Maverick was the first to regain consciousness. He rubbed the back of his head, which stung with pain like he hit it on the cold stone floor that was now beneath him. When he was fully awake, the first thing he noticed was that he was no longer morphed. He began to feel around the floor around him, hoping to find it nearby, which it was not. He did, however, find Luke's foot behind him. When he turned around, he found that much like himself Luke was no longer morphed. Maverick did not see Luke's morpher anywhere around either. Maverick reached over and gently slapped Luke awake. "Hey, Mike Tyson wake up!" He said in his annoyed, gruff voice.
Luke bolted upright, confused. His eyes quickly darted around his surroundings, trying to take it all in. It was at this point that Maverick started to take a good look around at their surroundings himself.
The open courtyard that they last remembered occupying was long gone. The grassy field was now replaced with a stone-cold floor. Instead of a wide area, flanked by a few buildings of red brick, stone walls that formed the narrow walkways of a labyrinth now surrounded them as far as the eye could see. Above their heads was a sea of blackness. The only light came from torches which lined the walls. There was a torch every foot of the labyrinth, but they alternated walls. So, if the closest torch was on their left, the next was only a foot away on the right.
They were lost in an unfamiliar place with no idea of how to get home. Without their morphers, they were not only powerless, but unable to call for help, but with them being captured, they probably would not have been able to call out for help in the first place. It was eerily quiet in the labyrinth. Someone could have dropped a pin miles away and it could be heard.
"Where are we?" Luke asked aloud. He was looking all over their surroundings, hoping to see some sort of clue to where they were being kept, or how they could get back home. However, everywhere he looked in this place looked exactly the same as if it was made by repeating the same template over and over again.
Laughter began to echo throughout the area. It was a voice that Luke and Maverick instantly recognized as the voice of the monster they were just facing. "I caught moo, Rangers!" Matatour mocked. "Don't even think about trying to use your powers to escape, I already took your moophers." The monster began to laugh maniacally at his trap, and how well it ensured Luke and Maverick.
"You'll never escape from my home. You'll wander these halls until you drop from exhaustion. I hope you said your final good-byes to those other Rangers because you'll never see them again!" Matatour's laughter began to fade away, returning the eerie silence to its place.
Maverick began to rock off into the labyrinth, deciding it was best to block out the monster. The steady "Klomp" sounds his boots made echoed in the silent chamber, making it less creepy. It was when he was almost out of sight that Luke broke out into a dash to catch up to him.
Much as Maverick had expected, the walls were all identical, other than the alternating pattern of the torches. When he got to a fork in the path, Maverick pulled a knife out of his back pocket and carved an arrow into the wall which indicated which way they were going to go. Luke was about to question why Maverick would have the knife since they were still at the school before this attack happened, but figured that it may not be a good idea to upset the guy holding a weapon. It may only be able to scratch the stone walls that enclosed them, but Luke himself would be entirely different.
"You know, that's a really good idea. It will keep us from walking around in circles." Luke said as Maverick closed and re-pocketed the knife. Luke noticed that Maverick was ignoring him again and had started to walk down the path. Luke grabbed Maverick and spun him around. "Look, I know this may not be the best time, but I have to know: what is your deal? I have been nothing but nice to you, and you always just disregard me entirely as if I was the Invisible Man."
Maverick rolled his eyes and got up close to Luke's face. "My problem is that I can't get a moment's peace without being pestered by someone," Maverick explained in a slightly annoyed voice. "If you want to be my friend so badly then do me a favor and stop talking!" Maverick turned around and continued walking, with Luke not far behind him, being silent and wearing a defeated look on his face.
The duo came to a big, empty room. Once they were both insides, all of the doorways leading out of it, including the one they just used sealed up with stone pillars that rose up from the ground. A group of Golems phased into the area through the walls.