Gathered in a ruined building on KO-35 were nine figures crouching down behind some rubble that had come in from the roof. Right now they were going unnoticed but no one expected that to last. The restored planet had suffered yet another invasion, though this time rather that by the hands of Dark Specter and Astronema it was by Darkonda and whoever the top monster was that organized the strikes against the ranger teams.
Those nine figures were the former space rangers Andros, his wife Ashley, his best friend Zhane, his sister Karone, and his friends Amber, Cassie, Carlos and TJ. Their final guest was an old friend of the four earth rangers Justin Stewart who had took up the blue turbo ranger powers to help his old friends for what that had been worth.
"Okay, can someone tell me where we went wrong here?" Carlos asked his team as he wiped blood from his cheek. "Did someone tell them we're the good guys?"
"If you want to be technical things went wrong when we saw Darkonda turn into Darkcliptor without Ecliptor being here." Cassie answered simply as she glanced at Karone, knowing her friend had some mixed feelings when it came to Ecliptor, the monster that was her former mentor and arguably even her father figure but was none the less basically still evil. It was hard to read the former princess of evil though.
"Any ideas guys?" Justin asked now. "We don't have our morphers anymore." Those had been stripped from them when Darkcliptor had ambushed the team and the Quantrons had overwhelmed them. In that melee the semi sentient cars Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster had disappeared.
"Why are we even here?" Karone now asked. "One minute we're on Earth powerless, hearing about the Triceraton's invasion and the next minute we're here on KO-35." Her past as Astronema had led her to believe they had been left behind to watch the planet they spent over a decade defending be destroyed as a form of punishment. She wondered what had happened to change that.
"Maybe they decided they'd rather us watch our planets invasion instead." Zhane suggested. Three of them were from KO-35 originally after all. "Or maybe…maybe the Triceratons finished with Earth and they're coming here to KO-35 with that black hole generator to do the same thing."
"This has all been too well timed." Andros said with a shake of his head. "I'd love to get my hands on the monster that organized this mass extinction."
They heard noise overhead and knew the Quantrons were searching for them. They didn't seem to care that they had served Karone as Astronema a long time ago, they had attacked her just as easily. "We can't stay here." TJ said. "We have to get going now."
They stepped outside and then a sound made Amber turn around. "Guys, we've been spotted." They turned to see a dozen Quantrons approaching them. The rangers moved in to try to make short work of them and try again to sneak away.
That plan fell to pieces when Darkcliptor turned the corner with more Quantrons. "Ah, the former rangers." He said gleefully. "Let's put this chase away, shall we?" He pointed one of his swords at the team. "Get them." He commanded.
"What do we do Andros?" Ashley asked as she kicked a Quantron away and dodged another one. "We're going to get boxed in at this rate."
"I don't know." Andros admitted reluctantly as he flipped over one and kicked another in the chest hard.
Darkcliptor tried to stab Cassie with one of his swords but Amber jumped in the way with a pile of rubble and intercepted the attack. The sword shattered the temporary shield but was enough for the two girls to slip out of the way.
Then two monsters appeared, one red and one blue. Very mechanical almost like the Quantrons. The red one leapt out and slammed hard into Ashley, a metallic tentacle like thing wrapping around her waist and chest hard. The blue one performed the same maneuver against Karone.
"Andros!" Darkcliptor called out. He turned to see the red and blue monsters keeping a tight hold on his wife and sister.
"No." Zhane gasped.
"Ashley, Karone." Cassie gasped as well and started over to try to help them only to get hit in the back of the head with the blunt end of a Quantron weapon.
"Let them go." Amber demanded. She was very much used to commands like that. Though technically she was never a leader of a ranger team she certainly had the experience to do so if the chance had come up.
Darkcliptor stood in between the two bound girls. "You have a choice to make red ranger." He said gleefully. "Your wife or your sister." He placed each of the swords under their chins next to their throats. "Who do you send to their death first?"
At first silence reigned in the area as each of the ranger's absorbed what was about to happen. They knew both girls would be dead in a matter of moments. Then perhaps the last thing they expected happened. A small bubble started to form and quickly grew before exploding in front of the five of them, releasing a massive amount of energy. They saw the three monsters land hard.
"But where are the girls?" Justin wondered.
Then they heard, "Booyakasha!" And saw Mikey holding Karone in his arms while Donnie had Ashley in his arms. They landed in front of Andros.
Several Quantrons fell from a shuriken barrage from Raph and Leo even as Venus and Aaliyah took out another small group of Quantrons.
"How did you do that?" TJ asked Raph.
"We didn't." Raph said. "That was her, though I don't know how."
"Oh my gosh." Amber said happily.
Mal lowered her hands. She had intended to release her original blast of energy that she had used, something her sister Amy had called a flare. But instead she had done something entirely different though the results were what counted. "Hey Amber." The purple haired purple ranger said. "I guess this time our roles are reversed." She had Audrey, Evie, Carlos, Jay, Lonnie, Amy, Jay and Ally behind her. And beside them was another welcome sight, at least to the purple space ranger.
"Amber." Amy gasped and ran over to hug her long-time friend tightly. "I was so worried about you."
"I was worried for you too Amy." Amber said as she returned her own chosen sister's hug. She looked to Mal. "That was amazing. What did you do?"
"Um, that would be a good question." Mal admitted. "That wasn't what I was trying to do but at least I helped you."
"Impossible." Darkcliptor growled as he stood up. "You're all supposed to be dead. Earth is supposed to be destroyed, the end of the power rangers was at hand."
"Guess someone messed up then. Their loss." Jay said as he aimed his scimitar at Darkcliptor. "Tell us where their morphers are you ugly little freak."
"I think not." Darkcliptor said. "My two monsters will destroy you all."
"That's what he thinks." Audrey said with a smirk as she formed her elemental bow. "Let's send these cars to the scrap heap."
"Wait." Amy said as she placed her hand on Audrey's arm gently. "I don't know if we can destroy those monsters."
"Of course we can." Carlos said dismissively. "They look pretty easy."
Amy rolled her eyes. "No, I mean I don't think those monsters are really monsters. Something about their auras…they're cloudy. It's like one is trying to overshadow the other one." She wasn't sure she was explaining this right.
But TJ and Justin exchanged looks of worry. "Do you think…?" Justin started.
"That that is Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster." TJ finished. "I have a bad feeling that they might be."
"Who?" Yellow ranger Carlos asked.
"Two sentient cars that helped us fight Divatox and her forces." Black ranger Carlos answered. "They're our friends."
"One way to find out." Evie declared. She raised her mirror force shield. "Mirror, mirror in my palms. Show me the truth behind the parts." She recited. They could easily see that Amy had been right. The two monsters were a warped version of the two cars.
"That is just messed up." Mikey commented.
"What do we do?" Cassie asked now.
Mal looked toward the monsters, Darkcliptor and the Quantrons. "We have to free the two of them and get the morphers back." She stated. She wished she could figure out where those morphers were. Then she noticed something.
But Donnie was the one to voice it first. "Something is kind of wrong with those three. Like, like they've been poisoned or something." He noted. The purple masked turtle looked to Mal. "It's like that attack of yours poisoned them."
"Ha, ha." Mikey laughed. "They got bio'ed."
"Where are their morphers anyway?" Aziz wanted to know. "I don't see them hanging onto any of them like the zeonizers were with Bladerunner or the power coins and morphers were from Scorpina."
"Wait a minute." Ally said. "When we saw the monsters were these Lighting Cruiser and Storm Blaster cars I saw a bag in Storm Blaster's trunk. I bet anything that holds the morphers."
"I think Ally's right." Evie agreed. She looked to her own chosen sister. "What's the plan M?"
"Amy, Audrey." Mal said as she looked to her twin and her second in command. "Let's provide these guys with a hailstorm." The two nodded, Audrey preparing her elemental bow for a hail of arrows as Ally withdrew her crystal cards and unfurled them.
"We can help too." Aaliyah said to Mal. "With a hail of shuriken too."
"Good idea." Mal said as the five ninja turtles pulled out shurikens. She hated to do this next part but knew it had to be done and that her twin sister would be upset if she chose not to do this merely to protect her. "Amy, get past the hail and get those morphers."
"I'm on it Mal." Amy promised as she ran toward the monsters. The turtle team and the two rangers unleashed their hail of weapons respectively even as the Quantrons charged forward. A lot of them were taken down by the barrage and those that weren't couldn't lay a hand on Amy, something that Darkcliptor couldn't understand. Those Quantrons that survived the barrage and got left behind were attacked by Venus and the other rangers.
The two monsters unleashed energy at Amy and she was barely able to dodge out of the way of that. While she had used her intangibility to bypass the Quantrons she had to balance her use so that it was strong enough to grab the morphers when she bypassed the monster.
Darkcliptor growled at her. "It's time to end your run, little rose pink." He moved in to bring his swords down on Amy but the rose ranger turned intangible again and ran right through the monstrous general. At the other end she became solid for just a moment before diving into the blue car monster.
"I sure hope this works." Carlos said as the black ranger blocked a Quantron attack and flipped it on its side. "If not I don't know what we're going to do."
"We do have backup in orbit." Aziz told him as he used his spiral spear to take out a couple of Quantrons. "The zeo are on the Megaship and ready to come down if we need them." He didn't point out that Trey had remained on Earth with the Mighty Mutanimals and the power rangers. "We also have some of our other team mates standing by."
Cassie and Ashley kicked a Quantron in the chest and it was sent rolling, colliding with a couple of others. "What happened to Earth?" Cassie asked Aaliyah.
The female turtle used her bunrei to slash a couple of Quantrons back and then turned around to slam her shell into another one, something she found she enjoyed doing. As a human she could have never done that. "We were able to repel them, thanks to Renet going to Auradon and drafting the Auradon rangers to help us." She explained. "Then we knew we had to move on to get all of the ranger powers restored."
"They are still out there." Venus added. "All we could do is take apart the heart of darkness and scatter it into a dark matter nebula."
"Great, more to worry about." Zhane remarked with a grimace even as he took out another Quantron.
Mal was just starting to worry that sending Amy in wasn't a good idea when she saw her younger twin sister slipping out again with the bag in her hand. She found herself in the very unfortunate position of being blocked by monsters and isolated from her friends. "Oh no." She whispered.
Amy saw her positon too. "Oh my pink." She muttered, wishing she had thought about that originally. She already had the two monsters turning toward her. As much as she didn't want to see any potential allies destroyed it was not looking good.
"Stop her." Darkcliptor ordered the two monsters and summoning more Quantrons.
"Ah shell." Raph muttered as he and some of the others started to try to get there.
The two car monsters fired at the rose haired rose ranger but a huge wall of ice rose up to protect her. The wall shattered and Ellie stood there with her hand raised. Beside her were Melody, Aquiella, Alex and Miranda.
"More rangers." Darkcliptor growled in frustration and annoyance. He had never heard of such a large team before. The Quantrons had moved in at the point but were easily dispatched by the fire knight and the female rangers.
Melody aimed the trident at the bag and used the energy of the trident to send it flying in the air, past the group of minions and straight into Karone's arms. "Nice shot." Aquiella said to her cousin.
Karone dumped the bag and tossed the morphers to her brother, boyfriend and her friends. "Let's Rocket!" Andros called out and then all of the space rangers morphed, as did Justin into the blue turbo ranger.
"Okay, that's that." TJ stated. "But how do we free Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster from those monster shells?"
Cassie used her satellite stunner and aimed it at the monsters. But she wasn't attacking them. Instead she conducted a scan of the monsters to confirm what Donatello had speculated. "They have some kind of poison coating on them, it's slowly weakening the monsters. It's also affecting Darkcliptor. If we can destroy the outer shells we can free Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster and send Darkcliptor packing."
"Just like we did with Goldar, Scorpina, Gasket, Archerinna and Bladerunner." Jay said happily.
Audrey looked to her team and then the space rangers. "We need to get up to where our other friends are and use the Auradon Launcher and the Quadrablaster to destroy those shells." She said to them.
"You just have to cut across all of the field of Quantrons first." Zhane drawled.
"No we don't." Mal said to him. "I've got a spell I can try to get us past that." She raised her dragon's eye staff. "Positioned we are, in the wrong places be. Navigate our way, to the true path we seek." She intoned.
"That one wasn't too bad." Carlos said.
"Glad you approve." Audrey remarked with an eye roll.
Darkcliptor was surprised to see the girls and Alex disappear. They reappeared by the turtles, and Donnie let out a gaps of, "Unbelievable." Mikey likewise said, "As Casey would say that was so metal." They joined the turtles, Zhane, Amber, Amy, Justin and Karone in dealing with the Quantrons on that side.
Even more surprising and infuriating to him was the appearance of the space rangers and the Auradon rangers. In between the transition Andros had formed his Spiral Saber booster mode, the four rangers had formed the Quadrablaster and the Auradon rangers had formed their original Auradon Launcher.
"What can we say, it's magic." Mal said simply before they unleashed the power of their three weapons. It struck the three monsters head on. As the two monsters went flying the outer coating that had made Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster into the enemy fell off like old snake skin and when they landed they were themselves again. Darkcliptor landed hard.
"Awesome they did it." Justin said happily even as Storm Blaster started to blast away Quantrons to the rangers.
"This isn't over." Darkcliptor said. "I still intend to tear you all to pieces." With that he brought his two swords together and blasted at the two teams of rangers. They fell back and their weapons were separated. He leapt right at them and forced them apart.
"I've been waiting for this a long time Darkonda." Andros reminded him and swung his spiral saber at him.
"That's Darkcliptor red ranger." The general reminded him as he blocked the attack with one sword and then slashed Andros hard across the chest. Audrey and Mal tried to move in and he slashed both rangers back.
Before the rest of the team could react Darkcliptor turned around and again combined his swords and blasted the four space rangers and the four Auradon rangers. He started to approach Evie and Ashley. "Let's thin this unneeded herd down a bit." He said gleefully.
"Not so fast Darkonda." Andros said as he got up.
"We're not done with you." Audrey added as she got up.
Darkcliptor turned around at laughed at them. "I told you that it's Darkcliptor. And what exactly are you going to do rangers?" He asked them.
"We'll show you what we're going to do." Mal said to Audrey and Andros. "I think it's time to go to the next level." She looked to Audrey. "Shiny style and dragon style." The red ranger nodded in agreement and even Andros seemed to pick up on the idea behind what they wanted.
Together the three rangers activated their battlizers. Andros became the red battlized ranger, Audrey changed into her diamond battlizer and Mal transformed into her dragon battlizer.
"A purple ranger with a battlizer?" Darkcliptor questioned in some shock. He had never seen a purple ranger with that kind of power before, despite their often extra abilities this was a new development. "Who are you?" He demanded.
"We're the Power Rangers of Auradon." Audrey said to him. "And all of you are only starting to learn what we can really do."
Darkcliptor combined his swords again and blasted at them, but Audrey raised her arms and produced a large crystalline shield in front of the three of them. Then Mal and Andros soared up into the air. Andros fired missiles at his longtime rival while Mal unleashed a draco meteor at him. Darkcliptor landed hard and lost his grip on his swords as the shield faded.
Mal looked to her second in command. "Your turn Audrey." She said and shrunk her dragon's eye staff to the size of an arrow. "It's time for you and Andros to send this creep packing." She had not forgotten that this was the fiend who had kidnapped Karone and delivered her to the life of Astronema. She had not been born evil unlike her and her chosen siblings, yet they had all followed very similar paths.
"Time to say goodnight Darkonda." Audrey said a bit condescendingly as she took the dragon's eye arrow from the purple haired purple ranger and placed in on her elemental bow. Andros again unleashed a barrage of missiles and right behind that, dragonic energy building up behind it, Audrey shot the arrow straight at him. Together the impact was huge.
When the smoke cleared they were a bit dismayed to see Darkonda had survived. But he stumbled from the smoke and had lost his enhanced form. He flexed his sword arm as if considering continuing the battle but hesitated as the three batillized rangers were joined by the rest of the space rangers, Auradon rangers, Amy the white ranger, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "I promise you will all live to regret this." Darkonda vowed before vanishing.
The rangers all powered down to celebrate.
"You did it." Amy said excitedly as she high fived with Audrey and then hugged her twin sister. "You were all so awesome."
"That was great." Ashley agreed as she threw her arms around her husband. The two shared a soft kiss for a moment before Andros pulled away.
"He still got away." Andros mused softly. He would never forgive him for abducting Karone, and Mal understood that perfectly even as she looked at her own twin sister and remembered Maleficent taking her memories of Amy away just before going to Auradon.
"You'll get him next time." Lonnie said to him. "And we'll help you out too." She knew her boyfriend Will would be more than willing to help out, and as she thought about Whitney she realized she would too.
"You've already helped us out more than you know." Carlos said as he placed his hand on Jay's shoulder. "We would have been done without you."
"And I think I heard you say you have our ship up and running too." Zhane said hopefully as he placed an arm around Karone's shoulder.
"In orbit with the zeo rangers, Doug, April, Jennifer, Karai and Casey." Leo said as Aaliyah took his hand and the two exchanged small smiles.
Amber smiled at Mal. "I can't believe you guys are here. This is just so cool." She admitted as the two purple rangers high fived and then smiled softly at the rose haired Amy even as her blonde friend Amy smiled happily.
"We should get back to Earth." TJ said now. "The quicker we help the other rangers the better."
"He is right." Venus agreed. "Who knows how long the power rangers and the Mutanimals can hold out with everything that is going on now."
Carlos took out his iPhone and pressed the send button. "Jane, we're ready to come aboard now. And we have all of our friends in tow." He reported.
"Great to hear that one." Jane said. "Prepare to come home everyone." Moments later they were transported off of the surface of KO-35.
"Where did those obnoxious pests come from?" Darkonda demanded to know as he looked around at the surviving generals; Goldar, Scorpina, Gasket, Archerinna, and Bladerunner. "We specifically eliminated those power pests. All the Triceratons had to do was plant the heart of darkness!"
"Admiral Mozar insists they did." Gasket answered. "They were moments away from activating it. The turtles and those mutant freaks of theirs could do nothing. Then those other rangers showed up out of nowhere." He slammed his sword on the ground angrily.
"It must have been that annoying time mistress." Goldar growled. "Somehow she must have known where to get rangers that none of us have ever heard of before. There seem to be more in that group than have ever been recorded, even those Dino Charge rangers can't compare."
"What are we going to do now my love?" Archerinna asked Gasket. "How do we deal with all of these extra rangers?"
"We need to find out where they came from and figure out what to do about them." Said a voice from the darkness. "It's time to start our own investigation. When they show up to stop me, and they inevitably will, I want to be ready."
The Astro Megaship headed toward Earth at maximum hyper rush velocity. Amber greeted each of her zeo ranger friends happily. The others reunited happily as well.
"We're doing a good thing here Mal." Ben said to the purple haired girl as he hugged her tightly. "Your mother might not like it, but I know my mom will be very proud of you."
"I hope everything is okay in Auradon." Mal admitted softly as she took his hand and squeezed it gently. "That's my one worry. What if the pastel powers aren't enough to keep Auradon safe from my mother?"
Ben nodded toward the bridge. "Then we have friends who are more than willing to give us a hand to right that." He replied simply. Andros and Carlos were talking ship talk with Evie, Jane, Doug, Donnie and Carlos. Cassie was showing Amy and Lonnie how to use the navigation console. Zhane was showing Aziz, Jay and Raph the tactical console. Through it all Mikey, Ally and Jennifer were handing out pizza and soda so they could recharge themselves before the next battle.
From a console in back Aaliyah and Karone looked up. "Andros, we're receiving a distress call." Karone said to her brother. "A small ship heading toward Earth. It was tracked on a crash course on Beta XII." She informed him.
"We don't have time to be the good samaritan here." Raph reminded them all bluntly.
"I hate to say it but Raph's right." TJ agreed.
"Isn't there a way we could split up or something?" Kat asked now.
"Guys, we don't have a choice." Doug now revealed. "I scanned that ship. There are six ranger signatures onboard the ship plus another of similar power level." He brought them up on a small side screen on the main bridge screen.
Karone recognized it. There was no way she could miss it. "The Galaxy rangers." She whispered.
They all understood now. "Cassie, alter our course to that ship and maintain speed." Andros ordered. "Donatello, contact Professor Rockwell and tell them that they're going to have to hold the fort for a little while longer."
"On it." Cassie and Donnie replied.
"Hold on guys. We're on our way." Mal whispered softly to their fellow rangers.