"Rodney, the Zord's are coming!" Peter notified the rangers, as they watched the Zord's stomp/fly by. All the four teenagers gaped in complete terror as they watched the massive robotic monsters rush past.
"How do we get into the Zord's?" Eric asked Rodney.
"Wh-Why don't we try just suddenly jumping? That's what happens in the series!" Rodney took a running start, and jumped as high as he could. He found himself in the eagle Zord. "Ho-How did I do this?"
Kelz looked up at the Zord's. She took a pause to take in the spectacle, wondering what she was looking at. Then she mimicked what Rodney had done, and jumped into the wolf sword. Riley and Eric looked at each other, shrugged, and jumped into the gorilla zord, and the shark zord.
"Alright! So what now?" Rodney spoke to Peter through the microphone. Peter instructed him to press the large red button directly in front of him. Rodney looked at it, then after realizing what it might do, he smashed it with his fist.
The Zord's began folding into each other. Riley's Zord became the lower body, and legs of the Mega-Zord. Kelz Zord transformed into the right arm of the Mega-Zord. Eric's Zord transformed into the left arm of the Mega-Zord. Rodney's Zord transformed into the head, and possibly wings for the back of the upper body of the Zord.
Unfortunately, there was one Zord missing. The upper body. Kelz, Eric and Rodney's Zord's couldn't attach to anything, so they were forced to either fall to the floor, or fly in place.
"Peter! We're missing a Zord! We can't connect!" Rodney yelled through the microphone.
"Erm..." Peter looked towards the crystal chambers. Then back to his computer, seeing if he could load any information about the Mega-zord. "The Fire Crystal! We need someone to be the Red Fire Ranger!" Peter turned to Paul. Only to find that he wasn't there. He also noticed that the Red Morpher wasn't in the Fire Crystal Chamber. "Paul?" Peter turned to see Paul heading up the Red elevator, holding his arms in an X.
"Elmental! Power up!" he pushed his arms out in front of him, palms facing the ceiling, hands closed, "HAH!" he began morphing in the same fashion as the other four before him. "FIRE!" Paul was inside the Fire Lion, racing to the other parts of the mega-zord.
"Guys! Paul's heading to where you are! He's inside the Fire Lion Zord!" Peter happily yelled through the microphone.
"Paul?!" the other teens were confused in what Peter was saying. They couldn't see Paul galloping into the scene inside a giant red lion. But it was happening. Paul was really riding in, inside a the Fire Lion Zord.
"Rodney! Press the red button again!" Paul spoke through the microphone towards Rodney.
"Why? Will that get the your Zord to morph into shape?" Rodney replied, wondering how long it would take to get Kelz Zord off the ground.
"Just hurry up and do it! I'm getting dizzy!" Kelz yelled herself into the conversation. She was currently trying to get her Zord to stay upright, but it ended up with it continuously turning over and over.
"Right." Rodney hammered the button down, and Paul's Zord folded into itself, having it place itself on top of the Forest Gorilla. The Water Shark acted as the left arm, and the Light Wolf acted as the right arm. Rodney's Time Eagle shuffled itself into place as the head.
The area where Rodney was located, the Time Eagle, transformed into a virtual reality panel. So the Mega-Zord would copy the movements of Rodney. Either side of the platform, were rails, so Rodney could hold on if he fell. At the front of the platform was a raised area, which could fit any of the weapons that rangers had at their disposal.
"This is... Interesting..." Rodney stepped up from his seat, and stood on the platform, trying to keep his balance as his Zord copied his actions.
Shadow Ranger monster clones began forming on the ground, attacking nearby spectators of the fight between monster and Mega-Zord.
"Agh! Riley, Kelz, Eric, Paul! Get to the ground, get rid of those creatures!" Rodney instructed, panicking as the monster pushed the Mega-Zord. Rodney was surprised to feel him being pushed, as well as the Mega-Zord. He thought that he must have felt most movements. Which got him worried when he thought about attacks.
The remainder of the rangers jumped out of their Zord's, and to the ground. Kelz, Eric and Riley discussed what they should call the Shadow Clones, but Paul broke the conversation, by telling them that it had already been called Shadow's.
"Light Saber!"
"Forest Daggers!"
"Water Shield!" the three equipped their weapons as they began to fight the creatures.
"Paul! Get out your weapon!" Riley fired some of her dagger's at Shadow's that Paul was attacking.
"I don't need my weapon to fight Shadow's." while talking, he was knocked down by a strangely strong Shadow.
"Forest Daggers!" Riley protected Paul further, running over to him, attacking Shadow's that were endangering Paul's life. She helped him up. "Stop being so stubborn! Get your weapon out!"
"Fire Axe!" Paul summoned up a large axe, with a large handle. The axe itself could be mistaken as a Lance. But it was just a long axe. Engraved into the main part of the lance, was a lions head. The whole weapon was red, aside from the long stripe of white heading from the base to the head.
"That's more like it!" Eric encouraged as he rammed into a large set of Shadow's, just before they were about to attack Riley and Paul.
Though Kelz, Riley, Paul and Eric were having a reasonably easy experience fighting the Shadow's, Rodney was having a bit more trouble in fighting with the Mega-Zord. The Mega-Zord's actions were a bit delayed after Rodney had made them. It was only a two second delay, but they were easily noticed, and were easy to take advantage of.
"Time Saber!" Rodney has noticed the pedestal which the Time Saber could fit into, and took a lunging downward stab, creating a larger version of the Time Saber so the Mega-Zord could carry it. "Epic Win." Rodney mimed that he was holding his Time Saber so the Mega-Zord would also hold it.
"Just mimic like you're attacking!" Peter spoke through a speaker that was located in the room where Rodney was fighting.
"M'kay." Rodney took a vertical strike, knocking back the fish monster. "Well I'm surprised that worked..."
"When the monster gets weak, press the button on the bottom of the saber, it will activate Time Wave!" Peter instructed. Obviously Rodney had to attack a bit further before the fish monster could get weak enough.
Rodney pressed the button on the base of the saber, he had to remove the eagle head, that was on a hinge, before he could press the button. When he did, the Mega-Zord's version of the Time Saber blasted out of a large silver wave. Rodney looked at it from the Mega-Zord in shock and confusion as the wave struck the monster down, and watched it disappear into nothing.
"Interesting..." Rodney continued looking in the spot where the Mega-Zord destroyed the fish monster. Then he turned the cameras down to where the other rangers had been fighting the Shadow's. They seemed to be having a pretty easy battle, now that the fish monster had been destroyed. The Shadow's seemed to stop spawning. "Peter, how do I get out?"
"Take out the Time Saber and step off the platform." Peter instructed, there could be some typing heard in the background. Obviously, Peter was working on something.
Rodney followed the actions, but unfortunately, he was catapulted out of the base, down a long slide. Obviously designed like that, so as the ranger inside the Zord would not be hurt. Rodney landed down by the other rangers, and attacked the last Shadow.
"Hey guys!" he high fived Eric and Kelz, got a hug from Riley. Then turned to Paul. "Paul. I really wanna apologize. If it wasn't for me, then your friends..."
"Yes. I'm going to return to the base. I bid you all a due." Paul teleported back to Peter's base. Rodney watched the Fire Red cloud fly by.
"Sherlock." Rodney sighed, turning back to his companions.
"Don't worry, Rodney! I'm sure he'll come around..." Riley hugged him again. "He's getting a long well with me."
"Well that's all well and good for you. What about you guys?" Rodney turned to Eric and Kelz, still hanging on to Riley's shoulder.
"We haven't really talked." Kelz shrugged.
Eric turned to where Paul disappeared to. "Now how to we do that thing that Paul did?"
"Peter?" Rodney called out through his microphone.
"Don't worry, I got it..." some more typing could be heard in the background, as well as a lowering of one of the colored elevators. Possibly Paul's.
The rest of the rangers teleported to the area of the War Memorial Park where the elevators were located. The four descended down their color co-ordinated elevator. Wondering how to de-morph. But it seemed to happen by itself. Their crest seemed to melt from their chest, and transfer to their crystal. The elevator's reached the bottom.
"Thanks for that, Riley." Peter thanked Riley, leaning on his computer base.
"It was-" Riley looked away for a few seconds before continuing. "So this thing will never come off?"
"Not until the Shadow Ranger is defeated, and the Wind Crystal is found." Peter shrugged. "Sorry, I should have told you guys before you put them on. But it would have made you have second thoughts."
"It's okay. I thought it was pretty cool! I've always occasionally watched Power Ranger's, but now I am one!" Eric paused for a bit, as he thought a bit further. "I don't like it so far. It's confusing."
Everyone looked at him and blinked. But then all but Peter and Paul looked down and thought.
'Is this what I want?' Rodney thought, thinking about his dreams as a child to become a Power Ranger. They had flooded into his dreams as he grew older. Still wishing that he could become a Power Ranger. Not so much now.
'Rodney. Why did you ask me to do this?' Riley peered over to Rodney momentarily. She lowered her head once more. 'Sometimes... Sometimes I just hate you so much.'
'Will I be able to take this off?' Eric looked at his morpher, raising his hand with the morpher in. 'Not until the Shadow and Wind Crystals are found, and I suppose until they are stored.'
'Rodney. What have you gotten me into?' Kelz looked at Rodney. Just plainly wondering why he just had to open the box. 'But, then again. I did nothing to stop you. Although, how were we both to know what was going to happen.'
"Go home. Get some rest." Peter broke the silence. "Paul's gonna stay here, I've got a bed for him. I'll get heading home in a few hours. I've still got to get some more energy from the crystals. It might help you when fighting monsters and Shadow's." he turned back to his computer, and lowered the elevator leading to the branch hut.
"I'm really sorry. Everyone." Rodney plodded over to the elevator. Feeling pretty sorry for himself. "I wish I had never opened the box."
"Me neither." Riley stepped onto the elevator. Eric and Kelz followed her shortly after. "You're too adventurous sometimes, Rodney." she sighed as the elevator ascended.
"Poor people." Peter spoke quietly to himself as he watched the Year twelvers reach the outside. "Well, I suppose the crystal chooses who it chooses. Just like you remember. Right, Paul?" Peter turned around, having Paul with his back turned.
"So... I'm-" Paul began to whispered to himself.
"What're doing?" Peter interrupted.
"Oh." Paul turned around. "Nothing. Nothing is going... on."
Rodney and the gang were walking through the War Memorial Park. All lost in thought. Most thoughts were directed negatively at Rodney. Even Rodney thought negatively of himself. All wishing that he had never opened the box of crystals.
"Rodney." Riley broke the silence as they passed the Time Temple. "You don't have to be sorry."
Everyone else was surprised by Riley's comment. She was the one that didn't want to be a ranger. Out of all five of them, she was the least inclined to be.
"You can't help being yourself. I shouldn't try." she laughed, at her comment. Recognizing her say it many a time.
"I've noticed something." Eric broke into the conversation.
"What's that?" the three looked over to him, as he was watching his shoes kick up and down as he walked.
"All that happened in an hour." the four laughed into the horizon.
