III. Power Rangers In Retrograde - Mystic Force – Code Busters
(Based from transcripts from Ranger wiki)
"Let's see… Beetle's Bane… check! Slug root… check!" Clare is walking through the woods, a basket full of herbs dangling from her arm. She is checking off a list in a small notebook. As she looks up, the Rangers on their Mystic Racers blow past, startling Clare, who ducks.
"Heads Up!" shouts Nick.
"Coming through!" exclaims Chip.
"Yeah!" Madison shouts excitedly.
As they race past, Nick turns back to yell at Clare, "Sorry!"
Clare huffs, "They need to put traffic lights out here. Ah! Hollyflower petals. Come to mama. Borum… gorum..? Florum Xylo Copa!" Clare gestures at the flowers, a look of concentration on her face. Instead of picking the flowers for Clare, it makes bees shoot out.
"Bees?! Shoo!" Clare dances as she swats at the insects, until she manages to banish them. They disappear in a glittering cloud of light.
"I'll just say I couldn't find any hollyflower petals...What's next? Ah, stickleberries."
Clare is happily picking stickleberries when the bush and the ground begin to shake. She looks downward and around for the source in fear. A gigantic tunnel of dirt is headed straight for her. She gasps, drops the basket and notebook, and runs for her life.
"Look out!" A figure tackles Clare, knocking out of the way of the flying dirt monster just in the nick of time. Clare lands on the ground, the figure lands somewhere out of view.
"What was that?" Clare stands, coughing and brushing the dirt off. She doesn't see the figure behind the trees.
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The Underworld
"Now there are five mystic warriors, just like the ones who tried to trap us down here forever." Necrolai says gravelly.
Koragg is unimpressed, "Udonna had to give the mystic powers to someone. These children pose no threat."
"And while you two argue, I've taken steps to see that they don't," Morticon gloats as the underground cavern shakes, suddenly, sending all three characters staggering.
"What under-earth was that?" Necrolai says incredulously.
"The Hydra Worm…"
"The creature that dug this enormous pit?"
"It's only a matter of time before it breaks through to the surface."
"Briarwood will be destroyed from below… unless the Rangers stop it."
"I'll make sure they don't with a creature from my army of the Underworld!" Morticon raises his sword, pointing it at an opening. Some sort of green… thing… walks up and growls.
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The strange creature, Phineas, looks nervously around Rootcore as Udonna becons him to the crystal ball, replying the fight from before, and the save by the Red Ranger. "You didn't have to leave so suddenly, i know the people of the forest dont trust a Troblin but these are humans, what's more their rangers, You can trust them."
"That wasn't me, didn't have the time," Phineas tilts his head confused, waving a hand over the ball as it changes scenes to the Red Ranger fighting along against Hidiacs trying to invade a elf village, "I was busy..."
Udonna scrunches up her brow, "Curious."
-
Flying over the treetops are the Rangers, and Nick, on their Mystic Racers, "Woohoo! Yeah!"
Nick leans back, motioning challengingly at his fellow Rangers, "C'mon, Pinky. Try'n keep up!"
"No one calls me Pinky."
"Go get him, V!" Xander shouts encouragingly.
"Ha! You'd better run!"
"Go, sis!"
Vida accelerates to try to catch Nick. The other three follow after her. Nick dives into the trees, and they all begin to weave in and out. Nick laughs, enjoying his lead.
"Almost gotcha!"
"You still there? Whoa!" Nick had turned around to yell at Vida, and when he looks in front of him again, there is a tree directly in his path. He flails his arms wildly, then jerks his Mystic Racer to a stop. The other Rangers fly past him, cackling.
"Who's in the lead now, Nicky-boy?!"
"That'd be me! Go, baby! Yeah!" Chip pulls out in front, pumping his fist in the air. The five are flying around the gigantic tree that is so essential to Rootcore.
"Dismount, alright!" Nick shouts.
They all jump from their Mystic Racers, falling to the ground gracefully, powering down along the way, and landing on their feet, orr hooves in Nick's case. The Mystic Racers continue hovering, then transform into brooms and fly directly into the upraised hands of the Rangers. They have a bit of a problem catching them, like they aren't entirely used to it yet.
"Very good, Rangers. That's enough Mystic Racer practice for today." Udonna explains.
"Aww, c'mon. Just one more lap around the forest?" Chip begs.
"Yeah, I'm just getting warmed up. I wanna see what this bad boy can really do!" Vida swoons.
The other Rangers giggle, but Udonna's face remains stern. "I'm afraid not. It's time for Elementary Incantations."
Chip and Vida groan, "Awwww, BORING!"
"Hey!" Madison shrugs, "I think that sounds kind of interesting."
"Only you, sis."
"Actually I'm with Maddie on this..." Nick adds.
"You would say that," Vida grouses, "anything to avoid a remate, right?"
Nick ribs her gently, "You just don't want to be the only Pink Ranger in town, sorry but I'm not putting on the spandex."
Udonna looks thoughtful a moment, "A wise observation, Nikolai. Now everyone head into Rootcore."
The Rangers nod and begin walking back towards Rootcore in a group as Udonna vanishes, the Rangers jostling and joking with one another.
"I think the new uniform looks great on you Nicki," Xander charms.
Nick scowls, glancing down at her very revealing vest and nothing else above the waist save the cape, and a loin cloth below. "I'm not."
Before motioning to her head, "Besides I'm still a guy up here, cute as you can be I'm not interested."
Xander smiles whispering to Maddie, "She called me cute."
Maddie nods uneasily, "I noticed..."
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As the Rangers enter Rootcore proper Udonna appears in a shower of light particles.
"Welcome back," Vida smiles asshe finds a seat, "Udonna, the Mystic Racers are amazing! But now that we're Power Rangers, don't we get lots of other cool stuff too?"
"Oh yeah! I mean, no one's more excited than me to finally get to wear a cape, but–" Chip begins.
"Whoa! Finally? If I remember correctly, you used to come to school with a pillowcase pinned to your back." Xander prods.
All Rangers present laugh, and Chip stops fiddling with his new cape long enough to assume a pouty expression, "Yea, but that was a long time ago."
"That was last week, mate."
More laughter ensues, and Chip turns the discussion back to other things.
"Well, anyway, Vida's right. We're official superheroes now. Where's the rest of the vehicles, weapons, and gadgets that we get?"
"The Xenotome holds the spell codes that can unlock magical powers beyond your imagination."
Nick raises his hand, "Even for us Substitute Rangers?"
"Yes," With a wave of her wand Udonna makes a plain silver/white Mystic Morpher appear in the hands of Nick, "using these training wands."
Nick handles it suspesiously before sowing it in her wand holster, "I'm not gonna put on spandex, Pink or Silver."
Udonna simly smiles, giving Nick the shivers and causing her to nervously stop a hoof and a horse ear to flick eratically.
"So what're we waiting for? Let's bust it open, load our codes, and get our booty!" Vida exclaims.
"It doesn't work that way, Vida. As you perform heroic deeds, and grow as Rangers, the Xenotome will reveal the spell codes… when the time is right."
"Mmm… okay," Madison says skeptically.
Udonna's chiding tone causes the excited faces of the Rangers to fall, and a few groans are heard. She has paused to lecture them, but then starts walking again. Chip and Vida do not follow, but rather talk to each other in soft tones.
"When the time is right? I don't wanna wait that long," Vida grouses.
"Me neither. There's gotta be a quicker way to get those codes," Chip adds.
"Got it. C'mon. We'll catch up with you guys later!"
Vida and Chip walk off in a different direction, while the other Rangers sit around the table at Rootcore.
"Look at all these incantations! How is my brain supposed to fit in all this information?" Xander groans.
"Why don't you let me help you out with that," Maddie puts her stack of books carefully down on the table, right next to Nick, who is reading a small red book. His hand is on his forehead, probably to assuage a headache. She pulls out her morpher, and aims at Xander. Nick is looking on disinterestedly, "Craneor Magnus!"
A shiny blue light flies towards Xander's head, causing it to expand like a bubble. Xander tries to look at his head, creating a funny picture. Nick and Maddie giggle uproariously.
"Now you have lots more room."
"And I thought he had a big head before!"
"Verrry funny. Madison? If you wouldn't mind."
Maddie aims her morpher, reversing the spell. She and Nick are still giggling like schoolgirls, and Xander smiles grimly. He's not amused, but puts on a smile as he looks tothe giggeling Nick.
"You know your cute when you laugh."
Nick coughs trying to stiffle her giggles as her cheeks burn red, "N-Not gonna happen lover boy."
At the cauldron Udonna looks to Clare, "Clare? Didn't I ask you to gather some stickleberries for this protection potion?"
"Oh. I did have a big basket of them, but I accidentally dropped it when I was attacked by the giant worm. I'm really sorry."
Udonna has been magically adding items to the potion, and stirring, while Clare was talking. But at her last words, she spins around and stares at Clare. The Rangers sitting at the table turn to look as well, "Giant worm?"
"Well, I think it was a giant worm. I didn't really see it because it never surfaced, but then this freakish looking gnome or troll or goblin knocked me out of the way and saved me."
"Did you see who it was?"
"No! He took off before I could thank him."
"Well, this is troubling."
-
Back in town we see a view of a stand run by a cute little kid with cornrows, selling lemonade for five cents. "Aren't you guys a little old for this?"
"Beat it, kid. We don't need the competition,"Vida and Chip have set up a homemade 'Heroes for Hire' stand right next to the lemonade one. They are sitting in camp chairs looking bored. The kid sticks out his tongue, and Vida does too. Chip turns around and look at their sign.
"So how do you figure that being 'Heroes for Hire' is gunna get us more codes from the Xenotome?" Chip wonders.
"Udonna said that heroic deeds unlock the codes, so all we gotta do is perform a bunch of them and we're golden!"
The two stop talking and jump to their feet, trying to look professional and not creepy, as they confront a woman walking by, Chip leading, "Hey–hey, ma'am, you don't happen to have any heroic deeds that need doing, do you?"
"Well… as a matter of fact, I do."
Vida looks at the woman talking, then turns and grins at Chip.
Shortly Chip is approaching what is presumably the woman's backyard–it's pretty big. It is also covered in dead leaves. Chip grimaces, then grabs a rake and gets to work, weariness obvious on his face.
Vida is examining a woman's black sedan, which has the hood up and is obviously experiencing engine problems. "I can fix this."
Vida reaches inside the engine, and the engine gives a sputter, spurting out oil onto Vida's face.
Back to Chip, who has managed to rake all of the leaves into one gigantic pile just as the wind starts blowing them all over the place again, "Oh nononono!"
Back to Vida, who is giving a dog a very soapy bath. The dog shakes off the soap all over Vida, who grimaces in disgust.
Back to Chip, who is helping a farmer carry stacks of eggs to the back of a truck. Chip stumbles, and almost drops the entire stack, but manages to get it on the back of the truck. He rights himself, and turns around. The stack falls off, eggs break everywhere.
Now Vida and Chip stand at their stand.
"Man, I don't know how many more heroic deeds I've got left in me." Vida groans exausted.
"I know what you mean. I'm beat. And you smell like wet dog!" Chip laughs.
"Can it. Hey! Let's see how many new spell codes we've got!"
"Yeah!"
Both check their morphers, excitedly, it chimes and blinks some of the keys, they hurry off to someplace out of sight to try out their new spells. And...
Summon their Mystic Racers.
Fire a lighting bolt
Turn into a tornado
And then ranger up.
They both look disapointed, "I was hoping for something more impressive then stuff we can already do." Vida grouses.
The Yellow Ranger shrugs looking around, "I dunno I feel a little stronger."
The Pink Ranger nods for a moment and look around, "Y-Yeah...b-but still."
-
The other five Rangers are walking through some sort of parkish, open area in a shopping center.
"Hey, Chip and Vida never showed. Where do you think they went?" Xander muses.
"I don't know. But when my sister gets that crazy look in her eye, it usually means trouble."
Necrolai jumps out of the sky, landing in front of the Rangers, who are too busy walking and talking to notice. Tsk, "I'll show you real trouble."
"We walked right into that one," N. Blecker rolls her eyes.
The teens are extremely surprised, and immediately switch into fighting stances.
"Who are you?" Nick demands.
"I am Necrolai, Dark Mistress of the Underworld," Necrolai poses dramatically, as Xander steps forward.
"I'll handle this one. Hi! Xander Bly. Whatever the problem is here, I'm sure we can just talk this one out," he winks.
"You wish," Necrolai shoots beams out of her eyes at Xander, who flies backwards into his friends. They catch him, and help him back to his feet.
"Xander!" Madison shouts.
"Not a big talker, I see." Xander jokes.
"Let's Ranger up!" Nick says quickly, a pit forming in her stomach.
They all pull out their morphers, type in the spell code, and transform, with Nick notably in a dull silver unofmrin with a blank visor. The three run for Necrolai, though Xander gets there first. He attempts to dropkick her, but she flips him backwards.
"C'mon, Maddie!" Nick and Madison flip towards Necrolai, attacking her alternatively.
Spinning and jumping and excessive cape use in the attacks. Randomly, all fighters simultaneously execute a cartwheel to the right, only afterwards resuming the fight. Eventually, Xander pulls out his axe and sends a ground shockwave headed Necrolai's way. The Rangers line up, facing Necrolai.
"Playtime's over!" Necrolai growls.
"Oh yeah?" Madison counters.
"We'll see," Nick argues.
Necrolai answers by extending her butt-wings of doom, and flying off into the sky. As she flies off, she shoots lasers at the Rangers, who flop to the ground. She turns back around for another strafing run, cackling.
"Look out!"
"Let's go for a ride!"
Necrolai grabs up the Rangers: Nick and Xander in her arms, Madison with her feet. Her butt-wings fly them off into the sunset.
-
In the Underworld, past levels and levels of minions we come to Morticon, and Korragg.
"Send Mucor to the surface, Koragg. He has an appetite… for Power Rangers!"
"So be it. Uthra Norqua Ozarro!"
Mucor begins to grow gigantic, appearing above ground in the forest. Necrolai is carrying the Rangers towards the larger than life Mucor.
"Patience, Mucor. Dinner is on the way."
"Let go!" Nick demands.
"Good riddance, Rangers," Necrolai tosses the Rangers into Mucor's mouth, and he swallows them.
-
Rootcore, which looks suspiciously like a dragon, opens up, and we can hear two of the teens inside.
"Let's check the Xenotome," It's Vida!
Chip and Vida are paging through the Xenotome. All of the pages are blank. Udonna is watching them curiously in the background.
"What? Nothing? This thing must be broke."
"What're you doing?"
Both whirl around, obviously frustrated to see Udonna waiting.
"We've been out doing heroic deeds all day, and haven't gotten one new code. Being a superhero is kinda a ripoff." Chip grouses.
"It seems you know very little about being a superhero."
"Are you kidding? No one knows more than me! I've spent a fortune on video games, DVDs, graphic novels, trading cards–"
"Okay, okay." Vida says trying to calm Chip.
Just as a chime similar to a church bell sounds; Udonna's smiling expression is immediately gone, as she races towards the Crystal Orb. Mucor is flailing around on the Crystal Orb, threateningly.
"Go Rangers," Udonna urges.
"Us? Look at that thing; its massive! We'll get pummeled."
"You might. There's only two of you, and you've hardly mastered your Ranger powers. Are you afraid?"
"No… its not that I–"
Chip interrupts Vida's stuttering, raising his hand as if in a class, "I'm totally scared. Look! My goosebumps, they've got goosebumps!"
"Okay, I guess I'm a little freaked." Vida admits.
"You should be. That creature's size and strength are unlike anything you've encountered."
"But Maddie… and Nick…"
"And even Xander! They need us," Chip adds.
"We gotta try and help them. C'mon."
"Real heroes are born in the face of real danger." Udonna explains calmly.
"Ready?"
"Ready."
They pull out their morphers and begin the transformation, amid glowing lights and weird overhead voices.
"C'mon." Chip exclaims.
"Right behind ya." Vida adds, rushing to the broom stands. The revolving door turns and they appear in a garage, where the Rangers change the brooms into their Mystic Racers.
"Galwit Mysto Aerotan! Ready? Firing engines! Okay!" the two Rangers say, they both touch something on their Mystic Racers at the same time, and a hole in the side of the gigantic tree opens up and they fly out at top speed, racing towards Mucor.
"Rangers, good!" the monster purrs.
Both Rangers jerk their Mystic Racers to a stop. Chip pulls out his phone and starts dialing.
"There it is!" Vida anounces.
"Guys, this is Chip. Where are you?" he says speaking into his Mystic Morpher.
Nick's voice is audible over the phone, Inside the belly of the beast as Mucor roars. The other three rangers swimming inside the stomach of Mucor, which is It's all green and sticky. "Stay there, Chip. I think he's got room for seconds!"
"I don't care! I'm going in!" Vida accelerates her Mystic Racer towards Mucor, pushing for speed. She flies around and around him, like an annoying fly, and then jumps into the air. "Mystical Wings! Faerie Dust!"
Vida starts flapping her gigantic wings, spreading glittering faerie dust all over Mucor, he sneezes, sending the three Rangers in his stomach flying out.
"Alright, it worked!" Vida laughs happily.
"Ew… I'm covered in monster muck," Nick grouses.
Mucor, in retaliation, shoots green splodey globs at Chip, who is still flying around on his Mystic Racer.
"Somebody's gotta take this freak down, and I'm just the Ranger for the job." Chip jumps onto the front of his Mystic Racer.
"MagiStaff, crossbow mode! Sneeze on this! Fire!" Bolts from Chip's crossbow hit Mucor all over, sending him reeling. Chip flies past, unharmed. He is sitting down on his Mystic Racer again as Mucor falls over, then jumps off to join the other Rangers on the ground.
"Bullseye!" Chip exclaims.
"Great job, Chip." Nick congratulates.
"Woohoo!" Vida cheers.
"Nice work!" Xander congratulates.
"That was incredible!" Maddison says happily.
"All in a day's work!" Vida laughs.
At the Xenotome, which turns its own page and writes new spells upon itself. Udonna is amazed, "Incredible."
Back with the Rangers… they all stumble around like drunks as Mucor stands back up, shaking the forest, "Whoa!"
"Hungry!"
"I'm not afraid of him; c'mon, Rangers." Chip leads the charge.
"Strong as a tree, Green Mystic Ranger!"
"Everchanging as the wind, Pink Mystic Ranger!"
"Fluid as the sea, Blue Mystic Ranger!"
"Fast as lightning, Yellow Mystic Ranger!"
"Rock you like a Hurricane," Blecker shrugs, "Silver? Mystic Ranger!"
"We call forth the magic: Power Rangers Mystic Force!" they all say together.
Almost as if in response to the roll call, a glowing ball of light falls out of the sky and into each Ranger's hand. They're understandably confused, "Whoa…"
"Oh look!" Xander exclaims.
"What's going on…? Hey! It's a new spell code!" Vida says excitedly.
"I get it now. Udonna was right. Amazing…" chip coos.
Nick steps in front, as the leader, "Alright, Rangers. Let's do it!"
"Yeah! It's titan time!" The Rangers say together.
They twirl around, and a mysterious voice is heard saying phrases. Each Ranger presses buttons on their morphers, and the next transformation begins.
"Mystic Minotaur!"
"Mystic Sprite!"
"Mystic Mermaid!"
"Mystic Garuda!"
"Mystic Ranger!"
Together the Titans shout, "Ancient Power, Mystic Titans!"
Blecker vanishing as she dissipates into light, enveloping Vida.
"Woah this is weird," Nick's voice is heard as the Mystic Sprite begins patting done her body.
"Hey watch those hands Pink Boy," Vida's voice says slapping her own hands away.
Back at Rootcore there is a proud look on Udonna's face. "Most unexpected."
Mucor launchs his green splodey things. The Garuda leaps forward through the resulting blast, headed for Mucor.
"Lightning Lasers!" Garuda shoots bolts of light out of the eyes towards Mucor, who falls over into a lake, struggling to his feet.
"Let's go!" the Minitaur says charging with his axe.
"Right! Let's play ball!" Sprite spins around in a dainty circle, transforming in a flash of pink light to a… soccer ball?
"Nice. Maddie!" Minotaur hits Ball!Sprite with his axe, sending her flying towards the Mermaid, who is swimming under the water.
Mermaid jumps out of the water, flipping over and hitting Ball!Sprite with her tail. "Chip! Coming your way!"
Garuda catches the ball between his wings, then spins around in a circle, releasing it towards...towards...who?
A voice pants as the Mystic Pheniox runs in, "S-soory I'm late."
"Not to late to finish this thing! Catch!"
Phoenix is running, pacing the ball flying in the air. He jumps up, flips, and kicks the ball at Mucor, "Here we go! Watch this!"
"Don't! I don't catch so good!"
Sprite goes through Mucor, making him explode all over the mountainside. The Titans gather and cheer. "Yeah! Woohoo! Rock on! Good job!"
Meanwhile just beyond the battle a red winged serpent Titan watches the battle intently.
Back in the undworld the locals are angry and distressed, who are bemoaning this latest turn of events.
"The Rangers have tapped into the power of the Mystic Titans. We've got to bring them down before He awakens."
"Not to worry. The Underworld will triumph. And He will take his place as Supreme Master of All!" Morticon rises off of his throne, gesturing dramatically to the ceiling. This guy has a serious drama issue.
-
Back to Rootcore
"I'm proud of you all. And you've only begun to tap into the potential of the Mystic Titans." Udonna beams.
"Yeah, but now green freak is gone, right? So its all good in the woods?" Madison hopes.
"Oh, well, let's hope so. I mean we still don't know if that was the same creature that attacked Clare." Xander says cautiously.
"Nick's investigating that," Udonna answers...she uh...hand a bad reaction to Mucor's slime..."
The Rangers look confused as Udonna gathers her words.
-
Nick digging through the evidence in the forest. Her body once again changed, this time into a human liek visage just made of green slime. But what's this? Our master detective feels someone watching him! "Hello? Anybody there?"
Nick approaches a chunk of monster, peering through the tall plants… some person-thing screeches and jumps out from the bushes, and Nick does the same. Both are in recognizable fighting stances.
"Stand back!"
"You stand back!"
"I said it first!"
The thing blinks, and turns its head to smell under its raised arms. It winces, sticking a hand under the arm and lowering it. Both start warily circling each other. "So you did. Yeah. You're not from around here, are ya?"
"No. Not really."
"Ah, I didn't think so. I've seen monktoads with prettier faces. Oh, he is an ugly one, to be sure, to be sure." The Thing is talking off at an empty corner of the forest, presumably to an imaginary companion.
"Excuse me! I don't want to interrupt your… uh… conversation, but what're you doing here?"
"He wants to know what you're doing here. Well, I don't think you should tell him. Well, because he's the one that came into our part of the forest and–" The Thing's outer monologue is interrupted by something beneath the ground, which just sucks him down into it. Nick runs forward to look into the hole, obviously disturbed by the fact that the Thing got sucked into the Earth. But as Nick approaches, the Thing gets spit back out, flying through the air and landing on its face. Nick runs to help the Thing.
"Oh man… c'mon, are you okay?"
"You saved me!"
"Not really."
"Gimme a hug."
As the Thing reaches out for Nick, the dirt worm monster approaches them from farther off.
"We can discuss it later; I'm just kind of busy now."
"Wait!"
Nick runs off, the worm following him, leaving the thing behind. As Nick runs, he dials a number on his morpher, "Guys! I think I found what I was looking for." the other watching him run on the Crystal Orb.
"What is he running from?" Xander wonders.
"I dunno. But he needs help." Vida says.
The worm catches up to Nick, and he is forced to jump out of the way, and threw some branches which catch on her clothes pulling them offthe bonless slime girl and spreading her aorss the trunk and branches.
"Ugh..."
Pulling herself back togher Nick drips onto the worm as he lunges for the Thing, "Oh no you don't" and shockingly she finds her masss growing, fighting with the worm to envelope it. "Hey weirld dude, Get out of here!"
Xander jumps out of nowhere, smashing the worm's head with his battleaxe. The worm withdraws into the ground, "Yeah!"
"Thanks man, I owe you one," Blecker groans as she pulls herself back together.
"No worries," As Xander helps Nick struggle to her feet, the other Rangers come running up. Vida offers Xander a high-five.
"Owch!" Xander winches as he pulls bakc his hand from Nick, the skin still smoking
Blecker griin sheepishly, "Guess I'm acidic."
"Way to go, amigos!" Chip cheers and he arrives.
All the Rangers stumble back and forth as the ground shakes again, and the Worm fidgits its way out of the ground. Surprise! The Worm is actually a Hydra!
"Uh oh!" Vida groans.
"He looks mad!" Nick offers.
"How can you tell?" Chip quips.
"Hey, I've got a new spell code!" Xander coos.
"Nice." Chip cheers.
"Great! Udonna said the Titans had more power." Vida cheers.
"Let's just see what they can do." Nick exclaims excitedly.
"Mystic Titans!"
The entire group transforms, this time catching a glimpse of the Thing as he...transforms into the Red Ranger and then joins them as the Pheniox?! But then Phoenix stumbles backwards as the ground shakes, watching in surprise as the rest of the group moves on without him.
All, minus Phoenix exclaim, "Mystic Titans, Dragon Formation!"
The Titans shift and merge until a Dragon appears!
"Hang on can I get a ride?" As the Dragon flies by, Phoenix jumps onto its back. The entire contraption wobbles, as the Dragon tries to fly, and Phoenix tries to balance.
Udonna watches from her Crystal Orb. "Hold on tight, Phineas."
Now Phoenix is really flailing about wildly, but he suddenly balances himself. The Dragon and Phoenix fly right at the Hydra Worm. "Let's bury that worm."
The Hydra shoots purplish lasers at the Dragon, which doesn't even notice their existence, or the huge explosions caused by them. It flies right through, ever onward.
"Still hungry?" Phoenix slices the worm with his sword, and the Dragon flies up, turning around for another pass. Hydra begins shooting things at the Dragon; its almost as if they are having a midair dogfight. "Yeah! Look out! Dragon Blast!"
The Dragon opens it's mouth, shooting a blast of fire at the Hydra. Most of the heads fall over.
"Okay, Rangers! Let's get fired up! Ha!"
The Dragon shoots a blast of fire out of its mouth, and Phoenix, who has jumped off, jumps up into the air and repeats the flip kick of last time. The Hydra explodes, and Phoenix and the Dragon pose.
"Alright! Now that was a snap."
-
Once more Nick is digging around in the dirt.
"Oh. So these are stickleberries," Nick puts them in his mouth, curious, and starts chewing, they dont chane shape but fussible though the oooze they slid down her neck and vanish beneath her clothes, her new mystic uniform even having pants, but as they slid down they shrink and smoke. Before long, he frowns.
"Ugh, no flavor...like most things," Nick stands up, approaching the bushes, but as he shifts them aside, the Thing pops out.
"GAH! You gotta stop doing that."
"I've been looking everywhere for ya. I wanted ta thank ya, for saving me."
"Tell you the truth, I don't think I saved you so much as the monster spit you out."
"Rat feathers. Even that hideous beast rejected me. I don't belong anywhere, not even in a worm's stomach," the Thing mopes, and almost sounds like he's crying. Then he awkwardly sticks out his hand, at the right angle to be shaken. Nick pauses and pulls back, the thing frowns.
"Sorry, acid touch at the moment."
Unphased the Thing continues, "I'm Phineas."
Nick is walking along, looking for more things on his list, and Phineas is following him, hopping and providing conversation.
"See, I'm a troblin. Now, that is the unfortunate result of the union between a troll and a goblin. But, both sides hate me. So, I wander the forest on my own."
"Well, actually the reason I was out here is because, uh, you helped a friend of mine. I wanted to thank you. I hope you like stickleberries."
"Who doesn't?!" Phineas dives for the stickleberries, inhaling them as Nick watches, embarrassed. There is awkward laughter.
"Right…" Nick flusters and couchs, "Sooooo your our Red Ranger as well."
Phineas hangs his head, "Sorry it had to be something like me."
Nick laughs, "Look at me, it seems every week something changes me into some out there creature, your FINE, you need to meet the others."
Phineas pauses in thought, then seemingly changes the subject, "I must warn you, though, Young Warrior. This forest is full of danger."
"Tell me something I don't know. My friends and I are up against Necrolai and Koragg. It can't get worse than that."
"Uh. Yes. Yes it can. You still haven't faced… Him."
Both pause in their walking. Phineas is pretty close to cowering, and Nick is obviously worried.
"Who's him?"
"The Supreme Master of the Underworld. Shh."
-
The other Red Ranger retreats to a worn out old cavern deep in the wood, its entrace barred by a cave in, but liek magic she passes right through entering a cavenous chamber similar to Rootcore with candles that come to life as he enters and monitors embedded into the stone. His form shifts growing a skirt and a change in stature before demorphing into a young woman who moves to a stone table, brining up a figure in white on one of the minitors.
"How does the timeline look on your end?" the woman asks. "Alex?"
The view pans to a city of white steel and glass, of flying chars and the height of technological advancement, "The Timeline is on track, but as you might have guessed, Alexis, there is no place for you in it."
She nods solumly, "I suspected that would happen."
Alex returns to view wit ha soft look on his face, "Find somone to make you happy there."
"But the timeline," Alexis protests
"Can allow for a small change given everything yo sacrified to get it back on track."
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The Underworld where Morticon is obviously very angry. All the pistons and smokestacks on his head are working full-out. He is gesticulating wildly, like normal, "They destroyed my Hydra Worm! Impossible."
"Even I am surprised." Koragg says impressed.
"Morticon, look!" Necrolai says alarmed.
The circle in the center of the floor that has been providing most of the fog turns red.
"It's Him! Bow down to the Supreme Master, you fools!" Morticon demands.
"Hail!" Everything present in the cavern bows to the red glowing spot, in which, is revealed to be AN EYE!