Hey people, I'm finally done this chapter after rewriting it several times, hope you like it. This chapter is the start of the Green Ranger Arc which has about 9 chaps including this one, hope you enjoy them.
Evil Green Ranger Arc
Episode 8: Mean And Green PT1
The school bell rang signalling the end of Tribeca Prep. Wave after wave of students flooded the halls, all escaping his or her version of prison. There was no peace, no silence in the crowded halls as student cheered and laughed at the end of the day.
Even though everyone was cheering, laughing and yelling there was one boy who stood out from the rest. His name was Max Russo. Just like his siblings, Alex and Justin Russo, Max had something to share with the world, a gift, and the best way to describe his gift was Max.
While his brother was acknowledged for his high marks, his intellect and extra curricula's and his sister was known as the school's street smart, cunning, troublemaker, Max was known as the random, clueless, chaotic child of the Russo's.
Max walked through the halls having all these different kinds of instruments strap on to him and every step he took and every breath he let out would set off at least one of them. Max was having so much fun, he didn't even notice the glares he was given by his fellow students, nor did he notice all of them covering their ears and ramming each other to the exit, trying to escape the deafening sounds of Max's musical 'talents'.
Not even the teachers or principle were able to withstand the horrible, loud noise Max was making. Opening his cheerful brown eyes he stared at the empty halls, confused as to where everyone went as he scratched his head, knowing full well that the hall was filled with teachers and student just a moment ago.
"Hey where did everyone go? I know I sounded terrible, but it wasn't that bad." Max continued to scratch the top of his head, shrugging at the thought. Max was about to continue his rampage of music when purple and red swirling energy appeared in the hall, a roar of rushing wind blasting out of the raw energy and forcing Max backwards into a wall.
He tried to fight back the wind but every time he tried to lift even a finger or struggle against the wind it only grew stronger and more furious than before. Max soon couldn't even move his head and even though he was trapped against his will and something deep inside him was saying 'mayday, mayday evil alert run for your life', something else was saying...
"This is so cool! Well it would be if I didn't have a drum digging into my back." As the raw energy and the wind died down, Max came face to face with Rita Repulsa the greatest evil threat in the Milky Way galaxy.
Max tried to move again only to find out he was still trapped, unable to move an inch. Fear and nervousness started to overwhelm the young child as he continued to struggle against the invisible force.
"There's no point struggling Maxi boy, you're trap and you have no where to go." Rita taunted as she laughed in joy that her plan was working perfectly.
"But I got plenty places to go, I have to return all of this school equipment, I have a shift to work at the substation, I got to annoy my older sister, oh, and sabotage my brother's homework." Max replied staring at the repeatedly eye twisting sorceress.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Rita screamed. Calming down again Rita gave out her horrible, head aching, annoying laugh. "Well Max you should feel honoured, you're going to be my evil green ranger."
Without even a small bit of notice both Max and Rita disappeared, Rita by her swirling red and purple energy and Max by green orbs. Neither one leaving a trace of their presence behind, leaving no one of the wiser of what just occurred, not even Zordon.
ZZZ
Half an hour later Sonny and Nico sat in their usual booth on the side, chatting away about everyday life while Justin worked his daily shift. He still wasn't sure why he was working since it was meant to be his day off, but of course none of his sibling showed up for their shifts, so he was stuck with them.
"So where's Alex and Nick?" Sonny asked, turning to Justin as he came over placing a sandwich in front of her and gave Nico the milkshake he had ordered. "I've haven't seen them all day."
"They got off early today and went to the movies." Nico replied, taking a sip out of his drink and fiddling around with his phone, checking out his facebook page or checking for any new info on the new kingdom hearts game that was meant to be coming out some time this year, as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. "Nick said they'll be back about five, five thirty."
"She skipped on her shift to go to a MOVIE!" Justin stated, his face fuming at how Alex managed to ditch yet another one of her shifts. Both Sonny and Nico started to snicker as they watched their friend's face turning a dark shade of red, resembling a tomato.
"I can't believe them" Sonny pouted, crossing her arms in front of her chest and falling back into her seat, sliding down in her chair and emphasising her disappointment.
"I know right! The next time I see her I'm going to give her a strongly worded letter about her lack of responsibility." Justin said heatedly, raising a finger in the air emphasising his statement.
"She'll never read it." Nico interrupted, while tapping away on his phone.
"Then I'll give her a strongly worded text." Justin replied.
"She'll see it's from you and delete it." Nico responded, stretching his back before chuckling about the reply he had gotten back on facebook.
"Then I'll yell at her." Justin replied, his annoyance sky rocketing, which was evident in his voice.
"She'll put in ears plugs."
"Then what do you suggest I do!" Justin yelled, accidentally knocking over Nico's drink with a flick of his hand, spilling it all over him. Quickly reacting to the sudden wetness on his jeans and he extended his arm again and wacked Nico's arm that was holding his phone, away. The sudden impact forced Nico's arm flying, which made him lose his grip on his touch phone, making it go airborne and soar towards Sonny. Squealing out of fright Sonny sprang to the other side, just missing the projectile that crash landed into the seat where her head had been moments ago.
"How about you have a chill pill?" Nico commented, his left eye twitching as he stared at the spot his phone was last seen, trying desperately not to shout out every swear word known to man at his friend.
"I'm differently having a talk with Nick about encouraging her, that's for sure." Justin said casually, like nothing just went flying or the squeal that left his friend mouth. He didn't, or pretended not to even notice the several cracks on Nico's touch phone screen as Sonny handed it over to the black ranger with a toothy, nervous smile.
"That's not what I meant when I said I couldn't believe them Justin." Sonny replied, turning from the sobbing black ranger to her best friend's brother. "I meant I couldn't belief they didn't ask me to come along." Sonny pouted once more as the blue ranger shouted "WHAT!" while the black ranger mopped saying:
"My baby."
"Well even so, I'm going to have firm talk with the both of them once they return. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to change my pants." Justin replied, rushing along, hoping no one notice his soaking wet pants, knowing he'll die from embarrassment if anyone did. He'd failed to notice everyone in the substation had been staring at them curiously since the sudden outburst.
ZZZ
In the cave Dakota had been trapped within only a few days ago, swirling red and purple lights appeared at the end of the tunnel, heralding the arrival of Rita, with green orbs following after her, forming into the unconscious and floating Max Russo. Not seeming to care about the boy, her attention else where, she eyed the wall in front of her, seemingly scanning for something specific.
Placing her one free hand on the wall Rita smiled as she quickly found what she wanted. She stared down at the carving in the wall, a semi circle with a weird symbol in the middle of it and next to the craving was a dint in the wall, oddly enough the same size of the semi-circle carving. Snapping her fingers together, a blinding green and purple orb formed in the cave and formed into half what appeared to be a power coin that looked very similar to the carving. Placing the coin into the wall next to carving of its other half, it instantly reacted, along with Max, who now had a green outline around his body. The carving glowed a dark green while revealing the dragon embalm within the circle. Glowing bright, the light soon consumed the cave as a thunderous roar boomed out, increasing in volume as it resounded off the walls, ceiling and floor. The roar echo through out the cave and then, with the ghastly howl of the wind not far behind, blew away anyone that was near, except for Max.
While Rita screamed in shock, fear and pain, she was quickly, and forcibly, thrown out of the premises, landing a good distance away from the entrance whereas the comatose Max remained untouched, still floating in midair, unaffected by the intensity of the light, the bellowing roar or even the ferocious wind. For all he was concerned nothing had happened. The boy didn't even notice as the light died down it slowly wrapped itself around him, covering him like a blanket.
Crawling to her feet, cursing at the ground as she picked up her staff, Rita instantly stopped her ranting as her sixth sense picked up on something, which felt like sirens were going off in her head as she felt a burning hatred in the direction of the cave, sensing the new presences that dwelled within. Her dumbfounded look quickly turned into a wicked smirk, only one thought coming to mind as to why she would feel such a thing. "Well power brats, this will be the end of you, Whahahaha!"
ZZZ
Zordon smiled down at the android as Alpha chatted away, telling him all the things he had witnessed on his walk of the outside world just moments ago. Zordon thought it was always amusing to see the android acting so childish, lost in the wonder of the world as he explained every detail in his short walk to him.
As Alpha was explaining in great deeps how he helped a little boy find his mother, Zordon's senses went wild, a strange sensation coursing through his entire body, feeling an immense power outside the walls of the command centre. Narrowing down the source of the power, Zordon could feel a warm, calm, fuzzy feeling, the same feeling he gets whenever he's tracking down his children, but this one was different. It wasn't one of the rangers' light, this one was a new, yet it felt so familiar to him.
Finding the source of the power Zordon's eyes snapped wide open. Alpha immediately stopped his story at the sight as the colour drained away from Zordon's face, which was surprising that anyone could notice being that he's a bubbly head in a test tube. Alpha started to shake uncontrollably at the terrified look on Zordon's face, having spent over ten thousands years with the guy and never once seen him show any signs of fear.
"Ayiyiyiyi! Zordon what's happening?" Alpha cried, already pressing buttons on the console and checking for any signs of danger in the viewing globe. Meanwhile Zordon continued to stare into thin air, trying to figure out where he went wrong, how someone managed to release the power hiding dormant in that cave, who was the person channelling this power and more importantly how did Rita managed to slip past his defences.
"Alpha contact the rangers." Zordon ordered his eyes hardening as he turned his gaze at the panicking android.
"I'm on it Zordon." Alpha replied, pressing a few more buttons while gaining the courage to ask. "But Zordon why?"
"The arrival of the Green Ranger is soon at hand." Alpha stopped in his tracks, noting the seriousness of Zordon voice. This wasn't like last time, he could tell from how serious Zordon was, Rita truly had the six power coin in her hands now.
ZZZ
Having come back down, Justin quickly went back to work, note book and pen in hand as he made his way around the tables getting everyone's order before making his way up to Chad and co's table.
"Welcome to Waverly substation, may I take you order?" Justin asked, saying the usual Waverly Substation clerk lines, readying himself to write down any order given to him by the four.
"Yes, I'll have the areyouapowerranger sandwich." Chad replied, slurring his wording as he picked up his pace in the middle of his sentence.
"Ok then and you sir?" Justin asked turning to face Grady, crossing out what he had written and ignoring the question all together.
"Oh yes, I'd like the areyouahero salad." Grady asked eyeing suspicious at the rather annoyed blue ranger.
"What about you Zeke?" Justin asked, crossing out Grady's order as well.
"Right I'll have the areyouthebluerangerv smoothie."
"And you Harper?" Justin asked, frustrated now as he lowered the pen and notebook to his side and placed a hand on Zeke's chair, leaning on it while staring at the dreamy look in Harper eyes, expecting her to say something similar to the other three.
"Will you go out with me?" The four boys snapped their heads around as the redhead asked that, staring into the dreamy look she was given to the disturbed and annoyed Justin. Sighing, Justin pinched the end of his nose and waved them off, groaning in irritation as he moved to the next table.
Just as he left everyone in the substation's necks snapped their heads around as they heard the door swing open, all focusing on a certain blond that waltzed right into the sub shop, her hair blowing behind her in the wind, posing by the front door, wearing a very revealing black tank top with a golden T taking up most of the space on her top, showing off every curve of her teenage beauty, with faded, dark blue skinny jeans. This caught the attention of every guy in the store, all of which were either drooling or had their jaws touching the floor.
Her blue eyes scanning the crowd of people in the sub shop, she quickly caught sight of the drooling Chad Dylan Cooper, but she didn't stop her search until her eyes rested on a familiar brunette, smiling at the annoyed look on Sonny's face as she rolled her eyes at her friends and the other love struck boys. Making her way over to the blond she gave Sonny a snobby look before sitting down in Chad's lap, wrapping an arm around his neck as she smiled into his blue eyes.
"Hi Chady poo!" Tawni greeted as Chad blush feeling her rubbed up against him.
"Hey Tawni, what's up?" He replied as he watched the blond lean in closer to him, smiling lazily.
"This." She replied seductively as she eyed his lips before closing the gap between them and pressing her lips against his. Meanwhile Sonny stared at the two in disbelief; she could feel her face burning up as she glared daggers at Tawni.
"I can't believe her." Sonny said, her anger evident in her voice as she gestured with her hand towards the two still locking lips. "No one can even hold a breath that long!"
"Someone's jealous." Nico stated, fiddling around with his phone again, still sobbing about when it went flying before.
"I am not jealous!" She yelled back at the black ranger, her anger and frustration pointing at him now.
"Sure sounds like it." Before Sonny could rant on about how she wasn't jealous and he was an idiot and fool of thinking that she was, their communicators went off, alerting the three of danger.
Nico, Justin, and Sonny gave a stern yet curious glance at one another from their spots before rushing off to the back of the Russo family substation, being the only place they could think of where they had a bit of privacy as they crowded around one another. Giving a quick scan of the area, making sure no one could see them or were overhearing the small group, Nico raised his left arm and hit a button on his communicator as Alpha's panicking voice broke through the speakers.
"Rangers you there? Please come in." Alpha said, obviously not noticing the activation of a communicator.
"We read you Alpha." Was Justin's response as he lowered towards Nico communicator so no one could hear him.
"Thank God, we have trouble." Alpha replied sighing, sounding a little calmer then before hand but still urgent.
"What do you mean trouble?" Sonny asked from her spot, clenching onto Nico's shoulder as she leaned in closer to hear the panicking robot.
"Come to the command centre and all will be explained."
"Alpha, neither Nick nor Alex are with us." Nico explained to the android.
"Ayiyiyiyi, I'll keep on trying, but you better hurry to the command Centre."
"We're on it." Nico replied turning his communicator off before standing up straight with Sonny and Justin doing the same. Checking one more time for good measure, the three pressed another button on the communicators and flew off in pink, blue and black lights, straight for the command centre, unnoticed by everyone except Tawni who growled as she felt the three presences leave.
ZZZ
In the cave, Rita smiled smugly at the young Russo child, watching as the green energy tightened its grip around him, merging with the child. "Good, the coin is accepting the boy. I better start changing him otherwise I'll have another power brat to deal with." Rita thought out loud raising her staff over her head. The gem glowed red once again before zapping the young, unconscious teenager making the green energy have a tint of red in it.
While watching Max writhe, screaming on top of his lungs at the agonizing pain, feeling the darker powers of Rita purring into him, Rita's smug face disappeared and was replace by shock as the boy screamed with everything he had, witnessing the green energy of the power coin burst out from him and disrupt her magic, along with pushing her back several metres, before the light, and his screams, die down leaving the witch speechless.
'Unbelievable, he manage to draw on the coin's power and disrupted my power within an instant. Could he really be that strong?' Rita thought to herself, her jaw still wide opened, staring at the glowing green child before regaining her smug face. 'No matter, it's already too late. I have already planted the demon seed within him, within a few minutes it will grow and consume him and then will sniff out any source of light deep in his heart.'
"My Queen." A famine voice spoke up behind her, her smiling face turning into one of annoyance as she turned to the other end of the cave to see a figure hiding in the shadows. Thankfully for the woman in the shadows, Rita didn't need to face her, knowing only one person who wore a black leotard with golden armour protecting her chest down to her stomach and over her back with golden armour, knee length boots along with golden armour coming from half way up her forearm to the tip of her fingers on her left arm only.
"Scorpina, how many times do I have to tell you do not intruded on me while I'm basking in my moment of glory!" Rita yelled, giving the woman a death glare as she raised her staff towards the shadows. "You better have a good reason to interrupt me."
"Yes My Queen, I have news that the rangers are probably on their way here as we speak." The cold and cruel voice of the golden warrior replied, bearing the bad news to Rita.
"Zordon and the power brats have finally caught word of me huh?" Rita asked, uncaringly as she turned to the sleeping Max. "Very well, tell Goldar I want him to get his ugly Golden butt down here and bring along an army of Putties to stand guard outside this cave and attack whoever tries to interfere."
"Right away my Queen." Scorpina replied, bowing in respect before disappearing in a purple glow, leaving Rita to her thoughts.
ZZZ
As the three separate lights formed and took shape of what seemed to be three regular teenagers, the three were welcomed with a hyperactive Alpha, watching the robot move from left to right and right to left, pressing all these different buttons or turning all these different types of knobs while repeating saying "Ayiyiyiyiyiyiyi!"
"Zordon what's happening?" Justin asked, stepping closer to the giant floating head in the tube.
"And why is it making Alpha panic?" Sonny asked.
"The second half of the sixth power coin is being restored; It's now only a matter of time before the Green Ranger returns to this world." That was all that was needed for the three rangers to panic as their faces went white, knowing only one reason why the Green Ranger would return. Rita had chosen her Ranger.
"WHAT!" They all cried in union.
"Did you just say the second half of the coin has been restored?" Justin asked the floating head, unsure he heard him right.
"Yes Justin." Zordon replied, nodding his head as he did.
"What does that mean? The second half of the coin being restored?" Nico asked, his gaze turning from Justin and Sonny, to Zordon, to Alpha and back to Zordon.
"Long ago the sixth power coin was split in two for safety reasons."Alpha stated, getting the rangers' attention. "For many centuries half of it had been sealed away and protected in a cave, while the other half wound up in the hands of Rita Repulsa."
"She has tried to release the other half of the power coin once before only to learn it takes special procedure." Zordon explained, making sure the rangers understood everything so far.
"What special procedure?" Sonny asked in curiously, wanting to know more.
"The Coin sealed away can only be freed and joined with it's other half in the presence of a specific person who holds certain qualities and a natural connection to the morphin grid." Zordon finished explaining. "If the Green Ranger returns to this world I'm afraid that this may be the end of the world."
"The sixth coin is that powerful?" Sonny asked gobsmacked, staring up in disbelief at the floating head that was their mentor while beside her Justin had pretty much frozen in place in fear, uncertain how to cope with this new information on the green power coin.
"It's one of the most powerful coins in existence." Alpha replied, answering the pink ranger.
"Where is she?" Fear evident in his voice, fists shaking by his side, while sweat beaded down his face, Nico stared up at Zordon sternly, obviously not taking this lightly. Zordon couldn't help but smile a little seeing the seriousness in the black ranger's eyes, maybe there's more hope then he had thought.
"Can we stop it from happening?" Sonny asked, looking a little worse then Nico as she couldn't hold the same stern look he held on his face.
"She's in the cave you saved Dakota that one time, also known as the Dragon's Den. And yes, as long as the coin isn't fully restored you still have time rangers." Alpha replied, still working on contacting the two missing rangers.
"Then that's where we'll be." Nico replied, placing his hands behind his back, reaching for his morpher as he shoved his doubts to the far reaches of his mind, readying himself for the worst. Justin and Sonny did the same as they shook their heads, getting rid of any fear or worry on their faces. "It's MORPHIN TIME!"
"Mastodon!"
"Pterodactyl!"
"Triceratops!"
ZZZ
As the three rangers appeared in the opened field, they stared up at the cave that they knew held the sixth coin and Rita within, staring up at it with unquestionable determination.
"That's where we got to go." Nico stated, taking a step forward. As he was going to take another step forward he quickly brought his foot back in its previous position as a grey energy in shape of a dust cloud formed into front of them before changing into an army of Putties that covered the entire field and a whole truck load up by the cave entrance.
"Well this wasn't as easy as expected." Was Nico's comment to the threat as the three rangers went into a battle stance.
"None the less, we got to break through them. The green ranger mustn't be revived." Justin ordered, taking a few steps before the other two rangers and moving towards the middle. "Take them down."
"Right!" Was the other two's responses before charging into battle, screaming out with the loudest battle cries they could muster, calling out their weapons as they drew closer.
Justin being the first to make it to the enemy frontline, swung his blue lance at the closest Putty near him, slashing three of them away from him with the tip of the blade at the end. The three Putties quickly fell and disappeared the same way they came in, in a dust of grey energy. Not stopping there, Justin started to spined the lance in clock rotation while sprinting over to the next one before lashing out and destroying another one, trying as best he could not to get hit.
Nico was doing a little better then the blue ranger, he swayed to the sides, span on his heels, leaped over attacks and finished up with a flip as he crashed downwards at the Putties below him, cutting it in half with ease. Springing up Nico placed all of his weight into his left leg as he leaned to his side and slash at the Putty that was closing up the gape between them. He then pushed of his left leg to his right and slash at the next Putty that dared to get close to him before leaping backwards, going a good six feet in the air and pulled out his blade blaster from his holster, blasting away at all the Putties below him, making sure not to hit Justin and Sonny.
Meanwhile Sonny was doing as good as the other two; she was no fighter, not a close range one anyway. Her style of fighting had always been long range and with the Putties being so close she barely had enough time to pull out an arrow. Dodging another fist to the head, Sonny ducked and rolled backwards a couple of metres before bringing her bow up and pulled on the string, an arrow forming as she pulled the string backwards. Releasing the string, the arrow whisked by, cutting through the air between it and its destination, running right through the closest putty's chest.
Before she could admire her shot she gave out a small squeak as she felt a foot collide with her back forcing her down onto all fours before add pressure pressed against her back once again and pushed her down until she was laying on the ground, groaning in pain as she felt foot after foot stomp on her back.
Struggling to get out, Sonny tried to get on all fours, she tried to shoved them off, she even tried to reach for her blade blaster and her morpher to teleport out, but whatever she did they either put more effort into their attacks or they grabbed her arms and legs, pulling them out from beneath her and away in four separate directions. She felt like she was in one of those old torturing device back in the Middle Ages.
Screaming on top of her lungs, she could only hope one of the boys could get to her before her arms and legs decided to dislocate. Lifting her up, Sonny groaned again, shouting at the top of her lungs as they started to kick her stomach and punching her sides and back, still tugging her arms and legs. She could honestly feel her limps being ripped away from her.
Luckily for her though as a Putty kick her side her blade blaster flew out of its holster and dropped straight for her hand. Catching a glance of the red weapon Sonny, opened her hand, trying to catch it, having the blaster fumble in her hands, before gripping onto it firmly.
"Yes!" She screamed excitedly as she twisted her wrist around and stabbed the clay warrior in the arm, forcing it to drop its hold on her before stumbling backwards, taking out its fellow comrades and giving her enough time to twist her body around and slash at the other Putty hold her other hand, cutting it off completely.
Giving a startled yelp as her upper body fell to the ground, she managed to catch herself by placing both her hands on the ground, then, while the Putties were startled by her counter attack, She twist her body around once more, managing to forcibly turned her feet slightly in the Putties hands, pushed off her right hand, changed the blade blaster into its gun mode and fired at the two putties, blowing them a part.
Too stubborn, as well as greatly aggravated, Sonny fired rapidly, not taking any prisoners as she screamed her lungs out, blasting away until she could no longer scream. By that point, the number of the Putties that were surrounding her had decreased dramatically.
Elsewhere, Nico charged forward, swiping at anything that got in his way to the cave. Every putty Nico went by didn't even make it to the ground before blowing up into grey dust clouds as he swung his axe at their chests or hips, barely slowing down as he passed them.
Passing his axe to his left hand, swinging it down at the closest putty, Nico grabbed his blade blaster from it holster, placed it in its gun form and started to blast the putties away, one by one, smiling as he blasted the approaching putty. This smile didn't last though. Nico's heart skipped a beat as he heard Justin cry and snapping his head around in an instant, his eyes bulge out of their sockets watching Justin fly a few meters before colliding with the ground, a yelp coming out of the blue warrior's mouth as his back collided with the rocky ground.
"Justin!" Nico yelled, mind racing, forgetting his predicament a second later as he lost the air within his lungs, a knee springing up and landing in his gut. Falling to his knees clenching his gut, Nico stared up at his attackers as the clay warriors circle around him, hope slowly slipping from his grip with each passing second as he thought. 'Nick , Alex where are you?'
"Hi-yaaaa!" As if answering his unspoken question, the yellow and red morphin rangers leapt out of nowhere kicking, shoving and punching the putties away from the black ranger, calling out their weapons as they swiped at their foes, not giving them a second glance as they cut every Putty around as they spun around the black ranger.
"Nick? Alex? Is that you?" Nico asked, clenching his gut as he stared up at the two figures as they stopped spinning in front of him after getting rid of the putties surrounding them.
"No, we're wood scouts here to sell cookies! Of course it us! Who else would wear spandex?" Alex responded sarcastically as Nick helped his follow ranger up to his feet.
"I don't know, pro wrestlers?"
"Oh please, like they'd show up at a fight that wasn't choreographed." Alex joked, turning her gaze over the battle field to see the putties closing in on Sonny, getting to the point that the pink ranger couldn't handle it. "Sonny! Don't worry I'm coming!" With that she was off, not bothering to wait for the other two as she cut her way through the putties.
"Nick, Justin's been hit." Nico grumbled in between breaths pointing towards the injured blue being lifted by the Putties and being thrown to the ground again, getting kicked or punched in the back from the every Putty that he landed by. "You got to help him."
"I'm on it, be careful while I'm gone." Nick replied before charging off, sword at his side and behind him as he yelled a battle cry.
"I'll be fine." Was Nico's response as he stormed through the crowd of putties, grabbing his weapon as he went, slamming it into the approaching putties.
Racing down the track towards the putties, Alex had to be quick on her feet, leaping off the ground whipping out her right leg, kicking the Putty arm away before lashing out with her left one, aiming for its chest and forcing the clay figure backwards onto the ground before exploding. It didn't take her long to stabilize herself as her toes touched the ground, spinning around like a ballerina and thrusting out her daggers, redirecting a putty's fist and using her other arm to slash through its neck. Seeing a putty rushing towards her, Alex swayed to the side and smiled behind the mask of the yellow ranger as she watched the putty collide with one of its comrades and tumble to the ground before she continued heading towards her friend.
Sonny brought her arrow back before releasing it towards a putty, which obviously wasn't expecting the arrow, and watched it explode before jumping back once she caught sight of putty's foot that was aiming for her gut through the corner of her eye. Taking a few steps back, she readied another arrow and let it fly before dodging another fist, not having the time to see it collide with its head.
As Sonny continued to dodge the ongoing attacks she failed to notice one of the Putties behind her stuck out its leg, tripping her as she leapt backwards and yelped in surprise as she fell, accidently throwing her bow away. Managing to fall to her butt Sonny didn't have time to do much as a few Putties dived down at her in an instant, not giving her time to retrieve her bow or grab her blade blaster. Screaming in fear, Sonny relied on her instincts and crossed her arms in front of her face readying herself for the impact.
Not feeling any impact Sonny cautiously removed her arms and stared in shock at the Yellow Ranger standing in front of her, daggers in hand, watching the destruction of the putties that she had just sliced up into nothingness.
"Alex!" Sonny exclaimed excitedly, reaching for her blade blaster and placing it in gun mode before turning around so she and Alex were back to back, blasting away any Putties that were near.
"Thought you needed a hand." Alex replied, slashing at the two Putties that dared intruded her personal space.
"You can say that again." Sonny smiled, still blasting anything that was grey and moving.
Meanwhile, Nick made his way over to the fallen blue ranger, striking down anything that got in his way. Charging energy into his blade Nick swung the sword into a horizontal slash and cut the Putties surrounding Justin in half. Finally reaching the blue ranger Nick fell to his knees and placed a hand on Justin shoulder, giving him a slight nudge.
"Come on Justin, time to get up." He told Justin, slashing at the incoming Putty with his right hand, still using his left to shake Justin.
"But mummy I don't want to go to school today, I wanna stay home and bake cookies with you." Justin moaned childishly, turning his head to the red ranger, not noticing the Putties regrouping from Nick's last attack.
"I'm going to pretend that was the concussion talking and forget all about it." Nick chuckled, before placing his focus on the Putties that were charging at them from all angles. "Because we really need to move." 'On second thought.' Getting up, Nick gathered as much energy as he could, channelling it into his blade before looking down at the now sitting up Blue Ranger and said. "Stay down."
Before Justin could argue Nick span on his heel, twirling around as fast as he could as he released a red energy ring and watched it spread out as it blew away the incoming attack, destroying the first and second line of Putties while sending the others falling to the ground as they started to tumble over one another. Coming to a stop, Nick thrust his sword into the ground, as he lean on it for support, his breathing ragged, as he felt the sweat bead down his face underneath his helmet.
"That was amazing!"Justin cheered as he jumped up, only to regret it as he landed in his feet and felt the pain in his back, arms and legs intensify. Just as he was about to say something else, Justin turned his head to the right and his cheerful personality mood into one of concern as he stared down at the tired Nick. "Nick, are you okay?"
"That took out a lot of me then expected." Nick groaned as he got up, his grip tightening on the sword as he pulled it out of the ground, staring onward to the cave.
"Nick!" The rangers called racing over to their leader, batting away all of the putties that got in their way. The five of them gathered back to back as the Putties regathered.
"This is useless" Sonny yelled, getting the other rangers' attention as they looked back for a split second in worry before placing their attention back onto the Putties in front of them. "No matter how many we take out two more just take their place."
"Guys all we have to do is charge right through to the cave." Justin told the group, recalling his weapon to his hands in a blue light.
"Yeah like that worked out well the first time." Alex responded, slashing another Putty down, before kicking another one back.
"Well, we've got to figure something out or it'll be to late." Nico replied glaring at the Putties as he rammed his axe into one's shoulder and cut it down to size. Even though he was cutting down any Putty that came near, Nick's attention stayed on the cave, eyeing it thoughtfully as ideas roamed through his head. He clenched his teeth together, there was little time and here they were being held up by an endless amount of Putties. Sighing in defeat he turned his gaze over to the black ranger if. They had any chance of stopping the birth of the Green Ranger they had to go all out.
"Nico it's time for plan b." The rangers quickly batted away or destroyed whatever amount of Putties they had to deal with before snapping their heads to the red ranger, three of them confused while the Black Ranger just stared at him.
"Are you sure? I won't be to much help to you if we miss the deadline." Nico commented, noticing his fellow rangers jerking at his choice of words. "Sorry bad choice of words."
"At this rate we won't get there in time to stop it." Nick explained, doing a vertical slash at a Putty. "You're our only hope. Think you can do it?"
"Do I think? Do you even know me?" Nico asked cockily as he turned around to face the cave, getting a few giggles and smirks from his comrades. "Just watch me." Moving his hand to his morpher the Black Ranger disappeared in a black light and flew straight through the lines, slashing every Putty he crossed paths with, giving the other four stunned rangers a path to the cave with ease. Once and awhile they had to lash out with their weapons, but it was a lot easier then what they would have had to do if Nico hadn't rammed through the Putties' lines of defence.
Sonny, Justin and Alex were truly amazed at the Black Ranger as the black blur managed to destroy every Putty he met with one simple assault, not stopping even when he reached the entrance of the cave, destroying every Putty that stood guard before pulling out of the black energy and welcoming the other rangers as they arrived.
"Now that's how I do it." Nico replied pointing to himself with his thumb.
"Great work." Nick replied before turning his attention to the others. "Sonny, Justin, Nico, hold off the incoming Putties. Alex we're going in." With a nod of their heads the two groups broke off, Justin, Sonny and Nico pulled out their blade blaster and firing down at the Putties while Alex and Nick stepped closer to the cave.
Just as they were about to enter the two stopped midway, hearing the evil laughter of Goldar above them. Thinking quick, Nick and Alex leapt back, bringing up their weapons in defence, as Goldar fell from the sky and crushed his sword where they once were, causing a temporarily dust cloud, blocking their vision.
The two rangers stared at the dust cloud, watching for any movement or change in the dust, neither one lowering their guard for a second. Taking a hesitant step forward, Nick quickly brought it back and threw his sword in front of him, clashing blades with the golden warrior, forgetting the strain his body had already endured.
Feeling the collision of the blow made every one of his muscles ache and he started to lose his footing as the two warrior squared off. "Nick!" He heard Alex scream out as he fell to one knee.
"What's wrong Red Ranger? Don't tell me you're out already, the fun has just started." Goldar chuckled, pressing more strength into his sword, overpowering the Red Ranger by far.
Grunting at the pressure, Nick held his ground, glaring at the smirking gold plated monkey. He wasn't sure how much longer he would be able to bear this. 'Struck down by a golden baboon, I'll never live this down.' Closing his eyes as he lost whatever strength he had left to hold him off, his sword falling to the ground and clanging away, Nick went onto all fours, trying to push himself back up with little success.
"Goodbye Red Ranger." Goldar cheered, raising his sword over his head before bringing it down, with the full intention of finishing off his life. The blade plummeting towards Nick, surely to be a death blow, Alex leapt into battle, no longer able to stand on the side lines. Arms stretched and Daggers out, Alex dived in, moving her arm in an angle that just didn't block Goldar's sword but redirected it to the side, ploughed into the ground beside Nick, burying it half way down into the earth.
Yelping in surprise, Goldar pulled the sword out of the ground, planning to counterattack, but to no avail. Alex had already drawn in close, having already being at striking distance before he even could tug at his sword. With one hell of a battle cry Alex brought her dagger down, going for a diagonal slash that went from Goldar's left shoulder to his right hip forcing him back, a smirk forming on her lips as the golden monkey wailed, taking several steps backward and losing his grip on his sword, leaving it behind in the ground.
"Don't tell me you forgot me." Alex taunted, readjusting her grip on her weapons as Goldar regained his footing from the blow, growling at the yellow ranger. "Cause I'll be awfully hurt if you did."
"You'll be hurt in a moment Yellow Ranger!" Goldar growled, however, before he even had a chance to get payback, a black blur streaked by several times, slashing away at the gold warrior and forcing him back again as it formed a little way away from the yellow ranger.
"Nico?" Alex asked, shocked that Nico interfered, even more so when she heard him gasping for air. "Nico are you oka..."
"Thought you needed the help." Nico cut her off, knowing it wasn't the time to talk about how exhausted he felt at the moment.
"Hey! I had this all under control." Alex scolded.
"Alex me and Nick can handle Goldar for a while, that should give you enough time to stop the Green Ranger." Nico replied, tightening his grip on the power axe.
"Hey, why didn't you do it while teleporting around and interfering in my fight?" Alex asked, annoyed at the black ranger.
"Think, Rita is in the cave and you're the only one not worn out yet." Nico replied, glaring as he watch Goldar get back up.
"Okay I'll think, Rita in the cave and your terrified of her." Alex replied giving him a look behind her helmet.
"That's beside the point, I mean... I'm not afraid." Nico commented, looking away from the Yellow Ranger.
"Uh-huh." Alex replied rolling her eyes at the black ranger. Just as she was about to respond she turned around at the mention of her name, seeing Nick steadily get up, picking up his sword.
"He's right. We'll hold Goldar off as long as we can, now go." Nick panted, grabbing Goldar's sword as well and stood in front of the yellow ranger. Alex stood there gazing at the two tired rangers before clenching her eyes shut and with a turn of her head ran straight for the cave.
"Fine, but you better leave some of Goldar for when I come back." Nick and Nico smirked at Alex's response, chuckling a bit in a amusement.
"Hahaha, what we have to put up with." Nico laughed out loud.
"Yeah but would you have it any other way?" Nick asked amusedly, giving Nico a glance before turning his attention back to the enraged Goldar, not really caring that he was yelling something about his sword.
"Hmm... No." Nico responded.
"Good. Now then let's get this party started." With a simple nod, the two rangers charged down towards the golden buffoon with Nico swaying to his right and Nick ducking under, dodging the deadly dual red beams coming out of Goldar eyes.
ZZZ
Treading deep into the cave, Alex shivered at the familiar dreadful presence of none other then Rita Repulsa. Tightening her grip on her daggers as she went along, she stopped several times, turning back every time she heard an explosion, a scream or a yell, wanting more than anything run back to help her friends. But she knew she had a job to do and her friends were relying on her to get it done. Who was the idiot who put that much faith in her?
Taking a step around the bend, Alex gasped as she leapt back and dropped into a stance, moving slowly back the way she came as a cackling Rita walked towards her, staff in hand.
"Hello Yellow Ranger." Rita greeted. "I was hoping to meet with you again."
"Why? So I can throw more insults?" Alex asked, amused as she got a rise from the old hag. "Cause I got a good one."
"No! So I can destroy you personally." Rita smirked, channelling her magic through her staff.
"Sorry, but I have to ruin your plan... Oh, who am I fooling, I'm not sorry about ruining your plans again you horn headed, old hag wannabe. And I say wannabe because you make them look good." With a growl from Rita, Alex took that as her cue and charged forward, moving as fast as she could towards the dark witch.
"Why you power brat!" Rita growled, a red outline forming around her body as she channel more magic into her staff. "Unlike your friends you're going to be history before ever witnessing the power of the Green Ranger." Thrusting her staff forward, a beam of energy shot out from the gem and headed in a straight collision course with Alex, hitting her straight in the gut, lifting her off the ground and blowing her away and out of the cave.
Laughing as loud as she could, all her attention on the screaming yellow ranger, Rita barely took any notice of the green light that was starting to engulf the cave once again. Turning her eyes to the boy, seeing how calm he was laying in midair and by what her senses told her, she knew that the rangers were too late. Max had not only joined her forces by her spell, but the Green Ranger had awakened.
With a smile on her face Rita disappeared, returning back to her Palace on the moon, just before the green light touched her, leaving Max alone for his rebirth. "This is the end of you power brats."
zzz
Meanwhile the rangers' attention were brought to the entrance of the cave as Alex's scream reached their ears. Alex wasn't sure how much longer she could last before she demorphed. She only hoped Rita would give up on her attack soon before she is dead.
The rangers were stunned as they watch Alex fly out the cave by the red energy beam, soaring high in the air before plummeting to the ground as the blast died out.
"ALEX!" The four rangers cried simultaneously as she fell to the earth, crash landing a few metres outside the cave entrance, unconscious as a bright flash of yellow light engulfed the girl as Alex's powers faded away, leaving her vulnerable in her time of need.
"Alex!" Nico yelled, rushing over to her and kneeling down, staring at the brunette in concern, unsure how to help her.
"It looks like she ran into Rita; guess she wants me to finish the job." Goldar smirked, raising his hands in front of his face before throwing them down to his side and releasing two blasts of red energy at the Black and injured, Yellow Rangers.
Seeing the blast coming from the corner of his eyes, he snapped around and outstretched his arms, shielding the girl from the blast. Alex stirred in her sleep as the explosive collision met her ears before waking up, her tired, drain eyes, slowly opening to the sight of the Black Ranger towering over her, smoking, before collapsing to his knees and then to his hands.
"Nico!" Alex screamed, trying to force herself up, but only managing to raise herself a few centre metres off the ground before collapsing back onto the ground.
"Hahaha at this rate we won't even need the green ranger." Goldar laughed, closing his eyes and turning his head upwards, not noticing the pink and blue blasts that collided with his shoulder until being thrown to the ground by the force of the attack.
"Don't forget about us." Justin yelled as he and Sonny ran in-between him and their two down rangers.
"Why you power brats- ARGH!" Goldar screamed again falling to his right knee, purple blood pouring out of his leg after just getting up, as a red blur passed by him. Bringing his head up again he set his glare on the red ranger, holding up his own gold sword, with hatred as he reunited with his fellow rangers.
"Good luck fighting us now Goldar." Nick commented, pointing down at Goldar's injury. Growling furiously at the red ranger, Goldar tried to stand back up only to fall back down. The Red Ranger's blow didn't just make him unable to walk or stand, but had stabbed his leg pretty deep and he did it with his own blade! "Give it up Goldar, you lost this fight."
Goldar growled at the rangers, his fist tightening to the point his awfully large nails pierce his skin, purple blood trailing down his fingers and dripping onto the ground. It wasn't over just yet, not for him.
Trying to come up with an idea he and the five rangers lost their trains of thought as an ear piecing thunderous roar, its volume only increasing thanks to the cave, went off beside them. The force was so powerful it almost blew them away.
The still standing warriors lost their footing as tremors shook the ground beneath them, quickly making their way to New York City. People screamed in panic as the shaking made the world look as if it was coming to an end as things like plants, merchandise and vehicles toppled over.
"WHAT'S GOING ON!" Sonny screamed, trying to see what was happening. However, she was too preoccupied keeping her balance to find out.
"It must be the Green Ranger!" Nick yelled back, placing both swords in the ground, tightening his grip on his sword with one hand while holding Alex in the other, ensuring that she didn't get blown away with the wind as Nico took hold of Goldar's. "We're too late."
ZZZ
In the cave at the end of the tunnel where the green light and the destructive power was generating from, the green energy slowly faded away leaving the young Russo child floating in midair by himself with only a green outline and a completed, gold coin with a symbol resembling a dragon footprint floating into his hands the only evidence that the power was there.
As the tremors came to an end, Max stirred from his rest and tightened his grip on the coin as his brown eyes shot open. The look of shock on his face quickly vanished and was replaced by a smug one as his eyes flashed green multiple times until his brown eyes were completely gone leaving them with an eerie green glow.
To Be Continue
Hope you enjoy this chapter, sorry if it seems uninteresting a bi, this and the next is mainly just to tell you how strong Max really is and how big of a threat he is. I'm working on the last scene of the next part so once I'm finish with it I'll give it to Typhoonboom08 to beta it and it should be out sometime in Feb. Until then cya.