A couple days had gone by since the fall of Zeltrax. Brett was working hard on the Raptor Bikes he was preparing upgrades for. When he wasn't working on the Ranger's, he was working on a special Raptor Bike specifically for him. "Okay so the Yellow Raptor Bike is all tuned up. That just leaves the Red one." Brett said wiping the sweat off his face. He looked at his Dino Brace as his eyes went up to the Raptor Bike in front of him. "I should probably save my power. Adding power to these things really take a lot out of me. It's already been rough the last few fights because I'm basically fighting on empty." He got up and walked out of the space that held the Raptor Bike and into the main room. Connected to the main room was a small kitchen and a black coffee maker was sitting there with freshly made coffee in it. Brett poured himself a cup, opened the fridge and grabbed chocolate syrup, a bag of sugar, and some milk. He combined the ingredients to make his own Mocha Coffee.
He took a sip of his coffee as he sat down on the red couch in the room. "I'm going to need an engine piece for my bike but those things are so rare to find. The piece I need is like 15 years ago material. But if I can get my hand on it I'll be able to fix it up to work on my Raptor Bike. I'm going to need some side pieces as well. The motorcycles are cool but I really enjoy ATVs." He said as he just relaxed on the couch. Brett had spent the last six hours working on the bikes and had been getting very little sleep as Tobias was on his mind. "I wonder how he's holding up. He about broke apart at the seams when we had that meeting the other day. I'm curious to see what this new form he has is as well. We might just have an upper hand against Mesogog." Brett pulled out his phone and texted Tobias.
"Hey are you feeling okay? Kind of worried about you still." He texted.
It took a while to get a response.
"I'm not sure how I'm feeling right now. But I'm sure I'll be okay. I just need some time alone. Get ahold of me if there's a monster." Tobias responded.
Brett had felt bad for Tobias. He had to kill his own mother which was taking such a huge toll on him. "We need to take down Mesogog. Tobias lost his mother and Xander lost his girlfriend. There have been deaths due to the White Ranger Michael and due to some of the monsters we fought. Nobody should have to keep going through this." Brett thought.
After finishing his cup of coffee Brett got up and began walking up the stairs out of the private space under the apartment. At this point he thought of something, "There's a scrapyard for old cars about 8 miles out from Bowling Green. I can just go over there and find what I need actually I could use my not shitty truck because I need to pick up parts for that hunk of junk as well." Brett quickly got out of the house and grabbed the keys as he drove out to the scrapyard.
Mesogog was wandering around Michael's study reading everything he could on this specific power source that he was researching on. "A cube that can grant power to the world OR to one's own self. This is interesting to say the least. With the loss of Zeltrax it's just me fighting the Rangers again. But as long as I can create monsters I should be fine." Mesogog said.
He ruffled through some of the papers as he found one drawing image of what the cube looks like. The entire page was a drawing of some landscape. There was a date on the paper, "This was taken when the Power Rangers got their Megazord for the first time." Mesogog snarled. He took a closer look at the picture to see a volcano in the distance and something that looked like the Dino Zords walking in the background. On the paper was a couple of X marks with the words "Not Here" above them.
"Michael was looking for this cube. But it seems like it's one that is in a world that isn't this one. Yes I do remember Michael saying that when my creatures grow the Power Rangers and my monster get sent to an alternate realm. What if this realm is where this cube of immense power lies?" Mesogog began walking out of the room as he had a Tyrannodrone approach him and make a snarling noise.
"The Black Ranger is leaving the city on his own? How very interesting. We shall create a monster and I'll send an army of you drones to him. If we wipe him out that's one less Power Ranger to deal with. Actually you will go and fight the Black Ranger with the monster. Because the monster I have in mind and his power will be enough to overwhelm the Black Ranger and should any back up come, can cause them to be occupied. Be ready to move, it's time I create my creature." Mesogog sent his Tyrannodrone away as he walked back to his laboratory.
Mesogog began fusing a head of an otter, a piece of a printer, and a rotten green pepper into the Geo Randomizer. Out came a monster with a high pitched voice from the smoke. With the body of an otter, standing on two legs and a white printer hanging off its left shoulder and a giant green pepper attached to the back of the creature's head, the monster bent down on its right red leg and took his right white gloved hand and left claw over each other in his bow.
"Master the name is Copyotter. What do you wish of me?" He said with his high pitch voice.
"I'm dealing with an annoying threat that I need your help for. There is a Power Ranger heading out of town. I need you to follow him with one of my Tyrannodrones and finish him off quickly before his friends arrive. When you have killed him, remove his Dino Gem and bring it back to me." Mesogog said.
"It'll be done master!" Copyotter said as he stormed out of the room.
Brett got to the entrance of the scrapyard as he met a person at the gate, "Hi I'm here to find some parts for my truck?" He said to the worker.
"Wow that's a beat up Ford ain't it?" The man said with a country accent.
"Have you heard about the attacks in Bowling Green at all?" Brett said.
"Oh yeah those weird monsters running about. I'll be darn if I ever go over there again. At least the Power Rangers are on call whenever something happens I reckon." The man said.
"Well my truck and I got a bit tangled up with one of the monsters, I've been working on the damn thing but it seems like I'll need a few parts that I can't afford to get replaced. I'm kind of hoping if I could find something here to use as a replacement." Brett said.
"Well holy shit man. You actually survived one of those encounters? What was it like? Did you meet one of the Power Rangers?" The man asked quite intrigued.
"I met the Red Ranger."
"Did you see what he looked like under that mask?!" The man said with excitement. He ended up accidentally dropping a custom made doll onto the ground from his pockets as Brett bent down and picked it up for him.
"Nah I didn't but…Wait is this a Red Ranger custom made doll?" Brett asked curious.
"Oh hehehe yeah my daughter made that for me. She's about to go to college. She's become fascinated with the Red Ranger. She's made the Blue Ranger and Yellow Ranger. A lot of people in town and around the surrounding cities have been talking about you guys. Someone leaked out that she was making these dolls and has gotten quite a bit of a business going selling them. She's currently working on the Black Ranger doll." The man said.
"You don't say. I hope her business thrives then." Brett said with a smile.
"My daughter thinks that if I have this doll I'll always be protected no matter where I go. She may be 18 but she still just a child at heart. She's had a fascination with superheroes since she was a kid. She considers the Power Rangers as one of them." The man said.
"I'm sure the Power Rangers would love to hear that someday. Maybe even meet her." Brett said.
"Oh this is just a one-time thing but normally we charge for people to go in, but I'll let you on through for free." The man said with a smile. Brett handed back the doll and thanked him as he got into his truck and drove inside.
There was walls of cars on top of each other and scattered throughout the yard. Brett parked his truck and got out as he began slowly walking around looking for parts. He had been walking around for almost an hour as he started looking under hoods and vehicles trying to find the parts he needed.
"Oh look at that. This one has spark plugs that are recently new. I could use those." He said grabbing them. He placed the plugs in his pockets and as he turned around he saw a used up motorbike that had some side pieces that stuck out. "If I can tidy that one up and spray paint it gold I might be able to attach that to my Raptor Bike." He said as he walked over and began looking at how to take it apart. He realized he was going to need some tools as he jogged back to his truck and grabbed his tool box. He came back and began working on dismantling the motorcycle. He finally got the piece off as he wiped away the sweat on his face. Brett looked up at the sky as he saw it started getting cloudy. "Well I should have a bit of time to get a few more parts. But I should head back soon." He said. In a second Brett heard screaming from across the yard as he ran towards the noise. There was an explosion as a black cloud moved up into the air. "Could it be one of Mesogog's monsters." Brett ran towards the destruction and out of nowhere Tyrannodrones appeared randomly throughout the scrapyard.
One came running at him with his claw hand and Brett pulled out one of the metal pieces he got and slapped it across the incoming threat. He then dropped all of his equipment he got as he went invisible and appeared behind the drone as he wrapped his arms around the jaw and snapped the neck. He then grabbed the collapsed body and threw it to the side to a group of Tyrannodrones hoping to catch them in an explosion. But it didn't go off and he watched as the minion faded away. "Oh hey that's new." He said as he did a roundhouse kick to the one sneaking up behind him. He assumed a fighting stance as more and more Tyrannodrones started appearing. "Does Mesogog even have this huge of an army? There's something weird going on here if he's trying to get a swarm to fight lil old me." Brett kicked a few more minions away from him and turned invisible as he tried to get through them. He was looking for a break in their swarm but they just kept multiplying out of nowhere.
One of the monsters found him out through his footprints as they backhand him in the face causing him to fall to the ground. The enemies swarmed around him as they lifted him up off the ground and began beating him in the stomach. The one holding him threw him on the ground. "Uck. This isn't good. I wasn't expecting them to be this intelligent." Brett said as he came up with a plan to get out of the situation. Without thinking as his enemies began closing in on him, he immediately got up and got behind one and used it as a meat shield as he began pushing his way through the swarm of creatures. When he got out of them he twisted the shield's neck and shoved it behind him. "I'm done playing around with you." He said as he brought his Dino Gem to his chest and pulled out the key from his pockets. "READY!"
"Dinothunder! Power Up!"
Brett shoved the key into the lock and turned it as he jumped backwards into the air and landed on the ground with his suit formed around his body and his mask colliding with his head. In his hand was his Brachio Staff as he prepared for battle. All of the creatures began charging at him as he cocked a smile on his face.
"I'll blow every single one of you away." He said as he turned the dial. The pointer hovered over a wind symbol.
"Brachio Staff: Wind Strike!"
Green power formed around his blade and he stabbed his sword into the ground as the power shot up into the air and turned into dozens of small curved blades that flew at his enemies and began slashing through their bodies wiping out every single Tyrannodrone in the vicinity. The creatures faded away as soon as they got severed. With no time to waste Brett started moving towards the site of the explosion. As he got to his truck he saw Mesogog's new monster walking through the gates dragging a body behind him. Brett quickly hid to observe the situation as the monster threw the human further away from him.
"Earlier today you had someone gain access to this facility. I demand to know where he is." Copyotter said.
"I'm not going to say anything!" He said back.
"This isn't good. He'll get killed. I need to do something." Brett said as he began moving around his hiding spot to try and get in and save the guy.
A blast was fired into the ground as a scare tactic to the guy who began fidgeting violently.
"The guy that came in here earlier knows something about the Power Rangers. Might even be one himself. If you tell me if he's still here or has left, I'll spare your life. If not, then I'll just have to beat it out of you. The choice is yours human." Copyotter said.
"If he knows anything about the Power Rangers then I won't say a word. Those people have done so much to keep us safe and I'll be damned if they have to suffer because I gave out information. They protect us from freaks like you. Because of that I'll protect their identities from getting out." The man said as he began to stand up with determination to give up his life if need be.
"It's your funeral. But instead of me killing you, I thought of something even better that'll make you scream. Tyrannodrone! Appear!" Copyotter said.
Brett saw and figured this had be the one that is the original. Copyotter had a flash of light appear from the printer on his shoulder as five more drones appeared forming a circle around the man.
"These are Tyrannodrones. They are not easy to defeat with just mere human strength. They will rip you apart slowly. A mere human is more willing to spill details if their life is slowly being ripped away from them." He laughed evilly.
Brett remembered the time another person was held hostage and he couldn't do anything about it. This time was different and he wasn't going to let that happen again. He jumped into action as he emerged out of his hiding spot. He spun his dial around back to the wind symbol and fired the same curved blades again getting the man away from the drones. Brett stood in front of him assuming a defending stance.
"You're not touching him. You want a Power Ranger, well I'm right here." Brett said courageously.
"Oh my God it's really a Power Ranger standing right in front of me!" the man squealed.
"As long as I have this Tyrannodrone I'll be able to create as many clones as I want. Let's see how well you handle an army. You may be a Power Ranger, but you're only human and you guys have a limit. COPY!" Copyotter shot a flash of light at the Tyrannodrone again as a dozen of drones formed and charged at Brett. Brett grabbed the dial as he turned it.
"If all I have to do is destroy the thing you're copying them from, then I know what I have to do. I'll take them all out at once." He said as he turned the dial to an earth symbol.
"Brachio Staff: Earth Strike!"
Brett raised his sword and stabbed it into the ground as cracks began forming towards his opponents. The ground underneath them opened up as they all fell inside. The original one fell as well and Brett turned the dial again to the wind symbol.
"Brachio Staff: Wind Strike!"
A green gust of wind from his blade shot throughout the crevasse severing all of the Tyrannodrones. He ripped his weapon out of the ground as the two pieces of land smashed back into each other and closed back up as if it had never separated. Brett slowly began walking towards Copyotter. "It looks like you're the only one that's left." He said as he began to turn the dial.
"You may have gotten rid of my army, but my power works more than on living things. It works on items as well. Copy!" A flash of light formed in his hand as a copy of the Brachio Staff appeared in his hand.
"Oh that's not cool." Brett said as he began charging at him.
"Hmmm let's see how this works. Oh let's try this one." Copyotter turned the dial to a fire symbol.
"Brachio Staff: Fire Strike!"
Copyotter's blade became infused with a raging flame as he stabbed it into the ground as balls of fire appeared around him and went shooting towards Brett.
"Two can play a battle of the elements." Brett said as he turned the dial to a water symbol.
"Brachio Staff: Water Strike!"
Blue liquid formed around his blade as he drew a circle with it and then thrusted his weapon into the middle of the circle as it formed as sphere around him and with the help of the sphere it protected them against the fire attack. Brett then raised his saber and slashed down the middle of the sphere as it turned into a stream that shot towards Copyotter who only turned the dial.
"Brachio Staff: Earth Strike!"
He stabbed the sword into the ground as a wall formed in front of him that took the blow. The water attack finally stopped as Copyotter began slashing at the wall and commanding all of the pieces to fly directly back at Brett.
"This is going to be a gamble but I have to try." Brett said as he motioned his Brachio Staff in a circle as a purple orb formed.
"Brachio Staff: Energy Orb!"
The orb began moving towards Copyotter and as it moved through the middle of the debris, they began to get absorbed into the orb. The orb hit Copyotter as Brett already began his counter attack to the other pieces of debris.
"Brachio Staff: Wind Strike!"
The blade turned green as strong winds began forming around the battlefield and Brett spun around as he did a rising slash with his blade as the huge gusts of wind wrapped around the pieces of earth and began getting pushed back. The orb had engulfed Copyotter who was getting zapped by the electricity inside the orb and then he saw his attack coming back at him as the pieces collided. An explosion was made and when the smoke on the battlefield cleared Copyotter was still standing.
"I survived that?! Ha you think you can beat me that…eas…ily…" Copyotter didn't see Brett on the ground anymore and as he looked up he saw Brett with fire wrapped around his blade.
"Let's see how you like this!"
"Brachio Staff: Fire Strike!"
Brett gave a victory cry as his blade sliced through the pepper head of his opponent and he ran his staff down the middle of Copyotter as a circle of explosions formed around him before chunks of Copyotter fell around him. Brett turned around and ran up to the man, "Are you okay sir?" He asked.
"Oh uh you can call me Mr. Graves! It's so ni-ni-ni-nice to meet you Black Ranger!" Graves said stuttering as he met one of the Power Rangers for the first time.
"Look Mr. Graves I need you to evacuate the premises that thing is going to get bigger and I don't want you to get hurt. So run now!" Brett tried to push the guy on his way but Graves turned around.
"There's a man in here! He was looking for car parts! Please help him out of here too!" Graves said to him.
"He is already gone. I helped him get out." Brett said to him.
Graves turned around and as he began to run a black storm cloud formed and began raining on Copyotter who started to grow big. Brett went to speak into his morpher but before he could he saw a white and black stream zip in front of him. Michael who was already transformed got in front of Brett.
"Hey are you guys okay?!" He asked.
"Yes we are. I just killed this creature and he's getting ready to grow. We should get the others here." Brett said.
"No. I can take care of it." Michael said.
Brett and Michael vanished from their reality and into the other dimension where their Zords lied. Copyotter appeared fully formed as he raised his foot and went to stomp on the two Power Rangers. Michael tapped into his super speed as he grabbed Brett and got out of the attack as he pulled out his weapon and fired a flurry of arrows and one of them hit him in the eye causing Copyotter to step back.
"I'll take care of him here." Michael said as he raised his morpher into the air. "Come, my Zords!"
The White Drago Zord and Stego Zord showed through the trees that were in the area as they entered the plains of this world as they began transforming together.
Michael jumped up into the air as he arrived in the cockpit. "Kind of fun that I get to wreck another one of Mesogog's playthings, I've been hoping to run into another monster to take my frustration out on." Michael remembered watching Tobias strike down Zeltrax. "This would've never happened if Mesogog wasn't around. People's live wouldn't be ruined if it wasn't for these creatures." He thought as he began charging towards Copyotter.
Michael pulled out his two bladed weapon and took one end and slashed at hit target. Copyotter shot a laser from his shoulder and Michael took his massive weapon and blocked the attack from hitting his Megazord's face.
"That's an interesting weapon you got there White Ranger. Mind if I take it?" Copyotter asked.
"What makes you think I'm just going to hand my weapon over to you Pepper Head?" Michael responded back.
"That's fine if I can't have the real thing, then I'll just take a replica! Copy!" A flashing light was made and in Copyotter's hands was the same weapon as Michael's.
"Oh that's not good. At least this'll be a bit of a challenge."
The two giants swung the weapons at each other. They were evenly matched with their weapons as not a single one hit their opponents. Michael came up with an idea as he went to swing at Copyotter's foot. His opponent swung the blade sideways having one side block his attack.
"You're going to have to try a lot harder than that to take me down White Ranger!" Copyotter chuckled.
"Oh thanks for the advice. I was acting a bit stupid there. It's not like I had planned on you blocking like that to begin with or anything." He said as he placed his hands on the side of his white orb.
"Dino Stega Laser!"
The gold plates on the back began to light up as a black laser shot out of the Megazord's mouth and Michael aimed it at the black piece where the hand holds the weapon. The weapon began to break and Copyotter panicked as he dropped the weapon. Michael then moved the beam up to Copyotter's shoulder and destroyed the machine that allows him to copy his weapons. The attack finally stopped as Copyotter clutched his injury. "How dare you! You think this is over White Ranger?! You are solely mistaken!" He yelled.
"You're absolutely right it isn't over if it was, you wouldn't be standing right now." Michael said as he took his weapon and tossed it in front of him. The weapon began hovering over the ground.
He placed his hands over his orb as it began to generate a ton of power to the hovering weapon.
"Dino Stegazord Stinger! Full Power!"
Michael had his Megazord step back and swirled its arm in a circle as he punched the back of the weapon and sent it flying towards Copyotter. The Stinger was wrapped in a white mist and Copyotter reached up and grabbed the Stinger as he began pushing back. He began to start having control over his weapon and was getting ready to turn it around and have it go right back at Michael.
"I'll need to charge up and fire a laser at him so I can put some force behind my Stinger." Michael said but then heard Brett's voice on his morpher.
"Don't worry about it, Michael. I'll help you out!"
Brett turned the dial on his weapon and slammed it hard into the ground.
"Brachio Staff: Earth Strike! Full Power!"
Cracks in the ground began ripping towards Copyotter and a hole formed around him as it began to cave in causing Copyotter to fall into it and he yelled as the Stinger ripped right through his head causing a massive explosion. Michael hopped out of his Zords as they began moving away from the battle with a victory cry. Brett walked up to Michael.
"Hey thanks for coming into the fight. I didn't think I would be able to do it by myself." He said gratefully.
"It's fine. I was in the area because I was trying to find something to fight. I saw the giant smoke cloud and headed here to see if I could help anyone. I saw the creature and immediately transformed but I didn't think I'd see you out here." Michael explained.
"This place has a few things I need to work on a project I'm doing. I'm creating another Raptor Bike using some of the scans my relative left behind for the other three. I'm putting a nice spin on mine." Brett said.
"Well I've gotten my fight in, mind if I help you out? A few extra hands would make this quicker and easier." Michael said.
"Yeah sure let's do that. I dropped some pieces I needed so we can go back and find them and load them into my truck."
"Sounds great. But what are we going to do about the security guard?" Michael asked.
"I'll handle him. We saved his life I'm sure he won't mind." Brett said.
The two spent the next 25 minutes getting everything Brett needed and as they packed up the truck and were getting ready to move out police and the news media showed up finally and the Rangers had already been driving down the road.
"I'm glad that guy wasn't hurt. It's nice to know that we can at least save one person." Michael said staring out the window.
"I'm pretty sure we are going to be on the news again. By the way, how's Tobias holding up?" Brett asked.
"I've never had to deal with him like this. I've given him his space because that's what he's asked of me. But it's just so hard to watch him like that. He doesn't leave his room unless he's showering, going to work, or to eat and use the bathroom. He's just been dead to the world since the fight. He assures me he's okay that he's just trying to process everything. But it's not rocket science to know that he's shattered." Michael said.
"He's been trying for years to have his parents back and one is gone. It's not something he can just get over so easily. I think the best thing is let him come to us. He's going to need his friends more than ever. He's a strong man I've known that training him all these years. When he finally is able to overcome this, he's going to be a lot stronger than he ever was." Brett said to him.
"I kind of wish that there was something I could do to help him through that process." Michael said.
"I'm pretty sure with how close you two are, he'll let you know if he needs anything." Brett responded.
"I hope so." Michael said as they finally entered back into Bowling Green.