Chapter 4 – Not Just a Visitor

Delta Command Base

After a hectic game of table tennis, the four young adults took two sofas and slumped down heavily. They were all panting except for Wendy.

"She is the definition of fit." Han explained. "She always wins at sports, sparring, target practise, you name it. Wendy can do it all. I wouldn't be surprised if she was promoted to B Squad any time soon." Han sent a wink at Wendy who grinned back. Gale felt a small stab of jealousy.

'What the heck,' she thought. 'I've only known him for like an hour, snap out of it.'

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Newtech City Main Square

Julia grunted in annoyance as a cyclobot kicked her in the chest. She quickly regained her stability and blasted it back with a burst from a Hand Blaster but another cyclobot smacked it out of her hand with its hand/blade/blaster/whatever. Down to one blaster, Julia ducked a punch and did a 180 degree sweep kick, knocking over several cyclobots. A couple of them stayed down but most got straight back up.

"These things are stronger than your run-of-the-mill krybots." Julia warned as she heard Beech enter the battle.

"Yeah, Khane said he had trouble fighting these new bots last time. But where do they come from, we know they aren't Troobian." Beech said, as she narrowly avoided being hit in the head by a swipe from a cyclobot. "Argh, where are the others when you need them?"

Dentraasi grinned as he watched the girls get swamped by the powerful cyclobots. "Fools," he smirked. "SPD shall never foil my plan."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that," came a male voice from behind him. Dentraasi turned round and saw three more SPD rangers, one in red, one in green and one in yellow. Red who was standing in the middle took a step forward. It was he who had spoken. He held a large sword with a bulky red handle and a thin silver blade.

"So then, the party gets more exciting." Dentraasi mocked as he held his blue sword forwards.

"We're taking you in, whether you like it or not," said the green ranger, and he brandished the great big green cannon he was holding.

"Enough with the chit chat, let's do this!" cried the yellow ranger. She held two yellow...well, whatever they were they're called Star Charges, and she held them in a fighting stance as she leapt at Dentraasi.

"Ruby and I have got this Dave, go help the other two," ordered the red ranger to the green ranger, Dave.

"Sure thing Khane, good luck," replied Dave and ran off towards the angry mob of cyclobots.

Khane watched Ruby, the yellow ranger, fight Dentraasi. He watched every move that Dentraasi made, saw how he fought and calculated a strategy. Khane often used this method of battle, it usually turned the tide in their favour. 'That's long enough' thought Khane, and ran his hand along the blade of Lightning Sword. "Hey, big guy, want some of this?" Khane yelled as he surged forwards, sweeping his sword in a horizontal arc as he passed Dentraasi. Ruby rolled out the way, and then she jogged over to Khane as he came to a halt. Sparks erupted from Dentraasi's body and he fell to the floor, clutching his arm in pain.

Julia was getting really angry now; the others should be here by now. Beech, who was like a younger sister to her, was getting quite battered around, despite her strength and courage. Julia was about to contact the base again when a green energy blast collided with a bunch of cyclobots sending them flying. They crackled with green energy and fell still. Dave's Thunder Cannon was still smoking as he ran over to them. Julia nodded at Dave appreciatively and said, "Let's finish this."

Julia gripped her remaining Hand Blaster in both hands and held it out in front of her. Beech drew back the string on Wind Fire, allowing it to build up pink energy and Dave balanced Thunder Cannon on his knee, preparing it for another blast. The six or seven remaining cyclobots ran forwards with robotic screeches but didn't get further than one step as the green, pink and blue SPD rangers let loose their barrage of energy blasts.

"Phew, I'm glad that's over with." Beech shouted, over the loud crackle of broken machinery. "Now where did that freakazoid monster go?"

"Follow me," Dave said and the two girls ran after him. As they approached Khane and Ruby they saw Dentraasi on his knees. Dentraasi saw the five rangers unite and stand in a row pointing their weapons at him. He growled and pulled his scaly hand away from his arm, revealing a purple patch. Before the rangers knew what was happening, Dentraasi was a 10-storey tall menace.

"Should have seen that one coming," Ruby groaned as Khane took out his morpher.

"Sir, we need the zords."