DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POWER RANGERS

AN: Well here comes chapter 3, I hope you like what i've done so far and thanks for all the comments :)

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"Are you seriously telling me that you live here man?", Adam surveyed the house within the forest they were currently driving towards with a mixture of shock and disbelief.

"Hey, what's wrong with my house?!"

"Nothing...", Adam replied quickly; "I just didn't see you as a country guy".

"There are bigger reasons why I live here", Tommy argued back.

"Like what?"

You're about to find out...", Xander perked his ears up at this; but Kira and Tori remained unphased as the jeep rolled to a stop outside the house.

Tommy led the way up the front porch and through the door as everyone looked around with mild interest, they stopped just outside the lounge, where there was a small chest stood against the wall.

"Don't you ever get tired of dinosaurs?", Adam asked disbelievingly as he prodded the skeletal statue stood on the chest. The former Ranger merely grinned back at him as he watched his actions and five seconds later, the floor began to visibly move.

"What the...?", Xander quickly stood back as the stone flooring began to come apart. Adam also watched in astonishment; his finger still poised, as a staircase came into view that evidently led to somewhere underground. Kira and Tori however, were no strangers to the wonders of this house and surveyed the guys' reactions with amusement.

"After you...", Tommy gestured downwards to the team.

The Black Ranger glanced suspiciously towards Tommy before slowly making his way down the steep stone stairs, quickly followed by a curious Xander and with Tori, Kira and Dr. O bringing up the rear.

As the subterranean room came into light, it was a bunch of mixed reactions from the Rangers.

"Woah..."

"Nice...definitely more hi-tech than Rootcore..."

"Someone's been decorating since I was last here..."

"Okay man, I take back everything I said about you being just a school teacher...", Adam looked impressed with the completely refurbished Dino Lab. The Lab looked pretty much the same as it had before Zeltrax had trashed it in the battle with Mesogog two years ago except there was a slightly larger and updated computer and monitoring system, a few more random pieces of technology lying around and more rooms for storage.

"So will this be okay for our little base of operations?", Tommy asked hopefully.

"Definitely...", Xander settled himself in one of the large black chairs that resided by the computer; "I could get used to this...", he made himself comfortable before glancing to his side where the seat next to him suddenly swiveled around...

"Ah!", the movement caught the Green Ranger by surprise as the person in the other chair looked at him enquiringly.

"Oh yeah, I nearly forgot...", Tommy scratched the back of his neck apologetically; "Xander, meet Hayley".

"Hi...name's Xander", he flashed her his best smile and held out his hand.

"I figured", Hayley grinned; accepting the gesture.

The others showed their signs of greeting towards her, whilst a thought occurred to Adam; "Hang on Tommy...when we met...", he gestured between himself and the tech wizard; "You said that Hayley was just one of your 'good friends'...not your partner in crime!"

"I didn't want to shout about the fact that i've been a Power Ranger more times than I can remember and that i've confided it in a couple of people", he countered casually.

"Evidently", Adam shrugged it off; "Ah well, back to business".

"Yeah, so first off i'm gonna need your communicators so Hayley can put them all into sync with our communication system and each other".

"Huh?", Xander wore a very confused look on his face.

Tori rolled her eyes; "They're gonna make it so that we can talk to each other through our morphers", she quickly dumbed it down for him.

"Why didn't you say so?", he rummaged in his pockets for the Mystic Morpher and handed it to Tommy. The others quickly followed suit and Adam's communicator, Kira's Dino Morpher and the Wind Morpher were soon added to the mix.

Tommy handed them to Hayley, who wired them all up to form a circuit with the communications system. As she hit a few buttons, the various devices began to glow slightly with a golden pulsing light for about a minute as the Rangers watched curiously, before it quickly faded away again.

The morphers were wordlessly handed back to their respectful owners and donned or safely put away once more until Tommy spoke out; "These will also keep you in contact with us at all times and allow us to pinpoint your exact locations if you ever need backup,

I-"

The former mentor was abruptly interrupted by a fast-paced beeping that appeared to come from the computer screen; "What was that?", Xander asked curiously as they all peered over Hayley's shoulder to find the source of the issue.

"Not good...", she muttered as she brought up a live surveillance camera; "We've got trouble", she indicated to the large figure that was terrorizing civilians on the other side of town.

"Here we go again", Tori sighed as she eyed up the creature.

"You should be able to access your own modes of transport now that you have reclaimed your powers", Tommy hinted.

The Rangers nodded in understanding and rapidly exited through the sliding wall into the forest, morphing as they went...

"IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!"

"NINJA STORM, RANGER FORM!"

"MAGICAL SOURCE, MYSTIC FORCE!"

"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!"

Without even stopping to think, Adam, Kira and Tori then called into their morphers and in front of them materialized a sleek Black Shark Cycle, the Blue Tsunami Cycle and the Raptor Cycle.

"Feels good to be back...", Tori ran a hand down the bike before jumping on.

"I'll catch you up!", Xander called as the three Rangers sped off towards their target. "They're so gonna be stood up!", he flipped open his morpher and pressed in his chosen combination.

"Galwit Mysto Aerotan!"

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The Black, Blue and Yellow Rangers ground to a halt as out of nowhere, tens of Hornets dropped from the sky right in front of them.

"Will these guys ever give up?", Kira groaned as she glanced at the others.

"Not likely", Tori agreed.

"They're too stupid to know any better...", a sudden notion hit Adam; "Where's Xander?"

The female Rangers were silent as they looked between themselves and shrugged; "I don't-..."

"Coming down!", a voice shouted from high above their heads as a streamlined green machine flew rapidly towards them.

"I think we found him..."

"Then what are we waiting for, let's get these freaks...", Adam revved up his Shark Cycle before directing it towards the footsoldiers, unleashing a torrent of power as he blazed straight through them, running the unfortunate ones over.

Kira and Tori double-teamed the larger group as they fired their lasers directly towards the enemy, racing towards them before skidding to change direction and heading straight back at them with devastating results.

"Oh yeah!", the Green Ranger was enjoying every minute of his aerial assault on the far inferior Hornets as he circled the skies above them, occasionally sending bursts of laser fire towards them. He made for the final attack as he zoomed towards the ground whilst pulling out his Magistaff. The remaining creatures didn't know what hit them as they collapsed to the ground, destroyed.

Xander calmly leapt from his Racer to join the rest of the team as they came face to face with the true villain. "Twistor is my name, destruction is my game!", he roared menacingly as he destroyed small establishments with the turn of a wrist.

"Twistor?", Adam looked at him as if he was joking; "These monster names get worse every time!"

"And who are you to question me?!", he boomed.

"Do you really wanna know that?", Kira countered.

"I'll find out the old fashioned way!", Twistor clenched his fists slightly to produce two blades that protruded from each of his wrist guards, leaving him with two hands free to do as they pleased. The monster leapt straight up into the air before crashing back down to Earth and disappearing beneath it.

"Uh oh", was all Xander managed to say as the Rangers looked wildly around for any sign of the villain.

Suddenly, heaps of dirt and mud shot upwards as the creature flew out of the ground right within the middle of the group of Rangers. He deftly struck out with his non-handheld swords, scoring direct hits on both the Blue and Black Rangers before ducking beneath the Thundermax Saber to slash Kira across the shoulder.

Before Xander could reach him however, the monster disappeared into the Earth once more to shield himself. The Green Ranger groaned exasperatedly as he readied himself for the oncoming attack, but as he looked between his Magistaff and ground, he was struck by an idea...

"Magistaff, axe mode!", without waiting for the creature to resurface, Xander swung the axe high above his head before slamming it straight into the ground with as much strength as he could muster.

The land shook violently as the shockwaves tore through it, knocking the other Rangers off their feet and as hoped, a fountain of earth erupted a few meters away from them, spitting out a rather battered-looking Twistor.

"Had enough?", Xander was joined by his teammates as they stared down their foe. Without waiting for an answer, the Rangers all drew their respective blasters and Xander retained his Magistaff.

The Green Ranger produced long, thick vines from the weapon and they twirled through the air, tightly binding Twistor's arms to his sides.

"And this is what you get for messing with the Power Rangers...", Adam glared at the creature; "Fire!". Three colors of laser fire shot towards Twistor as his armor cracked and the blasts did their jobs, scattering the monster to the floor in several pieces.

"Too easy!", Xander commented cheekily as he clapped the others on the shoulders whilst grinning underneath the helmet.

No sooner had he said it did an eerie voice fill the skies; "By the power of the Demons...arise!"

The quartet slowly turned, looks of dread on their faces as what was left of Twistor became engulfed in a giant tornado...the winds disappeared and a fully regenerated monster stood in it's place.

"Oh man...", Adam strained his neck to see.

"Dr. O...", Kira called into her morpher; "Send the...", realization hit her; "Zords", she finished meekly.

"I guess we forgot about that", Tori stared up at the impossibly large Twistor as he leered down at them; "My Zord was destroyed..."

"Mine too..."

"Mine wasn't", Adam explained and the others' eyes lit up in hope; "It was just lost in time...", he finished and the looks on their faces fell.

"Guess it's time for another plan Xander!", the Mystic Ranger pulled out his morpher.

"Yours wasn't destroyed?"

"How did you keep it hidden for so long?"

"I didn't...", he explained smugly; "I am my Zord...". He punched the numbers into his morpher - 1...2...5...; "It's Titan time!"

"Galwit Mysto Prifior!"

The others watched in awe as the Green Ranger magically grew until he was the same size as a small skyscraper, armor encasing his body until it bore resemblance to a mythical creature.

"Ancient power, Mystic Minotaur!"

"You think that just because you're taller, you can defeat me?", Twistor was clearly unimpressed.

"Size doesn't matter!", Xander retorted, before shifting into a fighting stance.

Seeing this, the monster switched tactics; "Catch me if you can!", he taunted as he once again plunged himself deep into the ground.

"Not again!", the Titan purposefully kept moving about at a decent pace, hoping to throw the creature off his position.

Sure enough, a few seconds later, with a growl-like battle cry, Twistor resurfaced in a flurry of dirt, yet he was quite some distance away from Xander. The Minotaur was quick to take advantage of this as he lowered his body and head, pointed the deadly horns towards his target. "Charge!"

Twistor, overcome by a mixture of shock and fear, was unable to remove himself from the Zord's path as its lethal horns swung and sent him hurtling to the ground with a large thud.

Dazed and bearing injuries, the monster was almost completely fearful as Xander brought a rather large axe into view. "Time to say goodbye!", he bore down on him yet again at great speed and struck out powerfully with the axe...

One blow was all it needed as sparks flew from Twistor's body and smoke became visible before he exploded into a cloud of flames.

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Tommy and Hayley sat deep in thought in the Dino Lab and feeling slightly, if not, very stupid, having not realised that only one of the four Rangers actually had a fully-operational Zord.

"We're really sorry guys...", Tommy began upon hearing several pairs of feet approach them.

"Don't worry about it..."

"Yeah, it's not your fault Dr. O..."

"But it gives us a whole new problem", he stated honestly; "Where are we gonna get four new Zords?"

There was a momentary silence between the group as they pondered the question, but after a few seconds, every pair of eyes seemed to rest on one person...

"Hayley?", Kira asked hopefully.

"Oh come on guys...four Zords?", she argued, disbelievingly.

"If anyone can do it, you can", Tommy encouraged.

"I'm not getting out of this am I?", she questioned, already knowing the answer.

The Rangers and Tommy shook their heads.

"Well...I guess...I could regenerate them using residual energy from the morphing grid", she wondered out loud; "But it would take time...and it still doesn't explain how to recover the Black Shogun, seeing that it was never technically destroyed in the first place..."

"Ah, well I think I can answer that one...", Adam pointed to the currently deactivated Alpha 6 that now stood in the corner of the room.

"Well...i'd better get to work then".

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