A/N: I finally finished this chapter only one chapter left: the epilogue. Now I'd like to point out a few things: first of all I made a mistake when I started this story apparently the Turbo-bots shouldn't be Tommy, Kat, Tanya and Adam but TJ, Cassie, Ashley and Carlos. Second Blue Centurion should be Blue Senturion, my bad. I haven't changed these things to keep them correct with the rest of the story.

A/N2: Okay, the story is as good as finished if you think I should rewrite this with SPD, Mystic Force and/or Operation Overdrive let me know through the reviews or a PM. Also I'd like any comments on how to improve the story and if I should make another songfic for this (I got 2 great ideas but I don't know if my previous songfic was good. Now with that said … enjoy.

Chapter 8: The end of the line.

The next day

11.30 A.M.

The noon was silently nearing and the rangers left the command center to leave towards the place of the last standoff. It was close towards 12 o'clock when they arrived and they all stood on the ledge overlooking the piece of desert inside the bowl. "This is it. We have all been chosen as rangers by mysterious objects or for our skills. It's now we have to prove why we were chosen." Tommy said towards the grouping not looking away from the bowl. "If anyone wants to back out. Now is the last chance you'll get." Kim said looking at the long line of rangers standing on her left side. "We won't back out." Conner replied close to the end of the line. "Once a ranger …" he continued. "Always a ranger." They all said as one. "How touching." A voice cackled before a purple flash was seen inside the far side of the bowl which revealed Ian Ooze walking towards them. "You haven't got a chance, Ian." Adam said with confidence. "Yeah, we've got you outnumbered." Rocky chimed in. "Fools! You didn't think I'd come alone, now did you?" Ian said summoning his 10 Psycho rangers and his huge army of Oozelings. "It's time." Tommy said calmly grabbing his morpher. "IT'S MORPHING TIME!" the original and Zeo rangers yelled. "GREEN RANGER POWER!" Zack yelled. "WHITE RANGER POWER!" Tommy bellowed. "BLACK RANGER POWER!" Adam cried. "PINK RANGER POWER!" Kimberly screamed. "BLUE RANGER POWER!" Billy yelled. "YELLOW RANGER POWER!" Aisha bellowed. "RED RANGER POWER!" Rocky cried. "ZEO RANGER ONE! PINK!" Kat screamed. "ZEO RANGER TWO! YELLOW!" Tanya yelled. "ZEO RANGER THREE! BLUE!" Rocky-clone bellowed. "ZEO RANGER FOUR! GREEN!" Adam-clone cried. "ZEO RANGER FIVE! RED!" Tommy-clone1 yelled. "GOLD RANGER POWER!" Jason bellowed. "SHIFT INTO TURBO!" the Turbo rangers cried. "RED LIGHTNING! TURBO POWER!" Tommy-bot yelled. "MOUNTAIN BLASTER! TURBO POWER!" Justin bellowed. "DESERT THUNDER! TURBO POWER!" Adam-bot cried. "DUNESTAR! TURBO POWER!" Tanya-bot screamed. "WIND CHASER! TURBO POWER!" Kat-bot yelled. "LET'S ROCK IT! 335!" the Space rangers bellowed. " LET'S ROCK IT! 2580! MEGA!" Zhane cried. "GO! GALACTIC!" the Galaxy rangers screamed. "MAGNA POWER!" Mike yelled. "LIGHTSPEED! RESCUE!" the Lightspeed rangers bellowed. "TITANIUM POWER!" Ryan cried. "WILD ACCESS!" the Wild Force rangers screamed. "BLAZING LION!" Cole yelled. "SURGING SHARK!" Max bellowed. "IRON BISON!" Danny cried. "NOBLE TIGER!" Alyssa screamed. "SOARING EAGLE!" Taylor yelled. "HOWLING WOLF!" Merrick yelled. "NINJA STORM! RANGER FORM!" Shane, Dustin and Tori bellowed together. "POWER OF AIR!" Shane cried. "POWER OF WATER!" Tori screamed. "POWER OF EARTH!" Dustin yelled. "THUNDER STORM! RANGER FORM! POWER OF THUNDER!" Hunter and Blake bellowed as one. "SAMURAI STORM! RANGER FORM! GREEN SAMURAI POWER!" Cam cried. "DINO THUNDER! POWER UP!" the Dino Thunder rangers screamed. "TYRANNOPOWER!" Conner yelled. "TRICERAPOWER!" Ethan bellowed. "PTERAPOWER!" Kira screamed. "BRACHIOPOWER!" Tommy-clone2 cried. "WHITE RANGER! DINO POWER! DRACOPOWER!" Trent yelled. It was truly a magnificent view for there they were: all 48 rangers on one line, ready for action. They all summoned their power weapons and went in for the fight. The Oozelings battled fiercely but the rangers fought even better. Tommy took on 3 Oozelings at time and they kept on fighting when a large part of the Oozelings were destroyed, the Oozelings went back a little and suddenly formed into a puddle of ooze. "Your final moment is here, rangers! These Psychos can absorb ooze to gain power." Ian said before having the Psychos absorb the ooze. The black parts of the Psychos (except for Psycho Black's color armor) became purple and they all got piercing red eyes. "Welcome to your nightmare!" Ian yelled. The rangers used the same tactic as last time but it didn't work, they were getting beaten up and if they didn't find a way soon it could very well be the end of the rangers. But it was then that Shane came up with an idea: the battlizers and super powers! "Guys, what if we used our full potential? Wouldn't that help?" He yelled at the others. "It's worth a try." Tommy replied. "METALLIC ARMOR! POWER UP!" The original rangers yelled. "BATTLIZER! RED RANGER!" Andros screamed pressing the 3 button on his battlizer. "RED ARMORED POWER RANGER!" Leo yelled combining his armor keys. "8-6-1! MEGA BATTLE!" Joel and Chad yelled activating their Mega Battle Armor. "TRANS-ARMOR CYCLE! ARMOR MODE! COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION!" Carter bellowed activating his battlizer. "ANIMARIUM ARMOR! RED SAVAGE WARRIOR!" Cole screamed activating his belt buckle. "BATTLIZER! FLIGHT MODE!" Shane cried activating his morpher. "CYCLONE MORPHER! FULL POWER! SUPER SAMURAI MODE!" Cam bellowed powering up his morpher. "TRIASSIC RANGER! BATTLIZER! SUPER FIRE POWER!" Conner yelled using the Shield of Triumph. "SUPER DINO POWER!" Kira, Ethan, Tommy-clone2 and Trent cried reaching into the full potential of their dinogems. With this power boost they were able to drive the Psychos and Ian into a corner. "It's over, Ian!" Cam stated. "Think again, rangers!" Ian replied. He changed his fingers into oozy tentacles and stabbed through each of his Psychos with one of them and then pulled them all into his body. Ian started to grow and change shape: he got a body like Psycho Purple but with his own head on top. "Now what will you do to me?" Ian asked mockingly. "We need the zords." Billy said to the others. "But not all of us still have our zords." Shane replied. "I repaired our zords, if that's what you mean." Cam said to Shane. "And we repaired the Turbozords. Also the Torozord came back online after the reactivation of the Magna Defender powers." Alpha 6's voice came through the communicator. "And dad repaired all the Rail Rescuezords." Dana stated. "Then let's do it!" Tommy said. "WE NEED NINJAMEGAZORD POWER! NOW!" The Ninjetti-powered rangers yelled. "DRAGONZORD! SERPENTERA!" Zack bellowed. "WE NEED ZEOZORD POWER! NOW! SUPER ZEOZORD POWER! NOW!" The Zeorangers yelled. "RED BATTLEZORD! NOW!" Tommy-clone1 screamed. "WARRIOR WHEEL! NOW!" Jason bellowed. "INITIATE TURBO MEGAZORD!" the turborangers yelled. "ROBO RACER, ONLINE!" Centurion bellowed. "ASTRO MEGAZORD POWER, NOW!" the spacerangers screamed. "DELTA MEGAZORD, NOW!" Andros bellowed. "MEGA WINGER!" Zhane yelled. "GALAXY MEGAZORD, NOW!" the galaxyrangers screamed. "TOROZORD!" Mike bellowed. "SUPERTRAIN MEGAZORD!" the lightspeedrangers yelled. "MAX SOLARZORD!" Ryan screamed. "WILDZORDS! DESCEND!" the wildforce rangers bellowed. "ZORD TIME" the Windninjas and Trent yelled. "SKY OF WONDER! POWER OF THUNDER! CRIMSON INSECTIZORD! NAVY BEETLEZORD! THUNDER MEGAZORD!" the Thunderninjas screamed. "SAMURAI STAR MEGAZORD!" Cam bellowed. "MEZODON!" Conner yelled. "BRACHIO!" Tommy-clone2 screamed summoning the dinozordcarrier just like all the other rangers summoned their zords en formed the megazords while Ninjor grew gigantic. The new NinjaDragonMegazord was formed when the Serpentera Mark II his neck shoved into a small neck before the underside of the mouth went down while the rest of the head split open to form the lower arm armor for the megazord (the arms consisted of serpentera's arms) beneath the dragonhead there was another robotic head. Then the Dragonzord went into Megadragonzord formation on top of the new zord with the chest plate encircling Serpentera's lower mouth and the head of the Dragonzord forming the megazordhead (you know the face of the Megadragonzord) and the knees of the Megadragonzord became the upper arm armor. The outer toes of serpentera went to the side making a cross (seen from the underside the feet now look like a +) and the tail of Serpentera shortened and became leg and feet armor and the Dragonzord's tail became the weapon of the Megadragonzord. Tommy, Kimberly, Aisha, Rocky, Adam and Billy piloted the Ninjamegazord; Zack piloted the NinjaDragonMegazord; Jason piloted the Warrior Wheel; Tommy-clone1 piloted the Red Battlezord; Adam-clone and Rocky-clone piloted the Zeomegazord; Kat and Tanya piloted the SuperZeomegazord; Justin and the Turbobots piloted the Turbomegazord; Centurion piloted the Robo Racer; TJ, Cassie, Carlos and Ashley piloted the Astro Megazord; Andros piloted the Delta Megazord; Zhane piloted the Mega Winger; Leo, Kendrix, Damon, Maya and Kai piloted the Galaxy Megazord (which was in Lights of Orion-mode); Mike piloted the Torozord; Carter, Dana, Kelsey, Chad and Joel piloted the Supertrain Megazord; Ryan piloted the Max Solarzord; Danny, Alyssa and Max piloted the Soulbird-powered Wild Force Megazord; Cole and Taylor piloted the Isis Megazord; Merrick controlled the Predazord; Shane, Tori and Dustin piloted the Storm Megazord; Blake and Hunter piloted the Thunder Megazord; Cam piloted the Samurai Star Megazord; Kira, Ethan and Conner piloted the Thundersaurus Megazord; Trent piloted the Dino Stegazord and Tommy-clone2 piloted the Triceramax Megazord. Most of the rangers thought this would be an easy battle since they outnumbered him very badly but they soon found out they were wrong. Ian had pulled out a huge sword and had started attacking them. The rangers countered this by summoning their Megaweapons but they still couldn't compete. The rangers kept fighting but to no avail because it didn't seem to have any effect. "Guys, I think we only have one option left to defeat him. The superattacks." Tommy said to the others over the comlink from the cockpit of the NinjaFalconmegazord. "I guess you're right." Jason responded from the Warrior Wheel. "THERE IS ANOTHER WAY, RANGERS!" a voice familiar to all the rangers up to the Space rangers said, but even the ones who didn't know the voice knew the owner of this voice was to be trusted. "FOCUS ONTO THE ENERGY OF THE MORPHING GRID AND LET IT FLOW THROUGH YOU AND THE ZORDS! THEN IAN WILL LOSE ALL HIS POWER!" The voice boomed inside of there head. The rangers did as they were told and focus onto their connection to the Morphing Grid. They felt the energy of the Morphing Grid run through them and their zords. The rangers opened their eyes to see Ian frozen in place with a look of terror on his face. The zords shone with Morphing energy and the rangers redirected the energy to the Megaweapons and from there shot it towards Ian. They had expected Ian to blow up but not to see him shrink down to his original size. But once he was his original size again he suddenly split up and both of the bodies lay unconscious on the ground. The rangers left the megazords to find Ian lying there next to … a purple ranger! The new ranger looked just like the original rangers but had the shoulder armor of the white ranger and the chest armor of the green ranger and his helmet resembled a Spinosaurus head. The ranger came to and took of his helmet revealing … the face of Zordon. "Zordon!" Tommy, Jason, Kim, Billy, Zack, Adam, Aisha, Rocky, Justin, Carlos, Cassie, TJ, Ashley, Zhane and Andros exclaimed. "Rangers," he said in a gentle voice not booming anymore like a few moments ago, "I am glad to see you again." "Zordon, what just happened?" Tommy asked taking of his helmet. "I shall begin with the beginning. When Ivan Ooze was destroyed a small part of him survived. This part regenerated and after a few weeks it could think for itself again but he was regenerating to slowly according to him. A time-warp opened up and he went through it to speed things up but when he came to the period where Andros destroyed my tube, he came into collision with a small remainder of my energy. Because my energy had merged with the Ooze's substance my energy regenerated too, but this also made Ivan stronger and younger changing him into Ian Ooze. There was nothing I could do to stop him, that is until he grew larger for some reason I gained enough power from that to talk to you in your mind. The energy of the Morphing Grid separated me and Ivan and has turned us back into our original selves." Zordon explained. Suddenly they heard a grunt and looked at Ian who had now turned back into Ivan. "Zordon, you fool. You really think that blast was going to destroy me?" Ivan said getting up. "No, I just hoped it would separate us, so that I could destroy you myself." Zordon said getting up as well and putting his helmet back on. They started attacking each other and the other rangers went to help Zordon but he said to stay out of this because it was his fight. The rangers did as they were told because they trusted Zordon. But then something happened: Ivan Ooze suddenly grew gigantic when he was losing. Zordon replied to this with yelling: "I NEED SPINOZORD POWER, NOW!". The ground tore open and out came a purple Spinosaurus robot. Zordon went into the cockpit and activated the megazord mode. The head of the spinosaurus went down to become the chest and revealed a robot head. Next the tail and the half disc representing the spine-fin detached and formed a halberd. The transformation ended with the robot going into an upright position. The other rangers looked at the Spinozord and then went back to their zords (which were still there). "Rangers, no! I told you this is my fight!" Zordon yelled when he saw them reenter their zords. "No, Zordon, this fight is of all of us. Not just yours. We are all rangers, chosen by the Power to protect the Earth." Tommy replied. "Very well then. I expected as much as that of you, Tommy." Zordon answered. "Okay guys. ONCE A RANGER …!" Tommy said to the others over the comlink. "ALWAYS A RANGER!" the others, including Zordon, replied. They all called upon the full power of their megazords and used their superattacks destroying Ivan Ooze once and for all.

Angel Grove Desert
Command Center
A little later

The rangers had all demorphed even Zordon, who now stood in the Eltarian robes he had worn on that faithful day when he had been summoned to fight Rita and was trapped in the time warp. "Rangers, you did well you have done a good job protecting the Earth while I was away." Zordon said to the rangers after the Alphas had greeted him rather emotionally for robots. "To thank you for your good deeds, I shall relieve you of your powers so you can go on with your lives." Zordon continued. "No, Zordon, these powers are what we are. We are the power rangers." Tommy replied, being followed by agreeing murmurs of the rest of the group. "But, I have asked so much of you already. You have always been there, ready to fight anything evil throws at you. You have risked your lives to many times as it is, I don't want you to continue this fight against evil." Zordon countered. "Zordon, please, we have all been chosen to be rangers one way or another. Some of us were chosen by you (Tommy looks at the others of the original team and the space rangers), others by prophecy (Tommy looks at the Galaxy rangers and the Ninja rangers), others by sheer coincidence (He looks at the Dino Thunder team), but it all comes down to this … we were rangers once and that will never change. If the Earth needs us, we will be there, ready to fight." Tommy said. "Once a ranger …" Zordon murmured. "Always a ranger." the others completed him softly. "Very well. You can keep your powers. Billy, do you still have the blueprints of your communicators?" Zordon replied. "Sure. But why do you need them?" Billy asks. "The other rangers will need communicators as well. So that they can keep in contact with everybody." Zordon answers him. "But our morphers act as communicators." Ethan interrupts. "Yes, but only within your own team plus the fact that your morphers can't help you teleport." Zordon said. "He's got a point." Trent admits. "I'm going to help you to make them, Billy. That way you won't have that much work." Zordon said turning to Billy. "I'll help too. I know a lot about technology and I think Hayley would like to help out as well." Ethan replied. "And I can help out as well." Cam said. "I think I could be of help too." Justin blurted out. "I think we have enough volunteers already so please no more or we will get in each other's way." Billy grinned. "I agree. The rest of you should go and have some fun." Zordon continued.

Angel Grove

Justin's house

A week later

Justin had contacted Tommy and told him to gather the others at his (Justin's) house. Zordon, Billy, Justin, Cam, Ethan and Hayley teleported in not long after everyone was there. "Rangers, please take these communicators even those of you who already have one for we have made some adjustments to them. For instance you can now camouflage them as watches and there is no reach anymore which means you can now contact who you want whenever you want. And I ask of you to always keep them with you, even if you have a wrist mounted morpher. It is important that, in case you should be needed, I can contact you at any given time." Zordon explained while Billy, Justin, Cam Ethan and Hayley handed out the new communicators. "We will Zordon." Conner assured him. "Guys, we should be heading back home. Your parents must be worried sick. You didn't even have time to explain where you went. Yes, Trent, I know your father knows that you're a Power Ranger, but that doesn't mean he isn't worried about you." Tommy said. "I think it is time I bend the rules a little." Zordon replied. "First I shall repeat the original rules for everyone here. Rule number 1: You must never use your powers for your own good. Rule number 2: You must never escalate a battle unless evil forces you to do so. And rule number 3: Nobody must ever know you are a Power Ranger. And it is that third rule I would like to bend a little, you can tell anybody who is close to you: your parents, a non-ranger life partner, …" Zordon continues. "Why the sudden change?" Kim asks. "Like Tommy said their parents didn't know where they were. They left a week ago and their parents haven't heard from them since. It's better to just tell

them the truth. Now go. And MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU!" Zordon replied.