Captain Blues: Enjoy a Blue Episode!


Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Final Mix
Episode Seven: A Former Friend and a Mythical Mask (Part Two)


[Location: Electric plant
POV: General]

"Finally, we defeated those damn things," Black sighed as he fell to one knee, leaning against his ax as he panted lightly. The battle with the putties was pretty brutal this time around due to the vast amount of them, but they managed to pull it off in the end.

"Yeah," Pink murmured with a small sigh of relief before adding with a worried tone, "We now have an important issue to deal with." It didn't take a genius to figure out what they were talking about.

The missing Blue Ranger.

Despite the fierce battle, they were all worried about Blue's sudden departure by the hands of that mysterious blur. But now that the threat was gone, they could focus on Blue, but the question was, where would he be?

"We need to hurry and find him," Yellow said after pushing herself off of the wall with a pained groan before she added, "There is no telling what that sick monster is doing to him."

Despite her worry for Blue, Pink snorted at her words and asked with a mocking tone, "Oh? You aren't blaming Blue for being kidnapped like that?"

Yellow's body stiffened at Pink's words and balled her fists tightly. "Watch your tongue, Pink…." Yellow hissed out angrily while turning her head to stare at the Ptera ranger.

"What? Don't like when someone points out your hypocrisy?" Pink asked with a taunting tone in her voice. Yellow walked down to Pink's level and let a slight growl leave her lips.

"Keep your comments to yourself unless you want me to hurt you, mallrat," Yellow growled out with narrowed eyes beneath her visor, but Pink merely laughed softly at this, causing Yellow's fists to tighten further.

Knowing how tense the two girls are, Black and Red broke them up quickly, with Red moving Yellow and Black moving Pink.

"We don't have time for this!" Red angrily shouted at the two female rangers with a rare tone of fury. "Blue is missing, and we need to find him! Can't we put aside your petty fight until then?!"

Yellow and Pink nodded, but Yellow turned her head to Pink with a hidden scowl on her face.

It was not over between them yet.


[Location: Electric plant
POV: Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger]

Gigas crashed into Blue with a roar and barreled through two cars, causing sparks to fly from Blue's body before Gigias slammed Blue straight into a car.

Blue felt himself being picked up by Gigas before he was brutally slammed into the car three times, each collision causing the vehicle to become further dented before he was thrown towards a group of steel barrels.

Blue slammed into a large stack of steel barrels with a crash and fell onto his side with a groan leaving his lips.

Blue had never felt so thrashed before in his ranger career.

As he heard the heavy footsteps of his opponent approaching his downed form, Blue heard Gigas bellow, "Come on Cranston, get up!" before he was lifted off the ground like a ragdoll and came face to face with the monster.

"You aren't nothing when you don't have an advantage, are you?" Gigas taunted before Blue was launched to the side, where he slammed against the wall back first.

But as Blue fell to the ground, Gigas' shoulder slammed into his stomach in a hard tackle, sending the two smashing into another building which was filled with civilians, who quickly fled in horror as the two warriors slammed onto the ground.

Blue rolled away while holding his mid-section to get some distance between him and Gigas, who was now getting on his feet.

Blue lifted himself to his feet with the help of a computer console and hunched forward as a brief dizzy spell overcame him, causing him to fall back on his left knee.

Blue could hear the monstrous footsteps of his opponent, and with a quick look up, he saw the right knee coming towards his head.

Blue quickly grabbed the knee, which caused his knees to skid backward briefly, where Blue used all of his strength not only to stand but to lift the enormous mountain off the ground.

Blue hoisted Gigas off his foot and into the air behind him with a yell, causing Gigas to land into the console behind him, where dozens of sparks flew from the console, and the monster as Blue fell back to one knee.

Knowing the monster wouldn't be down from that reversal, Blue rolled away from the monster, leaped into the air, grabbed the ceiling fan that was thankfully off, and ripped it from the ceiling before he fell.

As Blue fell, he aimed the front ceiling fan down and slammed it into Gigas' face, sending both through the floor and into the basement area of the building. The two collided with the floor, where Blue rolled away, still holding the fan.

Once again, Blue heard the dark, rough voice of Gigas laugh. "You're getting dirty, Cranston," Gigas chuckled out before he flipped onto his feet, with his back turned to Blue. "But at least I know you have more in the tank!"

Gigas turned around and charged towards Blue, and attempted a flying punch.

Blue swayed to the side to avoid the monster's punch before kicking the arm of his opponent away.

Blue then jumped up to slam the steel fan into the face of the monster, causing the ceiling fan to shatter on the monster's face as it was sent on one knee to the floor.

Blue quickly took his chance and dashed close to the kneeling Gigas, jumped into the air while hooking his left arm around Gigas' head while twisting his body to the side, then forced the monster's head down with all of his might, sending Gigas' head to crash into the ground with a Tornado DDT.

Blue quickly dislodged himself from the downed Gigas and crawled towards a discarded chair. Blue dragged himself to his feet, limped over to the table, and leaned against it as he panted.

But just like every time he mounted a good offense, his opponent still rose.

'Darn it…I cannot defeat Gigas at this rate! I've thrown everything I can at this thing, and it keeps standing! I might as well send the entire building down….' Blue's thought drifted off as his eyes seemed to widen.

That was it!

If his regular attacks didn't work, maybe the force of a building tumbling down on him would!

The question was, how could he pull this off?

Gritting his teeth, Blue grabbed a large computer screen and rammed his fist into the screen before repeating the process with his other hand. With a battle cry, Blue launched himself toward Gigas and punched the monster in the face, causing the computer screen that was around his fist to shatter upon impact.

Gigas grabbed Blue by the waist and pushed him backward hard, causing Blue to slam against a computer stand hard enough to rebound off of it. Blue used this as momentum and leaped into the air and slammed his other covered hand into Gigas' face, shattering the second computer screen upon impact as well.

Gigas head whipped down as he fell to one knee from the blow, but Gigas rose off the ground grabbed Blue around the waist, hooking his arms around the ranger before tossing Blue away sharply, causing Blue to dent the wall upon impact.

Blue's body began to drift towards the ground, only for Gigas to charge forward and slam his knee against Blue's chest, causing Blue to scream as blue sparks flew from his body.

Blue writhed in agony as Gigas looked down at him with a smirk. "That's more like it, Cranston!" Gigas taunted as he walked backward, allowing Blue to fall to the ground.

Gigas charged again to attempt another running knee, but Blue rolled to the left, causing his opponent's knee to collide against the wall, which got stuck upon impact.

Blue stood up, jumped into the air, and performed a roundhouse kick to the back of Gigas' head, sending Gigas through the wall, allowing Blue to see that the room Gigas forcefully entered was a large room filled with tons of computers.

As quickly as possible, Blue stumbled away from his downed opponent, leaped over a discarded desk, and landed on his side before turning on his communicator and asking, "Alpha, do you read me?"

"Billy! Aye-ai-ai! Am I glad to hear from you," Alpha quickly exclaimed while Blue smiled tiredly from the robot's enthusiasm but was truly glad to hear Alpha's voice.

"I need your assistance. Is there anyone in this building?" Blue asked in a hushed whisper while looking at Gigas, who was now standing on two feet, searching for him.

"No. Everyone has fled from this building. Why do you ask?" Alpha questioned.

Blue nodded and quickly searched around the room before darting to another discarded desk when Gigas had his back turned and whispered, "How stable is the building?"

Blue waited five minutes in agonizing silence before Alpha replied, "The structure's integrity has weakened during your battle with that dreadful monster. It could come down with the blow of the wind."

Blue took a small breath and asked, "When we teleport to the command center, does that cause damage to the surrounding area?"

"Honestly, it does not damage the surrounding area at the current setting we have, but we can boost up the energy density so it can cause moderate to severe destruction," Alpha answered.

Blue let a rare smirk form on his face at this news and said, "Well...Because the only way I'm going to escape is to send this building on top of Gigas. How long would it take to get enough energy to do it?"

Alpha was silent for a few moments, but Blue could hear the various buttons on the console the small robot was standing in front of before the robot chirped, "About Five minutes."

Blue shut his eyes.

He was hoping that it would be a lot shorter than that because he was sure that it had been five minutes since the fight started, but it felt like an eternity.

Regardless, as long as he survive, this plan will succeed, and Gigas would be down for the count. "Alright…Just let me know when it's fully charged," Blue told the robot before ceasing communications.

And not a moment too soon because the desk Blue was hiding behind exploded with the body of the roaring Gigas, causing Blue to turn his head before he slammed by the shoulder and rammed through yet another wall.

But Blue quickly slammed his feet to the ground hard and gripped his enemy's shoulder. With a shout of, "So long, little Gigas!" Blue tossed the monster off his feet and threw the beast far across the room into a large cubicle.

And right when Gigas got to his feet, Blue launched himself forward with a leap and collided against Gigas' body.

Gigas managed to catch his opponent and twist his body to slam the ranger, but Blue managed to swing his weight so his feet were on the ground and gritted teeth, he lifted Gigas off his feet managed to slam the monster on his back.

All was quiet as the two combatants lay there, but Blue managed to get enough strength to crawl away from the monster to get as much distance as possible after a full five minutes.

But when Blue had gotten far enough, he turned his head to see his opponent, knowing it was going to attack but to his shock, Gigas was still lying on its back, but it looked different.

Instead of its previous bright white marble skin, its skin was now a dark slate grey, the flames on its skin were now dull as if they were mere tattoos, and finally, the mask on its face was cracking.

Blue didn't know what this meant, but it made him panic. He did not want this monster to become stronger than before, so if this strange change was a case of that, he needed to stop it!

So with a grunt, Blue pulled himself up off his feet and leaned against the wall, and at the same time, Gigas was breathing heavily as its eyes were closed beneath its cracked mask.

What was going on?

Before, he was taking Cranston's assault without breaking a sweat, but now it seemed as if all the damage he had taken during this fight had come back down on him.

But why?

'What is going on? I managed to take a lot more than this before, but I feel damn near powerless…What happened, Rita?' The monster thought with a strained voice as it turned onto its hands and knees, a groan leaving its lips.

"Your power is weakening to the point that you're beginning to revert to your human form. You need to return here to rejuvenate your monster body before you perish," Rita's voice echoed through the monster's head, causing it to nod as it rose to its unstable feet.

Rita was right.

It had to return to her palace to recharge but seeing Blue barely clinging to life made it reconsider, but Gigas was not stupid. Gigas knew how bright the Triceratops ranger was and knew that he would find a way to defeat it if the battle continued, and Gigas did not want that.

Gigas stood up on two shaky feet and smirked as the Phoenix on his chest began to glow while Blue watched on, confusion on his weary, hidden face.

"Heh…Impressive. You weakened me to the point that I have nothing left but my finisher.…" Gigas stated as flames licked around its large body.

"Billy, it's ready!" Alpha yelled into Blue's ear, causing his eyes to widen before focusing on Gigas, whose violent flames began to circle the monster.

Before Blue could let out the words for Alpha to complete his plan, Gigas rushed forward with speed Blue had not seen, the flame around his body taking the shape of a phoenix as an inhuman scream echoed from the monster's mouth as it yelled, "It's finished! Furious Phoenix!"

Blue honestly did not know what hit him when his body was engulfed by the phoenix, which then went through several walls with flames trailing behind it before the fire finally died out when Gigas slid to a stop with Blue standing behind him.

All was silent as flames roared around them due to Gigas' attack. Then finally, sparks began to spurt out from Blue's body in multiple places as he fell to his knees, where he then demorphed into Billy and fell face-first on the ground, his eyes completely white.

Gigas fell onto one knee as cracks began to splinter against the dark grey skin before it all exploded, revealing the exhausted-looking Adonis, who then fell to the ground beside Billy, their faces inches apart.

"Looks like…I win this one…Cranston…." Adonis panted out before he fell unconscious.

A few seconds later, a golden portal appeared before the unconscious Adonis. Goldar stepped out of the portal, lifted the unconscious teen, and hoisted him over his shoulder before glancing at the unconscious ranger with respect in his red eyes.

The ranger had put up a fight against the altered human, but it wasn't enough in the end. Goldar turned around and walked through the portal, unable to stop the smirk from forming on his face as the distant screams from the other rangers were heard as the portal closed behind him.


[Location: The Command Center
POV: General]

The four conscious rangers appeared in the command center with the unconscious Billy on Zack's shoulder with a flash of light. "Zordon, Billy needs help!" Jason exclaimed, immediately jumping to the point.

Zordon nodded and motioned to Alpha as he said, "Take Billy to the healing pod at once." Alpha nodded at this and quickly shuffled out of the room only to return with a hovering steel table that he was pushing.

Zack placed Billy on the table and whispered, "Get well, buddy…." Alpha twisted the table around and began to push Billy out of the room, leaving the four rangers and Zordon alone.

"I don't like this…This is the second time a ranger has been severely injured…." Jason said with a scowl on his face as he crossed his arms.

"Yeah…And I thought mine was bad…." Zack added with a small sigh.

Trini scoffed at his words and said, "You didn't get injured to the point where you were out cold."

Kimberly gritted her teeth at Trini's words, but she took a deep breath and blew it out before she walked off, saying, "I'm going to go stay with Billy."

Jason crossed his arms and said, "I have to say, Rita's forces have become tougher. Knasty Knight, Swan Song, and now this monster…It seems like they are trying to off us one by one."

"On the exception of Swan Song. He damn near got to two of us," Zack added, unaware of the scowl that formed on Trini's face.

"We'll need some help if this keeps up," Jason continued after nodding to his best friend.

"I know Jason, and it will come in time. Until then, You all must be diligent in defending Angel Grove from Rita's forces," Zordon told the three teenagers."You never know what she'll have up her sleeve next…."


[Location: The Moon - Rita's Palace
POV: Rita Repulsa]

"Finster...How is he?"

Finster glanced up from the unconscious teenager and saw Rita standing by his side with a concerned look on her face. The moment Adonis arrived with Goldar, Rita had wanted an update on her newest acquisition's health.

"Milady, his vitals have stabilized, but the monster gauntlet would have killed him had he not finished his battle when he did," Finster told her while adjusting his glasses.

Rita glanced at the teen, then asked, "How long will it take for him to awaken?"

Finster glanced at the teen and said, "It will take an hour. The monster gauntlet is working hard to heal him." Rita nodded and gave a smile of approval.

"Good. We took out one ranger for now. If he brings that explosive power to the others, they will fall as well," Rita stated before she walked out into the hallway, where she then went to visit the one monster who had always been with her.


[Location: The Moon – Goldar's Chambers
POV: Loyal Knight Goldar]

Goldar was meditating in his chambers when he opened his eyes and spotted his empress standing in the doorway.

Goldar immediately got off of his bed and bowed to her, but merely kneeled before him and touched both of his shoulders while saying to him, "You of all people don't need to bow to me, Goldar," with a tender smile on her face.

Goldar had been with her since her father, Master Vile, recruited him to become her protector, to help her claim the Earth, but during that long time, she had come to rely on him and soon came to care for him greatly while he didn't say it, he thought of her as an important person in his life as well.

On the outside, she treated him as rudely as she did to her other minions but alone, the two of them were closest of friends, and Rita knew without a shadow of a doubt that she could depend on him for anything, even more than her dear friend Finster.

"I know I mustn't, Lady Rita, but it is not my place to stand next to my Empress," Goldar responded dutifully with a lowered head.

Rita sighed at her stubborn companion as she stood up and replied, "Well, as your Empress, I order you to stand beside me from now on," all while smiling.

Goldar faintly chuckled as he stood up in front of her and gave a tiny little smile, asking her, "How can I assist you today, my Lady?"

"I don't like asking of menial tasks for you, Goldar, but…I…." Rita lowered her head, a frown on her face, telling Goldar that she had trouble sending him out.

During his war with Aura Red, he had gotten injured to the point where he was dying. His empress had nursed him back to health, and since that war, she had been reluctant in sending him back onto the field in fear.

And while that notion he found was kind of her, he was her sword and shield. He would have to go on the front line sooner or later. Besides, he was born and bred to battle.

Goldar knew it was bold, but he placed a hand beneath her chin and lifted her head slowly to get her to look at him, and if he weren't so serious, he would have taken time to admire the surprise on her face.

"Any task you ask of me, I will do," Goldar told her, a smile warping on his face. Rita blinked twice before a wide grin appeared on her face as well.

"Thank you..." She whispered before taking a few steps back and entering "Empress" Mode. "I want you to watch Adonis when we send him out. I suspect that those rangers will try and break our hold on him."

Goldar nodded since she did not want him to bow and said, "It will be done, Lady Rita. I will step in if things get too severe for him."

"That's all I ask of you, Goldar," Rita said with a serious look before she turned and headed to the door but then she stopped. Goldar watched as she slowly turned around and gave him a longing look with a small smile.

Goldar knew that look all too well, making Goldar's heart skip a beat. She always gave him that smile before he left, and if he was truthful to himself, he looked forward to when she did it.

"Be careful, Goldar…And thank you," Rita told him before walking off, his door closing behind her.


[Location: The Command Center
POV: General]

"Ugh…My aching everything…"

Kimberly's head snapped up at the exhausted voice of her friend and quickly smiled when she noticed him leaning up. Billy had been unconscious for the duration of the afternoon and night.

Kimberly had been so worried that she had to call her mom and pretend that she was over at Billy's house for the night for her to be with him until he woke up.

Zack, Jason, and Trini had done the same as well, wanting to see their friend the moment he woke up. They were lucky that today was Saturday so their parents didn't question it.

"Stay put Billy, I'll go get the others," Kimberly told the awakened ranger. She rushed into the main room and saw her three friends sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags.

Kimberly went to Zack first and shook him awake. "Up and at 'em, Zack-Man. Billy's awake," Kimberly told him. She then went to Trini and Jason and shook them awake, repeating the same thing she told Zack.

Soon, all three sleepy rangers were awake and in the Medical Room with Billy.

"It's about time you woke up buddy, you had us scared," Zack said with a smile on his face.

"I apologize for worrying all of you…I wasn't trying to…" Billy whispered as he lowered his head. Kimberly was in front of him within seconds with a worried frown on her face.

"You don't have to apologize for that you dork," Kimberly told him. "You got kidnapped by that monster and were forced to fight it alone. If you had to apologize for that, Zack would have to apologize for that same thing happening to him."

"Yeah, man. It's not like we can stop a monster three times our size from taking us to some unknown dimension to fight to the death and nearly dying," Zack said. His tone started humorously before it drifted off at the end as a haunted expression appeared on his face.

Zack then shook his head and offered a supportive smile to Billy.

The only one to notice this was Trini but she filed this away for now.

"I have to say though, I feel better than I did before the fight," Billy said after a moment with a smile, trying to find a bright side to his defeat.

"Well, Alpha had you in the healing tank for three hours. That's how severe your injuries were. If not for our suits, you damn well could have died…" Jason said with a stern tone in his voice but there was a hint of rage within it.

Jason did not like when any of his friends were hurt but when Alpha told him about the severity of the injuries, he nearly broke the console he was near due to punching it so hard.

"That would have been unfortunate…But I suppose it would have been worse if Matthew had killed me…" Billy said lowly, his arms crossed and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Wait…What?" Kimberly asked in confusion.

"What does Matthew have to do with this?" Zack asked in confusion.

"He has everything to do with this..." Billy murmured with his eyes closed. "During my battle, Mythical Gigas knew all of my moves and was able to counter them effortlessly."

Billy took a deep breath.

"The entire battle, he talked about how I was pathetic, calling me by my last name and various references to my first two battles with him…It is obvious now but I feel like a fool for not seeing it during my battle…: Billy muttered to his team with guilt in his voice.

"But how? Matt is a human. How could he have become a monster?" Trini asked.

"Rita is a master of magic…Anything is possible in her realm," Billy softly responded. How could he have not seen this? Matthew was fueled by rage at the losses he had faced and Rita was looking for a way to hurt them.

It was already known that Rita knew who they were outside of the suits so it should have been obvious that Rita would go to Adonis to get him on her side to kill him.

But none of this would have happened if Billy had never joined the wrestling squad.

So in the end…All of this was his doing.

He effectively made this challenge and put an innocent person in Rita's hands. He had to make this right somehow….But how?

"Well now that we know that this is Adonis, What are we going to do?" Kimberly asked her friends with a frown on her face but she didn't receive an answer. They were used to fighting monsters but fighting a human within one was a new and horrifying experience for them.

"I have an idea…" Billy said after a few minutes. "You guys keep a look out for Adonis and let me know if he appears. I'm going to speak to his girlfriend and family…Maybe I can fix this…" Billy transported out of the Command Center to get his plan into action.


[Location: Planet Earth – North Pole
POV: Knasty Knight]

"The things I do for my Empress. I was never built for the cold," Knasty Knight said to himself with a frown on his face as he trekked through the harsh blizzard around him.

But after taking a step, the ice beneath him broke, causing him to go plummeting down into a secret cavern but if he were a mere human, he would have died.

Once he landed, the knight could see a large block of ice. But within this block of ice was the objective he was looking for. Standing before him was the frozen form of the legendary Dragonzord.

And chained to its chest with the head slumped down to the chest was a warrior that wore a green skintight suit that had white gloves and boots with green spikes on it.

On the warrior's chest was a golden armor on the chest that held a black diamond with gold plating on top of it in the middle of the armor along with golden armored bands on the upper arms of the suit.

Knasty Knight could also see a white belt with a golden Morpher in the middle with a power coin with a claw on it around his waist while inside the holster of the belt was a green, black, and gold dagger.

And finally, the monster noticed that the warrior was wearing a green helmet with a black visor with silver "Teeth" markings on the side edges of the visor along with black almond-shaped eyes on the sides of the helmet that also had a red diamond between the "eyes" on the helmet.

He had found him…

The Ranger that his Empress had recruited long ago in the war against Zordon for Earth…

The Green Dragon Ranger.


[Location: Angela's Residence
POV: Billy Cranston]

"You know, when Kimberly and Zack said they were going to come over to speak with me, I wasn't expecting you of all people to show up instead."

Billy could feel his face heat up at the very attractive girl that sat across from him, a helpful smile on her face.

"I know, and I apologize for showing my face here. But I'm the reason Matthew's missing. The best I could do is try to figure out where he could have gone and how I can bring him back."

Angela chuckled, albeit sadly while sitting back in her chair. "You're a sweet guy for doing that, especially considering how angry he was at you."

"Wouldn't be the first time," Billy said. 'And I doubt it would be the last either.'

"But you need to know something. This isn't something you can really fix..." Angela muttered softly after letting out a sigh.

"Tell me...What happened?" Billy asked.

"Well..." Angela began. "Matt and I have been friends for years. I know him better than he knows himself sometimes. He tells me everything… and I do mean everything."

Billy tilted his head in confusion.

"I know that Matt had a crush on you," Angela revealed. "I know that you harbored some not-so-secret feelings for him. And I know that on the night of the WDE, you kissed him goodnight."

Billy flushed. "O-On the cheek… I was thanking him for taking me out," Billy murmured as he played with his hands.

"And believe me, Matt liked that," Angela said with a smile. "But he was confused about what he was feeling for you. He likes girls and has dated girls before and after you. And he's shown no other attraction to boys, but you were the sole difference."

"Yes, I suffered from the same confusion," Billy admitted. "That night when I kissed him, I spent many a night after trying to understand my feelings. I've had crushes on both girls and boys, ever since I was younger but I never knew why."

"I chalked it up to the both of you having a flirtation with bisexuality," Angela answered. Billy looked confused, which caused Angela to laugh. "Bisexual: sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular gender; attracted to both men and women."

"Ah," Billy murmured. "That does make sense."

"I knew that you two were very close and on the verge of dating, but then things took a bad turn," Angela said.

Billy frowned.

"I guess somehow, his parents got a hunch about you two because Matt called me super upset that the two of them unlocked the gates of hell on him," Angela said. "You know how his parents are."

Billy nodded with a frown.

Matthew's mom is a prosecutor and his dad was a famous basketball player. They wanted perfection from him at all times. Billy had often found it unfair that they put so much pressure on him.

"Matthew often ranted about them," Billy said.

"Yeah. Toxic perfectionists," Angela sighed. "They didn't like the fact that you two were growing so close. Heck, they don't even want him to be anything other than a perfect face for their legacy. Being a bisexual male was not a part of their plan for him, so they unleashed all the vitriol in the world on him. Made him feel worthless…." Billy noted the sorrow and anger in Angela's voice as she clenched her pants legs. "They ruined him, Billy. They punished him so badly, that he still has nightmares," Angela admitted.

Billy nodded at this while shutting his eyes but he remained silent, opting to hear the full story before adding his two cents.

"So, to say they were disappointed in him was an extreme understatement," Angela scoffed at this.

"So they wanted perfection from him at all times... and they were willing to strip him of everything to get it. That reminds me of someone..." Billy muttered lowly, images of a scowling woman in her mid-thirties glaring down at him with icy blue eyes but he shook that thought away.

Angela sadly nodded and said, "Yeah. After that day, he said his family was moving to Stone Canyon."

Billy swallowed the sadness he felt at Matthew's suffering. "How did you keep in touch with him?" Billy asked.

"Well, since his parents despised you for making their son "imperfect," they almost refused to let me talk to him. But they figured their son needed someone in his life, and if that someone was a girl, then that may set him on the right path," Angela answered with a roll of her eyes.

"At least he had you," Billy said with a grateful tone.

"It was hard at first," Angela admitted. "He was always unhappy and very insecure because of the demons he called parents, and the fact that he missed us, and all of the friends he made here. But in time, I was able to fix him bit by bit."

"You did?" Billy asked, a happy yet surprised tone in his voice.

Angela giggled at this then said, "Oh yeah. I was able to fix his confidence right up. It took a year, but I did it. After that though, he started to change…."

Billy tilted his head.

"Changed how?" Billy asked.

"He became everything his dad was. Arrogant, boastful, and outright dick to everyone," Angela answered. "He thought he was God's gift to mankind, and his parents ate it up. It sickened me to my core, but I stuck by his side because I knew that wasn't who he was..."

"Is that why you broke up with him?" Billy asked.

"Broke up with him?" Angela asked in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Bulk and Skull. They said you were his longtime girlfriend," Billy answered.

Angela snorted. "Rumors suck. No, I'm not his girl," Angela answered with a hint of sadness.

"But you want to be," Billy stated.

"Yeah, I do," Angela admitted. "But the time was never right, between him missing you, his parents, and him becoming a dick, I could never find the chance to tell him that I'm in love with him." Tears began to fall from Angela's eyes."And now, he's gone and I-I don't know what to do."

Billy couldn't help the pang of self-loathing to beat in his heart as Angela began to sob.

It was his fault that all of this happened…

But Billy knew how to fix all of this.

And he already had a plan in mind.

Billy walked to her, placed his hands on the upset female's shoulders, and said, "I'm sorry to bring it up with you...I just needed to know because I know where he is...I just need to give him a reason to come home."

Angela looked at him in shock and hesitantly asked, "Y-You know where he is?"

Billy nodded in response.

"W-Where is he? Why is Matt?" Angela asked.

Billy opened his mouth but that was when his communicator chirped. Billy glanced down at the device and said, "Hold on...I forgot I have to call my dad about my search. Is it ok if I take this?"

Angela nodded and Billy walked out of the room.

Once he was down the hall of Angela's modest-sized home, Billy held the device to his mouth and announced, "This is Billy."

"This is Kimberly! Where are you?!" Kimberly exclaimed, making sure her voice was heard over the sounds of combat behind her.

"I'm speaking to Angela about Matthew. Has he come back?" Billy asked his best friend.

"Yes! And he's very freaking tough! He's causing mass chaos downtown! Zack, Trini, and Jason are trying to keep him contained but he's too strong to contain at this point!" Kimberly shouted.

"Oh no...Just hold him off as best as you can, I'll be there soon. Blue Ranger, out," Billy told his friend with a frown on his face.

"Hurry!" Kimberly shouted before the line went dead.

Billy lowered his arm and turned his head to see Angela standing a few feet away. Billy didn't have to ask if she had heard everything. He could hear the floor creak with each step she had taken.

But Billy wasn't mad about this.

In fact, this was his plan.

"Well...We need to go," Billy told the stunned cheerleader.

"Y-You...You said, "Blue R-Ranger Out." D-Does that mean that you're the Blue Ranger?" Angela stammered, unable to contain her shock.

Billy chuckled and said, "You heard correctly...We must move now if we want to save Matthew."

"But why?" Angela asked. "Why tell me this?"

"Angela, in all honesty, I should be the one to stop him. To make him see reason, but I realize that all of this is my fault," Billy softly said. "All I will do will make this worse. My time as his love interest has ended, and he made that clear."

"Billy…." Angela whispered.

Billy gave her a sad smile and said, "But you built him up. You stuck by him while I was gone. You made him whole again and I know that you will be the voice that pierces the darkness that surrounds him. That's why I'm not hiding or denying who I am. You are the key to saving him. Not me."

Billy felt a hint of bitterness at these words, but at the same time, he felt happy that the truth of his feelings was out there. "So, please, will you help me bring him back?"

Angela nodded, her eyes glittering in determination as she exclaimed, "I'll drive!"


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: General]

"Where is he?!" Gigas roared as Black and Red held off his massive muscles with their respective power weapons.

"Man, how the hell did Blue handle this by himself for so long?" Black asked as he ground his feet into the ground hard.

"No idea but that just shows how strong Blue is," Red said with gritted teeth. "But he's not here so let's show him how strong we can be!"

With that shout, both Black and Red pushed Gigas' arms into the air with their weapons and kicked the monster in the stomach, sending Gigas stumbling backward before the two tried to strike it in the chest.

But Gigas caught the ax and sword with both hands and threw them in the air, causing them to fly from the hands of the two rangers before the two were grabbed by the neck.

Gigas leaped into the air and then tossed Black into an abandoned van before falling to the ground and slamming Red on the top of another abandoned car, sending him crashing through it.

"Heads up ugly!" Pink yelled as she jumped from the crate she was hiding behind with her Power Bow in hand with Yellow along with her, with the latter holding two blasters in her hands.

Gigas was hit by the multiple energy arrows and energy beams that rained down on him but Gigas roared and launched himself into the air where he tackled the two girls out of the air and slammed them into the third floor of an apartment building.

Once the three entered the apartment, Gigas and Yellow slammed into the living room couch while Pink went over the couch and crashed into the bar counter nearby.

Yellow shook her head and rose to her feet shakily but Gigas was on his feet as well. Without warning, Yellow's boots collided with his face, sending the monster tumbling backward.

Gigas got up on his feet and kicked Yellow in the chest, which sent her flying towards the counter, where Pink flipped over her, with Power Bow still in hand, and fired three shots into the chest of the monster, making it stagger backward until he was at the edge of the opening he had made.

Seeing this, Pink fired a stronger energy arrow at the monster, sending it flying backward out of the building and back out into the streets.

Black, seeing Gigas slam into the ground back first, quickly climbed out of the van he was thrown into and fired his power cannon at the downed monster, causing Gigas to fly into the air from the strike.

Just then, yellow, red, and pink streaks slammed into the monster's stomach, sending Gigas slamming into the ground hard.

The three streaks changed into Red, Yellow, and Pink and the three landed near Black. "I don't know how much more we can take," Black said while holding his chest.

"I know...He may be a human but he does not pull his punches. At least we stopped doing it as well..." Pink replied while gripping her bow.

"Blue said he had a plan...I hope it's sprung soon," Red growled out while holding his right arm with his left hand.

"Until then, we keep him weak," Yellow stated while summoning her power daggers.

"Then form the Power Blaster!" Red announced

Changing his Power Ax to the Power Cannon, Black cocked it and said "Power Cannon!" before tossing it in the air.

"Power Bow!" Pink shouted enthusiastically while tossing her bow into the air, watching as the bow locked on the top of the Power Cannon horizontally.

"Power Daggers!" Yellow shouted as she tossed both of her daggers into the air, both of them hooking underneath the bow on separate sides of the Power Cannon, the handles of her daggers facing forward.

With a jump into the air, Red exclaimed, "Power Sword!" Red placed his blade on top of the bow, locking it in place, making the newly combined weapon look similar to a crossbow, with his sword acting as the arrow.

The rangers all knew that the blaster would be weak without Blue's weapons but they were trying to defeat the human within the monster. Not kill him.

Gigas stood up and staggered a bit in place as the rangers readied their arm. "Ready?!" Red shouted at his team.

"Ready!" The three rangers exclaimed in reply.

"Fire!" Red shouted and with the push of the trigger, multiple beams of energy came flying from the weapons and headed towards Gigas.

Seeing this, Gigas rushed forward as flame appeared around his body, causing his form to take the shape of a phoenix where an inhuman scream echoed from the monster's mouth as it yelled "Furious Phoenix!"

The large phoenix slammed into the beams of energy and to the ranger's horror, the beams flowed around the flame as it came closer to them.

"Scatter!" Red exclaimed but it was too late.

The phoenix slammed into the four rangers, engulfing them in its flame where it then flew down the road before it slammed into a grocery store. When Gigas skidded to a stop, the flames died out and the four rangers went sent flying.

Red crashed into a chip display, Pink and Yellow collided with a large freezer, and Black was sent spiraling through a meat display.

"These rangers aren't so tough, Goldar!" Gigas yelled out as he turned around to face a medium-sized building where Goldar was standing, watching the battle.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: Loyal Knight Goldar]

Goldar's red eyes stared down at the monster below him. The only reason he could stand against four rangers was due to Finster's upgrades to the monster gauntlet.

Finster upped the gauntlet's longevity as well as its power but the issue was that it would cause a severe strain on the wearer's physical, mental, and spiritual health.

If this human truly did defeat the rangers, he would die from the strain and that was all that mattered…No matter how much Goldar truly didn't like this idea.

This human would take away his glory at defeating these warriors and that was something he could not have.

Not in this or any lifetime.

"I could take down these rangers all day!" Gigas shouted up at him.

Goldar chuckled at this and refused to say a word as the four multi-colored streaks slammed into the large monster's back, sending Gigas crashing to the ground. Goldar then watched the four streaks land on the ground and change into four exhausted rangers.

But it was then he saw a red Corvette speeding through the abandoned streets towards the group but even from his distance, he could see the two humans in the vehicle, and to his surprise, one of them was the missing Blue Ranger.

"The one that was able to handle Gigas. Let's see how strong you are," Goldar muttered in amusement before he disappeared in a golden flame.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: Billy Cranston]

"Just a few more blocks. We're almost there!" Billy exclaimed while looking moving his hand from his communicator.

The moment Angela and Billy had stepped into her car, Billy contacted Alpha to give them directions on getting to the other rangers.

"I have to say, Billy, I never expected you out of anyone to be a Power Ranger. The news would have a field day if they knew!" Angela shouted over the rushing winds against them as she drifted around a sharp corner.

"Well, I never pegged you for a race car driver in training so that makes two of us!" Billy replied with a humorous tone.

Angela grinned at this and stepped on the gas pedal harder.

The two of them had been riding for over twenty minutes and from what Billy realized, Angela was trying to shed her cheerleader image by becoming a race car driver and it showed in the rather reckless stunts she pulled to get to this part of town.

Angela took another sharp turn and the moment she did, both she and Billy could see the faint images of the other rangers far down the road they were on.

But that image disappeared behind the gold fire that appeared a few feet away from the car. "What the hell?" Angela gasped when Goldar appeared from the golden flames.

Billy, on the other hand, quickly pulled out his Morpher.

"Ah yes, the Blue Ranger," Goldar spoke, addressing Billy as his ranger color. "You have finally arrived. I was beginning to wonder if Gigas had actually killed you that day."

"You know what they say. You can't keep a good ranger down," Billy responded before turning to Angela and saying "Listen. You need to get to the other rangers."

"And leave you here against this? I know you're a ranger and all but I couldn't just do that," Angela responded with a frown.

"The monster my friends are fighting is Matthew," Billy divulged. "They kidnapped him and forced him to fight for them but he retains his memories of his human life. You need to convince him to come back."

Angela glanced at Billy in shock at this news but then she quickly understood. Billy was a Power Ranger and if something like this happened to Adonis, he would be the first one to know.

So with a nod, Angela quickly unbuckled her seatbelt and ran out of the car but when it looked like Goldar would stop her, Billy leaped from the car and kicked Goldar in the face, sending Goldar stumbling backward.

"Pay attention to the real threat! "It's Morphin' Time: Triceratops!" With a quick flash of blue and white light, the Blue Ranger appeared.

Goldar chuckled and eyed the ranger before him and said, "Good. You know how serious this fight will be by morphing. I'm impressed."

Blue merely summoned his Power lance and quickly charged forward, wasting no time in attacking.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: General]

"You rangers are very funny. Attacking me from behind. How cowardly," Gigas stated as he stood up on his feet.

Red audibly scoffed at this while holding his side in pain. He knew that their attack would not have been enough. Hell, all of their attacks have not been enough and without looking at them, Red knew his teammates had nothing left.

He truly hoped for a miracle at this point.

"Pink…You stay back and supply cover fire. The three of us will engage." Red ordered before he, Yellow, and Black ran towards the monster with Yellow in tow.

Pink re-summoned their weapons and aimed them at Gigas when the two heard

"Matt!"

The lone ranger blinked in confusion at the sudden female shouting behind her and when she turned around to hear the voice, Pink's eyes widened when Angela tried to bulldoze past her to get to Gigas.

"What in the world are you doing?!" Pink exclaimed as she stopped Angela with a grab of her bicep.

Angela tried to get out of the ranger's grasp while she shouted "I need to get to Matt! Let me go!"

"Look, there is no "Matt" here," Pink told her sternly with narrowed eyes.

"That's a lie. Billy told me that Rita kidnapped him and made him that monster," Angela responded with a scowl on her face.

"Who is this Bi-" Pink began to ask but was interrupted by Angela who said, "Don't even try to deny it, Kimberly, I heard your entire conversation with Billy while he was at my place."

Pink's grip seemed to slack a bit when Angela referred to her by her real name. Feeling Pink's arm loosen, Angela moved her arm and explained, "Billy said I'm the only one that can save Matthew. That's why I'm here."

Pink lowered her head for a moment before looking back at the girl. "Where is he? Why is he not with you?" Pink finally asked.

Angela looked back from where she came from and with a frown, she replied, "He's fighting some monkey in gold armor…"

"Oh no…" Pink whispered out.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger]

With a clash, Blue blocked the steel of Goldar's blade as it tried to take his head from his shoulders.

"You are very quick on your feet…" Goldar commented as he pushed more of his weight behind his blade to break Blue's weapon.

But Blue was not dumb.

Blue quickly moved to the side while disconnecting his lance and when Goldar stumbled forward due to the lack of opposite push, Blue sliced down the knight's back with his separated lance.

Goldar hissed at this pain but he quickly twisted his body and slashed his blade at a downward angle.

Blue hopped to the side to avoid it, but Blue was too slow to avoid the blade's lunge, which struck him in the chest and sent him slamming into a brick wall, where he fell to the ground.

Blue held his chest and slowly stood, but Goldar was in front of him immediately with his blade coming down towards him. Blue grunted in pain as sparks flew from his suit as he was struck in the chest once again then he was thrown by his neck into a window.

Blue burst through several mannequins and hit the ground twice before skidding to a stop. Blue got up to his feet shakily as Goldar stepped through the glass opening, his red eyes glowing ominously.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger]

"Please Kimberly…" Angela pleaded to the ranger.

Pink knew that Blue wouldn't do anything without a reason and this was no different. If he truly believed that Angela would be able to stop him then she would trust in him.

"Alright..." Pink conceded softly. Angela smiled and hugged the ranger before she ran past her and towards the fray.

Pink let out a small sigh, held her wrist to her mouth, and said, "I need you guys to stop attacking. Blue's plan has just arrived. And the plan is coming in the form of Angela." Pink turned her head and decided to follow Angela, just in case.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: The Mythical Gigas]

Unfortunately, Pink's words went unheard due to the intense battle the three rangers were involved in.

With a shout, Gigas clotheslined both Yellow and Red to the ground but continued running forward before launching the downed Black with a hard kick, sending the ranger high into the air.

Gigas then leaped into the air, grabbed the ranger by his hips, and forced all of his weight down so that when he hit the ground, he slammed Black's body down onto it hard, causing multiple cracks on the ground.

And with that, the three rangers demorphed into their normal form, leaving Gigas Victorious over the three.

Gigas fell on one knee and began to pant heavily, the flames on his body fading out. He was getting weaker, despite being strong enough to take down the Rangers.

But at this point, his exhaustion was different than the one he had before when he was just fighting Cranston.

This feeling was like he was drowning in a dark sea and with every blink, he felt it getting longer and longer.

He didn't know what was going on and when he tried to mentally contact Rita, he didn't receive an answer.

Whatever the case may be, he made a promise to Rita and he was going to keep it.

But as he sat there, kneeling and panting heavily, a familiar face was seen coming towards him. A face that he truly didn't believe was here until she yelled out, "Matt!"

Without warning, the female's arms shot out and wrapped themselves around his neck. "A-Angela? His voice, despite the deep bass within it, his voice had never felt so weak before.

"Matt...It is you within there. He was right," The Teenager responded while pulling away and staring into his covered eyes. "When Billy told me that this Rita kidnapped you and changed you, I-I couldn't breathe...I couldn't think...I-I'm so sorry."

Gigas could only stare at her with a frown on his face. Cranston...He told her what had become of him. But why? Why would his enemy tell his friend what had happened?

What did he have to gain?

"Why...Why are you here? How did you know any of this was going on?" Gigas whispered.

"Billy came over...He was leading the search for you after you disappeared. He came over today to gather some more information," Angela responded. "He said he felt responsible for you disappearing and becoming like this."

"I don't understand…." Gigas whispered. "Cranston… he did this to me…."

"No, he didn't," Angela told him. "Your parents, and even you, have scapegoated Billy into this villain," Angela then took Gigas' head into her hands. "But he isn't. He's still the same person you cared about. Hell, we should be competing for you, and yet, he is more than willing to step aside because he feels that I, not him, can free you." Angela took a shuddered breath."He cares so much, that he is willing to break his own heart."

"What do you mean?" Gigas softly asked.

Angela looked down. "I know that somewhere inside him, he still cares about you. But he's willing to step aside because he knows that I love you," Angela softly admitted.

Gigas didn't know how to respond to that.

Why would he go through all of this? Cranston knew that he had thrown away their past, tried to beat him into submission, and nearly killed the range during their first battle as Gigas. And yet he still went out of his way to help him?

Wait, what did Angela just say?

"Y-You love me?" Gigas softly asked.

"I do…." Angela admitted. "I have for the past year."

"Ange," Gigas began as he used his big index finger to wipe the tears from her eyes. "W-Why didn't you tell me?"

"You were dealing with so much," Angela answered. "Your feelings for Billy, the hell that your parents were/are, putting you through. I didn't want to add to it…."

"Angela," Gigas whispered. "I need to tell you something…."

Angela nodded.

"W-When Rita came for me," Gigas began. "She disguised herself as you to calm me down. She reminded me of the promise you made the day I left…."

"That I would stay with you through thick or thin," Angela recounted.

Gigas nodded. "When I told you to go, she even said that if I wanted you to go, I knew what I had to do to get rid of you…." Gigas said.

"A-And did you?" Angela asked.

"I couldn't," Gigas said. "I couldn't say those words….Because I didn't want to lose another person I had fallen in love with."

Angela took a sharp inhale.

"Y-You….?" Angela began as her bottom lip trembled.

"I do," Gigas answered.

Angela couldn't stop herself from sobbing as she embraced him tightly. Gigas slowly, and gently, returned her embrace.

"I love you too," Gigas whispered, which made Angela's arms tighten around his neck.

He felt like he was in Heaven as he held Angela, the words that he wanted to tell her for so long finally out in the open.

But slowly, his mind went to Cranston.

All this time, he had been so cruel to his former friend/first love.

He had blamed Cranston for so much of his life in the past two years, but instead of Cranston hating him, Cranston tried to reach out to him, tried to be his friend or maybe more. He blamed himself for all that he had done.

But now, Gigas truly understood that none of this was Cranston's fault.

Angela was right, he had done exactly what his parents did and villainized Cranston.

It was him.

He had blamed Cranston for all of his problems but in reality, all of this was his fault.

And it was time to set things right.

"I'm sorry I worried you, Angela...But I need to know where Cranston is," Gigas whispered into her ear.

"He's fighting some monkey in gold armor," Angela responded before she asked, "What are you going to do?"

Gigas moved her to the side, stood on his two feet, and said, "I owe Cranst—no, I owe Billy a debt...He has done a lot to help me and all I've done is hurt him and his friends in return. The least I can do is help him."

Angela looked up at the large monster and beamed. "Go get him," Angela told him.

Gigas pounded on his chest and dashed off with a roar.


[Location: West Side Angel Grove
POV: General]

"You fought very valiantly Blue Ranger but this is it," Goldar stated while pointing his blade at the downed Blue Ranger, who was lying face-first on the ground weakly, trying fruitlessly to build up the power to get on his feet.

Despite the intense fight he had put up, Goldar easily showed him why he was Rita's second in command of her army. He had never been so soundly defeated before in his life. Even his battle with Gigas was a close one.

But Goldar's skills...his power...It was too much and now, Blue was going to die.

"Get bent," Blue responded defiantly while clawing his way to his knees with help from the bumper of a van but that was all he had left in him at that point.

He was going but he was not going to go with a whimper.

Goldar chuckled at this and said, "Ah, the determination of the defeated. Never wanting to show fear in front of the Billys as they face death. Admirable but very mistaken."

"As I said...Get bent..." Blue growled out as Goldar walked towards him and he began to raise his blade.

Once Goldar stood before Blue, Goldar's blade was poised in the air, and without further fanfare, Goldar swung his blade down.

But before it could touch Blue, Gigas' right fist slammed into the right cheek of Rita's knight, sending the warrior flying towards the street.

"You alright, Billy?" Gigas asked as he helped the beaten ranger to his feet.

"Better than I was a second ago," Blue admitted with a groan of pain. "So Angela was able to help?"

"More than you will know...Now sit tight, I'll handle Goldar," Gigas stated before walking away from the exhausted Blue to face the now-standing Goldar.

"Gigas...What are you doing?" Goldar asked while rubbing his cheek.

"I'm Gigas no longer. My name is Matthew and I'm taking you out Goldar!" Matthew announced as he pointed to Rita's second in command.

Goldar chuckled at this and summoned his blade and said "Very well, Matthew, Come at me." Gigas smirked, knelt to the ground, and slammed both knuckles on the ground, a fiery aura forming around his body.

"Alright then Goldar, prepare for an ultra-version of my Furious Phoenix!" With that, Gigas launched himself towards the golden knight as a large phoenix formed from the great amount of fire coming from the monster within.

Goldar merely slid his hand across his golden blade before he leaped up and met the giant Phoenix head-on and with a flash of gold, Goldar landed on his knees behind the phoenix, which instantly faded away to reveal Gigas.

Gigas staggered forward before his entire body shattered like glass, revealing Adonis in his human form, a look of shock on his face. "Wha..." Matthew muttered before he fell to his knees and then to the ground, unconscious.

Not a few seconds later, the monster gauntlet unsnapped from the teen's wrist, where it then withered into dust.

Goldar rose to his feet, looked behind him and let out a small laugh. "If a ranger didn't stand a chance against me at full strength, what makes you think you could be at your weakest?" Goldar taunted.

Goldar then turned around and saw a blue/white and pink/white boot coming towards him and with no time to block, Goldar took the hit to the face, sending him staggering backward.

"Well isn't this interesting? Two against one. And here I thought Rangers had honor," Goldar said as he regained his footing.

"Honor died the moment you showed up," Pink stated as she held up her bow and fired three pink energy arrows at the knight.

Seeing this, Goldar sliced through two of them expertly before grabbing the third one and crushing it beneath his hand where he then used the same hand to slap Blue's right leg away and backhand the ranger.

Blue stumbled to the side from the hit but it cleared up an opening for Pink to kick Goldar in the face, sending him staggering back and that was when Blue dove underneath her leg, wrapped his arms around the knight, and lifted him off the ground.

Seeing this, Pink leaped over Goldar's head with a flip and grabbed his neck while Blue fell forward, and together, the two slammed the mighty Goldar on his back hard where they then rolled away from him.

Goldar flipped up to his feet and chuckled at the move then murmured "Childish move, rangers..." But the moment he turned around, Pink jumped and slammed her outer right thigh against his face, sending him to the ground once again.

But as Goldar rose from the ground, Blue's knee appeared in his vision and Goldar's head whipped back to the ground from the blow. Pink and Blue stood next to each other and summoned their weapons but to their surprise, they heard three familiar voices come from behind them.

"Power Ax!"

"Power Daggers!"

"Power Sword!"

Turning around, the two rangers saw their friends leap over them and strike at Goldar's chest with their respective weapons, sending Goldar rocketing backward into the air where he then fell to the ground.

Meanwhile, Angela ran past them and ran straight at Matthew and knelt by his side, trying to wake him up.

Goldar got on his feet and chuckled at the five rangers. "Five against one now...Fine, let us begin," the knight challenged.

'Retreat Goldar!' Rita's voice suddenly invaded his mind, causing the monster to subtly wince.

'But why Lady Rita? I can defeat them at this rate," Goldar replied, confused at why his Empress wanted him to return so soon.

'Please...Return...' Rita replied, her tone becoming softer. Goldar shook his head and sheathed his blade, knowing he would be unable to deny her, especially when that voice was used.

"It seems that I am no longer needed on this planet. Until next time, Power Rangers," Goldar said before disappearing in a golden flame.

The five rangers let out a sigh of relief, while their weapons vanished in a flash of their respective colors.

"Whew...That was close, I don't think I could handle another fight right now," Black said with an exhausted voice.

"Ditto," Yellow responded as she panted heavily.

Blue and Pink glanced at each other and began to walk towards the kneeling, sobbing Angela, who was hugging the life out of the sickly-looking Matthew, who wore a small smile on his face.

Blue and Pink kneeled before the two but Blue was the first to speak. "Are you ok, Matthew?" Blue asked.

Matthew let out a small laugh and shook his head. "I'll live. I'm a bit weak, but I'll live. What about you guys?" Matthew asked.

"We'll live," Blue responded with a thumbs up in his direction.

Matthew looked down at the ground and said, " Billy, I'm sorry. It's my fault all of this happened."

"No, It was mine. If I hadn't fought y-" Blue started but Matthew raised his hand to stop him.

"No...You didn't know my situation before and after I left. How were you to know I was going to take my loss this way? How did you know any of this was going to happen? You didn't, so don't apologize," Matthew stated with a stern tone.

Blue lowered his head but he asked, "Can we agree to disagree?"

Matthew chuckled and stood up on his feet with the help of Angela and held out his hand towards Blue. "Only if we can shake hands and I can say thank you for helping me," He replied with a tired smile.

Blue nodded and grasped Adonis' hand and as they shook hands, Matthew said, "Thank you for helping me, Billy. I was such a fuckhead during this entire ordeal. I know things won't be easy from here on out for you guys but whenever you or any of your friends need it, I'll be here to help."

Angela nodded in agreement while beaming at the male standing next to her. Blue laughed softly and said, "Thank you...Thank you both."

Matthew nodded and together, he and Angela walked slowly to her surprisingly undamaged car before the two got in it and drove off.

"You sure you can trust them with our identities?" Pink asked while touching Blue's shoulder.

Blue placed his hand on top of hers with a hidden smile. "Funny enough, I do. Besides, I have a feeling that we will need all the help we can get..." Blue answered.


[Location: Airplane
POV: Katherine Hillard]

"We're almost here sweetheart, Excited?"

Katherine Hillard looked up at her father with a large smile on her face. "More than you will know. I finally get a chance to meet my pen pal!" She happily exclaimed.

Katherine's father gave a loving smile to his daughter before sitting next to his wife to say "I hope she continues to be happy while we're here."

"I do too honey," Katherine's mother replied with a gentle smile. "I know things are going to be hectic...Especially with our assignment."

Katherine's father nodded as electric blue eyes narrowed in thought.

Their assignment was going to be a tough one...

Creating Power Rangers.