A portion of the industrial district in Angel Grove had been sealed off. All attempts by the police force and even visiting members of the Earth Defense Force (EDF) had been unable to penetrate the barrier that surrounded the area. Even now authorities were trying in vain to break it…though it had not been noticed until after the Triceraton invasion had been repelled in New York, basically on the other side of the United States.
What most people didn't realize was that some residents of the city were trapped inside that barrier. Tenga warriors searched mercilessly for the now powerless Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The other ranger teams were in similar straits and could not come to their aid.
"I don't know how much longer we can keep hiding from them." Kimberly whispered to Jason as she brushed some hair out of her eyes. Normally she hated having her hair so messed up but right now as they hid behind a large cargo container now was not the time to worry about that.
Jason nodded. "I know." He agreed. "I haven't seen any of the others in hours now. With the other rangers dealing with their own problems and the Triceratons," None of them had any way of knowing the invasion had been stopped. "Attacking New York, the Turtles won't be coming here either. We're on our own."
Then they heard a very familiar voice. "Come on out powerless rangers. It's time to face the music." It belonged to the mysteriously resurrected Goldar, the longtime henchman of both Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. Word was that he had been vaporized when Zordon had sacrificed himself. And yet here he was. "You're the last ones Jason, Kimberly. The others have been apprehended. It's over."
"Do you think he's telling the truth?" Kimberly questioned softy; desperately.
"I don't know. I hope not." Jason replied somberly. He grit his teeth in the silence that followed as he recalled what had happened. They were more than willing to back up the Turtles after they were told about the impending invasion from either the Kraang or the Triceratons; until Scorpina, another former henchman of Rita's resurfaced.
It should have been easy enough; she had shown up with Tenga's but they quickly assumed the bird brains would be easy enough to deal with. But then she had played her trump cards. The first was a blue scorpion monster which had a green entity that Aisha had jokingly called a fairy on its back, Scorpina had called it Nemesis and it was still out there. Also at large was the second card the large headed entity known as Lokar, who had also ambushed the rangers. Goldar 's return had been the third.
The overwhelming power behind the surprise attacks had overwhelmed the rangers and Lokar had forcefully stripped the team of their powers before Lokar had erected the barrier trapping them in the industrial district.
Their current white ranger Amy had been sure that only strong magic could penetrate that barrier. It was something that none of them had and that they weren't sure anyone possessed except for possibly the white mystic ranger Udonna, who had her hands full protecting her family and friends.
The container was blown to the side and Goldar proclaimed happily, "Found you humans." The Tenga swarmed in. Jason rose and round house kicked one of the closest ones. Kimberly rolled gracefully to the side and then cartwheeled to her feet. Both stood ready to fight. "I told you two it's over." The gold warrior proclaimed.
"It won't be over until we can't draw breath anymore." Jason retorted.
"Fine with me." Goldar replied and pointed his sword at them. "Tengas, get them."
One Tenga received a kick in the chest from Jason before he turned and delivered a kick to the stomach and elbow to the back of the head from the two time red ranger. A third tried to grab his arms but he shot his head back into his chest and flipped the bird monster over him.
Kimberly dropped to her knees and lashed out to trip one Tenga coming her way. She then used that Tenga has a bouncing off point to perform several cartwheels past the approaching monsters. She stopped and kicked a Tenga in the chest and turned to deliver a palm strike to the chest of another, but the Tenga caught her wrist and twisted, sending her off balance. Two more grabbed a hold of her arms and shoulders and forced her to her knees. "Jason!" She called out as she saw Goldar approaching him now.
Jason saw Kimberly apprehended and then he saw Goldar. For an instant he wasn't sure if she had been warning him or asking him for help, but by then it didn't matter. Goldar swung his sword at him and he dodged under it. Jason tried to follow up with an uppercut to the winged warrior's jaw but he brushed Jason's arm aside and then slammed his fist into his chest, making him sprawl back.
"No!" Kimberly yelled out as she tried to break free from the Tenga's but was unable to do so. "Get away from him Goldar." She tried to threaten him.
"This has been a long time coming Jason." Goldar said gleefully as he raised his sword to stab Jason in the chest. "Goodbye red ranger, know that Tommy will soon follow in your footsteps." With that the sword started downward.
Two katana blades blocked the strike and the leader of the power rangers looked up happily to find that the strike had been blocked by none other than the leader of the Ninja Turtles Leonardo. "I don't think so Goldar." He said.
"What, no. Impossible." Goldar growled.
Two tessens shot out and struck the Tenga holding Kimberly. She expected to see April but was perhaps more delighted to see they had come from Lonnie as the pink Auradon ranger. As the Tenga turned several of them were struck back by a blast from Mal's dragon's eye staff. "Miss us?" The purple haired purple ranger asked sweetly.
"You're a sight for sore eyes." Kimberly said with a small delighted laugh.
Leo lashed out and kicked Goldar way from Jason. "There aren't supposed to be anymore rangers." He insisted and then looked to Leo. "And what are you all doing here?"
"Saving our friends." Mal was the one who answered as she swung her staff at him. He blocked it and tried to slash her but the purple ranger raised her staff to block the attack. Leo jumped over the raised staff and kicked Goldar in the chest hard. "But don't worry about it because you won't be the only one to fail today."
"We shall see rangers. We shall see." Goldar vowed as he stood up and vanished with the Tengas.
"Are you alright?" Leo asked as he helped Jason to his feet.
He nodded. "Yeah, thanks man." He said. "What are you doing here though? I thought the Triceraton invasion thing had you guys pinned in New York."
"It did." Leo replied and then nodded toward Mal and Lonnie. "Renet brought the Auradon rangers here and they helped us repel the Triceraton invasion so that we could start helping all of you out." None of the Turtle team had known for sure how close they had really been to having the Earth destroyed by the Black Hole Generator but they had a pretty good idea.
Just like they knew that same machine was still out there and could be reassembled at some point in the future. A problem they would all have to address after all the ranger's powers had been restored.
"We've got to find the others." Jason said now.
"Don't worry, I have people on it." Mal replied.
Amy shrieked in shock as she barely dodged the attack from Scorpina. The former white ranger turned to see their green ranger Richie fighting off some Tenga's and on the other side was their purple ranger Alexis Darling. Zack was fighting Tenga's in between them. As much as she adored Alexis she kind of wished her childhood friend Amber was there with them now.
Richie was an old friend and at one point the first yellow ranger Trini had shown a mutual attraction for him. That thought made her miss their friend dearly but Amy pushed that grief to the side. When the green ranger powers had been discovered whole just before the Armada attack Tommy had used the powers once more but then gave Richie the chance to become the new green ranger. Richie had accepted in to honor Trini.
Alexis Darling was a girl that Jason had met after he left Angel Grove after the Turbo rangers had been created and they had become good friends. When Zhane had discovered the power coins Alexis had been chosen to become the purple ranger as Amber was still a space ranger. Unknown to them at the time that choice had given Alexis something truly unique. Not that it helped them if they couldn't morph.
"Come on white ranger." Scorpina taunted Amy as she paced the girl. "Pull some rabbit out of your hat and stop us." She laughed cruelly. "Tommy would have."
She couldn't help but flinch. Although a monster called Brain Drain had forced Amy to confront the truth that being the white ranger didn't mean she was expected to be the leader, sometimes that comparison sometimes still affected her. "We'll figure out something Scorpina. Together." She promised.
"You're out of tricks." Scorpina stated simply. "All of you are powerless. No one else can even come to your aid. You have no magic to save you." She kicked Amy in the chest hard and sent her sprawling back hard.
"They're not out of tricks yet." Amy heard. She saw Aaliyah flip over her and attack Scorpina. The female warrior blocked the mutant turtle as she tried to strike with her bunrei's.
Amy started to stand but a Tenga grabbed her arm. She rolled with the twist and landed on her feet to kick the Tenga away. Four others moved in and tackled Amy hard, she hit the ground and she felt the air knocked out of her. The Tenga reached down for her.
Then they squawked in annoyance as they were slashed off and Amy looked up to see a rose colored power ranger standing above her, though that term barely applied as she could already tell that when she stood she would actually be taller than the rose ranger. "Thanks." She said.
"You're welcome." She said. Then she giggled a little. "Amber told us your name is Amy." The girl nodded confused until the rose ranger added, "My name is Amy too…well it's actually Amelia but everyone calls me Amy."
Amy had heard the stories. "You're one of the Auradon Rangers. From the fairy tales." She said a bit amazed.
"Not just me." The rose haired girl said. At that Amy turned to see that another one like Amy had jumped in, this one was in green and he was helping Richie. Another in black was helping Zack.
"Hey Jay." Zack said happily. "Man, am I glad to see you."
"Glad you're okay man." Jay said to him. "Where are the power coins?"
"The Tenga gave them to Scorpina after they got the drop on us." Zack admitted somewhat embarrassed. He pointed to a black satchel on her waist. "I think they're in there."
"That's all I need to know." Jay promised.
"Cool." Amy said. "The son of Jafar."
Now Auradon Amy laughed. "Not as cool as what's going to happen next. Don't blink or you might miss it." She said. Then time almost seemed to stop except for the sudden blur of purple that seemed to approach from the hills and seemed to casually run through the battle. Then it seemed normal and the Tenga fell in squawks.
"Was that your sister Mal?" Amy asked.
The rose ranger shook her head. "Nope, Mal is doing something else." She responded with a small laugh.
Amy looked now. "The Highlands ranger." She stated. Miranda had indeed stopped at the other end of the attack. That had also drawn Scorpina's attention as she had never seen that before. The only one who could duplicate the effect used by the Scottish princess was the gold samurai ranger Antonio.
"Didn't you think magic would be needed to get by Lokar's barrier?" Richie asked Amy.
The girl nodded. "That was my theory." She agreed. "Something I think the daughters of Maleficent can easily meet."
"Don't forget the daughter of Genie and Fairy Godmother." Amy commented.
"Where did all of you come from?" Scorpina demanded as she saw a black, rose, green and purple ranger. "There aren't supposed to be any ranger's on Earth!"
"I guess ye bet on the wrong horse then." Miranda answered as she stepped forward with her grizzly blades and attacked her. Scorpina dodged it only to get attacked by Aaliyah now. Then Jay was flanking her as Will joined both Amy's and their friends.
Scorpina swung at Aaliyah and she rolled out of the way. Jay motioned to Miranda and the Scottish girl nodded. She brought her grizzly blades down toward her and she raised her arm to block the attack. Jay moved in with his soul scimitar and tried to attack. She twirled out of the way to dodge his strike even as she forced Miranda to take a step back.
Will moved in and tried to attack Scorpina but she flipped out of the way. But when she landed she had to take stock and admit it didn't look good. Four rangers she had never seen before now, the newest female turtle and four of the former rangers. The odds were not in her favor. "This is only beginning. Count on it."
"No." Alexis called out as she started to run toward her, but the scorpion warrior vanished. "Dang it, she has our power coins."
"Um, no." Jay said casually as he now lifted his left hand which held a black satchel. "She HAD your power coins." He gave off a hearty laugh as he tossed them to Zack. "Being a thief pays off guys." He exchanged high fives with both Zack and Will. "Now let's see how our friends are doing."
"I just hope that Cestria and the Aquatians are okay." Billy said as he ducked under the window in the warehouse that the rangers had been using as a temporary base the last few hours when they needed to take a moment to collect themselves.
"They seem to have mainly been after Earth." Aisha pointed out. "They might be okay."
"Tell that to the Galaxy Rangers." Billy reminded her solemnly. Then he pushed the thought out of his head. "Nemesis is still lurking around there. So are Goldar and Scorpina. There is no sign of the others." He shook his head. "Without our power coins I don't know what we're going to do."
"If we could just find the others…" Aisha started.
The windows shattered as Tenga's dove into the room. Billy and Aisha couldn't do much more than take fighting stances before they were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. "Looks like we finally caught two of the rangers." One Tenga noted happily.
Another chirruped happily. "Let's take them back to Scorpina, maybe we can use these two as bait."
"Let us go bird brains." Billy demanded. Then he heard something. He looked up but saw only shadows. But then he realized it seemed as if some of those shadows were moving. "You're going to regret this." He now said, though Aisha though it sounded like an unlikely promise.
"Oh yeah?" Another Tenga demanded. "What are you going to do?"
"Booyakasha!" Mikey exclaimed as he dropped down on the Tenga that had spoken and slammed his nunchuck's against the bird monsters head hard.
"Way to blow our cover Mikey." Raph said as he and Casey landed behind the Tengas holding Billy and knocked them out.
Donnie didn't say anything even as he and April landed behind the ones holding Aisha and knocked them out. "Awesome." She said. "Thanks guys." She now understood where Billy's threat had come from.
"Let's save the thanks for later, after we get out of here." Billy said to Aisha. "We still have to fight our way past all of these Tengas first."
"We got it covered dude." Casey promised as he took out a hockey stick. "I know it's not exactly a lance, but maybe this will help you out." He accepted the proffered weapon from the hockey masked vigilante with a nod of thanks.
April handed one of her tessen to Aisha. "I know it's not something you're used to but…"
She nodded and finished the thought. "Any port in a storm." She agreed. She then looked to Raph, who she assumed was leading the team in wake of the mysterious absence of Leonardo as she didn't know he was with Mal and Lonnie helping Jason and Kimberly. "What's the plan?"
"As odd as it sounds, time to get us cornered." Raph said. He pointed to the one farthest from the door. "Right there." Though Billy and Aisha had their doubts they didn't argue and followed the three turtles and their human allies to that corner. The Tenga followed eagerly and several who got to them first were promptly attacked.
"So what's the next part of the plan Raph?" Billy asked the red masked turtle as he swatted a Tenga in the head with the hockey stick. "What do we do?"
Raph gave off a devilish grin. "We don't do anything." He answered with a laugh as he kicked one of the bird minions away from him and April. "But the Tenga are about to make a run for it."
"How can you be sure about that?" Aisha asked as she kicked a Tenga in the chest.
"Because the fun is about to begin." Mikey said as he saw April nod and close her eyes.
A moment later the door on the other side slammed open with a magical flourish and the Tenga turned to see Jordan, Ellie, Alex, Audrey, Evie and Aquiella standing there. "You rang?" She asked April, responding to the psychic call. Then she looked toward the startled Tenga. "Don't mind me," The genie gold ranger stated simply. "I just needed your attention for the floor show."
"What is this?" One Tenga demanded to know.
Billy caught on and was pleasantly surprised to see some of the Auradon rangers. "Time for you to see what power are still out there for you to worry about." He said.
"Why don't what we see which element these bird brains hate more, the ice or the heat?" Audrey suggested as she raised her elemental bow, which held an arrow of fire and an arrow of ice. "I've got both of you covered."
"We'll turn up the heat on this side." Alex said as he prepared a burst of fire from his tonfa's, Evie meanwhile powered up a blazing mirror force from her weapon. They unleashed their combined powers.
"And we'll chill them to the core." Ellie said with a small laugh as she placed her hand on the trident that Melody had loaned her cousin for this mission. She channeled her ice energy into the magical weapon, which then shot out a huge burst of icy water.
Audrey unleashed her arrows at the same time and together the magical attacks hit all around the Tengas.
"I think that froze my wing." One of them complained as the Tenga tried to shake the ice off it. "Is that frostbite?"
"Oh I hate being soggy." One of the other Tenga said.
"That singed my feathers." Another griped as it tried to shake the flames off of the feathers on its wings. "That's going to leave a mark."
Some had been in the middle of the attack and got both ends of the spectrum. "Ah, I hate temperature extremes. I hope I don't get a cold" The Tenga said.
"I think maybe we should turn it up a notch." Evie said as she powered up her mirror force shield with another basic attack. Audrey loaded up her electric arrows now. Aquiella joined with them and the three of them unleashed their bursts of energy at the Tengas. They all fell backwards.
"We don't get paid enough for this." The seemingly lead Tenga decided. "Let's get out of here." They all took off as fast as they could, getting as high as they could since they had been in a warehouse and then took off through the broken windows. None of them dared to try to leave via the door the five Auradon Rangers stood at.
"Those were minions?" Aquiella couldn't help but ask. She was far too used to the almost as dumb but silent and relatively tough ones that Paradias had used. As far as the Atlantica princess was concerned they were far too weak and clownish.
"Not even like those Quantrons." Audrey said with a disgusted shake of her head that was a bit of a reminder that she was still a high ranking princess at heart. "How pathetic." She looked to Billy and Aisha. "Are you two okay?"
"Thanks to all of you." Billy said. "What about the others though?"
"Leo took Mal and Lonnie. Mal had a little spell that would allow her to track Kimberly via the same color line they share." Ellie explained. "Aaliyah took Miranda, Jay, Will and Amy to find the power coins."
"Oh no." Aisha gasped. "That will lead them right to Scorpina. She was given the power coins when they were stolen from us."
Then they heard their iPhones go off. Jordan was the first to look. "That's Mal. She said it's time to meet up. And she already spoke with Amy. Jay got your coins. So let's get you guys powered up again." She declared. "Come on, follow us."
Another warehouse looked old and abandoned, almost destroyed. There was no reason for Scorpina, Goldar, Nemesis or even the Tengas to suspect anyone would hide there. But that was just the cover that was being used now while Venus, Carlos, Jennifer, and Jane were holding up with the meeting place for the power rangers and Auradon rangers to regroup and decide what the next move would be.
Carlos had just set his iPhone back down. "All three teams are on their way." He announced to the girls. "Then we can deal with sending Scorpina and the others packing and free Angel Grove."
"And to think this is only the first restoration mission we have to run." Jane said with a small sigh. "Who did such a scary job at making sure there would be no rangers around Earth?" She wondered.
The first one to show of course were Kimberly, Jason, Mal, Lonnie and Leo. Carlos and Mal exchanged high fives at seeing each other, each more worried than they would ever let on. Lonnie gave Jane a quick hug too.
A few moments later Billy, Aisha, Raph, Mikey, Donnie, Casey, April, and the five Auradon rangers came in. Evie and Mal exchanged hugs. Audrey exchanged hugs with Lonnie. Kimberly and Aisha exchanged hugs. Donnie wrapped his arms around April and kissed her softly. Jennifer wrapped her arms around Raph and kissed him on the lips.
"I hope Miranda and the others get here soon." Ellie commented softly. "Who knows what else might be out there?"
"Don't worry about it." Mal tried to reassure the princess of Arendelle. "They'll be here." She still couldn't blame her for being worried though. Her twin sister Amy was part of that team that hadn't shown up yet. She hated being separated from Amy almost as much as her sister hated being separated from her.
"Amy and Amy." Carlos said. "That's going to be confusing."
"We'll be sure to remember that when we go help Carlos and the space rangers, Carlos." Jordan replied with a smirk.
"Just watch the hair." Kimberly advised them. "Our Amy is a sunny haired blonde, while your Amy has that dark warm colored rose hair."
"Yeah, it's actually rather soft." Audrey noted. Only she and Evie had ever brushed Amy's hair which was kind of a surprise since the rose haired girl had not exactly started on good terms with the brunette princess nor was the younger daughter of Maleficent all that inclined toward her looks the way she or Evie were. Sometimes Audrey suspected she just sometimes liked the attention from someone besides Mal which Audrey could not blame her for given the circumstances she grew up in.
"I'd still feel more comfortable to have the others show up." Leo admitted. The fact that Aaliyah was part of the team they were waiting for wasn't said but it didn't take much to figure it out. Mal suspected his discipline was the only thing stopping him from pacing. It was taking everything she had not to pace herself and she was surprised that Alex appeared to be taking the mystery so well.
Audrey however wasn't nearly so worried about it as she paced and worried about Jay. She never imagined a couple of months ago that she would find herself so worried about Jay, or Mal, or Evie. Of course she was practically a different princess a couple of months ago. "Where are you guys?" She implored quietly.
Venus perked up suddenly, which drew the others attention except for Aquiella. "They're almost here." She revealed to them before glancing at Mal and adding, "Your sister's empathic abilities are like a beacon to me." That explained why the mermaid girl had not reacted as she would have felt Amy as well.
Moments later the last team made their way in. Amy rushed over and hugged Mal for a minute before Alex approached her and wrapped her in a hug. Amy went over and hugged Kimberly even as Jason and Alexis gave each other soft smiles.
"Are ye alright?" Miranda asked Ellie.
The Arendelle princess nodded. "Yeah, the Tengas didn't like our elements at all." She answered. "What about you?"
"I'm fine, not to worry." Miranda replied.
"Miss me?" Jay asked Audrey teasingly even as he saw Aaliyah and Leo take a moment to embrace.
"Not at all." Audrey replied though it sure didn't sound convincing. "I knew for sure that you could totally take care of yourself." Her actions betrayed her words as she hugged Jay only a moment later.
"Glad to see that everyone is okay." Richie said as he high fived with Billy. "And some of come baring gifts." He added as Jay held up the same object that held the power coins.
"Oh my gosh, our coins." Kimberly exclaimed happily.
Jay shook the bag a moment as if to confirm that said power sources were inside before tossing them over to Jason. "What about the morphers?" He asked now.
"We still have those." Billy answered the black Auradon ranger. "Scorpina wasn't worried about taking those away, without the power coins they might as well just be paperweights."
"I don't know how much time we have." Jennifer pointed out to them. "I'm sure Scorpina and whoever else she has is looking for all of you right now."
"She's right." Mal agreed. "Time to power up guys."
Jason nodded in confirmation and opened up the bag and let the power coins drop into his hands. He kept the Tyrannosaur coin for himself naturally. He passed the Mastodon coin to Zack and the Triceraton coin to Billy. Alexis took the Stegosaurus coin from Jason's hands along with a few that she handed out herself; the Dragon coin for Richie, the Pterodactyl coin for Kimberly and the White Tiger coin for Amy. Aisha reached over to take the Sabertooth Tiger coin from Jason.
"All of that power in those small coins." Ben mused with some amazement.
"It's not much different than most of us having our powers come from gems." Jane pointed out reasonably, though somewhat shyly since she was addressing the king of Auradon. "Or two in the cases of the battlizers."
"Technically it might be more considered half a gem." Mal now commented as she held up her iPhone. "It was one gem that split into two for Audrey and I." Jane nodded as if acquiescing the point.
Each of the rangers took out their morphers and reaffixed the power coins back into their proper places. Their morphers glowed in their colors and it traveled up their arms and over their bodies before fading.
"I'm sure you guys are glad to be back in top shape." Mal commented wryly, having remembered what it felt like to lose her powers. "Now then, we just have to get Scorpina and her forces to leave Angel Grove."
"The only way I see that we can do that is to find and defeat Nemesis and Lokar." Aisha said. "Nemesis is their big gun and Lokar is the one holding the field up around this part of the city."
"Then let's find them and get it done." Jason decided and as the respective leaders of their team both Mal and Leo nodded in agreement.
One side of the warehouse was blasted in and the team scrambled to avoid getting hit by the rubble. No one was particularly surprised to find that Tenga's were entering the area, being led by Goldar and Scorpina. And behind them was the large scorpion monster with the almost sickly green fairy like creature that was hovering over its back. They heard Amy whisper, "That's Nemesis."
"I knew they wouldn't wait to reactivate their powers." Goldar commented.
Scorpina pointed her blade at Jay. "I'll make you pay for stealing those power coins from me ranger." She vowed. "All of your ends have come."