The Raging Nightmare
"So...are you Rangers ready to admit defeat to me!" Nightmare asked as he starred down the fallen Rangers.
"Why would we give up?" Chase asked as he tried to stand up to his "father".
"Hmph, maybe because you have no powers and stand no chance against a dark diety like myself!" Nightmare smiled.
"Trust me, we can handle somebody like you." Shaun grinned.
"Yeah, you're just another monster we need to take on." Megan smiled.
"Oh, so you all think this way?"
"Got that right." Zan stood up.
"We are not going to give up." Rory told Nightmare.
"And like I said, I've seen you destroy enough. No more will you exist!" Syren shouted in anger at Nightmare.
"Hmph...take this!" Nightmare stretched his hand out sending a dark pulse of energy towards the Rangers.
"Aaaahhh!" They all fell to the ground once more.
"Negative Surge!" Nightmare sent a ring of purple energy towards the Rangers. They were all caught in a ring and their life force began to slowly be drained away.
"Aaaaaahhh!" They cringed in agony.
"This is not much of a fight any more is it? You all put up a good battle, but nobody will win a war against me!" Nightmare boasted.
"Are you serious...sare you that confident in your powers that you don't think we can make a come back? The good guys always win!" Smiled Chase.
"Yeah, which makes it so cliche'!" Shouted Nightmare, "And normally it's the Red Ranger who makes the comeback! But I don't think that's going to happen today..." Nightmare walked up to Chase in T.J's body and shoved his hand in Chase's chest.
"Aaaahhh!"
"Die...Red Ranger!" Nightmare then shut down T.J's body and left. A black mist escaped T.J's body and a new being stood behind him. A big bulky man with a skeleton head that had a human body. It wore various tathered clothes, it carried a sword made out of the souls of the people that had died over the day of the Earth's creation and that had gone to hell. They all suffered and screamed. His shield was demonic and made out of various corpse limbs with a series of dirrent colored eyes in a six pointed star formation. With a single large eye in the middle of it all.
"D-dad!" Chase shouted as T.J's body fell over.
"Now die boy!" The newly evolved Nightmare raised his blade and drove it deep in to Chase's heart.
"Chase!" Everyone cried out.
"Aaaaahhh!" A bright light shinned, and soon Chase was no longer moving.
Meanwhile...
"Huh...seems like you are able to keep up with my speed at least." The Infinity Ranger gazed on at the Shadow Ranger.
"Seems like? I've been slowing down so you can feel faster." Cyrus joked.
"So you've been holding back? You probably shouldn't." Infinity informed, "It could cost you a life."
"And it could save one as well."
"Shut up!" Infinity roared, "I'm going to crush you!" Infinity and Shadow clashed blades. Shadow was pushed back, but quickly fired a laser hitting the Infinity Ranger in the chest.
"Grrr..don't think for a second that you're strong enough to actually defeat me!"
"I don't know, seems like I'm currently doing okay." Cyrus informed.
"Currently...currently?" Infinity repeated, "I'm done with you now. I think it's about time you meet God Nightmare yourself." Infinity sheathed his sword andslowly turned his back on Cyrus.
"Now's my chance!" Cyrus thought. He charged forth with his blade ready to pierce Infinity's body.
"Got'cha!" Infinity quickly whipped around and stabbed Cyrus in the chest.
"Uhhh..." Cyrus looked down to see Infinity's blade go straight through his back.
"I told you..." Infinity smiled, "I'm done with you now." Infinity took his sword out of Cyrus's body and let the Shadow Ranger fall to the ground as his blood became a pool around him.
"Now...if you don't mid...I need to join God Nightmare in the destruction of the remaining Power Rangers."
Unknown...
"Uhhh...where am I?" Chase wondered aloud as he slowly came to. He found himself in complete darkness, actually. It was more like Space itself. He floated there, he was confused. It was cold, yet he could breath.
"Chase..." A voice called out to him.
"Huh?" Chase looked around and suddenly he was circled by various former Red Power Rangers, "Red Rangers?" Chase looked on and began naming off the Red Rangers.
"The Mighty Morphing Red Ranger, Aquatian Ranger, Zeo Ranger V, Red Turbo Ranger, Red Space Ranger, Red Galaxy, Lightspeed Ranger, the Red Timeforce Ranger, the Red Wild Force Ranger, Red Ninja Storm Ranger, Red Dino Ranger, S.P.D Red, Mystic Red, the Red Overdrive Ranger, Jungle Fury Red, the Red RPM Ranger, and the Red Samurai Ranger." Chase was in awe of all the Red Rangers.
"And don't forget this guy." The Red Mighty Morphing Ranger informed as a man dressed in all white with sky blue hair walked up and took a seat next to the rest of the Red Rangers. It appeared as a jury was encircling Chase.
"What's going on? Who are you?" Chase asked.
"I am Zordon."
"Zordon?" Chase repeated.
"The first person to start the modern day Power Rangers." Zeo Ranger V informed.
"Really? That's cool, but what's going on?"
"Chase, you are the Red Psycho Ranger. Right now you are being judged by the Red Ranger Council."
"Judged? Why am I being judged? I need to be out there helping my friends fight off Nightmare! If I don't then the world is done for."
"Just take the time to listen to us." The Red Samurai Ranger informed.
"Times kind of against me right now."
"No need to worry, time is frozen." Zordon explained.
"Why?"
"Because this moment is very neccessary that we get through." The Red Jungle Fury Ranger told Chase.
"Alright then, why am I being judged?"
"Nightmare killed you, do you not realize this?" Asked the Red Space Ranger.
"No...I can't be dead! No way that guy killed me!"
"Well...he did." The Red Time Space Ranger sighed.
"I can't be dead!"
"Don't worry you'll be able to be brought back to life." Mystic Red told him.
"What how?"
"By our judgement." The Red Ninja Storm Ranger commented.
"Okay...so why are we judging me?"
"To see if you are ready to take on Nightmare. We need to see if you are ready to become one of us." Wild Force Red explained.
"A Red Range? I'm already a Red Ranger. The Red Psycho Ranger." Chase told them.
"Maybe, but that is not enough to take on Nightmare." RPM Red informed.
"I can tell, I mean he took me and everybody down with a single wave of his hand. Nightmare...is truely god like in a sense."
"Don't admit that." Zeo V told Chase, "That's why we are here to judge you. This will help you. By us being here we can help in your assitance to get over this fear of Nightmare."
"He might be the first evil to exist, but he will not be the last. Are you ready for a challenge as such?" Zordon asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Chase...your Psycho Ranger power was only temporary and your time is up. Along with your friends." Zordon explained.
"No...I'm the Red Psycho Ranger, I can't just leave them. I can just lose my powers!" Chase told Zordon.
"Well...it has happened." Mighty Morphin Red said with distain.
"Then how am I going to defeat Nightmare! Tell me! Help me! I'll do anything! I will surely give up my life to end his!" Chase told them.
"You cannot bring peace, by creating death." Zordon told Chase.
"What? So you're saying don't destroy him? Have you seen what he has done? He's put the whole world in ruins Zordon! He needs to be destroyed."
"This is understood, but it's not the way of the Rangers. Killing is a last resort that a Ranger should not have to do."
"And currently I'm in a last resort situation! I can't lose to him guys...please! I beg of you...tell me what I have to do...I must stop Nightmare. You don't want me to kill him? Then fine! I'll try my best not to...if you want I'll seal him away! I'll seal myself away with him! I'll do anything to change the world back to normal." All the Red Rangers looked at each other and heard Chase's plea. They all nodded and looked at Zordon.
"Seems like the Rangers have heard your plea Chase." Zordon smiled, "So for that we will help you defeat Nightmare. With this power you will find what you need to do enable to stop Nightmare."
"Yes...please." Chase begged.
"Chase Johnson...prepare...to behold a power like never before." Zordon stuck his hands out and the power of all the Red Rangers transfered in to him. then Zordon channeled his power and the power of all the Red Rangers and charged Chase with it.
"Aaaaaahhh!" The former Red Psycho Ranger cried out in pain and agony for the power burned within him. For what seemed like forever only lasted a few seconds. When Zordon finished all the Red Rangers starred at Chase and smiled beneath their helmets and masks.
"Now..." Zordon smiled and nodded, "Go and defeat Nightmare."
"Right..." Chase nodded, then a flash of light blinded him.
"Chase!" All the Rangers shouted.
"It's too late...he's gone." Nightmare smiled.
"Uhh...who said that?" Chase stuttered.
"What?" Nightmare looked down at Chase, "You should be dead!"
"Maybe..." Chase stood up and Nightmare backed away, "What's wrong God Nightmare? Scared of a human?"
"Of coure not." Nightmare scoffed, "But I suggest you back down or everybody else dies!"
"I don't think anybody is going to be dying today...nobody."
"And why's that?" Nightmare asked.
"Because I'm stronger than before...much stronger." Chase informed.
"Oh yeah? Prove it." Nightmare taunted.
"Hmph...okay. Just remember this...you asked for it." Chase lifted his right hand up as it began glow a bright red. Multiple streams of red energy encircled and helixed around Chase's hand.
"..." Nightmare just starred on.
"Chase...don't do this." Shaun told his friend.
"Don't worry Shuan...I got this."
"Please don't! He's too strong!" Megan cried out.
"No! Let your pathetic leader believe he can defeat me!" Nightmare shouted, "I want to see what kind of power he's come across now! What power can stand up to a god like myself!"
"Just watch and witness..." Chase smiled, "Because it's Morphin' Time!"
Next Time: What kind of Power has Chase inherited from the Red Rangers of the past and from Zordon? Will it be enough to stop and finally destroy Nightmare? Will it be enough to change everything back? How strong is he now? How will things turn out? Will the reign of Nightmare come to an end?
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