A few days after the poisoned city incident had gone by as the Rangers spent time recovering. Michael was up at the hospital as he checked on the little girl who had sustained an injury from Megalador. He had brought some flowers and an animal plushy. The mom would always visit with him and today was the day she was getting released from the hospital. Michael and the young looking mother with long blonde hair was sitting at the child's bedside.
"You really have a way with handling kids. Linda here doesn't normally like strangers and she's taken a liking to you." The mom said with a smile.
"Yeah I'm glad the White Power Ranger was able to get to you guys in time. I was in the crowd watching from afar. I was a good dad until some long time ago. Now I feel like I'm a terrible irredeemable father. Michael said holding back his emotions.
"How does your children feel about you?" The woman asked.
"He's forgiven me but I feel like I should've done better." Michael replied.
Michael was making funny faces while holding the blue unicorn plush in his hand. He finally gave the animal back to Linda as she had a huge smile on her face. "I think I'm going to call this unicorn Mike." She said with a laughing smile.
Michael had a moment of joy build up inside him as he gave a chuckle. He looked at the bandages on the girl's forehead and was happy he could save her. The doctor knocked on the door as he came in with the release papers for Linda.
"Okay so how are we all doing? You ready to go home little one?" The doctor said with a smile.
"Anthony you are such a life saver." The mom said to the doctor.
"I have a few kids of my own. I'm just glad I was able to help." He said as he went over instructions and had the forms filled out. He pulled out a sucker from his pocket and gave it to Linda.
"Well I should probably get going. Linda you take special care of your unicorn okay?" Michael said putting a thumbs up. Linda gave a smile as she did the same back.
Michael walked out of the hospital as he looked up to the sky. "I wonder if I can ever fully redeem myself." He thought to himself before super speeding away.
Mesogog was snarling in a foul mood still over the failure of Megalador. Zeltrax walked into the room holding a device. "My lord if I am allowed to speak I have found something that the previous White Ranger had made. It is a power detector of some sort and it's picking up a signal to the south of here." He said.
"If it's a power source then that means that I can withdraw the power from it and absorb it into my own body. The more power I have Zeltrax the quicker I can carry out with my plan. Megalador has failed us in killing the Power Rangers, and that has left a bad taste in my mouth. It would seem that I have underestimated our foes once more. Take some of the Tyrannodrones with you and find this power source. Don't let the Rangers be notified of your presence I can't afford to lose you." Mesogog said holding his head.
"The power source is at the far end of town and it appears to be buried. According to the notes, it's an egg of some sort. If by some means we can grab this item we could reverse engineer it to sap its powers and give it to you." Zeltrax said.
"What an interesting idea Zeltrax. This makes me curious to what else the White Ranger was hiding from me in my very own base. Mesogog wondered.
"I found some blood dna of the White Ranger while cleaning up. I preserved it to use for an idea of a new monster, one that might just rival the White Ranger, since Michael had White Ranger DNA I could make a new and improved beast that can be more powerful. I need to get some more DNA for it to work." Zeltrax said with a chuckle.
"Good idea, now leave Zeltrax gather your army and head out when you are ready." Mesogog said.
Zeltrax bowed as he left the room.
"I had the Power Rangers right where I wanted them. Their deaths were right in my grasp. How did they beat Megalador? Was one of them not affected by his poison…Or was it something else that I'm not seeing? I must find some way to gain power that I can use temporarily. Something that is enough to strike down at least one of the Rangers. Maybe I should go take a look at Michael's notes, if he had found some kind of power that could help the Power Rangers I wonder what else he had found." Mesogog said as he got out of his chair and walked out of the room.
Tobias was back at the apartment with Zach and Xander. They had white envelopes on it with a bow on it, and Tobias had a vanilla frosting cake with a black dino foot print on it that almost looked like their logo. Everyone was hanging out in the living room taking turns playing Dark Souls as they waited for Michael's arrival back from the hospital.
"Oh come on! That's not even fair. How does anyone supposed to beat Ornstein and Smough when they fight like that?!" Zach said as he handed the controller over to Xander.
"Oh it's easy to fight them off. Here I'll show you just let me switch the armor set around. I'm telling you we should get Solaire into the fight. Make things a hell of a lot easier." He said.
"Well didn't we say that we weren't going to bring NPCs in the boss fights? We were going to each take turns seeing which build of ours was better since I have collected almost everything in the game." Tobias said as he began sipping his bottle water.
"I'm telling you Magic is not going to be effective uh in this uh fight." Zach said stuttering.
"If anyone can use magic well it's Xander. I'm sure of it." Tobias said.
The fight went pretty well as Zach and Tobias started rooting for Xander until the two bosses cornered him. They watched as one of the bosses' giant hammer hit Xander as he was trying to roll out of the way.
"AHH DAMMIT! I Knew I shouldn't have tried to go into that corner." Xander said.
"Okay it's my turn. I'm going to go in there with my strength build character." Tobias said as Xander threw him the controller across the room.
Tobias then heard a noise out in the hallway.
"Oh crap he's here guys. Quick get up in the hallway and get ready to yell Happy Birthday!" Tobias commanded.
Everyone got up as Tobias super sped around the room picking everything up and then grabbing Michael's gift and putting it on his couch and then sped over to grab the cake and got down on one knee so Michael could see his teammates.
Michael unlocked the door and came in.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
The three said as Michael walked in shocked.
"What is this? My birthday?" Michael asked shocked.
Yeah dad. Today is your birthday I've been trying to get everyone to come participate and figured it be great for team bonding!" Tobias said to him.
"I'm flattered…but I'm not a social hang out kind of perso-AHHH" Michael was shoved onto the couch by Tobias and the cake super sped and placed in front of him.
"You're going to be living here for awhile. My friends are gonna come over from time to time. So you are going to get used to socializing again. Trust me it'll help you." Tobias smiled.
"Is that cake vanilla?" Michael asked.
"The best vanilla cake you'll ever eat." Tobias responded with a smile.
Michael gave out a sigh and gently closed his eyes and relaxed his body as he took a deep breath and blew out his candles as he made a wish. The Rangers, outside of Brett who wasn't there, ended up watching a bunch of videos and playing video games until Michael passed out from exhaustion.
Brett was working at doing some tuning to the equipment of the motorbikes back at the hideout. "There's got to be a way that I can get these to have these move faster. It would be super helpful if they could do more." He said. He heard the supercomputer making a binging noise. He quickly got off the floor as he approached the massive size machine and tapped a button. "An unidentified energy source? Let's try to pinpoint it." Brett began typing trying to find its exact location. "The abandon farm near Portage? I should get ahold of the Rangers. Oh wait It was Michael's birthday yesterday. So I'm sure Tobias and him are busy. That's fine I can grab Xander and Zach for this." He said.
Zach and Xander were just down the street when they got the call and headed over. Once they were there Brett began to fill them in. "An energy source? How powerful is it?" Xander asked.
"I think it's similar to the Zords. I was able to find the Para Zord with a similar reading. If it's what I'm thinking it is, we might have access to another member of the Dino Zords. But I have a feeling that if we know about this, I'm sure Mesogog and his goons do too. So we should be careful. I have all of my power back so I can join with you guys on this mission. Just remember to stick together. If things get out of hand we'll call Tobias and Michael."
"Can we take a Portal to get to the location?" Zach asked.
"No but we can get close. Don't morph unless a threat appears. We are just going to grab it and get out." Brett said.
Brett hit a button on the computer as the red, yellow, and blue square walls opened up to reveal the bikes and the Invisi-Portal becoming active. The three walked in and immediately taken to the giant bike trail that lead out of the town.
"This is the Slippery Elm Trail." Xander said.
"The location is about half a mile out from here. If we stay on this path we will see an abandoned barn and that's where the signal is coming from." Brett said.
The three began walking keeping their guard up in case anything should happen. They were walking for a tad bit as they all kept quiet. The quietness bothered Xander so he decided to start a conversation.
"It's kind of weird that Tobias isn't with us on this one." He said.
"Protecting the world is important, but being there for your family is just as important." Brett said.
"I feel bad that we didn't trust Tobias a few days ago. Michael really saved our lives." Zach said.
"I'm still kind of surprised that he was okay with joining us. He had a lot of reasons to just say no with how we treated him." Xander said.
"I'm sure Michael understood. He's been a great ally taking down Megalador. Even getting his own Megazord. I don't think we will have to worry about the evil taking over him." Brett said.
"Hey Xander, do you uh uh still see Emily's spirit?" Zach asked stuttering.
"Yeah. She's been really helpful. I think she's like my guardian angel or something. She mostly shows up when I'm in a bind." Xander said.
"I think it's gotta suck that you see her though. Doesn't it make it hard to get closure for her death?" Zach asked.
"It does at times. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy and thinking that maybe I'm hallucinating her because I can't accept that she died to Fridgia. I hold myself a bit responsible if I had held onto the Dino Bracelet better she wouldn't have to die." Xander said with a sorrowful expression.
"You must've really loved her Xander. I still feel bad for your loss." Brett said.
"I knew her for a while. I always admired her because she was so strong. Her death and my journey as a Power Ranger have made me grow to become stronger and fearless. I don't want anyone else to go through my experience if I can help it. She's a constant reminder that I'm not doing this just for myself, or for her, but for others." Xander said with a determined smile on his face.
Brett held a fist up as the two stopped behind him.
"Why are we stopping?" Zach asked.
"The barn door is busted. Someone is inside and if it's any guess I'm thinking we might have a fight on our hands already." Brett said. Zach and Xander looked at the barn to see Tyranno Drones moving around the building.
"They are just drones we can take them." Zach said.
"These drones don't act on their own, I don't know if Mesogog created a monster or has Zeltrax out here. I'm going to go invisible and scope it out. You two stay here and out of sight." Brett said as he activated his powers.
Some time passed and Brett came back with a picture on his phone, "Zeltrax is there. He's searching for a Dino Egg. We don't have much time so we are going to go in there and stop him. We need to find the Dino Egg and immediately get out of there. So here's our plan, I will go invisible and find the egg, when I do I'll give a signal and you two draw back. Keep them busy until I find the Egg. Remember you're guy's training, don't push yourself in this fight and watch out for the other." Brett said.
Brett went invisible and the other two went running towards the barn as fast as they could. There was two Tyrannodrones standing out watch but had their backs turned to the two Rangers as Zach activated his power and grabbed the back of their heads and smashed them together. The two instantly died as Xander reeled his head back and gave a powerful roar that sent the two drones flying into the building before exploding. Zeltrax quickly faced the two Rangers.
"I see the Power Rangers found out what I was doing." He said.
"Whatever you're after Zeltrax, you won't be taking it home with you." Zach said.
"And what is it that you think I'm searching for Rangers?" Zeltrax asked.
"How I'm seeing it. Trouble." Xander said as the two raised their bracelets over their chests.
"READY!" The two said.
The bracelet's turned into the Dino Morphers as they each did their own special transformation stances.
"DINOTHUNDER! POWER UP!"
The two backflipped into the air as their Ranger forms appeared.
"I'm going to take it that your leader, the White Ranger, and the Black Ranger aren't here. That will make this fight a lot smoother. Tyrannodrones! Attack!" Zeltrax said as a swarm of the mooks formed a circle around Zach and Xander.
"Ptera Grips!"
"Tricera Shield!"
The Power Rangers special weapons formed in their hands and Zach grabbed Xander's gun from his holster to make the fight for him a lot easier.
The enemies quickly went into the offensive as Zach shot one in the head and raised his shield to block the jumping attack one. He had to put a lot of energy into the back of his shield to keep from falling on the ground. "Xander help! I'm losing my balance!" He called out.
"Right on it!" He said as Xander slashed as one of the Tyrannodrones hip, spun around and stabbed one of the grips into the head. He then took the weapon out and ran towards the drone closest to him as he jumped up and kicked off its chest as he flew through the air and stabbed the grips into its neck. Xander hit the ground first as he recovered and punched the back of the slain enemy and sent it flying towards the group he was fighting as they got by the explosion and died along with their comrade.
A few drones were getting to close to the two as Zach blasted one in the ankle and used his shield to slap the other one away. Xander's grip glowed bright yellow as he began rushing through a bunch of them slashing at every weak point he could hit. He got himself surrounded by a bunch of the ones in pain as he spun in a circle with his arms stretched out and the power on his Grips emerged out and destroyed the six around him.
Zach went up to the one he got onto the ground and slashed its face with the horn on his shield and then quickly raised his gun at the one directly behind it and pulled the trigger leaving a hole in the middle of his face. Zach then ran up towards it and jumped keeping his feet together as he kicked it back. Zach then tossed his shield up into the air as he spun around and grabbed the one on the ground and chucked it towards another group of drones. He kept his eyes on the flying drone as he placed his arm in the air and his shield slid back into place. His blue shield began to glow bright as the last two drones ran towards him. One jumped up into the as the other came into a charge attack. The horn on his shield extended out as Zach spun in a circle and did a rising cut with his shield and the moment he made contact with the charging drone, the power emanating off his shield formed a blue curve as he cut through the one drone and the one coming down from his jumping attack couldn't stop as it got impaled. Zach gave out a roar as he slammed it onto the ground. The two exploded into bits and from the fire in the barn the two Rangers stood facing Zeltrax who was amazed that they could do so well.
Xander stuck his finger up at Zeltrax, "You're next." He said.
"Ha for a group of teenagers I'm quite impressed. This entire time I thought you couldn't do anything without your leader around. But I wonder how well you'll defeat me? If you even can." Zeltrax said.
"What's that mean?" Zach asked.
"I'm an ancient and powerful relic. If I possess anyone who wears my armor their life is tied into mine. I feed off their pain and negative emotions. But if I die, so does the host. How would your leader feel if he found out that you guys killed his very own mother?" Zeltrax laughed.
"I think you're lying!" Xander claimed.
"Am I? Okay how about you guys strike me down and prove that theory if you can." Zeltrax said.
Xander quickly ran towards Zeltrax with his weapons raised. His Ptera Grips glowed bright yellow as he ran as fast as he could. Zeltrax ran towards him with his sword to his side and shield in front of him. Once the two met, Xander jumped over Zeltrax's head and he slashed down his opponent's back with his weapons and opened the mouths of his weapons as he locked them on Zeltrax's elbows. Xander took out his gun and put in sword mode as he began slashing at Zeltrax's back hut he just stood there taking each hit and laughing. Getting a bit overwhelmed Xander grabbed his still glowing weapon and slashed across his back with one and then spun around and slashed from one side to the other. He looked at his weapons as they broke in half from the attack.
"You're power is weak Yellow Ranger. The only one who's been able to deal damage to me was your White Ranger. His power is stronger than your entire team." Zeltrax chuckled.
"This is ridiculous!" Xander said.
Zeltrax quickly spun around as he shield smashed Xander in his face sending him flying. Zach quickly ran to the aid of his friend as he began shooting at Zeltrax who grabbed Xander and used him as a meat shield. Xander took the four blasts as he screamed in pain. Zach stopped in his tracks as his friend was now held hostage. Zeltrax shoved Xander in front of him of as his blade became charged with electricity and did a big slash attack at his back. Xander screamed in pain as he fell to his knees and de-morphed. His clothes with rips and his hair sticking up from the shock of the attack, and had bruises all over his body. He tried to move but Zeltrax walked up behind him and slammed his foot on his back. Xander moaned in pain as he clenched his fist.
"GET OFF ME!" He yelled but Zeltrax just laughed.
Zeltrax then pointed his sword at Zach, "I can tell you're upset that I struck down your friend. If you want to help him I'll give you two choices. You can either de-transform and be his substitute or you can try your hand at getting him away from me. But if you try to call your friends I'll kill him right now. Either way someone dies tonight." He challenged.
Zach was struggling to come up with a decision as the fight was replayed in his mind. He knew that his power wasn't strong enough to cause any harm towards Zeltrax, but he wasn't going to leave his friend to die without even trying to find a way to save him.
"Zach! I'll understand and I won't blame you! Go get Tobias and Michael!" Xander called out.
"I can't just leave you here…" Zach said as his body began shaking in fear.
"It's okay…There's no reason for the both of us to die. I made a mistake fighting him I'm willing to pay for those mistakes." He said.
Zach looked around the battlefield as he began to feel himself breaking but then he remembered all of the times he had with his friend and remembered when he was there for him during his battle with his illness. During the time Zach was sure to die but his friend never left the hospital until he knew that his friend was going to be okay.
"I challenge you, Zeltrax." Zach said as he clutched on his weapons tightly.
"Oh? Well isn't that interesting. I guess you two have just sealed your fate." Zeltrax said as he stomped on Xander's back again and then walked forward with shield in front and his sword to the side.
"I'm not leaving you Xander. You were there for me when I was in a similar situation. I'm not leaving you here. I'm going to repay back the favor that is long overdue." Zach said.
"Heh let's see you try to even make an inch past me." Zeltrax said.
Zach began to feel an immense power he hasn't felt in a long time swell all around him. Zach dropped his weapons onto the ground as his body began to glow bright blue. "Anyone who dares threaten the lives of the things I care about, will be begging for death." Zach said as he began to step forward toward Zeltrax.
The blue power began to grow bigger around him as he clutched his fists and moved slowly towards Zeltrax. Zeltrax ran towards Zach, "You have a pretty light show going on, but I've already told you that your power is not strong enough to hurt me. I'm not at all intimidated by your flaunt of weak power Blue Ranger!" Zeltrax claimed as he did a spinning slash at Zach who just caught his with his hand and was struggling to free it from Zach.
"DAMN IT! LET GO!" Zeltrax yelled.
The blue power on Zach subside as the white scar marks on his suit stretched backwards as Zach said the words to activate his new form.
"Super Dino Mode…"
He said under his breath as the scars became giant blades sticking out. Zach then pulled Zeltrax towards him as he cocked back his fist and planted it into Zeltrax's face.
"SUPER DINO SMASH!"
Zach yelled as he let go of the sword as his punch connected sending Zeltrax flying across the barn and through one of the beams. Zeltrax had blue sparks of electricity zooming across his entire body as he was on the ground. Zach stared at his opponent lying on the ground. "Get up. I'm not done with you yet." He said.