Mard Geer has finally been destroyed, but apparently that doesn't mean the end. Kyoka, Tempester, and Keyes all stood on one knee as a new head has taken Mard Geer's place. The supposed creator of the etherious.
"Is there anything we can do for you?" Kyoka asked as a loyal servant.
"The Power Rangers are a formidable foe. I want to see what they're truly capable of."
"Allow me to go down there and take care of them." Tempester offered.
"That isn't necessary. I want to see what these rangers are capable of and I have just the etherious to do. Come, Jackal!" A new etherious entered the room, He was a male with blonde hair with pointed ears in them. He wore a green top with boots and wore a dark green scarf and had black markings on his arms.
"Hey! Where's the party?" Jackal asked.
"Jackal, go down to the city known as Magnolia and when you see the Power Rangers, do what you do best."
"I would have done that even if you didn't ask me to." Jackal said. "I'm not going to let no Power Ranger get in my way."
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Rangers' Base
None of them were aware of the danger that is to come. The team thought they won and tapped glasses of their drinks together as they were celebrating.
"Finally, Mard Geer is gone." Jellal said.
"It was a rough fight, but we pulled through." Gajeel said.
"I'm very proud of all of you." Mavis said. "You all should be happy that we've triumphed over him and we never have to worry about him again."
"I hate to put a damper on things, but what about the other etherious?" Gray asked. "Shouldn't we worry about them?"
"I don't think we have much to worry about." Jellal said. "They saw Mard Geer like a guiding light. Without him, they might not know what to do."
"That means they won't be a problem to us anymore." Lucy said.
"So let's keep this partying going." Mirajane said as all of them continued to celebrate. Natsu hanged back because he wasn't much in a party mood. All he wanted was to take revenge on Mard Geer for ruining his family. So why doesn't he feel happy.
"Hey." Erza said as she came up to him. "Are you okay? I thought you would be happy the most since Mard Geer is gone."
"I am, but something's weird." Natsu said. "It feels like things aren't finished yet."
"Natsu, it is over. We won and they lost." Erza said. "Without their leader, the etherious have no one to look to. Maybe you've been after them for so long, you're just having a hard time of letting go." Natsu still wasn't convinced. Everyone else was happy, but that was before the crystal ball alerted them of danger.
"There's an etherious attacking the city." Mavis said.
"No. No. No. No. That's not possible. Mard Geer is gone." Gajeel said. Mirajane went to her computer and brought up an image of Magnolia.
"There are explosions happening all over the city." Mirajane said.
"You called it, Natsu." Erza said as they got everything in order and went to investigate.
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Jackal
Jackal stood at the top of a building and he somehow caused explosions to appear all around the city.
"I love my job!" Jackal said. The rangers teleported to the building and landed down behind Jackal.
"There he is!" Natsu said. Jackal turned around to face the rangers.
"So you guys are the Power Rangers? You don't look that tough." Jackal said.
"What's the deal with this guy? He doesn't look like something Keyes might have created." Jellal wondered.
"Come on. Let's see what you guys got." Jackal said as he dared them to come at him. The rangers obliged and went on the attack. Each of the rangers tried attacking him, but he pushed them all out of the way and got behind them.
"What's the deal? Too scared to put up a fight?" Natsu said.
"You guys should really be more careful." Jackal said. He pointed over to symbols that appeared on the rangers from where Jackal touched them.
"What's going on? What are these?" Lucy asked.
"Time to go boom." Jackal said as he snapped his fingers and explosions went off on the rangers. It knocked them all off the building and they all hit the ground. Jackal jumped down and landed on his feet. "How did you like that?"
"What happened? How did you do that?" Natsu asked.
"That's my power. Anything I want to explode, I can and anything I touch or touches me gets the chance to go boom like a bomb." Jackal said.
"Are you serious?" Gajeel said.
"We can't touch him without blowing ourselves up. Who is this guy?" Gray said.
"The name's Jackal. You do well to remember that because I'm the guy that's going to turn the entire city to ruble and blow you all to smithereens."
"Guys, be careful." Jellal said. "Something isn't right. This guys doesn't seem like an etherious Keyes created."
"What do you mean?" Erza asked.
"I don't know. This one just seems different." Jellal said.
"You can say that again. I'm not like those phonies the bag of bones created." Jackal said. "I'm a pure etherious like him and those other two." None of the rangers were expecting that. They've only fought monsters Keyes created from common objects, but they haven't face a pure etherious that didn't serve Mard Geer.
"No way. He's the real thing?" Gajeel said.
"You better believe it and if you don't believe me, check this out. Explosion Spiral!" Jackal caused another explosion to go around the rangers in a spiral and it exploded around all of them. "With all the talk I heard, I thought you guys would be more of a challenge. Later losers." Jackal left them there in their defeat, but they weren't giving up.
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Rangers' Base
"Mavis, is there any way for them to defeat this enemy?" Mirajane asked as they watched what was happening. Jackal proved to be a dangerous enemy and needed to be stopped fast.
"This Jackal is a dangerous one. He caused explosions and we can't seem to touch him." Mavis said as she tried to figure out a plan. "Rangers, keep your distance from him, use long range attacks, and keep moving until we can figure out how to neutralize his power."
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The Rangers
"Right. Don't worry. We'll bring him down somehow." Natsu said. They all received the orders as they got up from Jackal's attack. "Come on. We better catch him before he does any more damage. All of the rangers got up and hurried after Jackal
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Jackal
People were running scared from Jackal as he caused explosions and from his looks. Jackal was finding the terror of humans all amusing.
"That's right, cowards! You just keep running like the wimps you are!" Jackal laughed.
"That is enough." Jackal looked behind him and saw the rangers on their Magi-Cycles. Since they were told to keep their distance, their bikes will help with that.
"Not these losers again." Jackal said.
"Fire!" Natsu said as all of them fired magic blasts and the explosions around knocked Jackal off his feet. All of them rode around the area to keep Jackal guessing on where they were going.
"Hey! Explosions are my thing." Jackal said. The rangers continued to ride around Jackal and fired energy blasts around him. "Stop driving around me. It's making me dizzy."
"We've got him." Jellal said as he shot out blasts at him.
"You really think driving those bikes will change anything?" Jackal said. He held out his arms and spun around. That was when magic circles appeared around the ground.
"Uh oh!" Natsu said. All of them drove into them and a series of explosions went off. All the rangers were sent flying off of their rides and trashed them.
"Aw man. You just trashed our rides. Not cool." Gajeel said.
"This guy is like a walking supply of T.N.T." Gray said.
"You like my landmines?" Jackal said. "I'm starting to get annoyed by you. Can we hurry up and get this over with."
"You got it. Let's do it." Natsu said.
"Mystic Mode!" The five rangers changed into their mystic mode.
"You need to chill out." Gray said as he used his staff and shot out a cold beam and tried freezing Jackal. He did get frozen, but he was able to burst out of it.
"You think a little ice will stop me?" Jackal said. He charged in and tried attacking the rangers. All of them kept trying to stay out of his reach.
"That's close enough." Jellal said as he shot out energy slashes and blasted Jackal.
"My turn!" Erza said. She held out her staff and shot out a gust of wind that sent him Jackal flying back. "Guys, this getting too close. We have to end this now."
"She's right. Let's do it." Natsu said as they gathered together.
"Elemental Blast!"
"Hold on!" Jackal said, but none of them did. They fired the energy blast and Jackal got caught in it with him being destroyed. Meanwhile, Keyes stayed out of sight.
"By order of our new master, though shall not fall yet." Keyes said. "Breath of demon and spirits of sake, make Jackal reawake!" Keyes used his power and revived Jackal and brought him back as a giant.
"I'm large and in charge." Jackal said. Jackal tried kicking the rangers, but all of them moved out of the way.
"They always come back for more." Jellal said. "Chariot-Zord, Arise!"
"Magic Zords!" They all called upon their zords and formed their two Megazords. Both of them marched right over to Jackal.
"You've got to be kidding me. You think those things can stop me." Jackal said. He thrusted out his arms and caused a series of explosions around the zords.
"This guy doesn't know when to quit." Jellal said.
"Let's show him that we don't either." Natsu said. The Magic Megazord held out it's sword and went to attack Jackal and slashed against Jackal a few times.
"Slow learners, aren't you?" Jackal said. He caused explosions to go around and the sword blew to pieces and knocked them off their feet. "Now to finish you." Jackal stalked over to the rangers, but Jellal's Megazord grabbed him and tossed him out of the way. "You guys just aren't getting it." Jackal caused explosions around Jellal's Megazord and it fell as well.
"We can't take much more of this." Gray said.
"We need to combine into the Heavenly Magic Megazord." Erza said. "It's the only thing we've got that has enough power to take him down."
"Erza's right. Jellal, did you get that?" Natsu asked.
"I got it. Let's do it." Jellal said.
"Zords, Combine!" All of them brought their zords together and formed the Heavenly Magic Megazord.
"You think just because your two toys came together, that's enough to beat me. Just how pathetic can you guys get?" Jackal said and caused more explosions to go off around them.
"Enough is enough." Lucy said.
"You're done for." Natsu said as they pulled out their sword.
"Wait a minute. I thought I blew that thing to pieces." Jackal said.
"Heaven's Sword Strike!" They formed the magic circle with their sword and they thrusted the sword through it to shoot out the rainbow colored beam. Jackal was surprised and got blasted with the beam. "Looks like I'm going out with a bang." He shouted before he hit the ground and was destroyed. After the battle, the rangers got out of their zords and ranger uniforms.
"Another one bites the dust." Gajeel said.
"Hopefully that's the last of them." Lucy said.
"I doubt it." Jellal said.
"Even you are having doubts?" Erza questioned.
"Jackal wasn't like the others. He said so himself, remember?" Jellal said.
"So what? We kicked his butt just like all the others." Gray said.
"Jackal was a pure etherious just like Kyoka, Tempester, and Keyes." Jellal stated. "At the same time, I know for a fact he wasn't part of Mard Geer's group. So if that's true, where did he come from?" All of them were starting to wonder that as well. Then, they heard something like thunder and looked up to the sky. They saw dark grey clouds form and created something like a pathway with a silhouette walking through.
"Hello, Rangers." All of them felt a lot of power coming from whoever that was. None of them knew who that was, but Jellal seemed to have an idea.
"It couldn't be." Jellal said.
"Jellal, do you know who that is?" Natsu asked.
"I don't know his name, but if I had to guess….that would be the creator of the etherious." Jellal said. "The man that created Mard Geer and the others."
"This guy created them?" Lucy said.
"Yes. He's worse than ten Mard Geers." Jellal said.
"Mard Geer was a loyal servant, but he made the mistake of underestimating all of you. A mistake I will be careful not to make. You're battle against the etherious is far from over. It's just beginning." The shadowy figure and the clouds dispersed. Just when they thought they won this war, a new enemy has shown himself and is worse than what they've faced before.