycho Black struck together.
Psycho Pink fired her Psycho Arrow at Kirai Pink, who retaliated with her Kirai Crossbow and rose whip. However, Kat caught the rose whip with her Prism Baton and pulled the hateful Pink Ranger close enough to her to strike her hard. Psycho Pink continued the assault with a green lightning arrow and a storm of dark pink rose petals.
Psycho Silver and Kirai Silver clashed with their weapons, while Jason and Rocky struck with their Prism Saber and Axis.
"Psycho Blazer, Silver Lightning Slash!" Psycho Silver shouted, slashing Kirai Silver. Jason and Rocky struck as well with a combined kaleidoscopic slash attack.
The three Ranger teams regrouped.
"Time to end this," Psycho Red shouted. He and the other four Psycho Rangers channeled their energies.
"Yes, it is," Kirai Red said, he and the other four Kirai Rangers channeling their energies as well.
The Silver Rangers of both teams charged up their energies as well, as did the Prism Rangers.
"Jade-Silver Lightning Attack!"
"Dark-Silver Lightning Attack!"
"Kaleidoscopic Light Attack!"
The Jade-Silver Lightning Attack and Kaleidoscopic Light Attack together collided with the Dark-Silver Lightning Attack. The combined powers of the Psycho and Prism Rangers proved too much for the evil powers of the Kirai Rangers. Their blasts repelled the Dark-Silver Lightning Attack and struck the Kirai Rangers. In an explosion of lightning and light, the Kirai Rangers disintegrated, leaving behind charred rings.
Psycho Pink walked over to the Kirai rings and picked up the pink ring. The other five Psycho Rangers picked up their corresponding rings.
"You can rest easy now," Psycho Pink said softly.
The Psycho and Prism Rangers returned to the Neji Chamber and demorphed.
"So many years . . . but you never really forget what it's like," Kimberly said.
"Yeah, I know," Tommy said.
"But we have to give it up again," Jason replied. "These powers weren't even meant for our species. Besides, we all have our own lives to lead now." He undid the Velcro strap that bound his Prism Morpher to his wrist. The other six Prism Rangers did the same and they all returned the morphers to Trey.
"You've done well," Trey said. "Good luck to you all." That said, he teleported away in a flash of gold lightning-accented black light.
"Good luck to you kids," Kat said. "It's not easy, trying to atone for past evil. I've been there."
"Good luck to you, too," Faith said.
"It's time for you to return to your lives," Dimitria said. "It has been an honor. Jason, I am very sorry for your loss."
Jason smiled wistfully. "Thank you, Dimitria."
Dimitria teleported the seven former Rangers away, back to their lives.
The next day, the Psycho Rangers had made a press speech for the general public of Los Angeles.
"Hello," Psycho Red said. "I'll keep this short. I know that many of you see us as heroes. I also know that many of you see us as the monsters that ravaged Angel Grove five years ago. The second is more accurate than the first. We can't take back what we've done, and we don't really consider ourselves heroes. We simply have a chance to atone for the things that we've done. We're sorry for everything we've done, and we know that some of you will never forgive us, but we simply wish to do what's right now."
To be continued . . .
Next: Kanika's had enough of the Psycho Rangers. Time to do things as they should have been done and put an end to them.