PART VI
By:
QUINTIN J. SCOTT
Groosum opened its mouth and launched a broad purple bolt of energy. The Alpha Ranger’s shield telescoped into
existence from his gauntlet. The energy
slammed into it, pushing him back a foot. Jason threw the energy off his shield, spun
on his heel and kicked Vhund in the chest. The Neverwherian
general roared and lunged with his sword.
Jason held his laserblade at an angle, making Vhund’s blow a glancing one.
“You fight well, Ranger,” Vhund
nodded. “I’ll kill you just the same.”
“Dream on,
pal!” Jason shouted.
He fired his turbolaser which Vhund blocked with his sword. Jason blocked a sword strike with his own
sword. Bringing it around, he caught the
general in the chest. Vhund lifted his blade up and did the same to the Alpha
Ranger.
The Alpha Ranger slipped away from his armor-clad adversary
and focused on Groosum. Vhund gave
chase. Jason rushed at Groosum who growled in surprise.
Jason leapt over Groosum, kicking
the monster behind its “head”. Groosum stumbled forward and into Vhund. Landing, Jason rolled on the ground to a
crouch and fired both turbolasers. Red streams of energy interacted with the two
creatures, causing a massive amount of sparks to ignite. Vhund shook it off
and rushed at Jason again.
“Enough of this! Battle Booster, engage!” Jason shouted and the Battle Bracer morphed
into the Battle Booster, the hexagonal red device fit perfectly over the morpher. Three shiny
buttons, labeled “01”, “02”, and “03” lit up. A fourth button, “Power eXtreme”, did not light up. Jason
didn’t mind it as he pressed “01”.
Cutting off his laserblade, he
set it back on his gauntlet and held out his hands. “ALPHA RAIL GUNS!”
Twin red outlines formed in his hands as futuristic rifles
coalesced into view. The Alpha Ranger
pointed them at Vhund. “Light ‘em up!”
Depressing the triggers, the rail guns shot titanium rods
at, roughly, the speed of light. Vhund was caught full in the chest and staggered back. He looked down at his chest to see the
indentation on his armor. If a
one-second blast like that could harm him, what would happen if he had a second
one?
Vhund was not one to run from a
fight, but he realized that this Ranger was more powerful than any he had ever
fought before. Although his master would
be most displeased that he ran, it was better to have another shot at them. Let the monster have its
shot, though, Vhund
thought, as this was going to be a short battle.
At that moment, the other Rangers showed up and struck a
defensive pose. Vhund
growled. “You’ve
won this one, but one day, Rangers, your uppance
shall come!”
Vhund activated his teleporter beam and disappeared. Jason watched as his Alpha Rail Guns
dissipated, too.
Groosum roared and thundered towars the eXtreme Rangers. Jason
quickly issued the attack command the multicolored heroes leapt into
action. They were a blur of motion,
striking the monster with precise blows, showering the area with sparks. The monster, in turn, peppered them with
energy bolts, flinging the team away from him.
“Whoa!”
“That was…unpleasant.”
The Alpha Ranger nipped-up, taking his attack stance
again. “Hit ‘em hard and fast,
Rangers! Keep him off-balance!”
The Beta and Epsilon Rangers faced Groosum
while the Gamma and Delta Rangers leapt, pushed off their comrades’ shoulders
and ignited their laserblades, bringing them down
across the monster’s chest. The Beta and
Epsilon Rangers did the same, tandem cuts with their own weapons. The Alpha Ranger flipped spectacularly
through the air, let out a war yell, and delivered a searing finishing
cut. Groosum
stumbled backwards and to the ground.
Their communicators came to life with the voice of
Sean. “Rangers, bring your laserblades
together to form the eXtreme
Laser Glaive!”
Jason nodded his head, the other Rangers following
suit. Turning towards each other, they
noticed the nocks on their laserblades’ butts. They could feel a tingling of energy run up
their arm and to their fingertips as they brought them together.
“EXTREME LASER GLAIVE!” The
laserblades locked together, forming a five-pointed
throwing weapon.
Jason took the newly formed weapon and looked at the
recovering Groosum.
He felt his arm twinge lightly and watched as some form of locking
mechanism coalesced into view over his Battle Booster. He attached the Laser Glaive to his arm.
Igniting all five blades, he commanded the brace to
spin. As he garnered enough speed from
the weapon, the Alpha Ranger rushed the monster. Groosum looked up
and saw the Ranger coming towards him.
He opened his mouth, launching another purple bolt. Jason’s gauntlet shield protected him and he
continued running.
“EXTREME FINAL SLASH!
With a powerful war cry, Jason brought the energized
whirling dervish of laserblades down and through the
monster. Groosum
roared in agony and defeat as half of its body slid diagonally towards the
ground. The Alpha Ranger flipped away
before the inevitable conclusion to the monster’s fate.
Jason and the other Rangers turned their backs and felt the
violent vibration of exploding monster reverberate against their bodies. They turned around, seeing violet streams of
energy expel and reform into normal humans – the absorbed that Groosum took. They
look bewildered, but none the worse for wear.
The dying sound of the Laser Glaive was all that was heard
as the Rangers looked at one another. It
was a few more seconds before even one of them spoke.
“We…We
did it,” Maya said, raising her
eyebrows behind her helmet.
Sabrina crossed her arms.
“Of course we did
it. Was there ever any doubt?”
Ashley chuckled. “Oh, you’re going to be a bucket of
laughs. I can tell.”
“WOOHOO!”
Bill yelled, pumping his fists in the air. When he looked over at his compatriots, they
just seemed to be staring at him.
Immediately composing himself, he cleared his throat. “I mean…morphenominal.”
Jason said nothing.
He just smiled to himself, feeling the pain of his injured body parts as
the adrenaline wore off. There was
nothing like it, he thought to himself.
The rush of battle…the Power, once again, at his
command…
…Jason was alive.
“Let’s get
back to the
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PART I / PART II / PART III / PART IV / PART V / PART VI / EPILOGUE