Chapter 7
The Rangers arrived at the ship excited.
"Zordon, Alpha!" Chuck exclaimed as they ran into Zordon's chamber. "We figured it out!"
"Figured what out?" Alpha asked.
"How to morph," Cheryl replied. "We found Rita and Betty was able to morph."
"That's only one of you though," Zordon said.
"I'm sure that we can all do it now," Betty stated confidently.
"Then prove it," Alpha challenged them pointing to the pads.
The five of them each stepped on one of the pads in the chamber.
"It's morphing time!" Jason exclaimed.
The others all looked at him with bewilderment.
"What?" Jason asked.
"That's so lame," Veronica said as she rolled her eyes.
"I dunno, I liked it," Betty said.
"Focus Rangers on your power coins and your connection to the Morphing Grid," Zordon instructed.
T he five them did that, but they also thought about being protectors and on stopping Rita.
Betty was the first to morph, her red armour popping into existence all along her body. Her weapon, the power sword appeared in Betty's left hand, the blade glowing the same blue as the diamond pattern on the chest of her armour. The helmet covered her head, the black visor hiding her eyes and a grey form fitting piece covering her mouth. Betty then grabbed the back of her helmet and removed it holding it under her arm as she watched the others morph.
Jason was next, black form fitting armour covering him, the glowing blue diamond on his chest looking very prominent. His weapon, the Power Axe, appeared in his hand, the big black two handed axe matched his armour perfectly. Jason took off his helmet with one hand while he held the axe with the other and looked down with a satisfied smile, glad that he had morphed.
"Yes, yes they're doing it Zordon!" Alpha exclaimed excitedly.
Cheryl was next. She was surrounded in a pink glow as her pink armour appeared on her body, offset somewhat by the blue glow of the diamond pattern in the center of her chest. Her weapon, the Power Bow, appeared in her hand the bladed bow looking deadlier now, then when she had used it unmorphed. Cheryl removed her helmet, her lustrous red hair cascading out and down her shoulders as Cheryl smirked in satisfaction.
"Morphenomenal," Cheryl said drawing an annoyed look from her twin brother.
Up next was Chuck who was quite eager. He was surrounded in a blue glow as his armour appeared on him. The blue diamond on his chest plate was a couple shades lighter than the rest of his armour but the two complimented each other well. His weapon, the Power Staff, appeared in right hand. Chuck spun it a couple times, the two blades letting out a deadly hum as they cut through the air. Chuck took off his helmet and smiled happily.
Veronica was the last of the Rangers to morph having watched all of the others. A yellow glow surrounded her and then her yellow armour began appearing on her body. The yellow armour and the blue diamond on the chest along with the dark gray accents on the joints made for a unique look. Veronica's weapons, the Power Sais, appeared in her hands. She placed one on her belt as she removed her helmet and removed her helmet, her raven black hair spilling out.
"Rita won't know what hit her," Veronica said as she twirled the one sai in her hand.
"They did it! They morphed!" Alpha exclaimed excitedly.
"Congratulations Rangers," Zordon said. "However I fear Rita is about to unleash Goldar."
"What? How?" Betty asked disbelievingly.
"After you tricked Rita into attacking the McDonald's, very clever I might add, Rita went looking for any establishment with gold in its name," Alpha replied.
"Well she already attacked the jewellery store, what else is there?" Cheryl asked.
"The Gold Mine Museum," Chuck answered with a gasp.
"Yeah but the gold in the displays there is pyrite," Jason said.
"The gold in the displays is in fact fake," Zordon confirmed. "However the ship's sensors have determined that there is in fact more than enough amounts of trace gold in the mine to allow Rita to reform Goldar."
"Wait, you're telling me that Rita can use her powers to extract enough tiny little flecks of gold from the ground to create this Goldar?" Veronica asked.
"Yes," Zordon answered in a matter-of-fact tone.
"You know that would have been helpful information to know about Rita off the bat," Veronica shouted angrily.
"Look there's no point in getting into a shouting match now," Betty said. "We know where Rita's going to go and we're not going to stop her by arguing."
"Good point Betty," Jason agreed. "Let's go guys."
"Wait Rangers, before you go," Zordon called out as they were all turning to leave.
"What?" Cheryl asked.
"Alpha, show them the Zords," Zordon said.
"Of course Zordon," Alpha agreed. "Follow me Rangers."
The five of them followed Alpha to a part of the ship that they had not been to before. It opened up into a huge chamber. Inside were five huge machines, vehicles sort of, however they were shaped like prehistoric animals.
"What are these?" Chuck asked Alpha.
"These Rangers are your Zords," Alpha replied.
"Zords?" Betty asked confused.
"They are battle vehicles," Alpha replied. "The Zords take on the appearance of the most powerful beasts of the planet they land on; when we landed that was the Cenozoic creatures."
"Does Rita have one?" Cheryl asked.
"Not anymore," Alpha replied.
"Well I guess that's good," Jason commented.
"While they are very powerful, using the Zords takes a lot of training," Alpha told them. "Only call for them as a last resort."
"Understood," Betty said. "Come on guys let's go!"
The Rangers all put their helmets on and left the ship.
Rita came to the sign that read Gold Mine Museum. The Gold Mine Museum had all sort of artifacts from the California Gold Rush in the 1800's. However Rita wasn't interested in them, she cared nothing for humans or their history. Rita cared about only one thing, gold and using it to create her Goldar so that she could big up Earth's Zeo Crystal.
The only thing standing in her way were those pesky humans who had become Power Rangers. However so far all they had done was simply inconvenience and delay her. And only one of them seemed able to morph.
Rita placed her hand on the ground. She could literally feel the gold in the area. It was all in tiny trace amounts but it would be more than enough for her to reform Goldar.
"Stop Rita!" a voice shouted behind her.
Rita turned around to see the Rangers, all five of them morphed. Rita clicked her tongue in annoyance.
"It's over Rita," Betty said.
"You think that the five of you can stop me?" Rita asked with a mocking laugh. "Zordon and his team couldn't stop me and they were fully trained warriors, not children like you."
Rita scraped her staff on the ground and the ground began tearing itself apart and forming dozens upon dozens of Putties. Cheryl raised her bow pointed it at Rita and fired. However with lightning fast reflexes Rita batted the projectile aside.
"Have fun Rangers," Rita said as she ran off leaving hundreds of Putties between her and the Rangers.
"Let's go!" Betty shouted to the others as she charged at the Putties.
With the Power Swords Betty easily cleaved a path through the Putties, destroying three or four at a time with each long arcing swing of the blade. She destroyed another Putty with a side kick as she ran one through the sword.
The other rangers followed after her. Chuck spun and swung his bladed staff destroy Putty after Putty before they could even get within distance of striking him. He the planted one end of his staff in the ground and used with as a pole to swing himself around destroy ten Putties as he spun with vicious kicks.
Veronica moved quickly, stabbing her Power Sais into Putties destroying them with a single blow each as she quickly moved through the huge wave of rock creatures. As she destroyed one Putty she jumped up on to its crumbling shoulders and went about twenty feet up into the air. As she came down she kicked out at one Putty and drove her Sais into two more on either side of it destroying all three simultaneously.
Jason was swing his Power Axe in big two hand strokes, the head of the axe cutting through the rock Putties like they were made of paper. Jason then ran at a group of a dozen Putties. Before he got there he jumped into the air doing a front flip and bring the axe down hard into the ground. The force let out a shockwave that caused all the nearby Putties to crumble into dust.
Cheryl had found her surround by dozens of Putties. Using her bow was fended them using the blade to destroy them one at a time. She was able to get enough space so she could spin in a circle slashing with the blade of her Power Bow to either destroy or drive back the Putties attacking her. Cheryl then jumped high up into the air and fired the bow rapidly destroying several Putties. As she landed ten Putties were all neatly lined up, Cheryl pulled back on the bow and charged a shot and fired, the projectile going through all ten of the Putties causing them to fall to pieces.
The number of Putties was quickly dwindling and soon they were destroyed.
"Come on, we've got to stop Rita!" Betty called out.
They then ran off in the direction that Rita had escaped.
Rita found herself on a large open field with little vegetation. She dropped to one knee and placed her hand upon the ground. As she closed her eyes she could feel the gold in the ground all around her.
"Yes, soon my Goldar you will be restored," Rita hissed.
Rita focused all her power and the ground beneath her began to rumble. Just then the Ranger came running upon the scene.
"Rita stop!" Betty shouted.
Rita turned around and stood up smirking.
"You're too late Rangers," Rita said. "Now watch my Goldar Grow!"
The Rangers felt the ground beneath them shaking and as they looked down they could see little bits of gold rising up out of the ground and start trickling towards Rita like a small stream. Just behind Rita a pool of gold was forming and as more gold flowed into it the pool began rise up and take shape.
"Oh shit!" Chuck cursed.
The continued to accumulate and the construct grew taller and taller, soon towering like an apartment building as it formed a sort of humanoid creature.
"You cannot stop my Goldar Rangers!" Rita declared with sadistic delight. "And soon your world will end!"
The Rangers looked at each other and then at the huge towering monster made of gold and wondered just how they could stop it. All of a sudden the ground around them began to shake and hundreds if not thousands of Putties began to form.
"Uh oh," Cheryl muttered.
Sorry for taking so long on the update but things were busy. A bit of a shorter but action packed chapter. The big battle against Rita and Goldar will be up next. Will the Rangers be able to stop her? Find out! Please Review!