On the beach outside Angel Grove city, the broad-shouldered, midnight blue ATAC known as the Zulwarn emitted a wave of green energy that stunned several dozen people who had been attempting to flee from the threatened area. Those not stunned by the wave continued their panic and escape, gasping and/or screaming at the sight of the frightening large mech. Faulkner turned his attention to those unlucky enough to be stunned by the Zulwarn's Turbulence attack. He grabbed as many at one time as would fit in Zulwarn's gigantic hands and placed them into a newly opened round pipe that appeared just above the face on Zulwarn's chest. Muffled, futile screams of pain could be heard from Faulkner's control center as the innocent lives were mutilated into blood-fuel for the evil ATAC.

Sirens blared and red lights flashed inside the Command Center of the Power Rangers. A shocked Alpha-5 shouted out "Ayayay! Zordon, we have to stop that thing!"

"I know, Alpha." Zordon bellowed. "Contact the power rangers immediately!"

Alpha pressed a button on the round, yellow console.

"Blue team wins!" Jason declared after counting the fuzzy balls on the field. An all-too familiar 6-note tune beeped from Jason's communicator, prompting him to briskly walk off the green grassy playing field and find an out-of-the-way spot. He pressed a tiny button on the device and vanished in a pillar of red light adorned with white energy bolts.

Billy and Trini had barely finished congratulating Puck when their wrist communicators harmoniously beeped. "We'll be back later, Uncle Howard!" Trini shouted as she and Billy left the hut. Finding a hidden area behind several other exhibits, they disappeared from the scene in blue and yellow pillars of light.

In her dressing room, eyeballing another lovely European gown, Kimberly heard her communicator go off. She reached for the buttons on the centerpiece and teleported away in a pillar of pink light.

Zach was observing a team of Hawaiian dancers when his communicator interrupted the music. "Excuse me," he said to his neighbors as he left the stage area, finding an area behind another stage where no one was looking, Zach activated his teleporter, and, surrounded by a cylinder of black light, faded from sight.

The 5 power rangers, surrounded by their colorful lights, materialized inside the Command Center. They turned to face Zordon in his light tube, as Jason asked, "Zordon, what's going on?"

As his slightly distorted voice surrounded the rangers, Zordon spoke, "Rangers: a hostile zord we have never seen before has started a rampage. Behold the viewing globe!" The rangers gazed into their spherical screen, witnessing the events from moments earlier involving the Zulwarn at the edge of the city. Zach looked wide eyed, fright apparent on his face. Kimberly's eyes and mouth shot open; she quickly covered her mouth with her hand. Trini gently touched her hand to her own face. After a moment's silence, Jason was the first to speak,

"Holy crap that's terrible!" He reacted.

"We gotta stop that thing!" Trini necessitated.

"Is this Rita's doing?" Billy inquired, still shaken up from the footage.

"No, Billy." Zordon told him. "This is a new threat that we do not yet fully understand, so I urge you not to underestimate the danger it presents."

Collecting her bearings, Kimberly asked Zordon, "Zordon, where's Tommy?"

Motioning towards the viewing globe, Zordon told her, "Tommy is not answering his communicator. I have located him on the fairgrounds by the jousting game."

"He must have taken his communicator off so it wouldn't get wet." Billy ascertained.

"Should we go get him?" Trini asked.

"No, Trini," Zordon commanded. "We will contact Tommy when he retrieves his belongings. Against this unknown threat, the element of surprise may be the advantage we need. Go now, and let the power protect you."

"It's morphin' time!" Jason declared. The 5 teens reached for their morphers, held them aloft, and shouted their familiars in turn.

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Saber-toothed Tiger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

With a flash of lights, the rangers' power suits materialized and the rangers themselves rocketed in colorful beams of light out of the command center, passing through the ceiling and roof like ghosts, flew across the sky and sharply back to the ground, and reincorporated in the area where the edge of the city met the beach. Zulwarn, in its frightening glory, stood 200 feet from the rangers' landing point, looking toward the city. Taking charge, Jason proudly spoke, "Let's get to work. Tyrannosaurus power!" Over by its hiding place, the towering Tyrannosaurus dinozord roared loudly as it rose to its feet and marched to Jason's side.

"All right! I call on the Mastodon!" Zach followed. In response to Zach's call, the bulky black mastodon charged out of hiding, bellowing an elephant-like call in the process.

"I need the Pterodactyl!" Kimberly shouted. Her nimble pink Pterodactyl zord flew out of its volcano with a strange cry and sped towards the skies near Angel Grove beach.

"Triceratops, activate!" Billy ordered. The stout blue triceratops rolled across nearby desert sands and found its way to the beach, giving a short grunt as it rolled out.

"I call for the Saber-toothed Tiger!" Trini summoned. The agile yellow Saber-toothed tiger dinozord gave a growling roar as it jumped out of the trees and into the battlefield.

Tommy and Bastion stood on opposing podiums up above the pool of clear water, which looked blue due to the sky blue floor. They were each armed with a padded staff sporting 2 padded heads on opposite ends. A referee wearing vertical black and white stripes stood upon another podium between Tommy and Bastion, located a safe distance back from the contenders. The referee informed Tommy and Bastion, "Each round will begin on the sound of my whistle and end when a jouster falls off his platform. When you win a round, stay put until I signal a new round. First jouster to win 2 rounds wins the match. We understand the rules?" The two teens nodded in agreement. The referee then loudly projected, "Are both contenders ready?"

"Yep!" Tommy said, eyes focused on Bastion, hands gripping his staff tightly.

"Yes!" Bastion replied, staring Tommy straight in the eye.

In a loud booming voice, the referee counted, "3, 2, 1" then blew the high pitched whistle. Instantly, Tommy and Bastion started skillfully clashing staves. Their padded weapons bounced off one another repeatedly as each jouster tried to unbalance the other. Tommy attempted a forward thrust which Bastion deflected while spinning his staff around towards Tommy's side. Tommy quickly moved back to avoid the side swipe, but then Bastion followed through a few more inches, stopped, and made a thrusting strike square into Tommy's chest, causing him to fall back beyond the edge of his pillar and fall down into the pool of refreshing water.

Impressed with Bastion's dueling skills, Tommy smiled with anticipation of a real challenge as he made his way through the water back to his pillar and climbed back onto the platform. The referee handed Tommy another staff, which he took in his hand before setting into a battle stance. The referee once again loudly asked, "Are both contenders ready?" Bastion and Tommy both affirmed, prompting the referee to make his count, "3, 2, 1," and blast his whistle. Once again, with lightning reflexes the teenage battlers reacted and clashed. The two experts swung their padded glaives masterfully seeking the upper hand in the contest. Bastion landed a strike into the right side of Tommy's torso, looking to follow up, Bastion spun the staff towards the same spot, but Tommy deflected the blow with a gentle but firm parry. Tommy faked a swing to Bastion's right side, prompting Bastion to motion to his right to block, at which point Tommy swung hard, landing a solid strike into Bastion's left hip. Bastion's foot slid, giving way to his knee, then his stomach as he slid off the pillar and made a wet splash into the pool.

Bastion collected his bearings, smiled sportingly up at Tommy and said to him, "You're pretty good at this."

With a loud "Hya!" each ranger leapt to a Zord and took the controls. Upon boarding the tyrannosaurus, Jason instructed, "Rangers, log on!"

"Zach here, ready to roll!"

"Billy here, all systems go!"

"Trini! I'm with ya!"

"Kimberly, flying high!"

Jason commanded, "Rangers, attack pattern Zeta!"

"Right!" The team confirmed.

The red tyrannosaurus charged toward the Zulwarn, who stood head and shoulders above. Triceratops and Mastodon moved in wide arcs around the Zulwarn then turned back towards it after reaching the area behind Zulwarn's field of vision. Pterodactyl flew in an arc opposite that of the Triceratops, and Saber-Tooth Tiger moved behind Tyrannosaurus. Upon getting closer to the Zulwarn, Tyrannosaurus spun around and raised its hard tail into Zulwarn's upper face. The impact mildly shook the big black mech. Inside Zulwarn, Faulkner saw the Tyrannosaurus on the display, and muttered to himself, "So there ARE ATACs here. A small hurdle." Zulwarn cross-punched Tyrannosaurus's large head causing it to backpedal, then drew its halberd, the SoulStab, and chopped into Tyrannosaurus's left shoulder. The impact startled Jason fiercely. Mastodon profusely sprayed cold mist into Zulwarn's left foot. Faulkner willed his ATAC to advance upon Tyrannosaurus, but his motion suddenly stopped when his left foot would not lift up due to the ice surrounding it. The unexpected stop caused Zulwarn's right leg to lift up awkwardly and come down weakly. Before Faulkner could plant Zulwarn's foot properly, Triceratops charged into the back of the ankle, unbalancing the Zulwarn. Tyrannosaurus rested its tail on the ground. Saber-Tooth Tiger ran up the Tyrannosaurus's tail, nimbly leapt onto the head, and vaulted off the head squarely into Zulwarn's chest. Simultaneously, Pterodactyl blasted pale blue bolts of electricity into Zulwarn's shoulders, timing her shot perfectly with Trini's pounce. Zulwarn fell onto its back, the Saber-Tooth Tiger still menacingly clawing its chest. The ice around Zulwarn's left foot shattered as the giant mech fell down. "Uff!" Faulkner grunted in reaction to the impact.

"Nice teamwork, guys!" Zach enthusiastically praised.

"Gah! This'll show you!" Faulkner growled. Zulwarn squeezed the Saber-Tooth Tiger with its left arm, sat up, planted its right hand on the ground, followed by its left foot, and finally its right knee. Zulwarn stood up from the kneel, still clutching the Saber-Tooth Tiger to its chest, then took the Tiger in both hands. Spotting the Triceratops rolling away, Zulwarn hurled Saber Tooth Tiger as hard as it could towards Triceratops.

"Waa!" Trini screamed as her zord flew towards the other.

Saber Tooth Tiger crashed hard into Triceratops. Billy and Trini reacted with a sharp cry of "Ah!" when the zords collided. Saber Tooth Tiger rolled off Triceratops, which barely managed to keep its balance after the hard hit. By this time, Mastodon safely made it way to Tyrannosaurus's right flank.

Jason strategized, "That was a good tackle, but our separate zords don't have the armor to keep taking hits like these." Regaining his aura of command, Jason told the rangers, "Power up your crystals!" as he placed his glowing red power crystal into the slot on the console.

The other 4 rangers affirmed in unison, "2, 1, Powered up!", driving their power crystals into place.

"Move!" Jason ordered. The 5 zords marched into a wide formation. Triceratops and Saber Tooth Tiger took low riding still positions and folded their tails to reveal connectors. Tyrannosaurus bent its knees and compressed its legs tightly before connecting its feet to the Triceratops and Saber Tooth Tiger. Mastodon's head separated from its body, which spread open to reveal 2 long cannons. The 2 pieces of the Mastodon surrounded the Tyrannosaurus' chest and back as they hovered into their proper places. Finally, Pterodactyl attached itself to the back of Tyrannosaurus's head. United in the Megazord bridge, the power rangers exchanged nods and thumbs-up gestures. Proceeding with his plan, Jason said, "Let's get some Megazord power!"

A robotic voice narrated, "Megazord sequence has been initiated!" as the cannons rotated inward and big strong hands unsheathed in their places. Pterodactyl flew off the formation while the tank itself rose up and planted the Saber Tooth Tiger and Triceratops, now functioning as legs and feet for the bipedal construct, firmly on the ground. As the Pterodactyl flew back towards the mech, the Mastodon head de-materialized, the Tyrannosaurus's chest opened slightly allowing its head to fold down into the chest compartment, revealing a new head that was previously hidden under the big Tyrannosaurus skull. Pterodactyl attached to the zord composite covering its entire chest and abdomen. Finally, a spiked helmet enclosed the head from the sides. Megazord's 2 stern looking yellow eyes flashed brightly as the voice confirmed, "Megazord activated!" Megazord struck a pose reminiscent of a Kenpo guard stance.

Faulkner studied his new opponent curiously. Excited for battle, Faulkner said to himself, "Ah, a *real* ATAC!"

Megazord closed in on Zulwarn, who greeted it by throwing a hook punch. Megazord blocked the blow with its left hand and countered with a reverse punch to Zulwarn's face. Sparks flew as Zulwarn reacted to the strike. Quickly recovering, Zulwarn threw a front kick into Megazord's abdomen, and as Megazord leaned slightly forward upon the impact, Zulwarn followed up with an uppercut punch to the head. Megazord sparked and staggered back. Inside, the Rangers reeled as the bridge shook. Megazord regained its composure, moving its hands back to ready positions. The 2 strong mechs clashed again, trading several blocked punches and kicks until Zulwarn landed a knee into Megazord's midsection. In a surge of energy, Megazord retorted with a backfist to Zulwarn's lower face. Minimally rattled, Zulwarn charged at Megazord and gave a hard shoulder tackle, causing Megazord to stagger backwards. Zulwarn turned leftward so its right flank faced the Megazord. Pointing a hand at the Megazord, Zulwarn fired a spike from its tremendously broad shoulders at the Megazord. Inside the Megazord bridge, Trini shouted "Watch out!" as the spike hit the rangers' zord just inside its left shoulder. Zulwarn fired another spike at the opposite shoulder, but this time, a rainbow energy blast erupted from a spike atop Megazord's helmet and destroyed the spike. Megazord turned its blaster toward Zulwarn and fired another, stronger beam at the scary black ATAC.

"Uh!" Faulker reacted to the blast. "Let's see how you handle this!" he threatened. Zulwarn drew Soulstab, its infamous halberd, and pointed it towards Megazord. Soulstab glowed with an odd black light just before a set of 7 rays of black laser light shaped in a ring blasted towards the colorful opposing mech, forming a cone of intense energy in the process. More explosions of damage sparked upon the impact, which sent Megazord reeling backwards. Zulwarn threateningly closed in Megazord.

"Wooooaa!" the rangers reacted in a staggered fashion.

Determined to stay in the fight, Jason declared, "We need the Power Sword!" Responding to his call, the gigantic bright metal broadsword separated the clouds and gently floated down from the bright skies and made its way to the Megazord's waiting right hand. Zulwarn was swinging its halberd towards Megazord's left shoulder as Megazord gripped its shining sword; Megazord had barely enough time to block the strike with the Power Sword. Using the force from the deflection, Megazord slashed at Zulwarn's chest, sending sparks as the Power Sword connected. Megazord slashed downward to continue its combination, but Zulwarn greeted the blow with a horizontal block and a front kick to the chest. Zulwarn then sidestepped left while pulling Soulstab back to its holster, causing Megazord to lean forward from the weight of its downward strike. Zulwarn wrapped its arms around Megazord's pinkish red midsection, hoisted the great mech up over its head and forcefully power-bombed Megazord onto the solid ground.

The hard slam rattled all 5 power rangers in the Megazord's bridge and prompted each to express a concern.

"Structural integrity is compromised," Billy informed

"We can't beat this guy!" Zach worried.

"Jason, that zord is a lot stronger than ours!" Trini assessed.