Episode 4 "Red Ranger Power"

The 4 civilian rangers were sitting at a table in The Pizza Palace.

Brandon was telling a funny story.

"…so I chased him down, and threw the pie back at his head. I smoked him so bad, he was covered."

The other 3 rangers were laughing as he told it.

"He was mad at me for a few hours after that," Brandon added.

"Man, you've had some wild adventures in your days," Rad said.

Just then they notice a geeky looking kid. He was alone at another table reading a book. Two guys were standing, one on each side of him. They were making fun of him, and tried to take his Pizza from him.

Jeff and Brandon started to get up, but Rad put his hand up to motion them to stop. "Wait a minute," he said.

Just then, another guy who was much bigger stepped up to the 2 bullies. "Leave him alone," he said.

"And if I don't?" one of the bullies asked.

"Yeah, whatcha gonna do, James?

"Just leave him alone." James replied.

The bullies moved toward James. They got up in his face.

"Leave him alone or what?" the first bully asked.

"Whatcha gonna do about it?" the second one asked. He then threw a fist at James. James pushed him back, a few feet, stimulating the other bully to charge James. James caught him and held him by his shirt. The second bully, stepped back toward James and James grabbed him by the shirt also.

"You two have one chance, you can walk out of here peacefully, or I'll show you the way out. What's it gonna be?" After a stare of death, James let go of their shirts and the two bullies walked away, frightened and stumbling around trying to make their way to the exit.

Rad looked at the other 3 rangers, and they looked at him nodding in approval.

"Rage, I need a monster that will defeat the Power Rangers," Decepta said.

"You're in luck, when I was in the Ziarian dimension, I found a perfect solution to our Power Problems. His name is Surge-ant."

Surgeant entered the room, and started talking like a drill sergeant. "I am here to defeat the Power Rangers, I'll give them a shock like you will never believe." He then sent a blast of energy toward a wall, blowing a hole in it.

"Yes, this will be great," Decepta said, "The rangers won't know what hit'em."

"So let me get this straight, you guys are the Power Rangers, and you want me to be the Red Ranger?" James questioned him.

"Yeah, we think you will be a good leader." Rad said.

"I dunno, this is hard to believe, why would you want me?" James asked.

"You handled those bullies well back there," Jeff said.

The power started blinking. Sam pulled out her micro-morpher, which also doubled as a tracking device. There was a disturbance in the city area; Surgeant was attacking.

James looked at the device in her hand. "Whoa, he looks like trouble. Count me in!"

Rad handed him the Red Ranger Pendant. The 5 rangers ran outside. They encountered the monster.

"Rangers, 10 hut, you will stand at order and bow to Decepta."

"I don't think so," Rad stated, "we don't bow to anyone."

"And we don't take orders from you either," Sam added.

"Rangers, drop to the ground!" He fired a blast of energy at them, which hit the area behind them. The unmorphed rangers flew forward and to the ground.

They got back up.

"Eltarian Force, Engage!" Rad called out.

Each ranger entered the morphing grid and returned as the Power Rangers.

"Hi yah," they all said; as they started fighting an army of crunks who came down to join the fight.

Rad charged Surgeant and hit him with the Divine Ranger staff. Every hit blasted him with energy. After the other rangers defeated the crunks, they moved in behind Rad. Rad, turned to James, and said, "You wanna take this fight?"

"Sure," he replied.

Rad stepped behind the Red Ranger and they all charged toward the Surgeant. The rangers' blasts took him down, but he wasn't too bad off. Decepta sent a blast of energy from the Sword of Despair to make Surgeant grow.

"Aww man," James said.

Zordon's spirit talked to us. Rangers, you must go to Eltar to find the lost Zords. Rad, you stay here and make yourself grow to defeat Surgeant. My Zord was destroyed long ago. A new Zord will be set for you in time.

With that, the 3 Eltarian Rangers teleported away, leaving The Divine Ranger alone in front of a giant Surgeant. With his Divine Staff in hand, he raised it to the sky, and with a bolt of lighting, he made himself grow. Rad and the Surgeant squared off one on one; but Surgeant was resistant to most of The Divine Ranger's blasts of energy.

The other 4 rangers arrived on Eltar next to the same tree Rad arrived by on his previous trip. Brandon pulled out his Micro-Morpher and scanned the area.

"They're over there." Brandon pointed toward the cave Rad went in.

"Let's get in there and get out," James said.

"Right," the others said in unison.

Rad was getting tired. He kept fighting though, as any great warrior should. Rad charged Surgeant and hit him directly with his staff. Surgeant sent a blast of energy back at Rad, launching him through the air and to the ground.

Just then, 4 humanoid Zords descended upon the city. They were Red, Blue Yellow and Green. They landed in front of Rad, facing Surgeant.

"We'll take it from here." James said.

"Thanks," Rad replied as he shrunk to normal size, and his helmet disassembled.

The 4 Zords took on The Surgeant, and they were just too much for him. After repeated blasts from the 4 Zords, and strike attacks from Power swords, Surgeant was no more.

"Rage, where did you find him? He wasn't worth the breath it took to say his name."

"I'm sorry my queen." Rage replied

"I guess if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself." Decepta smiled, as she held her fist clenched like there was something in there.

"You were awesome dude. You saved my butt big time." Rad said.

"Ahhh, it was no problem." James said.

"Yeah them Zords were kewl." Brandon said.

"Did any of you notice the black Zord on Eltar?" Jeff asked.

"Uh, yeah, it was next to mine. I wonder who's Zord that is." Sam spoke.

"I don't know, but I hope we find them soon." Rad stated.

End Episode 4 - Red Ranger Power