Steam Versus Myth
The Mythos/Steam Force Special
Disclaimer: While I don't own Power Rangers, I own both Mythos and Steam Force, If you haven't seen them, go give em a read, otherwise you're gonna be pretty lost.
Part 2: Ranger V.S. Ranger
It had been a few hours since the Steam rangers had returned to their base, where they were told to wait until Lohan had finished talking to someone about the matter.
Ayana was sprawled over the couch, beaten and bruised, the other rangers took a similar approach all over the large room. Then, Welkin came through the door, the rangers could see he looked more worn out than usual.
"Lohan said you can go into the control room now, he'll explain what's going on. In the meantime, I'm gonna hit the showers here." He informed them, before walking away towards another door nearby.
The five injured rangers rose from their different places slowly and headed for the control room. Once they had arrived, they noticed two more people in the room talking with their mentor.
"Lohan, what's going on?" TJ asked as the others nodded in agreement.
"Well, I think it's better if we let these two explain. This is Ethan Blake, an old friend of mine, and this is his tech specialist Jamie. They've come from the town of Castelan which isn't too far from here, near Novaton." Lohan introduced the two.
"I'm in charge of a team of power rangers. More specifically, the ones you fought earlier." Doctor Blake started, the six rangers becoming cautious in response. "Recently they've been losing to a new enemy, demons. Yet in their last battle a few days ago, it wasn't a demon, but a Terrasoid. The one that fled the battle before my rangers showed up. It wiped them out, they've never faced a Terrasoid before whereas you have. Once they had all been felled, it infected them with some kind of spore in a gas cloud." He elaborated.
Jamie then continued explaining. "My thesis is that we can engineer something to free them from the mind controlling effect this spore is having on them, yet I can only create the antidote, the technology here is ridiculously outdated, and unless someone is good with building things out of this steam tech junk, we're gonna have to find a new solution." He finished.
Alex, while having a grumpy expression from him calling it junk, spoke up. "I know my way around this stuff, just tell me what we need and I'll get right on it."
"In the meantime we should find out how to beat them, I got knocked around by the big guy every few seconds in that last fight, any suggestions for taking them down?" Ayana asked, rubbing the bruises the rival yellow ranger had given her.
"I don't know, from what we saw, they're acting differently than usual. Their fighting style, their personalities, they all seem just the same now." He told them, after a few moments, five of the rangers left to try and come up with a strategy for defeating the rival team, while Alex and Jamie began work on the antidote and dispenser.
[SVM]
Ayana headed into the shower room, where Welkin was, she could hear the water running from a showerhead. "Hey Welkin! Are you in here?" She asked as she headed away from the door. "We need you to come help us come up with a way to help us defeat the oth-" She cut off and yelped, shielding her eyes as Welkin came into view, who was still showering.
"Didn't anyone tell you to wait first, or am I just too good?" Welkin laughed as he reached for a towel and wrapped it around him. "It's safe to look now."
"It's not safe while my eyes are still burning." She said, still holding her hand to them.
"You're really mean sometimes,you know that." He criticised as he headed to change.
"Just get out here and help us out." She said as she walked away, hand still over her eyes, which caused her to walk into the door before she opened it and left.
"They should really have a lock on that door." He laughed as he changed into his usual attire.
[SVM]
While Alex was working on the dispenser and Jamie was working on the antidote, the white Steam ranger was still slightly annoyed with him. "What's your problem with Steam technology anyway? It might not be new but it's still useful and reliable." She asked him in an annoyed tone.
"Well it's more complex to work with and building anything with Steam tech is extremely tedious, it's why I prefer modern technology, at least I can use that! Hence why I'm making the antidote, it's the one thing I can do right now.
Alex scowled. "You work on your thing and I'll work on mine. I might have to work with you, it doesn't mean I have to like it." She told him, Jamie gave a sigh and went back to what he was doing.
[SVM]
In the training area, up against a wall, Lloyd was planting his fists into a punching bag, his mind flashing back to the battle as he did.
'You know the difference between us and you? The way we are now, we don't care what happens to each other like you do. We're better fighters than you. We don't show compassion, or hold back. That's why you've lost.' The words of the evil Templar ranger echoed through Lloyd's head as he got even angrier whilst he punched the bag, letting out a scream as he landed one more punch before TJ and Welkin came over and tried to calm him down.
"What's going on with you?" TJ asked as they let go of the red ranger.
"Something their leader said, how they don't care about helping each other, about beating us because they don't show things like compassion. I got angry." He explained to them.
"Mia, take Lloyd away and try cool him down somehow, we can't go into this if anyone's compromised." Welkin told the black ranger who took Lloyd away to try calm him. The older ranger was sounding more like a tactician now rather than a gunslinging womaniser.
Ayana walked up to the other two rangers. "Lucas is over with Alex, she's trying to get a firing mechanism on the thing she's making, Lucas knows guns so he offered to help. What was Lloyd saying when he lost it?" She asked.
"He said they're basically only concerned with fighting us and won't hesitate if they know one of their teammates goes down." TJ summed up.
"Those spores are bad then. Luckily I have an idea no thanks to Lloyd. You see, it was a six on six last time, With you helping out it'll be seven on six, while we keep them occupied, you'll go around and take them out. You did seem pretty strong against them last time, we'll keep going until they're overwhelmed and demorph where we'll use the antidote on them." She explained. Welkin nodded.
"Good plan, can I make one tiny alteration?" She nodded hesitantly. Stross smirked. "For every one of them I take out, I get twenty bucks, same goes for any of you." TJ stifled a laugh, Ayana shook her head in regret.
[SVM]
A few hours later, the alarm sounded off and the rangers and mentors scrambled to the control room, seeing that the Mythos rangers were attacking a party of higher classmen in the high class district while Ophyoc stood laughing. Ayana had to hold back her own joy in seeing the rich folk being attacked for once.
"Jamie, is the antidote ready?" Blake asked, the young technician gave a slow, unsure nod.
"It has to be." Jamie answered. "As for the dispenser?" He asked, turning to Alex who had a confident smirk on her face.
"Don't doubt my skill, it might've been a bit more complex than you'd like, but I'm confident it'll work." She told him.
"Then you seven need to get out there. The sooner we free them from this Terrasoid's control, the sooner we can end this." Lohan ordered to the rangers.
[SVM]
The Mythos rangers laughed as the upper classmen screamed in terror. Then they saw the seven rangers coming towards saw this and retreated to allow his puppets to defeat them.
The morphed Mythos rangers lines up to meet the Steam rangers head on. Aaron spoke up. "I see you've brought the cavalry from the start this time, pity it won't do you any good." He laughed maniacally.
"I'm gonna let that slide seeing as you're not in control here, but I think we should settle this ranger on ranger." Welkin replied, uncovering his radial brace.
"Take to the skies!" He called, morphing and emerging from the white light in his ranger suit. The other six proceeded to do the same. "Full Steam Ahead!" They called, a bright light consuming them before turning into steam that rose up. When it dissipated, the six Steam rangers stood ready.
1-0-1 … Shipping … Pipeblade … Arriving
0-7-3 … Shipping … Steam Blaster … Arriving
Alex, TJ and Lucas wielded the Steam Blasters while Mia, Lloyd and Ayana wielded the Pipeblades. Welkin sood in the centre slinging his gun around before aiming it at the Mythos rangers.
"Let's do this." He said as the Steam rangers and Mythos rangers ran at each other, the Steam rangers blasting their rivals to throw them off until they came into melee range.
[SVM]
Once again the rangers locked weapons with their individual rivals, slashing and blocking at each other. Welkin moved in upon the two black rangers.
Ben knocked the pipeblade from Mia's hand and was about to finish her off when he was pistol whipped around the back of the head by Welkin.
"You guys owe me twenty bucks!" He laughed as he charged into the battle between the other rangers, blasting with his Sky Striker pistol as he did.
"We don't have time for your jokes right now." Ayana complained as she rolled out of the way of a hard swing of Tyson's Mythic Blade and sending a few shots at her opponent.
Welkin blasted Lexa to the floor as Lucas did so too, taking the pink ranger out. Lucas nodded to his ranger friend, who rubbed his fingers against his thumb to exert his want of money, Lucas sighed as Welkin went off the deal with more of the evil rangers.
TJ and Percy were facing off against each other. TJ thrusted his Pipeblade at the other blue ranger, yet Percy simply parried it away and knocked the blue Steam ranger to the ground and laughed.
"I'm a far better swordsman than you, stay out of my way, ameture!" Percy boasted as he went to slash at TJ to finish him off.
Welkin span the revolver around twice and let of two quick fire rounds that struck the blue Mythos ranger and knocked him to the floor, allowing TJ to recover and detain his opponent.
"So far you guys owe me sixty bucks." Welkin told them all over their comms, laughing as they groaned in response.
Ayana finally got the upperhand on Tyson and landed a well placed shot on Tyson which toppled the brute of a ranger and made him collapse to the ground.
"When they're not kicking our butts they don't seem to be able to take that many hits." Ayana commented as she kicked the fallen yellow Mythos ranger in the gut as a bit of personal revenge.
"That's because their suits are running on half their full power, it's a long story but be glad they're weakened." Jamie commented over their comms.
"Okay then, oh and Welkin, you owe me twenty of that sixty you're getting." She smarted off.
Welkin laughed as he ran over to where Alex and Emlie were fighting, Welkin just stood there and watched as the two young women fought viciously.
"Hey Stross, mind rounding up that white ranger so I can get some help here, I don't know how much longer I can hold him off!" Lloyd complained as he held back Aaron's longsword with his Pipeblade, his strength slowly depleting.
"Fine, I was enjoying their fight but if you're gonna be that way…" He trailed off as he shot three rapid blasts without looking that all hit and took the white Mythos ranger to the ground.
Then, as Aaron knocked away Lloyd's defence and was about to strike the red ranger down, Welkin jolted in and blocked with a crossguard of his Wingblade vambraces.
"Took you long enough." Lloyd told him as he caught his breath.
"You're paying up after this." Welkin joked as he charged his pistol for a finisher. "Sky Strike Overcharge!" He called as he squeezed the trigger and a powerful blast was shot at the Templar ranger, who couldn't block it and was knocked to the ground and demorphed.
After a few minutes, the unconscious Mythos rangers were rounded up and the now demorphed Steam rangers stood around them. Alex produced what appeared to be a kind of spray gun.
"Here goes nothing." She said as she proceeded to shoot the antidote out onto the Mythos rangers, when it emerged, it came out as a gas that surrounded the six of them and was absorbed by them.
Soon enough the opened their eyes, which had resumed to glow a vibrant purple before they began to cough violently as the spores emerged from their mouths and evaporated in the air. One by one they stood up, looking rather dazed.
"What's… What's going on?" Aaron asked as he and the others stumbled about a bit.
"Well it's a long story really, we should head back to the base if we're gonna tell you what happened." Lloyd told him.
Then the Mythos rangers eyes sharpened as they saw Ophyoc. "It's that monster again!" Emlie exclaimed, causing the Steam rangers to turn around.
"Very good rangers, you managed to save them." He said in a sarcastic manner as he approached. "But you'll never defeat me, all I need to survive is one spore, unless you destroy me completely, you'll never truly defeat me!" He told them as he drew his fungal staff.
The Mythos rangers rose to the challenge. "You up for this?" Alex asked them, to which they nodded.
"Then we'll fight together." TJ said as they all lined up.
Mia was stood next to Ben. Lucas next to Lexa and Ayana next to Tyson. TJ and Percy stood side by side, Alex and Emlie followed suit. Lloyd stood next to Aaron and in the centre of the twelve other rangers stood Welkin Stross.
"Mythos Ignite!" The Mythos rangers called. "Full Steam Ahead!" The Steam rangers called. "Templar Power, Activate!" Aaron called, swiping the air with his crossguard themed morpher. "Take to the Skies!" Welkin finished.
The thirteen of them stood side by side, Ophyoc sized them up and saw he was perhaps outmatched but definitely outnumbered.
"Let's show this creep who we are!" Aaron called and the others nodded in response.
"Power of Atlantis! Mythos Blue!" Percy called.
"Cold and refreshing, water in the tank, Steam Force Blue!" TJ announced.
"Power of Asgard! Mythos Yellow!" Tyson said, punching the air with his fist.
"Putting on the golden touch, Steam Force Yellow!" Ayana followed on.
"Power of Babylon! Mythos Pink!" Lexa said, jumping up in the air.
"The glorious verdant carriage, Steam Force Green!" Lucas shouted.
"Power of Astral! Mythos Black!" Ben said, hand on the bottom of his hemet.
"Powering ahead with industrial fuel, Steam Force Black!" Mia exclaimed.
"Power of Elysium! Mythos White!" Emlie called, hand on her hip.
"Pure colour, rising high to the sky, Steam Force White!" Alex said, raising an open hand to the sky and then closing it.
"Power of Albion! Templar Ranger!" Aaron said, drawing his longsword.
"Red hot just like an engine, Steam Force Red!" Lloyd called, drawing his Pipeblade in similar fashion to the Templar ranger.
"Thunder from above, Sky Strike Ranger!" Welkin wrapped up as each of the rangers drew their weapons.
"Mythic Warriors!" The Mythos rangers called. "Guardians of Steam!" The Steam rangers called. "Defender of the Skies!" Welkin exclaimed. "Power Rangers Unite!" They called in unison as a large explosion went off behind them.
|Steam Versus Myth|
And that's all you're getting for now, we have one more major part to go in this little story and that'll be tomorrow. In addition to this there will be a final mini chapter to round things off till we return to our regularly scheduled programming. Next week shall be Mythos and Martial Strike so stay tuned for that.
I released The second chapter of Primal Protectors earlier in the week, despite the amount of views it received, it didn't get many if any reviews, so if you have read it tell me how it went or what I might need to improve if it was a flaw on my part. I did make the mistake of saying the next one would be released at the end of may, yet it'll be released at the end of march, this month, and I wanted to clarify that before I continue, thanks for reading and onto the synopsis.
Next Chapter: Rangers Unite
Synopsis: The rangers now fighting together, they face off against the powerful and ancient Ophyoc, who swears he cannot die. Who shall win in this battle? Will the rangers succeed? Find out next time on Steam Versus Myth.