The Final Battle Part Five
Rita seethed as she rolled across the lunar soil, before staggering to a stop. The nerve of that pesky robot! Once she got her hands on him, she would turn him to a heap of metal scrap!
She huffed, standing up and dusting her gown.
No matter how many rangers showed up, she would never stop till she reclaimed her destiny.
She summoned her staff. It was already done. Her past self was free and soon, the world would be theirs to claim.
Coloured beams landed before her, heralding the arrival of the seven morphin rangers, and their two new companions, who eerily looked a lot like those two bumbling bullies who were constantly lurking around the rangers back in the old days.
"It is over." Jason told her.
"Aah, rangers. That is where you are mistaken!" She cackled. "Have you already forgotten I did succeed in freeing my past self. Together we will rewrite history!"
"I am afraid you are not updated on recent events, Robo Rita." She turned around at the unfamiliar voice to see nine other rangers walk casually towards them, one of the black rangers dumping something to the ground. Rita's eyes widened as she recognized it. The same dumpster she had been imprisoned by Zordon for ten thousand years.
"What did you do!" She snarled as she sensed slumbering life forms within the object.
"We fixed what you broke. The timeline has been restored." The pink ranger in the middle of the new group said calmly.
"Saying you are outnumbered would be an understatement." Billy sneered. "Give up."
"Never!" She yelled, raising her staff, only to be hit by a blast from Kim's blade blaster, forcing her to drop it.
She fumed. It cannot be over, not like this.
Just then, a dark blur broke through the ranks of the rangers, sending them flying back. She smirked as Minotaur helped her up to her feet.
"What? I thought I destroyed that guy!" Kim scoffed, getting up.
"Shattered circuits won't keep a mad bull down!" The monster grunted.
"It seems the tables have turned rangers!" Rita jeered, picking up her staff and ramming it against the monster. "Magic Wand, make my monster GROW!"
Another shockwave forced the assembled rangers flying across the barren terrain as the Minotaur towered over them, glowing with crimson energies.
"What do we do?" Tommy asked. "We don't have our zords!"
"But we do." The red Hyperforce ranger said. "We will take care of this monster, Dr O. You and your team handle Rita."
"Right." He nodded as the Hyperforce rangers raised their arms. "CHRONOS HYPERFORCE MEGAZORD NOW!"
They watched as a time portal opened and seven zords exited- a lion, Cerberus, snake, phoenix, garuda, hydra and a ram, before they quickly merged to form a megazord, which promptly tackled Minotaur, only to be blasted back by a bolt of red lightning.
"Rita has supercharged that monster with chaos energy." Priya noted
"Then let's give them a helping hand." Jen nodded at the other three Time Force rangers.
"Shadow Winger!" Cyra shouted. The sun was momentarily eclipsed as a white jet flew overhead, firing lasers at Minotaur, before transforming into a megazord. Cyra jumped into the cockpit. "TIME SHADOW MEGAZORD!"
"Time Flyer 5!" Jen shouted, jumping into her own zord.
"Time Flyer 6!" Priya followed suit.
"Q Rex Drill!" Matthias summoned as a silver and blue zord modelled after a tyrannosaurus with a drill as its' tail, popped out of another time portal.
Tommy and Billy looked at each other, identifying it as the same zord used by Orion the Silver Super Megaforce Ranger while the silver Time Force ranger teleported into the cockpit of the zord.
The zord rammed its drill against Minotaur, who tried to block it with his shield only for it to shatter. He let loose an energy wave, sending it skidding back.
"Q Rex Dino Mode, activate!" The zord took on a form resembling the Dragonzord, joining the other megazords as they faced the chaos charged monster.
"Ah, brings back memories!" Rita drawled, drawing their attention back to her.
"Shut up!" Minh snapped at her, throwing her daggers at her, only for Rita to swat them away with her staff. The daggers rematerialized in the yellow ranger's hands as the witch laughed.
"You can't win this." Zack warned.
"Quit with the pessimism, power brats!" She scoffed. "Aren't you the ones who always drone on about never giving up!"
She slammed her staff on the ground, sending crimson energies into the lunar soil. The rangers took a step back as the ground shook and explosions rocked around them.
"Minh!" Zack screamed as he saw the yellow ranger hit the ground hard.
"I am okay, uncle Zack." She called back, clutching her head as she stood up.
"Not for long!" Rita laughed as rocks and boulders lifted from the ground, hovering in the air before smashing against their bodies.
"Enough!" Jason yelled, brandishing his power sword, cutting through a boulder, and running at Rita, only for the ground to twist underneath. He looked back to see vague deformed hands holding his feet. Jason tried to kick it off, only for a head to burst out of the ground as well and soon, an entire body. It was a crude golem, rocks and soil glued together by crimson energies.
"Meet my new putties, rangers!" She snarled as the putty threw him back like a ragdoll.
"Jason!" Tommy yelled, rushing to his side, and helping him up.
Other putties burst from the ground, surrounding the rangers.
"We can't let her escape, Tommy." Jason said as they saw her back away from the battlefield.
"We won't, not this time." Tommy promised. He ran through the army of putties, slicing through them with his dragon dagger and jumped in front of Rita.
"No where to go, Rita." He snarled.
"Oh Tommy, I created you, made you who you are, and yet at every step, you stand against me instead of fighting by my side!" She spat. "You are truly ungrateful!"
"And you are deluded." Tommy slashed at her with his dragon dagger, which she barely dodged. She sent a bolt of lightning at him, which he deflected with the dagger. "You did not create me. You used me like a puppet, violated my mind. Zordon and the others healed me, gave me purpose. I owe you nothing!"
"Then I will destroy you." She said, crimson tendrils shooting out of her staff towards him, too fast for him to dodge. Explosions tore through his armour as he fell on the rocky surface.
Rita stepped over him, her staff held high, glowing with crimson light.
"Goodbye Tommy!" She laughed, bringing it down, only for her to drop the staff midway.
Tommy saw the end of the power lance sticking out of her chest, the light dimming from her mechanical eyes. He crawled back as Billy withdrew the lance and Rita collapsed against the ground with an unceremonious thud.
"That's enough out of her." The blue ranger said, helping Tommy up.
They saw the other rangers battle the putties and Tommy narrowed his eyes underneath his helmet. A few putties ran towards them, only to be taken out by Kim's arrows. Billy gripped his lance, ready to jump back in the fight.
"Billy, if Rita is gone, shouldn't her spell fade away?" Tommy asked.
"That's… affirmative." Billy paused to look back at Rita's body. He took out his blade blaster with his other arm, Tommy doing the same as they fired at her body. The resulting explosion left nothing behind but scraps of metal and charred circuitry but the putties kept coming.
Laughter echoed across the battlefield as a crimson cloud gathered over them.
"Rita!" Tommy yelled.
"Did you think it would be that easy to destroy ME!" Rita's voice echoed disdainfully as lightning slammed against them, sending them rolling back.
"Billy! Tommy!" Kim yelled, punching through the chest of a putty and disintegrating it, before running towards them.
The cloud solidified into a new body, which was neither human nor robot though it still wore Rita's characteristic gown. Wooden splinters flew out of the wreckage of Rita's former robotic body as she fashioned it into a new staff.
"And I thought Rita couldn't get uglier!" Kim snorted.
Rita's skin was a sickly gold much like Master Vile's had been, her face serpentine and demonic, horns protruding from her forehead which resembled her trademark hair cones. Her fingers had extended into reptilian claws. From her back, crystalline thorns jutted out, making her hunch forward.
"Beauty is a small price to pay when it comes to absolute power!" She shrieked, pointing her staff at the three rangers, and firing dark energy at them.
Tommy raised his master morpher. "Shift into Turbo! Red Lightning Turbo Power!"
In a blur of red, he took hold of Kim and Billy, speeding them out of the way of the attack. The explosion left behind a giant crater.
"She is more powerful in this form!" Kim gasped. "This is impossible!"
"The chaos energy she freely used transformed her into something else… She is a true demon now, just like Lokar or Dark Specter!" Billy observed.
"An apt observation, Cranston!" She sneered.
"Whatever form you have, you are going down!" Tommy swore, raising his master morpher. "Zeo Ranger Five – Red!"
He launched a flurry of zeo charged kicks at the witch, who laughed, her body becoming gelatinous, rebounding the impact back to the red ranger, sending him flying back.
"White Ranger Power!" The shrill cry of the falcon pierced the sounds of battle as he transformed midair into the white ranger. The spectral wings of the falcon zord appeared behind his back, enabling him to land gracefully on the ground.
"Dino Thunder, Power Up!" He shouted, transforming again, this time into the black dino thunder ranger. He rotated his brachio staff, creating a forcefield that slammed against the witch. Unlike his previous attacks, the energy attack rocked her off balance and sent her flying back.
"Time to end this!" Tommy yelled, raising his master morpher again. "OMNI RANGER POWER!"
Spectral images of all his other ranger forms converged on his armour, granting him a new form. He was in a white ranger. Golden spikes like that of his Super Dino Mode ran down his arm. The dragon shield appeared over his chest and while like the one he wore as the green ranger, the symbols of the zeo rangers were inscribed on it. A golden phoenix wrapped around the V shaped visor, it's wings framing a grey faceplate, giving his helmet a regal look.
He raised his weapon, a broadsword, which had a hilt like Saba but otherwise resembled the Dragon dagger in design with golden ring patterns around it, like the brachio staff.
"Omni Sword!" He yelled, running up to Rita. She tried to block his sword with her staff, only for the sword to snap it into pieces before slashing down the middle of her body causing an explosion that sent both flying back.
Kim and Billy ran up to Tommy, helping him up while they saw Rita stagger to her feet in the distance, crimson fumes rising from her body.
Minh slashed her power daggers, slicing through a putty.
Zack swung his power axe, cutting through the three putties surrounding him.
Nancy clapped her hands together, creating a shockwave that tore through the putties.
Jason drove his power sword through the last remaining putty and watched the red energy fade away and the rocks composing its body crumble to dust.
The rangers regrouped as Rita stood up.
"It's time to end this!" Zack said.
"Let's bring them together!" Jason said. The original six rangers linked their weapons, white lightning coursing through each as they made contact.
"Power Axe!" Zack turned his axe into blaster mode before flinging it to the sky, where it hovered still.
"Power Bow!" Kim threw her bow, the weapon attaching on top of the barrel of the blaster.
"Power Daggers!" Minh yelled, following suit, the daggers attaching on each end of the bow.
"Power Lance!" Billy split his lance into twin blades, electricity cackling between them as he separated them before flinging them. The blades attached beside the daggers beneath the bow.
"Power Whip!" Nancy cast her whip, which stuck on top of the barrel of the axe blaster.
"Power Sword!" Jason jumped up, attaching the sword on top of the attached weapons, completing the blaster.
"Power Blaster!" He said, landing on the ground. The other five put their arms on his shoulder while Tommy readied his sword.
"Power Rangers!" They all yelled as the blaster let loose a powerful energy attack, which became six pillars of colourful lights. Tommy swung his sword, releasing arcs of green, black, red and white lights that combined with the other attack, and headed straight towards Rita, who raised her staff combating the attack with a crimson blast of her own.
The rangers' attack overpowered Rita's blast and struck her chest.
"NO!" She screamed, cracks of coloured light appearing in her sickly skin before she combusted in a giant explosion.
"Is it over?" Minh asked. "Is she gone?"
"I think so, yes." Zack said.
None of them moved for a second, unable to turn their eyes away from the spot where Rita exploded.
They heard another deafening explosion and looked up to see Minotaur exploding after the combined assault of the zords.
Minh whooped in joy.
Kim and Zack hugged her.
Tommy clasped Jason's hand before pulling the other man to a hug.
Nancy patted Billy shoulder as he took off his helmet, tears of relief streaming from his eyes.
The nightmare was finally over. Rita was gone.
Trini had been avenged.
Hope you all liked this. :)
The new putties Rita made are a reference to the 2017 movie version of the putties.
Rita's monster form is based on the concept art by Matt Frank for a rejected script of the 2017 movie. You can google it. It looks creepy and amazing at the same time.
Tommy's Omni Ranger powers are something I came up with way back in 2011 or 2012, way before Drakkon was a thing. I made white the colour of his ultimate ranger form and the phoenix his totem because first, it represents his zeo powers- the powers he earned while proving the purity of his heart and second because the phoenix is so cool, representing fire, rebirth and resilience, something Tommy is synonymous with.
I hope you guys liked the inclusion of the Power Blaster. :D
Also, for those curious about what happened to Scrozzle, you can head over to my new one-shot "Venjix Paradox." It was originally supposed to be another interlude chapter, but I made it separate because it sets up storylines for my future stories in addition to standing on its own.
