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He was tough, but good thing Starla came through for us when she did. sweatdrop

After a couple days of searching, they figure out the mystery of the blue sphere and where to place it; Niagara at the Navy Island national historic site.
Willis and Phoebe wait by the shore for Alex to emerge from the water. When he finally did, they stood up to greet him.
“Did you get it? Do you have the jewel?”
Alex, who had transformed into a dolphin, surfaces with a blue stone in his mouth, which he spits at their feet before changing back into his normal self and swimming to shore. “Had to get deep enough before it actually worked; the thing literally glowed a bright blue as I held it in my mouth.”
“156; a high reading,” Phoebe says as she scans it.
“So this is the star of Pisces.”
“We’d better get it back before anything else happens.”
Phoebe, Willis, and Alex make their way to the jet and fly back home. After arriving at Samuel’s private hangar and mounting their motorcycles, they receive an urgent call.
“We’ve got a monster attacking the city; you’ll have to cut your mission short.”
“Dad, we already have it.”
“Really? That’s great news.”
“We’re on our way back.”
“Do you think it’s a good idea to take the jewel into battle with us? It could get taken from us.”
“Give it to me; I’ll take it back to the mansion and join you later.”
“Are you sure, Alex?”
“Yeah, I’ll be fine.”
Once on the freeway, Alex separates from the others. About a quarter of the way, he was attacked; his communicator had flown away from where he fell. He looks up to see who it was, “Why am I not surprised…?” sarcasm lay heavy in his voice as he looks at Cameron and Christi.
“You look lost, ranger; isn’t the battle the other way?”
“Wait how did you… oh so I take it that’s your monster?” Alex assumed.
“You catch on quick.”
“Well there’s no way I’m letting you take this jewel.”
“Haven’t you realized by now we always get what we want?”
Alex and Cameron and Christi draw their swords and begin the fight.
Alex charges first with his sword in its secondary mode and swings forward; Christi front flips over it and behind him with an elbow strike to the back of the left shoulder, pushing him towards Cameron, who rushes up with a low strike from Alex’s right; Alex blocks as she passes him by and then changes his sword to its primary mode as he attacks; Cameron back flips over the sword and hits him with an explosive ninja star, which knocks him on his back.
Christi picks him up by the collar and punches him in the stomach; Alex kneels, but leaps over Christi’s leg as she performs a low kick. He then forward rolls towards Cameron, draws his gun and fires a couple of laser blasts into her chest.
As Alex stands up, Christi approaches and disarms him as he turns to aim at her. After pushing her away, Alex tries to pick up his weapon; sparks fly from it as Cameron hits Alex’s laser weapon with a ninja star and pushes it further away.
Meanwhile in the city, the other face a white-haired monster with black armor on all except his arms, which had a weird tattoo drawn with white ink across his black skin; a dark mask with three “V” shapes and a dot in light blue and black and white striped above his ears; the beast drew its sword and strikes Phoebe as she rushes at him first; as she fell, Max draws his gun and fires at the beast, who deflects every shot with his sword.
Meerlix leaps in from the side and lays into the monster with a series of fury swipes; the monster strikes back and Meerlix ducks and uppercuts him in the chin.
The monster gets up and rushes him with a low kick; Meerlix dives over the beast’s leg, crouches behind him and throws back an elbow to the lumbar before standing up and blocking the monster’s next move.
“Wulf, get ready!” Meerlix calls out as he cups his hands ready to give him a boost; as Wulf rushes towards him, he his lifted into the air high above the monster. At the same time when Wulf’s in the air, Caitlin passes by the monster and attacks with her fan blades just before Wulf rapidly descends upon him and delivers the final strike.
Afterward, the team, minus Alex, returns home.
“Miss Caitlin…” Bradshaw got her attention. “There was a call for you. I took the liberty of jotting down the message.”
Caitlin takes the piece of paper from him and is surprised by what she read.
“What’s wrong?”
“My cousin, Jennifer, is coming to visit; how does she even know I’m here?”
“Probably saw you on TV; we are famous you know…”
“Anyway, what’s so bad about her?”
Just before she could answer Max’s question, Alex stumbles into the room.
“Alex! Oh my god, are you okay?”
“Yeah, it’s nothing major, but… I lost the jewel.”
“You what?” Samuel said with shock.
“On the way back, Cameron and Christi jumped me; I’m sorry.”
Samuel paused for a bit “The important thing here is you’re alright. These sorta things happen. Just don’t go solo again, have someone escort you; you’re not the only one on this team, you gotta learn to lean on your friends when you need them.”
“Yeah, that’s what we’re here for,” Starla replied.
“Now… what’s this about a cousin…?”
Meanwhile in Seductra’s spacecraft orbiting the earth.
“It’s about time you two did something right for a change…”
“But… didn’t we do right by you when retrieving that weird box thing from the government car?”
“Unless we figure out how to harness its power, it is of no use to us…,” Seductra answered with emphasis on ‘no use’ and ‘us’.
“Mistress, we’ve got incoming space junk, preparing evasive maneuvers.”
the ship rocked and rattled as the debris drew closer and closer while they tried to move downward out of its way.
“You should’ve gotten that stasis beam, but nooooo… you just had to have new drive core.”
“Shut it, both of you!”
“Sorry, auntie…”
“Now… we need a plan of action; it’s time we stop sitting idly by and watching the competition tear into this wretched world, but how do we go about it? Fear? No… it’s been done. Wait I got it. This must be your day to shine, because you’ve just given me an idea. A monster that controls gravity, motionlessness, etc. etc.,”
“We could check and see if you have any in your army that fits that description.”
“See that you do…”
Back at the mansion around the same time; Caitlin paces back and forth in the living room, stressed out about the arrival of her cousin.
“C’mon, she can’t be that bad…”
“‘That bad?’ You weren’t there when we were kids. She would always get away with everything. One time, at my birthday party, my dad was bringing the birthday cake in from the car. He gave it to me to take inside because there was more to carry; my cousin was waiting by the door and she tripped me. When I tried to explain what happened, Jen denied the whole thing and I got the blame.”
“That was like years ago, she’s probably changed by now.”
“There’s a Jennifer Riley to see you, Caitlin,” Bradshaw announced.
“And so it begins…”
Jen was 5ft 4in, had black hair, brown eyes, tan colored skin, and the body of a supermodel compared to her cousin Caitlin. She walked in the room sporting a white dress and assorted jewelry around her right arm and her neck and immediately caught the attention of Max, Willis, and Alex as she walked straight past on her way over to Caitlin. “Long time no see, cousin…”
“Likewise… Jen…?” Caitlin replied hesitantly. “You’ve changed since I last saw you.”
“So have you; time sure does fly, doesn’t it? So… are you gonna introduce me to your friends or what?”
“Oh right, sorry. Everyone, this is Jen; Jen, I’d like you to meet Alex McLaren, Starla, Phoebe Dallas…”
“Retired Rodeo champ of the southwest,” Jen interrupted.
“Right… Then there’s Meerlix, Max Grant, his brother, Willis, and Wulf ninja warrior.”
“Max and Willis Grant, sons of the famous Samuel Grant; nice to meet you, sir,” Jen immediately turned to shake his hand.
Back onboard Seductra’s ship, her nieces bring out a monster named Magneterror.
“Yes, what I can do for you, my queen?”
“I want you to go down to earth and raise trouble, literally…”
“Yes ma’am…”
Meanwhile, Caitlin and Samuel were out in the backyard; Samuel felt at this time, his sister should test out her new weapon to see if it has any flaws in the design that need fixing.
Caitlin wore full body armor during the testing, because of Samuel’s need to use the laser weapon that our heroes also carry with them into battle.
“Okay, sister, give it your all; don’t hold anything back…”
Caitlin stands in her fighting stance; Samuel fires a shot and Caitlin holds up her left to block; the fan absorbs the blast like a solar panel absorbs heat. Samuel fires another shot and Caitlin holds up her right; Samuel fires a third shot immediately after and Caitlin leaps over it with a butterfly kick, rushes over to Samuel to disarm him and holds a fan blade to his neck after knocking him on his back.
“Excellent…” Samuel said hesitantly. “Really… very excellent. I’ve done well. Uh… I mean you well, I designed it, but you complete it,” He says nervously as his kid sister pulls him up onto his feet.
Jen had been watching them the whole time; she gives Caitlin a disapproving look like a mother to a child, who has done something they’re not supposed to.
Caitlin looked back, she answered with an unsure, “what?”
“Walk with me, dear cousin.”
Sometime later outside of Starbuck’s
“I’m just… I don’t think this is what your parents would’ve wanted for you; going out and fighting monsters like some superhero. You should be off at college trying to make a better life for yourself.”
“College… isn’t really my thing.”
“You could be anything you wanna be; a singer, a dancer; based on those moves I’ve seen back there, you’d make an excellent ballet dancer.”
“You didn’t come all this way just to lecture me about my life, have you?”
“I’m just saying, you need to start thinking about what’s next after this whole ‘save-the-world’ gig is over and done.”
“You know what, save it! You’re not my mother and you never will be...”
Back at the mansion the alarm sounded, stating that there’s trouble; Seductra’s monster, Magneterror is on the rampage in the city.
Most of the people, who got away were lucky; the others, not so much. Magneterror uses his power to render them motionless.
“Hang around, the fun is about to begin; not that you have a choice in the matter…”
“Magneterror,” Max called out.
“Ah, Gaia Rangers; nice of you to show…”
“Party’s over, Magneterror, put them down.”
“If you insist….” Magneterror tosses the civilians separate directions.
Willis races off and catches them all one at a time while the others focus their attention on the monster.
Meanwhile, Caitlin just then gets the call from Samuel and races off to join the others.
“Cait, we’re not done here!”
“Well, I am; my friend’s need me.”
Alex leaps into action with his Scorpion saber and Magneterror blocks with his staff, twists it clockwise and disarms Alex before delivering a backhand to the jaw.
Phoebe throws her mantis boomerang and misses as Magneterror leans to his left; Phoebe just stands there, waiting as the boomerang made another pass, but instead of it hitting him in the back of the head, Magneterror holds up his hand and catches it. “Haha. Nice try!” he sneered as he threw it back and knocks Phoebe on her back.
Willis speeds in behind Magneterror, who holds up his staff and renders him montionless.
While hovering in the air, Willis tries to reach for his blaster, but Magneterror slams him to the ground in front of his friends before he could pull it from its holster.
Wulf and Meerlix rush in side-by-side; Wulf slashes at Magneterror from the right with his sword and Meerlix scratches him with an assortment of fury swipes from the left. Magneterror spirals counter-clockwise and strikes Meerlix who spirals out of the way and behind Wulf, who turns, holds out his hands and gives Meerlix a boost into the air, but before he could get around behind him, Magneterror points his staff upward and stops Meerlix high above his head.
Wulf struck Magneterror down and breaks his hold on Meerlix.
Magneterror hoists Wulf into the air by his shirt and pushes Meerlix back with a palm thrust.
Alex comes charging after morphing into a rhino and tackles Magneterror and makes him release Wulf from his grasp.
Magneterror looks around at the rangers as they surround him on all sides; he then raises his staff and strikes the ground with the butt of it, causing a shockwave, which knocked them all off their feet.
Just then, Magneterror receives a concussion blast from his right, which knocks him on his side.
“Sorry I’m late,” Caitlin answered.
“About time…”
“We were worried you wouldn’t show.”
“Hmph… you think you’re so tough? Let’s see how overconfident you are after I even the odds in my favor?” Magneterror summons to his side an army of Putras.
Unbeknownst to Caitlin, her cousin was lurking in the distance, watching the whole fight take place.
Caitlin dawns her Peacock fan blades as she gets in the middle of the army of Putras, poised and ready for battle as she awaits their first move.
One of them attacks from behind; Caitlin ducks under their sword and delivers a swift attack to the abdomen. Another one attacks her head-on and Caitlin holds up her left hand; her enemy’s blade goes straight through her weapon and she closes her blade around her enemy’s and disarms him. Another enemy rushes her and Caitlin performs a butterfly kick.
The whole time Caitlin fought, her cousin became more and more impressed with her skills; too bad the same couldn’t be said about her enemy.
“You haven’t seen the last of me…” Magneterror takes off like a bolt of lightning.
As the others swarmed Caitlin to congratulate her, Jen comes out of hiding to join in.
“Okay, I’ll admit, those moves were impressive.”
“Jen… How long were you standing there?”
“Long enough to see I’ve misjudged you, Caitlin; it seems as though you’ve found your calling in life.”
“I’m glad you see things my way; and I’m… sorry for what I said earlier.”
“It’s okay…”
Back onboard Seductra’s fortress in space
“Just so we’re on the same page, you have the rangers on the ropes…”
“Uh-huh…”
“And as soon as one more arrives, you flee like a coward?”
“That weapon of hers was powerful; even took out your men… my queen.”
“Yet, at the hands of its awesome power, you still stand before me.”
“I’d choose carefully my words if I were you,” Christi replied.
“Get back down there and get me one of the rangers before I shoot you out of an airlock!”
“Right away, your excellency.”
Back down on earth…
“After my parents died, I went in and out of foster homes. When I hit 17, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with myself. I got mixed up with the wrong kind of people and… Well… he didn’t have to, but he did. Samuel saved me from a life of living on the streets; he took me in, gave me a home.”
“And he… recruited you for…”
“I wanted to do something good for a change and being a part of Operation W.A.S.P. is that ‘something’.”
“It’s still gonna take time for me to get used to the idea of you being responsible for protecting the earth.”
“I know; we’re not little kids anymore, Jen. We’ve grown up.”
The two start reminiscing about the past and having a good laugh unknowing of Magneterror lurking in the distance.
Meanwhile back at home
“So far, Magneterror has just been stirring up trouble; trying to draw us out, but for what, I have no idea.”
“He’s been wreaking havoc with that staff of his. I can’t even get near him to destroy that thing,” Alex explained.
“Only thing that thing does is mess with your center of gravity; renders you motionless; what could Seductra gain from that?”
“If there’s one thing I know about my nemesis, is that everything she does comes with a purpose,” Wulf explained. “We just have to figure out what.”
“You may get your chance to find out after all; he’s back again,” MEGAN informed.
The others suit up and head back out. As they face Magneterror and an army of Putras for a second time, they realize something about him early on in the fight; he possessed several buttons on his waist, two of which resembled Caitlin and her cousin, Jennifer.
“Let’s see if I can add a couple more to my collection…”
“I don’t think so,” Wulf retorted.
Magneterror sends the Putras out first while he stands back and watches the fight.
Wulf led the others with his swords still holstered; the first Putra swipes at Wulf with its sword, but Wulf ducks under; his right arm behind him as he shot his left one forward and hits with a strong punch to the stomach. Wulf then spirals around, reaches for several ninja stars and throws them, taking out three more.
Max rushes up; with his weapon attached to his right arm, he leaps into the air with a flying punch, which he lands to the right jaw of his opponent. After landing, the pill bug armor moves down to his left shin as he performs a spiraling heel kick to the chest of another Putra.
Alex performs a forward roll past Willis and Max, gets to his feet and takes out a couple more enemies with his Scorpion Saber; Magneterror towers over him, ready to strike, but Alex rolls out of the way and attacks with his blaster.
While he was stunned, Willis rushes in and attacks with his Elephant axe, but as soon after that, Magneterror hits him and Alex with a stasis beam and turns them into one of the buttons on his body.
Starla surprises him with a blast of white light to the chest and knocks him down.
“We need to find a way to stop him before we end up a permanent part of his collection.”
“Agreed,” Starla replies to Phoebe’s statement.
While back at the command center, Samuel and MEGAN are monitoring the fight on screen.
“Can you see any weak points?” Samuel asked.
“None at the moment, but his staff seems to be the obvious source of power; taking that out might release the others.”
Samuel contacts the others via communicator, “Guys, you’ll need to destroy his staff if you’re ever to have any chance at defeating him.”
“Easier said than done…,” Max replies as he opens fires on a couple more Putras.
“I’ll draw his attention while you think up a plan,” Wulf explains.
“Wulf, wait…”
Once again, Wulf charges blindly into battle. With each strike Magneterror threw, Wulf would counter; Magneterror would throw a left, Wulf would block, fake a left and throw a right, then fake a right and throw a left. Magneterror couldn’t predict Wulf’s moves, but he still fought.
Phoebe then intervenes with a toss of her Mantis Boomerang and knocks the staff from Magneterror’s hands. Max rushed in and caught it before taking it in both hands; with his pill bug armor attached to his right knee, he brings the staff down while driving his leg up and snapping it in two. A tiny shockwave emits from the top of it, which changes the buttons on Magneterror back into people.
Without hesitation, Max brings in the WASP stinger mark 2 and puts an end to Magneterror for good.
“You guys alright?”
“Yeh…”
“I just have one question… what took you so long?” Caitlin asked.
“That’s a funny way to say thank you,” Starla replied.
“Thanks.” Jen said.
“Now that’s more like it…”
Moments later after the others head back home, Caitlin and Jen head back out to grab some lunch and catch up on old times.
“You have really interesting friends; including that Alex fella; he’s cute.”
“He’s mine; don’t even think about it.”
“I won’t. I know you have feelings for him; I’ve seen the way you look at him.”

The W.A.S.P. and The S.S.O.R.D.

At a Museum in Canada, Celsior was seen exiting by Cameron and Christi.
“You’re wasting your time. This is not the Star of Taurus; it is but a priceless gem.”
“Well if you don’t want it, give it here.”
Celsior tosses it to Cameron, but Willis rushes by as a green blur and intercepts.
“I’m sorry, this doesn’t belong to you. It belongs in a museum.”
“Your timing is impeccable…” Celsior summons a small group of Glacieroids to his side and orders them to attack.
Cameron and Christi flee the scene after getting the Gem back; Willis and Alex break away from the team and take pursuit.
Willis zips out ahead of them and summons his weapon, the elephant axe; Christi and Cameron draw their weapons as well.
Christi takes on Willis, while Cameron handles Alex.
Cameron slashes at Alex, who ducks and dodges every swing before summoning his Scorpion Saber and defending. The two went back and forth like expert swordsman, blocking each attack that comes their way. Alex then spirals as he switches modes on his weapon, latches onto Cameron, tosses her into the air, reaches for his blaster and fires several shots; Cameron quickly deflects each one with lightning fast reflexes before landing on her feet.
Christi attacks Willis, who blocks with the handle of his weapon before striking with the bottom half and pushing her back a couple feet. Willis then leaps into the air and towards her with his axe high above his head; Christi cartwheels out of the way before Willis hit the ground.
Willis pulls his axe out of the ground and swings at Christi, who plants one foot on the handle, jumps into the air, spirals and hits Willis with a slash across the chest.
Back to the fight between the others and Celsior; Caitlin attacks a couple of Glacieroids with her peacock fan blades before using her laser vision on a few of them that approached her.
Max spirals and lands a sweep attack with his right arm. He then looks up as a Glacieroid attacks with his icy sword and uses his pill bug armor to grab the blade.
Phoebe turns invisible, and attacks several Glacieroids as she ran over to Max to offer assistance. Once she approached him, she kicks the Glacieroid he has restrained and shatters it into pieces.
Starla summons her weapons, the armadillo blades, and holds one above the other as a Glacieroid attacks with its weapon. She then brings the two blades close while rotating them and saws through the weapon. For her final move, she extends both blades out to her sides and spirals as she cuts through the Glacieroid.
Celsior leaps at Starla, who holsters her weapons on her back and focuses a beam of light through her palms at Celsior, who deflects it by spinning his staff in front of him. Once Celsior lands, Starla converts to light, scatters herself and reassembles 45 degrees to his right.
Celsior pokes and prods at Starla, but she dodged and ducked each attack until finally grabbing the staff, passing it behind her neck and sticking it into the ground, disarming Celsior before delivering a spinning back kick, picking up his weapon and using it against him; Celsior grabs it with one hand and he and Starla fighting for possession of it; Celsior won.
Starla rolls past him on the right; Meerlix comes at her from the air. she grabs him, spins him and knocks Celsior to the ground.
Celsior stood on one knee, struggling to get up. “Don’t think this is over; I’m just getting started.” But before he could unleash another attack, he instantly vanishes in a purple light; same thing happened to Cameron and Christi, which left Alex and Willis just as baffled as the others.
“We’re not done yet, guys!” Wulf bellowed as he pointed out that there were still a small handful of Glacieroids left. Wulf slashes left, he slashes right; he spirals and lands a back kick.
The others joined the fight moments later.
Meanwhile, inside of a cave with purple clouds of smoke moving about on the floor, Celsior wanders around until he comes across a familiar face. “What is the meaning of this?” he asked Cameron and Christi in a furious rage. “I almost had the rangers.”
“Hey don’t look at us, frosty, we don’t even know why we’re here either.”
“Ah, three of my least favorite people; I don’t suppose you know what’s going on,” Serpitox asked.
“Why don’t you tell us, reptile? You’re from the future, aren’t you? Yet you couldn’t see this coming,” Farenhart replied.
Seductra, Ling Khan, Pachytar, Fahl Kun, and Sapphira then enter the room; things started to get a little louder as they joined in on the argument.
Suddenly, purple lightning struck the ground near them and made quiet down.
“The reason why you’re here? Well… you have me to thank for that,” a mysterious entity lurking in the shadows said.
“Who are you?”
“A fellow admirer of your handiwork, that’s all you need to know. I can help you get rid of your pest problems and get you what you need; the Karma Lunari jewels.”
“What exactly are you proposing?” Seductra asked.
“A temporary alliance. Once the rangers are gone for good, you can go back to tearing into each other for all I care.”
“I’m not even sure why we’re here; the Karma Lunari hold no interest to us,” Serpitox said, speaking for Pachytar and Fahl Kun.
“But there must be something you want; maybe the girl in white perhaps…?”
“What’s the catch here? What do you get out of all this?”
“Only thing ask for is Samuel Grant, he and I have a score to settle.”
“That I can take care of for you right now; all you have to do keep the others busy.”
After returning the sapphire to the museum, our heroes head back to the mansion, but somewhere between their destination, they were attacked. As they flew off of their motorcycles and hit the ground, Starla looks up at the assailants, “I should’ve known…”
Standing before them were Sapphira, Pachytar, Fahl Kun, Farenhart and Ling Khan.
“Since when did they…” Alex didn’t even finish his sentence that was how confused he was.
The rangers get up, stand side by side and then rush the enemy all at once.
Sapphira flips towards Starla with a double leg drop kick, which Starla slides under. As she landed, Sapphira takes a swing at Starla, who then ducks and summons her armadillo blades. She holds them above her head and blocks Sapphira’s next attack before landing a frontal kick to the stomach.
Just then, Ling Khan comes out of nowhere with a jump kick to the back; Starla rolls forward, hits Sapphira with an energy blast and then turns and hits Ling Khan with the same, but Ling Khan leans to his left out of the line of fire.
Pachytar leaps at Max and Alex; he hits Max with a back fist, but Max attaches his pill bug armor and blocks.
Alex strikes Pachytar in the side and makes him take a couple steps back. As Alex ran up, he transforms into a gorilla and wrestles around with Pachytar. Pachytar breaks free of Alex’s grip and strikes with a hammer fist to the chest. Alex absorbs the attack and comes back with a shoulder tackle, which Pachytar countered by grabbing Alex’s waist, hoisting him up and throwing him over his head; Max leaps at Pachytar from behind and lands a flying punch to the back of the head. Pachytar takes a few steps forward, turns and faces Max, who comes at him with another attack.
Alex then jumps onto Pachytar’s back, wraps his arms around his neck and tries to bring him down.
Pachytar shakes him off and attempts an elbow drop while Alex lied there, but Alex rolls out of the way, while Pachytar makes a dent in the asphalt.
Fahl Kun throws a right punch, Phoebe blocks with an arm grab. She twists Fahl Kun’s arm and applies a bit of pressure. Fahl Kun runs up the side of a lamppost and then flaps her wings. As she took Phoebe wherever she flew, she then dropped her over a parked car.
Wulf leaps into the air and grabs Phoebe.
Caitlin knocks Fahl Kun out of the sky with her laser vision.
Meerlix slashes at Farenhart with his claws, Farenhart backs up as each attack comes his way from both Meerlix and Willis, who has his Elephant Axe equipped.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Serpitox appears at the front door in his human form, which was a Caucasian male in his 50’s with slick black hair, wearing a black suit and tie. As Bradshaw led him through the house to Samuel, he looked all around him at the paintings on the walls, photos on the shelves, etc. etc. once he caught sight of Samuel, he knocks Bradshaw out, turns back into his monster form and confronts him, “Hello, Mr. Grant…” he said with a toothy grin.
Meanwhile as the fight dragged on, our villains started getting the better of the rangers.
The mysterious enemy, who gathered all the villains together appears before them as purple mist and lends them his power. With it, they take away the ranger’s superpowers.
“Our work here is done, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s go.”
“But…”
“What about the rangers?”
“Without their powers, they’re longer a threat.” He whisks the villains away, back to the lair.
“Well… this is an unexpected turn of events…” General Creed said after watching what happened on screen. “Ladies and Gentlemen it is time to raise your S.S.O.R.D.’s to the dawn of a new era in Global defense.” The General emphasized the word sword as he spoke to his team.
Back in the villains’ lair
“What I don’t understand is why we don’t just destroy them then and there?”
“Celsior. Farenhart, let me ask you something. Are you two familiar with the one named Zierian?”
“Of course we are; he imprisoned us in our own elements years ago. Why do you ask?” Farenhart asked.
“Well as long as he exists, they are untouchable. If you wish to destroy the rangers for good, you must destroy him to do; and to destroy him, takes a source of ultimate power. Fortunate for me, I know where to look for such a power source.”
“The Karma Lunari Jewels…”
“No…” Serpitox said as he walked in dragging a shackled Samuel Grant by a leash. “His shield; the one that goes perfectly well with the eight other medallions needed to give a select handful the powers of the Bad Moon. You two should know that better than anyone in this room.” He directed his statement at Celsior and Farenhart.
“I knew that. I was just seeing how long it took everyone else to figure it out.”
“We shouldn’t be the ones providing all the answers. After all, we are supposed to be a team.”
“Speaking of team, where are the others?”
“I heard Seductra and Ling Khan mention something about picking up an energy signature from one of the jewels, I dunno…” the mysterious figure in the shadows explained.
“And they didn’t invite us…”
“You were all busy fighting the rangers, they didn’t want to wait.”
“Well, I could care less about your primitive treasure hunt; I held up my end of the bargain, so how about you do the same?”
“Ah yes, the girl. Why do you think I lent you the power to steal the rangers superhuman abilities? The girl you’re interested him, 90% of what is her is her powers. I may have just stolen the powers from the other rangers, but with her I’ve taken more than that.” He tosses a white gem towards Serpitox. As he looked closely, he could see a tiny Starla trapped inside as if frozen in a cube of ice.
After returning to mansion, they find the living room area in ruins.
“Dad?” Willis called out.
“Mr. Grant? Where are you?”
“MEGAN, can you run security camera footage of what happened?”
“Negative, the console for the cam in the lounge area has been tampered with; no footage is available.”
As they head down to the command center, Zierian appears before them, “It was Serpitox, who kidnapped Grant. Not too long after your battle against Cameron, Christi, and Celsior, an anonymous invitation was sent to all villainous factions proposing a temporary alliance to find the jewels.”
“But… Serpitox has no interest in the Karma Lunari,” Meerlix explained.
“The one who gathered them all together has made a different deal with the one called Serpitox, which he already has fulfilled…”
“Starla…” Phoebe said.
“In taking away your powers, he has also taken Starla. Her powers are 90% of who she is, which is the reason why she was taken instead of just her powers.”
“I still don’t get why they spared us. They could’ve destroyed us but they didn’t.”
“Correct, Caitlin, my guess is their target is me. If they were to find my shield and destroy it, I will be no more. When I’m out of the way, it won’t matter what new weapons you build, they will overpower you.”
“Do you know where the shield could’ve landed?”
“I… do not. I’m sorry. It’s been years since I came here. The planet has changed during my slumbers.”
“That’s alright, all we need to do is track them all; one of them will lead us to it.”
“And I’ll bet the two who will do just that are Celsior and Farenhart.”
“How do you know?”
“They’re the ones who know him better than anyone, so it should be them.”
On the view screen, Seductra, Ling Khan, Fahl Kun, Pachytar, Cameron and Christi were seen at the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville.
“And so their hunt begins…”
“Wait, before you go, I should give you these. Samuel has been working on long before Operation W.A.S.P. was started,” MEGAN explained. “He’s been obsessed with nanorobotic research and development and trying to make sci-fi films a reality. What I’m showing you on screen are deflectors. They’re made up of millions of nanobots outfitted with power electromagnetics that can repel almost anything including bullets and knives. He created a total of nine.”
“How do we call for them?”
“I can enter the codes that are needed into your gloves. All you need to call out for them by saying their name ‘deflector shields’. They will automatically attach to your waists for easy carry and should serve you well in your fight; please place your right hand palm down onto the table in behind you so I can begin.”
The process took but seconds to complete and the rangers went to the vehicle holding bay, mounted their motorcycles and took off.
Meanwhile in Nashville
“Aphrodite, the goddess of love; and look what’s around her neck,” Pachytar pointed out.
“Who should be the one to go up and get it?”
“Don’t look at us; we’re only here to provide support.” Fahl Kun said.
“Alright fine, I’ll get it you big babies.”
“Wait, why you, monkey man?” Seductra replied.
“Why me? I just thought you didn’t want break a nail or something.”
“Oh that’s really funny, coming from a King Kong wannabe.”
“Listen up, Wench, I…” but before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by our heroes.
“Rangers…”
“Just like a bad itch,” Cameron said.
“Alright, do your thing, Grape Ape, we’ll keep them off your back.” Seductra said.
“This should be easy for you, since your kind have a lot of experience scaling tall structures.”
“Yeah yeah, laugh it up, two-ton.” Ling Khan said as he started to climb the statue.
While the others stayed and fought, Phoebe tried and tried to hinder Ling Khan’s climb by repeatedly throwing her boomerang at him. A couple of times, she managed to hit him on the hand and make him slide a couple inches, but then Fahl Kun jumps in and interferes with her attempts.
The fight drags on and our heroes were doing no better than the last fight, even with the addition of Samuel’s latest weaponry, the deflector shields.
Together their enemies were unmatched. They drove them to the ground in but a matter of minutes, but as they went to throw the final strike, they were hit by a tree branch which grew from out of nowhere.
“Halt, vile villain,” a British voice shouted as what looked like a silhouette of a knight rode in on a motorcycle.
What followed behind him was a sight to behold; it was like something out of a comic book as an African American man dressed in a black tuxedo with a slick head of hair, a Caucasian woman with long strawberry blonde hair in a blue catwoman outfit minus the mask and ears, a Caucasian male with a mask shaped like the letter “X” over his face dressed in red and yellow carrying a bow in his hand and arrows on his back, an alien dressed in green with the head of a walrus, a Dark skin man with Dreads wearing a shirt and pants that had the colors of a Brazilian flag on them, and a young Asian woman black hair wearing pink and black jacket and pants walk into the room.
“Just what we need, more rangers…”
“Who on earth are these guys?” Fahl Kun asked.
“We’re the last thing you’ll see before we make you exit this world,” the man in the X shaped mask answered.
“Your end is nigh,” the knight says.
After getting the jewel, Ling Khan turns his attention to down below, “This doesn’t look good; well… they can handle themselves.” He said before taking off.
“Oh please, if we’re not afraid of them, what makes you think we’d be afraid of a bunch of comic book geeks like yourselves?”
The alien shouts something in a strange language that sounded like he was speaking underwater before conjuring a blue ball of what appeared to be water from out of the air, which he then fired at the villains, knocking them in different directions as they fell face first to the floor.
“Enough of this! I will be stick around and be humiliated by this band of freaks.” Seductra makes her exit and so do the others.
“That was amazing. I dunno who you guys are, but thanks.”
“Lower thou hand, mortal filth.”
“Yeah, who says we did it to save you?”
“Next time you decide to take matters into your own hands, please don’t.”
“Don’t you know who we are?” Alex asked.
“Doth thou mock us? Of course we know who you are…”
“And quite frankly, we don’t care,” the alien said in his language.
“Okay, does anyone understand what this guy’s saying?”
“Roughly translated, he said ‘leave the superhero stuff to the professionals from now on’ and I agree with him; stay out of our way.”
“Who the hell are those guys?”
Moments later, at General Creed’s base
“Well done, team, fine display. We’ll have Operation W.A.S.P. retiring in no time.”
“Move over, W.A.S.P., we taking over this operation now.”
“Long Live Operation S.S.O.R.D.”
Back in the command center
“It says here they’re part of some group called Operation S.S.O.R.D.; Super Soldiers of Rapid Defense.”
“Sounds like General Creed’s work; he’s always trying to upstage dad in some way; first those cyborg rangers of his and now this.”
“Why would your father have blueprints on how to make android versions of you two?”
Max and Willis remained silent on that one.
“So we’ve got twin master swordsman, an alien, a stuntman, a secret agent, child prodigy, and a medieval knight? How’d he get a hold of a knight from the old days?”
“Knowing him, he always has his sources.”
“And it says they have superpowers similar to our own.”
“Another Grant Industries invention stolen from the archives; thanks Alex.” Phoebe said with sarcasm in her voice.
“I was hired to do a job and I did. I’m sorry I did it, I should’ve said no.”
“A lil late for that,” Caitlin smacks Alex on the back of the head.
“I know… and don’t do that; my head still hurts from our earlier battles, remember?”
“Guys, there’s no use dwelling on the past.”
“Willis is right, we need to focus on saving Starla and Samuel,” Meerlix replied.
“Well right now, we need to save the city.” Phoebe answered before she saw Creed’s team arrive on scene to take care of things, “Or… maybe not.”
“We’ve been saving the world as long as we can remember; we can’t just let them muscle in on our gig.”
“Well what do you propose we do, Caitlin? We can’t just fight them. First off, they outmatch us and have civilian powers where we don’t and second, how would that make us look?”
“We need to think things through. If we take them on, it may hurt our chances at getting our career back. Heroes fighting other heroes won’t look good in the headlines. It would make us seem jealous; we’d be hated by the public and maybe even make them look good.”
“Wulf’s right,” Meerlix said.
The others continued talking while Wulf felt something come over him; off in a corner, Wulf starts feeling like something was calling to him. All he could see inside his mind was a yellow light flashing every several seconds.
Out of everyone in the room Zierian was the only one who noticed Wulf as he left to go upstairs.
Back at the villains’ lair
Samuel Grant paced back and forth in his cell while the villains in the other room argued.
“What do you mean you can’t find it? How hard is it to find one relic?”
“We’ve looked everywhere…” Celsior started.
“And came up with nothing,” Farenhart finished. “I don’t see you coming up with anything, lizard lips.”
“He’s your adversary, not mine.”
“Guys…” Cameron tried to interrupt.
“All this yours and mine business; we’re supposed to be a team here, Serpitox.”
“Guys…” Cameron tried again.
“According to our mysterious guest, yes, but doesn’t mean I have to like it.”
“Guys!” Cameron and Christi both tried.
“What?!” Celsior, Farenhart, and Serpitox answered irritatingly.
“You might wanna take a look at this.”
“What’s he doing?” Celsior asked as he and the others watched Wulf wander through a forest all by himself.
“Whatever he’s up to, I’m gonna put a stop to it.” Seductra suggested. “He’s my enemy, I know him better than any of you do.”
“Aunty S…?”
“It’s a long story, girls, I’ll explain later.”
“Wait…”
“What, what? I haven’t got all day.”
“What about those other rangers?”
“Oh them.”
“We’ll handle them; you just take care of the pup…”
Seductra vanished from the room in a puff of red mist.
“And how do you suggest we do that, Serpitox?”
“All you need to do is draw them out in the open and I’ll do the rest; just make sure you have them with their backs towards the sun…” all but Serpitox’s red eyes remained as he vanished before the others’ eyes, then his eyes slowly disappeared shortly after.
“I must admit, Serpitox is the one enemy I’m the most afraid of…”
Pachytar chuckled. “Why do you think we joined up with him?”
Back at Creed’s base
“Sir, no sign of the enemy or Operation W.A.S.P.”
“Good… without them to get in the way, my team will take over at this world’s heroes; Samuel’s group of kids will soon be but a memory.”
“Sir, we got a disturbance in the southwest sector of the city.”
“Alert S.S.O.R.D. and get’em down there.” Daniel instructed.
Back at the ranger’s command center
“Celsior, Fahl Kun, Farenhart, Ling Khan and Pachytar are in the city.”
“Creed’s team is on the scene…”
“Let’s go anyway; we may not have our powers, but we can’t just sit around and do nothing.”
S.S.O.R.D. arrives on scene to confront the five; meanwhile, Serpitox lurked in shadows.
The identical twins and the knight draw their swords; the others call forth their weapons. They prepare to battle.
After a long fight, Serpitox steps in and does his magic, turning their shadows into his own personal soldiers.
“What sort of sorcery is this?” the knight asks as he stares his pale gray counterpart in the face.

"Fahl Kun…" Serpitox bellowed. "Why do you continue to fail me?"
"I'm sorry, master, I'm trying my best."
"Well try doing better than your usual best; the rangers are one step ahead of us. The other villainous factions are no threat. Without any of my tech from the future, I could still crush them; it's the rangers we need to focus our attention on them."
"This may be… cliché, but I've got this idea to invade their dreams; turn them into nightmares and use their thoughts to destroy them from within."
"You're right, it is cliché… but so far, it's all we've got."
"And I've got just the thing to do it with…" Fahl Kun holds up a beaker of blue liquid.
Meanwhile in the lab back at Samuel's mansion
"Okay; got the propulsion units ready and they handle like a dream, but all I need now is to move onto phase 2. With this, one can deploy these babies from anywhere."
"Doesn't seem like it could be possible, sir, you've got too much tech programmed in. so far, the weapons and bikes can travel using this method, but how much these things have; propulsion, rockets, laser weapons, the suit itself. It just doesn't seem possible to transport that much matter, especially onto the human body; the other stuff usually appears beside them or in their hands; never around their physical selves."
"I understand that, MEGAN, but at least this way, there's no need for them to have to carry them around or have to wait on me to send it to them; this way, it'd be already prepped. I bet even Iron Man couldn't think of this."
"That's because he specializes in science, not mad science."
"And separating an object molecule by molecule and reassembling it somewhere else is considered mad science…?"
"I remained silent when you experimented with it the first time, because you didn't care for my opinion."
The intercom buzzer went off.
"Bradshaw requests your audience, I gather…"
Samuel turns on the intercom, "What do you want, Bradshaw? MEGAN and I are just debating the possibility of science and science fiction."
"I just want to make sure you don't pull another all-nighter again, sir. You know how important it is to get some sleep."
As for the others, they didn't stay up like Samuel did; after brushing their teeth, they each head off to bed.
Caitlin, who decided she didn't want to sleep in her own bed, snuggles in with Alex. Alex disagreed at first, but soon came around to the idea.
Fahl Kun explains, "The liquid can be administered through most beverages, mouthwash, food, etc. it has no taste or scent whatsoever, so the subject has no knowledge of ingesting it. As it enters their body, it makes its way to their subconscious in the section that controls dreams; it will turn them in nightmares within a few minutes of slumber."
"This had better work, Fahl Kun." Serpitox answered.
"As long as they're asleep, then it should. So far, everyone except that Samuel Grant fellow is sawing logs." "How about we start with the red and green rangers first…" she enters their dreams with little to no difficulty. Once she gained access to the subconscious, she worked her way around until finding the right dream and altering it. The dream she had entered, it was still 2009; society has now deemed the twins as a threat. Wanted posters plastered onto shop windows, stapled and taped to telephone poles and lampposts in every city of California.
"Not bad…" Serpitox commented.
"Thank you, my lord. What better to destroy than to have society issue a citywide manhunt?" "Anyway, on to the black ranger's dreams."
In Alex's dream, he and his friends fight against Farenhart. They fight and fight for hours and Farenhart tosses them around like rag dolls. Eventually, Celsior joins in. he and Farenhart fuse together to create on super-being, half Celsior, who was holding a broken ice staff and half Farenhart with a sword in its hand.
"Just when you thought they couldn't get any uglier, they go ahead and raise the bar."
Willis speeds up to him and the monster swats him with a back fist. His brother, Max, pulls out his blaster and fires a few shots as he rushes up.
The monster disarms Max; Max dawns his pill bug armor and attacks with a strong right punch; the monster grabs him by the wrist, pushes it away from his face, takes his staff and strikes him down.
Phoebe throws her boomerang, which misses.
The beast strikes the ground performs an upper slashing motion to create a wave of flames, which raced towards her at half the speed of sound.
Caitlin counters with her laser vision.
By the time the boomerang made another pass, the monster caught behind his head, throws it to the ground and steps on it.
Meerlix steps in and attacks him with a barrage of slashes; the monster took the hits until grabbing Meerlix by the arms and performing a frontal kick to the stomach.
Alex converts his Scorpion saber to its secondary mode and wraps it around the monster's staff; the monster tugs on his weapon and Alex comes flying at him. Once close enough, the monster lands a strong elbow to the shoulder; Alex drops to his knees and the monster knees him in the chin; Alex drops to his back and the monster holds his hand out.
Caitlin passes by and pushes Alex out of the way, taking the blow that was meant for him. Caitlin was instantly frozen in a block of ice with red web-like lines zig-zagging across it on all sides.
As the battle raged on, the same end results which happened to Caitlin happened to everyone until only Alex remained.
"See what I did there?"
"Yeah yeah, don't get cocky; you still have the others to deal with," Serpitox replied.
Fahl Kun messes around with Caitlin's dreams next; here, she makes Caitlin's friend turn evil and have them cause random destruction where ever they go.
Caitlin arrives in some city, she has no idea where it is, but she recognizes the wrecked building and stuff as her friends' handiwork. She also notices a family about to crushed by a billboard from the building above and races to the rescue. "Hurry, get to safety."
The mother and her children run screaming.
"What? What's the matter?" Caitlin then gets hit with a laser blast and falls on her back.
"Well well well, look who we have here, guys. Lil miss goody two shoes herself."
"Guys, what are you guys doing?"
"What's it look like? We're being bad." Starla said.
"It's so much fun, you should try it," Phoebe answered.
"Why? This isn't you. You're supposed to be saving the world, not destroying it."
"We had a sudden… change of heart."
Max and Willis proceed to attack Caitlin, but she rolls out of the way just as their weapons hit the asphalt.
Caitlin then gets on her feet and summons her Peacock fan blades. She turns her attention to Phoebe as she came in from her right. with her sword in hand, Phoebe slashes from the left, but Caitlin takes her right hand and blocks before taking a swipe at Phoebe with her left.
Alex comes at her from the front and Caitlin delivers a swift elbow to the stomach to make him bend over. She then rolls across his back towards Meerlix, who attacks high with an overhead swipe, which Caitlin blocked with her right fan blade. Meerlix draws back and comes at her with a swipe to her stomach, but Caitlin arches forward and punches Meerlix in the face.
Willis comes in from behind and takes a swipe at her with his Elephant axe.
Caitlin blocks and then spirals with a low attack to the right thigh, causing Willis to crouch.
Max jumps over his brother's back and with his arm drawn back he delivers a strong punch from his right to Caitlin's cheek. Caitlin spirals immediately after and slashes both Max and Willis with her weapon.
Alex rushes at her with his Scorpion saber in its secondary mode and swings it at her like a chain. Caitlin ducks, dodges, and spirals out of the way. Alex changes his weapon back to its primary mode and slashes at her like a pirate. Caitlin alternates between her left and right as she blocks his attacks one by one.
After her final move, she then pushes him away with a frontal kick to the stomach. Seconds after all that, Starla hits her with a ball of light and Caitlin spirals onto her face.
"Get up!" Starla barked as she pulled Caitlin up off the ground and tosses her towards Alex, who had transformed into an anaconda and wrapped around her body.
Inside Phoebe's dream, she's back at her ranch minding her own business, tilling soil, taking care of crops, livestock etc etc. but suddenly out of the blue, a monster appeared made out of vegetables; it had a carrot for a left arm, which it used as a sword, a broccoli for a right arm, which had fingers instead of the tops. It also had a cabbage for a head. The beast comes charging at Phoebe like a lion chasing its prey. Phoebe hits the monster with a side kick to the hip; the beast swings it left at her and misses. Phoebe throws an uppercut and then a spinning heel kick, which sends the beast flying towards her tomato plants.
The monster gets back up and holds out its right arm; small heads of broccoli shoot from its fingertips. Phoebe manages to dodge them all.
For Meerlix's dream, he was back in the future; his team had been captured and put into giant pet carriers by an enemy named Dobar the destroyer, just like his name implies, Dobar was a Doberman pinscher standing on two legs like a human at about 5 ft. 11 in. he had a scepter in his right hand; a golden one with a round shape on the top that had weird indentation.
"Your friends will make such fine pets. I think they'll fit in just fine with the rest of my collection," he said with an evil snicker.
"Only one who's going to be going anywhere is you; and where you're going will be the pound."
"Bring it on, lil kitty cat."
Meerlix gets his claws ready as he stares Dobar down.
Dobar drags his scepter on the ground as he rushes up.
Meerlix leans back on the first strike Dobar threw, then leaps over the staff on Dobar's second attack and lands a high kick to the nose.
Dobar spirals and attempts to hit Meerlix, but misses. On his second try, he launches him towards a mailbox. While Meerlix was crouched near the box, Dobar runs up and attacks from up high with his staff.
Meerlix crosses his arms above his head, pushes the staff back up, balls his fists and repeatedly punches Dobar in the abdomen.
Dobar had all he could stand and backs away.
Meerlix rushes up and continues slashing at him with his claws and ducking every time Dobar would swing at him with either his free hand or his staff. Meerlix performs a back flip kick and knocks Dobar's staff into the air before he initiates a sweep kick.
Going from Meerlix back to Samuel down in the lab
"Okay, let's try this one more time," Samuel types in a sequence on the console in front of him and then steps back onto the part of the floor that was painted black with white lines representing grids. He takes a step over to mark 0,0, pulls out a morpher and activates it. It took a few seconds for the effects to take hold, but eventually, Samuel's right arm glows a bright white. Seconds after that a purple metal slowly forms over top of the glowing area.
"Bonding process at 85%," MEGAN pointed out. "Holding at 90%, sir."
"C'mon…" Samuel muttered.
Once the screen reached 95%, the morpher shorted out and caused the metal forming on his arm to recede.
"So close!"
"You designed those to be specifically for communication only; what you're asking is too much."
"Perhaps with another power source… like the medallions, would…"
"Those are of no use until we track down the remaining ones and put them all on Zierian's shield. Other than that, they're just decoration."
"But maybe there's a way to temporarily boost the energy ourselves."
"May I remind you of what happened the last time you decided to 'juice something up', sir?"
"No you may not remind me; unless you wanna waste your intelligence helping me do my taxes."
There was a brief pause from MEGAN before Samuel replied.
"Didn't think so; now, let's get to work on prepping these beauties to go airborne; we'll worry about the morphing sequence at a later date. Draw me up a wireframe of the suit please, MEGAN."
MEGAN shines a green light, which moves up and down the suit scanning every inch of it so she can do as Samuel requested. "Render complete, sir."
"Okay, let's separate these parts from the torso." Samuel points to the arms and legs of the suit with his finger and pulls them away. "I'll just… set this aside. For now, this is all I need." Samuel creates a virtual folder, opens it and stuffs the torso and head of the rendering inside and keeps the arms and legs.
"That fool. He'll ruin everything."
"I'll handle him; you just keep going with operation sandman," Pachytar said.
A while later in the city, Pachytar and some Cobra drones wreak havoc on a cocktail party to get Samuel's attention.
Samuel looks at the screen as the partygoers flee.
"So much for things being peaceful…"
"Should I alert the others?"
"Not yet, I'll take care of this myself. As soon as things take a turn for the worse, you wake the rangers." Samuel enters the garage and takes the jeep to the scene of the incident.
"I'm pretty sure a place like this is invitation only."
Pachytar shrugs his shoulders and says, "Must've forgotten mine back at the lair."
"Looks like I'm gonna have to escort you from the premises."
"I'd like to see you try…"
The two run at each other; Samuel gets his sword ready and as soon as he passes by Pachytar on his right, he slices through him. Pachytar responds by dropping his fist down over him like a sledgehammer. Samuel leaps out of the way and Pachytar puts a dent in the floor. Pachytar picks up his fist and swings at Samuel, who leans back and allows for his arm to pass right over him. Pachytar makes another pass and Samuel back flips over it, up into the air and lands a high kick to the head.
While facing the opposite direction, Pachytar gets mad; steam starts coming out of his elephant-like trunk. He turns, rushes Samuel and tries to take a swing at him.
Samuel ducks and dodges, but Pachytar's final attack knocks him through a wall and into the restroom. Samuel reaches for his communicator while Pachytar pulls the rubble out of his way to get to him.
"MEGAN… wake the other rangers, will you? Thanks."
"Your friends can't help you; right now, they can't even help themselves…"
"What do you mean?"
"That's for me to know and you to never find out." Pachytar stampedes towards Samuel with a fist drawn back; Samuel ducks and Pachytar's fist goes straight through the back part of the toilet.
Samuel hits Pachytar with an uppercut and a few punches to the upper torso.
Pachytar swings at Samuel with his free hand.
Samuel leaps up and hits him with an elbow to the top of the head, which made him dizzy. While disoriented, Samuel tackles Pachytar out of the bathroom. The two held onto each other as they fought back and forth. Pachytar finally releases himself from Samuel's hold with a knee to the stomach. He then grabs Samuel, spins him around and tosses him towards the pyramid of wine glasses.
"Great, now I'm gonna have to pay for those," Samuel mumbled sarcastically. "Gotta take this fight outside before we cause any more damage."
Samuel and Pachytar circle each other. Samuel keeps rotating until Pachytar is in exact alignment with the window, then summons the WASP stinger mark I and knocks Pachytar out the second story window with a powerful blast.
Pachytar lands in the fountain and breaks it.
Samuel jumps out of the window and lands on his feet on top of him. After that he steps off onto the concrete walkway and towards the people. "Don't worry, folks, I have the money to pay for all damages; sorry for ruining your evening."
The crowd was in shock and awe as Pachytar gets back up; but before Pachytar could hit Samuel, a ray of golden light hits him and throws him further away.
Samuel turns to see Pachytar unconscious in a different area of the front yard and then turns the opposite direction to see Zierian standing there.
"Don't worry, he's with me." He says before whispering to Zierian, "What took you so long? Where are the others?"
"That's what I need to talk to you about; MEGAN sent me to help because she couldn't…"
Samuel cuts him off, "Hold that thought would you, Zierian?" he walks over the partygoers. "Here's a check to pay for anything that gotten broken in the scuffle. Also I know of some reliable contractors, who can come in and fix all this up. Again I apologize." He goes back over to Zierian, "Okay, now what were you saying?" he asked as he put his arm around Zierian's while they walked off.
Meanwhile, after Pachytar heads back to the lab, Fahl Kun starts giving him a hard time.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"Don't ask…" Pachytar responded in a surly tone. "For a little guy, he sure is tough; about as tough as his friends."
"They're called Operation W.A.S.P. for a reason; what do you think the S and P stand for?"
Pachytar growls softly as her.
"Keep focused, Fahl Kun, we can't fail now."
"Yes my lord…"
In Alex's dream, he's on assignment. He read in the paper about one of the largest diamonds in the world being owned by a Mr. Clifton Glass. Clifton being a white male 60 years of age or more; the only hair he had was growing on the side of his head. the top was mostly covered with liver spots. He had a long nose like Ebenezer Scrooge and a crooked smile like the Grinch. The man's a multibillionaire, who collects rare and exotic things. Alex got his address from the directory, gathers what tools he needs to pull off the robbery and heads up to his mansion with a team consisting of four people including himself; there was a girl, 5 ft. 4 in., African-American with her hair dyed white, who goes by the name of Shawna; a Caucasian male, 5 ft. 7 in. with black hair, who went by Wade; and an Asian, 5 ft. 6 in with black hair named Ken. Ken was the computer expert, so he handled the security cameras and all that stuff while the other three infiltrated the treasure room and fit everything they could carry into their bags before setting eyes on the diamond at the opposite end of the room.
"Ken, how are we on time?" Alex asked.
"You're good, you're good."
Then there came a rumbling sound from within the room, which sounded like footsteps.
"Uh… boss? What is that?"
"Ken, what's going on? I thought you had everything under control."
"I do I do; what's going on?"
"Something big is coming our way."
"Well I dunno what to tell ya."
"I've been expecting you, Mr. McLaren; though I didn't think you'd be bringing a few friends…" Clifton's voice bellowed as if he were talking through a megaphone.
Soon after it was revealed that the entity causing the shaking was a giant sentry bot with Clifton Glass in the cockpit.
"What the heck is that?" Wade asked.
"Two word: big trouble," Shawna said.
"We did not prepare for this…" Ken groaned as he watched the monitor.
Clifton sets his sights on Shawna as she cringes right next to one of the display cases.
Alex breaks open the case he's standing next to and quickly throws the shield that's inside over to her while calling out her name.
Shawna catches it just before Clifton fires the mini-guns; the bullets hit, but don't go through, but each round pushed her a couple centimeters back.
Zierian, who allowed Samuel to peek into each of the rangers' dreams, watched on and on as they took a beating by the enemies in their mind; Caitlin who was fighting against her own teammates, Phoebe, who was fighting a monster made of crops from her field, Meerlix who was fighting an aggressive Doberman with a desire to rule all species, Max and Willis, who were in a battle against human bounty hunters sent to destroy them, Alex and his team of thieves who were fighting an eccentric billionaire with highly advanced toys of death and Starla, who locked in a fight against her own mother, who was possessed by one of her old nemeses from way before Ling Khan; only one who was missing from all this was Wulf, who was out doing his usual vigilante justice like he were "The Punisher" or something.
"I can't stand just watching, there must be something we can do."
"If I use the medallions we already have, it should give them a fighting chance, but just like when they discovered them for the first time, it'll only be temporary."
"Right, we need all of them so you can permanently juice them up for usage."
"But since I have my powers back thanks for Wulf, I can add more power to these four."
"Then get to it; they can't wait anymore."
Zierian calls the four medallions to him and they circle him giving off a glow, which corresponded with their colors. Zierian channels his energy into them and causes them to glow brighter before sending them off to Meerlix, Max, Caitlin, and Starla's dream.
"Whoa… where's all this energy coming from?" Meerlix, Max, Starla, and Caitlin shouted as the surge of power coursed through them and made them glow similar to the first time the medallion granted them their powers.
With each move the four made, a trail of light, which corresponded with the color on their uniform, followed.
Meerlix approaches Dobar and provokes an attack; Dobar backhands Meerlix with his right, but Meerlix ducks and leans in for a double palm strike, which pushes Dobar back. Dobar shoots his scepter out at Meerlix, who then sidesteps and kicks it into the air with a knee. As Dobar looks up, Meerlix initiates a crane-style kick and knocks him on his back.
Starla approaches her adversary and performs a fan kick; her opponent ducks under it and initiates an uppercut; Starla lands on her back, but as soon as her enemy leaps at her, she scatters herself to the wind as balls of light and reassembles behind her for a sweep kick, but her opponent back flips over her leg; Starla performs a low kick, which her opponent rolls right over before crouching on her knees, turning and throwing a ball of light at her.
Starla drops onto her back, lets the attack glide over her and quickly gets to her feet.
Her enemy approaches and Starla blocks all her attacks before grabbing a hold of her collar and throwing back a palm strike to the chest. As her hit connects, Starla passes right through as bolt of lightning and comes out the other side in her human form; her opponent falls to her knees, turns into tiny balls of white light and disappears in the air the same time Meerlix vanquishes his enemy.
Starla, Max, Willis and Meerlix snap out of their dreams, get out of their beds and go to see Samuel and Zierian in the command center.
"Samuel, there's something strange going on."
"Yeah we know; Serpitox has somehow tapped into your subconscious and taken control of your dreams."
"How's that even possible?"
"We don't know yet."
"So far, only you four have awakened; Caitlin and Phoebe are still inside."
"What about Wulf?"
"What about him?"
"You mean he's…"
"Out doing his usual routine; yes."
"How does he do it? And still manage to keep up with all of us?"
"I've known Wulf long enough to know he's always got a trick up his sleeves," Samuel explained. "But enough about him, we need to focus on helping the others. Caitlin's fighting… well… fighting all of you."
"What?"
"I can't explain it myself, but it's everyone versus her at the moment and her medallion power isn't enough."
"What can we do to help?"
"You must reassure her that you're always there to help her; you must lend her your powers." Zierian said.
"What about Phoebe?"
"Well… what can I say? She's got the fighting spirit. Show them, Zierian."
Zierian lets the others peek into her dream and they all see she's having no difficulties fighting her dream monster. "Unlike Caitlin, her toughness… isn't an act."
"Caitlin's toughness isn't just an act."
"Whether it is or not, she still needs our help."
"We must lend her our energy otherwise, she won't survive."
Starla, Willis, Max, Meerlix, Zierian, and Samuel stand in a circle and hold out their right arm to create a flow of energy, which Zierian transfers into Caitlin's dream.
Caitlin soon gets up off her feet as the energy surges through her, "What… what's going on? Where'd all this power come from?"
The evil dream versions of her friends stood at the ready while Caitlin summoned her Peacock fan blades. Within minutes, she carves straight through them all as she passes them by; they all fall to their knees as she strikes a pose behind them.
Caitlin soon awakens from her dream the same time Phoebe does.
Serpitox was not too happy with the end results of Fahl Kun's plans, "Why did I ever think that this would work?" he sighed. "Next time, no more dream curses; we stick to our strengths."
"What little that does…" Pachytar mumbled.
"Silence…" Serpitox hissed.

Memory Lane

Max’s doppelganger paces back and forth inside Serpitox’s lair while the others stood by and watched him, while he spoke ill of Serpitox “Stubborn old reptile; we’re nothing but his toys. Why won’t he let us destroy the rangers?”
“I care what you speak, Max, but he does have his reasons…” Alex’s double says.
“And what reason does he have for prolonging their fate? We were created for one purpose and he’s depriving us of the one thing that motivates us; that drives us.”
“I agree with Starla,” Phoebe’s double responds, “I say we take care of them ourselves, despite his orders; starting with our doubles first.”
“You’d dare disobey his direct orders?”
“Don’t try and stop us, Fahl Kun.”
“Look. I could care less what you do. If you want to end your existence, that’s fine with me. It will save him the trouble of doing that himself,” Fahl Kun replies after overhearing their discussion.
“Once we succeed, we won’t need lord Serpitox, now will we?”
“We’ll be even more powerful than he’ll ever be.”
“Don’t you mean ‘if’ you succeed? One of your fellow brethren has fallen already; so I’d say the odds of you succeeding are slim to none.”
Several moments later, Samuel was seen lying in a hospital room in his normal clothing, eyes closed, arms down at his sides and friends standing all around him, wondering if he was going to be okay.
“I’ve run a few tests on him. So far his vitals are normal, but there’s something going on with his brainwave patterns; they’re wildly erratic, I don’t know what to think of it.”
“Is there anything you can do for him?”
“So far he hasn’t responded to anything; the longer he stays this way, the more danger he’s in.”
“Knowing him, he’ll pull through. Never thought I’d say something positive about him,” Wulf said.
“Now’s not the time for your petty rivalry; Samuel’s in serious condition,” Caitlin explained. “Can you be more considerate?”
“That’s asking a lil much, especially from someone like me.”
“You’re unbelievable,” Max said.
“Look, MEGAN warned him about experimenting with powers he doesn’t understand, but you know how stubborn your old man is.”
“Can I ask you all to take this outside before you disturb the other patients?”
“Sorry, Dr. Krantz…”
Inside Samuel’s mind, he finds himself in the same forest from before when Feketa crashed into him. He awakens to see the same dark sky void of fireworks; just stars shining brightly as on any other night. Samuel gets up off his back and looks around. “Hello?!” his voice echoes throughout the area, but no one else answers back.
Seconds later, a young white girl 8 years of age, blonde with grey eyes appears before him dress in a pink jacket a red shirt and blue jeans that came up above her ankles.
“Who are you?” he asked.
She didn’t answer back; she just approached him and held out her hand.
“Do you know where I am?”
She nods her head; Samuel takes her by the hand and offers a handshake, but after introducing himself and pulling away, the girl still extended her hand. She gestures to Samuel to follow her.
“Where are you taking me?”
The girl remains the silent the whole time they were walking.
“You don’t say much do you?” “Can I at least know your name?”
While Samuel slept, Wulf and the others leave the hospital he was in. while going their separate ways, Phoebe, Max, Willis, Alex, and Starla felt as if they were being followed. Each time they turned around, there was no one, but that didn’t alter the fact that they were being followed.
Once Phoebe rounded a corner, her double came out of nowhere; she knocked Phoebe’s communicator away so she couldn’t contact the others before she laid into her with a barrage of punches and kicks.
Phoebe blocks her doubles first punch and throws back one of her own to the face; her double stops the attack and throws a kick to the stomach. After Phoebe was pushed back, she summons her mantis boomerang, only to have Starla’s double stops her with a wrist grab. She then turns her and strikes with a punch to the jaw, landing her next to Alex, who turns into a giant snake and wraps around her. As he squeezes tighter, Starla’s double uses her powers and drags Phoebe and Alex’s double through the asphalt and out of existence, leaving behind only Phoebe’s communicator.
“That’s one down,” Phoebe’s double replied.
“Now for the rest…” Max’s double said vaguely. He takes off after the real Max grant along with Willis’ doppelganger, who slashes at Max left and right with his Elephant axe and drives him to the pavement.
Max’s double picks him up and throws him towards a mailbox before rushing up with his version of the pill bug armor attached as he hits with a strong right punch to the stomach.
Willis’ double speeds by at super speed and decks him in the jaw repeatedly.
Max tries to his take out his communicator, but his brother’s double quickly snatches it up, throws it to Max’s doppelganger, who crushes it in his hands.
While the rangers are getting beaten by their doubles, Seductra takes this as a sign to intervene with a little destruction of her own. She points to one of her Putras, “You, c’mere,” she ordered and it obeyed. She pulls it close, turns it sideways and sticks her tongue in its ear; as it extends, it slithers around in the creature’s brain and made it shake; while on the inside, she was rearranging its molecular structure to create a monster.
The abomination her Putra turned into had a white skeleton like mask with white demon horns and a toothy grin like the devil himself. It also had scruffy, black hair and was sporting bandages around both arms, “I am Delaron at your service, my queen.”
“Of course you are…” she answers, “Listen, with half of their team gone, the other rangers will be vulnerable; I want you to go down and crush them, can you do that for me?”
“It will be my absolute pleasure.”
“Fabulous,” Seductra answered with a smile before getting all serious and saying, “Don’t screw this up.”
Back at the hospital, Wulf had returned to Samuel’s side. While watching him lie there, something stirred in Wulf. He somehow felt sorry for Samuel; something he hardly ever feels for anyone. “Look… Samuel.” Wulf paused. “I don’t know if you can hear me,” he paused again. “I know we haven’t always seen eye-to-eye the whole time we’ve known each other, but… I don’t want you to die; not yet anyways. Caitlin, she’d… she’d be lost without you, that’s all; just hang in there, buddy.”
“Since when have you cared about my well-being, Wulf?”
“How long have you been standing there?” Wulf said with pauses in between.
“Long enough…” she answered vaguely. “So how’s he doing?”
“Can’t say for certain; I’m not a nurse you know…”
“You killed people for a living, you know many ways to make them die; I hoped maybe you knew how to take care of the living as well.”
“I’m but a soldier, Caitlin, not a healer; Samuel, on the other hand, he cares about the living and the dead. Hard to imagine we’re both a lot alike.”
Inside Samuel’s dream, he and the girl were still walking through the forest. Samuel was the only one saying anything.
“Give it to me straight, am I dead?”
She shrugs her shoulders.
“You don’t know?”
“Well if she’s not certain, you’re gonna wish you were when I’m done with you…”
“I know that voice; Guy Tucker?”
His old friend, Guy, the one he fought alongside to save the world from the magma skin race, who had enslaved mankind inside of the computer program they knew as “the Omni Gaia”.
“I thought you were dead. What are you doing here?”
“I wanna see if you still have what it takes,” Guy assumes a fighting position.
“Seriously, is he for real?” Samuel looks to the girl who was with him, but she had disappeared.
“Who are you talking to? Don’t tell me you’re getting senile in your old age.” Guy rushes Samuel with a clothesline maneuver and knocks him flat on his back. “C’mon, it’s gotta take a lot more than that to beat you, get up!” Guy drags Samuel back onto his feet and shoves him towards a boulder; Samuel trips over and falls on his face before getting back up seconds after.
“Show me you still got some fight in you; don’t hold back!”
“Oh with pleasure…” Samuel leaps over the rock and once he was close enough, he throws a right cross; Guy leans back and then springs forward a straight punch; Samuel grabs him by the arm and twists his arm to the left before throwing a judo chop to the back of the neck while he was on his knees.
Guy pushes upward and throws Samuel over him and onto his back. He then turns and kicks him towards a tree. With Samuel on his side with his back facing the tree, Guy approaches.
Samuel rolls onto his back and performs a back flip onto his feet.
Guy throws a right kick and Samuel grabs his leg and throws in the opposite direction.
“So you do have some fight left, but will it be enough?” Guy vanishes like a ghost in the night.
“What the heck is going on here?”
As the girl reappears, Samuel jumps in a fright. “Where did you go to?” “No, I’m not going anywhere with you until you start explaining a few things.”
“If it’s answers you seek, then don’t look to her, but to me.”
“Shakuro; why am I not surprised?”
“If memory serves me correctly, it takes a lot more to surprise you.” Shakuro approaches and knocks Samuel with a palm punch to the chest. “Are you going to fight or let the girl fight your battles for you?”
“I don’t need anyone’s help in beating you.” Samuel prepares to fight.
Shakuro repeatedly kicks with both his left and right; Samuel blocks with his palms then retaliates with a hammer fist. Shakuro comes back with a fan kick, but Samuel evades, slides in and performs a sweep kick; after landing on his side, Shakuro delivers a swift kick to the face and Samuel rolls over twice. Shakuro leaps at him with a knee kick and Samuel rolls out of the way. As he gets to his feet, Shakuro swings at him three times with a left and then a right; Samuel leans left, right and back and then comes at him with a frontal kick to the groin, which Shakuro blocks with his knees.
Samuel attacks Shakuro’s throat, but Shakuro clenches Samuel’s fist under his chin; Samuel unclenches and pokes him in the Adam’s apple, causing him to release. Then he knocks him to the ground with a spiral kick to the jaw.
Shakuro breaks his fall by planting his fist on the ground and pushes himself back up, “You’re even stronger than you look, but that’s not going to be enough on me.”
Back in reality; after the shadow rangers kidnapped their respective counterparts, they took them to an abandoned mansion and had them each tied to a chair, backs facing one another.
As they argued over which of the rangers they should destroy first, they others were planning their escape; Alex looks over at the doppelgangers as they kept the rangers’ communicators attached to their waist and their weapons glove around their hands.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the city, Wulf is wandering the city. A couple of blocks later, he notices a bunch of guys in hooded jackets following him around. He leads them down an alleyway and disappears before they come into view.
The guys look around for him in dumpsters, inside of open windows, doorways, but couldn’t find him.
Wulf throws down ninja stars before switching positions on the rooftop to keep them guessing where he is.
He appears behind him, takes the first one out with a back fist to the face, turns to the one next to him and lands a spinning back kick; the guy quickly turned and grabbed his leg; Wulf front flips and decks him in the chin with his other foot and the guy’s hood falls out, revealing his true form; one of Seductra’s minions, the Putras.
Soon after, the others removed their hoods and shed their clothing revealing them to be Putras as well.
“You’ve got quite impressive skills…”

“Just because you’re wearing red, doesn’t make you the leader.”
“Uh… yes it does. Red is a symbol of power; the backbone of the team.”
“Still doesn’t mean you’re the leader; and it definitely doesn’t mean you always have to go first in everything.”
“Say you, Brown.” Max’s double said to Phoebe.
“While you two have it out; I’ll go first and destroy the black ranger.”
“You? Why should it be you?” Starla’s copy asked.
“Excuse me, may I say something?” the real Starla said as she stood behind them trying to get a word in.
The others shush her just before they turned to notice she was out of her restraints.
Alex’s double was the first to turn towards her and she knocks him out with a right hook.
The real Alex turns into a Triceratops and tackles Willis and Max’s copies with his head.
The others attacked him from the side and the real Willis sped by and delivered a punch smack dab to the jaw of Alex’s double as he gets up and then trips Phoebe’s double with a sweep kick.
Willis’ double calls forth the Elephant axe, converts it to its secondary mode and blasts all, except Starla, who creates a wall of light just as Willis’ copy pelts them with a few shots.
“Starla, c’mon…” the real Willis yells over the gunfire from his own gun.
Starla keeps the wall up as she follows the others into another part of the building.
“Let them go; there’s only one way out of here. We’ll intercept them there.” Delaron answered.
“I practice. I’ve… never gotten commentary from a monster before; you are…?”
“I am Delaron!”
“Delaron, eh? Guess Seductra’s running out of names, huh?”
Delaron slashes at Wulf blindly, while Wulf ducks and dodges and attacks back with an elbow to the left breast. Wulf then rushes him with mid-air kicks, which Delaron blocks as he’s pushed backwards. As Wulf lands, Delaron attacks and finally gets him with an upward slash from his wrist blade.
After spiraling, Wulf gets up, draws his sword and approaches Delaron with a fury of swipes. Delaron blocks while throwing back attacks of his own. He blocks Wulf’s sword and throws a left punch towards Wulf’s jaw; Wulf blocks with his wrist then kicks back at Delaron’s right shin; Delaron pushes Wulf’s blade back and slashes; Wulf ducks and slices low at Delaron’s stomach and spirals away from him.
The remaining Putras stop sitting idly by and grab Wulf by the arms.
The remaining rangers jump in just as Delaron prepares to strike Wulf.
“Figured you could use some help,” Meerlix said.
“What kept ya, did you stop for coffee?” Wulf breaks free from his captors’ hold and joins his friends’ side. “I had’em on the ropes just before you arrived.”
Meerlix answers with a sarcastic tone, “Sure ya did…”
Back at the hospital inside Samuel’s dream; Shakuro unsheathes his sword. As he approaches Samuel, he blindly slashes; Samuel ducks and dodges until finding the opportunity to strike. He spirals and hits him with a Capoeira style kick to the jaw before standing back up.
Shakuro reacts to the kick before angrily approaching again and having Samuel kick the sword from his hands with a back flip.
Samuel snatches the weapon out of the air and stabs it forward; Shakuro sidesteps and waits for Samuel’s next move. Samuel swings to his right and Shakuro leans forward; the blade passes over him and cuts part of his hair off. Shakuro stands up and feels the back of his head, while Samuel rushes up; Shakuro kicks him in the shin and then blocks with his foot as Samuel strikes with the sword, then he approaches and backhands him in the face before kicking the sword away while Samuel lied there on his back.
“Give up?”
“Never!” Samuel leaps to his feet and continues the fight. He quickly draws back and shoots forward with a straight punch, which went right through Shakuro as he vanished in the same way Guy did. “Okay, this has gone on long enough.” Rage was in the tone of his voice as he addressed the girl, “I want all these mind game to stop and I mean right now! Know what, why am I even arguing with a complete stranger about this; a little girl at that? Just go on back home to your parents and leave me alone.” Samuel ditches her and continues walking.
Back with Max and others the gang tries to find their way out of the mansion; their efforts: unsuccessful.
Max, Phoebe, Alex, Starla, and Willis stumble around until bumping into each other one by one.
“Any luck?”
“All the windows are barred, the doors are locked; there’s no way out of here.”
“There has to be something,” Willis interjected, “How else did we get in?”
“Starla, can’t you just beam us all out of here?”
“I don’t have enough power; creating that wall to protect earlier has drained me and the sun isn’t positioned right for me to reenergize; I did manage to find a way out somewhere in the lower levels.”
“Okay, so what are we gonna do? Even if we go there, they’re probably expecting us.”
“Obviously, the best chance we got is getting our weapons and communicators back.”
“Easier said than done, Willis,” Phoebe replied.
“We just gotta find a way to separate them; take them one at time.”
“Like I said, easier said than done; this is their territory, they know it better than we do. They can figure out our moves like that.”
“Well then we’ll just fake’em out.”
Using two of the communicators Willis managed to swipe during the fight, he and the others proceed with the plan. They turn them on; Starla and Alex take them and start talking.
“Hey, Starla, you found a way out yet?” Alex asked, not caring whether or not the doppelgangers were listening in.
“I’m not sure yet, but I think I see something in the northeast part of the house; I’m trying it now to see.”
“Okay, I’ll meet you there.”
“Northeast perimeter; let’s move!” Starla’s clone said.
Alex and Starla turn off the communicators.
“They fell for it; let’s get moving.”
“I agree; I can’t stand another minute in this haunted house,” Max added.
Meanwhile, the tide of battle turned; Wulf, Caitlin, and Meerlix, who were once winning against Delaron, were now slowly getting defeated.
Wulf slashes left and right as the Putras come at him one at a time then performs a frontal kick with his left.
Caitlin slashes with her left fan, blocks with her right and spirals to take out all of her opponents before turning and covering Wulf with her laser vision; Delaron pops out of nowhere and attacks with a laser beam from his wrist and drops Caitlin to the ground. He then sets his sights on Wulf and fires, but with his lightning fast reflexes, Wulf holds up his sword and deflects the shot towards the horde of Putras in front of him and then motions towards him. Seconds later, Wulf is knocked backwards towards the backdoor of one of the buildings, his head hitting it hard; seconds after that, the others join him on the ground as well.
With the Putras and Delaron closing in on them, they thought this was it, but then out of nowhere, Zierian arrives and pulls them out just in time.
Back at the mansion that Max and the others were being held up, a large fight ensues outside between them and their doppelgangers. Fighting against their respective doubles proved to be a losing battle, so they each decided to switch opponents. After a few moments, their doubles switch back to fighting the real versions of themselves.
Max swings with his right as his armor moves up his body and wraps around him from his fist to halfway to the elbow; his doppelganger ducks and equips his version of Max’s pill bug armor, which was much spikier had a darker color much like obsidian. He punches Max in the gut with a hammer fist and causes sparks to fly; Max moves back before his double performs a frontal kick. He grabs him by the leg and flips him. His double performs back flip kick to the stomach and as he drops to his back, he catches himself with his hands and springs back onto his feet.
Phoebe attacks her double with a couple punches, which she ducked before she slashed left and right across Phoebe’s chest; Phoebe spirals onto her stomach then turns over as she fires back with her blaster weapon; her double blocks with her own demonic version of her Mantis Boomerang and then fires back a laser beam from the eyes to disarm her.
Willis and his double zip all across the place at the speed of sound like something out of “Dragonball Z”, exchanging blow after blow; Willis’ double throws a low kick, which Willis blocks before he throws back a right hook, which his double ducks under before he throws a low punch to the stomach, which Willis blocks with an arm grab before twisting him by the wrist and turning him around; his double quickly swings around at him with his free arm and makes Willis release his grip. He then brings Willis down from real time with a frontal kick to the chest.
With Willis on the ground, his doppelganger fires his weapon, but Willis rolls to evade each shot before he returns fire.
With Alex and his double, it was a game of rock, paper, scissors, as they both transform into different animals and go at it; each testing the other’s strength.
Alex’s double turns into a Velociraptor and trips him with his tail before turning around and snapping at him while he lied on the ground, but Alex rolls, gets to his feet, turns into a goat and butts him with his horns; his doppelganger quickly transforms into a T-Rex, picks him up with his mouth and tosses him towards an embedded rock before he transforms into a bull and charges at him as he saw red.
Alex turns into a snake, slithers around him and up his leg as he wraps around him. He then turns back into his human form with his hands wrapped around his doppelganger’s neck.
His double turns into a gorilla, and slams him over his head and back onto the ground; before he could cups his hands together and strike, Alex calls his Scorpion saber, converts it to its secondary mode, grabs him by the elbow, draws him in close and jumps out of the way. He then spirals, reverts his weapon to its primary mode and slashes him in the back before his double elbows him into a tree, reverts to his human form and summons his version of the real Alex’s weapon.
Back inside Samuel’s head; he wanders the woods void of company from the silent little girl. About a mile ahead, he rolls out of the way as a ball of dark energy hurtles towards him at the speed of sound.
“Oh no, please don’t tell me…”
“Okay, I won’t,” Janis’ voice answered back.
“Could this night get any worse?” he asked himself.
“Your boy, Guy Tucker, is quite the fighter; let’s see if you are as well.”
“If it makes you go away, then let’s do this.” he and Janis rush each other afterwards.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion
“I’m sorry, what can I say? The other rangers’ signal doesn’t come up on any short or long ranger scans; it’s almost like they’ve vanished from the earth.”
“Either that or it’s being blocked somehow,” Bradshaw added.
“Keep searching, MEGAN,” Meerlix said.
On screen, Delaron appears in another part of the Bay Area; the rangers prepare to face him again, but Zierian stops them before he takes off to face in their place.
Back to Samuel’s dream; Janis pushes him to the left with a strong kick to the side. Samuel stops just a couple inches from the tree on his left and Janis approaches. He throws a haymaker, which Samuel blocks before attacking low with repeated punches to the kidney; Janis grabs him by the wrist and headbutts him in the forehead twice; on the 2nd attempt, Samuel sidesteps, grabs Janis by the back of the head and lowers him as he performs a back kick to the forehead; Janis stumbles back, but catches himself before he falls to the ground.
Samuel approaches and performs a spinning back kick, which Janis dodges. Samuel punches with his right and Janis grabs his arm, twists it and hits with a strong punch aimed at the chest, but stops halfway as his and Samuel’s fist collide knuckle to knuckle.
Janis lets go of Samuel’s arm and they both perform a shin kick. After repeatedly kicking each other’s leg, they stop to rub it as it felt sore and then immediately proceed; Samuel goes for a sweep kick, while Janis performs a flying ninja kick. The two move away from each other after and Samuel picks up a small rock and proceeds to throw it; Janis dodges at the speed of sound and jots forward with a underhand punch to the stomach, which sends Samuel flying through the air, landing him several yards away.
“I saw that coming from a mile away; you’re going to need some new moves if you wanna keep playing with me.”
Back to Starla, Max, and the others; as Starla comes head to head with herself, the two of them create a massive surge of energy, which shows up on the scanners back at the commander center.
“Guys, MEGAN’s picked up something; they’re somewhere in Wyoming.”
“Thanks, Bradshaw.”
“Whoa, it looks like they’re in trouble; Zierian, can you get them out of there?”
“Something’s blocking my ability to do so, I’m sorry.”
“We’ll have to go there manually then.”
“I’d also like to point out that once you’re in there, only the small weapons can penetrate the energy field surrounding the place; you’ll need to find the source and take it out before you can call in heavy artillery.”
“Thanks, MEGAN.”
Moments after the rangers leave, Bradshaw and MEGAN monitor Zierian’s progress.
On screen, Zierian was really giving it to Delaron; Delaron slashes and Zierian ducks, he throws a low punch, then rises and lands a high punch. As Delaron spirals, Zierian delivers a low kick to the calf and knocks him on his behind.
Delaron gets up and fires back, but Zierian teleports past each shot he throws, then brings his hands together and fires a ball of yellow energy. As Delaron falls, so does Zierian.
“Dramatic drop in energy levels,” MEGAN explains as she and Bradshaw watch the bout on screen.
Around the same time, Samuel finishes up his fight with Janis inside his head; well almost.
Janis comes back with a powerful hit and Samuel falls flat on his face.
“Do you yield?” he asked.
Samuel was hesitant with his answer as he struggled to get up, “As long as there are people like you, I will never give up.”
“Well then, I guess there’s one thing left to do…”
Samuel flinches as Janis prepares the final attack, which never came. Instead, Janis held his hand out as if he were offering to help him up, “What’s this?”
“It has all been a test, Samuel…” Shakuro’s voice as he comes out of the shadows.
“And you passed,” Guy Tucker finished.
Janis turns to them and nods. Guy and Shakuro approach, hold out their hands and unclench their fists.
“The Purple medallion…” Samuel said confusedly as he saw the three pieces in the hands of Guy, Shakuro, and Janis.
Several seconds later, the little girl from earlier steps in between two of them and offers Samuel a hand before turning to the three, who passed her the three halves to place in Samuel’s hand. As she made the exchange, the pieces give off a brilliant white glow. Once the light dimmed, the pieces became whole again.
Meanwhile, back to the fight between Zierian and Delaron; Zierian thought it was all over, but in a similar way to how he saved the rangers, Samuel came to his rescue. He slowly descended with white flashes of light emitting from his hands and feet.
“It looks like you could use a hand; or two.”
Back at home, Bradshaw was shocked to see who it was coming to the rescue.
“Who are you?”
“I’m going to be the last face you’ll ever see, so how about we end this right here before it gets any messier, huh?”
“Never; I’ll destroy you just like I was about to destroy him.”
“Alright then, if that’s the way you want it; MEGAN, send me the morpher.”
“On its way, sir.”
“Wait, you knew about this?” Bradshaw asked MEGAN.
“Bradshaw, how about we talk about this later; I got a bad guy that I’m about to beat… badly.” As the morpher appears on Samuel’s wrist, he brings up to chin level and says the words, “By the power of the full moon, Purple Wolf Ranger!” the rest of the armor teleports from its place in the lab and onto him in an instant, covering him from head to toe.
“Oh my word…”
“Don’t get too attached just yet, it’s only temporary until Zierian reenergizes the lot of them. In the meantime, just sit back my friend and let me handle this.”
“Sure thing, Samuel,” Zierian replied.
“Hey ugly…” “Death called, he wants his face back.”
An infuriated Delaron swings at Samuel with his wrist blades and misses.
“Whoa… you feel that draft?” he mocked.
Delaron swings again with the other arm.
“C’mon, I’ve seen better swings than that on Mike Tyson; that the best you got?”
Delaron goes for a right cross; Samuel grabs him by the elbow, dips him and elbows him in the back before spinning him around and tossing him into a dumpster. “Deploy rockets,” he muttered to MEGAN. Just then, miniaturized rockets come out of the shoulders, which Samuel aimed at where Delaron was laying; Delaron leaps out of the way before they hit.
“Voila, one roasted beastie.” Then out of nowhere, he’s hit by a few blasts coming from the smoke. The first one hits his right shoulder, the second hits his stomach. Before the third one hit, Samuel takes to the skies. He shouts out “Mini-guns!” he activates the one on his left wrist; eight tubes pop out and circle his fist just before he fired back. After a few dozen well-placed rounds, he stops. “MEGAN? Did we hit anything?”
“No signs of movement within the smoke, sir.”
“Behind you, Samuel!” Zierian yells out.
Samuel quickly turns and fires a beam from his hands, which negates the attack by Delaron and results in a small explosion midway; Samuel was instantly knocked a few feet out of the air. “Alright, I’m bored. Whaddaya say we end this?” Samuel activates smarts missiles as he speeds towards Delaron like a suicide bomber. He places his mark carefully and fires. Just seconds after the missile sticks into Delaron’s chest, Samuel spirals and flies right past him as he turns right side up and lands on his feet. His weapon detonates and destroys Delaron in one hit. “Ooh, it’s good to be back!” he then turns on a sound effect of a crowd applauding as he takes a bow.
“Power level dropping, sir, I suggest…”
“Well, it was good while it lasted; power down…” the suit takes itself off and teleports back to the mansion.
Meanwhile on the way to Max, Willis, Starla, Phoebe, and Alex
“There are weak spots in the energy field that allow for small weapons to penetrate, but so far for big ones, it’s difficult. I can try combining some of the areas to allow your ship to get through, but it’ll only last for a short while, which means you still have to find the thing powering the shield and take it out.”
“Will do, MEGAN…”
As they close in on the location, Meerlix pays attention to the radar as several blank spots come together to form a tear in the force field. They manage to fly through before it parts and they land just near the front entrance.
Fifteen minutes after finding them, they join on the fight; Wulf helping Max and Willis, Caitlin fighting alongside Starla, and Meerlix assisting Alex. The battle wages on for another 15 minutes until Caitlin realizes it was pointless.
“We’re getting nowhere fast,” Starla added.
“Well we can’t call in the big guns until we take down the force field somehow.”
“I heard them mention something about a spell being put in place; that might be the key.”
Caitlin blocks Starla’s double’s next attack then strikes her down with a slash diagonally across the abdomen. “Let’s get going then.”
Starla’s double gets back up and takes chase.
After approaching the nursery, they find what they’re looking for hidden between pots of Ficus trees.
“Obviously my double made this; it’s a Lumindimian energy spell. All we gotta do is erase it to get rid of the force field; simple as that.”
“Okay then…” Caitlin reaches for it and gets a mild shock.
“That’s a new one; lemme see if I can neutralize it with my powers first.”
“You do that…”
Starla’s double throws a disk of light and cuts through Caitlin’s side and makes her spiral. The light then bounced off the walls and objects in the room on its way back to Starla’s doppelganger. The light dims and reveals her version of the real Starla’s weapon, the armadillo blades. She then takes aim at her double, but Caitlin deflects her weapon with a laser shot from her eyes before she fires at her; Starla’s double kicks a flower pot into the air to block the shot, but the debris from it knocks her back towards a table.
Meanwhile, Starla continues to work on the shield surrounding the symbol, but has no luck penetrating it.
Caitlin and Starla’s double fight their way over to Starla; afterwards, Caitlin struggles against Starla’s double and pushes her into the shield. As it deteriorates, so does Starla’s double until all of her was completely destroyed.
“That worked…”
“Should I go to their aid?”
“No no, Fahl Kun. Let them be destroyed; you warned them and so have I. Their insubordination will be the end of them.” Serpitox answered.
With the force field down, they our heroes still battle on against the menace until Starla and Caitlin return to give them the good news.
Willis calls the WASP stinger Mark II, switches to the mini-gun mode and locks onto target as the Doubles struggles to stay on their feet.
“This isn’t over.”
“Every time you look down, we’ll be there.”
“One way we will return and finish what we started.”
“I have no doubt you will, but today…”
“…Won’t be that day.” Willis fires and takes each of them out with a few shots and they take to the skies like a purple mist as they disintegrate.
“It’s finally over…”
“Not yet; we still have Samuel laid up in hospital.”
They take the aerial craft back to San Francisco to see him, but he had already checked out. They return home to find him walking about.
“Samuel, you’re okay.”
“Why wouldn’t I be? It’d take more than a shock to keep me down; but enough about that, I’ve got something to show you.” He takes them down into the laboratory to show them what he’s been working on. “Galaxy suits, but they’ve been modified; equipped with an array of weapons and jet propulsion systems. They come in 9 colors; including Zierian’s in case he’s looking for a bit of an upgrade.”
“These are great, dad, but why are you showing us these?”
“Because, remember when I was in my coma? It was the spirit of the purple medallion that saved me; it granted me its powers and I channeled it through one of these and took on Delaron, saving Zierian’s life. The experience was like something from a movie. Once we obtain the rest and Zierian reenergizes them, I can route their power through the other eight and we’ll become genuine superheroes.”
In Ling Khan’s lair moments later
“Well, Serpitox, my friend, I should’ve told you shadow clones were a bad idea. It’s like my mother always told me, ‘stick to your strengths’…” Ling Khan switches views on his screen and takes a look at a large truck carrying an unknown cargo through the burning desert somewhere in Africa.

As Seductra exits the cave mouth, she was pleased at the success of her mission, "Ah, the Star of Hydra is finally mine; and without my two failures of Nieces, it will remain this way."
"I don't think so…" Celsior replied.
"Oh great, just when my day was going great."
"Give me the jewel, you old crone!"
"Finders keepers, ice man."
"If that's how you want it, fine. I could use a bit of a workout; ATTACK!!!" he commanded his army to do; they made their move first and Celsior quickly followed.
Seductra shouts for her army to attack as well while she summoned her sword, "Okay, you frosty the snowman reject; I think it's time I turned your sorry self into a lifetime supply of snow cones." As she dawns a suit of gray armor, like the knights use, from her shoulders-downward, she tucks the jewel away safely in one of the pockets and charges into battle.
As her army and Celsior's did battle, the two exchanged a fury of hits.
Seductra comes at Celsior from the right; he holds up his staff and blocks, then attacks with the bottom of his staff. Seductra counters with an attack of her own. As she bats his staff downward, Celsior spiral and attacks from her right, but Seductra leans back and the staff passes her by an inch from her nose. Without thinking, she backs away.
Celsior stands his ground and shoots a white beam of energy from the top of his staff and she falls to her knees as the blast hits. Celsior rests his staff as Seductra gets back up. He and Seductra stare at each other from a distance before he puts his palm to the ground and sends a wave of icicles towards her; Seductra slashes through each one of them on her way up to him and then swings at him from above and causes him to block. A few seconds later, she pushes upward with her sword and sends Celsior's staff up into the air before she quickly slashes his chest; Celsior spirals onto his back and immediately fires back at her with an ice beam from his palm, which she deflects towards one of her Putras, which quickly becomes encased in a block of ice like a caveman.
Celsior laughs and provokes an attack out of Seductra. As she prepares to strike, Celsior knocks the sword from her hands with another ice beam, springs to his feet, and pushes her back with a swift punch to the chest.
Several seconds into the fight, Celsior and Seductra's fight was interrupted by the arrival of the rangers.
"Gaia rangers…" they both muttered with rage in their voice.
"Can't I get a break from you guys just once…?" Seductra complained.
"Don't take it personally, it's just business," Wulf replied calmly.
The Glacieroids and the Putras shift their attention in the rangers' direction just seconds before they jump into action.
"We'll finish this later," Seductra directed at Celsior.
"I'll look forward to it…" He and Seductra storm towards the rangers alongside their individual armies.
Alex rushes the first Glacieroid and blocks and then he spirals and hits it with a slash down the back before taking aim with his blaster and firing a shot into the chest of the Putra running up behind the Glacieroid. Before he could rotate his fire 90 degrees to his right, a Putra comes up and disarms him; Alex swipes at it with his sword and it ducks before it strikes with a left, which Alex stops with a palm block. Another Putra comes up from behind and pushes Alex into the arms of a Glacieroid; Alex turns into a snake, slithers around behind the Glacieroid, turns into a gorilla and initiates a sweep of its legs with his arm before turning back into his human form and performing an elbow drop.
Caitlin intervenes and stops a bunch of Putras and Glacieroids from kicking him while he's down with her laser vision. She then turns her attention 45 degrees to her right. after taking down a few Putras, a Glacieroid disarms her, twists her arms and swings her around and towards a tree.
Phoebe jumps in and takes down the Putras and Glacieroids that attacked Caitlin with a single throw of her Mantis Boomerang and then turns her attention to her left; she grabs a Glacieroid's fist with her palm and delivers a swift kick to its shin before landing a back fist to the jaw.
Another Glacieroid kicks her back towards a Putra, but before it could put its hands on her, Phoebe hit it with an elbow to the chest, turns and grabs it to perform an heaven-and-earth throw. As she performed it, she landed it on top of the Glacieroid that hit her. After standing up, she extended her arm and her weapon returned to her.
Meerlix gets in a couple of slashes with his claws before he lands a double leg drop kick and pushes a Putra towards an embedded rock, where it burst and turned to a pink and white slime. Meerlix then turns and initiates a sweep of one of the Glacieroids coming his way before he turns, leaps into the air and performs a flying elbow to the top of the head of a Glacieroid, lands and slashes it across the chest; as it leaned forward, Meerlix climbed on top of it and leapts at one of the Putras.
As the rangers blast their way through the two armies one minion at a time, Celsior and Seductra make their way towards Max, Willis, and Wulf; Samuel gets in Seductra's way and she knocks him back with a frontal kick to the abdomen; Wulf attacks and she quickly blocks. Seductra tosses Wulf's blade in the air and then slashes at his chest, but Wulf sidesteps and strikes with a hammer-fist to her chest. He stands his and waits for his sword to fall before moving forward. As he strikes high, Seductra strikes low and cuts a small slit in his stomach; Wulf blocks a couple of times before attacking low, but Seductra rolls right over the blade and smacks Wulf in the back with the side of her sword.
An infuriated Wulf turns and rampages towards Seductra, who sticks her sword in the ground, crouches, places one arm under Wulf's crotch and flips him over her head before she picks up her sword once again and faces him. "Hmph, nice try…"
"Actually, I think it was my best attempt yet," he smiled as he presented the Star of Hydra.
Seductra checks her left pocket, which was ripped from her side. "You lil'…" but before she could finish her sentence or even attack for that matter, she was bombarded with laser fire.
Wulf got up; Seductra took her eyes off him and noticed her army and Celsior's was gone.
As one last ditch effort, Celsior takes aim at Wulf; his energy beam, bounces off the Star of Hydra and at Seductra, rendering her unconscious and stripping her of her armor and leaving her with her normal clothing, while the Jewel continued to emit a brilliant white light.
"It's getting warmer…" Wulf pointed out.
Samuel turns to Celsior, "What did you do?" he said angrily.
"I didn't do anything!"
After the jewel glowed as brightly as it could, it broke into five pieces and took to the skies.
"Nooooooo!!!!" Celsior said in a long, drawn out scream. "This isn't over, punks, I will get those shards back, but for now I shall make a hasty retreat."
After returning home, Samuel returns to the command center to try and look for the five pieces. "Anything yet, MEGAN?" he asked.
"So far, I've got nothing; every time I get a lock on one of the signals, it vanishes."
"Can we expand the grid or something?"
"Not if you want to risk overloading the circuits, sir."
"Well, what about the other four?"
"So far, no luck; it's like they've vanished from this earth."
"Well maybe we can track Celsior and Farenhart's whereabouts and allow him to lead us to the shards."
"Why Farenhart, sir?"
"Because if I know Farenhart, his plan was to get his brother to do all the heavy and then he intervenes and tries to wrestle it away."
Meanwhile, somewhere around where Seductra found the jewel, Farenhart wanders about mumbling to himself, "That fool…" he says, "All he had to do was just get it in his possession, not blow it up; now we've got five pieces to deal with instead of just one. Doesn't he know what the Star of Hydra is? Whenever it feels threatened, he splits and scatters…" Farenhart pauses as he hears voices off in the distance.
Seductra awakens to see Wulf hovering over her "Are you alright," he asked her.
She pushes him away and scrambles to her feet, "Who are you?"
"You don't remember?"
"No. heck, I don't even remember who I am."
"You seriously do not know me? I'm Wulf ninja warrior; you only tried to kill me a dozen times."
"Wulf ninja… warrior? I'd know if I remember a name as stupid as that; where are you from?"
Farenhart whispers to himself, "I finally got you where I want you, traitor…" but before he could confront him, Cameron and Christi intervene.
Back at the command center
"Sir, I picked up a very weak signal on the move just outside of where Celsior and Seductra were, but then it vanished."
"Ugh, this is getting so frustrating."
"I'm… doing the best I can, sir."
"I know that. It's not you I'm mad with; it's this whole situation. When Celsior hit the jewel, what made it shatter like it did?"
"Perhaps it holds the properties of an actual Hydra. In Greek myth, whenever you cut off a Hydra head, it grows too much with the addition of its original one; the middle one. Maybe that's what happened with the jewel, except instead of it growing more heads, it shattered." Willis explained.
"Oh right, thanks Willis."
Back with Farenhart and Cameron and Christi
"What do you mean 'what I am doing here?' What are you doing?"
"We picked up an energy signature that was coming from this area."
"Well, so far, only one here is that Wulf ninja warrior character and his date."
"Date, I didn't think he liked women."
"Except for our aunt of course…"
"Who's he with?"
"See for yourself."
"What? That's Seductra; what's she doing with him?"
When they looked up again, both of them were gone.
"Where'd they go?"
"You're asking me? I dunno."
A couple miles from Cameron and Christi's location
"Can you just leave me alone?"
"Leave you alone in your state? You can't remember your name, don't remember where you came from; lot of people would take advantage of that…"
"And you wouldn't?"
Wulf hesitated.
"Thought so…"
"Seductra, wait."
"And stop calling me that! What's a Seductra anyway?"
"It's your name."
"Doesn't sound like me…"
Wulf confronts her and lays on a big kiss on the lips; Seductra pushes him back and slaps him across the cheek.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Thought for sure that would work…"
"Back away from her, Wulf," Cameron shouted.
"Aunty S, we thought you'd have better tastes…"
"Do I know you?" Seductra asked.
"Aunty, it's us, your darling nieces, Cameron and Christi."
"Cameron and Christi… nope, those names don't ring a bell, now stay away from me all three of you!" Seductra continues to walk the other way.
Cameron and Christi draw their swords, "Alright, what did you do to her?"
"I didn't do anything."
"You expect us to believe that?"
"Whether you believe me or not is beside the point."
"I dunno what she saw in you."
"Didn't we already go through this before…?"
"Yes and we shall go through it again; Ready, Cameron?"
"Ready as I'll ever be." She and Christi rush Wulf in a fury; and after a short battle, Wulf drops a smoke pellet and makes his escape.
An hour later back at the command center; Caitlin walks into the room as Phoebe, Willis, and Samuel were at the consoles. "So here it goes, a woman walks into a pizza parlor, has a bite to eat and ends up not paying for it, so she's gotta work in the kitchen…"
"I don't get it…"
"Here's what you should get; the woman was Seductra."
"You actually saw her?"
"And she didn't attack you?"
"No. the funny thing was she didn't recognize me.
"Any sign of Wulf?" Samuel asked.
"He was with her after I got out of the bathroom; it seemed like they were dating."
"She's probably got him under some sorta love spell.
"Where are they now; still at the restaurant?"
"They actually left before Wulf got a chance to look at me."
Back at the restaurant just moments before Wulf and Seductra left, Caitlin goes up to the register to buy a large soda; a random guy, Light-skin African American in his mid-20's in a gray t-shirt, sneaks up behind her, but as he attempts to grab her butt, she turns, grabs him by the wrist, swing him up against the count and throws a punch, which she stopped a couple centimeters from his nose.
The guy had his eyes closed and immediately opens them to see her fist near his face; Caitlin draws back her fist, pushes him away, and pays for her drink before walking out.
"This is bad; if she gets her full memory back, he could get hurt and I don't mean emotionally, but physically." Phoebe explains.
Meanwhile in present time, Wulf had packed a lunch and surprised Seductra with a picnic. On way to the spot Wulf set up, he and Seductra worked up an appetite.
"This was sweet of you, uhm…"
"Wulf. Wulf ninja warrior."
"Right, Wulf ninja warrior; still think that's a funny name though."
"I remember telling you the story once before. My name was given to me as part of a super soldier program; mixing humans with animal DNA to make them faster, stronger, and etc.
"You mentioned we used to go out? Why'd we break up?"
"It's mostly cuz of you; you dumped me because of 'work' related business getting in the way; let's leave it as that."
"Well, for that, I am sorry."
"Don't be sorry, Auntie, it was his fault that you dumped him; tell her the truth."
"Why do they keep calling me that, I don't know them; and what do they mean by the truth?"
"You don't remember?"
"He tried to…" but before Christi could explain, the surrounding area was bombarded with laser fire from all directions; the result of Celsior, Farenhart, and Ling Khan's quest to find the master shard of the Star of Hydra.
"Seriously, guys? Can we get some privacy here?"
"We're trying to get between Wulf ninja warrior and our Aunt and you're ruining it."
"Not until we get what we want…"
"Yeh, one of these two has the master shard of the Hydra star we need to find the other pieces."
"The what?" Seductra asks confusedly.
"Get them!!" Celsior yells.
Farenhart approaches first, Wulf blocks his swing and throws back a left fist to the stomach, then rotates to his right and lands a frontal kick, which Ling Khan stops with a leg grab. Ling Khan proceeds to flip Wulf and Celsior attacks with his staff and knocks Wulf on his back.
Ling Khan strikes with both fists like an angry gorilla and Wulf evades with a backward roll, and counters with a spiraling elbow; Ling Khan drops to his back and lands a double leg drop kick to lands Wulf on top of him for a rear neck choke. At the same time, Farenhart attacks with his swords, but Wulf managed to roll himself over so that Ling Khan takes the blow instead of him.
Ling Khan releases his grip; Wulf gets up, kicks Ling Khan towards Celsior and trips him before sticking his sword behind him and stabbing Farenhart. After a couple seconds, Wulf removes his blade, spins and slashes him across the chest.
"Seductra, get to safety." He said after being pushed back in her direction.
"But…"
"Just go, I got this!"
"Quite the gentlemen; too bad you weren't that way when it came time to do the job you were hired for."
Cameron and Christi summon a monster named Ogreon, an ogre-like monster with a vile temper, to do battle with Wulf after suspecting him of brainwashing their aunt.
"I let her live, didn't I?" Wulf asked while ducking and dodging the attacks from their monster.
"The fact still remains that you took the job, manipulated your way into her life, and tried to carry it out when she least expected."
Seductra overheard the whole conversation from a distance; the further it dragged on, she began to remember bits and pieces.
Meanwhile back at the command center
"I'm picking up the energy signature again somewhere in the park, but that's not all…" MEGAN explained as she brought up on the screen Wulf ninja warrior locked in a battle with Cameron and Christi and the other villains.
"MEGAN, alert the others of where we are and send them the coordinates," Samuel says.
"As always, sir…"
"Bradshaw, keep an eye on our progress."
Bradshaw nods.
Samuel, Phoebe, Willis, and Caitlin mount their vehicles and take off.
Meanwhile back to the fight.
As Wulf fights Ogreon, Celsior, Farenhart, and Ling Khan, Seductra steps in.
"Seductra, I told you to get somewhere safe."
Seductra pulls him close and gives him a serious look as she dawns her armor.
"What are you doing?"
She throws him to the ground.
"Did I do something?"
"You tried to kill me. I remember now."
"Lemme just point out for the record that I had a change of heart, does that count for something?"
"Nope…" she raises her sword, but before she had a chance to pierce Wulf's heart, Samuel interrupted.
"He may be an a*****e and deserves it, but I still can't let you do that." He pushes her sword away and pushes her back with an elbow to the chest.
"Another time, Wulf; for now, I've got what I came for. As soon as it all came back to me, it just fell into hands."
Phoebe knocks the shard from Seductra's hand and Samuel picks it up.
"You were saying...?" he mocked.
Seductra takes a swing at Samuel and misses; Samuel takes a swing at her and gets blocked.
"Make yourselves useful and help me!" Seductra yelled at her nieces, who immediately broke away from their monster, Ogreon, to assist her; before they made it over to their aunt, Caitlin jumps in front of them.
"I don't think so, ladies…" Caitlin summons her weapons, the peacock fan blades. Christi attacks first and she blocks with her right. Cameron attacks after her and Caitlin blocks with her left; after a couple of attacks, Caitlin spirals and gets Cameron the chest before folding her fan blades back up and jabbing at Christi, who sidesteps the first attack. Caitlin then attacks high, but Christi wraps her arm around Caitlin's and lifts up before throwing a swift punch to the right breast, releasing her grip and landing a spiraling kick to the face.
Willis attacks Ling Khan while constantly trying to avoid his Capoeira style kicks. On the fourth attempt, Willis slides in as super speed and lands a sweep kick; Ling Khan gets up afterwards. Willis fires at him with his laser blaster, but Ling Khan ducks and dodges all the attacks then quickly rolls forward until he was close enough to him to leap up and perform an elbow to the top of the head. As Willis drops to the ground, a laser shot hits Ling Khan in the chest, giving Willis time to get to his feet; behind him, he saw Max, Alex, Starla and Meerlix. As they joined in, a ferocious battle ensued for possession of the master shard; Seductra wrestles it away from Caitlin and then Ling Khan jumps in and snatches it away. Before he could take off with it, Celsior confronts him, then his brother wrestles it away from him; at the end of the fight, Wulf gets the shard; Ling Khan hits the shard with an energy blast and creates the same effect as when the jewel first shattered, which caused the pieces to magically appear and make it whole again. As a beam of light bounces off, Wulf and everyone else ducked to avoid it.
When it was over, Celsior snatches it and takes off.
Seductra stomps her feet in anger before slowly turning to Wulf, "Oh well, at least I still have one thing to bring me joy; killing the great Wulf ninja warrior."
"Allow the honor to be ours, Auntie…"
"Alright alright, but don't screw it up like all the other times." Seductra retreats to her space base.
"You heard her, Ogreon, do your job."
Ogreon growls as it swings its mighty club in attempt to crush Wulf.
"We gotta help him…"
"I agree, let's get in there." But as Starla and the other storm towards Ogreon, Cameron and Christi summon and army of Putras to preoccupy them.
The fight between the rangers, the Putras, and Ogreon continues until the rangers fall one by one.
Several seconds after that, Zierian appears; with his shield held out in front of him, he shoots towards Ogreon like an arrow and makes him spiral. "Sorry I'm late."
"Oh no, not him again," Cameron whined.
Ogreon swings at Zierian, who ducks and rises up; Ogreon swings around again, but this time, Zierian throws a strong left to break the beast's club in two, and then draws back his right for an even stronger punch. As Ogreon stumbles back, Zierian's powers begin to fade; the others rush to his side.
"Are you okay?" Max asked.
"I'm just a lil rundown…"
"Better sit this one out, old timer…" Samuel pats him on the back as politely jeered before he took the lead.
"Samuel…" Wulf said in a stern tone as he followed him into battle once again.
Samuel runs up with his blaster in hand and fires repeated shots before he crouches and allows Wulf to roll right over his back and toss throwing stars at the beast; Samuel stands up and spirals around Wulf, who held out his hand for Samuel to grab. After doing so, Samuel gives Wulf his weapon before tossing him into the air; it was as if time slowed down when Wulf descends upon Ogreon with his sword held high. Around the same time he sliced through Ogreon, Samuel slid under him and fired a few shots into its back.
Ogreon turns with his hands put together and smacks the ground where Samuel stood; Samuel rolled out of the way as Wulf sliced through Ogreon's leg.
A few minutes later, Phoebe contacts the command center and asks MEGAN to send the targeting system for the WASP stinger Mark III. Once it was in her hands, she locks onto Ogreon and fires a beam from the satellite in space and instantly destroys it in a single blast.
"Aunt Seductra's not going to be happy about this."
"You're right; let's get outta here."
"You haven't seen the last of us, rangers!"
Cameron and Christi make a hasty retreat.
Wulf was the only one who returned to the mansion while everyone else went out.
Meanwhile in Serpito'x lair
"So… the Gold warrior is losing control of his powers; quite the predicament."
"If he were to gain control, we could prevent the others rangers from acquiring their powers."
"But still, we won't be able to get them without first gathering the rest of the medallions first, and those normally can't be found; they need to find you."
"Who said anything about acquiring the whole set, Fahl Kun? I merely just want to keep it out of their reach."
"Good idea, boss, if we can't have it, no one can," Pachytar finishes with an evil laugh.
Back at the mansion
"Wulf? Might I inquire as to why you're not out with the others?"
"I just didn't feel like it, Bradshaw."
"You know if there's anything wrong, you can talk to me about it."
"I just… I thought, with her in her current condition, I could start over with her."
"From what I've heard, I thought you only got close so you can study her habits…"
"That's how it was from the beginning, but once I got to know her… I dunno something changed. I began to love her instead of think of her as just another statistic."
"And… what's wrong with that?"
"I was bred to be an ultimate killing machine; I'm not supposed to have a heart."
"But you do have one obviously."
"If all professional assassins had a conscience, most of the bad people in the world won't be dead and gone."
"C'mon, there's no use sitting here moping about what's been done."
"Where we going?"
"To join the others for dinner."
"You mind if I drive; I'd like to get there before they have their dessert."
"Are you insinuating that I drive too slowly?"
"Even the snails pass you on the streets, Bradshaw."

The day was October 30th, day before Halloween and it was time for Samuel and the gang to decorate the mansion for the party. Alex, Max, and Bradshaw were in charge of getting the stuff. The two were down at the storage facility where Samuel kept some of his stuff he didn’t have room for in his mansion gather an assortment of items such as: mini orange and black lights similar to the bulbs you put on Christmas trees, skeletons, cardboard cutouts of bats and ghosts and ghouls and all things Halloween and loaded them onto the back of a delivery truck.
Alex struggled with one of the larger boxes of stuff, taking a break between words, “How much… more stuff is there?” he panted.
“Just a few more boxes.”
“Good, then I can finally go and pick up my costume before there’s a long line.”
“I still don’t see why you need a costume when you can change into any animal you want?” Max adds as he carries a couple of large boxes in each hand as if nothing were in them.
“Maybe because what I’m going as doesn’t involve an animal; at least not a realistic one…”
“Please tell it’s not a vampire, Alex; so cliché.”
“You’ll just have to wait for Halloween night.”
Meanwhile, as Serpitox spies on the three from their lairs, he gets an idea.
“Vampires cliché, huh? We’ll see about that.” Serpitox comments. “Pachytar, what’s the status on Fahl Kun and her mission?”
“She’s retrieved the item you requested and is on her way back right now.”
“Good, then we can move ahead with my other plan; Zierian is slowly losing control of his wolf ranger powers. Soon he will has to transfer it to another vessel to keep it from being lost. We need to make sure we’re the ones to get it.”
“I agree sir…”
“His power is the key to my ultimate plan to take over this world.”
At the same time, Seductra looks down on Meerlix at a film festival as he’s sitting with a crowd watching an old horror movie called “Wolf” starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
“Werewolves… Werewolves” she mocked in a melodramatic tone, “Why must it always be Werewolves…” she practically emphasized on the word ‘why’. “It’s always the same with every Halloween; so annoying, don’t you agree, Noira?” Seductra referred to her temp, a Caucasian woman with black hair in her mid-20’s dressed like a Librarian in black with thick framed glasses, long black jacket, which came down past her waist halfway to her knees, black boots, black skirt that stopped just short of her thighs and green eye shadow all over her eyelids.
“Whatever you say, mistress…”
“Didn’t I pay you to have an opinion of your own?”
“You haven’t paid me yet; it’s my first day.”
“Well, when the time comes, remind of that. But for now, I need a plan to get rid of the rangers and take that gold freak’s power for myself.”
“Perhaps pit one against the others; use this world’s clichés to your advantage.”
“You’re suggesting I turn one of them into a horror movie monster?”
“Yeh, maybe a werewolf or something.”
“Of course; I could turn the very one they’d least expect into a werewolf. They won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. But I’m gonna need a monster to pull this off…”
“I’ll check to see if you have one in your army, mistress.”
Max and Bradshaw return home without Alex to find Phoebe Willis, and Starla moving the last of the furniture out of the living room area.
“Good to see you guys have made record time…” Bradshaw commented.
“We do this now and there’s no worrying about it on Halloween tomorrow.”
“So, what did you guys get?”
“One delivery of authentic Halloween gear without the long waiting period,” Max explained.
“Great, we can start putting them up. We’ll put the skeletons over here…” Phoebe explained.
“Where are Wulf and Caitlin?”
“We sent Wulf out to get the food,” Samuel said. “I’m… not sure on Caitlin’s whereabouts.”
“Yeah, she was just here,” Starla answered.
Someone taps Max on the shoulder and as he turns around, a green, slimy, long curvy nosed monster stares in directly in the face and snarls; Max jumps and gets in his fighting stance, but before he could attack, the beast removes its face and reveals itself to be Caitlin Rose in disguise. “Haha, scared ya,” she laughed.
“Good one, Caitlin,” Max replied as he stood down.
Later on in the afternoon at Seductra’s lair, she was greeted by a burnt orange, long-haired werewolf with big yellow eyes and a long snout.
“So, Lycanda, what makes you think you’re qualified?”
“Well, for starters, I have strength twice that of humans and I’ve got a mean temper, and my bite… well let’s just say it’s work than my bark.”
“Good, because to start off, I want you to first sink your teeth into one of the rangers.”
As Alex feared, there was a long line he had to wait in to pick up his preordered costume; it was night time when he and Meerlix walked home, which gave Seductra’s monster and Pachytar time to strike. Lycanda attacked Alex first. After a short fight, Alex had been bitten on the arm and it was Lycanda’s cue to flee.
Wulf arrives in his car to find him. He gets out and goes to Alex’s side, “Hey, Alex, what are you doing out here? Are you okay?” he asked. “C’mon, we need to get you back home.”
“That lil space pirate; what does she think she’s doing? Oh well, time to switch targets, Pachytar.” Serpitox brings Meerlix up on screen and Pachytar springs into action. After a short fight, Pachytar sticks Meerlix with some type of serum and he began to change; nothing noticeable as of yet, but Meerlix did fall to his knees.
“You can feel it taking over can’t you? There’s no stopping it once inject, now listen to me very carefully, my boss has a proposition he’d like to share with you…” Pachytar answered with an evil chuckle.
“So when does it start to work?” Seductra asked.
“Well, the full moon will be out in just a few minutes and the transformation will commence. Once it’s done, he won’t need to be in the presence of another one to change; only when he feels the need to feed.”
“You better watch out, Wulf. He’s driving around with mixed company…” she laughed evilly.
The clouds clear and reveal the full moon, which shined in through the car as Wulf was driving. He would look over occasionally at Alex, but this time he noticed something was wrong. When it was too late to do anything, Alex changed and Wulf decided quickly to kick him out of the passenger door before he stopped and got out himself.
Alex was kneeled over, face down at the asphalt as he starts twitching; his body grew, his clothing ripped, he started growing hair all over like some kind of wild animal. And then it started, Alex’s pupils turned blood red and his mouth turns into a wolf snout as he turned to Wulf and howled.
Wulf was shocked as Alex rushed him, but he finally snapped out of it and tripped him. “Alex… what are you doing? It’s me, Wulf. Your friend, remember that?”
Alex got up again and rushed him.
Wulf dealt a frontal kick to the stomach, but Alex absorbed the blow and kept coming until Wulf leapt up and landed a blow to the jaw with a spiraling kick; Alex still didn’t go down. He slashes Wulf, who blocks and hits him with an uppercut; Alex grabs his wrist and twists him around before grabbing his throat with his other hand and trying to choke him.
Wulf elbows him in the kidney and breaks free before he turns and delivers a low punch above the belt, a low kick to the knee and a spiraling sweep kick before mounting and trying to keep him pinned. “I am not your enemy, McLaren, TRY AND CONTROL WHATEVER’S HAPPENING TO YOU!”
Alex continues to snarl at him and push him off, but Wulf applied a stronger force each time until Alex rolls him over and tries to bit him.
“You’re gonna have to work for this meal, pup!” Wulf thumps him on the ear and pushes him off.
Meerlix arrives on scene to help out several minutes before the others show up. “Hair-raising development.”
“Spare me the dribble, pussycat!”
“Dribble. Cute; seeing as that’s all he’s doing his drooling.”
“You gonna help me or not?”
“Alright alright, keep ya muzzle on, old dog.” Meerlix rushes in and throws a low punch before Wulf lands a high kick to the jaw. The two go back and forth landing blow after blow on the beast until the others arrive; Caitlin attacks Alex with a laser and Meerlix slashes him low in the stomach; Wulf draws his sword and slashes, but Alex blocks and grabs him by both arms, picks him up, slams him to the ground, picks him up again, spins and whacks Meerlix with him like a baseball bat.
Phoebe jumps in and throws her boomerang to get his attention, while Max rushes in from the side and tries to tackle him; Willis leaps in and lands a flying punch.
“Alex, what’s wrong with you? We’re your friends.” Max asks.
“I don’t like these odds; get down and even things up, will you?”
“Yes, ma’am.” Lycanda joins the fight with an army of Putras.
“Alright, break it up. I don’t like how you all are ganging up on my friend here; we Lycanthrope gotta stick together, right?”
Alex slashes and Max and makes him break his grip, then picks Willis up and throws him to the side before howling at the moon and running off.
“Alex, wait!” Max yells.
“Forget him; I’m far worse than he is. Alright, Putras, do your stuff.” Lycanda lets the Putra soften the rangers up a bit before jumping in. after he gets the best of them, the rangers call on the WASP stinger Mark II to finish him off, but the blast barely makes a scratch in him, so they decide to retreat.
The next morning when they rangers awoken, they go through the usual routine: brushing their teeth, washing their faces, showering, etc., before going down to have breakfast.
While at the table, they notice something about Meerlix they hadn’t before: he was wearing sunglasses, when he hardly ever wearing. Another thing they noticed was when Phoebe sat down next to him with her place, he stared when he saw her Garlic Texas toast on the plate.
“Want some?” she offered him a slice of her toast and he leaned away as if he were allergic to it or something.
“Alright alright, all you had to say was no…”
“Meerlix, what is with you today? You haven’t been yourself since coming home from that film festival.”
“However do you mean, Starla?”
“Well for starters, when you raided the fridge and drank a bit of punch from the bowl, you immediately spit it out, and then afterwards you started mumbling something about ‘that’s not blood’.”
“And right now, the whole thing with the shades indoors.”
“I just… didn’t get much sleep. My eyes are lil red; nothing to worry about.”
“Lack of sleep means insomnia and insomnia means there’s something wrong; are you worried about anything?” Willis asks.
“Nothing I can remember.”
“Well if anything’s wrong, you can always talk to your friends about it.”
“Much appreciated, Max.”
“Hey, Samuel, any news on Alex yet?”
“Nothing right now, Caitlin; MEGAN ran a scan of the city and couldn’t find any trace of his locator’s signal anywhere.”
“Maybe he shut it off… or it could be lying ruined somewhere,” Wulf replied.
“Don’t worry; he’ll turn up eventually.”
“For now, I won’t stop searching.”
“How, Wulf?”
“The old fashioned way, no computer, no radar; just these,” Wulf points to his eyes and nose, “You’re forgetting I’m part animal.” Wulf takes a piece of toast off of Phoebe’s plate and nearly hits Meerlix with it as he picks it up, causing him to flinch.
“That was rude…”
Back at Seductra’s lair, moments later…
“Ooh, I should’ve stuck a collar on that boy; how am I supposed to turn him against his friends if I can’t find him?”
“We’ll find him soon, ma’am.”
“Focus more on finding that flea-bitten mongrel, Lycanda, it’s all his fault!” “LYCANDA!!!” she yelled slowly so her voice echoed throughout the ship.
“You howled, my queen?”
“Where… is that boy I had you bite the other night? He’s supposed to be carrying out his mission, but he’s gone M.I.A.”
“You asked me to bite him, I bit him; everything else after that is a dice roll.”
“Isn’t there something you can do to put him under our control?”
“Why didn’t you say that in the first place? I’ve got just the thing, watch this.” He demonstrates by aiming a red beam at one of Seductra’s Putras. The beam slithers around its neck and solidifies into a red ring. “This collar will act as a mind control device.” He commands the Putra to sit and it crouches down like a dog as it sat on its bottom.
“You find that kid and do the same thing to him or else… or else… ooh, I can’t think of a thing at the moment, but rest assured that if you fail me, you won’t like what I come up with.”
As he leaves, Seductra turns to her assistant, “Why’d I let you talk me into this?” she sighed.
At Serpitox’s island fortress around the same time.
“If I may ask, master, what made you think of this idea?”
“You’ve fought him in the future, so you know how strong he is. His will is too strong for mind control, same as the other rangers of this century. This way, if he believes we hold the key to his reversal, he will bow to our will or forever remain an outcast.”
“How do you expect him to carry out our orders if there’s no sign of the one we’re looking for?”
“With a lil brute force, Pachytar, that’s how…” Serpitox watches Wulf on screen as he scours the city searching for Alex.
“I appreciate you coming with me and all, but I track better on my own,” Wulf said to Meerlix.
“Ever hear the expression ‘two heads are better than one’?”
Wulf looks over at Meerlix
“What?”
“You’ve got steam rising from your body, are you sure you’re alright? You don’t wanna switch places with me; get out of the shade?”
“No thanks, I’m good.”
The longer he’s been with him, the more Wulf starts putting together all the pieces to the puzzle: always wearing sunglasses even indoors, hatred for Garlic; he even looked at one of the windows of a shop they both passed by and Meerlix didn’t show up. “Hey, Meerlix, how about we split up, cover more ground?”
“Uh… sure.”
“I’ll take this way,” Wulf said.
As they go their separate ways, Wulf casually walks down the street, looking back to see if Meerlix was still eyeballing him before he walks into a supermarket and towards the produce section. Afterwards, he went by a hardware store and into the section with the lumber. After coming out of the store, Wulf was attacked by Lycanda.
“I was looking for your friend, but you’ll do just nicely for now.”
“Just when I thought I wasn’t going kick a lil butt today…” Wulf gets on his feet.
While these fought, Meerlix had his hands full with Pachytar and a handful of Cobra drones. The two fought long and hard; Pachytar got the best of him and the others had to jump in; half of them assisted Wulf, while the rest went to Meerlix’s aid.
The battle raged on until Zierian stepped in; Meerlix took notice and raced towards Pachytar as Zierian did, but instead of attacking, he stood at his side and helped him fight Zierian.
“Meerlix, what are you doing?”
Meerlix removed his shades and revealed his glowing red eyes like demon’s eyes.
“Looks like your friend decided to join the winning side. Farewell, rangers.” Pachytar and Meerlix took off with the wounded Zierian; the others try to stop them, but it was too late.
To be continued…

Several days after the Halloween fiasco, Ling Khan starts having his Konglatons randomly terrorize major cities across in the United States; the rangers had no clue why he was doing this. The fights would last hours and hours on end until the rangers could barely stand up.
“Man, what’s with all these random attacks? What is Ling Khan planning?”
“I dunno, but I can’t take much more of this.”
“Yeah me too; if this keeps up, I won’t be able to stay on me feet let alone fight.”
Just when they thought all was lost, Wulf appears out of nowhere dressed as Zierian himself. With his new powers, he literally wipes the floor with the enemy in seconds.
“About time you decided to show up.”
“Is that anyway to thank me for saving your lives?”
“Where were you anyway?”
“I’m still getting used to these powers, gimme a break.”
Back at home, all except Wulf lied down to get some rest.
“About time I got some shuteye, the last battle took a lot out of me.”
“I second that, Phoebe.”
As they slept, Wulf went back out and down to the city while Max and Willis stayed behind with Bradshaw down in the command center.
“You guys need to take it easy. You may be robots, but your batteries still need recharging every once in a while.”
“It’s hard to when your enemy is starting attacks relentlessly and disappearing into the thin air.”
“What’s up with Ling Khan anyway?”
“Who knows, but if he keeps this up, you’re going to need replacement batteries and I don’t know where your father put them; he didn’t bother telling me before he went on vacation.”
“Vacation? Where’d he go?” Caitlin asked after she overheard the conversation.
“He’s in Cabo San Lucas with some girl he just met. He didn’t invite you, because he thought it’d be awkward bringing his kid sister with him.”
“Figures…”
Inside Ling Khan’s lair
“I told you it was a good plan, didn’t I tell you? If I keep wearing them down this way, they’ll be easy targets for the next part of my plan.” Ling Khan said to Sapphira.
“And what’s that?” Sapphira asked back.
“You’ll just have to wait and see now, won’t you…? But first, we need to get our hands a lil something.”
“An hourglass?” Sapphira asked confusedly as she looked at a blue hourglass with gray sand on the screen.
“That’s no ordinary hourglass, my dear; it is being guarded in the penthouse of skyscraper in Italy.”
“And you want me to get it, right?”
“I’m… not sure I should trust you with this task. Your petty revenge against Starla might hinder you, so I’ll go.”
“You can’t do this alone.”
“You’re right about that. With that Wulf ninja warrior wielding a new power, I’m hilariously underpowered; perhaps you should come with me; provide him with a bit of a challenge.”
Ling Khan and Sapphira stroll into the building like they own the place.
“Hey, you can’t come in here,” the head guard spoke in Italian.
But the two ignored him and kept walking. One of the guards grabbed Ling Khan by the shoulder. Ling Khan reaches around, wraps around the guys arm and lifts up then delivers a palm strike to the neck to render him unconscious.
Another guard approaches Sapphira with his nightstick; she draws her sword and cuts through with one clean strike and the lands a punch to the stomach.
Ling Khan takes another guard by the arm and lowers him as he spins him around and launches him over the receptionist’s desk.
Another guard faces him hand to hand; Ling Khan grabs him by the wrists as he strikes one arm after the other, then lifts himself up and gives a swift kick to the chest.
One guard lands a strike to the jaw with his nightstick, but Ling Khan spirals and performs a Capoeira style kick and made him spiral to the ground face first and then he does a front flip over to two other guards and pounds them on the head with his fists.
Once all the guards were down, the two made their way to the elevator. Arriving at the top floor, they receive minimal resistance as they make their way to the vault containing their prize.
“Tell me again why we came all this way for a bunch of gray sand?”
“Not just ordinary sand. This… is the dreamer’s dust. It has the power to put its victims into a sound slumber with just a whiff of it.”
“How do you plan on administering it?”
“We just need to find the right distributor for the job. I’m sure I’ve got a monster or two in my army.”
In the city, Wulf casually walks down the street minding his own business while admiring the scenery. Suddenly, he hears a cry for help.
“He stole my bag. Someone stop him!”
Wulf takes off down the street as he sees a man come around the corner in a hurry. He confronts the guy and asks him nicely at first to give the bag back. The guy declines the offer and proceeds to pull out a knife.
“You sure about this…?”
The guy doesn’t think; he just springs into action.
Wulf ducks and dodges as he swings the blade and then punches him in the nose with a quick jab.
He lunges forward with his knife and Wulf smacks the back of his fist into the guy’s wrist, which disarms him before he puts him to sleep with a blow to the jaw and takes the purse back from him. Just as he walks towards the woman, the cops move in past the crowd of people watching and arrest the guy.
“Thank you, young man,” the old lady said. She then faints into Wulf’s arm.
“Miss? Miss, are you alright?” he looks around to see everyone else has done the same. “What’s going on here?”
Just then, a being dressed in black with red eyed skulls on its kneecaps, long protruding toenails, and poppies growing on its chest and head approaches Wulf from the front.
“Who are you?”
“I am Poppiton. I suggest you get your nightgown on, because you’re in for a long nap…” he sprays a grayish mist, but Wulf dodges it with a cartwheel. Before springing into action, Wulf wraps his scarf around his mouth and nose and then draws his sword. He gets in a couple good slashes before the beast splits down the middle and allows Wulf’s blade to go through him; Poppiton then rejoins and wraps around the blade, causing it to get stuck. Wulf tugs on it hard as he can, but it wouldn’t move. Poppiton fires red darts at him, which explode on impact and knock him on his back.
“Haha. Where are your friends now, puppy? Tell’em to come out and play.”
“I don’t need them to beat you; Glimmering as brightly as the sun, Gold Wolf Ranger!” with saying that, Wulf dawns Zierian’s ranger form and gets back into the fight. He draws the golden sword from his back and Poppiton creates one by combining together several vines. Their fight goes on and on before Wulf defeats him.
After Poppiton was nothing but a pile of burning leaves and flower buds, Wulf’s friends show up.
“Now look who’s late…” Wulf said.
“We got here as soon as we could; what happened?”
“What happened was I took care of the problem.”
The people who were affected by dreamer’s dust awaken a short while after the rangers leave, which made Ling Khan hopping mad, “That Wolfman is beginning to be a thorn in my side,” he says.
“Ever since acquiring his new powers, it seems as though he’s unstoppable. How do you plan on defeating him?”
“Well first we must resurrect Poppiton and get him back to work; as for Wulf ninja warrior, I’ll leave the matter in your hands.”
Meanwhile back at the mansion
Phoebe came up with the perfect way to keep everyone, including her, awake. As she went into the kitchen, she gathered coffee beans, so fresh water from the faucet and gets the pot to brew it all in. she fixes up a batch of coffee, which she gives to Willis to try.
“You sure about this, Phoebe?”
“It’s my great grandmother’s recipe for the perfect brew. Just try it before you judge.”
“I think I’ll stick to buying mine from a coffee shop.”
“Why waste your money when you can make yours at about half of what you pay them? Just take a sip, I guarantee you’ll like it.”
He takes the first sip and automatically likes. A few minutes later after consuming the whole cup, he started speeding around the room faster than usual; the effect of the coffee amplified his super speed three-fold.
Caitlin approaches the counter while Willis kept speeding by.
“Guess that batch was a bit too strong.”
“Gee, yah think?!” Caitlin responded to Phoebe.
“I’ll keep working on it; see if you can catch him and slow him down, will ya?”
Meanwhile down in the command center
“He said his name was Poppiton. He tried hitting me with this dust like stuff, which seems to induce sleep.”
“A Sleeping spell seems like my cup of tea,” Alex replied.
“Until I can create an antidote to protect you from it, I suggest covering your face and avoid getting caught in it at all costs,” MEGAN replied.
“I have no doubts Ling Khan is behind this and I guarantee this Poppiton will make his debut once again.” Bradshaw explained. “So keep on your toes.”
Willis comes rushing down the stairs; the caffeine still in his system, he zigzagged left and right around his friends and then back up the stairs.
“What the heck was that?”
“Sorry, guys, Phoebe was experimenting with the perfect batch of coffee to help us keep awake; Willis had too strong a dose.” She chases him all throughout the house until finally Willis was tripped by Wulf’s foot.
“Ow…” Willis said slowly with his face planted in the carpet.
“Thanks, Wulf.”
“No problem.”
“I think I finally got it just right.”
“Oh really? Then you’d better let me test it out this time; don’t want speedy Gonzalez here wrecking anything again.” Wulf takes the cup of coffee and tries it out. “Still too strong. With this batch, you’d surely wake the dead, no doubt about it.”
“I hate to be the bearer of bad news… but Poppiton’s back.”
“On second thought, maybe having it that strong is the way to go; I’ll hold him off until you guys get there.” Wulf goes for his motorcycle in the garage and races off.
By the time Wulf gets there, he faces Poppiton for a few minutes before being carted away by Sapphira.
“Now now, we can’t have you interfering with Ling Khan’s plan, can we?”
“You know normally I’m above fighting lil kids, but in your case I’ll make an exception; glimmering as brightly as the sun, Gold Wolf Ranger!” Wulf dawns his ranger form once again, he also draws the sword mounted on his back again.
“Nice costume. I’ve got one of those too.” Sapphira dawns a white knight like armor from head to toe. “C’mon, wolf boy, let’s dance…” she and Wulf start the battle; he blocks her first attack and strikes back from below, but Sapphira blocks and strikes from above diagonally across his chest and Wulf spirals to the ground. He gets up quickly and stands his ground.
Meanwhile, an unobstructed Poppiton still terrorizes the city.
“Where’d Wulf go?”
“I’m scanning for him right now, but so far I’ve turned up nothing.”
“Wherever Sapphira took him, she doesn’t want us interfering,” Starla said.
“We’ll just have to manage without him for the time being.”
Before heading out, they put on scarves to cover their faces. Once reaching the area where Poppiton was, the rangers spring into action; first fighting him hand-to-hand, which didn’t work out too well and then they call upon their weapons.
Alex attacks first with his Scorpion Saber and Poppiton ducks under the first strike, then leaps over the second and lands a flying kick, which took out Starla as she ran up with her Armadillo blades at the ready.
Caitlin rushes up and slices one of Poppiton’s buds off with her Peacock fan blades; Poppiton responds with a swift back fist, which Caitlin dodges with a back flip.
Max leaps in with his pill bug armor on his right leg as he performs a kick to the head and makes Poppiton fall to the ground.
Thinking quickly, Poppiton rolls along the ground and back onto his feet.
Meanwhile, Sapphira was still having her way with Wulf; every attack he threw at her so far, she managed to counter.
“Where’s all this power you just displayed earlier?”
“I’m still trying to master it.”
“That power should be rightfully mine. I think I’ll take it once I’ve destroyed you.” Sapphira throws a ball of light at Wulf, who crosses his arms in front of his face; once he lowered them, he deflected the energy to his left. “Whoa…” he put his sword away and confronts Sapphira unarmed. She comes at him full force, slashing left and right. Wulf sidesteps each attack, except the final one, which he stopped by grabbing with both his hands, pulling her in close, and spiraling her around until separate her from her weapon as she fell face first into the sand.
Sapphira gets back on her feet, she spits the sand out of her mouth and fires another bolt of energy, which Wulf blocks by crossing his arms. This time instead of bouncing it to the side, he hits it back towards and gives her a taste of her own medicine.
Sapphira flew several feet into the air and lands back in the sand.
“Your father, Ling Khan, is far more dangerous than you’ll ever be, little girl.”
“He’s not my father; Starla took away the only real family I had.”
“You still refuse to believe anyone else except for him? He’s feeding you lies and you need to wake up to the truth.”
“You shut up!”
“Seems I’ve struck a nerve…”
Sapphira rushes Wulf with rage in her eyes.
Wulf sidesteps and thumps her on the back of the head. “If you’re gonna fight angry, you need to learn to make it work to your benefit.”
Back in the city
After standing up, Poppiton fires more of the red darts he flung at Wulf and knocks all the rangers off their feet.
“You look a lil tired, rangers. How about a whiff of my sleeping dust…?” Poppiton’s dust blew at them; some of the particles clung to the outside of the scarves while the rest went straight through and entered their noses and slowly puts them into a deep sleep.
“C’mon, guys, we gotta… fight it…”
“Oh there must be something you can do.”
“If we can modify the CACTUS units used to control the effects on the weather brought on by Farenhart’s monster, we could set them in position and create a weather anomaly to counteract the dust.”
“Good thinking, MEGAN! I’ll head down to the Samuel’s archives.”
“If you need any help, I can guide you step by step on the process.”
The rangers held in there long enough for Bradshaw to arrive with the modified climate anomaly control tech unit. Bradshaw puts them in place and MEGAN starts them up. The devices create a powerful rainstorm, which soaks the dust and makes it fall to the ground.
It was just the one scene from the 1930’s Wizard of Oz as the rain negated the effect of the monster’s dust and kept the rangers from falling asleep.
The monster then backs away as he calls forth a small handful of Konglatons to the scene.
In Sapphira’s dimension, Wulf stood over a defeated Sapphira and doesn’t attack.
“How about doing us both a favor and ending this now?”
Sapphira admits defeat and transports Wulf back to earth. He gets there in time to watch his friends defeat Poppiton with the WASP stinger Mark III.
Onboard Ling Khan’s ship, Sapphira decides to do a little snooping in the back room while Ling Khan was sleep on the bridge. All the while the words of Wulf ninja warrior circled in her head.
“Ask enough questions and the person who’s lying will eventually change their story, but one telling the truth, their story can’t be changed. If asking questions doesn’t work out, you’ll need to delve deeper to find the answers.”
Inside one of the boxes, she finds a videotape and on it was the face of her father’s killer, Ling Khan. He had fled the scene just as Starla arrived. The tape also showed Sapphira as she framed Starla.
“I had a feeling you’d find your way back here…”
Sapphira turned at the sound of Ling Khan’s voice.
“Now that you know the truth, what am I to do about it? You’re too valuable of a warrior to destroy.” He snaps his fingers and summons a couple of Konglatons to the room. “Take her to the brain drain machine”
“No!” Sapphira struggled to get loose, but the Konglatons’ grip was too strong.