Power Rangers: A Legend Retold

Zord Quest Part 2

It was a regular day for the most the people of the Earth, nothing special. The cities of New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London were abuzz with life, humans going about their day.

They came from the sky without warning. Earth was still recovering from the attack on Washington but what they had seen on the news could not prepare them for this.

Each Military launched its fighters, and one by one they were destroyed as the battle suits, still dormant, descended.

Goldar was commanding battle suit one, piloting it as it fell into the waters surrounding Manhattan Island.

"Zedd to all craft, transform to battle mode and begin your attack. No resistance has yet been detected" Came the Lord's voice in the cockpit of the alien craft.

"Aye, attack mode engaging" Goldar replied in his gravelled voice.

The ship floated on the water as the citizens looked on in fright, it lay dormant for a moment before the mechanics began to work. From within the hulk the arms retracted, panels pulling back. Legs outstretched and soon reached the water bed. Mechanics worked like cogs, whining and shifting position until finally a humanoid shaped biped towered above the water. It looked like the fabled Iron Giant as it took a few steps,rose out of the water and walked onto the main island.
Goldar let out of laugh as he pulled back the right fist and let it crash into a skyscraper, killing hundreds instantly from within and from the falling stone and glass. Cannons rose from the battle suits shoulders and fired destroying part of the roadway ahead.

Zedd looked on as all of his suits moved in to attack the Earth. So far it was going perfectly. When millions were dead he would signal for Earths surrender and the planet and eventually the power coins would be his.

Pteryadactyl, Hawaii

Kim snapped a shot with the camera she had just purchased and lowered it. 'Trust my Zord's hide out to be a tourist site' she thought to herself. She had arrived the previous day and had soon found out the people there had found the site and its entrance if not what was beyond it. She had decided to fork out for a camera and some tourist looking clothes before taking this tour around the area as if she were just a regular visitor on vacation.

Finally they came to it. A stone wall, exposed and with a security barrier in front of it.

"...And this" spoke the female guide "is the temple of the flying lizard. We do not know what culture made it or when but we do know it is thousands of years old. Long before the first European settlers came. As far as we can tell it is some sort of door with a tomb beyond it. Many have tried and failed to open it. You will notice the symbol..."

Kim looked up and saw the it. It was a large depiction of a Pterosaur not unlike her coin as it was surrounded back a circle just the same.

"..Now if you will follow me, we will go and see the volcano" the guide said and walked on with the others.

She quietly broke away, slipping out of the group as they walked away. There was no head so it shouldn't matter. She stood for a moment looking at the stone wall, how would this work exactly? Kimberly looked around and saw no one about. She didn't want to spend the night in Hawaiian jail while everyone else saved the world.

"Well" she spoke to herself as she ducked under the barrier "it beats Desert or Antarctica."

She too quickly noticed the hole in the wall below the carving for her coin. She pressed it in and stood back, feeling the ground rumble as the wall slid back. She just hoped no one would think it was the Volcano erupting. Needless to say she closed the wall behind her as she entered.

Triceratops, Sahara Desert

Billy soon deducted, logicly of course, from the placement of his arrival that his Zord was in the large pyramid he saw beyond. Or at least near it, otherwise why would Alpha send him here. Unless of course the treated him just like everyone else had during his life in recent years. He didn't exactly fit in at school. For once in his life he felt like his intelligence was finally being appreciated by the Zordon, Alpha and the group. He was quickly becoming the brains of organisation. He had been to the Command Centre various times since the first encounter to do extra curricular work. Along with Alpha he had already begun working on some communication devices that would work also as personnel taps into the molecular transporter.

However all that went through his mind as he wandered to unforgiving heat, kited out in desert cream, was Trini. She was the one he really wanted to see when they finally regrouped but again had been to shy to say anything beyond the usual small talk as they were dispatched on their missions. In fact she was on the same continent now as he was and still he hadn't suggested helping each other. Well, that would have to wait. The world came first and him second. He was used to it.

He finally after hours of painstaking walking on the sand reached the pyramid he was aiming for and was extremely happy when he saw the triceratops symbol on the side of it. It was worn down by sand of course but it was noticeable. As he placed the coin in the hole several of the bricks slid back. It was then he noticed it. This pyramid was not build in the same form as the others he had seen. It was not Egyptian.

"A fake" he chuckled to himself as he drank the last of his water and entered. He was soon marvelling over the technological wonder that was the Triceratops Zord. Its blue plating was made of a metal he had never seen before and gleamed from the artifical lights above it in the hangar.

Sabretooth Tiger, South Africa

Trini's quest sounded easier that it actually was. She had hiked for over a day, with no rest longer than a few minutes, through the tropical jungle. She was glad she hadn't run into the very real big cats around here.

As with the others the scanner and her own mind had helped her find the hangar and its content. For her the symbol and the Zord itself were beautiful marvels of the ancient world.

She now sat in the cockpit and had begun speaking in English with her own, male voiced computer. Her curiosity overcame her and she began asking questions.

"Sabretooth Tiger, who was your last pilot?" She asked it.

"The last user of this Zord was eleven thousand, nine hundred years ago by Sabretooth Warrior Boi. Your predecessor" the voice informed her.

"Then the last yellow ranger was male?" She asked in wonder.

"Affirmative."

"That would explain the lack of the skirt Kimberly's suit has" she nodded to herself.

At that moment a panel flashed and she was informed of Zordon's incoming message.

"Trini. Is your Zord ready?"
"Yes Zordon and talking to me" she replied.

"Get to Hong Kong as soon as you Trini. Lord Zedd's forces have begun their attack" Zordon's voice replied.

"Understood."

After a few moments to familiarise herself with the controls the Sabretooth Tiger was online and clearing the tallest of the forests trees with ease.

It landed with a mighty roar, now clear from the jungle.

"Alright, flight mode!" She commanded.

The Tigers legs wound around into place, the tail retracting over the main hull and the engine activating with a flare from its thrusters. The yellow Zord took flight. Within seconds it had broken the sound barrier on its was to China.

Tyrannosaurus, Grand Canyon USA

Jason's would be a little more difficult. His zord's hanger was locked deep underground in the middle of the red rocky sands of the Grand Canyon. Appropriate really. He had spoken in length with Alpha before leaving about how to get underground but each idea would take time and man power they didn't have. Instead he had waited in the Command Centre as Alpha constructed a device that would hopefully remotely activate the Zord. Hopefully.

He walked now in white shorts and a black t-shirt. Hey, it was time to give the red as rest, he wore it all the time. He felt the sand at his feet as he walked into the middle of nowhere. Away from the tourist area and to where the scanner was taking him. Finally it told him that he had reached his destination and he halted, taking out the remote device and placing the scanner in his shorts pocket. He took out a bottle of fresh water from his bad, took a drink and set it down.

"Here goes" he sighed.

He pressed it sending out a signal on the frequency he had been given. Zordon has calculated it but in this case even he wasn't perfect. Nothing. He pressed it again. Still nothing.

He held out his arms in frustration.

"Shit! I knew this wouldn't work" he cursed.

Suddenly the ground began to shake, not like the others but more like an earthquake. He looked down beneath his feet as the ground split. The cracks growing in width as he looked ahead.

"Oh shit" he said.

He ran as fast as he could away from the crack stopping after a few meters and hoping it would be enough. Jason watched the as the ground opened it had been split in two. Something was definitely happening.

Jason looked over at the water bottle he had left near the crack. It rippled once, twice, three times. The rumbles were now like giant steps in rhythm. Finally he heard a booming roar. The crack was now a crater in the sand and from it the Tyrannosaurus rose. It stepped out from the ground, towering over Jason and roared again before stopping. Jason didn't know weather to get in it or piss his pants but one thing was for certain. It worked.

***

The door slid back and Jason walked into the cockpit. He did as the others had, bringing it under his control by morphing and pressing his coin into the avaliable slot.

The computers around him came to life and as if they had just been shut down they began to play a strange voice speaking a foreign language. It sounded a bit like Japanese but he couldn't tell.

When Zordon contacted him he was informed of the attack but added what he had found on activation.

"It sounded like some kind of diary. A record of the previous leader perhaps. If we could translate it we might find out where all this came from" Jason told them.

"Indeed most interesting. But for now there are more pressing needs. Fly to New York City, it is under attack. The counter attack in the other cities has already begun" Zordon replied.

"On my way" Jason nodded and closed the channel "alright Tyrannosaurus. Time to see what you can do."

The Zord lifted from the ground, now turning into a horizontal position and took flight. Jason sat back and let the autopilot take him. He doubted he would be able to work this things sat' nav'.

***

Scorpina's battle suit tore through Hong Kong destroying what ever lay in its path. The death toll and destruction was mounting. She could hear their cries, their screams of peril and just responded with further destruction.

"Ah" she smiled seeing a building marked as a school "perfect."
The suit walked toward it, its arms extending, clenching its hand into a fist. Scorpina brought her hand on the throttle ready to pound it to dust. She was stopped however as her sensors began to go crazy.

"What?" She frowned.

The Sabretooth Tiger pounced and clasped onto the suits arm, causing damage with its sharp fangs and landing in perfect position like a cat below.

'I have to get it away from the city' Trini thought 'we're here to stop damage, not to cause it.'

Scorpina snarled as she looked down upon the yellow Zord.

"So. You have weapons of your own" she spoke "no matter. I will destroy it as I will you human!"

The suit swung for the tiger with a pounding fist and Trini was only just able to pilot the Zord out of the way before again pouncing like its namesake and lashing for the suit with its fangs and metal claws. The battle suit reeled from the damage as sparks flew around Scorpina in the cockpit. She reacted at once, firing her cannons. Trini was able to move out of the way but only as the cost of the building behind her.

'Thats what I meant' she thought.

Trini reached and pressed for what looked like a fire button and watched as a powerful energy blast came from the upturned tail of the Zord.

"Yes!" She clenched her first in victory as the suit was lit up abaze with an explosion.

Her celebrations however did not last to long as the wounded weapon rose and stood again.

"You will pay for that Warrior!" Scorpina cried and fired her cannons again.

This time Trini's evasives were only half as effective as she took a bad hit and felt to the ground with a thud. Before she knew what was happening Scorpina has grabbed the Zord and lifted it high over its head.

"Now your mine" Scorpina sneered and pulled the switch to release.

The Suit threw the Sabretooth Tiger with full force and watched as it smashed threw one of Hong Kongs tallest buildings with a crash and marveling at the resulting explosion that filled the night sky.

Trini pushed herself up from the controls, not to badly hurt but the same could not be said for the Sabretooth Tiger Zord. She hoped one of the others were doing better than she was.

"May day, may day I'm down!"she called on all Ranger channels "my Zord is damaged. I will try and do what I can but I need help as soon as someone can spare it."

***

Billy was having more luck. London bridge was indeed burning as the Triceratops rolled past the old buildings of the England capital. He was soon getting the controls like second nature. He aimed and fired with his cannon again. The blue shimmer of energy enough to destroy the battle suit is a dazzling explosion. Its head and cockpit was destroyed and he watched as it fell to the ground. Below he could hear the people cheering, he only could guess what they though he was. But they knew he had saved them which was good enough he guessed.

He smiled looking down and waving at those who could see him. It was then he got the call from Trini.

"..I'm down! My Zord is damaged..." came her voice in peril.

As the message ended he pressed down the outgoing transmitter.

"Zordon, this is Billy. I have destroyed the battle suit attacking London and am ready to move out. I'm going to help Trini in China" he spoke into it.

"Understood Billy. May the power protect you" he heard Zordon respond.

"Hold on Trini" Billy said as he took the blue Zord once again into the air "I'm on my way."