To Alexis' question, Terrence merely nodded. And although he stayed relatively calm about it, Alexis could not.
"So you're the one that told everyone how to defend themselves against those grey men." Alexis was excited.
"Well, somebody had to do something." Terrence sounded cynical, "When I first saw these colored people, I thought they must be geniuses but now that I saw them up close..."
Alexis didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
"Well, you ever heard of Arthur C. Clarke?" Terrence asked, to which Alexis shook her head, "He wrote that in the future, people would find a way to become radiation and light particles, so they won't have any need for a physical body. When I saw these people in the form of light and turning back into human bodies, I thought they had accomplished exactly that, and went much further. Sort of like turning themselves into light and radiation, and back again."
"And how do you know they didn't?" Alexis asked him.
"The only thing they do is showing off, bragging about themselves,..." Terrence explained, "But they couldn't even figure out the easiest way to defeat those grey men. I wonder, since they call themselves "power" rangers, is their power to be infinitely stupid?"
"If they are, how did they do that thing with the light?" Alexis reasoned.
"They don't." Terrence explained, "Someone else is doing it for them."
This surprised Alexis to hear: "Who?"
"I'm not sure." Terrence replied, "I overheard them talk to someone they call Zordon. I remember having heard that name before, but I can't remember where."
Alexis soon realized something: "Zordon? You didn't talk about him to the papers."
"I didn't think they needed to hear everything." Terrence explained, "I told them exactly what I think the people needed to hear. What these people call themselves, and how we could defend ourselves against these monsters. With these six "protecting" us, we'll need it."
"And you didn't tell them about Zordon, because...?" Alexis questioned.
"Because I want to know more about that before I tell anyone." Terrence answered.
"So... why are you telling me?" Alexis asked him.
To this, Terrence had no answer. Why was he telling her, indeed? Just because she asked? If so, the papers asked him for more too, but he said there was nothing more. So they asked, and he didn't answer, Alexis asked and he answered immediately.
This silence of his made Alexis realize he may not feel comfortable in answering, so she decided to leave it: "Never mind."
This is when the conversation went silent, and the two didn't say a word for some time.
Meanwhile, the Red Ranger approached the Octophantom. He ran to him as fast as he could and jumped on him. The monster didn't know what was going on. As something jumped him, he lost balance, so he fell down. Goldar saw this happening, so he got ready to fight.
"Stega Stinger!" somebody shouted, upon which something got Goldar's leg, pulling it off the ground, causing him to fall. Once he was down, Goldar turned to look, and saw the Blue Ranger, holding something in his hand, that had a wire attached to it, which lead to Goldar's leg.
Goldar growled: "Putties! Attack him!"
"Billy, look out!" the other four shouted.
The Putties began their attack, which was hard for the Blue Ranger to handle by himself.s
"Alright... don't panic..." the Blue Ranger told himself, as he was surrounded by these grey men, "What did the paper say again...?"
As he tried to remember, one of the Putties came too close to him. The Blue Ranger could think of nothing else to do but to push that Putty away. In doing so, he accidentally hit the "Z" on its chest, causing it to burst apart. Seeing this happen, caused the other Putties to step back, but the Blue Ranger on the other hand saw his chance to turn the tide. Like a maniac, he attacked the Putties, killing them off one by one.
Goldar saw how the Blue Ranger went about killing the Putties, which got him too worried to stay.
"I'm getting outta here!" Goldar exclaimed, after which he stretched his wings and flew away.
The Red Ranger wasn't having such an easy time with the Octophantom. It didn't take the monster too long to beat him down. Once he was down, the Octophantom was ready to stomp the Red Ranger.
"Red Ranger, hold out your two hands!" Zordon told him over his communication device.
The Red Ranger didn't know what that was about, but did as he was told. Between his hands, a mirror suddenly appeared. With that, the Octophantom could look at himself. Seeing himself, the monster stopped doing what he was about to do.
"Oh, hello handsome!" he said to his own reflection.
The Red Ranger was astonished at the sight of that: "That's... one... weirdo."
"Now, use your scanner to search for his weak spot." Zordon told him.
"Oh, right." the Red Ranger acknowledged.
He used his scanner, which indicated where the weak spot is. Once he saw it, the Red Ranger threw away the mirror, took out his gun and shot at the Octophantom. This weakened it gravely.
While that was going on, the Blue Ranger had taken care of all the Putties, so he could free the other four.
"We're free." the Pink Ranger said.
"At last." the White Ranger agreed.
"Hey!" the Blue Ranger complained, "It's not my fault that Zordon kept teleporting us away when we wanted to help."
"Sure." the Black Ranger remarked, "Let's deal with that thing. Now!"
"Right!" the White Ranger shouted.
"Yeah!" the Yellow Ranger concurred.
On the moon, Rita could see how the Octophantom was losing.
"Another failiure of yours." Rita complained to Zedd, "It looks like I have to clean up your mess again."
She raised her staff, and pointed it to the monster. As lightning shot out of it, Zedd had his own words to say: "This would not have happened if Goldar stayed and fight as I told him to."