Going to skip ahead to the finale though I might come back and fill up the legacy chapters later on. I do give brief overviews of those events though so as not to leave complete blanks.
The Astro Megaship flew out of Earth's atmosphere and headed toward the dark side of the moon. They had some time before they got there though which was good because it gave them some time to reflect on everything that had been happening.
"I can't believe it." Mal said. "So many things we had to worry about."
"And we thought this was going to be such a simple task." Jay commented with a laugh. "I mean stopping the world from being destroyed by the black hole generator, making sure all of the rangers stayed alive and restore their powers."
"We learned more than we ever thought we would." Lonnie said softly as she thought about the story that Kimberly had told them. One monster who had managed to kill both Trini the original yellow ranger and David, Tommy's brother who had taken the mantle of the green ranger as Tommy had taken on several other powers since then. "I always knew what we did was dangerous but to hear rangers have actually been lost. It's kind of eye opening."
There was also the matter of demons that had been part of the attack on Mariner Bay, home of the Lightspeed Rangers. It hadn't just been Bansheera, nor had she used her own minions but rather the demons of the hell that had resulted in the creation of several weapons such as the Praeleanthor sword. "Who do you think the demons were addressing before we broke in?" Will wondered. "They were after something, but who messed things up for them?"
"You mean besides us?" Carlos questioned with a laugh. They had thoroughly defeated the demons at Mariner Bay. He had found it hilarious that someone else had messed up the demons plans.
"I guess you guys have learned more about what we've been through than you ever wanted to know." Amber noted with slight amusement. That might have been a bit of an exaggeration considering how many enemies had resurfaced. Scorpina, Goldar, Lokar, Gasket, Archerinna for starters. They had all gotten away from their fights.
Others hadn't fared so well but had none the less shown up again. They had met the three Mut-orgs, Orgs that had once been gifted with mutant DNA from the former criminal Ransik. The three of them had struck an alliance with the pink Time Force ranger Jen's former partner Steelix to ambush both the Time Force and Wild Force rangers, they had only avoided being killed in the trap thanks to Mal and her team helping to defeat them.
Vexacus, a shark like bounty hunter who worked with Lothor had also returned and sought revenge against the Ninja Storm rangers and had received a rather large power up in turns of size, making him much more durable and bulky but he had also been destroyed by a combination of Mal, Audrey and Shane's battlizers.
Zeltrax had also returned with a monster dangerous enough to even beat their purple Dino Thunder Ranger Lindsey. That time though Mal and her team hadn't gone alone; Tommy's old friends Jason, Kat and Kimberly had gone with them to help. It had taken the both Mal and Audrey's battlizers, as well as the rest of the team to use the Auradon Triangle blast to take out that monster. Jason and Tommy had supposedly gotten Zeltrax though there was some doubt about that one all things considered.
Nightmare Terrors and the Hidiack's had been almost as dangerous as it had possessed all the powers of its predecessors the ten terrors. It had taken the combined magic's of the Mystic Force Rangers and the Auradon team from the smallest amount of magic in those like Audrey and Ben to the strong but untrained talents of those like Mal and Jane to stop it.
Volcaron, the father of Moltar and Glacia the daughter of Flurious had proved to be dangerous allies, and despite their son and father not getting along the two of them had been able to work well together, revenge being a very common desire among them. Kamdor's presence had made it even more difficult to defeat them. It had taken all twenty rangers and the Overdrive Rangers to finally overwhelm and destroy their united front.
It hadn't required that many rangers to beat the resurrected Dai Shi, which was a good thing because they hadn't had nearly as many rangers as they had anticipated. Dai Shi had used his new found power to take over the minds of both Jarrod and Camille as former minions and make them fight against the Jungle Fury rangers. The spirit animals of both the Jungle Fury Rangers and the Auradon Rangers had helped weaken the returning monster enough to free their two friends and defeat him though.
The hardest had been helping the Samurai rangers, as they not only fought a normal battle against Umbral Masquerade and the Moogers but they had to scramble to find a cure for Serena the purple Samurai ranger and the older sister of Emily the yellow Samurai ranger. She had been sick for a while. The purple rangers had had to go on a separate quest to find a way to cure her while the rest of the battle had gone on. They had barely saved her life, but once it had worked the purple rangers unleashed a fury that brought the newly christened leader of the Nighloks down.
Perhaps the most disturbing though was going to help the Megaforce rangers, for there was nothing to help with. Although Troy, Gia, Emma, Noah, Jake and Orion had indeed been defeated what was left of the Armada lead by Lisra had left. It had been concluded somehow she had learned the Trirceratons had failed and that there would be more than six rangers in their way to stop them. It meant they were still out there and ready to cause another problem.
But that wasn't there big concern right now. The first priority was dealing with the one responsible for all of this; the Triceratons almost succeeding in destroying the Earth, the resurrection of the villains, the near deaths of their friends. "So who is this guy again?" Ellie asked now. "This Ivan Ooze."
"He was an intergalactic despot that ruled a galaxy some six thousand years ago before he was sealed away by Zordon and his allies." Tommy explained to them now. "Zedd and Rita freed him and he tried to take over the Earth."
"Ecliptor told me stories about Ivan Ooze too when I was being raised as Astronema." Karone added. "Even he wasn't sure how much of that was fact and how much was myth. I don't know if Dark Specter or Darkonda even know about him for sure."
"The things that we all learn." Kim said to her with a small smile before facing the rest of the group. "Last we knew he had been destroyed by a comet that was passing Earth at that time." Kim added.
"I think that's what saved him actually." Evie now voiced. "He was supposed to be this weird purple ooze. If some part of him survived on that comet and retained his intelligence he could have eventually reformed himself. It 'd take time but…"
"But more than enough of it has passed, and we never saw it coming because we had other things that we knew for fact were alive." Tommy finished and shook his head. "I guess we shouldn't have ruled him out after all."
"But he's had more than enough time to prepare for most of us." Andros said grimly. "Everyone but you guys." He looked to Mal. "Because you don't exist in our world. Other than that he seemed to have thought of everything needed to put the Power Rangers to an end."
"And he even got a good ringside show apparently." Jay said. "Some kind of structure on the dark side of the moon." That was why they were heading toward the moon at that moment at maximum hyper rush velocity.
And by they it translated to a huge group. The twenty Auradon rangers; the seven Space Rangers; the seven Power Rangers and the five Ninja Turtles. Raph and Donnie had to fight hard to keep Jennifer and April from coming along with them and in the end it had been Karai to convince them to stay behind, mostly with the promise of them working with the Mutanimals to hunt down the Foot Clan while they were recovering from the Triceraton attack.
They weren't sure what they would find but seeing the rock like ship hidden just above the moon's orbit was not it. Carlos scanned the ship and let out a whistle. "This Ivan Ooze has apparently been doing his homework or something. I don't know what I'm seeing but Ivan Ooze isn't alone on that ship." He told them.
"What kind of life forms are you seeing?" Jane asked him.
"I…I don't know." Carlos admitted. "I've never seen these signs before." He frowned. "In truth I'm not even sure I'd call them life." At confused looks he tried to explain, "I only found them on a UV scan. They didn't show up otherwise."
"What does that mean?" The son of Cruella wondered. "Some weird new form of life?"
No one responded a moment and then Ally threw out her own thought, "Or they aren't alive to start with." She proposed.
"Machines?" Donnie wondered enthusiastically. Then he shook his head. "No, that can't be it. You would have found something else to go with those; energy patterns or something."
"Zombies." Mikey said with a shriek. "The living dead come to eat our brains."
"You'll be fine then." Raph commented idly and Mal couldn't help but snicker at that one.
Jason leaned in closer to Carlos and whispered, "Anything else? Any kind of energy or something?"
Carlos shook his head. "Nope, nothing like that. These aren't the former human security guys that the demons have used before." He said. That was one thing to be relieved about at least.
"Alright then." Mal said as she stood up and looked at her team mates, her friends, her family. She went over and wrapped an arm around Amy's slim shoulders. The action made her sister feel special and at the same time a bit annoyed, being they were twins and essentially the same age. Still she could never turn away signs of love from her older sister. "We'll go with the Turtles to take a look around." She looked to the power rangers. "You're our back up in case we need it, plan b as it were." She looked to the Space Rangers. "You're plan c or the ones who will be using a megazord if we need it." They nodded as well. "So let's get to work."
The five turtles and the twenty rangers transported down to into the ship, as far away from signs of life as Cassie could find.
"If these things aren't normal demons then what the shell are they?" Raph wanted to know as he glanced around. Some were darker than others and he wondered what that meant but aside from the difference in skin color they seemed to be the exact same monsters.
"Oh, gross." Audrey muttered as her hands touched purple slime. "I am so glad this doesn't seep through the costumes, or that it seems to self-clean." It seemed to be an unspoken benefit to the morphing grid; the costumes always came out looking nice and new and had since the days where Jason and the others were the first group of rangers.
"Be glad for that." Donnie said as he shook some off of his own arm.
"Dude we live in a sewer." Mikey reminded him. "We see some pretty bad stuff man."
"Quiet." Mal said softly. They all saw that one of them seemed to look around at them. Up close the face of this creature seemed to almost be like that of the Predator from the aforementioned movies. It started over to where they were trying to hide.
"What do we do now?" Carlos asked quietly.
Before Mal could figure out a response she heard Amy gasp in shock and turned to see another one of the creatures had found them from behind and not five seconds later all of them in the area were rushing over toward them.
"Not cool dude." Mikey said as the one near Amy leapt at her before the orange masked turtle kicked it in the chest. "Sneaking up on us is just so wrong."
Audrey raised her elemental bow and shot at two of them with fire arrows. They didn't seem to like it that much but it didn't deter them too much. One of them leapt at Audrey but the red Auradon ranger rolled out of the way and might have ran smack into the other one if Jay didn't move in and slash it with his soul scimitar. It didn't seem to care about that attack either.
Ellie unleashed a burst of ice at an approaching creature but it simply shook it off. "We need an idea before these things try to tear us apart."
"Too late for that one." Lonnie noted as she dodged under one of the claw swipes of the creature. She came up with her hurricane tessens but it took the attacks pretty well, far better than the pink Auradon ranger had honestly hoped for.
"So where exactly is this Ooze guy?" Ben asked. One of the creatures reached the Auradon Knight and the future king used the Praeleanthor blade to slash it, for the first time that he could remember his opponent didn't seem to be too worried about it.
"These must be his guards or something." Will noted as the green Auradon ranger blocked with his four pronged blade like sword. His own maneuver with his weapon allowed him to take off the right arm but it only roared in annoyance and tried to take him out with his free arm.
Amy could barely feel anything beyond the hostility of the creatures surrounding her. It was odd in a way because all beings had a complex range of emotion at any given point and yet these things did not. "If I didn't know better I'd think these things were already dead." She said to those nearest her in this case Alex, Aquiella, Melody and Mikey.
"Isn't that impossible?" Melody asked her friend. "I mean, aside from the obvious zombie demons that we've seen before?"
"I guess anything is possible, we should know that by now." Aquiella reminded her. "I just wish we knew how to defeat or drive these things away, they've taken so many of our hits and they don't even acknowledge them." As if to prove her point she tossed her aqua boomerang toward a few of them and it struck them all but they simply took the hits and kept on coming.
Alex turned two of them and raised his fire tonfa's before swiping at one of them. It reacted just a bit as the other had to Audrey's fire arrows but not enough. He had to flip back to avoid a double team attack. "Well they don't like fire." He noted. "But not enough for it to matter. How can we capitalize on that?"
"I wish I knew." Amy admitted as she slashed at one with her rose lance and felt annoyed to see how little the creature cared.
"Hmm wait a minute." Donnie mused. "They don't like fire. And we found them here on the dark side of the moon." He looked around at everyone. "I have this feeling that they would hate the sun. If we could somehow give them a dose of the sun, or at least some UV rays, we might be able to send these things running."
"Great, got a UV filter handy?" Raph pointed out annoyed.
"You do have the next best thing." Jordan pointed out. "Okay everyone, time to put the primary weapons away and go with the blasters." She waved her arm and shot out a small burst of magical energy. Their blasters ended up with small almost flashlight looking things on the top but these ones glowed blue. "UV blasters."
"This will only take forever." Aziz noted dryly as he let his Spiral Spear fade away and draw his blaster. Beside him Ally did the same thing with her crystal cards.
"Hate to say it Jordan but he's right." Leo commented as he slashed his katana's at one of the creatures. "And that doesn't help my brothers and I."
"Jordan, what if we combined our magic?" Jane asked her. "We might be able to summon a mini sun."
"The more the merrier." Mal said as she and Amy joined them.
"That might work." Jordan agreed. "Okay, everyone cover us for a few minutes."
Audrey aimed her own UV equipped blaster at one of the creatures and it recoiled away a little, bringing its hand up as if protecting itself from the sun. The skin of the creature seemed to fizzle just a little bit. "Hey, it's working. They hate these things." She remarked.
Ellie and Miranda fired at the one that Audrey had temporarily blinded and it fell back but was getting up a moment later. "They may dislike these things." The Highlands ranger noted. "But they also seem te take our blasts like nothing."
"Then let's get that sun spell going." Jane said as she saw Carlos raise his own blaster to blind one of the creatures. Evie and Lonnie blasted that one with the same results. "Thick skinned things aren't they?"
"Or just very determined." Ruby noted as she raised her own blaster. "Single minded."
"Well it's feeling we all know more than enough about." Evie reminded her. "So let's give M and the others the cover they need to send these freakish things packing." The others nodded and began to take turns blinding or sniping them. It might not have been as effective as they liked but it kept them busy. The attacks from the Turtles didn't hurt matters either.
The two dark half fairies, the one light half fairy and the genie combined their own powers. "Where the sting of flame is not enough, we call upon the rays of dawn to show us our enemies true reserves." The four chanted almost out of nowhere.
Even more out of nowhere was the small sun that started to form right under the four female rangers. Within moments it floated upwards and started to grow brighter and stronger. Evie personally wondered where the little mini sun was getting the solar energy it needed to grow on the dark side of the moon but decided that little detail just didn't matter at the moment as it rose higher and grew stronger.
The creatures around them stopped their attacks and let out growls that if Miranda didn't know any better were screeches of pain and frustration as if annoyed that they were being forced to be driven away. Many of them started to run but the sun only grew brighter and aside from craters on the moon there was no place for the things to hide. Although somewhat surprising at how anti climatic it seemed none of them were going to complain too much about the fact the sun seemed to defeat them, leaving nothing but the already more or less lifeless bodies behind.
Still Mikey shrugged, "That was anti semantic." He noted.
"I think you mean anti climatic." Aziz corrected the orange masked turtle.
"And here I was thinking that the Volatiles on the dark side of the moon was a great idea." They heard someone say from above them. They glanced up to see the violet skinned horned villain hovering over them. He pointed one of his long fingered nails down at them. "I thought I had the perfect plan too. Unite the villains to destroy the powers and then use the Triceratons to end Earth once and for all. In fact I'm willing to bet anything it worked." He glared at Mal and the Auradon Rangers. "If not for you meddling kids."
"And they have a dog too." Mikey added though the reference was lost on the visiting rangers as they only looked at him strangely.
"I guess you need to do your homework next time." Jay called out to him.
Lonnie looked to Audrey. "Should Jay really be talking about doing homework?" The pink Auradon ranger questioned her friend which only drew a small laugh from the red Auradon ranger.
"Ah well, I can still make it all happen." Ivan Ooze stated as he started to slowly descend down toward them. "Once I rid this side of the galaxy of you pesky brats I can get the band back together again and we can track down those black hole generator pieces and then this time make it stick."
"Again do your homework, or at least do the math." Aziz countered. "There's one of you and twenty four of us."
Ivan Ooze released his hands and from his fingertips shot out purple streaks of lightning that struck them all down hard. When they looked up he had summon Tengu warriors that were heading straight toward them.
"Didn't we deal with these bird brains already?" Ruby asked as she twirled her hair into a lasso of sorts.
"We totally did." Audrey replied. "And oh btw he so needs a manicure like super bad."
But as they discovered these bird warriors were far quicker and stronger than the Tenga warriors that Goldar, Scorpina and Lokar had been using in Angel Grove. As they moved in Mal was greeted by a sharp jab to the chest that sent her flying.
"You just had to try to ruin everything." Ivan Ooze stated. "And now you're going to regret it. And by the way, purple looks horrid on you."
"You have got to be kidding me." Mal replied as she stood up and summoned her dragon's eye staff. "I make the ensemble work. You look like a cross between purple bubble gum and my mother's taste in fashion." She jabbed at the evil tyrant who took a step back and then caught the staff before tossing the purple Auradon ranger over his head.
"One by one you will all fall for what you have done." Ivan vowed. He unleashed another burst of energy at Mal but Evie was in front of her chosen sister now. She raised her mirror force shield and blocked the majority of the attack. Even so the blue Auradon ranger fell backwards and slammed into their leader.
"Not so fast there Ooze." Jason called out as the red ranger kicked him in the chest. This was followed moments later by similar strikes from the black and yellow rangers and then the pink and blue rangers. "We won't let you win that easily."
"Ah well if it isn't some of the pesky rangers that defeated me last time." Ooze remarked and then gestured around them. "Notice this time there are no comets around to give you a helping hand this time."
"He's not wrong." Aisha noted to Billy and Kim, the only ones who had been there that first time. Ooze couldn't exactly know that Rocky and Adam were on Earth with the zeo team.
"We're more than a six ranger team now." Jason pointed out. As if proving the point Mal and Evie were now up and beside them. "We've got more power now and you've already underestimated us once; it's why we're here after all."
"So what's the plan?" Evie asked them.
Mal thought she had an idea and she glanced at Jason. It seemed he too might have had the same idea. "Guys, we need to end this. Time for blaster mode C." She called out. It almost seemed weird to say it that way but they had a few different assemblies for that weapon and Mal figured it was best to go with the strongest option and hope it would be enough.
Alex used a burst of flames to move some Tengu away so that Amy could make her way to her twin sister. "My hero." Amy said jokingly to her boyfriend as she followed up on his opening. Alex only laughed and took a small bow.
Ellie and Miranda moved in to allow Audrey and Jay to make their way over. Will flipped his blade to swing it one handed so that he could carve a path for him and Lonnie to make it over. Ally withdrew her crystal cards and tossed them all around, those were very good distractions indeed.
"And what is it you think you're all going to do?" Ivan questioned as they assembled together. "Remember how easily I sent you all scattering the first time?" He raised his arms to blast at the rangers.
Two shuriken flew out and slashed across him arms. Then Donnie and Mikey were in front of him, using bo staff and nunchuck to knock his arms to the side. "I remembered quiet well." Donnie promised him as he set his staff on the ground and delivered a flying kick to his chest.
Again the red ranger and the purple Auradon ranger looked at each other and then in perfect synch called out, "Let's bring them together."
Zack flipped his axe into cannon mode and tossed it into the air. "Power Axe." Kim was next with her own weapon, "Power Bow." Aisha tossed her weapons where they attached on top. "Power Daggers." Billy split his lance and attached them. "Power Lance." Finally it fell to Jason who placed his sword in the middle. "Power sword." He landed with the power blaster with the other four rangers on either side of him. "Power Blaster."
Mal held out her dragon's eye staff gem pointed out. Audrey placed her elemental bow underneath it. The clam shell around Evie's mirror force shield extended as she placed it in back. Jay placed his soul scimitar in the middle while on either side Lonnie placed her hurricane tessens, Amy split her rose lance into two and placed them, and Carlos placed his claw daggers. Just underneath the assembled weapon Will placed his recursive blade with the four pointed ends facing outward. "Auradon Blaster."
Together the two teams of ranger's leveled their blasters and fired just as Mikey and Donnie did a backflip to get out of the way of the approaching attacks. It struck Ivan Ooze and he fell back but it didn't destroy him. "What now?" Evie asked.
Mal looked to Audrey. "Battlizer time." She said and the red Auradon ranger nodded.
Mal's armor assemble all over her body. Claws grew up over the armored hands and thin tendrils formed on her helmet. Audrey glowed with a mixture of red and pinks. She felt earrings slip out of her helmet and long elegant silk like ribbons emerged from over her shoulders, and the colored crystals that resembled her earring growing around her waist and then moving all around it like a skirt.
Together the two armored Auradon rangers soared into the sky. Mal raised her dragon's eye staff and unleashed a bombardment of energy as Audrey twirled around almost like doing a ballet pirouette and unleashed multiple diamonds at Ooze.
Despite being two rangers short in the formation Evie looked to the rest of her team and the Rangers again. "Let's try this again." She suggested. Everyone nodded their agreement and again unleashed the powers of the Auradon blaster and the Power Blaster.
The three energies combined struck in overwhelming amounts that would be impossible for anyone to withstand and that seemed to include Ivan Ooze as he exploded in a combination of fiery bursts and purple slime that luckily avoided hitting anyone. Still it didn't stop Audrey from saying, "And again so gross."
Mikey and Aziz fell flat on their faces as they swipe at Tengu only for them to vanish. Raph and Jordan couldn't help but laugh at that antic even as Ally rushed over to check on her boyfriend.
"I'd say that mission accomplished guys." Leo said as he and Jason exchanged high fives.
"And a stupendous," Mikey started and this time Carlos and Jay joined him much to the chagrin of their female companions. "Booyakasha!"
They returned to the megaship where the Space Rangers were glad to hear that Ivan Ooze had been defeated and his plan averted. The return to Earth was even more grand as they united with the other rangers, the Mutanimals and the rest of the turtle team.
"You guys did it!" Renet said happily as she looked to all of them even though she hugged Mikey. "You stopped the destruction of Earth."
"I wish we had the time to celebrate that." Ruby noted. Usually they tried to celebrate after a victory like this but despite the win it couldn't be quiet called a complete victory.
"Thanks to you Renet for bringing the Auradon Rangers here." Tommy said and then looked to the Auradon team. "And you guys for going through all of this. I know Auradon needed you."
"You needed us more." Mal replied with a smile. "There was no way we were going to stand by and let some horn headed dinosaurs and some ooze spouting freak take out our friends."
"This came at a good time for us anyway." Jordan pointed out. "I mean, we had just sent an old foe of ours packing and Maleficent had been kind of quiet. On top of that we had the pastel powers to leave behind for everyone too."
"I hope they didn't have to use those powers." Jane admitted. "They are only temporary ones."
"Unfortunately we still have the black hole generator pieces to find and destroy before the Triceratons get their hands on them again." Rockwell reminded them all.
"Not to worry." Cassie replied. "We saw the Ulysses, Professor Honeycutt's ship, coming into the system. I'm sure he'll take the Turtles out to find the pieces."
"And we'll be with them too." Andros said. He looked to Tommy and Jason.
The red ranger and black dino ranger nodded. "We can keep the Earth safe while you guys are gone." Tommy confirmed.
"And the Mutanimals will keep New York safe from the Foot and whoever else tries to cause trouble in the meantime." Slash promised and beside him Leatherhead and Candy nodded.
"We'll also figure out what happened to Lisra and her fleet and if we have to we'll put them down too." Emily said. "With help from the mega force rangers of course."
"I wish we could stay around and help you all." Evie admitted.
"You have your world to worry about, just like we have ours." Karone replied with complete understanding. "But we also know if we need you that you guys will come running."
"Just like you've done for us on more than one occasion." Ally replied with a smile of her own.
Mal and Amber exchanged smiles as well before looking to her teammates and wrapping her arms around one of Ben's. "Come on guys. Let's go home." Renet opened the time portal for them and with a wave at their now very much alive friends they stepped through to return to Auradon.