I was instructed by one of the three keepers of this legendary source of power to put together a team to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. On the road to keeping that from happening, my sons, Max and Willis, and I have thwarted countless attempts to gain possession of the jewels. The first of the two to come for them were Celsior, king of the ice and snow; and Farenhart, with dominion over fire.
Eventually, more and more villains rained down from outer space, looking for them as well and we had our hands full; but as we got now enemies, we received now allies.
Together, we managed to defeat our adversaries, keep the jewels safe, and save the world, but a couple years after we all separated, we made a startling discovery: the fight wasn’t over.
Chunks of rock fell from the sky all over the world covered in a black light. As they hit the ground and crack open a liquid substance flows out like lava and takes humanoid form.
In the US, the marines and the air force all dispatch to take them down; the fighters in the air try to shoot down the falling space junk before they even have a chance to land, while the soldiers on the ground combat the beings that have already emerged and begun to attack innocent people.
The beings used telekinesis to lift up various objects like cars, mailboxes, etc. etc.; they even tore up parts of the sidewalks and the asphalt as they softened up the military.
Just when all seemed lost, an unknown wave of bullets and missiles the size of pens flew at the monsters from the air and took out each of them like bowling pins; the soldiers looked to the skies and after seconds of searching, they see metallic purple man hovering over them.
“MEGAN, answer me this, why is it that a bunch of professional tough guys with superior firepower are easily outsmarted by extraterrestrials? It happens in all the movies and apparently, it happens in real life too.”
The army was run by someone named Diamanos. She was a ruthless space pirate; probably meant to be Seductra’s replacement or something. I fought against her army to no end. Soon, she took over the entire planet of Gaia and I felt myself experiencing some Déjà vu; it was the Omni-Gaia all over again.
Some of you may think I took the coward’s way out, but fleeing the planet was my only option. For to beat this new enemy… I was going to need a team. So I rounded up my sons, as well as Caitlin, Alex and Phoebe; Meerlix and Wulf are worlds away and can’t be relied on, so that leaves us with two spots to fill. Aside from Caitlin, Alex, Phoebe, Starla, my sons, and I, who else is there who would risk their lives for our world? And who else is there that is worthy of the powers of the bad moon?
Operation W.A.S.P. movie
Inside Diamanos’ base half an hour after Samuel’s escape, a man dressed in gray from his neck down to his feet with a black hood and purple hypnotizing disc covering his face marches in past the soldiers, whom were on their way out, on his way towards the war room, where he meets a Caucasian woman with long, black hair, orange eyes, red pupils, and green makeup around her eyes wearing an almost see-through black top, which starts at her cleavage and makes its way down to her crotch area, a pair of black boots that come up to her calves and a long, black cape, which extends down to her feet.
“Hyptizmos, what do you have to report?” the woman asked.
“Moments ago, I’ve detected several energy signatures aboard a rather large vessel, which was leaving the atmosphere; one of them seemed to belong that guy in the purple suit.”
“I want you to take a handful of our best warriors and hunt them down.”
“Yes, mistress Diamanos…” Hyptizmos said.
“I want the source of his powers; they may be the very thing that can tip the odds in our favor.”
Out in space way past Mars, there was a big, dark blue ship shaped like a grasshopper. Onboard it were Samuel, Caitlin, Alex, Max, Phoebe, and Willis; Planet Gaia’s last hope for winning this war.
“Samuel? Normally, I’m one for adventure, but where exactly are we going?” Phoebe asked.
“We need all the help we can get if we’re to take back Gaia, so the only way I know is to reunite the nine medallions. The ones we got to keep aren’t powerful enough on their own; not even with the energy source I’ve given them.” he explained.
“Well, how do we get them back? Of course there’s Lumindemia, Starla’s home world, but what about the rest? It’s not like we know where Zierian is.” Alex said.
“And once we find him, who do we get to replace Meerlix as Blue Wolf Ranger? What, do we have tryouts?” Max answered.
“Well I imagine Starla might know a way; she’s been to almost every rock in space, she might know where he resides.” Willis explained. “We can ask her when we get there.”
“And how do we get to her world? We’re gonna ask for directions?”
“You what, Alex…?” Samuel asked before he made a dramatic pause; and with a strange look in his eyes, he says his next statement with pauses in between some of his words, “That’s not a bad idea…” he mans the controls in the bridge and sets a course out of the solar system.
Their first stop was the aqua planet of Fluufago (pronounced: Floo-fuh-go). The planet was mostly water with tiny islands about the size of Manhattan or Hawaii, the inhabitants of this planet resembled the Penguins of earth, except they were blue and possessed gills, which allow them to stay underwater longer than the average penguin. They still possessed lungs, which take over once the gills close up shutters on a window.
After donning their ranger suits, Samuel, Alex, and Phoebe eject into the atmosphere and slowly descend like a comet.
“Planet seems deserted, Samuel.” Alex replied as he looked around at the sand, the burnt trees and buildings around them.
“I just don’t get it; scans are showing signs of life down there.”
“Well, there’s nothing here, but sand, grass, and something that looks like… palm trees?” Phoebe said confusedly.
“Trees usually mean oxygen, so I guess the atmosphere’s breathable.”
“Wait, Alex, don’t take off your helmet. You don’t know for sure. What if these trees survive on something other than oxygen?”
“Phoebe is right, Alex; besides, MEGAN’s picked up something on her sensors. Our target… is down there.” Samuel said, pointing at the deep, blue ocean. “Hope you can swim.”
“I was on the swim team in high school; stand aside.” Alex dives in first, and then Samuel, then Phoebe.
The suits acted like scuba diving gear as they kept the water out and provided oxygen; where they got the air from, even I don’t know. In order to communicate, they activated com systems.
“Perhaps we should split up, cover more ground.”
“I don’t think that’s a good idea. We don’t really know the area. We could get lost.”
“Relax; during our two year cooling off period, I’ve taken the liberty of installing probing devices into the suit. We just launch a few and… the image feeds back into our helmets.” Out of the left of Samuel’s chest came a small, oval-shaped device that looked like a guppy with a red, blinking light between its gill and right eye. As it swam around, it sent out a light, which couldn’t be seen by the human eye and that light was followed by an echo, which bounced off the walls, the floor, the fish, and everything down there as it fed a sonar image into the readout in Samuel’s helmet; Phoebe and Alex deployed the same thing and got the same results.
Phoebe takes the west, Alex heads east, and Samuel takes the northern direction.
After an hour of searching, they began to doubt Samuel’s confirmation.
“Still no sign of life; of than the array of fish and undersea life; How about you, Phoebe?” Alex asked.
“Nothing so far. Samuel, are you sure your readings are correct, because I have yet to find anyone?”
“I’m positive. MEGAN’s never wrong about this sorta thing.”
“Maybe she’s malfunctioning from being so far from home.”
“Hold up, I think I got something… boy, he’s closing in fast, Alex. On your six!”
“Oh s**t!” Alex sidesteps and the unknown entity zooms past him like a bullet; Alex manages to grab it by the foot and slows it down long enough to make out what it was; a blue penguin in a silver-like armor with weird, circular tubes on its shoulders, which seemed to rotate in every direction. The tubes take aim at Alex and make him release his grip as they hit him with a yellow beam that had a force, which equaled to that of a cannonball.
Alex does back flip in the water while his enemy swims a few yards away and turns around to make another pass.
Afterwards, Phoebe and Samuel attempt make their way towards Alex, but are stopped as more penguin-looking guys ambush them from behind; one of them shouted something in a weird dialect of clicks and honks, which Samuel and Phoebe didn’t understand, but they put their hands up anyways.
“Could these be the inhabitants?” Samuel asked.
“We’ll soon find out.”
The creatures drag our heroes off to one of 20 large undersea domes, one of which had a large 3-story building with a clock up on the roof in the middle of a small city; a statue stood in front, which said something in a weird language. The only world that seemed to translate into English was the word “Fluufagon”, which was the name of the planet.
Meanwhile, back up in orbit around the planet.
Caitlin was pacing back and forth, while Willis was at the controls.
“What’s taking them so long?” Caitlin asked. “They should’ve been back by now.
“I’m sure they’re fine, Caitlin, don’t worry.”
“Maybe one of us should go down there and…”
“No way, dad told us to stay here.” Willis said.
“Warning; unknown vessel incoming…” MEGAN alerted.
“They followed us.”
“Yeh, no kidding…” Max takes a look at the holographic projection unit; the one with the black screen and green wireframe on glass tabletop in the center of the bridge and notices a scorpion ship without the freakishly long tail. Out of its large pincers came 4 inch long red laser beams aimed for Willis and Caitlin, which shook the craft up on impact.
“Turrets 6 and 2 are down.” MEGAN informed.
“Fire the rest of them,” Willis ordered.
“Firing…” MEGAN repeated as she positioned the lasers for a counter-offensive.
“It’ll take some time to get through their shields.”
Back down on the planet; deep below sea level.
“For the last time, we’re not here to terrorize you. All we want is information.”
“More like spying,” the leader said in reply to Samuel’s explanation.
“Look, it seems we’ve got a common enemy. I’m guessing Diamanos’ forces are the ones, who did that to your planet’s surface, am I right?”
“Yes.”
“Well, all I’m asking is that you give us some directions to this planet called Lumindemia, so we can find our friend and together, we can help rid the universe of Diamanos once and for all.”
“If you have a star map, I’ll show you…”
After pointing it out on the map, the leader of his people escorts Samuel, Phoebe, and Alex to the surface; from there, they receive a distress signal from Caitlin and the others.
“Samuel, Alex, Phoebe, can you hear me? We’re under attack. Taking heavy damage here. We need help.”
Samuel could also hear the faint voice of Max as he stands at the controls and says, “We’re being hailed.” Just before the momentary cease-fire.
“MEGAN, patch me through; I wanna hear what’s being said.”
“Doing so now, sir…”
“And just who might you be?”
“My name is hyptizmos, I am one of Diamanos’ top generals. I have but one simple request.”
“Go ahead then. If it’s a reasonable one, we’ll do whatever we can to appease you.”
“For some odd reason, my mistress has suddenly become infatuated with the power source you possess; the one you used to decimate most of our troops with back on your beloved planet.”
“Tell Diamamos it’s not for sale…” Samuel broke his silence.
“Who’s that?” Hyptizmos asked.
“MEGAN, switch to conference mode please.”
Samuel’s face appears onscreen beside Hyptizmos, while a holographic image of Hyptizmos emanates from his chest like a movie projector without the screen.
“It doesn’t matter much to me how I obtain it; I can just blast you out of the stars, sift through the rubble and pry it from your mangled bodies and…”
“Well then that doesn’t give us much reason to say yes then, now does it?”
“Have it your way then.” He ends the transmission; onscreen in our heroes’ ship a bunch of small, red dots separate from a bigger dot, which was classified as Hyptizmos’ ship.
“You got loads of enemy troops descending on your location right now; get out of there!”
“We can’t just leave these guys; if only you were down here you could see the damage they caused.”
“Well if we stay here any longer, we won’t have to be down there to see it.”
“By my calculations, the shield will hold for another ten minutes,” MEGAN explained.
“That’s all I’ll need…” Samuel says vaguely as he takes his right hand, and places it behind his back; his weapon materializes from out of nowhere. The holster wraps around his shoulder and waist as he unsheathes the blade and takes off to intercept the unknown entities dropping in from the sky.
Alex does the same thing, except he puts his arm at his side instead of behind his back; his weapon, the scorpion saber shows up out of nowhere in the similar fashion and he unsheathes it.
Samuel holds out the palm of his left hand and hits the enemy with one shot each while barrel-rolling to avoid the burning debris; the ones that managed to evade him, he follows them and takes a slash at them with his sword. The ones that manage to make it to the ground, Phoebe and Alex took care of with the help of the Fluufagons.
Phoebe spirals clockwise, takes out a couple of enemies, then spirals counter-clockwise; knocking down another opponent with a frontal kick before getting shoved on her face as an enemy strikes her from behind. At that time, Alex finishes up on an enemy and turns to Phoebe, who was on the ground, and attacks the guy who attacked her with a laser blast from his palm.
Moments later, Alex de-morphs and uses his shape-shifting powers to turn into other animals, which gave him an advantage over his enemies. During the fight some of the Fluufagons, who were in his way, jump back as he takes a swipe and knocks the enemy down like bowling pins while transformed into a bear.
A few Fluufagons line up single-file; the ones in front back flip onto the head of the guy behind until they stood as tall as their opponent and then the guy on the top leaps forward, butting him in the chest with his head. As the guy stumbled back, a single Fluufagon slides in like a penguin on snow and trips him from behind.
Alex, who approaches the three penguins, lowers to their level and holds up his left hand. “Alright, high-five!”
The middle one approached and leans forward, slapping his right fin against Alex’s hand.
Over on the other side, Phoebe lands a couple jabs and an uppercut, then throws her Mantis Boomerang, and takes out a few bad guys; after her boomerang returned, she holds it behind her back and then tosses it in the air to distract the rest before she moves in. she spirals and lands a back elbow, spirals in the opposite direction and lands a palm punch to the chin, and finishes off with a spiraling kick before catching her boomerang.
Samuel dive-bombs in and pulls up before he becomes a smear on the ground; as he makes his way towards his team and their allies, he swerves left and right. Once close enough, he lands on his feet and joins the fight. “Everyone, stay close to me!” he shouts.
They huddle in next to, standing back to back.
“No no, closer than that.”
They literally hug their bodies against his armor as he takes something from out of the compartment on his right wrist and throws it into the air. After it gets a couple of feet in the air, the device emits a powerful shockwave half the size of a nuclear missile, which destroys the rest of the enemy soldiers in one devastating blast while leaving everyone in the center of it unscathed.
Onboard his ship, Hyptizmos pounds his fists into the console with anger, “he’s really trying my patience, this guy. What’s that saying that their planet has? ‘If you want something right, do it yourself?’ that’s exactly what I’m going to do; take care of the matter myself! PREPARE A LAUNCH POD FOR TRANSPORT!”
“Heads up, guys, you got incoming.” Caitlin said.
“Readings on this one seems a lot stronger.”
A giant, swirling, purple hypnotizing disc marked Hyptizmos’ entrance as he appears in front of Samuel, Phoebe, Alex, and the army of Fluufagons.
“It’s pointless… to fight; you’ll either become one of us; in time, or you’ll be nothing but the dirt under our feet as we conquer the whole galaxy one planet at a time.”
“Uh-huh... Can we just get this over with already? You attack, we kick your a**, we leave and we do the same to your boss.”
“I’m afraid this is as far you’ll get.” Hyptizmos activates his hypno mask and turns Samuel’s team against him.
“Caitlin, Max, Willis…? A lil help here, please.” Samuel said through his communicator.
“Willis, there’s got to be something we can do.”
“Why ask me all the time?”
“Because you’re the brains…” Max replied smugly.
Meanwhile down on the ground; Alex takes a swing as Samuel, who ducks, dodges, and finally grabs him by the arm. With several knees to the joint followed by the bending backwards of Alex’s arm, he takes his sword away. After it falls out of his hand and lands blade first into the sand, Samuel performs a back flip and picks it up; putting it in its secondary mode, he grabs Alex by the ankle and flips him. As he spins diagonally in the air, Phoebe slides under him as she dons her ranger form and throws a couple of left and right swings at Samuel, who jumps back and lands an elbow to her chin; it hurt Samuel just as much as it hurt Phoebe.
“Alright, enough of this; MEGAN, deploy flares!” She deploys the flares in his suit on command and temporarily blinds his friends long enough for him to make his move. Once he smashed the mask, Phoebe and Alex snapped out of their trance.
Hyptizmo lets out a long, drawn out, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
While Samuel replies, “Your act’s over, bub.” Just before they summon the WASP stinger Mark I to finish him off.
Hyptizmos limps out of the explosion moments later, clutching his arm. “Don’t think for ONE SECOND that this is over…” he orders his crew to beam him aboard again moments before Samuel, Phoebe, and Alex say their goodbye’s and board their ship.
“Orders, sir…?” one of the crewmen said to Hyptizmos.
“Bring us in position to fire the main guns…”
“BRING HER ABOUT, MEN!”
Onboard Samuel’s ship
“Okay, we have our course, and I’m plugging it into the map right now.”
“Samuel…?” Alex said.
“What?”
“We got company.”
“Hyptizmos again…?”
“Who else?” Alex said sarcastically.
“Aft turrets are still damage. By the time we get in position to fire, he’ll have us for lunch.”
“I suggest a full retreat.”
“Good idea, Phoebe. We’ll lose him in that storm cloud; full speed ahead, Max.” Samuel commanded.
“Samuel, I may not be an astronomer, but I’m pretty sure that’s not a cloud.”
“Sensors indicate are large amount of metal objects with high explosive rate.”
“You mean like a minefield?” Willis simplified.
“A m-m-m-m-minefield?!” Caitlin said in shock.
“Maintain course, son.”
“Samuel, are you crazy? We’ll be turned to scrap metal.”
“There aren’t a lot of options here; unless you wanna get out in your ranger form and take ‘him’ on.”
“You know, I’m startin’ to get the strangest sense of Déjà vu…” Phoebe explained.
Back onboard Hyptizmos’ ship
“Sir, they’re heading into The Drim minefield.”
“They’re either incredibly stupid or desperate.”
“Should we follow them?”
“No… find us a way around.”
“Aye aye, sir.”
“They’re turning away…” Max said to Samuel.
“Good riddance…” Caitlin said to Max.
“Kill the aft thrusters, turn this ship about, and activate the bow thrusters full reverse; and open the cargo bay doors.”
“Opening…” MEGAN replied.
“Samuel, what are you doing?”
“You’ll see.”
As they travel the minefield in reverse, cargo door gaping like a humpback whale feeding, they collect as many of the mines as they could while dodging the ones closest to their wings.
“MEGAN, any sign of that Hyptizmos yet?”
“Being this close, the mines are wreaking havoc with my sensors, so it’s hard to tell.”
“Samuel, do you think you have enough souvenirs yet?”
“You’re right, this should suffice; turn us around again and maintain course out of the field.”
“Sir, I’m picking up a faint energy signature approaching from below us, matching our velocity.”
“Alex, engage turbo boost; Willis, get to the cargo hold and start dumping when I give the word.”
“Hmm… they think they can outrun me?” Hyptizmos said as he got closer and closer.
“Sir, they’re deploying something from their ship; small, orb looking things.”
Upon closer observation, he sees the objects for what they truly are. “Evasive actions now!” he barked; but even as they turn to avoid, it was too late. The explosions from each mine slowly damage the ship; starting with the engines and ending with most of the hull being fractured.
Willis looks on as Hyptizmos’ ship just drifts off just before he closes the door.
“Come in, Hyptizmos, report…” Diamanos said over the radio while he and his crew were coughing from the smoke coming from some of their instruments.
“Hyptizmos, come in for Jorb sake!”
“This is Hyptizmos; the target has gotten away. He’s cleverer than he looks, mistress. He destroyed my ship.”
“Hold off pursuit; I’ll let one of my other generals in the area pick up from there.”
About an hour later in the mess hall on Samuel’s ship…
“Lot of things have changed since we all went our separate ways; with Zierian and Wulf gone the ranger powers haven’t been used in a while and I had to determine an alternative power source.
“Uh-huh…” Phoebe said smugly.
“I was not going to reenergize them myself; I figured that out the hard way, remember?” Samuel said.
“Ended up in a two day coma or something; which I recall was the way you obtained the purple ranger powers.”
“I wish the way I did that was a bit less painful. I’m still jittery whenever I plug in an appliance.”
Phoebe chucked.
“But enough about me, anything new in your life?”
“Still same old, same old.”
“Ever… miss the life of a rodeo champion?”
“Sometimes yeah…”
“You know, Max was a big fan of yours.”
“Dad…” Max said, embarrassed, as he walked towards the table after filling his plate.
“What? You were.” He whispers at Phoebe, “He had your posters plastered all over his bedroom wall.”
“Aww c’mon…”
“Bradshaw has actually overheard him talking about plans to marry you someday, and how his life was meaningless without you, and…” Samuel was cut off as Max dropped his tray on the table and covered his mouth.
“Max it’s cool,” Phoebe reassured him. “To tell you the truth, I just don’t see myself being wed anytime soon.”
“I understand.”
“So what about you?” Samuel directed his attention at Caitlin, who was just about to sit down next to Max.
“What about me?”
“Any interesting stories you wanna share about you and Alex?”
“Well, there was this one time with some wealthy Chinese entrepreneur and a priceless collection of those warrior statue things that were lifted from his home in broad daylight. The guys that stole them were pros. They never allowed themselves to get caught on camera at any point during the robbery. It was next to impossible to track them down.”
“So how’d you do it?” Phoebe asked.
“Well it seemed one of the men accidentally cut off a lock of his hair when handling one of the statues with a bladed weapon; After analyzing the sample, we were able to make a positive ID and link him to known associates, but that was the easy part; the hard part was how to get the statues away from them…”
Alex steps in and finishes where she left off, “The thieves were hauling the goods in a semi-truck, which was halfway out of this city called Qujiang heading south. The guys escorting the truck were a bit trigger-happy and would lay down at the first whisper of trouble…” Alex lies out on his back in the middle of the road in the form of a turtle, waiting on the truck like a lion waits to attack its prey in the savannah.
The sound of the horn alerted him to how close it was and Alex prepared to spring into action.
The truck in front of the primary target drives right over him first and Alex patiently waits for the objective; then he quickly turns into his human form and latches onto the underside. Using quick thinking, he drops a rolling explosive device, which attaches itself underneath the armed escort at the rear and detonates; the guys in front didn’t take notice to it as they were too busy watching the front.
As they come up on a crossroad, a mysterious motorcyclist comes at the truck full throttle and lines up behind. Timing the jump perfectly, the cyclist jumps on the back of the trailer, but before climbing up to the top, she opens it to verify the contents; 12 large Terracotta statues lined up neatly in two rows.
Meanwhile, Alex slowly climbs up and shimmies over towards the driver side. He opens the door and after transforming into a bear, he grips the driver with his huge bear claw and pulls him out along with part of the seatbelt. The guy on the passenger side takes notice of him and so do the guy in the truck in front of him. Alex took care of the passenger while Caitlin uses her laser vision to disable the turret.
“How exactly did you get the statues back to their rightful owner?”
“I’m getting to that,” Alex explained.
“We have arrived at Lumindemia,” MEGAN interrupted.
“Guess the story will have to wait.”
Later on the bridge
“Willis, are you able to get anything?”
“It seems as if the capital is under attack, but I can’t determine by whom.”
“We’d better get down there then and lend a hand.”
“Uh…. Yeah, I forgot to mention. Your suits need time to recharge, so Phoebe, Alex, and I need to sit back. Sorry; if I knew of an element that could provide sustainable energy…”
“Even if you had done so, we still couldn’t all go.”
“Yeah, we have to leave some people behind to watch the ship; MEGAN can’t do it alone.”
Max, Willis, and Caitlin volunteered.
“MEGAN, activate the ship’s cloaking device.”
“By the roaring flame, Red Wolf Ranger!” Max yells.
“I call on the power of… Green Wolf Ranger!” Willis said out loud.
“Power of the sun, Orange Wolf Ranger!” Caitlin shouts
They head for the launch pods and base-jump into the atmosphere towards the brightest city on the dark side of the planet. The closer they got, the prettier it looked. However, outside the walls was not as good as there were small fires all around and bullets flying all over.
“Caitlin, at your 9 o’clock; watch out!” Max warned.
Caitlin’s response time was impeccable as she deflects the large ball of purple light hurtling towards her like a cannonball; the explosion it gave off knocked her within the city walls somewhere.
“No!” Willis cried out, but just as he goes to help her, he is hit with another ball of light, which knocks him clear into the next zone.
Max dodges the next wave as best as he could via barrel-roll before he fires back using the proton cannons on his palms, but gets blasted inside the city along with Caitlin. As he hits the ground, he is knocked out of his ranger form. He slowly slips in and out of consciousness as the enemy pounds on the gates to get in and the inhabitants of the city approach from the opposite direction.
“Check him…” a familiar female voice said among the other beings completely shrouded in a rainbow of light.
“Seems a bit worse for wear, but I can’t tell for sure. This thing doesn’t work on automatons.”
“Let me have a look, I’ve dealt with machines before.”
“Wait, I know that voice,” Willis replied. “Fekete?”
“You again?!”
“You know this guy, ma’am?”
“Dated my sister… his name’s…. Wallace, isn’t it?”
“It’s Willis.”
“Whatever.”
“When’d you get out of prison?”
“You get used to it. You should try it sometime. In fact, would you like a guided tour?” she said sarcastically.
“Hey, don’t take it out on me just because your sis wouldn’t go along with you framing her for something she didn’t do.”
“Guys…”
The whole time they argued, the enemy pounded at the door, weakening its structure.
“Hey guys, can you continue this later?! We got Drim foot soldiers busting in!”
“We got what?” Willis asked confusedly.
“Oh right, you and your friends are planetary rangers.”
“What are Drim?”
The Lumindemian soldiers hold up their arms, palm facing forward as they prepare to fire.
“Seriously, guys, what are they?”
“You’ll see soon enough. Just keep your eyes on that gate.”
Willis wields his blaster.
One by one, dents appeared like somebody taking a sledgehammer to a blast door until finally the gate was slightly ajar; then after a couple more hits, it came off the hinges completely, revealing the cause being result of the tiny, dome-headed dinosaur, the Pachycephalosaurus.
“Open fire!!!” Fekete ordered.
As the enemy falls, another wave consisting of Velociraptors leaps forward and pulls blaster out of their back mount holsters.
Willis and the others fall back to a less open area and take cover behind the trees, rocks, signpost; whatever they could find and go on the defensive.
Meanwhile, Fekete stuck to offense. She breaks from cover, both arms held out and fires at anything within several inches of her with a wide variety of poses as she shot balls of light from her fists.
As a couple of raptors take shots at her, she performs a roll and gets in close. From there, she performs a karate chop to the hip, rises up, turns to the other raptor, and throws a high kick to the side of the face; the first one quickly aims its gun and fires back, but Fekete manages to sidestep the blast. She then karate chops him in the arm and he releases his weapon into the air. At that time, Fekete knocks him down with a frontal kick, catches his gun and opens fires another wave of raptors.
After a few minutes, the wave slowly changes from velociraptors to the dinosaurs known as Galamimus; unlike the raptors, these dinosaurs possessed no exterior armor whatsoever. They rush in like wild animals, killing everything in their path; Fekete uses up the round in the enemy’s gun on two of them before she reverted to using her power over light; a couple other soldiers join her as she jumps 5 or 6 inches into the air, spiral like a ballerina onstage performing, and come back down moving their arms in a sweeping motion as they face sideways, releasing a wave of light as thin as a wood plank, which slides diagonally across the ground, sweeping some of the Galamimus back out the gate.
Seconds after being pushed out, a wave of raptors rush in an open fire, slowly breaking down the wall of light. Before they could destroy it completely, Caitlin and Max come in; Max uses his super strength and tosses Caitlin into the air; Caitlin uses her laser vision on a couple of them before coming down and landing in Max’s arms.
“Guys, look out behind you!” Willis speeds in at the speed of sound and tackles the Galamimus coming up from the rear.
“There’s too many, we need to fall back!”
“Blow the bridge so they can’t follow.”
“I’ll take care of that.” Max steps out and with a single punch from his left hand he crumbles the bridge within an instant like a wrecking ball hitting a building.
“Fekete, we’ve just received word the enemy’s going after the Mother Light.”
“We’ve got to stop them.”
“What’s the mother light?” Max asks
The others ignore him
“Some of us have to stay here and guard the palace.”
“What’s the Mother Light?” Caitlin asked in place of Max.
“The source of all our powers; without it, we can’t harness energy from the sun and stars to have at our disposal.” Fekete answered.
“You guys are gonna need some extra muscle; let me come along.”
“You sure about this, Max?”
“I’m going with you…”
“No, Caitlin. You stay here and help them.”
“Well we’re going with you.” Fekete explains as she points to half of her army.
“Lead the way…” Alex then takes out his morpher and says, “By the roaring flame, Red Wolf Ranger!” before he takes off, he turns to Fekete, “Just make sure keep them from shooting me down this time.” He takes the skies faster than a bullet and heads west past the vast amount of Drim and Lumindemians fighting to the death below.
With the enemy firing at him from below, Max and Fekete dodge using a series of barrel-rolls while Max drops flares.
The leader of a squadron of the Drim shouts up at him as he passes by in its own dialect, which was a series of hisses, growls, and clicks; then it turns to one of its soldiers and gives it an order.
Several miles later, as Max and Fekete fly through the air, not worrying about incoming fire, MEGAN warns Max of unknown enemies approaching from behind.
Max looks back at a bunch of Velicoraptors sitting in some sort of windowless cockpit on the back of Pterodactyls, “Fekete? You might wanna look behind you.”
Fekete swerves right when she sees a couple balls of energy fly at her from the barrels attached to the flying reptile’s neck; Max swerves left, then right again, and then flies in low before turning around and taking the flock head-on.
Wave after wave of blue light balls fly past, which max narrowly avoids as he makes his way up to the first flying dinosaur and decks it in the jaw and gets it angry enough to snap at him like a dog after it’s been provoked; Max flies backwards to avoid its long beak as the same time the Raptor flying the Pterodactyl takes out its blaster and fires off a shot, causing Max to do back flips in the air.
While the Drim soldier was distracted, Fekete pops in from its left and lands a flying kick to the beak, literally knocking him out of his seat.
“Fekete, behind you!!” Max yells out as two Drim soldiers fly in, ready to fire. “MEGAN, deploy shield.” Max instructs as he flies in close like a bat out of hell. Bunch of tiny metallic objects emit from his waist and form a round, transparent disc-like shape as he hovers back facing Fakete. The beams hit, but they don’t make it past the partly invisible disc in front of Max’s body. Once the firing ceased, Max wills the shield to separate, making a small cavity near the center as he deploys a miniature missile from his left shoulder, which was aimed at the cockpit the soldier was riding in.
When it came in contact with the instruments controlling the beast, it went haywire and causes it to attack one of its own.
“Shield, retract…” Max commanded just before he and Fekete deserted the enemy on their way to their objective.
“I’ll cover right; you cover left and we’ll meet in the middle.”
“You may need this…” Max hands her his blaster.
“Thanks…”
“If they succeed and you become powerless, you’ll truly be thankful.”
They break off and begin the assault. With his arms stretched out at his sides, Max performs a barrel roll as he dives and spirals into alignment with the wave of soldiers preparing to storm the huge, domed building with an array of colored lights shining out at the top.
As usual, the Pachycephalosaurus were pounding at the door with the top of their heads like battering rams while more Lumindemians had their hands full with the oncoming invasion of velicoraptors; some of which were riding atop huge Triceratops that were attacking anything within their line of sight using the horns and stamping their feet, causing tiny earthquakes, which upset the Lumindemian foot soldiers’ balance.
Max flies in close and drops concussion grenades to disorient them. Once they were confused, Max turns and flies behind one of them, grabs its tail, swings it, and throws it to the ground. Then he turns to another Triceratops and knocks the Drim foot soldier off of the top of it.
Another Drim soldier come in from below and fires at Max from the front, knocking him to the ground, but instead of fall on his back, Max performs a back flip and lands on his feet.
The raptor continues firing as Max rapidly approaches and hits him with an uppercut, sending several feet into the air. at the same time, another Galamimus jumps on his back grips his neck; Max was rescued as one of the Lumindemians takes a shot at the beast latched onto his back; Max turns to him and says, “Thanks.”
Shortly after, another one approaches, but Max was able to see it coming and performs a wall kick off the ribs of a Triceratops, performs a flip in midair and aims down at him with his right palm, killing him instantly with a blast of white light from his proton cannon. Upon landing, he was attacked by another soldier 45 degrees to his left. He disarms him with a side kick and finishes him off with a heel kick to the beak.
One of the Triceratops’ charges at the group like an angry rhino and they swerve; one of the soldiers holds out his left hand and takes a shot, shoving him out of his seat and making him hit the ground face first.
Another Lumindemian pushes a raptor towards one of his teammates, which sweeps him onto his side and fires disc made of light; the raptor vaporizes instantly.
One of the soldiers elbows a raptor in the chest, then turns and pushes him back with a double palm to the chest. The raptor stumbles backwards towards another Lumindemian, which grabs him in a rear neck choke and breaks his neck.
Once they were ¾ of the way finished, they began to notice the dome head dinosaurs were almost done busting the doors down. Fekete approaches from the side and sweeps them away before they could finish.
Later, when Max and Fekete met up with Caitlin and Willis again, she explained where they could find her sister, Starla.
“Before you guys arrived, she stowed away on a transport ship going back to the Drim home world, Planet Era-Saur, hoping to find the reason for this unprovoked attack…”
“The Drim don’t usually escalate a fight without reason.”
“She hasn’t reported back with anything yet since you showed up.”
“If you’re planning on performing a rescue mission, you should know the Drim has defenses set up in orbit. Any unknown vessels will instantly get torn apart.”
“There has to be… blind spots, weaknesses in their defenses.”
“None that we know of…”
“But feel free to give it a try.”
“And if you survive long enough, be sure to report back.”
“Forgive the sarcasm, but I think you should try it the way my sister did. There’s another ship leaving for their planet to pick up more soldiers. You should be on it. I’d also suggest bailing out before it reaches the landing zone.”
“You realize you’ll be sitting ducks once you arrive, right?” Samuel said over the com systems. “You’re going to need backup; one of us will have to stay and watch the ship. I volunteer.”
Alex, and Phoebe were on their way down.
Amongst the ruins of the Drim home world. The sky was dark brown due to dust from the crumbling buildings, which our heroes saw before them.
“What a dump…” Caitlin said.
There wasn’t a single inhabitant for miles, but they still kept their guard up.
“Fekete mentioned this race is territorial, but I didn’t expect this,” Phoebe replied.
“We can enjoy the scenery later. Right now, we need to locate Starla.”
“I agree with Willis,” Alex answers. “Let’s get moving.”
Unbeknownst to them, there was a sniper perched in a 20-story building on their right with its sights set on Max. Within seconds, the sniper moves from one target to the next until turning away from them completely and towards the Drim soldiers stealthily approaching from the south.
The sound of two shots hits our heroes’ ears and catches their attention. They look to the two dead soldiers at their feet and look around to see if they can pinpoint the source of the shots.
The sound of footsteps hitting the ground alert them to the presence of their mysterious ally, who was soon revealed to be Starla and an unknown hyena-like being in a sun yellow robe similar to Meerlix’s.
“Starla?” Willis asked, surprised to see it was her.
“Willis, Max? What are you all doing here?”
“Someone named Diamanos is attacking earth…”
“I know; she’s been making a mess of Lumindemia.”
“We saw…”
“We we’ve been traveling the galaxy looking for you”
“Look, if you’re asking for my help to save your world, I can’t. We got our own problems we need to deal with first. I can’t just leave my people. They need all the help they can get.”
“Your sister told us you came here. How can you just come here on your own, you could’ve been killed.”
“Willis, enough…” Max said, putting his hand on his brother’s shoulder. “Why have you come here?”
“I had my suspicions about the Drim’s unprovoked attack on Lumindemia and it turns out I was right; the ones you’ve fought are not themselves. They’ve been indoctrinated somehow. Something was injected into their brains, which changed their behavior patterns and made them attack more erratic.”
“So how do we stop it?”
“There’s an abandoned factory, probably the only working one on this hunk of rock, where this is all taking place, but security’s too tight.”
“Well, you still have your ranger powers; why not use it to storm in like a one-woman army?”
“They’re monitoring energy levels, they’d see me coming from a mile away; plus, Yenax doesn’t possess the same power as me, which means while I play Iron Man, he’d be a sitting duck.”
“So we have to do this the old fashioned way.”
“Wouldn’t be fun if it were easy…” Yenax gave a wink as he smiled.
“He was quite the rebel on his planet.”
“Must be the hyena in him…”
The factory was three stories high and 15 windows across. Max scopes out the place with his binoculars.
“What do you see?” Phoebe whispered.
“Exactly what Starla mentioned; there are dark light soldiers on the north stairwell, and in front of every door; no easy way in.”
“What we need is a distraction,” Caitlin pointed out.
“Leave that to me…” Yenax replied as he dashes off.
“Yenax, wait…” Alex whispered.
“Let’em go, Alex.” Starla said.
Our heroes covered all four sides as they infiltrate the structure; all except Yenax, who was busy preparing a distraction. Once the others took out the patrol and made their way inside, that was his cue to go ahead.
High atop a hill facing the factory building stood a large tank-like truck. Its headlights turn on, the engine starts roaring; in the driver seat sat Yenax with one hand on the wheel and the other on the gear shift. He shifts the gear to the right position and shoots off. As he races downhill, he puts the truck on cruise control and gets in the back. The trucks bounces as it descends upon the factory wall on the north side until it finally plows right into it and makes a huge gaping hole several yards in diameter.
All of the dark light soldiers proceed to investigate.
With them not at their posts, Starla and the rest continue onward.
Meanwhile, Yenax prepares to fight. He tears a hole in the roof of the cargo area with a couple of rifles in hand like ‘the terminator’. He makes a few jokes to try and get their attention, but it seems to have no effect, so he skips straight to the shooting. The shots could be heard from all the way inside. “C’mon, who else wants some, huh?!”
“Man, you weren’t kidding about him being a rebel.”
“He does get a lil carried away sometimes…” Starla explained.
They hear footsteps coming down the hall and take cover, waiting for them to pass.
Moments later, they approach a catwalk and look over the edge to see a bunch of Velociraptor, Galamimus, and Pachycephalosaurus standing in a single-file line on a conveyor belt, which pulled them towards a large, rectangular frame. As each dinosaur passed through, a blue jolt of lightning emits from the left side and into the brains. At the end of the conveyor belt, each of the dinosaurs steps off the conveyor belt and is escorted by two dark light soldiers; the raptors were given armors and a various different guns, while the others were taken to a room where they had a bullet-resistant metal was grafted throughout their bodies.
“This is all my fault; I didn’t mean for things to get this far out of hand.”
“What do you mean, Starla?”
“I should’ve explained myself clearer to her. Then this wouldn’t be happening.”
“Explain to who?”
“I’ll explain once we’re done. Now here’s the plan, you guys go down and set them free; I’ll see what I can do to reverse the process.”
Alex quickly disguises him as a dinosaur, a Galamimus; the dark light soldiers stun him so he couldn’t move. Alex was only inches away from ending up like the other Drim before Max and Willis rush to the rescue; Willis races by as a green blur and snatches him off of the belt while Max dons his Pill bug armor and delivers a single punch to the destroy the indoctrination device; Caitlin comes in from the east and sends one of the enemy soldiers flying into a wall with her laser vision.
Up top, a pitch black demon-like monster with the lower half of a raptor or a raven, pointy ears on the top of his head, oval shaped eyes, and an evil grin with red and black feathers coming out of his neck, and red and gray metallic hands with sharp fingertips hears the noise and jumps out of his seat. “What the heck’s going on down there?”
Starla clears her throat to get his attention and let him know she was behind him; he turns towards her just as she performs a clothesline; he breaks the glass as he goes over the railing.
With him out of the room, Starla gets to work at the console. She goes through line after line after line of code, taking up to about 10 to 15 minutes trying to crack the sequence while her friends finish off the remaining dark Lumindemians.
Just then, small, red boomerang type object hits the controls near Starla’s right hand; she turns just as it returns to the hand of the same demon she just threw out of the room.
“Guess you didn’t get enough the first time…” Starla said.
Bogoul rushes at Starla, taking a swipe at her with his left. Starla ducks and lands a straight punch to the stomach, then rises with an uppercut. Bogoul sidesteps and takes a swipe at her with his right; Starla spirals onto her chest. She quickly gets up as Bogoul rushes towards her and immediately teleports behind him.
“What the…? Where’d she go?”
Starla taps him on the shoulder and he quickly responds; Starla wraps her arm around his and twists upwards; then she teleports back in front of him and throws a right hook to the jaw. As he falls to the floor, she gets back on the computer and resumes what she was doing before getting interrupted.
Frustrated, Bogoul gets back up, “Damn Lumindemians…” he mumbles just before he sneaks up on Starla, who had no idea he was back there until Yenax pounces on him.
“Thanks,” she said.
“No problem. So how’s it going?”
“I almost got it; just need a few more minutes.”
“I’ll see what I can do.” Yenax extends his claws and prepares to dig them into Bogoul.
Bogoul swings low, but Yenax blocks and swings high; Bogoul ducks with his arms out at his sides and brings them together like a pair of clamps around Yenax’s waist; Yenax blocks and delivers a kick to Bogoul’s bird-like legs and then spirals around to perform a back elbow to the jaw; but Bogoul leans back out of the way and quickly leans forward with a swipe to the chest from his left. With Yenax stumbling backwards, Bogoul rushes at him and repeatedly punches him in the chest with the Wing-Chun punch move; Yenax grabs Bogoul’s right fist with his right hand and Bogoul’s left fist with his left, then spirals and throws him over his head and on his back.
