Lunar Calamity

"Why?" Rita repeated, pondering the question. "So many reasons!"

"Minh!" Kim shouted, as she and Zack almost ran at her, only to be held back by Tanya and Rocky respectively.

"Minh! Are you okay?" Zack called.

"I am sorry!" Minh said as she struggled against the Minotaur's hold on her. "I didn't mean to!"

"Shush!" Rita cut her off harshly, placing her cold metallic finger on her lips. "The adults are talking…"

Minh fidgeted backwards and Rita cackled, turning towards the rangers.

"Let her go, Rita!" Kim shouted.

"Why?" Rita taunted. "Scared I will kill her like I did your precious Trini!"

"I am warning you, Rita. If you hurt her, I will tear you apart limb by limb." Kim snarled.

"Enough with the empty threats, Kimmy!" She scoffed, looking at Billy. "Have you figured it out, Blue? Or has my genius surpassed even you?"

"Let me guess. A Rita reunion and then some scheme to conquer the galaxy?" Billy said stiffly.

"Not bad!" Rita said. "I will pass through this portal and give years of knowledge to my younger self, making us absolutely unstoppable!"

The rangers passed worried looks amongst each other.

"We will kill your do-gooding teenage selves in their sleep, before Zordon even thinks to make you rangers!" She said menacingly.

"You think you can rewrite thirty years of history with some tin-pot gadget?" Zack bellowed at her.

"Careful." Rita said warningly. "Your friends are charging my machine faster than I could have dreamed, so I don't need you anymore!"

Kim eyed Snizzard. She had taken him singlehandedly the first time Rita had deployed the monster against them and while it was obvious, being reincarnated into a robotic body had given him a significant upgrade, the shiny emerald apple still glowed on his forehead, guarded by a pair of snakes. If she remembered correctly, that was the source of his powers. If she got a clear shot, she would be able to break the connection between him and the captured rangers.

She shared a look with Billy, and placed her hand behind her back, quietly summoning her blade blaster.

"I will take out the snake, you take the others." She whispered to Billy.

"You know your mom would be a first for me, Minh!" Rita taunted the young girl who struggled against Minotaur. "I have never killed anyone twice before."

"Hold that thought." Billy yelled, leaping at Rita, the power lance appearing in his hands with a flash of blue light.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Kim pulled out her blaster and fired at Snizzard. The energy blast blasted the emerald apple to pieces, releasing a tremendous amount of energy that shook the entire castle and threw Snizzard back, sparks flying out of his body.

"NO!" Rita yelled, pushing Billy back and turning towards the device.

The snakes surrounding the ranger figurines burst into ashes and the rangers glowed brightly, before reverting to their normal sizes, appearing behind the rangers in their unmorphed forms.

"Tommy!" Kat smiled, hugging her husband, who returned the embrace. His eyes narrowed on seeing Minh being held by Minotaur and he turned towards Jason, both of them exchanging grim looks.

Nancy breathed a sigh of relief, throwing her arms around the red, blue, and gold rangers.

"I am glad all of you are alright!" She grinned.

"Thanks for saving us, mom!" Ravi said as she let them go.

"Yeah, we owe you one, General." Devon said.

"Don't celebrate just yet!" Rita snarled, as she pointed her staff at Minh. "You may have freed my captives, but I will have my revenge, one way or the another!"

"NO!" Kim yelled, pointing her blaster at the witch, only for her to touch the staff to Minh's forehead, the ruby on her staff glowing ominously. "One more step and I will blast this girl to oblivion!"

"Stop this, Rita." Zack said. "There are more of us and you are down a monster. You can't win this."

"But I can make you suffer!" She growled.

Just then, the wheel in the centre of the device where the blue energies were converging, started to spin rapidly and the air in the palace became charged with energy, before the energy shot outwards, streaking past the rangers and created a portal just outside Rita's terrace. Rita cackled wildly.

"Ah, it seems luck is in my favour. My device harvested enough grid energy to stabilise the time portal." She laughed.

She lifted her staff from Minh's head and pointed it towards the assembled rangers.

"If any of you try to stop me, I will kill her!" She warned.

Zack grunted, tightening his fists but didn't move. Billy gulped and Kim looked at the witch in fury, yet none of them moved.

"Oh, you humans! It's funny how easy it is to defeat you!" Rita cackled. "Your attachments make you weak and now the universe will be mine!"

"You will pay for this, Rita!" Tommy glared at her.

"I don't think so, Tommy. I have finally won and I will rewrite time so that I never lost in the first place!" She gloated.

"But knowing you rangers, I had a special surprise planned for you!" She turned towards Scrozzle, who nodded and pressed a button. There was a loud rumble as the wall behind them collapsed to reveal an army of monsters, all of them reanimated from Finister's Monster-Matic and augmented with Scrozzle's robotic technology.

"My cyborg monsters will keep you busy!" She cackled, as some of the rangers turned to face the monsters while the others kept their eyes on Rita, who proceeded to walk towards the portal, Minotaur following closely behind, carrying Minh kicking and screaming with him.

Minh squirmed under his grip, and flung her legs wildly, which hit the Repulsascope which shattered on hitting the floor.

Rita paid it no heed as she turned to wave at the rangers before she jumped into the portal, Minotaur following closely behind with Minh.

"NO!" Zack yelled.

"Minh!" Kim screamed, running after them, only to be stopped as putties appeared in between them in a flash of red.

"See you later, rangers!" Scrozzle giggled, scurrying into the portal.

The rangers looked at each other, as putties closed in on them from one side and monsters from the other.


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