Episode 595: Power Rangers HyperForce: To Tempt the Nations

On the HyperForce ship, in the Hyperstream, Judah Ashford grabs the Red Ancient Key and holds it in the air and recites a spell:

Purest evil, blackest bloom

It's time to free darkness from its doom

Never dying, no longer contained

Full of anger, thorns of danger

Now forever, shall reign

As Judah says this a keyhole appears and he inserts the Red Ancient Key and turns it. All of a sudden the HyperForce ship was ripped from the Hyperstream back into normal space. A portal appears outside of the ship and demons pour out by the thousands.

"It worked" said Judah

"So it did" said a voice and he turns to see a demon "so you're the one who freed me. I suppose I should reward you. Then again you betrayed everyone who trusted you, which mean you will betray me when given the chance" and he runs Judah through with a sword, but notices he's not dying "right, can't kill anymore, that's… disappointing. Well there is another way to stop you from betraying me…"

In the Temple, Tommy is reporting the recent events to Zordon when all of a sudden, the HyperForce ship appears. The ramp lowers and Judah walks out

"Judah, you really did betray us all" said Tommy

"He did" said Judah "but I'm not Judah, you may call me Satan"

"No, he really did it" said Tommy

"Yes" said Satan "the fool did. I possessed him to keep him in line and to take control of the Alliance. We are gathering our forces and will wipe you out"

"Why are you tell us all this?" Tommy asked

"Because there's no way you can defeat us" said Satan "all of the demons plus the Alliance will make Armageddon seem like child's play"

On the Cimmerian Planet, the Rangers see the demons being unleashed

"He did it" said Chloe falling to her knees "he really did it. It's over"

"Not by a long shot" said Michael "there's still hope. We can find out more about the Alliance's plans" and he pulls out a containment card. Would you like to do the honors?"

"Not really, but I need to" said Chloe and she pulls out her Time Force badge and uses it to free its prisoner

"Hello Clare"

"Hello Grandma" said Clare "so I take it you know"

"I know some, but not all" said Chloe "help me fill in the gaps"

"I don't know where to start" said Clare

"How about at the beginning" said Chloe

"Right" said Clare "Despite you, Mom, Dad, and all the other grandparents raising me right, I never really believed. I mean I knew intellectually what was right and what was wrong, but I didn't really believe it you know? Then I met Judah, a rising star in Time Force. He was charming, sweet, handsome, intelligent. Judah gave me some of his favorite books to read, they started out being about the Reformers, most of which I already knew, but it was good to be reminded of what they suffered in order to reform a corrupt church. Then the books were about the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution. They were good books too, showing me how corrupt governments can be and why nobody should be given absolute power, the importance of elections, the importance of separation of church and state. In hindsight, I see now he way trying to seduce me, not in the way a guy normally seduces a girl, it was intellectual, not sexual. By having me read about the Reformers, he showed me how the church could be corrupt. With the Enlightenment philosophers, he showed me how the state could be corrupt. With the American Revolution, he showed me that sometimes it was okay to overthrow the current rulers"

"Clare" said Chloe "but you have to understand back then, neither the church nor the state was run by a perfect person like it is now. Back then a republic, while far from perfect, was the best we can do. Zordon rules perfectly, we don't have to worry about him being corrupted, as He has always had unlimited power and was never corrupted by it"

"I think I'm starting to see that now" said Clare "but I didn't back then. Once he had seduced me intellectually, I started to fall for him. And maybe I'm just naive, but I think he started to fall for me too"

"I think he did" said Chloe "he was not happy that he had to contain you"

"That's… good to know, thanks" said Clare "it's good to know my husband actually did care for me. Anyways, after we had been dating for a while, he had brought me to an Alliance meeting. He didn't tell me what it was, nor did they, but in hindsight that's what it was. He took me to more meetings and I became more indoctrinated. He tried to spend as much time with me as possible, at the time I thought it was because he loved me, but now I think it was to isolate me from everyone else, to make me easier to manipulate"

"You know" said Chloe "that's probably when he actually fell for you. When a guy and girl who are attracted to one another even just a little spend a lot of time together they will usually fall for one another"

"You're probably right" said Clare "I don't remember when I finally realized that these meetings were the Alliance, but it didn't really matter to me at that point, I would've followed Judah anywhere… well almost anywhere. By the time he proposed to me, he was in charge of the Alliance Taskforce at Time Force. After the proposal he revealed that he was the true Alliance Leader and that Thrax was just a decoy. He told me he needed to take on a more direct role for leading the Alliance and that we were going to fake our own kidnapping during the honeymoon"

"So what changed?" Chloe asked "why did Judah contain you?"

"Judah didn't tell me the full extent of his plan until very recently" said Clare "he told me the plan was to take over Time Force, get Michael's key, and use it to blackmail Zordon into allowing fair elections for rulers. If He didn't, we'd release a demon everyday until he did, although making sure not to release the universe conquering sort, just the smaller ones. When we were taking over Time Force, he told me his true plans, to release all the demons in order to allow them to tempt everyone like before the Millennial Kingdom. I told him I couldn't go along with it and he contained me to stop me from telling anyone his plans or who he was. The sad thing is, I was more outraged that he lied to me then what his plans really were. If I'm being honest, if he had told me when he proposed, I think I would've followed him. So seeing you've found me, I take it Judah failed?"

"Uh… no" said Michael "we recently saw the demons be released from the Abyss"

"He did it" said Clare "he really did it. I was such a fool"

"We all were" said Chloe "none of us saw this coming"

"I'm sorry" said Clare "I'm so sorry"

"Clare" said Michael "it's not over, we can still get my key back and we can defeat the demons once and for all. We may be even able to save Judah. He's not too far gone, neither are you. But we need your help. You know how the Alliance operates, their strategies, their patrol patterns. Help us take back the Delta Base and Aquabase"

"I can do that" said Clare "it's the least I can do"

"I don't mean to be that guy" said Jack "but how do we know we can trust her"

"I trust her" said Chloe

"You can trust her" said Michael

"It's not like we have much of a choice" said Eddie

"Even with Clare's intel" said Michael "this mission will be difficult. With the demons released you now will be tempted such as many of you never have been before. Even the Megaforce, who has felt such temptations, has not felt them in centuries. Trust Christ in you, trust each other, but resist the voices in your head that are telling you to do something that you know you shouldn't"

On Venus, Alliance members are guarding the Delta Base when all of a sudden it begins to convert into the Delta Command Crawler. The Alliance troops start run towards it and then think better

In the Delta Base's command center, a high ranking Alliance member and some guards are trying to break into the Zords when the HyperForce teleports in and the Alliance members, realizing they were no match for six Rangers put their weapons down and raised their hands

"Huh, how did you guys get in here?" the Alliance member asked "we were jamming teleportation"

"I gave them the codes" said Clare "good thing Judah didn't have time to change them"

"You can't stop us all" said the Alliance member "the Delta Base is completely surrounded" and Jack plugs his Morpher into the console

"Delta Base Defense System Phase I activated" said Joe and the Delta Base begins to transform. A control panel flips over and reveals a joystick "Delta Command Crawler: online" and he sets the Delta Command Crawler to take off in orbit around Venus "now everyone outside is stuck outside and everyone inside has been sectioned off. It should be fairly easy for us to go through and take out the little units of the Alliance one by one. Not to mention, in the meantime, the Delta Command Crawler is now acting as a prison for the Alliance members"

"The Alliance still has control of the Time Ships" said the Alliance member "if we can't have the Delta Base, we'll destroy it"

"You guys are really dumb enough to go up to send standard Time Force Ships up against one of the largest and most heavily armored Zords of all time?" Vesper asked "how did you guys manage to pull this off for so long?"

"It's size will be its downfall" said the Alliance member "we'll simply overwhelm you"

"Actually, even with all the Time Ships attacking continuously it would take days before they could even begin to break through the Delta Command Crawler's armor" said Eddie "and that's assuming we don't end up destroying a few in the meantime. Additionally, we could man the SWAT Flyers, they are far more maneuverable and have much better armor and weapons than the Time Ships"

"You know" said Joe "we could just make the rest of this mission super easy. Just turn the Delta Command Crawler's cannons on the rest of the Alliance. The Time Force Zords will survive. And hey nobody would actually die, just be in a bit of pain. It should even imprison them beneath the rubble"

"I'm always up for explosions" said Vesper

"Wait guys" said Marvin "I know it's tempting, very tempting, but that would be cruel. Not to mention, we still aren't supposed to escalate a battle if we don't need to"

"Marv's right" said Eddie "last time I did that, Vesper ended up paying the price"

"You're right" said Joe "but it would just be so easy to do, it's just take a couple of seconds. I guess this is what it feels like for demons to tempt you. I've felt temptation before, but it was always fairly easy to resist, but now it's taking all my self control to resist" and Chloe pulls Marvin aside and kisses him and then whispers in his ear

"Hey babe" said Chloe "you taking charge was real attractive. We could step into a closet and… you know"

"I want to, I want to so much" said Marvin "but you know we can't, we've got to take control of the rest of Time Force"

"But, you know that the time in this world is almost up" said Chloe "we may not get another chance, ever"

"I know" said Marvin "don't make this difficult Chloe"

"I'm sorry" said Chloe "you're right. And Joe was right too, it's really hard to resist temptation"

"I know" said Marvin "but, like Michael said, we're just not used to it. Temptations that people before Zordon's Return could have easily resisted are much more difficult for us to. They had their whole lives to practice, these are our first real temptations from actual demons"

"So if you two lovebirds are done, what should we do now?" Jack asked

"Do we really need to retake all of Time Force?" Eddie asked "looking through the Delta Base's computer systems, it seems that the forcefield that protected the Time Force Zords during the Tribulation still exists, it's just inactive. I can use my Morpher to reactivate it"

"Do it" said Marvin and Eddie does, sealing off the Time Force Zords from the rest of Venus "okay now all we have to do is go through and contain everyone in the Delta Base and within the forcefield"

"You won't be able to stop us" said the Alliance member

"Oh, I forgot about you" said Jack as he pulls out his Time Force Badge "for joining a terrorist group, being part of the plot to free the demons, and for taking over Time Force I charge you all with treason" and the Time Force Badge lands on guilty and all the Alliance members in the room are contained

"Alpha 8, teleport in" said Marvin and he does "keep the Delta Command Crawler in orbit. If a battle breaks out, let us know. Clare, I'm sorry, but we can't trust you to be on your own, or even with Alpha, at the moment in the command center. Please go into this room and we'll turn on a forcefield sealing you in"

"Do I really have a choice?" Clare asked

"Either that or a containment card" said Marvin "you can still talk to Alpha. Think of it as being grounded"

"Okay" said Clare and they seal her in the room before teleporting throughout the Delta Command Crawler and Time Force Zord Bay and surrounding area to capture the Alliance members one by one

On the Aquabase III, Alliance members continue to try and break into the Zord bays.

"You know, if you were trying to break into a navy base and steal their equipment, you really should've called some pirates" said a voice and the Alliance members turn to see the Megaforce and Lina Song, with Mega Sabers & Blasters in hand, with Orion holding the Silver Spear, and Lina holding her Chrono Saber

"Oh no" said the Alliance member as they begin to fight and begin taking down the Alliance members one by one

"You know, part of me just wants to run them through" said Orion "they wouldn't die, but would be down for a while. It takes a bit to have Lina contain them one by one"

"I feel the temptation too" said Troy "haven't been tempted like that since Zordon's Return, but we've got to resist"

In the M51 Galaxy, Satan, still in Judah's body, coordinates his troops for one last battle

"Lucifer" said a voice and he turns to see Michael and the Time Force Rangers, minus Lina Song

"Michael" said Satan "I see your troops are in the process of retaking the Delta Base, the Aquabase III, and the Time Force Zord Bay. Annoying but none of them are crucial to my final plan"

"Hand over my Key" said Michael and to his surprise, Satan tosses it at his feet

"Take it" said Satan "I suppose another Ranger and Zord on my side would be useful. And it would stop your side from being able to form one of your Ultrazords. But it doesn't really matter. Take the Key and leave. While a rematch with you and your Rangers would be fun, I've got bigger fish to fry"

"Very well" said Michael as he grabs the Key and it turns back into the Red Dragonzord Power Crystal "we'll leave. Enjoy your freedom while you can" and Michael and the Time Force Rangers teleport away. Satan turns back to what he was doing and opens a communication to all of the Alliance's top generals

"Generals of the Alliance" said Satan "Zordon has refused my calls for fair elections, so he must be removed. Bring all of your troops and anyone you can find to meet in the Valley of Megiddo in two days times. Additionally, I'm transmitting plans allowing you to create foot soldiers and monsters. It's time for the largest battle in history to begin…"


"When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth… and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves."

Revelation 20:7-9a


To be continued…


Next time on Power Rangers:

In the beginning, God created the first team of Power Rangers…

(These will turn you into Power Rangers" said the Son and five Power Crystals appear)

In 1993, the modern Power Rangers began…

("Finally, after 4,000 years I'm free, time to conquer Earth" said Rita Repulsa)

("Alpha, Rita's escaped recruit five teenagers with attitude" said Zordon)

In 2001, the Antichrist started his final plan…

("Phase I is complete")

("Excellent this, my friends, is the beginning of the end of His reign and the beginning of mine" said Muhammed Rossi)

In 2012, he was given control of the United Nations…

("Muhammed Rossi, Secretary-General of the United Nations" read Tommy)

And the Power Rangers were gone…

(Over Earth, a large light appears. The light grows and then explodes, spreading shards of golden light across the universe)

Their remaining allies…

(The Robot Rangers, Blue Senturion, A-Squad, SOPHIE, the Alphas, and Captain Mitchell are working in various locations)

And the Angel Rangers defended the innocent…

(The Ancient Rangers cut through X-Borgs, with the JAKQ Rangers joining them. The Angel Force insert cards into their Morphers, destroying Loogies)

And found what was lost…

(The Megaforce transforms into several teams, including Mighty Morphin, Zeo, Space, Lightspeed Rescue, and SPD)

In 2020, Zordon and the Power Rangers returned…

(A massive army appears, led by Zordon wearing the Corona Aurora and riding Brightstar)

And won the Final Battle…

("Fire" said Jason and Serpentera is instantly vaporized and Zedd lays on the ground,

badly injured and unable to move)

(Rossi pulls out his morpher, but when he activates it sparks fly and his Power Coin crumbles into dust and his morpher begins smoking)

And turned the universe into a paradise…

(On Temple Mount, Zordon's wave washed over the Temple purifying it and making it look even better than it did in the days of Solomon. Zordon's wave restored building, cities, even entire planets, breathing new life into Andresia and Sirius. Portals began to open, allowing easy travel between planets. Every corner of the universe was restored to being as beautiful and glorious as it was when it was first created.)

In 2112, it was discovered that not everyone will swear allegiance to Zordon…

(These gangs hatred have united them into something they're calling the Alliance)

And it seems paradise will be lost yet again because of the pride and greed of evil men…

(The Silver Time Force Ranger discovers the Alliance is in possession of the Spellbook of Rita Repulsa)

And one last team of Rangers was formed to stop them…

(The HyperForce morphs for the first time and fights to protect Angel Grove)

They were betrayed by someone they called family…

("Judah Ashford is the Alliance Leader, I repeat Judah is the Alliance Leader")

Who freed the Evil One

(Purest evil, blackest bloom, it's time to free darkness from its doom)

Now, in 3020, an evil army masses against the Power Rangers and they are outnumbered

Only Ninjor can save them…