Keima walked into the throne room after noticing a peculiarity.
"Where has the witch been all week," asked Keima.
"Don't know" said Koruma.
"Don't care," said Masara.
"Why do you care?" asked Taro.
"I don't. I just thought we were finally going to get her for repeatedly betraying us," said Keima.
"We mustn't rush things. Megumi has locked herself in her room and she'll pay when the time comes," said Saffron.
"She's been in her room all week?" asked Keima.
"You don't believe us, look for yourself," said Taro.
Then the magic mirror showed an image of Megumi appearing to be meditating in her room.
Kage stood up, talisman in hand, "In the meantime, we need to summon a demon. Thanks to the rangers, my sword's energy is almost depleted."
Kage held up his talisman, ""I command the darkness to send fourth Striking to do my bidding."
Out of the darkness of the portal, a demon clad in black spiked armor walked out. Two yellow jagged horns came out at both sides of its skull faced head. The demon held a jagged trident.
"Striking, I want you to use your powers to spread chaos and fear through Nerima. Let no one stand in your way," said Kage.
"It would be my pleasure," said Striking.
Kasumi was about to leave the house when Nabiki spotted her.
"Hey sis, where are you off to this evening?" asked Nabiki.
"I'm just going to visit Dr. Tofu. I thought he would like a slice of the cake I made yesterday," said Kasumi.
"I'm sure you boyfriend would love it," teased Nabiki.
"He's not my…."
"Don't deny it. You spent the whole time he was away pacing around the house. And your face lights up every time you say his name,"
Kasumi was about to respond when she heard a scream. Ranma and Akane walked out of the dojo, both clearly angry.
"Stupid Jerk," shouted Akane.
"Uncute Tomboy," shouted Ranma.
"You two can quit the act, our parents are out for the night," said Nabiki.
Then as if a switch had been hit, Ranma and Akane's anger faded and they began to converse like two normal people.
"So, anyway Akane, you need to lift your leg higher for an effective roundhouse kick," said Ranma.
"Thanks for the tip," said Akane.
"You know everyone can tell that you two don't hate each other as much as you let on, even with your little act," said Nabiki.
"Your sister scares me sometimes," said Ranma.
"It's not just you," said Akane
Akane and Ranma's pretend fight served as enough of a distraction to allow Kasumi to slip away from her nosey sister.
"That vile Saotome got very lucky when battling my sister and I," said Tatewaki as Tofu was busy cracking his back.
"Come on, you know he couldn't help it," said Tofu.
"Still, I'm very hesitant to allow him back on our team."
Kodachi popped her head in the room, "Are you going to be much longer?"
"No, he's almost done," said Tofu.
"Hello, Dr. Tofu," called Kasumi.
Suddenly, Tofu's hand slipped and Tatewaki's back made a loud popping noise. Tatewaki's eyes went wide and he fell over.
"Doctor, what happened," asked Kodachi.
"Oh nothing, it's supposed to sound like that. He's in no pain," said Tofu.
Kodachi noticed that Tofu's glasses had fogged up. She realized this is what Ranma and Akane would talk about when they said Tofu acted strange around Kasumi.
The normally competent doctor left the room to go and greet Kasumi.
Kodachi looked at her brother and noticed that his expression had not changed since he fell over. However in his eyes, Kodachi could tell that her brother was in serious pain.
"I bet my Ranma darling would love to see this," laughed Kodachi as she wrapped her ribbon around her paralyzed brother and leaped out the window. Tatewaki was internally screaming in pain the whole way to the Tendo house.
Meanwhile Tofu met Kasumi.
"Hello Kasumi, what are you doing here?" asked Tofu.
"Oh, I just thought you'd like a slice of cake," said Kasumi as she reached into the bag she was carrying and pulled out a plastic container with a fourth of a cake inside of it.
"Why thank you Kasumi," said Tofu as he started to munch on the container.
Kasumi sighed. She dug in her bag and pulled out a fork. Then she took one of Tofu's hands and gave him the fork.
Then Tofu noticed something, she had handed him a small tack with the fork. Instinctively, he squeezed the tack and his mind returned to normal.
"Thank you Kasumi," said Tofu.
"You're getting better. It only took one squeeze this time," said Kasumi
As one would expect, very little got past Kasumi. She had known Tofu was using pins to keep his mind focused the whole time. It was why she didn't mind her sister, Ranma, and their friends tagging along on their first date.
"Don't worry, someday you won't need it," said Kasumi.
"I just hope you can wait for that long," said Tofu.
Kasumi blushed quickly tried to look at anything other than the doctor. Then she had an idea. Kasumi began digging around her pocket until she found something she hoped could help the good doctor.
Tofu's curiosity began to grow until Kasumi pulled out a violet rubber band and placed it around his wrist.
"What's this for?" asked Tofu.
"Snap it on your wrist," said Kasumi.
Tofu shrugged, pulled the rubber band, and let it go. The irritating pain that came from the rubber band snapping back seemed to clear Tofu's mind, working just as well as the pin.
"Hopefully, you won't have to worry about losing something that's around your wrist. And you won't have to worry about squeezing too hard," said Kasumi.
"Thanks Kasumi," said Tofu.
"I recognize that look," said Ranma as Kodachi dumped her internally screaming brother in front of him.
"I see Kasumi made it to Dr. Tofu's," said Akane.
"Well as much as I'd love to leave him like this, can you recommend someone to fix him," said Kodachi.
"Tofu could probably do it once Kasumi leaves," said Akane.
"We don't need him, I'll do it," said Ranma.
"Are you sure you can?" asked Kodachi.
"It's no problem."
Then Ranma proceeded to shove the hilt of the sword into Tatewaki's mouth.
"What's that for?" asked Akane.
"So he has something to bite down on," said Ranma.
Kodachi quickly asked, "But why would he need to bite down…."
She didn't get to finish as Ranma grabbed Tatewaki's legs, placed one foot on his back and pulled until he heard a loud crack.
Tatewaki screamed loudly and turned to Ranma, "That hurts. Saotome, if you ever do anything like that again, I shall smite you before the gods."
"You're welcome," said Ranma before walking off.
"Now where are you going," said Tatewaki.
"Ryoga asked me to take him over to his house, I was supposed to meet him at the Cat Café a week ago so he should just be getting there," said Ranma.
"Wait up, I'll come with you," said Akane.
Ranma and Akane then proceeded to jump over the surrounding wall and out of sight.
"Wait up, I shall accompany you as well," said Kodachi as she ran off after them.
As Tatewaki fixed his back, the bane of his existence appeared.
"Hey Kuno, I've got an investment opportunity for you," said Nabiki.
"And why would I want to do business with you," asked Tatewaki.
"Oh I just thought you'd like to buy this tape I made of you screaming like a little girl," said Nabiki.
"I truly detest you Nabiki."
"Well, you can detest me over lunch while we work out payment options."
With that, Nabiki began to lead Tatewaki to the nearest restaurant.
"Your demon sure is taking his time," said Keima.
"Just wait," said Kage.
"Look, something's happening," said Koruma.
The magic mirror showed Striking arriving at a power plant. Within minutes, the demon had beaten and scared away the security guards and located the main generator. Striking then proceeded to jam his weapon into the generator and began to absorb the electricity from within.
"Are you satisfied yet Keima?" asked Saffron.
Masara laughed, "All he's doing is absorbing the electricity. What's so evil about that?"
Kage rolled his eyes and motioned over to Taro who proceeded to punch Masara in the back of the head.
As Nabiki and Tatewaki ate at the Cat Café, Kodachi walked in. She instantly noticed her brother and Nabiki and walked over. Shampoo, Mousse and Cologne were in their usual places of cooking, cleaning, and serving the customers. Little did she know that she had just missed the very person she was looking for.
"My Ranma disappeared from my sight. He truly is taking Akane Tendo's training seriously for her to keep up with him like that," said Kodachi.
"Too seriously if you ask Shampoo," said Shampoo as she served Nabiki and Tatewaki.
"Leave them be. It's nice to not be around their constant fighting all the time," said Mousse.
"Hey at least you don't have to live with them," commented Nabiki.
"If the fair Akane Tendo wanted to learn a true art, I would have been glad to teach her," said Tatewaki.
Then every light in the restaurant went out.
"Did they forget to pay the electric bill," asked Nabiki.
Cologne hopped out of the kitchen, "I always pay the bills on time. Mousse, Shampoo, wait a few minutes. If the power doesn't come back on, go see if anyone else's power is out."
They wouldn't have to wait long however as the lights suddenly came back on.
"I guess it was just a short blackout," said Mousse.
Then the light's got brighter and brighter.
"What's going on?" asked Kodachi.
Then every light in the building exploded causing all of the restaurant patients to duck and cover. A moment later they heard another explosion from upstairs. Shampoo ran up to find the screen on their TV shattered.
"That should not happen," said Shampoo.
Then they heard the sound of more cracking glass. Tatewaki and Mousse ran out of the restaurant to see the lights on several streetlights exploding.
"It's happening outside to," reported Mousse.
"You think demon," said Shampoo quietly to Cologne.
"I hope not. We must keep watch and see if any kind of pattern emerges. I'll alert the others," said Cologne.
"And what are you two whispering about?" asked Nabiki.
"Nothing, we're just trying to think of a way out of refunding people their money for the broken light bulbs in their food."
Cologne's sweat dropped. They needed the mercenary girl out of here.
Meanwhile, Ranma, Akane and Ryoga were nearing Ryoga's house.
"I know it was rude to ditch Kodachi like that, but what did you want me to do?" asked Ranma.
"It's just that she's finally not trying to beat up either me or the girl you and I think it's because we've been nicer to her lately. I just don't want things to go back to the way they were," said Akane.
"Akane has a point Ranma. Or maybe you liked things the way they were," said Ryoga.
"As if pig boy," said Ranma.
"Who are you calling a pig," yelled Ryoga.
Akane quickly stepped in before a fight broke out, "So Ryoga why did you need Ranma to take you home this time?"
Ryoga quickly diverted his attention from Ranma, "Oh, I got a letter from my parents saying that they had sent home some souvenirs from they're various travels. Anyway, they wanted me to make sure that their things were safely put away."
"Well we're glad to help you right Ranma," said Akane as she tugged Ranma's ear.
"Yes, glad. Let go of my ear tomboy," said Ranma.
Upon arriving at Ryoga's house, they were greeted by his monochromatic dog and her puppies.
"Hey Checkers, did you miss me?" said Ryoga.
Checkers barked in return while Akane occupied herself by playing with the puppies.
"Hey guys, check this out," said Ranma as he showed them his morpher which was glowing faintly.
Akane and Ryoga looked at their own morphers which were glowing as well.
"What do you think is the cause?" asked Ryoga.
Checkers looked up and sniffed Ryoga's morpher, then barked for the teens to follow her. Ranma, Akane, and Ryoga found themselves in the kitchen where Checkers was digging through a pile of souvenirs that Ryoga's parents had shipped. A minute later, Checkers came out of the pile with a box in her mouth.
As she brought the box closer, the rangers' morphers were glowing even brighter than before.
"Whatever's making our morphers glow has got to be in the box," said Ranma.
Without hesitation, Ryoga took the box from Checkers and opened it.
"What's inside?" asked Akane.
Without words, Ryoga showed them. Inside the box were two jade figures, a rat and rabbit.
"We need to get back to the Cat Café," said Ranma.
"Good girl Checkers," said Ryoga as he patted his dogs head.
Checkers was all too happy to respond with a bark and a wagging tail.
"Oh my, what happened to the lights," asked Kasumi.
Tofu looked around to see every light in his office shattered.
"It looked like some kind of electrical surge. It probably fried anything else plugged in as well," said Tofu.
"Strange things like this have been happening a lot lately haven't they," said Kasumi.
"You better let me walk you home in case something else happens. Don't know what your father would say if I let you walk home alone and street light explodes above you."
"Thank you, that's very sweet."
Hearing Kasumi's compliment reminded Tofu to snap the rubber band on his wrist once more.
As they walked, Kasumi and Tofu passed the Cat Café. While passing, they noticed a red, yellow, and blue light enter the apartment upstairs from the roof.
"What was that?" asked Kasumi.
Tatewaki noticed Tofu and came out of the restaurant.
"I assume you're here to figure why all the electronics have exploded or become useless," said Tatewaki.
"No, I was just walking by," said Tofu.
"Why, do you have an explanation?" asked Kasumi.
"No we only guessing at the possible cause," said Tatewaki
"Oh well, maybe we can help you figure it out," said Kasumi as she began walking inside the café.
Tofu sighed; Kasumi was such a people pleaser. So much for their alone time.
Once Tofu entered the café, he noticed that there was a surprising lack of customers. The only ones there were the other rangers and Nabiki.
"This place seems pretty empty," said Tofu.
"Everyone wanted to leave to make sure their lights and TV's were still intact," said Nabiki.
Just as Kasumi sat down, Ranma, Akane and Ryoga walked down from upstairs.
Ranma started, "Hey old ghoul your TV is broken also we found…"
But then he stopped when he noticed Akane's sisters were present.
"Why hello you three," said Kasumi.
"When did you three get here? I didn't see you come in," said Nabiki.
Ranma and Ryoga's sweat dropped. However Akane spoke up, "We were roof hopping and came in through a window upstairs."
"That's very rude. You should use the front door," said Kasumi.
"Sorry," said Ranma, Akane, and Ryoga.
Cologne hopped over, "So what did you find?"
"Here it's kind of private," said Ryoga.
As Ryoga was about to hand over the box, Nabiki intercepted it and opened it.
"Hmm, these jade figures probably aren't worth much but I bet I could find you a good price to sell them at," said Nabiki as picked up the two figures.
Kasumi then got up and tried to grab the figures out of Nabiki's hands, "That's very rude Nabiki. You should ask first before handling someone else's things."
In the end, Kasumi only grabbed ahold of the rabbit. Before she could even acknowledge the animal, it began to glow with silver light. The next thing she knew, a silver zodiac morpher found itself wrapped around her wrist.
"Oh my," said Kasumi.
"What the heck are these," said Nabiki as she held up the now gold rat figure. Then she took a look around at everyone in the restaurants wrist and for the first time took notice of a particular item they all had. Red, yellow, blue, black, pink, violet, crimson, navy.
"How did I not see it before, you're the power rangers. That's why you've all been so friendly with each other lately," said Nabiki.
"Is this true?" asked Kasumi.
"Sorry to keep it a secret," said Akane.
"And it seems the rabbit has picked you to join us Kasumi," said Cologne.
"It did transform into a morpher pretty fast," said Mousse.
"Well what do you expect, the morphers seem to react to the goodness in your heart and Kasumi fits the very definition of a good person," said Ranma.
"That's very nice of you to say Ranma but I don't have the fighting skills to be a ranger like any of you. All I know is very basic training from when father tried to teach me when I was younger," said Kasumi.
Before they could say anything else, a familiar face appeared.
"I figured at least one of you would be here," said Megumi as she walked into the café.
Instantly, Ryoga, Mousse, Shampoo, Tatewaki and Kodachi got into a battle stance.
"What do you want," demanded Shampoo.
"Oh calm down, I've got better things to do than fight you," said Megumi.
"So then what are you here for," said Ryoga.
"I just thought I should let you know that a demon has been attacking the local power plants. From the looks of things I'd say you've already seen his handiwork," said Megumi, noticing the broken lights.
"Let me guess, there is more than just a demon waiting at the plant isn't there," said Kodachi.
"I wouldn't know. I haven't been around the castle lately. I only know that a demon's been attacking the plants because I saw him going in and out of one. Look, you can either take my word for it or you wait for something worse to happen," said Megumi.
There was an awkward silent pause that was only broken when Ranma moved his hand towards his morpher, "It doesn't hurt to look. Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, Shampoo, let's go check it out. We'll call the rest of you if there is any problem."
Akane noticed that Ranma never glanced directly at Megumi the whole time she was there. It was probably nothing but she couldn't help but feel like there was a reason behind it. Oh well, it would have to wait.
With that, the rangers teleported out of the café.
"Well, I guess I'll take my leave," said Megumi as she walked out.
"Wait, why are you helping us," said Tofu.
"My reasons are my own," said Megumi.
"You're trying to get close to Ranma," said Nabiki.
"I won't allow you to get anywhere near my Ranma," shouted Kodachi.
"Relax Kodachi," said Megumi.
Megumi walked over to Nabiki and took the rat from her, "You know, if I truly wanted to get close to Ranma, I'd use this to become a ranger and then you will all be forced to accept me being around."
Kodachi was about to attack her when Megumi gave the now faintly glowing rat back to Nabiki, "Too bad though. I have other priorities at the moment such as finding a place to camp for the night. Too bad I didn't think to grab any of the treasure from the castle. I could have at least gotten a hotel. There were mountains of it. I doubt they would have missed any."
Megumi left before anyone could say anything else and smirked when she could practically see cartoon dollar signs in Nabiki's eyes.
As the rangers neared the plant, they could defiantly tell a demon had been there. The plant was trashed.
"Ok, so maybe she was telling the truth," said Mousse.
Then a group of bird warriors dropped from the sky.
"Heads up," yelled Shampoo.
The rangers ducked as the warriors swooped down.
"Move now," shouted Ranma.
No sooner had he shouted when the rangers found themselves having to dodge several spikes that had been thrown at them.
"Ryoga, look out," said Mousse.
Ryoga quickly moved to the side as several of the bird warriors tossed spears at him.
"Why aren't they coming down," said Akane.
"Maybe they scared to fight up close," said Shampoo.
Then they had move as more spikes came flying at them.
"That just means we need to blast them out of the sky," said Ranma.
Ranma and Ryoga began to charge their attacks when one of the warriors diving towards them with two swords in his hands.
Ranma and Ryoga easily moved out of the way.
"Moko Takabisha/Shi Shi Hokodan" shouted Ranma and Ryoga. However as their ki began to fire, their wrist were grabbed by a set of ropes. The bird warriors holding the ropes pulled tight forcing Ranma and Ryoga's ki blast to fire into the air.
Then the warrior with the swords came at them again. However this time, Akane and Shampoo intervened by leaping into the air and jumping on the warriors back, forcing him on the ground.
The warrior shrugged her off and jammed his swords in the ground before taking to the air again.
"Come down and fight," shouted Mousse.
"And why would they do that when they seem to be doing a perfectly good job right where they are?" laughed Striking as he finally showed his face.
Then Striking raised his hands firing hundreds of spikes at the rangers.
Thinking quickly, Mousse reached into his robes and pulled out a large shield.
"Quick behind me," said Mousse.
As the rangers got behind him, they waited for the spikes to eventually stop.
Once the spikes stopped, Mousse tossed down what was left the shield.
"Time to morph," said Ranma.
"I don't think so," said Striking as he threw his electrically charged trident towards them.
Too late did the rangers realize that metal swords, metal spears, and metal spikes were scattered all around them. Once the trident hit the ground, it sent thousands of volts through anything metal in the vicinity, zapping all five rangers into unconsciousness as a result.
"Nice to see you smiling for a change," said Koruma.
"Why wouldn't I? The rangers have failed to stop my demon and the fear caused by the electrical surges is powering up my sword nicely," said Kage.
"But what about the other rangers?" asked Masara.
"They won't be a problem. They will drop like flies just like their friends," said Kage.
"You better hope so. Our track record says otherwise," laughed Masara before Keima punched the back of his head.
"It has been too long enough, we should go help them," said Kodachi.
"It's only been an hour, calm down sister," said Tatewaki.
Kasumi looked over at Tofu who had just snapped his rubber band again.
"How long does defeating a demon usually take?" asked Kasumi.
"It varies," said Tofu.
Tofu looked at Kasumi, he could tell that she was worried. Especially now that she knew her sister could be in potential danger.
"Alright, we'll go see if they need help," said Tofu.
"Will you two be accompanying us?" asked Kodachi.
Then to everyone's surprise Kasumi said, "Yes. I have to make sure my sister and Ranma are safe."
"And you Nabiki Tendo?" asked Tatewaki.
"Just don't expect me to do any fighting," said Nabiki.
With that, Nabiki grabbed Kasumi's arm. Kasumi proceeded to follow Tofu's instructions on how to use the morpher to teleport.
Then in a flash of light, the second group of rangers was gone.
"Where are they?" asked Tatewaki once they arrived.
"I don't like this," said Kodachi.
All around were weapons and spikes embedded everywhere.
"Over there," said Nabiki
The rangers looked to where Nabiki was pointing to see their friends tied up and unconscious.
"Akane," said Nabiki as she began to make her way toward her sister.
"Wait it's a trap," called Tofu.
Just in time, Kodachi managed to take out her ribbon, Wrap it around Kasumi and pull her back as a barrage of spikes came towards her.
Upon seeing the attack, there was a flash in Nabiki's eyes. No one attacked Kasumi. No one attacked her family. And when angered, Nabiki could even more dangerous than any demon.
And in that instant, the rat in Nabiki's hand transformed and became the final zodiac morpher.
"Show yourself demon," shouted Tatewaki.
Striking stepped out laughing, "Come and join your friends' rangers. Maybe if you surrender, the dark warrior will be kind and only banish you to the dark coldness of space."
The bird warriors began to gather behind Striking and wait for his orders.
"Let's morph," said Tofu.
"And how do we do that," said Kasumi.
"The power comes when it is called," said Kodachi.
"You also have to press this button," said Tatewaki as he pointed to the sheep on his morpher.
"Ready," asked Tofu.
"Let's find out," said Nabiki.
"Sheng Xiao, Power UP!" they called.
Even Nabiki had to admit, the light that came from the feeling of being in one of the ranger suits felt good. It also helped that her suit was gold.
Kasumi likewise felt very empowered by her silver suit.
"Attack," commanded Striking.
The bird warriors swooped down with their weapons in hand. The rangers quickly moved out of the way only for the warriors to pay them no mind and plant their weapons in the ground.
Striking then sent his spikes flying towards Kasumi and Nabiki.
The silver and gold rangers were able to dodge at the last minute. The power of the jade figures was able to unlock the basic gymnastics and martial arts training that their father had tried to teach them before he began to focus on Akane.
"I'm beginning to have second thoughts about this," said Nabiki
"We just need to stick it out," said Kasumi.
Then Striking fired his spikes at Tofu, along with a bolt of lightning from his trident.
Kasumi called out Tofu's name as she rushed towards him. Then in her hand a large silver fan appeared. Kasumi swung the fan towards the spikes and a strong wind blew, sending the spikes into the lightning and towards striking.
The demon moved, avoiding his own attack.
"How did you know your fan could do that?" asked Nabiki.
"I didn't," said Kasumi.
"You mean to tell me that you just charged in without thinking."
"It must be a family trait."
Tatewaki interrupted, "Did you notice how the demons' spikes reacted with the lightning."
Tofu looked around, it all made sense now, "He's using all the metal on the ground to conduct and spread his attack."
"So you've figured out my strategy. No matter, I'll just have to take the fight to you," said Striking.
The bird warriors' descended to join the demon when Nabiki stepped in.
"I don't think so," said the gold ranger. Then a bow appeared in her hands. As she pulled the string, an arrow made of light appeared. Nabiki let the arrow fly and followed it up with several more, knocking all the bird warriors out of the sky.
"Maybe there is something too charging in blindly," said Nabiki.
"I don't need them to defeat you," said Striking.
As soon as he was done speaking, Nabiki hit him with an arrow. Her attack was followed up by Kodachi hitting him with her chakram. The demon staggered back and was soon slashed by Tofu's claws and Tatewaki's katana. Kasumi finished the assault by blowing the demon away with her fan.
"This isn't over yet," said Striking as a black feather floated down and struck him in the chest.
"What now," said Nabiki.
"Now we call the zords," said Tofu.
The rangers raised their morphers, "We need zodiac zord power now!"
As the dragon, snake and sheep zord descended from the sky, they were followed by two new zords.
The rat and rabbit zords were both the same in terms of height. Both had very boxlike bodies. The rabbit's hind legs were over half the length of its body so it could move at high speeds despite its frame. The rat was more held back in its movements but its tail moved around like a whip ready to strike.
"Oh my, what have I gotten myself into," said Kasumi once she teleported into her zord.
As soon as Nabiki teleported inside her zord she couldn't help but comment, "Nice stereo."
"You rangers don't stand a chance," said Striking.
"Quick, doctor, attack," said Tatewaki.
"That's probably not a good idea. He could easily absorb the lightning from my zord. We also have no idea what the rabbit and rat zords can do," said Tofu.
"I guess that leaves it to me," said Kodachi.
"No wait," said Tofu. "We need to work as team."
Kasumi thought for a moment. She was out of her element. Normally she didn't care for violence. However, she couldn't just let this demon cause more destruction. And if anything went wrong, she knew she had Tofu and the others to back her up. After all, she was now part of a team.
And in that moment, the control board of her zord began to light up.
"What's that, you say you can help," said Kasumi to her zord.
The control board lit up once more and Kasumi began to instinctively type in keys.
Suddenly, Tofu found his zord automatically transforming into warrior mode. Then the dragon zord's arms folded around to its back.
"What's happening," said Tatewaki.
Then the top half of the sheep zord separated from the lower half.
"My zord," shouted Kodachi as the snake split into two halves.
Then the heads of the rat and rabbit zords rotated into their bodies and a pair of feet rotated out.
"I think I may have been the cause of this," said Kasumi.
"I also blame my sister," said Nabiki.
The dragon zord then leaped into the air as the bodies of the rabbit and rat moved so that they were upright and there back sides opened revealing compartments. A moment later, the dragon zord landed into the compartments of the rat and rabbit. The rabbit was on the left and the rat was on the right.
"I wouldn't worry about it," said Tofu.
The lower half of the sheep zord then attached itself to the dragons' back. The sheep's tracks then moved forward so that they were on both sides of the dragons' body. Afterward, two pegs popped out of the sides of the sheep's tracks.
The tail of the snake zord rotated inward and switched places with a large hand. Then both halves of the zord attached itself to the pegs on side of the dragon zord. The half with the snakes head served as the new left arm and the tail half became the right arm.
Finally, the top half of the sheep zord attached itself to the dragons' chest and a samurai style helmet appeared around the dragons' head.
The rangers then found themselves seated at five new terminals inside the dragon's head.
The rangers gazed at their terminal screens, each of them reading: TAO MEGAZORD ONLINE.
"Kasumi, I think you just leveled the playing field," said Tofu.
"Oh my," said Kasumi.
Before anyone could say anything else, Striking began firing his spikes.
The Tao megazord quickly lifted its arms to block the attack.
As the spikes embedded themselves into the megazord's arms, Tofu called out, "Brace yourselves for the follow up."
Striking then attacked by firing lightning from his trident.
"I have a solution to this," said Tatewaki as he began typing in keys.
Then the silver gem on the Tao megazord's chest began to glow and absorb the lightning.
"You can't absorb all my lightning rangers," said Striking.
"He's right. The megazord's energy storage is already at maximum capacity. If we absorb any more, it could overload and explode the core," said Kodachi.
"Can't we just fire it back at him?" asked Nabiki.
"He could always reabsorb it," said Tatewaki.
"Then can't we convert it into our own?"
There was an uncomfortable silence between the rangers as they all grasped the obvious solution.
"Well Kodachi, you heard her," said Tofu.
"I'm converting the energy now. Activating snake laser" said Kodachi.
The Tao megazord held up its left arm and the snake's gatling gun emerged from its mouth.
"Fire," commanded Tofu.
Upon his word, the snake fired a steady stream of energy at Striking. The defended itself but was quickly losing ground.
"Now me must attack," said Tatewaki.
Tofu's terminal flashed and the violet ranger instantly began typing in keys.
"Activating Tao Axe," said Tofu.
The megazord halted its attack as a large silver axe hammer appeared in its right hand.
Striking took the megazord's pause as a chance to attack once more. The demon began to charge with his trident only for the megazord to react by bashing him away with the hammer side of its weapon.
"No onward to victory," shouted Tatewake.
"If we must," said Kasumi as her terminal flashed. "Activating Final Strike: Silver Lightning Strike"
"Bring it on you worthless rangers," shouted Striking.
Then a silver bolt of lightning tore through the sky and struck the Tao axe, charging it. The megazord leaped into the air and brought the bladed side of its axe down onto Striking whose trident shattered as he tried to block the attack. Soon all that was left of the demon was black fog.
"Zodiac rangers, victory is ours," said Tatewaki.
This was followed by the crimson rangers getting hit in head by Nabiki who had removed her helmet and thrown it at him.
"Too cheesy," said Nabiki.
"Keima, were you able to get the negative energy Striking collected before he was destroyed," asked Kage.
"Yes my lord," said Keima as she presented the energy to the dark warrior.
"What are we going to do now that there are twelve of them?" asked Taro.
Kage laughed, "The first twelve barely defeated me and they were each master warriors. These twelve are anything but. They argue with each other, they let their emotions get the better of them, and some of them barely know how to fight. Once my sword is fully powered, I will destroy them easily."
"But until then, you're stuck sending demon after demon to be destroyed," laughed Masara. Then Masara quickly covered his head and waited for a punch that never came.
However, as soon as he let his guard down, Keima kicked him out of the palace.
The dark warrior sighed, "I have a headache."
The ten rangers soon found themselves back at the Cat Café.
"Thanks for taking over," said Ranma.
"No problem, you would have done same for us," said Tofu.
Then the rangers turned their attention towards Kasumi and Nabiki.
"Look we completely understand if this was a one-time thing for you two," said Akane.
Then to her little sisters shock, Kasumi spoke up, "I think I will hold onto the morpher. I like knowing that I can help people. But I'm afraid that my fighting skill is not at the level of any of you."
Then Shampoo and Kodachi not so subtlety pushed Tofu forward.
The doctor though very nervous said, "If you don't mind, I could train you. Unless you'd rather train in your family's style with Ranma."
Kasumi smiled, "No, training with you should be fine."
"And what about Nabiki," asked Ryoga.
Nabiki stepped forward, "I'm out. My hair gets too tangled up inside the helmets."
"That figures," said Mousse.
"Once again avoiding conflict," said Tatewaki
"Oh come on you guys, I was only kidding. Do you think I'd miss a chance on the kind of profit I could make as a ranger? Autographs meet and greets, maybe even offer rides in my zord," laughed Nabiki
"Nabiki you wouldn't. We're supposed to keep our identities secret," shouted Akane.
Nabiki smiled, "Of course I wouldn't." Besides, there were supposed mountains of treasure that she wanted a chance to get her hands on. That was worth all the admission and autograph fees in the world.
"You will also need martial arts training," said Shampoo
"I'm assuming you guys won't settle for a tae bo work out will you," said Nabiki.
"You can train with me and Akane," said Ranma.
"If your teaching, I'll train with you too," said Shampoo.
"Wait a second," said Akane.
"If she's training with you then so am I," said Kodachi.
"I won't allow you train with Shampoo," said Mousse.
"Nor will I allow you to train with the fair Akane," said Tatewaki.
"Yeah Ranma, what are you up to with all the girls," yelled Ryoga.
"I didn't ask any of you," shouted Ranma.
Then Ranma felt many angry eyes staring at him and took it as a queue to run.
Meanwhile, Cologne stared at the scene unfolding before her and laughed.
(Authors Notes)
To whoever was able to guess that the gold and silver rangers were going to be Kasumi and Nabiki, You get 500 imaginary points. An extra 50 points to anyone who find the PR: Samurai refference.
As for the Tao Megazord, Yes it is based off of the thunder megazord from MMPR: season 2.
Striking was borrowed from PR: Lightspeed Rescue
And now here's a small list of other potential gold/silver rangers that were considered. My resons for dropping them are my own and I'm sure some of you will probobly be thinking that any of the names down below were better choices. But I made my decesion and I stand by it.
Mariko Konjo
Hinako Ninomiya
Akari Unryu
Nadoka Saotome
Pink and Link
Kiema
Benten (from Urusei Yatsura)
and Ryuunosuke Fujinami (from Urusei Yatsura)