June 3rd came by as it had been three days since, with the assistance of Sarah, Race, their Pokemon, Solar, and Athena, the Power Rangers Beast Morphers were finally able to destroy Robo-Roxy which meant only Robo-Blaze, Scrozzle, and Evox were left and the rangers were able to breathe a little easier while they work out how to deal with them in the meantime.

At the Riptide Gym, Blaze's Partner Pokemon, Sawk, was waiting for his human partner to come back for he had left to attend his Karate tournament in Japan two days ago and he was beginning to feel a little lonely despite helping Ravi teach Blaze's Karate classes while he's gone.

At the same time, Ben, Betty, Froslass, and Abomosnow were volunteering to teach some people rock climbing with Ben displaying a perfect wall dismount to the students' delight and amazement even though, to Froslass and Abomosnow's slight exasperation, he did struggle on unhooking himself when he somehow managed to tether himself and his sister together.

After receiving reports about the end of Robo-Roxy along with the princess and Race's plans involving the new renditions of the DinoThunder BioZords, Triassic Rover, and Shield of Triumph and knowing that Evox would likely strike back somehow once he had gotten word of her failure, Kukui and Lusamine permitted Ash and the rest of the Pokemon School Gang and their Partner Pokemon to join the rangers, Sarah, and Race to give them some much-needed help for whatever he has in store for the heroes next. Right now, they were with Devon and the rest of his group having snacks and drinks together.

To their surprise, coming into the gym after opening the doors was Blaze with his duffel bag at hand, "Hey, guys?"

"**Blaze! You're back?**" Sawk blinked in surprise, not expecting his partner to return from Japan and his Karate tournament so soon.

"Hey, guys," Blaze greeted again, gesturing the group, Ben, and Betty to join him while Sawk looked on in confusion as he quietly approached him.

"Blaze, you're back already?" Devon puzzled.

"Why did you come back, Blaze? Aren't you supposed to be in Japan attending that big Karate tournament right now?" Sarah asked suspiciously, raising an eyebrow at the former Red Ranger candidate.

"Well, yeah. That was the plan and I was on my way when I suddenly found this," he replied as he put his duffel bag on the ground and opened it before taking out what looked like a giant disc of some sort, surprising the group and the Pokemon.

"Wow, what is it?" Mallow gasped.

"It might sound crazy but I think it might just be one of Robo-Roxy's memory drives that were sent flying after she exploded days ago."

The group was in shock by this but Ravi was more surprised as he noted, "But when Robo-Roxy blew up after we defeated her, pieces of her were scattered throughout the city. I didn't think Batteforce Clean-Up Crew would've missed this."

"I thought bringing it here to you was much more important than competing in the tournament," Blaze replied.

Sawk, however, suddenly became slightly suspicious of Blaze when he heard this and narrowed his eyes at him; as far as he knew, while he was training with his human partner, Blaze told him how much Karate meant to him when he got first-hand experience in the sport and started to practice it even before becoming the originally intended candidate for Grid Battleforce's Red Ranger for the organization's Power Ranger program before Evox and Devon came about. The tournament his human partner left for was a big deal to him and he wished him the best of luck in the competition two days ago before he left so hearing that dealing with a piece of Robo-Roxy after he found it and brought it to his friends instead of sending it straight to Grid Battleforce was nothing short of odd to him.

Sarah and Race had a bad feeling about it, too, but the others didn't see it that way as Devon smiled and thanked him for the memory drive, "You're absolutely right. Thanks for bringing this back to us."

"Always happy to help my friends at Grid Battleforce, really."

"Phenomenal, the circuit boards are still intact. Maybe this thing has some of Robo-Roxy's memory stored in it that wasn't destroyed in the explosion. There might be some information she had inside it regarding Evox's latest plan that we don't know about yet when she was still in hot water with him before getting the Vulturesaurus DNA from the fossils in Mike's expedition," Nate whispered to the group as he examined the disc before Betty took it in her hands.

"So, it might be full of valuable data that can benefit us," she implied before poking it and causing it to spark up, nearly making her drop the disc before Froslass caught it in time.

"Thanks, Froslass," Nate grinned as he took the disc and put it in his backpack.

"If that's the case, what if the clean-up crews missed any other parts that have such data?" Zoey suggested, realizing what Nate and Betty could be on about.

"We better check it out, whatever parts out there that they accidentally missed could be what Evox would be looking for if he needed her remains for his endgame," Devon decided as Nate nodded in agreement.

"I'll take the memory drive back to my lab and see what's inside it."

While leaving the gym and going their separate ways, as Devon bid farewell to Blaze before he went out, nobody noticed that the teenager had a smug and evil smirk appearing on his face. The smirk was, however, noticed by Sawk as he realized that something was indeed off about his human partner who realized that the Blaze before him wasn't telling the truth or it might not be the Blaze he knew, at all.

"Hmm..." he thought, deciding to join the Power Rangers and keep an eye on the Blaze before him to see if he was telling the truth or lying to everyone.

He knew of the dangers that being involved with the rangers would entail but if it means he would be getting to the truth of the matter this way, the Karate Pokemon was willing to pay the price.

At his lab back at Grid Battleforce, as the others were doing their run-through of the city for any more of Robo-Roxy's missing parts, Devon, Race, Sarah, and Steel (having completed their own run-through) joined Nate as he downloaded the memory fragments from Robo-Roxy's memory drive onto his computer so they can figure out what Evox's endgame for them and all of Coral Harbor is.

"Guys, you're just in time. I think I got something after I downloaded Roxy's memories," he called as he prepared the video footage he got.

"So, we're about to see what Roxy saw while she was still with Evox?" Steel asked as they looked at the monitor.

"Yeah, we're about to find out," confirmed Nate as he replayed the footage he downloaded.

"Now, that my power is fully restored, it's time for us to get rid of that pesky princess, destroy humanity, and take over the Morphin Grid! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Scrozzle, where is my mighty new Gigadrone? Is it fully functional for us to finally crush those meddlesome insects?"

"I'm still working on it, Master. But, I promise you it'll be the most destructive Gigadrone ever! And, with all the power it'll contain, I'm sure that not even the princess and her bodyguards and their Pokemon can stand up to them!"

"Excellent!"

But, that was as far as the memory drive could tell them as it fizzled out soon after, meaning that the footage Nate gathered was all that it had before her final battle with the rangers and her fusion with the Vulturesaurus DNA. But, it was more than enough to get everybody gathered shocked as they tried to take in what they had just heard from Evox and Scrozzle regarding the end of humanity, their full take-over of the Morphin Grid, and the former's new Gigadrone with all the power it has that can destroy the Power Rangers Beast Morphers AND the Power Rangers Ultra Rescue and Sarah.

"Oh, no! It looks like Evox is preparing for a major battle against us!"

"And, he'll have his own Gigadrone this time," Steel and Devon fretted.

The realization of Evox's endgame to destroy humanity as well as take over the Morphin Grid following the destruction of the Power Rangers and Sarah was made all the worse as Commander Shaw contacted them with urgent news from Devon's Wrist Com.

"A Gigadrone has been spotted in Sector Echo 75."

"We're on it, Commander," Devon nodded before he told Nate and Steel, "I'll tell Ravi and Zoey to meet me there. Nate and Steel, keep working on the memory drive for clues on Evox's endgame. We'll need to know as much as possible before he takes us by surprise."

"We'll go with you and get the others," Sarah replied as Race nodded in agreement before following Devon.

"Good luck," Nate prayed as he and Steel set to work on recovering whatever was next in Robo-Roxy's memory drive.

At the scene of the crime, a Robotron that looked completely identical to the original Railtron called Raintron 2.0 was with some Tronics as they hijacked and gathered barrels of Morph-X they stole for Evox and his endgame against humanity and for the Morphin Grid.

"Move it, bolt heads! We need to get all of that Morph-X we're collecting over to Master Evox quick smart!" he barked to his Tronics crew before a Grid Battleforce Sedan drove up towards them and out stepped Ash, the Pokemon School Gang, Zoey, Ravi, and all their Pokemon as they readied themselves for battle. "Ugh, rangers?!"

And, just as they all filed up, Sarah and Race along with Blitz, Curly, Robbie, and Bella were able to arrive on time aboard Solar and Athena.

"Another Railtron? I guess we arrived just in time," grunted an annoyed Zoey as she and Ravi had unpleasant memories of the original Railtron and the incident that nearly spelled the end of Jax, Smash, and Jax during their team's early days.

"So, I take it you're the culprit behind the latest Morph-X robbery?" Race remarked to Railtron 2.0.

"So, what if I am?"

"Hey, where's Devon?" Ash asked, not seeing Devon anywhere.

"Probably still on his way," Sarah theorized.

Railtron 2.0 could only laugh at the gathered rangers as he mocked, "You lot are gonna wish you haven't jumped on my tracks to stop my train! Choo-choo, it's gonna be a rough ride for you passengers! All aboard!"

"Let's get him!" Sarah shouted, signaling everybody to attack Railtron 2.0 and his Tronics until Devon finally comes to help them.

With Ravi and Zoey, they, Cinderace, and Lucario were able to fight off the Tronics on their end with the fully-grown Rabbit Pokemon belonging to the Yellow Ranger using Blaze Kick to burn and melt the robotic grunts while the Blue Ranger's Aura Pokemon using Power-Up Punch to shatter the ones surrounding him.

With their Poke-X Fury Sabers at hand, Ash and the gang and their Pokemon were able to hold their own against the Tronics attacking them before they were soon targeted by Railtron 2.0 after he knocked Ravi and Zoey off their feet as he then fired lightning bolts at them.

"Guys, look out!" Sarah gasped as she saw her friends in danger and rushed over, seeing them and their partners dodging and deflecting Railtron 2.0's attacks as best they could.

"Take this!" Railtron 2.0 sneered as he fired off more powerful blasts before Sarah brought out her Sun Sword and Moon Shield and blocked and parried the bolts being fired at her friends while Race, Bella, Robbie, Blitz, and Curly continued to take on the Tronics on their end. "What?!"

Then, before he could react, Railtron 2.0 was hit and blown back by an Explosive Arrow that Sarah fired from her Moon Shield in Crossbow Mode after transporting her arrow quiver and wore it while she loaded her mother's heirloom with another arrow and pointed it at him as she spat while he got back up, "Don't you think it's a little early for you to be gloating right now when we'll be the only ones left standing?"

Then, out of left field, surprising everybody, Blaze arrived and he kicked the powerful Robotron away from the group.

"Blaze?!"

"Huh, Blaze, what are you doing here?" Ravi asked.

"Don't worry, I got your backs," Blaze quipped.

"Oh, great, more teenagers! Just what I don't need! Attack!" grumbled Railtron 2.0 as he and his Tronics troupe charged at the heroes again and they came at them once more but this time with Blaze joining in.

All the while, as they all fought, Sarah and Race couldn't help but notice something off since it wasn't like Blaze to come over and help from the sidelines while he had his own duties at Grid Battleforce and his personal life to be concerned about. However, unbeknownst to everyone, Sawk arrived at the scene as he was following Blaze and kept himself hidden, looking at the heroes fighting Railtron 2.0 and keeping an eye on his supposed partner as he fought the Tronics. The Karate Pokemon was still convinced that the Blaze before him wasn't really his partner and he was determined to see if he really is the one he was given to or if the human that called himself his partner was actually an imposter.

Zoey and Ravi continued to deal with the Tronics while trying to take on Railtron 2.0 again with their Pokemon helping but he just shoved them off effortlessly as he quipped to the duo, "No train rides for you and your pets, fellas!"

Blaze was continuing to hold his own against the Tronics while Sarah, Race, Ash, the gang, and their Pokemon cleared more of the lot that attacked them. But, as he fought, the former Red Ranger candidate was then tripped off his feet unexpectedly and he had to block another's blaster hand as it tried to do a Karate chop while on his back. This ended up with him hurting his left arm before he then kicked the Tronic that struck him away and he held it gingerly.

"Ugh, my arm," he groaned, causing Sawk to widen his eyes from his hiding spot as he found another thing he felt off about his partner (in which he wouldn't stop fighting immediately after getting hurt while he was helping to protect his friends from danger) which further convinced him that Blaze is not all he appears to be.

The Tronic that struck Blaze then aimed another attack at him but in the nick of time, Devon, Cruise, and Incineroar arrived as they blasted the Tronic to bits with Incineroar using Fire Blast to destroy it. With Blaze out of danger, the Beast Morphers leader and his Partner Pokemon rushed over to him as Cruise transformed into his Beast Bot Mode.

"Sorry we're late, somebody got us lost on the way," Devon apologized.

"My bad, I forgot to check a map before we left," Cruise added sheepishly.

"Thanks for stepping in. You and Cruise better take cover," Devon told Blaze as he then went over to his downed friends while Sarah, Race, and their team regrouped with the three of them.

"So, you're finally here, Red? No problem, when I'm through with you, I'm going to choo-choo-chew you all up!" Railtron 2.0 sneered as Devon helped Ravi and Zoey onto their feet.

"It's the end of the line for you. It's Morphin Time!" Devon exclaimed in retort as he, Ravi, Zoey, and the others brought out and activated their Morphers and keys.

"Activate, Beast Power/Link to Morphin Grid!"

Together, the two teams morphed into their respective Power Ranger team alter-egos with Devon, Ravi, and Zoey eager to issue a repeat of what happened to the original Railtron and with the Power Rangers Ultra Rescue beside them for backup.

"Unleash the Beast! Transport: Beast-X Blaster! Beast Blast!" the Core BM Rangers shouted before they brought out the Beast-X Blasters and Ash and the gang bringing out their selected Booster Keys for their own power boosts after Railtraon 2.0 hid behind a thick column to protect himself before he fired back at the BM Rangers.

"Not so fast!" Blitz shouted as he absorbed his lightning energy and increased his Special Attack stat.

"Raikou Key!"

"Tyrantrum Key!"

"Keldeo Key!"

"Calyrex Key!"

"Zekrom Shadow Key!"

"Reshiram Light Key!" the gang and Ash boomed, activating their Booster Keys and landing several hits on Railtron 2.0 while blocking all his shots.

"Now, Blitz, use Rising Voltage!" Sarah screamed to her Pikachu son before turning to Duke, "Duke, use your Dragon Pulse!"

Blitz and Duke nodded as they rushed at Railtron 2.0 and began to attack, the former firing Rising Voltage and forcing the Robotron to cover himself, leaving him wide open for the male Naganadel to fire Dragon Pulse from his middle stinger and hit him dead on, the power of the Dragon Type attack becoming too much for him to handle as he finally exploded moments later.

"Alright!"

"We got him!" Ash and Sophocles cheered.

"Way to go, guys! You did it!" Ravi smiled.

"We're so lucky you all are here now that Team Eclipse is gone," Zoey agreed.

"That was great stuff, you guys. We're all lucky to have you all as Power Rangers," Devon concurred.

"Oh, it was nothing," Lana replied humbly as the rangers demorphed and Blaze and Cruise came over with Sawk hiding by the exit wall to the left and still keeping his eye on his human partner.

"I'm so glad everybody's okay," Cruise smiled.

"Yeah, we're all lucky to get out of it alive. Great job, guys," Blaze added appreciatively before he turned to Cruise and scorned him. "But, it's no thanks to you that we nearly got ourselves fried. I can't believe you made Devon so late in coming to the fight."

Sarah was shocked upon hearing this as she became even more suspicious of Blaze than ever and Sawk narrowed his eyes, knowing that if he had his own Beast Bot for a partner and if the same thing happened, despite being a hot shot and arrogant beforehand, his human partner wouldn't have chewed his own faithful robot out as harshly as he did. This further fueled his suspicions that the Blaze he was seeing with the heroes may not be the human partner he was entrusted and given to the previous Christmas.

"Oh, uh... I didn't mean to," Cruise stammered worriedly.

"Hey! Blaze, lay off of him, will ya? It's not Cruise's fault that he's forgetful, it can happen to any of us," Sarah frowned, now glaring at Blaze.

"But, what if the Robotron nearly killed all of you? That Railtron was much more powerful than the last one Devon, Zoey, and Ravi fought against and he could've hurt you and the rest of us! If Devon and his Beast Bot arrived any later, you would've been toast. All of you would've been dead, even me!"

"I highly doubt that. You know as well as I do that we weren't alone in this fight before Devon and Cruise finally arrived; my Pokemon are highly protective of me and both Race and my friends are my bodyguards if you've already forgotten. Also, my team and I had gotten stronger, faster, and smarter throughout our own adventures back home before we returned to Coral Harbor. At least we had their backs when we did."

"Sarah's right. It's a little harsh of you to rag on Cruise like that, don't you think?" Devon asked, surprised about Blaze's sudden harsh attitude.

"Devon, can I have a word with you?" Blaze asked Devon who agreed as the pair went off a few feet to speak together, prompting Sawk to turn his attention to them and try to listen to what they were saying. "Listen, we're all safe now but who knows how things could've ended up if you didn't make it? As your team's leader, you shouldn't tolerate mistakes."

"But, it all worked out in the end."

"Look, I get that. You're a great Red Ranger after everything you've been through and I couldn't be more proud of you for taking my place after you guys saved Roxy and I from our avatars."

"Oh, well... Thanks, Blaze."

"It's true that with how far you've come, you might end up commanding all of Grid Battleforce one day upon Commander Shaw's recommendation should she step down or retire one day. But, if there's one thing that I've learned from my training to be the Red Ranger before the Evox incident began, it's that a true leader knows when he has to be tough and not take anything for granted, especially now. This time, Evox is playing for keeps with his endgame."

"Yeah... Makes sense," Devon replied, remembering what he, Nate, Sarah, Race, and Steel discovered from Robo-Roxy's memory drive before he turned to the others.

"Listen up, team, guys, Robo-Roxy's memory showed us earlier that Evox is preparing to attack so we've gotta step up our game and be ready for whatever he's got to throw at us. That means we'll have to pull off all the stops if we're going to take him down before he takes us by surprise. I'm sorry, Cruise, but I'm not going to tolerate any mistakes such as our being late today anymore."

Cruise was hurt when he was told this (with Incineroar blinking in surprise and bewilderment at his human partner) as he sadly stated, "Uh... Okay, Devon, I'm really sorry."

"Hey, Blaze, how's your arm?" Ravi asked as he looked at Blaze's left arm with Sawk, Sarah, and Race seeing that it wasn't bleeding despite the wound being covered, further confusing the princess and her boyfriend and fueling the Karate Pokemon's suspicions as he glared at his human partner.

"Ah, yeah... Don't worry, just a scratch. Nothing too harsh, I'll slap a bandage on it and get back to training," Blaze remarked.

"Cool, why don't we work out together back at the base?"

"The base? Cool, let's do it!" Blaze agreed as he and Devon went off with the others following them, leaving Cruise to hang his head sadly while Sawk stayed where he was as he felt sorry for Devon's robotic partner but also hated what Blaze had become (now knowing what he must do about what he sees as an imposter posing as his beloved human friend).

Back at the base, Sawk and Incineroar were watching from the sidelines as Blaze and Devon were doing combat training in the training room. While Incineroar was grinning for Devon to best Blaze, Sawk continued to glare suspiciously at his human partner, remembering what he had heard from their private conversation and being put off by how harsh he was towards Cruise as well as the Red Ranger trusting the imposter before them.

"Okay, keep up the pace!" Blaze encouraged as Devon practiced his strikes and he swung at him, prompting the former Red Ranger to dodge. "That's it, come on, Devon! Relentless, no fear! You can do better than that, you have no idea how hard you used to train as a cadet. The whole team has had it easy."

"Yeah, I guess we should be training harder by this point," Devon panted in agreement, eventually putting more force into his attack.

Satisfied, Blaze nodded, "Heh, that's it. Again, go!"

The training continued for a few more minutes until they decided to take a break and they, Incineroar, and Sawk left for a walk down the halls as Devon and his Heel Pokemon were needed in the lab to discuss the plan Nate has for dealing with Evox with Blaze deciding to tag along so he can offer some advice and Sawk joining them to continue keeping an eye on him. The Karate Pokemon had managed to keep everyone in the dark about his presence and the real reason why he came to Grid Battleforce with Blaze but he knew he would have to be sharper than ever and remain elusive to them before he would catch the Blaze before him in the act.

"Great training session. Man, that was intense," Devon thanked with a smile as he rolled his shoulders and they approached Nate's lab.

"Anytime," Blaze thanked before they found Commander Shaw and the others including the Beast Bots inside, prompting Sarah and Race to give suspicious glares at the former Red Ranger candidate.

"Ah, just in time," Zoey said, also confused and suspicious as to why Blaze was with Devon.

"Devon, what are you doing bringing him here? Why did you have Blaze join us when this plan is confidential?" Sarah inquired, raising an eyebrow at her fellow ranger.

"It's okay, I asked Blaze to look over our plan," Devon explained, prompting a reluctant Zoey to hand him a copy of Nate's plan for him to examine.

"Go ahead, Nate," Commander Shaw encouraged her top scientist and Gold Ranger.

Nate nodded as he then told everybody what he planned for everybody gathered to do with Evox's latest endgame ploy, "I've completed my analysis of Robo-Roxy's memory drive and the memories left in her but unfortunately, it didn't give us any additional intel, apart from learning that Evox is building a new and much more powerful Gigadrone. So, I think this plan I have would be the best way to counter it; we'll need a lot of Morph-X to pull it off but we will be well-defended."

"Looks good," Ravi praised.

"I'm all for it."

"If this is what we have to do, Nate, you're the boss," smiled Kiawe and Sophocles, giving their approval.

"Thanks, guys."

"I don't know, seems too complex. But, I have a better idea and we could destroy them faster this way," Blaze quipped in response, offering what he felt was a better idea to deal with Evox and his Gigadrone. "What if we instead trap Evox and his Gigadrone in the Zord Hanger? Once he tries to escape, we'll use the Mega Transporters to teleport him straight to a secure prison in the base."

"Trap him in the base? Yeah, that might work," Devon put in with an agreeing nod.

"Evox's Gigadrone in one of our hangers?" Nate echoed as he and the others weren't so sure given how extremely risk-averse Blaze's gamble is. "To do that, we'd have to get our Megazords in there, too, in order to hold him."

"That could be done, trust me. Your Special Ops Hanger is empty, right?"

"I'm not sure, fighting a Gigadrone up close in a hanger sounds quite dangerous, especially for us Beast Bots."

"Very dangerous, actually," Cruise and Smash added worriedly.

"Blaze, Cruise and Smash are right. It's dangerous for us to even think about holding Evox and his Gigadrone inside the Zord Hanger even with all of the Zords we have right now, what if another Gigadrone is summoned just as we were holding him and the one he's piloting himself down?" Mallow inquired skeptically, worried about how crazy Blaze's plan is.

"We can't risk it," agreed Lana.

But, Blaze was undeterred as he then told the group, "Then, why not just let Sarah and Race handle it instead? They've got the most powerful Zords we have on us right now and Carno and Chasa proved their worth against Robo-Roxy when they were finally deployed, remember? They've been able to fare well in close combat with their Cyclone and Shield moves so we can use them as bait to lure Evox inside the hanger and trap him."

Sawk widened his eyes in shock as his glare then grew darker, leering at Blaze as he thought, "That's ridiculous! There's no way Partner could've known about those new Zords the princess had been talking about. Granted, I never know what the rangers do behind the scenes myself, and even if I did when I'd been listening in on them since her and Master Konami's return while I've been helping out at the Riptide Gym, at least I know when to keep my mouth shut about everything Grid Battleforce does. Now, I'm POSITIVE, this man here ISN'T the REAL Blaze himself. I'll need to be ready to show everyone his true colors if they do go through with this imposter's foolish gamble and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that."

Sawk was right to have that nagging feeling about the young couple sharing his thoughts as he looked at them; Sarah and Race looked at each other in shock and disbelief, realizing how stupid, risky, and yet suspiciously knowledgable a maneuver Blaze's plan was as the former inquired, "Blaze, don't get me wrong, but... How exactly did you know about Carno and Chasa's moves? I don't remember Race and I telling anybody else besides our entire group here at Grid Battleforce about our new BioZords because what we planned with them, General Burke, and Commander Shaw is classified material."

Race shared Sarah and Sawk's suspicious glares as he then added, "If we wanted everybody to know, we would've had a public disclosure by now. But, we didn't, and yet here you are, knowing a bit about the new BioZords. Why's that?"

Blaze just simply shrugged as he replied, "News gets around, TV reports, and all that."

His answer only made Sawk, Race, and Sarah even more suspicious as Athena and Solar then added their own two cents into the plan, "But, using both Chasa and Carno as bait and only days after they had been completed? I don't know, we'd be doing both them and our predecessors that made them a great dishonor putting them on the front lines like that."

"I don't recall asking to draw my former master inside the base. And, Blaze, don't you understand how risky it is to have him in here? It's the oldest but most effective trick in Typical Bad Guy 1-0-1, pure espionage in which our enemies can attack us easily from the inside after worming their way inside. Who's to say we'd be playing right into Evox's hands if we go through with your plan instead of Nate's?"

"I don't recall any of you bags of bolts butting in and commentating on my plan!" snapped Blaze rudely in their faces.

Athena was shocked but Solar's shock and hurt were replaced with anger and hatred as he then spat back, "Well, excuse me for trying to put the safety of my friends and family first, hot shot! If you want us to follow through with your risk-averse gamble that'll likely get us all killed with Evox waddling into the base-!"

"That's enough. Fight the enemy, not each other," Commander Shaw reminded, gently diffusing the tension between Blaze and Solar as the two of them glared at each other.

"Guys, the Commander's right. This is no time for us to fight and we got to focus here, Evox is coming and we've gotta be bold. Think outside the box, I say we do it," Devon added, not wanting his friends and Blaze to fight.

"Great call," Blaze smirked smugly, shocking Solar again as he then turned to Devon with a look of hurt in his eyes.

"You really feel this way, Devon? Risking all of us and Grid Battleforce just to end Evox, do you really want that as Blaze does?!" he screamed before he ran off with a defeated grunt.

Everybody was shocked as Athena quickly ran after her fellow Beast Bot, "Solar, wait!"

"Oh, dear..."

"Oh, hoo-hoo, poor Solar..."

"Ouch, that's gonna be a hard blow for him and Athena to come back from," Cruise, Smash, and Jax winced, feeling awful for Solar and Athena.

"What was wrong with you, Blaze?!" snapped Ash angrily at the former Red Ranger candidate.

"Do you have any idea what you've just done?" agreed Lillie, equally furious with Blaze.

Zoey sighed as she then said, "Blaze, you should've known better than to treat Solar like that. If you're always mean and you react with anger, that's all everybody else will know. You really hurt his and Athena's feelings by being like that towards them when they were just stating their opinion, they have a right to express their thoughts just as we all do. Even Devon, Ravi, and I know better now than to take Jax, Smash, and Cruise for granted as we did before."

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I didn't know what I was thinking. I did hurt their feelings but I have one goal in mind: destroying Evox and saving the city, period."

"Hey, we all have the same goal-!" Ravi barked incredulously before Devon (who had recovered from Solar's outburst towards him for easily trusting Blaze) diffused the tension this time.

"Guys, guys, look, we're wasting precious time. Let's get on with Blaze's plan; we need that prison cell built before Evox attacks, right, Commander?"

"It is bold, let's hope it works. Get busy, everyone," Commander Shaw nodded despite her own reluctance as the Beast Morphers team and Blaze prepared for action with their first step being the construction of Evox's prison cell.

"Ash, guys, Race and I need to have a word with you all..." Sarah said to her friends as they all grew curious as to what she and her boyfriend wanted to say to them along with Commander Shaw and Sawk (who joined them once the Beast Morphers team left). "Commander, would it be alright if we talk with you all for a minute?"

Commander Shaw, curious about her and Race after seeing how off they felt about everything, was keen on listening, "Go ahead, Sarah. What's on your and Race's minds right now?"

"Commander, Island Girl and I... There's something about Blaze we've yet to tell you before now," Race replied as Sawk came over and made himself known.

Sarah looked at the Karate Pokemon and asked him, "You know something's off with Blaze, too, right?"

Sawk nodded as he confirmed, "That human with your friends, he is not the Blaze that I and we knew. There is something off about him that I felt the moment he returned home and didn't go back to Japan for his Karate tournament which was why I've been following you all and returned to Grid Battleforce with you all after that Robotron was destroyed."

Sarah nodded as she then looked at Commander Shaw and her friends along with Jax and Smash excluding Cruise as he left following Solar and Athena's departure and felt put down by Blaze's previous comment towards the Lion Beast Bot (knowing it was also directed towards him) and told them, "The truth is, the Blaze with is...He might not actually be your original candidate for the Red Ranger, he's not really Blaze."

Ash and the gang and their Pokemon were shocked and even Commander Shaw was a little taken aback as she replied, "Sarah, are you sure about this? This is a serious accusation you're leaning on and I don't want any of us to think so lowly of one of Grid Battleforce's top cadets that was originally chosen as our Red Ranger for the ranger program before Evox threw that plan out the window with his and Roxy's avatars."

"Positive, the Blaze that we know wouldn't be so much of a jerk to Cruise, Solar, and Athena. And, what's also weird is the fact that Race and I were told that Blaze was supposed to be attending a Karate tournament in Japan but when he went to us with Robo-Roxy's memory drive, he seemed to know about it as well as know about Carno and Chasa just now..."

"Hey, where is Cruise, anyway?" Lana asked, looking around for Cruise but not seeing Devon's Beast Bot with Jax and Smash.

"Where did he go?" blinked a surprised Lillie as she looked all over the lab.

"I guess when Blaze berated Solar and Athena like that and after they left, he also felt bad given that his comment was directed at him, too. He must've felt bad about making Devon late to help us deal with Railtron and he left without telling anybody," sighed Kiawe sadly.

Race nodded as he then added to the commander, "It seems strange that he would outright snap at them as he did like they're just a bunch of nuisances or insects that are in his way. But, the Blaze the others told us about wasn't that much of a hothead anymore after his avatar was destroyed during your supposed final battle against Evox before he made himself and his forces known again. However, it's almost like his presence here and the fact that he didn't bleed after he was hit by that Tronic during our scuffle with that Robotron and he didn't take off his bandage even after his left arm should've been alright, it was as if it was all part of a larger plan Evox had in mind."

Commander Shaw narrowed her eyes in thought as she pieced together what she was being told, "You mean to say that Evox was staging his impending Gigadrone attack we just learned about as a front while attempting espionage through another player in his ranks?"

"How is it possible for Evox to pull off such a move, especially with a puppet acting as my partner?" asked Sawk, surprised.

Sarah sighed as she explained what she planned to do to get more intel without alerting Blaze to her presence, "I have a theory why he was able to stage all this but I'll need complete concentration to do it. Raven and Twoie both taught me some basic powers made possible through my new Nephilim Physiology, a maneuver which involves using Telepathy as an extension of Mind Reading and allowing me to see the memories of others as Reader can."

"Are you sure you want to do that?"

"What if Blaze finds out about you and tries to block you from his mind?" Ash and Mallow asked, concerned.

"Given all the experience I had with my uncle, this is our only chance of knowing what he has in mind and what Evox is trying to do right now and we need a foolproof plan to piggyback on should everything go awry. As long as I don't alert him to my presence, I'll be able to read his memories as well as his mind and confirm it the Blaze with us is who Race, Sawk, and I think he is."

She looked at Sawk as she asked for his approval, "Sawk, will you be alright with me doing this?"

Sawk just gave her a knowing and determined as he told her, "Do it."

The little princess nodded back as she sat down, crossed her legs with her hands together in a circle formation, and meditated as she tapped into her Nephilim Physiology and floated a few feet in the air before she opened her eyes, her spirit finding Blaze in the storage room where the prison cell is being built with the others helping him.

"All according to plan..." Blaze chuckled, not knowing that Sarah's spirit went into his mind the same way Reader did several times prior as she looked through his memories and found herself watching Evox working out the next phase of his endgame with Robo-Blaze and Scrozzle.

"So, what's the plan, Master Evox? Roxy's gone no thanks to the Rangers and those two new Zords of theirs and they're already one step ahead in beating us, so what'll we do now?" Robo-Blaze asked.

"It's quite simple, my faithful swordsman. Scrozzle has just learned that your counterpart at Coral Harbor is leaving for an important Karate tournament in Japan so this is the perfect chance to unleash Phase 1 of my ultimate plan," Evox explained as Scrozzle brought in the disc that was Robo-Roxy's surviving memory drive. "Scrozzle managed to snag this before the humans could get it so I want you to take it and purposely deliver it to the Rangers themselves."

"Roxy's memory drive, but why?"

"By sending them this and the videos that come with it, they'll first learn that we'll be making my strongest Gigadrone yet and will hatch a plan to stop me however they can. And, that's when you'll be my field agent, my trojan horse, shall we say; once the rangers are in a bind with Scrozzle's latest Robotron, I want you to join them and manipulate them into bringing me into their base so I can attack them from the inside. That's when I'll begin Phase 2 of my plan and after that, the end of the Power Rangers and humanity will be upon us."

Evox just gave a menacing cackle as Sarah's spirit gasped in horror as her, Race, and Sawk's suspicions were proven true; the Blaze they and the others were with and whom Devon is trusting so easily while taking advantage of his blooming friendship with his former rival and enemy was none other Robo-Blaze and he was the bipedal virus' trojan horse all along. Suddenly, as her spiritual time limit was up, her spirit found herself being thrown out of Robo-Blaze's mind and screaming as it fled back into her body, resulting in her being knocked back and reeling from what she just found out, both figuratively and literally.

"Oh, man!" Jax cried in alarm as they all went over to check on her.

"Sarah, are you okay?!" Smash asked frantically as Sarah let out a fearful gasp as she got up.

"EVOX!" she screamed, panting heavily while sweating.

"You saw him, in the imposter's mind?!"

"What is it?"

"What did you see?"

"What did he say?" Sawk, Blitz, Race, and Duke asked worriedly.

"I knew it, everything the Blaze with us did was nothing but a lie, a big trick of espionage," she replied before she turned to an equally-worried Commander Shaw.

"Commander, Evox said, he wanted Robo-Blaze to infiltrate Grid Battleforce through us. He and Scrozzle got Robo-Roxy's memory drive back and he had him deliver it to us personally... He wants to trick us into bringing Evox to the base!"

Everyone gathered was horrified by what they had heard, realizing that Evox was issuing the tried and true war method and legend of the trojan horse through Robo-Blaze and the plan he had in mind was nothing but a pack of lies. While Ash and the others let out horrified gasps, Commander Shaw remained as calm as she can be with her years of training to get to her current position helping her maintain control of her emotions despite the shock being apparent in her eyes as well.

Now, everybody gathered knew the real reason why Robo-Blaze appeared with Robo-Roxy's memory drive and what he and his superiors planned to do; with the real Blaze still away in Japan for his Karate tournament, his evil robotic double was able to worm his way into Grid Battleforce for Evox first by purposely handing them the memory drive, then purposely getting hurt during the scuffle with Railtron 2.0 so he'd be taken in for treatment, and along the way, to ensure that Evox will be brought into the base with no trouble, he manipulates everybody around him and messes with their minds so they wouldn't follow through on a plan they hoped to follow should they eventually realize the big bad virus' ultimate goal.

"Those bastards! How dare that robotic doppelganger of my human friend play us for fools by posing as him while he was gone just so that wretched snake can destroy us all from within thanks to his trespassing and lies, I knew something was off about that imposter! I should've stepped in and stopped him sooner when I had the chance," Sawk seethed, angered by what Robo-Blaze and Evox had done as angry tears welled up in his eyes and he slammed his right hand at one of the tables in self-loathing for not acting on his instincts sooner.

"Sarah, this is bad! If Robo-Blaze is here and pulling off all the stops for Evox, that means the others are already wading into his trap! We have to tell the others, now!" Sophocles replied.

"That's not a good idea right now, Sophocles," Race warned.

Ash and the others were surprised as Lillie then questioned in disbelief, "What do you mean, Race? There isn't much time!"

"Think about it; Devon's still listening to Robo-Blaze and sucking up to his plan with all of the bad advice he's giving him and us right now, agreed? And, he's not that stupid given he had gotten Solar, Athena, and Cruise out of the picture after they mentioned how dangerous his plan was and the risks that come from fighting Evox and his new Gigadrone at close range let alone using Carno and Chasa as bait. He must've known they'd end up picking him out and revealing his true colors sooner than he expected so he didn't want them getting in the way, knowing that a couple of stragglers would screw everything up for him and Evox."

"I'm pretty sure now that we know part of Evox's endgame involves being led into the base and attacking us from within following his trojan horse game, he's going to be suspicious of us and realize I've infiltrated his mind and memories to uncover their ploy," Sarah agreed knowingly before she went on. "But, I think I know how we can pull a fast one on him; everybody's thinking that Robo-Blaze is the real deal after they went along with his plan to trap Evox in the Zord Hanger, right?"

"Right," Mallow nodded.

"So, as long as Devon, Ravi, Steel, Zoey, Nate, and everybody else in the base are left in the dark about him actually being Evox's last remaining robot lackey between him and Robo-Roxy apart from Scrozzle, we might be able to take him out before he tries anything else. And, I know just the Animus enchantment to help us do that."

"But, what are we going to do about Evox and his Gigadrone should they finally cross over from the Cyber Dimension and the others start to fight and lure him over?" Kiawe questioned.

"Trapping him in the Zord Hanger is what he and Robo-Blaze want so we must trick him into appearing in an isolated location somewhere where we don't risk him somehow hacking into the base's systems."

"...I have an idea but you're not going to like it, Sarah," Mallow replied after thinking for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

"What if we somehow lure Evox to Dragon Knight Base, the place you made for Hiccup and the rest of the Viking teens on Berk? Berk is, more or less, an isolated island in the middle of the Barbaric Archipelago. Or, what about somewhere isolated and far off from technology in Dragonstone?"

"No how, no way, Mallow! I'm not letting that walking computer virus anywhere near Dragonstone; transporting him there will put the existence of the hidden world at risk! And, who knows what'll happen if he goes through Athi and Blizzard and my kingdom and everybody in it just to get back somehow? I'm not gambling with their lives by dragging Evox there!" Sarah objected immediately, not liking the suggestion of luring and containing Evox at Dragonstone instead of the Zord Hanger.

"We're not saying you should hold him at Dragonstone after luring him there let alone the Dragon Knight Base, Sarah. Their technological systems are completely different compared to the technology system used by us, the Aether Foundation, and Grid Battleforce so they're basically a form of new and exotic technology that even Evox wouldn't understand which would make holding him easy," Sophocles clarified.

Blinking in surprise, Sarah thought over what she was told and the suggestions they had on where they lure Evox to and capture him until she thought about her Viking friends and their new Dragon Knight Base as she mused, "...You know, that's actually, hmm... Dragon Knight Base... Mallow, Sophocles, you're right. The new Dragon Knight Base is isolated and Evox wouldn't know what to do there should he be trapped there instead... You guys, I think you might be on to something."

Then, nodding in approval, she said, "Alright, I'll inform Hiccup and the others about our plan for capturing Evox. It's time for their first real test as Berk's defenders of justice."

"If I may offer a suggestion as well, Your Highness, perhaps it would be in our best interest that you enchant the new BioZords for when he and his new Gigadrone show up. Whatever Scrozzle has developed for him may be too much even for you and he has no idea about your new magic since it had been months since you and your team went up against him," Sawk cautioned.

Sarah nodded, "Okay, Sawk, we'll get Carno and Chasa ready and see if the other BioZords, the Triassic Rover, and the Shield of Triumph are ready to go."

Commander Shaw could only agree as she nodded and then told everybody, "With that settled, the best thing we can do for now is to play along with Robo-Blaze until we have him right where we want him and Evox."

Everyone gathered agreed; for now, that was really all they could do until everything on their end was ready with Smash and Jax promising, even on Cruise, Solar, and Athena's behalf, to play their part to keep everyone else in the dark about Evox's ploy and be ready for Robo-Blaze and Evox should the worst happen or anything else happens that plays into Evox's endgame.

Meanwhile, at Dragonstone, Sarah's faithful NightWing Seer, Reader, was currently sunbathing out on an open grassy plain close to Sarah's castle. The day had proven rather peaceful ever since the little princess and Race along with Duke, Blitz, Curly, Robbie, Bella, Solar, and Athena left for Grid Battleforce and she was making the most of the time she had to herself while waiting for her royal charge to return to the island kingdom and Alola.

However, she wouldn't get another moment's rest as her powers kicked in and she suddenly had another vision, waking up with a jolt from her sunbathing and her eyes turning white as she had more flashes of the vision she was having. In the vision, Evox and his new Gigadrone attacked Grid Battleforce from the inside, Evox was captured, the heroes chase after him once he somehow escapes, and then, she heard the words, "I, WAS, VENJIX!"

A final jolt and a shock of pain later, Reader closed her eyes and winced heavily as she shook her head. Now, however, the vision she just had left her shaken to the core and feeling scared for Sarah, her friends, and the Beast Morphers Rangers; after being welcomed to her family and finding out about the Power Rangers through the former group and the little princess, Sarah had told her everything about them and the Super Sentai she and the others were taught during Ranger History class.

One subject, out of all of them, that chilled her to the bone was the story of the Power Rangers RPM and the war against a terrible creation made by their mentor and close friend, Dr. K, in their world known simply as Venjix. In it, she learned that Dr. K only created him as a simple computer virus to fulfill her desire to go outside after she saw past the lies she and two of her old real friends, the Gold and Silver Ranger Series Operators: Gem and Gemma, were fed by the facility they once worked under, Alphabet Soup, but her plan worked too well as it grew out of control and once he was made, Venjix ravaged her world until the Domed City of Corinth was left of human civilization that housed what's left of mankind in their world.

This resulted in Dr. K trying to atone for her mistake by recruiting Summer Landsdown, Flynn McAlilstair, and Scott Truman as the first three of five Ranger Series Operators/Rangers to form the Power Rangers RPM that spent their first year together fighting to protect the city from Venjix's forces until the arrival of the Green and Black Series Operators/Rangers, Ziggy Grover and Dillon, despite whatever complications that came from their arrival to Corinth. Their adventures as a full team following their recruitment and Dr. K's reveal to them after hiding behind her computer screens then led to the revelation that Gem and Gemma survived and officially became the Gold and Silver Rangers during their time apart from their dear friend.

Their fights continued until the revelation between Dr. K and Venjix's creation was revealed which put her at temporary odds against Scott's father, Colonel Truman, until he eventually pardoned her after a genuine heart-to-heart about everything that went down and what she was doing to repent for her previous mistake. After that, they eventually fought and discovered Dillon's sister, Tenaya, whom the Black RPM Ranger had been searching for since he was separated from her some time ago, followed by the events of her being brought back to the light before her immediate recapture and Venjix's endgame against the heroes of the RPM world which resulted in his defeat from Tenaya's efforts in helping the rangers turn the tables on him.

Nobody was sure what happened to Venjix after his end when he was crushed by the destroyed control tower but after receiving the horrible vision that resulted in the terrifying reveal of Evox being his predecessor villain, Reader was horrorstruck and didn't know what to think.

"Wait a second, Venjix took over the Biofield or Morphin Grid of that world before he was defeated. If he was somehow able to survive even after being destroyed, then, maybe... Oh, no. No, no... No, no, no, no, no... No, no, Princess!" she fretted worriedly before her heart gripped with terror and she made her way to Coral Harbor as fast as she could.

Over at the Cyber Dimension, while Robo-Blaze continued on with his trojan horse routine at Grid Battleforce, Scrozzle was wondering what happened to Railtron 2.0 as he saw his Robotron making progress during his battle with the Power Rangers until he saw them destroy him, "Hmm... That's strange, Railtron seems to have gotten off the grid but how and why? Hmm, let's see what happened-huh?! Oh, man! Come on, Railtron was supposed to distract them until 2:30 until we're done with the new Gigadrone! I thought trains were supposed to run on time, ugh!"

"Forget the Robotron, you fool! My real plan is working perfectly and the princess has been keeping quiet along with her friends so we're finally in the clear to begin Phase 2 once I enter Grid Battleforce. What's the status of my Gigadrone?" Evox hissed as he arrived back and readied himself to take to the field once more.

"It's all set, Master! Your new Omegadrone is finally complete and ready for takeoff!"

"Excellent! Then, with my new Omegadrone at hand, once I'm finally in, I won't have to hide my secrets from the rangers any longer."

"What secrets?"

Evox could only laugh as he gave a hint of a menacing smirk on his face as he replied darkly (a revelation brewing about him that would shake the Beast Morphers Rangers to their core when he meets them and the Ultra Rescue Rangers again), "Oh, Scrozzle, you see, compared to our predecessors of the past, I have a very dark past..."

"Forget the Robotron, you fool! My real plan is working perfectly and the princess has been keeping quiet along with her friends so we're finally in the clear to begin Phase 2 once I enter Grid Battleforce. What's the status of my Gigadrone?" Evox hissed as he arrived back and readied himself to take to the field once more.

"It's all set, Master! Your new Omegadrone is finally complete and ready for takeoff!"

"Excellent! Then, with my new Omegadrone at hand, once I'm finally in, I won't have to hide my secrets from the rangers any longer."

"What secrets?"

Evox could only laugh as he gave a hint of a menacing smirk on his face as he replied darkly (a revelation brewing about him that would shake the Beast Morphers Rangers to their core when he meets them and the Ultra Rescue Rangers again), "Oh, Scrozzle, you see, compared to our predecessors of the past, I have a very dark past..."

Back at Grid Battleforce, unaware that Sarah, Commander Shaw, and the others changed the plan behind his, his team, and Robo-Blaze's backs, Nate had just finished the prison cell for Evox.

"And, done. The Force Field Cell is ready to hold Evox," he told Ben and Betty who were with him in overseeing the cell's construction and final preparations as he deactivated it.

"Amazing," Betty grinned, liking how practical the cell seemed for Evox's capture.

"I'll be right back," Nate told the Burke Siblings as he left to get Zoey and Ravi and tell them about the holding cell.

Left to their own devices, Ben and Betty decided to check out the cell unaware of a janitor wearing earphones and listening and dancing to some music he was hearing had come into the room while cleaning up. As he wasn't watching what he was doing, he accidentally activated the Force Field Cell and trapped the pair inside, forcing the two to call out to him to help them out but fail as he couldn't hear them through his headphones as he left and continued on with his cleaning.

Then, they tried to break out of the holding cell themselves by using the Beast-X Blasters only for the beams from them to bounce around the pair while hitting the walls of the activated cell, surprising Zoey, Robo-Blaze, and Nate and forcing the Gold Ranger to shut down the cell to free them before they could be fried by their own beams (unintentionally proving how successful the cell seemed to be as they couldn't penetrate it).

"Ben, Betty!" Zoey cried once they had been freed but not completely unscathed as they were a little fried from the scorch marks on their uniforms and their frazzled hair. "What happened in there?"

"We were, uh... Just, testing it out," Betty replied innocently as they left.

"Very, very secure. See ya later!" Ben added as the two left to change their uniforms and get cleaned up.

"Well, at least the force field works," remarked Robo-Blaze as he stared at the cell before Devon, Ravi, and Steel showed up.

"This is it, you guys. Evox's Gigadrone has been detected," the Red Ranger informed.

"Let's get to the Zords, Solar's not around with Sarah to drive him so King will be on his own with us for the time being," Nate nodded as the five Beast Morphers Rangers morphed into action.

"Activate, Beast Power!"

"Ready, team?"

"We got this," Zoey reassured as the BM Rangers left and Robo-Blaze was left alone with the cell.

One by one, with their Pokemon, Cruise, the Rangers' Zords were all deployed to lure Evox and his Omegadrone to Grid Battleforce's Special Ops Hanger and trap him but they were still unaware that the plan they went through with Robo-Blaze had been changed behind their backs so they and Evox have no idea what they're in for regarding his capture.

"Alright, Brother, let's do this!" Steel remarked to Nate, the two brothers deciding to go for the Striker Megazord to add to the Megazord Power the group needs to hold Evox and his Omegadrone down.

"Striker Megazord, combine!"

"Racer Zord, Battle Mode!" Devon continued as the Racer Zord transformed into its Battle Mode for his, Ravi, and Zoey's transformation into the Beast-X Megazord.

"Beast-X Megazord, combine!" Quick as a wink, the Racer, Wheeler, and Chopper Zords combined into the Beast-X Megazord as the core rangers braced themselves for Evox's arrival. "Beast-X Megazord, unleashed!"

"Mind if we cut in?" Sarah called as she and Race appeared with Carno and Chasa (the little princess aboard Chasa's cockpit again) along with the Rangers' new and improved Mezodonzord and Triassic Rover. "Tyler and the others did it, they finally got the Mezodonzord and the Triassic Rover done!"

"Now, it's time for us to test these puppies out against our big daddy virus!" agreed Race from inside Carno's cockpit.

"Look, there it is!" Devon shouted, seeing Evox and his Omegadrone appear and that it was unlike anything they had ever faced before as it was a perfected splicing of all of the Gigadrones the Beast Morphers Rangers had beaten, a Frankenstein-like robot with all the power it can muster from its lost robotic predecessors.

"What kind of Gigadrone is that?" Ravi gasped.

"You're in my crosshairs now, Rangers. Today, you will finally meet your doom, it's time for you to meet your ultimate destiny!" Evox cackled from inside the Omegadrone's cockpit, confident in his ultimate plan and infiltration of Grid Battleforce.

To demonstrate his current power with the Omegadrone, Evox fired its lasers at the Striker and Beast-X Megazords. The two Megazords were hit hard but before they could be knocked down, Chasa jumped in front of them and used her Shield Frills to block them as best she can while they recover.

"We got to move fast!" Nate called, knowing there is not much time to lure Evox and the Omegadrone into their trap.

"Roger!" Devon agreed as the Beast Morphers team fought the Omegadrone. "Cruise?"

"Hanger doors are opening now!" Cruise nodded, opening the doors to the Special Ops Hanger.

"Get ready, everybody, the Gigadrone is almost in position!"

Evox just scoffed smugly as he knew he was getting closer to his moment of ultimate triumph, "Your attempts against me are fruitless this time! Along with you, I'm sending every last one of your Zords including your pathetic copycats of the DinoThunder team's BioZords to the junkyard!"

"Not gonna happen!" Race spat as Carno used his Cyclone attack and did some damage to the Omegadrone.

"Crane Crash!" Steel and Nate bellowed, knocking the Omegadrone with a Crane Crash attack from behind.

"You have no idea what we have planned for you, Evox, and you'll be in for what we got cooked up for you! Sarah added as Chasa charged forward and bashed the Omegadrone before she contacted Commander Shaw. "Okay, Commander, we're ready!"

Commander Shaw nodded as she then signaled, "Transport, now!"

Without delay, the workers immediately set to work, transporting all of the Zords and the Omegadrone into a large hanger built in the Dragon Knight Base. It turned out that after opening the doors to Special Ops Hanger and drawing him into it as he landed inside along with the Rangers and their Zords, not only were they transported away from the Special Ops Hanger but into another hanger altogether that was connected via a tunnel to the main underground Command Center, far away from Grid Battleforce so Evox couldn't escape to hack into the base's systems. This ultimately threw a wrench in the final stages of his and Robo-Blaze's trojan horse ploy as the commander, Sarah, and the others intended.

With her and Blaze's Sawk, the Viking Teens were opted out of the fight over concerns that their Draconic Racers wouldn't stand up to the Omegadrone and its power.

"Agh, no! A trap! Blast it!" Evox seethed, realizing he was just had.

"This is it, Commander! He's in the hanger!" Hiccup noted as he and his friends and their dragons glared with determination in hopes that the plan they were told would succeed.

Commander Shaw nodded as she then notified the Rangers (knowing to keep their exact location a secret from her son and his friends), "Rangers, he's in the Zord Hanger now! Secure him and don't let him escape!"

"Let's secure the Gigadrone," Devon ordered.

"We'll follow your lead!"

"Stay sharp, everybody!" Sarah and Nate nodded as the Beast Morphers team proceeded to force the Omegadrone against one of the hanger walls while Carno, Race, Sarah, Chasa, the Mezodonzord, and the Triassic Rover held back.

"We're too close to attack!" Cruise warned.

"We have to!"

"Well, if you say so," Steel replied, bracing himself.

"You may have fooled me but I'll tear this place down before you even have the chance to capture me!" Evox vowed, snarling as he activated the Omegadrone's self-defense systems and wires extended from it which started to trash the hanger as explosions and flames burst all over.

"He's trying to destroy the hanger to escape!"

"Ah! What'll we do?" Zoey and Ravi asked as the Beast Morphers Rangers and their Zords took the brunt of their enemy's assault.

"We just have to try and hang on!" Devon commanded.

"But, it's not safe for us to continue like this!"

"It's too dangerous, you'll be trashed or burned to a crisp!" Smash and Jax objected, worried for their own safety but moreso for their friends.

"I've, had, ENOUGH!" Evox raged as his Omegadrone powered up and unleashed a powerful blast that sent the Beast Morphers Rangers and their Megazord back. "You cannot hope to beat my new Gigadrone!"

"Well, you've just met your match yet again!" Sarah retorted as Chasa and the Mezodonzord charged at the Omegadrone and rammed it hard, sending it back to the wall and forcing it there with Carno and Race joining in.

"Awesome! Sarah, bring it home!"

"This is epic!"

"Give him the Dino One-two!

"Take it to him, Sister!" Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Snotlout, and Astrid cheered, knowing that Evox is in trouble now.

"Go for it, guys!"

"Make Big Bad Daddy Virus sorry for messing with us all yet again!" Barf and Belch yelled, smirking at Evox and his Omegadrone struggling against the new BioZords.

Devon was shocked when he saw what was going on as he exclaimed, "Sarah, Race! What are you doing?! This is not part of the plan! Don't!"

"Sarah!"

"Race!"

"Stop!"

"Come back!" Ravi, Zoey, Nate, and Steel screamed, equally shocked and scared for the young couple and the BioZords.

"Leave the rest of this to us and the BioZords, guys!" Race shouted reassuringly.

Evox just laughed as he fired his Omegadrone's weapons at the three BioZords but they all managed to hold firm as they used all of their strength to push back against the monstrous Gigadrone.

"You're a bunch of stubborn children!" he snapped, seeing that his new opposition didn't buckle down to the might of his Omegadrone.

"You have no idea what you're in for right now and that's why you'll lose! Solar, King, now!" Sarah called as she used her Beast-X King Activator and called for her Beast-X King Zord (with Solar piloting him solo after he was comforted and told everything prior, shocking him and getting him in on the plan for some much-needed payback against Robo-Blaze).

In no time at all, King and Solar reappeared with the Zord in Battle Mode before the two of them joined Sarah, Race, and the BioZords as they held down the Omegadrone to keep it contained despite also taking in the oncoming firepower being thrown at all of them.

"Blizzard Smash!" Sarah and Race boomed, activating Chasa and Carno's Ice attack via their Move Cards and struck the Omegadrone, causing its cockpit to spark wildly.

"Rah! I'm not beaten yet, Princess! If I'm defeated yet again, I'm taking you and your lover with me!" Evox snarled defiantly as he tried to hold firm as well.

Sarah and Race screamed and grunted as they and their BioZords strained themselves to keep the blast going while Mezodonzord and King and Solar continued to hold the Omegadrone down until Ravi warned them, "Sarah, Race! Get out of there! My sensors show the Gigadrone is heating up, it's about to blow!"

"Trust us, Ravi!" Sarah grunted as she and Race along with Chasa and Carno prepared to finish off the Omegadrone. "Ready, Race?"

"Do it!" Race nodded as he and Sarah held the controls and braced themselves for their final attack.

"Freeze Breath!"

Using Carno and Chasa's Freeze Breath attack (which was naturally-built into their circuitry) and after the Mezodonzord and King and Solar moved back, the quartet blasted the Omegadrone just as it blew up and before the explosion could rip up the hanger.

The force of the blast was contained in the ice even though the shockwaves that passed through made the two BioZords skid back before they managed to beam their creators safely out of their cockpits, all of them along with King, Solar, and the Mezodonzord shaken but unharmed as they saw the wreckage of the Omegadrone and its ice prison break down.

"That was way too close, Island Girl," sighed Race in relief as he then glared at his girlfriend. "We are NOT doing that again."

"No promises," Sarah rebutted, feeling a little winded just as the Beast Morphers team, Cruise, Jax, and Smash rushed over to them and a battle-worn and slightly-damaged Solar regrouped with everybody.

Grunting as he gave off small sparks from his damaged parts, Solar managed to reply, "... It's done, we have Evox right where we want him..."

"Solar, you okay, buddy?" Sarah asked, worried for her Beast Bot as she caressed and hugged him gently.

"Yeah, but Evox's Omegadrone got me and King good... Ugh, man, I didn't expect that stupid Gigadrone to be that powerful, uh..."

Devon watched on and he couldn't help but feel incredibly guilty for what he forced everybody to do by going along with Robo-Blaze's plan and the results that followed before he approached the pair and confessed as he knelt down, "Sarah, Solar... What happened to you and all of us, Solar, was all my fault. You, Athena, and Cruise tried to tell me that fighting up close like that in a hanger was too dangerous but I was too busy listening to Blaze on how to lead the team. I should've remembered to think of you and everyone else first and stand up for you guys..."

"...H-Hey, no harm, no-no foul, Devon. It, it was...a hard call and Evox, would've had us...on the ropes. Y-Y-You, you did your best..." Solar reassured despite coughing as he sparked and smoked in several places from the damage he and King took.

"I'm so sorry..." Devon apologized remorsefully as Sarah placed a hand on his right shoulder and rubbed it gently while giving him a reassuring nod.

"I'm tempted to give you a crash course redo on trust and betrayal, man, but I guess seeing and realizing what could've happened is punishment enough," sighed Race, feeling glad that Devon finally came to his senses again.

"We gotta keep sharp, Evox is still somewhere in this mess," Steel reminded as he held his Striker Morpher, knowing that their mission is not over yet and they still need to capture Evox.

"Sarah, we need to transport him back to the Med Lab so we can undo the damage done on him before he can rejoin us again and before his wounds he could be endangered further. Would it be alright if my team and I took care of him for a little bit?" Nate asked Sarah.

"Okay, once we capture Evox, we'll have him be given fast-track repairs immediately," Sarah nodded as she caressed her Beast Bot before the Gold Ranger could teleport him back to his lab. "You're gonna be okay, Solar. I promise you that much, I'll make sure Evox pays for what he did to you and King!"

The Viking Teens and their dragons and Pokemon quickly rushed over to the group with Commander Shaw's approval but the Beast Morphers Rangers were surprised to see them as they realized that something was off as they realized where they really are.

"Hiccup, Zenna, Astrid, guys?" Devon puzzled in surprise.

"What are you doing here?" Steel asked, sharing Devon's surprise.

"This is our Dragon Knight Base Sarah made for us and this is its hanger. We were told everything by Sarah, the others, and Commander Shaw and they asked us to be ready to help you once you captured Evox after he's far from Grid Battleforce," Fishlegs answered.

"Hold on, this isn't the Special Ops Hanger," Ravi blinked as he looked around the hanger before he turned to Sarah and Race with suspicion. "Sarah, Race, what's going on? Why have you brought us and Evox here?"

"Yeah, we all agreed to go with Blaze's plan by trapping him in Grid Battleforce's Special Ops Hanger. Not this," Zoey added in confusion.

"I'll explain later. Right now, we need to find Evox and make sure he's secure here so he can't get back to Grid Battleforce," Sarah replied just as a familiar hand crawled out from the wreckage of the Omegadrone and the ice it was encased in.

"Over there!" Ravi called, seeing Evox reappear and the heroes ready themselves to have Evox transported to the prison cell.

"Grrrrr! You, your boyfriend, and those prehistoric bugs will pay for destroying my Omegadrone, Princess!" he seethed as he charged at the group.

"Open fire!" Devon signaled as he and his friends fired at Evox with the Viking Teens' dragons and Pokemon firing their attacks as well with Sarah and Race shooting their Beast-X Pyroar Fang in Gatling Mode and the Solgaleo King Slinger.

They managed to blast Evox and knock him to the ground after repeated blasts until Devon then ordered the Grid Battleforce scientists back at the rangers' base, "Transport them now!"

"Huh, wait! What is this?!" Evox gasped, seeing the matter transporters appearing before him before he gave off shocked grunts as they were activated and he was then sent to the Force Field Cage which, under Commander Shaw's supervision once it had been finished, was transported prior to the Dragon Knights' Command Center.

"I-I think we got him!"

"...It worked!" Zoey and Ravi cheered before the others followed, amazed and relieved that they finally caught Evox and putting themselves another step closer to beating him once and for all.

After the battle, the heroes all gathered in the Dragon Knights' Command Center and were amazed to see Evox safely secured inside his cage despite knowing how dangerous of an enemy he could be. Blaze was with them, too, after he was told of where he was transported and held and he was shocked to discover that Sarah and Race along with their team had subverted his plan and changed it behind his and the Beast Morphers Rangers' backs.

"Amazing, I can't believe we did it. Evox is this close to us but right now, he can't do a thing," Ravi acknowledged, still speechless over Evox's capture.

Sarah and Race were both bandaged up from the slight burns and bruises they got from the fight as Cruise, Jax, and Smash looked them over while they took care of them, wanting to return the favor for saving them and their friends as they did. As everybody wondered what they should do next regarding the captured Evox, they got a report earlier that Solar is fixed again along with King with the Zord safely back in its hanger at Grid Battleforce while the Beast Bot was safely sent back to the heroes to rejoin Sarah with Athena joining them after she was told everything on her, Race, the commander, and the gang's side (also shocking her greatly).

"Yep, everything worked perfectly. Now, he won't hurt anybody ever again," Nate smiled.

"Of course, it worked. It was my plan," Blaze smirked arrogantly just as Commander Shaw, the gang, and Sawk arrived.

"Excellent work. You've not only captured Evox but you've also captured the biggest threat to our city, the world, and most importantly, the Morphin Grid," she praised the rangers, Sarah, and Race greatly just as Solar arrived at the Command Center.

"Solar!"

"You okay, man?"

"That was some gamble you made out there!" Cruise, Jax, and Smash cried as they rushed over to their fellow Beast Bot.

"I'm okay, guys, really. Although, Nate's friends at the lab did say that I have to be careful to stress myself too much or I'll somehow crash my system," the Lion Beast Bot reassured his robotic friends.

"Yeah, great work, guys," Blaze nodded before he glowered with disdain at Sarah and Race along with Solar. "Although, it would've been better if you two hadn't gone behind my back and opted to put him here instead of the Special Ops Hanger. And, if they and that lion hadn't screwed things up, we would've won."

"Yeah, that's what we don't get. Sarah, why did you and Race have Mom teleport us and Evox here to your Viking friends' base instead of taking him on at the hanger back home?" Ravi questioned, still wanting answers.

"Excuse me? I nearly got blown to bits and so did King, all because we followed your stupid plan, you idiot!" growled Solar as he glared back at Blaze, ignoring Ravi's question to Sarah and Race.

"Yeah, what you're doing is being nothing but jerks to us all, especially towards me, Solar, and Athena. And, if Solar, Sarah, Race, Carno, Chasa, and the Mezodonzord hadn't saved my friends and I, then Jax, Smash, and I would've been goners, too," Cruise added, not taking too kindly to Blaze's harsh treatment anymore as well.

"Hello, you're both robots and so is your lady bot crybaby friend with you. They probably can just, whip you three back into shape," Blaze replied indifferently, stunning the other heroes safe for a furious Ash and Pokemon School Gang as they and their Pokemon glared at him hard (knowing who he really is but not saying anything yet).

"You know what needs to be bent back into shape? Your attitude," Devon rebutted angrily, no longer trusting Blaze and his 'advice' anymore before he warmly smiled at Cruise, Solar, and Athena as they looked at him in surprise and awe.

"Seriously, the way you've been treating people, demeaning and harassing them to do what has to be done, especially Cruise, Solar, and Athena, it's not cool. It's not how Sarah, Race, and I do things with everybody else including our teammates. These three with us are more than just Beast Bots, they're our friends, they're part of our teams, and we wouldn't have it any other way. In fact, we'd be lost without them if they weren't able to get us out of trouble, even in the tightest of spots."

"Thanks, Devon," smiled Cruise, feeling happy for his partner while Sawk briefly gave Devon a proud smile, knowing how proud his real partner would be for his successor and replacement before he continued to glare at the fake Blaze.

"So, you're, finally standing up for yourself and all of us again?" Race quizzed, smirking.

"Yeah, I am. Guys, I want to apologize to you all, I made a big mistake this time. I thought for sure that Blaze was right, that being tough on my team and not tolerating any mistakes anymore when everything's on the line would get better results out of us. But, I realized that by going against you all and your own opinions on everything leading to right now, by not trusting you in favor of Blaze, I drove us apart and we're scattered which led to Sarah, Solar, and Race along with Carno and Chasa and the Mezodonzord getting hurt. That's wrong, all of it; we're strong when we work together as a team because of our friendship, our family love for each other."

Devon then looked at Cruise as he apologized to him as well, "And, Cruise, that's exactly why I should've stood up for you. Solar and Athena were only able to stay strong because they trusted Race and Sarah and I should've done the same for you. I'm sorry I forgot that."

"It's okay, Devon. I forgive you, it was a tough call but I'm glad you realized that nothing can ever destroy our friendship, not even you being a jerk to help us on our mission," Cruise continued to smile, knowing how his partner felt.

"Thanks, buddy," Devon sighed happily as they shared a hug while everybody else, safe for Blaze, smiled proudly for Devon.

"Yeah, I guess I should say, I'm sorry, too...For actually coming up with the plan that would've finished your worst enemy!" Blaze snapped, glaring daggers at everyone before Devon got a call from the real Blaze on his smartphone and he appeared in the stadium with a Karate trophy for 1st Place in his hands, showing that he won his match in the tournament.

"Konichiwa, guys! Guess what, I won my Karate match!" he happily, showing off his trophy and shocking and surprising those who are not in the know about the truth regarding the other Blaze.

"Blaze?!" Devon balked in surprise before the shocked Beast Morphers team, Cruise, Jax, and Smash all looked at the Blaze before everybody as the Viking Teens, Ash, the gang, their Pokemon, Sarah, Race, Athena, Commander Shaw, Sawk, and Solar all glowered at him.

"You see, guys, this is what we, Commander Shaw, and the others wanted to talk to you about. At first, we weren't sure what was going on but after Race, Sawk, and I picked up on a few things regarding him ever since he showed up at the Riptide Gym earlier today, we finally realized that this Blaze isn't all he appears to be," Sarah announced to her and her team's predecessors.

Race nodded as he added while Sawk went over to his 'partner' and continued to glare at him, "It was Christmas last year when Blaze got Sawk for a present and he had not only grown more humble following the incident with Evox regarding his and Roxy's avatars but he also regarded you guys as friends now despite being an arrogant hotshot before he failed to become the Red Ranger after he was turned over to the dark side."

"So, we thought of bringing you here to Hiccup and his friends' Dragon Knight Base and informing them about our trapping Evox and Commander Shaw supervised the Force Field Cell being moved here where Evox will be as far away from Grid Battleforce as much as possible so he wouldn't attack us from within. Also, a Pokemon under the ownership of a loving trainer can easily tell their behavior from their hearts, knowing immediately when something's not right. You obviously have a strong bond with Sawk given the time you've spent with him but ever since you've 'returned', you've not made any mention of let alone acknowledged him once. So..." Sarah finished as she jumped Blaze by grabbing his arm and ripping off his bandage, revealing wires in his left arm.

The Beast Morphers Rangers gasped as they got into battle stances with the others and Sawk as the Karate Pokemon raged at Robo-Blaze, "I KNEW you couldn't be trusted AND you're not really Blaze, you poser!"

"Heh, told you it was just a scratch," smirked Robo-Blaze as he tried to teleport but found out he couldn't as he only generated small sparks and only a small part of him vanished before he rematerialized and then glared at Sarah, growling lowly, "What did you do to me?!"

Feathers soon appeared before him as she smirked, "You didn't think escaping was gonna be that easy, did you?"

"I took the precaution of using an Animus Enchantment that neutralizes all of your powers including your ability to teleport between our world and the Cyber Dimension. Unless you have any Morph-X on you right now, you can't use them to hurt or threaten anybody ever again," Sarah retorted, her glare not leaving Robo-Blaze as she remained battle-ready.

"Hmph, I've got to hand it to you, Princess. You have gotten smarter, guess I'm gonna have to change the playing field from now on when it comes to you," Robo-Blaze smirked as he brought out a small vial of Morph-X he hid on him.

"Morph-X!" the Viking Teens gasped in shock.

"This may not restore all of my powers but it'll bring back the ones essential to me that you've taken. I'd love to stick around and chat but I gotta run, later," Robo-Blaze sneered as he restored his teleportation function and departed for the Cyber Dimension, leaving the heroes in anger and shock that he managed to escape despite the odds that are against him.

"We got played," Ravi breathed in horror.

"No wonder Blaze acted like such a jerk, it was Robo-Blaze fooling us all along. And, Sawk, Sarah, her friends, and Race saw all the signs and found out everything and we never knew until too late," Zoey realized, stunned.

"Guys, Commander, Princess! Are you in here?!" Reader's voice sounded as everybody looked around and found her frantically entering the Command Center as she panted heavily. "Princess, guys, Commander! Thank goodness I caught you!"

"Reader! Are you okay, what's going on?" Sarah asked, a little flustered by how terrified her NightWing seer was being as she held her while she shivered.

"I, I-I had another vision! And, it, pertains to Evox! Ben and Betty told me I could find you here! I saw him, somehow escaping and making his way, back to, Grid, Battleforce! He broke, into, Nate's lab, you, were all chasing him... And, then, he mentioned, he was, he was, he was, was..."

That was all Reader could say before she broke down and sobbed heavily, still terrified by what her latest vision had shown her, unable to tell them all who Evox really was.

"Wait, if trying to get him inside Grid Battleforce was his plan, then it must be like... This time, Evox wanted us to capture him so he can attack us from the inside," Nate pondered, slowly realizing what was happening and thinking through everything Sarah, Race, and their friends told everybody.

"But, why would he want to be captured and brought inside Grid Battleforce after attacking you guys from within through his espionage games?" Hiccup quizzed as everybody looked at Evox in his prison.

To Be Continued...