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The bridge of the Astro Megaship was almost too quiet for T.J.'s tastes. It was late at night back on Earth and he was posted as sentry. Although he wasn't alone, he might as well have been. He was paired up with Trey, the Gold Zeo Ranger, and he seemed to be asleep.
"Trey... Trey?" T.J. took his feet off of the console and faced the man glad in a black tunic.
"Yes, T.J.?" he kept his eyes closed.
"I thought you were asleep..."
"Only meditating, my friend," he replied.
"I hate the late shift, don't you?" he leaned back in his chair, and put his feet back on the console.
"I find it rather soothing, actually. I have time to collect my thoughts and meditate without being disturbed by people passing by," he informed.
"Well I think it is rather boring," T.J. announced.
When he finished, the battle klaxon sounded, enemy fighters were in the vicinity.
"Well, here's your excitement!" Trey shot up from his seat, "It's morphin time!" he crossed his arms in an X in front of him, "Gold Ranger Powers!" he uncrossed his arms as the gold ranger suit encompassed him.
"Let's rock it!" T.J. held his right arm in front of him before he brought it back to his morpher. He punched in the three numbers, 335, and activated his own Power Ranger suit.
As they completed their morphing sequence they were rushed out into space, each on their very own Galaxy Gliders, for the Velocifighters were too small and quick to be taken out by the Megaship's canons.
"There are only four of them, take the two on your left!" Trey said as they glided towards the Velocifighters that were heading in for the Astro Megaship that was the home of the Power Rangers. Trey lifted his staff above his head, calling upon the Golden Power. The golden symbol on the staff, the same one used as his visor, parted and engulfed him in a golden light. He sped forward, the human figure that was Trey disappeared into a blinding golden wave of light. It passed between the two Velocifighters, both of them were destroyed. T.J. unholstered his Astro Blaster, he unhooked the top, second blaster. In one shot from each blaster the Velocifighters were reduced to dust.
He looked over and saw Trey's form emerge from the golden light. "Good job, let's return home."
They entered the bridge of the ship, only their helmets removed, and greeted Tommy and Andros. They were studying the footage of the battle and talking softly amongst themselves.
"Good job, you two," Andros said as they entered.
"That is a new technique, Trey," Tommy said as the footage went to his attack.
"Well necessity is the mother of invention, and it was necessary that I have an attack that could take out multiple foes, and even monsters, quickly and easily. So I came up with that one."
"It looks powerful," Tommy replied, turning around to face the two soldiers. "You did a good job, too, T.J.," he patted him on the shoulder as he went to the console.
"Do you have any clue as to why there would be four Velocifighters in this region?" Tommy asked.
"There could be only one answer," Andros turned around, "They must be planning something."
"But what are they planning?" Trey asked.
"Velocifighters don't travel in groups of four, we should all know that by now. The only reason why they would send out four, is if it was for an attack."
"But only four? Four Velocifighters could not handle fourteen Power Rangers, they know that," Trey said.
"They could be starting a war of attrition," Tommy added, still fixated on at the control console.
"Looks like Jon and Janet are returning from their patrol," Tommy announced from his position at the radar console.
He was referring to the Red and Yellow Turbo Rangers, only two had kept their morphers and so they passed them down to worthy KO-35 rebels.
"Good, maybe they saw something on their patrol that could explain things," Andros said.
"Andros, I found a battleship, there is where our Velocifighters came from," Tommy punched an image from the nav map. "It seems to be a good distance away from us still, it just now moved into our sensor range."
"So, what are four rangers doing on the bridge?" Jon asked as they entered, carrying their helmets.
"Jon, Janet, did you see anything strange on your patrol?" Andros asked.
"No, why?" Janet asked.
"We have a battleship in our vicinity, four Velocifighters were launched and attacked us. That is why there are four of us. Andros and I were on alert status and D.E.C.A. called us in," Tommy explained.
"Why would there be a battleship here?" Jon asked as he set down his helmet and looked at the nav map.
"KO-35," Andros said.
"KO-35? I thought they didn't know our base was there," Tommy said.
"Well they do now," Andros said, "D.E.C.A. get us to KO-35 as quickly as possible, I want four rangers on deck at all times with the others on alert status. Jon, Janet, get some rest, the four of us can handle it from here."
"Andros, what's that?" Tommy asked, pointing out the viewport to a black spacecraft with two Gatling guns stationed beneath it.
"That is the Delta Megaship. It will help hold off the impending attack. In a bind it can transform into the Delta Megazord and link up with this ship's zord form, the Astro Megazord, and form the Astro Delta Megazord. But, sadly, we can't spare any troops to pilot them, so they will both have to put on auto pilot run by D.E.C.A." Andros explained, "How many ships are now on the scanners?"
"Three battleships, two carriers, and five destroyers," Trey reported.
"Damn. Alright, we are ready to move into formation with the other two Megaships and the Delta Megaship. I hate to say this but tell Jon and Janet that they are going to stay behind to help the KO-35 armada, the others will follow the same battle plan I described in the briefing." Andros ordered.
"Yes, Sir." Trey responded.
"Are two Rangers going to be able to hold off them off?" Tommy asked.
"Two will be able to pilot the Delta Megazord, but even that won't have the power to destroy the numbers we are facing by itself, hopefully the rebel forces will be able to help."
"What about the ground forces?" Tommy asked.
"Ko-35 has a strong militia, let's hope they can help us hold off the Quantrons," Andros answered.
"Everyone ready?" Trey asked, entering the bridge.
"We are," Andros faced the other Rangers.
"Well, I'm ready for action, let's do it," Jason replied.
Tommy and Andros got into formation with the others. The Space Rangers held their wrists up to their chests, their right arms extended out in front of them, Andros shouted: "Let's rock it!" They opened up their morphers and press the 3-3-5 sequence in and let the power engulf them all. "Let's rock it!" Zhane yelled, pressing the combination on his morpher. The two Turbo Rangers held their morphers in front of them, shouting: "Shift into Turbo!" They inserted their keys into the morphers at their wrists and transformed. "It's morphin' time!" Tommy shouted, arms extend down at his waist. They all crossed their Zeonizers.
"Zeo Ranger One, Pink!" Kat uncrossed her arms as she morphed into her Zeo Ranger form.
"Zeo Ranger Four, Green!" Adam uncrossed his arms, the Zeo Ranger power engulfing him.
"Zeo Ranger Five, Red!" Tommy uncrossed his arms as he morphed.
"Gold Ranger Power!" Trey, too let the power come over him.
"It's morphin' time!" Jason yelled, moving his arm behind his back.
"Mastodon!" Zack held up his morpher and yelled.
"Pterodactyl!" Kim yelled.
"Tyrannosaurus!" Jason yelled.
Twelve colored beams flew through the air and landed amidst an abandoned city. Not far ahead of them several hundred Quantrons marched forward towards them all. The Rangers unholstered their blasters and aimed them toward the oncoming army.
"Andros," Tommy started, "is it just me or is there even more of them than we thought?"
"It certainly looks that way, doesn't it? Well, we'll have to plow through them all anyway. Fire at will!"
The twelve laser beams emerged from their weapons and flew at the advancing army, the maelstrom of battle had begun. They all did their best to keep the Quantrons from getting too close into the city, but soon the enemy army had come too close, they had to switch to melee combat. The Space Rangers called upon their special weapons, the Zeo Rangers drew their Zeo swords, while the original rangers switched their Blade Blasters into blade mode and they all charged forward into the advancing army, greatly out numbered.
Jason charged ahead of them, slashing two of his enemies before the others hit the front line. He drew his power sword, slashing another four of his enemies as he did so. He cut through enemy after enemy with his two blades. He kicked a Quantron in front of him before he turned and slashed another one behind him. He was suddenly struck from behind by the jagged blade of a Quantron and was knocked to the ground, losing his blade blaster in the process. He used his power sword to block the soldier's next attack. He struggled for his life as the blade come ever closer to connecting with his head. Somewhere from behind an arrow flew and hit the Quantron in the head, destroying him.
Jason quickly got to his feet and turned toward the only person who could've done that. "Thanks, Kim!" he shouted.
"Anytime, Jason!" she returned to her own battles, knocking down two Quantrons with her bow, and four more with arrows.
Zack swung his power axe around 360°, effectively taking out the Quantrons that had surrounded him. He turned his axe around and blasted several more of the advancing army. He quickly glanced around him, seeing a strange humanoid figure covered with green gridlines. "Ecliptor," he muttered, "This one's mine!" he jumped toward Astronema's chief general. The cyborg parried the black ranger's assault and delivered two slashes to his chest, knocking him to the ground.
"Zack!" Trey shouted, jumping in to attack. Trey blocked Ecliptor's attack with his Golden Power Staff. Flipping over it, he delivered a kick to Ecliptor's head, causing the general to step back a few feet, allowing Zack time to recover to join Trey's side.
"Ready?" Zack asked.
"Yes," Trey nodded. He used his super speed to get the better of Ecliptor. Striking him first across the chest, then behind him before he had the chance to counter. Zack let loose a volley of shots from his axe toward Ecliptor as Trey returned to his side. Ecliptor reacted quickly by catching all of Zack's shots on his sword and reflecting them back at the unsuspecting rangers.
"You guys hurt badly?" Andros asked, emerging from the battle in front the two downed rangers, blaster and Spiral Saber in hand.
"I think I'll be alright, what about you, Zack?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
"Good," Andros replied, "leave Ecliptor to me."
"So, Red Ranger, you still believe you can best me?" Ecliptor asked as the Gold and Black Ranger returned to battle.
Andros holstered his blaster, "I will always be able to beat you, Ecliptor."
Ecliptor, seemingly unaffected by the young boy's taunt, jumped forward in attack. Andros blocked three of Ecliptor's advances before he countered with a blocked kick to Ecliptor's stomach followed by a double sword slash across his chest. Andros jumped forward, sword thrusting outward and hitting Ecliptor in his left shoulder. He instinctively grabbed at the wound and stared at his panting adversary, he was exhausted, like all the other rangers were. But this wasn't surprising, the battle had been going on for nearly an hour and they were, in fact, only human.
An explosion behind them caught the attention of all the soldiers, save the mindless Quantrons. They looked up to see three tanks just outside the city, a small army of men ran in front of them, blasting their rifles at the Quantrons. The KO-35 militia had finally arrived.
"You may have won the battle, Rangers, but the war is far from over!" Ecliptor yelled before he teleported to the Dark Fortress.