PART III
By:
Sean
materialized, simultaneously, with Jason just as Maya and Ashley did, as
well. Bill and Sabrina rushed out the hyperportal and down the steps to the Viewing Globe,
activating their stations as they analyzed the available data.
“Report!” Sean ordered.
“There is a monster disturbance in the
Glenwood Acres sector of
“Some kind of shadow monster,” Angela
said.
“Then it’s time we shed some light on
the situation,” Sean said and turned around.
“Rangers, I…” And he stopped.
The other Rangers followed his gaze and
it landed on bikini-clad Maya. She
shifted on her feet, looking down at the bikini. “It’s horrible, isn’t it?”
“Uh…no,” Sean chuckled and shook his
head. Jason blinked a few times, as did
Bill.
“Then what is it?”
Ashley put her hand on her
shoulder. “I’ll tell ya
later.”
Sean cleared his throat and looked
towards the Viewing Globe. “Go,
Rangers! And may the Power protect you!”
Jason nodded and flicked his wrist, the
panels of styrex sliding away and revealing his
Battle Bracer. “Let’s get eXtreme!”
“Right!” The Rangers
shouted in unison, holding up their bracers, too. “POWER TEAM…TO THE EXTREME!”
Morphing into their armor, the eXtreme Power
Rangers were teleported away by Angela.
They landed near the rampaging monster
and the Alpha Ranger stepped forth.
“Hey, ugly!” Jason
shouted. “It’s time we shut you down!”
Fright Knight turned around and
laughed. “Well, if it isn’t the Power
Rangers eXtreme!
I shall delight in killing you!”
“You and what
army?” Maya asked.
“Indeed,” Fright Knight said and, as if
on cue, Vhund, Prima and a legion of Darklings materialized.
“Great!” Sabrina bared her teeth as her
eyes landed on Prima.
“Me and my big mouth,” Maya lamented,
striking a defensive pose with her fellow Rangers.
Vhund stepped
forward and brandished his sword at Jason.
“We have unfinished business, Red One.”
Jason stepped forward, too, removing
his laserblade from his gauntlet. “I am the Alpha Ranger and we’re going to
stop you…with eXtreme
prejudice!” He ignited his weapon,
holding it at an angle and stared at Vhund through
his visor. “Don’t sing it…JUST BRING IT!”
Prima eyed Sabrina, priming her Wrath
Staff. “I’ll have your head, Epsilon
Ranger!”
Sabrina took off from the group; lifting
herself from the ground and bringing her newly activated laserblade
down. Prima blocked it and engaged in a
weapons’ battle with her.
“Beta, Gamma, Delta…take on the
monster! GO!” Jason rushed Vhund, trading blows with the General of the Neverwhere Army. The
other Rangers nodded at one another and took off after Fright Knight.
They cut a swath through the Darklings, chopping them down with martial arts
prowess. Maya took a ground course,
kicking their legs out and, when they fell to their knees, she drove her own
knees and feet into their faces. They
exploded with muffled puffs and clouds of black smoke.
Ashley flipped through a group of Darklings. When she
landed, she blocked a bladed blow with her telescoping energy shield from her
gauntlet. Spinning on her heel, she
kicked the creature into its friends.
Catching a few more with punches to their sternums, she took to the air
again, propelled by both her power and space training, flipped, and landed on
one’s shoulders. Its comrade sliced at
her ankles and she jumped, watching as the blade went right through the Darkling’s neck.
Landing on the decapitated Darkling’s
shoulders again, she blasted the few in front of her, flipped off and landed on
another Darkling’s chest, slamming it into the ground.
Bill brought an elbow down into a Darkling’s shoulderblades. It disappeared in a muffled explosion and
Bill followed it up with a straight kick to another. He spun around with another kick, taking a
more gymnastic approach to his fighting.
Flipping, he brought his feet down across two Darklings. He kipped up by spinning from his ground
position, punching two more away from him and flipped over two more, bringing
their heads together.
After they were done with the Darklings, the Beta, Gamma and Delta Rangers faced off with
Fright Knight. Showing off their unified
front, they rushed the creature who laughed menacingly.
Prima was backed against a concrete
planter and almost lost her arm when Sabrina slashed with her laserblade. Tucking
her staff under her arm, Prima leapt into the air and fired pulse after pulse
of energy at the ground-bound Epsilon Ranger.
Sabrina would not be denied and blocked each pulse with her shield. Releasing a war cry, Sabrina leapt after
Prima, knocking the Neverwherian witch out the air
with a stiff kick. Prima landed on the
ground, clutching her chest and rushed the landing Sabrina. Sabrina spun to deliver a kick, but Prima was
quicker and caught her full-bore in the stomach with an energy pulse. Prima spun her staff down and then up,
clipping Sabrina under the chin. She
spun on her heel and cracked the Epsilon Ranger across her jaw.
“Not so tough now, are we, Epsilon
Ranger?”
Sabrina shook her head and then
clenched her fists and teeth. Roaring,
she took off after Prima again and Prima greeted her with an energy pulse. Sabrina dodged it, lancing at her with her laserblade. Managing
to knock her Wrath Staff away from her, Sabrina brought the laserblade
in a wicked arc across Prima’s chest, igniting sparks from the impact. Prima was flung backwards, heaving and
grabbing at her chest.
“This isn’t over, Epsilon Ranger. Not by a long shot!” And Prima teleported from
the battle scene.
Sabrina punched her own hand in
frustration, the chance to finish off the woman passed. “This isn’t over,” she mirrored
before she looked over her shoulder and seeing her teammates fighting Fright
Knight. She took off to join them.