Ultimate Power Rangers:
Reloaded
Power Rangers: Chapter Eleven
Secrets
Revealed
Tyranno Ranger high blocked a rock soldier’s blow and
slammed an uppercut against the soldier’s chest. He followed with an outer
crescent kick that slammed across the grunt’s head.
The Rangers were battling a group of the soldiers at an exquisite
resort in the city.
Tyranno Ranger, Tiger Ranger, and Ptera Ranger battled the rock
soldiers with a flurry of kicks and punches. Mammoth Ranger and Tricera Ranger were
nearby, finishing off one of Bandora’s creatures.
The monster had a body made completely out of grotesque eye balls.
Mammoth Ranger had joking referred to him as Eye Guy.
Mammoth Ranger leapt forward through the air and swung his axe down
towards the creature. The axe chopped against Eye Guy’s head, sparking upon
impact.
Tricera Ranger moved in next. He spun forward and slammed the edge of
his lance against the creature’s center eye. The eye shattered, causing explosions
to rip across the monster’s eye-covered body.
Mammoth Ranger energized his axe and moved forward to deliver the
finishing blow. “Mammoth Breaker!”
The axe energized with dark purple and black energy and chopped against
the monster. The creature fell backwards, its energy overloading and exploding
with a violent sphere of flame.
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Tilson Auditorium was the bustling center of Angel Grove North. The
dome building was surrounded by a network of streets that spread out across the
giant city. The dome was home to the annual martial arts tournament involving
all the major cities in the region.
Zack, Kimberly, Billy, and Trini gathered in the auditorium and moved
through rows of chairs to take their seats. The seats stretched out in sections
of red and sections of gold, matching the color scheme of the circular mats
below. A large circular mat dominated the center of the floor, and smaller mats
surrounded it.
Zack browsed through his program while they took their seats. “So
when’s Jason up?”
“Next, I think,” Trini said. The teens had missed the first round of
novice fighters due to Bandora’s attack. Luckily, Jason made it back in time to
compete in his division.
“There he is,” Kimberly said, her eyes lighting up as she spotted her
friend below. “Jason!” she waved.
Jason smiled
and waved from below as he approached the large circular sparring mat. He was
dressed in a white uniform with black trimming along the legs, arms, and chest.
The patch on his left chest was the Korean symbol for bravery.
The PA system
crackled over head to announce the next fight. “Our next match...Jason Scott
from Angel Grove East versus Tommy Oliver from Angel Grove North.”
The two
opponents approached each other on the sparring mat. Tommy was dressed in a
solid black uniform with red trimming down the legs and chest. The circular
patch on the left side of his chest had a red symbol that looked like an
’h’-shaped throwing star.
Tommy glared at
Jason, flashing a wicked smile that made the ranger feel uncomfortable. A chill
crept down his spine at the site of it.
Jason shook his
head to clear his mind. He assumed he was just being paranoid. A byproduct of
his life as a ranger.
The two
opponents snapped into fighting stances. When the judge signaled them to begin,
Tommy launched at Jason with a fierce volley of kicks and punches. Jason was
taken aback by the strength and speed of his opponent.
Jason regained
his focus and counter attacked with a few kicking combo’s that Tommy easily
blocked, just before he reverse side kicked Jason in the chest, causing the
teen to fall backwards onto the ground.
The two
opponents snapped into fighting stances and
started to circle around each other. They dashed forward at the same
time. Tommy went high with a jump spinning heel kick, and Jason dashed low with
a leg sweep. The two passed by each other.
Tommy landed
and immediately snapped out with a hook kick that smashed against Jason’s head.
Tommy followed with a round kick to
Jason’s side.
Time ended. The
judge declared Tommy as winner.
Tommy’s victory
was nearly flawless. Jason wrinkled his brow as he watched Tommy leave the
floor. Tommy had a smug grin on his face. The two opponents didn’t take their
eyes off each other until the last minute.
Who was that
guy? Jason was rarely beaten, and
never that easily.
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“It was
just…weird,” Jason said to his friends. They were all standing in the locker
room as Jason packed up his towel and uniform. “He was so…vicious.”
Zack shrugged.
“Some people are like that.”
Jason nodded.
“I don‘t know. Something just wasn’t right about him.” Jason slammed his locker
door shut and the five rangers left the locker room.
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In Bandora’s
palace, the evil witch gave her Dragon Ranger a green and golden box. Dragon
Ranger slowly opened the box. He sensed the power inside.
“What is it?”
he asked Bandora.
“Your Dragon
Dagger. Your last chance to stop the Rangers. If you fail this time…their fate
will be yours.”
“What does it
do?”
“It will allow
you to summon the Dragon Caesar. Your zord.”
Dragon Ranger
gripped his dagger. Jade energy flashed along the blade’s edges. The Green
Ranger tilted his head back and laughed. His revenge was finally at hand.
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Dragon Ranger
appeared on the rooftops near Angel Grove’s coast and looked down at the city
streets below. “Look at them,” he said to himself. “They’re like ants…they
deserve their fate.”
Dragon Ranger
held his dagger to his mouthpiece and started playing an enchanting battle
tune. The tune echoed across the rooftops as it moved across the ocean. The
ocean started to bubble as a giant beast rose from the water. It was a dragon
covered with metallic green and gold armor.
The Dragonzord
started to stomp through the city streets. The zord armed it drill tail and
smashed through buildings left and right, spraying debris and rubble across the
street. The zord stomped on cars, and fired swarms of missiles from its fingers
that exploded against several buildings.
The Rangers
arrived below just in time to see the Dragonzord destroy a multinational
corporation building.
“Now since when
does he have a zord?” Mammoth Ranger asked.
“Zordon called
it the Dragonzord,” Tricera Ranger said. “Maya’s data concurred.”
“Whatever it
is,” Tyranno Ranger said, “we’re taking it out!”
The five raised
their hands into the air and shouted “Dinozords arise!”
Five armored
dinosaur creatures stomped through the streets as the Rangers hopped into their
cockpits. Each beast moved as if alive, covered with shining armor. The
cockpits were wedged inside the armor.
“Dinozord
fusion!” Tyranno Ranger shouted.
The five zords
stampeded through the streets and started to reshape. The Tyrannosaurus
streaked forward, gliding off the ground as the Triceratops and Saber-toothed
Tiger slammed into position as legs. The Mammoth came on from behind, wrapping
around the back of Tyranno and forming arms. The Pterodactyl moved in and
formed a shield of chest armor as the zord stood upright.
The
Megadinozord snapped into a fighting stance as energy crackled across its
armor.
“Power
Rangers!” Dragon Ranger shouted from the rooftops, his dagger held tightly in
hand. “Prepare to meet your end!”
Dragon Ranger
played another melody with his flute, this one deeper and more roaring with
power. The sound commanded the Dragonzord to fire a volley of missiles from its
fingertips. The missiles exploded against the Megadinozord’s armor.
The
Megadinozord recovered from the blasts and stomped forward to attack. But the
evil Dragonzord armed its drill-tail whip and swung the weapon forward. The
whip smashed the Megadinozord across the face.
Dragon Ranger
laughed as his zord slammed a head blow against the Megazord’s chest. “Your
zord is nothing compared to mine!”
“We’ll see
about that,” Tyranno Ranger shouted back. “Megadinozord Saber!”
The
Megadinozord armed its double-edged blade. The zord moved forward and slashed
across the Dragonzord with an ‘x’ formation, explosions sparking on impact. The
Dragonzord was forced back.
“Megadinozord
saber, battle crash!” The Rangers shouted from the cockpit. The Megazord raised
its sword into the air, the blade crackling with crimson power.
Megadinozord
swung its saber through a fierce horizontal arc. The saber exploded against the
Dragonzord, knocking the evil zord backward. Dragonzord smashed against the
building Dragon Ranger was standing on, causing the building to crumble.
Dragon Ranger
fell off the building and stumbled down through the air, landing back-first in
a small park. A single bridge-covered creek ran through the grassy park. It was
called Valley Creek.
The Rangers
leapt from their zords and flipped down to Valley Creek to face the Ranger.
Dragon Ranger
used his sword to steady himself and rose to his feet. He snapped into a
fighting stance as he readied his sword and dagger, squeezing both weapons
tightly. “You’ll pay!”
Dragon ranger
and the five Rangers charged towards each other. Tiger Ranger somersaulted
forward through the air with her daggers in hand.
“Power flares!”
Tiger Ranger shouted as she fired energy flares from her daggers.
Dragon Ranger
leapt to the side to avoid the flares. He held his own dagger and charged it
with jade-colored energy.
“Dragon’s
claw!” he shouted as he produced a shockwave with his dagger that exploded
against the ground, creating a
shockwave. The shockwave blasted and scattered the Rangers.
Dragon Ranger
flipped forward before landing back on his feet. Mammoth Ranger tried to sneak
attack from behind the villain, but Dragon Ranger snapped his foot around and
hook kicked the Black Ranger across the face.
“Power
Torrent!” Tricera Ranger shouted as he produced waves of energy with his lance.
Dragon Ranger
braced himself as the energy spread around him and exploded against his golden
chest shield.
Slightly off
balance, Dragon Ranger was ill prepared as Tyranno Ranger charged forward and
slashed the Green ranger across the chest with a series of strikes. The blade
sparked against the villain’s armor on impact.
Dragon Ranger
spun with the last strike and snapped a roundhouse kick that slammed Tyranno
Ranger out of the way. Dragon Ranger leapt high into the air and prepared to
swing both his blades down against Ptera Ranger.
“Arrow shockwave!”
Ptera Ranger shouted. She fired an energy-laced arrow that streaked towards
Dragon Ranger.
The arrow
struck Dragon Ranger in the center of his helmet, splitting a crack along its
center. The helmet cracked open to reveal his true face as he fell back-first
onto the ground.
Dragon Ranger’s
armor dissipated, revealing his true form. He lied unconscious, face up. The
Rangers slowly gathered around him, not sure if it was a trick.
“It’s him!”
Tyranno Ranger practically shouted as the team gathered around Dragon Ranger.
It was Tommy.
“He’s…just like
us…” Tricera Ranger said. He had expected Dragon Ranger to be either a
creature, or at least an adult.
“Oh man..”
Mammoth Ranger said.
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Bandora
wrinkled her brow as she saw Tommy through her crystal ball. “Goldar!” she
shouted. She was not about to lose her prize.
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An hour later,
Maya leaned on the ground next to Tommy. She wiped blood from the unconscious
ranger’s forehead as Simon sat by her side.
“I really don’t
think that’s a good idea, Maya,” Jason said. Dragon Ranger was a killer. Human
or not.
“Jason, he’s hurt,”
Maya protested as she continued to wipe his wounds.
“He’s one of
them,” Zack said.
“No,” Maya said
sternly. “He’s a human being, not some monster.”
Tommy groaned
as his body stirred. Maya and Simon inched backward, while Jason stepped
forward, ready to attack if he had to. Tommy slowly sat up and rubbed the back
of his head as the five rangers snapped into fighting stances.
Maya tilted her
head and leaned forward towards Tommy, keeping her voice as calm as possible.
“Are you alright?” she asked.
Tommy wrinkled
his brow with confusion as he turned his head towards Maya and narrowed his
eyes. “Why…? Why did you help me?”
“You were
hurt,” Maya said.
Tommy shook his
head and rose to his feet. He slowly started to walk away, his balance slightly
off.
“Hey pal,” Zack
said. “Where do you think you’re going?”
Tommy looked
back and glared at Zack while continuing to walk.
Tommy stopped
when he noticed his reflection in the stream. He kneeled down and looked at
himself through the water. “That face…my face…” He groaned and grabbed his
head.
“Tommy,” Simon
shouted as he ran over to him. “Are you going to be okay? You’re good now
right?”
“Good?” Tommy
asked, as if the word confused him. He shook his head and rose.
“So what now,
Tommy?” Jason asked. “Will you go back to Bandora?”
“No!” Tommy
shouted. “I will never go back there, Rangers!”
“Tommy,”
Kimberly said, “maybe you should sit down. You’ve been through a lot.”
“I don’t need
to sit,” Tommy said. “I need…I…“ Tommy groaned and felt his head, nearly
stumbling forward. “I need to get away from you.”
“So, Dragon
Ranger,” Goldar said as he appeared with Scorpina and the three Dark Warlords.
“I knew you were a coward, but I never thought you’d turn into a run away.”
“Go back to
your hole Goldar!” Tommy shouted as he and the others assumed fighting stances.
“I will, and
I’m taking you with me!” Goldar yelled as he extended his sword.
“I won’t go
back!” Tommy shouted.
“You don’t have
a choice!” Secmet yelled as he and the other two warlords charged at the
ranger.
“Dino Buckler!”
Tommy shouted while extending his transformation device and flipping it open.
He transformed into his Ranger form and charged towards the warlords.
Goldar and
Scorpina circled around the other five rangers.
“Let’s do it,”
Jason shouted as he and the others thrust their bucklers forward.
“Dino buckler!”
they shouted as energy shimmered around them and they transformed into their
armor.
Goldar and
Scorpina dashed forward and slashed their weapons across the Rangers’ armor with
a flurry of strikes. Goldar struck Mammoth Ranger across the chest with an
upward slash, and in the same arc, brought his blade around to horizontally
thrash Tyranno ranger across the chest.
Scorpina
blocked a kick by Tricera Ranger and slammed a kick of her own against the Blue
Ranger’s faceplate. Scorpina followed with a powerful swing that cut across
Tiger Ranger’s chest.
Ptera Ranger
led Maya and Simon to safety.
“Stay here,”
she told them before turning and joining the fight.
“Web of
Deception!” the Dark Warlord Dayus shouted as his six-pronged blade extended
and slammed into the ground, producing an energy web that Dragon Ranger was
caught in.
“You’ve always
been the weakest out of us,” Dayus taunted. “You’re no true warlord.”
“We’ll see about
that, Dayus!” Dragon Ranger shouted as he snapped loose from the webs and drop
kicked the warlord of illusion.
Dayus was
forced back, but counterattacked by using his blades as spears aimed towards
the Green Ranger’s head.
Dragon Ranger
grabbed the spears and used them to flip Dayus backward, sending the villain
sprawling into the creek.
Secmet of Venom
rushed in behind Dragon Ranger and stabbed him in the back repeatedly at hyper
speeds. Each strike exploded with a shower of sparks upon impact.
“Black
Lightning Flash!” Kayl shouted as he produced a storm of dark energy that
enveloped the Green Ranger and forced him to the ground.
Tyranno Ranger
held Goldar’s sword at bay as he watched Dragon Ranger. “We can’t let them take
Tommy,” he said as he kicked Goldar out of the way and ran towards the
warlords.
“I don’t think
so,” Secmet said as he looked at Tyranno Ranger. “Snake Bite Strike!”
Secmet fired a
venom blast that knocked Tyranno Ranger onto his back. Tyranno Ranger used his
sword for balance as he rose back to his feet. The other four Rangers battled
Goldar and Scorpina around him.
“Man, these
guys are tough,” Tyranno Ranger said as he moved to help his teammates. He
swung his sword down towards Goldar’s head. Goldar held his blade high and
blocked the blow before slamming the end of his handle against the Ranger’s
helmet.
Nearby, Kayl
thrashed Dragon Ranger across the chest. Explosions sparked against the
Ranger’s armor as he fell backward onto the ground.
Kayl stood over
the fallen Dragon Ranger, raising his blade over the Green Ranger’s body. A
crooked smile spread across Kayl’s face as he prepared to finish the Ranger
off.
Dragon Ranger
suddenly sprang to his knees and shouted “Dragon Fang!” hitting Kayl with a
load of jade-colored energy at point-blank range. Kayl’s armor was singed as he
went flying backward through the air.
Kayl grasped
onto his wound as he rose to his knees. The other two Dark Warlords joined with
him to overpower the Dragon Ranger.
“Snake bite
strike!” Venom shouted as he whipped a jagged blast of crimson energy forward.
“Black
Lightning Flash!” Kayl shouted as he swung his blade, showering a storm of
black lightning towards the Ranger.
“Web of
Deception!” the Warlord of Illusion shouted. He fired a web with his pronged
blades.
Crimson and
black blasts exploded against Dragon Ranger and tossed him backward as webbing
encased him, hindering his movements.
“No!” Dragon
Ranger shouted as the Warlords held him up in victory.
Goldar thrashed
Mammoth Ranger out of the way with a strike from his blade.
“Don’t worry,
Rangers,” the simian said as he and Scorpina joined the warlords. “You’ll see
the Dragon Ranger again soon enough!”
The villains
teleported away with a burst of energy.
“Maya,” Simon
said as he grabbed hold of his older sister‘s shirt sleeve. “What’s going to
happen to Tommy?”
She shook her
head. “I don’t know Simon.”
The Rangers
stood quietly, not knowing what the future held for the Dragon Ranger.
To
be continued…Chapter 12