Chapter 3 The Missing Gem

Nakia shows Zelda around Terra Falls, and later on in the day they meet up with Ryan at the local juice bar. Nakia is wearing a bright yellow t shirt and a dark black skirt over a pair of her yellow biker shorts she also has her hair up in a ponytail, Zelda is wearing a blue jean skirt and pink top and Ryan is wearing black jeans and a red t shirt. The three sit down at a table all wondering what they want, before they have a chance to decide, they get a signal in their minds from Myndor.

Myndor-Rangers, you must come back to Stonehenge, immediately.

The voice in their heads fades away slowly, they quickly leave the juice bar and walk outside. Ryan looks at his watch which is in fact his Star Morpher in disguise, Nakia and Zelda do the same, they look around and see no one close by, so they quickly press a button on their hidden morphers and soon they are teleported away from the juice bar, they reappear right in front of Stonehenge.

Nakia looks behind them and asks.

Nakia-I wonder what's wrong now.

Ryan-Only one way to find out.

Zelda-I really don't have a good feeling about this.

They walk into Stonehenge and disappear, they quickly reappear within Myndor's chamber. Zelda asks almost immediately.

Zelda-What's wrong Myndor?

Myndor stands looking into the wizards pool, he looks at the others and answers in a regretful tone.

Myndor-I'm afraid I have lost the blue star gem.

They all gasp.

Nakia-What?

Zelda-Oh no!

Ryan-How Myndor?

Myndor-The blue dolphin zord resides in the ocean, it called to me and so the Wizard's Pool gave me the blue star gem so the dolphin zord would know that I am true. When I arrived, the dolphin zord told me that I need to find the Blue Ranger so that it can be apart of the other zords. When the dolphin zord left I accidentally dropped the blue star gem in the water, I had to immediately leave because outside of these walls Sinistar could detect my presence.

Ryan-We understand.

Zelda says sympathetically.

Zelda-Of course.

Nakia-Don't worry, we'll get it back.

Myndor-Thank you Rangers. Without you this would all be hopeless.

When the Rangers teleport out of the chamber, Myndor turns to the Wizard's Pool and asks.

Myndor-Wizard's Pool why haven't we found the Blue Ranger? Or the Black Ranger for that matter?

Wizard's Pool-Trust in the stars of power, as we said before, time reveals all.

Myndor-Hmmm..

In her dark and very eerie looking temple Sinistar through her old hands sends lots of energy blasts all throughout her temple, her minions cover their eyes and faces as she screams.

Sinistar-WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO FIND MYNDOR?!

Dragonlord rises up and speaks.

Dragonlord-We have been trying, if it weren't for those Power Rangers.

She cuts him off by shouting.

Sinistar-SILENCE!

He obeys and cowers down.

Sinistar-I am well aware of those most bothersome pests! However it shouldn't be too hard to find him! He is being protected by some sort of barrier I know it, how could we detect the star gems, and not him? I wonder!

Dragonlord-I think its because the gems are stronger and produce a higher energy trail.

Sinistar grows angry at Dragonlord's answer, she zaps him with a powerful blast of colorful imploded energy, as soon as it hits him, it causes an implosion that sends him flying to the end of the dusty and old stone room.

Dragonlord-AAAHHHHHH!

Sinistar-Idiot!

Dragonlord hit's the floor coughing badly. Sinistar then says in a deadly serious tone.

Sinistar-I sense a star gem, its magnificent energy is somewhere out there, find it! And bring it here! And if those Rangers interfere again, destroy them!

Dragonlord stops coughing and responds.

Dragonlord-As you command.

He stands back up and disappears with Skylark and Elephantytan. Sinistar says to herself.

Sinistar-Incompetence surrounds me!

The Rangers get the coordinates from Myndor and quickly teleport to the spot, which happens to be at the beach. A few feet away from the beautiful body of water, the three stand there and decide how are they going to search for the gem.

Nakia-Well there's only one way.

Zelda-We have to morph.

Ryan-Agreed.

Seconds later, the three evil minions appear right in front of them. They quickly start to stand their ground as the evil Dragonlord steps up and says.

Dragonlord-We should of known you wouldn't be too far away!

Ryan-I have a sneaky suspicion as to why you're here.

Dragonlord-Your suspicion is correct.

Nakia-Get out of here!

Zelda-You have no business here!

Dragonlord-Oh but we do.

Skylark-Very important business indeed.

Elephantytan-And we don't need you three pests to louse it up for us!

Elephantytan turns around and puts his trunk into the water, he then starts to inhale and bring some of the water into his trunk, seconds later, he turns around and releases the water out of his trunk, and as it splatters onto the sandy ground the water slowly begins to transform into Aqua Warriors. Dragonlord looks at Elephantytan and says with a funny grimace.

Dragonlord-Good thinking, there's no way those pesky Rangers will be able to defeat warriors made out of pure water!

They all start laughing.

Skylark-They'll be fighting for a long time, and meanwhile, we'll have time to search and find that missing star gem.

The Aqua Warriors completely submerge and attack the three Rangers. Ryan does a front flip and tries to knock out one, but he goes right through it. Nakia does a tornado kick and nothing happens except her legs get wet. And Zelda tries to punch one in the face but she too fails. The aqua warriors start kicking, and punching and making sure that the Rangers feel every bit of their attacks. They are soon flung away, but not too far.

The three stand up and reveal their star morphers. They swing their arms around once and bring their morpherer wearing wrists closer to them, and all together they touch the star in the center of their morphers and yell out together.

Everyone-STAR FORCE, POWER UP!

All three of the morphers flash with the colors of red, yellow and pink, this creates a beautiful star firework implosion, as it finally disappears, Ryan becomes the Red Ranger, Nakia becomes the Yellow Ranger and Zelda transforms into the Pink Ranger.

Skylark says to them as she looks at them.

Skylark-You won't beat us this time!

Pink Ranger-We beat you before and we'll beat you again.

Yellow Ranger-That's right!

Meanwhile on the other side of the beach, Jessie puts on her swimming suit and then her diving suit, she has no idea what's happening on the opposite side of the beach so she just thinks about what she wants to do for the rest of the day which is look at the wonderful underwater beings living their lives.

The battle begins, the Power Rangers quickly attack the Aqua Warriors, they find themselves losing again, that is until the Yellow Ranger decides to use her daggers in their ultimate form, the Hydra Stunner.

The Yellow Ranger leaps up high above the Aqua Warriors, and then she quickly uses her Stunner against them, firing yellow energy stunning blasts, the Hydra Stunner quickly covers the entire fleet of Aqua Warriors, and with one huge explosion, all of the Aqua Warriors turn into a splash of heavy water which quickly seeps back out into the ocean.

The Yellow Ranger lands back on her feet feeling proud and holding her Hydra Stunner close to her chest. Both Red and Pink stand next to her on opposite sides. They look at Sinistar' three minions and start saying.

Red Ranger-What are you gonna do now?

Pink Ranger-Run away like before?

Yellow Ranger-Whatever you do, you'd better make sure it doesn't interfere with our mission.

Dragonlord says smugly.

Dragonlord-You Rangers really think you're something don't you? Well you're going down!

Dragonlord tears a piece off of his scaly skin and throws it into the sand, he then yells out.

Dragonlord-DRAGONSTAR ARISE!

The sand starts releasing a heavy smoke which quickly begins to generate a hideous reptilian monster with a green star in the middle of its forehead, this monster is a different looking dragon but still a dragon with evil intentions. Sinistar watches the whole scene through her cauldron. She says to herself.

Sinistar-Dragonstar had better not lose to those pathetic humans!

Dragonstar attacks the Power Rangers, sending out hoards of electric blasts and hot fire, the monster knocks them down all at once.

Red Ranger-Ugh!

Yellow Ranger-Ahh!

Pink Ranger-Uhh!

Dragonlord laughs. Myndor watches the event through the wizards pool, he says to himself as he puts his finger into the pool and twirls the liquid around.

Myndor-So they want the blue star gem do they, then I'll give it to them.

He then speaks in a chanting tone.

Myndor-Wizards pool, do my task, unleash a powerful duplicate mask, releasing powers from the mighty zem, create a fake star gem!

Myndor takes his finger out of the wizard's pool as it begins to glow, very soon after, the glowing emerges from the pool and floats over to Myndor's hand, it rests itself and transforms into a fake blue star gem. Myndor smiles and then says to himself.

Myndor-Now I shall teleport this to those mindless bunch of minion fools.

Myndor closes his eyes and starts using his teleportation powers, it works, and finally the fake star gem reappears right behind Dragonlord's reptilian foot.

He then says to his comrades.

Dragonlord-Come on, we've got to find that star gem while those Rangers are being taken care of.

They turn around and quickly Dragonlord feels something under his foot, he says.

Dragonlord-There's something under my foot.

He moves his foot and see's a glowing object buried slightly beneath the sand. Skylark gasps.

Skylark-Perhaps it is..

She is cut off.

Dragonlord-My thoughts exactly.

He leans down and picks it up, they all gasp as they see it is a star gem, well it is to them, but in reality it is only a fake. The Rangers see this and scream out.

Yellow Ranger-NOO!

Pink Ranger-GIVE THAT BACK!

Red Ranger-YOU CAN'T HAVE IT! IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU!

Dragonstar zaps them again with a tremendous amount of fire power, they scream out in pain as they once again land on their backs. Dragonlord smirks and says to the Rangers.

Dragonlord-Looks like a point for our side.

The three evil minions start laughing and soon they disappear. The Yellow Ranger gets very angry as she stands up, she says in a serious tone.

Yellow Ranger-THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!

She materializes her Daggers again and starts fighting Dragonstar, and soon the Red Ranger stands up and does the same. Meanwhile, the three minions return to Sinistar' temple with the fake star gem. She smiles as she takes it away from Dragonlord.

Sinistar-It has untold power, untold energy.

She chuckles.

Sinistar-Now that I have a star gem, I can create my own band of powerful warriors!

Elephantytan exclaims.

Elephantytan-But what about us?!

Sinistar-SILENCE!

Back to the fight. The Rangers fight valiantly but they are flung back once again due to Dragonstar's incredible strength.

Pink Ranger-Ugh! How are we going to beat this monster?!

Yellow Ranger-I don't know!

Red Ranger-Its bad enough those monsters got away with the blue star gem!

Dragonstar laughs, he then produces a very hot and stinging beam through his eyes and flashes it onto the Rangers, they scream out in pain continuously.

Myndor contacts them through there thoughts.

Myndor-Rangers, combine your weapons, and use the energy from that to destroy your opponent.

Red Ranger-Right!

Hearing Myndor's voice, they stand up and bring forth their weapons, they quickly combine them and form a powerful blaster, the Red Ranger stands in the middle holding the weapon as the Yellow and Pink Ranger stand on opposite sides of him, they all then say together.

Power Rangers-STAR BLASTER!

The star blaster releases a tremendous amount of powerful energy which quickly forms into a blast, the blast strikes the monster right in his chest and causes him to become electrified. The Power Rangers stand tall as the monster slowly falls and groans. Finally, it hit's the sandy ground and explodes into a huge fire which then disappears.

A few minutes later, Jesse comes out from her diving time in the ocean, she see's the Rangers and gasps.

Jesse-Wow, Power Rangers.

The Yellow Ranger quickly notices who she is and when Jesse turns around to take off her equipment the Rangers quickly turn back into their normal selves. Jesse see's her friends and runs over to them.

Jesse-Hey, what are you doing here?

Nakia-Oh we were just walking.

Jesse-Strange for the beach to be completely empty today isn't it?

Nakia-I dunno.

Ryan-I guess.

Nakia notices something glowing in Jesse' right corner pocket.

Nakia-Hey Jesse, what's glowing in your pocket?

Jesse-Huh?

Jesse looks and remembers what she found, she takes it out and everyone gasps.

Nakia-That's!

Jesse-Huh? That's what?

Nakia-It's my gem!

Jesse-Your gem?

Nakia-Yeah!

Zelda-She's right, that's why we came out here, to look for it.

Ryan-Yeah.

Jesse-But I thought you just said you only came out here to take a walk.

Nakia-Oh do you have to know about everything?

Jesse-Well excuse me.

Nakia-Please can I have it back?

Jesse-Okay, but if you lose something again and don't tell me about it, don't expect me to give it back, if I find it.

Nakia-Sure Jesse, just give me my gem.

Jesse hands over the gem to Nakia. She starts looking puzzled and scratching her head as she asks.

Jesse-Um, weren't the Power Rangers just here?

Nakia-Power Rangers?

Jesse-Yeah, I could of sworn that I seen Power Rangers.

Nakia-I dunno.

Zelda-Me either.

They giggle a bit. Soon they part and leave the beach. Ryan, Nakia and Zelda teleports back to Stonehenge, when they walk into Myndor' chamber they give him the gem. Nakia asks him.

Nakia-There are two blue star gems?

Myndor chuckles.

Myndor-No, the wizard's pool created a fake one and that's the one Dragonlord took back to Sinistar.

They all start laughing.

Meanwhile a very angry sorceress, Sinistar, starts yelling at her minions while she stands by her cauldron.

Sinistar-THIS IS A FAKE GEM!

Dragonlord bravely asks.

Dragonlord-How do you know it's a fake Empress?

Sinistar-Because it has no energy core! Watch!

They all obey and watch as she holds up the gems in her hand and watches it dissolve into a fury of dust that soon dissipates.

She starts growling as her minions grovel.

Sinistar-Myndor has managed to fool us into thinking the gem was real, well this is one humiliation too many!

She turns away and floats over to her throne as she continues to say.

Sinistar-But this little setback only adds fuel to my already burning desire to find him! So mark my words, when I find that miserable wizard he will pay for this a thousand fold!

She sits down on her throne as her eyes glow a brilliant red.