Power Rangers: Mythic Dawn

[Nero Condor]

Rangers;
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Red Phoenix Ranger
Name: Nero Condor
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Description: The Red haired and golden eyed team leader. Specializes in high speed martial arts and mecha combat. Shy, a geek, he tends to get hurt when he gets close to others, while at the same time healing emotional wounds of others. Tends to get headaches when the Sinistrals appear.

Yellow Griffon Ranger
Name: Karla Rojas
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Description: Brown hair with blue eyes she is the teams Tomboy. A martial artist focused on raw power with a straight forward attacking mindset. She tends to go looking for trouble, dragging the others along as well. She has many mysterious scars on her body and a painful past. Gets really angry at Nero for the smallest of things...

Black Dragon Ranger
Name: Adi "Circuit" Austin
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Description: Brown haired, dark eyed and tanned he is Nero's best friend. He's the teams jokester and computer expert, not really a fighter but gets the job done. He and Nero share similar interests in games and TV shows and tend to qoute the same things at the same time. Looks up to his Uncle.

Blue Minotaur Ranger
Name: Conner McCain
Age:17
Gender: Male
Description: Fiery haired with emerald eyes, he is the laziest on the team. He is too lazy to truely train hard but is quite efficient, sometimes appears to be showing off, but it's just his laziness. He's popular amoung the girls for his looks but most guys hate him. He is fearless and doesn't flinch when charging larger enemies like the Sinistrals.

White Fairy Ranger
Name: Angelica Carmollini
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Description: Black hair with brown eyes she's the teams girly girl. Never seen out of designer clothing and always annoyed over general lack of fashion sense amoungst the other team members. Spends most of her time complaining when asked to do anything menial or that would mess up her clothes. Always seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes to useful powers, zords or location on the Megazord.

Chapters

1. Mythic Dawn (http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost.php?p=2785278&postcount=2)
2. Dawn of the Rangers (http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost.php?p=2785279&postcount=3)
3. Variable Formation! Go! (http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost.php?p=2785281&postcount=4)
4. <In Progress>

[Nero Condor]

A dark castle stood atop a shadowed mountain high above black clouds with the yellow glow of torches lighting the many windows and battlements. Suddenly a yellow, blue and green light flew into the castle. Moments later the three lights departed once more, flying off into different directions, shortly after a red light flew into the castle.

A gigantic man sat upon a throne of red velvet, oak and gold. His massive form wore golden armour enshrouded within a green cloak while his face was concealed behind a steel mask decorated with golden horns and two slits that his golden eyes burned out of. He looked up as a blue haired female approached him, he asked, “Erim, who do you think should rule the Earth? Humans, or us Sinistrals?”

The female wore grey blue armour on her upper body with large shoulder plates from which hung her red cape with a golden trim. Framing flowing blue hair was a circlet of gold inlaid with many jewels. She wore a blue cloth that fell from the front of her armour and covered her lower body leaving her legs completely bare except for the blue straps around her lower legs. She carried a shield crafted to resemble a demonic skull in her left hand with a sword sheathed within. She bowed down before looking up at her master, “There is no doubt in my mind that it is we Sinistrals that should rule, Master Arek.”

Arek remained silent for a moment before giving a deep sigh. Erim spoke once more, “But why would you ask of that, my Master?” Her yellow eyes blinked in her slight confusion.

Arek shifted in an uneasy manner before replying, “Judgement Day with the Dual Blade is near at hand….” The information causing Erim to spring to her feet in shock.

“Are… Are you saying…?” The female Sinistral stuttered with her mouth agape.

Arek simply nodded, “Indeed… The Dual Blade is resonating.” He looked the female in the eyes and asked, “Would you… go?”

Erim bowed to her Master once more before replying, “As you wish, My Master.” She turned on her heel and walked away before turning into a ball of red light and flying away.

A room of darkness, no light to be seen, totally black, suddenly a flame appears and then grows into the head of a mighty phoenix. Soon the phoenix is joined a sphere of water that comes to form the head of a Minotaur, then a rock that grows into the head of a griffon, followed by a spark that grows into the head of a dragon and finally followed by a flash of light the gleamed into the face of a fairy. The five formed a circle with a space conspicuously left open as if one was missing. The Minotaur grunted, “Why has this meeting been called Phoenix?! I was enjoying my nap!”

Soon the other three began to complain as well as the Phoenix growled, “I’d hoped you had all sensed it as well, my brethren.” He glanced around at the other four Mythical beasts with critical eyes, “Sensed the waves of energy they have been emitting, sensed the return of our creators.”

The other four fell silent and the Griffon growled, “The Sinistrals have risen once again?!” The Griffon, Dragon and Minotaur’s brows creased in anger as the Fairy looked frightened.

The Dragon then asked, “And what of the Dual Blade? Has anyone sensed it? Where is our brethren who was to guard it?!”

The Phoenix replied, “I have been unable to contact her. However I have sensed the Dual Blade resonating…”

The Fairy finally commented, “So… it’s time…”

“Let us depart and find those who are destined to wield the Dual Blade against the Sinistrals!” The Phoenix declared before they all dematerialized.

A teen with wild red hair and yellow eyes was currently engaged in a desperate battle against the most cunning foe he had ever faced. His brow knitted with concentration as sweat ran down his forehead. He took a deep breath before returning to trying to remember what the bloody combination was on his locker. For the sixth time that day Nero Condor had managed to forget what the combination was on the blasted thing.

He stood glaring at it with his yellow eyes. The long scar under his eye was stretched slightly by his frown. He wore his usual white t-shirt with green camouflage cargo shorts held up by his favourite black leather belt along with white sneakers, black fingerless gloves and red open vest. In the end he simply rammed his forehead against the thin metal with a grunt of frustration.

Suddenly a female hand grabbed his head and pulled him away from the locker with a sigh, “Seriously, you need to write it down or something Bonehead! I can’t keep bailing you out all the time.” She gave another sigh and quickly opened the locker, “06, 02, 14, 07. Grab something and write it down already!” She complained and opened the locker onto to see a small pile of notes, all with the locker combination on them, fall to the ground.

The girl was of average height and muscular in build. Her brown hair fell down to her shoulders and her blue eyes flashed with anger, “Nero… Alan… CONDOR!!!” She shrieked with her oddly feminine voice that barely matched her frame. She wore brown cargo pants with white sneakers and a yellow t-shirt over her attractive body. She suddenly pulled her fist back with a roar and sung at Nero who nimbly dodged and ran off down the hall screaming his lungs out, “COME BACK HERE SO I CAN BEAT YOU!!” She roared as she sprinted along after him.

Another young man with long fiery hair that fell down across his shoulders strolled casually down the hallway with his emerald eyes staring forward towards the commotion up ahead. He wore a black t-shirt and blue camo cargo pants with black high-tops boots and a blue wristband on his left wrist. He suddenly sidestepped as Nero blasted straight past him with the raging form of the girl, Karla, in hot pursuit. The other boy, Conner, blinked and noticed Nero was on a collision course with a younger girl.

The young girl was quite a bit shorter then either the older male or the pursuing female and flowing, shiny raven black hair and dark brown eyes. She wore an expensive designer dress that was coloured primarily white which accented her darkly tanned skin and had expensive jewellery hanging from piercing in her ears. She gave a shriek as Nero barrelled straight over her and the two tumbled to the ground in a mass of flailing limbs.

Both groaned as a member of the girls nearby posse asked, “Get off her you creep!” She then roughly kicked Nero in the ribs, forcing him to roll off of the small girl before asking the girl, “Angelica? Are you ok?” The posse member helped the small framed girl to her feet before giving Nero a disgusted look, “Trying to take advantage of a defenceless girl! What a creep!” She spat as Nero got to his feet.

He was about to defend himself when he glanced down the corridor and saw people flying to the air, “Aw crap! Raging bull woman!!” He screamed before sprinting away again. As Karla raced past she sent Angelica and her posse flying, which annoyed them since it got their designer clothes dirty.

A young man about an inch taller then the raging girl was just entering the computer lab when he noticed Nero whiz past. He wore a black t-shirt, grey jacket along with torn blue jeans and black sneakers. He also wore a black leather band around his left wrist and had a sliver earring hanging from his left ear. He gave a sigh and shook his head and muttered, “Will those two ever just get a room?” Suddenly he was clothes lined by Karla who spat back at him.

“Like I’d be interest in a no balls twerp like Condor!!” She roared as she returned her attention to chasing down that very young man.

Nero gulped, “Man… who would have thought simply ignoring her advice would piss her off so much…?” He glanced out a window and skidded to a halt as he felt a strange stinging in his head. He grabbed his head and looked out the window once more and the pain grew worse.

A giant man, easily fourteen feet tall, strolled towards the high school. His body was completely covered in thick black and grey ornate armour and he had a maroon cape flowing from the back. His skin was a deep tan and he had long flowing maroon hair while his eyes where a piercing yellow. In his left hand he carried an ornate black, grey and golden shield while in his right he carried a massive sword with metal jutting out like branches from a tree. The man grinned and swung his sword, releasing a blast of energy that tore apart half the hallway Nero stood within.

The man laughed deeply before gesturing with his left hand and a small army of lizard like creatures wearing light armour materialized. He simply gestured towards the school and the lizardmen leapt forward and raced into the building as the man swung his sword again, tearing up more of the school as he did so, “MUAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Nothing says love like senseless destruction!” He bellowed as he swung a third time only to see a white sneaker land on the blade and leap off.

Surprised the man glanced up in time to find Nero’s heel being driven into his face with all the teens might. As Nero hit the ground he grunted in pain as the giant simply smiled, “Was that meant to hurt?” he taunted.

Nero looked up at the giant with his golden eyes and groaned, “Just how tough is this guy?!” Suddenly both Nero’s and the giant’s eyes flashed with light in unison causing both to stumble. The two stumbled away from one another clutching their heads.

Karla’s fist drove into the jaw of one of the Lizardmen as she looked around franticly as many of the students either fought back or ran for their lives. She noticed the red haired boy, Conner, the tanned teen in black, Adi, and the princess, Angelica had remained. The boys where fighting with everything they had while Angelica appeared to be flailing as it to scare away the Lizardmen. It seemed to be working since they where leaving the ‘weak’ female alone to focus on the fighting teens.

That’s when she noticed someone was conspicuous in their absence. She rammed her elbow into the neck of another Lizardman and glanced around looking for Nero. As her eyes fell on the boy she took of towards him screaming, “NERO!! LOOK OUT!!!” However her cries where too late as the giant man roared in his fury.

“IRRITATING PEST!!! BURN AWAY TO NOTHING!!” The giant roared as he swung his left and let a fireball fly at Nero who was too distracted by the pain in his head to avoid the attack. Nero screamed as the fireball slammed into his body and he felt his flesh begin to melt away, as the searing pain became too much he saw a light fill his eyes and then everything was dark…

[Nero Condor]

“NEERROOOOOO!!!!!” The pained voice of Karla cut through the thoughts of all those who hadn’t fled from the school already. Adi, Conner and Angelica all looked over at the smoking crater and saw only a single charred hand sticking out of the blackened pit.

Adi smashed a Lizardman in the jaw and swore, “Nero. No way!” He let out a frustrated roar before diving into a hoard of Lizardmen with tears in his eyes. He ground his teeth and growled, “He didn’t deserve that! He shouldn’t be dead!” His elbow slammed into the throat of a Lizardman causing it to collapse clutching the area as it suffocated.

Conner grunted, he didn’t really know the guy but going out like that… He leapt into the air and drove his heel down onto the snout of a Lizardman before using his momentum to roll out of the circle of reptiles as they all lunged as one, resulting in the whole lot smacking each other unconscious. “I’ve heard of going out in a blaze of glory… but that’s just ridiculous!” He commented dryly.

Angelica remained cowering in a corner of the debris as she looked over at the black spot that Nero’s incinerated had stuck up from as tears streamed down her face. She shut her eyes tight, begging not to die, and also wishing that boy hadn’t been killed either. Sure he had run into her, practically groping her in the process but that was just too cruel. “I don’t want to die…” She whimpered.

Karla hooked her leg around the arm of a Lizardman before bringing her elbow around viciously, breaking the monsters snout before twisting her hips and sending the dazed monster into a group of it’s friends before running towards the scorched crater Nero’s body rested in.

Before she could make it the massive frame of the giant man blocked her path before he swung his sword at the teenaged girl. Karla shrieked as she fell away, narrowly dodging the lethal slash. She cowered in fear as the giant raised the sword once more, light glinting of the razor sharp edge as he prepared to slice her in half. He grinned maliciously at her as he began the downward sweep.

Suddenly a great fiery red bird slammed head first into the giant, followed shortly by a large yellow lion with bird wings, then a blue furred giant with a bull’s head. As the three got off the giant a bolt of lighting lanced out at the giant, Karla looking up and seeing a great flying black reptile, shortly after beams of light rained down from the sky as Karla noticed a white girl wearing s short white dress of thin fabric with butterfly wings throwing her hands forward one after the other launching the beams of light from her palms.

The Phoenix roared, “Gades! We will not allow you to harm these children any further!” He swept down and scratched at the giant man’s back with his razor sharp talons as the other Mythical Beasts prepared to strike. Suddenly Gades let out a roar and a tremendous wave of energy blasted everyone off their feet all at once.

The Griffon barely made it to his feet as he growled, “We can’t stand another hit like that…” He glanced over at the barely conscious humans before muttering, “Our old strength isn’t enough. However if we, or rather several others, held a new power then maybe…” He glanced at his fellow Mythical Beasts who all nodded.

Phoenix nodded solemnly, “Then let a new Mythic Age dawn on this world!” He roared and the other four Beasts turned to energy matching their colours. The Griffon turning into a yellow ball, the Minotaur a blue ball, the Dragon a black ball and the Fairy a white ball. The four flew into the air before racing back at the ground again. Phoenix circled around with his eyes glancing around, “Why is there no one compatible.” His eyes fell across Nero and he grunted, “If only…” Suddenly a beam of dark energy lanced out and blasted through the fiery bird’s chest.

The other four beasts paused and screamed in horror as they watched their friend burst into the flames and fall to the ground, straight on top of Nero’s body. They all roared in rage before racing towards the four remaining youths. As they neared them before spinning rapidly around in a circle together after a few moments they each shot out one by one…

Nero felt his eyes open slowly and he found himself surrounded by darkness on all sides. After a moment a light appeared in front of him and he saw he was in some kind of tunnel, “You have got to be kidding me…” He groaned having always thought those ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ stories where bogus. As an after thought he wondered when the flashback reel of his life would start up, as if on cue a projector appeared behind him and began to display flashes of memories on a white screen that also appeared at random, “Aw, hell no…” He grunted.

He ignored the projector and the light and turned around intending to walk the other way, like hell he was dieing a virgin, however he stood rooted on the spot when he saw a woman with long flowing blue hair and yellow eyes and the most beautiful face he’d ever seen standing there with a serene smile on her face. She was only slightly taller then him and wore a flowing dress that was blue on the upper half and red past the waist with a slit up the right side. She gave him a slight nod and said, “So you are Nero. It is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Iris.” She gave him a slight curtsey and Nero blushed as he caught sight of her ample chest as it moved in an unrestrained manner.

“Uh, yeah… I’m Nero.” He replied with a slight gulp.

Iris looked him over and giggled, “Your cuter then I expected.” She commented causing Nero to turn beet red. She suddenly turned serious as she said, “As you likely know now is not the time for you to die. A great and terrible evil has appeared on the Earth…”

“That giant that turned me into extra crispy chicken.” Nero growled as he slammed his right fist into his open left hand.

“Gades of the Sinistrals, he is indeed a threat as are the three others and their master Arek… however they are not of whom I speak.” Iris explained, “I can only tell you that you are the only one with the power to stop them.”

Nero’s jaw dropped, “ME?!” He gaped, “I’m an Otaku! What can I possibly do?” He demanded.

Iris simply smiled, “You will know when the evil of which I speak appears.” She looked sad, “You and another have encountered them once before…” With those last words she faded away leaving one very confused Nero behind. He never noticed the projector was displaying a scene of a car crash where his six year old self and a brown haired girl of the same age where being picked up by a monstrous skeletal zombie creature.

Karla shivered as she regained consciousness, her entire body aching from the beating she had taken. She mumbled incoherently until she heard a powerful male voice in her head, “Child, it is time to awaken your inner Beast. I have joined with you so you can fight this evil, I am the Griffon, as are you.” Her eyes burst open in shock and she glanced around for the others. As she did she noticed a yellow glow rising from her hand.

Adi’s eyes slowly opened and he groaned as his body continued to ache. He grit his teeth as he thought about what happened to Nero and growled before a slightly hissing male voice entered his mind, “Hatchling, awaken your inner beast. My power is yours so that you may face this trial; I am the Dragon, as are you!” His eyes widened in shock as he gasped and he slowly pulled himself off the ground, in doing so noticing the black glow rising off his body.

Conner grunted and cringed at the pain is his ribs as he slowly became aware of what had recently transpired. The scent of charred flesh filled his nostrils as he slowly picked himself up from off his side. Suddenly a gruff male voice grunted, “Rise boy and awaken your inner beast. My horns and muscle are yours to crush your foe; I am the Minotaur, as are you!” His eyes flared as he felt a new strength fill him and a rose to his feet, as he did he saw a blue glow rising from his body.

Angellica moaned as her eyes opened, her body beaten more then she had ever felt before though the image of Nero’s body burning flickered in her mind and she whimpered. Suddenly a soft, caring female voice entered her mind, “Little one, don’t cry, rise and awaken your inner beast. I’ll give you the strength to fight and endure the pain; I am the Fairy, as are you.” Her eyes widened and she slowly stood, as she did she noticed the white glow rising from her body.

A handsome young man in his twenties arrived on the scene with his chest heaving. His hair was short cut and spiked upwards thanks the hair gel and he had a tidy goatee and moustache on his face along with brown eyes. He wore a black t-shirt and baggy black cargo pants along with sneakers; over the t-shirt he wore a blue dress shirt that he left open. He glanced from the giant to the glow teens and back again, “You’ve got to be kidding me… after all these years I get dragged into this again…?”

He took a deep breath and then glared up at the giant of a man, “No time to hesitate! There’s no way they can beat him alone!” He held his left wrist out and swung it around moving into a pose exposing the strange watch on his wrist before shaking it and a blue flash turning the watch into a strange rectangular device, producing a key from his pocket he stood straight with his hands held out before moving his right and left around as if turn a wheel to the left then out again, crossing them, out again and then slamming the key into the rectangular device before shouting, “SHIFT INT-WHAT?!”

He froze as a massive pillar of flame erupted from where the charred body of another teen lay and he sensed a massive energy along with the flames. Everyone present watched in awe as the flames receded and settled into a red glow around the figure that emerged from the centre of the flames. The four teens nearly fainted right there and then as Adi and Karla both whispered, “No way… NERO?!”

“So…” Nero smirked before holding his hands out as if waiting for someone to run up and hug him while glaring at the giant, “Who missed me?” He grinned lopsidedly after saying those words as the giant growled.

“Damn that bird! I’ll destroy you both once and for all!” The giant roared as Nero stood perfectly calmly.

“Too bad, you see not only am I back but…” He swung his right hand around in front of his body revealing the silver wrist band with the red gem inset into a claw marking with a circle around it. Suddenly an enlarged version of the symbol flashed in gold and the wrist band transformed into a rectangular crossbow looking device.

He pulled his right arm back so the device was level with his face like he was readying a punch while holding the left out in front of his body and shouted, “Mythic Dawn!” He crossed his left arm across his body so his hand was over his right shoulder while he moved his right fist to his hip; he then pulled his left fist to his left hip while punching his right fist straight up into the air finishing with, “IGNITE!!!”

Light shot down from the sky into Nero’s hand, as the stream of light ended Nero’s hand was enshrouded in flame. He spun on the spot releasing the flames all around, the flames swirling and enshrouding his body before wrapping around his limbs and forming a red suit. The suit had a red chest and stomach while the upper arms and sides where black, the shoulders where protected by silver armour plates, the belt was black with red trimming, the suit from the belt down to the knee was black while the elbows and knees where protected by silver armour. The gloves and boots where coloured red and had silver armour on the back of the hands and on the heels.

A bird’s cry rang out and a fiery bird flew down and wrapped around Nero’s head before forming a red helmet with a black visor and gold markings. On the chest was a silver circle with silver claw marks. He struck a pose and roared, “Burning Spirit of the Phoenix! Red Ranger!”

The four teens stood in shock and glanced at each other in shock. Nero was not only alive but now a Power Ranger of all things. Suddenly their Beasts each told them to Morph as well. Angellica glanced at the other three, “Am I the only one with a weird voice in my head…?”

Karla shook her head and mimicked Nero’s pose as she watched the Red Ranger engage the giant in hand to hand combat, “No… We all are… even Nero…” The other three nodded and joined Karla in the pose. The four mimicked Nero’s movement and shouted, “Mythic Dawn! IGNITE!!”

Light shot down from the sky into Karla’s hand, as the stream of light ended Karla’s hand was enshrouded in mud. She spun on the spot releasing the mud all around, the mud swirling and enshrouding her body before wrapping around her limbs and forming a yellow suit. The suit had a yellow chest and stomach while the upper arms and sides where black, the shoulders where protected by silver armour plates, the belt was black with yellow trimming, the suit from the belt down to the knee was black while the elbows and knees where protected by silver armour. The gloves and boots where coloured yellow and had silver armour on the back of the hands and on the heels.

A lion’s roar rang out and a Griffon’s head flew down and wrapped around Karla’s head before forming a yellow helmet with a black visor and silver markings. On the chest was a silver circle with silver claw marks. She struck a pose and roared, “Indomitable Power of the Griffon! Yellow Ranger!”

Light shot down from the sky into Conner’s hand, as the stream of light ended Conner’s hand was enshrouded in water. He spun on the spot releasing the water all around, the waters swirling and enshrouding his body before wrapping around his limbs and forming a blue suit. The suit had a blue chest and stomach while the upper arms and sides where black, the shoulders where protected by silver armour plates, the belt was black with blue trimming, the suit from the belt down to the knee was black while the elbows and knees where protected by silver armour. The gloves and boots where coloured blue and had silver armour on the back of the hands and on the heels.

A bull’s bovine cry rang out and a watery bull’s head flew down and wrapped around Conner’s head before forming a blue helmet with a black visor and silver horns. On the chest was a silver circle with silver claw marks. He struck a pose and roared, “Torrential Fury of the Minotaur! Blue Ranger!”

Light shot down from the sky into Adi’s hand, as the stream of light ended Adi’s hand was enshrouded in black electricity. He spun on the spot releasing the lightning all around, the electric currents swirling and enshrouding his body before wrapping around his limbs and forming a black suit. The suit had a black chest and stomach while the upper arms and sides where grey, the shoulders where protected by silver armour plates, the belt was grey with black trimming, the suit from the belt down to the knee was grey while the elbows and knees where protected by silver armour. The gloves and boots where coloured black and had silver armour on the back of the hands and on the heels.

A fierce roar rang out and an electric, horned reptilian head flew down and wrapped around Adi’s head before forming a black helmet with a black visor and four silver horns. On the chest was a silver circle with silver claw marks. He struck a pose and roared, “Thunderous Will of the Dragon! Black Ranger!”

Light shot down from the sky into Angellica’s hand, as the stream of light ended Angellica’s hand was enshrouded in streaming light. She spun on the spot releasing the light stream all around, the light swirling and enshrouding her body before wrapping around her limbs and forming a white suit. The suit had a white chest and stomach while the upper arms and sides where black, the shoulders where protected by silver armour plates, the belt was black with white trimming, the suit from the belt down to the knee was black while the elbows and knees where protected by silver armour. The gloves and boots where coloured white and had silver armour on the back of the hands and on the heels.

A sing-song voice laughed out and a fairy flew down and wrapped around Angellica’s head before forming a white helmet with a black visor and small antennae. On the chest was a silver circle with silver claw marks. She struck a pose and roared, “Sincere Heart of the Fairy! White Ranger!”

The young man lowered his arms and smiled, “Alright… lets see how the Rookies handle themselves.”

The giant just growled as Nero landed in front of the other four Rangers and his golden eyes flashed ominously. He rumbled, “Prance all you want! Your demise is imminent as you face Gades, The Sinistral of Destruction!!”

[Nero Condor]

Gades chuckled as the five rangers began to walk towards him and swept his sword across his body summoning another horde of Lizardmen. His dark face grinning maliciously as he ordered, “Kill them!”

As the Lizardmen charged Nero growled, “Hiding behind grunts?” He reached behind him and pulled out what looked like a handgun with a blade attached near the muzzle. He spun it around on his finger and aimed at the leading Lizardman and laughed, “Oh well… what’s a hero without hordes of nameless grunts to beat his way through!” As he opened fire the others draw their own Mythic Triggers and charged the Lizardman horde.

As he reached the first line of Lizardmen Nero leapt over their heads and landed while striking one of the reptiles across the chest with his Mythic Trigger. With a flick Nero removed his finger from the trigger and the weapon unfurled into a sword, the Red Ranger then swung the sword in controlled arcs sending the reptilian grunts flying left and right.

As one of the grunts went flying Karla took the opening to charge in and slam her fist into the snout of one of the Lizardmen before spinning around and kicking another in the chest before shooting a third with her Mythic Trigger. With a flick she switched to sword mode and struck another with an upwards diagonal slash before turning and cutting another down with a downward diagonal slash using the momentum of her turn.

Angelica cart wheeled past before flipping into the air and heel dropping a Lizardman on the snout. As she landed she used her momentum to roll into a handstand, kicking another Lizardman in the jaw as she did so before spinning around with her legs in a split sending several who rushed at her flying away. As her feet hit the ground she still had her left hand on the ground leaving her stomach was exposed, however Angelica pulled out her Mythic Trigger and shot two Lizardmen on her right before holding the weapon behind her back and shooting a third.

Conner casually walked into a ring of Lizardmen with his arms crossed and let out a sigh of annoyance, “Alright… who wants their snout shoved up their asses first?” One of the reptiles leapt at him from behind and the blue ranger simply laughed, “Wrong move…” He suddenly back handed the Lizardman with his right hand before letting out a roar and lashing out with his left leg, his limb a furious blur, as he kicked the Lizardman rapidly before kicking it straight up into the air and pulling back his right left fist and pounded the Lizardman as it fell, sending it flying into a group of others. With a grunt he slowly pulled out his Mythic Trigger and switched to sword mode before rushing another group of Lizardmen.

The black ranger looked around himself as he tapped his Mythic Trigger’s sword mode on his shoulder and noted all the Lizardmen and asked, “Say… can’t we all just be friends?” He narrowly ducked a Lizardman’s sword aimed for his head and commented, “Guess not… Oh well… always wanted Lizard skin boots!” He then quickly cut the offending reptilian creature across the stomach as others rushed in at him. Adi’s sword became a lethal silver flash of light as he lashed out at the attacking Lizardmen causing many to fall to the ground defeated.

As the Lizardmen fell Gades simply laughed deeply before gently sweeping his sword summoning even more Lizardmen before turning away and walking towards the city proper, “That was mildly amusing. But I think tearing this disgusting human city apart will be much more entertaining.” He roared with laughter as he leapt to the edge of the city.

Adi gasped, “DUDE?! DID YOU SEE THAT?!” He shouted and pointed towards Gades who was now in the distance, “He jumped over five kilometres in a single bound! What is this guy?! Superman on steroids with even worse fashion sense then normal?!” He was about to say more but was interrupted by another Lizardman attack.

Nero stabbed a Lizardman with it’s own sword and shot three more with his Mythic Trigger, “Damn! This is getting nowhere fast!” He furiously kicked another Lizardman between the legs before shooting it point blank in the face, “If we don’t stop Gades, he’ll trash the city and… you gotta be kidding…” He visibly slumped as he saw Gades grow to be as tall as a building… and he’d already been huge.

“HOW THE HELL DO WE BEAT HIM NOW?!” Karla shrieked as she looked up from fusing two Lizardmen’s skulls with brute force. She then spinning heel kicked another straight into dreamland.

Suddenly a figure leapt in and kicked another Lizardman flying into a group, causing them all to fall flat on their backs. He turned around and commanded, “Call your Zords! I’ll handle these creeps!” He looked over the Rangers with brown eyes and the five teens looked at the young adult like he was crazy.

“No way! You’ll get killed!” Nero shot back forcefully, “You should run and…”

“Good. As a Red you need to look out for others… but for me…” The young man smiled and moved into the same stance he was in earlier, “It’s not needed… SHIFT INTO TURBO!!” He shouted and repeated the same motions as before bringing the key into place and turning it, “STORM BLASTER, TURBO POWER!!” He shouted and brought his now glowing hands down and around as energy stretched between them. The energy formed a white belt around his waist from which hung a red blaster before his clothing became skin tight and turning completely blue except for the white boots, gloves, neck and bands on the arms along with the yellow square around the neck and shoulder and another square on his chest. A blue helmet formed around each side of his face before covering the top of his head and a black visor dropped down.

The young man struck a pose and roared, “BLUE TURBO RANGER!! ZEE-YART!!” He looked at the five new rangers and pointed at Gades who was current practicing his back swing on one of the city’s sphere shaped monuments, “As weird as that guy is he’s trashing the city and you’re the only ones with Zords. I can handle a few grunts on my own… now go!”

The five rangers ran a short distance from the battle before nodding to each other, “Let’s do it…” Nero muttered. As one the five spun their arms until their hands cupped an invisible sphere near their right shoulders before thrusting their right hands up and pulling their left to their hips, “MYTHIC BEAST, UNLEASH!” They cried as one. As they did a sphere of light matching their colour flew from their bodies into the sky.

As the spheres came together a massive swirling circle of purple and black energy opened up and from within emerged first a red bird like robot, followed a massive blocky Minotaur shaped robot, then a griffon, a fairy and finally a Dragon. As the Zords appeared the Ranger’s leapt into the air and where drawn into their respective machines.

“Phoenix Zord, all fired up!” Nero commented as he grabbed a horizontal stick in his left and vertical stick in his right.

“Minotaur Zord, ready to rumble!” Conner grunted as he looked over the strange controls that translated small movements from his into a larger motion for the Zord.

“Griffon Zord, pumped for action!” Karla grinned as she grabbed the twin horizontal controls.

“Fairy Zord… I’m not good with this stuff…” Angelica admitted shyly as she realized she was controlling her Zord with thoughts.

“Dragon Zord, up for some ‘shocking’ entertainment!” Adi laughed as he gripped the twin horizontal controls of his Zord.

Gades smashed the spherical monument through several buildings before glancing over at the incoming Zords and grunted as the Minotaur tackled him head on while the Griffon and Dragon quickly backed it up. The Phoenix blazed past before pulling into a loop and letting loose several beams from it’s feet. The Fairy hung back due to Angelica’s reluctance to fight up close.

Suddenly the Phoenix braked hard in mid air, the legs moving forwards while the underside of the tail shifted down slight and began to unfold as the wings and upper tail twisted down to fill the now empty area as former tail section formed a pair of arms, the head retracting into the body and moving back forming a new tail as a new head emerged from it’s shoulders, “PHOENIX ZORD WARRIOR MODE!!” Nero roared as he felt his blood burn.

Flames formed in the Phoenix’s left hand and solidified into a medieval long sword with a phoenix design for the hilt. Nero shifted the right bar of the now twin horizontal controls and draw the sword as he pushed down on one of the six pedals with his left foot while pushing the left stick forward.

The Zord drew the sword from it’s ornate sheath and rocketed forward with it’s right knee to it’s chest and right arm held out behind it with the sword gripped firmly. The flare of the thrusters erupted as the machine accelerated, “Guys! Break away, here I come!” Nero roared in time for his team mates to leap away from the massive Sinistral.

Nero’s Zord shot past as a red blur as he slashed at Gades viciously causing the gigantic man to grunt as his side was cut, though the wound was an annoyance more then deadly. Nero however didn’t let up and struck twice more with enough speed to leave a fiery cross shape in his wake. As he flew away he realized to his horror Gades wasn’t even fazed by his vicious attacks, “CRAP!!” he grunted in frustration.

Angelica hovered around and looked at the other four before asking, “So what are you going to do?” There was a large amount of nervousness in her voice as she spoke, a feeling the other four rangers also had feeling their minds.

Suddenly the voice of the Blue Turbo Ranger crackled over their radios, “Your Zords will have more power if they combine. There must be some way to bring them together!” His call died away quickly as they realised he was still fighting back at the school.

Nero looked at the controls around him and spotted a lever next to his chair and blinked, “I see now…” He grinned and called out to the others, “Guys, pull the levers next to your seats on my command…” All five grabbed the sticks and pushed the buttons before Nero roared, “VARIABLE… FORMATION!!!” After which they all yanked the sticks up.

The five machines took to the air sharply before the Phoenix’s wings moved up and away from the back as the arms folded together and shifted onto the back. The Minotaur’s head folded into the main body as the arms spun towards the back and the massive shields on the wrists folded out above where the head had been as the legs did the splits, spun, unfolded towards the chest, spun again while moving down before the entire body flipped over and opened up as the Phoenix moved in front of it. A beam shot from the Minotaur to the Phoenix whose legs moved back before the entire Phoenix moved inside of the Minotaur. As it did the red machine’s legs went through two holes in the back of the blue machine and folded up against the body before the wings folded down, hiding them from view, the Minotaur then closed up around the Phoenix.

The Fairy shot up as it’s back moved away from the main body before the legs up close to the arm pits from the hips then the lower legs bent as the backs of the thighs opened and the legs folded together, the arms folding to the sides of the legs as the back moved back to the main body. The Dragon’s head, wings and tail all split away from the main body as the body spun, twisted and spit in two forming a pair of legs with spikes on the knees and even larger spikes on the top of the feet. The Fairy shot up and connected with the underside of the combined Phoenix and Minotaur as the two halves of the Dragon combined with the Fairy.

The Griffon’s head and tail split away as it’s four legs folded up tightly before splitting apart right down the middle. The wings folded up and the upper section of the body unfolded as hands flipped out of the rear end before the legs folded over the exposed mechanism of the lower arm. The two Griffon halves then connected with what had previously been the Minotaur’s feet. The Griffon and Dragon tails flew together and extended a pole each which connected the two together and the Dragon’s wings combined with the new structure forming hand guards.

A spiked black helmet, formed partially from the Dragon’s head, landed on the Phoenix’s head before a metal plate shot down from the helmet covering the upper third of the Phoenix’s head while another plate shot up from the Phoenix’s chest overing the lower third of it’s face before two more slid horizontally under the other two completely covering the Phoenix’s face before two yellow optics dropped down and flashed forming the eyes.

The Five rangers emerged into the combined cockpit with Nero in the middle, Angelica and Karla below him on opposite diagonals facing the centre and Adi and Conner above him on opposing diagonals facing away from him. Nero tested the controls performing a left turning kick then a spinning heel kick with the right leg and finally crossing the arms before thrusting them back as Adi roared, “Behold the Ultimate Super Robot!”

Together the Red and Black Rangers roared, “MYTHIC MEGAZORD!!!” Suddenly there was a large flash and a loud crack as the Megazord posed for a second before landing heavily on the ground.

Gades stood staring at the machine in disbelief, “What…? Since when did those Beasts have this sort of power?!” His surprise caused him to lower his guard.

This fact was not lost on Nero as he tossed aside the Mythic Lance and raised the right hand, extending two fingers to eye level and roared, “Your open! No chance to recover!” The eyes of the Megazord began to glow before Nero roared, “MYTHIC BEAM!!” Yellow beams lanced out and struck Gades in the face stunning the massive man.

Not skipping a beat Nero drew the left arm back as flames erupted from the elbow and roared, “MYTHIC KNUCKLE!!!” he thrust the left arm forward sending everything from the elbow onwards off like a missile before repeating the process of throwing the right arm just like the left. He roared again as sparks began flying out of the spikes on the feet of the Megazord and jammed the thrusters to max as they raced towards Gades, “BLADE KICK!!!”

As Gades stumbled from the stunning effects of the beams he felt the two blows of the Mythic Megazords rocket punches impacting his chest right before the super heated plasma blade on the super robot’s foot tore into his side. He roared in pain and surprise from the impacts as he stumbled about.

“NOT DONE YET!!” Nero roared to the surprise of not only his team mates but Gades as well. As the Megazord flew he extended the arms and lower arms reconnected as he spun the machine around and hit the ground skidding. As they came to a stop the crossed the arms over the chest as an intense fiery light began to glow behind the massive plates. As he pulled the arms away the chest burst open and he roared, “MYTHIC BUSTER!!!” A stream of super heated plasma erupted from the machine’s chest and struck Gades full in his under protected back.

Gades roared in anger and flailed about briefly before falling to the ground with a massive explosion. The Rangers leapt from the Megazord to find Gades pulling himself to his feet with his sword laying half way between them. Karla shot forward and grabbed the sword and swung at the Sinistral who blocked the attack with his shield, “How… annoying…” He grunted, “Trust me as I say this will not be the last time we meet… I will want my sword back…” Suddenly he unleashed a shockwave sending all five rangers flying before teleporting away.

As Nero pulled himself to his feet, “We got him… for now… be better check on Turbo guy…”

Within minutes the five rangers arrived back the school yard to find the Blue Turbo Ranger sitting casually on a pile of defeated Lizardmen. As he saw the five newbies arriving he gave a wave and laughed, “Hey, looks like you managed to win. Slick moves by the way!”

Adi shook his head and commented, “Dude… that was so badass you wish you had skills like that!” He chuckled as Nero just groaned.

Karla stepped forward and commented, “I guess a lot of explaining needs to be done… know anywhere we can go?”

The blue Turbo Ranger just nodded, “Yeah, my place. I’m Justin Stewart by the way, pleased to meet you all!” He leapt off the pile and powered down, “Better power down you guys, it’d look weird if the new Power Rangers where seen walking into my house now wouldn’t it?”

The team powered down, all looking totally exhausted, and followed Justin away from the battle field.

From the nearby woods a pair of red eyes blinked before scurrying off deeper into the forest.