Episode 5 Dog Gone It
Eris was still trying to break through the barrier that surrounded the black fortress. The curse that Zeus put on her prevented her from leaving. Every time she would try to leave she would experience intense pain. Her powers were limited so she couldn't teleport out. She was stuck on a floating rock. She tried with all her might to push through the barrier but she couldn't take the pain. "Ah, damn it!" she said pulling away from the barrier. "Circe! I told you to do something about this."
"And I told you this curse is the work of Zeus," said Circe. "I've tried everything I know. I can't break it."
"There has got to be some way," said Eris. "If I'm ever going to achieve my goal, I've got to get off this rock."
Circe thought for a moment. "Hm, there might be someone who knows something about this. But don't know if she's still around."
"And who might that be?" asked Eris.
Michael was at football practice but his head just wasn't in the game. Every time the ball was passed to him he was dropping it and tripping all over the place. This had never happened before he was an excellent football player. His mind was just on other things, more important things. The coach blew his whistle and the players stopped. "Madoc, get over here," the coach called Michael over to him. Michael jogged over to the coach. "What's the matter with you Madoc?" the coach asked.
"Nothing sir just having an off day," said Michael. "Got a lot on my mind and I can't focus."
"Well I suggest you get focused," coach said. "You can't be playing like that in a real game."
"I know coach," said Michael.
"So either get your head together or get off the field," said coach. Michael then thought for a moment, and before the coach walked away Michael said "Actually coach I'd like to talk to you about that."
"You quit the football team, are you insane?" said Christina. They were all now in the Power Chamber and Michael just told them what he had done. "Michael please explain to me way you did this."
"I'm… just not into playing football anymore," said Michael.
"What are you talking about you're like the star quarterback, you can't just quit," said Gabe.
"Well I just did," said Michael. "Look I've been thinking about it and I realize that I'm a ranger now and I'm the leader of this team. And that's more important than football."
"But you don't have to quit playing to be a ranger. Does he Alpha?" said Christina.
"Of course not," said Alpha.
"But what happens if a monster attacks and I'm in the middle of a big game?" said Michael. "I can't just run off the field people would get suspicious. Plus I blew off practice the other day to have that fight with Medusa and coach yelled at me. I can't keep doing that. These battles with Eris and her monsters are only going to get tougher."
Christina sighed, "Well I guess that makes sense."
"Speaking of Eris," said Sam. "If she's supposed to be a goddess with the power to destroy everything, why hasn't she attacked directly? I mean she's sent down her lackeys and two very powerful monsters that nearly destroyed the city but why hasn't she shown herself?"
"Maybe she can't," said Brianna. "Maybe there's something stopping her."
"Or maybe she's biding her time. She's probably planning something." said Michael.
"Eris is a being that has been around for a very long time," said Dimitria. "She is clever, as well as powerful."
"Well there's nothing else we can do besides wait until she attacks again," said Christina. "I'm going to the mall anybody else wanna come with?" The other rangers got up but Brianna stayed seated at her computer.
"You coming Brianna?" asked Michael.
"No," she said. "I'm going to stay here and look through the ranger archives. There's so much, I don't know where to start."
"Okay then, see you later," said Michael and the other rangers teleported away.
Circe had drawn a circle with a bunch of shapes and stranger symbols with chalk on the floor. "What is this?" asked Eris.
"It's a summoning circle," said Circe. "If she's still in this dimension then she will appear."
"Are you sure she'll be able to help?" asked Eris.
"She's the goddess of magic," said Circe. "If anyone can help she can." Circe then pointed her hands at the circle and said a spell in ancient Greek. The circle glowed and the light became more intense. With a blinding flash of light a women appeared in the middle of the circle. The women had pale skin and long black hair. She wore a key around her neck and had on a long light blue dress. She opened her eyes, and looked around. "Oh no," she said in and annoyed tone when she saw Eris.
"Hecate, so nice to see you again," said Eris.
Hecate rolled her eyes and said "Piss off Eris."
"Well, hello to you too," said Eris. Lamia was laughing in a corner. Eris shot her an angry look.
"I heard a rumor that you were awake, I didn't wanna believe it," said Hecate. She then looked over to Circe "So, you're working with her now."
"Eris is gonna take over the galaxy. She promised all of us a piece of it," said Circe.
"Then you should now that she's a liar," said Hecate. "If she does accomplish whatever she's trying to do you won't get anything."
"Don't listen to her she's just a little mad," said Eris.
"Why am I here?" asked Hecate.
"I need your help," said Eris.
"And what makes you think that I would ever help you?" said Hecate.
"Because at one time or another we were friends don't you remember?" said Eris.
She shook her head "No."
"Look I'm a little bit desperate here. I need to get out," said Eris.
"Out of the Fortress?" asked Hecate. "Are you kidding me? Eris I don't think you realize that you are being punished."
"Oh come on," said Eris. "I think 2000 years is enough punishment."
"Not for you," said Hecate. "Don't you remember what you put us through? All the war and destruction you caused. And need I remind you of the Trojin War."
"Oh please, you can't blame that one all on me," said Eris. "Most of that was Aphrodite's fault."
"You acted like a spoiled child all because you didn't get invited to a party," said Hecate.
"You know what forget it. It was mistake to ask for your help," said Eris.
"Damn right it was," said Hecate in anger. "And I hope you stay here to rot." And with that she disappeared.
"Well, she was helpful, so now what do we do?" said Lamia. Eris then conjured a golden apple in her hand. Her hand was shaking with anger.
"Since I can't get out of here I'll cause as much destruction as I can," said Eris. The apple then disappeared from her hand. The apple appeared and landed in the middle of a busy street in Angel Grove. It glowed and then caused a big explosion. What appeared from the explosion was a giant three headed black dog like creature. It was as tall as a building, all three of its heads had two piercing red eyes, and it also had a long snake like tail with a live serpents head at the end of it. The giant monster roared and as it walked the ground shook and cracked. People all over ran screaming for their lives as the ground shook beneath their feet.
The alarm in the Power Chamber sounded. "Aye aye aye, what's happening?" said Alpha. Brianna looked at the viewing globe and saw the terror that had been unleashed on the city. "Brianna, what is that thing?" asked Alpha.
"It looks like Cerberus. The guardian of the underworld," said Brianna.
"We must contact the other rangers," said Dimitria. "Brianna, you morph and get into your zord."
"Right," said Brianna. She then took out her morpher "IT'S MORPHIN TIME!" Her morpher opened and her power coin shined. "Pterodactyl pink ranger power!" When she morphed she was teleported into the cockpit of her zord and then took off.
The other rangers were at the mall when their communicators beeped. "What's up Alpha?" said Gabe talking into his communicator.
"Rangers, a giant creature known as Cerberus is attacking the city," said Alpha. "I'll teleport you to its coordinance." They then heard the screaming of people. They looked out the front windows of the mall and saw large groups of people running in fear. They then felt the ground shaking with each step the monster took. "Scratch that Alpha. I think we can find it. We'll just follow the screams," said Gabe. They all ran outside and into an alley way. They all held up their morphers and yelled "IT'S MORPHIN TIME!" They morphed and ran to where the creature was.
"Look at that thing. It's gigantic," said Christina.
"C'mon let's call the Megazord," said Michael.
"Not so fast," said a voice from behind. "You'll have to deal with us as well." It was Atlas holding a large gold colored sword and Erebus holding his scythe.
"You two again," said Gabe. "Don't you all get tired of getting your asses kicked?"
"This time will be different," said Atlas.
"You guys get in the zords and take care of Cerberus," Michael said to Christina and Sam. "We'll get rid of these two." Sam and Christina ran to towards Cerberus while Michael and Gabe stayed to fight on the ground.
"Power Sword!"
"Power Axe!" their weapons appeared in their hands and held them up ready to fight. Together Christina and Sam called out "We need Dinozord power now!" their zords appeared and they teleported into their control rooms.
"Ready Christina, let's take this dog down," said Sam.
"Right," said Christina. "Sorry Cerberus but I'm more of a cat person." She then charged at Cerberus with her Saber tooth tiger zord. She slashed the monster with her zords claws. Cerberus roared and breathed fire at Christina. She dodged the attack and ran towards Cerberus again this time holding him down. Cerberus then forced the saber tooth tiger zord off of him sending it tumbling down the street.
"Christina, are you alright?" asked Sam.
"I'm fine," said Christina. "Damn, that thing is strong." She brought her zord back up on its feet. Cerberus was about to attack but then was hit by lasers from the sky. It was Brianna in her Pterodactyl zord. She then swooped down firing her lasers again hitting it in the heads but only leaving so much as scars on Cerberus. Christina then activated her laser. "Tail cannon, fire!" the beam hit Cerberus, hurting him but it was making him angrier. He then fired three fireballs from his mouths hitting the saber tooth tiger zord and damaging it.
"Sam you gotta do something," said Brianna. Sam then rolled behind Cerberus in his triceratops zord.
"Power cables, launch!" said Sam. The cables launched from the zord and wrapped around Cerberus. Cerberus roared as her couldn't move forward. "I got him," said Sam. Then, Cerberus' serpent tail struck at the Triceratops zord biting through the metal over and over again. Sam's control panels began sparking.
"Sam, what's going on?" asked Christina.
"It's damaging my zord. I don't know how much longer I can hold it," said Sam.
"Hang in there," said Brianna.
The fight with Atlas and Erebus still went on. Erebus slashed Gabe with his scythe but Gabe blocked it with his axe. Erebus then blasted him with dark energy which hit Gabe right in the chest. Gabe then switched his axe to cannon mode. "Cosmic Cannon!" the blast hit Erebus right in his torso knocking him down.
Michael and Atlas were fighting with their swords. Atlas slashed Michael in the face cracking the visor of his helmet just a bit. Michael then held up his hand and said "Ruby Flame!" the fire blasted Atlas back damaging his armor. Atlas then ran in for another attack but then Michael called out "Meteor Blade!" His sword was set on fire blocking Atlas' sword slicing it in half. Then he slashed Atlas knocking him down.
Michael then ran to Gabe. "C'mon let's go help the others," he said.
"Right," said Gabe.
The Triceratops zord was still getting damaged by Cerberus' snake tail as Sam tried to hold it down with the power cables. Brianna and Christina fired more blasts at it but it didn't do much. Then Cerberus bit through the power cables and shot a fireball right at the triceratops zord. Then, all of a sudden, the mastodon zord came charging in and rammed right into Cerberus knocking him over, the tyrannosaurus zord also appeared. "You guys alright?" Gabe asked.
"I'm fine," said Brianna.
"All good over here," said Sam.
"C'mon let's put this dog down," said Christina.
"Alright guys let's bring it together," said Michael. They combined their zords to form the Megazord. Cerberus blasted them with fire but it didn't do much damage to the colossal megazord. Cerberus then charged at the megazord and jumped to try to pounce on it and bring it down. But, the megazord punched Cerberus away. "Let's finish him off. Summon Mega Saber!" said Michael. The huge sword appeared in the megazord's hand. They powered up the sword and before Cerberus could attack again they slashed it. Cerberus went down, turned to dust, a disappeared.
"No!" said Eris as she watched the fight in her magic mirror.
"Well, maybe third time will be the charm," said a voice behind Eris. Eris turned around and saw it was Hecate. "Oh wait that was your third time."
"What are you doing here? Come to gloat?" said Eris.
"As much as I love to see you fail Eris I'm actually here to give you some helpful information," said Hecate.
"And what's that?" asked Eris.
"The condition of Zeus' curse is that only you can break yourself out," said Hecate.
"But my powers are limited, how am I supposed to do that?" asked Eris.
"You've got all the answers, you figure it out," said Hecate. She then disappeared without a trace.