"What is Conner trying to do?" Kim asked Tommy as he ran over to her.
"I'm not sure," Tommy replied kneeling down and picking up Kira, "but he said something about the white tigerzord."
The original pink ranger blinked in confusion at what he said, processing what he was saying and shaking her head.
"Tommy the white tigerzord was destroyed with the thunderzords, what does he plan on doing with a broken zord?"
"I don't know," Tommy admitted shaking his head, "But right now we're not going to do any good here so we need to get Kira somewhere safe, so I want you and Kat to take her back home and…"
"What? What about Jason, Trent, and Ethan?" the original pink asked, "Tommy I can't just leave you, or Conner while he's fighting someone from our past, someone that we should be fighting."
"This isn't our fight Kim," Tommy told her, his eyes flashing green.
Kimberly flinched at the flash of green in Tommy's eyes, Tommy shaking his head before taking a deep breath.
"As much as we'd like to fight, as much of a pain in the ass Goldar was in our past we know what he's capable of," he continued, "and we know that without our powers we would only succeed in getting in Conner's way."
Kimberly looked down and nodded, following Tommy over to the car and only stopping to help Kat up. Helping put Kira into the back of Tommy's jeep, Tommy handing her the keys as he closed the door.
"Contact Carter Grayson on the way to my house, tell him that we need Dana and we need her fast."
"Tommy…"
"Please Kim," Tommy pleaded kissing her cheek, "Kira needs help right now, and she needs the first pterodactyl there with her."
Kimberly nodded, kissing Tommy on the cheek as well before getting into the front of the jeep.
"We're going to need to talk when this is over Dr. Oliver," Kimberly promised looking at him, "so you better make it home."
Tommy nodded, watching as the jeep drove away before turning to watch Conner fighting Goldar who now had lightning coursing all over his body. Slashing at Conner with his sword Goldar fired off some lightning bolts that the white ranger dodged and which struck some cars behind the two of them. Conner retaliated by firing some energy beams from Saba, groaning as Goldar deflected them back to him and struck him in the chest.
"Okay I'll admit," the white ranger said standing up, "you're stronger than you look."
"I'll take that compliment white ranger," Goldar said panting as more lightning sparked off of him, "and once I'm done with you I'll enjoy destroying your mentor."
With a roar Goldar started to grown his body changing into a darker form with spikes forming on his body as he reached skyscraper heights.
"I will end you white ranger," Goldar bellowed raising his sword, "and there's nothing you can do to stop me!"
Goldar swung his sword down, trying to hit Conner who ducked out of the way. Making his way over to his family and friends Conner turned back around to look up at the new menacing warrior towering over them.
"And here I thought he couldn't get any uglier," the white ranger said snarkily.
"This isn't good kid," Jason growled looking at Goldar, "I can literally feel the power flowing off of him."
"Yeah I know," he replied looking back at them, "it's almost paralyzing."
"You have a plan Conner?" Ethan asked his friend.
"I might," Conner said turning back towards Goldar, "Saba please tell me that…"
"It has been repaired and is operation," Saba confirmed, "Zordon made sure that it would be ready for you when the time came."
"Heh, Zordon really planned for everything didn't he?"
"Wait a second what's ready?" Tommy asked already knowing the answer.
Looking back up at Goldar, Conner spun Saba in his hand and held him blade up before calling out.
"White Tiger Thuderzord Power!"
Tommy's eyes widen as his old zord ran down the street towards Goldar, Conner jumping up to land on top of it. He felt his heart race as memories of his time in the zord came back to the forefront of his mind, all of the wins he and the team managed, and then the pain of lose as he watched it be destroyed by Rito. Clenching his fist he nodded as he watched zord attack his old enemy.
"Take him down son."
The massive tiger launched itself at Goldar and struck him in the chest, knocking him back from both the force of the attack and the shock of seeing the zord. As fast as he could the warrior slashed at the white tiger, said zord moving out of the way to avoid the blade and roaring in anger.
"Impossible you were destroyed!" Goldar stated as the white tiger zords stared at him.
"So he knows about the destruction of the thunderzords," Conner breathed, "but he keeps referring to Dr. O as the white ranger, meaning he's from the ninja era."
"So we know when to return him to," Saba confirmed, "all we need to do now is retrieve that Star Shard from him and use the power to send him back, the morphing grid should send him back to the correct time."
"But what are we going to do about his memories?" the white ranger asked looking at Saba, "we can't allow him to remember his time here."
"Something I'm certain will have to worry about later," the saber replied, "for now let us focus on defeating Goldar."
"Right," Conner remarked returning his focus on Goldar, "White Tigerzord convert to Warrior Mode, now!"
Placing Saba into the control panel Conner felt the White Tigerzord lurch before it began it's transformation into warrior mode. The White Tigerzord transformed into its humanoid form Conner watching as the view in front of him changed so that he was face to face the Goldar's newest form.
"Heh, a little rusty aren't you buddy?" Conner asked patting the control panel, "don't worry we'll loosen you up."
"Let's end this!" Goldar roared stomping forward.
"Saba have the Tigerzord follow my moves," Conner ordered as the Tigerzord started to move.
Swinging his sword Goldar growled as the Tigerzord blocked his attack and pushed it away, swinging it's arm back around and hitting him. As Goldar stumbled back Conner used that moment to have the Tigerzord kick Goldar, but the warrior caught the foot and flipped him onto his back.
"Whoa!" Conner yelped as his megazord fell to the ground.
Looking up the Tigerzord moved out of the way as Goldar attempted to stab it with one of his new spikes, the spike getting stuck into the ground. Standing up the Tigerzord pulled out it's sword and attacked Goldar, the warrior pulling his spike free and parrying the other sword as the two circled each other with locked blades.
"Okay I'm beginning to see why he annoyed the original team so much," Conner said pulling up a orb, "let's see what this does, White Tiger Thunderbolts!"
A fireball blasted out of orb in the white tiger's mouth and knocked Goldar away, putting some distance between the two of them.
"Let's try this again shall we?" the white ranger asked kicking out in front of him as his zord did the same.
The other four male rangers watched the fight going on with awe, Ethan and Trent amazed at just how far Conner has come while Tommy and Jason just smirked as they noticed Goldar having some issues fighting the new white ranger.
"Dang Conner what have you gone through?" Ethan asked watching his friend.
"No clue," Trent replied, "but whatever it is he's definitely going to have to tell us."
"I wouldn't worry about him too much," Jason said shaking his head, "whatever he's been through, well it's up to him to tell us if he wants to."
"And whatever he's gone through I'm sure Zordon made sure it was exactly what he needed to go through," Tommy chuckled as Goldar fell to the ground.
As Goldar hit the ground the White Tigerzord got ready to strike with its sword, slashing through the air only to be parried once again by Goldar's. The two of them stood there, or laid there in Goldar's case, with their swords locked once again, Conner pushing down with all his might.
"This guy's stronger than I thought," Conner grunted, "Saba?"
"Goldar is using the power of the dino thunder gems to make himself stronger," Saba explained, "take away the power source…"
"And he'll begin to weaken," Conner finished with a nod, "and it looks like the Star Shard is on his chest."
The White Tigerzord looked towards Goldar's chest, the glint of the ruby making the presence of the Star Shard clear. Applying more pressure with its sword the White Tigerzord reached forward to grab the Star Shard only to be knocked away as Goldar backhanded the zord's arm. Pushing back Goldar was able to stand as he kept a hold of the White Tigerzord's arm.
"You'll never get your precious powers back not matter how hard you try," Goldar proclaimed pushing the White Tigerzord back.
"Just keep talking," Conner growled, "cause once we're done here I'm throwing your ass back to the time you come from."
The two massive swords clashed, striking their opponent and causing the two to step back before doing it again. Goldar lashed out at the megazord, striking it with the spikes on his wrist and then again and again pushing it back. Inside the cockpit of the White Tigerzord Conner growled as he tried to fight back but every time he attempted a counter attack Goldar would simply prevent it by attacking faster.
"Saba we need to do something," Conner said clenching his fist, "any ideas?"
"A White Tiger Thunderbolt might be enough to knock him back," Saba suggested.
"Right," the white ranger remarked pulling out another orb, "White Tiger Thunderbolt!"
A ball of fire struck Goldar, pushing him back and allowing the White Tigerzord some room to move. With Goldar now distracted Conner swung his fist and his zord did the same, striking him in the same way the warrior was doing just seconds earlier.
"I won't let you win so easily white ranger," Goldar said as he kept his arms up to block, "and your team will be crushed under my feet."
"No…"
Conner swung his arm again, the White Tigerzord swinging past Goldar's defense and hitting him.
"They…"
The zord kicked Goldar before bringing its fist down on his shoulders.
"WON'T!"
The White Tigerzord raised its fist one last time and struck Goldar across his cheek, knocking him to the ground.
"You won't hurt my friends, or my family," Conner huffed as Goldar started to shrink back to normal size.
Tommy, Jason, Trent, and Ethan all ran over to where Hayley said Goldar would be, stopping when they spotted the white ranger kneeling over the back to normal, unconscious warrior and taking something off his chest. Walking over to their leader, Ethan took the gem from Conner's outstretched hand and looked it over.
"So this is…"
"Yeah," Conner replied with a nod, "that's the Star Shard, break that and our Dino Thunder powers will return to us."
"Yeah but how are we going to do that?" Trent questioned, frowning as he looked at the Star Shard, "I doubt that it would be simple to break."
"One problem at a time," Conner said powering down, "I want to get Goldar back to his time first."
"And just how are we going to do that rookie?" Jason asked arching his eyebrow.
"I don't know but there has to be something we can do I doubt that Goldar is going to be out for very long," Conner said shaking his head.
"I'd like to say that we could simply call Wes and Eric to see if they can help but it would be awhile before they could even get here," Tommy mumbled closing his eyes, "we could take him back to the base and lock him up but I feel like that could end badly."
"No joke," Ethan agreed still looking over the Star Shard, "there's no telling if Goldar wouldn't free himself and trash the place."
"Not to mention that we need to do something to block his memory of his time here," Jason added, "could make him mad to see our past selves and know that he lost against us."
"As I told Conner before," Saba said appearing in said person's hand, "you can use the power stored in the Star Shard to send him through time, the morphing grid should correct everything."
"Okay then," Conner said taking the Star Shard back, "how do we do this."
"Just hold it over him and concentrate on the year you want to return him to," Saba explained, Conner doing just that, "you might want to other to help as well."
Without having to be told twice, the others placed their hand over Conner's and concentrated, the shard and Goldar starting to glow. Within seconds Goldar vanished from the street and the group backed up panting at how much energy that took from them.
"Okay….wow that was weird," Trent huffed standing up.
"Yeah," Conner agreed shaking his head quickly, "not the weirdest thing I've been through though."
"And we're going to want to hear all about it," Tommy said pulling him in for a one arm hug, "but why don't we wait till we get home so everyone can hear."
"That sounds good," Conner said smiling, "besides I can really go for something to eat."