Power Rangers Ancient Elements

[Ancient Flame]

Ok, this is a repost from the old RT. I started writing this about two years ago, and the writing refelcts that. My skills have grown, so there is a big diference in skill and style. The beginning may be rough, but I assure you, it gets alot better as you go on. Season 1 has already been written, and I am redoing season 2, plus I may add a bridge. Some plots from season 1 may be dropped, due to my liking of them. Enjoy.

Before Dinosaurs. Before Ninjas. Before Magic. Before Animals. There was one power. The Elements. Fire, Thunder, Water, Earth, Ice, and Air were the forces of nature and protected the Earth. They were harnessed by powerful warriors in ancient Greece known as the Elementalisks. Now, the power has been reawakened in six souls, and those six will become the Ancient Element Power Rangers.


The New Heroes Part 1
Episode 1.1


~ Fountain Heights, NJ---June 29, 2007---7:45 pm

It was a warm Friday night in the park, the summer movies were on, and Ian was with his friends Brad, Nick, and Rye scoping out girls. “Damn, Fountain Heights has the hottest girls! I know that they love me.” said Brad. He was 5’7 and had dark brown hair in a Caesar cut. “I know, and one of them will get lucky if they come up to me.” remarked Ian. Ian was a tall kid, but a somewhat skinny frame, about 5’10, and had shaggy, dirty-blonde hair. “Oh, there’s Chloe and Sarah”. He had a big crush on Chloe, and when they met on occasions, she seemed really happy, but his friends thought that she was just being nice.

“Ian, you have to realize that you have to go up to the girls, not wait for them to come to you.” chimed in Rye. He was about 5’8 and had red hair, unusual for a Russian. “If you really like Chloe, tell her.”

Nick was in the background, quiet as usual. He was 5’5, Hispanic, and shaved his head, and another of Ian’s closest friends. “Hey Ian, their coming over here.” he warned.

Chloe and Sarah ran up to the four guys. Sarah was about 5’7 and had long blonde hair, while Chloe was 5’5 and had black hair with light blue highlights. “Ian!” Chloe screamed as she walked up to him. “Hey.” Ian calmly remarked. He wasn’t the best at starting a conversation with girls, and had some self confidence problems. “Hi Brad” said Sarah in a sultry tone. “Hey Sarah.” he replied back.

It was basically silent from then on out, awkward even. Ian didn’t know what to say, and the girls left to go with their friends.

“Well Ian, you-“ he was cut off by Ian mid sentence. “I blew my chance with Chloe. I know, damn, why can’t I start a good conversation or buy her a drink, popcorn, or whatever.” said Ian, who was depressed at what just happened.

~ Dark Core Ship ~

Right by the moon sat an oval shaped spaceship. It was carrying three of the deadliest and most dangerous fiends not yet known. “So, my plan is set. We will knock out the human population on Earth with a meteor and loot its resources to sell, but most importantly, kill that doctor.” declared Acrodono, a space pirate made of stone. Standing in front of him were his two generals, Cloudex and Dasefa.

“I will get on the meteor ready to strike my master.” said Dasefa. He was an ancient knight and had rusted, but was still a powerful warrior. He walked to the attack room of the ship and readied for the attack, while Cloudex was busy scoping out Earth.

“I see that one human is miserable” she cackled. “But there are at least 500 more miserable pathetic beings.” She had the telescope on Ian and his friends.

~ Back in Fountain Heights---8:30 pm ~

Ian was thinking hard. “What can I do to get Chloe to like me; I just know that she really likes me, but it needs to come out.”

“Ian?” asked Brad. “Why are you so spaced out?” “It’s nothing, just thinking about Chloe.” He replied after snapping out of deep thought. “Get it through your head that Chloe doesn’t like you! And if she actually does, then step up!” he yelled, punching Ian in the chest, hurting him.

“S***!” Ian sputtered. “Why the hell did you have to do that?”

“I don’t know, I guess I just did. Do you want more?” Brad said arrogantly.

Rye got in between the two before they could come to blows. “Guys, stop it okay. This is Ian’s business Brad, and he needs to handle this himself.” Ian thanked Rye and went back to thinking of ideas, which he was a master at. He could think of tons of ideas, but none of them usually worked.

Chloe and Sarah were at the popcorn stand talking to other friends. “Do you think that Ian like’s me?” asked Chloe. “I think so, but he is shy you know.” answered Sarah. “He is pretty cute too. You like guys that are tall and have dark blonde hair, so he is a perfect fit. Plus, I’ve head rumors that he is wild, and that is something that you like too.” “I know, but I don’t want to look like I want him too bad, he should come to me.” said Chloe, clearly frustrated.

The guys were leaving when Nick heard something. It sounded like a rocket or a bomb dropping.

“What the hell!” Nick yelled as he saw the meteor come down and strike right by the forest about 5 miles away. They covered their faces and expected to die, as did Chloe and Sarah. But a miracle saved them, as each was engulfed in a colored light and transported to a place made almost entirely of stone and had computers all around. It had a few vases with flowers, and file cabinets were in a corner, as was a desk on the opposite side.

“Um, where are we?” said Rye, confused.

An old man got out of a chair and walked over to the six teens, looking them over, evaluating them.

“Hello, I am Dr. Ancialient, and this is the AE Base.” he said.

“The what?” asked Nick.

“The AE Base, the home of the Ancient Elements; and you six are chosen to become Power Rangers.

They were all stunned at what he just said. “Power Rangers? Isn’t that a kids show?” Chloe remarked.

Ian spoke up. “No, it’s real.”

Everyone turned around and looked at him.

“And you know this how?” questioned Sarah. “Do you really believe this guy?”

“In fact, I do. I don’t know how to put it, but this seems very real and mystical. We might be destined to be rangers.” He said calmly.

“Shut up Ian. There is no such thing as destiny!” Brad yelled.

Dr. Ancialient then chimed in on the argument. “Then why are you alive? The answer is destiny. You six must become power rangers to live”.

“Okay, we get that, but what happened to everyone else? Are they still alive?” asked Chloe.

“I am sorry destined ones. The meteor wiped out almost everyone on Earth. Only a few humans remain, but are in bad shape. You are the last defense against Acrodono and his army.” he said solemnly. “This is Acrodono.”

He pressed some buttons on one of the computers and a picture of a stone warrior appeared.

“So that’s Acrodono?” asked Brad, confused and scared at the same time.

“Yes that is, and these are his two generals.” He said as he pressed another button. A picture of a knight and a cloud like woman occupied the screen.

“So, you are going to have us defeat these guys?” asked Nick, sarcastically. He was very skeptical about this and only cared about the fate of his relatives. The others were the same way, except for Ian, who was taking this all in and evaluating it.

Dr. Ancialient went over to a desk and pulled out a briefcase. Inside were six black cell phones, with a symbol engraved on each. “Take one. They will be your power source. You will become the Ancient Element Power Rangers.”

“Yeah right” answered Brad. “We are not going to risk our lives. How do we know that you aren’t lying and just want a personal security force?”

From the background Ian stepped forward and took the cell phone with the flame on it. “He is telling the truth. I can’t explain it, but it seems like fate for us to be rangers. And we probably are all going to die anyway, so why not go out in a blaze of glory?” he said.

“Okay Ian, now that you are the Ancient Flame Red Ranger, you need to know how to work your morpher. Press 347 and the cell phone will transform into a morpher. Then press the flame and call ‘Power of Flames’ and you become a ranger.” commanded Dr. Ancialient. He peered over at a screen and had a worried look. “There are Dynamites outside of the base!”

Ian looked over his morpher. He was going to do this no matter what. “Okay, I hope I am a powerful ranger.” He said as he was about to exit the door, but was stopped by Chloe.

“This is so brave of you Ian. Trying to save the world, I want to tell you that I love you.” She said as she kissed him on the lips. “I feel the same way Chloe. I just didn’t have the confidence until now. I hope that I come back alive from this, and we can be boyfriend and girlfriend.” Ian said as he kissed her again and left the base.

“Nice job Chloe. I think you picked the right guy, one that will risk his life for you.” remarked Sarah.

Ian was outside of the AE Base where he saw about 20 Dynamites, circular exploding aliens. “Hey Dynamites, look who’s here. Power of Flames!” he yelled as he started to morph.

He was engulfed in flames, and when they retreated, he was in a red bodysuit. On it was a brown flame on his chest, and brown lines from his hips to his shoulders. He had brown gloves, boots, and a belt. On his knees and elbows was an arrow like symbol. His helmet was brown with a red flame centered around it.

“Ancient Flame!” he yelled as he stared down the Dynamites.

[Ancient Flame]

The New Heroes Part 2
Episode 1.2

Ian was standing in front of twenty Dynamites, ready for battle. If he was going to die, he was going to in a fight.

“Okay, I guess this will decide my future” Ian said with a deep breath. He then charged at a Dynamite, spin kicking it in the head and destroying it. Two more attacked him, but were hit with punches to the chest that knocked the wind out of them. They were then punched in the head and killed. Ian was taking control of this battle.

In the AE Base, his friends were looking on, astonished at what they were seeing. Ian, someone who never really stepped up, the shy kid, had now become a fearsome power ranger and was beating the hell out of the Dynamites. “I can’t believe Ian is capable of this” said Ryan, not knowing what to make of the battle.

“This isn’t even the best yet.” Dr. Ancialient said. “He still has a weapon to use.”

Back on the battlefield, Ian was still busy fighting the Dynamites. He dropped one onto the ground with a ground leg sweep, and catapulted it into another, destroying both. 15 were left. One was taken down by a quick chop to the neck, and another was kicked right in the head.

The others were still looking on, seeing Ian take down the Dynamites one by one. “Remind me to never piss off Ian again.” Brad said after seeing what Ian did to those Dynamites. “Agreed” replied Nick.

Another Dynamite fell to a swift punch to the chest by Ian, but the others ones teamed up, putting Ian on the defensive. He had to push them away and try to regroup. “Man, what’s gonna stop these things?” he said. Then, he heard a voice in his head. Call upon the Flame Sword Ian. It is your weapon of power.

“I guess; Flame Sword, emerge!” he yelled. Fire suddenly appeared and made a handle in Ian’s hand. A red metal blade shot out of it, spewing embers around.

Ian stared in awe at his sword. It felt so powerful, his body absorbing the energy flow. “Now, let’s see how powerful this thing is!”

He lunged at a Dynamite, impaling it in the chest. Ian was now destroying Dynamites left and right, swift shots to the chests and heads.

In space, on the Dark Core Ship, Acrodono, Cloudex, and Dasefa were worried about Ian’s power. “The Ancient Element powers have been released?” Acrodono shouted “And this kid is the Ancient Flame? Dasefa, why wasn’t I alerted that Dr. Ancialient was still alive, and that he had the Ancient Element morphers all this time?”

“Sire, I thought that the meteor would have killed ever one, and I did not know that Dr. Ancialient was still alive” Dasefa said in his defense. “I am sure that he will be exhausted by the Dynamites.”

Ian was still outside of the base, battling Dynamites. One was impaled by the Flame Sword, and disintegrated to ash. Two more tried to avenge this, but were slashed in half.

Ian was breathing heavily, his mouth cover down for him to catch some air. He smelt the burning ash on the ground, and the foul odor of the dead Dynamites. “F***, this is tough. I have to destroy these guys soon” he thought as he kneeled down to recharge his energy, but was hit by a punch before he could get up.


“You put up a great fight red ranger, but now, we must terminate you and the Ancient Flame powers” said a Dynamite as it held a knife above the Ian’s head. He was about to lower it, but was stopped by a kick to the head. It was Nick.

“So Ian, you need some help?” he said as he raised his arm, revealing the Ancient Thunder morpher.

“Power of Thunder!” he screamed.

He was engulfed in a field of electricity, and when it burst, he was in a yellow suit with brown boots, and gloves. He had the same triangular markings as Ian on his arms and legs. A brown lightning bolt was centered on his chest, and on his elbows. Brown lines were on his hips to his shoulders. His helmet was also brown with a yellow lightning bolt centered on it.

Nick was now a power ranger; the Ancient Thunder Yellow Ranger. “Ancient Thunder!”

He punched the Dynamite that was about to kill Ian in the back of the head and kicked the knife to the ground. As another one charged at him, it was karate chopped in the head by the new ranger. It was then destroyed by a spin kick to the head, and the one that attacked Ian was destroyed by an uppercut to the jaw.

Ian looked at one of his best friends. Nick had just saved his life, and he was now a ranger. He was helped up by him and they stood side by side, ready to battle. “One more thing Ian. Your girlfriend is out here too.” Nick said, motioning to the door of the base, which Chloe exited.

“Power of Water!” she called. Her body was engulfed in water, and when it stopped, she was in a light blue suit with brown boots and gloves. She had a brown teardrop like marking centered on her chest. She also had the same triangular markings as the guys. Her helmet was brown like the boys’, with the same teardrop like figure centered on her helmet, only light blue.

“Ancient Water!” she screamed. She was now the Ancient Water Blue Ranger.

Ian looked at her, stunned that she was now a ranger too. “Chloe?” he questioned her.

“Hey boys” she said before kicking a Dynamite and going over to them. She hugged Ian when she got over to him. ”What decided you two to become rangers?” he asked. “We thought that we should help you, and you can’t change fate, I guess.” Nick said. “Plus, the suits are stylish” Chloe added.

Back on the Dark Core Ship, Acrodono was even more infuriated at the two new rangers. “TWO more!” he screamed. “Dasefa, send a monster down! I want all of them dead!”

“I am on it master” Dasefa said, picking up a stone with a carving of a lizard on it. “Maybe this will destroy them.” He said as he put the stone into a teleporter, putting the coordinates of Fountain Heights in.

Ian, Nick, and Chloe were deep at battle with the remaining Dynamites, 7of them. Ian rushed into battle with his sword, as Nick and Chloe summoned their weapons.

“Thunder Claw!” Nick said as electricity gathered around his wrist and left a yellow claw.

“Water Pulse Fin!” yelled Chloe. A bubble appeared on her hand, and when it popped, there was a blue fin blaster.

Ian was facing three Dynamites, striking them whenever he could. A shot to the chest destroyed one. “One down, two more to be dead”


Two Dynamites were attacking Nick, but he ducked and grabbed one by the leg and flung it into the other. He ripped one up with his Thunder Claw and spin kicked the other.

“Want some water” Chloe said as she sprayed small jets of water at her two Dynamites. When one tried to attack her, she punched it in the chest and blasted it in the face. “Ian, only three more left”. “Okay, but how? These guys know our moves now, so we need some new ideas.” Nick said. Then he saw something in his head. It was a warrior using the Thunder Claw, screaming ‘Lightning Terror’. “Ian, Chloe, I just got a vision, It was a warrior destroying a Dynamite with an attack called Lightning Terror.”

“Then do that” commanded Ian who was having a fist fight with a Dynamite.

“Lightning Terror!” Nick called as his claw glowed yellow. He charged at a Dynamite and went right threw it in a bolt of electricity. “Now that was cool”.

Chloe was busy trying to kill the Dynamite that was battling her, when she also had a vision. This was of a female warrior saying ‘Tidal Surge’ and destroying a block of wood. “I guess that’s my attack” Chloe said. “Tidal Surge!” A huge wave of water was aimed at a Dynamite, drowning it. Only Ian was left with his Dynamite. He finally destroyed it by slicing it in half with his sword. “Yes! Were done!” he yelled.

“Not yet red ranger” said a monster that just teleported down. It looked like a lizard alien, and had a shotgun in its hand. “Say your goodbyes”.

He was about to fire when Nick attacked it from behind, but was thrown back. Chloe tried to help, but she was also rebuffed. During this, Ian also had a vision. It was a man on to of a volcano, with the Flame Sword. He yelled ‘Burning Ambition’ and destroyed a frog like creature. “Lizard dude, you're gonna be the one killed, Burning ambition!” screamed Ian as he slashed the monster with his sword, now on fire. It was destroyed instantly. “Job done”. They all walked off into the base, the bodies of the fallen Dynamites and the monster behind them.

“Power Down” Ian said, his ranger suit now gone. “Power Down” repeated Nick and Chloe. The three of them were bruised, but not badly injured.

“Well done destined ones. You survived your first attack.” Dr. Ancialient said proudly.

“First attack?” Nick said wearily. He wanted this to be over. “There are going to be more attacks?”

The old doctor nodded. “Yes, and the monsters will get stronger. You will need help destroying Acrodono and the evil. That is the only way to revive everyone.” With those words, he handed over the brief case with the Ice, Earth, and Air cell phones to Ian. “Ian, you will decide when the time is right to give these morphers to Sarah, Brad, and Rye.”

Ian looked at the morphers, and then his three other friends. He knew they were going to be Power Rangers, but they needed to prove themselves.

Chloe then spoke up. “So doctor, what are we going to do now? Fountain Heights is basically destroyed. Where are we going to live, and get food, clothes, and other stuff? Were only kids.”

Dr. Ancialient smiled at that last sentence. “Why don’t you look in the mirror on the wall and determine if your kids now.”

Chloe looked over herself and was shocked to see herself. He body had matured, and she was now older. “What happened?”

“I’m not complaining” Ian said looking over Chloe and her new ‘features’. He then looked at himself in the mirror, as did the four others. They all looked like they were in their twenty’s.

“You have all matured physically and mentally. Your minds have reached their full potential, as have your bodies. That is a side affect to being exposed to the power of the elements. Your age however is the same.” Dr. Ancialient explained.

“Okay, so that’s solved” Brad said. “But where are we going to live?” Sarah looked at her surroundings. “Not here, right? It’s too clamped.”

The doctor then pressed a button on his computer and a mansion appeared on a computer screen. “I knew that you were going to ask that question, so I decided to give you a place to stay. Los Angeles is your new home.”

They were all stunned at what the mansion looked like. “How are we going to pay for this?’ Rye asked, knowing about the upkeep of a house like the one they were all looking at.

“Inside your cell phones are virtual credit cards, each holding 1.5 million dollars. You may buy whatever you want with that money.” answered Dr. Ancialient. “You are also immune to germs; I need you to be in top shape to battle. Your bodies are clean and focused now. Any problems that you had before are gone. You are in paradise now. But, you must follow the basic laws. Now, there is a feature on your morphers where you are able to buy items, just press 117 and a holographic mall will appear. Speaking of holograms, I know that you all miss your families, so I implanted your phones with the best virtual holographic system. To access that, press 498. I have input the coordinates of your new home in the cells, just press the button in the top left hand corner and you will be teleported there.”

The six teenagers had a hard time taking this in. They knew that they had the duty to protect Earth, but now they were living the high life.

“May the power protect you” Dr. Ancialient concluded as the rangers transported to their new home on the west coast.

[Storm Dawn]

Amazing! Talk about cool.

[Ancient Flame]

Arrival of Earth Part 1
Episode 1.3

~ Los Angeles, California---June 29, 2007---10:00 PM

The six rangers had just teleported to Los Angeles, their new home for now. “Okay, so where’s the house?” Brad asked, looking around. They were walking on the beach trying to find the house Dr. Ancialient got them. He told them that it was beachside, and was sea green.

“I think I found it” Rye said, pointing to part of a roof in the distance. They all ran up to it to see a beautiful mansion.

Nick opened the door and walked in, stunned at the site of their new home. “Wow. Just wow.” he said, jumping on the silver couch. There were three more couches, made to look like a square. In the middle was a clear table, a vase on it. The walls of the living room were royal blue, with purple molding. “Not bad.” Chloe said. She walked over to the kitchen. It had a counter with everything they needed, and a wooden floor, connected to a breakfast nook. Rye and Brad looked in the fridge, finding beer, soda, and juice, along with other food. They immediately took a can of beer each and started to drink.

“What the fuck are you two doing?” Ian yelled when he saw them drinking. “Were not old enough to drink yet!” he said, swiping the two beers from them and pouring them put in the sink.

Brad put an arm on Ian’s shoulder, trying to calm his leader down and reason with him. “Ian, there are no cops here, and our bodies are in their twenties, so we should be able to drink. Plus, I’m sure we have a winery and tons of champagne for you and Chloe.” Those words struck Ian right away. “You’re right. Drink as much as you want. I’m gonna get me and Chloe some wine, want some?” “Nah, I like beer, but bring some up in case. Tonight is a time to celebrate.” Brad replied, getting three cans of beer for him, Rye, and Nick. Sarah took a glass out of a cabinet and got herself some water as Ian looked for the basement with Chloe.

Thy both walked down the halls and found a door leading to the basement. They stopped to look at it for a moment. There was an air hockey table, a pool table, and a ping pong table, along with a jukebox and stage, almost like it was directly from a club. A bar was in the corner, a door behind it. “I guess that’s where the wine is” Chloe said as they opened the door. Inside were millions of bottles of wine, different flavors and ages.

“What should we have?” Ian asked his new girlfriend as they looked around. “Too many to choose from, is there a guide here?” Chloe said. She looked on the walls to see if there was a list of what and where certain wines were. “Want some cherry wine?” “Yeah, that sounds good” Ian answered.

Upstairs, the others were looking at what else they had. There was a big screen TV, computers, and sculptures, along with paintings on the wall. Rye also saw that they had a small movie theater. “It says that we can have ANY movie we want.”

Brad dropped his drink right away when he heard the word any. “Wait, so does that mean that we have those movies?” he said, looking over the list to find what he wanted. “Yeah, every single film ever made.” Rye reassured with a wide grin. Sarah came over and looked over the list. “You’re not watching that right now, I’m watching Snow White” she said, taking the remote and playing the old Disney movie.






Nick was exploring the house too. He found a gym and an indoor pool on the first floor, and then went upstairs to look at the bedrooms. There were six bedrooms, one in each of their colors with their elements on the walls. He took the room with ‘Ancient Thunder’ on the door and started to furnish it. Nick put a bookshelf in one corner, and a desk in another. He ordered a laptop off of his Element cell and placed it on the desktop. Next were clothes. A yellow and brown jacket with the thunder symbol was already in the room, a gift from Dr. Ancialient. He put that in the closet, along with other shirts he ordered, most shades of yellow. Next were pants, mostly brown kakis, and some shorts.

Sarah soon came up, looking for her room. “Damn Nick, you have good style” she said looking over the room. “But I could give you some help. Brad and Rye are downstairs, drunk.” Nick just laughed. He knew they were going to be wasted by midnight, so he might as well get to know Sarah, his new teammate. “So, where did you grow up?” he asked as him and Sarah put up sand yellow drapes on the windows.

“Gale Valley, Texas” she answered. “It’s a small town outside of Dallas. What about you, you speak Spanish or Mexican, whatever it’s called, so you’re from Mexico?” Nick looked at her, dumbfounded. “Nah, my relatives are Puerto Rican, not Mexican.”

“Same thing, right” Sarah insisted. She wasn’t that smart, so she thought she was right. Nick then explained to her the different Hispanic cultures in the easiest way, knowing she would have a hard time understanding. He knew that she wasn’t a racist, just the typical dumb blonde. She soon apologized, and went to her room to decorate.

“Ancient Air” she said softly as she entered a pink room. Sarah knew exactly what she wanted to do with this. She ordered different shades of pink sweaters, shirts, t shirts, and mini skirts, along with blue jeans. The rest of the room she made look like a princess’ room.

Downstairs, Chloe and Ian came back up with wine, to see Brad and Rye passed out on the couch. “Idiots” Ian mumbled as he got two glasses out of the cabinets and poured drinks. Chloe and Ian went over to another room, a more romantic one, fireplace and all, sitting on a couch.

“I can’t believe his” Ian said as he took a sip of his wine and looked at his Element cell. “Were rangers now.” Chloe looked at hers too. One day ago, they were just normal teens, and now they were basically adults with the duty to protect Earth.

“Only seven of us remain” Ian said solemnly. “Well, from what I know. Dr. Ancialient said that some humans were still alive, but where?” He leaned back on the couch, still having a hard time taking all of this in. At least he had his friends, and more importantly, Chloe.

“Ian” Chloe said, taking his mind off of all of the stress. “Do you know that I loved you even before you took the risk of fighting those Dynamites?” The red ranger looked into her eyes and kissed her passionately. “Yeah, I thought you did, and now we know.”

She cuddled up to him, falling asleep in his arms, tired from the night. He carried her up to her room, only to find it bare. He decided that she could sleep in his room, which he fixed up quick. Nothing too fancy or good for now, just a place to sleep. He lied down next to her, and fell asleep.

~ Los Angeles, CA---June 30, 2007---9:00 AM ~

Sarah was up, making breakfast. She decided to let the others sleep in or do what they wanted, Brad and Rye having hangovers, and Ian, Chloe, and Nick tired from the battle. Brad came down first, holding his head.

“How much did I drink last night?” he moaned, falling on the couch.


“2 cans of beer and about ten shots” Sarah said, bringing over some Aspirin and water for him to drink. “You and Rye really need to know your limits.”

He put the Aspirin into the water and took a sip of it. “Uh, I feel like shit. Maybe when the morphing DNA bonds with my body, I’ll be able to take the alcohol better.” He took a plate of toast that Sarah gave to him and started to eat.

Rye came down next, in the same state as Brad. He slumped over on the table, putting his head down. “Sarah, get me a glass of water, but no Aspirin in it. I can handle this on my own.” he insisted. Rye knew the hangover would get better in time, and he was never one to take the easy way out, in this case Aspirin. He wanted to test his body’s limits, it was his life goal. The cold was no match for him, as he survived harsh Siberian winters when he was a child. Neither was the pain of losing loved ones. His grandmother was killed in 1987 during the communist reign in the Soviet Union. He and his parents left for Fountain Heights when the fall of communism happened, and he was happy with where he was. “I guess I know my alcohol limit, for now” he mumbled, taking a drink of water.

Nick was upstairs in his room just getting up and looked out his window at the ocean and morning sunrise of California. “I never thought something like this could happen.” He said in his head. “At one point, I was about to go to jail, but then Ian moved here and we became fast friends. Now he made this happen.” he said, clutching his Element cell. “I hope I made the right choice by becoming a ranger.”

Ian was in the shower getting ready for breakfast. He wanted to look nice for his first full day together with Sarah, and more importantly, Chloe. “Fuck this is awesome.” he said. “I got the girl of my dreams, and I’m a ranger. More importantly, red, the leader.”

He got out of the shower, with a bathrobe on, only to find Chloe standing there, grinning. “Are you gonna take that off for me?” she joked. “Or do you want to get into the shower with me.” Ian gave her a sly smile and a kiss on the lips, picking her up after. He acted like he was going to drop her, but she knew he wouldn’t. “Chloe, we’re going to, okay? We’ve been together for less than a day. The only reason we slept in the same bed was because I didn’t want to wake you up, you looked so beautiful. Not that I wouldn’t like that everyday, but not right now.” He said, putting her down. “But if you want me to watch you take a shower, I’m good with that.” Chloe agreed to that and went into the shower, taking her clothes off in there and throwing them to Ian.

Ian wanted to play this relationship safe to start, using his natural charm and charisma that got him his only other girlfriend. For all he knew, the last girls on Earth were Chloe and Sarah, and he knew that Brad had a thing for her. “Damn this life is good.” He said, lying back, and watching Chloe.

Nick was downstairs, making himself some eggs. “How bad of a hangover?” he asked Sarah, motioning his head to Rye and Brad.

“Together they had 10 beers, and a plate of shots. I’ll just leave it like that.” She responded; making some more toast in case Ian and Chloe drank too much the night before.

Brad was back up, feeling somewhat better and poured himself some orange juice. “I wonder what happened with Ian and Chloe last night. I saw them go upstairs together, Ian holding her.” He downed the glass of juice fast and walked around, trying to shake off the last effects of the hangover.

“No, we didn’t.” Ian and Chloe came down the stairs, dressed for the day and threw Nick a shirt and a pair of shorts from his room. Chloe took some toast for her and buttered it, giving the rest to her boyfriend. Ian put some jelly on it ate it fast. “Hey Nick; Chloe and I are going to the boardwalk, wanna come?” “Yeah, I’ll be ready in a minute” he replied, going into the nearest bathroom and putting his new clothes on.

“Wait!” Rye called out, stopping them. “We all should go, I’ll get ready fast. Brad and Sarah, you’re coming too.” He went up to his room and threw on a white tank top and white sweatpants, Brad a green shirt and black jeans, and Sarah a tight shirt and hot pants. They all went out the backdoor and onto the beach.

~ Dark Core Ship ~

Acrodono was sitting on his throne, monitoring the rangers. “This is a perfect opportunity to attack. Dasefa! Send Dynamites down to destroy them!”

“Yes my master” Dasefa said as he took a bag of circular disks out and loaded them into a laser. He fired a shot, and a Dynamite sped down to Earth. More followed, all going to Los Angeles.

Cloudex was in the corner polishing her long nails. “You’re making a mistake with this.”

Acrodono got up and cornered her. “Now why is this a mistake?” he asked, his breath burning down her neck.

Cloudex turned her head and answered her master. “Because there are still three morphers left sir. If all of them are destroyed, the Earth, Air, and Ice morphers powers could be harnessed by Ancialient and take us out.” She slipped out of the corner and continued to speak. “Plus, I have a personal interest in one of those rangers. I could kidnap him and make him my- I mean our slave.”

The rock lord went back to his throne and thought about Cloudex’ idea. “You are right. Those Dynamites are only to weaken and test them. I’m trusting you in this plan Cloudex. It better happen, or else your head will become a lantern for this ship.”

“I will not fail. The one I want will be taken tonight. I can easily guess what those humans will do this evening, and I will be waiting” she said, taking a white orb out of her pocket.

~ Boardwalk in Los Angeles--- June 30, 2007--- 10:30 AM ~

“Okay, so what should we do first?” Brad asked, looking around.

“Well first, we need people” Ian responded, taking out his Element Cell, pressing 498, the code for the holograms. Right away, the boardwalk was filled with almost life like people. “There, I’m going to the arcade, anyone wanna come?” Ian loved video games and gambling, a perfect mix in the arcade.

“Nah, I’m going on the rides” Chloe said, “and Sarah’s coming with me”.

“And I’m going to go play some games out here; does anyone want to do that?” Nick asked, Rye agreeing.
“I’m definitely going to the arcade” Brad said, heading towards a place with flashing lights and noises.

Ian then ran over the way things were going to work. “Okay, if there is an attack, call me, and morph right away Chloe and Nick. Sarah, Brad, and Rye, do your best to help out. Use anything here. If one attacks, just jump out of the way and fight with what you have around you. We’ll meet back up 12:00PM for lunch, got it?”

They all agreed. “Your such a great leader” Chloe said, her gleaming eyes looking into Ian’s as they both kissed passionately for a minute, Ian’s hand on her back, and her legs wrapped around one of his. They broke and hugged each other before going different ways.

“Damn Ian, you’re a real ladies man now!” Brad exclaimed, throwing his hand over his friends shoulder.

“I know” Ian said, smirking “I knew I was, but it took the morpher to bring that out.” He looked down at his pants, his Element Cell clipped to it. “So, do you have any interest in Sarah?”

“Hell yeah!” Brad said. “Look at that chest! I mean, Chloe is no slouch in the breast department, but Sarah has C’s! Even though Chloe does have a nice butt.”

Ian hit him in the arm for taking about Chloe that way. “Let me say this. If I ever see you kissing Chloe, my sword will be up your ass. Got it?”

Brad backed away, knowing Ian might not be joking. “Yeah, I know.”

The red ranger just laughed. “I’m joking, okay. But don’t try to hook up with Chloe, she loves me. Now with you and Sarah, you may have some competition.”

“Who?” Bard asked, knowing it was either Nick or Rye, and they both didn’t seem like the type of guys for Sarah.

“Nick” Ian responded. “They’re getting along great and there may be a spark, no pun intended. Just don’t kill him; I’m sure they’re only good friends.”

They booth stopped taking about girls when they got into the arcade, Ian going to a paintball range, and Brad a poker game.

On the other side of the boardwalk, Nick and Rye were getting some fries to eat while they looked around.

“I love it here in Cali” Nick said, looking at the ocean.

“It sure is a different change of scenery from Russia.” said Rye, remembering the harsh winters in his old home.

“You lived in Russia?” Nick asked.

Rye nodded and told him the story of hating communism and losing his grandmother to military police. Suddenly the pains of the real world came back to them.

“I’m so sorry about that” Nick said, regretfully “My dad was kidnapped when I was 13, probably from drug lords of Puerto Rico. I hope these new powers can help me find him.” He looked down at his yellow and brown cell phone, his morpher.

“Okay, enough with that, lets play some games” Rye said as he took some quarters out of his pocket and placed them on the stand for one of the giant wheels.

Over at the rides, the girls were on the teacup spinner talking.

“I really cant believe this” Chloe said. “Were probably the only seven people left on Earth, and I’m a Power Ranger!”

“And you have a great boyfriend” added Sarah.

Chloe nodded. She never felt this way about someone before. Ian risked his life for all of them, and now was their fearless leader. “He is. Very romantic too. I can picture the rest of my life with him. He has a great personality, and he does have a good body. I love that golden brown hair on him. What about you?”

“What do you mean?” Sarah asked.

“I mean about you and Brad. I know you two like each other.”

“Yeah, I guess. I hope we have some time to spend together, I don’t want any attacks.”

The blue ranger sighed. She knew that Acrodono was going to attack again, but it was a question of when. “Well, we would need the other three morphers to activate. Judging by the clothes that were wearing, you’re pink, Rye is white, and Brad’s green.”

“But how do we unlock the powers, and what do we have to do to control them?” Sarah said. She wasn’t sure if she was cut out for this.

“I think it has to do with our element. We each have a certain connection with it. I like to surf, so my element is water. Ian is intense, so he is in touch with flames, and Nick shares a bond with thunder. Brad probably will get the Earth Element Cell, because he’s powerful. Rye, the Ice Element Cell, he grew up in Russia, so he has a connection with the cold. And you’re graceful like the wind, so you’ll probably get the Air Element Cell. Chloe responded. “To unlock them, I think it is destiny like Dr. Ancialient told us.”

After they were done talking about their new lives, they headed over to the beach, looking for sea shells.

Back in the arcade, Brad was hitting big on the virtual poker games, getting tons of coins.

“Yeah baby!” he yelled as he got a Royal flush and collected his winnings.

Ian was busy practicing some maneuvers in the paintball range. He hid behind a wall and sprayed a cardboard cutout rapid fire. “Too easy, where’s some real competition?” he said.

Suddenly, a group of Dynamites came into through arcade, brandishing lasers.

“I had to say that” Ian said as he got out of the booth, paintball gun still in hand. “Brad lets kick some ass!”

“Right!” Brad yelled. He rushed over to his friend and tackled a Dynamite back onto the wooden floor of the boardwalk while Ian was taking on the other ones.

He shot the gun, hitting them with paintballs to stun them for a moment. With a quick jump, he kicked one into a game, sparks flying everywhere. “Come on motherfuckers!”

Ian swept one in the leg and kicked it into a wall, its head coming off. Another charged at him, but was kicked right in the face and destroyed. He took out his cell phone and called Nick, telling him what was going on. “Be there in a minute” Nick responded, him and Rye running to the arcade, while the yellow ranger called Chloe, her and Sarah coming rushing over.

Brad knocked a laser out of a Dynamites hand and shot it at the circular alien, destroying it. Another came at him, but he trucked it over a rail, shooting it in the process.

The four others were running over to the arcade when they encountered a line of Dynamites and stopped dead in their tracks at the site of the lasers pointed at them.

“Um, Nick, Chloe, I think you should morph, now!” Sarah cried as the Dynamites fired at them, but the four moved out of the way.

“Power of Thunder!”

“Power of Water!”

Nick and Chloe morphed and charged into battle, Rye and Sarah behind them as backup.

Chloe hit one with a punch to the head and chest as it tried to grab her, while Nick plowed one through glass. Rye and Sarah teamed up to take another out and took its laser, shooting at the other aliens.

“I guess its time for the heavy artillery” Nick said. “Thunder Claw!” Electricity gathered around his hand and formed a yellow claw like weapon on his wrist.

“Water Pulse Fin” Chloe called as a bubble exploded in her hand, leaving a blue fin blaster.

Nick attacked one with his claw, steel meeting the steel of the Dynamites arm. He took it back and jumped over the circular enemy, chopping it in the neck and punching it in the back. Another tried to attack from behind, but was caught with a clutch of electricity form he claw.

Chloe jumped down onto the beach, three Dynamites following. “You’re in my territory now” she said cockily as she ran by the water, the aliens firing blasts at the sand behind her, trying to trip her up.

“It won’t be that easy” she said as she got into a knee high tide. One Dynamite fired a blast square at her chest, but she fired her fin down at the water and was thrown into the air from the pressure. She fired a wave of water at her enemies from the sky, destroying them.

“Come on” Nick said to all of them “We still have to get to Ian and Brad”. They all ran as quick as they could to the arcade, where they saw Ian and Brad fighting off Dynamites.

“Okay, time to take this fight to the next level.” Ian said as he tried to catch his breath.

“Power of Flames!”

He was engulfed in flames and transformed into the red ranger as he threw a Dynamite into a building.

Brad was busy in the arcade fighting one with his football style, tackling and pushing. A punch to the chest was blocked and he plowed the alien down with a charge into a wall. “Take tha-ahhhh!” he was caught off guard by a kick to the back from more Dynamites. Rye and Sarah came to his aid, Rye firing the laser gun at approaching aliens and Sarah kicking them out of the way.

“Brad, are you okay” Sarah said as she looked him over while Rye destroyed the remainder.
“Yeah, where are the others?”

“Outside, battling the remaining Dynamites”

“I’ll help them” he said as he got up, his shirt ripped and bleeding from the chest. He looked down at his Element Cell and saw it glowing green. “It’s happening. Its giving me my power!”

“Not so fast Brad” said a voice in the air. The three of them looked around and a woman with white hair and resembled a witch appeared. “You’ll be coming with me!”

She fired a ball of clouds at him that took him and her away, no traces of them left.

“Burning Ambition!” Ian called as he slashed the last Dynamite in the chest, killing it. “Where are the others?” He along with Chloe and Nick demorphed.

Sarah and Rye ran out of the arcade and told them what happened.

“Damn!” Ian cursed. “Did you get a good look at the woman?”

“No, but I think I recognized her” said Rye as he looked around for any trace of Brad. “It looked like that Cloudex woman Dr. Ancialient told us about. We should get back to him.”

Ian nodded and the non rangers grabbed onto the one with the powers, teleporting to the AE Base.

~AE Base ~

“And then she and Brad disappeared” Sarah finished, pacing around the room.

“Rye is right rangers. That is the method Cloudex uses to capture prisoners.” The doctor said as he addressed the rangers.

“Another thing doc” Rye chimed in. “Brads Element Cell glowed green right before he was captured, so does he have his powers to protect him?”

“Unfortunately not Rye. The powers only come about in a time of need, and Cloudex stopped him from activating them.” Dr. Ancialient sighed. “ But his powers were awakened, so he will get them very soon. For now, go back to the arcade and try to find any clues to where Cloudex took Brad; I am sure there is something that you missed.

~ Dark Core Ship ~

“Cloudex, I am very pleased with you” Acrodono said, looking at an unconscious Brad on a screen. “What do you plan on doing with him?”

“Master, I plan on using him to test our monsters. He is in my domain right now, waiting to be punished for being a human, a stepping stone in our domination.”

“Excellent, but what are you going to do about the five others?”

“They will be there soon. I left a little gift for them.”

~ Arcade ~

“Where could he have gone!” Nick yelled as he and he others checked around the arcade for anything that could lead them to Brad or Cloudex.

“I have a feeling that he is in some sort of dimension.” Ian said as he looked under a slot machine. “The doctor could have traced the morpher and found him if he was still in this dimension.

Sarah was looking in a pile of rubble when she found something.

“Hey guys, look here!”

They all ran over to see what she found, a gold and white sphere with markings of clouds.

“I wonder what this is?” Rye said as he pushed a button on it, creating a golden light around them, sending them out of the arcade and into a coliseum on top of clouds.

“Rangers, welcome to the Cloud Arena” Cloudex cackled from a throne across from them, Brad standing in the center of the battlefield.

[Ancient Flame]

Arrival of Earth Part 2
Episode 1.4

“Who in the blue hell are you?” Ian said, pointing at Cloudex.

“Oh, I didn’t introduce myself.” Cloudex levitated from her throne over to the rangers, plus Rye and Sarah. “My name is Cloudex, one of Acrodono’s generals. I am the most ruthless female in the universe, and you are all in my coliseum!”

Wind blasted throughout the arena, knocking the five humans down.

“That is just a taste of my power. There is more to come if you do not hand over your powers.” Cloudex threatened as she flew higher up and over the battle floor.

“Okay, I guess its time to go ranger!” Ian said as he pressed 347, along with Chloe and Nick.

“Power of Flames!”

“Power of Water!”

“Power of Thunder!”

The three morphed and headed for Brad, but were blocked by Dynamites jumping at them. Nick spin kicked one in the gut and threw it into a pillar, which crumbled along with a balcony, destroying all of the Dynamites in that area. “Thunder Claw!” The electricity gathered around his hand and punched a Dynamite, shredding its chest to pieces with the yellow and brown claw now strapped to his wrist.

Chloe back flipped and wrapped her legs around one’s neck, flipping it to the white tiled floor. She kipped up and kicked another back as she chopped another from the force she gathered from kicking. “A modern day Kim” she said as she ducked two charging Dynamites with a split and tripped them, crushing their backs with her feet.

Rye and Sarah busy alternating attacks on any Dynamite that came close. “Sarah, get a piece of the pillar” he commanded as he ducked a blade swipe and low-blowed the alien, picking it up and tossing it to the floor. Sarah swung a piece of debris at an attacker, knocking it out as she returned to Rye.

“Brad, get out of there” Ian called as he slashed through Dynamites coming at him with his Flame Sword. He was trying to get too Brad in the center of the battlefield, but was getting attacked.

Brad tried to get up, but was pushed back down by a strong blast of wind Cloudex was firing from her blaster. “You are never going to get out of here alive human!”

“Yes I am bitch! Even if my friends fail, I will kill you!” he yelled as the air around him turned to blades, cutting his shirt and drawing blood from his chest. He got up and charged through the tornado he was in, but he couldn’t get out. He kept trying, every time getting forced back with less energy.

Ian fired a blast of fire at the last Dynamite that came at him and then turned his attention to Cloudex, standing on a small cloud. “I’ll make you an offer Cloudex. Let him go, and I’ll stay here.”

Cloudex pondered that thought for a moment before firing a wind blade at the red ranger, cutting his side. “That bitch is going down” he murmured as he rushed forward, his sword firing blasts of fire at Cloudex, but she evaded them easily.

“Ian, were in her world now” Brad yelled as he kept trying to get out of his tornado prison. “That won’t work!”

Chloe and Nick had destroyed the Dynamites that they were taking on and regrouped with Ian.

“Brad, get out of there!” Nick said to his friend.

“Don’t you think I’m trying dumbass?” he argued.

“Your friend is mine forever rangers. You may have gotten past my Dynamites, but not my bodyguard” Clouded said as she looked at a gate.

Emerging from it was a warped griffon type monster.

“Meet Grifforian, the fiercest bird in the universes. Why don’t you show them some of your power?”

The griffon monster fired a blast of gold and white at Nick, smashing him through a wall.

“Okay, fine. You want a real battle, we’ll give you one.” Ian said as he lunged at Grifforian, but his sword was caught and he was flipped to the ground. Grifforian picked him up and tossed him onto the balcony, Ian crushing down on it.

Chloe tried to blast it with water as it charged at her, but he kept moving and knocked her into a pile of debris.

“Damn, they’re down Rye. What should we do?” Sarah asked urgently.

Rye sighed. “I have no clue. This guy is dangerous, and Cloudex is a general. We might be screwed.”

She slapped Rye in the face. “No its not. We still have Brad, and his morpher could activate at any moment. We just have to fight until then.” She jumped down and stared at Grifforian.

“A powerless human trying to fight me” Grifforian said amusingly. “This should be real fun.”

He fired another blast of white and gold light at Sarah, but Rye intercepted it with a kick to the monsters chest.

“Arghhhh! You two are going to die a painful death for that!” he said as he readied to fire a third blast.

“I have to help them” Brad said as he charged at the tornado again and again.

“You are never going to get out of there, so just admit your defeat” Cloudex said as she fired a wind blade at Brad, hitting him hand.

“I learned in football that you always try to score the touchdown, no matter what it takes” Brad started as his Element Cell glowed “Even if you need to sacrifice yourself! Grifforian, you’re going down!” He took one final plow into the tornado and got out of it.

Cloudex gasped. “Impossible! Only someone with ranger powers can make it out of that.”

Brad just smiled and held up his arm, showing a morpher. “Who said that I didn’t have any powers? The force of Earth will destroy you Grifforian!”

“Power of Earth!”

Brad was entombed in stone for a second, and then broke free, revealing a green suit with brown boots and gloves. He had the familiar triangular marking as the other three on his arms and legs. Brown lines were from his hips to shoulders, a brown square in the middle of his chest. His helmet was brown, with a green square centered around it.

“Ancient Earth” He screamed.

Ian looked down from the balcony to see Brad morphed. “Yes.”

Brad lunged at Grifforian and speared him through two pillars, sand and rubble raining down on them but it didn’t affect Brad. He tossed the griffin like alien back into he center of the arena and kicked it in the face.

“Oh my god!” Sarah yelled. “Brad is amazing!”

He charged through Grifforian and flipped him back from the force of the tackle. “Welcome to MY world now.”

“I have to get out of here” Cloudex said frantically, teleporting back to the Dark Core Ship.

“Coward!” Chloe yelled as she got up, followed by Nick, with Ian jumping down, all going over to Brad.

“Burning Ambition!” Ian hit Grifforian with a fiery slash, but it didn’t destroy him.

“What the hell?” Chloe remarked “Tidal Surge!” She fired a wave of water at the monster, but it only stunned hurt him for a second.

The same happened with Nick and his Thunder Claw. Grifforian was still standing after a Lighting Terror, albeit weakened.

“I think I can destroy him” Brad said “Earth Hammer!”

The ground in front of him began to crack, and part of a sledgehammer emerged, Brad picking it up. The head was brown, with green on the tips and handle.

Grifforian attacked Brad, but was hit in the gut with his new weapon. A shot to the head didn’t destroy him, but made it closer.

“Time to finish him, Quake Tremor!” Brad yelled as he smashed his hammer to the ground. A blast crevice opened in front of Brad and headed towards Grifforian, who was trapped in it. Suddenly the crevice closed, an explosion hitting where the monster was, destroying him.

“Power down” Brad said, followed by the other three.

Rye and Sarah emerged from a tunnel and Bard was greeted by a kiss from Sarah.

“Can I have more?” he asked as they locked lips again.

“Yeah, forever, if you know what I mean.”

“I love you Sarah”

“You two Brad.”

Ian was going to break them up when Chloe stopped them.

“Ian, they didn’t stop us.” She said.

“Fine, but we have to have some of that.” Ian said as he ran his hand up the back of Chloe’s kissed her.

“Um, guys, if you haven’t noticed, this place is disappearing!” Rye yelled as he broke the two couples up.

“Shit!” Brad yelled before pressing the button on the top left corner of his Element Cell like Dr. Ancialient told them to do. He was transported back to the AE Base, and the others followed.

~ AE Base ~

“Doctor, I got my powers!” Brad said as he showed him the morpher.

“Good for you. You unlocked the power by your determination to defeat Grifforian.” The doctor responded.

“So, um, when are we going to get our powers?” Rye asked.

“When the time is needed. As you just saw, the power only awakens in a dire situation. Acrodono will attack again, so just wait until then.”

Rye and Sarah sighed, wanting their powers badly.

“Don’t worry, just wait until were getting killed again, and then you will be rangers” Brad joked.

“Probably” Rye said as Sarah nodded.

“Oh, and there is something I want to give you.” Dr. Ancialient opened up a door to a walk in closet, where the rangers found small bazookas and blades.

“Those are the Ancient Blades and Bazookas. The bazookas can fire blasts of energy, and the blades can attach when needed to form a Blade Staff. It can fire the blade at your enemy high speed. Just call for them and they will be sent to you.”

Ian looked them over. “I’m sure we’ll need them. Acrodono is probably not happy with us destroying the Cloud Arena.”

~ Dark Core Ship ~

“Cloudex! Not only did you not capture a ranger, but you allowed him to get his powers!” Acrodono screamed as he fired a blast of rocks at her, but it was intercepted by Dasefa.

“Master, I can take one of the rangers down. Just let me try, and I will kill and steal one of the non-rangers Element Cells.” He said as he took out his sword from his back. “Rye will be dead soon.”

[Ancient Flame]

Nice Ice Baby
Episode 1.5

~ Ranger’s House--- July 14, 2007--- 5:00 pm ~

“Okay, I guess it’s my time now” Rye said as he held his Element Cell to his chest. “Power of Ice!”

A sprinkle of white confetti dropped from the balcony as he moved his arms and pulled a mask over his face.

“Ancient Ice!”

Sarah walked by as Rye was performing and laughed. “What are you two doing?” she asked as she saw Nick on the balcony with buckets of confetti.

“Practicing.” Rye shook the confetti off of him and put his cell back in his pocket. “I thought real ice would hurt.”

“Yeah, it probably would” giggled Sarah, who looked at her own Element Cell on her locked on her jeans. “I wonder when these powers will activate.”

“When their needed.”

The three of them looked behind Sarah to see Ian, Chloe clutching to her boyfriend.

“So, I guess we have two idiots in the house?” he remarked, talking about Brad and now Rye.

Nick jumped down the rail and landed on a bean bag chair. “Ian, chill out. You are too into this you know?”

The red ranger sighed. “Maybe, but we have a great responsibility now guys. This is no ordinary summer vacation. We are fighting for our lives.”

Sarah’s head went down. She realized that they were the last defense, but what Ian said put everything into perspective.

“Look, I don’t want to ruin the fun, but after the new wave of Dynamite attacks we’ve experienced after Brad got his powers, Acrodono will try his hardest to kill us.”

“But we can defeat him” Chloe added after Ian spoke. “I know it. Even though we only have four powers alive, the Ice and Air powers will be activated soon I bet.”

All five of them sat down on the couches and talked about what could happen if Acrodono attacked.

“Okay, well the special attack’s are powerful, but only one destroyed Grifforian.” Nick recalled about the battle that they experienced two weeks ago.

Ian flipped his Element Cell open and pressed 347, the code to transform the cell phone into a wrist mounted morpher “Nick, up for a sparring match?”

“Yep, where?”

“There is a cool wooded area that I found exploring the area, I’ll show you.” Ian said as he went outside. “You three want to come?’

Sarah shook her head. “I don’t want to get my clothes dirty in the woods, count me out.”

“Rye?” Nick asked

Rye nodded and headed out the door.

“I’ll come I guess. I want to see my sexy man fight” Chloe said in a seductive tone.

Ian grabbed her and gave her a long kiss.

“When do you think they will stop doing this stuff?” Rye asked Sarah.

“I don’t know. Brad isn’t really like that”

“Oh, where is he anyway?”

Sarah looked around and saw protein bar wrappers on the kitchen table. “Probably training.”

“See” Ian whined to Chloe. “Brad trains a lot, so why can’t I?”

Chloe unhooked him from her. “Football practice Ian. But he is probably doing some martial arts too.

“Yeah, I guess. Let’s go. Bye Sarah.” The red ranger said as he led the other three out into the woods behind the house.

“Bye!” Sarah yelled as she went to train with Brad. She wanted to see what he did to keep his body in shape, plus she wanted to practice her karate moves.

“Hey” he said, clearly exasperated, as he was running on a treadmill.

“Brad, don’t push yourself too hard”

He got off the treadmill and walked over to where the dumbbells were. “Don’t worry. I’ve followed this routine for three years, working my way up. I wan to keep my body in shape, you like it like that.”

“Yes, I do, but this isn’t Fountain Heights football anymore” she said as she stretched and took off her tennis shoes. “We are the last defense.”

“Ian basically said the same thing. Brad?”

“Yeah?”

“I’m just wondering how you and Ian became friends in the first place. You have the same frame of mind sometimes, but you two are polar opposites sometimes.”

“Well it is all because of Nick. We were friends before Ian moved here. In 7th grade, the three of us were partners on a mythology project. Both of us had interest in spiritual warriors, even though no one really knew that about me. We even wrote a column together for the newspaper secretly about fire and earth. I guess that explains why we were chosen to wield those two powers.” When Brad finished, he saw the look of awe on his girlfriends face.

“You were studying elements?” she asked.

“Uh huh, why?”

“Okay, this is weird. That same year, I became interested in weather, mostly the wind. The same thing happened with Chloe, she took up some surfing.” she said, now deep in thought.

“Damn, this is too weird. Maybe we should tell the doctor?” said Brad, now sitting on a bench.

“You know what he will say. ‘Wait in time warriors’. He is so tough sometimes.”

“But very mystical.”

In the woods, Ian, Chloe, Rye, and Nick had found the spot Ian was referring too.

“Well, here it is.” Ian was standing in the center of a cleared area of a forest. Broken branches were littered everywhere on the dirt ground, with high trees casting shadows.

“Too cool” Nick said as he took his Element Cell out and transformed it into its morpher form.

“Power of Thunder!”

“Power of Flames!”

Ian and Nick transformed into their ranger modes and readied for battle.

“Ancient Blade, come forth!” Ian shouted as a dagger appeared in his hand, and Nick did the same.

“Okay Ian, ready for this?”

“You bet. I am a master with blades and swords you know.”

“Fine. But I do have some tricks that I never showed you!”

At that time, Nick disappeared in a flash of yellow light, charging at Ian and hitting him in the side with his dagger. “See?”

Ian got up from the ground and pointed his dagger at his friend. “Nice, but not nice enough.”

The next thing Nick knew, a branch almost fell on him, as Ian sprinted to pick his dagger back up and slashed Nick in the back, the yellow ranger falling on his hands.

“S***!” Nick yelled as he dropped his dagger and pushed Ian into a tree, flipping him to the ground afterwards. Ian countered with a sweep of the leg and dragged Nick on the ground, stopping to swing him into a tree ribs first.

Nick got up and they continued to fight, now in a street style with punches and kicks, while Chloe and Rye looked on.

“Have you ever seen them like this?” Chloe asked.

“Not really, but Nick has been in a good amount of fights. And Ian, well he said he has some kind of special training; never clarified it though.” Rye answered, still watching the fight.

On the battlefield, Ian had Nick in a headlock, one that he couldn’t get out of using force.

“Argh!”

“You wanna give up?” Ian asked arrogantly.

“No, just watch this!”

Nick jumped off the ground and catapulted onto Ian’s shoulders. Then, Nick flipped off, his legs wrapped around Ian’s neck, sending the leader of the team flying into a bush.

“You want to call it a draw?” Ian proposed dryly.

“Come on, is that all you can handle?”

Ian got up and polished the leaves off his suit, “Why don’t we make this a battle of firearms? Element Bazooka, arrive!”

A glow of brown light originated from Ian’s morpher and let out a mini bazooka into his arms.

“Um, Ian? Last August, Seaside? Paintball course? I totally destroyed you.”

“So, I can control a gun now”

Nick sighed and summoned his Element Bazooka. “If you say so”

A blast of red light came out of Ian’s weapon and headed towards Nick’s head, but he just dropped to the ground and fired back at Ian’s foot.

“Damnit! That hurts.”

“The least of your troubles” Nick told him as he shot multiple blasts at a tree behind his friend, cracking it and sending it down towards Ian. At the very last moment, he shot it before it could hit him and rolled out of the way.

Little did he know, Nick was going through the trees, positioning himself for a clear shot at him.

“Nick, I know what you’re doing, so watch this!”

He aimed his blaster at the ground and pulled the trigger, launching him upwards into the sky and onto a sturdy branch.

“I see you” Ian taunted as he saw Nick hiding in a bush next to the tree, which was blasted with red light.

When the dust and smoke cleared, Ian saw nothing there.

“Oh f***. Nick, please tell me you esca- ahhh!”

Ian was thrown from the branch and him the ground hard, and now Nick was on top of it.

“Next Level?”

“Duh”

Ian and Nick took out their two main weapons, the Flame Sword and Thunder Claw.

Before they were going to attack, Rye stepped in. “Guys, your too tough. Both of you took hard hits. What if Acrodono attacked now?”

Suddenly, they felt a cold breeze go across them. “Rye…..” Chloe said, looking around and fearful of what was coming

“Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have said that” he remarked, as they all stood in a circular formation.

“Yes, you should not have” said a figure cutting through the trees. He was clad in traditional knight armor, but had skeleton bones sticking out of him. Across his chest was a capitol A, the symbol for a warrior of Acrodono.

“Who are you?” Chloe asked, moving into a fighting stance.

“The name is Dasefa, knight warrior of Acrodono” the skeleton knight said as he drew his sword from his back. “And I am sure that you will not back down from this challenge”

As soon as he said that, Ian, Nick, Chloe, and Rye saw their two other friends hanging by their hands from a tree.

“Guys, get us out of here.” Brad yelled, trying to activate his morpher.

“That will be no help green ranger. The only way to be freed is winning a battle against me.”

Ian, Nick, and Chloe stepped forward, their Element Cells in hand. But when they were about to morph, their morphers were grabbed by a vine and attached to the top of the chains Brad and Sarah were hanging from.

“What the hell!” Ian yelled as another vine wrapped around him, tying him to a tree, with the same thing happening to Nick and Chloe.

“So, I guess the only one left is the supposedly white ranger.” Dasefa taunted as he pointed his sword at Rye.

“You know, I have faced worse than you. Part of my life was growing up in the Siberian cold. Another part was dealing with a ruthless tyrant killing my grandparents.” Rye said, his voice now more intense. “And you think I am afraid to fight you? Bulls*it! I now have something to fight for and that” he paused as he grabbed his Element Cell “that will never die inside of me. Now experience the wrath of freezing ice!”

Held the morpher up to his chest, and pressed the icon with a diamond on it. “Power of Ice!”

Rye was frozen in a block of clear ice, and broke through it. He now had on a white bodysuit. Centered on the middle of his chest was a brown diamond, as well as brown lines from his hips to his shoulders. His hands were now covered in brown gloves, and his feet had brown boots on them. The helmet he was wearing was brown, with a diamond colored white centered around it.

“Ancient Ice” Rye screamed as his transformation was complete.

Dasefa just scoffed. “A lone ranger. This shall be easy” he said as he raised his sword.

“In your dreams” Rye countered as he ran towards Dasefa, who in turn tried to strike Rye, but he was too fast, ducking down and kicking the knight’s shin. A club to the head sent Dasefa to his knees, his sword supporting him.

“Ranger, this will be your first and last battle.” He stood up and transformed his right arm into a shield, and absorbed the sword into his left hand. Rye charged at him, punching the alien in the neck and stopping him for a moment.

Dasefa gasped for breath, and charged right back at Rye with his sword in front, but Rye kicked it back and jumped against the tree, spiraling him at Dasefa.

~ Dark Core Ship ~

Acrodono watched the battle on a monitor, becoming more annoyed as it progressed. “How can this fool not defeat one ranger?” He smashed his hand against the rock throne, making a crack in it.

“Sire, if you have noticed, a ranger has the most power in the first battle his ranger powers activate. I am afraid we might lose.” Cloudex responded from across the room.

Acrodono pondered her theory for a moment. Yes, she is right. The rush of energy is enhanced when first introduced to a human. Dasefa will lose this fight if we do not pull him back. “Cloudex, have the magnetic support system return Dasefa, but keep our surprise down there.”

Cloudex went over to the control station and pulled a lever, lighting up a portal on the outside of the ship, which was used to send and return warriors.

~ The forest ~

Dasefa and Rye stood face to face, their arms locked in a hold, trying to power out of each other’s grip.

“Give up now white ranger. Even if I do not kill you today, it will happen eventually”

“My feelings exactly, only the other way around.”

Rye dropped to the ground, Dasefa flipping over and landing on a stump.

“Maybe those wrestling courses I took back in Russia paid off” Rye remarked, eyeing Dasefa as he got up.

Before he could attack, Dasefa was teleported back o the ship, his blade only an inch away from Rye’s face.

“What just happened?” Rye said as he went to untie his friends, only to get a leaf blade cutting his arm. “Where did that come from?”

Emerging from the brush was a monster shaped like a tree, with a small blaster as a hand.

“I am Treen, a servant of Acrodono. It will be a pleasure to destroy a ranger.” The monster said, aiming his blaster at Rye, who stopped it with a swift round house kick.

“Number one rule when facing Rye Frezz: Chuck Norris has nothing on me. And he doesn’t have a shield like this to protect him!”

Ian, Brad, Chloe, Nick, and Sarah looked in awe as both of Rye’s hands lit up white and blue, forming a large diamond shape shield.

“Meet my Shield of Ice. Thick as a glacier.” Rye commented arrogantly.

“Ice Shield, Shield of Ice, Snow Staff, I don’t care! You are still mine!”

“Where have I heard Snow Staff before” Brad said to Sarah when he heard the taunt.

“Brad, who really cares!” Sarah yelled at her boyfriend. “This is a life or death situation!”

Rye sprung at Treen, deflecting every leaf blade with his shield, before getting up close to the alien, at which time he smashed it in the head with his weapon.

“Ow!”

“Well, I guess I’ll put you out of your misery. Aurora Blizzard!” Rye called, his shield lighting up again and firing a blast of mainly white light, eclipsing the small blue amount. When it hit, Treen was frozen solid.

“Now, please die.” Rye taunted with one of his insults as the ice sculpture collapsed, destroying all that was in it, as well as freeing his friends.

Ian, Nick, and Chloe were untied and ran towards the new ranger, as Brad and Sarah landed, Brad on top of her. “Um, I can get used to this” Sarah quipped, before rushing over to Rye.

“Power Down!” Rye shouted as his suit disappeared. His only injury was a cut on his arm, which he fixed by ripping part of his shirt off and tying it around the wound. “So….?”

“Okay, that was pretty cool.” Ian commented, high-fiving his friend. “I liked the attitude you had. The insults were okay, but not as good as my ‘Job done’.”

Rye just laughed. “You have to be tough growing up in the snow Ian, if not, you are dead.”

But Nick soon cut the banter short. “Okay, that was a cool battle, but where did Dasefa go?”

“Nick’s right. He just left somehow.” Brad added.

Ian sighed. “I don’t know, but I think it has to do with him about to lose, even though you and him were pretty evenly matched Rye.”

“No, he could have destroyed me Ian.”

“Just let me explain. I have this theory that when a ranger first gets new powers, they are at their strongest point, peaking. The powers slowly go down afterwards, unless the ranger trains. I know you were going to summon you weapon, and so did Acrodono. That’s why he called Dasefa back.”

“Okay, well at least we stopped this attack.” Chloe said after a few moments of silence. Soon after that, they went back to the house and teleported to the AE Base.

~ AE Base ~

After telling Dr. Ancialient the news Rye was congratulated. “Your fury unleashed the power within you Rye, great job. Now, we only have to awaken one of the elements in you six.”

They all looked at Sarah, who sat up from a couch. “Don’t worry, it will be easy. I’ll find a way, even though this could be the last thing on my list to do in my life.”

“Oh come on, it is kind of fun” Chloe said, putting her hand on Sarah’s shoulder. “And the rush you experience when it first happens is amazing.”

“Your right, I am next.” Sarah said, looking at her Element Cell. “Even though I’m not sure if I am cut out for this; or if I really want it.”

[Storm Dragon]

It's been awhile since you post this. I hope you could get the rest of the AE chapters back on here. They're great so far.

[Pink Jungle Fury Ranger]

lol Snow Staff love the story keep posting

[Ancient Flame]

Thanks. I have all of season 1 written out, and I'll probably post all of it this week.

For anyone that hasnt read this before, the next epsiode is called I Doubt, and is focused on Sarah. After that is the first big arch of the season, Island of Deestruction parts 1-7.

I'm working on the bridge between seasons 1 and 2 now. It will cover Junior year for the rangers, introducing new characters and giving more depth to everyone. I'm not sure how many episodes it will have, but no more than 12.

[Ancient Flame]

I Doubt
Episode 1.6

~ Dark Core Ship ~

“Dasefa, why did you not defeat Rye a week ago?” Acrodono questioned, as Dasefa stood in front of him. “Or is your power so weak that you may be no use to me anymore?”

“No sire, I have power, but you pulled me back. I swear that I could have defeated him.” The knight warrior defended.

Acrodono looked at him straight in the eye. “So, you are confident that you can. Then maybe you should test that theory. Go down to Earth, and destroy him.”

“Fine; I’ll destroy him this time.” Dasefa walked off into the portal bay, going off to Earth.

Acrodono watched as one of generals left, and one came in.

“Cloudex, Dasefa is taking a stand against the rangers, why don’t you?” Acrodono asked the white haired cloud warrior.

“I have plans master. But it involves the pink ranger.”

“Tell me about your plans.”

Cloudex had a vile float to her on a small cloud. Inside of the vile was a dark blue liquid.

“Ah, doubt potion. I remember using that against warriors on another planet. Why did you pick this?” Acrodono wondered.

“From what I have seen, she seems to have small bits of doubt in her abilities. If I can exploit them, she will be easy prey.” Cloudex laughed as she placed the vile in a pocket and walked off. “I am going down to Earth with Dasefa. It will be a perfect opportunity to start my plan.”

“Do it, and don’t fail.” Acrodono warned as she teleported down to the planet they were planning to conquer.

~ Ranger’s House--- July 17, 2007--- 12:30 PM ~

“Stop spraying me Chloe” Ian laughed as his girlfriends hit him with a small pulse of water from a hose. “You know I hate when my shirt gets wet!”

Chloe stuck out her tongue. “So, you like it when mine does?” She pointed the hose at herself and sprayer her body, showing it off. “Like it?”

Ian stood there, in a trance. “Yes. I do.” He walked over to her and picked her up. “What did I do to get a girl like you?”

Chloe giggled. “Well first, your mysteriousness. I liked that. Second, the way you stepped up as a leader was a turn on.”

Ian hugged her and inhaled her perfume that he gave her. “Why didn’t you step up before the attack?” Chloe asked.

The red ranger shrugged. “I guess I was kind of scared about you saying no. Plus I never was with a girl before you.”

“Well you are now” she said as they kissed, him massaging her back. They were like this all of the time, taking things as far as they wanted.

When it broke, they went to sit poolside, enjoying the nice day.

“Chloe, do you want to do some target practice today?” Ian asked as he took his shirt off to tan.

“Yeah, that would be cool. I think I need to have more control of my Water Pulse Fin.”

“Your control is pretty good, but I want to see how you do in an area where this is more coverage.”

“I know; the battles that I have been in had open areas.”

Inside the house, Brad was in the basement with Nick and Rye, watching TV. Or, what Brad considered normal TV.

“Um, Brad?” Rye asked as he stopped looking at the girls on the screen. “What happens when this is all over?”

“When this is all over, we put another disc in, dumbass.” Brad said, not taking his eyes off of the screen.”

Rye groaned. “No, I mean, if everybody is alive again, and they find us, maybe as teens again. We would be in so much trouble you know.”

“Yeah, whatever. Be straight and enjoy this. We have every single 18+ movie out, okay”.

Nick then chimed in with his thoughts. “You do have a girlfriend you know?”

“And I watch her like this sometimes.”

Nick hit his hormone crazy friend in the shoulder. “Do something with her idiot, instead of watching porn!” He got up and turned off the TV.

“But they were just about too…..” Brads voice whimpered.

The yellow ranger just sighed. “Go on the beach with her, okay? Ian and Chloe spend tons of time together, you and Sarah, not so much.”

“I guess your right” Brad conceded. “I’m going to the beach with her; you two do whatever you want.” He went up the two different flights of stairs and knocked on Sarah’s door.

“Come in” She said as she put her microphone down.

“Singing?” Brad asked.

Sarah nodded. “But I don’t think it’s the best. I mean, my sister is great, and I want to live up to her standards.”

“It’s good, don’t doubt yourself.”

“I guess it is, but I’m just not sure. Why did you come up here?” Sarah asked as she made her bed.

“Wanna go for a walk on the beach?”

“Okay, let me just get some new clothes” she said as she went into her walk in closet, and came out with a sparkling pink tank top, and a white skirt. She had her Element Cell on a buckle attached to her waist. “Okay, let’s go.” Both of them walked out of the house and started the short walk to the beach.

Brad and Sarah were hand and hand on the sand, the ocean waves crashing against the shore. “Brad, do you think I can be a good ranger?” Sarah asked.

“Sure you can, why do you doubt yourself so much?”

“I have to live up to expectations in my family. My mom was a beauty pageant winner and my sister is a singer. I need to succeed, but I’m not sure if I can be that good.” Sarah sighed.

Brad pulled her to him and hugged her. “You are going to be a great singer, don’t worry, okay?”

“Okay. But I hate having all of these doubts. It confuses me of how good I am.”

They continued to walk on the hot sand, Brad assuring Sarah that she was going to be a success.

“When the hell is my Element Cell going to activate?” she wined as she toyed with it. “I even figured out that we each had connections to the elements before we were chosen.”

Brad stopped in his tracks. “How?”

“That will have to wait a while rangers.” A booming voice said, Dasefa’s.

Brad and Sarah turned around and saw the ancient knight and stood in a fighting stance.

“Green Ranger, you and I, now!” Dasefa called as he drew his sword from his back.

Brad took out his Element Cell and morphed. “Power of Earth!”

“Let’s go!” Dasefa charged at Brad, who dropped to the ground and kicked the alien’s leg, knocking him to the sand. He got up, only to be met with a punch to the head by Brad, which was blocked. Dasefa hit Brad in the chest with the handle of his sword, followed by a slice to the chest.

“Sarah, call for backup!”

“Right!” She pressed a button on her morpher and sent a signal out to the other four rangers.

On the way to the forest, Ian and Chloe were getting ready to train when they got the call. “Brad's in trouble on the beach.”

“Ok, let’s do it. Power of Water!”

“Power of Fire!”

They both morphed and locked the coordinates of the beach into their morphers, sending them there.

At the house, Rye and Nick were playing basketball when they got their call. “Damn. Rye, we need to go. Remember that shooting training I taught you?”

Rye nodded. “Do you remember that hand to hand combat training?” He said as they both went out the door and ran towards the beach.

“Yeah, Power of Thunder!”

“Power of Ice!”

Rye and Nick morpher into their white and yellow suits respectively and drew their Element Bazookas and firing at Dasefa, who caught them in time with his shield.

“So, where are the other two?” Dasefa asked as he kicked Nick in the stomach and chopped Rye in the neck.

“Right here bitch!” Ian hit Dasefa with his Flame Sword, knocking him back.

“Tidal Surge!” Chloe yelled as she shot a high pressure jet of water at the knight, sending him into the tide.

Dasefa got up though, and was greeted by Cloudex. “What are you doing here?”

“Bringing down a ranger” The witch replied, heading towards Sarah.

“Cloudex!” Sarah scowled as she saw the white haired woman.

“Ah, the only powerless ranger. And I will make sure that it stays that way.” Cloudex took Sarah by the hand and flipped her to the ground, and took out a needle.

Sarah squirmed, but a group of newly sent Dynamites held her down, while another batch occupied the rangers.

“This will only hurt for a second, and the effects will kick right in.” The female general of Cloudex took Sarah’s arm and injected her with the doubt potion.

“Okay, I did my job. Have fun pink one” Cloudex said before she was taken away by a breeze.

“Die yellow ranger” Dasefa yelled as he hit Nick in the shoulder with his sword, and slashed Ian in the side. Chloe, Brad, and Rye were fighting through a line of Dynamites, trying to get to Dasefa.

Ian snarled with pain as he was struck again with the sharp blade, only this time to his back. “Dasefa, I will win this fight” he growled, gripping the alien’s neck and throwing him down, using ju-jitsu techniques to stop him. Soon though, he was pulled back up, and thrown into the water by Dasefa.

“Earth Hammer!” Brad called as he picked his green sledge hammer out of the ground and lunged at Dasefa, cracking his shield.

Chloe fired at him next, soaking him with water, and motioned to Rye.

“I know” Rye said as he summoned his shield and fired a cold blast of energy at Dasefa, almost freezing him.

“Rangers, we will meet again. But I suggest you keep an eye on that pathetic pink ranger of yours.” Dasefa said as he teleported back to the Dark Core Ship.

Ian, Chloe, Rye, and Nick looked on as Dasefa left, while Brad was tending to Sarah.

“Are you ok?”

“I’m not sure.” She whispered, before passing out. “Guys, we need to get her to the AE Base quick!”

The other four came over to Brad and Sarah and teleported off to their mentor.

~ AE Base ~

“Doctor, Sarah fainted!” Brad yelled, holding his girlfriend in his arms.

The doctor ran walked over from his desk and felt the girl’s pulse. “Let’s take her to the medical bay.”

All 7 of them walked a hallway into a white room and placed Sarah on a bed. “Chloe, I heard you have medical experience?”

Chloe nodded and looked through cabinets of supplies. “What do you need?”

“Take her blood while I get some devices” Dr. Ancialient commanded, going into another room. Chloe took the needle and hooked it up to a tube and vile, taking a small amount of blood from her best friend.

“Did you see anything?”

The five rangers shook their heads. “We were busy with Dasefa and Dynamites. But I thought I heard Cloudex’ voice.” Rye said.

“Crap” Dr, Ancialient muttered under his breath, but Ian heard.

“What doc?”

“Cloudex is an expert in potions. And from the readings I am getting, Sarah was injected with one.

Brad cursed. “What the hell kind of potion?”

“Calm down Brad, the machine is examining the blood.” his mentor scolded. “It’s a doubt potion. She will not be sure about anything until she overcomes it.”

Brad punched the wall and looked at Sarah, who was unconscious. “How does she overcome it?”

“She needs to fight it in her head.” Dr. Ancialient answered, showing the rangers a monitor. “This monitor shows her brainwaves. Right now, they are in a hump motion, which means that she is walking.”

“Okay, I don’t get this.” Nick said. “She’s walking in her mind?”

“Yes Nick. She is fighting her biggest battle ever in her mind. It may be hard to understand, but she is fighting doubt itself.”

Nick looked at her; her hand was clenched up in a fist. “What happens if she loses?”

“Eternal doubt.”

“Which means?” Rye questioned.

Dr. Ancialient took of his glasses and sighed. “She will never be able to make up her mind.”

The room was now quiet, except for monitor beeps.

“The battle is only hers now warriors. If she wins, her power is unlocked.”

~ Sarah’s Mind ~

Sarah lay on the hard mountain ground, overlooking New York City.

“Ugh, where am I?” She mumbled as she stood up, dusting off her pants skirt and tank top. She looked around, and saw the city, but it was empty. “Okay…….”

She looked down again, this time, there were thousands of people there, chanting ‘Ariela’. They were referring to Sarah’s sister, Samantha Ariela, a famous pop star.

“Thank you New York! I want to dedicate this song to my mom, dad, and sister, Sabrina!” the star yelled into the microphone before singing.

Tears started to fill Sarah’s eyes. “What about me? Does she even like me still after becoming a huge star? Did she drop me out of her life?”

Suddenly, the part of rock she was on collapsed, and was now a platform moving around.

“Never had a dream like this before” Sarah thought as she rose higher, now in the clouds. She saw a familiar arena, the Cloud Coliseum.

Standing on a cloud throne was Cloudex, watching a battle between the rangers and a horde of Dynamites, which were overwhelming her friends.

“So, Sarah abandoned you? Typical of her, doubting her abilities. She was never cut out to be a ranger.” The wind witch scoffed as the Dynamites killed Brad, Ian, Chloe, Nick, and Rye.

“NO!” Sarah yelled as she saw her friends murdered. “I should have helped” she sobbed.

She looked at the bodies of her fallen friends, and touched Brads arm. “Why am I a failure? I can never be a ranger. If it does happen, I will be killed too.”

Her platform then disappeared, and she dropped through the coliseum floor, into a meadow.

“What now?” she cried, burying her head in her hands.

“You are here to face judgment Sarah!” Dr. Ancialient said, holding a scepter. “It has come upon me that you do not think that you can be a ranger.”

Sarah looked at him, wide eyed. He was her mentor, and a friend. But now he was calling her out.

“Why do you doubt yourself?” He asked, as he fired a beam into the air, creating a tornado in the sky.

“I don’t know why doctor!” she yelled hysterically. “I doubt myself.”

“Then why don’t we see what you doubt, shall we?”

A blast of purple light was fired at Sarah’s head, and her thoughts came out, written on the ground.

“I doubt that I am going to be a great singer” The doctor said. “Pathetic.”

Crying, Sarah looked at the next one. “I doubt I am as good as Chloe.”

“So, you think that Chloe is better than you?”

“Yes, I do.” Sarah mumbled, now on her knees.

“Then why don’t we test that!” He fired a blast at a tree, turning it into a version of the Ancient Water Blue Ranger. “Fight it.”

“What?” Sarah asked, looking at the cyan colored warrior.

“I said to fight her! Let’s see if that doubt is true.” Dr. Ancialient commanded as the Blue ranger advanced on Sarah, her Ancient Blade in hand.

Sarah took a quick breath. “Okay, I’ll try.” She took up a fighting stance and pounced on the ranger, rolling over her in a cartwheel.

“Gymnastics? A Kimberly Hart wannabe? Ha!” The ranger said as she threw the blade at Sarah, who jumped over it and launched herself at the Chloe copy, taking down her legs in a series of kicks. “Are you really going to kill me Sarah? I doubt you will.” The copy said.

Sarah had her fist over the head of the copy, ready to bust her skull open, but got up.

“So, I see that doubt potion is working.” A voice said. It was a monster that looked like an evil butterfly, with a blaster on its wrist.

“What potion?” Sarah yelled.

“It awakened all of your doubts, and we still haven’t read all of them. So let’s get back to the reading. My name is Tornadofly by the way. I thought you should know the name of your demise.” He pointed a finger at the third bullet point. “I doubt if I can satisfy Brad.”

~ AE Base ~

“Dr. Ancialient, we have a reading!” Brad yelled as watched the monitor.

“What did it say?”

“My name” Brad said softly.

The doctor looked at papers coming off the machine, and saw the green ranger’s name.

“Wait, how did Brad’s name come up?” Rye asked, standing up from a couch.

“She was thinking about him.” Dr. Ancialient said, but then looked at the papers again. “However, it wasn’t the best.”

“Meaning?” Brad asked.

“She could doubt your relationship. The color is purple, which symbolizes doubt and evil.”

Brad took the papers from his hand and looked them over. “She can’t doubt me. Can anyone interfere with her mind?”

“According to the test results, yes. She may be seeing attacks and monsters in her brain. They could be as real as anything, even though they are only illusions to us.”

Ian, Chloe, and Nick now rushed over at the news. They checked Sarah’s heartbeat, which was erratic. “Not good” Chloe said.

“Why?” Ian asked his girlfriend, him not knowing that much about heartbeats.

“She could be fighting or having really strong emotions. We can only hope they are good though.” Chloe responded, wrapping her hand around her best friends. “Come on Sarah, get through this.”

~ Sarah’s Mind ~

“Just give up Sarah; your chances of success are minimal. Doubt will destroy you.” The Blue Ranger clone said, pointing her Water Pulse fin at her.

“My doubt cannot be that bad, can it?”

“Well then, let’s see what you really think!” The clone pointed at a patch of grass, and Brad appeared.

Sarah gasped. He was in her mind, but this was different. She felt something was wrong.

“No Sarah, here is what he really wants.” The clone said as she demorphed, taking Brads hand. Brad spun her around, just to tease Sarah.

“To think, I had that piece of trash” he said as he kissed the clone. Chloe melted into it, and they both collapsed, rolling around the meadow together and right in front of a now broken Sarah.

She held out her hand to touch Brads, but was slapped away. “What has this doubt done to me?” She yelled. “Why did I ever doubt! I had Brad, great friends, and a chance to do something for the world, but I blew it. I will never doubt again after this if I come out alive!”

With that, Chloe and Brad appeared in the meadow, morphed.

“What the hell” Tornadofly exclaimed, looking at the two real rangers. “That wasn’t supposed to happen!”

Brad and Chloe rushed to Sarah, who now was on the brink of insanity.

“Get off me you whore! Brad, how could you!” She cried. “And Chloe, we have been best friends since middle school. Why would you steal my boyfriend?”

“What! Sarah, look at me” Brad said, holding her shoulders and looking into her eyes. “I love you, and I will forever. These are just illusions, and you need to battle them. I think there is a reward if you beat your mind.”

Suddenly, Sarah’s Element Cell appeared from the tornado in the sky and rushed towards her.

“Your right. No more doubts. I can be great. I am as strong as all of you. Power of Air” She shouted as she pressed a button on her morpher.

Instantly, her body was wrapped in a gust of air, and she reappeared in a pink bodysuit, with a brown tornado on her chest. Brown lines were from her hips to shoulders, and she had on brown boots and gloves. Her helmet had the tornado symbol as a visor in pink, and was brown.

“Ancient Air!”

“No, what went wrong?” Tornadofly shouted as he saw the pink warrior in front of him with her two friends. “What about the potion?”

“It only affected my doubts, but I overcame them, and got the reward for that. The six Ancient Element Rangers are complete, and we can change the battle now!” Sarah yelled as the meadow vanished, and was replaced by a forest. “Now, lets see who has the upper hand. Air Crossbow!”

A breeze of air rushed over Sarah, and left a pink and brown crossbow mounted on her arm. “Chloe, you practiced right?”

The blue ranger nodded and summoned her Water Pulse Fin as brad did the same with his Earth Hammer. The three stared down Tornadofly and the Chloe clone.

“Let me take the clone Sarah, okay?” Chloe said as she aimed her fin at it.

“Go for it”

“Tidal Surge! Chloe shouted as she hit the clone in the chest and destroyed it. “Wow; that was easy. Something is wrong.”

Suddenly, they were all surrounded by Dynamites.

“Sarah, take care of Tornadofly. Chloe and I can destroy the Dynamites.” Brad commanded as he hit one in the head with his hammer.

“Okay. Tornadofly, my mind will destroy you.” Sarah said as she rushed towards the butterfly alien, which jabbed Sarah in the arm with its nose. She didn’t care and hit the monster with a barrage of arrows at short range, trapping him on a tree.

“So, you compared me to Kim Hart, huh? Well let me show you what the Jersey version of her can do!” Sarah jumped up and flipped onto the monster with great force, kicking it in the jaw on the way down. She cartwheel back and landed a flying kick on Tornadofly, knocking the tree over.

Meanwhile, Brad and Chloe were fighting with the Dynamites.

“Tidal Surge!” Chloe shouted as a group was destroyed with a blast of water from her fin, and turned around, firing beams of water at more.

“My turn, Quake Tremor!” Brad said called as he smashed his hammer on the ground, creating a crevice going straight into the Dynamites, trapping them. “Now close.”

The crevice closed at his command, destroying every Dynamite that was caught in it.

The rest all ganged up now, firing blasts at the two rangers. “We need a new plan, Chlo.”

“Don’t call me that, and I know what to do. Ancient Blade and Element Bazooka’s!” She said as the two weapons levitated in front of her. “Combine to the Bladestaff!”

The bazooka stood up, and the blade locked in the firing slot. The handle was now split in two, one on each side. Chloe picked it up, and ordered Brad to do the same with his.

“Cool, wonder what these can do?” he asked, examining his new weapon.

“Nick said they can fire the blade, but can be used as a staff.” Chloe said as she hit a Dynamite in the gut, then the back. She stabbed one with the blade, and flipped over, landing on the back of one. She jumped up and closed her legs together, making a drill kick to the one underneath her.

Brad started tackling, using the staff as a battering ram. “Blade Blast!”

The blade fired from his staff and exploded in a fireball right as it reached the Dynamites.

Tornadofly was now evenly matched with Sarah, throwing her into the air. She twisted in it, creating a small spiral of wind that hit her enemy.

“See? I control the air now. I am the master of the Air Element. Now, time to be destroyed, Tornado Arrows!”

She pulled back a lever and fired a barrage of pink arrows at Tornadofly, locking it in a tornado. When the air funnel died down, the monster was frozen in the air. “Arrow of the Ancients!”

A single arrow, painted brown, struck Tornadofly in the chest, destroying it.

“No more doubt” Sarah sighed as she powered down, dropping to her knees. Chloe and Brad rushed over, demorphing on the way.

“Are you okay?” Brad asked, holding Sarah’s hands.

She nodded. “Just tired.” She fell into his arms, as everything went blank.

~ AE Base ~

“She’s waking up” Dr. Ancialient proclaimed as he saw Sarah’s eyes open. “Sarah, can you here me?”

“Yes doc, and I am fine, thanks to Brad and Chloe.” She said sitting up against the wall.

Brad hugged her and picked her up slowly. “I’m glad I helped, but I was here the whole time.”

“”No, you were fighting Dynamites, along with Chloe.”

“Sarah, me and her were here the whole time. We slept for a while though.” He argued.

The doctor looked over at the two.

“Then that was when it happened Brad. You entered her mind, to help her.” Dr. Ancialient reported. “You all share a mental connection now that all six of the morphers are active.”

Ian looked at Sarah’s wrist and saw her morpher. “Congratulations Sarah, you passed the test I guess.”

“I did, and I will not have serious doubt now.” Sarah remarked as she looked at her wrist, which held a square brown morpher with a solid pink tornado on the front. “I am the air.”

“Rangers, you each have a connection to your chosen element, but you will learn it in time. Right now, your greatest threat is Acrodono. I am almost sure he will launch his greatest strike yet.” the doctor said solemnly loud tone.

At that moment, Acrodono appeared on a screen. “I see that all six of you have gotten your powers. I commend you on that, but you will not have them for long.”

“Yeah right. We will fight every battle bitch.” Brad furiously taunted.

“Hard headed, perfect for Ancient Earth. Well I have a proposition. But your leader will have to except.”

“I’m listening” Ian said, now in the front, looking on the eyes of Acrodono.

Acrodono just laughed at the rookie ranger. “I want a final battle. Either I win or lose. No middle ground. But there is one stipulation.”

“What?” Nick remarked.

“The battle will be in the Skull Dimension, a land of fallen warriors. As you can imagine, I have multiple obstacles there, as long as my own home, which I will be visiting. If you choose to accept, I will teleport you six rangers tomorrow.”

Ian scoffed. “Right, I bet this is a trap. What is in it for us?” He was truly starting to take the leadership role now.

“If you do not accept, I will keep attacking, and that will wear you out. As a bonus, the Element Zords are located in that dimension.”

Ian looked over at his friends as they talked over the ultimatum.

“I say we go for it.” Rye said. “This may be our only chance to kill him.”

“What about the rest of you?” Ian asked.

“We all agree with Rye” Sarah said. “We can take him down fast, and if he is destroyed, we can relax.”

Ian looked at all of them again, who gave him nods. Finally, he looked at Dr. Ancialient, their mentor.

“This is dangerous, but he plays by the rules rangers. I say that you take the offer.” He informed.

The six rangers all lined up in front of the screen. “Were in.” Ian accepted.

“Excellent. May the battle begin tomorrow at 12:00 pm Earth time. Pack for the battle of your young lives, as it may be your last. Oh, and as a little gift for accepting the challenge, here is what the dimension will look like.”

The screen shifted to an island, with skulls of dead animals and warriors on the beach. An opening in the trees had a gargoyle hanging above it, along with torches. The water was black, and the jungle had multiple pits and platforms, seemingly used for battle. Ruins still stood, with an A carved in them. The center of the jungle showed six large statues: A warrior, an elephant, a dolphin, a falcon, a tiger, and a polar bear. A bridge on the other side of the island leaded to a large battlefield, fit for Zords.

“That is the island of your destruction rangers. Or it can be the island of your triumph. It all depends if you survive this deadly game. I will see you tomorrow. By the way; if anyone does not come, there will be severe consequences.” Acrodono warned as the screen faded.

Chloe looked at Ian with horror on her face. “What have we gotten ourselves into?” He had an immediate answer.

“Victory.”

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 1
Episode 1.7

~ Rangers House--- July 18, 2007--- 6:00 AM ~

“Ian, are you sure we should do this?” Nick said as he started to pack for the island. The fear had already started for the rangers, all except Ian though. Second thoughts clouded their heads, thinking if this was a trap or their last battle of their lives.

The red ranger just groaned. “Nick, we all went over this, remember?”

“Yeah, but that was an adrenaline rush. It was a spur of the moment thing.” Nick rebutted.

“Okay, maybe I did rush into this” Ian wondered aloud.

Sarah soon entered Nick’s room, combing her hair. “Yeah, you did. I only had my powers for like, a half hour; and then you decided that we should be in a big battle against an alien warrior, who by the way wants us dead. He will use any means necessary Ian. Any means!”

“Stop whining. I am the leader here, and I should make the decisions.” Ian said, going to his room to pack, where he saw Chloe lying on his bed, listening to music

“Hey Chloe.” Ian greeted as he kissed her head. “You packed?” She shook her head and took off her head phones. “Not yet, I want your help”

Ian nodded and picked her up, Chloe giggling. “What do you need to pack?” he asked.

“Beauty supplies, clothes, underwear, and food. Maybe some stuff to keep me occupied.” She responded, getting out of his arms and walking into the hallway, before going back, seeing him packing. “Ian?”

“Yeah?” he said, putting a red shirt in his backpack.

Chloe hesitated to ask about backing out of the battle, knowing he wanted to destroy Acrodono. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

“Yes. We need to. There are no other people on Earth with this power, so were basically the last defense.” Ian said, in a commanding tone. “If Acrodono tries anything dirty, than we’ll fight back; even tougher.”

Chloe looked at him and left, going to Rye’s room.

“Hey” Chloe sighed.

”Ian?” Rye asked as he took a sip of water.

Chloe just nodded before Rye patted her shoulder. “I know he can be like a general, and get himself into things; but he can back it up too.”

“He can, but is now the right time?”

“I’m not sure to tell you the truth. We have power, but this has bad written all over it.” Rye said, after packing a gray sleeveless shirt. “But he’s our leader, and we accepted the challenge.”

The blue ranger flopped onto Ryes bed, letting out a breath of air. “I know Rye. We all accepted. But there might be another way. We can take Acrodono without this.”

“No we can’t.” Brad said, entering the room with his bag packed.

“Ian brainwashed you?” Rye asked.

Brad just smiled. “Not at all; I want to do this.”

Rye just shook his head, knowing that Brad was a daredevil and risk taker.

“Oh Come on Rye.” Brad said, annoyed at his friend “We can destroy Acrodono today, instead of waiting for attacks. This is the best opportunity.”

“I am just concerned of trap. There could be thousands of Dynamites on that island.”

“Just pack for the trip, okay?”

Rye grinned. “How do you know if we are going?”

“Cause I know you Rye. You want to test yourself and your powers. If not, than you have been spewing shit for the past couple of years.” Brad taunted angrily.

Rye’s smiled faded and he took out his Element Cell, ordering food while Chloe left.

In Ian’s room, he was still packing, looking for supplies. He wasn’t the most organized person, and he needed to figure out what he needed.

Okay, I have clothes, hygiene supplies, my laptop, some stuff to keep me entertained, and a switchblade. What else do I need?

He looked in his drawer, which was filled with battle items. “Maybe a bo” he mumbled, taking out a staff like weapon and twirling it around in a circle. “Yeah, I’m taking it.”

Finished packing, he took his backpacks and duffel bags down to the door, then saw that they only had an hour left.

“Fuck!” he shouted before running up the steps, launching himself into Brad’s room, seeing him kissing Sarah. “You two packed?” Ian asked exhaustedly.

“Yes Ian, Sarah and I are. We know the time too, so chill out.” Brad assured his friend calmly.

Ian took a deep breath. “Yeah, I’m getting excited I guess…”

“You are” Sarah said, leading him to sit down on the bed. “Relax, and concentrate.”

The red ranger kept taking deep breaths and finally calmed down in a few minutes. He got up and went to Rye’s room, seeing him still packing.

“I just need to find my lighter” the white ranger said, digging through a box.

“Why do you need a lighter?”

“For fire; this is basically camping.”

Ian looked at him puzzled, and then realized he was right. They could be on that island for days, maybe even weeks. “Okay, well we have 45 minutes.”

“Got it” Rye confidently said before ushering out the door and into Nick’s room.

Ian looked around, seeing scratch marks on the walls, and Nick in his ranger suit.

“Practicing” Nick muffled from his helmet, and pointed to the bags in the corner, motioning Ian to take them down, which he did.

Nick punched the wall, giving it three claw shaped holes. I am ready for this. I can defeat Acrodono and whatever he throws at us.

Chloe walked down the stairs to see Ian putting down Nick’s bags. “I got mine right here.” She said, holding two cyan colored backpacks.

“Ready for battle?” Ian asked as he held her. She smiled.

“Yes Ian, I’m ready now. Brad reasoned with everyone, and we decided that we have to do this.” The blue ranger stated.

“Good, cause I have a feeling that there aren’t just monsters made by Acrodono on that island.” Ian said, solemnly, while Chloe looked confused. “I think after that doubt potion, he might want to play off our personalities and fears. Be ready for anything.”
“Okay” Chloe said softly, hugging Ian, who didn’t let go for a minute. Deep down, he was afraid of what inhabited the island, and what they would encounter.

~ Dark Core Ship ~

Acrodono paced up and down the throne room, hitting the air with his sword.

“Master, are you afraid?” Cloudex asked.

“Yes Cloudex. I am actually afraid of this group” the stone warrior said seriously. “We have never encountered rangers like this. Grumm was taken down by arrogance and a set of rangers, but these 6 seem tougher than the SPD ones. These have passion. They are a different breed.”

“What do you mean sire?” Dasefa asked, holding his sword up against his bosses as a sign of respect.

Acrodono directed them to a screen, showing the Ancient Element Rangers fighting various monsters. “They have a different style, more ruthless. From Mighty Morphin to SPD, the rangers were cautious and defensive. These ones though, have a street fight mentality.”

“They are from a different part of the US.” Cloudex pondered.

“And that is their style. A New Jersey street style. Take no prisoners attitude. They will kill you and leave you for dead.” Acrodono said, firing a blast at a pillar, leaving a dent in it.

Cloudex and Dasefa looked at each other and bowed to Acrodono, going into the hallway.

“Do you think they can destroy him?” Cloudex asked the boned warrior.

“I have faith in my master’s abilities. However, I can say first hand that these are no pushovers. We can only hope that the island will destroy them, body and mind.” Dasefa said.

Cloudex smiled. “Yes, you are right. The island is built to feed off of the challengers’ fears and weaknesses. I think that he will be back.” She looked at Acrodono and her smile faded away. “But, who will guide us if he is destroyed?”

“If he is, there are tons of armies and rebels in the universe that will take command of this ship. The only thing that I heard is that there are evil warriors who do not like Acrodono.”

Deep in the shadows of the ship, a figure smiled.
~ AE Base ~

It was 11:35 AM, 25 minutes before the rangers would be going to the Skull Dimension, and they were preparing for the fight, mentally and physically.

“Okay you six, I have found the data on the Skull Dimension.” Dr. Ancialient said, an image of the island coming up on the main screen. “It was made by items from conquered planets after the Space Rangers won the battle of the Millennium, also known as Countdown to Destruction.”

“So, we’re dealing with something on the caliber of the Alliance of Evil?” Rye asked.

“Yes. It was made in the beginning of time, and passed down to Acrodono. He has tests and challenges on it. If you lose one, you are trapped in the Skull Castle, the only remaining building on the island.” The doctor explained.

Next to be put up on the screen was a circular platform, suspended above the ground by stone pillars.

“These are the battlefields that you will encounter. They come in different terrains, from the Dinosaur age to a futuristic city, from a jungle to a desert.”

“And those are the challenges?” Chloe questioned.

“Not all of them are on the battlefields. Some are spells that test your mind strength, like Sarah had to do.”

Sarah groaned, hating what had happened to her the day before. “How many are there?”

“The dimension only has three mind stones, the activation keys for the mind battles. Acrodono will pick half of you.” Dr. Ancialient responded.

The next image was of various animals, or what could one only describe as them. Bats flew out into the ruins, as piranha jumped out of a lake. Vultures shot down to the ground in explosions as snakes rose up from the ground, transforming into a human-reptile form.

“What sicko would warp animals like that?” Brad said disgustingly as an image of the bats eating a skull appeared. “Acrodono has a sick taste of humor.”

“You think he didn’t?” Chloe told him.

Brad covered his eyes, not wanting to watch anymore. “I know he was out to kill us. But this is just wrong.”


“Now, the time in the dimension is up to the battles.” The mentor of the rangers proclaimed. “If you defeat the ten challenges, then you are transported back here, with Acrodono destroyed and with your Zords. If not, you are trapped there and defeated by him.”

Ian looked at the screen now, the six Zords on it. “Which one is which?”

“The Earth Elephant is for Brad, the Air Falcon for Sarah, the Water Dolphin for Chloe, the Ice Bear for Rye, the Thunder Tiger for Nick, and the Flame Warrior Zord for you Ian.” Dr. Ancialient said before a siren transmission came through.

Acrodono appeared in the screen, sitting on his throne in the Skull Castle.

“Hello rangers. I see that none of you backed out.” He taunted.

“Why would we?” Nick smiled.

Acrodono let out a blast of purple energy above him, lighting the room he was in to show skulls. Above his head were mantles, marked with the six rangers names.

“I don’t think I need to explain what is above me. But I guess that fear in your world is easy to overcome.”

Ian nodded and flipped him off. “I fear nothing.”

“Ah, Ian, the Ancient Flame Red Ranger. I see that the fiery temper was not a one time thing. There is much to fear, and even more in this dimension. I hope you have no phobias or anything that touches your heart deeply. That can and will be your downfall.”

The red ranger was now just staring at the alien, his eyes focused on his enemy.

“I guess we will see then. Now, I shall tell you where the portal to the Skull Dimension is. Head out to the beach, and you will see a purple and olive wave coming. Jump into it, and you will arrive in my world. I suggest one last time that you back out, or your fears will come true.”

The transmission ended with the rock warrior sending a wave of purple light at the entire screen.

All six rangers stood in silence for a moment, before Nick walked out the door, the other 5 following, all transporting themselves to the beach when they were out of the building.

“Okay guys, get ready.” Ian said as he saw the purple wave in the distance, coming at them. They all took a jumping stance, and when it came crashing to the shore, they all jumped in, taking them into the Skull Dimension.

~ Skull Dimension ~

The six rangers dropped down the portal, which was in a tunnel shape. When they landed, they were on the beach of an island, black sand surrounding them, along with a jungle.

Rye quickly looked around, scouting for enemies and took out his Element Cell, along with the others, and wrist mounted it.

“So, where do we go now?” Brad asked, confused.

“I guess the jungle.” Ian answered, walking towards the trees, and looking up at the gargoyle statue on the rusted gate. Everyone followed, as the gate closed, trapping them in the jungle.

Above them, the statue morphed into a real gargoyle, and traversed the trees, getting ahead of them, and onto a battlefield, just waiting for the rangers to come.

The six rangers walked through the jungle carefully, Nick chopping bushes and branches with a bayonet. Soon, they came upon a cleared are, with just a circular platform.

“Rangers.” A voice shouted above them.

“Who’s there?” Rye yelled out, looking up. “Show yourself!”

“I will if Rye steps onto the battle platform.”

“Fine!” Rye shouted as he dropped his bags and backpacks, steeping up onto the purple platform. Right when he did, it transformed into a snowy forest, with old warehouses as the walls. Tanks and guns littered the area, and a Soviet Flag was raised on one side.

The Gargoyle dropped down from the sky and crushed a machine gun, kicking its remnants towards Rye’s feet.

The white ranger just stood silent, looking around him. This was the land he grew up in, a communist country of brutality. He lost his grandmother to a ruthless dictator, and now it was coming back to haunt him.

“What is this?” Rye screamed as he touched the ground, picking up a small amount of snow.

“Your mind and past. I thought that these would bring memories back for you. Maybe not good memories, but still memories.” Gargoyle cackled.

Rye snarled. “You piece of shit. Now I know that I want to destroy Acrodono. Power of Ice!”

A glare of white light surrounded him as he morphed, and subsided when he was in his suit. He clenched his fists and picked up a small pistol.

“That was from rebels. Sort of like you and your friends are now.” Gargoyle toyed with Rye. “Some say history repeats itself.”

”Very funny. History has shown that Stalin was overthrown, and that will be what is going to happen now. Ice Shield.” White and blues glows of light hit Ryes hand and were now a diamond shape shield, which he held outstretched.

Gargoyle took an ax out of his holster and charged at Rye, who did the same. The ax met the shield, and Rye held his shield tight, wanting to kick off Gargoyle. His rage was giving him power, power that he would need to defeat a monster like this.

Finally, Gargoyle leaped back and put his ax back in the holster, and threw a punch at Rye, which connected. He was thrown into the solid wall, and fell to the ground for a moment. The winged monster grasped his throat and picked him up, flinging the ranger into a cannon.

“So, how do these weapons feel now?” he laughed as he hit Rye with a punch to the chest.

Rye gasped for air. “I never supported this.” He picked his shield up and stood in place, albeit dizzy and hurting. “This is what I wanted to escape from, and I will do it again.”

Gargoyle shook his head, thinking Rye was crazy for still fighting.

“I see that the only way to defeat you is to pound you into submission.” He said, but then took out his ax and grinned. “Or cut off a limb.”

“Rye, watch out!” Sarah shouted as Gargoyle smashed the ax down where Rye’s foot was, which he quickly moved out of. He punched Gargoyle on a part of his exposed leg and had him on his knee while he kicked his head. The momentum was short however, as the monsters pure strength was too much for Rye at that moment.

Picking up his ax, the monster slammed the blade against a cannon, and hurled the part towards Ryes head, but he ducked in time.

How can I use this place to my advantage? The ground is freezing with the snow and ice. Wait, that’s it. The ice.

“You ready for defeat?” Rye said, holding his Ice Shield.

“Ha, you already showed me your best and even a blast from that can only make me fall down.”

“Maybe I’m not going to aim at you.” The white ranger said as he shot the ground with an Aurora Blizzard, turning it to ice. “What if you can’t move right?”

Gargoyle looked around him, seeing that the whole field was now just slippery ice, and the cannons were breaking apart. He tried to smash the ground with his ax, but it was struck with a blast of white light and frozen into the platform. “Wait my weapon!”

“And my chance!” Rye yelled as he glided across the ice, ramming into Gargoyle with his shield. He fired another Aurora Blast at him, freezing his legs to the ground.

“No, I can’t lose in an arena that haunts you!”

“It did at first. Then I realized that it is in the past, and I can take the anger out on you. Ancient Blade and Element Bazooka come forth and combine!” Rye commanded.

A white blade and a brown and white mini bazooka levitated towards each other and combined. It was now a staff, with the blade in the barrel of the gun.

“Blade Blast!” Rye screamed as he pulled the trigger and sent the blade covered in a white glow at Gargoyle, impaling him into the wall, along with pieces of the cannons.

Rye stepped down from the platform where he just battled, now just a black platform. There were no traces of Gargoyle or the battle.

“Power down.” Rye demorphed and fell to his knees, exhausted from the battle that he just had. The other rangers ran over, Chloe checking his back to see if it was okay after he was thrown into the wall. “I’m okay.” He said, getting up and leaning against a tree, catching his breath. “Just small cuts and bruises, nothing serious.”

“Okay, well let me feel your back for any damage in case there is.” Chloe instructed, laying Rye on the ground and checking his spine. “Your right, nothing bad. Are you in pain?”

“Yeah, but it’s nothing, just get me some Tylenol out of my bag and some water.” He asked as he walked over to her, taking a pill.

Once Rye was okay, they kept walking through, coming across the beats that Acrodono warned them about. They were taken care of with knives and paintball guns the guys packed. A group of snakes came out of the bushed, but were killed by the bayonet Nick had.

Continuing into the jungle, they soon cam across a clear box, big enough for a human to fit in.

“Not good.” Brad commented as he examined it, before hearing the voice of Acrodono.

“I see that you defeated my first monster Rye. Good for you. But, this is a different type of battle. Ian, please step into the box.”

“For what?”

“A mind game my young friend. I activated the first of three mind keys just for you.”

Ian looked at the box for a second, before he went in. There was a hole in the top, so he could hear what anyone or anything was saying.

“Now, let the battle begin!” Acrodono announced as his voice drifted off.

“The only thing in this is a mirror. What am I fighting?” Ian yelled before Acrodono’s face appeared in the sky.

“Your past and what your life was like before you became a Power Ranger.”

Ian’s eyes went wide, and he stared at the mirror, which now had an image of him in the mirror, although it was different than he was now. His hair was shorter, and he was skinnier. This was back before the meteor strike, a time that he wanted to forget.

“No.” he whispered, before seeing the images of his past in the mirror.

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 2
Episode 1.8

“No.” Ian yelled again as he faced the mirror in front of him. “Not that!”

Chloe and Sarah looked at Brad, who may know what was going on.

“What’s wrong with him?” Chloe asked frantically.

“He has to fight who and how he was before he was a ranger, and he hates that.” Brad winced as he knew what could happen.

“So something happened then?” Sarah asked. Nick answered the question for her. “Ian wasn’t the most confident guy in the world before he became a ranger, and had this anxiety problem. He couldn’t even go to school.”

Rye then took over. “He didn’t have that many friends, just Nick, Brad, and I mainly. What he hated most was not having the best luck with girls. He said he looked good, which I guess is true, but people always said he didn’t, right Brad?”

Brad’s head dropped. “Okay, fine. I may have been an ass to him before, teasing him about his luck. But he needed to step up.”

“Okay, so how does this all work to Acrodono’s advantage?” Sarah asked as she saw Ian in a corner of the box.

“He had tons of frustration, and took it out using sword and submission skills. I think Acrodono may have been able to tap into that and make him face that, his old self.” Nick explained to the four. “We need to be strong and believe that he is stronger now.”

In the large box, Ian looked at the mirror of his old self, with shorter hair, not as much muscles and build as he had now. He saw him in his old room, looking at a picture. It was a picture of him and his friends, Rye and Brad with their girlfriends. Nick was just having fun, flipping the camera off. Ian on the other hand, was depressed.

“I remember that day. That was when I had the nervous breakdown. I cried for hours and didn’t go out for days.” Ian mumbled, looking in the mirror.

“Yes, you did. The only thing that kept you sane was sword fighting, and you excelled at it when you were frustrated.” A voice said. Ian looked around, and saw that his old self was now in the box with him, pacing.

“What do you want?” Ian asked his younger self, taking a fighting stance.

The younger version laughed and kicked Ian in the groin, and punched his nose, drawing blood.

“I want revenge. You see, I am your old soul. The one that represented you when you were least confident. I had to live with what you were like, and am trapped like this now!” the younger version said, now changing its features. It had fire red hair and orange skin.

He looked down at Ian, who was holding his nose. “Pathetic.”

The orange skinned memory touched the Ancient Flame Morpher with one of its hands, and made a copy of it for him. He latched it onto his wrist and morphed, now becoming the red ranger.

“I thought only my DNA could handle that power” Ian said as he got up.

“You just answered your question. I am you, and am here to destroy you.”

“How are you gonna do that?”

“Easy, I just battle your mind.”

The figure lunged into Ian’s head, and his eyes closed as he dropped to the ground.

“IAN!” Chloe yelled as she saw him drop, banging on the glass. “Get up!”

Brad grabbed her and tried top calm her down. “Listen, he’s fighting himself now, and we can’t do anything about it. Okay?”

“No, he can be killed from inside Brad!” Chloe shouted as she punched him in the stomach, with him keeling over in pain.

The other three rushed over to keep Chloe off of Brad, and to make sure he didn’t retaliate.

“Stop it you two.” Nick declared, as Rye and Sarah held Brad and Chloe back respectively. “Ian does need to fight this battle by himself Chloe. He will come out better when it’s done.”

The blue ranger just nodded, and apologized to Brad, and went back to looking on with the other four.

In Ian’s mind, he was sitting in a dungeon, surrounded by cobwebs and rats.

“Ian, this is what your mind was like with your anxiety, a prison.” The mirror version of him said. “And my name is Caldaro, a demon on the island. I am here to test you.”

“Caldaro huh? Okay Caldaro, how do you plan on testing me?” Ian said, getting up and putting his hand on his morpher in case he needed it.

The demon just waved his hand, lighting candles, each with a picture above it.

When Ian looked at them, he saw the photos of Brad, Chloe, Nick, Rye, and Sarah, each getting slightly burned.

“You have 30 minutes to win this battle. After each six minutes, a picture will turn into ashes. If all are gone by the end, you will lose.” Caldaro explained and saw him holding his morpher. “Go on, you need to morph for this.”

Ian pressed a button on the morpher and transformed in a glow of red light, illuminating the dungeon. “What do I have to battle?”

“Nothing my friend. You just need to survive, against me and yourself.”

Suddenly, a fuse was attached to Ian’s waist, and was lit. Ian looked at it and tried taking it off, but it was chained to him.

“What is this?” he growled

“If you have any past fear or frustration, your body will be burned.”

Ian just looked at him through his visor, hating this sick game.

“Let’s go to the first exhibit.” Caldaro motioned Ian through a door in the wall, and they ended up in a classroom.

It was Ian’s 5th grade classroom, the same year his anxiety started to take over and he started to skip school. He soon heard kids saying his name, making fun of him. Then he suddenly experienced pain on his side.

“I see that this is getting to you.” Caldaro chuckled, but then turned to Ian and gave him a bracelet. “Put it on. Your first test will see if you can fight these kids. Your body here only knows the martial arts moves that you knew when you were 12. Knock them out.”

Ian looked confused but he knew this was real when he saw his younger self enter the door in the classroom.

“Look who showed up” One of the kids asked, throwing a small paper book at him and getting in his face. “Fight me.”

Ian just nodded, and a rope appeared on their wrists, connecting them within 6 feet.

“Rope fight, you and me. You win, I back off forever. I win, you have to stay here, and have to come to school for the rest of your life.” The kid said.

“Fine, you don’t know anything about me.” Ian grinned as he and his opponent circled.

Soon they locked up, fighting for control. The other kid gained it and tripped Ian’s leg, and grabbed it, turning him over. He jumped up and sent Ian’s ankle onto a pile of hard books, injuring it.

“I can win this asshole, even with a hurt ankle. It’s just fear. I can overcome fear.” Ian yelled as he flipped the kid into a desk back first, his head hitting the ground hard. He was out cold.

Caldaro clapped as he saw Ian overcome this first challenge. “Very good. You conquered your fear of school. But this next one may be a bit tougher.”

They walked into a room that resembled a neighborhood at night, and saw Ian, Brad, and Nick talking to Chloe and Sarah.

“You could have made your move on Chloe hear, but you didn’t. Time to face that.”

Ian was talking to Chloe, explaining what happened with him and school when all five of them saw a car pull up, a man dressed in red getting out of it.

“Who are you?” Chloe asked as the man took a knife out of his pocket.

“Someone who doesn’t like kids” he said in a deep, cold voice and pointed at Ian. “You like her?” he asked.

Ian hesitated to talk, knowing that if he said he did, he would be embarrassed. If he said no, he knew something bad would happen.

“Y-y-yes.” he stuttered.

Chloe and Sarah just looked at each other while Ian stood his ground, Brad and Nick behind him.

“So, then I guess you would protect her if someone tried to harm her?” the man said, dropping the knife and walking towards them.

Ian nodded, and moved back.

“I will go if you can defeat me in a fight.”

“Fine.”

The man charged at Ian, but he dodged it and sent a kick into his leg.

“Wow, he can do that?” Chloe asked Nick.

“Yeah, he is a black belt in Taekwondo. But that’s nothing” Nick said as he saw Ian pick up a large stick.

The 16 year old hit the man in the back with the branch, and punched him in the neck, and waited as he got up. When he finally did, Ian jumped and roundhouse kicked him back down. Ian walked over to the grass and picked up the knife, holding it up for the man to see.

“Try to fight me with this.” Ian calmly said as the man retreated to his car and drove off.

Chloe then turned to Ian and hugged him, thanking him for saving their lives. “Thank you so much Ian. That was so brave.”

“Thanks Chloe. Do you want to do something sometime?” he asked her, smiling.

“Yes.”

“Cool. By the way, I like the blue sweater you have on.” He joked.

Chloe and Sarah laughed, and commented on the fur guys clothes.

“You know that show Power Rangers Ian?” Sarah asked.

Ian nodded.

“You would be the perfect Red Ranger. Maybe draw your power off of fire?” Sarah said, in a somewhat serious tone. “I love pink, and the air.”

“My guess is that Brad would be green, with the power of earth; Nick as yellow with the power of thunder; and Chloe, you would be blue with the power of water. There is this one guy around here, Rye, who could be the white ranger, having ice as his powers.” Ian said, not joking about that.

In the room with Caldaro, Ian was shocked at what he just saw.

“Whoa, wait. I didn’t say that, or wanted too.” He protested.

“It doesn’t matter now red ranger. It turned out that way. But I saw that you were serious about that.” Caldaro smirked at what he just told his enemy.

Ian just waved his hands, signaling the demon to back off.

“Can you take a joke?”

“No. Now onto the final test, and it is the toughest.”

They both walked down a dark hall, candles lighting after they passed each one.

Soon they entered a white room with nothing in it, except for a sword stuck in the ground. Caldaro glided over to it and picked it up, and when he did, the room transformed into a dojo.

“Call your sword, now!” Caldaro commanded as he surged towards Ian.

“Flame Sword!” the brown haired man said as his brown and red sword met Caldaro’s orange and red one.

They both were in the middle of the building, locked in combat with each other. Ian knew that Caldaro was harvesting his past frustration into his moves, and he had to be careful, and use new techniques.

As the battle raged on, both making no progress in hitting their opponent, Ian was on the defensive, moving into a corner, where he would be easy prey.

“I wouldn’t be sad if you lost Ian. You just are facing yourself, and you cannot win.” Caldaro taunted as he set the top of the building on fire, rubble falling down to the hardwood floor.

The demon was about to hit the finishing strike to the heart of Ian when a metal bar landed in front of him, making him safe.

“Oh well, I will let you be captured painfully, as the fire burns you to near death.” Caldaro declared ash he leaned forward on his sword.

“Haven’t you heard of destiny?” Ian proclaimed, kicking the flaming piece into the orange demon. “I was destined for this. My past could have stayed the same, but fate intervened, and now I am the red ranger!”

Ian charged forward, his sword leveled with Caldaro’s head, and struck him in the neck, making him bleed.

“If I die, your coming with me.” He choked as he put his hand to his neck, and spit a wave of fire out of his mouth towards Ian.

“Yeah right. Take this; Burning Ambition!” Ian shot a blaze of flames at Caldaro, meeting the fire he was breathing.

Each of them were holding their ground, keeping the flames going.

Until Caldaro dropped dead.

Images around the room started to appear. They were the metamorphosis of Ian Shokuno, who demorphed and slouched against the wall, the fire now out.

“No more regrets” he said softly before he passed out, the battle in his head over. The final image was him shooting the blaze of fire at Caldaro.

Back on the island, the five rangers were waiting for Ian to wake up. When they finally saw the box dematerialize, they ran over and picked him up, Chloe kissing him on the head.

“Caldaro’s gone.” Ian said as he picked his head up in Chloe’s arms, resting his head against her chest.

“Who?”

“My old self. This is a new beginning guys. Now let me get the fuck up!” he yelled, or what he thought was, as he was drained.

“He still has part of his old self in him.” Brad laughed as he knew his friend’s vocabulary was going to stay the same forever.

Chloe dropped him on the ground and let him get up on his own. He was wobbly, but made it over to a rock to lie on, and ordered his friends to bring him water. When he was done drinking, he got up and looked through his bag. Fishing through it, he saw a picture of his old self, and tore it up, burying the pieces in the ground.

Soon, he motioned for them to keep going, and they trekked deeper into the jungle before Ian sat down on the ground and started to rest.

“That mind battle took a lot out of you Ian. You have to rest.” Sarah said as she a thermometer in his mouth that Chloe packed. “107.9!” she screamed as she felt his head.

“Fire was involved.” he said as he moved her hand away from his head. “I’m fine, it’ll wear off.”

Brad just shook his head. Usually, he was the one that had no common sense, but Ian’s stupidity at the moment even baffled him.

“Nick and Rye, help me pitch a tent. He needs to rest, no matter what he says.” Brad ordered. “Chloe, do whatever you can to make the fever go down to at least 100.0”

The three of the agreed and started to do what they needed to. Chloe put a cool rag on her boyfriends head, and took his socks and shoes off. Fishing through her bag, she found a medical book on how to deal with high fevers. “Sarah, can you read this to me?”

“Yeah.” Sarah grabbed the book and flipped through it. “Okay, he doesn’t seem to have any severe signs. Any burns?”

Chloe looked him over and found none.

“Do you know his allergies?”

“Ian, are you allergic to any medicine?” the blue ranger asked.

“No”

“Sarah, get me some Motrin.” Chloe asked as she pressed the cloth against his head, the water trickling down his face.

When she got the medicine, she poured a bottle of water into a small cup, and handed Ian the pill. He took it right away, and drank some more water.

“Do you feel nauseous?”

“Nope. I am just worn down. Do you want me to explain why I think I’m like this?”

“Yeah”

Ian started to tell them about the mind battle and the challenges he faced, including the encounter he had with her. He told her about what he said regarding them being rangers, and before she could answer, Nick interrupted.

“Tent’s ready!” he yelled from the trees, coming over to his best friend.

“Okay. Come on Ian; tell me the rest on the way.” Chloe said as she helped him over to the red tent that he packed.

When he was on the inflatable bed with Chloe, who was going to watch him for now, he continued the story.

“The battle with Caldaro, the spirit of my old self, concluded with us spraying fire at each other. I bet the temperature was as hot as the sun in there. That’s why I have this fever.”

“Okay, well we should see if it went down.” Chloe said as she picked Ian’s head up against a pillow and put the thermometer in his mouth again. “99.2. I guess it was.”

“See. But I guess I should rest.”

“Yeah, if there is a battle, I think you five can handle it.” He yawned before getting out his IPod and Nintendo DS, and playing them.

Over in another section of the land around the rangers, Brad, Rye, Sarah, and Nick wondered off, looking to where battle sites were.

“Let me make this clear you three, I want to go next.” Sarah said as she took out her Element Cell and activated its morpher form.

“Okay.” Nick said as he chopped through branches, and saw a swarm of bats coming their way. “Duck!” he yelled as they dropped to the ground to avoid the flying mammals.

When they got up a battle platform with a fighter jet monster on it.

Sarah jumped up on it and raised her morpher for the monster to see.

“I guess your our next opponent?” she inquired as she lowered her morpher to her other hand.

“Yes rookie, I am” he said in a southern accent. “My name is Commandair, and you are my target. Be ready to get dismissed!”

“Power of Air”

A pink glow transpired on Sarah, leaving her in her morphed form.

“Let’s see who really is the ruler of the sky cadet. Initiate ground to air gravity missiles, zero gravity.” He flew into the air and fired three missles from his back into the platform, sending Sarah up into the sky with him. However, instead of falling down, she stayed there.

“Were battling in mid air?” Sarah yelled as she heard the air twisting in a circle around her and Commandair.

“If you do not defeat me in 20 minutes, you will be swept into the sky here forever!” he shouted.

Above them a gigantic clock started to tick, with a tornado at its 20 minute mark. The third battle was about to begin.

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 3
Episode 1.9

“Ever flown in the sky cadet?” Commandair said as he flew higher and circled around Sarah, who kept watching him, making sure he didn’t pull anything.

“I’ve ridden a good amount of horses buddy, does that count?” Sarah asked as she tried her best to glide over to the middle of the field. Commandair shook his head. “A ground animal like that cannot go up against me rookie, so let’s get it on!” He zoomed into the air and swooped down and connected with Sarah’s chest.

She felt back to the ground, but the gravity control missles quickly shot her back up into the air. “Ugh, that hurts” she said as she called for her Air Crossbow. The wind around her took the shape of it and landed in her arms. “You may use ammunition, but I have arrows to hit you with.” Sarah yelled as she fired at the fighter jet monster, which quickly flew out of the way and into the sky, above the clouds. “Shit, I can’t see him not” Sarah thought as she launched he body upwards, and was met with a spray of bullets.

“Hahaha ranger, can’t take some bullets?” the monster said as he bent over, exposing a rocket launcher. “Maybe this will be more of your style.” He fired a missile at Sarah, who narrowly avoided it. However her attempt to get out of the way was met with another barrage of gunfire from Commandair’s arm mounted machine guns.

On the sidelines, Nick, Brad, and Rye were looking on. “She’s really getting pounded in there” Rye said as Sarah was hit with a kick to the ribs. “I know” Brad agreed as he saw his girlfriend taking bullet hits. “And she has to defeat him in 15 minutes now.” Nick looked on as Commandair once again launched himself into the air and drive Sarah into the ground with a nosedive. “How can you two count her out of this?” Nick argued as he saw Sarah get up and back into the air. “Brad, you’re her boyfriend, encourage her!” The green ranger never really heard Nick this determined before. “Okay. Come on Sarah!”

“Guys, he’s too fast!” she shouted as she dodged the next blast of bullets and flew as best as she could upward. Sarah soon met him as he was reloading one of his guns with another magazine. “Okay, there’s a weakness.” She said to herself out loud as she aimed her crossbow at her enemy. “Tornado Arrows!” she called as she fired her own barrage at Commandair, locking him a pink transparent box.

“You think this can hold me? Try again cadet!” he said as the box broke and Sarah was charged into the wall of air, cutting up her back behind the suit. “Ughhhhhh!” she moaned as she once again hit the ground and came back up. “What can beat him” she whispered as he circled around her, taunting her to attack. “If I get too close to the side, I will bounce back, and the arrows don’t work.” She looked at the clock and saw that she only had 10 minutes remaining to win. “I need to figure out something quick.”

During this time, Chloe was taking care of Ian. “Let me take your temperature again” She said as she put the thermometer back in his mouth and saw that he was down to 97.7.

“Your better.” she confirmed. “I knew it. It was only the fire, and I’m just tired. All I need to do is take a quick nap, and then go back on.” Ian said as he put his face on his pillow and tried to fall asleep in the jungle.

As soon as Ian fell asleep, Chloe wandered off, keeping an eye on Ian though. She soon found herself by a lake, where she saw a battle platform. “Oh no, not now” she said as it began to glow as she ran away to the campsite. Finding paper, she quickly tried to draw a map of where they were and where the battle platform was at for later use. “When Ian wakes up, I’m going” Chloe said in her mind. But for now, she just wanted to rest.

Back in the battle, Sarah was on the defensive, trying to avoid all of Commandair’s attacks. “I can’t elude them forever” she said under her breath as a bullet hit her leg. Even though the suits were durable, and the bullets bounced off, they still hurt. “I need to find a way to beat him.”

“Sarah, I just figured out a way to win!” Nick shouted. “How?” she asked, flowing down as the alien fired a missile at her. “Rangers! Tell her anything and you will be destroyed along with her. Keep your mouths shut!” he commanded while firing bullets at the ground in front of them, while some bounced back in the wind. “That’s it” Sarah thought, looking at the bullets moving faster as they kept hitting the air walls. She fired her crossbow at an angle, shooting the arrows all over the field.

“Your aim is horrible. They will not reach me.” Commandair grinned. “Maybe not for now, but they will.” Sarah said as she fired the next batch at the tornado wall behind the southern speaking monster. He soon was hit in the back by a higher powered arrow, and it stuck to him, glowing pink. More soon hit him, glowing pink again. Eventually, he was trapped in another box. But this time, it was harder to escape.

“Arrow of the Ancients!” Sarah called as she fired the large brown arrow at the fighter jet monster, destroying the box in a glow of pink and brown light. Now she had to just wait for the dust to clear and see if her enemy was destroyed too.

As the dust finally settled, there was a scrap of metal, a wing of fighter jet. “Yes!” The tornado slowly lowered and Sarah dropped to her feet and jumped off of the field, demorphing.

“I did it!” she yelled as she kissed Brad and hugged Nick. Rye applauded her on her tactics. “Nice move. You used the field against him.”

“That was what I was going to tell you, but you figured it out on your own. Great job Sarah” Nick said as he hugged her again, much to the chagrin of Brad. He soon stepped in and kissed Sarah, and it broke in a second. “Enough with the congratulations Brad, go it?” Sarah quipped as put her morpher back into its holder and walked back to the campsite to see Ian and Chloe sleeping under the night sky.

They didn’t want to wake them, and they were tired too, so they all set up a jumbo tent and mattress. Sarah sat in the middle of Nick and Brad, while Rye slept on another mattress that he brought. Brad gave Sarah a goodnight kiss and she rolled over, accidentally meeting Nick’s lips. “Oh, I am so sorry Sarah. I was yawning, and I didn’t think that-“ Nick panicked before Sarah kicked his leg.

“Don’t worry, okay. Were good friends, and that happens all of the time. Brad won’t get mad if he somehow hears, I hope” she explained as he turned over and closed her eyes. What she didn’t know was that Brad had heard a small part of what she aid, and was trying to figure out what happened.

“I guess I’ll ask in the morning” he mumbled as he went to sleep.

The next morning, the rangers were all up and Sarah and Chloe were in a river, washing themselves, while the boys trained. “Chloe, I have to tell you something” Sarah said.

“What?” Chloe said. “Nick kissed me” Sarah responded. Chloe gasped in shock. “Why?”
Sarah explained the whole thing to her, as well as the consequences.

“Okay, so you think that Brad will crush Nick’s head with his hammer if he finds out?” Chloe asked. “Actually, yes. He is very protective of me, and I love him so much. This sucks.” Chloe nodded. “It does. But were all good friends, so it shouldn’t matter. I mean, yeah, Ian would go crazy if I made out with Rye, but he wouldn’t on purpose. Nick and Rye know they can’t do anything to us without our boyfriends basically killing them.”

“What the hell you faggot? Die!”

Chloe winced as Sarah looked back into the jungle. “Who was that?”

“Judging by the language, Ian. He said he doesn’t call people gay often, so this must be different.” Chloe explained as she put her clothes on and rushed over with Sarah to see Ian and Brad wrestling.

“You took a peak you asshole. That makes you gay” Ian grunted as he flipped Brad off of him and got up in a fighting stance before Chloe and Sarah came between the two. Rye and Nick were on the ground, as Brad and Ian knocked them down as they were first trying to separate the two. “No I didn’t. I looked over by accident, and you were starting to pee. If any one is a queer, it’s you. Remember the Girls Gone Wild tape incident?” Brad asked.

“Ian…” Chloe said, thinking he wasn’t happy with her. He brushed dirt off of his clothes and told her about it from his point of view. “Okay it was a couple months ago, before all of this. Us four were at Brad’s house, and Rye got a Girls Gone Wild video for us to watch. Well, knowing Brad and Rye, they pulled out the lotion and covers, and take a guess.” Chloe made a disgusted face as Sarah slapped Brad in the face, and kicked Rye in the shin. “What happened for them to call you gay?” Chloe asked. “I covered my eyes while they were watching it and said I was civilized” he replied, and now everyone was laughing. “It’s not funny! I find a girl a lot sexier with her clothes on, like more revealing. It takes away the easiness. Plus, Brad and Rye didn’t make things any better, and I thought we could have gotten caught!”

Sarah kept laughing. “Okay, so let’s test the clothes theory. I can’t ask Brad, so Nick, here.” She pulled her shirt up and flashed him. “What’s better, me in clothes, or that?”

“Easily that” Nick said Brad pounced, but Nick caught it and sidestepped, sending Brad into a bush. “Sarah, please don’t do that. I already know about what happened last night” Brad said angrily. “It was an accident. Nick and I are just friends” Sarah pleaded. “Same as everyone else.”

Brad stopped whining now after hearing that. “Okay, good. Now can we eat something and find the next battle site?” Ian agreed with him “Yeah. Did all of you bring food like granola bars of anything like that?” The others nodded and went to their bags.

“Got any more stories Ian?” Sarah asked as she took a drink of soda. “Do you want to hear about Labor Day 2004?” he asked. “Alright” Sarah responded.

Nick started to tell the girls what happened that day. “Okay, we just were hanging out in Ian’s backyard, eating pizza, and then I decided I would go to a house, and pose as a pizza delivery guy. Well the guy took the box, so we had to think of another idea with the one we had left. Ian decided that we could stop cars with it. Rye put on a Dr. Seuss hat and blocked on an exit, and we all stopped the cars, asking for pizza. Knowing Brad, he said it would be free if a hot girl showed him their boobs and let him touch them.”

“And that didn’t happen” Brad sighed, before Sarah kicked his knee. “Ow, that hurts.” Sarah rolled her eyes. “I was the one that just battled a fighter jet last night Brad, so you cant say anything about being hurt.” Chloe looked up from her cookies. “Speaking of that, I found a battle platform by the lake over there” she motioned to a path. “Great, lets go” Ian said as he picked up his back pack and bags and jugged them over to the platform, which was in a lake. Only a fence surrounded it, and there was a machine tied to the bottom of it.

“Rangers, welcome to the cyber city!” They heard a robotic voice come from the machine on the platform as it opened and revealed a robotic warrior. “I am Cyberaid, the robotic warrior of Shock Lake. Yellow Thunder Ranger, this is your battle.”

Nick dropped his bags and pulled out his morpher. “Power of Thunder!” He jumped up onto the platform as it transformed into a large, futuristic city. “What’s the fence for then?” Nick asked as Cyberaid smiled. “To make things interesting, I won’t tell you. Lets just say that we both have electricity in out bodies, and were on a lake, so there may be some shocking experiences here. Nick took out his Thunder Claw as a lance extended form Cyberaid’s arm. “That lance is too big o control Cyberaid, just try and see” Nick informed, before Cyberaid smiled. “Maybe I don’t wan to smack you. Maybe there is another reason for the fence here. Shock power, initiate!” Suddenly, the fences were raised higher, and electricity flowed through them. “If you touch any part of the fence, you will feel a surge of electricity through your body, so be careful.”

“Oh crap” Nick said as he saw the fence rise and locked them inside of the city, just like a cell. “So the only way to get out is to destroy you, huh?” Cyberaid shook his head in a yes motion. “Correct. Now let the battle begin!” He held up his lance and pushed Nick towards the fence, locking him to it. “Ahhhhhh!” Nick shouted as he was electrocuted. “Make it stop!” Cyberaid just grinned, and pushed harder as Nicks back was burning and the skin was coming off of it.

“Nick!” Sarah shouted as she tried to get in, but was shocked by the fence. “We need you to win. I need you to win!” Nick looked at her and smiled. “I will win, no matter what it takes, even if I have to lose a limb. Hiyah!” He jumped up and broke the frail lance, and landed on top of a building, and took out his Element Bazooka. “Fire!” A blast of yellow energy hit Cyberaid in the chest and knocked him into the fence, burning some circuits.

“Thank you Nick” he said, as a pistol formed around his arm. “You have awakened the killing side of me. Now, let the battle of the bullets begin!” The robot fired a high powered bullet at Nick’s leg and connected, making the yellow ranger drop to the ground on his free knee. “Now, to amputate your leg, although there is a proposition I have for you.” Nick listened to it. “What?”

“If you can shoot me 5 times, I will lose. But if your leg is broken or severely damaged, I win and you are taken captive.” Nick thought about the deal for a moment before coming to a conclusion. He had to take it. “Fine!” A device attached to his leg, as well as Cyberaid’s chest, with a 5 on it, indicating the shots that he could take.

“Let the battle for our lives restart!” Cyberaid said as the field cackled with electricity.

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 4
Episode 1.10

“Ready human?” Cyberaid asked as he transformed his hands into two guns. “Yeah” Nick responded as he stood up, wincing as he did. His leg wasn’t 100%, but it was okay for now. “If I shoot you five times, I win. But if the brace says that my leg is going to break, or if it is amputated, you win?

“Glad that you know the rules. Time to die!” Cyberaid shot a bullet at Nick, but he ducked and climbed down a ladder into a building. “Okay, I can shoot from here, but I need to be careful.” Nick looked out and saw Cyberaid scanning the area with his gun drawn. “Okay, time for this shot” Nick said as he pointed his blaster at Cyberaid’s chest. “Fire!” A blast of yellow light flashed from the building and hit Cyberaid in the chest, making the counter go to a 4. “I now know where you are ranger, and what to do. Electric conductor cloves, initiate” Cyberaid called, and his hands were now brown rubber gloves. He punched part of the fence, breaking it and picking it up without being shocked. “How about an explosion?” The robot threw the fence into the building and quickly drew his pistol, shooting the fence and making it explode.

The others gasped as they saw the building collapse, believing Nick was under it. “He can’t be dead” Sarah sobbed as she put her head in her hands, when she heard a voice.

“Sarah, I’m fine” Nick whispered from a small house. “Don’t give him hints that I’m alive.” The pink ranger nodded as Nick lied down in a shooting position and held his leg. He backed up against a wall so the blast wouldn’t push him back.

Cyberaid looked around at the rubble in front of him. “I did it. He is dead!” He looked back up and was shot in the face. “No I’m not. And you only have three lives left!” Nick yelled as he shot the robot in the chest a second time. “3 more to go” Nick taunted as he stood up against a wall, waiting for the next attack. But it didn’t come. Cyberaid was no where to be found in the arena.

“Where is he?” Ian asked, scanning the battlefield, before his eyes went wide. The monster had set fire to the fences. “Guys, run!” Ian commanded as they all saw the fire. The five rangers ran back into the forest as they heard a huge explosion, ripping through the battlefield. When the dust cleared, only barracks of buildings were standing. “Is Nick…..” Sarah trailed off before Rye hugged her. “We need to have faith Sarah.”

On the battlefield, Cyberaid was getting up, his robotic body rusted and melted, but still alive. He had a rifle in his hand, and was looking for Nick. “Yellow Ranger, I know your leg could not stand that, so accept your defeat!”

“Element Blast!” A bolt of yellow light hit the monster in the chest, and lowered his count to 2. “Where is he?” Cyberaid grunted, looking around again.

“Right above you” Nick responded as he stomped Cyberaid’s head and held his bazooka up. “Time for another shot” he said as he fired at the robots chest once more. It was now kill or be killed. The ranger of thunder watched Cyberaid turn and shoot him in the leg, catching him off guard. “Shit!”

Nick fell to the ground, and the brace started to beep. “That means that your leg is about to fall off. Do you know an amputee Nick? Because you are going to be one.” Nick just smiled evilly. “Actually, I do. My uncle had his leg cut off in a drug deal gone wrong. My father dies because of that. But I am not like that. I am straight edge for life, and I will not go down. Every last ounce of breath I have will be used to inflict as much pain on you as I can.” Nick got up, limping on his leg and pointed his blaster at Cyberaid.

“You gave me a proposition before, so now it’s my turn. We both have a draw. Winner is whoever connects first. I lose, I am killed and the Ancient Thunder Morpher is Acrodono’s. You lose, I win the battle. Accept?” Nick offered. “Yes” Cyberaid sternly said as he turned his back and walked to a corner, facing away from Nick, who did the same.

“One. Two. Three!” Nick yelled as he dropped to the ground. Cyberaid fired, but it only hit the air. When Nick fired, it connected with the head of the robot, knocking it off. Nick had won that battle, but it took a heavy cost. He leg was injured now. Sarah and Rye had to help him out of the flaming arena and lie him down for Chloe to check.

“Okay Nick, where does it hurt?” she asked as he pointed to his knee. It was bleeding heavily, and a bullet was halfway in. “Nick, I am going to try and take the bullet out. Just brace yourself and try to take the pain.” She had Ian come over with gauze to wrap his leg up when he was finished, and took a tong out. “Ready?” Nick nodded as he screamed when the bullet started to exit, blood flowing out. Ian quickly put the gauze on top of it to stop the bleeding as the bullet was taken out.

“Its okay Nick, your fine” Sarah commended as she hugged him as Brad shook his hand. “I know. I just need to stay off of it for awhile.”

Meanwhile, Brad was looking on, jealous of the attention Sarah was giving Nick. “Sarah, want to the river and wash me off?” Sarah looked at him disgustingly. “Brad, Nick is hurt. How could you think of something like that at a time like now?”

The green ranger backed off in a huff and went to the river to think. “I know there is something going on with the two of them. Is Sarah the right girl for me though, or is it jut lust? God I hate this!” Brad started to cry as he saw a circular container on the other side of the river. “A challenge test” he said softly as he crossed the rocks and looked at it. The sphere was addressed to him. “The questions that you ask yourself will be your enemy in this test. They may be real, or they may not. Is Sarah the one? Step into the sphere and find out” Brad read out loud, and worried about the note. “So I guess this will tell me what is real and what is not?” He went back to the campsite and informed the others about his finding, but left out the part about what the challenge would be about.

“Okay, we’ll go soon” Ian instructed as he started to pack everything up with the others. “How’s your leg Nick?” He looked at his friend’s leg to see Chloe bandaging it up. “Its good, not as bad as you’d think.”

Soon, they were all packed up and moved towards the river, Sarah and Rye helping Nick walk.

“Okay Brad, this is tough, but stay calm. The fight is in your mind, so you have to be strong mentally. Good luck” Ian warned before shaking his friends hand as he went into the sphere.

“Brad, welcome to the sphere of truth. This will actually help you” Acrodono said from an image in the sky. The golem cackled as he said the next part. “You will see if you really love Sarah, or if she doesn’t love you.”

The black haired teen looked on in horror as the sphere rose over the water, and the bottom opened up, looking like prison bars. A device lowered and strapped to his head. “How do I win this?” he asked.

“By beating the lies” Acrodono said as the sphere began to spin. “If you lose to the monster in your mind, you will be mine. Good luck, and lose.” The holographic image faded and Brad was now in a world of his own.

In a field, there were two people walking hand in hand. It was Brad and Sarah. “This seems okay I guess. Nothing too bad yet” he said as they passed a tree, when they heard a man jump down form it. “Nick!” Sarah squealed as she kissed him, and he caressed her body. “What the hell Nick, get off of her?” The Hispanic teen just smiled. “You want me to get off of my girl loser?” Brad was fuming now. “She’s mine Nick, let her go.”

Sarah spoke up and amazed Brad. “Brad, we have been through this a thousand times. I don’t love you, only as a friend. My heart belongs to Nick.”

“I know, this is one of Acrodono’s tricks. I can beat it” Brad said as the two others looked at him like he was crazy. “Acrodono?” Nick asked.

“You know, the evil space golem that we’re trying to destroy?”

“Um, when did this happen?” Sarah asked.

“The day we became Power Rangers, and me and you sort of hooked up. Same for Ian and Chloe” Brad said, now a bit worried.

Nick slapped his head. “Thanks for reminding us about the wedding Brad. I almost forgot about it.”

Brad now knew nothing about what was going on. “Wedding?”

“You forgot too? Ian and Chloe are getting married. They have a kid too, Tristan. Such a little fireball, but calm as the sea too. Were getting them purple drapes for his room.”

The green ranger tried to play along now, thinking that would help. “Isn’t purple kind of girly for a boy?” he asked as Nick laughed. “You shouldn’t be the one talking. You admitted to us two months ago that you were gay!”

Brad’s head fell light. Him, gay? “I am not a faggot Nick, why the hell do you think I am?”

“Because of these pictures” Nick said, producing pictures of Brad kissing another guy. He gave them to his friend, who instantly ripped them to shreds. “That’s it, this is all a lie. I got it, I was paranoid, so this is over!” he yelled as the field faded to a jungle, the same one they slept in. It was around the same tie they went to sleep.

“Nick, I love you” Sarah confessed as Nick kissed her. “I hope Brad doesn’t find out” he said, looking over. “He was afraid to take the next step” Sarah sighed. “I am a girl, and I have needs. You are a man that can satisfy them.” She leaned in for a deep kiss, and Nick did the same as they both went to sleep in each others arms. On Sarah’s other side, Brad was crying, sad and angry at what happened.

“Okay, now this is a lie. I never cry. You can stop Acro-boy” Bard shouted, but nothing happened. “So this is real, huh.” He looked around, and saw movement in a tree. “Show yourself!” Brad took out his morpher when he saw the monster, a monkey type mutant.

“Hello Brad, I am Terrinu, the monster of jealousy” it said as he bowed towards Brad. “Some of this is a lie, but some is not. To get the answers, defeat me.”

Brad smiled and morphed, taking out his hammer. He smashed it on the ground as Terrinu took out a mace. He swung it, but it was caught by the hammer that Brad had, and flipped over to him. “I guess my jealousy isn’t that tough. Thanks a lot. Now die. Quake Tremor!” He smashed his hammer on the ground; trapping Terrinu in a crevice and having it explode. He looked down and saw the bars close up, and the sphere lowered to the ground.

“Brad!” Sarah yelled as she went to the sphere and kissed him, who kissed her back, but quickly held her. “Sarah, I want to ask you this: Do you love me, and only me?”

“Yes. Only you Brad, why?” she answered. “Because the challenge was about you and Nick loving each other; but now I know that it is a lie.” They both kissed as Nick looked on straight faced.

Up in the palace, Acrodono was smiling. “I see that the trick is working on Brad. He actually believed that piece of crap Terrinu was a strong foe? What is really going on will be revealed to him when its least expected. I love a good mind fuck.”

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 5
Episode 1.11

“So guys, any other stories of the ‘crimes’ that you did?” Chloe asked as Rye raised his hand. “I’ve mooned and sunshined a car” he proudly said as Chloe’s face lit up in disgust. “I didn’t need to know that” she replied. She looked at Brad next, who had Sarah in his lap.

“Okay, I pissed on a car’s hood once, and threw a ball under a car too. It almost flipped over.” The others laughed at this, as Ian and Nick were there both times, and Rye was there for the ball incident. “I remember that. It was last summer when you pissed on the car. Too bad we couldn’t see the guy’s reaction” Ian said and looked at Rye. “Your brother put shit on a car, right?” He nodded. “Yeah, it was awesome, wasn’t it?”

Ian nodded, but noticed the girls were grossed out. “Okay, no more bodily function stories. Only stuff like me and Nick stealing pipes and putting them in the road.” Nick laughed at that one. “If anybody knew about that, we would go to jail.”

“Yeah, we would. I can’t believe we didn’t get caught all those times” Brad said as he kissed Sarah on her head and hugged her. Ian and Chloe did the same.

“You have no idea how much I love you Chloe” Ian said as he kissed her neck as she purred. “I love it when you do that; it feels so good.”

“Want something better?” Ian asked as he was about to lead Chloe down to the beach, but she stopped him. “Not yet. It’s only been a few weeks, but I think were soul mates.”

“We are” Ian responded as he kissed her lips. “Mmmmm” Chloe tasted as she broke it and smiled. “When do you think we’ll be home in Jersey?”

“Hopefully when Acrodono is defeated, but I’m not making any promises Chloe. This will be tough to do. We still have 5 battles left, one mind, 3 against monsters, and the final one against Acrodono himself” Ian sighed, but then smiled. “And we will win. We have my skills to lead, right?”

Chloe laughed. “Yeah, you have good skills, all around” she said seductively. They kissed again as Ian carried her back to the campsite in his arms to see the others running up to him. Chloe jumped out of his arms and looked around to see Brad missing.

“Where did Brad go?” she asked as Sarah ran up to her. “To a battle. This mole thing took off with him. I think he’s in a cave somewhere.” She led all of them into an entrance to a lit cave.



“So we go in?” Nick asked. “Yeah, we do” Ian commanded as he ducked down and into the cave, seeing Brad morphed and a mole monster on parallel to him. “I leave for a few minutes to be with my girlfriend and you get captured!” Ian yelled as he watched the mole monster scratch the floor. “You idiotic fu*ker!”

“Hey, at least I got action before you dipsh*t! And it’s my life, don’t get involved” Brad yelled as the mole went under ground and came up under him, head butting his gut.

“See? Now focus on the battle” Ian demanded as Brad winced in pain, taking out his hammer. “Fine.”

Moler charged at Brad in a head butt, however, Brad sidestepped and he went into the cave wall. “Earth Tremor!” Brad smashed his hammer at the ground and a crevice flowed through the hard dirt at Moler, who just dug into the wall and shot back at Brad with a tackle.

“Ian, encourage him” Sarah pleaded for her boyfriend, but he shook his head. “He’s hard headed. This is what he gets, okay? He is gonna win, but will have some bruises. Its tough friendship. Plus, I want to mold him into an animal” Ian explained as Moler knocked Brad around the dark arena. He took out a club and smacked it against the cold wall.

“Time to do what Master Acrodono said to do. Kill you!” Moler rushed at Brad, but he ducked again and the monster hit the wall in pain.

“He’s just dodging attacks, not using them” Rye said, worried for his friend. “If he wants to win, he should just charge head on, and just take it.” Nick smiled. “Just like his problem with me right now.”

“I heard that Nick. If you touch Sarah even once, I will rip your head off!” Brad jumped against the wall and spiraled himself at Moler, tackling him into the wall, creating a few boulders. “Crocket anyone?” Brad used his hammer as a golf club and swung pieces of rock at the surprised Moler, staggering him.

“Now, for the final touch, Quake Tremor!” He smashed the ground once again, but this time it worked. Moler was trapped in the crack as the explosion destroyed him. Brad jumped down from the arena and slapped Ian with the back of his hand. “What the hell were you saying about me being an animal?”

“I said that you could be molded into one. When you get mad, you are more intense, like me. See what you did to that guy?” Ian answered as he slapped Brad in the face before Rye broke it up. “Ian, Brad won, and that’s all that matters.”

“Right, now Chloe, the next battle is yours, k?” Ian said to his girlfriend who nodded. “Good. I’m not prissy like everyone thinks. I will take everything that comes at me.”

“Are your sure?” The rangers looked to the back of the cave to see Acrodono’s face.

“There is a passage to the sea here, go and find your next battle.”

The rangers looked on as he disappeared, and torches lit up, showing paintings of sea creatures on the walls.

“I guess your facing a kraken” Nick said to Chloe as he looked at the artwork. “A what?”

“A kraken is like a squid, only 10 times bigger” Nick answered as they saw the light, and the sea. A gigantic orange orb sat there. “Crap, it’s a mind battle” Ian said, as he held Chloe, but she broke away from him. “Was it that bad?” She asked the two alpha males, Ian and Brad.

“Definitely. I almost wanted to quit” Brad said as he held onto Sarah and Ian closed his eyes. “Just stayed focused, okay? Nothing is real, it’s just an illusion. Were all with you” Ian said as he kissed her head and she went to the orb.

To her shock, it didn’t do anything. Just stayed there. Until the others came. It then suddenly jerked up and grabbed them with tentacles, hoisting them into the air. “Guys!” Chloe shouted before a squid like monster exited the orb.

“Hello madam. I am Edarae, the sea king of this island. You have been trespassing here you know” it said in a British accent. “This test is to challenge your perception, now let’s go!” Edarae split into 5 forms, all of the same color, except a different colored stripe on its chest. Red for Ian, Green for Brad, Yellow for Nick, Pink for Sarah, and White for Rye.

Chloe looked around as she saw them circling her. “Power of Water!” She shouted as a blue glow engulfed her and she transformed into a ranger, taking out her Water Pulse Fin. She fired at the white one, but it turned out to be Rye.

“Ahhh!” Rye screamed from the tentacle that he was attached to as it squeezed harder. “What the hell was that?”

“Oh yes, I forgot one thing my dear. Each one of us is connected to one to your friends, so attack carefully and quick.”

“You sicko”

“Why thank you” Edarae said as he produced a trident and threw it at Chloe, who barley dodged it, but it hit her hip. “Damnit.” She fired her fin at the red one and soaked it, as Ian’s hair was dripping wet. “Sorry!”

“No problem, just find someway to beat him without hurting us”

She thought for a moment before realizing what the problem was. Her friends were tied to the tentacles. If she could free them, they all could battle. She rushed to the center, karate chopping all of the squid monsters before seeing a pearl.

“That must be it” She said out loud as she fired at it, destroying the orb and freeing her friends. They all jumped down and circled he monsters, ready for battle.

“Guys, lets morph; Power of Flames!
“Power of Earth!”
“Power of Thunder!”
“Power of Ice!”
“Power of Air!”

They all glowed in light and morphed into their ranger forms, taking out their bazookas. “Take your own” Chloe commanded as she teamed up with Ian. They both fired blasts of water and fire at one of the clones, killing it. Or they thought. It rose back up and fired a tentacle at Ian, holding him up as he sucked power out of the red ranger.

“Ian!” Chloe cried the others were all in the same predicament. “Give them back to me!”

Edarae just laughed. “Win this challenge, and I will.”

“What is it about?”

“What life would be like without your popularity and friends?”

Suddenly, the beach turned into a school, with Chloe alone. NO one was talking to her, and Ian was with Brad, Nick, and Rye. Sarah was talking to her friends, being the new popular girl in Fountain Heights High.

“Popularity isn’t everything you know” Chloe said as she demorphed, and Edarae went back into his one form. “Oh really? I thought it was to you? The only person you care about was Ian, but what if he died?”

He showed Dasefa wielding his sword killing her friends in cold blood, leaving them to die of blood loss. “You sick bastard.”

“Why thank you my dear”

Chloe looked at the carnage and skewed her face. It was horrible. They all had slash marks on their chest in the shape of an A, for Acrodono.

“Ian means the world to me. I would give my popularity forever to be with him” Chloe pleaded as Ian rose up from the ground, healed, and hugged her. “You did the right thing.”

“I know, now time to defeat my mind. Edarae, you and me. If I win, you let my friends go. If not, take me to Acrodono” Chloe offered as she raised her morpher.

“Deal, but there is one stipulation. We each have five lives. If I lose a life, one of your friends is returned. But if you lose a life, one is destroyed. So they can return, or be killed in your mind, and you will never think of them. First up, your best friend Sarah” Edarae said as Sarah appeared in a cage above them, with tentacles around it.

“Those tentacles could strangle the breath out of her, so if you don not defeat me within two minutes, she will die” he explained as he took out an orange trident as Chloe took out her fin.

“By the way, the battlefield doesn’t seem right, so here we go!” A blue and orange aura spun around them as the arena transformed into a sand barge in the ocean. The outside was littered with jagged rocks and exploding fish jumping up in the air. “This was made for you exclusively Chloe, so be proud of that” Edarae said as he rushed towards her with his trident outright, to be met by the fin. “Don’t you think I know how to control the water? Watch this!” Chloe ducked down and fired at the water behind her, catapulting her into the air as she landed a high kick into Edarae head. The cage that Sarah was in collapsed as she was sent down to the ground, freed.

“Argh; that is just one of your friends. Now let’s see how much you risk yourself for another friend Nick in danger” Edarae said as Nick was put into the cage, and the tentacles were readjusted. Chloe immediately fired a blast of water at the kraken, but he reflected it to Sarah with his trident. “Maybe you might want to be a bit more careful when you have your friend’s memories on the line. Squid Spear!” He hurled the trident at Chloe as she fired again, pinning her up against a palm tree on the small island.

“Well, I guess the only one you will remember is your best friend” Edarae said as he picked the trident back up and was about to stab her with it, but was met with a feeling of pain as she kicked him in the groin. “Well I guess that answers one question. She kicked him in the head- hard- and he lost a live, and had only three left as Brad was lowered.

She stood her ground this time, as she knew Edarae was going to be aggressive now that she kicked him in the crotch. Chloe was right. He jumped up and punched her in the jaw as Sarah and Nick watched; who was shielding Sarah from the waves against the rocks.

Chloe landed on the ground with a thud, Edarae peering over her small frame as she fired a small jet of water at him. It was just refreshing for him as he was about to stab her, and yet again she kicked him, then jumped up and twisted his neck in a choke that Ian taught her. “Give up, or have your head ripped off.” Edarae gasped for breath as he hit her shoulder a few times, meaning that he gave up. Brad was now freed, and he pushed Nick away from shielding Sarah and started to do the same. Next to be lowered was Rye.

“Take him out right away Chloe; it will save your strength” Rye advised as she nodded and karate chopped his neck, making him gasp as she fired a high pulse of water at him, taking him down.

“You may have gotten back four friends, but this one is your boyfriend, Ian.” Before Chloe could respond, Edarae hit her in the head with his trident, knocking her out cold. That was one battle that he won, and Ian was about to be erased from Chloe’s memory when Ian chopped the tentacles away from him. “That was a cheap shot. If you really want me gone from her memory, fight me!”

The monster looked at him with a grin. “Okay, this is good. I will be able to take you out instead of a measly ranger like her. Faya, lower him!” The tentacle unraveled to reveal an octopus dressed in a whit robe, like a princess.

“If I win, this is over for her” Ian said as the battlefield reverted to the beach. Edarae was still grinning, along with Faya. “It will, and for you. This is going to be a regular battle Ian, with your and her lives on the line. So to be fair for her, this will be two on two!” The two tentacle clad monsters fired ink at his arm, which stretched to Chloe, attaching them at the wrists.

“Who are you?” Chloe said as she woke up, looking at Ian. The question was for him, not Faya. She really had forgotten about him. And now they had to fight together to get the memory back. She got up and took a battle stance, along with Ian as the tide came in, and waves crashed along the rocks. This would determine their future.

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 6
Episode 1.12

“Chloe, it’s me, Ian” Ian said, trying to get her to remember everything. “Your boyfriend.” She looked at him like he was crazy. “Have I ever met you before?”

“Yes, and you were happy then” he explained. “When did I meet you? I remember meeting Nick and Rye when the meteor struck, and now we are on an island.” Ian was now happy that she didn’t have amnesia. She only forgot about him.

“Okay, well you have to believe me. I am the red ranger, and we need to defeat these two to win your memories back.” Chloe shook her head. “I only take orders from our leader, Brad.”

Ian’s face lit up in fury. He was scared of what would happen if Brad would lead. They would probably be called the Porno Rangers. “He is not the leader, not we have to battle Edarae and Faya!”

“Hey, you may not even be one of us! Morph if you are!”

“Power of Flames!” Ian’s body was engulfed in fire as he morphed, and showed Chloe. “See?”

Chloe nodded and picked her Water Pulse Fin back up. “Fine. This one battle only.”

“It’s the only one that matters” Ian thought as he nodded and took out his sword. “Edarae, lets go!” He charged at the kraken and threw his whole body at him, throwing him to the ground while Chloe was dragged by him.

“Damn, I forgot about that” Ian said aloud as she looked at him before firing at Faya, but she just bulled the ink chain in the way, breaking it up. “Idiots! I had this all set up.”

Ian growled and had Chloe and him maneuver through ink blasts as they both fired blasts of fire and water respectively at her, but Edarae blocked them with his trident. He threw it at Ian, which connected in the arm, making him drop his sword. “You ok?” Chloe asked as she covered him with pulses of water. “Yeah, thanks.” Ian picked his sword up and charged at Edarae along with Chloe, who flipped onto Faya. The problem was that the trident was in the way, and the ink rope caught it.

“Work as a team!” Rye yelled from the sidelines. “Shut up!” Ian retorted as he blocked an ink blast aimed at him with his sword, but Chloe got hit in her chest, knocking both of them down. “Ian, help me!” she said as the trident was thrown at her. He lunged in front of it, and caught it with his hand and threw it into the water, but Edarae caught it with a tentacle.

“We need to neutralize those” Chloe explained as she fired a Faya, connecting. She shot again, and it hit her in the head. “You will pay for that blue ranger” Faya warned as she pulled out a bow and arrow and fired. The arrow exploded in mid air, becoming a tentacle and wrapping around Chloe, sucking power out of her. “Ahhhhhh!”

Ian looked at her and tried to slash the rope, but it only hurt his arm. The rope was as hard as steel. “Chloe, we need to work together and use double team moves” he said as she took the tentacle off. Edarae charged at them and sliced Ian across the arm with his trident, and fired more ink at Chloe, making her suit almost dark blue.

“Okay, let me lead. I know what I’m doing” Chloe said as she fired at the sand, pulling them up into the air. She jumped onto Edarae and rolled off as Ian speared him with all of his might. “Nice.”

“I know, now it’s your turn” Chloe said as Ian looked around. There were no places to hide and make aimed shots, but they could make one. “Okay, fire when I say.” She nodded and Ian and her rushed Faya, knocking her into her brother. “Sis, get out of my way!”

“Now!” Chloe fired a blast of water at the same moment Ian fired fire out of the tip of his sword. When they met, they exploded in a thick cloud of mist, making everything foggy. Ian pulled her in with the chain and whispered to her. “Okay, we take Edarae out first, got it?”

“Yeah”

“Good, now let’s go” Ian stated as they both ran through the mist and punched Edarae in the chest and head. He tried to pick up his trident, but they wrapped the chain around it, swinging it into Faya. “Edarae!” she yelled before Chloe unleashed a tidal wave on her, taking her out for awhile.

“Just you and us two now Edarae” Ian warned as he and Chloe pointed their weapons at him. “Ready?”

“Yeah, Steam Shot!” Chloe yelled as they both crossed their weapons and fired, shooting a blast of steam at a cowering Edarae, destroying him. Faya charged at them but was met with the same fate.

“Yes!” Ian shouted as they both powered down and hugged. “Remember me now?”

“Definitely” Chloe said as they both kissed and he picked her up in the tide. “Not so fast rangers.”

They all looked behind them to see Edarae trying to get up, holding his trident. “Your magical moment is over, and it is now my time to defeat you two. You see, I took my sisters energy before she was destroyed, so I am still alive.”

“Chloe, will you let me handle this” Ian said as he dropped his morpher on the sand, and rubbed his fists. “Please don’t do anything stupid” she pleaded as he just ran at Edarae, kicking the trident away and punching him in the leg, making him drop to a knee. Ian stepped back and leveled him with a fierce kick to the temple, killing him. “Done.”

The blue ranger stuck her tongue out at the others, bragging that her boyfriend just took down a monster without his powers. “Real smart Ian” Brad sarcastically said. “Way to try and get killed.”

“Thanks, I know I just took down a monster without breaking a sweat. Now please hurt me so I can have an excuse for leaving your dead corpse on this island”

“Fine” Brad said as he through a punch, but Ian caught it and twisted it, flipping Brad over into the sand. “When we get back to Jersey, football right away” Brad warned, knowing Ian wasn’t that good at football since it required using your whole body, not just your legs. “Okay, when we get back. But right now, we should all rest. Set up camp, I’m going to look around. Chloe, stay here, okay?” She nodded as Ian walked down the shore, holding his wallet.

Ian was sitting on a rock, looking at a picture. It was a picture of his family years ago. Him, his step brother, and step parents. “Takayo, when this is done, I am going to find you” Ian said softly when he saw Rye walk up. “Your family?”

“Yeah, you know my mom and dad, but not my brother”

“I never knew you had a brother”

“He ran away when I was 12” Ian explained as a tear dripped down his face, but he quickly wiped it away. “I really don’t want to talk about it.” Rye put a hand on his friends shoulder, knowing what he was going through. “When we all get back, we’ll help look for him.”

“But where could he be?”

On the Dark Core Ship, Cloudex and Dasefa were looking at the battles that happened already in the Skull Dimension. “8 battles down, 2 to go, and we still haven’t destroyed the ranger!” Dasefa shouted as he sliced a column in half with his sword. “Acrodono made a foolish mistake with this” Cloudex agreed, before looking into the shadows. “Did you hear that?” Dasefa drew he shield. “No, what was it?”

“Footsteps” Cloudex responded, spitting a tornado into the darkness. It was blocked and sent back at them. “Who goes there?”

A shadow spun out of the darkness and slashed the two generals of the space golem. It then disappeared back into the darkness, hiding until the time was right.

Back in the Skull Dimension, the rangers were sleeping when they heard a hard breeze fly across them.

“Not another battle” Sarah murmured as she woke up with the others. “What is it” Brad asked as he saw a ghost above them and screamed.

“Rangers, follow me. This battle is for all of you” it said as it glided deep into the forest, stopping at ruins. “Here is the final battle.”

“What are these ruins?” Nick asked, examining the marks. “The fall of the Island of Illusion, Lokar’s personal dimension. You have been in the remnants of it this whole time, where the original Power Rangers were sent.”

They all gasped at being in the same dimension that the legendary rangers fought in. “So what’s that battle?” Chloe asked as the images of the original 6 rangers appeared. “Them. You will face off against your predecessors for the final test.”

Their eyes went wide as their morphers vanished, and they had to fight without their power.

“So, you’re Ian?” Jason Lee Scott asked the red ranger, taking a fighting stance. “Yeah old man, and I can defeat someone like you, who is past their prime.”

Sarah looked at Kimberly, star struck. “So I have to fight a famous gymnast?”

“Yes sweetie, and you probably cant even measure up to em and my boyfriend” Kimberly said as Tommy jumped through the air. “Hello Brad.”

Brad flipped the legend off and kicked dirt at his green button down shirt. “Nice to defeat you.”

Rye was next, as he saw Zack break dancing. “Yo, you are going down!” he taunted to the white ranger as he jumped up and punched a tree branch, breaking it in half.

Next were Billy and Nick. “You aren’t as smart as me Nick” Billy said, circling around him. “At least I am up to date on the newer, younger technology, and can fight well.”

Finally, it was Chloe and Trini, two martial arts masters. “My moves are light years ahead of yours blue.” Chloe just laughed at the Korean girls insult. “My style is more up to date.” She spin kicked a rock, making it turn into dust.

“Rangers, this is the final battle before Acrodono, and let it start!” Jason announced as they all stood their ground, ready for a legendary fight.

[Ancient Flame]

Island of Destruction Part 7
Episode 1.13

“You can talk the talk, but can you fight the fight flame?” Jason asked Ian as he circled around him, momentarily doing a spin kick to scare him, but it didn’t work. “Want to see?” Ian said as he punched Jason in the chest and swiped his leg getting him in a chokehold. All Jason did was power out of it and dropped Ian onto the dirt, smiling at his effort.

Chloe and Trini were engaged in a chop battle, hitting each other on different parts of the body, bruising them each. “I guess Ancialient chose a good replacement” Trini commended as she kicked Chloe in the gut and spin kicked her head into a bush. She charged at her, but Chloe flipped over it and snapped her neck onto her shoulder, stopping her for a second.

“Come on man, you can do better than that” Zack taunted as Rye tried a takedown on him, but hit his shoulder on the ruins. All Zack did was laugh and did a spin kick to Rye’s injured shoulder, followed by a karate chop to his neck. “Whitey, at least try.” Rye growled and took Zack down, then focused on his leg with a leg lock, disabling him. “Pretty good, huh?”

While that was going on, Kimberly and Sarah were battling with gymnastics. Sarah flipped over a rock and kicked Kimberly in her face, busting her lip open. “My lip!” Sarah smirked. “Not so hot now, are you Kimmy?” Kimberly responded with a punch to Sarah’s leg, making her limp. She pulled it, but Sarah rolled through and landed on Kim’s face. “I love this fight!” Brad yelled before Tommy kicked him in the face.

“Say anything about her, and I will rip your head off” Tommy threatened as he pimp slapped the Green Earth Ranger, before hitting him in the chest. “You may be a legend Tommy, but I am a legend in the making” brad said as he tackled Tommy into a bush, stopping before he hit the foliage and kicked him in the crotch. Jason came to his friend’s aid as Ian followed, clipping his leg and throwing him into a ruin, hurting the original red rangers back.

“Not so strong now? I guess Jersey triumphs over Angel Grove” Ian taunted as Chloe ducked a flying kick from Trini, and they delivered two punches to the yellow and red rangers. “Plus we have better couples” Ian said as he French kissed Chloe, before flipping Jason off.

“Argh, have respect for the ones that keep you living” Tommy yelled as an image projected on the ruins. It was the battle between the original rangers and Lokar, where he was destroyed. “Doomsday would have been upon us if my friends didn’t stop him!”

Suddenly, the rangers felt guilty. “You may have defeated him then, but now it is our turn to win!” Rye yelled as he threw a punch at Zack, but he blocked it and delivered a hard punch, knocking Rye to the ground. “We may be old, but we can still fight.”

“We respect you guys, I guess, but we need to win this at any cost” Ian declared as he pointed to a battle platform in the distance. “If we win this, we get our zords to fight Acrodono. “

“To get them, you will have to put up a good fight, because this is going to the next level” Jason said as he took an item out of his pocket with the others. It was the original morphers.

“Tyrannosaurus!”
“Mastodon!”
“Triceratops!”
“Saber Tooth Tiger!”
“Pterodactyl!”
“Dragonzord!”

6 bright lights hit each of them in the chests as they morphed into the legendary suits. “It feels good to be back in this suit” Tommy said as he took out his Dragon Dagger while Brad backed down.

“How are we going to defeat them without our powers?” Nick asked as he ducked a swipe form Billy’s lance and tried to punch him, but it did nothing. “We need power.”

Chloe thought for a moment, before remembering her theory. “Guys, we each have a connection to the element we were given. I love to surf and fluid as the sea, so I hold the power of water inside me. Ian, your temper is fiery and courageous, like flames. Brad, you are hard headed and tough. Just like Earth. Since Nick is fast, he gets Thunder. Sarah is graceful as the wind, so she gets Air. I get it now; we were chosen by our personalities. We have the power inside of us!” She closed her eyes as a blast of water sprayed out of her hands at Trini.

“Your right, we need to harness the power now. I harness the power of the ancient flames!” Ian yelled as he threw a fireball at Jason’s sword, melting the top away. “What are they doing?” he shouted as Brad crossed his arms in an X formation and let them go, turning his hands to stone before kicking Tommy with a stone leg.

“They harnessed their powers without their morphers somehow” Kimberly screamed as Sarah manipulated the wind around her into a tornado, and spun it at Kim. “It was destiny” Sarah called out as Kimberly flew back on her stomach before Tommy picked her up.

Next was Nick, who charged his body up as Billy ran at him with his lance, and at the very last moment, unleashed a surge of electricity from his body into the lance, frying it. “This is unbelievable” Billy said as Nick smirked. “Well believe it, cause there is more to come; Rye?” The Russian nodded as he took in a deep breath, and exhaled a blow of freezing mist at Zack, stopping him and his ax all together.

“Enough with this, Power Blaster!” Jason yelled as they combined their weapons and fired at the Ancient Element Rangers, knocking them down.

“We need to morph” Chloe said as she got up slowly, injured from that blast. Suddenly, her wrist became water, and developed a morpher. The same thing happened with the others and their own element, giving them, all morphers.

“I guess we got what we needed, ready?” Ian asked. “Ready!”

“Power of Flames!”
“Power of Earth!”
“Power of Water!”
“Power of Thunder!”
“Power of Ice!”
“Power of Air!”

The six new rangers pushed a button on their morphers as they glowed, and transformed them into heroes and heroines. “Ancient Element Rangers!” they all yelled as the ruins exploded in the six elements, leaving them in a space like battlefield.

“Were in a new world!” Billy exclaimed as meteors struck the ground and stars littered the sky. Tornadoes raged and small earthquakes shook the ground, as the lake bubbled with fire, and thunder boomed down along with hale. “Welcome to our own dimension” Ian called, pointing at Jason. “The land of the elements.” He summoned his Flame Sword form the fire that flowed from the lake, as Chloe got her Water Pulse Fin from a wave, Nick’s Thunder Claw from the static air. Sarah got her Air Crossbow from a blowing tornado, as Brad picked up his Earth Hammer from the ground. Rye gripped pieces of hail as they transformed into his Ice Shield.

“How did they morph? Trini asked as she gripped her Power Daggers. “They must have used their power inside of them” Tommy explained.

“Bingo” Brad said as he smashed his hammer on the ground, sending a crevice at the originals, but they spilt up before it hit them. Tommy played a melody of dark music at Brad, hurting him, but not severely. “You have to do better than that Tommy” Brad coughed as he struck his enemy in the head with the hammer.

Meanwhile, Sarah and Kimberly were both firing arrows at each other. “Maybe you should move faster” Sarah said as she quickly evaded an arrow towards her chest before firing a barrage of her own, trapping Kim in a pink box. “Arrow of the Ancients!” Sarah fired a brown and pink arrow at the pink ranger, making her power down on the ground.

Nick and Billy were head to head with their weapons. Every time that Billy swung his Power Lance, Nick blocked it with his Thunder Claw. When Nick was going to strike, Billy spun his lance, stopping the claw. “Okay then, let’s try this” Nick said as he charged his claw up and grabbed the lance that Billy had, electrocuting the blue ranger and frying his lance.

“Come on man, attack” Zack said, frustrated by Rye holding his ground at every attack from his Power Axe. “I’ll do it when I have the best chance” Rye said calmly, as Zack swung the axe. The white ranger just jumped and fired a blast of ice at Zack’s hands, freezing them in place. “Aurora Blizzard!” Rye shouted as he held his shield and shit beams of blue and white light out, making Zack demorph.

Trini and Chloe were battling by the lake as water spurted out over them like rain. “Tidal Surge!” Chloe called as a wave of water was fired from her fin blaster, but Trini dodged it and threw her daggers at Chloe, making her bleed from the arm. “That’s it, now its serious, Tidal Surge!” She pulled the trigger and fired a gigantic of pulsing water at Trini, taking the power out of her.

On a smooth part of the dimension, Ian and Jason were deep in a sword battle, either not wanting to lose. “Jason, I idolize you, but this is for the good of the world; back down” Ian recommended. “No way kid; this is for Acrodono” Jason responded as he delivered a slash to Ian’s leg and then his chest.

“If that’s how you want it, fine!” Ian shouted as he lunged at Jason with his sword and struck him multiple times in the chest, making the original bleed. “If I see my own blood, I will see yours!” Jason yelled as he stabbed Ian in the arm, making blood gush out of the wound. “Now, surrender.”

Ian just took off his helmet and spat at Jason, followed by a kick to the groin. “You want a fight, fine. Lets do it street style” Ian said as he kept kicking Jason in the chest and crotch, making him double over. Ian leveled him with a kick to the head, knocking him unconscious. Jason disappeared in a blast of red light, along with the other originals.

“Rangers, you passed your final test” the ghost said, revealing its form. Zordon.

“Zordon!” Sarah shouted, amazed to be in the presence of the original rangers mentor. “Yes Sarah, it is I. You see, I now protect the six Element Zords. You now must fight Acrodono with them, and work as a team.”

A warrior appeared in a cloud of fire, extending his hand to Ian. “Ian, I am the spirit of the Flame Warrior Zord. I am the most powerful of the six, and I am yours to command” it said as he disappeared into the red rangers morpher, which now had a Z button, along with the other 5.

“Sarah, you will command the Air Unicorn Zord. Brad, your zord is the Earth Golem. The Thunder Roc is yours Nick. Rye, take control of the Ice Bear. And Chloe, the Water Dolphin is your own. Combine them with the Flame Warrior Zord to form the Ancient Element Megazord” Zordon proclaimed as he disappeared in a cloud of white smoke. The rangers exited the element dimension and went back to the Skull Dimension.

“Rangers, I see that you have gotten your zords” a bellowing voice said above them. It was Acrodono, in his giant form.

“Yeah, we have, and we will beat you right now!” Ian said as they all pressed the Z buttons. “Element Zords, come forth!” The six zords appeared from a dimension and stood tall, looking at Acrodono as the rangers jumped into the pilot pits.

“Guys, put the morphers in the slot that says your element” Ian commanded as he locked his morpher into his slot right in the middle. “Power locked on, ready to fight” they all said as they looked at the controls. Buttons littered the pits, each with a drawing on them.

“Um, Ian, what are these drawings for?” Sarah asked as she accidentally pressed one with a spinning drill. The Air Unicorn rushed forward, its horn spinning, and stabbed Acrodono. “Okay, maybe I should just keep pressing buttons.”

Ian just shook his head as he called Chloe on the intercom. “Send a wave of water at him, and then tell Nick tom fire electricity.”

“Right. Nick, get ready to shoot” she said as Nick soared in the air, the golem trying to hit him, but the Thunder Roc was too fast. Chloe had her dolphin do a spin, spitting out water right in the golems chest, followed by Nick unleashing a blow of electricity.

“What should I do? Brad asked impatiently. “Fire your rock missiles” Ian responded as Brad pressed a button with two missiles on it, firing the rocks at Acrodono’s face. “Woo!”

“Nice, now Rye, charge him!” Ian yelled ax Rye piloted his zord forward, knocking Acrodono into the ruins, destroying them.

“My turn” Ian said as he pulled a sword out of its sheath. He exited the pilot’s chamber and went into a box, one that could control his zords movements. He swung the sword, connecting with the head of Acrodono, making him fall to the ground. “Okay, time to combine guys” Ina said as they all pressed a button with all of the zords on it.

The Flame Warrior Zord gravitated up as the Ice Bear and Earth Golem formed legs, and Ian’s zord dropped down into them. Next were the arms, which was Chloe and Sarah’s job. The Unicorn and Dolphin’s legs and fins receded back to make two arms, as Ian pushed them into his zord. Lastly was Nick, whose Thunder Roc formed chest armor and attached to the warrior’s chest. The warrior’s head fell backwards, being replaced by a helmet with a crown. “Ancient Element Megazord, complete!”

“Rangers, I will not fall that easily!” the space golem yelled as he charged at the zord, but it just jumped up and kicked him in the head.

“I guess the zords were designed for mobility” Nick commented in the cockpit of the megazord. “”Now let’s defeat him!” Ian gave him a nod as he pressed a button with a sword on it. “Element Sword! Ancient Strike!” The sword struck slashed forward in blasts of pink, blue, yellow, white, green, and red, before slicing through the stone being, destroying him.

“Let’s go home” Ian said happily as he wiped his hands, before the megazord went into the sunset.

At the AE Base, the six rangers were congratulating themselves on the way in when they saw a shadow quickly leave. “Who are you?” Brad yelled. “Your worst nightmare. Check on the doctor.” They all gasped as they saw the doctor on the floor, a gash on his forehead. Chloe took a bandage out of her bag and helped her mentor up, wrapping it around his head to stop the bleeding. She checked the pulse to see if he was still alive, and was, but barely.

“Rangers, the battle is not over” Dr. Ancialient sputtered as they saw the shadow once again, holding a saber. “T-t-that is Ancient Darkness, worse than Acrodono.”

The rangers’ eye went wide as they saw their mentor drop backwards, unconscious.

[Ancient Flame]

History Lesson
Episode 1.14

“Dr. Ancialient!” Sarah screamed as she picked up the fallen philosopher. “Sarah, take me to the medical room” he whispered as the all picked him up and carried him into a white and sea green room to help him, Chloe took his heartbeat and saw that it was fine. “Doctor, how are you feeling?” she asked.

“Fine, just light headed. I have had worse blows to the head than that slash”

“Good” Ian responded as he sat down next to his mentor and friend. “Who was that guy?”

Dr. Ancialient took a moment to respond, almost like he was in fear. “That was Ancient Darkness, the dark ranger of ancient Greece.” The rangers looked at him in awe, especially Rye. “Wait, you said he comes from Ancient Greece?” he asked.

“Yes Rye, I need to tell you about the legacy of your powers” the doctor explained, motioning for all of them to sit down. “You see, the morphing grid is the oldest known source of power in the universe. It existed during the time of the dinosaurs, and in ancient Japan. It also existed in ancient Greece, where your powers originate.”

“No way, they cant be that old” Ian said, not believing this part of the powers he and his friends held. “It is true Ian. You all were destined for these powers by you genes and heritage. I need to tell you a story to explain it.” They all nodded as the doctor began.

“In ancient Greece, a war was brewing between good and evil. On the side of good, Zava, the brother of Zordon. On the side of evil, Spartax, the Greek god of Hell and revival. There were also six powerful warriors known as the Elementalisks. The warriors of Flames, Water, Thunder, Earth, Ice, and Air”

Ian now understood. “And we are the descendents of them.” The doctor smiled and nodded. “Correct. The prince of the land was the Flame Elementalisk, and the princess was the Water one. Chloe, you and Ian were destined to be together by history, as it repeats itself.”

Chloe snuggled up to Ian, knowing this story was going to be good and long. He kissed the top of her head and readied for the rest.

“Brad, your ancestor was the bodyguard of the prince and princess. Nick, yours was the greatest warrior, and Rye, yours was a good friend of the prince. Sarah, you were one of the princess’ best friends. As you can see now, history is repeating itself in the forms of you six.” The rangers were now deep into the tale, and took the information in.

“So history will repeat itself?” Nick asked carefully, slightly afraid. “Yes Nick, it is following a course. It all depends on battles that take place in this lifetime.

“What happened in the Battle of Greece?” Sarah questioned.

“It was a great battle, with many casualties. The Elementalisks were about to be killed, but Zava sacrificed himself along with the Element spirits, your zords, to lock Spartax and Acrodono away. However, the Elementalisks were dying, and they had to hide their powers” Dr. Ancialient said before inhaling. “They harnessed their powers into a stone, and broke it in 8 pieces, scattering them around the world.”

“How did you find the pieces?” Rye asked quizzically. “I know you couldn’t have dug them up by accident. Dr. Ancialient gave them a wide smile. “Rye is right, it was not chance. I followed them to their hiding places.”

“You mean you tracked them down, right?” Rye responded. “No, I was there.”

They all gasped when he said that. It would mean he was thousands of years old. “You’re like, 1 million years old then!” Sarah exclaimed as the doctor chuckled. “We’ll say I am, but I was in my twenties when the battle happened. I was training with Zava to become a warrior.”

“Damn, this all so cool” Brad said as he looked at the doctor. “And you look like you’re in your fifties.”

“Thank you, but I assure you I am as old as the ancient Greeks. Now, back to the tale. I went in search of the Flame, Water, Earth, Thunder, Ice, Air, Light and Flower powers for years, being attacked by enemies tying to take away the power. However, one day, the Flame powers came to my aid, followed by the Water and Thunder, then the Earth, then Ice, and finally the Air powers. I harnessed them into your morphers, and made adjustments through time to keep them up to date, as you have cell phone ones now.”

“You said something about Light and Flower powers?” Rye asked the doctor, who nodded. “Yes. I have them stored here until owners are found for the powers. There were actually 9 Elementalisks rangers, the Light and Flower, and the Shadow Elementalisk” the doctor explained. “And now the shadow Elementalisk is Ancient Darkness, your enemy.”

Ian wondered what this new villain was. “What do you know about him?”

“I know that he was also sealed away, until I lost the morpher a few years ago to a man that attacked me. He fought valiantly with a sword and overwhelmed me, taking he morpher for himself” Dr. Ancialient started. “And he is as powerful as power gets, with the power of darkness and shadows.”

“And he is probably going to hunt us down” Chloe commented, before realizing that he could have teamed up with Cloudex and Dasefa. “Do you think he could have taken Acrodono’s place?”

“It wouldn’t surprise me. He is ruthless.”

The rangers looked on in horror. This guy was dangerous, and would kill them in a second. Even worse, he probably was with Acrodono’s generals.

“One other thing doc, what happened when we battled the original rangers?” Brad asked. “You all were determined to win, unlocking a new power inside of you, the ability to control your own element. The dimension you were in is Elementopia, the dimension of the ancients. Beautiful, isn’t it” the doctor said.

“It is” said Sarah, before looking at her morpher. “Where is the button to control our element?” Dr. Ancialient smiled again. “There is no button, just your soul. It was awakened by the original rangers, who were just a test to get the power out of your hearts and into your hands.”

“So that was all just a test, and the real battle is now?” Ian said softly.

“Yes Ian, it begins soon, when Ancient Darkness launches his first attack”

“Great” Nick said sarcastically as he got up and walked out, along with the others saying goodbye to the doctor, who was taking care of himself now.

They all walked out of the base and transported back to their house and went up to their rooms, Ian with Chloe. “I guess I’ll have to put my search for Takayo on hold” Ian sighed as they both went to sleep.

[Ancient Flame]

Under Pressure
Episode 1.15

It was a week since the rangers learned about their history, and they were all nervous about Ancient Darkness and what he would try on them.

“Guys, don’t worry” Ian assured as he got up from the pool, shaking his shaggy hair dry. “Ian, this guy is as evil as evil gets. He nearly killed Dr. Ancialient” brad told his friend, who was laid back. “Yeah, but we can stop him. We took all of those battles in the Skull Dimension, and we have Elementopia if we need it” Ian responded as he did a back flip into the water, while Chloe dived down into the deep end.

“Brad, listen to Ian” Sarah said while she was sun bathing on her stomach, with just a bikini bottom on. She was comfortable with Ian being there, knowing Ian would never leave Chloe. However, she knew Brad was paranoid. “Brad, I don’t like anyone else.” Brad looked her over then responded. “I know; I just love to watch you sunbathe.”

Ian just sighed at his friend and did a few laps with Chloe, while Brad performed cannonballs, getting Sarah wet. “Stop it!” Sarah screamed playfully as she put her bikini top on and splashed him.

Inside of the house, Rye was working out, doing chin ups and everything else he could do for a half hour when he heard a sound coming from the bathroom. “Nick?”

“Yeah Rye” Nick said, who was hurdled over the toilet, vomiting. “Ughhhh” he said as it came back up.

“Morning sickness?” Rye joked as Nick gave him a death look. “Whoa, just joking, okay? Really, what’s wrong?”

“I have no idea. This started about a week ago, but I didn’t tell anyone” he explained to the white ranger, who was helping him up. “Ask Chloe if she could help.”

“Okay, I’ll go get her” Rye said as he went to the backyard and pool. “Chloe!”

“Yeah”

“Come inside, Nick needs medical advice”

“Okay. Ian, maybe you should come with me” Chloe recommended as they both got out of the pool and took towels. “What’s wrong with him?”

“Severe vomiting” Rye said as he took them to see Nick, who was puking again. “Hey guys.”

“Nick, when did this start?” Chloe asked. “About a week ago.”

“Okay, any idea why?”

“No”

“Have you had a temperature?”

“Nope, just this”

“Okay, let me check your stomach” Chloe said as she put her hands around Nick’s waist. “No flu or anything like that.” Ian looked at his friend, who was shaking. “I think its stress and worrying.” Nick looked at him and thought about it. He had been worrying about Ancient Darkness, and he was stressed out. “Your right, it is.”

Ian looked him over again and made a decision. ”I want you to hand over your morpher for now. Get some rest, listen to music, play video games. Anything but stress.” Nick shook his head no. “No way, what if there is an attack?”

“Then you stay back here” Chloe said to her friend, who got up and wiped his mouth. “No, I will battle if I need to.”

“Ian looked at his best friend. He was wobbling, with Rye holding him up, and was pale. He lost a significant amount of weight, and was still feeling like crap. “Hand over your morpher.”

“You’re kidding, right?”

“No, I am not. I cannot have you on the team like this. Get some rest like Chloe said, or just take some medicine for stress. I’m sure Dr. Ancialient can do something” Ian said as he put his hand out, but Nick just slapped it down. “The only way that I’ll hand over my morpher is if I die, and even then I will have it buried with me” Nick said intensely, before walking off to his room.

Chloe sighed. “He’s too stubborn. If he goes into battle, he could be a hindrance to us.” Ian agreed, but had another theory. “Maybe there is something else to this.”

“What?”

“Sarah”

Chloe’s eyes went wide in shock. She knew Nick and Sarah had become good friends, and that Sarah treated nick like a brother, and vice-versa, but them liking each other? If Brad found out, the shit would hit the fan. “Ian, do not let Brad know about this.”

“Right, he would make everything worse” Ian said as they both walked back to the gym in the house to train.

On the Dark Core Ship, Cloudex and Dasefa were distraught over the loss of their master. “We will get them back Cloudex” Dasefa assured as he drew his sword and threw it into the shadows, but it was caught. An armored looking ranger entered the throne room holding the sword. “This yours?” He threw sword back at Dasefa and took his own saber out. “I am now your master.”

“We only listen to Acrodono!” Cloudex yelled before her leg was sliced open with the saber. “Are you sure about that?” Ancient Darkness asked as he put the saber back into its holster. “I will be taking over, and I can kill the rangers with different ideas.”

“Like?” Cloudex asked who was holding her leg. “By using their weakness’ against them. Take the yellow ranger. He has stress and fear of me now, so I have an idea.”

A phantom monster appeared out of the darkness and bowed to Ancient Darkness. “Master, I can transform into and form you would like.”

“Excellent. Transform into me”

“As you wish” Dark Phantom said as he disappeared for a second, and reappeared in the form of the dark ancient. “Good?”

“Very good. I want you to target Nick, the yellow one. He will be afraid of me, and his stress will tire him out, maybe even give him a heart attack. I want that to happen” Ancient Darkness commanded as the two generals were shocked.

“He wants to give Nick a heart attack” Cloudex whispered to the knight. “I guess so. That may be too powerful. I would give them a quick death, not a prolonged one. Even your potion on Sarah was less hurtful.”

Ancient Darkness turned around to see them talking. “If you are talking about my plan, I advise you two to stop for your lives. This legion is my own now.” He turned back to the Dark Phantom. “Injure Ian too, but DO NOT kill him. That will be my job.” He turned around and transformed the throne into ruins, and a black throne appeared among the stones. It was now his, and he would lead the army with terror and violence.

At the rangers’ house, everyone except Nick was in the pool, playing Chicken, with Rye as the referee. Chloe and Sarah battled on top of Ian and Brads shoulders, with Sarah knocking the smaller Chloe off into the water.

“Good game” Ian commended, who went to get a towel when he heard his Element Cell ring. ‘Not now” he muttered as he picked it up.

“Ian, there is an attack in the city. Get down here now”

“Got it doctor” Ian said as he flipped the screen down and told his friends in the pool area. “Guys, city, now.” They all nodded and teleported off without Nick. Unbeknownst to them, he was watching from his window, and took out his cell, morphing and teleported with them.

“Rangers, I am glad you are here” the Dark Phantom said as he produced a pistol and fired at the ground. “I am the Dark Phantom, your worst nightmare.”

Ian touched his wrist as a diamond appeared in it. That was the device for them to use their element powers. “Worst nightmare? Don’t you know that if you play with fire, you’ll get burned?” he said as he threw a fire ball at the masked man, but he just disappeared. “What the hell?” Sarah asked as she was kicked in the back, along with the other four. “Ahh!” They all dropped to the ground, the Dark Phantom hovering above them.

“I guess you all aren’t as towards the other rangers, who were getting up. A vortex appeared and sucked all of them in except and Sarah, who rolled out of the way. “Where are they?” Sarah asked.

“In my own world, the shadow world. For now though, I am gone, but I will leave with this” he waved a hand over his face, and transformed into the form of Ancient Darkness. “I will see you soon Nick” he powerful as Ancient Darkness thought” the Dark Phantom said with a huff as he walked off, but a blast of electricity stopped him.

“You said we weren’t powerful?” Nick said from a rooftop as he jumped down, and landed shakily on his feet. “Electric Burst!” Nick charged his body up and unleashed a stream of lightning at the Dark Phantom, who repelled it with his hat.

“I guess it is time to take everything to the next level” the Dark Phantom said as he threw his hat and another vortex appeared and he left.

Nick dropped to the ground in fear as Ian and Sarah picked him up. He was shaking, and powered down, before fainting.

“Dark Phantom!” Ancient Darkness growled as the phantom trembled in front of the dark ranger. “Master, I did not have a chance to severely hurt the red ranger; the yellow one showed up out of nowhere.”

“Be aware of that next time, or I will make life for you painful” Ancient Darkness said as he dismissed his monster into the shadow world.

In the Shadow World, Chloe, Rye, and Brad were wandering around aimlessly in the dark, cave like area. “So, how do we get out?” Brad asked as he touched a wall, and it turned into a Dynamite. “You don’t” it said as picked up a knife and went to stab Brad, but he turned his hands to stone quickly and punched the foot soldier out. “Note to self, do not touch anything.”

“Very funny Brad but we need to think of a way out of here” Chloe scolded as she looked up. There was a dim light at the top, and a breeze flew down. “Were stuck inside this hat, so I guess he have to climb out.” She picked her Element Cell up and tried to turn it into its morpher form, but it did nothing.

“Lets try our element powers” Rye suggested as he touched he touched the diamond on his wrist and blew ice at the ground, freezing it. “We could make an ice ladder. I can freeze the water Chloe has, and you can carve it out Brad.”

The green ranger smiled at the idea. “Yeah, good idea. Chloe, spray some water up.” She touched her wrist and readied to fire, when they here a loud noise in the cave that hurt their ears. “What is that?” Rye yelled, covering his ears, but then saw the Dark Phantom.

“Just a little trick” he laughed as he drew his pistol. “Now, are you three trying to escape? And answer truthfully.”

“Why wouldn’t we try?” Chloe said as she stepped backwards when the gun was pointed at her. “Because it would be dangerous for you to. I mean, I can see into this dimension with illusions and power that you could not imagine. I am a higher grade monster than the ones you have faced before. One that is made of pure darkness.” He fired the gun at Rye, who instinctively dropped to his knees and the Dark Phantom laughed hysterically.

“A blank”

“You weirdo!” Rye screamed as he rushed towards the phantom, who only disappeared and let Rye hit his head on a rock. “Argh, when we get out, I will kill you!” He blew ice up into the air and tried to hit the phantom, but he disappeared into their world.

“Nick, can you hear me?” Ian was trying to get his friend to wake up, with Sarah by his side. “Yeah, I’m okay, what happened?”

“You collapsed” Sarah said as she hugged him. “Why did you go into battle?” Nick looked at his body, which was bruised. “To help you guys. But I guess seeing Ancient Darkness scared me, and gave me too much stress. We have so much pressure on us now to defeat him, and I may not be able to handle it.” Ian shook his head. “We can do it; we just need to find a weakness in this phantom guy first.”

Sarah thought for a moment, before remembering how Nick brought him down. “Nick, your electric attacks are fast, so you need to help us. It’s the only way to free the others” she pleaded. “But that was Ancient Darkness.”

“Actually Nick, it was just an image of him” Dr. Ancialient said as he entered the medical bay with papers. “I was going over the readings, and this monster is in a different dimension than Ancient Darkness, so their not the same. He only took the form of him to scare you.”

“Okay, now I’m going into battle” Nick said as he got up with Ian and Sarah. “Guys, I’m fine with everything now, so let’s go.”

“Power of Thunder!”
“Power of Flames!”
“Power of Air!”

The three morphed and teleported out of the base into the city to lure the Dark Phantom out. “Come on out Dark Phantom. There are only three of us!” Sarah shouted as he appeared on a rooftop, pointing his pistol at them and fired, grazing Ian’s leg. “Shit!” he winced as he tended to his wound, while the Dark Phantom levitated down. “So, you came to free your friends?” he asked in a deep voice.

“I’m not afraid anymore, so yeah” Nick responded as he summoned his Thunder Claw and attacked, as he deflected the bullets with his claw and charged. He slashed the phantom with his claw in the chest, and electrocuted him, but he was still standing. “Lightning Terror!” he yelled as the claw charged up and Nick lunged at the phantom, but he disappeared at the last minute.

“Where is he now?” Ian asked, getting up. “Behind you.” Ian was hit in the back of the head with the pistol and knocked out, being absorbed into the Dark Phantom’s top hat. “4 down, 2 left to go” the monster said as he fired at Sarah, hitting her hand. He threw the hat at her, and she disappeared into the vortex. Nick was the only one left.

“Okay, time to take action. Even if you are Ancient Darkness, I will overcome everything!” Nick struck out his arms and punched the phantom as they arrived in Elementopia, stars shooting everywhere.

“What is this place?” the Dark Phantom shouted as he started to feel numb; the electricity was starting to hit him. “My own dimension; the land of the elements, now try to beat me here!” Nick yelled as the Dark Phantom tried to disappear, but he only turned into electricity. “Thanks” Nick said as he threw a right hook at the phantom with his claw, connecting and making him explode, leaving only his top hat.

Back in the Shadow World, Ian and Sarah landed on the ground, to the surprise of the Brad, Chloe, and Rye. “He defeated you guys too?” Chloe cried, realizing that only Nick was left.

“Yes, we only have Nick to save us” Sarah solemnly said, then noticing a bigger light up top. “Who is that?”

“It’s me”

They heard the voice and immediately recognized it as Nick’s. “Harness your powers to get out of that Dimension!” he called out.

“He’s right. If we call on our powers, they will neutralize this dimension and send us to another” Chloe explained as they all put their hands together. “We harness the powers of flames, water, earth, air, and ice. Bring us to Elementopia!” A surge of golden light hit all 5 of them and gravitated them up towards the top, where they saw their own personal dimension, the land of the elements.

“Nick, you defeated him!” Sarah said as she hugged him again tightly, not letting go. “Did you see where he went?”

Suddenly the Dark Phantom arose, giant. “What are you going to do now rangers?”

Nick got up and looked at the giant phantom. “Let me handle this” Nick said as he touched the Z on his morpher, sending a wave of Electricity into the air, turning into the Thunder Roc. Nick jumped up and landed in the pilot’s seat and spun the zord around the Dark Phantom.

“What is that?”

“An ancient zord, given to me by Billy Cranston” Nick replied as he shot a jolt of lightning at the phantom, stopping him for a second. “Now, Thunder Burst!” The Roc spread its wings together, and flapped them, sending waves of electricity at the Dark Phantom, destroying him. “Yes! We beat him!” Nick celebrated as he jumped back down after defeating the monster easily and without taking a single hit.

“Okay, how do we get back?” Brad asked. “We just let go” Ian said as he let out a deep breath and left, followed by Chloe and Nick, then Rye and Sarah. “Okay?” Brad said as he inhaled, then exhaled. He was now back at their house.

In the living room, they toasted to their first battle against Ancient Darkness with wine. “To winning” Ian said. “To winning” the other five replied.

On the Dark Core Ship, Cloudex and Dasefa cowered in fear of their master. “One simple job; and he could not get it done. I will not take a chance with another monster. I will kill Ian myself.” He got up and sharpened his saber, ready to challenge Ian to a duel in the desert.

[Ancient Flame]

Duel in the Desert Part 1
Episode 1.16

The rangers had just got back from battle with the Dark Phantom, and were starting to rest when they got an urgent call from Dr. Ancialient and met him at the AE Base. They all rushed over to see hat it was, and were surprised to see 6 nice cars in a room.

“Doctor, are they what I think they are? I mean, the colors match and all, so?” Brad asked, and the doctor just laughed. “Yes Brad, state of the art cars for all 6 of you, in your respective colors. I have been designing them since you all accepted your powers as a gift, and for another reason.”

“Which is?” Chloe asked.

“Teleportation is down. I can only assume it is by Ancient Darkness. These cars have lasers on the hood that can fire a blast of fire, water, electricity, rocks, ice, or a powerful tornado, respective to your powers. They also have monitors of battles in them, which will help you” the doctor explained, showing them to their cars.

“Thank you so much Dr. Ancialient” Sarah said as she hugged the old doctor, making him smile. “Your welcome Sarah, but you deserve these. Look at what you have put yourselves through in the past month. That is much more than any regular person does in a lifetime.”

He was right. In the past month or so, they had started a new journey of their lives, and faced down an ancient Greek evil in a dimension of his own. They had battle griffons, lizards, knights, witches, robots, jets, and other monsters. They had learned more about each other, and relationships formed.

“Rangers, the battles are going to take a turn for the worse. I recently intercepted a conversation between Ancient Darkness and his generals. Ian, they were talking about you. Ancient Darkness wants to kill you” Dr. Ancialient warned. “He tried the same with you Nick, playing off your emotions. Ian, be careful.” Ian sighed and sat down. “So I have another problem?”

“Ian, don’t worry, you’ll find Takayo when we get this all done. We can defeat Ancient Darkness” Chloe said as she kissed him on the cheek. “The weird thing is why is he only going after me?” Ian said softly as they all thanked their mentor again and drove the cars home.

On the Dark Core Ship, Ancient Darkness was sparring with Dasefa. He swung the sword hard at the knight and cracked his armor, leaving a gash in his arm. “You are an excellent swordsman my lord” Dasefa complimented before he bowed. “Thank you, I learned from one of the best. But this is all a warm up for later, when I face Ian.”

“Are you sure he will accept master?” Cloudex asked, knowing that there was a chance that Ian would be wise and not battle. “Yes, Ian never backs down from a fight.”

“May I ask how you know this?”

“I just do” Ancient Darkness said as he went into the dungeon to train and send Ian the invitation to battle.

At the rangers’ house, they were all talking about their pasts to each other. “Your turn Ian” Sarah said, taking a scoop of ice cream out of her container.

“Okay, well I never knew my birth father. He was killed in the Gulf War when I was born, or so I was told. I heard my mother died giving birth to me. I was adopted by a Japanese family, hence why my last name is Shokuno. My family included my dad, Tye, my mom Layla, and my older brother Takayo. My dad was a lawyer, and my mom was a secretary. Takayo and I were close, we never used the words step brother or step parent” Ian explained as his friends faces smiled with interest. “Oh yeah, and I was born in Honolulu.”

“Ian, what was Takayo like? Maybe that could help us find him” Rye said.

“Maybe. He was a great swordsman, in fact the whole male side of my dads family was. Every technique was passed down to me and Takayo. Tye ran a dojo on weekends, and Takayo was an instructor. One day he was sick, and I filled in. I was an expert at using a weapon, and soon became the head instructor, pushing Takayo out. I think that’s why he ran off” Ian said, then knowing that was why.

“Wow, talk about sibling rivalry” Brad said as he lied back on a recliner. “Yeah, it was sometimes. We always used to have swordfights at night, sometimes in the snow. I miss that” Ian said as he got up. “I’m going to bed, it was a tiring day night guys.”

“Night” Chloe said as she started to talk about her surfing experience to the others while Ian went upstairs, but heard something in his room.

“Who’s there?” he asked as he saw a figure leave a note on his bed. It then slipped out of the window and exploded. It was a Dynamite. “What could that not be?” Ian thought as he opened it and read it.

“Ian, meet me in the desert by 4:00 AM for a duel. Do not bring your friends, or they will die. Ancient Darkness” Ian said out loud as he put the note down. “He wants me, he’ll get me.” He put the note down and put his morpher in his pocket, and pretended to go to sleep, looking out the window he was going to escape from in the middle of the night.

Downstairs, Brad was explaining his past to the others. “I grew up in New York City, and my brother was a cop. I hated it; I always worried if he was going to die one day. Those worries were right. During a hostage situation on afternoon, he was shot in the chest and died instantly. That is why I fight now, for justice, and to bring those responsible for breaking the laws down. I want to follow in my brother’s footsteps and work with SWAT” he said as tears fell from his eyes as he hanged onto Sarah.

“Brad, that is similar to what I went through with my dad, although it was the other side of the law” Nick said, frowning. “My dad was a drug lord.”

“Oh my god” Sarah said softly as she looked at her friend. “Did you do any?”

“Unfortunately, yes, I did. But I got over it, and now I want to find whoever did it to him and get revenge” Nick said as he clenched his glass. “They will pay.”

“Guys, this is all too weird. My cousin was killed by a murderer one day when I was little. He was never caught” Chloe said, now afraid. “Sarah, something happened like that to your mom, didn’t it?”

Sarah sniffled at the worst day of her life. “Yes, my mom was raped when I was 10, and I had to watch. That guy was never caught either.” She clutched onto Brad for support as he hugged her, and Rye hugged Chloe.

“Now this is not a coincidence. My uncle was killed when I was a kid, and not by the army. It was someone in a cloak, and I have no idea who would do it. Something is up guys. Ian’s brother missing, Sarah’s mom, and relatives of ours” Rye said before getting up. “Guys, we need to do some research on the police files if we can. This all has to be one person, and probably one that works for Ancient Darkness. He knew it was our destiny to become rangers, so he tried to make us weak by what happened to the people that we loved!” Rye’s face was now red from crying and telling them his theory as he went upstairs to his computer, along with Chloe. Sarah, Brad, and Nick stayed downstairs, comforting each other.

Up in Ian’s room, he watched the clock, anxiously awaiting the battle. He still had three hours to go, and thought about why Ancient Darkness wanted him dead. Did he have some sort of power like Nate Russell? No he didn’t. He was just a powerful ranger, and still in training. Ian looked at the clock again. 1:30 AM, still 2 and a half hours to go, and he didn’t even know where the battle was supposed to be. “Okay, it’s in the desert, and he said a duel. Yu-gi-oh? Nah, that’s stupid for him to do. I’m a great duelist. Wait; swords. He wants a sword fight” Ian thought as he looked up at the volcano painted on his ceiling. “He has no idea of my weapon skills.” Ian turned to the side and looked at the clock once again. Only 5 minutes passed, but it felt like only a second to him. He wanted this battle so bad, and nothing or no one was going to stop him from facing the evil lord.

On the Dark Core Ship, Ancient Darkness was in the dungeon tearing through Dynamites with his Dark Saber. “Hiyah!” he yelled as he jumped and kicked one in the chest, then spun around and slashed two more. A group charged at him, but he held his ground and turned his saber into a rifle, shooting all of them while Cloudex and Dasefa watched form a balcony.

“He is good Cloudex, even better than Acrodono. But I still do not know where he came from” Dasefa commented. “I have never heard of him on other planets, and he surely would have tried to attack us when we were weak in battles.”

Cloudex looked at her comrade and then her master. “But he is pure evil, exactly what we need to conquer Earth and gather its resources to sell on Onyx.”

“What if that is not his intention?” Dasefa rose. “What if he has different motives? He wants Ian dead, and is hell bent on it. Something is wrong with that. He is more ruthless. I want Rye dead, but I will do it honorably. I fell that there is a personal vendetta between Ian and him.”

Down in the dungeon, Ancient Darkness fired bullets at the remaining Dynamites, killing each as he transformed his rifle back into a saber and struck one in the head, slicing it off. Another charged, but was cut in half. “Dasefa, check on the rangers; I want to see where Ian is, and what he is doing. Cloudex, find the vortex to the Urao Dimension.”

“The Urao Dimension? The one that has no water, and only a barren desert?”

“That is the one”

“Yes my lord, I will get on it right away” Cloudex bowed as she ran off to the dimension room to find the right potion as Ancient Darkness jumped up onto the balcony and looked down at the carnage he caused. He smiled and just spit on the bodies before walking off. That was what was going to happen to Ian if his plan came to fruition.

Ian snuck out of his bedroom window with a backpack on and went into the garage of the mansion, where he saw his car parked and dropped his stuff into the passenger’s seat before getting in and taking a deep breath. He had put a dummy in his bed to fool every one. A sign on the door said he was asleep, so Chloe didn’t bother him. Everything was planed out perfectly, and the battle was going to begin soon. As he drove out of the garage and into the moonlit darkness, he thought about what could happen to himself. Injury or Death. No, that was not going to happen.

Driving into the desert outside of the city, he saw vortex appear and he hit the brake peddle. “Another dimension?” A voice came out of it, almost human. “Come in and face your destiny.”

Ian looked at it and sped up, driving through the portal as it closed. He saw swords stuck in the ground, the symbol of fallen warriors. Was this his fate?

“Ian, I am glad you made it”

“Who said that?” he said as a shadow appeared in the distance and fired a blast of black light at him, which made the car spin out as Ian ducked and rolled out.

“I am Ancient Darkness” The shadow said as it transformed. He looked like one of the rangers, but with shoulder and chest armor, as well as a circle as his element symbol. The dark ranger took out his saber and pointed it at Ian, the symbol for battle. Ian did the same as he morphed, facing his enemy with his sword out. “Time to destroy you!” Ian said as he lunged at Ancient Darkness, and they met sword to saber.

“Nice attack, now meet mine!” the dark one said as he fell back and sliced Ian’s shoulder, drawing a heavy amount of blood. “You make me see my blood, you die” Ian warned as he swung around and slashed the torso of Ancient Darkness, making him bleed. “So you’re human?”

“Yes I am, and one that has training!” He jumped up and kicked Ian’s cut shoulder multiple times with aerial stomps and made him fly back into a rock. “Are you going to be defeated by a small cut?”

“No, but a good fighter would target a weak spot. However that also shows that you are a coward!” Ian said as he charged at his enemy and their weapons met again. They pulled back and tried once more. This time Ian landed a cut on Ancient Darkness’ shoulder, for payback. Another slash hit him in the chest as Ian began to growl.

Ancient Darkness began to laugh. “Your emotions are getting the better of you. Dark Rifle!” He spun the saber around to form a powerful rifle and fired at Ian, but he jumped and punched the man in the armor.

“You want a gun battle, fine with me. Ancient Blade and Element Bazooka come forth and combine into the Blade Staff!” The two weapons levitated in the air from Ian’s morpher and combined into a gun staff, which Ian pointed at his foe. “You ready?”

“Yes, Dark Blast!” he said as the two blasts met, creating an explosion. The sand engulfed the whole dimension as a crater formed the two warriors in it.

At the rangers’ house, Chloe was ready to get to sleep, putting on her night gown when she heard her Element Cell ring. “Yes doctor” she yawned.

“Chloe, get everyone to the AE Base, stat!”

“Okay” she said as she got the others and got into her cyan colored car and drove into Elementopia, a short cut to the AE Base. When they got there, Dr. Ancialient was frantically looking on monitors.

“Wait a minute, didn’t Ian come?” Rye asked his friends as he didn’t see the red ranger.

“That is the reason I brought you here. Ian is in the Urao Dimension. With Ancient Darkness”

“Why?” Brad asked as he looked at a monitor, and saw Ian’s body with rays coming out of it. “What’s wrong?”

Dr. Ancialient braced them for the news. “Ian’s power level is dangerously low.”

[forever_red_rocks]

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