A Fool's Hour

Today would be the day that she would do it. She had it all planned out and was certain that nothing would stop her this time. This world was not her own. From the moment she got here, she felt out of place. Odd. Alone. She could not take it anymore. Today was the day she would leave it all behind. She had walked nonstop until she reached the right spot in the forest. Yes. It should be far from prying eyes. She had everything ready, including the letter. She grabbed the last important piece and pointed it towards her.

She hesitated.

She had heard something far off. She could also sense several strong connections. Five of them. Two of them she had felt before but now there were three new ones. This made her rethink the world for a brief moment. Two of them she thought was odd but the universe always had exceptions. But now there were three more. There was no way it was a coincidence and the abnormality yet familiarity of them stopped the act she was about to commit.

There was still a sense of selflessness within her. She had to hold this off for now. She had to find out what these five sources of power were and what was being done with them. She put the piece she had pointed at herself back on her belt and ran off in the direction of the five strong sources of power.

Within less than a minute she reached the edge of the forest, which opened into a grassy field. She stopped from taking another step and stood behind a tree. Roughly one hundred yards in front of her were five teenagers. She could sense that they were ones with the five sources of power. Across from them, on the other side of the field, were many copy-cat minions, which followed behind three larger alien creatures that clearly had more authority over them. However, she noticed the one that was several shades of pink was talking. She concluded that alien was leading everyone...for now.

She wanted to know what type of power the five teenagers held and she wanted to hold it for herself. Just for one moment, she wanted to connect with it and feel if it was the thing she had felt before. But she would wait for the best opportunity to get it, whether if that meant "borrowing" it for a bit or asking them in advance to hold it. If she had a fast choice between the two, she would take the former route. But for now, she would watch and see what both sides of these groups would do to each other from the sidelines of the forest.

"Allow me to introduce the magnificent intergalactic bounty hunter in the universe." Poisandra cheerfully shouted towards the five teenagers.

From the sky, an alien on a jetpack quickly landed. The gust of wind from his landing blew past the rangers as they realized their problems just got a lot worse.

"The one, the only, my future husband, Sledge."

Sledge couldn't help but chuckle at the pathetic sight before him. "This is a joke, right? You're the Rangers who destroyed my monster?"

"Power Rangers." Shelby bluntly corrected. The girl had an attitude that was too cute and nonlethal to the aliens' lives. All of the monsters laughed at the weightless threat.

"Oh, please." Poisandra brushed it off.

"Yeah, right. Are you kidding me?" Sledge sneered rhetorically.

It was then that Koda's instincts picked up on a scent. A scent that he loathed deeply. "Fury," he got Tyler's attention while keeping his gaze on Fury. "Up there."

Tyler looked up a steep incline to see Fury appear out of the foliage. "That's him! The creature in my dad's journal." He kept watching him as Fury made gestures to Sledge.

Fury was the only way Tyler knew of in which he could find out what happened to his dad. However, anger began to rise from deep within him. He wanted to get even with Fury. He was certain that he had something to do with keeping his father from him for years. He had hope that he was still alive. It was just a matter of finding out the answers from Fury, the last thing his dad wrote about in his journal.

"Hmm, as I was saying," Sledge's gravelly voice caused Tyler to snap his gaze from Fury and towards Sledge again. "You're the troublemakers that stole my Energems."

Suddenly, Keeper magically appeared in front of the Rangers. He had something vital to tell Sledge, before he went down the path Keeper believed he would ultimately take. He had to still give Sledge a chance to change his mind.

"Keeper, it's you!" Sledge mocked at his convenient appearance. He would let him speak his peace before he would slowly take his life.

"The Energems belong to no one, especially not to you."

Sledge grinned devilishly under his helmet. "My dear old friend, you thought that blowing up my ship could stop me? Think again. I waited in deep space for millions of years for a comet to pass. I caught it with my electro-nets and rode it all the way to Earth. But it was worth it because finally I will destroy you, and then I'll leave here with the Energems."

"The Rangers possess the power of the Energems and the strength of ancient dinosaurs. If you try to take the Energems, you will be the one who is destroyed." Keeper had said enough and he had faith in the Rangers. After giving Sledge his one and only warning, he turned around and walked towards the Rangers until he magically dissipated in front of them.

"Uh...Keeper?" Riley hoped he would reappear after calling his name but he did not.

"No prob." Shelby weakly claimed, "We got this, I guess."

"Looks like they're gonna cry." Wrench readjusted his grip on his axe.

Sledge banged his clenched fists together, "Bring it on, weaklings!"

Chase took the lead. "Dino Charger!" He glanced over to see everyone was holding their chargers. Everyone was...except Tyler. Tyler's gaze had went back to Fury again.

"Tyler." Chase said again but to no avail.

"Tyler? Something wrong?" Koda asked.

"Tyler!" Shelby snapped.

Shelby's voice was enough to break his focus off of Fury and see that the others had pulled out their Dino Chargers. He quickly took his out of his back pocket and held it in front of him.

"Ready!"

That was Sledge's cue. He quickly fired off several shots from his blaster gun. The shots missed the Rangers by inches yet they don't flinch.

"Ready!" The other four teenagers said in unison.

Sledge fired several more shots. Some of them struck the ground in front of the Rangers, causing both dirt and smoke to fly into the air, obscuring Sledge's view. He fired yet again. This time, a few shots flew straight into the cloud of smoke. There was no way he missed them that time.

"Whoo-hoo! Yay! You destroyed them!" Poisandra cheered.

As the cloud of smoke rose into the sky, the Rangers ran towards Sledge and the others. And they were fully morphed into their Ranger uniforms. Black, Blue, Red, Pink and Green Rangers.

"Better get your eyes checked!" Tyler shouted back at Poisandra. "Let's do this."

"Yikes. This isn't any fun." Poisandra ran behind Sledge as Sledge's minions ran towards the Rangers.

Chase stood in place and took out his Dino Morpher to blast several Vivix. "One, two." The third he shot behind him without looking."Three." Chase fired more true shots. "The hotshot does it again." However, he failed to see Scrapper, one of Sledge's outlaws, run up towards him.

"I'll take you apart!"

"I would like to see you try!" Chase managed to block several of his attack, but he couldn't keep up. Scrapper backhanded Chase, causing him to fly back several feet and fall to the ground. The sudden devastating hit was enough to make him demorph out of his Black Ranger uniform.

Koda, being the caveman that he was, took on the minions around him with his fists and brute strength. "This no problem for caveman strength.", he ran up to a Vivix, grabbed it then swung him into several other minions, causing them all to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, before he saw him coming, Koda was struck from behind by Scrapper.

"Caveman strength is nothing against me." Scrapper quickly threw an uppercut at Koda which sent him flying. He landed hard on his back and caused him to demorph from being the Blue Ranger.

Shelby did not have any sense of fighting or even defense in this type of situation but she was full of confidence as she ran towards Wrench. She was going to give it her all. "Let's see how you like the power of the triceratops!", she attempted to land a hit on Wrench.

Wrench blocked every attack she made towards him then swiped the flat side of his axe against Shelby. She collapsed to the ground and demorphed from her Pink Ranger form.

Out of all of the Rangers there, Riley had a slight advantage with his Dino Saber. Since he had practiced on his own at his family's ranch, he knew how to wield it fairly well. He wasted no time in dealing blows to several Vivix, one after another. "Have a piece of this!", he slashed one with easy then immediately turned to strike another. "And a slice for you!", he killed another on in a single strike.

Besides Sledge and Fury, Wrench was the best warrior among all the other aliens there. He ran up to Riley and blocked two of his Saber slashes before backhanding him, sending Riley rolling several yards away, demorphed from being the Green Ranger.

Tyler front flipped and landed right in front of Sledge. He did not want to waste any time in wanting to defeat him. The sooner Sledge was dealt with him, the sooner he could run after Fury. Even though he was in his Red Ranger form, the putrid stench of Sledge managed to seep through Tyler's helmet and into his nostrils.

"Ugh, ever heard of deodorant?", he grimaced behind his helmet.

"The only thing I smell is your defeat!" Sledge focused his energy into a single punch that landed directly in the center of Tyler's chest. Tyler stumbled backgrounds onto the ground and was demorphed from his Red Ranger form.

Chase and Shelby ran over and helped Tyler to his feet, while Koda and Riley watched in case Sledge and his goons tried for another attack while their friend was down.

Sledge took a moment to catch his breath. He hadn't had a real fight in millions of years. His body did not appreciate him suddenly getting very active. "I'm getting too old for this."

"Oh, no!" Poisandra rushed over and kept Sledge from falling to the ground.

"Master Sledge!" Wrench stated in worry.

Sledge's anger wove itself into his voice as his strength slowly came back to him. "One last warning, Rangers. Hand over the Energems in an hour, or I'll blast this planet to pieces."

"One hour!" He pointed towards the pathetic group of freshly beaten teenagers as he started up his jetpack. One of his wings did not deploy. Sledge banged on it to get it to finally pop up and took off into the blue sky. His cohorts followed by disappearing into a murky cloud, vanishing from sight.

"One hour. How long is that?" Koda asked.

"Not long.", Shelby answered. "How do we stop him?"

"We need to come up with a plan to beat him together." Riley figured.

Tyler once more had his gaze on Fury. He watched as Fury left the edge of the hill and trudged into the woods. Something felt off about it.

"Something's going on. I'm gonna follow him."

As Tyler walked off, Shelby grabbed his arm.

"Tyler, I know you want answers about your dad, but-"

"It's not about my dad." Tyler innocently cut her off. "Fury was signaling him. I've got a hunch-"

It was Chase's turn to convince Tyler that wasn't the best idea. "Forget your hunch, mate. We're a team now. We have to work together or we don't stand a chance."

"We don't always have to be together to work together. Don't worry, I'll see you guys back at the base."

"Tyler-" Shelby started to walk after him but Chase held her back.

"Wait. Just let him go. We're just gonna have to solve this without him, eh?"

They silently agreed and ran off towards the base.

"Fools." Little did the teenagers know that Scrapper had been keeping an eye on them the whole time. He grinned to no one in particular as he secretly followed behind the teenagers. They would lead him to the answer that Sledge wanted.

Tyler quickly and quietly followed several yards behind Fury. He moved from tree to tree so that if Fury were to turn around unexpectedly, he would be able to hide from his sight.

As Tyler was midway from moving between cover, Fury suddenly halted in place.

"Wait a second." Fury sniffed the air. "What is that stench?"

Tyler quickly dived behind a large rock off to his right and hoped that Fury would not walk his way. He wanted answers from Fury, but he knew that fighting Fury head-on alone would only result in him getting seriously hurt or killed.

"Smells almost...human." Fury turned around and walked over to the rock, glaring at it. He didn't believe there was actually anyone behind the boulder. But if there was they would soon be sliced cleanly in two just like the rock. He pulled back his right arm and was prepared to swing.

"Fury!"

"Huh?" Fury turned to see Sledge and Wrench.

"Come on! Get over here!" Sledge barked.

Tyler slowly let out the breath he had been holding and listened intently to their conversation. He knew they would give him a clue as to their true plan. Plus, he didn't dare move from his spot while they were still around.

"Master Sledge, is your plan on schedule?" Fury walked over to Sledge as he lowered his sword to his side.

"So far, the Rangers took the bait and are leading Scrapper right to their base. Once he tells me the location, we'll scorch the place. And finally, the Energems will be mine!"

All three of them leave the area to await Scrapper's call to them. No use waiting around in a boring forest when they can wait in the comforts of the ship.

"They're gonna destroy our base...and everyone in it." Tyler wasted no time in pulling out his Dino Com to call the others.

"Kendall."

No answer.

"Kendall?"

Still no response. He looked at his Com and saw the screen had been shattered.

"I've got to warn them." Tyler scrambled to his feet and ran faster than he had in a long time. He had to reach the base before the others led Scrapper right to it.

Little did Tyler know that he was being followed as well. She had not followed him on the ground but in the trees above. She didn't want to be seen but wanted to see both Tyler and the alien he had been following. She stood on a large branch of a tree as she tried to figure out the logic of the situation.

"I'm not sure if he is courageous or simply not thinking through his actions." She carefully climbed down from the tree and followed in pursuit of Tyler. "I better follow him and make sure he doesn't get himself killed." As she ran, she felt conflicted about her choice. One side of her did not want to get involved in this. The other side kept her running in the direction Tyler had gone.

The power he has. That all five of them have. I've felt it before. I have to know more. But, I won't interfere unless I absolutely have to. I can't get involved in anything. With anyone ever again. I just want this one answer and then I'm done. If I'm lucky enough, I may be able to borrow it for a bit and just give it back. I'm probably mistaking it for something else anyways.

"Come on, guys, hurry!" Chase urged Riley, Shelby and Koda to run faster if they could down the many sidewalks through the city. They had to get back to the base as fast as they could. They had no idea however that they had picked up a tail.

"Yeah, that's right. Lead me to your base, Rangers." Scrapper mumbled to himself. He would soon have the information he needed.

The four of them run behind the museum and up to the loading dock. They activated the secret entrance and one by one they start sliding down into the underground base.

"Ah, yes. That must be the entrance to their secret base. Sledge is gonna set me free." Scrapper kept watching each of them slide down into the base. Better to wait until they were all in the base so that they wouldn't see him watching them from behind some shipping crates.

Tyler had run nonstop back to the base. His adrenaline rush gave him the energy to keep going longer than his normal stamina allowed him, and he managed to get to the loading dock of the museum just in time to see that Chase going down the slide.

"Chase!" He didn't hear Tyler as he slid down into the base.

Scrapper turned and grinned menacingly at Tyler. "Too late, Red Ranger. Secret's out. Oh, I can't wait to get back and tell Sledge the news.", he saw a blue truck leaving the museum parking lot and took action. He transformed himself into a metal claw and latched himself onto the back of the truck.

Tyler was not letting him get away that easily. "Not if I can help it."

Tyler's red jeep had been parked behind the museum. He jumped into the driver's seat, turned the key in the switch and sped off in the direction he saw the blue truck go. He didn't know that someone was in the back, lying down on the floor. She knew that Tyler would be driving this vehicle in order to catch up to Scrapper, so she snuck into it without him noticing. Now was not the right time to "borrow" his power source. She would let him deal with his enemy first. Then, she would act.

Scrapper approached his destination. He let go of the blue truck and transformed back into his normal form. He threw several boxes to the side and pulled the tarp off of the space pod. It was his only means of getting back to Sledge's ship and telling him where the Rangers' base was.

"I hope this bucket of bolts makes it back to the ship."

Scrapper got in and began to pilot the ship off the ground. As he was steering the ship to fly upwards, Tyler drove his jeep around the corner and hit the pod. This caused the pod to malfunction and sent Scrapper flying from it and tumbling to the pavement.

Tyler put the jeep in park and leapt out of it, prepared as well as he could be to fight Scrapper by himself.

"You'll pay for that! Vivix, rise!" Scrapper's order was heard. Several Vivix rose from the ground and materialize into their physical forms. "Get him!"

Tyler pulled as his Dino Charger. "Dino Charger, ready!" He sprinted towards the Vivix and front flipped into the air.

"Energize!" Tyler transformed mid-jump into the Red Ranger. He then began to take out the Vivix one by one.

Once she thought it would be alright, the stranger slowly sat up on the floor of the jeep and looked between the seats. She watched Tyler, in his Red Ranger form, take out the Vivix soldiers. She felt the power he possessed and how it flowed through him, instead of being concentrated like she had felt earlier.

I could just take it without him noticing but that would leave him defenseless. I'll have to wait until he gets out of that-what did he and his friends call it, power ranger armor he is in. I just hope...it has to be him or one of his friends. It just has to. I'll know once I can clearly connect with it. It's the last chance I'm giving myself.

"Think you can take me on? No way!" With his Dino Saber in hand Tyler took a Dino Charger from his belt and placed it into his saber.

T-Rex charger, engage! The saber had accepted the Charger and fed its power into the blade.

"Dino Saber! Power slash!" The blade glowed red as Tyler swung it in the direction of the Vivix. The energy flew from the blade and collided into every single one of them. They exploded into a fireball that left nothing of them behind.

"You're next." Tyler warned Scrapper.

"I'll turn you to scrap." Scrapper bolted towards Tyler.

Tyler decided to meet him in battle. The sooner that Scrapper was stopped, the sooner the base would be safe. "Think again, dumpster breath!" He switched from his Saber to his Morpher, placing another one of his Chargers into the Morpher.

"Energize! Dino Morpher Blast!" He pulled the trigger, sending the high-powered charge towards Scrapper. He was a goner for sure.

"Surprise!" Wrench suddenly appeared in front of Scrapper and grabbed the shot with his bare hand before throwing it off to the side. "Ow, ow, ow!" He shook his hand hoping the pain from catching the shot would soon fade. "Oh, man, that stings!"

"Huh?" Tyler was perplexed. Wrench was fast enough to catch his shot and strong enough to deflect it without causing major injury to himself. "You should've stuck with your friends. You've messed up everything!"

"I'm just getting started!"

The Red Ranger and Wrench throw several punches and kicks to each other. So far, all of them had been deflected or blocked.

"You're pretty tough." Tyler commented rhetorically.

"Yeah. Tougher than you! Which isn't hard." Wrench pulled out his axe. This delay would not last another minute.

Wrench quickly landed two strikes on the Red Ranger before kicking him in the chest. The Ranger flew backwards, hit a chain-linked fence and bounced back into Wrench who hit him again with his axe. Tyler couldn't hold his Ranger form anymore and demorphed as he hit the pavement.

"I was almost to the ship! You're gonna regret getting in my way, Red Ranger!" Scrapper shouted in anger.

Wrench's grip on his axe tightens. "Say goodbye!"

Tyler tried to get back up on his feet but those blows from Wrench sent a dull pain through his body with every attempt he made to get up.

Is this it? That's all he could think as Wrench and Scrapper ran towards him with full intentions of finishing him. But they stopped several yards before they reached him.

"What?!" Scrapper yelled in utter confusion.

Tyler felt himself getting off of the ground. But he wasn't doing it on his own accord. Someone had gripped his left arm and wrapped their arm behind his back, lifting him slowly to his feet. Once he was standing on his own they let go of him.

Tyler thought it was one of his friends but was shocked to see that it was someone he had never seen in his life. The first thing he noticed was her shoulder-length hair. It was two colors: light blonde and black. The colors ran vertical and switched between the two colors. The second thing he took note of was her eyes. They were pale blue with a hint of grey. The shade of her eyes was lighter than her attire, the third thing he perceived. Underneath her unbuttoned, dark blue denim jacket, she was wearing a plain white long-sleeved shirt. Her denim jeans matched the shade of blue the jacket was and went all the way down to cover most of her dark brown boots. The belt she wore appeared to have been through some wear and tear. On either side of her, connected to her belt, were two cylindrical pieces of metal with what appeared to be tiny dials and a single button on each.

Those things on her belt. I've seen those somewhere before. But where... Tyler thought silently. His mind was trying to process through just her alone, let alone why she had suddenly appeared out of seemingly nowhere.

"Wait a minute."

The stranger and Tyler looked to see that Wrench had lowered his axe at his side and Scrapper stood near him looking confused.

"You." Wrench pointed towards the stranger. "I know who you are."

"Do you now?" She calmly answered back.

"Yeah. I can tell with those sabers on your belt. You must be one of those legendary Jedi that we have heard so much about. It's about time we found one of them. Sledge will be pleased when we bring you back to the ship." Wrench was enjoying mocking her but he was not enjoying that she had no negative reaction to it. He did notice, however, that the demorphed Red Ranger looked as if he had finally put two and two together.

"Wait. Jedi?" It made sense to Tyler but it wasn't possible. "Those aren't real. They're fictional."

"Well, to be honest, I'm not exactly a Jedi," she smirked. "And before you ask, no. I'm most definitely not a Sith either."

"It doesn't matter to me! I'll destroy both you and the Red Ranger!" Scrapper was through with just standing around. He ran towards both of them intent on killing them.

Wrench did not object but knew Scrapper was not going to land a single hit on either one. He stood in place and watched the scene unfold before him. The more he studied the Jedi's movements, the easier she would be to capture and bring to Sledge.

She sighed. Somehow she started her day off with wanting it all to end but now she was standing between Tyler and the aliens that wanted him dead, so they could take his power for their own malicious intent. She could not allow it to happen. Her personal experience showed her the results of abused power. It was one of the few things that she had zero tolerance for. It gave her motivation when she had lost all of it already. She would fight until the rest of Tyler's team got there. Then, she would decide her next move.

"Stay here and wait for your team."

"But-"

"Stay, please." She grabbed the hilt on her left side and gripped it tight in her right hand. She turned it on, igniting the crystal blue lightsaber and rushing forward to swing at Scrapper. He threw up his arm and blocked it. She let out a shallow gasp. She thought her lightsaber would have sliced through his arm. But he was made of a metal that could withstand a lightsaber for a short amount of time.

"Hey! That blade is hot." Scrapper hissed.

"Hot enough that it will eventually slice through you." She had no remorse towards Scrapper as she continued to attack him sporadically.

Her attack pattern confused Scrapper. Some of her random attacks landed while others would just be extra moves to trick him to change up his fighting style, which was brute strength and telegraphed punches. He was not used to her form of sword fighting. He howled at the top of his lungs as he threw a punch. That was a huge mistake. She grabbed hold of his wrist with both hands and jerked him towards her. She then focused her energy into her kick at Scrapper's torso, sending him flying past Wrench and through the chain linked fence that separated the forest from the parking lot.

"Whoa." Tyler exhaled. He knew that she definitely was not ordinary. He now had more questions about her than before. But those would have to wait until this battle was over.

"Impressive." Wrench didn't move towards her.

"Your move," she raised her lightsaber up, the blade diagonally in front of her.

"Ladies first," he insisted.

With Scrapper out of the picture, she wasted no time in rushing towards Wrench and swinging her lightsaber at him. Wrench went on the defensive. He wouldn't make a move to attack until she exposed a clean shot of herself. He had heard many stories of Jedi being highly skilled sword wielders that should never be underestimated. For now, he would block with his axe while deciphering her fighting style.

"Tyler!" Chase called out to him as he and the others ran up to him.

"Are you okay?" Shelby worriedly asked.

"Yeah. I think so. She jumped in before I got seriously hurt." Tyler pointed toward the stranger who was still consistently attacking Wrench.

"Is...is that a lightsaber?!" Riley couldn't believe what he was seeing. That wasn't possible. Then again, he used to believe that aliens didn't exist until a few days ago.

"What lightsaber?" Koda was confused at the new word.

"It's that blue stick of light she's swinging." Chase was perplexed. Lightsabers were fictional but there was one that the girl was using several yards away from them.

"Wait...isn't that from a movie?" Shelby asked, hoping for some answers.

"It's from several movies." Tyler kept watching the stranger fight Wrench. So far, both of them had canceled each other out in their attacks and defenses. "But she said she wasn't a Jedi or a Sith."

"You're lucky she was here to help you, mate. You could've been killed. That's why you don't follow hunches." Chase was glad that Tyler had been helped by the girl with the lightsaber, but he was still somewhat upset that Tyler had went off on his own.

"You're right, but so was my hunch. Sledge wasn't going to give us one hour. That crusher creep followed you guys back to the base. He was heading off to tell Sledge where it is so they can steal the Energems. That's their real plan."

"So if you hadn't followed Fury..." Shelby started.

"Sledge would be making his way into our base right now, destroying everything and everyone." Riley finished.

The stranger gave Wrench a kick to his upper torso, causing him to stumble backwards. Then, from behind the broken chain-linked fence Scrapper appeared, more pissed off than he had been before.

"Ugh, you wrecked my hubcaps."

The stranger looked back to see the rest of Tyler's team had arrived. She deactivated her lightsaber and jogged over to them.

"I am confused. Is hunch bad or good?" Koda asked.

"Right now, it's good." Chase settled it.

All of them brought their focus to the stranger. She gestured towards Wrench and Scrapper.

"I believe all of you should finish this together."

"You're not going to help?" Riley asked in confusion.

"I held both of them off from Tyler for a solid minute. Besides, I shouldn't have gotten involved as much as I should have."

"Will you stay here until we finish this? You know, in case we need your help again." Tyler hoped that she would. There were so many questions that he and the others had on their minds about her.

She nodded. "I'll stay."

Tyler mentally sighed in relief. Good. Now all we have to do is finish dealing with Wrench and Scrapper. "Let's do this... Together."

"Together, with a little help from Kendall. She's developed a new armor mode for us." Chase handed Tyler a new Dino Charger. "It's called Dino Steel."

Scrapper hustled over to Wrench. "Come on! Let's get out of here! I still gotta tell Sledge where their base is!"

"Don't count on it." Tyler corrected. The others stood beside another, while the stranger stood slightly behind them. "It's Morphin Time! Dino Charger!"

"Ready! Energize! Ha! Unleash the power!" Everyone transformed into the Ranger form.

"Power Rangers..." Tyler started.

"Dino Charge!" Everyone finished.

"Okay, guys. Let's check out our new armor mode." Tyler placed his new Dino Charger into his Morpher and activated it.

T-Rex charger. ENGAGE! His Morpher recognized the Charger.

"Dino Steel!" Tyler shouted.

"Armor on!" Every ranger had an arm guard for their right arms and also a unique new weapon. They now had more of an advantage then Wrench and Scrapper.

"It's about to get wild!" Tyler knew that this fight would end in their favor.

Scrapper was not going to lose this fight. He was going to give one hundred and ten percent this time. "Vivizords! Rise!"

The Vivix followed the command immediately. They gathered into two large groups and began to molecularly fuse together to form two Godzilla-sized Vivizords.

"Chase, use your new Para Chopper." Tyler said.

"No problem, mate. Para Chopper, blast!" Chase ceaselessly fired at both of the Vivizords.

"Let's try my new Raptor Claw!" Riley dodged an attempted attack from Scrapper and engaged in battle with Wrench.

"Is that all you've got?" Wrench teased.

"Not even close, tin can! Take this!" Riley gave Wrench a few hits with his saber before flipping into the air. "Raptor Slash!" The power of his Energem flowed into his saber and struck Wrench with a powerful blow.

"No!"

Shelby backflipped into a group of Vivix that had not fused into the Vivizords. "Can you handle my new weapon? Tricera Drill, coming through!" She took out several Vivix with the greatest of ease.

Koda wasn't going to hold back any of his caveman strength. He gripped his shield with both hands. "Stego Shield Punch!", he hit Scrapper directly on the top of his head, causing him to stumble. "We see how tough you really are!" Koda grabbed one of his legs. "Caveman, toss!" He yanked his leg out from under Scrapper, causing him to fall to the pavement.

As the Rangers fought the enemy, the "Jedi" took note of everyone's fighting skills. She watched Chase as he kept firing at the Vivizords. He's just firing at them. He's not attempting to try something different. At least he knows how to hit his targets.

She looked over to Riley as he used his Dino Saber against Wrench. Riley must have had some training with a sword of some kind. He's knows how to wield it and keeps a certain stance while doing so. He's good but he could do so much more than he believes he can.

It was Shelby's turn to be observed by her. She definitely hasn't been in a real fight before. She's just throwing punches when she is certain they'll land. Effective but not efficient. She needs more training in hand to hand combat.

Next, she observed Koda as he fought Scrapper. She noticed something that was perplexing. Koda is using brute strength to take on Scrapper. And it's working too. He's abnormally strong if he's able to do that. She focused on sensing his aura in the Force. It might shed some light on him that she wouldn't find out otherwise. His thoughts. They're simplistic. She went deeper. He's conflicted. He's happy but something's hurting him. Something from his past, perhaps. I know how that feels. I can't anything else from him right now.

Her focus went from Koda to Tyler. She had watched him fight earlier but now she could examine his fighting closer. After a few seconds, she noticed that he had some form of a stance and tactic for an attack and defense. He's been in fights before. Fist fights in particular. Weird. I can sense that he's not the type to start a fight. I wonder...

Chase was continuously firing at the two huge Vivizords. He wasn't making any headway that he could see. "Guys, I could use some help here."

Shelby pulled out one of her Dino Chargers. "Time to see what my Zord can do. Dino Charger, ready!" She clicked the charger and threw it. "Summon Tricera Zord!" The charger flew into a huge canyon and entered into the Triceratops Zord.

Tricera Charger, engage! The Charger brought life into the Zord, allowing it to use its drill of a tail to burrow out of the canyon and travel to Shelby.

Shelby smiled behind her helmet. "There she is!" As she went to meet up with her Zord, the others continued to fight on.

"Let's try this out! T-Rex, smash!" Tyler delivered several quick blows with his T-Rex Smasher.

"That thing hurts!" Scrapper yelled.

"This T-Rex Smasher has some bite!" Tyler hit Scrapper relentlessly, then grabbed his leg, threw him up into the air and delivered a quick kick to his chest.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" Scrapper's day just kept getting more painful by the minute.

Chase saw the Vivizords opening their mouths in unison and jumped back in time to avoid their green energy blast. "Too slow!" Hearing the sound of a Zord, Chase looked around to see Shelby was riding on top of her Zord.

"All right! This is the best!"

"So, I see you met your Tricera Zord, Shelby." Chase smiled.

"Yep! She's awesome," she jumped down in front of Chase. "Just watch what she can do. Go, Tricera!"

The Tricerazord charged full sprint and used its tail to pierce through both Vivizords, making them exploding out of existence.

"Good work, guys." Tyler called to his friends.

"We finish this." Koda handed Tyler his Dino Charger. "Tyler, our powers are stronger together."

"Combine them? Great idea, Koda." Tyler put Koda's charger into his Dino Morpher.

Stego Charger, engage!

"Dino Morpher Blast!" Tyler fired directly at Scrapper.

"I'm crushed!" Scrapper yelled out as he was encompassed in an explosive ball of fire.

"Awesome." Tyler cheered. Scrapper was defeated.

Up in space, Sledge's ship kept its distance from Earth but was close enough to monitor anything they wanted. Fury had been keeping watch of Scrapper and noticed that he had been defeated.

"The Rangers just defeated Scrapper."

Sledge stood up from his captain's chair. "Oh no, they didn't. Magna beam!"

A Vivix slammed the Magna Beam button and a large beam came from the bottom of Sledge's ship to hit the once defeated Scrapper, resurrecting him to be as the huge Vivizords had been.

"I'm gonna flatten you all!"

Everyone gathered together and looked up at the problem they had to beat.

"He big, like mammoth." Koda said in awe.

Tyler took out a fully powered Charger. "We'll take care of that. Dino Charger, ready! Summon T-Rex Zord!" He threw the Charger. It went into a volcano and into the T-Rex Zord.

T-Rex Charger, engage!

The volcano exploded as the T-Rex Zord jumped out and backflipped to land near the Red Ranger.

"Whoa! Nice entrance, Rexy." Rexy. That sounded like the perfect nickname to Tyler. He jumped on top of Rexy. He had an idea that might just work.

Scrapper took an offensive stance. "That prehistoric piece of junk is no match for me!"

"Bring it on!" Tyler challenged.

Scrapper blasted several lasers from his chest.

"Jump, Rexy!"

Rexy jumped over the lasers and kicked Scrapper in the face, making him stumble backwards.

"Nice move, Rexy."

Back at the base, Kendall had been monitoring the Rangers. She had just figured out how to make their arsenal bigger and more powerful. "Koda. Call your Stego Zord. I think I found a way to combine your Zords."

"That is great, Kendall. We stronger together." Koda took out his last fully powered Charger. "Dino Charger, ready." He clicked it and threw it into the sky. "Summon Stego Zord!"

The charger went through a sea of ice and into the Stego Zord.

Stego Charger, engage! The Stego Zord broke free from the ice and flipped through the air towards Scrapper.

"This looks bad..." Scrapper braced for impact as the Stego Zord struck him with its tail.

Tyler jumped down from Rexy and saw the three Zords grouped together. "Whoa! Our Zords are awesome!"

"Tyler, the three Zords will combine?" Koda asked.

"That's the plan. Dino Charge Megazord, Tri-Stego Formation!"

The three Zords combined with each other, interlocking themselves to form one large, humanoid figure.

Dino Charge Megazord, ready!

"Dino Charge Megazord. Wow!" Riley looked up in awe.

"Impressive, eh?" Chase added as he looked over at the "not Jedi and not Sith" stranger. "What do you think, um, lady with the lightsaber?"

"Hmmm." She thought for a moment before answering. "It's okay."

"What?"

"It's okay." She silently chuckled to herself as she sensed Chase become shocked, confused and even a little ticked that she said it was just "okay".

"Let me guess. You've seen much larger machines such as Imperial Battle Cruisers and the glorious Death Star itself."

"Of course not." She turned to look over at Chase. "Both Death Stars were destroyed years ago. Never saw them in person. I've seen several Battle Cruisers though. They're much larger than that Megazord thing."

Chase could hear Riley chuckle behind his green Ranger helmet. "What's so funny, Riley?"

"Her blunt answer to you."

Chase crossed his arms. "I didn't find it funny at all."

Koda, Tyler, Shelby were teleported into the Megazord. Each of them had their own control pad for the Megazord.

"Look at this!" Tyler exclaimed. "We're inside the Megazord!"

"Awesome!" Shelby said.

"Feels powerful." Koda added.

The three Rangers wasted not a second more.

"Battle mode, engage." The three Rangers shouted in unison. The Megazord went into Battle Mode under instruction from the Rangers.

" Let's roar!" Tyler said.

"I'll smash you!" Scrapper growled. He would not allow them to defeat him. He had a mission to complete and he was not going to let a bunch of puny teenagers stop him.

The three Rangers in the Megazord readied themselves. "Time to take out the trash!"

"You'll never defeat me!" Scrapper engaged in fighting the Megazord. "Take this!" Scrapper blasted several purple lasers from his chest.

"Jump!" The Megazord obeyed and jumped high into the air, dodging most of the lasers. The ones that struck the Megazord only left singe marks and nothing more.

"The results are in, Scrapper." Tyler grinned behind his helmet.

"What?"

"You're garbage. You guys ready?"

Koda nodded. "Always ready."

Shelby nodded as well. "Let's do it."

All of them point towards Scrapper. "T-Rex Zord! Final Strike!"

The Megazord, still up in the air from its jump, charged the Final Strike.

"Unleash the power!" Tyler shouted.

The Final Strike fired, hitting Scrapper dead-on.

He felt his life force slipped from him as he began to fall towards the group. "I'm headed for the scrap heap!" Scrapper screamed as he exploded into a large ball of fire.

"Monster, extinct."

After Tyler, Shelby and Koda got back on the ground, they decided to demorph.

"Power down." All of them demorph from their Ranger form. They all had the same thought in mind and see that she had kept her word and stayed after all.

"Impressive." She smiled at all of them. "You didn't even need me to finish the fight, just as I predicted."

"Why didn't you help us?" Shelby asked with a hint of bitterness in her tone. "You saved Tyler earlier but then refused to fight anymore when we showed up."

"Yeah, that doesn't really add up." Chase thought out loud.

"That confusing." Koda added.

"I'm a confusing person," she shrugged.

She's not going to say anything unless we give her something first. Riley decided to turn this conversation around. "Allow me to introduce ourselves." Riley glanced at everyone to make sure they didn't disapprove of the idea. All of nodded at him.

"I'm Riley. This is Tyler, Shelby, Chase and Koda."

"Moira," she sighed. She knew she was involved now. She just had to not get attached. Not this time.

"Thanks for helping me out back there, Moira." Tyler smiled at her. "If you hadn't, I might not be here right now."

She looked down at the ground, avoiding eye contact with Tyler. Thank...you? He said, "thank you".

"Yeah...no problem."

At this moment, all of the Rangers Dino Coms receive an open line to Kendall.

"Guys, if she wants, bring Moira back to the base. Keeper would like to meet her personally."

"Got it." Chase answered for the group, as they all put their coms away. "Well Moira, let's go show you our base."

"This 'Keeper' person trust me yet hasn't met me. Shouldn't he be more careful on who he invites to the base. I'm assuming it's a hidden location."

"If Keeper wants you to come to the base," Shelby smiled towards her, "Then he trusts you. And so do we."

"What do you say, Moira?" Tyler asked.

She looked from them for a moment. If I were just leave now, I might not get the answer I want. Of course, I may not get the answer if I do go with them anyways. Oh well, I'm in this now. I'm not leaving until I find it.

"Let's go." She forced a smile at them. They smiled back at her as all of them walked back to the base.

Back at the cafe in the museum, the Rangers went back to their regular jobs, while Keeper talked to Moira down in the base below. They couldn't wait until the museum closed so they could join the two of them in the base. They hoped that Keeper and Moira would fill them in on what was going to happen from here on out. There was only an hour left so they put that in the back of their minds and focused on the customers in the cafe.

Tyler was at the grill, cooking up some burger while Riley placed some drink on a carrying tray. He looked up to see Chase coming quickly through the door and was about to run into Riley, who was turning around to head out the very same door.

"Whoa! Watch it!" Tyler jumped between in and steadied Riley tray just in time. "Gotcha covered."

Riley sighed a quick "thank you" before moving heading out the door.

Chase thought that this was good of a time as any. He had to get it off his chest before it unfocused him from working any more. "Oh, hey. Look, I wanted to apologize. I was wrong to think you'd abandon the team."

Tyler accepted his apology and decided that now was the best time to give his as well. "I'm sorry, too. I shouldn't have been so quick to go off on my own. Fact is, we work better together."

Shelby sighs deeply as she entered the kitchen, with Riley alongside her. "Doesn't seem right. We save the world in the morning and serve them lunch in the afternoon."

Tyler walked back over to the grill. "You're crazy. It's a blast. Look what I learned." Wielding his spatula, Tyler flipped the burger into the air and spun in circle. He waited for the burger to land back on his spatula but it never became back down. He looked up, just to be sure he wasn't losing his mind or anything. It wasn't stuck to the ceiling. He looked over at Riley for some sort of answer.

"Don't look at me."

Tyler had a suspicion as he glanced over to his right at Koda. Just a mere second of studying Koda's attempt of having a "not guilty" look and Tyler knew he was definitely the culprit. Koda couldn't suppress his laughter at his attempt to feign innocence. He spit out the burger, its tiny pieces flying and hitting Riley, Shelby and Chase who all jumped at the edible projectiles.

"Sorry." Koda apologized.

"Koda!" Riley uttered in disgust and disappointment.

"Dude!" Shelby barked out.

While all of them prepared to close down the cafe and clean up the messes in the place, a informal yet serious discussion was going on between Keeper and Moira with Kendall standing off to the side working at her lab station. She still kept her hearing tuned into the two of them as they talked back and forth.

"I know you have much experience in battle. One of the reasons I wanted to meet with you is to ask you if you would be willing to help train the Rangers how to fight."

Moira immediately had a counter argument. "Keeper, you told me that you are over sixty-five million years old. You would have knowledge on fighting that would far surpass mine. You would be the best teacher for this. Why can't you teach them?"

"Even though I have learned numerous fighting techniques, they are not easily used by someone who is old like me. You would be able to show the Rangers how to fight, while I would only be able to describe different types combat and show a lacking example to them."

"That makes sense." Moira paused for a moment in thought. This was her chance to hopefully get answers in a way that Keeper would approve of beforehand. She would rather keep a peace between everyone she had to deal with than aggravate people into grow angry with her.

"However, in exchange for my help, I would like to ask for something in return."

"What is it that that I can give you?"

"I need to figure out something I experienced long ago and I believe the answer is with one of the Energems. If you would allow it, I would like to hold each one and try to connect with it through the Force until one of them gives me the answer I need."