Just outside of Dai Shi's temple, the other four rangers fought a large group of Rin Shi. Lily had her Morpher on her head and the mic down.
"How's it going, Lily? Did you get through to Casey?" RJ asked as he threw a Rin Shi off of him. Lily took of her glasses and put them away, all while dodging punched thrown by the Rin Shi.
"No, nothing!" She replied. Many, many Rin Shi surrounded them. They were becoming overwhelmed—there were just too many to fight.
"There's just too many of them!" Dominic cried as he tried to ward off about fifteen Rin Shi.
"We can do this guys, just stay focused!" RJ shouted to try and calm them. Just then, all the Rin Shi disappeared into clouds of dark purple smoke. The rangers froze and looked around cautiously.
"Did you do that, RJ?" Lily asked, praying the answer was yes. RJ looked around wide eyed.
"No." he replied with a faint shake of his head. Lily looked around and backed up slowly.
"Be on your guard guys." Theo warned, scanning the ground for any clues as to what just happened. The forest was quiet. Freakishly quiet. It was if time had frozen in those moments. An evil voice broke the silence.
"So, rangers. Came to pay me a visit? Was Rammerhead not enough for you?" the voice sneered. The figure from which the voice came, emerged from behind a tree. It was Dai Shi, looking more evil than ever. He had made the Rin Shi disappear. He wanted to fight the rangers all by himself.
"What did you do with Casey?" Lily demanded to know.
"That's none of your business. I'm your business now." Dai Shi said coldly. Then he threw his cape off of his body, and morphed into his Black Lion Armor form.
"He wants a battle? Let's give him one." RJ said calmly. "Ready rangers?"
"Ready!" the three responded.
"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleash!" they shouted and morphed into their ranger forms and struck a pose.
"We're going to get Casey back, Dai Shi!" Dominic yelled.
"I'd like to see you try!" Dai Shi answered as he struck a pose of his own. Then the battle was on. Even though it was four on one, the power levels were pretty equal. The four rangers got on all sides of Dai Shi to surround him. They wanted to try and ambush him, but Dai Shi wasn't stupid. He performed a circling sweep kick. He landed the kick on Theo and Lily, but RJ and Dominic were able to dodge it. Lily and Theo crashed hard on their backs.
"Theo! Lily! Are you guys okay?" RJ yelled to them as he dodged a punch from Dai Shi. Lily and Theo sat themselves up slowly.
"Yeah, don't worry about us!" Lily answered. Dai Shi leapt back and looked at all the rangers.
"You won't be alright for long." He sneered. He put his hands at his sides. "I call forth the spirit of the Mighty Lion!" he shouted and sent his Lion spirit hurling forward. While RJ rolled away, Dominic got the brunt of the attack. Dominic cried out as he soared through the air, eventually crashing in the dirt and grass, demorphing in the process.
"Truly sad." Dai Shi said evilly as he looked down on the fallen rangers. But RJ wasn't through yet.
"Enough!" RJ shouted with rage. He then leapt high in the air and opened his Morpher, "Wolf Beam!!" He shouted and began to fire the violet beams rapidly at Dai Shi. Dai Shi's lion armor managed to keep most of the beams off of him, but he got clipped by a few of them and staggered back a foot or two. This enraged Dai Shi, he stood back and sent a purple orb of energy at RJ. Dai Shi's attack had anger backing it, and RJ was getting tired from dodging attack after attack, so the orb hit him. RJ fell to the ground and rolled to a stop next to Dominic, RJ demorphed as well.
Theo and Lily had a little break while RJ handled Dai Shi, so they managed to gain back a little more fighting power. It was up to them. They stood to the ground with force.
"Come on, T! We can handle him!" Lily shouted, "Jungle Mace!" she said as her mace appeared out of nowhere in her hands.
"I'm all over it!" Theo responded. "Jungle Fans!" he said as his fans appeared before him.
Dai Shi looked at the yellow and blue rangers closing in on him.
"You rangers and your toys…" he said softly with a very evil tone. He knew that his armor would never allow such weapons to hurt him. Lily threw her mace at Dai Shi, the ball and chain wrapped tightly around Dai Shi's arm.
"Gotcha!" Lily boasted as she pulled on the mace.
"Please!" Dai Shi scoffed. He used his arm being wrapped to his advantage. He used Lily's mace against her by swinging her all around. He swung her so hard that she was sent into the air and flew through the air a bunch of feet. She landed hard next to Dominic and RJ and demorphed beside them. RJ patted her shoulder, telling her that she did her best.
"Shall I finish you too, Blue Ranger?" Dai Shi taunted as he glared at Theo.
"Like that'll happen!" Theo shouted with confidence. Theo darted at Dai Shi, fans in hand. Swiped his fans back and forth with great strength, but Dai Shi side stepped each attack. When he saw an opening, Dai Shi grabbed both of Theo's wrists. Theo shouted loudly from the tight grip in which Dai Shi had him.
"Your weakness amazes me." Dai Shi sneered. Dai Shi then turned Theo's hands so that he would slash himself in the abdomen with his fans. Then Dai Shi threw him off of him and he demorphed next to the others. The four rangers lay on the ground groaning from their injuries. Dai Shi walked slowly to them. He demorphed himself from his Black Lion Armor.
"I've waited for this day ever since that humiliating day at Pai Zhuq." Dai Shi said evilly as he adjusted his left glove in preparation.
"You're still holding onto that?" Lily asked in shock. She thought it was pathetic.
"Yeah, move on!" Theo added.
"SILENCE!" Dai Shi roared. "You're going to be destroyed today, and when I'm done with you, your little amnesiac leader is next. Your time is up, rangers." Dai Shi sneered wearing a very evil grin.