Power Ranges Dino Thunder AU: White Lightning
Episode Number: PRDT-AU-021
Episode Title: It's a Mad, Mad Mackerel
Rating: PG-13 (U.S.)/15 (U.K.)
By Matthew Keirl (RedGenesisRanger)
Based off of 'Power Rangers: Dino Thunder' by BVS Entertainment, Inc. and loosely based off of 'BakuRyuu Sentai Abarenjaa' or translated into 'Blast Dragon Squadron Outburst Ranger' by Toei Entertainment International.
This Fan Fiction is not intended to infringe on the Copyrights held by BVS Entertainment, or any of its affiliates and is intended solely for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. However, any material in this Fan Fiction that I have invented is mine and is protected by internet and plagiarism laws and any infringement will be dealt with appropriately.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Power Rangers Time Force, Power Rangers Wild Force, Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta and all related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses are TM and © 2002-2005 by BVS Entertainment.
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Author's Note: -
Again, 'It's a Mad, Mad Mackerel' is an episode that closely follows the original aired episode, but again, in several of the scenes, I will try to add more detail and/or expand the storyline if I can. Except the Zeltrax/Michael battle will be vastly different from the original.
RedGenesisRanger
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'It's a Mad, Mad Mackerel'
Hayley's Cyberspace. The central hub for teen activity in Reefside is, as expected, totally packed on a Saturday morning. Hayley was serving on at the counter, while Conner and Ethan were at two of the computer stations, side-by-side, lining the far wall, near the stage.
"Manchester United on a webcast!" Conner said, beaming, "I so take back everything I said about the internet"
"See, dude. Told ya" Ethan said, just as Kira excitedly runs up to them holding a letter with a big red 'ACCEPTED' stamped near the bottom. "You seem happy about something?" Ethan asked the Yellow Ranger.
"I got it!" Kira says, holding the letter out.
"It's not contagious, is it?" Conner asked, earning a laugh from Ethan and a 'dumb-ass' look from Kira.
"Funny!" Kira says, in a monotone voice.
"Sorry. What is it?" Conner asks.
"I applied for an internship with Channel Three last month" Kira said, almost pushing the letter in Conner's face, "and I'm in!"
"That's awesome! Lot's of kids from school applied for that" Ethan stated.
"Yeah, they only accepted two students this semester. And guess what show I'll be working on?" Kira asked.
"What?" said Conner.
"I'm only working on the 'Funky Fisherman's Cartoon Cavalcade!'"
"No way! That's, like, my all time favourite show!" Ethan admits, earning a very strange look from Conner.
"You serious dude?" Conner asks.
"Okay, I mean, when I was like eight...I can still hear the theme tune now," and Ethan begins to sing the lyrics, "'It's the Funky Fisherman Cartoon Show. So grab your gear and we'll all go!'" Ethan continued to sing, and most people in ear shot were looking at him, almost all of them strangely, "'Look, it's Marty Mackerel! He'll hook us a cartoon spectackerel!'"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop! Dude, it's songs like that made me want to go outside and play soccer" Conner said.
"Look, I've got to get to the station, so I'll see you guys later?" Kira said.
"Good luck and have fun" Conner said.
"Yeah, see you later, Kira" Ethan said, and Kira began to walk away, when the Blue Ranger grabbed her attention, "Oh, Kira, could you get me Funky's and Marty's autographs, please?"
"I'll see what I can do" Kira shouted back, "Bye Hayley"
"Good Luck, Kira" Hayley shouted back.
Near to where the Rangers were talking, Cassidy and Devin listened in.
"Did you just hear that?" Cassidy says angrily, "The teen angst poster child just got my internship! I'm the one with the future in television. Oh, it was a stupid internship anyway!" and the blonde gets up and walks away. Devin just opens a piece of paper in his hands, a letter almost identical to Kira's.
"Yeah, really stupid" Devin says to himself and grabs his bad to head to the TV station.
Back at the computer stations, Conner and Ethan are browsing the internet.
"Yo, Eth?" Conner says.
"Yeah, Conner"
"It's nice to see Kira happy again, you know?"
"I dig that, dude. This whole 'Michael' thing has really gotten her down as of late"
"I know" Conner says, "Hey, Ethan?"
"Yeah?"
"Want to go out for a kick around?" Conner asks, picking up a small red and white soccer ball from his bag.
"Soccer? No thanks" Ethan says.
"Oh, come on, It's just a kick around, and besides I need to get some fresh air and wondered if you wanted to come with?"
"Oh, alright" Ethan said.
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Meanwhile at the Channel Three building, Kira is standing near the catering table when a man in his late forties walks up to her, wearing fishing gear.
"Well, you must be the new girl" the man says.
"Hi, I'm Kira" Kira says, offering a handshake. The man doesn't return it, "And you're the Funky Fisherman. It's so great to be here. I've watched your show..." Funky rudely cut her off.
"You see this hand?" Funky Fisherman said, Kira nodded, "It should have a coffee in it!" he snaps, "You have five seconds..."
"Sure...Do you take..." Kira said.
"...five...four...three..." Funky continued to countdown, as Kira quickly poured him a cup, "...two...Where's the cream?" Kira quickly adds the cream from a small metal pitcher.
"Too slow! What is it with you dam stupid interns?" he yells, and then walks off, coffee in hand. Kira just shakes her head, wondering what she did wrong.
"Kira?" one of the stage hands calls to her.
"Yes, Mr. Weston" Kira asks.
"Could you take that garbage can to the recycle bay, please"
"Um...sure...no problem, Mr. Weston" and Kira grabbed the can and walked out through the exit doors leading out of the studio.
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Devin is carrying several tapes down a hallway when he slams into something, the black tapes go flying across the floor and he falls right on his butt.
"I'm so sorry" a voice says to the amateur cameraman, "Devin?" Devin looks up to see Kira Ford, holding her had out, Devin grabs it and she helps him up off the floor.
"Kira? It so nice to see a friendly face around here!" Devin says, steadying his feet.
"You work here too?" Kira asked.
"Yeah, but don't tell Cassidy, but I got the other internship, she'd freak if she knew!"
"Some internship! So far all I've done is empty trash and get yelled at by the Funky Fisherman" Kira admits, helping Devin pick up the tapes.
"Oh, tell me about it. All I've been doing is monitoring the CCTV and ferrying tapes back and forth between storage. Not great!" Devin says, "I'm serious, Kira, I've had more fun watch paint dry!" Kira laughs dryly.
"Devin, I'm seriously thinking about quitting. This job is not what it was cracked it up to be" Kira says, picking the last couple of tapes off the floor, and placing them in Devin hands when somebody dancing slams into the teenager's back, sending the tapes scattering again.
"Ah man!" was all that Devin could say, however Kira was looking at a man in his early-thirties wearing a big, bulky fish costume.
"I'm sorry. I was practicing the Happy Fish Dance...You two must be the new interns...Welcome, I'm Mark. I would shake your hands, but it's difficult in these gloves."
"Kira" Kira said, shaking a fin.
"Devin" Devin said, shaking the other.
"How's your first day going?" Mark, aka Marty the Mackerel said.
"Oh, it's proberly going to be my last" Kira admits.
"Why?" Mark asks.
"First, I'm here to learn about the entertainment industry, right?" Kira asks, "All I'm doing is making coffee, taking the trash out or getting yelled at by Funky Fisherman!"
"Oh, don't mind Jacob, he's like that with everyone. I've been here for ten years, he still treats me like an intern sometimes. It's kind of an initiation for interns, just pay it no mind. But making coffee and taking out the trash, that normal work for an intern, especially on the first day. Remember you should never give up. It'll get better, I promise" Mark said.
"How do you know? That it'll get better, I mean?" Kira asked.
"How do you think I started out in this business?"
"You were an intern?" Devin asked.
"No. A little to old for that, but I had to start somewhere, right? Making coffee and doing the small jobs are what helped me break into this business"
"Mark!" someone shouted down the hallway, "show-time in five!"
"Alright, Pete, I'll be there in a minute." Mark shouted back, and he turned to the two teenagers in front of him, "Never a moment's peace in this place. I gotta get going. It was nice meeting you two. I hope you stick around. You never know, you might get 'hooked!', I did!" Mark said and he left, waddling down the hallway.
"Well I guess I'll see you around" Devin says, picking up his order of tapes in double time.
"Yeah, see ya" Kira responded, picking her trash can up and both went in their separate ways.
"Have fun!" Devin shouted down the hallway.
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"Quiet on set!" The assistant director shouts, "We're going live in ten!" Kira just walks in and takes a seat near the live audience.
"Five...four...three..." the director shouts, and me moves his hand to indicate the 'two...one' part of his countdown, "and...Action!"
The Funky Fisherman Cartoon Show theme tune begins to play, Kira smiles as she watches.
"It's the Funky Fisherman Cartoon Show
So Grab Your Gear and We'll All Go
Look! It's Marty the Mackerel!
He'll hook us a cartoon spectackerel!
Come on Now!
Happy Happy Fish Fish!
Happy Fish, Happy Fish!
Happy Happy Fish Fish!
Get Hooked!"
I'm a Happy...Happy Mackerel!" Marty finishes the tune, with the four to eight year olds in the audience singing along, this makes Kira smile even more.
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"Now that's scary. A giant fish man would give anyone nightmares" Elsa comments, watching the show on the monitor from Mesogog's laboratory, on his island fortress.
"Very frightening!" Zeltrax says, sarcastically.
"I will capture him for the Geno Randomizer, since he can't be any worse then the other life forces they've sampled" Elsa says.
"That may be the dumbest idea you've had yet!" Michael says, "Ranks right up there with trying to capture me!"
"Watch you tongue!" Zeltrax warns the White Ranger. Michael walks right up and gets right into the cyborgs face.
"Make me!" Michael shouts into Zeltrax's face.
"Break it up, you two!" Elsa orders, and both reluctantly separate, "You two had better find a way to co-exist, or Mesogog will put you both in the punishment chamber. Now, I'm going to get me that fish! You two behave while I'm gone" Elsa says, walking off.
"You may be Anton Mercer's son, White Ranger..." Zeltrax said, only to be cut off by Michael.
"How do you know about that?" Michael asks.
"My master tells me everything relevant to the success of our mission. Now, you maybe Mercer's son, but you are still new to Mesogog's team. You shouldn't overstep your place"
"What if I don't like my place? What if I think I deserve to be higher up in the food chain?" Michael says, "Say second?"
"That is my position"
"Then I guess you won't mind defending it, winner takes all"
"Name the time and place" Zeltrax says.
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Meanwhile, back in the television studio, Kira is sorting out green skittles from the rest of packet into a small bowl, a task set to her by Funky Fisherman. She notices Devin unscrewing the casing to one of the security cameras.
"This day couldn't get any worse" Kira says to herself. And suddenly a gust of wind whooshes past the Yellow Ranger, 'Wind doesn't blow indoors, unless...' Kira thought, when, confirming her suspensions, Elsa and several Tyrannodrones appear, "Why did I have to say that?!" Kira silently reading her Dino Morpher.
"Get her!" Elsa shouts and the Tyrannodrones attack. Kira lands a kick to the stomach area of one and then swings her leg to sweep another off its feet. Kira sees three drones climbing up the ladder after a defenceless Devin, so she picks up the small glass bowl, containing six packs worth of green skittles and throws right at the first drone. The bowl shatters as soon as it hits the monster's head, causing it to loose its balance and fall of the ladder, taking its comrades with it.
Kira then proceeds to make her way to the prop table and picks up two rubber fish. Kira readies them like she would her Ptera Grips and attacks the Tyrannodrones, striking them with the fish. Elsa kicks Kira in the stomach, causing her to drop the weapons she's carrying. Elsa tries to slash the Yellow Ranger with her sword, but Kira deflects the attack and grabs the cyborg women's arm.
"Sorry, all guests have to check in with security" Kira says, sarcastically.
"I'll, um, sign 'em in" Devin says, seeing an opportunity to bail. Kira knees Elsa in the gut, sending her back, "DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, ha!" and she morphs into the Yellow Ranger. Unfortunately, Kira didn't to notice the CCTV camera filming the entire episode.
Kira kicks a Tyrannodrone back, sending it crashing into the catering stand, and she then runs into the stage and throws a couple of drones into the pool of water on set. Elsa pulls out her sword from its scabbard and charges at the Yellow Ranger. Kira dodges Elsa's attacks and kicks her back towards someone's dressing room, and out walks the Funky Fisherman.
"Who the hell is interrupting my therapeutic cleansing nap?!" Jacob aka, Funky says angrily.
"Ah man!" Kira says, just as Marty Mackerel's dressing room opens.
"What is going on out here?" Mark asks.
"The Fish! You're all mine!" Elsa says, firing a device, but the beam bounces off the TV screen and hits Funky instead and the fisherman disappears, reappearing in the TV screen.
"Oh no" Kira says, and Elsa blasts her in the chest with an energy blast from her sword.
"Get the fish!" Elsa orders, and the remaining Tyrannodrones grab Marty and disappeared through an invisi-portal, Elsa follows a couple seconds later.
"Power down!" Kira says, and she her armor disappears
"Where am I? What's going on? You've got five seconds to get me out of here!" Funky said from the television, "Five...four...three..."
"Oh, be quiet!" Kira said, pressing the mute button on the front of the set. She then pressed the button on her morpher, "Guys, we have a problem"
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"Sorry, Devin, but until our two stars decide to make an appearance, the show's on hold. You can go home for today, we'll contact you" the director said, and then walks off.
"And I was just starting to enjoy my menial role" Devin says.
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"All clear" Kira answers, and Conner and Ethan walk out wheeling a television set on a trolley, "We've got to get him back to Dr. O and get him back to normal." On the television set, Funky Fisherman is still speaking, but no sound is coming out as Kira muted him.
"We'd better cover this thing up, just in case he can see out" Ethan suggests, and Conner places a dark sheet over the TV.
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The waves crashed against the rocks as two warriors prepared to duel. Zeltrax and Michael stared at each other, neither one moving an inch.
"Are you ready?" Zeltrax asked.
"Ready when you are, Z" Michael said.
"Don'tyou think youshould morph?"
"I'm more than you can handle as it is, I don't want this fight to become too one-sided! Besides, I need the exercise, forgot to do my training this morning!"
"Very well then"
"Winner takes all?" Michael asks.
"The winner will be the undisputed second-in-command"
"What are we waiting for? Let's do this!" Michael says, and Zeltrax immediately started thing off by firing a laser blast at the unmorphed White Ranger, but Michael expertly dodged the attack and jumped at the cyborg, landing a kick directly into Zeltrax's chest, knocking him back. Zeltrax screamed and charged at the White Ranger, taking his sword out at the same time, and went to take Michael's head clean off his shoulders, but the White Ranger ducked and swept Zeltrax off his feet.
"Now come on, Zeltrax, your not holding back, are you?" Michael said, Zeltrax picked himself off the sand and fired several blasts from his sword, which impacted all around the White Ranger. If Zeltrax had a mouth, he would be smiling. When the smoke cleared, Michael Scott was nowhere to be found.
"I am the victor" Zeltrax said.
"You've missed one small detail, big guy!" a voice said, carrying on the air, and behind the cyborg general, Michael Scott materialised from out of nowhere, "You actually have to beat your opponent to be declared the victor!" Zeltrax didn't say anything in response, but he just charged and attacked. Michael countered and both warriors fought for supremacy.
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Meanwhile, inside Mesogog's laboratory, Marty Mackerel was trapped inside the Geno Randomizer.
"This is quite a set. I can almost smell the creativity. So nice to meet you. Who made your costumes?" Mark said.
"Silence, fool!" Elsa shouts.
"Oh, you're good. Who's your agent?"
"I am not impressed, Elsa" Mesogog says.
"You will be in a moment, My lord, I guarantee it" Elsa said, "Activating Geno Randomizer" and Elsa flipped the switches, and the chamber fills up with what looks like steam. Several seconds later, a monster with several red eyes a fish-shaped left arm and a fishing pole for his right, "Now that's a monster!"
"Excellent, Elsa" Mesogog says.
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"Scanning now, we should have the results shortly" Hayley said, running a scanner over the TV set, which was still covered in the dark sheet.
"This could be the end of one of the most popular kids shows ever made! We have to do something" Ethan says.
"Don't worry, we'll figure something out" Hayley reassures the Blue Ranger.
"Sir, are you alright in there?" Tommy asks, still trapped in his Ranger form.
"Am I alright? Do I look alright?! I'm frigging..." Funky says, but is muted again by Kira.
"People are so different on TV then they are in person, aren't they?" Kira says.
"What do you think they wanted with Marty in the first place?" Conner asked.
"Sushi?" Ethan answers, then the alarm beeps. The monitor on the console automatically comes to life, showing Mad Mackerel.
"There's your answer" Hayley says.
"Okay, we'll go deal with this guy. Hayley, see if you can figure out how too get our friend back to normal"
"Right" Hayley said, as the Rangers went to deal with the new threat to the city.
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"Dev, what's up?" Cassidy asks her friend as she sits down next to him on a fountain in the center of the city, "You look awful, what's happened?"
"Well, I just lost my internship down at the..." Devin says, but stops when Cassidy's face changes from the concerned face to an angry one.
"You got the internship?! My internship?!" She asks him forcibly.
"Yes, but wait, before you go and completely freak out on me, let me tell you it wasn't all muffin baskets and pedicures. I mean, they had me watching and archiving security camera footage all day. Whoo hoo!"
"Okay, well that doesn't sound like fun" Cassidy says.
"The only vaguely interesting thing was when the Yellow Ranger showed up..." Devin explains, and Cassidy's eyes light up like she's just hit the jackpot, "And then Marty Mackerel was captured, and also Funky Fisherman was stuck in a TV. It was weird!"
"Devin? Do you have any footage?"
"Yeah, I'm sure we do. It's all boring, boring, boring!" Devin says, and then Cass grabs his hand and pulls him up.
"Come on, Devin! This is the chance I've been waiting for!" Cassidy says excitingly, but suddenly something catches onto the back of her shirt and pulls hard, and both Cassidy and Devin go into the sky and into Mad Mackerel's jar.
"Two more for the catch" Mad Mackerel says.
"Hold it right there, fish-face!" Conner shouts, him and the other Rangers running up.
"You guys ready?" Tommy asks.
"Ready!" the three Rangers shout, "DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, ha!" and they morph into the Power Rangers.
"Something fishy's going on!" Conner says to the new monster.
"You won't get a line on me!" Mad Mackerel counters.
"We're gonna scale back your operation" Ethan says.
"Not till I've got my limit" the monster says.
"We'll fillet you!" Kira adds.
"And your bad fishy jokes!" Conner says.
"Time to reel in some Rangers!" Mad Mackerel says, throwing his line and it latching onto Kira, wrapping around her arms and dragging her into the air. Ethan grabs her feet, but is unable to keep Kira on the ground and is lifted into the air. Conner then grabs Ethan's feet, but gets dragged into the air also. Finally Tommy grabs Conner's feet and anchors his feet around a small bench.
"Hold it together guys!" Tommy shouts.
"I can't hold on!" Ethan says, his arms slipping from around Kira's ankle.
"Kira, can you reach your blaster?" Conner asks.
"I'll try" Kira says, as she tries to manuvre her arm to her Thundermax Blaster, and after some wiggling around, she had managed to remove her blaster and fired it towards the monster, hitting the fishing rod.
"You broke my rod, by graphite water shaft is broken! I'll be back, Rangers!" Mad Mackerel says, disappearing through an invisi-portal.
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Block. Dodge. Block. Block.
This was the routine that Zeltrax was forced to employ against the unmorphed White Ranger. He was unrelenting; Zeltrax had never encountered an opponent like him. Even unmorphed, Michael Scott was giving the cyborg a major run for his money. Zeltrax swung his sword, but Michael kicked it away and moved in with a punch combo, hitting Zeltrax multiple times, finishing the combo with a vicious uppercut, sending him back.
"Why don't you just give up? While your still able too" Michael says.
"Never!" Zeltrax said, picking himself off the ground again.
"I'm not even using my powers, Zeltrax, and I'm kicking your ass, just imagine what damage I could do to you if I morph?"
"Then why don't you?"
"I'm having too much fun" Michael said, launching another attack.
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"Okay. The energy Marty the Mackerel is using to capture people in his jar is the same energy that was used to put the Funny Fisherman in the TV" Hayley explained.
"That's Funky Fisherman!" the man in the TV said, still covered with a sheet, to protect the Rangers identities.
"Do you want us to mute you again?" Kira asked.
"No!"
"Then be quiet and listen"
"To free 'Funky' Fisherman from the television, all you have to do is get Mad Mackerel to fire his capture ray at the monitor, deflect it with this reversal shield" Hayley says, handing Tommy a small circular device.
"Thanks" Tommy says.
"What about Marty?" Kira asks.
"Marty is somewhere inside Mad Mackerel still. The only way to free him is to destroy the Geno Randomizer's configuration"
"Where's that fish?! I heard that! That two-faced hanger on fish-faced freak deserves to suffer for every bit of misery he's caused me!" Jacob said, from the TV.
"Hey, that 'freak' helped make you what you are today" Ethan countered.
"More importantly, he's your friend, or don't you know what that word means anymore?" Kira added.
"You may not deserve it, but your about to get a second chance. Let's go guys" Tommy says.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, ha!" Conner, Ethan and Kira say, activating their morphers and morphing into their Rangers Forms.
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"Oh yes, come to papa!" Mad Mackerel says, reeling in another innocent civilian.
"Let them go, now, you fish-faced freak!" Conner shouts, pulling up on his Raptor Cycle; Ethan and Kira not far behind with Tommy driving his ATV pulling up behind them.
"Who wants fish off the bone?!" Ethan says.
"Let's do it" Tommy adds. Conner, Ethan and Kira pull out their Thundermax Sabers and attack. Mad Mackerel deflects their attacks and slashes them with his fishing rod. Tommy takes out his Brachio Staff and twists the dial, "Brachio Staff, Wind Strike!" and the monster is hit by a huge blast of wind, knocking him down.
"You think a bit of wind is gonna stop me!" Mad Mackerel says.
"Mark, are you in there?" Kira asks.
"He's not here anymore! Only Mad Mackerel!" the monster says.
"Take your best shot" Tommy dares Mackerel.
"Gladly!" and the monster fired an energy beam at the Black Ranger. Tommy pulls out the device Hayley gave him and activated it, deflecting the blast towards the television set mounted on the back of the Dino ATV, freeing the trapped occupant inside.
"It's a trick!" Mad Mackerel says. Kira notices the jar the monster is holding and she runs and kicks it away, shattering the jar, releasing everyone inside.
"Ew, gross. I smell like fish!" Cassidy says.
"That does it!" Mad Mackerel says as he runs away, only to be stopped by Dr. Oliver.
"You're not going anywhere!" Tommy says, "Brachio Staff, Energy Orb!" and Tommy fires a golden ball of energy at the monster, causing it to explode in a huge shower of sparks, "Put 'em together guys"
"Right" the fellow Rangers responded and assembled the Z-Rex Blaster.
"Ready, aim, Fire!" Conner shouts, pulling the trigger, and the energy blast destroys the Mackerel monster. After the explosion subsides, a figure can be seen crawling out, his costume a little burnt around the edges. Jacob walks up to Mark, and helps him up.
"Mark, why do I get the strangest feeling I owe you an apology" Jacob said.
"I don't know, but I sure feel like a tuna sandwich...Join me?" Mark asks.
"Sure, pal. My treat"
"It sure feels good be back to normal" Mark finished.
"And our work here is done!" Conner says, climbing onto his Raptor Cycle.
"Let's get back to base, Rangers" Tommy says, climbing onto his ATV. All four Rangers ride away from the crowd as the emergency services turn up.
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Zeltrax fired an energy blast which knocked the White Ranger on his back.
"It's time I ended this" Zeltrax said, "I will destroy you once and for all, White Ranger!"
"How would Mesogog feel about that? If you destroy me?" Michael asked, getting up, only to be knocked down by a swift kick from Zeltrax.
"Mesogog wouldn't care. He would have the White Gem in his possession anyway. I would be praised for it"
"Would you?!"
"Yes. And now it's time for me to finish the job. It was an honour fighting you, White Ranger, you are a very skilled warrior, but you should have morphed when I gave you the chance. In the end, you just weren't strong enough to defeat me" Zeltrax said, holding his sword towards Michael's exposed throat.
"Is that so?"
"Yes. And now you will pay with your life"
"You know, Zeltrax?"
"What?"
"You shouldn't underestimate me" Michael says, as he swings his legs around and sweeps Zeltrax of his feet. Using the momentum from swinging his legs round, Michael lands perfectly on his feet, "I'm more powerful then you think!" Picking up Zeltrax's sword and pivoting it so the blade is pointing down towards the cyborg and striking the sword down...impacting right next to Zeltrax's head.
"I've beaten you, Zeltrax. Say it!" Michael shouted.
"You are the victor, White Ranger" Zeltrax simply said. Michael begun to walk away, when Zeltrax got up, retrieved his sword and tried to slash Michael across the back. But Michael dodges that attack, like he knew it was coming, and he spun kicked the cyborg, sending Zeltrax of balance.
Michael activated his morpher, upon turning around, "WHITE RANGER, DINO POWER, ha!" and Michael morphed into the White Ranger. Removing his Drago Saber, White Ranger streaked and slashed Zeltrax several times, and finishing it off by drawing several yellow crosses on the cyborg's body, causing a chain-reaction of explosions. But White Ranger wasn't finished yet; he charged the blade tip with golden energy and slashed Zeltrax in a "Z" move, severely damaging him. Zeltrax fell down in a broken heap.
Zeltrax lifted his head, "This isn't finished!" he said.
"Loser can't be choosers, Zeltrax. I'll see you back at the lair, number three!" White Ranger said, before teleporting out.
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Back at the television studio, Funky Fisherman is twisting balloon animals, more specifically balloon fish.
"This is for you, Marty" Funky says, twisting the fish and presenting it to Marty.
"A grouper?" he asks.
"A group of groupers!" Funky replies.
"This calls for the 'Happy Fish Dance'!" Marty shouts and both he and Funky dance around.
Meanwhile, nearby, watching from the back stage area were Ethan, Kira and Conner.
"Man, this stuff is classic!" Ethan says, cheering along with the youngsters like he was still one himself.
"Jacob even complemented me on my last coffee run" Kira said.
"So, you glad you didn't quit?" asks the Red Ranger.
"Yeah, you know some things do get better if you just stick with 'em" Then Devin walks up carrying a couple of video tapes.
"Hey, you stickin' with the job too?" Kira asks.
"Yeah, it's not so bad after all. Plus, Cassidy promised to forgive me if these tapes of the Yellow Ranger were any good. Oh, I can't wait to see them. It's gonna be great" Devin says, but suddenly he was surprised by Marty's fin brushing him and he flung the tapes into a bowl of punch.
"The only thing on those tapes is fruit punch" Kira says.
"I don't believe this! Cassidy's gonna freak! Why does this always happen to me?" Devin says, picking his wet tapes out of the punch and walking off.
"That was close" Kira tells her team-mates.
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Next Episode: -
PRDT-AU-022 - Copy That
Synopsis: Zeltrax plans revenge against the White Ranger for his humiliating defeat. He plans to frame him and turn Mesogog against him. Mesogog inadvertently helps Michael finally break the evil control of the gem and Michael decides to help the other Rangers. He even saves Dr. O from Zeltrax. After the Ranger decide to trust him and accept him onto the team.
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