I don't own Power Rangers, but I would do great things with it if I did.
(Future Spidey here. I realized a little while ago, as in around the beginning of September 2021, that I used a Manticore's powers for a Chimera! D'oh! Well, I finally fixed it while changing little else. So the premise is still the same, the powers were just corrected, and the title was changed. Now back to the Author Note already in progress…)
Hey, two chapters in a month? And two chapters I'm rather happy with? I'll take it! In all seriousness, expect it to be about this constant, at least one chapter a month, maybe two. I want to thank JTWAS1994 for basically following me through this entire writing journey so far! Anyway, on with the story!
Myth 12: Feel the Burn!
"Is it me, or are these Harpies just getting easier to beat?" Nate asked as he sidekicked a Harpy aside.
"I think we're getting stronger," Valerie answered as she did a flying kick into another one, sending it flying.
"That makes logical sense to me," Mera said. "The more opponents we beat, the more our strength grows."
"Less chatter, more fighting!" Jay ordered as he did a whirlwind kick into a Harpy, launching it into a wall.
The Harpies were soon forced into a concentrated group as the Rangers regrouped.
"Time to form the Olympian Crossbow!" Jay ordered as the Rangers brought their weapons together. Jay infused the sword with some of his power as the others braced the crossbow.
"Olympic Lightning Storm! Fire!" Jay shouted as the Lightning Sword was launched at their foes. Red lightning came down from the sky and struck the sword, causing a huge explosion of red lightning. When the smoke cleared, the Harpies were gone.
"Not the best way to start the day, but I'll take it," Jay remarked as he stretched while he and the other Rangers demorphed.
"School starts in 20 minutes," Victor reminded as the other Rangers walked away from the former battlefield.
"Shoot!" Jay shouted as he started running. "We better get moving or we're going to be late!"
"You're late," Mr. Ford said as Jay walked into the classroom. "I don't know how punctuality works these days for teens, but in my day, being on time meant something! Detention!"
"Seems a little harsh…" Jay whispered to himself as he accepted the paper slip and sat down in front of Diana.
"Now, as we were. Vectors are…"
"Great, you guys too?" Jay said as he sat down at the lunch table and saw the paper slips. "I really thought at least one of us would get out of it."
"Nope, Rogers also made me do 50 sit-ups," Nate said as he rubbed his back. "I can still feel myself doing them."
"Maybe if we had had some help from two certain Rangers, we could have gotten here sooner," Victor suggested.
"Anyway, I guess training has to wait," Valerie noted. "We'll just have to train twice as hard next session!"
"Assuming we don't get detention tomorrow," Mera interjected. "Harpies are attacking more frequently now, and soon we may not be able to keep up."
"If we do get a break, don't forget to come to my parent's Halloween party tomorrow night," Valerie said. "As much as my parents care about a 'proper' party, I still enjoy the Halloween parties we have."
"We'll be sure to make it, then," Jay said. "We just have to hope the Dark Order decides to spare their remaining resources until later…"
"How can these...children keep defeating my Dark Order!?" Echidna screamed as she slammed her fists into the table. "One by one they have been taken out, and only you two remain: Gryphon and Chimera."
"Mother, I have always been the most powerful member," Chimera said as his black and gold armor gleamed in the light of the magic table. "Let me take them down for good! I will target the Red Ranger first. Without his leadership, the team will fall to pieces."
"You know the Red Ranger is mine!" Gryphon argued as he stood up. "Destroy the others if you must, but I want the satisfaction of slaying the Red Ranger myself!"
"If you could destroy the Red Ranger, you would have done it by now," Chimera sneered. "Let a real warrior have a try!"
Gryphon was about to retort when Echidna slammed her fist on the table. The two knights looked over at her.
"If you two are quite done," Echidna said, "I was planning to send both of you. The Rangers have beaten your brothers when they fought five-on-one, but I wonder how they would fare against two knights?"
"A wise plan, mother," Chimera said.
"And with these Golden Apples, you will be even more powerful if you are somehow defeated," Echidna said as she held out the fruit for the two knights to take. Each of them grabbed a Golden Apple before kneeling in front of their mother.
"Thank you, mother," Gryphon said. "We will not fail you."
"Who knew detention would be so boring?" Jay asked aloud as he tilted his head back. "We just sit here for an hour and a half!"
"Be quiet!" Mr. Ford said as he looked up from his phone for a moment.
"It's not exactly supposed to be exciting," Valerie whispered.
"Otherwise, it wouldn't be a punishment," Nate half-whispered, his feet on the desk as he leans back. He was obviously used to being in this room.
"Ok, I guess you can go," Mr. Ford said as he looked at the clock, "and think about the consequences of being late!"
"Mm hm, see ya, bye!" Nate said as he quickly got out of the room, with the other teens close behind him.
"I guess we can prepare for the party tomorrow night, then," Jay said as the group walked away from the school and into a nearby park.
"If we do not keep getting distracted," Mera said.
"Doesn't seem likely," Victor said. "Look!"
"Greetings, Ranger!" Gryphon shouted as he swooped in from the sky before landing in front of the team. "You have defeated my brothers-in-arms, for that you will pay dearly!"
Jay stepped up front as the Rangers put on their morphers,
"Ready?" he asked.
"Ready!" the other Rangers shouted in agreement.
"Pink Olympian Power!"
"Yellow Olympian Power!"
"Black Olympian Power!"
"Blue Olympian Power!"
"Red Olympian Power!"
The Rangers stepped up closer to Gryphon and 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!"
Following that, each ranger called for their personal weapons:
"Love Bow!"
"Battle Spear!"
"Blacksmith Hammer!"
"Ocean Trident!"
"Lightning Sword!"
As Nate, Victor, Mera and Valerie charged at Gryphon, Jay was about to run up to battle with them when a long black whip with the head of a snake at the end wrapped around his waist and pulled him away from them.
"What's the big idea?" Jay shouted as he landed on his butt in front of Chimera. "You must be Chimera."
"That's right, Red Ranger," Chimera said, "and you are my prey now!"
"Yeah, yeah, get in line," Jay said as he sliced his sword at Chimera's chest with a vertical slash. Chimera moved his hand in front of it and caught the blade.
"What?" Jay exclaimed in surprise. "I know the Dark Order's armor is tough, but none of them were fast or strong enough to catch my sword! I might be in over my head here..."
"Where'd Jay go?" Valerie asked as she flipped over Gryphon before firing an arrow at his back, with little effect.
"Yeah, where is our fearless leader?" Nate asked as he did a sweeping strike with his trident before doing a spinning back kick into Gryphon's side. Once again it had little effect.
"Look!" Victor said as he pointed at the ensuing, very one-sided battle between Chimera and Jay. "He's facing that Knight all alone!"
"I will aid him!" Mera said as she flipped over Gryphon to go aid the Red Ranger.
"I think not," Gryphon said as he grabbed one of Mera's legs and slammed her into the ground helmet first. "I may not like this plan, but it is as mother ordered."
"Ooooo, that had to hurt," Valerie commented as she moved over to help Mera get up. "Are you ok?"
"I have been better," Mera said as she shook her head to try and get the stars in her vision to go away.
"Here, let me help you get...ah!" Valerie said as Victor was launched into her, knocking them both to the ground, stunned.
"Let's try my Ocean Trident on that armor of yours, Gryphon," Nate said as he charged the trident so it's points glowed a solid blue before stabbing it into Gryphon's back. If it had any effect, it didn't show. The armor had no cracks in it like the others had received when they had been hit by a mighty blow like that.
"I had my armor upgraded since our last encounter, Ranger!" Gryphon shouted as he turned and slashed with his sword. Nate went flying towards the others, sparks flying on his armor.
"My team…" Jay said as he blocked a swipe of Chimera's whip that had become a sword with the pommel being in the shape of a lion head.
"Worry about yourself, Red Ranger!" Chimera shouted as he kicked Jay away before aiming the lion head-end of his sword at Jay.
"Taste my Fusion Flames!" he shouted as he fired a stream of purple fire at the Rangers.
"Guys, look out!" Jay shouted as he jumped in between the flames and the Rangers on the ground. He took the entirety of the attack, with every part of the flame striking him instead of the other Rangers.
He groaned as a purple aura appeared around him before shrinking to go inside him. However, he did not demorph.
"Not the way I would have wanted to kill him," Gryphon said. "But it'll do." He sighed a bit as he disappeared into his signature black smoke.
"Jay!" Valerie shouted as the four Rangers got up as one and rushed over to their leader's side. He seemed unresponsive to any outside stimuli, just lying on the ground, groaning in pain.
"What did you do to him?" she demanded as she and the other Rangers lined up, blocking their injured leader from Chimera.
"My Fusion Flames combine the ferocity of fire with the hidden deadliness of poison," Chimera said as he prepared another attack. "And as I expected, you are helpless without him. Time for you to share his fate!"
The four Rangers looked on in terror as the same purple flames that had defeated their leader flew towards them. But swiftly, they dodged the stream with a combat roll away.
"Helpless?" Nate asked. "You obviously weren't paying attention during the fight with the pig knight. We can handle ourselves just fine. Let's get him, guys!"
As the Rangers charged towards Chimera, Jay was still on the ground, now screaming in pain as purple sparks flew off his suit as the aura worked its way deeper. His vision was blurry, and his body was on fire. He didn't even notice the Gold and Silver Rangers as they rushed to his side.
"Hold on, Red Ranger," the Gold Ranger said as he raised his staff. "I'll help relieve your pain."
The top of the staff glowed a stunning gold as Jay was surrounded in gold light. His screams turned into groans, whimpers, and, finally, silence.
"What did you do?" the Silver Ranger asked as she looked down at the Red Ranger.
"All I did was ease his pain; he wasn't supposed to pass out. This is bad!" the Gold Ranger shouted as he kneeled down and shook Jay.
"Jay, wake up!" he said.
"How do you know my name?" Jay slurred, clearly out of it.
"We're friends," the Gold Ranger said, the Silver Ranger reluctantly nodding.
The other Rangers were blasted back by a swipe of Chimera's sword, sparks flying from where they had been struck.
"We need to flee and regroup," Mera said as she clutched her side in pain.
"Yeah, this guy packs a punch," Victor agreed.
"When did YOU two show up?" Nate asked accusingly, "and why didn't you help us?"
"We were too busy helping him," the Gold Ranger explained.
"Now get us out of here and to your base!" the Silver Ranger demanded.
"Hermes, we need a Door," Valerie said into her morpher. "And we're bringing along an injured Ranger and some guests."
A door to an apartment building began to glow blue. Victor and Nate hoisted up Jay onto their shoulders as the Rangers ran towards the Door. The Gold and Silver Rangers backed up slowly, firing energy arrows at Chimera to try and slow him down. They quickly turned and ran to the open Door, closing it behind them just as Chimera tried to run through. He slammed into the Door before backing up and opening it. Inside was a normal apartment building.
"Rangers!" he shouted to the sky.
"Hermes!" Valerie shouted as Nate and Victor carried Jay over to one of the beds in the medical center.
"You do know how rare nectar is, right?" Hermes said as he prepared an IV drip for Jay. "You keep coming in with injuries and one day there won't be any left."
"Just help him!" she shouted at him.
"I'm working as fast as I can!" Hermes shouted back as he finally got the IV to cooperate. "There we go!"
Jay demorphed finally to the surprise of everyone in the room. Hermes seemed almost relieved, as it meant he could get the IV into Jay's arm now.
"Fascinating," Victor and Mera said together as they studied Jay's body.
"He remained morphed even after passing out," Mera said, "even with the ferocity of the flames before."
"I don't even know how that works," Victor said excitedly, "but I need to find out!"
"It's almost like someone didn't want the Gold and Silver Ranger to know his identity," Nate remarked.
"Because you mentioned them, perhaps we should go join them out in the main room?" Mera said as she left the room. "I am quite sure Jay is in the best hands."
Nate and Victor followed almost immediately, while Valerie waited behind for a moment, looking at Jay's unconscious body.
"I will watch over him," Hermes reassured her. "Go. Join the others."
"Alright…" Valerie said reluctantly.
"Talk," Nate demanded. "Now."
"Why did you help us this time, and come to our base?" Mera asked.
"Because you finally proved yourselves," the Gold Ranger said. "You proved how dedicated you are to each other and the mission. When Jay put himself in harm's way for you, he proved he was worthy, then when you went to his aid, you proved that you were worthy."
"Because of that, we are now willing to join you," the Silver Ranger said.
"You just said 'Jay'" Valerie noted. "How do you know our names?"
"Because of your winged friend," the Silver Ranger answered as she gestured to the medical center, where Hermes still was. "He sent this woman to us and she told us everything. The gems, your identities, Hades, all of it."
"Note to self: teach Hermes about privacy," Nate growled as he balled his hands into fists.
"This seems a little unfair," Valerie said. "You know our identities, but we don't know yours."
The Gold and Silver Rangers slowly raised their arms to their helmets and took them off.
"Adrian and his annoying sister?" Nate asked. "YOU'RE the Gold and Silver Rangers?"
"It's Diana, blue boy," Diana growled.
"It makes sense," Victor responded. "Even if they knew our names when we were under the helmets, it would make sense that they would know us outside the suits too."
The four Rangers removed their helmets as well. All of the Rangers put their helmets on surfaces around the Temple and walked over to each other.
"So we're just supposed to believe that you want to help us now?" Nate asked suspiciously.
"Hey, we just revealed our identities! Doesn't that count for a little trust?" Diana snapped back.
"Diana, calm yourself," Adrian said as he grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back away from Nate. "He's just trying to rile you up."
"If the two of you are done, remember Victor's explanation of how our powers work? We're stronger together, so it doesn't matter really why they chose to join us now. We need them if we're going to beat back the rest of the Dark Order," Valerie said.
"Agreed," Mera said. "We require your aid, and it seems you are willing to give it now."
"Yeah," Nate said, "what they said. In less words."
The Rangers were prepared to speak more when the alarm went off.
"I'm picking up Chimera and Gryphon in the shopping center," Victor said after running to the mosaic computer.
"Let's go!" Nate shouted as he grabbed his helmet and put it on before running out the Doors of Janus, all of the other Rangers following his example.
"Rangers, come out and face me!" Chimera roared as he whipped another hot dog cart to pieces. "For every moment I wait, I'll destroy another business!"
"Hold your horses," Nate said as the six Rangers ran up to confront him. "We're right here."
"Looks like you got some back-up," Gryphon said as he flew down next to Chimera. "So why don't you meet ours? Harpies!"
A group of Harpies flew down in between the Dark Order Knights and the Rangers.
"Attack!" Chimera ordered.
The Rangers summoned their weapons to counter this.
"Moon Bow!"
"Sun Staff!"
"Love Bow!"
"Battle Spear!"
"Blacksmith Hammer!"
"Ocean Trident!"
More Harpies flew down into the fray as the Rangers beat back their brethren.
Valerie came in with a flying side kick into one Harpy before smashing her bow on another. Adrian spun his staff around him and in front of him, forming a spinning shield that blocked Harpy claws and kicks. Diana leapt up off of her brother's shoulders and launched a volley of glowing silver arrows from her bow that struck all of the Harpies surrounding the two. Victor spun his hammer around on the ground, tripping up any Harpies on the ground, before slowly raising the level the hammer was at and hitting the Harpies in the air. Mera and Nate came flying into the air with rapid stabs with their spear and trident respectively, poking holes in the wings of Harpies and sending them falling down to the ground and into the range of Adrian's staff and Victor's hammer.
The Rangers regrouped in front of the Dark Order Knights as the Harpies turned to dust.
"That the best you got?" Nate taunted.
"No, but this is!" Chimera responded as his whip turned into its sword mode before charging into the Rangers. Gryphon quickly followed, both slashing with their swords rapidly, knocking the Rangers to the ground.
"Even with our combined strength, they're still too powerful!" Victor said as the Rangers slowly got up.
"Let's try the Gemini Javelin!" Adrian suggested to his sister.
Diana nodded as she and Adrian combined their weapons. Diana split her bow into her daggers, then combined the daggers where they lined up, forming a large blade. The daggers then snapped onto the front of Adrian's staff. The Gemini Javelin was complete. Adrian raised his hand and the javelin fell into it. He primed it at the two Dark Order Knights.
"Gemini Javelin! Launch!" Adrian and Diana shouted as Adrian threw the javelin at Chimera and Gryphon.
The javelin smashed into Chimera and cracked his chestplate. Chimera roared as he pulled the javelin out of his armor and onto the ground.
"A good attempt, but not good enough," he growled. "Now it's payback time!"
Jay groaned as he opened his eyes. His body was still tingling from the poisonous flames, and the nectar had only partially healed him. He walked out of the medical center, wheeling his IV behind him.
"Hey guys, the weirdest thing… where'd they go?" he asked as he walked over to Hermes at the computer. "what's going on?"
He watched as Gryphon and Chimera slashed through the Rangers again. Sparks flew from where the Rangers had been hit as they fell to the ground hard, demorphing as they did.
"They need my help!" Jay said as he moved to pull the IV out of his arm.
"Hold on," Hermes said as he turned around in the chair and put his hand on top of Jay's. "That nectar might be the only thing keeping you alive right now. That poison from Chimera's Fusion Flames is in your blood."
"That's a risk I need to take," Jay answered as he brushed off Hermes' hand before pulling out the IV. He immediately fell to the floor.
"I have to get up!" Jay shouted as he pulled himself into a sitting position before slowly standing up. He shuffled to the Doors.
"You're being foolish," Hermes said as he shook his head. "If you die, Hades will have his way with your soul."
"I'm not leaving my friends to die," Jay responded, "and they need me."
He shifted to more of a walking pace as he got out the doors. He noticed that he was now behind the fallen Rangers.
"Guys!" he shouted as he slowly walked over to the weakened Rangers and helped pull Valerie up, then the others. "Wait…Adrian and Diana? You're the Gold and Silver Rangers?"
"We'll explain later," Valerie said before putting her hand on his shoulder. "You shouldn't be here. That poison could kill you."
"It's worth it if it means I can help my friends and the world," Jay responded. "Some things are worth the risk. Now who's with me?"
The others nodded.
"We all are, fearless leader," Nate said as he patted Jay on the back. "Now, don't you have something else to say?"
"Yeah, it's Morphing Time!" Jay said as he and the others prepped their morphers.
"Silver Olympian Power!"
"Gold Olympian Power!"
"Pink Olympian Power!"
"Yellow Olympian Power!"
"Black Olympian Power!"
"Blue Olympian Power!"
"Red Olympian Power!"
In a flash of light, the teens were transformed back into their Ranger counterparts. They prepared an updated roll call.
"Artemis, goddess of the hunt! Silver Olympian Ranger!"
"Apollo, god of healing! Gold Olympian Ranger!"
"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!"
"Yeah, yeah, we've heard it before," Gryphon said before flying at the Rangers with his sword.
"Come on, guys, let's take down the rest of the Dark Order!" Jay said before flipping over Gryphon's strike. As soon as he landed, he summoned his Lightning Sword and struck quickly with a fast slash. Gryphon' armor weakened as the other Rangers repeated Jay's actions of flipping over him and attacking.
"Knock it off!" Gryphon roared as he swung his sword in an arc around him, causing the Rangers to handspring backwards to dodge. "Chimera, aid me!"
"Of course, comrade," Chimera said as he moved forward to join the fight.
Jay, Nate, Victor and Adrian moved to counter him, leaving Gryphon for the girls to finish off.
"Ocean's Fury!" Nate shouted as he stabbed his trident, whose tips were glowing blue, into Chimera's cracked chestplate. He flipped away as Victor came in to attack.
"Blacksmith Hammer Crush!" Victor shouted as he raised his hammer, glowing with black energy, and smashed it into the trident's handle, sending the trident deeper into the chestplate and into the monster inside the armor.
Chimera roared in pain as he fell to one knee in front of the Rangers.
Mera and Diana flipped over Gryphon and stabbed their spear and daggers respectively into Gryphon's weakened back armor. They quickly spun him around for Valerie to snipe his back with a glowing pink arrow from her bow. The back armor cracked from the constant barrage of attacks. Gryphon fell to one knee in pain.
The Rangers regrouped in front of their fallen foes.
"Time to finish this!" Jay ordered. "Let's form the Olympian Crossbow!"
Nate's trident bent 90 degrees as the "teeth" spread out and bent to form a handle. Victor's hammer landed on the ground handle side up as the love bow clicked onto the former trident, which then clicked onto the hammer handle. Mera's spear was bent around the bowstring to make it thicker as the behemoth of a weapon hit the concrete.
"Olympian Crossbow!" the Rangers shouted.
The girls knelt down to support the firing end while Victor and Nate pulled back the string to allow Jay to place his sword into it.
Jay infused the Lightning Sword with some of his power as the Crossbow was primed to fire.
The twins changed their weapons back into their bows and drew back the bowstrings.
"We'll back you up with a Gemini Arrow," Adrian said as he looked over at the core five Rangers. "Now let's beat the Dark Order once and for all!"
"Olympic Lightning Storm!" Jay shouted.
"Gemini Arrow!" the twins shouted.
"Fire!" all of the Rangers shouted together as the projectiles flew at the downed knights. They looked up just in time to see the Lightning Sword and Gemini Arrow flying towards them.
"Uh oh," Gryphon gulped as the sword struck the ground and stuck in the pavement. A huge cloud appeared from the hilt that quickly rose into the air. The cloud crackled with red lightning that came down and struck both Dark Order Members before the Gemini Arrow plowed right through them, destroying them in a big fiery explosion.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish," Mera commented as the Rangers separated their weapons and sent them to a pocket dimension.
"Glad to work with yo..agh!" Jay said, putting his hand out for Adrian to shake before clutching his side. He glowed purple as the purple aura expanded out of his body before dissipating.
"I guess the poison's gone," Victor noted as Jay stood up and stuck his hand out to Adrian again.
"Glad to work with you," he said. "Welcome to the team!"
"Glad to be here," Adrian said as he accepted the hand.
The Rangers looked over to the remains of the Dark Order members as they suddenly glowed golden and reformed into Chimera and Gryphon before slowly growing to the size of the skyscrapers around them.
"There's a fire inside me!" Chimera roared as he grew.
"Red Ranger, face me!" Gryphon shouted as he grew as well.
"Hermes, summon the Zords!" Jay shouted into his communicator.
"Sending all seven Zords now," Hermes said as he typed away at the mosaic computer.
"Let's end this!" Jay said.
The Eagle, Owl, and Raven Zords swooped in, with the Eagle Zord carrying the Fish Zord in its claws. The Deer Zord, Bull Zord and Horse Zord came in to the city and landed on the roadway in front of the two Dark Knights.
The Rangers leapt into their cockpits. The Gold and Silver Zord cockpits had a golden sun and silver crescent moon respectively on the back wall surrounded by a circle, matching the other Ranger's cockpit designs. The Rangers all inserted their Olympian Gems into the indentations and the controls flashed to life.
"We shouldn't waste any time," Jay ordered, "let's form the Olympian Megazord: Warrior Mode now!"
The core Rangers turned their dials from ZORD MODE to WARRIOR MODE.
The Bull Zord was the first to change, as the head came off, the body split apart, and the legs flipped around 180ᣞ and the front and back legs combined.
The Horse Zord was next, as its head went into a chest cavity while the front and back legs combined together and connected to the Bull Zord legs, forming a complete waist, legs and feet.
The Eagle Zord was next. As its wings clipped off together in one long arc-shaped piece and its legs slid into its body before it connected to the Horse Zord, it was now forming the entire body of the combination. The Eagle Zord head screeched and opened up its mouth to fit the other side of the Bull Zord's head into it, revealing a robotic face.
Next came the Owl Zord. As its head detached from the body and the body detached from the wings, the wings clipped onto the sides of the Eagle Zord and expanded, forming the arms.
Lastly was the Fish Zord. As the entire dorsal fin and tail came off, it popped open completely in half before coming onto the Eagle Zord's body as a chestplate and combining together again. The tail folded into a plume that went onto the Eagle Zord's head to complete the helmet look. The horns from the Bull Zord head attached together and became a straight point before combining with the dorsal fin to create a large spear that went into the left hand. The Owl Zord body lengthened itself a bit before the head slid into a hole in the center, finishing the shield, which went on the right arm.
"Olympian Megazord: Warrior Mode ready!" all five Rangers shouted as they all joined together in a single cockpit. Jay was in the front with Nate diagonally to his right, Victor diagonally on his left, Valerie diagonally behind Nate and Mera diagonally behind Victor.
"We'll follow your example," Adrian said as he and Diana flipped a switch that had the options of ZORD in the center, GOLD in the front and SILVER in the back. They flipped the switch to SILVER MODE.
The Deer Zord leapt into the air as its body began to transform. The front half of the body slid into the back half as the front legs popped off. The Raven Zord flapped its wings once more before they bend in the center. They folded down, covering the body with the entire body splitting in two, with the wings forming a covering over the legs. The Deer Zord came down and connected to the now split Raven Zord body forming the legs The front legs of the Deer Zord reattached by connecting to the back legs, now arms, forming thicker arms. The Deer Zord mouth opened, revealing a face hidden inside the head. It now looked like a robot in an animal pelt of some kind.
"Gemini Megazord: Silver Mode, ready!" the twins shouted as they joined together in a single cockpit, with Adrian on the left and Diana on the right.
"So you have two Megazords now, there's still two of us!" Gryphon shouted as he charged at the Olympian Megazord bare-handed.
The Rangers looked confused as the Megazord raised its spear.
"They know we can just stab them, right?" Nate asked as the Megazord did just that, stabbing right through Gryphon and destroying him in a big explosion. As they moved to join the Gemini Megazord, they missed Gryphon, now at normal size again, flying out of the explosion and landing on a rooftop.
"I'll get my revenge on you, Red Ranger," he said as he disappeared in his signature black smoke, "for what you did to me. I just need to take some time to prepare…"
Back in the battle, Chimera raked his sword across the Gemini Megazord, who tried to block with its twin blades formed from the wings of the Raven Zord, but was too slow. The Megazord started falling to the ground, but the Olympian Megazord caught it before it reached the ground and helped right it.
"You guys ready to get him?" Jay asked through his morpher to the other Megazord. "Begin final attacks!"
Jay pressed his gems on the console, causing the entire cockpit to glow with red energy. "Activate Lightning Javelin!" he commanded.
The other Rangers pressed their gems and the Megazord's eyes started to glow as a storm grew. The Megazord raised its spear as red lightning struck it, causing the entire weapon to course with red electricity.
"Lightning Javelin!" all five Rangers yelled. "Go!"
The Javelin went flying straight for Chimera
The Gemini Megazord raised its blades.
"Hunter's Fury!" Adrian and Diana shouted as the entire cockpit glowed silver from Diana's Olympian Gems.
The Gemini Megazord did a mighty x-slash made of silver energy and launched it at Chimera.
"My flame went out!" Chimera shouted as he exploded.
"We did it!" Valerie shouted as she removed her helmet and celebrated in the cockpit. "We beat the Dark Order."
"Indeed," Mera said. "This is a cause for celebration!"
Jay smiled as the team removed their helmets. The Rangers had won a major victory today.
"No, no, no!" Echidna screamed as the last of her children was destroyed. "My babies! The Rangers slaughtered them all!"
"Not so easy, is it?" Hades smirked as he entered the throne room. "You told me the Rangers would be defeated, but now they are even stronger!"
"If you think you can do better…" Echidna said as she began to slither away. "I'm going to go find my children's souls in this wretched Underworld and get out of here!"
"Yes, crawl back to whatever rock you crawled out of," Hades said as Echidna slithered out of the room. As soon as he was gone, he looked to one of the shadows in the room.
"Come out, Gryphon, I know you're there."
Gryphon growled as he clutched his shoulder and kneeled before him, "Master Hades, you know my true allegiance was always to you, I just helped my mother out of family loyalty. I will always be loyal to you as long as it grants me the opportunity to destroy the Red Ranger."
"I know," Hades said, "but I have a use for you before I grant you that opportunity."
He opened his palm. As blue fire flew from it, he showed an image of his Spartoi army in the flames.
"My army needs a leader," he said, "and if you accept, it should give you the perfect chance to accomplish that goal."
"Of course, master," Chimera agreed, "but where are we deploying this army?"
"When the time is right, you will know," Hades said as he closed his palm and the flames went out. "Until then, I will need you to distract the Rangers so my army can grow."
"Just say the word, and I will go up there and cause havoc in your name!" Gryphon shouted.
"I don't want havoc in my name!" Hades snapped as the fire on his head flared up and changed to red. "I want those Rangers destroyed!"
"Of course," Gryphon said. "It shall be done."
"So you two are the Gold and Silver Rangers," Jay said as the team walked back into the temple.
"Yeah," Adrian said. "We talked to this strange woman, and she told us everything and gave us our Olympian Gems."
"Strange, I met a weird woman too," Valerie said. "It seems like a huge coincidence."
The Rangers began to talk among themselves, all except for Mera.
I wonder… she thought.
"Anyway, let's celebrate!" Nate shouted.
"Don't forget Hades is still out there," Victor reminded.
"Victor's right, we can't let our guard down until Hades is defeated," Jay said. "...Except for the party tomorrow night!"
Jay walked up to the front gate of Valerie's house and gaped. He was dressed up as the Red Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger. The costume itself looked a little more on the homemade side but was still very well made.
"Wow," he said, "I know I came here before, but I didn't see all of the lights on then! This place is huge!"
He flashed his invitation to the front gate camera and walked through to the front door.
"Welcome, Master Jason," James, the butler, said as he opened the door. "Miss Valerie told me to find her on the dance floor."
"Thanks, James," Jay said as he stepped through.
Jay walked towards the back of the house towards one of the larger rooms. Inside was Jack O'Lanterns, cut-out bats hanging from the ceiling and a dark atmosphere.
Jay walked over to Valerie, who was dressed up as a female vampire.
"You look good!" he shouted over the music.
"You too," she said as she walked up to him. "Could've shown up as the Red Olympian Ranger, if you know what I mean."
"Yeah, too easy," Jay said. "I had to make this myself, so it's more fun to wear in the end."
"I completely understand," Valerie said. "Follow me. The others are over here."
The two weaved around costumed guests as Valerie led Jay to one table with all of the Rangers sitting at it except Nate. Mera was dressed up as Merrida from Brave, Victor was dressed as a robot with real mechanical parts attached to his body, Adrian was dressed in a suit, and Diana was dressed as a gender-flipped Tarzan.
"I know what most of you are, but who are you supposed to be?" he asked Adrian.
"I'm Bethoven," Adrian answered. "You know, the great musician?"
"Yeah, that guy Schroeder from Peanuts was obsessed with!" Jay realized.
"Yeah, also that," Adrian said as he scratched the back of his head. "That's one way to remember him…"
"Where's Nate?" Jay asked.
"Oh no," Valerie said as she looked across the room. "He didn't…"
"Of course he did," Mera answered.
Coming towards them was Nate in his Blue Olympian Force Armor, helmet in his hands.
"Seriously, are you insane?" Jay hissed at him. "You realize that people might recognize that the armor is real, and your voice is the same, and…"
"Jeez! Relax, dad," Nate said. "No one's going to notice."
There was silence for a moment before Valerie piped up.
"Shall we dance?" she asked Jay.
"Sure," he said as his arm was taken by Valerie. "See you guys later!"
The other teens quickly got up and followed.
As the moon rose, the party continued to rage on inside, and the Rangers could finally enjoy some peace, even if it was just for a little while.
Happy Halloween! And may the power protect you!
