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Passion Power and Dinosaurs
Chapter 18: Finale part 1: Despair
Seeing the familiar green vortex open, the inhabitants of Reefside quickly flee the scene. However, unlike the other days where a human sized monster-of-the-week would emerge from the portal, this time a massive white robot emerged from the portal. It was perhaps the strangest thing anyone had ever seen before. It had a white armored skirt which covered its legs, thin arms which held a very long staff, and a massive head. Unknown to many people this machine was named the Zelzord, named after its founder, a former human named Smitty, but Smitty had fallen deep into a pool of hatred and he has cast out his human name, he now goes by the name of Zeltrax. But due to recent events not even Zeltrax exists anymore.
Now there is only Zelgog, a creature hell bent on destroying humanity and shaping the planet to fit his desires.
In the damp darkness of the Zelzord, he sat, waiting, waiting for his enemies to arrive. "Yes… This power, this power is what I need to annihilate the disease of mankind." He growls, he flexes his fingers in anticipation of his inevitable final conflict with Tommy Oliver, the Black DinoThunder Ranger... "I have Tommy Oliver's lover, and soon I shall have his head!"
"Fool, Tommy Oliver means nothing! We are already powerful, with my mind and your ability to split your body into two forms! Let us take the Dino Gems from those cursed Power Rangers; with the power of the gems combined with our own we shall be invincible. We shall become a living god!" says Zelgog, he quickly rises from his seat and grabs his spear. "I have told you before, my vengeance is all that matters, anything we do afterwards is none of my concern."
Zelgog begins to laugh manically, tied in a corner of the Zelzord is Hayley, who shivers in fear. 'Tommy….'
"Now let us begin our vengeance!" he says as he walks over to a control panel, placing his hand on the control sphere, he quickly activates the Zelzord. With a soft humming noise the Zelzord is activated, Zelgog snaps his fingers and a red invisaportal suddenly opens up in front of the massive machine. "Today marks the day of humanity's end!"
"Excellent!"
The Zelzord activates and begins blasting several buildings with green lightning. People scream in terror as debris begins to fall on them. "AHAHAHAHA! Yes, suffer! Know my power!" laughs Zelgog sadistically.
Tommy had nearly gone berserk when he found out that Zeltrax had abducted Hayley. The others were confused, but they didn't know about his past. For several years Tommy had been a professional racecar driver; however a horrible accident put his blossoming career to a sudden stop. After his racing accident, Tommy was forced to quit racing, this proved to have a very negative impact on both his social health and mental health as he fell into a pit of depression, alcohol, and an addiction to painkillers. Eventually his girlfriend at the time left him because of his addiction. Then one day he woke up and failed to recognize the person staring back at him in the mirror; it was then that he realized that he needed to change. Yet even during the years of project Dino Thunder, he could feel his craving for painkillers returning, there was only one reason why he didn't fall back into his addiction, Hayley. Hayley was the one who had kept him grounded all these years, she's been his rock. 'I will save you Hayley.' Thinks Tommy, he clenches his fist tightly. 'Even if it costs me my life, I will save you!"
"Guys, we have to find Zeltrax." Says Conner.
"But where do we start looking?" asks Trent.
"We should split up." Suggest Kira.
"Yeah, Conner will take the harbors, Trent the Warehouse district, Kira the industrial areas, and…" agrees Ethan.
"We don't need to look for Zeltrax." Says Tommy cutting in. "Zeltrax is determined to ruin my life, and he's included Hayley in his plans." The others gather around him as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small white device that resembles an IPOD shuffle. "Find Hayley and we find Zeltrax."
He presses a button on the device and with a flash of green, red and white light a massive holographic arrow appears in midair. The arrow spins for several seconds before pointing at a single direction. "When I gave Hayley her Christmas present, that bracelet, I installed a tracking device inside of it incase something like this happened. I never thought that I would have to use it."
"Well then what are we waiting for?" asks Kira.
"This time we bring the battle to him!" exclaims Ethan.
Suddenly Krista's phone starts to play the entertainer, her signature ring tone, she quickly answers it. "Mom, this is a really bad time. Where am I? I'm with Conner and a few friends, we're studying over at Dr. Oliver's place. Why?" Krista's eyes slowly begin to widen in horror. "Ok, I understand mom, I'll come home right away."
"What is it?" asks Ethan. Krista slowly turns to face the others.
"I think you guys may need to bring the zords this time around." She says nervously, "My mom says that the major has declared a state of emergency, something about a massive white robot appearing from a green dimensional portal and attacking the city."
"It's got to be Zeltrax." Says Trent, suddenly all of the damaged computer screens turn on.
"You are half right, human." Says a voice, as all the computer screens suddenly begin to display images of Zelgog, the gang was clearly shocked at Zeltrax's newest face, unknown that he had a new form.
"Zeltrax?" asks Conner. "That's not possible, I destroyed you!"
"Zeltrax, no longer exists! There is only Zelgog!" snarls the beast. "Tommy Oliver, I have your lover, you and I have unfinished business."
"It's me you want! You leaver her out of this!" shouts Tommy angrily.
"Give me the Dino gems, and I shall return your precious human lover." Demands Zelgog. "Or would you prefer that I destroy everything that you love with my invincible Zelzord. You will know where to find me!" The computer screens all simultaneously turn off.
"Dr. O, what should we do?" asks Kira.
"The same thing that we always do." Tommy says softly. "Save the day."
In the fifteen-years that Devin has known Cassidy, he has never seen her scared before. She wasn't scared when they went mountain-climbing in seventh grade, and she sure wasn't scared during the now famous "robot dinosaur rampage" crisis. But now she was practically in tears as she buried her face into his chest, whimpering in fear. "Oh my god, are we all going to die down here!" she whimpers.
Unknown to many of its inhabitants, Reefside had a series of twenty-something massive underground bomb shelters, which were constructed during the Cold War, now they were used to shelter people from a killer robot. Devin gently wraps his arms around her comfortingly. "It'll be ok." He says gently. "We still have the Power Rangers; they have yet to let us down."
"Yeah." She says in agreement.
"Listen, I know this probably isn't the best time or the most appropriate place to ask you this, but…" Cassidy looks up curiously, her reporter instincts kicking in. "if we live through all this, will you go out with me?"
Cassidy smiles warmly, and Devin feels his heart skip a beat. However their moment of peace is suddenly shattered when the entire shelter begins to shake. Up on the surface, the Zelzord continues to blast the city with cruel bolts of green lightning. However the pilot of this demonic machine felt no pleasure in this senseless violence, all he wanted to do was draw the rangers out. "Where are you, Power Rangers? Will you stand by and watch as your home is destroyed!" growls Zelgog. "Yes… Come to me, come to your deaths!"
The rangers quickly arrive at the scene horrified to see the size of the Zelzord. "So that's the Zelzord?" asks Ethan. "It doesn't seem that bad." The zord suddenly unleashes several blasts of green lightning blowing several buildings and skyscrapers into oblivion. "Forget I said that."
The Dinozords quickly charge into battle, while a dozen triploids descend from the skies, the rest are being used to power the Zelzord, which got its power from living objects. "Trent you handle the Triploids, Conner, Ethan, Kira, I want you guys to confront the Zelzord in the megazord, I'm going in to save Hayley!" says Tommy.
"Got it." Says Trent as he quickly draws his Drago Saber and charges into battle, he easily outmaneuvers the Triploids cutting down each one with ease. Suddenly another invisaportal opens and another and another, each one depositing more and more Triploids. The Triploids quickly surround Trent before pouncing on him.
"Trent!" cries Kira, she's stopped by Ethan.
"He's doing his part, we have to do our part!" says Ethan, Kira nods reluctantly.
The Dinozords charge into battle and the rangers quickly enter and combine to form the Thundersaurus Megazord. "Let's take this guy down!" says Conner, the others agree, as the Megazord quickly charges into battle, furiously attacking the Zelzord. Tommy quickly uses the distraction to cut a massive hole in the Zelzord, one big enough for him to enter. The hole immediately heals itself after he enters. The Zelzord quickly blasts the Megazord with cruel bolts of green lightning, in the cockpit; the rangers hang on for dear life. "We can't lose!"
Dark, that was the first thing that comes to mind when exploring the Zelzord, white mist covers the floor, and several fresh skeletons and corpses are actually compressed into the organic walls. "Hayley?" shouts Tommy.
"Tommy!" Tommy quickly follows the voice leading to a massive control room where Hayley is found tied to a massive black and violet pillar, several green vines holding her in place. "Tommy!" she cries happily.
Tommy quickly runs over. "C'mon let's get out of here!" he says, he is suddenly hit by several energy blasts. Groaning he quickly rises to his feet, and turns to see Zelgog standing before him, a jagged spear in his hand. "Zelgog!"
"You're not going anywhere!" growls Zelgog. "Yes… The fun's just beginning!"
"Those voices…" says Tommy. "Mesogog and Zeltrax?"
"Indeed." Says Zelgog. "Our hatred has given birth to a new power. One strong enough to exact my revenge!"
Outside the Megazord is getting it's ass handed to it by the powerful Zelzord as it quickly summons up another blast of green lightning. The Megazord quickly falls to the ground, sending several quakes through the underground shelters. "Guys, I'm worried about Dr. Oliver. I'm going in to help!" says Kira as she quickly evacuates the Megazord, she quickly takes a massive leap of faith towards the massive machine and blasts her way into the Zelzord.
"Ethan, playing fair in this battle is only gonna get us killed." Says Conner. "Think you can handle the Mezodon?"
"Thought you never ask!" cries Ethan happily as he grabs the Shield of Triumph. Already the Mezodon Rover is charging into battle in a flash of red, gold and black, the familiar Styracosaurus pulling the massive black chariot. It quickly changes itself into its battle mode complete with it's twin axes. "Let's do this!"
The Mezodon Megazord quickly charges in and slashes the Zelzord with it's twin battle axes driving it back in the process after a few slashes it quickly moves out of the way and allows the Thundersaurus Megazord to hurl it's Pterang at the zord causing even more damage to it.
"Try this up for size!" shouts Conner, the head of the Tyrannozord opens up and he blasts the Zelzord with several powerful fireballs, the evil zord is now smoking due to the intense heat. Conner and Ethan are shocked to see that their efforts haven't even managed to lay a single scratch on the machine. "What?"
"No way!" Cries Ethan, and then the Zelzord counterattacks. "WHOA!"
Kira quickly enters the control room of the Zelzord to find Tommy lying on the ground panting in exhaustion as Zelgog raises his spear and prepares to strike the final blow. Kira quickly pulls out her Thundermax laser and blasts him knocking him away. "Dr. O!" she cries as she runs over to see if he's ok. "Are you ok?"
"I'll be fine." He grunts. "Get Hayley!"
"Got it." Says Kira, she quickly runs over to Hayley and blasts the vines, cutting her loose from her confines in the process. "Good to see you in one piece."
"Cute. Save it for later." Comments Hayley. "I just want to get out of here."
Zelgog quickly rises up from the ground, his anger building. "You're not going anywhere!" he snarls before he spreads his arms releasing a thick black and purple mist from the gem embedded within his chest. The mist spreads out to the outside darkening the skies to the point where it was no longer blue, it is now a sickly yellow color.
Conner and Ethan are shocked at this new development. "What's going on?" wonders Conner.
"No idea." Says Ethan, suddenly the Zelzord unleashes yet another barrage of lightning onto the two Megazords. "AAAHHH!" cries Ethan as both Megazord hits the ground.
"No way, did that thing suddenly get stronger!" asks Conner.
"My body and mind have bonded with the Zelzord, whose powers are derived from Dino Energy." Says Zelgog inside the Zelzord. "My hatred provides my ultimate weapon with more than enough power to devastate this pathetic city."
On ground level, the Triploids have given up on trying to attack Trent, instead they have resorted to doggie piling him in order to keep him immobile, while their comrades head towards the shelters. "No! Let get off of me!" shouts Trent.
"No…" whispers Tommy. "This can't be!"
"Yes, fall into despair." Laughs Zelgog. "For soon I shall end it all!"
"I'm not going to lose here…." Screams Conner.
A/N: And here begins the finale, a two parter, right now I'm feeling that it's way too much like thunder struck part 2, so I'm going to have to make a few changes. I hope you guys are enjoying it so far. If you are or you aren't drop a review some praise or constructive criticism is always welcome.