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Passion Power and Dinosaurs
Finale Part 2: Shining Hope!
Conner slowly rises to his feet, the Thundersaurus Megazord follows. "Ethan you ok?" he asks, his breath coming out in ragged pants. The megazord's cockpit was a complete mess, wires were scattered around everywhere, sparks flew out from several loose wires every now and then.
"Yeah." Replies Ethan, his cockpit was also a mess. Ethan slowly rises up from the ground, the Mezodon Megazord gets back up as well, imitating the actions of its pilot, it also rises to its feet, both of its hands tightly grip its twin battle axes.
The Zelzord stands waiting patiently for its opponents to strike again. "You ready to throw in the towel?" asks Conner, his breathing is irregular, but he doesn't care, there is too much at stake right now. Hayley's life, Dr. O's unborn child's life, and the lives of everyone in Reefside, the fate of all these things lay in the hands of a 3.0 GPA soccer player and an ultra hardcore video gamer. Most people would have quit, but the growth that these two have experienced in the past year has been phenomenal, their friends and teammates have complete confidence in them.
"Hell no." says Ethan.
"Good, me neither." Snarls Conner.
"CHARGE!" shouts Ethan, and the Megazords did just that, this time with renewed strength. Attacking the Zelzord furiously with its twin battle axes before Conner runs in and smashes the Tricerafist into the stomach of the devious machine. "We can't afford to lose!"
"We won't lose!"
On the ground level, Zelgog's army of Triploids had managed to overwhelm Trent and keep him down by doggie piling him. While about twenty triploids held Trent down the rest of the army quickly made their way toward several of Reefside's bomb shelters which were currently housing all of the citizens of Reefside. Suddenly several bright golden streams light shoot out in all directions from the center of the massive pile of triploids. The Triploids are suddenly all blown away by a powerful burst of energy. They all disintegrate in midair; the light slowly fades to reveal Trent, in his Super Dino Mode. Black spikes stick out from practically every single part of his body, giving a him a fierce look.
"Ok, now I'm mad." Says Trent before he suddenly unleashes his super speed attack, the Drago Rush, he quickly cuts down the triploids, before he draws his Drago Sword. "Drago Energy arrows!" He quickly draws several energy arrows in midair and fires them at some Triploids about 30 feet away. Every single arrow hit a triploid in the back causing them to disintegrate from the intense dino energy concentration stored inside each one of the arrows.
"Sixty down, about a hundred more to go." Mutters Trent in a slightly annoyed tone of voice. He quickly charges back into battle.
Within the Zelzord, Tommy and Kira have both decided to take a stand against the overwhelmingly powerful Zelgog. Both quickly draw their personal weapons, Tommy armed with his Brachiostaff, and Kira armed with her Pteragrips. "Kira, look's like we're going to have to fight our way out."
"Fine with me." Says Kira the two quickly charge into battle. But Zelgog proves to be far too powerful he quickly drives them back with several cruel blasts of green lightning.
"Fools! You don't stand a chance against me!" laughs Zelgog. "Surrender your Dino Gems, and I may spare your lives, yes..."
Tommy quickly contacts Conner. "Conner, we need an escape route now."
"No problem, I've just got an idea. You guys might want to stay a few feet away from the walls." Replies Conner.
"I won't let you escape!" shouts Zelgog, he quickly charges towards the two. But before he even gets with twenty feet of the rangers, a massive red drill-like arm, the arm of the Thundersaurus Megazord, suddenly bursts through the wall hitting Zelgog dead on sending him flying.
"Kira, get Hayley out of here." Says Tommy.
"But…" begins Kira.
"JUST DO IT!" he yells angrily.
Kira quickly complied as she grabbed Hayley's hand and they both leaped out through the hole created by Conner. Hayley screams loudly, but the two manage to land safely even though Hayley was a still little freaked out by the fall. Kira lands just as Trent is finishing off the rest of Triploids, he quickly slashes through them at super speed, he quickly powers down to his normal ranger form, the spikes disappearing in a soft golden flash. "You made it!" exclaims Trent as he quickly runs up. "Where's Dr. O?"
"He's still up there, with that monster." Says Kira worriedly. "I shouldn't have left him up there alone."
"He'll be alright." Says Hayley quietly.
"How do you know?" asks Trent.
"I don't. But worrying isn't going to solve anything, right now the best I can do is trust in him." Replies Hayley.
Back up on the Zelzord, Tommy is desperately trying to reason with his old friend one more time. "Smitty, it doesn't have to be this way! Please, let me help you." begs Tommy trying to make one last effort to stop his old frielnd, but Zelgog chooses to ignore his pleas and lets out an angry roar before he charges at Tommy. The two battle, Zelgog driving Tommy back against a wall, Tommy quickly leaps up and press his feet against the wall, using it as a foot hold in order to continue parrying Zelgog's blows. "Smitty, stop!"
"Smitty's gone!" snarls Zelgog angrily; his attacks suddenly become much more furious. Tommy decides to fall back as he quickly somersaults over Zelgog and slashes him across the back. He then quickly heads towards the exit and leaps out. "No! I won't let you escape."
He quickly follows but something in his body suddenly slows him, like a part of his body didn't want to leave. "No! You fool, Tommy Oliver means nothing, let us finish destroying this planet!"
"SILENCE! I told you my revenge is all that matters!"
"Why destroy one man when we can destroy all of mankind!"
"I will have my revenge!" Zelgog suddenly begins to glow violently as Zeltrax forces himself away from the demonic fusion resulting just plain old Mesogog and Zeltrax, who was in his original form.
"No! You fool!" snarls Mesogog, he lunges at Zeltrax only to miss. Zeltrax quickly exits the Zelzord, powering himself up to his final form, a powerful black and red body with a long double-edged spear. Mesogog quickly ruins over to the control panel and begins to pilot the Zelzord himself. "I'll destroy them myself." He growls.
The Zelzord suddenly begins to launch even more bolts of lightning at the two Megazords causing them both to topple over. It then releases two streams of energy which quickly wrap around the two Megazords causing massive damage as it lifts the two titans into the air and slams them down with a devastatingly large amount of force.
"What the hell?" cries Conner in confusion mere seconds ago the two Megazords seemed to be the ones in control of the battle, but now it seems that they aren't.
"It's like it's gotten even more viscous!" says Ethan, and then a roar was heard in the distance. "What the hell was that sound!"
Ethan and Conner turn their heads towards the noise, neither of them could believe what they were seeing.
Zeltrax lands a few feet away from the rangers, his voice coming out in a soft cackle. Tommy, Kira and Trent quickly take defensive stances. "You didn't really think I'd let you escape that easily did you?"
"Zelgog…." Says Tommy softly.
"No, just Zeltrax, that fool Mesogog has run off and is trying to control MY robot." Snarls Zeltrax.
"Hayley, go and take cover." Says Trent, he quickly draws his Drago sword and switches it to its saber mode.
"Come, Tommy Oliver, today marks the end of your life!" snarls Zeltrax. Nothing else mattered only his revenge.
Tommy runs forward to face him, "Kira, Trent you guys with me on this?" he asks.
"Hell yeah!" says Trent.
"Of course." Says Kira, as both she and Trent charge forward, Kira quickly leaps up and uses Tommy's shoulder as a foothold to propel herself even higher into the air, both of her pteragrips are in her hands she spreads out her arms mimicking a soaring eagle.
Trent runs forward right after Kira, upon reaching Tommy, he quickly slides head first between his legs. Tommy quickly bends over and grabs Trent's wrists and pulls him through his legs and throws him causing Trent to soar towards Zeltrax in an upright position at a very low altitude, drawing his sword and energizing it he quickly begins to use his final technique. "Drago Final Hurricane Slash!" he shouts as he begins to spin rapidly.
Kira also begins to spin except she holds both of her blades forward the sharp points forward; she begins to rapidly spin like a drill. "Ptera Final Drill Dive!"
Both Kira and Trent simultaneously strike Zeltrax with their attacks, Kira drilling into his chest while Trent rapidly slashes his torso multiple times. They fly past him landing with stunning grace. Zeltrax stumbles forward, but he still refuses to fall. He looks up to see Tommy Oliver charging towards him, blindingly fast, his blade drawn. He slices right through his former friend, cutting through various types of metal and flesh, severing nerves, wires and power cells.
"NOOOOO!" screams Zeltrax for the final time, as he falls down and explodes. The explosion eventually clears, Zeltrax laying there dying, nothing on Earth can save him now. "No… I don't want to die…here…alone…" he whispers before his last power cell fails him and the human once known as Smitty finally finds peace in the after life.
"Good-bye…..Smittty." Tommy whispers sadly as he sheathes his Brachiostaff. However Tommy has no time to mourn, the Zelzord had gone berserk since Mesogog had taken charge of it. Two streams of energy suddenly blast from the Zelzord and wrap themselves around both Megazords, causing intense damage to the massive machines. Suddenly a furious roar is heard in the distance. "What the?"
Several purple plasma blasts suddenly hit the Zelzord head on causing it to release the energy beams, freeing the Megazords in the process. Turning their heads the rangers and Hayley see that it was the Brachiozord who shot the blasts. It roars angrily before it begins to fire even more plasma shots at the Zelzord. "I knew that installing a positron generator inside of the Brachiozord would come in handy." Comments Hayley happily.
"What do you mean?" asks Trent.
"It lets the zord energize oxygen and carbon to the point where it becomes destructive plasma bolts." Explains Hayley. "Once the oxygen and carbon atoms become plasma, the zord fires it at it's enemy, in short the Brachiozord has enough destructive power to turn a Mt. Everest into Mt. Really-Small-Pile-of-Pebbles."
Trent and Kira stared. "It's a big zord making it a big target, I had to give it something to even up the odds." Says Hayley.
Soaring past the Brachiozord is the Dragozord, both of its wings are extended as it energizes it's wings and slices through the Zelzord multiple times. Trailing the Brachiozord is the Cephalazord, hopping happily into battle jabbing the air as it runs along the streets of Reefside. It quickly runs up and unleashes a flurry of powerful punches upon the zelzord before moving out of the way to allow the Dimetrozord to attack with the massive buzz saw on its back. The rest of the Dinozords quickly back up the two Megazords. The Stegazord and the Ankylozord both unleashed energy blasts at the Zelzord. "I don't believe it!" says Ethan inside of the Mezodon Megazord.
"What I don't remember calling them? Why are the other Dinozords here?" wonders Kira. "How did they know that we needed them?"
"Simple." Says Hayley. "I embedded their main motherboards with the same cells that make up a brain, they are literally real dinosaurs in the bodies of robots. "
"Any animal will fight to protect their home." Says Tommy, "The zords sensed that the Earth, their home, was in danger so they came to help, just like the rest of the town…"
"What?" asks Kira wondering just what Tommy had meant by his statement, she looks around and realizes that the entire town has come out from the shelters. People of all ages stand on the roofs of buildings shouting angry protests at the Zelzord, some even dared to throw rocks and soda cans at the Zelzord. It wasn't a very good plan of attack, but it did help boost the crowd's morale.
"Leave our home alone!"
"Pick on someone your own size!"
"Get out of here!"
"I don't believe it…" whispers Kira in awe.
"It's like something out of a dream." Says Trent. "This is unbelievable!"
The Citizens of Reefside as well as Dinozords each begin to emit a bright golden aura of Dino Energy, the energy slowly begins to transfer itself into the Thundersaurus Megazord. Hundreds of golden light beams, each one containing all of the hopes and dreams of a single person. Within the cockpit, Conner suddenly begins to feel a powerful surge of strength. "What is this?" he gasps in wonderment as his body graciously accepts the boost in power. He spreads out his arms as his body begins to shine brightly as he effortlessly changes to his Super Dino mode and then into his Triassic mode. Normally he'd have to use a large amount of Dino Energy, but with the Dinozords and the entire town miraculously pooling their Dino Energy together and transferring all of the energy into the Megazord gave Conner just the boost he needed.
The Megazord also begins to emit a golden glow as well, to accompany the massive increase in Dino Energy. The light begins to glow until it begins to blind the people around it, it began to blow away the sickly yellow cover which blocked out the sun. The sun begins to shin through the clouds, signaling the start of a new day.
"Impossible!" screams Mesogog. "Where did all that power come from! I don't believe this!"
"Believe it!" snarls Conner as he quickly places both his hands on the Megazord's control orb. "This is the power that surpasses all others, beyond Super Dino, beyond Triassic! This is the power of hope!"
The Tyrannosaurus on the Megazord's chest opens its mouth and a ball of energy slowly begins to form, the zelzord attempts to stop it with its lightning blasts but they prove to be useless against the powered up Thundersaurus Megazord. The ball of energy finally stops charging up and the Megazord quickly blasts the Zelzord with a powerful beam of energy. "NO! How can this be? It wasn't supposed to be like this!" Mesogog curses for the last time as he is blown into oblivion. Not even his molecules are left.
The town of Reefside cheered happily along with the rangers. The evil was finally gone, they were free from the plague of Mesogog. Among the massive crowd of civilians a single smiling face could be seen. The face of Krista Pebble, the one person who believed in them all along, the one who shared their secrets and felt their pain, at this moment she couldn't have been prouder. "Way to go guys." She says softly.
The days became weeks, the weeks became months, and life began to go back to normal for everyone in Reefside, stores opened up again, kids went to soccer practice, people went to school. But things were never the same again. The experiences that the town has gone through has been horrifying and amazing, the town and its residents have all changed for the better.
Conner was nervous, Krista has her beautiful blue eyes locked on his brown eyes. As always she looks beautiful, Conner usually felt very comfortable and relaxed around Krista, but this time was different, this time it was special. After all it was their graduation ceremony. Krista, with her amazingly high grades, SAT scores, and large list of extracurricular activities which didn't include battling mutant freaks, was chosen to give the valedictorian speech, an honor she graciously accepted with open arms.
The entire school had decided to hold this year's graduation ceremony at the local Civic center, which was just a few blocks away from Hayley's cyber space. Practically everyone in Reefside was there to watch Krista give her speech.
"We've been through a lot these past four years, and we've been through a lot this year." Begins Krista in her red graduation cap and gown, the girls were assigned red while the guys were assigned gold. Red and gold were the school's colors after all. "But I can say with the utmost confidence that we've grown stronger from these experiences."
Conner, Ethan, Kira, Trent, Tommy, and Hayley all nod in agreement. Tommy places his hand lovingly on Hayley's shoulder, Hayley looks at him and smiles warmly as she caresses her swollen belly, she was due in a few months.
"We're still the same person, we haven't changed physically at all. We still hang out with the same friends, have the same habits" Continues Krista, Devin and Cassidy exchange looks before they both blush slightly their hands never letting go of each other. "But we've all become better people on the inside because of the things we've gone through. We have grown so much."
The crowd is silent as Krista begins to finish up her speech. "I want all of us to continue growing, so let us continue to move forward towards a never ending tomorrow."
The crowd and the rest of the town couldn't agree more.
Finish
A/N: Well, I hope I didn't disappoint when it came to the end of this story. Thank you all of you for reading this story, your support means so much, especially those of you who reviewed the story, they were a great morale booster, I was actually surprised by how many people enjoyed this story, so as a way of saying thanks I'm planning to add an epilogue which will take place in a series of flashbacks showing what the rangers have been up to during the years after their graduation.
Please review, it's nice to know your final thoughts on this story.
Ok time to tell the tidbits.
Chapter one; The monsters that Conner thinks about are actually references to classic MMPR monsters, Krista's last name Prebble, and Hayley's last name Johnston, are the actual last names of the actresses who portrayed the characters, Antonia Prebble and Ismay Johnston.
Chapter Seven: The song that Kira sings in the Cyber Café is called "Just Words", it's an actual song written by Emma Lahana, the actress who portrayed Kira.
Chapter Nine; Ethan's thoughts about the regenerating robot is a reference to PRTF's Doomtron. Kira's thought s about stupid monsters are references to monsters from PRLG.
Chapter Thirteen: Hayley's goodbye letter to Tommy is just like Kim's letter to Tommy, but the only difference is that Tommy wasn't willing to lose Hayley without a fight. )
Chapter Fourteen: Trent's willingness to kill Tommy to destroy the monster is reminiscent to Tetsu's willingness to risk Ban's life to defeat the Alienizer, in Tokusei Sentai Dekaranger.
Chapter Sixteen: Zeltrax's comment about Conner being a power-up junkie is probably the most common criticism against Conner in PR forums.
That's about it, I think, it's been a while, so you've got to cut me so slack if I forgot a lot of stuff.