"Welcome to your first challenge, Rangers." Matatour's voice called out. "If you want to even have a chance to escape, then defeat the Golems!" Matatour began to laugh, filling the maze with sound once more. This was the Golems' cue, and they charged the Rangers.
"Well, let's get started," Luke said cracking his knuckles and charging the enemies himself. He fired a flurry of punches into one Golem. A different Golem tried to come at Luke from behind, only to be yanked backward by Maverick.
The Golem was flung to the floor by Maverick's actions and shattered into countless pieces. Maverick began to fight another Golem, choosing one of the remaining two that wasn't fighting Luke. The brawl raged on until all of the Golems were defeated. Luke and Maverick were no longer beating their hands up as badly from fighting the Golems un-morphed. The doorways opened back up and they started to proceed.
Luke tripped over his own feet but was saved from face-planting on the hard stone floor by Maverick, who caught him in time and propped him back on his feet. Luke brushed himself off and gave a nervous "thanks" to Maverick.
"Don't mention it," Maverick said shortly. "Now, keep up, I don't want you falling behind." Maverick couldn't explain it. Maybe the guy was growing on him, or maybe it was seeming from Luke being the only other person around, but Maverick wanted Luke to stay close to him, he wanted his friend to be close to him.
The other Rangers arrived at the scene of the disturbance. They saw the bat-like creature terrorizing the town and the citizens who were unable to get to safety.
"Ah, Rangers, how nice of you to stop by for a visit." She taunted. "But, it seems you're a little short-handed." The monster's piercing red eyes made Gwen uneasy.
"Who are you?" Peter demanded as he pulled his blaster on the creature. Peter provided enough of a distraction to allow the civilians to get away from the monster. Gwen and Axel followed Peter's lead and pulled their blasters as well.
"My name is Bawa, Queen of the Night." The monster introduced with a mocking bow toward the Rangers.
"I'm sorry, but I believe that title has already been taken," Peter responded as he came closer to her, and further away from the Avalon Cycles.
"Well, in that case: you can call me, 'your demise!'" Bawa called as she and a group of Golems charged the Rangers. Bawa charged through the air toward them while the Golems were forced to remain on the ground.
The Rangers snapped their fingers to make their weapons appear. The sword, trident, and tonga emerged in a flash of light the same color as the corresponding owner's color. Each of them called out their weapon's name and began to fight.
While Axel kept Bawa busy, Gwen and Peter dealt with Golems. Thanks to their weapons, Gwen and Peter were easily able to fend off three Golems each. These Golems may have numbers on their side, but they fought with no real sense of strategy.
Three Golems tried to attack Peter together but left themselves wide open to a counterattack. The first one to reach Peter got a tonfa to the gut, or at least where it would have one if this creature was human, while the next got the other tonfa right to the face. The third Golem got both of Peter's weapons slammed into the kneecaps. Next, Peter tossed his weapons into the air and proceeded to use his blaster on the Golems, reducing them to rubble. Peter re-holstered his blaster and caught his weapons as they fell to around shoulder height. "You Golems need to be boulder with these plans." Peter quipped.
Gwen elegantly fought off Golems with her trident, She kept them at bay while tearing away at them. With a mighty swing of her trident, she sent the last Golem flying into Bawa, knocking her to the ground, and breaking the Golem. Gwen swung the trident around and slammed the tail end of it into the ground triumphantly.
Bawa got back to her feet, enraged over what just happened. "Oh, you'll pay for that one Blue." Bawa threatened. She then proceeded to charge at Gwen, narrowly escaping the swing of Axel's sword. She began to play tug of war in an attempt to get the trident away from Gwen.