Notes: This chapter gets a big content warning for violence (not that I get TOO graphic or anything, but yeah). Without trying to spoil too much, consider yourself warned! I consider this chapter to be the real start of the endgame, so sit back and enjoy the ride from here!
The Shogun Megazord was a large, stocky Zord, although it was also quite a bit shorter than the Zeo Megazords (about 183 feet vs approximately 257 & 262 feet tall for the Zeo and Super Zeo Megazords, respectively). At the two girls' current heights of well over 550 feet tall, they were just barely more than three times taller, though obviously not nearly as wide. So as they walked over toward it, they smirked as they realized the Megazord's head was only about level with the middle of their massive, muscular thighs.
"WOW, THIS THING IS PUNY." Tanya pointed out in near disbelief. "YOU GUYS FOUGHT GIANT MONSTERS WITH THIS?!"
"I GUESS THEY WERE….SHORTER THAN THE MACHINE EMPIRE'S?" Katherine shrugged. She hadn't even realized it was so much shorter than the Zeo Megazords until now, let alone why that was the case. God, imagine how tiny Ninjor would look to me right now. Even in his grown form he was still quite a bit shorter than the Shogun Megazord. she thought to herself with a grin as she reminsced. She suddenly got a very weird mental image of herself stepping on a grown Ninjor and blushed in embarrassment when she realized how much it was turning her on. I can almost just hear that stupid voice of his going 'No Katherine don't crush me!' right now. God everything today has made me really, really weird and kinky. I kind of like it though.
The Aquitian Rangers also noticed this massive size difference too, of course. Knowing they were at a major disadvantage, the Red Ranger Aurico decided to go right for the big guns.
"Fire Saber, power up!" he yelled.
A flash of light from the Shogun Megazord's right arm set its sword quite literally on fire. Kat stepped in front of Tanya instinctively, which the black titaness definitely noticed. I should probably be mad at her for treating me like that, but it's just so cute. she thought to herself. My big evil hero!
Here it is, the big test. Kat thought to herself as she tensed up. This is a Megazord finisher that I watched destroy many monsters firsthand. Time to see if I'm really as strong as I think I am, to see if we're ready for what's next...
The Shogun Megazord moved the fire in a circle and then slashed forward, which in this case sent it straight into one of Kat's muscular thighs. Fire went flying everywhere and bright lights suddenly shined around the strike point...but when the effect was over and the dust had settled, Kat was still just standing there, completely unharmed. The Fire Saber had done absolutely nothing to her. It hadn't even managed to singe the bottom of her pink and black dress! The Alien Rangers were stunned.
"How could the Fire Saber have no effect on her at all?!" Cestro, the Blue Aquitian Ranger said in disbelief.
"I'm afraid we're in even more trouble than we thought we were." said the White Ranger Delphine.
"What do we even do now? Do we try it again?" Tideus, the Yellow Aquitian Ranger wondered, his voice clearly shaken.
"KAT, YOU'RE...OK?" Tanya asked her fellow titaness in disbelief. "DID THAT REALLY DO NOTHING?! THAT ATTACK LOOKED SO COOL, BUT I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN SEE A SCRATCH ON YOU!"
"I DIDN'T FEEL A SINGLE THING." Kat announced proudly, before she turned to look back down at the Megazord at her knees. "BUT I BET YOU PUNY ALIENS WILL FEEL A WHOLE LOT WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH YOU! GIANT KATHERINE POWER PUNCH!"
Kat yelled out her attack name as she punched downward at the Shogun Megazord with full force. The titan's massive fist went right through the chest of the Megazord, tearing a hole into it and causing sparks and wires to fly everywhere. Since her punch had gone straight through metal and exposed the cockpit, her gigantic fist actually made contact with the five Rangers inside, absolutely knocking the daylights out of them. The Megazord shook as sparks continued to shower out of its metallic body before it collapsed to the ground below, shaking the earth yet again.
"WHAT'S THE GIANT KATHERINE POWER PUNCH?" Tanya snickered.
"IT'S WHEN I YELL THAT AND THEN THROW A REGULAR PUNCH." Kat admitted sheepishly. "LOOK, WE ALWAYS YELL THINGS WHEN WE FIGHT AS RANGERS AND IT'S WORKED FOR US SO FAR, I FIGURED WHY STOP NOW?" Tanya had to admit she had a point there at least. And hey, there was no arguing with these results, even if she kind of doubted that yelling had actually done anything. We're just really, really, really strong. Tanya thought to herself with a proud smirk.
The Shogun Megazord meanwhile was laying on its back and completely inoperational. The five Alien Rangers had been stunned from the sheer force of the massive punch and were just trying to collect their bearings when suddenly Kat reached down into the cockpit and scooped all five of them up in a single gigantic hand! They felt a sudden rush of air as they were lifted all the way up to the front of the titanic girl's 550-foot-high face, dizzying the already disoriented team of heroes even more.
"Quick, we need to teleport away and regroup!" Corcus, the Black Aquitian Ranger said.
The others nodded, but moments later discovered their teleportation function wasn't working!
"I can't teleport!" Tideus said in a panic.
"I don't think any of us can." Aurico confirmed. The team suddenly all covered their ears as the gargantuan Katherine cruelly laughed down at the team of heroes cowering in her own hand, with the equally enormous Tanya looking down into Kat's hand from just next to her. She was about to solve the mystery of their teleportation at least.
"WOW." Tanya said simply, seemingly transfixed at the sight of the itty bitty Alien Rangers on Kat's enormous palm. "THAT'S AN ENTIRE RANGER TEAM YOU'VE GOT THERE IN ONE HAND! AND I THINK YOUR TELEPORTATION BLOCK IS WORKING! THEY'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"
Kat's face was beaming with a mix of pride and sadistic pleasure.
"OF COURSE IT IS." she smirked. It was yet another one of their seemingly endless evil monster powers- similar to the force field they had placed around the Power Chamber, Katherine was focusing her energies around her hand, making it completely impossible for the Alien Rangers to teleport away. They were truly trapped within the hand of the evil titan, her smooth lily white skin stretching all around them.
Kat looked down at the panicking aliens again. Here they really were, the heroes of an entire other planet, and she held them all in one, single hand. It was not just their fates but the fates of an entire WORLD that she now held, literally, in her hand. The massive sadist almost came right then and there.
"ARE YOU GONNA DO IT?!" Tanya exclaimed, her own face the picture of dark excitement. The girl who once tried to talk her best friend out of her destructive side was long gone of course. She bit her lip in anticipation.
The planet of Aquitar is about to get a lot less safe. Kat thought to herself with an evil grin.
"No, Pink Zeo Ranger! Katherine!" Delphine tried to call up. "Remember what we did for you! Remember when we protected your planet, when you were just a powerless child!"
"We could have stayed on our planet!" Tideus added. "We came to help yours and saved YOUR life besides!"
"OH, DID YOU?" Kat said with a theatrical yawn. "WELL, I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP BACK THEN WHEN I WAS STUCK AS A KID, BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, I'M ALL GROWN UP NOW!"
"THESE LITTLE ALIEN BUGS SHOULD REALLY TRY BEING MORE RESPECTFUL." said Tanya, wrinkling her nose.
Quickly realizing that line of appeal from his teammates wasn't working, Aurico decided to try something else. "Spare us and we'll return to Aquitar and never trouble you again!" he yelled up at the two massive giants, as the other Rangers looked at him in shock. He knew that was more than a little cowardly to say, but he didn't see any way they could possibly defeat these titanic heroes-turned-villains and was thinking of his own people, and how they'd suffer without a team of Power Rangers to protect them.
Katherine put a finger on her other hand up to her cheek to pantomime considering the Red Ranger's offer, still with a huge smile on her face. She wasn't seriously considering it, however. Even if she trusted the Red Ranger enough to believe he'd actually take his team back to Aquitar and never bother her and Tanya again (which she didn't), everything in her brain was now screaming at her to crush them. It made sense, she thought to herself. As an evil monster, she now quite literally lived to destroy. And here she was with a monster's wet dream (and a pretty wet dream for herself right now too!): an entire Ranger team in one hand, completely and totally at her mercy. As usual though, the massive young sadist wanted to drag her pleasure out a little, so decided to go along with the idea for just a moment, fighting back every screaming monster urge telling her to destroy them right away.
"THAT IS A VERY ENTICING OFFER, RED RANGER." she said as she looked down at the team in her enormous hand. She realized very quickly she had no idea what any of their names even were. Oh well, she thought, who cares really. It's not like they're going to need them in a moment! she thought to herself with a devilish grin, before looking back down at the assembled team again. "YOU'D REALLY GIVE ME YOUR WORD? YOU'LL ALL HEAD BACK TO THAT BONAFIDE AQUARIUM OF YOURS AND NEVER BOTHER ME OR MY BEAUTIFUL PARTNER AGAIN?"
Tanya blushed. She called me her partner!
"Y-Yes!" Aurico stammered, nervous but relieved that this enormous titan seemed to be seriously considering his offer. The other Rangers didn't love the idea of surrendering to an evil monster, but truth be told none of them had any idea what they were supposed to do now. She had just effectively destroyed the Shogun Megazord with one punch after its deadliest blow had positively no effect on her at all. Surely calling their even weaker Battle Borgs wasn't going to do them any good at this point. Sorry, but you're gonna have to find a way to stop them yourselves, Earth Rangers. a regretful Aurico thought to himself.
Tanya was shocked that Kat was apparently even considering this. Of course, she had the evil monster instincts screaming at her to destroy them just like Kat did. She's really gonna let them go?! Tanya thought to herself. Why? But then Kat turned her head and gave her the very slightest wink, which only made Tanya roll her eyes and smile. Oh, she's just stretching this out. What a dork.
"OKAY." Katherine said after a long, awkward pause. "I'VE TAKEN YOUR OFFER UNDER CONSIDERATION...AND I'VE DECIDED TO CRUSH YOU OUT OF EXISTENCE!"
She cackled evilly after delivering that news, watching the five of them immediately react with complete panic. They quickly tried teleporting out again, which still wasn't working thanks to Katherine's powers blocking it. They all then began shouting up at her simultaneously, but it quickly turned into a cacophonous din of tiny squeaks, so she couldn't even make out what they were saying at this point. Not that it mattered to her of course. Watching and listening to their panicked and terrified reactions to the news that she would be ending their lives imminently was bringing the giant sadist to a completely new level of pleasure. She closed her eyes and shuddered, not even noticing that the team had taken their ninja swords out and desperately started directing attacks up at her face.
Tanya noticed though, and watched in amazement as their little elemental attacks simply bounced off Kat so harmlessly that it wasn't even able to disrupt her from her thoughts. What must it be like to throw your final, desperate attacks at her and watch it do absolutely nothing? Tanya thought to herself with an evil laugh. They can't even make her acknowledge them, let alone hurt her! They know they're about to die now, and they can't do anything!
Kat was indeed completely lost in thought, still standing there with her eyes closed and a deeply satisfied, sadistic smile on her face. I'm about to do what Lord Zedd could never do. What Rita Repulsa could never do. What the entire Machine Empire could never do. Hell, what these Aliens' stupid arch enemy- that, water pig thing- could never do! An entire Ranger team is about to be eliminated forever, at my hands. I've won. she thought to herself as she slowly brought her left hand down into her right hand. She of course really wanted to let them think about it, finally opening her eyes to watch the moment that would change an entire world forever.
Tanya could hardly contain her excitement, actually bouncing up and down in place as she watched. Her enormous feet shook the ground as they made contact with it.
"ALIEN RANGERS OF AQUITAR!" Kat proudly announced with the biggest evil grin of all time, just as the fingers of her left hand fully locked together with those of her right. "CONSIDER YOURSELVES RELIEVED OF YOUR DUTIES!"
And with that, she just pressed her two palms together, crushing all five of the bug-sized Alien Rangers to death instantly. She let loose an incredibly deep moan of pleasure, her deepest yet, which shook the landscape for miles and miles. That was it. An entire Ranger team, a planet's only heroes, wiped out by the mere gesture of a young titan simply closing her hands together. With that simple motion, Katherine Hillard just became one of the most successful evildoers in the history of the universe. She had killed an entire team of five Power Rangers with basically the same level of effort it took a normal person to wipe their hands clean.
"KAT. HOLY. SHIT." Tanya said slowly in complete amazement. Even after being made into an evil monster the formerly clean-cut young teen had not been much for cussin', but it felt like the only appropriate reaction right now. "YOU ACTUALLY DID IT. YOU'RE INCREDIBLE."
"WE'RE INCREDIBLE." Kat quickly corrected her best friend and lover, pulling her in and dipping her before delivering another huge kiss to her lips, causing Tanya to gasp. "YOU'RE THE BEST SUPPORT AN EVIL TITAN COULD EVER ASK FOR. COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU, BABE."
Tanya squealed in pure joy. She wouldn't rather be anywhere else in the world than in the muscular arms of her fellow evil mega giant. I'll even ignore that she got some blood on my nice yellow dress just now.
"HEY, DOES THAT MEAN..." Tanya started to say, before she was cut off by Kat kissing her again.
"OH YEAH." Kat smiled after breaking off the kiss. "WE'RE READY FOR THE BIG SHOW!"
On the Moon, the evil space aliens watched what unfolded in stunned silence.
"Zeddy….." Rita finally began.
For once, both the evil alien monarchs were absolutely speechless.
"Hey sis, how many times did you and Ed try to take out a Power Ranger team like that? Like three hundred?" Rito asked, stepping right into it in his usual clueless fashion. "Those two girls made it look pretty easy!"
Zedd was so flabbergasted at actually seeing an entire team of Rangers wiped out with seemingly such little effort that he didn't even bother correcting Rito about his name, for maybe the first time in history.
"Grrrrr, they got lucky!" Goldar growled, his own warrior pride very clearly wounded as well.
After thinking about it for several more moments of awkward silence, Zedd finally decided to just take the win.
"This was MY plan from the start!" he bellowed. "Of course it succeeded, just as I expected! Now we're rid of those meddlesome fish Rangers forever, and the Earth Rangers are surely next!"
"But Zeddy, aren't you forgetting something?!" Rita yelled.
"What's that?"
"We have no control over those two giant brats! How do we know they won't just turn on us the moment they finish off the rest of the Rangers and take the Earth for themselves?!"
Lord Zedd considered his wife's words carefully.
"Surely they will not turn on their own creators." he said finally. "Without us, they'd still be shopping at the mall for shoe sales!"
Rita wasn't so convinced, but decided not to press it further. He may have finally went too far this time! she thought to herself. If they do decide to turn on us I doubt even we will be able to stop them now!
"Come, let us celebrate the end of the Alien Rangers!" Zedd said after an awkward pause. "Where's that cranberry and oyster juice?!"
At the Power Chamber, the mood had of course been quite different following the deaths of their friends and former allies. Billy and Adam cried, with Billy in particular- having gotten to know them better than anyone from his multiple trips to Aquitar- dropping to his knees and wailing in pure sadness and grief.
Tommy, Rocky and Trey all just looked on solemnly. Rocky made an angry fist and tried to fight back any tears of his own- though he knew it was absurd since he didn't think anyone was actually watching them, he just didn't want to give anyone the satisfaction. He felt so impotent but wanted nothing more than to strike back on these damn girls. Rocky couldn't even see those two as his friends anymore- he almost wished their plan was to wipe the two of them out for good, not shrink them back down into normal humans. It's what they deserve at this point! They've killed so many people, and now an entire team of Rangers!
Trey felt an incredible sense of guilt, knowing that it was his decision to grow the Rangers that ultimately lead to the series of events resulting in the Aquitian Rangers' demise. He was determined to finally break this force field so they could have a chance at stopping any more madness before it continued.
Tommy just found himself in a complete state of shock. Everything that had happened today had left him feeling numb. His girlfriend, the woman he loved, had told him flat out that she thought he only viewed her as a convenient stand-in for his ex. He knew that was absurd and self-centered to still be focusing on, given that Kat had also grown into the biggest and strongest monster they had ever fought and just wiped out an entire Ranger team. But he kept coming back to her monologue from earlier in the Power Chamber because it honestly made him wonder if this wasn't all his fault in the end. Maybe if I hadn't made her feel that way, like a replacement that I tolerated instead of wanted, she wouldn't have been so susceptible to all of this in the first place.
"Rangers, the loss of the Alien Rangers from Aquitar is a tragedy beyond words." Zordon finally said. "But as difficult as it will be, we must put it behind us for now. Katherine and Tanya are still the greatest threats the Earth has ever known, and we must stop them."
Before any of the other Rangers or Billy could say anything, Trey interrupted them.
"I've got it!" he yelled as his Gold power staff glowed one more time. Outside the Power Chamber, the red-and-white force field that had been surrounding the building seemed to suddenly dissipate.
"You finally did it?!" Rocky said.
"Not nearly in time…." a still-teary Adam muttered sadly.
Tommy looked at his teammates. He hadn't liked the plan that Adam had originally come up with from the start, not one bit. But this madness had to stop now before anyone else lost their lives too. He needed to step up and find a way to end this, like the leader of the Power Rangers should. Then he and Kat could deal with all their...other stuff later.
"It's time." Tommy said simply. "Bring her in."
Katherine was still in the afterglow of eliminating the entire Alien Ranger team by simply crushing them in her hands. The over 550-foot-tall colossus was positively beaming. She looked down at the ruined remains of the Shogun Megazord, which had a massive hole right in the chest of it where she had punched her way through the cockpit. That was because of my FIST. she thought to herself proudly. I'm probably the strongest being that's ever lived!
"I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE AN ENTIRE RANGER TEAM IS GONE." Tanya said in amazement. "YOU JUST...CLOSED YOUR HANDS TOGETHER AND CRUSHED THEM. IT WAS SO EASY."
"EVERYTHING IS EASY FOR US NOW." Kat smirked. "IT'S LIKE I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU, WE COULD GET RID OF THE REST OF THE RANGERS ANYTIME WE WANT. BUT I WANT TO DO THIS MY WAY."
Tanya nodded. "HEY, SPEAKING OF OUR LITTLE FRIENDS, YOU CAN FEEL THAT TOO RIGHT?"
"OH YEAH. THEY CAN FINALLY GET OUT." Kat smiled.
"YOU THINK THEY'RE REALLY GONNA SEND HER AFTER US NOW?"
"THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO EAVESDROP ON THEM THE WHOLE TIME OUR FORCE FIELD'S BEEN UP." Katherine chuckled to herself. "LITTLE IDIOTS."
"HEY….." Tanya said as she looked back around at the tiny houses dotting the landscape. "I KNOW YOU PROBABLY GOT ALL THE...STIMULATION YOU NEEDED BY CRUSHING THOSE PATHETIC FISH RANGERS. BUT I THINK I REALLY NEED TO GET SOME MORE CRUSHING IN." The titaness gave a low, sultry growl as she felt her evil monster aggression once again urging her to eliminate the weaklings.
Kat responded by just making a "be my guest" motion again with an evil smirk. Tanya began looking around at the houses with a look of dark excitement.
"I WANNA TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT." she said as she bit her lip in anticipation. She closed her eyes for a second and her yellow and black sundress was replaced with a skimpy yellow swimsuit, which similar to Katherine's from the beach had two black skulls over each bikini cup.
Kat gave a little (well, for her) whistle. "SHOWING A LOT OF SKIN THERE, DEAR!" she said in a tone that very much suggested she approved.
"I WANT TO FEEL THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE." grinned Tanya. "PLUS YOU GOT AQUITIAN BLOOD ON MY DRESS ANYWAY!" she added, to which Kat mouthed a silent "Wow, sorry" in a joking manner.
Kat didn't really know what Tanya meant when she said she wanted to "feel this" but decided to just wait and see what her fellow mega giant had in mind, as she watched with building anticipation.
Tanya took two massive, earth-shaking steps backward, before suddenly taking a giant leap forward into the air! She sprawled herself out in mid-air into a belly flop position, watching with incredible glee as tons of people who figured they were well out of her range began panicking when they realized what she was doing. Her more than 550-foot-tall frame was stretched out as it dropped onto the residential district of Angel Grove like a megaton bomb, causing an earthquake that even briefly made Kat stumble. All those homes and yards and buildings were simply obliterated under all that black flesh, and Tanya screamed out in pleasure at the feeling of destroying absolutely everything beneath her. She silently noted that changing her clothes first had been a brilliant move, as she felt it all.
"WOW." Kat said simply. "YOU OUTDID YOURSELF THIS TIME!"
Tanya was beaming as she stood back up to her feet, brushing debris and very tiny human bodies off of her muscular body. "I HAD TO DO SOMETHING BIG AFTER YOU WIPED OUT AN ENTIRE RANGER TEAM." she grinned. "JUST STEPPING ON A COUPLE HOUSES FELT DUMB BY COMPARISON."
"WELL, YOU CERTAINLY DID A HELL OF A FOLLOW UP!" an impressed Kat said as she surveyed the absolutely massive crater left in the ground by the 550-foot titaness. "WHO KNOWS HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU ULTIMATELY GOT."
"I THINK WE'RE READY FOR WHAT COMES NEXT, DON'T YOU?" Tanya smiled.
Katherine smiled as she walked over toward her best friend and now lover and grabbed her by one of her hips, pulling her towards her as Tanya squealed with delight.
"WE COULDN'T BE MORE READY, BABY." Kat said with a huge smirk, before turning and kissing her.
To be continued...