I could give you a history lesson on the ownership of Power Rangers (Saban, Disney, Saban again, and Hasbro), but you should just know I don't own them!

Hi! I'm not dead! I just got caught up with school, work and, worst of all, writer's block! Anyway, here's good ol' chapter 10.

Myth 10: Pigheaded

Jay Parker sighed as Nate Seymor and Mera Cadwalader glared at each other.

"I really thought we were past this," he remarked. "I thought you two had worked this out and could be civil to each other again."

"What are you two even mad about?" Valerie said as she sat down at her new seat next to Jay.

"Butt out!" Mera and Nate shouted together as they maintained their staring contest.

Victor just sat there, confused.

"You two had been fine for a week," he remarked. "What changed?"

"Maybe it's Halloween related?" Jay asked. "It is in two weeks, after all."

"I doubt it," Valerie said with a shake of her head. "But speaking of Halloween, my parents are throwing a party at my house, and all of you are invited."

"So, I can either be out on the streets alone, or stuck at a party with her?" Nate asked as he gestured to Mera. "Give me a minute here, I'm trying to pick the lesser of the two evils…"

"Come on, you two," Jay said. "If we show any form of weakness, the Dark Order will send another one of their knights to attack us. It's basically a formula at this point!"


As he was saying this, he didn't know how right he was. Deep in the Underworld, Echidna was scheming while watching the rangers in her magic round table.

"The Rangers show another one of their weaknesses," she remarked. "We must use this to our advantage. If we can get the Blue and Yellow Rangers to face one of you alone, they will fall due to their infighting. Now, who to choose…"

"Mother," the rose-gold pig-helmeted knight said. "The Crommyonian Sow will defeat the Rangers for you!"

"Yes…" Echidna said, deep in thought before looking over at her knight. "Yes! Your strength will be enough to force away even the Gold and Silver Rangers! Especially once you eat this,"

Echidna pulled a Golden Apple from what seemed like thin air and handed it to the Crommyonian Sow.

"I thank you for this gift and promise to use it to bolster my natural strength in battle!" the Crommyonian Sow said as it accepted the Apple.

"Just go!" Echidna shouted as she pointed at the exit. "And bring me the Blue and Yellow Rangers' helmets as proof of your victory!"


Later that night, at Jay's house, both Jay and Valerie were watching a movie together while sharing a bowl of popcorn.

"So you're saying some studio decided to make a gritty, down-to-earth Power Rangers movie?" Valerie asked, her eyes shifting towards Jay before going back to the screen.

"Yeah," Jay said. "The worst part is that they turned it into some 'Breakfast Club' story!"

"I noticed that," Valerie said. "It's been 40 minutes and we've seen the Ranger suits like, what, twice in as many minutes?"

"Wait 'til you see the zords," Jay said. "They don't even look like dino…"

Just as Jay was about to finish his sentence, his morpher sounded off. Jay sighed as he sat up and paused the movie.

"Yes?" he said in an annoyed voice.

"This is Victor," Victor said over the morpher, "I think I've figured out my Olympian Gem Radar! Come quick!"

"We're coming," Jay said as he and Valerie stood up. "Just open a Door for us."

The two opened the door to the basement, which was glowing blue, and stepped through into the Temple. Victor was sitting at the mosaic computer with symbols flashing on the screen furiously, Hermes by his side. The Doors flew open again to allow both Mera and Nate in.

Jay walked up to stand on the other side of Victor. "What do you have for us, big guy?"

"Watch this," Victor said as he clicked a few runes on the keyboard. "I figured it out!"

A circular radar-like display appeared on the screen, with red, blue, black,yellow and pink circles in the center, and gold and silver ones located to the north.

"Those circles in the center must be us," Mera said, "and that would make the gold and silver ones…"

"The Gold and Silver Rangers," Nate finished, his arms crossed. "See? I can science too."

"How far away are they from the base?" Jay asked Victor, ignoring Mera and Nate's comments to each other behind his back.

"I'd estimate about...3 miles," Victor said as he clicked a few more keys, "but those are the only Gems I can find, the system can't seem to lock on to any more Gem energies."

"Maybe they have different wavelengths of energy," Valerie said. "They're different colors, right? Different colored light lets off different wavelengths of energy in the Electromagnetic Spectrum."

Everyone looked at her for a moment in surprise

"Hey, I pay attention in science class sometimes, you know," she said.

"If that theory is correct…" Mera responded. "Then the more Gems we have, the less interference we will have from those Gems."

"So basically, the more Gems we have, the easier it will be to find the remaining ones," Jay summarized. "Seems simple enough. Now we just need to get the Gold and Silver Rangers to join us and…"

"Hang on, fearless leader," Nate remarked as the screen changed to one of the Crommyian Sow Knight attacking downtown. "Looks like we have a real boaring task ahead of us."

Everyone sighed at the joke before lining up to morph.

"Ready?" Jay prompted.

"Ready!" the others responded.

"Pink Olympian Power!"

"Yellow Olympian Power!

"Black Olympian Power!"

"Blue Olympian Power!"

"Red Olympian Power!"

In a flash of light, the rangers morphed and ran right through the doors to the crowded city streets at night. The sidewalk was full of civilians running from the evil Knight.

"Imagine how many people must be here for dinner tonight!" Valerie exclaimed.

"We have to make sure everyone gets to safety before we deal with this Dark Order Knight!" Jay ordered.

"You guys can deal with the civilians, I'll deal with the pig!" Nate shouted as he pushed through the waves of people. "'scuse me! Big superhero coming through!"

"Wait, Nate!" Jay shouted as Nate melted into the crowd, "Mera, go after him! We can't let him fight a Dark Order Knight on his own!"

"Right!" Mera shouted as she ran into the crowd as well as it swept past the other Rangers, who were directing them away.

"This way, quickly!" Valerie shouted as she gestured straight ahead, away from the monster.

"Keep it moving but remain calm!" Jay said as he gently pushed people forward, "keep going!"

"Uh…" Victor said. "What they said."


"Hey, pig-face!" Nate shouted as he ran up to meet the Dark Order Knight head-on. "I've got three trident points with your name on it!"

"One little Ranger?" the Crommyonian Sow asked. "Is this some kind of joke? Where are the rest of your Ranger friends?"

"I don't need them!" Nate shouted as he leapt at the monster with his trident raised for a piercing attack through his helmet. To his shock, the points didn't even faze the Knight one bit as he raised a fist to punch Nate. Nate cried out in pain as he went flying into a bench, knocking it over and causing him to fall down even more. He groaned as he rolled onto his back from his side.

"Owwww," he said as he slowly sat up. There were definitely some bruises he would feel tomorrow.

"That could have gone better…" he quipped.

"Nate, are you alright?" Mera shouted as she ran over to pull him up. She helped him stand before punching him in the back of the helmet.

"What was that for!?" Nate shouted as he rubbed the spot she had hit him.

"That was for running off without the rest of the team!" Mera shouted, "and disobeying a direct order!"

"A direct order? What is this, the army?" Nate said, "Hah! Soldier Power Rangers! That'll never happen!"

"Can you stop being yourself for five minutes and aid me in vanquishing this foe?" Mera asked.

"I guess," Nate said. "Let's just take this guy down and get this over. I want to spend as little time as possible dealing with you."

Mera was about to respond when the remaining Rangers arrived.

"All the civilians are safe," Jay said, "so we're free to focus on the Knight."

"Two Rangers or five, it makes no difference to me!" the Sow shouted as he summoned his weapon, a medium-sized lance. "I'll gore you all!"

"Obviously this guy doesn't know who we are," Nate joked.

"Let's tell him," Jay responded as they began their roll call.

"Aphrodite, goddess of love! Pink Olympian Ranger!"

"Athena, goddess of wisdom! Yellow Olympian Ranger!"

"Hephaestus, god of the forge! Black Olympian Ranger!"

"Poseidon, god of the sea! Blue Olympian Ranger!"

"Zeus, god of lightning! Red Olympian Ranger!"

"Using the powers of the past to protect the future! Power Rangers Olympian Force!"

"Harpies!" the Crommyonian Sow shouted as the green-feathered monsters swooped in from the skies. "Attack!"

The rangers gave a battle cry as they summoned their weapons and charged at the dive-bombing beasts.

Valerie swung her bow around like a makeshift staff, blocked the Harpies' claws before backflipping away. In the middle of her backflip, she pulled back her bowstring and fired multiple pink, glowing arrows at the Harpies' wings, causing multiple to begin plummeting towards the ground.

"Birds of a feather, stick together," she quipped as she continued her assault.

Victor raised his hammer and brought it down in a mighty two-handed swing onto one of the grounded Harpies, turning it to dust.

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the workshop," Victor remarked as he repeated his mighty swing on another helpless monster.

Jay whirled around in a 360 spin with his sword slicing any Harpie stupid enough to get close. He jabbed his sword at the nearest one, pressing the point into its chest.

"Today's forecast calls for a hundred percent chance of lightning!" he shouted as red lightning struck his sword, electrocuting the Harpie it was currently stabbing into.

Nate and Mera were tag teaming against the monster but kept getting in each other's way. When Nate went in for a jab to the helmet with his trident, Mera had already tripped him with a sweep to his ankles. And when Mera tried to hurl her spear like a javelin at the Knight, Nate was in her line of fire, blocking her shot.

"Get out of my path!" Mera shouted as she tried to push him aside with her shoulder, "I will fight him now!"

"You should get out of my way!" Nate shouted as he shoulder-checked her back. "I've got 'em!"

As their light pushing turned into a full-blown pushing match, the Crommyonian Sow pointed his spear at them and charged right in between them, throwing them to the ground on opposite sides from each other. Jay looked up quickly in shock as the Pig Knight charged right at him. He tried to leap out of the way, but the lance stabbed right into his stomach. Jay demorphed as he hit the ground, the lance remaining lodged in his stomach. He rolled onto his side and coughed up some blood.

"Jay!" Valerie shouted as she looked over at Jay before charging at the Crommyonian Sow. "You'll pay for that, you monster!"

"What are you going to do, girlie?" the Crommyonian Sow taunted as he summoned another lance. "Especially when you join him in his fate!"

Valerie blocked his first stab with her bow, which snapped in half from the force, but couldn't block the second, which went straight through her right leg. She fell to the ground slowly and demorphed, clutching her injured leg. She dragged herself with her arms and good leg over to Jay's damaged body.

"Hey," he managed to say, "it's ok, just hurts to talk," he stopped for another cough of blood, "and breathe."

"Hang on," she said. "We managed to heal Victor from the Minotaur's explosive charge; we can heal you too."

Victor was too shocked from his friends' wounds to notice the Crommyonian Sow charging at him too. He noticed just in time for the Knight to stab him in the left arm, causing him to fall to his knees and demorph. He was holding his injured arm, grunting at the pain.

The Crommyonian Sow turned around to attack the remaining two Rangers when glowing silver and gold arrows struck him in the back and stuck into his rose gold armor.

"Who did that?" he shouted as two shadowy figures dropped down from a nearby building. They stepped out of the shadows, revealing them to be the Gold and Silver Rangers.

"I would recommend running," the Silver Ranger said as she and the Gold Ranger raised their bows, threatening another barrage of arrows.

The Crommyonian Sow looked around at the injured Rangers, then back at the Gold and Silver Rangers and their drawn bows.

"I'll be returning to finish them off," the Knight threatened before disappearing in a cloud of darkness, not unlike Gryphon's mode of transportation.

The Gold and Silver Rangers relaxed their grip on their bows and sent them to a pocket dimension before coming over to aid Mera and Nate in standing up.

"Are you alright?" the Gold Ranger asked as he helped Mera to her feet.

"I am fine," Mera said, "but we need to take our friends to our base. Could you help us move them there?"

Nate cleared his throat and pulled Mera aside for a moment.

"What are you doing?" he whispered to her. "We can't just take them to our base!"

"If Hermes opens a Door for us, we will not have to worry about them knowing the location," Mera countered. The two glared at each other for a moment before Nate caved.

"Fine, but if this goes south, don't say I didn't warn you!" he said as he put up his hands in surrender.

"You two done yet?" the Silver Ranger asked impatiently, "because we have other things to do besides saving your butts once a week."

"Hermes," Mera said into her morpher, "we require a Door."

Victor managed to stand himself up and walked over to the door, opening it with his good arm, and holding it open for the 4 other Rangers to carry Jay and Valerie through. Hermes met them at the Doors as they closed behind them.

"Bring them to the medical center, quickly!" he shouted as he flew over to said room. Inside was the same line of beds as the last time the Rangers were there, along with the IV bags full of the strange "nectar" liquid.

Hermes landed on the ground and set up an IV drip. Nate and the Gold Ranger gently laid Jay on the bed. Right now, he appeared to be falling in and out of consciousness. Valerie looked over in concern as she was laid on the bed next to his.

"C'mon Jay! Stay with us!" Nate shouted as he smacked Jay's face lightly before looking at Hermes. "What are you waiting for? An invitation? Start healing him!"

"I'll do what I can," Hermes said as he prepped the IV to start dispensing nectar, "but we'd need Apollo himself to ensure a full and speedy recovery."

"What about someone with the powers of Apollo?" the Gold Ranger asked. "Could I do something?"

"That could work..." Hermes muttered to himself before speaking at a normal volume again, "Apollo's powers came from his staff, so we need to use yours."

The Gold Ranger summoned his bow and changed it to staff mode before raising it into the air. A gold aura appeared around one end of it in the form of a ball of energy. The ball of energy floated over from the staff and into Jay as Hermes pulled out the lance. The big cavity in his chest quickly closed, leaving Jay fully healed, but still unconscious.

The Gold Ranger fell to his knees, weak from all of the energy he had exerted to heal the Red Ranger. The Silver Ranger ran over to his side.

"Are you alright, brother?" she asked, concerned.

"I'll live," the Gold Ranger said, out of breath.

"Looks like we'll have to heal a different way," Valerie said. "The nectar will work, right?"

"It will," Hermes said. "But it'll take time."

"Well, while they heal," the Silver Ranger said, "someone has to make sure that pig doesn't attack again."

The two turned to walk out when Mera spoke up,

"Please stay," she requested. "We need all of the aid we can get."

"The answer is still no," the Silver Ranger said. "You'll just slow the two of us down."

The two ran through the opening doors and were gone. Mera took off her helmet as soon as they left and gave a sigh of exasperation and defeat.

"What do we do?" Nate asked. "The two of us can't seem to work together for five minutes, much less an entire battle."

"We have to do what we always do," Mera said. "Push forward."


The next morning, before school, Mera and Nate visited their injured friends again. Victor had a cut on his hand that was quickly healing, while Valerie was almost able to move her leg again. Jay had finally regained consciousness but appeared to still be in pain.

"Hey, hotshot," Jay said as he looked over at Nate.

"How're you doing, fearless leader?" Nate asked as he walked over to Jay's bedside.

"I've been better," Jay said as he gingerly turned to look at Nate. "Look, the three of us are in no shape to fight. Victor can't hold his hammer, Valerie can't walk, and I'm, well, like this."

"If that Knight attacks again, we're in trouble," Nate admitted. "Mera and I just can't talk to each other without arguing, much less fight together."

"I need you two to find a way...agh!" he shouted as he clutched his side. "find a way to work together, team up with the Gold and Silver Rangers and defeat that son of a...ow!" He grunted in pain again.

"We'll find a way to win," Nate said. "I promise."


Nate sighed. It just wasn't the same with only two people at the table. He looked across at Mera as she ate a forkful of salad. He was about to say something when Adrian and Diana walked up.

"Hey, where's the rest of your group?" Adrian asked in concern. "It's strange to only see two in a group of five."

"Uh...they're...sick," Nate said.

"Mm hm," Adrian said, apparently unconvinced. "Well, let us know when they come back."

"Or not," Diana said, her arms crossed. "I don't really care."

"Be nice," Adrian said as they walked away before lowering his voice to a whisper. "They didn't heal as quickly as we thought. We may need to aid the Rangers again."

"Why does that winged-sandal guy make us help them?" Diana said. "They obviously can't figure anything out, like us being Rangers too."

"If we want to help save the world, we have to help them," Adrian answered. "In the end, they'll be the ones to defeat Hades."

"I know you claim that you can see the future now," Diana said, "but I still think you're just making it up to convince me to save those pathetic Rangers."

"Only time will tell how long they will need us to save them. They grow stronger by the day. The question is, will it be enough?"


Nate sighed as he walked down the street. The job of leadership had fallen to him again. He may have wanted to be the leader originally, but he had found it was a lot harder than he thought. Now he had to work together with Mera to defeat a Knight with armor shaped like a pig.

He looked up to see that he had somehow made it all the way to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean. He walked up the pier and looked into the salty water, contemplating his new responsibilities.

"Something on your mind?" a voice said.

Nate whirled around to see a fisherman sitting on the pier, his pole extended and his line in the water. The fisherman's white beard swung a bit in the breeze along with the rest of his long white hair. His skin was tanned from a long time in the sun.

"Just thinking," Nate said.

"About what?" the man asked, his bushy eyebrows raising in question.

"If you had to work with somebody that you really didn't get along with, how would you go about it?" Nate asked.

"I would focus on the task at hand, and just realize that sometimes, you don't like everybody and that's ok. You just have to be civil and get the job done. Does that help?" the fisherman asked.

"It does," Nate said. "Thanks. Now…"

He looked down at his morpher as it sounded off.

"I have to go," he said. "Thanks for the advice!"

"No problem!" the man shouted back. He turned back around to his fishing pole, his sea-green eyes twinkling in the light reflecting off the sea.


"Hermes said the Knight was seen around here," Mera said as both she and Nate, already morphed, examined the area.

"I'm not seeing it now," Nate said. "Kind of strange how a huge warrior like that can just disappear into thin air. I guess we scared him off."

"Think again!" a voice said as a lance was launched at Mera.

"Look out!" Nate said as he threw himself at Mera, knocked both of them to the ground. The lance went flying past and stuck into a wall behind where the Rangers had just been.

Mera looked up at the weapon stuck in the wall and back at the Crommyonian Sow, who had just stepped out of the shadows.

"Thank you," she said to Nate.

"No problem, now let's avenge our friends!" Nate said as the Rangers got up and summoned their weapons.

"Battle Spear!"

"Ocean Trident!"

"Since he likes throwing weapons at us, let's send some presents of our own!" Nate said as both he and Mera hurled their weapons at the Crommyonian Sow. The two weapons managed to hit the same spot, causing a hole to be created in the armor. The Crommyonian Sow pulled the weapons out of his chest armor and threw them to the ground.

"Let's see how you do without your weapons!" he taunted.

"I'll go for the weapons, you attack him," Nate whispered to Mera.

"I think it would work better if we flipped it, and you attack while I retrieve the weapons," Mera said.

Nate was about to argue before remembering the old man's advice.

Just be civil and get the job done, I guess, he thought.

"Fine," he responded. "Let's move!"

Nate charged at the Dark Order member and grabbed the handle of his lance, trying to wrest control of it from the Knight. Meanwhile, Mera ran and did a combat roll to roll under the Knight's legs and grabbed the weapons as she passed.

"Nate!" she shouted, "catch!"

Nate reached out for the trident that Mera threw into his waiting hand. He raised it with one arm, with the other holding the lance handle, and brought it down in a mighty stab into the small hole in the armor. The Crommyonian Sow shouted in pain as he fell to his knees while trying to pull out the trident that Nate forced deeper into the Knight.

"Monster vanquished!" Mera shouted as the two posed in front of the explosion that the Crommyonian Sow created.

The two Rangers began to congratulate each other on a job well done before turning around to see the Crommyonian Sow was still alive.

"What?" Nate shouted. "How in the world did he survive that?"

"The better question is, what is he doing?" Mera said.

The Crommyonian Sow opened up his hand to reveal the Golden Apple, which was glowing. He opened his helmet, revealing an actual pig face, and ate the apple. He closed his eyes and opened them to reveal that they were glowing with a golden light. As the Rangers looked on in shock, the Crommyonian Sow grew to the size of a small skyscraper.

"Someone fattened that pig up in the wrong direction," Nate quipped.

"On a more serious note, what are we going to do?" Mera asked, "the two of us can't pilot 5 Zords to create a Megazord, so unless you want to fight him with our individual Zords…"

"Let us handle this!" a voice shouted behind the Rangers. They turned around to see the Gold and Silver Rangers standing on a rooftop.

"Summon Raven Zord!" the Gold Ranger shouted into his morpher.

"Summon Deer Zord!" the Silver Ranger shouted into her morpher

The Gold and Silver Rangers leapt off the roof and into the zords before inserting their Olympian Gems into the proper spaces.

"Zords, combine!" the two shouted as the zords moved into proper formation: the Raven flying directly over the Deer.

The Deer stood up on its hind legs, which unfolded to become thicker. Its front legs turned 90 degrees to look like human arms on the shoulder joint. The arms also expanded to become larger. The body of the Deer opened up, with the head becoming part of the chestplate. The Raven swooped in, with the wings detaching to create a bow, and filled in the giant hole in the Zord, creating the shoulders and head. The Raven head slid up to reveal a robot face inside and create a hood.

"Gemini Megazord: Gold Mode!" the two shouted as the Megazord grabbed the golden bow from it's back made out of the Raven's wings. It pulled back the bowstring to create a giant glowing gold arrow that it aimed at the Crommyonian Sow.

"Mega Gemini Arrow...fire!" the two Rangers shouted as the mighty arrow was launched from the bow. The arrow punched a hole right in the middle of the Knight, who fell to the ground in a fiery explosion.

"Wow," was the only thing Mera could say.

"I want one!" Nate joked.


"And that's what happened," Nate finished. He was telling the injured Rangers all about the battle. Victor's hand had a small bruise and Valerie's leg was almost fully healed. Only Jay remained bed ridden.

"So they had a Megazord…" Jay said pensively. "Very interesting, I thought that only we had Zords."

"I guess not," Valerie said. "The question is…"

"Where did they get them?" Mera finished. "From here. I checked the Zord Bay log, and it opened when they summoned the Zords"

"Whoa. Back up a minute," Nate said. "They got it from here?"

"I think Hermes knows more about these Rangers than he's letting on," Jay said, "and we need to figure out what that is, fast."

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