Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. I'm not going to get into anything just wanted to give this Christmas Special up and i finally finished it so here you guys go.
*I don't own Powers Rangers, they are property of Hasbro.
"We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas…"
Marcus made his way down the sidewalk with five hot chocolates in his hands. He had arrived at his mother's house late last night after leaving the cave. As far as he knew, Abby was still there sitting at Kendrick's side. Though Marcus still didn't like Kendrick, he hoped their former tormentor would pull out of whatever he was going through. Feroa was still trying to figure out what was wrong with him, they only knew that a weird marking was on Kendrick's stomach, and it was growing bigger by the hour and soon would cover his entire body by Christmas morning. Marcus was broken out of his thoughts by the honk of a car horn, he turned his head slightly and became annoyed at the sight of a Hazel Creek police cruiser knowing exactly who was in the driver's seat. He stood there and watched as the driver's door opened and Sammy stepped out dressed in his uniform. Marcus shook his head then started walking away despite hearing his brother call his name, unfortunately for Marcus his brother had longer legs which allowed his older brother to catch up with him.
"What?" Marcus snapped.
"First off watch your tone" Sammy said before stopping Marcus from trying to leave again, "Secondly, what is wrong with you?" he asked Marcus.
Marcus glared at his brother; at the moment he didn't care that the man in front of him was his older brother.
"You and dad are the problem! Dad for pushing his stupid dreams onto us and you being his perfect little solider instead of the older brother I need" Marcus responded before shoving his brother's arm away from him. "Tonight, at mom's house I'll act like I can stand being there with you but once Christmas is over, I want nothing to do with you or dad cause I'm going to start living my life my way and not how dad is forcing us" Marcus said then turned around and walked off leaving his brother standing there.
He started walking faster the moment he felt the tears coming, he quickly turned a corner and after making sure that no one was paying attention he teleported to the cave. Marcus didn't move for a brief moment he entered the cave as he tried to collect himself, he put on a fake smile and made his way into the cave to the table where Sasha, Corey and Mikayla were sitting. He handed out the hot chocolates then grabbed the last one and made his way into the medical room.
"Thought you could use this" he said to Abby as he handed her the cup.
"Thanks" she said as she accepted it.
"Was Feroa able to identify what's happening?" he asked her.
"She thinks Zeltu placed some curse on him, similar to what happened to the Titanium Ranger from Lightspeed Rescue but different" Abby responded.
Marcus nodded his head understanding what she was talking about, he patted her on the shoulder then walked out into the main room of the cave. He took a seat between Corey and Sasha, he let out a sigh then took a sip of his hot chocolate, recoiling at the bitterness of the it, he places the cup down. He knew that there wasn't anything wrong with the hot chocolate, it just reminded him of his argument with his brother. Marcus leaned back in his chair and was about to close his eyes when the alarm went off making him groan in annoyance.
The four rangers got up and started to make their way to the waterfall only to stop when the waterfall separated in half and to their surprise a chimney appeared. All four Rangers looked on in shock as a figure in red emerged from chimney, when the figure turned around and the Rangers saw who it was, they were shocked to say the least.
"Holy…" Mikayla started to say.
"Crap…" Sasha added.
"It's Mrs. Clause, which means Santa is…" Marcus started to say for Corey to finish.
"Is real."
"Hello Power Rangers, I need your help, Santa has been kidnapped" Mrs. Clause said with saddened plea.
"Who would be evil enough to kidnap Santa and ruin Christmas?" Corey asked in disbelief.
"The Grinch?" Sasha said unenthusiastically, Corey gave her a look while Marcus rolled his eyes before answering.
"If anyone is behind this, it's going to be Zeltu and his lackeys."
"So that begs the question, where did he take Santa?"
The four Rangers turned to see that Abby had emerged from the medical room and was making her way towards them. Mrs. Clause explained everything to them from how she noticed Santa was missing to finding the letter laying on Santa's table where he kept the Naughty or Nice book. She handed the letter over to Abby who accepted it, after unrolling the letter she began to read it out loud to the others could hear it.
"You might believe that this is about the miserable list of his but in truth, I could care less, for you see all I care about is domination and if that means replacing Santa then so be it… Come and stop me if you dare, I'll see you at the North Pole."
"We know it's a trap, right?" Corey said pointing out the obvious.
"Of course, it is" Marcus stated.
"Let's go!" Abby said then the five Rangers said their goodbyes before teleporting out of the cave.
(!)
The Rangers appeared outside Santa's house, they didn't know where Zeltu was holding Santa, so they needed to split up and do some looking around. Marcus and Sasha went searching up in the hills, while Abby along with Mikayla searched the village leaving Corey to check the inside of Santa's workshop to see if he could find any clues. The Black and Yellow Rangers trudged their way through the snow, passing by the stables housing the reindeer.
"Do you think he has Rudolph?" Marcus with a cheeky smile on his face.
Sasha rolled her eyes at him.
"Who cares?" she asked.
"Wow, maybe Feroa gave you the wrong color? Maybe you should've been green for Grinch" he said sarcastically.
Sasha responded with a punch to Marcus' arm making the Black Ranger winch in pain.
"You seriously need to work on your anger issues" Marcus replied as he rubbed his arm.
The two Rangers continued on their way, Sasha side eyed Marcus as they walked, she could see the look on his face. She could see that he no longer was here mentally as if he was thinking about something else, it was the same look she noticed when he entered the cave this morning. Being sympathetic wasn't Sasha's strong suite but she had to try because she cared about Marcus.
"Are you okay?" she asked breaking the silence.
"After we defeated General Tusk, I went home, and Sam was waiting for me. He asked how we drifted apart, and I exploded on him telling him that I was sick of our father forcing his military training on us." Marcus said, "I told him that if he wanted to be dad's little solider then fine but I wanted nothing to do with it and I went home, then today he tried talking to me only for me to explode on him again telling him that I would be civil with them for my mother's sake but after that I wanted nothing to do with them" Marcus added before going silent.
Sasha didn't say anything, what could she say to him? She wasn't experiencing the same thing as Marcus. A thought crossed her mind so she slowly reached her hand out and brushed the back of her hand against his then before he could do anything she grabbed it, out the corner of her eye she could see him blushing which made her also blush but smile as well.
(!)
Corey stands in amazement at his surroundings of Santa's workshop, there were elves running around carrying various objects, but they all stopped when they saw Corey standing there.
"Um…. Hi, my name is Corey, the Blue Trident Force Ranger and I'm here to help find Santa" Corey said scared of all the attention that was on him.
The sound of someone clearing their throat was loud enough to clear a pathway between the elves, an older looking elf stepped forward. He looked like the elf from the Rudolph video that he would watch with his father every Christmas. The elder elf looked Corey over up and down then motioned for Corey to follow him, so Corey did, the elder elf led Corey into a secluded room.
"Corey Thompson, the name is Krackle, and I am the head elf here" the elder elf said with a deep gruff voice. "Now, as you already know Santa is missing and you believe it is your enemy Zeltu is that correct?" Krackle asked him and Corey responded with a nod of his head.
Krackle placed his hand on his chin as if he was thinking of something then suddenly, he snapped his fingers,
"The search party we sent out hasn't returned or made contact maybe someone from your team could find them while the two out near the hills could check the Mount Crumpt… the home to the one who hates Christmas" Krackle said, the last part with a whisper.
"I'm sorry did you say the one who hates Christmas? As in the…" Corey started to say.
"Do not speak his name in this house!" Krackle said with anger in his voice.
Corey nodded his head then brought up his morpher to talk to his friends.
(!)
Abby and Mikayla made their way around one of the houses when their morphers beeped.
"Go ahead Corey" Abby said while she continued searching.
"Guys I met with the head elf named Krackle and he believes Santa is being held up on Mount Crumpt, he also says that it is the home to someone who hates Christmas" Corey said.
"Someone who hates Christmas… wait he is talking about…" Marcus started to say.
"Shhh, apparently his name is forbidden like Voldemort but that's not all, apparently the elf search party is also missing and Krackle is hoping we can try and find them as well" Corey said.
"Marcus and Sasha can take the mountain while I'll take Mikayla to look for the elf search team" Abby said then dropped her arm before turning to look at Mikayla who was standing next to her.
She motions for the Pink Ranger to follow her so the two rush off to the last known location that the elf rescue team had checked in at but when they arrived, they found no sign of the elves. Abby brings her morpher up to call the others but before she could a group of Kringlars appeared surrounding them, the two Rangers stood back-to-back in fighting stances. Neither Abby nor Mikayla waited for the Kringlars to make the first move as they rushed the Kringlars directly in front of them.
Abby blocked the attack from Kringlar and spun around rammed her elbow into the Kringlars' face knocking it backwards. She dodged the next Kringlar attack. Then she dropped down and swept the legs out from the same Kringlar taking it down to the ground, she quickly finished it off by kicking it in the face. Abby tried to get up but dropped down again when a Kringlar's blade came inches from her face. The Kringlar who tried to attack was taken down when another Kringlar was thrown at him knocking them down. Abby turned to see that it was Mikayla who had saved her, she nodded her head thanking the Pink Ranger who quickly nodded back before turning her attention back to the other Kringlars. 'This wasting time' Abby thought to herself she did a kip-up, she summoned her Trident Shield then she moved her arm backwards then flung it with all of the power she could muster. The shield flies through the taking every Kringlar down in the air before coming back to Abby who caught it.
The two Rangers continue onwards, unfortunately for them the wind decided to start picking up making it very difficult for them to see where they were going.
(!)
Marcus climbed up the mountain, occasionally looking back over his shoulder letting out a gulp as he saw how far they were from the ground. He quickly looks back up to see Sasha far ahead of him, it was impressive to him on how strong willed she was, so he knew that he needed to do the same, so he took a deep breath and started climbing again. Marcus reaches his hand up to grab onto a rock, but it breaks off the moment he tries to pull himself up luckily, he is able to catch himself from falling. Marcus summoned his chakrams and began using them to climb the mountain. Eventually he made it to the top of the mountain where Sasha was waiting for him. Directly in front of them was a door that said do not enter, a small smile crossed Marcus' lips which Sasha saw right away.
"What?" she asked him.
"We're standing on a mountain with a door that reads do not enter… if that doesn't say Grinch, I don't know what does" Marcus said with a smile that was only growing wider.
Sasha shook her head, but she said nothing as she started making her way towards the door, actually she was kind of hoping that the so-called Grinch was real because she remembered watching the Grinch movie with Jim Carrey, it was one of her favorite Christmas movies. Sasha shook off the nerves and walked right up to the door and after grabbing the handle she pulled open the door. The two Rangers quietly make their way inside closing the door behind them. They made their way down the darkened hall. Marcus took the lead with Sasha right behind him, as the two Rangers reached the end of the hall, they started to hear music. When they eventually reached the end of the hall that's when they saw a group of Kringlars, but they weren't alone, Ursulias was there as well.
Marcus nudged Sasha then motioned for her to look at the cage in the far corner of the room, it was Santa, but he wasn't alone, sitting next to him was a green hairy figure and a dog. The two Rangers slowly backed up out sight before they contacted the others.
"Guys we found Santa he's being held by Ursulias and a group of Kringlars" Sasha said.
"That's great" Corey said.
"That's not all, Santa isn't his only prisoner, they got the Grinch as well" Marcus added.
"Okay, Corey meet up with them at the cave while Mikayla and I continue the search for the elf rescue team" Abby said.
Marcus and Sasha looked at each other and nodded their heads.
"Ready?" Marcus asked.
"Ready" Sasha replied.
The two Rangers lifted their arms into the air and flicked their wrists to reveal their morphers.
"TRIDENT FORCE POWER UP!" They shouted.
[Morphing Sequence Begins]
Marcus is underwater when a Trident appears in front of him, the trident begins to glow then a beam shoots out at his feet. The beam moves upward covering his feet forming white boots, a black form fitting body suit covers his body and arms while white gloves appear covering his hands. The top of the trident came off and flew onto Marcus' chest as he did a back flip landing on the sea floor. A black octopus appears, and as it gets closer to him it turns into a ball of blinding light before finally becoming his helmet.
Sasha is suddenly underwater when a Trident appears in front of her. The trident begins to glow then a beam shoots out at her feet. The beam moves upward covering her feet with white boots, a yellow form fitting body suit covers her body and arms while white gloves appear on her hands. The top of the trident comes off and flew onto Sasha's chest as she did a back flip landing on the sea floor. Then a whale appears and as it gets closer to her it turns into a ball of light and finally becomes her helmet.
"Trident Power!" They shouted.
[Morphing Sequence Ends]
The two Trident Force Rangers rushed into the room taking out four of the Kringlars with their trident blasters which alerted Ursulias to their presence. The former sea wizard smiled with glee upon seeing Sasha but sent a harden glare at Marcus.
"Ah, Trident Force Rangers here to save the day again, are we?" Ursulias asked already knowing the answer.
"Let's cut to the chase fish face, release Santa and Yellow and I won't have to kick your butt" Marcus said.
Sasha holstered her blaster and summoned her nunchucks getting ready for the battle ahead. Uruslias smiled then flicked his wrist and the lock on the door disappeared making the cage door swing open. The Rangers, Santa and Grinch were all shocked at what had just happened, but the smile soon turned sadistic as Ursulias summoned a dark purple orb and threw it directly at Grinch who howled in pain. Santa and the dog ran out of the cage to where the Rangers were standing, they all watched as Grinch began to glow dark purple and began to grow so the Rangers, Santa, and the dog ran out of the cave outside just as monster Grinch erupted from out of the cave. Corey rushed over to where everyone was standing only to stop upon seeing monster Grinch.
"That's a new one" Corey muttered before contacting Abby and Mikayla. "Uh, Abby we have a giant Grinch problem" he said.
"We see it, we found the elves and they're returning home will meet you there with the zords." Abby responded.
The three Rangers nodded their heads in agreement then summoned their respective zords, a portal opened up and the octopus, dolphin, narwhal, and whale zord came out, so the Rangers jumped up and landed inside their zords. The Rangers knew that they had to try their best not to hurt or destroy the Grinch, Corey started first as he fired a hydro blast from the blowhole of his dolphin zord which hit the Grinch in the face making him stumble backwards. Sasha followed it up by blasting him with some water as well, Marcus struck next as he blasted Grinch with some ink from the tentacles of his octopus zord making the mean one fall to the ground. Before Grinch could try and get up, Marcus wrapped him with the tentacles, when he was sure that the zord was secured, he looked around then noticed something on the Grinch's neck.
"Narwhal zord drill attack on the device on the Grinch's neck!" Marcus called out, the narwhal zord let out a squeal before rushing forward and striking the device with his nose drill destroying it.
The Rangers watched as the Grinch began to shrink down to his normal size, the Rangers jumped from their zords back down to the ground they were quickly rushed over to where the Grinch was laying with Santa joining them.
"Nice call seeing the device on the Grinch 's neck," said Corey.
Marcus replied with the thumbs up, the black Ranger then offered his hand to the Grinch who was hesitant to accept it but then did allowing the allowing Marcus to help him up. Without saying a word, the Grinch and the dog laughed leaving the Rangers with Santa, a few moments later Abbby and Mikayla came running to over to them.
"Good job finding Santa guys" Abby said.
"Yeah, let's get him back to the village" added Mikayla.
(!)
The Trident Force Rangers sit inside Santa's workshop surrounded by happy elves and Mrs. Claus, they were all enjoying a cup of hot chocolate well everyone except Abby. The red Trident forest Ranger stood alone next to the window, her mind solely focused on Kendrick, Abby scanned the room and her eyes fell upon Corey who was talking to Krackle the elf, she then turned and saw Marcus and Sasha standing in the doorway then smiled upon seeing Sasha grabMarcus by the head and kiss him on his lips she looked up to see a mistletoe hanging in the doorway. Abby notices Michaela coming towards her with a cup of hot chocolate.
"Thinking about Kendrick?" Mikayla asked.
Abby replied with a nod.
"I mean don't get me wrong I was happy to help but what if this was just a distraction?" Abby said.
"I'm sure Feroa or Devi would have alerted us" Mikayla replied. The two Rangers turned to see Santa walking towards them, Michaela seeing that Mrs. Clause needed help excused herself leaving Abby alone with Santa.
"Thank you for saving me Miss Benson, although I believe your mind is somewhere else at the moment, yes?" Santa said and again Abby replied with a nod of her head, "Oh yes, Mr. Chambers, correct?" he added and again Abby nodded her head.
Santa using some of his magic summoned a snow globe, "It appears I know what is causing Mr. Chambers condition said Santa.
"What is it?" Abby asked to which Santa replied,
"A curse called Deaths Malice."
"Do you know the cure?" Abby asked.
"I do not know but there is someone who might, I will return your team to their home Hazel Creek, and I will bring you to where they should be located," said Santa.
(!)
Marcus walked up the sidewalk to his mother's house, he was still thinking about the kiss he had with Sasha which was evident by the gigantic smile on his face. Unfortunately for the black Trident force Ranger the smile soon evaporated upon seeing his older brother waiting for him outside the house. Marcus took a deep breath and then walked up the steps he tried to enter the house only to be stopped by Sam.
"I know you're the black Trident force Ranger Marcus, I saw you the day you fought the elephant monster, when your visor cracked during the fight" says Sam.
Marcus looked at him in shock.
"That's what I was trying tell you this morning before you blew me off," Sam continued, "See I walked over and leaned up against the railing. At first I didn't believe it, thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but my heart told me it was really you and I know it's not gonna mean much but I'm proud of you" he said before turning to face his brother.
"You are?" Marcus asked.
"Of course, I am… I'm sorry we grew apart, but I realized that you are meant for better things and not living the same life as me or dad who is stuck in the past" Sam responded.
He then offered his hand out to Marcus, "Can we still be brothers?" he asked.
Marcus smiled then pulled Sam in for a hug which the older D'Angelo brother returned, the two brothers then made their way inside to celebrate Christmas.
(!)
Sasha stood outside her of her house, she let out a sigh and she realized that she hadn't missed the opportunity to make cookies with her sisters. She walked up the steps and grabbed the door handle and pulled it open, she stepped inside the moment she did the whiff of cooking hit her nose. Curious about the smell Sasha made her way into the kitchen only to stop in her tracks upon seeing two people standing in the kitchen both of whom were very familiar to her. Standing by the oven was her mother Stacey while sitting at the counter reading a newspaper was her father, Nathan. Sasha stood there in silence shocked upon seeing her parents at home, they were never home especially on the holidays. She then realized that this was her Christmas gift the one that she had always wanted, she turned when she heard footsteps behind her.
It was her sisters, they also stopped upon seeing their parents standing in the kitchen, Sasha stood there along with her sisters and watched as their parents turned to greet them. Without hesitation Jordan ran and jumped into her father's arms, Olivia and Claire soon followed suit hugging their mother when Sasha stayed behind. The oldest Stover sister did not know how to feel until she felt the tears running down her face, so she ran forward and engulfed her father in the biggest hug ever, burying her face into his shoulder. Mrs. Stover along with Olivia walked over and the entire family was joined into a group hug. Sasha didn't care if her parents were only back for the night, this was already turning out to be the best Christmas ever because for one night the entire Stover family was together.
"I know we have been gone for a very long time, but we have some good news," said Nathan.
"That's right" said Stacy, "We have decided to start working from home and only take turns going on our business trips that way one of us would always be home with you."
All four sisters smiled; this is exactly what they always wanted.
(!)
Corey slowly opened the door to his apartment, he slipped inside and closed the door slowly behind him but when he turned around, he stopped when he saw his sister CeCe standing there waiting for him. He knew he was in the clear when his sister smiled at him and then motioned for him to follow her into the living room and that's where he saw his dad sitting on the couch watching TV. The two Thompson siblings walked over and took his seat on the couch next to their father. Corey sat there while his father turned on the movie, they had been waiting to watch with him, in a funny turn of events it was how the Grinch stole Christmas which made Corey chuckle inside.
As he sat there and watched the movie, he thought about Abby who was off on a secret mission hoping to find a cure for Kendrick. He trusted his leader to be safe but at the same time he was still worried. She was adamant about going alone even making Mikayla return to Abby's house to inform her father what she was doing and why she hadn't returned home just yet.
(!)
Santa's sleigh flew down to the ground and came to a stop outside of a forest. Abigail pulled her hood up over her head and climbed out of the sleigh. She looked around at her surroundings and saw that the coast was clear which she should have figured considering she was with Santa the Red Trident Force Ranger turned to look at Santa.
"So, who am I looking for exactly?" she asked him.
"She has gone by many names but most recently she has been known as Mystic Mother" he replied.
Abby thanked Santa and then stepped back. Then watched as he pulled off. When he was out of sight she turned around and started making her way towards the woods. She kept walking until she came to a sign then moved past the sign making her way into the woods, the sign said;
WELCOME TO BRAIRWOOD
I hope you guys enjoyed the Christmas special, also I do want to say that I did watch Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, it was bad. It did have it's moments but I am very curious about the reboot that is coming in 2025 if it actually happens but we'll have to wait and see.
Next Episode: Death's Malice
