Episode 2: Chapter 2

It's been three days and nothing happened. Not an Evil Ranger attack, not a monster attack, not even a tiny Stingwinger was seen. Leo's wounds began healing, he finally managed to stand on his feet. Could it be over that soon? From far it. No one could have foreseen the outcomes of this day, especially not the Rangers. Somewhere in space, the crack grew.

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It all began early in the morning, when Kai and Damon were making their way to work. They both agreed only to separate once they reach the Control Tower. Only they never got a chance to get there. It all began when a woman started screaming in fear, followed by many people running in panic at the Rangers' direction. As the people ran in hysteria around the Kai and Damon, the two tried to get themselves out of the frightened crowd so they could see what was going on. They heard an explosion, and right afterwards a monster came from around a street corner. The monster resembled a goat; it was heavily armored and armed with two shoulder-mounted cannons. The monster shot a cannon ball from its right cannon, the ball landed and exploded close to Kai and Damon. Out of the smoke, the now morphed Kai and Damon charged with their Transdaggers. Damon's was in the form of a Transblaster, while Kai's was in the form of a Beta Bow.

They began sidestepping. Kai went to the monster's right side while Damon went to it's left. The monster tried to blast them with the cannons, but it kept missing them.

"R…Range… Rangers" mumbled the monster, "Ho… Hold still, I can't hit you like that!"

Damon blasted the monster from it's left, but the monster surprised them by being quite agile, it quickly jumped back, which resulted in Kai taking the shot. The distracted Damon ran to his comrade, ignoring the still existing menace- that was proven to be a mistake, as the monster shot a cannonball and hit him from behind. The ball exploded on impact, covering the area with flames. The monster examined the flames, but it couldn't find the Rangers.

Then, finally, the exhausted and injured Kai and Damon rose from the wreckage. They tried to reach for their Transdaggers, but these were thrown far from them. In a final act of heroism and stubbornness, they drew their Quasar Sabers and slowly, stumbling, made their way towards the monster. The desperate move didn't impress the monster, as it effortlessly kicked the Rangers to the ground. The monster charged up its cannons, and released a vast cannonball that flew towards the helpless Rangers.

The cannonball was blocked by a wall of blue light, which caused it to bounce back and explode right on the monster.

"What's that?" the startled monster exclaimed, taking an uncontrolled step back.

Kai and Damon looked up, they didn't know whether to be happy or terrified, as the wall slowly received a humanoid form, and in front of them stood another Galaxy Ranger. Only it wasn't the Centaur Ranger Leo described, it was a different Ranger. The Ranger had a dark blue suit, the helmet was shaped a lot like Damon's, only the beak was a bit higher, and much like the Centaur Ranger he was armored with silver armor on his shoulders, knees and elbows.

"I guess that monster wasn't enough, they sent this guy as well." Mumbled Kai.

They were greatly surprised when they saw the new Ranger drawing his weapon, a Trio Saber, and turning around to point it at the monster.

"What? How could you be here?" asked the confused monster, "Strato Ranger, you're supposed to be destroyed!"

The Strato Ranger didn't answer. He only held his sword parallel to the ground and began charging against the monster. The monster quickly gathered its senses, and shot a cannonball at the Strato Ranger, who effortlessly diverted it with his saber. The monster then shot rapidly, launching at least a dozen cannonballs at the mysterious Ranger. The Strato Ranger suddenly took off into the air, demonstrating the ability to fly. The Ranger dodged all the cannonballs that were heading towards him, while demonstrating marvelous air maneuvers. The monster tried to shoot more, but nothing happened.

"What? How could I run out of ammo?" it asked, surprised.

The Strato Ranger then finished the battle. First, he raced towards the monster with his Trio Saber drawn. Next, he slashed the monster on the right side, and then he soared again.

The Strato Ranger landed ten feet away from the monster. The monster moaned in pain as it fell to the ground, which was followed by the expected explosion. The Strato Ranger didn't bother to look at the Rangers. He only sheathed his Trio Saber and began walking in the opposite direction.

"Hey!" said Damon, the Strato Ranger turned his head, "Thanks".

The Strato Ranger ignored Damon's gratitude. He turned his head back forward and kept walking.

"Wait!" exclaimed Kai, trying to get on his feet.

Then, the unexpected happened, when the Strato Ranger pointed his hand at the Rangers, and a series of blasts were shot from his hand and hit the Rangers. It wasn't powerful enough to destroy them, only to knock them down again. The mysterious Ranger didn't try to badly hurt them. The Strato Ranger then faded away in dark bluish light.

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Kendrix showed up less than a minute later on her Jet Jammer. When she saw the wreckage and her injured teammates, she quickly got off her vehicle and held her Transmorpher against her mouth, "Blue and green Jet Jammers, Thrusters Online!" She ordered, and in no time the vehicles arrived. Kendrix helped her teammates up on the Jet Jammers, and she switched them to auto-pilot, straight to the Megaship.

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Leo rushed into the Megaship's Medical deck. He was terrified to see Kai lying on the same bed he used to, and right beside him on another bed was Damon. Both were injured. Alpha asked Leo to leave the room so he could take care of them, and after Leo took a few steps back, the door shut itself, and Leo was unable to see what going on.