Episode 4 Stone Cold
The rangers were in the Power Chamber. Dimitria had told that she had new devices to give them. Alpha held up a tray in front of them. On the tray was, what looked like, five shining silver wrist watches looked. "These are your communicators," said Alpha. "These devices will allow you to talk with us and with each other in case of an emergency." Each of them took one of the communicators.
"Cool," said Gabe.
"Hmm, not very stylish," Christina said as she looked at the communicator on her wrist. Sam sighed and rolled his eyes after she said that. "What?" she said.
"Seriously Christina," said Brianna. "Must you be a stereotypical beauty queen?"
"What? I'm just sayin," said Christina.
"These communicators were invented by a veteran ranger," said Dimitria. "They have been useful to several earlier ranger teams. May they serve you well."
On Phobos, Eris stood at the main entrance of her black fortress. The curse that Zeus put on her kept her this moon. She hated staying on this rock, she wanted to go to earth and show those rangers what real power is. Eris moved closer to the open entrance. She tried to put her hand through the archway, when she did all she felt was pain. There was an invisible barrier around the fortress that only affected her and stopped her from leaving, she yelled in rage and in pain.
"The curse prevents you from leaving," said Circe.
"I know that," Eris said in anger. "I was just trying to see if it was still there after all this time."
"Well, as you can see it's still very much there," said Lamia walking out of the darkness.
"Thank you, for pointing out the obvious, stupid vampire," said Eris, annoyed.
"Hey, don't get mad at me because Zeus put you in this cage," said Lamia
Eris looked to Circe "Can't you do anything about this. You are a witch after all. Can't you break this spell?"
"This is god magic, I have no power over it," said Circe.
"Useless," said Eris. She then looked to Lamia "All of you."
"Whatever," said Lamia as she walked away.
Lamia walked down a hallway. As she passed a mirror she stopped and looked at herself. On her face there was still a huge slash mark from when the yellow ranger attacked her in the last battle. Something was wrong; she wasn't healing as fast as she should. She sighed as she touched the mark.
"That's some cut," said Lycan standing behind her.
"It should be gone by now," said Lamia. "I'm not healing as fast as I should be."
"But, it is healing right?" asked Lycan
"Yes," said Lamia
"Then don't worry about it too much, it'll go away soon," said Lycan.
Lamia sighed and said "That yellow ranger is going to pay dearly for this."
"I'm sure she will," said a voice in the darkness. It was Erebus hiding in the dark, or with his powers became the dark.
"How long have you been standing there?" asked Lycan.
"Not long," said Erebus. "Eris wants us in the throne room now."
"Great," said Lamia. "What's her plan now?" Lamia, Lycan, and Erebus entered the throne room. Atlas and Circe were already there.
"What's going on Eris," said Lycan.
"It seems my methods are going to have to get a little bit more lethal," said Eris. "So, I'm going to be summoning an old friend." She waved her right hand and a golden apple appeared in it. She looked at it for a moment. It shined in the fire light of the torches on the walls. She then through the apple to the ground, it glowed and then exploded and from the smoke a reptilian looking woman with many snakes coming out of her head.
"Medusa, welcome," said Eris
"Eris, long time, no see," said Medusa. She sounded like she was hissing as she talked.
"Damn it," said Lycan as he put he put his arm over his eyes. "Why'd you summon her, she could kill us all."
"Relax," said Eris. "Just don't look at her directly. Besides, only you and Lamia would be affected."
"I thought Medusa was dead," said Lamia with her hand over her eyes.
"Was dearie, was," said Medusa.
"Medusa, I have a task for you," said Eris. "Go down to the city of Angel Grove and turn every citizen you see into stone. And if you see a group of five soldiers who call themselves the Power Rangers, turn their bodies to stone and bring them back here. I think they would make nice decorations."
"Sure, I can do that," said Medusa.
"Good," said Eris. "Circe, you go with her."
"Me?" said Circe.
"Her?" said Lamia. Lamia then walked up to Eris. "Eris, please let me go with Medusa, I promise I won't screw up this time." Eris then waved her hand and Lamia flew through the air and hit the ground.
"Get away from me," said Eris. "I will not have you mess this up. Circe will go as she is protected by her magic and is unaffected by Medusa's curse. You are not. You two go now." Lamia stood with an angered face and both Circe and Medusa disappeared.
Gabe, Sam, and Christina were walking through town on their way to school. It was the morning but the city was still very busy as it always was with a lot of people around. Then, from out of nowhere, Medusa and Circe and appeared, hundreds of people looked in their direction and when they did Medusa instantly turned all of them into stone statues. The three rangers saw this from a far ran the other direction and watched the two figures from an alley way. "This should bring the rangers out of hiding," the rangers heard the woman say.
"Who are those two?" Sam asked.
"I don't know but they're looking for us," Said Gabe.
"Oh my God, look what they did to all those people," Said Christina.
"Grr, they're gonna pay for this," Said Sam. "You guys ready." Gabe and Christina nodded. All three of them held up their morphers and said, "IT'S MORPHIN TIME!"
"Mastodon black ranger power!"
"Triceratops blue ranger power!"
"Saber tooth tiger yellow ranger power!"
The three morphed and leapt into action. "Ah, rangers took ya long enough," said Circe. The three rangers held up their blade blasters and aimed them at the two.
"Stop right there, whoever you are," said Sam
"Medusa, now," said Circe. Medusa looked at them with a hateful gaze and the three rangers turned to stone where they stood.
Meanwhile, Michael and Brianna were walking through the park. "Hey Michael," said Brianna. "You know Dimitria keeps talking about how there were other teams of rangers before us?"
"Yeah," said Michael.
"Well, ya think that Dimitria might have an archive of all of them? A sort of history of power rangers sorta thing?" asked Brianna.
"She might, why do you ask?"
"I've been thinking," said Brianna. "I want to learn about them, the previous rangers. Learn what they went through and learn from their mistakes and maybe that'll help me be a better ranger."
"Sounds like a good idea to me," said Michael. Then the two of them saw the stone statues and two figures talking. They hid behind a large tree and listened.
"Three rangers down, two to go," the woman said.
Brianna could see the three statues she was talking about. "Oh no, they got the others," said Brianna.
"Let's go," said Michael.
"Wait, we can't," Brianna said stopping him from leaving.
"Why not?" asked Michael.
Brianna pointed "You see that monster with the snakes coming out of its head."
"Yeah," said Michael.
"That's Medusa," said Brianna. "With one look she'll turn us to stone. If we just go in there unprepared we'll lose. We have to fight without looking at her."
"That's impossible, how do we do that?" asked Michael.
"I don't know," said Brianna. "But she's powerful. Even if we morph her powers will still work on us."
"Well, smart girl any bright ideas?" asked Michael.
Brianna thought for a moment then looked at Michael and asked "How good is your aim?"
Medusa and Circe were waiting for the other two rangers to arrive. Michael was morphed; hiding out of sight behind a tree, the silence was eerie. Michael held up his blade blaster and aimed it at Medusa. As soon as he got a clear shot he fired. The shot hit Medusa right between the eyes causing her to fall to the ground. "My eyes!" she screamed. Circe looked shocked, and Brianna and Michael ran to confront them.
"What have you done?" Circe said as ran to help Medusa. Medusa's face was bloody, her eyes vaporized by the laser.
"I'm blind," said Medusa.
"That's what you get Medusa," said Michael.
"Yeah, and now that your eyes are gone, your powers are too," said Brianna.
"Damn it," said Medusa. "No matter, I may not be able to see you, but I can still…" she inhaled through her nose "smell you."
"Brianna, I'll take Medusa you take the woman," said Michael.
"Right," said Brianna. The two ran towards their opponents. Brianna was facing Circe. "So tell me who are you?"
"They call me Circe the mistress of magic," said Circe.
"So you're like a magician?" said Brianna.
"Not exactly," said Circe. She made a spear appear in her hand. She banged the ground with it and when she did magical chains sprouts from the ground and went for Brianna. Brianna quickly took out her blade blaster, put it into sword mode, and slashed the chains away. Circe then ran towards Brianna holding her spear up and tried to stab Brianna. Brianna dodged the attack. Circe then turned quickly and tried to hit her with her spear again but Brianna blocked it with her blade.
Michael tried to sneak up behind Medusa. "I know your there," said Medusa. She turned around, extended her claws, and slashed at Michael. Michael evaded her attacks and kicked her in the head. In a rage, Medusa grabbed Michael's arm and threw him against a wall. Then Medusa pulled two snakes out of her head and dropped them on the ground, they were still alive. They grew in size and became large serpents "Get him!" she commanded. And the serpents attacked Michael.
Michael extended his right arm and said "Power Sword!" his sword appeared in his hand. The serpents went for Michael, he slashed at them and they backed away a little bit. One of them attacked again. Michael jumped landed on its head. The creature tried to shake him off but Michael held on. He then held up his sword and stabbed the beast right through the head. The thing roar and before it hit the ground dead Michael jumped off. The other one went to bite him but Michael quickly yelled "Ruby Flame!" Michael's fire blast burned the serpents face and it fell down dead.
"No, I'll kill you!" Medusa screamed as she ran towards the red ranger. Michael blocked her attacks with his swords.
Circe swung her spear at Brianna again. But Brianna held up her hands and yelled "Topaz Typhoon!" Circe was blown away by her attack and fell to the ground. Circe then stood and fired an energy orb from her hands which hit Brianna in the stomach. Her armor protected her but the force from the attack still hurt. "Okay, that's it," she said. She held out her left hand and said "Power Bow!" her bow appeared in her hand. She loaded an arrow and fired. Circe blocked her arrow with a magic shield. Brianna fired again but Circe dodged it by teleporting. Every time Brianna fired an arrow at Circe she evaded it by teleporting. Then Circe appeared behind Brianna and fired an energy orb at her. Brianna fell to the ground, Circe went for another attack but Brianna quickly loaded another arrow and yelled "Hurricane Arrow!"
The wind blast knocked Circe down. She then stood up and started to fire another energy orb. But Brianna fired another arrow which hit Circe in her right shoulder. Circe screamed in pain and fell to her knees.
Michael was still fighting with Medusa. When Medusa tried to stab him with her claws again Michael dodged it. He then yelled out "Meteor Blade!" his sword was set ablaze and with one slashed he chopped off Medusa's head. Her body fell to the ground dead and turned to dust.
Circe was on the ground in pain from the arrow in her shoulder. Brianna walked up to her, loaded another arrow and aimed it at her. "You work for Eris right?" asked Brianna. "She the one who's doing this correct? Tell me everything about her. What is she up to and why is she attacking this city?" Circe said nothing. Brianna was then blasted from the side and knocked to the ground. It was Erebus.
"That's enough," said Erebus.
Brianna looked up at him. "You," said Brianna. She fired an arrow at him. He blocked it with his scythe. He slashed her with his weapon and she fell to the ground. He then helped Circe to her feet.
"Let's get out here," said Erebus.
"But I had them," said Circe.
"No you didn't," said Erebus. They then disappeared.
"Brianna!" said Michael. He ran to her and helped up. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," She said. Then they looked around and noticed that all the stone statues were turning back to normal. The two ran to their friends.
"Uh, what happened?" asked Christina.
"Looks like Medusa's curse is wearing off," said Brianna.
"What'd we miss," said Gabe.
"Not much," said Michael. Michael then looked to Brianna. "You alright!" he asked.
"I had her. We could've found out everything," said Brianna.
"Let's not think about that now," said Michael. "Let's get back to the Power Chamber." Brianna nodded and they left.