"So the rangers believe that they can find a power to defeat me," Messagog hissed as his sensors picked up that they were leaving Reefside, "this will not due."
"Allow me to go and destroy them master," Elsa offered with a bow, "they'll be easy without their powers, and I'm not afraid of the past rangers."
"You can destroy those kids," Goldar said pushing her to the side, "but Tommy and his friends belong to me!"
"Don't touch me you idiot," Elsa warned pushing him back, "and you had your turn to destroy them and failed, now it's my turn."
"Who are you calling an idiot?" Goldar spat pointing his sword at her.
"The fool who had the rangers in his grasp and let them go," Elsa retorted, "but I wouldn't expect someone who's a bigger idiot then Rita Repulsa to understand that."
"How dare you insult my empress!"
The two got ready to fight but fell to their knees as Messagog mentally attack them, the dinosaur hybrid growing irritated by their squabbling.
"You both are trying my patients," he hissed walking over to them, "and I'm not one who you want to see get really mad."
"Forgive me master," Elsa pleaded bowing as Goldar stood up.
"Neither of you will go, because I'll send some tyrannodrones to finish them off," Messagog informed them, "they're weak without their powers and will be easy to destroy."
"But you promised I would be able to defeat Tommy and his friends!" the past warrior exclaimed pointing his sword at his current ally.
"You had your chance, and you failed," Messagog hissed menacingly, "but perhaps I'll be nice enough, to give you a second chance...that is if they aren't defeated beforehand."
Goldar growled but lowered his weapon, Elsa smirking as she walked over to the controls of the computer, activating it and creating tyrannodrones to go and fight the rangers.
"Now then, let's see what the rangers can do...without their powers," Messagog said clicking his claws together.
The crunch of the gravel was the only sound that the rangers heard as their cars came to a halt in front of a destroyed building. To a normal person it would look to be just a destroyed building out in the middle of nowhere, but to the group that was there it held the start of the history that they were a part of. Getting out of their cars, the rangers looked around the wreckage, Kimberly walking over to one of the walls and picking up a part of it as she felt tears stinging her eyes.
"I still can't believe it's gone," she whispered, Tommy walking over and hugging her.
"Yeah," He muttered as he kissed the top of her head, "it's a bit hard to look at with it like this."
"This was suppose to be the safest place in the world," Kat said looking around, "this was Zordon's home, a place where he could watch over the Earth."
"There's no point dwelling on the past," Jason pointed out as he picked up a chunk of concrete, "Zordon wouldn't want us to be upset about his death."
"Jason's right," Tommy agreed with a nod, "he would want us to carry on and continue to protect the Earth, just like we're doing now."
"So where do we start then?" Ethan asked, looking over at the red Dino Thunder Ranger, "cause it doesn't look like there's anything out of the ordinary here."
Conner nodded, not sure what to do as he looked around for anything that might give him a clue. If he was being honest with himself he kind of wished he had asked for more information from the white ranger because he had no idea of what he needed to do. One thing did catch his eyes though and that was a broken glass cylinder near the back of the ruins and, walking over to it, he ran his finger along the outside of the broken glass. Walking over to him, Tommy looked at the broken cylinder and felt his heart clench.
"This was Zordon's energy tube," he informed the younger ranger, "or at least it was one of them."
"What was it like?" Conner muttered looking at the broken glass.
"What do you mean?"
"What was it like when he was here, when he died, I just want to know," the younger red ranger replied looking over at Tommy, "I mean all I know about him was what you told us but…"
Tommy placed his hand on Conner shoulder and smiled at him, finally understanding what the younger ranger was asking.
"He was one of the best mentors that we could ask for, he was wise, kind, he always knew what to say," Tommy explained as the others walked over to them, "and when he died...it was hard on all of us."
The older rangers nod as the younger rangers all gathered around Zordon's energy tube, all of them paying their respects to the being that started the legacy. As the group looked around to see if they could find anything to assist them when Conner spotted a symbol on the back of Zordon's tube that he recognized.
"Hey guys over here," he called out to the other rangers, the group running over to see what he wanted.
Pulling out his pocket knife Conner ran the blade over the solidified dirt and grime that covered what he was looking at, breaking it up and clearing it when the team saw what he was talking about.
"The white tiger symbol," Kimberly whispered looking at it.
"You think this is what we're looking for?" Trent asked frowning.
"Ethan?" Conner said standing up and giving the blue ranger some room.
Ethan pulled out his laptop and to the work, scanning the symbol for any type of energy that could lead them in the direction Conner needed to go. After a few minutes the laptop made the same noise the original wrist communicators made, making the older rangers smirking at the sound.
"Really Ethan?" Tommy asked amused.
"What, I like the sound," Ethan said looking away, "anyway I'm finding some energy here but it's almost as if it's missing something."
"What do you mean?" Jason asked confused.
"It looks as if some of the power is missing," Ethan explained, rubbing the back of his head, "that's the best way I can put it."
"So what does it mean if some of the power is missing?" Kira asked biting her lower lip.
"I'm not sure, because energy can't be created or destroyed so it has to be somewhere," the blue ranger Daud standing up, "the question is, where is it?"
The rangers all looked at the symbol, wondering if they had hit a dead end, when a bunch of tyrannodrones appeared a few yards away.
"What the…" Kat muttered in shock.
"Tyrannodrones!" Conner groaned, the rangers getting into a fighting stance.
"What are we going to do, we don't have our powers?" Trent said clenching his fist.
"Hey we fought without powers before this," Jason said rolling his eyes.
"Hate to tell you guys," Kat said smirking, "but you guys have it easy."
"Talk about it later," Tommy recommended, "right now let's focus."
"Take them down rangers!" Conner ordered, the group jumping into action.
Jason smirked as he looked at the Tyrannodrones surrounding him, the minions attacking him and the original red ranger blocking them and flipping them onto the ground. As one of them got up to attack again Jason grabbed the back of it's neck and kneed it in the gut before kicking back towards another. Spinning around he leaned back to avoid one of the Tyrannodrones attacking him, grabbing a hold of it's wrist and tossing it towards the others.
"And here I thought you guys would be a challenge," the original red muttered as the Tyrannodrones got back up, "But I guess I was wrong, oh well."
Kim and Kat teamed up to fight the Tyrannodrones attacking them, the two former pink rangers moving in sync with each other. Ducking under Kim's kick, Kat punched the one behind the original pink, the two smirking at each other before they went into a series of backflips to avoid being hit. As they came to a halt tough they noticed that the Tyrannodrones were now attacking Zordon's energy tube for some reason. Feeling her heart starting to beat faster and her mind racing Kimberly clenched her fist and the two rushed forward.
"DON'T TOUCH ZORDON'S ENERGY TUBE!" Kimberly yelled attacking them.
The Tyrannodrones didn't know what hit them as the very next second they were on the ground and looking up at two very pissed off pink rangers. Scrambling the get up the dinosaur minions started to move to attack put were once again put onto their backs as Kim and Kat retaliated. With one left facing them they both grabbed one of it's arms and flipped it through the air as they spun around kneeled down. Walking over to Kim, Kat rubbed her back as the Dino Thunder rangers finished off Messagog's minions.
"You going to be okay?" Kat asked her predecessor.
"Y-yeah, I'll be fine," she muttered taking a couple of deep breaths to calm down.
The others walked over to the two of them, Tommy wrapping his arm around her and pulled her in for another hug.
"So Messagog knows we're here," Conner stated looking around, "though I'm surprised that he didn't…"
"Didn't send someone stronger McKnight?"
The rangers all spun around and saw Elsa standing there with a wicked grin, Goldar standing next to her. The rangers moved to line up, Conner popping his knuckles as he stared the two of them down.
"I just had to say something didn't I?" he muttered.
"Yeah well we've come to expect that from you now," Ethan admitted, Conner looking over at him as he shrugged.
"You won't escape this time Tommy," Goldar proclaimed, pointing his sword at him, "and you'll never regain the white tiger coin!"
"Yeah we'll just see about that," Tommy retorted as they all got into a fighting stance.
"Let's just get this over with quickly shall we Tommy?" Elsa sneered.
The group split up, the girls, Ethan, and Trent taking on Elsa as Tommy, Jason, and Conner fought Goldar. Elsa moved quickly, countering Kim and Kat's attack before spinning through the air to avoid the younger rangers. Spinning around she kicked Kira, the yellow ranger stumbling back a few feet before regaining her footing and attacking again. Trent and Ethan stepped in as well, attacking her from the sides. Using all of her fighting skills she moved with enough speed to block their attacks but failed to see Kim and Kat moving in on her. It wasn't until she was rolling across the ground did she realize what had happened. Growling she fired off an attack at the powerless rangers, causing an explosion to go off behind them, but the rangers seemed unaffected as they pressed the attack.
"Just give up Elsa!" Kira ordered as she grabbed a hold of one of her arms.
"Why don't you make me you pathetic excuse for a ranger," Elsa retorted twisting her body and kicking Kira in the back.
"I got you," Kim said catching her before she hit the ground.
"Thanks Kimberly," the younger ptera said standing up.
Trent and Ethan double teamed her, each of them managing to grab a hold of her arms and hold her back as Kat ran up Elsa's body and kicked her upside the chin. Elsa stumbled back in pain, cradling her chin as she glared at the rangers she was fighting.
"I didn't sign up to lose to a bunch of powerless rangers," she hissed powering up her sword.
Firing her weapon once more she smirked as she saw the cloud of dust rise to the air, but her happiness was cut short when she saw that they were all still standing. The three red rangers were doing their best to fight off the gold clad warrior, each of them taking turns to attack and moving to avoid Goldar's sword. Using Goldar's shoulder, Tommy landed behind his old enemy and kicked him in the back, allowing Conner and Jason to kick him from the front. Just as Conner was about to attack again though Goldar reached out and grabbed his ankle, lifting him into the air and swinging him around to hit Tommy and Jason. As the three fell to the ground Goldar laughed as he pointed his sword at them.
"You have no hope of beating me now Tommy and Jason," Goldar laughed, "without your powers you're nothing!"
"You ever feel like this is personal with him?" Jason groaned as they stood up.
"A few times yeah," Tommy agreed dusting himself off.
"We need to figure out a way to beat him," Conner said clenching his fist, "otherwise there's no way I'm going to be able to get the white tiger coin."
"We'll figure it out kid," Jason assure him with a pat on the shoulder.
Goldar attacked with an energy blast from his sword, the three rangers jumping out of the way. Rolling into a kneeling position Conner looked over and noticed that he was the closest to their opponent and rushed forwards to attack. Just as Goldar was about to attack Tommy, Conner grabbed a hold of his sword arm and pulled it to the side, Goldar pulling his arm in an attempt to free himself and tossing Conner around a bit.
"Let go of me," Goldar ordered, struggling to free himself.
"Not going to happen," Conner retorted holding on as best as he can, "not unless you plan to give my team back their powers."
"Keep dreaming whelp."
Finally managing to free himself, Goldar attacked the youngest red ranger and growled as Conner countered his every move. What the two failed to see though, that both Tommy and Jason were able to see, was that with each counter a spark of red energy came from Conner. The sparks continued to grow in strength, the white tiger symbol on Zordon's energy tube starting to glow white. After a few more blows were exchanged Tommy and Jason watched as a portal opened up over the broken tube and looked at each other. With a nod they both ran forward and grabbed a hold of Goldar, pulling him away from Conner.
"Conner the power was inside of you," Tommy yelled to him, "the portal's open now go!"
"What? I can't just leave you g…"
"Do as he says rookie," Jason ordered, "we'll hold these guys off, you have your own mission to do."
Looking at the two older red rangers and then over to his friends, he saw both Kira and Kim look over to him, both of them nodding before returning to the fight. He then saw Kat look at him with an expression telling him to get a move on. Looking back over to the portal, he took a deep breath and charged towards it, Goldar breaking free from Tommy and Jason.
"NO!" he yelled firing an energy attack at him.
The attack hit right behind him, Conner running as fast as he could without his powers and jumping into the portal. A flash of light went off as the portal shut down, Conner now nowhere to be seen, as Kira looked at where it was, placing her hand over her heart.
"Good luck Conner," she whispered, "please come back to me."
A/N: So this was SUPPOSE to be up yesterday but...I got caught up playing Pokemon Moon last night and I had to force myself to put it down today so I could finish this up. Anyway, Conner's journey finally begins, what will he be met with? What will he have to do to gain the white tiger powers? You'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out! R&R!
May the power Protect you all and Happy Thanksgiving!