Ryuranger
10-09-2003, 10:04 PM
---Ultimate Power Rangers
---Season 04
---Ultra Task Force Zeo Rangers
---Chapter Five: Hostages
On the mountainous shore outside of Angel Grove, a slender machine monster with a dark cape stood on a cliff while waving his hands and whispering an incantation. The incantation was actually an activation sequence for a variety of programs overlaid in this machine’s systems.
Through his mind’s eye, the monster saw Billy, a now powerless former Ranger. The machine zeroed in on his appointed target.
***
“Thanks for coming with me,” Billy said as he walked through Angel Grove’s amusement park alongside Tommy.
“No problem,” Tommy said. “So how long is your cousin going to be in town?”
Billy and Tommy stopped by a karris-wheel and watched Billy’s young female cousin ride around in circles as she smiled and waved.
“Just a couple more days,” he said.
Billy’s cousin, Crystal, finished her ride on the wheel and ran over to Billy.
“That was so fun!” she shouted as Billy picked her up and gave her a hug. “Can we go to the bumper cars next?”
“Sure,” Billy said with a smile as he set her down.
A high pitch noise sounded above as Tommy and Billy looked up to see a trio of machine mecha screech through the skies.
“Not here…” Billy said.
The mechs released their missile racks, and the weapons streaked towards the amusement park below. Tommy and Billy jumped for cover along with Crystal as explosions tore up the ground around them. Citizens and tourists ran in panic as a group of Cogs appeared.
Tommy snapped into a fighting stance as Billy stood in between the Cogs and Crystal.
“Billy,” Tommy said. “Run…”
Billy reluctantly nodded and ran off with Crystal as the machine soldiers charged forward.
A Cog swung its staff towards Tommy’s head, but he high blocked the blow before snapping a jump kick against the soldier’s chest.
Tommy spun around towards the next Cog while slamming a reverse sidekick against the soldier. He then turned to his right and round kicked a soldier in the mid-section before knifehanding that Cog across the neck.
***
The Command Chamber’s mecha hanger was concealed within the mountains, oblivious to only those who knew exactly where to find it.
Justin and Kat stood in the mecha bay’s main control room, a small rectangular space with gray consoles and wall plating. They stared through the view port into th emain hanger as INET personnel worked on their two new zords.
“Your two will be the first ready,” Alpha told them. “The Dash Leon and the Moa Loader.”
“Nice,” Justin said as he looked over his zord, which resembled a giant sphinx.
“Come with me and I’ll give you a closer look,” Alpha said.
The two followed the android into the bay.
***
The machine continued his incantation on the cliffs above the shore. His eyes started to pulse with energy as they floated free of his metal skull.
The two eye spheres expanded to the size of basketballs as they floated towards the city.
***
Billy was hurrying through the park’s parking garage with Crystal when the machine’s eye appeared in front of them, blocking their path.
Billy stood in front of Crystal and backed away as he shouted to her. “Run!”
The eye fired a pulse of crimson energy that exploded against the ground, causing a shockwave that knocked Billy and Crystal to their feet.
The eye latched out with an energy whip tractor beam and lifted Billy and Crystal up before streaking off into the distance.
***
Back at the amusement park, Tommy reverse crescent kicked a soldier to the ground as the last of the civilians cleared the area.
Chris and Ashley drove to the scene on their Zeo Cycles and skid to a halt before jumping off their bikes and running towards Tommy.
“Tommy!” Chris shouted as he and Ashley sprinted towards their leader.
Tommy jump hook kicked a Cog across the head as Chris and Ashley came to his side.
“Let’s do it,” Tommy said as he readied his Zeo braces. “It’s morphin time…”
“Ultra Transform!” they shouted as their armor shimmered to life around them.
Zeored armed his Star Riser sword and dashed forward while striking a Cog horizontally through the chest. He spun around while bringing his blade down diagonally through another soldier.
Zeogreen jump kicked a Cog in front of him before hook punching that soldier across the head. He activated his axe weapons and dashed forward while cutting a Cog down with an ‘x’ formation strike.
Zeoyellow axe kicked a Cog to the ground before spinning forward and slamming her heel across another soldier’s head.
***
Billy slowly opened his eyes and found himself bound to a post on the shore. He looked up to see a machine monster staring down at him. He had his hand on the back of Crystal’s neck as she stood staring blankly off into space.
“What have you done to her?” Billy yelled.
“She’ll be fine,” the machine said. “I can’t say the same for you….or your friends.”
The machine snapped his fingers and Cogs appeared in a flash of light. The soldiers tossed Adam, Rocky, and Kimberly down next to Crystal.
“Guys!” Billy shouted.
***
Back at the amusement park, Zeored and his two teammates were still thrashing through the remaining Cogs.
The machine’s second eye appeared and swooped down from the sky as it struck the three Rangers across their chests.
They were knocked to the ground as they quickly rose to their knees and readied their side arms.
“Zeo Blasters!” Zeored shouted as the three fired lances of crimson energy towards the sphere.
The eye absorbed the energy before reflecting it back, causing explosions to dance across the Rangers’ armor.
“What is that thing?” Zeoyellow asked.
“Nothing good,” Zeored said.
The sphere grew to giant size and began collecting junk and debris from all around the city. The sphere converted the mass into a star-fished shape body suit of armor as tall as a skyscraper.
The Machine stomped down, as the Rangers rolled out of the way to avoid being stepped on. The monster then turned its attention to the city and began firing pulses of plasma energy that exploded across the city.
***
Justin and Kat entered the Command Chamber as alarms started to blare.
“What’s going on?” Justin asked.
“Observe the Viewing Globe,” Zordon said.
The Globe activated and displayed an image of the giant starfish monster stomping through the city streets.
“Where are the others?” Kat asked.
“They are battling a small group of Cogs,” Zordon said. “You two must arm your mecha and fight this latest creation.”
“Um, Zordon,” Justin said as he looked back to his mentor. “We haven’t exactly had time for piloting lessons yet.”
“Alpha will feed instructions through your helmet monitors as needed,” Zordon said. “You can do this Rangers. I have faith in you.”
Justin and Kat looked at each other and nodded with some confidence and uncertainty mixed together.
“We’re on our way,” Justin said.
***
Justin and Kat entered their zords’ cockpits within the mecha hanger, making some last minute adjustments as they took their seats.
“It’s now or never,” Justin said to Kat over the comm system.
They readied their Zeo braces. “Ultra Transform!”
Energy shimmered around them as they morphed into their armor.
Catwalks retracted from the two zords as the mecha bay door slid open.
“Dash Leon, activate,” Zeoblue shouted as his sphinx-type zord began moving forward.
“Moa Loader, activate.” Zeopink called as she brought her zord online. It was dragged forward by the Dash Leon, being connected to the blue zord by two chains.
---Season 04
---Ultra Task Force Zeo Rangers
---Chapter Five: Hostages
On the mountainous shore outside of Angel Grove, a slender machine monster with a dark cape stood on a cliff while waving his hands and whispering an incantation. The incantation was actually an activation sequence for a variety of programs overlaid in this machine’s systems.
Through his mind’s eye, the monster saw Billy, a now powerless former Ranger. The machine zeroed in on his appointed target.
***
“Thanks for coming with me,” Billy said as he walked through Angel Grove’s amusement park alongside Tommy.
“No problem,” Tommy said. “So how long is your cousin going to be in town?”
Billy and Tommy stopped by a karris-wheel and watched Billy’s young female cousin ride around in circles as she smiled and waved.
“Just a couple more days,” he said.
Billy’s cousin, Crystal, finished her ride on the wheel and ran over to Billy.
“That was so fun!” she shouted as Billy picked her up and gave her a hug. “Can we go to the bumper cars next?”
“Sure,” Billy said with a smile as he set her down.
A high pitch noise sounded above as Tommy and Billy looked up to see a trio of machine mecha screech through the skies.
“Not here…” Billy said.
The mechs released their missile racks, and the weapons streaked towards the amusement park below. Tommy and Billy jumped for cover along with Crystal as explosions tore up the ground around them. Citizens and tourists ran in panic as a group of Cogs appeared.
Tommy snapped into a fighting stance as Billy stood in between the Cogs and Crystal.
“Billy,” Tommy said. “Run…”
Billy reluctantly nodded and ran off with Crystal as the machine soldiers charged forward.
A Cog swung its staff towards Tommy’s head, but he high blocked the blow before snapping a jump kick against the soldier’s chest.
Tommy spun around towards the next Cog while slamming a reverse sidekick against the soldier. He then turned to his right and round kicked a soldier in the mid-section before knifehanding that Cog across the neck.
***
The Command Chamber’s mecha hanger was concealed within the mountains, oblivious to only those who knew exactly where to find it.
Justin and Kat stood in the mecha bay’s main control room, a small rectangular space with gray consoles and wall plating. They stared through the view port into th emain hanger as INET personnel worked on their two new zords.
“Your two will be the first ready,” Alpha told them. “The Dash Leon and the Moa Loader.”
“Nice,” Justin said as he looked over his zord, which resembled a giant sphinx.
“Come with me and I’ll give you a closer look,” Alpha said.
The two followed the android into the bay.
***
The machine continued his incantation on the cliffs above the shore. His eyes started to pulse with energy as they floated free of his metal skull.
The two eye spheres expanded to the size of basketballs as they floated towards the city.
***
Billy was hurrying through the park’s parking garage with Crystal when the machine’s eye appeared in front of them, blocking their path.
Billy stood in front of Crystal and backed away as he shouted to her. “Run!”
The eye fired a pulse of crimson energy that exploded against the ground, causing a shockwave that knocked Billy and Crystal to their feet.
The eye latched out with an energy whip tractor beam and lifted Billy and Crystal up before streaking off into the distance.
***
Back at the amusement park, Tommy reverse crescent kicked a soldier to the ground as the last of the civilians cleared the area.
Chris and Ashley drove to the scene on their Zeo Cycles and skid to a halt before jumping off their bikes and running towards Tommy.
“Tommy!” Chris shouted as he and Ashley sprinted towards their leader.
Tommy jump hook kicked a Cog across the head as Chris and Ashley came to his side.
“Let’s do it,” Tommy said as he readied his Zeo braces. “It’s morphin time…”
“Ultra Transform!” they shouted as their armor shimmered to life around them.
Zeored armed his Star Riser sword and dashed forward while striking a Cog horizontally through the chest. He spun around while bringing his blade down diagonally through another soldier.
Zeogreen jump kicked a Cog in front of him before hook punching that soldier across the head. He activated his axe weapons and dashed forward while cutting a Cog down with an ‘x’ formation strike.
Zeoyellow axe kicked a Cog to the ground before spinning forward and slamming her heel across another soldier’s head.
***
Billy slowly opened his eyes and found himself bound to a post on the shore. He looked up to see a machine monster staring down at him. He had his hand on the back of Crystal’s neck as she stood staring blankly off into space.
“What have you done to her?” Billy yelled.
“She’ll be fine,” the machine said. “I can’t say the same for you….or your friends.”
The machine snapped his fingers and Cogs appeared in a flash of light. The soldiers tossed Adam, Rocky, and Kimberly down next to Crystal.
“Guys!” Billy shouted.
***
Back at the amusement park, Zeored and his two teammates were still thrashing through the remaining Cogs.
The machine’s second eye appeared and swooped down from the sky as it struck the three Rangers across their chests.
They were knocked to the ground as they quickly rose to their knees and readied their side arms.
“Zeo Blasters!” Zeored shouted as the three fired lances of crimson energy towards the sphere.
The eye absorbed the energy before reflecting it back, causing explosions to dance across the Rangers’ armor.
“What is that thing?” Zeoyellow asked.
“Nothing good,” Zeored said.
The sphere grew to giant size and began collecting junk and debris from all around the city. The sphere converted the mass into a star-fished shape body suit of armor as tall as a skyscraper.
The Machine stomped down, as the Rangers rolled out of the way to avoid being stepped on. The monster then turned its attention to the city and began firing pulses of plasma energy that exploded across the city.
***
Justin and Kat entered the Command Chamber as alarms started to blare.
“What’s going on?” Justin asked.
“Observe the Viewing Globe,” Zordon said.
The Globe activated and displayed an image of the giant starfish monster stomping through the city streets.
“Where are the others?” Kat asked.
“They are battling a small group of Cogs,” Zordon said. “You two must arm your mecha and fight this latest creation.”
“Um, Zordon,” Justin said as he looked back to his mentor. “We haven’t exactly had time for piloting lessons yet.”
“Alpha will feed instructions through your helmet monitors as needed,” Zordon said. “You can do this Rangers. I have faith in you.”
Justin and Kat looked at each other and nodded with some confidence and uncertainty mixed together.
“We’re on our way,” Justin said.
***
Justin and Kat entered their zords’ cockpits within the mecha hanger, making some last minute adjustments as they took their seats.
“It’s now or never,” Justin said to Kat over the comm system.
They readied their Zeo braces. “Ultra Transform!”
Energy shimmered around them as they morphed into their armor.
Catwalks retracted from the two zords as the mecha bay door slid open.
“Dash Leon, activate,” Zeoblue shouted as his sphinx-type zord began moving forward.
“Moa Loader, activate.” Zeopink called as she brought her zord online. It was dragged forward by the Dash Leon, being connected to the blue zord by two chains.