After Darkness Falls
"Nightmares"
Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, that is owned by Saban/Disney. Carri and all things related to Carri (including Jason's cougar ninjetti power) belong to KJ with many thanks. Everyone else belongs to me.
A/N: I have to admit, KSuzie's "The Coin's" inspired the first part of this chapter, so I do not take full credit for that. Kim's powers were inspired by KSuzie, but unlike KSuzie's she cannot travel between dimensions, only time and space and I am expanding on them.
As always, reviews are appreciated.
Karone lay there on her brothers couch, she had stayed later than she meant to so he invited her to stay the night. It was fine with her, Zhane still hadn't returned from his mission in space. She was having difficulty falling asleep though, so she just laid there staring up at the ceiling. She couldn't help but think that Andros was making the wrong decision by signing up with the U.S Government. They were going to try and take control of him, she just knew it. Either that or try and force him and her off of Earth. They were human, but they weren't from Earth so they were viewed as aliens, as freaks by some. She hated it, but she also knew there was nothing she could do about it. Andros wasn't about to leave the life he had built here on Earth. His wife was here, and even if he did leave what would become of his daughter? All these thoughts raced through her head as she tried to sleep.
Suddenly she heard a crash, like glass breaking. As she got up to investigate she could of sworn that she smelled smoke, and heard more glass breaking. Making her way into the kitchen she saw that she did indeed smell smoke, the house was on fire! She searched frantically for the fire extinguisher that they kept in the kitchen, finally finding it. As she began to put the fire out she heard Ashley ask what all the noise was about before screaming "Oh my God!" and rushing to help Karone put the fire out.
The fire was spreading quicker than they were putting it out, and it didn't help that they saw smoke also coming from the living room. "Karone, go and wake Andros, I'll grab Cierra. Come on, now!" Ashley ordered as she took off for the stairs to make sure her baby was safe.
Karone, spraying all that was left in the extinguisher threw it out and took off to wake her brother. It wasn't easy to wake him, but after slapping him a few times he did wake up. "Andros come on, we have to get out of here. The house is on fire!" Karone said as she pulled him to his feet.
"What?" he said, the phrase "house on fire" alerting him. "Where's Ashley, and Cierra?" he asked, noticing his wife was missing.
"She's getting Cierra, now come on we have to go!" As they rushed down the stairs Karone stopped to grab her cell so she could proceed to call 911 and get a team out here as soon as possible. After being told that the fire department would be there as soon as possible she thrust her phone into her pocket and held the door open for Andros, Ashley, and Cierra to make it out first. Once outside they saw a group of maybe a dozen people standing in the street, smiling. At the front of the group was the rude host from Bulkmeier's that Karone had met.
Jack smiled as he watched the family run out of their burning home, he had seen Karone walking along the sidewalk earlier, and decided that he would finally get his revenge on her tonight. He was going to cause her the same emotional pain that she caused him all those years ago. He had hoped that once the Astro Rangers had defeated her, that they would have locked her up. But instead they let her live in Angel Grove for a time, never making her pay for her crimes, never making her repent. Instead he heard talk of her actually becoming a Ranger. It sickened him the way she was never made to pay. She was free to go because "she had been brainwashed into doing that." He didn't believe that for a minute, and one way or another he was surely going to see her pay.
Karone glanced at his side and saw a gun, he raised it and was preparing to pull the trigger before she used her telekinesis to force him to drop it. She wanted to run over there beat him to death, or at least near death.
Andros' eyes were wide with terror as he saw the look that crossed his sister's face. Rather than let her slip back into old ways, which he was ashamed to admit that he was tempted to do at the moment, he grabbed her and told her to come on, that they needed to get out of there.
Karone told them to hang on as she used her communicator from when she served with the now Zeo Rangers to teleport them to the Power Chamber.
After leaving Emily's that night, and not telling her about the expansion of his powers, Jason made his way to Angel Grove Lake to try and learn how to properly use this new ability. He'd hate to not have control over it and accidently point at something or someone and sending it flying who knows how far. However, no matter how much he tried he couldn't get it to work. Had it been a one time thing? He didn't think so, seeing as how his teleportation had stuck all these years.
He tried to remember how he felt when it first happened. When he saw Carri in danger, he felt the need to save her, to protect her. He closed his eyes, oncentrating on his need to protect the citizens of Angel Grove he held his hand out towards the lake, focusing. When he opened them he saw red lightning crawling along his arm. He imagined a trigger in his mind, and when he pulled that trigger a blast of kinetic energy shot out, and the water splashed like a full size adult just jumped in. He couldn't help but laugh a little, he had been out here for hours trying to figure out to get it work, and he finally found it.
He looked at his hands, the red lightning creeping along and connecting through his fingertips. He focused his mind on what he wanted the energy to do, and when he looked the energy had formed into a orb hovering just iver his hand with the red lightning crawling along it. "This is amazing." he said to himself as he dispersed the lightning. He wondered why it had taken this ability so long to manifest, it was a mystery that proabably wouldn't ever be solved.
As he was preparing to walk back to his motorcycle his communicator chirped. "Sarahna's attacking now?" he asked in disbelief as he raised his communicator to his lips.
"No, not now." Billy's voice rang through. "It's something else, something you and the others should see. Teleport here immediately."
"Right." Jason said before disappearing in a flash of red light.
Tommy and Kim were the last to arrive in the Power Chamber. They had been asleep when the sound of both of their communicators woke them. They wondered what this was all about, it had to be important for Billy to wake them at two in the morning. "What wrong Billy?" Kim asked as they stepped forward, noticing Andros, Karone, and Ashley there as well.
"Andros, this is a surprise." Tommy said, seeing the former red Astro Ranger.
"Yes, and an unfortunate one." Billy said "take a look at this." He stepped aside to reveal what was happening on the viewing screen. They watched as a house was slowly burning. Outside of it was a group of people laughing and carrying on. The fire department was there, but they were barely doing anything to prevent the fire.
"Once we realized the fire department wasn't actually going to try to stop it, Billy contacted Lightspeed for us, they're rushing here as fast as they can to put out the fire..." Andros said sadly. The Rangers watched as the group of people unfolded a banner along the street that read "KILL ASTRONEMA!"
"That's your home?" Tommy asked Andros. The former red Ranger nodded in silence. He couldn't believe it, civilians were attacking the peole who had saved them.
Jason examined the screen and after letting out a heavy breath he turned to Karone and said "Isn't that the guy from Bulkmeier's? The one that was fired for refusing you service?"
"Yeah, and if I was still who he thinks I am I'd have killed him on the spot tonight." She sighed and continued "He pulled a gun on us after we made it outside, and I doubt the police are going to do anything about it."
"That's awful. Ashley, I'm so sorry." Carri said as she walked over and placed her hand on her friends shoulder. She had met Ashley back in high school, and the two had quickly become friends.
Ashley wiped the tears from her eyes and said "Thank you. It'll be alright though, it's just a house. It can be rebuilt. What's important is that we made it out." Carri nodded in agreement as she wrapped her arm around her friend.
A few minutes later the Lightspeed Rangers arrived on the scene and quickly forced the fire fighters out of the way and began to put the fire out. "I'm heading down there." Jason said before vanishing in a flash of red light. He was quickly followed by Kim and Tommy, Ryan, and Carri. Rocky and TJ stayed behind to comfort their friends.
Carri arrived behind Jason and quickly rushed past him towards the man Jason pointed out earlier. After tapping him on the shoulder Carri punched his smiling, smug face, knocking him to the ground. "That was for my friend you asshole!" Carri seethed. She was trying her hardest not to kneel down and continue beating him. In the end she walked over to join her friends. Once she was in the crowd she flicked her wrist and sent the guy she punched sliding across the yard behind him and into a rose bush. "I feel a little better now." Carri said, smiling at Jason.
Jason slightly turned and saw the man picking himself up out of a rose bush, scratches all over his face. "You didn't..." Jason said, but the look on her face told him otherwise. "Carri..." he began.
"He's lucky I didn't break an arm." Carri said, cutting Jason off. She hoped her friends saw that, she did it for them.
Karone watched the viewing screen, silently cheering Carri on as she punched Jack, and snickering as she watched him slide backwards into the bush.
Tommy noticed Carri's actions and walked over to talk to her. He knew he was about to make her mad, but he didn't care. "Carri, what was that?" Tommy whispered once he reached her.
"I did a favor for my friends. Yell at me if you want, but I'm not apologizing for anything." Carri said, getting up in Tommy's face.
"I'm not asking you to aplogize, just not to use your powers for personal vendetta's. What if he had hit the house and really gotten hurt?" Tommy said.
"I gave him what he deserved." Carri argued "And besides, I knew where he was going to stop." She lied, she hadn't thought about what might happen if he had hit the house. She got lucky that the bush was where it was.
Kim sighed, it was just another boring day at the flower shop. Customers came, and customers went, lunch took forever to arrive but when it did she was happy because Tommy had stopped by, then it was back to work. She couldn't believe it had already been a week since Andros's hou had burned down. Luckily they had plenty of money due to Ashley owning her own company, each of the Rangers had offered their homes to them, but they declined, thanking them for their offers. They had moved into an apartment until they could get their house rebuilt. Hopefully it wouldn't be long. Finally it was almost time to head home. She waited anxiously for five o'clock. She and Jason were finally going to go see Dulcea about the new abilities they had acquired. She couldn't wait.
Once five o'clock finally hit she locked up and teleported to Jason's condo where he was waiting on her. "Ready to go?" she asked as she walked over to where he was sitting.
"Been ready all day, been waiting on you." He laughed.
She stuck her tongue out at him and teleported, Jason quickly followed her.
Rocky was sitting behind his desk finishing his , TJ, Ryan, and Adam were outside his office sparring, he was planning on joining them once he was finished. A lot of new students had enrolled today and he was trying to get it set up so that they start by the end of the week at the latest. He ran his fingers through his short hair, looking at the stack of papers still left. It would take him another half hour to get through with them. Sighing, he got back to work.
Tommy jumped over Adam's kick and countered with one of his own, only for Adam to catch it and flip him. Helping Tommy up Adam said "Nice try man, but you gotta do better than that."
Tommy allowed Adam to help him to his feet, shaking his head he said "Nice move. I should've seen it coming though. Hey, check them out." He motioned towards Ryan going one on one with TJ.
"I didn't know Ryan knew martial arts, did you?" Adam asked, taking note of how good Ryan was.
"Yeah, I taught him a few moves the other week in my spare time. Wanna take him on?"
Adam nodded his head as he said "I'm thinking about it. When's Rocky getting through? I know he said a lot of students enrolled today, but I thought he would have been done by now." Adam had already finished the paperwork for his new students at his dojo.
"He should be through any minute now, but who knows?" Tommy said as he picked up his towel and wiped the sweat from his face.
"Nice moves out there." Adam said as Ryan walked over and joined them.
"Who won?" Tommy asked, curious to see if the moves he taught Ryan paid off.
"I did." Ryan said, proud of that fact. "How about over here?"
"I did." Adam said triumphantly. It wasn't often he was able to best Tommy. "Old age must be slowing him down." Adam joked, receiving a slight shove from Tommy.
Tommy took a sip of his water. He enjoyed this, it made him feel like he was back in high school again. They didn't do much sparring in college, due to the fact that they were in LA most of the time and nothing beat the Youth Center back then. Too many fond memories. Another reason was that Adam had been moving around for a while, working as a stuntman in films and TV shows. He had moved back to Angel Grove in two-thousand and six, a year before the Sentinel Knight called him back into duty.
"You have any plans with Kim tonight?" Adam asked, just asking that made him feel like they were back in high school. After she wrote that letter to Tommy during their senior year he never thought they'd get back together again. But he was glad they did, they were really good together.
"Nah, she and Jason went to see Dulcea. There's no telling when she'll be back." He knew that they had gone to talk to her about something, but about what he had no idea. She hadn't been willing to share that information. It irked him a little, but she was entitled to her secrets. He didn't like it, but he wanted this relationship to work, so he was going to try to get over it.
"Oh really? Man that seems like so long ago..." Adam blushed when he thought about the kiss Dulcea had given him, telling him he was "a frog, like the one you kiss."
TJ laughed at Adam's blushing.
"Better not let Tanya catch you thinking about another woman." Tommy joked, laughing as Adam scratched the back of his head and chuckled.
They all turned their heads as the heard a door open. "'Bout time!" Adam said as Rocky exited his office.
"Hey man, sorry it took so long." Rocky said as he walked over to the group. "You wouldn't believe how many people enrolled today. It was crazy."
"I bet. So who do you want first? The winners here are Ryan, and yours truly." Adam said as he pointed to himself and smiled.
Rocky chuckled and said "I think I'll challenge the new guy." None of them really knew Ryan that well, so they were glad that he had agreed to hang out with them. Since he had joined the team they had hung out a little, but not much. Not enough to really get to know him anyway.
"Be that way." Adam joked. "I've got to be going anyway, Tanya said she'd have dinner ready at seven, and it's six-thirty now. I told not to bother, but she never listens to me. Sorry guys, but I'll catch up with you later!" Adam grabbed his bag and waved bye to his friends as his headed for the door.
Tommy and TJ watched as Ryan and Rocky headed over to the mats. "My moneys on Ryan." TJ said as he looked over at Tommy.
"I don't know, Rocky does have more experience." Tommy said, folding his arms over his chest.
On his way home Adam thought about how he was glad Rocky hadn't chosen to spar with him. Even though he didn't remember much from being under Sarahna's spell, he did remember fighting Rocky, trying to kill him. It was something he didn't particularly care to remember. Rocky had been his best friend for years, he had never harbored any ill feelings towards Rocky. But that spell turned his brotherly love for his friend into pure hatred. He hated remebering that, and he was afraid sparring with him might make the nightmares seem all too real.
He had been having nightmares about it for a little over a week now. Each one ended the same way, he was standing over his best friends corpse, laughing. He'd wake up in a cold sweat every night, and after reassuring himself that it was just a dream and getting a glass of water he would slowly fall asleep again. He couldn't stand it, he was afraid that if the nightmares kept going that he would go insane from them. The comfort he could give himself was that it was all a dream, that his Terra Powers had been destroyed.
He pulled into his driveway and parked his car, heading inside to smell the home made spaghetti. "Mmm smells delicious." He said as he went over and gave his wife a kiss. He hadn't told her about the nightmares, he wasn't sure how to. But he knew he'd have to tell her sooner or later.
"Just leave some for me. I made it, so I think I deserve to at least get a taste or two." Tanya joked as she went and set out a couple of plates. She could tell something had been bothering her husband, she assumed it was the fact that he had recently been under a spell that forced him to attack his friends, but she wasn't sure. She wanted to pry, to force him to open up to her, but she knew that when he was ready he would. Although she often wanted to, she never forced him to tell her anything, he had always come to her to talk when he was ready.
"I'll try. You know me." Adam said with a laugh as he began to fix his plate.
Jason and Kim had arrived on Phaedos, to see if Dulcea could provide some insight as to why their powers were expanding. The only explanation she had to offer though was that they had probably always been there, but she was not sure why they would have taken so long to manifest. She was sorry that she wasn't able to be much help to her pupil and her Murathian twin.
Arriving back at his condo a little after they left the flower shop due to Kim bending time, Jason remarked "Well that was helpful." He had hoped to be told why they were growing, what was causing them to grow. Not an "I'm not sure."
Kim sighed and said "I know, but she doesn't have all the answers. Not even Zordon had them all." When she was a teenager she had thought that maybe he did have them all, but as time passed she came to the realization that he didn't. That didn't stop her from loving him like a father though, he had always been there for his rangers when they needed him. That was all she could really ask for.
"I know. It's just, I want answers and I don't know who to turn to." His own mentor, Aulyan, had disappeared. Jason had travelled back to his old masters temple on Harkin once before only to find it vacated. He asked around, but no one seemed to know where he had gone. Dulcea was his last shot at finding answers.
"Hey, as long as we're still us, and not some four headed demon with a god complex then we don't need answers, right?" She too was disappointed, her mentor not having the answers they seeked. As they sat down on his couch she began to think of anyone else she knew who might be able to help them.
"You remember the days when out biggest problem was trying to find out who Rita's evil Green Ranger was?" Jason asked, thinking about how that was, by comparrison a much simpler problem.
Kim lifted her head up when she heard the name "Rita."
"That's it!" she said, an idea striking her.
"What's it?" Jason asked, confused. "Did I miss something?"
Kim stood up and turned to face him. "I've heard rumors of Rita, that she wasn't killed in Zordon's wave, instead she was purified, made good. I've also heard that she was able to regain her magic and moved to someplace called the Mystic Realm, where she created her own set of Ranger Powers and connected them to the morphing grid." Jason looked at her, not liking where this was going. "Maybe she can help us find some answers!"
Jason quickly stood, nearly shouting. "No way! I refuse to go anywhere near that witch, purified or not she's still Rita Repulsa!"
Kim smiled slyly at him. "You don't have a choice." She quickly grabbed his arm and teleported them to the Mystic Realm.
"I told you Rocky would win." Tommy said as he and TJ watched Rocky help Ryan up.
"Yeah, you were right. You can stop gloating now." TJ said as he saw the smile across Tommy's face.
Ryan and Rocky both walked over and grabbed their towels and water. "What do you say to one more round, Tommy against TJ then we all go out for a drink?" Rocky asked, he had no plans with Carri that night, as she stuck talking about the wedding with Kat.
"Sounds good to me." Tommy said as he made his way out to the mats, motioning for TJ to follow. It had been a long time since he had sparred with the second red Turbo Ranger.
"Just don't cry when I beat you." TJ joked as he moved across from Tommy.
Carri groaned, this was the last place on Earth, last place in the universe, she wanted to be. Kat was her cousin, and she loved her dearly, but that didn't mean she wanted to be involved in her wedding. Carri was not a wedding girl, she had never even thought about what she wanted her wedding to be like. The fact that she didn't like Kat's fiancee didn't help matters either. She had never been able to put her finger on it, but there was just about Casey that rubbed her the wrong way.
"What's wrong?" Kat asked as she heard Carri groan, oblivious to Carri not wanting to be there.
"Oh nothing, I have a headache. That's all. Didn't sleep too well last night." she lied, she had slept fine. She had ever since she learned that the people responsible for burning Andros's house had been locked up, along with the fire fighters they had on their side. That explained why the fire fighters didn't really do anything to try and put the fire out. They stood around, hoping to be passed off as concerned neighbors, but after speaking with some of them the police quickly learned otherwise and had them all arrested for attempted murder.
Carri, figuring there had to be more to it than the guy just not liking Karone, did some digging. It turned out that when she invaded Angel Grove and attacked the citizens who were gathered in the streets, she killed his wife with one of her lightning bolts. Carri understood that he would want revenge for that, but she also knew that Karone had been brainwashed at the time and had no control over her actions.
"Maybe you should go home then." Kat said, pulling Carri away from her thoughts. Her cousin had been distant all day, like she was somewhere else.
Carri yawned and said "Yeah, maybe. I'll see you later Kat."
"Bye." Kat said as she watched her cousin walk out the door. She was saddened by the fact that they didn't along like they used to Though she knew it was partially her fault for being so jealous of Carri's friendship with Kim. She was hoping that by asking Carri to be her Maid of Honor they could start repair their relationship.
Sarahna made her way into the old monster workshop where Xanas was busy creating a new monster. She looked around at all the clay molds she had turned down, there were some on shelves, some on the work table, and some on the floor. She hoped this next mold would be fearsome, able to destroy the rangers. Or at least keep them busy while she formulated a plan to get a new group of evil Rangers. She looked at the pouch she kept tied to her waist. Within it lay the six original power coins. She had managed to swipe them again before leaving Volacia. Hopefully she would be able to use Zedd's old staff to re-energize at least three of them.
"Xanas!" she shouted as she crossed the room towards her minion.
"Yes my Empress, what can I do for you?" Xanas asked, never looking up from his creation.
"You can hurry up and finish that pathetic creation. I want it done within the next five minutes, any later and I'll be using your head as a candy dish, got it?" she said angrily. She was still pissed about losing all of her Rangers, things had been running smoothly until that other Jason had stepped in. When she found him she was going to kill him, and then she was going to kill the one she had been fighting.
"Yes, of course. Perfect incentive as always my Empress." Xanas said as he began to work faster.
Stomping out of the room, Sarahna returned to her throne room where Xinas bowed before her. "Fetch me a glass of water. Now!" she bellowed. Xinas quickly ran off to do as he was told.
As she sat on her throne and held her head she saw a red flash reflect off the balcony. Standing and turning to see what it was she smiled. This had to be her lucky day, standing before her was Jason. But there was something different about him, upon closer inspection she realized what it was. "You're that other Jason aren't you? The one that helped to foil my plans."
Jason nodded, saying "Yes, and I figured that while I'm at it, I may as well finish the job and kill you." He was glad to learn that Sarahna was the main villain of this time in this dimension. He hadn't been able to get revenge on her for what she did to him in his own world, and it was too late for that now thanks to Jaxora. He was determined to make her pay for killing his girlfriend Elle. It didn't matter that it wasn't the same Sarahna. Elle had been trying to save him from Sarahna's clutches when the evil witch drew one of her daggers and slit the blue Rangers throat before his eyes. The pain of watching his girlfriend die as he was dragged off by her killer was more than he had been able to bear. What's more once Jaxora had control over his body he had forced Jason to relive the moment over and over until he finally broke out of his mental prison and force the demon out, where he followed him here and helped this dimensions Rangers be rid of him.
Grabbing her staff and readying it for an attack she replied "Good luck with that." As soon as she finished her sentence she sent volts of electricity flying towards him, he quickly teleported and appeared behind her, kicking her forward before teleporting again and knocking her to the ground.
Sarahna quickly jumped back up and swung her staff around, catching Jason in the back with it and slamming him into the wall. "That must have been a bone breaker." she said. She made her way over to him as he hit the ground and she placed her boot on his throat, choking him as she said "You still haven't fully recovered. Too bad." He started to say something, but she increased the pressure on his throat, keeping him quiet. Lowering her staff towards him she sent volts of electricity surging into his body. Watching, and laughing as he seized with pain.
Xinas entered the room with her water, dropping it as he watched her torture the Ranger. Sarahna's eyes widened and she squealed in delight as his body burned, smoking rising from it and filling the room. Finally satisfied, Sarahna removed her foot from his burnt vorpse and ordered Xinas to clean up his mess and dispose of the body. Xinas quickly moved to do as he was told. Sarahna headed back towards the workshop, running into Xanas and his new monster along the way.
"Good, he's ready. I want you to go down to Earth and attack Jason's old high school, kill anyone around." she said as she held her staff up under the monsters chin, one of the corners of the "Z" poking him.
"Yes, of course Empress." Mantisaur said fearfully. There was something about the look in her eyes that shook him to his core.
"Good. Succeed and I won't kill you." she said, lowering the staff and motioning for him to be on his way.
Tommy, Rocky, TJ, and Ryan were all at Charlie's Bar when their communicators beeped. They quickly set their drinks down and headed outside. "Go ahead Billy." Tommy said into his communicator.
"Guys, there's some sort of praying mantis type monster attacking Angel Grove High. You'd better get down there. I'll send Jason and Kimberly as soon as I can, Carri's already on her way." Billy's voice rang through.
"Right, come on guys." Tommy said as they made sure no one was around before morphing into the crimson, blue, green, and black Feral Rangers.
Once they arrived on the battlefield they saw Carri already engaging the monster. She was using her Fox Daggers to strike at the monster. Each of the Rangers pulled out their weapons and ran to attack the monster. As they were getting close a group of about six Courtadrones arrived to block their path. "You guys take care of the clowns, I'm going to help Carri!" Rocky said as he leapt over the Courtadrones and ran to assist his girlfriend.
Tommy led the other Rangers into battle against the Courtadrones. Using his Tiger Sword he was able to quickly dismantle one of them, and swing it into another.
Ryan used his Panther Staff to knock over one and send it sliding into another one, causing it to fall and for them both to short circuit.
TJ used his Lion Lance to pierce through one and throw it onto the last one, quickly dismantling them.
Meanwhile Rocky and carri had their hand full with the monster. It had already used it's pincers to snap Carri's daggers in half, and Rocky's electric jolts from his Ape Knuckles had no effect on it. "This doesn't look good." Carri said, holding up her broken daggers.
"No kidding!" Rocky said as he jumped back to avoid being sliced by one of the pincers. As he prepared to attack again he saw the other three rangers jumped over him and strike the monster. It still had no effect.
"Damn!" Ryan said, avoiding the dealdy pincers. "If Jason and Kim were here we could use the Power Cannon, where are they again?"
"They went to see Dulcea about something!" Tommy said as he ducked under a pincer and struck the monster with his sword.
"That tickled, let me try!" Mantisaur chuckled as he took another swipe at Tommy. "You're done for Rangers, my exo-skeleton protects me from your your attacks!"
"Guys, call the Power Cannon!" Jason shouted as he and Kim arrived at the battle. The Rangers quickly gathered together and Billy sent them the Power Cannon. With one clear shot they blew Mantisaur to pieces. They were getting ready to teleport out when something unexpected happened, the monster grew to city wrecking size.
"Crap, I thought Sarahna couldn't do that!" TJ said as he stared up at the giant monster.
"Apparently she found a way!" Jason said he jumped out of the way of Mantisaur's foot. "Billy, are those new Zords ready yet?"
"Affirmative, they're on their way." Billy replied, quickly releasing the Zords from the U.A.O.H base. He had taken the parts from the old Zeo and Super Zeo Zords to make the new Zords.
Tommy and the others watched as their new Zords arrived, they were spectacular. "Come on guys!" Jason shouted, leading everyone into their Zords, the learned how to form the Megazord and made quick work of Mantisaur.
After they defeated the monster and saved the night school students, the Rangers returned to the Power Chamber to congratulate and to thank Billy and Trini on the new Zords.
"Those new Zords were incredible Billy! You guys out did yourselves!" Kim said, amazed with how powerful their new Megazord had been. It had made quick work of the monster.
"Yeah, they were fantastic!" Carri chimed in.
"Thanks guys, but we don't deserve all the credit, Tommy's friend Hayley helped too." Billy said, being sure to give credit where it was due.
Rocky looked over at Tommy and said "Be sure to tell Hayley thanks for us the next you see her."
"No need." A voice rang from behind them. They all turned to see Hayley Ziktor's face on the viewing screen, she had established a connection from Tommy's DinoThunder base to Billy's Power Chamber while she was there. "And you're welcome."
After they congratulated them a little the Rangers left to back to their homes, except for Jason, Kim, and Rocky. Kim headed over to Tommy's, Rocky for Carri's, and Jason to Charlie's Bar to wait on Emily.
Up on the moon Sarahna looked at the six power coins spread out along the balcony's railing. Concentrating on what she wanted to do, she raised the staff up a little and six bolts of lightning struck the coins, she kept the flow of powers steady, watching as the coins began to glow gold. "Perfect." she said with an evil smile on her face, her plans were going back on track. Each of the coins were now infused with her own evil energy, thereby making anyone who were to use them evil, and in a few short days they would be fully charged again. Her eyes grew wide and she began to laugh, everything was going to be alright.