Return of the Rangers Part Three

London

Andros swung his spiral sabre, cutting a line through the endless army of putties that overwhelmed them.

A sudden yell drew his attention.

Carlos and Ashley were leading the civilians to safety, and did not notice Snizzard sneaking up on them from behind.

"Let them go!" Andros yelled, his eyes widening behind his helmet in fear for his partners. He punched codes in his wrist morpher, summoning his Battlizer as he dived at the monster holding miniaturized versions of the green and yellow turbo rangers, only for the monster to let out a cackle and teleport away.

"NO!" He yelled furiously, before turning his fury at the remaining putties, incinerating them with a powerful missile blast.


New York

Shuriken slashed through putties, the sharp steel slicing through the rock minions and reducing them to rubble as the five ninja turtles came out of the shadows of a deserted ally.

While normal turtles would have long died, the mutagen exposure that had turned them into human hybrids kept them sharp and active.

Venus joined the tips of her index and thumb fingers of both hands, forming a diamond spell and closed her eyes as mystical energies glowed around her. She let out a yell as energy orbs crashed against a group of putties that cornered a defenceless young girl.

The girl turned to look at her rescuer, only to scream at seeing the humanoid turtles and run away.

Venus looked away dejectedly. Leonardo placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"We have protected this city for thirty years and they still look at us as if we are monsters." She sighed sadly.

"Not all of them." Raphael reminded her.

"Yes." She smiled, thinking of their human friends. "Not all of them."


Angel Grove

Of all the zords she had piloted as a ranger, Tanya had to admit that the sabretooth tiger was a different experience all together. She could feel her instincts taking over and being one with the zord on a base level. She could feel the animalistic instincts and feral impulses of the sabretooth tiger, which was surreal to say the least.

Maybe it was the mighty morphin powers or maybe it was the fact that she was wielding a zord influenced by a living being instead of a car or alien weaponry.

Whatever it was, Tanya didn't care about it much, instead focusing on her zord's controls as the sabretooth tiger dino zord leapt at the giant robot monster, slashing at it with their claws.

King Sphinx threw her off only to be hit by a blast of ice from the Mastodon zord's trunk.

As soon as he shattered the ice and freed himself, the pterodactyl zord cut through his face with their sharp talons.

The horns on the triceratops zord's head shot at the monster with metallic wires attaching it to the zord like a hook. It wrapped around the monster, restraining him as the tyrannosaurus zord opened their mouth and unleashed a blast of fire at the monster.

The triceratops zord withdrew their hooks as the monster spun before toppling to the ground.

"Ready, guys?" Billy's voice came over the comms.

"Right." They responded back.

"Initiating Megazord Formation." Billy said and Tanya felt the zord move on it's own and a thud as the tiger zord attached to some other zord. Before she realised it, she was enveloped by a teleportation jet that transported her to the cockpit of the megazord with rest of the team.

They saw King Sphinx get up from the ground and point his sickle at them.

"Quickly finish this guy, before-" Zack started just as a pair of wings unfolded from the monster's back and flapped repeatedly, summoning strong winds that shattered the windows of skyscrapers nearby as well as knock down billboards. "Uh oh."

The Megazord stumbled as the winds slammed against them.

"What do we do?" Kat asked.

"I say, let's fight fire with fire." Rocky said, taking out his master morpher, which flashed blue as his zeo coin replaced the tyrannosaurus coin.

"May be a tad unconventional but go for it, Rocky!" Billy gave him a thumbs up.

Rocky nodded, raising his morpher. "Zeo Zord III – BLUE SPHINX!"

Flash of blue lightning shot through the skies and hit the Sphinx, dispelling the stormy winds. As the dust settled, they saw the blue sphinx zord pounce on the monster, letting out a mechanical roar as he forced the monster to the ground.

"Sphinx Battle Armour NOW!" Rocky shouted, as the sphinx flew to the air, folding on itself to form a lion head vest with golden accentuations, which attached to the megazord's front, replacing the pterodactyl zord which instead attached to the back and flapped it's wings open.

"POWER SWORD!" They yelled as the giant Power Sword appeared in the megazord's hand, supercharged by blue zeo energy and the megazord swung it, striking King Sphinx diagonally with it, taking the monster out.

They watched as the monster wailed on falling backwards, seconds before being consumed in an explosion.

"Yeah!" Rocky whooped.

"Nice job, guys!" Zack commended.

"We still got it!" Kat smiled.

"As amazing as that was, we have to get back to the Command Centre." Billy said.

"Yes. This was just a distraction. We need to take care of Rita and her robots." Tanya nodded.

"Right." The others said.

"Alpha, disengage the megazord." Billy said over the comms.

"Ay, ay, ay… On it, Billy!" The robot responded as the rangers teleported out and the zords disengaged before teleporting away to their hidden locations across the planet.

"Rangers!" Alpha turned towards them as they returned to the Command Centre. "Giant monsters have attacked other cities and thankfully, the other ranger teams and their zords handled them, but Rita has captured more rangers!"

The hologram displaying the list of captured rangers now showed a few more rangers – the red, blue and green lightspeed rangers, the Lunar Wolf Wild Force ranger, the Green Turbo Ranger and the Phantom Ranger.

"We need to put a stop to this." Tanya said firmly. "We cannot allow Rita to capture any more of us."

"We won't." Billy sighed, swiping some of the holographic slides, his eyes narrowing as he pulled out one slide detailing schematics for a device. "I will make the necessary adjustments on a modulating device I have here, but we will need something else."

"What?" Tanya asked.

"Kat gave me the idea. The monsters are all made of metal and what attracts metal?" Billy looked at the others expectantly.

"Magnets?" Kat shrugged.

"Exactly. We need a giant magnet that can trap the monsters." Billy said.

"And where will we get that?" Zack asked.

"Where else? Angel Grove junkyard. It should have everything." He told them. "Can you guys go and check it out while I finish recalibrating the modulator?"

"You got it." Rocky nodded.

"I will stay here till Minh gets back." Zack said.

"No worries. Three of us have been on scavenger hunts for stranger things before." Tanya said with a reassuring smile.

"We got this covered." Kat told them firmly, before they teleported out.

Just then, Kim and Nancy teleported back into the Command Centre with Minh in tow.

"Minh! Thank the stars, you are safe!" Zack sighed in relief, hugging his ward.

"Yeah, all thanks to aunties!" Minh smiled, returning the hug.

"But you are grounded, young lady." Zack said, letting go of her.

"What?" Minh gawked.

"You deliberately disobeyed me. You went out looking for danger instead of staying put." Zack reprimanded her.

"The putties were attacking the Youth Centre and you guys weren't there!" She exclaimed.

"So, you thought you would go and help out." Zack raised his eyebrow. "How well did that work out?"

Minh looked away hurt.

"Zack, I talked with her." Kim came in between them before things could escalate. "Minh promised she won't go looking for danger anymore."

Kim nudged Minh with her elbow. "Right, Minh?"

The young girl gave an exaggerated eye roll before relenting. "Yes, aunty. I won't."

"Good." Zack nodded. "Now that you are here, welcome to our Command Centre!"

"Awesome place!" Minh said impressed as she looked around. "Who knew Cranston Tech was hiding all of this?"

"Not the public and not my employees." Billy said. "This place is secret, so let's, uh, keep it that way, okay?"

Minh huffed, raising her hands as she wandered to the other side of the room.

"She is gonna need another talk." Zack sighed.

"Give her some time. All of this, especially after Trini's loss, is too much for her." Nancy sighed before turning towards Billy. "Any headway on the plan to rescue the captured rangers?"

"Working on it." Billy nodded, getting back to adjusting the schematics, Alpha peering over his shoulder.

"Right." Nancy nodded.

"We will get Ravi back, I promise." Kim assured her, taking her hand.

"I know." She replied, her eyes not straying from the holographic image of the blue beast morpher ranger.