Chapter 6
Ivan Ooze eyed the assembled fighters before him.
"I was expecting an army, not this ragtag group of humans. Seriously, is this the best you can do, Doggy?"
The sirian growled in response.
"You insult me. I destroyed entire solar systems singlehandedly." The purple monstrosity mocked. "The least you can do is put up a decent fight. I don't need to sully my hands with you. My new pet will take care of you."
He pointed his hand at the circular EAGLE logo painted in the centre of the Hellcarrier docks. The surface they were standing on shook violently as the entire circle was ripped apart from the ship and something leapt out from the lower decks.
They recoiled on seeing the creature before it.
While the creature had a distinct head, torso and limbs made out of purple ooze, it was far from humanoid. It's very skeletal framework was made out of bloody and battered human heads and limbs, skulls and feathers of tengu warriors with purple ooze holding them all together. Two pairs of giant black wings extended out its back.
Melanie choked on recognising several faces trapped in there. Her colleagues and friends who fell when Ooze attacked. In the centre of its torso, the face of Colonel Mason Truman stared back at her with blank eyes.
"No! You monster!" She screeched. She was not the only one. The other EAGLE specialists aimed their blasters at Ooze and started firing. The monster leapt in front its master, the bullets getting stuck in its grotesque body.
"Funny experiment, don't you think?" Ivan Ooze quipped. "By the way, your friends… they are still alive in there. They can feel every bullet you fire. Don't you think it's marvellous?"
"How could you!" Tommy growled, summoning his power sword in a flash of red light. He jumped over the monster and dived at Ooze, a swirl of fiery energy enveloping him.
Ooze lashed out with a bolt of lightning which Tommy deflected with his sword.
"These people had families and lives. How can you do something like this?" He swung his sword at Ooze, which the overlord caught with his bare hands.
"Because it was fun!" He giggled, unleashing a wave of dark energy that threw Tommy back.
The pink and green rangers jumped over Tommy's shoulders and fired their zeo pistols at him, causing sparks to fly from his chest as he stumbled back.
"Zeo Ranger One – Pink Firecloud!" Kat's entire body glowed with pink flames before they converged on her outstretched palms as a whirling pink fireball, which she flung at the purple monster.
Ivan was thrown backwards. Not giving him any chance to recuperate, Adam lashed out with his power punches, his fists lighting up with a green aura. The warlord's face became deformed as Adam punched him.
"That's gross." Adam said disgusted, shaking off the purple goop from his hands.
"That was fun. Now, it's my turn." Ooze said, regaining his form. "Three against one is a bit unsporting. Let's even the odds, shall we?" His entire body began to twist and stretch in an unnatural way, causing Kat to look away. She was pretty sure she was going to hurl inside her helmet if she didn't.
Ivan Ooze split into three copies of himself, each of them jumping at his attackers, black lightning coursing through their bodies.
"Zeo Power Sword!" Tommy summoned his sword and used it to deflect the lightning bolt. The monster before him looked at him dementedly as both his hands into shiny metallic scissor like appendages.
"What the hell!" Tommy cursed, raising his sword to block Ooze's hands. His sword shattered to numerous splinters and Ooze brought his hands down, slashing the red ranger across his chest. Sparks tore through his armour as he fell backwards.
"Welcome to Prime Time, ranger!" He cackled. "Gotta love pop culture, kid!"
Adam narrowed his eyes at his opponent, who had transformed himself to a giant snake. The purple serpent coiled around him. Before he could be trapped, Adam flipped backwards, out of its reach. He took out his zeo pistol and fired at him.
"Don't talk much, do you kid?" the Snake hissed, slithering towards him, smoke outpouring from his wounds. "Greens were always the lonesome silent killer types anyway."
Adam touched the side of his helmet, starting a comm line to Alpha5. "Alpha, does he have any weaknesses?"
"Aie aie aie. None that can be exploited against him. His shapeshifting and rapid regeneration makes him insusceptible to physical attacks. Try your energy attacks."
"Right." Adam nodded. "Zeo Spinning Punch!"
Green energies whirled around his arms and the spectral image of the mystical bull appeared behind him. He jumped in the air and did a series of rapid cartwheel spins before launching himself at the serpent like a glowing green volleyball.
Ooze's eyes widened and he tried to shapeshift again, but he wasn't fast enough. The zeo ranger collided against him, burning through the ooze.
Adam heaved, pulling himself up. That took a lot out of him. He caught himself standing in the midst of purple ashes.
Kat smirked on seeing Adam destroying his opponent. "Zeo Power Disc!"
In a flash of white light, her trusted shield appeared in her hands. She threw it like a frisbee, charging it with pink energy. Kat watched as it sliced through the oozeman before coming back to her waiting arms.
The EAGLE agents fired at the monster with their rifles with no avail as it only made him angrier. The monster roared and it charged at the assembled heroes.
"Any ideas?" Rocky asked, drawing out his hatchets.
"Hit it hard and restrain it. There might still be a way to save Colonel Truman and the other agents trapped in it." Grace surmised, shifting her Quantum Defender to sword mode.
"Are you sure they are still there?" One of the agents asked sceptically, looking at the still faces engraved in the monster's chest.
"This monster was made by dark magic." Marigold said reluctantly. "Our healers and magi experts back at SPD would do all they can to save them."
"Just subdue the beast and restrain it." Icthior said, drawing his sword and leaping at the monster.
"Ocean Sabre!" Icthior's sword slashed the monster's chest, sending it staggering backwards. It retaliated by swinging his arms wildly, sending the SPD officer skidding across the floor.
Tanya followed with her nunchakus, hitting it with waves of yellow energy.
Rocky jumped over her shoulders and hit the creature diagonally across the chest with his daggers.
It threw both rangers off him as it jumped to the skies and unflapped his wings.
"Great. It can fly!" Rocky groaned.
"Well. So can I." Marigold said, her wings opening behind her in its full glory as she took to the air.
"Wow!" Tanya breathed. "She's like an angel."
"Funny, we never thought that about Goldar!" Rocky quipped. The yellow ranger snorted in reply.
The titan tackled the monster and pummelled it to the deck, sending a tremor across the skyship.
It roared and the purple ooze started to consolidate around the titan's hands. Marigold looked at the others, her eyes wide as she screamed in fear, tugging her hands back in vain.
The others rushed to her side but it was too late. The purple ooze devoured the titan and reeled back to join the monster's body.
Her screams died down as the monster's form twisted to add another face in it's collection. A second pair of wings sprung from it's back.
"No!" Kruger shouted.
"Don't touch it. It can absorb you." Grace warned. The monster jumped in the middle of the EAGLE soldiers and purple tendrils shot out from it's chest and wrapped around them before dragging all of them within itself.
"What the hell!" Tanya cursed.
The monster transformed again. Eight pairs of arms sprouted from his side, wielding the blasters of the incapacitated soldiers. Its head became more prominent and more like that of a tenga. Golden beaks appeared with slit like red eyes and a blue mane cascaded down its back, giving away to a prehensile purple tail which resembled that of a scorpion.
All its arms moved synchronously and pointed the blasters at the remaining six opponents and opened fire.
Icthior stepped forwards and stabbed the deck with his sword and a wall of water appeared out of nowhere, guarding them from the attacks.
"It won't hold long. Disarm the weapons." He said, his voice strained.
Sherriff Skyfire nodded and ninja-streaked towards the monster. Before it could blink, Skyfire brought his sword down, cutting through all their rifles in a single strike.
It roared and rolled all its fists at the ninja. Even Skyfire wasn't fast enough to evade the volley of sixteen punches coming his way. He fell backwards and poised its stinger, ready to strike and assimilate Skyfire.
Just then a tidal wave slammed against the monster, sending it staggering backwards. Not giving it a chance to recuperate, the Quantum ranger and the two zeo rangers fired at it with their blasters.
Kruger helped Skyfire to his feet and growled at the monster, which rose to the air and dived straight at them. They jumped in opposite directions to avoid it. Icthior wasn't that lucky as the monster grabbed him in a chokehold.
"NO!" Kruger shouted seeing the purple ooze envelop his best friend.
The monster turned towards them, now reptilian scales and fins along its arms. The Ocean Sabre clattered to the floor. It opened its mouth to reveal a forked black tongue, which ran along its beaks, its eyes gleaming like a predator.
It flew at the rangers, all its arms outstretched and stinger poised behind it.
Tanya readied her nunchakus and Grace summoned her quantum defender. Rocky gulped, summoning his power weapons- a pair of butterfly knives and braced for impact.
The monster was mere inches away from them when chains shot out of nowhere and spiralled around it, shackling it to the ground. A silver magic seal slammed against it, trying to compress it to the deck.
"What the-" Tanya said surprised as purple fumes began to evaporate from the seal as it passed through the monster. With a burst of white light, the monster split apart and several unconscious bodies of EAGLE soldiers and a few tengas slumped on the floor. Icthior and Marigold sat up weakly and the purple fumes faded into the clear sky.
"Worry not, rangers. Help is here." They turned around to see a silver ranger walk towards them. Her helmet resembled that of the medieval knights of Arthurian legends with the symbol of the crescent moon over the 'Y' shaped visor. Two parallel purple stripes ran down her suit from underneath a triangular silver vest trimmed with black. A silver cape hung down her shoulders, giving her a regal appearance. Her entire armour resembled that of a knight, complete with a cingulum over her waist.
They looked at her awestruck.
"Who are you?" Grace asked disbelievingly.
"My name is Arella. There will be time for introductions later. Right now, your friends need our help." She looked over to where Tommy and Adam were fighting Ooze.
The red, green and pink rangers were thrown back as Ooze lashed out with an arc of lightning.
"You wield the power of the gods yet you are nothing more than pests!" Ooze cackled, walking towards them menacingly. "I will kill you and extract the zeo crystal from your corpses."
He raised his hand and Tommy was hoisted to the air by an invisible force.
"I think I will start with you, red." He snarled, flashing his yellow putrefied teeth at them.
Tommy shouted in pain as black energies swirled around him, wrapping around him like a cocoon.
"Enough!" Kat screamed, hurling her power disc at Ooze. The shield got stuck halfway across his throat. He howled in pain, dropping Tommy, who sprawled on the deck, struggling to breathe.
"Just because I can't die doesn't mean I am insensitive to pain. And I'm pretty sure decapitation is PG13 and too scary for kids. And I really don't want to be dumbed down to a lovesick puppy like poor old Zeddy by concerned parents." He said scathingly as he pulled the disc and tossed it to the ground and glared at the pink ranger.
"Gee pinky, you just made me break the damn fourth wall." He laughed maniacally. "Now I will break your bones!"
He dived towards the pink ranger. Kat rolled away from his attack and Adam fired at him with his zeo pistol. Kat stood up to help her comrade when Tommy's discarded power sword caught her eye. She picked it up and rammed the broken sword into his back. The warlord yelled, turning around and lifting her up by her neck, slowly throttling her.
"It hurts!" He snarled. Normally the attacks would have just phased through him but after the green and pink rangers had destroyed his clones, he felt weak. It would take him a while to get back his full powers.
Kat gasped, hitting his arm, struggling to break free. Tommy and Adam tried to attack him, only to be swatted away by lightning bolts.
The pink ranger plunged her fist into Ivan's chest, her arm flaring up with pink energy. Ivan's eyes widened. Before he could react, his body exploded and purple ooze splattered everywhere. Kat was thrown sideways by the explosion, her morph failing.
The splattered ooze across the battlefield sped towards each other in a lightning fast speed and merged into a giant ball of purple gel. Laughter echoed across the battlefield as Ivan Ooze pulled himself back together in front of the defenceless pink ranger.
"KAT!" Tommy screamed, struggling to stand up as the monster picked her up again.
"That was a valiant effort. You have my respect, human but I cannot be killed." Ivan snarled, his voice loosing it's jovial tone. Kat looked at Tommy from the corner of her eyes, tears streaming down her face. She tried to pull back in vain.
"Say goodbye, blondie!" He sneered, snapping her neck with a crack which seemed to echo across the battlefield. Kat fell lifelessly to the ground, her eyes rolled back and blood dripped from the corner of her mouth.
"NO!" Tommy shouted. Adam made a croaking sound.
The other rangers ran up to them but it was too late. Tanya fell to her knees and Rocky stopped in his tracks.
"Playtime is over, kiddies!" Ooze announced.
Tommy pounced at him, though he was barely able to walk. Ooze giggled, swatting him aside, making his way towards Kruger and the other rangers.
Tommy felt weak. He couldn't think clearly, but the image of Kat looking at him helplessly, right before Ooze killed her flashed before his eyes. He yelled as he got up again and tackled Ooze from behind.
"Persistent, are we?" Ooze laughed, grabbing hold of his arm. "Don't worry. You will join your pink friend soon enough."
Just then a sword cut through his arm and someone kicked him back.
Flaming arrows cut through his chest before a concentrated beam of black energy made a hole in his chest.
"Didn't you get the memo? That hurts." Ooze screamed, getting up to see his attackers. The red, pink and black mighty morphin rangers holding their respective power weapons.
"You okay, bro?" Jason asked, helping him up. Tommy nodded numbly.
The red ranger's eyes diverted to where Kat lied unceremoniously on the ground.
"Is she-" He asked, his voice wavering.
Tommy nodded.
"Oh no." Jason whispered. Kim covered her helmet with her hands. "We were too late." She said sadly.
Not giving Ooze a chance to pull himself back together, the pink ranger shot arrows at him and the black ranger fired his cosmic canon.
"This won't stop me." He shouted. From behind, two beams of energy severed his other arm. It was the yellow and the blue morphin rangers.
"How many of you coloured freaks are there?" He yelled angrily. "Annoying pests!"
A silver seal appeared underneath him, immobilising him. He saw the Silver Ranger walk towards him with her spear. "Earth has wizards now? Oh great! Everyone, gang up on poor little Ooze now."
"Stop the theatrics, Ivan." Another voice said as a purple and orange blur whooshed past him, sending sparks flying across his chest. He looked up to see two ninjas stand beside a man in navy armour.
"Ninjor, how great to see you!" he said gleefully. "Still hiding behind the mask, I see."
"Shut it, Ivan. This is the last time you will ever hurt anyone again." Ninjor vowed, raising his katana.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Ooze smirked as the seal binding him cracked, releasing an energy wave which threw them back.
"Your magic may have defeated my chimaera but you are a fool if you think you can stop me!" He snarled, glaring at the silver mystic.
The zeo rangers were gathered around Kat. Tanya held her hand, sobbing while Cestria, who had arrived alongside the morphin rangers, checked for her pulse and breathing.
"I don't know how but she is still alive." Cestria announced. "But we need to get her to a healing chamber fast."
"She is alive!" Tanya exclaimed hopefully.
Tommy sighed relieved. He placed his hands on the side of his helmet, contacting Alpha.
"Alpha, Kat's hurt badly. Teleport her to a hospital now."
"Aie aie aie, Tommy. Her vitals are too weak for teleportation."
"What do we do then?" Adam asked.
Suddenly, a white teleportation beam appeared beside Kat. It was a masked woman in a yellow and black vigilante suit with a golden amulet around her neck.
"I'm here to help." She announced. Her voice sounded familiar but Tommy couldn't place it. "The zeo crystal saved her. It has placed her in a magically induced coma to protect her. She won't die but it will take her a long time to heal if we don't act now. Everyone, join hands."
They did as she told, making a circle around Kat.
"Focus on your powers. Imagine it flowing into her." She instructed. Tendrils of coloured energies shot out from each of them and wrapped around Kat. The amulet on the stranger's neck started to glow vibrantly. With a final burst of white light, the connection snapped, breaking their morphs and they looked at Kat hopefully.
Her eyes shot open and she inhaled deeply.
"Guys." She smiled at them.
"You're okay." Tommy said tearfully, pulling her to a hug which they all joined.
Tommy turned towards the mysterious woman and shook her hands. "Thank you."
"Wait. Aisha, is that you?" Rocky asked, looking at her closely.
She grinned at them, taking off her mask. Adam and Rocky enveloped her in a tight embrace. "I missed you guys so much."
"Us too." Adam smiled. "I thought you were still in Africa. How did you get here? And how did you know so much about the crystal, not that we're complaining but-"
"It's a long story." She said, helping Kat up. "Basically, I became a superhero again and I can harness the power of animal spirits. I talked to the spirit of the zeo crystal. They told me how to save Kat."
"The spirit of the crystal?" Kat asked confused.
"Yes." Aisha nodded. "I will tell you guys all about spirits and magic totems but now we need to help the others."
They nodded, looking over to where Ooze was holding his own against all the rangers as well as the SPD officers.
"Right." Tommy nodded as the seven of them headed towards the battle.
Ooze screamed and a wave of dark energy radiated from him, throwing back the rangers as well as demorphing them. "It's been fun but we will have to catch up later. Ciao!" Just as he was about to teleport out, he was hit by something from behind. He fell forwards and gaped incredulously as a blue car stream rolled over him.
"What in the nine hells of Onyx is wrong with this planet?" He yelled, looking at the tire marks over his body. He was flattened to a sheet. He huffed before transforming himself back to normal. "This isn't your Saturday morning cartoon!"
Tommy grinned as a young boy with cropped hair and blue overalls hopped over the car. "Good job, Storm Blaster!" he patted the hood of the car.
From the other side, a blue robot with a traffic light insignia on his chest.
The car beeped as Justin and the Blue Centurion rushed over to the rangers.
"Kat!" Justin said, hugging her. "It's great to see you guys again! Blue Centurion contacted us and we came here."
"We could use all the help we can get." Kat smiled at him.
"Hey, didn't I kill you?" Ooze snarled.
"What is he talking about?" Justin narrowed his eyes at the monster.
"Oh nothing. I killed that wretched girl, snapped her neck, but she got back up." Ivan said nonchalantly. "No worries, I will kill you for sure again."
"You won't get near her." Tommy growled.
"You rangers kill monsters every Tuesday but when we kill one of you goody two shoes, you become all vengeful." He yelled. "How is it that fair?"
"You kill because it's fun and destroy lives because you want to. You are not a person, you're a monster!" Kruger said. "We have clearance to terminate you but I'm still asking you one last time to come peacefully-"
"And what? Rot in your cells till eternity?" He asked scornfully.
The Blue Centurion headed over to the SPD officers and passed four devices which looked like futuristic flip phones to them.
"These are the prototype Patrol Morphers. Galaxy Command thinks you will need them for this battle." The robot informed.
"Great!" Marigold smiled. "I always wanted to try one of these out."
All of them turned to look at Ooze who was still in the process of reforming.
"Ready?" Jason asked. With an unanimous reply, he raised his power morpher. "It's Morphin Time!"
"Mastodon!" Zack shouted.
"Pterodactyl!" Kim smiled.
"Triceratops!" Billy let the power flow through him, re-establishing his link to the Grid.
"Saber-toothed tiger!" Trini yelled.
"Tyrannosaurus!" Jason bellowed.
"White Tiger!" Aisha grinned. When Ninjor had fixed her power coin, he made a connection to the White Light, a powerful cosmic force which had chosen her to be the next white ranger. Her suit was more of a hybrid between Tommy's suit and her old yellow ranger armour. Instead of gold tiger stripes, her helmet and chest armour were adorned with garnet yellow.
"Pink Aquitar Ranger Power!" Cestria shouted, taking after her mother as the next pink ranger of Aquitar.
"Zeo Ranger One- Pink!"
"Zeo Ranger Two- Yellow!"
"Zeo Ranger Three- Blue!"
"Zeo Ranger Four- Green!"
"Zeo Ranger Five- Red!"
"Shift into Turbo- Mountain Blaster Turbo Power!"
"Ninja Change! Orange Lily- Flower Ninja, Ran Yamashiro!"
"Ninja Change! Purple Orchid- Flower Ninja, Tatsu Minamoto!"
"Magical Might, Mystic Knight! Guardian of the moon- Lunar Paladin!"
"SPD Emergency!" The officers raised the morpher, a white light washing over them.
"SPD Shadow Ranger!" Doggy Kruger declared, wielding his shadow sabre. He wore a greyish blue suit with a black vest.
"SPD Aqua Ranger!" Icthior shouted, his suit a cyan version of Doggy's.
"SPD Titan Ranger!" Marigold announced, her suit completely gold with an X on her torso instead of the '100' on Icthiyor and Doggy's suits.
"Legendary Force of Justice, Sherriff Skyfire!" Unlike the other rangers, his armour resembled that of the ninjas of feudal Japan. His suit was mostly red trimmed with gold.
"Defender of Intergalactic law, I am the Blue Centurion!"
"I am Ninjor!"
"Quantum Power!" Grace shouted, donning the armour of the Quantum ranger once more.
"Power Rangers!" All of them shouted in unison and a huge explosion of coloured smoke took place behind them.
"Boo hoo!" Ivan taunted. "What's up with the explosions and fancy role calls anyway?"
As the rangers charged at him, he sighed inwardly. "Man, I'm so screwed!"
All of it happened so suddenly, Tommy barely had time to process it. Somehow all his former ranger comrades and some new allies had unexpectedly joined this battle. He wondered how Jason and the others got their powers back and wait… Aisha was now the white ranger! Her suit was different from his though and looked much cooler. He supposed Ninjor had something to do with all this.
He summoned his sword, now mysteriously fixed after he'd remorphed as Ivan Ooze charged at them. As the warlock ran at them, he started to replicate himself till there was a small army of oozemen following him.
"Really? After a while, doesn't this get boring?" Tommy facepalmed. He swung his sword, cutting through the oozemen.
From the corner of his eyes, he saw Jason and his team assemble the Power Blaster and eradicate an entire group of oozelings. Justin shot rapidly at the swarm of purple minions with his twin blasters, as if he were operating a machine gun. It was the same with Marigold and her D-Magnums. Icthiyor, Doggy, Ninjor, the ninja rangers, Aisha and Sherriff Skyfire had cut through the ranks of the purple army with their sabers. Cestria was using her telekinetic powers in tandem with Arella's magic to squash the oozemen against the deck, reducing them to purple smoke.
He nodded at his team. All of them joined their weapons and formed the Zeo Power Blaster and fired on the remaining grunts.
The original Ooze twisted his shape till he became a giant purple dragon towering over them. He lashed his tail at them, sweeping some of them back. Tommy's eyes fell upon the bodies of the unconscious EAGLE agents sprawling on the deck, completely vulnerable to Ooze's attacks.
"Alpha, teleport the EAGLE agents out of here." He said, touching the side of his helmet.
"Aie aie aie, Tommy." The robot replied and almost immediately, they were whisked out by white teleportation beams.
Tommy sighed. That took care of the bystanders. Now for the monster. Even though he had never fought with so many rangers before against a single monster, he still felt seriously overwhelmed. Ivan Ooze had to be the most powerful opponent he'd ever faced.
He watched Aisha charge forwards, white flames blazing around her. He blinked as spectral projections of a smilodon, white tiger and a bear appeared beside her before attacking Ooze. The three feline spirits tackled the purple dragon to the deck, clawing and biting the villain.
Jason yelled, jumping at the dragon, as he unsheathed his power sword and chopped off the dragon's head, which splattered into purple ooze on hitting the floor.
The rest of the body fell limp, dissolving to ooze as well, which tried to slither away.
Ninjor shot his hands forward and the ooze floated in the air like small purple bubbles before they coalesced to form a single purple blob encased in a blue orb. He nodded at Arella, who snapped her fingers and the orb lit up in silver flames and exploded to purple fumes which quickly dissipated.
"He's gone… for now." Ninjor announced.
"What do you mean he's gone for now?" Grace asked suspiciously as all the rangers demorphed.
"As you all saw he has the power to regenerate from a single cell and create copies of himself, each of his replicas sharing his consciousness. I can still feel his presence somewhere. The Ooze we just fought was nothing more than a vessel. It seems he had a backup plan, should he be defeated. However, do not despair. The injuries we have dealt his vessel would have been transmitted to his real body and it would take him months to recover. Enough time for me to find and end him."
"So, after all this, he is not destroyed? We almost lost Kat!" Tommy yelled.
"I realize that, Tommy. I tried to gather all our allies as fast as I could." The blue warrior replied, his head bowed down. "But the fight isn't over. Dark Specter has captured Zordon and draining him of his lifeforce. The UAE has taken over Eltar. It won't be long before they come to Earth. It is too much to ask of you but you need to be rangers again on a fulltime basis."
"Of course." Jason said, his team nodded behind him.
"Once a ranger, always a ranger." Tommy smiled. "We're in."
"Good. But first, we need to go to a more secure location." He said, turning towards Blue Centurion and the SPD rangers. "I take it you will be able to take care of matters here. Rangers, come with me. You too, Justin."
At their affirmative nods, he clapped his hands together and a portal opened in front of them.
"Come back to Promethea after this." Grace said to Tommy and the zeo rangers. "If you need to be rangers fulltime, you can't juggle your personal lives with your ranger duties like you did in high school. I will be giving all of you living quarters in Promethea Island and for the rest of the world, you will be doing a prestigious exchange program in Promethea. That way, you can have your civilian lives back after all this is over without burning any bridges."
"Thank you." He smiled before they followed the ninja master through the portal.
Grace narrowed her eyes. There was still work to be done. Why did Ooze, a galactic criminal attack EAGLE, whose existence is known to select few, instead of attacking Angel Grove or any other ley line nexus like Rita or Zedd? Whatever Ooze's master plan was, it wasn't over. She needed to scan EAGLE's systems to be sure but she had a sinking feeling that all of this was just a distraction for something more sinister.
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
This is the end of the first arc. Next arc will have the return of some fan favorite villains to Earth. Any guesses as to who?
Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review. :)