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It was now December 31, 2009; New Year’s Eve, and As usual, Serpitox was hatching plan for world domination. From the safety of their lair He, Fahl Kun, and Pachytar continue work with the Andromeda project, which leads them to a grand discovery; maybe not grand since this idea’s been used before. With the use of this project, he is able to convert nearly anything into a source of energy; anything from buildings to an entire city just by shrinking it down to the size of a snow globe or a marble. To test this phase of the Andromeda Project, his first target was a Quebec City. “I knew this day would come. It was only a matter of time before I completely harness the power to snatch up entire cities. I am one step closer to returning the world to its former glory.” The satellite he had stealthily launched into orbit a couple hours ago activates. A gray light emits from the tip and as it intensifies, it draws more power. When the counter finally reaches a hundred percent, a gray beam shoots down over the designated area and in an instant the buildings were being separated molecule by molecule. The people were like ants under a magnifying glass, left with no time to flee as the beam shrouded the entire city. It took only half a minute for the entire population of Quebec to be completely vaporized. All of Quebec was nothing but a smoking crater after the satellite stopped transmitting its signal.
After MEGAN and Samuel picked up the sudden surge of energy on the monitors, they call in the rangers. “Rangers, I’m not sure if this is a computer error or what, but something big just registered on the sensors. Its energy levels are way off the charts; I’ve never seen anything like it.” on the screen, Samuel presents a citywide energy signature emanating from the northeast. “I’m not getting any feeds from the cameras in the vicinity. Whatever that thing was, it just took everything all across the city.”
Phoebe volunteered Meerlix and herself, “We’ll go check it out and report back whatever we find.”
“Be careful.”
“I always am.”
Meanwhile, in the forest somewhere around a small town, Farenhart wanders alone through the trees, or so it seems. Hiding in the treetops, there were several armed Magma Golems perched like a parrot on the shoulder of a pirate or a falcon on the shoulder of some great explorer, awaiting their leader’s orders to spring into action.
Ling Kahn unknowingly steps into his trap as he sets foot in the heart of the forest where Farenhart stood, back turned. “You’re a hard man to track down, my hot-tempered friend,” Ling Khan said as Farenhart slowly turned around to greet him like an old friend.
Farenhart snickered frighteningly as he took one look at Ling Khan with a smile more crooked than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. With that smile still upon his face, he says, “That’s funny, cuz with you, it’s the exact opposite.” He signals his men to leap out of the trees and surround Ling Khan like a pack of wolves after smelling fresh meat.
“How about you hand over the jewel and we can avoid me giving you an embarrassing beatdown?”
“You act so confident despite the fact that I outnumber you 12 to 1.”
“Only twelve, huh? You should’ve brought more men.”
“As you wish…” Farenhart immediately summons more Magma Golems with the wave of his left hand. Through a wavy, orange line of flames, his Magma Golems appear and do as he commands. Ling Khan stands, awaiting their approach; his arms down by his sides as he displays no emotion, no sign of movement; and then within an instant, he leaps up with a grunt as a late warning to his first attack, which came in the form of a kick. He then bounces off his first target and places his hands on top of the head of his next opponent on the left as he leaps over like, legs spread. He lands in a horse stance and quickly delivers a punch to the crotch, then drops on his back, using his hands to break his fall while bringing his legs back together like a pair of scissors about to cut through a sheet of paper. When locked around his opponent, he tosses him into the air, completely taking his eyes off his next opponent, who gets off a lucky hit with his sword. On the second attack, Ling Khan rolls to his left, kicking the sword from the Magma Golem’s hand as he turns onto his stomach and pushes up with his legs until he performs a handstand. For a few minutes, he fought his enemy in this position before performing a flip, landing on his feet, and doing a back kick to the stomach. Seconds after, using the palm of his hands, he shoots a beam of dark energy to his left and right and trips his enemies. As the one on his right does a flip, he immediately grabs him by the ankle and proceeds to use him as a baseball bat to hit the rest of them with. Eventually, the beast crumbled like a clump of dirt.
In a matter of minutes, Phoebe and Meerlix arrive in Quebec to the smoldering crater, which used to be the city. They look out on the horizon from a hilltop, still unable to believe what they have seen. Phoebe managed to tear her eyes away from this shocking sight to grab her communicator and tell Samuel the news.
“Have you found out what was causing that sudden surge of energy?”
“Not quite, but get this; the entire city of Quebec is gone. I don’t mean its inhabitants have gone missing, but the entire city itself has been ripped from its foundation. Not a single trace of it is left.”
“That explains the lack of camera feed…”
“What could’ve done this?” Meerlix asked.
Out of nowhere, the cold, ruddy skin hand of an old man in his mid-50’s rests upon Meerlix’s shoulder and makes him jump in fright. In self-defense, Meerlix gets into his fighting pose as he turns. “It was bright, gray, and it was massive. It rained down from the heavens and clouded the entire city like a nuclear blast. It shattered the buildings like the whole plate was made up of glass and sucked every last bit up into the sky. It was horrible; the people living down there had no idea what hit them ‘til it was too late. I was the lucky one; I had just gotten away to come out here and enjoy nature; my granddaughter’s idea.”
“I’m sorry, and you are…?”
“The name’s not important,” Phoebe assured Meerlix as she interrupted the man during his introduction. Thank you, sir, you’ve been a great help.” When she turned her communicator back on however, she had static. Hers and Samuel’s voices weren’t garbled, they were nonexistent. “Samuel. Samuel, can you hear me?” Phoebe asked.
Meerlix tried the same thing and got the same results.
“We probably should get back to base. Do you need a ride anywhere, sir…?” When Phoebe turned around, the old man was nowhere to be found. “Where’d he go?”
“He probably went to finish his nature walk; or probably to answer a call from nature.”
“Let’s get back to the command center.”
With the hyper-drive still charging up, Meerlix and Phoebe take longer to get back. Meanwhile, Ling Khan finishes off the last of the Magma Golems and starts on Farenhart himself
Right at the start of the fight, Farenhart’s arm shot out and popped Ling Khan with a jarring left cross to the chin. Ling Khan’s head swung to the side but se plowed in and started digging body blows in Farenhart’s ribs. After taking several shots, Farenhart blocked a punch with his knee and started threw a jab into Ling Khan’s face. Ling Khan stumbled back before he came back with several leg kicks and ended with a tackle; Farenhart kept punching and elbowing him in the back, attempting to make him let go of his waist. The villain took Farenhart by surprise by landing a kick to the face by bending his leg over his head like a limber gymnast and then throwing combinations of hooks and uppercuts into the villain’s chest, driving him back towards a tree. Ling Khan comes charging up to him like an angry bull only to have Farenhart land a roundhouse kick; Ling Khan grips his forehead as he sways to the right. Farenhart dives at him and Ling Khan teleports the both of them onboard his ship in front of Sapphira, who drops her ice cream on the floor, surprised.
Farenhart threw himself forward and tackled Ling Khan, dragging him across the floor of Sapphira’s room and slamming the villain up against the wall. Ling Khan stood there stunned, while Farenhart pounded his belly with fast, solid punches. Farenhart suddenly stopped punching and stood there, quivering, as Ling Khan thrust his leg up into Farenhart’s groin. While the villain was helpless, Ling Khan arced a right uppercut into Farenhart’s jaw and grabbed his reeling opponent by the horns. Pulling Farenhart forward, Ling Khan sank his left fist deep into his opponent’s stomach and then quickly lands a tornado kick, which launches him clear out the door and into the hallway; Sapphira took chase. She stopped following after she approaches the door to room Ling Khan instructed her to never open. A large, half-oval shape with weird zigzag patterns in a dark green and brown color. At the top of the door in big bold letters were the words “do not enter”. Sapphira decided to ignore these words, because she wanted to know what was behind this door that Ling Khan wanted to hide from her. Sapphira finds out it was just a storage room filled with old boxes of assorted items: video discs, books, pictures, a TV/DVD player to look at the discs with, etc. she searched through all of them while Ling Khan and Farenhart fought.
Farenhart stood there for a moment, panting, with Ling Khan’s Star of Pisces clutched in his hands, then turned around and started taunting him with it. As he gloated, Ling Khan got on one knee, then unsteadily back to his feet. He charges at Farenhart and throws his left fight as he stood centimeters from him. The punch nearly caught him square in the nose, but he was completely unprepared as he leaned back and reached forward, grabbing a hold of Ling Khan’s wrist and giving it a slight twist counter-clockwise. Ling Khan struggles to get out of his grip and succeeds. Farenhart began pummeling Ling Khan, throwing wild crosses and kicks into the villain’s face and abdomen. Blood sprayed out of Ling Khan’s mouth as the beating continued and Farenhart grabbed him by the throat and thrust him into the wall repeatedly, then pulled him forward into a right haymaker before absconding with the jewel.
Meanwhile, sometime later, Sapphira continued searching through the array of boxes. Inside one of the boxes, she plays one of the DVD’s 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.
Farenhart turned up back where he and Ling Khan started their fight; Willis, Wulf, Caitlin, Starla, and Alex showed up seconds later and bombard him with laser fire. He drops the jewels several feet from him, but as he made a dive for it, Willis sped up and snatched the jewel. Farenhart makes a grab for it. He and Willis stare angrily in each other’s eyes as they tug back and forth like two kids arguing over a toy or a TV remote. The jewel then flies from their hands and towards the rangers just as an army of Putras mixed in with Farenhart’s Magma Golems. The fight was now a game of keep-away as Willis and Wulf fought off both sides, keeping them from stealing the jewel. Wulf locks eyes on target and he drives the tip of his blade through the groin area. With a quick grunt, he slices upward through the spinal cord of the Putra. With the jewel in its right hand, it falls towards a Magma Golem; Wulf quickly turns his blade right and lands a quick attack, making it release the Star of Pisces. In that time, Wulf made a jump for it, smiling as he grabs it, and then performs a roll onto his feet.
With precision aim, Willis strikes hard and fast from left to right several times. With a few Golems and Putras down, the rest start storming towards Willis, who avoided them at sonic speed; sneaking in from behind Wulf were a couple of Putras, so Willis sped to his rescue. Willis was knocked out cold after the impact and fell limply to the floor with a stream of sparks flying from his abdomen. Wulf slowly grabbed the Magma Golem and swung it around towards Willis’ foe, exhausted and battered from the onslaught. Just then Alex and Seductra race towards them. Seductra was in front as she and Alex tear through Wulf, the Putras, Magma Golems, and Willis, pushing him back down again. “Sorry,” Alex shouts as he brings up the rear, sword in hand. Alex gasped for a moment as Seductra threw him against the tree and then eventually laid into him with her sword. He defended as best as he could before he changed to the weapon’s secondary form, wrapped it around her leg, and pulled up; she fell onto her back instantly and Alex struck back. On the ground, she blocked and pushed up on Alex’s abdomen with her right leg. She then threw him over her and onto his back before she herself stood up. Getting up as well, Alex led her deeper into the forest and took to hiding in hopes to gain leverage. When hiding didn’t work, he ran back towards the others, his sword still in its secondary mode as he took out his blaster and looked back. He watched the tree-line in order to keep from bumping into any of them as he took a shot at her. Seductra deflects while still gaining on him. Alex then wraps his weapon around a tree and swings around and back at her for a double leg drop kick to the chin. He laughed as soon as she hit the ground. Seductra was briefly dizzy as she looked up at the sky, but then shook out of it just before she got up again. She stares angrily at a still laughing Alex Mclaren, and with a growl as a warning, Alex stopped and continued running.
Starla and Caitlin stand before Farenhart. Starla ducked beneath a decapitating cross-stroke, then jumped over a low slash as Caitlin quickly aimed a slash at Farenhart’s thighs; Farenhart reverse-somersaulted and shot a short stream of red lightning at his enemy. Caitlin jumped high into the air, and brought her eyes in alignment with Farenhart and shot a laser, which he blocked with his twin swords before he rained balls of fire back at her. Starla flew in front of Caitlin and shielded her with a wall of light as they both slowly descended. Starla put her arms down at her side as she summons ball of light into her palms. Then, she thrusts them forward, shooting the light from her hands like baseballs; Farenhart deflects all but two and is thrown to one side.
On the rangers’ communicators, they hear the sound of Samuel’s voice call out. “Rangers, do you read me, come in?” When Caitlin had the opportunity, she answered back.
“We’re busy here, Samuel?”
“I understand, but this is urgent. Max and Meerlix went off on their own. There was another faint energy signature in Miami. They reported seeing Fahl Kun with some type of device like a bomb. Next thing I know, they’re attempting to evac the city, there was another energy spike and the city was gone, just like the others.”
“What about Meerlix and Max?” Alex asked.
“I picked up their energy signature outside the city, but then it just vanished. I need one of you to check it out.”
“I’ll volunteer.” Caitlin said.
“I can get there faster. I’ll go,” Wulf answered.
“I can get there faster too. Besides, you might need backup.”
Starla and Wulf take off in a hurry. She first stops a small shack and uses the light above the front door travel through at the speed of light and comes out the other at a lamppost about a mile outside of the city. She arrives the same time Wulf does.
Moments before their arrival, Meerlix and Max roam about Miami where the atmosphere was more dull and lifeless. The place was void of color, everyone except Max and Meerlix were all in black and white, the people’s movements were as slow as a tortoise, they walk around, minding their own business, not saying anything; they didn’t know what was going on, but they were trying to find out. Everyone on the street that they asked had nothing to say. They just pass them by without acknowledging their presence in this dismal realm.
In the sky above, Meerlix saw a tan, slightly shaded figure of Serpitox looking down upon them like a god or a kid watching an ant farm.
“What the hell is going on around here?”
“I dunno, but we now have a good feeling as to who’s behind all this. Look up,” Meerlix instructed.
“Serpitox; But I thought we destroyed him?”
“I thought so too.”
“Let’s see if we can find a way outta here.”
Instead of splitting up, they stick together. They weren’t sure their communicators would work here. When they approached the courtyard of some huge building, a portal opens. As it shines a bright light through, Max and Meerlix shield their eyes. Without them looking, a pack of Cobra drones step through one leg at a time, looking around for Max and Meerlix before spotting them in the distance.
“Uhm… Max?”
“What?” Max puts his arm down. “Oh…” He and Meerlix see one of the Cobra drones tuck some peculiar looking device behind its back before the fight commenced. It was a small, round, disc like object two inches in height, 1 inch in diameter, and had several lines running across in a pattern like pizza slices.
“I’m betting that thing is our ticket outta here.”
“We’ll have to take it from them first.”
“No problem…”
Meerlix raced up, somersaulted over one of the Cobra drones, and, with his left paw, aimed a thrust at its spine. As he turned to attack the Cobra drone behind him, it caught Meerlix by the wrist
Max jumped in to help Meerlix. He clenched his right hand into a fist and summoned his pill bug armor, then looked at his enemy. Max frowned as he leapt in and landed a bone-shattering blow to the Cobra drone’s chest. As he lowered his hand, another Cobra drone came at him with a kick to the side. Max stumbled in the opposite direction of his enemy and gets tripped by another enemy. Meerlix galloped up, leapt over his partner and lands a drop kick with both feet.
Max picked himself up, using a stone cube as a crutch. He runs up, ducks under a Cobra drone as it takes a swing, and counters with a cross-uppercut. His pill bug armor travels down to his leg as he turns and performs a back flip kick.
Meerlix blocked a blow, then brought his knee up into the Cobra drone's gut. The creature backed down, catching each of Meerlix's renewed attack blows. Finally, the two of them locked their hands together and circle. Meerlix was panting from exhaustion. Suddenly, Meerlix raised his left eyebrow as he set his sights on the device. He reached for it and the Cobra drone clutched his wrist and shoved him back. Meerlix summoned his Hawk Crossbow and used it as a sword.
With the pill bug armor now on his right leg, Max raised it and slammed his foot into a Cobra Drone's face, sending it into a tailspin. Another Cobra drone lunged forward, and latched onto Max’s leg. After he landed on his back, Max got to his feet, watched a Cobra Drone jump up to one of the lampposts, and fire several rounds of red, dart-like beams from above. Instead of firing back, Max kicked the lamppost, causing it to bend and sending the Cobra drone flying into a handful of enemies that Meerlix was fighting.
“Thanks,” Meerlix said. “Watch out behind you, though…”
After Meerlix pointed it out, Max saw an enemy flying at him, spinning through the air as it launched at him. Max somersaulted backwards and pounded the ground as soon as his pill bug armor went back up to his left arm. The ground split open and swallowed most of the drones up.
Max turned and found more of his opponents charging at him. He and Meerlx stood side by side, their weapons ready for one last strike.
Meanwhile outside the mysterious dark realm, Wulf and Starla scope out the area where Miami once stood; nothing but smoke rose from the dirt of the crater around them. They were then blinded by a brilliant flash of light. The same portal Max and Meerlix used to travel into that alternate dimension appeared before them. Meerlix was the first to be spat out. He hits the dirt face first and scoops up a mouthful. Max was flung out a minute later and he lands on Meerlix before rolling over onto his back.
“Meerlix? Max?”
“Oh. Hey guys…”
Fahl Kun is confronted as soon as she returns to base.
“They know…”
“Who?”
“The rangers were there in Miami when you planted the bomb. They intend to stop me from conducting my plans. I mustn’t allow that.”
“What should I do?”
“Same as you’ve been doing all day. It’s time the rangers witnessed firsthand what the Andromeda Project can do.”
With that, Fahl Kun takes an instant portal generator, travels through it and appears inside the rangers’ home in a few seconds. Everyone except Bradshaw was down in the command center, listening to Samuel explain what the device was.
“We all remember what Gerald said about the Andromeda project. One stage of was creating blackholes, which would make it possible to travel to any destination in an instant. Well that’s what this is; a blackhole generator. I assume since it’s the same color as the beam the old man described, that it and that beam are made by the same element; Iridium or something like that.
“If I had to make a guess, I’d say it was Osmium.”
“I have to agree with Meerlix; both Rhenium and Iridium are in the same family as platinum,” Willis explained. “They’re both found in meteorites and form anti-protons, which are necessary for such an effect as making wormholes. However, for Serpitox to do what he just did to Miami, he’d need Osmium; much denser than Iridium.
“Serpitox tried making this very same effect using it in the far future. It’s not as brittle.”
“So this is his latest plot to wipe out the human race?”
“Well this way, he’ll get what he wants without us putting up a fight.”
In order for Serpitox’s device to work, Fahl Kun must place the bomb-like device in the center of the area that he wished to aim his ray beam. The Andromeda project picks up on the signal and awaits the time to reach zero before it commences.
After she had placed it, set the timer, and backed away, Bradshaw enters the room.
“Oh dear,” he said, looking at the cylindrical, grayish device, sitting in a closet in one of the corridors. He then alerts the others and they come rushing in immediately.
“Okay, that’s the thing I saw Fahl Kun carry.”
“Can you disarm it?” Alex asked Meerlix.
“If I knew, I would’ve done so earlier.”
“Let me try it.” Samuel pushes and shoves his teammates aside and approaches the bomb. “You might wanna stand back just in case I can’t do this.”
The timer was set for two minutes. After everyone leaves the room, Samuel carefully opens up the side of the device. Inside, there are three unlabeled wires that must be cut in the correct sequence in order to interrupt detonation. The clock quickly winds down as He quickly pulls out a pocket knife and first cuts the wire that leads to the Primer. With half a minute to go, he then cuts the Reactor wire, and finally the wire that feeds the Ignition Timer; the timer stopped at 2 seconds left.
Meanwhile in Farenhart’s lair as he’s talking with his brother, Celsior.
“So brother. How goes the jewel hunt?”
“I was just about to ask you the same thing.”
“I nearly had the Star of Pisces, but those rangers interfered once again. They have a real knack for showing up uninvited.”
“So that makes five for them. Where’s the sixth?”
“It’s with the space pirate of course; Seductra.”
“Perhaps we team up to take her on.”
“Hundreds of millions of years we’ve been out of action; if Ling Khan was able to defeat me, what do you think Seductra’s capable of?”
“We’ll soon find out…”
Sometime later at the command center, “I have located Serpitox’s base in the Pacific Ocean; there’s an energy signature emanating from Latitude N 32° 14' 59.908", Longitude W 142° 59' 52.9688",” Alex answered.
“Our suits don’t have enough power to make it that far, so we’ll need to make as far as we can normally before morphing. We need to put a stop to this now before Serpitox wipes out the whole world.”
As soon as they make it out to sea, a team of F/A-22 Raptors appear out of nowhere, going in the same direction. Samuel, who at the helm, looks out on the horizon through a pair of binoculars after he hears a thunderous noise pass overhead. Also, coming in slowly from behind were several helicopters, the kind with the platform on the side for soldiers to sit on as means of rapid deployment. The president had ordered General Creed to launch a full scale assault on Serpitox’s base. When the aircrafts came in range, Serpitox’s defense systems activated. The first of them were giant rotating turrets, which fired two inch blue lasers in three-shot bursts. Two of the fighters go down in the third wave of fire; the rest take evasive action and come back with everything they had, but it wasn’t enough. They took out a few of Serpitox’s anti-air cannons, but he still rained fire down upon them.
The jets manage to keep most of the fire focused on them to allow ground troops to move in. they came in by air and sea, but as soon as they make it further up the shore, they were confronted by Cobra drones.
The rangers sail in close and equip their morphers. With their individual activation codes, they instantly transform. Wulf goes first, then Meerlix, Max, and so on.
“Glimmering as brightly as the sun, Gold Wolf Ranger!”
“With the fluidity of water, Blue Wolf Ranger!”
“Shining light in all shades and forms, White Wolf Ranger!”
“Power of the Earth beneath my feet, Brown Wolf Ranger!”
“By power of the full moon, Purple Wolf Ranger!”
“Mysterious as the dark night sky, Black Wolf Ranger!”
“Power of the sun, Orange Wolf Ranger!”
“I call on the power of… Green Wolf Ranger!”
“By the roaring flame, Red Wolf Ranger!”
“Okay, here’s the plan. Phoebe and I will find a way to shut off those guns. Wulf, Alex, and Starla, you help out the ground troops. Caitlin, Max, Meerlix and Willis will infiltrate the base and do whatever it takes to stop Serpitox from firing that weapon again.”
After they all receive their orders, they take off in separate directions.
On the shore, the bloodstained ground was hidden by the many lifeless bodies adorning it and the guns of fallen soldiers. On the other side however the battle still ensued. Many a soldier took cover behind the rocks as they fired back at the never-ending wave of Cobra drones storming in from further inland. Cries of pain and of victory were heard until there was silence; for a brief period of time, the silence of submission: of defeat on one end and victory on the other. To remedy the situation, Serpitox dispatched Fahl Kun and Pachytar to the battlefield. Pachytar generates a massive shockwave that knocked the enemy off their feet by just landing in between the two sides. After they got back on their feet, the soldiers struck Pachytar back, nearly emptying entire clips into him only to have his armor make a “ting” sound as each bullet bounces off. Pachytar stampeded and easily tore through all of them until Alex and Max caught him by surprise with a frontal kick to her ribs and left hook to the jaw that came from nowhere. The blows rocked Pachytar’s body, but he never gasped for breath, not once. He threw back a couple of jabs as they race towards him and missed and then Starla's foot crashed into the side of his knee, sending him to the ground. As Max went to pounce on Pachytar for a right punch to the top of the head, Pachytar instinctively grabbed him by the wrist flipped him over his head. As Cobra drones surround him while he was on his, Max reacts quickly by taking aim with his palms. He takes some of them out instantly before he gets on his fee; Pachytar felt like his head was ringing as Alex and Starla continue their assault.
Starla was sure not to make the mistake of pressing her advantage recklessly and instead, brought up her guard again. She and Pachytar exchanged punches and the occasional clinched knee strike but neither really gained an advantage. After several exchanges, Pachytar missed one punch and Max punished him with a hard knee strike to her ribs. Immediately, Alex summoned his Scorpion Saber and slashed into Pachytar's armor and he was forced back.
At the top of Serpitox’s lair, Phoebe held in and continued to unload strike after strike to the countless number of Cobra drones being led by Fahl Kun herself. Fahl Kun blocked most of Phoebe’s attacks, but some of them did connect. Fahl Kun went for a jumping elbow strike to Phoebe’s head, but Phoebe blocked it with her forearm, wincing at the pain. Fahl Kun certainly packed a lot of power into her strikes. Phoebe threw a quick uppercut to Fahl Kun's chin that knocked her down.
Samuel attempted to hack into the controls for the gun turrets. After a few minutes, he was successful in shutting them down to give the jets an easy target. Then, after he messes around with the bomb Fahl planted in his home, he sets the timer back at seven minutes and discretely plants it out of sight before he joins Phoebe in fighting off the enemy.
Phoebe got to her feet surprisingly quick as Samuel joined her side. She was breathing harder than normal and her suit was slowly losing power, but still she seemed to have an energy about her that her and Samuel’s enemies currently lacked. Fahl Kun decided to try to take this to the sky and went to tackle Samuel, but Phoebe caught her across the nose and mouth with her rising thigh.
Fahl Kun fell back to the ground, but as Phoebe went to take advantage, a horde of Cobra drones surrounded her legs and forced her off balance and to the ground. Fahl Kun gets to her feet. Again Samuel set his sights on her and strikes her with every ordnance that was packed into his suit.
Caitlin, Max, Meerlix and Willis infiltrate the lair from the back. The walls all around the building were crumbling due to the excessive force displayed by the US Navy’s jet fighters as they pass overhead. Caitlin, Max, Meerlix and Willis locate a balcony out of sight of patrolling guards, engaged thrusters and flew in for a soft landing. They moved quickly through the hallways, listening for signs of danger and finding none, poking their heads around corners and into various rooms. Max and Caitlin found one set of particularly fancy doors, and when a peak through the keyhole revealed no one inside, they quickly slipped in.
Max sets foot inside of an office. A massive wooden desk sat at the back of the room, covered in neatly stacked papers, and the walls were adorned with drawings. One was a portrait of a scary, grumpy-looking guy with a long beard and a flame-shaped thingy stuck in his hair. The others, though, were various sketches of what looked like mechanical devices. The most prominently displayed was a large drawing of Serpitox himself in human form.
Caitlin had stumbled upon a classroom. Empty desks line the room, facing a small wooden desk at the back of the room. Behind the desk was a whiteboard similar to the one used in most college classrooms that use markers instead of chalk. Despite the room not being used as much, the furniture was still dust-free.
No sooner had they walked into a large storage area on the top floor of the building, Meerlix and Willis had run into trouble. Serpitox was there with at least twenty Cobra drones alongside him standing in front of a large machine. Meerlix and the others dispose of the drones quickly, but as soon as they confront Serpitox, he hits Meerlix with a thin red laser to the chest and traps Willis in a green energy bubble.
“Didn’t think it’d be that easy, did you? I should’ve used this a long time ago; then you won’t be able to get in my way. I press this button and I can send you anywhere I want; I think putting you inside the tome I was imprisoned in would be a great place to put you; or maybe on a roaming comet. Sorry to have to do this, but our adventure has to stop somewhere. Hundreds of millions of years on this festering rock and the human has not yet learned from their mistakes.”
“Don’t forget, you used to be human, Serpitox.”
“Yeah, ‘used’ to be; past tense. Now I am something more. I speak those who came before the human races, the ones who ‘truly’ deserve to live on this spinning ball of life; the ones who had been pushed aside as the dominant species, the reptiles. Once the human element is gone, they will usher in the new era.”
Just then, Caitlin flew in and shot Serpitox in the back before she landed. As he falls to the floor face first, she approaches the console he was standing at and shuts off the beam. “I kinda like the era we have now.”
“Caitlin, Max; Boy am I glad to see you guys.”
“You… you rangers just keep popping up like weeds. No matter, I’ll just cut you down.”
A legion of Cobra drones were summoned to the room and lined up beside Serpitox for one last fight. Meerlix took the lead out of his friends as they stood and faced their enemy. Meerlix took to Serpitox like a Mongoose to a cobra as the others, with the exclusion of Willis, readied their weapons and rushed towards the army; Willis made a break for the machine in the background with a means to deactivate it. With no knowledge of how the console works, it takes him awhile to gain access, but as soon as he does, he gets to work locating the missing cities Serpitox wiped off the map, literally. There were several cities from around the globe: Cairo, Paris, most of northern Africa and Russia, a couple small cities in India. Willis goes through them one by one, restoring them to original location.
Meanwhile, Meerlix literally gave it to Serpitox. He was throwing out hits left and right. he and Serpitox were really an even match. Serpitox began pummeling Meerlix desperately, throwing wild crosses and jabs into the heroine’s torso like a snake attacking its prey. Meerlix convulsed as each shot hit him like someone was shooting a BB gun. Each attack slowly weakened him. Meerlix stood for a moment, grunting and groaning, then switched his fighting style as he performed a crane-style kick to Serpitox’s face. He took on the crane stance and proceeded to block his opponent’s punches and switched styles again as he landed a double fist jab to the chest. Serpitox quickly grabbed him by the wrists and shoved him back. He then slashed him twice across the torso and stopped as soon as Meerlix summoned his Hawk crossbow. With three shots, Serpitox fell instantly and rose back up 30 seconds later. After he waited for Meerlix to strike, he saw his move coming in low and grabbed his wrist; pulling him backwards, Serpitox sidesteps, pulls him even closer and clotheslines him to the ground. He drops his left foot down over Meerlix’s chest and Meerlix immediately stops him.
With three minutes left to go, Willis was ¾ of the way done with the reversal process when he was briefly interrupted.
“Willis, how’s it coming?”
“I’m almost there; just a couple more cities to go.”
“I shoulda said something sooner, but you’re kinda on a time limit.”
“I’m what?!”
Samuel explains about reprogramming the timer and planting it; Willis goes faster than he ever did before. When he was finished, he uploads a virus that Samuel gave him into the mainframe. Once it starts eating through memory after memory, ram after ram, Willis alerts the others to fall back; Meerlix ignores him as he and Serpitox stay and fight. Max drags him out by his shoulder to an empty beach and with just seconds before the blast hits, they all escape the island.
As Meerlix looked behind him, Serpitox’s beams came down and engulfed the whole area in gray light; separating atom from atom until nothing remained; Serpitox and his men were now at the mercy of his own device. Meerlix couldn’t believe it. His arch foe was gone and this time, his top generals went with him, which meant there was no way he could be resurrected. He started considering whether or not he should leave the team; with his enemy gone and all. What was the point of him sticking around? Samuel begs him to stay. When his words weren’t enough, Phoebe spoke out. When her words had no effect, Wulf spoke out; Wulf’s words got his attention. After much coaxing, Meerlix decided to stay; at least until the jewels were safe and out of enemy hands; until the world was free of their evil.

After an hour, Phoebe awakens from her sleep and joins the others downstairs. Starla assures the others that Sapphira will be out for revenge for them destroying Ling Khan. “With Ling Khan gone, his daughter, Sapphira, will be out for blood,” she said, looking at all of the rangers. she was not wrong; Sapphira held a grudge after Ling Khan had tricked her into believing Starla was responsible for her father’s death and they’ve had this constant feud ever since the accident.
“There has to be a way to prove you didn’t kill her real father.”
“Unless we can magically get our hands on a tape that implicates him in the murder, there’s nothing we can do,” Alex said.
Sapphira was back onboard Ling Khan’s ship. She had abandoned the jewel hunt to take time, practicing her scheme for revenge. Through her perspective, she has now lost two people that ever cared for her; not including Starla. As she caresses a picture of Starla and her father, a ruddy skin, muscular, heavyset fellow in a black kimono with gold Chinese symbols, a Fu Manchu mustache and a long beard tied up in black rubber bands, she is greeted by a mysterious figure that lurks in the shadows. He offers to help her out with her plans for revenge without even telling her his name. Judging by the shadow, Sapphira could tell it was a man with a slender figure, wearing baggy pants and shirt, boots, and a beret.
As they discuss their plans, Samuel, Olive, Wulf and the president’s daughter catch a ride to the shore in an army truck with a covered wagon style trailer. Samuel sits on the left side by himself while Olive and the first kid sit on the right side together. So far, the drive was peaceful. No one was trying to kill them, but it was just a matter of time.
After a couple more miles, they reach a checkpoint.
“What’s going on, why’d you stop?”
“We got a checkpoint ahead, be cool.”
Samuel wasn’t taking any chances. He cocks his gun and aims towards the rear of the trailer, awaiting any unfriendly faces who may peek inside; Wulf places a hand on his sword, waiting for the right moment to strike. The driver steps out of the truck as per the request of the soldier and proceeds to the back of the truck. Samuel fires the first shot and the other soldiers react as their comrade’s body hits the ground. The driver was the next to be killed. Wulf blocks the soldiers’ bullets by rapidly swinging his blade around in front of him. The bullets drop at his feet and he leaps out of the back, still swinging just before he stabs the soldier closest to him.
Samuel was next to jump out and land next to Wulf; syncing up with Wulf’s constant shielding, he fires back bursts of aquamarine laser beams from his gun and takes some of the heat off his friend.
Realizing there were too many of them, Samuel orders Olive to take over in place of the driver. “Olive, start the truck and get us the hell out of here!” Samuel leaps back into the truck as Olive jumps out. Wulf’s defense provided cover so Olive could make her way to the front of the vehicle. Once inside, Wulf then ceases his actions and jumps back into the truck.
“Well, that was fun…”
Samuel gave Wulf a blank stare.
“What?” he asked.
“Why did you jump out just then?”
“Why’d you…?”
“It was only to safe your pathetic skin.”
“I have no idea why I did it; it was in the heat of the moment, I thought I could take’em all on. You shoulda stayed back and protected her. I can manage.”
“I couldn’t leave you behind even if I wanted to.”
“Gotta learn to let go…”
Olive saw in the side mirror a small, flaming projectile rapidly approaching the truck. “Guys, RPG inbound!”
Samuel saw it before Wulf did. “I got this…” by deploying the nanobot shield, Samuel contains most of the blast on the opposite of them; the shockwave penetrated the shield and caused Olive to swerve. She drives right into the wall of some shop.
“Smooth move, Samuel… now leave this to me.” Wulf pushes up off of his back and prepares to leap out once again in another one of his reckless stunts.
“What are you gonna do this time?” Samuel asked.
“Something we should’ve done long time ago.”
“No, Wulf… no…” Samuel protested.
“You and your code, Samuel. When you gonna realize the world’s not gonna always fight fair?”
“What code?” Olive asked.
Wulf didn’t respond; he just got out his morpher and recited the phrase, “Glimmering as brightly as the sun, Gold Wolf Ranger.” with that, Wulf dons his ranger form and jumps out to confront the army of jeeps lining up behind them to take the girl back by force.
“Fuego!” one of the men said.
The soldiers once again open fire and their bullets immediately bounce off with so much as making a dent in Wulf’s shiny, gold armor. Wulf stood there, fake yawning and then brushing off his shoulders. When the firing ceased, Wulf held up his palms alternately and fired back, taking down one at a time until only one remained. The single soldier then put down his gun and ran. “Piece of cake…” Wulf said, brushing his palms together like a worker during quitting time. Megan then warns him of a projectile coming at him from the roof of some building. Wulf’s armor was only slightly burnt on the back as he falls on his face in the street, but one of the advantages to Zierian’s powers, is that Wulf can rapidly repair damages in his armor if it’s not too extensive. As he gets up and brushes off, the assailant reloads. Wulf turns to him once Megan zeros in his location and flies at him, dodging his next rocket as it hurtles towards him at the same speed he was going. Wulf grabs him and takes him high into the air before he drops him. Once the shooter was dead, Wulf’s power started fading. He could barely keep himself afloat, so he set himself down gently. “What the hell? Samuel, your suit’s malfunctioning.”
“I don’t think it’s the suit; it should be powered by Zierian’s powers. Maybe there’s something wrong with them.” Samuel spots more soldiers in the distance, slowly marching towards their position. “Wulf, pull back.”
Wulf hesitates as he looks back at Samuel and then at the army.
“Wulf, pull back right this goddamn minute. That’s an order!”
“Look, I’m not one of your soldiers, Samuel! Olive, get this rig moving and get your a** outta here.”
“I’m not leaving you, man. Get in here!”
“Gotta learn to let go, Sam…” Wulf points his right paw back at the truck; Samuel, Olive, and the first kid are instantly teleported via golden light to a safe location near the shore. When Wulf tried it on himself, nothing happened. All guns were now pointed at him. Wulf casually places his hands behind his head and turns around, to which he is hit with the butt of a rifle and falls unconscious.
Meanwhile, Phoebe, Meerlix, Willis, and Alex check on a disturbance in a remote part of the Congo in Africa. The radar at the command center had picked up seven distinct energy signatures that they had encountered before. Alex navigates from the treetops after he transforms into a gorilla. As he swings from branch to branch, his friends follow from below. Meerlix took the lead out of the others as he scratches at the various shrubberies in their path.
Willis was in the middle. With his gun equipped, he casually covers all points.
Phoebe covered the rear using her invisibility so to stay out of sight if anyone or anything was following them.
A half hour of searching the jungle floor brought zero results. They assumed the energy reading was a glitch in Megan’s systems until they hear a faint rustling noise off in the distance. Whatever was causing the energy signature had revealed itself; sort of. It led them further down an unbeaten path until it finally brought them to a clearing. The thing they were following had led them straight into a trap. Their arch nemeses, the Shadow Rangers, who they thought were destroyed, had made their return; but they weren’t alone this time. An army of Konglatons drop down from the treetops; one of them was carrying Alex in his human form.
After a short battle, the rangers lie defeated and confused before their enemy until Sapphira finally steps out of the shadows and stands before the shadow rangers with an evil grin. Their whole world went dark in an instant as the shadow rangers hit them with a surge of electrical energy in their corresponding colors. They awaken in a dark room with the only source of light coming from the ceiling. They were strung up by their wrists and ankles in front of their shadow clones, who stood there silent and still as Sapphira came into the room.
“First, Starla takes away my real family, and then you take away someone who was like family.”
“Sapphira, don’t do this.”
“Look, we’re sorry about what happened to Ling Khan…” Phoebe said.
“You’re not sorry; not yet anyways…”
“He’s deceived you. Starla didn’t kill your father, Ling Khan did.”
“Liar! I saw Starla standing over his body after his untimely demise.”
“That doesn’t necessarily mean she did it.”
“You can’t believe everything he tells you; sometimes, you have to figure things out for yourself.”
Back at the command center, the others notice the radar go blank; Starla fiddles around with the console to try and get it to work, but it was to no avail. She pounds her palm against it, which gets Caitlin and Max’s attention. “I lost the signal.” Starla replied in frustration.
“What?”
“I lost the signal; Willis and the others just vanished, and so did the energy reading they went after.”
“Maybe it’s some sorta interference; lemme check…” Max politely shoves Starla aside and gives it his best shot.
“Well…?” Caitlin asked.
“Doesn’t seem to be anything jamming the signal…”
“We have bigger things to worry about,” Zierian said as he popped up out of nowhere.
“What are you talking about?”
“Farenhart is on his way here to collect the jewels.”
Just then, a huge explosion occurred outside the mansion several yards downhill.
Max brings up the feed from one of the security cams overlooking the courtyard. Over a thousand Magma Golems were seen marching towards them, destroying everything in their path.
“My god, look at all of them…” Caitlin said in shock.
“What do we do?”
“We need to activate the mansion’s defense systems. That should slow them down, but I don’t know for how long,” Bradshaw explained.
The defense system was put in by Samuel in case such an event as the ones the rangers are about to face were ever to occur. Hidden in the ground were motion-sensing laser gun turrets, which fired a light blue laser to vaporize targets. There were also drones in a humanoid form with bullets filled with depleted Uranium and liquid nitrogen; nitrogen which was to be used on Farenhart’s Magma Golems as an instant death, soundwave cannons with enough concussive blast to leave most enemies stunned; on Celsior’s army of Glacieroids, it would normally shatter them to pieces since they’re made of ice, and flamethrowers in case the sound cannon didn’t work. Megan activates the defenses and that keeps Farenhart’s men at bay for the time being.
When Farenhart saw the turrets pop up, he stopped immediately and let his soldiers take the hits. Most the golems survived the bombardment of laser fire and nitrogen shells as they plow through, destroying them all on a direct course up to the mansion.
“It’s not working. There’s just too many.”
“Wait and see, Miss Starla.”
The golems then ran right into an energy field, which generated enough electricity to send a mild shock through their system. The golems, which hit head on, fell, and as electricity surged through them, they were reduced to piles of ash.
After they take notice to the image on screen, Caitlin high-fives Bradshaw excitedly.
“Guys, I’ve found the others. Sapphira took them aboard Ling Khan’s ship. You think you can handle Farenhart on your own?”
“Where are you going?” Max asked Starla.
“I’m gonna get’em.”
“Are you sure that’s such a good idea?”
“I’m probably the only one who can talk some sense into Sapphira.”
At the same time in Greenland, Cameron and Christi infiltrate Celsior’s lair in hopes of obtaining the chestplate. Seductra had entrusted them with this task in her weakened condition despite their many failed attempts at their other assignments.
They checked the guard posts seven times; Several Glacieroids roamed the halls in synchronization.
Cameron and Christi split up and continue scanning the area. The enemy showed no sign of being tired as they go over the same paces hour after hour, which left Cameron scared.
Christi crept down the corridor with soft footfalls and approaches the throne room. She clung to her right side and eventually took cover in a small crevice once she heard footsteps coming her way. She breathed slowly into her mask and pulled out her sword. She held it high, ready to strike if the enemy were to find her in this spot. The Glacieroid walked past and didn’t even notice her. She snuck behind it and moved on until she heard the sound of Celsior’s voice.
He stood in front of the screen as Farenhart patched himself in and gave a status report of his latest home invasion. In the background, his soldiers stand their ground near the electric force field, looking for a weak point.
“The field is weakening, but I don’t know how many more Magma Golems I can spare…” Farenhart explained.
“Just keep trying, brother.”
“It would go along better if you were here helping me.”
“I told you, I need to guard the chestplate. I can’t very well do that if I’m there; and we’d risk losing it if I brought it with me.”
“Just keep it safe, it’s no use to us if it’s gone.”
After the transmission ended, Celsior heard a commotion in the other room; Cameron and Christi had run into a bit of resistance upon exiting the lair with the chestplate.
In the three minutes it took Celsior to find them, they had destroyed a dozen Glacieroids and got out; returning to their home, they present Seductra with the chestplate. She was most pleased with their success that she shared the rest of her plans with them. “Farenhart’s attempting to get the jewels from the rangers. What we’ll do is wait for them exchange hands before we make our move.”
As soon as he came up with a plan, Farenhart orders his Magma Golems to fall back; Max and Caitlin looked confusedly at the screen, wondering what their enemy was planning to do next. When they had found where Farenhart and his men settled, they made a discovery; as he stood there, his magma golems fought each other in a free-for-all that lasted somewhere around 20 to 25 minutes.
“I don’t get it; what are they doing?” Caitlin asked.
“Yeah, why are they all fighting?”
“Believe me, Master Max, I’m just as baffled as you two are,” Bradshaw replied.
Farenhart shifted his eyes left and right as the magma golems continued slashing, kicking, punching, and throwing energy beams at each other from their eyes. On occasion, he would yell out to them to encourage or discourage them; the weaker ones of the army went down in a single hit while the stronger ones kept going until they couldn’t carry on anymore. Finally, the army of magma golems was down to one and Farenhart stepped forward, right arm out. He emitted jolts of red lightning from his fingertips, which surged through the golem, granting him more power than he could ever imagine. The creature’s new form was a darker shade of red armor from the neck down to the toes, more muscular, a helmet with giant oval shape ears, a red and gray respirator, and an orange cape similar to Farenhart’s. This new creation was named Kilovac and Farenhart hoped it would be able to penetrate the force field surrounding the mansion. Part of its power is that it can absorb any excess amount of energy. Kilovac took the lead as he and Farenhart approach the mansion again. Using his knuckles, Kilovac pounds the force field relentlessly; instead of the field blasting him back like it did with the other magma golems, the electricity, which generated the dome, was being channeled through him with each punch. Eventually the dome cracked. The rangers weren’t sure how long it would last, but they prepared for the worst if and whenever it was bound to come.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, Wulf was at the mercy of Marcella. Same as Willis, Phoebe, Meerlix, and Alex, he was chained up by his wrist in a dark room with the queen of evil herself, Marcella Gomez, circling him like a hawk.
“Level with me, Marcella. This isn’t about the girl, is it?”
“Hmph… what makes you so sure?”
“You could’ve just sent a video to the president with a ransom demand, stating how much you wanted. Instead, you waited until we arrive. Why’s that?”
“Truthfully, we did it just to lure your amigo here.”
“Samuel is hardly my ‘amigo’,” Wulf scoffed. “But why do you want him so badly?”
“He didn’t say.”
“And who’s ‘he’?”
“An anonymous third-party; he sent us an encrypted message outlining the details of the assignment he wanted us to carry out; said he wanted us to deliver Samuel to him.”
“Well then, I suppose you got more than you bargained for.” Wulf said calmly.
“He also requested you.”
“Now who would want lil old me?”
“I told you I don’t know. Now unless you want me to hand you over to him/her, you’d better tell me what I want to know; where is your friend? Where have you sent him?”
“Why should I tell you?”
“I’m trying to cut a deal, usted perra testarudo. You give him up, you get to go free.”
“If your boss wants me, then how will that work?”
“I’ll fake your death.”
“I highly doubt that.”
The whole time that they talked, Wulf was planning his escape. He cut through part of the chains using Zierian’s power to make it seem like he’s still tied up. He would wait for the right time before he’d strike. Wulf tuned her voice out as he monitored the three armed guards that stood beside him in the shadows by closing his eyes and using a power he called “blindsight”. This power allowed him to see living things in the surrounding area as either blue or red auras. The guards and Marcella were highlighted red in Wulf’s mind to show that were the enemy. He scoped around the room for his weapons, wherever they lied before he sprang into action. He latched onto the chain with one hand as his feet hit the floor and then whipped it at the guard to his right. as it hit his jaw, his face rotates 45 degrees in the opposite direction before he spirals and drops to the floor. Wulf turns his attention to the guard on the left, grips his ankle with the chain, and yanks it forward; the man is swept into the air quickly and then he dropped. Before hitting the floor, his head hit the table. The third guy, Wulf did a forward roll seconds before the first bullet left the chamber of his rifle. He pushes the gun to the right with one hand, then backhands the guy in the jaw with the other, and uses him as a human shield until a bunch more guards storm in. with his human shield, he looks over to the table with his weapons lying on top and maneuvers slowly; his eyes shifting back and forth from the table to his opponents. He pulls the gun attached to the man’s hip, then throws him down and quickly picks up his weapons from the table before the gunfire commences. Without thinking, he shields his body from fire with his sword and fires back. But instead of aiming for the soldiers, he sets his sights a bit higher; the light bulb in the center of the ceiling. As soon as it goes dark, Wulf knew he had the advantage. None of them had nightvision goggles on them; neither did Wulf, but he didn’t need them seeing as he had the power of blindsight.
Marcella couldn’t see, but she had a feeling Wulf was smiling at them maniacally. Her men fire blindly, hoping they hit something, but with Wulf’s speed and agility, he evades and quickly makes his way towards them. The sound of metal scraping against flesh and bone could be heard all around Marcella and there was nothing she could do. She cringed whenever she heard the sound of Wulf’s sword cutting through flesh. She screamed whenever she felt a bloodied limb of one of her comrade’s fly by her. When the gunfire and swordplay ceased, she knew she’d be next seconds before she made her way to the door. She tries to open it, but it only budged slightly; someone or something was holding it closed.
“Where you going?” Wulf whispered.
She took her hands off the door and turned away from it. She dropped to her knees and begged for her life in Spanish.
“You know… I could’ve escaped anytime I wanted to, but this way it’s much more fun. I do this sorta thing for a living where I’m from; hunting people like you. You think this little scare tactic of yours was going to work on a guy like me? You’re kidding yourself. I’ve gotten out of much tighter spots than this,” Wulf explained over the sound of her whimpering. “You see, I only let myself get captured to confirm my suspicions about you. Now that I found out what I wanted to know, I have no further use for you.”
“What’ll you do next?”
Wulf takes a bit of rope, ties it around Marcella’s neck, drags her to the center of the room, hoists her up, plops a chair under her feet, and replaces the light bulb he shot out, so she can get a clear view of him before he performs the deed. “Hate to leave you hanging, but I gotta run…” he said before kicking the chair from under her.
Moments later, more soldiers storm into the room to the sight of their boss’s lifeless body and no sign of Wulf. Unbeknownst to them, Wulf was perched above the doorway in the darkness like a spider. As soon they all march in, he quietly jumps down and exits the room. He morphs into his ranger form as he casually strolls down the hallway, unsure of where he’s going.
Just then, a small explosion occurs further down the hall. Samuel comes from around the corner, ranger form and all.
“I got rid of you for a reason. Why’d you come back?”
“I couldn’t just leave you.”
“How touching; but I could’ve found my own way back. I didn’t need your help.”
“Sure you didn’t…”
“Where are Olive and the girl?”
“They got on the boat. They’re safely making their way back to the states.”
“How are you sure?”
“For some odd reason, the soldiers pulled back once they had you. It was smooth sailing all the way to the dock.”
“I’ll be right back…”
“Where the hell are you going?”
“I just need to check something. I’ll meet you outside.”
Samuel hesitates for a moment and then follows after Wulf.
At this time, Starla beams aboard Sapphira’s ship. She searches high and low for her friends, going from door to door with no success so far. She managed to remain undetected despite the amount of security cameras which lined the hallways. She would duck in and out of rooms whenever she heard footsteps of random Konglatons patrolling the area as well as take down the ones she could not avoid. Soon enough, Sapphira caught up with her. She unsheathed her sword and pointed it towards Starla from several feet away as she calmly talked to her.
“Wasn’t enough that you killed my real father; you had to go and kill someone who was ‘like’ a father to me.”
“That’s not how it went down, Sapphira. You have to believe me.”
“Why should I?”
“Because Ling Khan is deceiving you, he…”
“Shut up! You’re just like the others; lying to protect your own skin.”
“He’s manipulating you. He let me take the fall for this and destroyed any evidence in order to gain your trust. He needed you on his side to help him obtain the Karma Lunari so he can take over the galaxy.”
“No. he wanted to obtain them to keep them out of the hands of someone like you. Taking over the galaxy was your plan; my father figured it out and you killed him.”
“You are so gullible. Wake up to yourself. Would someone who wanted to keep a person like me from ruling the world cause as much destruction as he did?”
“He did that to draw you out. What’s a little collateral damage compared to what you had in mind?”
“You know what? I’m done explaining myself. You need to see this.” Starla pulls a tape from her pocket and throws it over to Sapphira. “That was lying in a bush after we defeated Ling Khan.”
“What is it?”
The tape showed Ling Khan and Sapphira’s dad standing near a huge lake surrounded by trees, park benches, and a beautiful, dark blue sky. Several seconds in, Sapphira’s father paces back and forth while he listens to Ling Khan talk; there was no audio, so neither Sapphira nor Starla could make out what was being said. Towards the end, they see her father stabbed and killed. Ling Khan pulled him close to utter a few last words before he let go and let him fall to the ground. Sapphira couldn’t believe it; everything Starla and her friends said turned out to be true. She decided to free the others. She told the Konglatons guarding the cage to stand down as she approached with a set of keys.
“Starla…”
“Are we glad to see you; what took ya so long?”
“Never mind; it’s great that you’re here.”
“Glad to see you finally came to your senses,” Alex added.
“Starla finally showed me the light,” Sapphira replied. “I’m sorry about torturing you.”
“It’s okay.”
“Starla, you’re not gonna believe this. The Shadow rangers are back.”
“What? How can that be?”
“I dunno; they were with her and a bunch of Konglatons when we were kidnapped.”
“There was something weird about them, too. They had this strange purple glow in their eyes.”
“Let’s discuss this once we get back.”
“Yeah, about that, Willis; the mansion is under attack.”
“What? By whom?”
“Farenhart; he’s after the jewels. We managed to keep him at bay with Samuel’s defense system, but I fear it’ll only be a matter of time before he breaks through.”
“Well then let’s get moving.”

Tensions mount back on the battlefield, but with Seductra gone, things got a little easier.
Sapphira was still battling the endless horde of Magma Golems, Starla, Wulf, Alex, Meerlix, and Phoebe kept flying around, battling Phoenix flyers and something brand new added to Farenhart’s list of creations; this new beast has been made from the combining of several Phoenix flyers and was a giant, red dragon-like figure with triangle shaped wings attached to its arms; almost like a Pterodactyl.
Alex and Meerlix used themselves as bait as Wulf separate from them with unknown intentions. Meerlix looks back nervously as the terrible beast extends its head to try and take a bite out of him and Alex. Alex was the only one who was calm as he steady faced forward. At the next intersection, Wulf comes dashing from the right; Alex was the first to notice him as he turns in the opposite direction and Meerlix immediately follows.
Wulf switches positions so his feet face the monster for a hard kick to the face. He shoves the beast to the ground quickly and tears up half the street and knocks Farenhart over as he does so. The beast was dead within seconds of impact, but Farenhart emerges from the rubble and shoves the monster’s carcass off of him.
“You can’t beat…” he was cut off as Starla flew in and bombarded him with beams of white light, which bounce off his armor, leaving burnt seconds that revealed the chestplate with the seven jewels perched atop.
In an instant, Samuel had another idea. “Starla, keep doing what you’re doing,” Samuel shouts. He then turns to the others and says, “Help her out. I need only but a minute.”
Max, Willis, Caitlin, Meerlix, Alex, and Wulf rush into battle and quickly separate as Starla flies past due to Farenhart’s attack. Meerlix distracts him with a few shots from his Hawk Crossbow to give the others a chance to get some lucky hits in; Caitlin strikes with her right fan first. It passes just inches from Farenhart’s neck as he leaned back to avoid it. he quickly strikes back with his sword and she spirals.
Meerlix cleaves bits of metal off Farenhart’s armor with each scratch as he manages to evade Farenhart’s swings.
“Meerlix, duck,” Alex yells as he comes at him and Farenhart with his Scorpion Saber. With the press of a button, he converts the weapon to its secondary mode and slings it like a Chinese warrior was wielding it. he strikes low, but Farenhart blocks and swings back with an open hand; fingers bent to simulate the claws of a wild animal. Alex ducks, reaches for his sidearm and fires back. He gets off one shot before Farenhart swats the weapon from his hand. At that time, Alex strikes high with his saber and wraps around Farenhart’s sword arm. He quickly turns his back to him, yanks on the weapon, arches forward and flips Farenhart over his shoulder.
Farenhart landed on his feet and was instantly struck in the back by Wulf. With anger in his eyes, he throws a back fist in attempt to knock him out, but misses.
Wulf then rises up and lands a left hook to the jaw. As Farenhart turns, Starla was there to push him back into Wulf’s arm just before her performs a suplex.
“Alright, it’s ready; get out of there!” Samuel exclaimed as he locks onto Farenhart’s signature with the WASP Stinger mark III. “Alright, Farenhart… it’s time to extinguish your flame,” Samuel muttered to himself just before he pressed the screen and sent a surge of blue energy from the sky and down over Farenhart’s position.
With his armor temporarily exposed in various areas, he was left himself wide up for attack. He convulsed as sparks flew from the holes on his armor. Within minutes, his whole body disintegrated; he took his army with him and left behind the chestplate, which expelled the jewels upon hitting the asphalt.
Sapphira stood on the rooftop with her army of Konglatons and was confused as to why the magma Golems just crumbled to ashes before her. One of her soldiers shrugs its shoulder and asks her in Gorilla language, “what happened”. She responded to the beast’s answer with a confused expression upon her face and an almost hushed tone, “We won.” She then looks to the sky, which was partly clear. There was no sign of any of Farenhart’s aerial creatures, the Phoenix flyers or any sign of disturbance at all.
She then joins the rangers at street level as they plan on taking the jewels with them.
Seductra dispatches Cameron and Christi to the scene to steal the jewels. They use smoke pellets to cover their escape once they have them.
Wulf accompanied Samuel to make sure he didn’t do anything drastic when he confronts General Creed.
“I gotta hand it to you, Samuel. I didn’t think you had it in you.”
“Well, the credit goes to my team; and to you as well, General. Without you, all of this wouldn’t be possible.”
“Something I thought I’d never hear you say, Samuel.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, last time we got this close, you put a gun to my head.”
“Don’t misinterpret my words, Daniel, I still resent you for stealing my ideas and poorly exploiting them in the way you did. That’s my life’s work and you just hire a thief to stroll in and take them in a single afternoon. But again, none of this would be possible without your interfering like you usually do. Obviously, I have you to thank for Alex McLaren.”
“Well then you’re welcome.”
“You mind if we talk in private? There’s another matter we need to discuss.”
“I think I know what this is about; everybody take a break. What, are you deaf? I said everybody out!”
Wulf discreetly passes in front of a table littered with spy equipment; listening devices, recorders, tracking devices, etc. With his back turned, he picks up a couple of things while Samuel and Daniel continue talking.
“While we were in Cuba, Wulf and I stumbled upon something fairly interesting.”
“Did you now…?”
“Actually, Wulf discovered it first; someone hired the terrorists to kidnap the President’s daughter so that you’d send us in. We were the fish and she was merely the bait to lure us in; the real target was us.”
“You don’t say…” Daniel replied with only half concern. “Did you find out who it was?”
“We…” Samuel was cut off by Wulf, who steps in front of him.
“We traced the IP address of a message sent to the leader, Marcella Gomez, back to you,” he finished Samuel’s sentence and then elbows him in the chest to shut him up. “That could only mean two things; you were the mysterious bankroller or someone else in your organization is. It’s only a matter of time before we find out the truth.” Wulf slowly approaches the General, who extends in arm as a means to defend himself if Wulf were to attack. Wulf twists his arm, pulls him close and puts him in a choke hold. “You can make it a lot easier on yourself if you just admit it was you or rat out the real traitor here; because nowhere where he or she goes, I ‘will’ find them.” He uttered softly into Creed’s ear.
“Wulf, that’s enough.”
Wulf hesitates before he does as Samuel orders him to and leaves with him; the general glances at their backs as they walk away.
“What the hell was that all about?”
“Your method was taking too long.”
“What method? He wasn’t meant to be made aware of what we found out in Cuba,” Samuel whispered.
After Samuel and Wulf left, several soldiers crept in from the shadows.
“What is your plan of action, master?” one of them asked.
“Yeah, shall we crush the rangers?”
“I know you were created for a purpose, but that purpose shall not interfere with my true intentions, is that clear?”
“Yes, master.”
“We stick the original plan. Samuel and his team won’t know what hit them.”
The rangers now enjoy another afternoon of peace around the house while they await word from the Megan about the whereabouts of Seductra and her nieces.
Meerlix, Starla, and Caitlin hang out by the pool; Alex, Bradshaw, Phoebe, and Samuel sit at the table, eating some of the delicious BBQ they never had a chance to enjoy before; Max, Zierian and Willis go for a swim; and Wulf wanders around the garden area by himself. Various insects such as dragonflies, butterflies, and bees pass by going from place to place as Wulf traverses the stone walkway and admires the trees and the flowers that lined alongside it. He never had to enjoy the simpler things in life with how he and his twin were constantly at war with each other back in the world he came from. So he figured he’d better enjoy it while he can since he was to be leaving soon.
He heard a hissing sound in the distance. Someone was calling out to him, but he wasn’t sure who. He figured it couldn’t be the other rangers, as no one knew he was here.
“Psst…” the voice said once again from whereabouts unknown.
Wulf finally pinpointed the exact location of who it was that was calling and pulls back the shrubbery to reveal it was Cameron.
She stands up once Wulf holds a blade to her neck and answers, “Seductra would like to see you. Meet her at these coordinates.”
Once Samuel finds out about this, he is not pleased with Wulf’s decision to go through with this. He literally protests to this as Wulf heads to the command center; Caitlin and Sapphira overhear and stop doing what they were doing so they could follow them.
“What’s going here?”
“He’s gonna go kill himself, that’s what’s going on.”
“Seductra asked to meet with me and I’m going; alone.”
“Wulf, it could be a trap, don’t go by yourself.”
“Yeah, what if she has an army waiting for you upon arrival?”
“Well, her ship was destroyed; she doesn’t have any Putras left.”
“Yep, it’s just her, Cameron, and Christi.”
“All the more reason for us to accompany you…”
“No!”
But despite Wulf’s best efforts to keep them away, they follow him down to the quarry. As Wulf said before, it was only the three of them; no Putras, no monsters, or anything.
“You know, I still can’t wrap my head around this; why’d you save me before? If you expect us to bury the hatchet, then you’d better get rid of that deluded fantasy once and for all; one good deed won’t redeem you of your past sin.”
“Look, I only did it, so we could finish what we started at a later date; not for you to forgive me or anything.”
“Alright then, if that’s how you want it… let’s finish this; with all your lil friends watching.”
“Just consider them as… referees.”
“Once we’re finished here, it’s over. I go back to my plans of ruling the galaxy.”
“Fine by me…”
“I get the feeling you’re not taking this seriously.”
“It’s because I’m not.”
“What? Why?”
“Look, I don’t wanna go through with this; and I’m certain you don’t want to, either.”
“Is that a fact?”
“Yeah.”
“Well how do you know what I’m thinking?” Seductra asked nonchalantly.
“I’ve learned to read people; their inner most thoughts, their behavior patterns, etc. etc. Trust me, I know.”
“You may ‘think’ you know, but you don’t.”
“You’re thinking ‘Wulf has no idea the damage he caused me. I opened up to him and he betrayed me the moment he told me he was there to kill me.’ I’ve apologized for that, Seductra, what more do you want?”
“For you to say it 50 more times; and not just 50 times in a row. You need to show me how truly sorry you are.”
Just then, Samuel interrupts, “Uh… guys? We have a problem.” He holds up his communicator and puts it on loudspeaker so Wulf, Seductra, Sapphira, Cameron, Christi, and Caitlin could hear.
Creed’s voice was on the other end. “Samuel, if you’re listening to this, then you and your friends are about 30 seconds away from death; you’ve been a worthy rival, but like the ancient city of Rome came to an end, so must you.”
“What the…”
“May god be with you…”
“Well, someone really hates you…”
Creed’s voice was replaced with static; Samuel tried to contact the others back home, but there was no response. Samuel left the area and when he finally returned to the mansion, it was in ruin. All that remained of the structure was burning wood, shattered glass and scorched furniture. There was no sign of Bradshaw or the other rangers.
He said with a whisper as tears streamed from his eyes and hit the rubble beneath his feet, “I have dreamed a dream; and now that dream is left me.” He goes from silent whimpering to a loud, drawn out, “No!” as he looked to the smoke filling the sky overhead.
What came next was Wulf tackling Samuel to the ground behind a chunk of the building just seconds before a passing UAV drone scopes the area.
Caitlin, who was right next to Samuel on the opposite side from Wulf, covers his mouth to keep him from giving away their position.
The vehicle was several hundred miles above their position and Wulf managed to see it coming and rescue Samuel. Samuel wasn’t surprised by this; Wulf has powers beyond what he can do.
He waited until the drone was gone before he started to wring Wulf’s neck. While he was still angry, he kept his voice down as he strangled him and said, “This is your fault! If you hadn’t gone blabbing to Creed, none of this would be happening!”
“Samuel, let him go,” Caitlin begged.
“Because of you, my sons and the others are dead!”
“He would’ve killed us either way, don’t you get that?!” Wulf shakes Samuel’s hands from around his neck and looks back at him in anger. “He wanted us dead so badly that he was willing to make a deal with the devil, the devil being a woman; Marcella Gomez. He wasn’t going to leave anything to chance; even if we did not know!”
“You didn’t have to physically assault him.”
“Actually, I did…” Wulf takes out the listening device he swiped from the General.
Creed was still unaware he was being bugged; Wulf, Samuel, Caitlin, and Sapphira heard every word, but he could not hear them. he rambled on and on as if someone else was in the room with him. Technically, there was, but not anyone he could physically see. He paced back and forth in a dark room with the only source of light in a lamp above him.
Just then, Alex’s counterpart enters the room to deliver the good news, “UAV recon confirms no signs of life at the Grant estate.”
“Send in the ground team to double check. If I know Samuel, he’s always got a few tricks up his sleeves.”
“Yes sir. But what about us?”
“Seductra has something that I want very badly; retrieve it for me, please.”
Wulf, Samuel, Sapphira, and Caitlin then decide to vacate the area. With nowhere to go, their options were limited.
“You’re the idea man, Samuel; I’m just the guy who likes to bust in like Rambo and tear the place up.”
“Wulf’s right, you got a plan?”
“At the moment, Caitlin, all I have is that we need to follow the shadow rangers’ trail back to Creed. After that, we’ll need ‘another’ plan.”
“Why would we need to follow them back to him?”
“Because I doubt the General will use the same base he used in Nevada.”
“You never know. He might still be there.” Wulf said.
“Wouldn’t hurt to check…” Sapphira replied.
“But he’s supposed to believe we’re dead, remember; Thanks to ‘Rambo’ over here.”
“You’re forgetting that I’m a master of stealth, Caitlin. They won’t even see me coming,” Wulf replied sinisterly.
“Sapphira, you’ll go to Seductra’s; Creed won’t expect you to be dead, since he doesn’t know you; Caitlin, you’re with me.”
“Where are we going?”
“You think the mansion is the only place that has a command center?” Samuel answered vaguely.
Half an Hour later, while the General is en route to his new base via jumbo jet, he receives words from the team that was investigating the site of Samuel’s mansion.
“Sir, the ground team confirms it; they’re all KIA.”
“I have lost a worthy adversary in him. Samuel Grant will be missed. How goes the development of Project Fortune?”
“The suits are being prepped to harness the power of the seven jewels as we speak. They should be shipped to the new base in a matter of hours.”
“I want them tested out so we know if they’re working properly before we install the jewels. Wouldn’t want the shadow rangers to use them when they’re malfunctioning now, would we?”
“No sir…”
From an abandoned warehouse district in Los Angeles, Samuel and Caitlin travel by motorcycle, heading west towards a lot which was used for storing shipping containers. On the fence surrounding the perimeter, there was a sign that read “Grant Industries private property. Trespassers will be prosecuted.” Samuel takes from his pocket a set of keys on a giant ring and after sorting through them, finds the one that fits the lock. He and Caitlin then proceed to the center of the lot where they find a large, green container. Inside it was a huge lift, which they rode down to the very bottom where they find a room exactly identical to the command center at the mansion, except with stone walls and a lights covering most of the ceiling except for the lift they came in on.
“Welcome back, sir,” Megan’s voice called out.
“You’re just full of surprises, aren’t you?”
“Nah, I’m just paranoid,” Samuel joked. Upon entering the code, Megan’s voice filled the room as she told Samuel and Caitlin they now had access to the various consoles and monitors spread out across the room. Samuel takes the new information they had gathered thanks to Wulf’s cleverness in attaching a listening device to Daniel Creed and plugs it into the computer. After putting it together with the encrypted message they discovered in Cuba, he was just about ready to hand it over to the military; he just had to make copies of it just in case the General gets a hold of the original and tampers with it; something he can give as evidence at his court hearing if such an event were to occur in the future.
Meanwhile, half an hour earlier, Wulf wanders the floors of Creed’s not-so-secret military base under cover of darkness. Wulf had a nose for trouble. He knew every soldier in the compound would converge at the bottom of the lift, guns at the ready, so he decided to get off early. After dropping several stories, Wulf enters a ventilation shaft. He comes to a slight drop after a few yards and grips the walls to slow his descent. He reaches the end of his fall and continues crawling around until he approaches the medical bay. He stealthily watches as the doctor operates on a patient before he moves further and further through the vent. The rest of the way, he navigates through like a mouse in a maze trying to find the cheese. Wulf hadn’t been here before, so he didn’t know which way to go. He had his eyes closed so he could use blindsight to locate everything and everyone. Below him, were two guards walking and talking about sports. Wulf stopped suddenly as his swords hit up against the sheet metal and alert the soldiers below. He held the sword behind his back to it wouldn’t cause any more trouble for him.
“Probably just rats or something,” soldier #1 said.
“Those must be some huge rats then,” said the other soldier as they walk away, still unaware of Wulf’s presence.
“With the experiments we got going on here, I wouldn’t be surprised…”
Wulf adjusted the sword it was mounted on his back and then moved on. half hour later, He makes his first stop at the morgue. As he passed by the vent over top of this room, he smelled something that aroused his suspicion. He dropped in from the ceiling and the first thing to hit his nose was the smell of formaldehyde and the first thing to hit him like several knives all over his body was a chilling embrace that made him feel what it felt like to be a frozen entrée. Ignoring the smell of embalming fluid, he let his nose guide him around. He approaches the drawer with the number “428” once he gets a whiff of something that peaks his interest and once he opened it, he was slightly surprised as what he saw and contacted Samuel to tell him what he discovered.
“Samuel, are you there?”
“I’m working on something right now, Wulf, what do you want?”
“I just wanna ask you something. Did Creed have a twin brother?”
“No he did not. Why?”
“Then something is seriously wrong here. I’m staring at his body in cold storage.”
“What?” Samuel asked in shock.
“It could just be a double; remember that movie ‘Swordfish’?”
“No, it’s really him. I can tell.”
“Well, you found him. Can you return to base now?”
“Not yet; I’m gonna have a look around, see what else he was planning before his untimely demise.”
“I can have Megan do that from here…”
“By the time you do that, he’ll be hot on your trail. My way is better.”
“Just be careful, Wulf,” Caitlin replied.
Seconds later outside of Cameron and Christi’s house, a huge battle ensues between Seductra, Sapphira, her nieces, and the shadow rangers for possession of the chestplate and the jewels that sit atop it.
Jinx shot her right glove out, popping her jab into Raven’s face twice. The Titan girl shook her head clear and tried to push Jinx back, but the witch clinched with her and pounded her fist into Raven’s abs.
Sapphira broke free of the brown shadow ranger’s grip with a fist to the jaw and then hammered her face with a left cross. She spiraled and came back with a spinning back fist to the cheek. Sapphira ducked and hit with an uppercut. The Brown shadow ranger’s head was pushed up by the force of the blow and she spiraled into the air.
The white shadow ranger grabbed Sapphira by the back of the neck and pulled her close with her left, then socked her body with a right belly punch.
Sapphira coughed, and then punched the shadow ranger’s cheek with a right hook. Starla’s counterpart’s head snapped in the opposite direction and Sapphira drew her sword to stab her in the back; but she turned into light and flowed around the blade, her body, and reassembles as she lands a kick to the back, which drove her right at the brown shadow ranger, who knocks her for a loop with a clothesline move.
Phoebe’s counter prepares for an axe kick. She holds her leg in place at face level with the back of her hands until it was time to let go and she released her foot with the full force of a bowling ball being dropped from up high; Sapphira rolls out of the way and as soon as she gets to her feet, she blasts the shadow ranger with light from the side, which hit with enough force to knock her to the ground.
The white shadow ranger leaps at Sapphira, wielding Starla’s Armadillo blades and Sapphira unsheathes her sword just in time to block.
Cameron stumbled back and swatted at her eyes as her vision became blurry. Before the blue shadow ranger could follow up, Cameron threw down a smoke pellet to blind him while she recovered. She started to move forward into the smoke, but Meerlix’s counterpart shoved her back with a series of scratches as he blindly swung at her in the thick, black cloud. Cameron responded with a powerful right to the ribs. Meerlix’s copy grunted and the red shadow shook Cameron’s skull with a right uppercut to the chin.
Cameron spat out blood as she stood there, stunned. The red shadow ranger took advantage and hit her on the chin with a left hook. Cameron stumbled back again, and waited for him to approach; but the blue shadow ranger took the red one’s place as he left off the tree to Cameron’s right and took her down with a right jab to the teeth. As Cameron reeled from that, the red shadow ranger leapt in, pounded his pill bug armor into the girl’s stomach, spiraled, and willed the armor to move over to his left side as he smacks her with a backhand.
Christi cringed as she took one step backwards at a time from the flood of hits from both the orange and black shadow ranger. She turns to her right and lands an elbow strike to the black shadow ranger’s chin, then turns to the left and throws a punch to the orange shadow ranger’s chest; then the black shadow ranger shoves her back with a frontal kick. Christi grabbed her leg, spun her, and performed a sweep of her other leg with her arm.
The black shadow ranger leaps at her with a flying punch and she grabs him by the wrist and throws him to the ground. When Christi performed a curb stomp on Alex’s double, he transformed into a snake and evaded her foot as he made indentations in the grass; Caitlin’s double hits Christi with a laser beam from her eyes, which Christi deflects with several swings of her blade the moment she unsheathed.
The black shadow ranger locks his Scorpion Saber around Christi’s weapon and quickly yanks it away like a toy from a child as he pulls out his laser weapon and fires off two shots.
As Christi falls, Seductra attacks the shadow ranger by throwing a bag of explosive ninja powder at him and igniting it with a laser blast. As he fell, Christi rose. She turned to her aunt and gestures with a ‘thumbs up’ before they both turn their attention back to their opponents.
Fifteen minutes later, inside the base, Wulf gains access to the lab under the guise of one of the scientists so he doesn’t arouse suspicion. He needed a username in order to login, so he listened to the PA system until he found one he could pronounce: Evelyn Cunningham. Within seconds, he had access to every file on every computer; one that he found intriguing was a folder marked top secret. As eh clicked on it, Wulf found it needed a passcode. He ran a decryption that he got from Samuel and then sits around, waiting for it to finish.
In another part of the building, one of the commanding officers is alerted to Wulf’s actions.
“Can you pinpoint the exact location?”
“I’m doing that right now.”
Wulf had now come to realize that they may be on to him and what he’s trying to do. So he gets up out of the chair, turns the monitor off and takes to hiding.
The soldiers kick down the door and rush in in a double file line to an empty room. They figured he’d still be in the room, so they search all over; unaware that Wulf was concealed in the rafters above them like an acrobat, doing his best to stay quiet and still as if he was one of the metal rods holding the ceiling up.
The soldiers went through, checking under desks, inside closets, office spaces, and still Wulf was nowhere to be found. One soldier located the computer Wulf was previous sitting at. An unrolled newspaper covered up a flash drive he had inserted to bypass the firewall and gain access to the top secret file, Project Fortune. Before he could speak, Wulf dropped from the ceiling and landed right behind him. As he turned around, Wulf landed a strong, left hook that knocked him out in seconds. The sound of his head hitting the floor alerted the rest of them to Wulf; he unsheathed his sword and deflected each bullet as they flew at him at the speed of sound. Then before anyone realized what hit them, Wulf dashed at one of the soldiers that was reloading, loaded the clip for him, and took control of his arms as he made him fire back at his own team. The soundproof glass made it impossible to hear the gunshots from anywhere in the base, so Wulf didn’t have to worry about more soldiers crashing the party.
Half a dozen soldiers were left standing, excluding the one whose throat Wulf had slit.
Wulf’s program has finished decrypting the file, but before he could focus on it, he had to deal with his uninvited guests first.
Realizing that their guns were useless against Wulf, they decide to take him on in unarmed combat; things ended badly for them as Wulf killed them without so much as breaking a sweat. As their bodies hit the floor, Wulf switches out the previous flash drive for a new one and downloads the file as well as several others of key importance before he vacates and returns to Samuel’s secret underground base near the warehouses.
What he and Samuel find under Project Fortune was anything but pleasant. There was a blueprint outlining the work with Project Fortune. Seven suits similar to Samuel Grant and his rangers’ drawn in such detail. There were a few added improvements to the chestpiece so that they could house the jewels.