The following morning Wukong sat alone in the common room nervously fiddling with the morpher strapped to his wrist. It was still early and no one else had ventured out from their dormitories yet. He hadn't had a great night's sleep, all of his dreams were dominated by the weird looking yokai. Eventually he had got out of bed and sat by the dying embers of the common room fireplace.
He kept replaying the conversation with Gotama from the previous evening in his head. The god had told them everything yet next to nothing about how he and the other three rangers had to retrieve the scared scrolls stolen. The God hadn't even told him how to active the morphers. Once again he was left to fumble blindly in the dark against the forces of evil.
"Wukong you should put that away", He heard Zang hiss under his breath. Wukong jolted back into the present and noticed his three friends crossing the common room in his direction. No one else was with them but choosing discretion he quickly pulled his shirt sleeve over the device.
"Sorry I guess I got a little distracted", he sighed. Wukong looked into the weary eyes of his friends as that plopped themselves down on the chairs around the fire, "Neither of you could sleep either?" he asked.
"How could we with everything that's been thrown at us", Pigsy began, "plus I kept having weird dreams about one of those robot things".
"Oh?" Sandy raised an eyebrow.
"Yea, they kinda looked like giant versions of us", Pigsy replied, "you reckon it's related?"
"It wouldn't surprise me", Zang answered, "in fact I reckon they're our zords".
Pigsy leaned raised his head and looked at the monk, "What the hell are zords?"
"Have neither of you heard of Super Sentai or the Power Rangers before?" Zang asked. The others shook their heads, "then there's probably something you should see".
Zang pulled out a tablet. A few taps on the screen later, a video began to play showing numerous teams of brightly coloured heroes battling against monstrous creatures. The designs and colours of the suits changed periodically but the teens got the general idea about previous Ranger teams. The video soon showed humongous creatures, "Hold on, we have to fight giant monsters as well", Pigsy grabbed a pillow and buried his face in the fabric.
"Sadly that's also a common theme with the Super Sentai and Power Rangers", Zang sighed, "usually they get a fleet of vehicles known as zords which allows them to fight the giant monsters".
"See this is exactly the type of stuff that Gotama should've told us yesterday", Wukong groaned. He turned to his bald friend and added, "You know an awful lot about these Super Sentai and Power Rangers".
Zang nodded before answering, "Personal interest project", he mumbled, "my family tree has split off into multiple branches. Most notably the Shiba clan in Japan and the Shiba's in america, the ones in Japan became a Super Sentai Team and the americans became a Power Rangers team".
"You're related to other Rangers?" Pigsy asked, "No way, what were they like?"
"I haven't met them", Zang replied,
Wukong nodded in approval, "Well at least we've got some knowledge to fall back on",
Further conversation about Super Sentai or the Power Rangers was halted by a sharp burning sensation coming from his left wrist, Wukong looked across and saw that his friends had experienced the same thing.
The group quickly jumped off the sofa.
Zang hit a button and the voice Gotama came through the morpher, "Insert the ring into the other half of the morpher and the activation phrase is Mystic Squadron, Transform", they looked at each other,
" What does that even mean?" Pigsy
"It's how you activate the morphers", Gotama answered.
The group kept looking at their morphers until they found a small button on the side. With a flash of light and a small pop, they disappeared from Thunderclap Monastery.
The attack was taking place in a small muggle village at base of the mountain the Thunderclap Monastery was located. There were several residential properties nestling between a few local shops. On the main road through the village was a small park that was lined with trees. The usually quiet road was echoing to the sounds of terror as the residents ran through the streets as another platoon of Yokai estroyed everything in sight.
A small pop echoed from a small alley as Zang, Wukong, Samdy and Pigsy landed in a heap, "That was unpleasant", Wukong groaned, "why is all magical transportation horribly uncomfortable?" It felt like their entire bodies had been stretched from head to toe as they were pulled into the air before being dumped back on the ground.
Pigsy quickly got to his feet and peeked around the corner, the black tuxedo dressed and white faced Yokai had set fire to several properties. Fortunately it looked like all the residents had managed to escape the area, "I think the coast is clear", he said, "well except for the sharply dressed killer monsters".
Swallowing their fear and summoning that famous courage, the four stepped out into the main street as confidently as they could, "Hey stop right there", Wukong called out. The Yokai immediately turned around to face the four and began moving towards them, "I did not think that through", he sighed.
"We can do this", Zang tried to rally the rangers.
"Don't really have much choice do we", Pigsy grumbled.
" Then lets morph " Sandy said.
The four flicked their right wrist and the attachment on the morpher extended a few inches. They raised the other half of their morpher until it was level with their chests, "Mystic Squadron, Transform", they called in unison and inserted the ring into the morpher.
Almost instantly there was a bright flash of light, blinding the yokai. When the light cleared, four colourfully suited warriors stood opposite them. Red had red top and black legs, red boots and gloves with gold trim, a gold belt with a buckle simialir to Kibaranger or mmpr white, he had a red monkey tail and his helmet had the motif of a monkey with the golden circlet on its forehead. Blue had blue top and green legs, blue boots and gloves with gold trim same belt his helmet had a kappa motif with leaves in the top. Gold was gold on top with white legs, white gloves with and gold boots with black trim and belt, his helmet had a pig motif and had pig ears on top and snout on the mouth plate on his stomach you could see stitch lines showing they had to add extra material to the suit due to him being rotund. Finally white was completely white with gold trims and belt his helmet was in space red's but white and had a gold crown on top, he has chest armour like the dragon shield, in the The centre of the shield was a an eye with the four colours of the respective rangers
"Bloody hell", Sandy gasped as he looked down at his blue costume, "I can't believe that actually worked".
"Oh wow", the gold ranger gasped.
" Fell the sudden power boost?" Zang asked.
"Alright", Wukong , the red ranger, began, the yokai though weren't going to wait for the four to finish their conversation and charged towards them. Pigsy's eyes widened underneath his helmet as one of the footsoldiers aimed a punch in his direction. He was able to dodge the attack but his weak counter punch didn't to a lot of damage, "Erm, little help", he cried.
"Bit busy right now", Zang responded as he nervously backed away from a couple of yokai. He had taken her to a few karate lessons. Right now he was desperately trying to remember some of the kata's, "Was it left leg forward first or right", he muttered to himself. The yokai jumped towards him and Zang shrieked with surprise. He sidestepped the attack and used the momentum of the creature to throw it into a nearby building, "Hey I actually did it", but his celebration was premature. Another yokai kicked him in the side, sending his tumbling to the ground.
Pigsy immediately jumped to his defence and stood protectively in front of his friend. "Chi powers are activated by emotion", he began, "right now I'm really annoyed at you". He thrust his hand out, expecting something to happen but nothing did. "Come on work", he cried but still his gravity power wouldn't work.
As the battle continued. "Careful with that", Zang cried as Pigsy blasted another hole in a building, "we're meant to stop things from getting destroyed, not cause them ourselves".
"What do you even call this thing?" the go,d ranger asked and accidentally fired another blast. This time he did destroy a couple of yokai rather than someone's home.
Suddenly the rangers and the yokai were pushed back but a gust of wind as Wukong landed between them. He pulled a small red stick from one of the holsters and it expanded into a his staff. Wukong twirled it expertly in front of him before charging into battle.
The others look on in awe at Wukong as he began to dismantle the yokai with a fluid motion and grace. It didnt take long for Wukong to finish off the yokai.
" Alright team good work" Zang said,
" Thanks Wukong " Sandy said.
" Its fine we are a team " Wukong said
" Yea and we just kicked ass" Pigsy said posing like Hulk Hogan.
" Alright lets get back" Zang said.
The rangers then teleported away.
