The Megaship approached Beta XII and entered orbit. "Who do you think is waiting for us down there?" Carlos wondered as he looked at the planet. So far they'd seen several past villains show up from Goldar and Scorpina to Darkonda.
Karone bit her lip a little. "My guess would be some of Trakeena's minions. Maybe even Trakeena herself." She speculated. She looked to the others. "But there is only one way to find out."
The Space Rangers started toward the back of the bridge with Mal, Audrey, Jay, Carlos, Lonnie, Evie, and Will. Jordan watched them go and then looked back at the members of the Auradon Force team left behind; their king Ben, Aziz, Ally, Amy, Miranda, Melody, Aquiella, Grant, Ellie and Alex along with herself. "It kind of bites that so many of us get left behind simply because we're a bigger group." She mused.
"Look at it this way," Miranda replied. "If something happens and they aren't able to do the job, at least we can step in to back them up." She looked to the screen. "Let's just hope it doesn't come to that."
"There may not be much we can do right now." Amy said regretfully, hating to let her twin sister go into battle without her. Alex placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder and she smiled softly. Still, her special empathic powers made her aware of one thing. She looked to the Turtles. "But I think there's something you guys can do." She said.
But it was not Trakeena that had pursued the Galaxy Rangers as they had made their way to Earth in an attempt to lend in a hand in stopping either the Triceratons or the other invading evil forces. Instead they had been pursued by the last general to serve both Trakeena and her father Scorpius; the treacherous general Deviot.
He lifted the yellow galaxy ranger Maya by her throat. "Finally, after all of this time I can destroy you all." He gloated as he squeezed her throat hard, making her cough as she tried to take a breath.
"Let her go." Her best friend Shondra and the recently discovered purple galaxy ranger tried to demand only to be kicked in the side hard by one of the Sting Wingers, former minions of Trakeena's army that Deviot had bestowed upon him.
Leo and Mike Corbett, the red galaxy ranger and Magna Defender respectively, tried as well and were kicked in the back by more Sting Wingers.
Deviot laughed and tossed Maya to the ground hard, next to Damon and Kai the green and blue Galaxy Rangers. Two more had the pink galaxy ranger Kendrix restrained as well. Lying in the middle of the area were the Quasar sabers and Mike's morpher. "I'll return to you later girl, after we've finished our task."
From outside stood seven Sting Wingers that had been specifically modified by his longtime friend Darkonda so that they could use the powers of the Quasar sabers. "Take up the weapons and become the dark Galaxy Rangers." Deviot told them. "And together we will begin our attack upon the rest of the galaxy and bring everyone to their knees."
"Sorry guys, but these don't belong to you." They heard a guy state as he elbowed his way past the Sting Wingers and snatched the blades and the morphers. "But I'll make sure they get passed on to their rightful owners." Jay stopped in front of Mal and Audrey.
"What is this?" Deviot questioned with amusement. But that amusement soon changed when he saw who was behind them. "What are you doing here?"
"We're here to rescue our friends." Andros informed him simply.
"And send you packing." TJ added.
Maya smiled happily at seeing their friends the Space Rangers again, especially Karone. "You guys are okay." She said through a slightly raspy voice.
"But how?" Deviot demanded. "You were supposed to be dealt with."
"Plans have changed." Mal said simply. "Whoever your boss is about to see what kind of mistake he or she made when they decided to attack our friends."
The seven 'special' Sting Wingers quickly took their places to guard the Galaxy Rangers. The rest of them came to stand beside Deviot. "Let's see if you can back up those words girl." He looked to the minions. "Get them." The Sting Wingers surged forward.
Andros looked to Mal. "You know what time it is?" He asked.
Mal nodded. "I do." She replied.
Together Andros called out, "Let's rocket!" as Mal called out, "Let's get to work!"
At that point Deviot understood what had gone wrong but was unsure how it had happened. "More Power Rangers. Where did they come from?" He wondered angrily.
Amber looked to Mal now. "Come on Mal; let's show Deviot what he signed up for when he agreed to try to take all of us out." She said. Mal nodded in agreement and the two summoned their weapons before knocking Sting Wingers aside.
Karone held back because she had another important task to attend too. She needed to give her friends back their powers. The one thing they had not counted on was the unique Sting Wingers standing around her friends. "How do I get by them?" She wondered.
Seven figures moved by her and for a moment she was startled until one of them broke that silence. "Booyakasha!" Mikey shouted as he kicked the yellow coated Sting Winger. His three brothers and three female companions were more quite as Leo attacked the red one, Raph attacked the blue one, Donnie attacked the green on, April attacked the pink one, Aaliyah attacked the black one and Jennifer attacked the purple one.
"Are those giant turtles?" Shondra couldn't help but question. She had never seen the Ninja Turtles before, and even then the Galaxy Rangers had only heard about them.
"I think so." Maya answered her friend softly.
"It's okay, they're friends." Karone said as she came over and started to give her friend's their power sources back. "And I think they could use your help against those things that wanted to steal your powers."
"Then let's give them a hand." Leo the red ranger decided. They all nodded in agreement and rushed into the fray.
"Need a hand Leo?" The red galaxy ranger asked the blue masked turtle as he connected a solid kick into the insect's chest.
The name irony didn't escape the blue masked turtle. He wondered if that was how Carlos the black space ranger and Carlos the yellow Auradon ranger felt. "I'd be honored for the help Leo." He answered and they both chuckled a bit.
"Your plans fallen apart Deviot." Mal said as she tried to jab him in the chest with the jeweled end of her dragon's eye staff. "Your special little bugs are about to go down for the count and the Galaxy Rangers have their powers back."
Deviot glared with hatred at them. "Where did you all come from?" He demanded to know. "We had all of the ranger teams accounted for when we began our attack on Earth. We even accounted for those mutant freaks when we allied with the Triceratons."
"Freaks? Have you looked in the mirror lately?" Amber questioned him as she kicked him in the chest before unleashing a burst of lightning at him that he barely dodged.
"I take it fairy tales are an Earth thing?" Mal guessed with a smirk as the two purple rangers stood side by side.
"Pretty much." Amber confirmed. "Good for us, bad for them."
Mal laughed. "You can say that again." She agreed.
"Let's crank this up to an eleven." Leo said to his team. "It's time for us to morph too."
"What does that mean? Crank it up to an eleven?" Shondra wondered. Maya simply shrugged, she wasn't sure what that meant either.
"Go Galactic." The seven rangers morphed into the Galaxy Rangers, Shondra's purple ranger suit looking just like the rest of the team. "Magna Power." Mike transformed into the Magna Defender. They stood side by side with the five turtles and the two girls.
"You bugs wanted our powers? Let's see how you handle them." Damon said as he gestured toward the modified Sting Wingers. Together the fourteen of them headed moved forward to engage the monsters.
Deviot hated what he was seeing. Andros and Audrey were fighting side by side with their bladed weapons taking out Sting Wingers. TJ and Evie were doing the same thing even though the blue Auradon ranger had to use her shield and was bashing more than slashing. Carlos the space ranger and Jay were slashing with their weapons. Carlos the Auradon ranger was taking out the ones that Ashley couldn't take out with her Star Slinger. Lonnie was taking out the ones that Cassie could not take out with her Satellite Stunner.
And he still had Mal and Amber in front of him to worry about. "I'll make all of you pay." Deviot said and charged toward Mal. He tried to slash her with his sword but Mal blocked it and then tripped him up.
"The only one who will pay is you." Mal said, sounding a bit like her mother at that moment. "Not just you; your boss and everyone who has followed your boss in this destructive plan of his. For what you tried to do to my friends. For what you tried to do to Earth."
"This isn't over yet." Deviot retorted. "I would have preferred that my Sting Wingers had gotten their hands on the Quasar sabers but we can do this another way too." He raised his voice to be heard over the fight. "It's time to morph my wingers."
The seven Sting Wingers joined their claws together and shot out another energy blast at the six Galaxy Rangers, the Magna Defender and the turtle team. They all fell back hard. "That hurt." Damon noted. "I feel kind of drained from that too." He added though he saw that he was still morphed.
"I know what you mean." Kendrix assured him as she struggled to stand up too.
"I think I hit my head." Mikey said with a sigh. "My brain hurts."
"What brain?" Raph asked his youngest brother rhetorically.
"Oh guys. I think we have a new problem." April said now as the smoke cleared and she saw that the Sting Wingers had taken on a look that made them resemble Sting Winger rangers, one of them was even half covered in black armor like the Magna Defender.
"That can't be good." Red Ranger Leo said.
Deviot laughed. "Now why don't we try this again?" He asked rhetorically as more Sting Wingers appeared and charged the Auradon and Space Rangers. Meanwhile the new Sting rangers for lack of better terms attacked again.
"Well these things have gotten stronger." Shondra noted as she blocked her attacker with her Quasar saber. She tried to strike back but her opponent blocked the attack and kicked her back.
"Let's get back into this." Raph said to his friends only to have more Sting Wingers block their way. "Ah shell."
The yellow and pink Sting rangers struck the two girls back hard, and they were barely able to avoid a follow up stab. The blue one blocked the saber strike from Kai and jabbed him in the chest hard with both blades. The green one tried to decapitate Damon but he dodged under the blow only to receive a kick to his chin.
"Mal we have to get over there and help them." Will said to their leader.
"We have to get by the Sting Wingers first." Carlos reminded him.
"Looks like you should have brought more helpers Power Rangers." Deviot taunted them with a laugh.
"Wait a minute, we did." Mal said with a smile. "And in just a minute you're going to meet them."
"Impossible." Deviot responded. "I can count just fine girl. There are seven of you, as it has been for quite a long time. There are no more."
"Is that along the same thought that you thought all of the rangers had been taken care of?" Lonnie asked now. "Because if that's how you're basing your process of elimination than it just proves how foolish your assumptions really are."
"Enough talk." Deviot growled. "I've had enough of your…" Whatever he was about to say was cut off as Miranda and Grant kicked him in the chest hard and sent him sprawling backwards.
Amy was by her twin sister. "I got your psychic message Mal. I guess we can be useful after all." She said.
"You're always useful Amy." She reminded her little sister and then to all of her team mates, also reaching out to touch Ben's arm. "Change of plans guys. Audrey, Jay, Carlos, Evie, Lonnie and Ben with me. Let's help the Galaxy Rangers deal with those wannabe rangers. Miranda, lead the rest of the team against these Sting Wingers."
"Sounds like plan to me Mal." Miranda said.
"Melody and I will deal with Deviot." Jane said to her and the orange ranger nodded in agreement.
"Then let's get to work." Mal said and the team split up. Amy started to help Cassie out, Ally started to help out Ashley, Aziz went over to help Carlos, TJ had some help cooling the Sting Wingers around him from Ellie while Andros started to heat up the battle with help from Alex.
"Where did you all come from?" Deviot growled as he tried to strike at Jane.
Melody blocked his attack with the trident she used, originally from her grandfather King Triton. "I kind of came from the sea actually. What roach infested nest did you come from?" She questioned as Jane kicked him backwards.
"What kind of world would produce twenty power rangers?" Deviot wondered. The fact that Ben, Ellie and Alex were technically not power rangers was beside the point.
Jane wanted to respond by saying it had to be a good world but the response would not come. If a world was truly good then why did it need protecting, especially from twenty chosen warriors. But it was Melody who replied, "A world that knows it needs to be protected, and considering how many rangers have been made here it seems like it was a good call."
Mal and her team fought their way through the Sting Wingers with help from their other friends. Mal gave a wave of thanks to Ruby for her big help with that, and more importantly in some ways her hair whip. They jumped out and kicked the insect rangers. "You may have a taste of their powers, but let's see how you handle ours."
The insect rangers attacked. Mal found herself blocking both bladed attacks from her opponent with her dragon's eye staff, as did Evie with her own mirror force shield. Carlos and Lonnie were blocking and riposting with claw daggers and hurricane tessens respectively. Jay had a more difficult time doing so with only his soul scimitar but was keeping it together. Audrey used her cheerleading skills to dodge her own opponent and try to take him out with arrows from her elemental bow.
The insect ranger that faced off against kept on slashing and he kept on blocking with his shield but wasn't having much luck. Without much else to work with Ben did what he admittedly thought he should have done in the first place by pulling out the Praeleanthor sword.
Its power attracted Deviot even though his battle against Jane and Melody was about as far as they could get and still be in combat. "What? That weapon, here?" He couldn't help but ask.
"How does he know about that?" Melody wondered as she glanced at Jane. The white Auradon ranger could only shrug uncertainly.
"The civilization the weapon came from, as well as the demon race it was created to combat, is better known here than they are in Auradon." Amber explained. "It's look and architecture are similar in structure. I think that's why."
Ben started to fight his opponent and found the armor was pretty durable, much as his own was. "We need to get some kind of edge against these guys." He said to Mal. "Before they find one on us."
Leo watched Audrey as she dodged out of the way of another attack but had to switch from long range attacks to using her bow short range, which is why not for the first time she was glad that the edges were sharp enough to serve as weapons. But it still didn't seem to be enough. Then he had an idea. "Come on guys, let's get to the rangers." He said to them.
"What good will that do?" Damon asked him. "They can handle us just fine."
"Yeah I know." Leo said as they all came up in front of their counterparts, though Mal thought it looked a bit weird to see Jay and Damon, different colors but basically the same ranger positions, standing side by side. "But I don't think they can handle both of our powers."
"So we fight side by side then." Carlos deduced.
"Not this time." Leo said to them and then extended his Quasar saber to Audrey. "You can use the Quasar sabers to combine your powers with ours. You guys can temporarily become the Auradon Galaxy Rangers."
Maya, Kendrix, Shondra and Kai understood immediately and offered their Quasar sabers to Carlos, Lonnie, Mal and Evie respectively. Damon hesitated a moment but offered his to Jay. Mike wasn't entirely sure if it would work the same way or not but offered his weapon to the king of Auradon.
After a moment Mal nodded and reached her free hand out, grasping the Quasar saber. Her team mates followed and grasped the sabers and then picking them up. They could feel the power flowing through them. Around their chests everyone except for Ben had the white and black patterns of the Galaxy Rangers appear.
"You have to admit this looks cool." Carlos said. It wasn't as obvious on Jay since he was already a black ranger but on the others it was and Evie had to agree with her friend.
"Let's hope it's more than just a great fashion statement." Audrey said. She looked to Mal. "I say it's time we show those bug brains a thing or two."
"I agree with you Audrey." Mal said as the seven of them turned to the insect rangers. "One more time."
Again the Auradon Rangers went after the insect rangers. This time Lonnie, Carlos, Audrey and Mal battled with their natural weapon and the Quasar sabers. Evie found herself battling like Ben would, Quasar saber in one hand and mirror force shield in the other. Ben however was battling just like Jay was with the dual blades of their own and their borrowed weapons.
After a moment Kendrix noted that as long as they were doing this they might as well go full blast. "I bet you guys can use the lights of Orion. Just hold out the Quasar sabers and call out for them." She instructed the Auradon Rangers.
"I think it's worth a try." Lonnie voiced as she looked to Mal. "Maybe in conjunction with our neon armor it will be enough to overpower these insect creatures."
Mal nodded. "Let's do it guys." She decided. The six of them held up the Quasar sabers and called out. "Lights of Orion activate!" The lights responded to their commands and they found themselves in the same Orion upgrades that the Galaxy Rangers wore. Then with Ben beside them they turned around and called out, "Neon Armor activate." The now neon colored Auradon Orion rangers stood ready.
"Well if that doesn't do it, I don't know what will." Kai commented.
With lightning speed the six Auradon Rangers and the Auradon Knight moved in and attacked again. This time it was the insect rangers that were on the defensive, barely having the speed to block their attacks and being unable to mount an effective counterattack.
"I have an idea." Lonnie said as she looked to her teammates. "Fall back a second." She looked to Ben. "You first your majesty."
Ben nodded and with speed dashed forward and slashed them all down hard. He heard the ever present mystery voice from his weapon say Use Us and he turned around and tossed the Praeleanthor sword as hard as he could where the semi-sentient weapon slashed through them before returning to the Auradon Knight.
"Now I say we move in." Jay stated.
"I say we do too." Mal agreed. They dashed toward the Insect Rangers and with the combined speed of their neon armor and the Lights of Orion they impacted with the creatures and destroyed them, emerging on the other side as the smoke and fire cleared.
"You're out of luck Deviot." Jane said to him.
"Not as long as I'm still standing ranger." Deviot retorted.
"Yeah, I plan on changing that right now." Melody told him as she kicked him backwards. He stumbled and turned to glare at the aqua ranger but that was all the distance she needed. She charged up as much power as she could into the trident before tossing it right at him. Before he could figure out what to do it cut right through him and he too fell in a blaze of fiery destruction.
"About time we got one of those clowns." Raph stated. Goldar, Scorpina, Gasket, Archerinna, Bladerunner, Darkonda and possibly even Lokar had all escaped their last encounter.
The rangers all powered down and then returned their weapons back to their rightful owners. "That's some feeling, those Lights of Orion." Carlos noted. "Never felt anything like that before."
"There's a lot we don't really know about them." Maya said. "Only that for a long while we had Furio looking for them too, as well as the original Magna Defender." She rubbed her throat a bit, it still hurting a little from Deviot all but strangling her.
"Will you be okay?" Amy asked the yellow Galaxy Ranger.
"I'll be fine." She promised the rose haired girl.
"How do you think Deviot knew we were on our way to help?" Shondra now asked them.
"It might have just been obvious." Donnie said to her simply. They had to take a moment to reprocess the large talking turtle though in truth they had seen stranger and far worse things as Power Rangers. "I mean whoever set up this large scale attack has so far anticipated every variable in the books, except for the Auradon Rangers."
"And I'd guess that's only because we don't belong in this universe. Without Renet we couldn't be here right now." Jane added.
"I think our ship is done for though." Damon noted. He looked to Andros. "Hey, I don't suppose we can hitch a ride with you guys to Earth?"
Andros laughed a little. "Consider it done guys." He said.
"So if you were out here, what happened to the Triceratons? To Earth?" Kendrix now asked them.
"We sent the Triceratons packing." Evie answered with a laugh. She was kind of overselling it since their victory had not exactly been an easy one. "So far in addition to you guys and the Space Rangers we've also helped the Zeo Rangers and the Power Rangers."
"Sounds like there's more work that needs to get done then." Leo said. "So let's hit the road."
The four various teams returned to the Megaship. Andros suggested the Galaxy Rangers take the time to clean up before they reached Earth as the ship continued on its way to Earth. Their next fight was just hours ahead of them…