Authors Note: *If you haven't read the first story called "An Old Flame's Power" you wont understand this story. Also this story takes place two weeks after the first one. By the way if you're wondering, the saga will be put on story by story.
"Iya!" Shannon Kassandra Kaze shouted.
Tommy Oliver and Shannon Kassandra Kaze were sparing. Their friends Tanya
Sloam, Katherine Hillard {Kat}, Adam Park, and Rocky De Santos were sitting
on the bleachers, watching, in the Youth Center.
Tommy threw a roundhouse at Shannon and she dodged it with a back handspring.
Tommy distracted her with a step kick and Shannon did a front layout flip,
just what he was expecting. Tommy responded with a foot grab bringing Shannon
out of gravity and on to the mat. Tommy pulled her up and the walked over
the others on the bleachers.
"If that's what your planning to do for the commercial, you're gonna
blow the director away!" Adam encouraged the couple as they approached
and handing them water bottles.
"We weren't planning on doing that. We've already choreographed a
kata that's a lot better." Tommy explained to the Green-clad guy.
"Yeah, that was totally great it was like you were planning Shannon
was going to do the front layout flip." Tanya added in.
Shannon was being absolutely quiet during the conversation. "You okay,
Shannon?" Kat asked the brunette in white.
"Oh yeah. Just thinking back on something." Shannon told her
pink' friend, reassuringly.
Tommy and Shannon were going to be the stars of a commercial that Ernie
had suggested to get more students into the Martial Arts classes at the
Youth Center. And who better to star in the commercial than the two of
the teens that were teaching them. Tommy and Shannon had both dealt with
this kind of thing so they weren't surprised when the producer wanted them
to star in the commercial.
The pair went back to sparing, while their four friends were talking among
themselves. "Do you think Rita and Zedd will attack Karther Island?"
Rocky questioned the group, quietly.
"Shannon seemed really sure Rita and Zedd would attack when she told
us, but it's already been two weeks since Siger showed up and was destroyed,
so I think no." Adam brought up, making an important point.
"But what if Shannon IS right and Rita and Zedd are just stalling
so we don't expect him to attack Karther Island." Tanya debated, making
another important point.
"You guys, let's just watch Shannon and Tommy spar and worry about
Rita and Zedd later on." Kat suggested.
The teens took Kat's advice and watched Shannon and Tommy spar. Suddenly,
in mid-step kick, Shannon shrieked in agony and fell to the mat. Everyone
in the Youth Center's gym turned around and looked over to where Shannon
had been sparing. A crowd surrounded the couple as Tommy dropped down to
the mat and looked at her. Kat, Rocky, Adam, and Tanya rushed over to his
side. Ernie came up and said, "Is Shannon okay? I can call and ambulance."
but Adam and Rocky stopped him.
"No, no, Ernie. It's okay, we've got her." Tommy informed Ernie
in a wavy voice.
Tommy stood up and carried Shannon out of the gym into the hallway with
Rocky, Adam, Tanya, and Kat not far behind. They stopped in the corner
of the hallway and teleported to the Power Chamber in pure silence.
* * * * *
Streaks of blue, green, yellow, pink, and a mixed color of red and white
descended into the Power Chamber. "Iyaiyaiyaiyai! What has happened
to Artemis?" Alpha 5 cried.
"We don't know. She was fine and sparing one minute, then the next
she was out and lying on the sparing mat," Kat notified the robot.
"Put her on the Diagnostic table," Zordon commanded.
Tommy laid Shannon down on the odd-looking table and Alpha pushed a few
buttons on the side control panel. "Sending the information to you
now, Zordon," Alpha declared.
"Hmmmm...........just what I thought," Zordon told the anxious
teens.
"What Zordon?" Rocky requested the great Eltarian mentor.
Zordon was about to answer the question of the Blue Ranger when the peace
was interrupted by Shannon, crying out from her unconsciousness, "No!
No! Get away......... you metal freaks!"
Tommy looked at Shannon, then, Zordon, freaked out by what he had just
heard. Shannon's eyes suddenly snapped open and her body popped up from
the monitoring table. "Selene!!" she cried in pure fright.
"Who's Selene?" Tanya wondered out loud.
"She is the guardian of the Kartherian Coins on Karther Island,"
Shannon told the rangers, now that she was awake and sitting up on the
table, "She was probably attacked by Rita and Zedd and was knocked
unconscious."
"But that still doesn't explain why you screamed and why you fainted."
Tommy expressed to her, with the slightest bit of fear in is voice.
"Me and Selene are linked. It's a dreaded part of life we both must
put up with. Long ago, Zordon might be able to recall, the Morphing Masters,
Artemis and Selene, were doused with a spell that caused them to feel each
other's pains. Such as if Selene was to be hit over the head and fall unconscious,
Artemis would be caused to fall to unconsciousness, too. That spell was
inherited from our ancestors and still lives up to it's purpose today."
Shannon clarified to her, known as, fearless boyfriend.
Interrupting the silence of the group, Zordon told the rangers, "You
must go to Karther Island and rescue the Silver Ranger. If Lord Zedd and
Rita get they're hands on the Kartherian coins, they have the ability to
make a Super Villain Team of their very own."
"I, for one, am ready," Kat said, letting the other rangers know.
Alpha went over to the teleportation console to teleport the rangers when
he suddenly realized, "Oh, no! Zordon, we cannot teleport the rangers
to Karther Island. Iyaiyaiyai! What will we do?"
"Do not worry Alpha. Artemis, it's seems that we must call upon the
Mini Zeo Zords," Zordon told the guardian with ease in his voice.
"Yes, seems it is time," Shannon replied.
"What mini zords', Shannon?" Adam inquired his smiling friend.
"You'll see when we get to Angel Grove Cove," Shannon told the
curious ranger with a smirk on her face.
"Teleporting now," Alpha reported as flashes of white, red, green,
blue, yellow, and pink left the chamber.
* * * * *
The six teenagers arrived at the foot of Angel Grove Cove. "So what
are these mini zords' anyway?" Rocky asked the White Ranger.
"Shhhh!" Shannon exclaimed at the medium built teen.
She brought her hands up in front of her and raised them. "Zeo Crystal,
unite!" Shannon dictated.
The five rangers, standing behind her, looked on. Suddenly streaks of pink,
blue, yellow, red, and green shout out of the respective ranger. They flew
into her hands as a white streak shot out of Shannon conjoining with the
others to make ......
"The Zeo Crystal.... " Tanya murmured under her breath.
"Lord of the sky, God of the sea, and King of the land. In my hands
I bestill the Zeo Crystal. I call for the Mini Zeo Zords." Shannon
pledged.
One by one, zords, half the size of the normal ones, washed up from the
bubbling sea to the shore. Finally when there were six: a panda, a tiger,
an eagle, a rhinoceros, a lion, and a platypus, the Zeo Crystal split and
each piece returned to the rightful ranger.
Shannon approached the six small zords. She first stood by the platypus.
"Nimble and brisk. Katherine you will be one with the Pink Platypus."
Shannon told the Australian ranger.
Next she stood next to the rhinoceros. "Powerful and bold. Rocky you
will be one with the Blue Rhinoceros." Shannon said to the Blue Ranger.
Shannon walked over to the lion, saying, "Courageous, taking chances.
Tanya you will be one with the Yellow Lion."
Shannon stood by the eagle and stroked it, telling Adam, "Wise and
keen. Adam you will be one with the Green Eagle."
Shannon stood in the middle of all the animals and said, "Sly and
alert. Tommy you shall be one with the Red Tiger. I shall be one with the
wild and anxious, White Panda. These are the Mini Zeo Zords. For many centuries
my ancestors have kept them hidden and now I have called upon them in our
time of need. The Mini Zords allow travel on land, through water and sky.
When formed together they become the Mini Mega Zeo Zord."
"Let's do it! It's morphin' time!" Tommy shouted, alerting the
others to morph.
"Zeo Ranger I, Pink!" Kat shouted.
"Zeo Ranger II, Yellow!" Tanya shouted.
"Zeo Ranger III, Blue!" Rocky shouted.
"Zeo Ranger VI, Green!" Adam shouted.
"Zeo Ranger V, Red!" Tommy shouted.
"Zeo Ranger IV, White!" Shannon shouted.
The rangers got into the Mini Zords and Shannon directed, "Karther
Island is a special island. The reason why we need the Mini Zords and why
Alpha couldn't teleport us there is because it's underwater. Your animal
zord knows the way, so let them be your guide."
Each Mini Zord submerged into the water and started on their way. "This
is amazing!" Tanya exclaimed inside her cockpit.
They floated down until they could see and island below themselves. Shannon
ordered, "Activating cloaking, now!" and her zord was cloaked.
All the other rangers followed her lead so not to be seen by Rita or Lord
Zedd from the island.
They descended from the water to the land. Each of them got out of their
zord and shouted, "Zeo Rangers, power down!" and they all powered
down, hoping not to attract attention to themselves.
The land was absolutely amazing. The rangers had landed their Mini Zords
in a dry, humid, desert, but not nearly a half-mile away was a lush forest.
Huge rock caves covered a side of a mesa about a quarter-mile away. They
looked above themselves to see the ocean as the sky.
By one of those rock caves there was a huge tree. Suddenly Adam cried out
to the others, "COGS!!" and sure enough about a dozen cogs came
out of that one cave.
The rangers were about to morph when Shannon stopped them. "Don't
morph! I have a feeling something strange and unusual is going on here."
The six teens didn't morph, but did start fighting off the cogs. Shannon
jumped onto Tommy's shoulders and did a side corkscrew kick that knocked
out about three cogs. Kat and Tanya double teamed two cogs. Kat distracted,
while Tanya took one out with a flying tornado kick and Kat executed a
jump - spinning heel kick on the other cog. Adam and Rocky took out the
rest of the cogs with some trouble, but eventually they were all destroyed.
"Quick, Selene must be in here!" Shannon told the other rangers,
running into the cave, while the others caught up to her.
The cave was dark and damp. The teens walked through a tunnel for awhile,
until seeing a silver light. They followed it down a little more and ended
up in a room. On one side of this room was an illuminating object of silver.
Shannon thought to herself, *She has to be here that's her morpher.* "Selene,
where are you?" Shannon hollered throughout the room.
"Over here, Artemis!" a female voice responded to the call. The
voice was coming from the next room.
The six ran into the other room and saw a woman tied up to a huge rock.
She was wearing a silver bikini top and tight silver pants. Her hair was
a straight black with green streaks going through it. Her hazel eyes set
off her smiling face.
"Artemis! It's so good to see you!" the woman exclaimed at the
site of seeing her friend.
"Of course it would be good to see me if you're tied up to a rock."
Shannon teased.
Shannon got down on her knees and worked the rope up off Selene. Shannon
got up from the ground and introduced, "You guys this is Selene, the
Silver Kartherian Ranger. Selene this is Tommy, Tanya, Adam, Kat, and Rocky."
"Hello," Selene greeted gleefully, "So you are the infamous
Zeo Rangers that Artemis brags about all the time."
"That's us!" Rocky shyly told her, smiling oddly and blushing.
"Anyway, enough small talk. Where's Rita and Zedd?" Kat asked,
nudging Rocky in the side.
"Artemis didn't you recognize. Oh well. This isn't Rita's or Lord
Zedd's handiwork." Selene expressed in a worried tone.
"Who's it is then?" Tanya questioned, with a worried look on
her face.
"It's Zesta." Shannon whispered in a dead serious tone.
"Yes it is her. She and Lord Zedd got in a squabble when meeting each
other on the top of the mesa, so Zesta simply zapped him with her laser-like
personality' and electrocuted him, as a warning that she is the most powerful
being from this side of the galaxy. After electrocuting him, Rita, Goldar,
and Rito tried challenging her power, but they actually used their brains
and ran away to Master Vile with a crispy Zedd. Then she reprogrammed the
cog force to obey her commands." Selene explicitly explained.
"I knew there was something funny going on here, but what IS she doing
here? Doesn't she have to mourn or something over Gerigon's entrapment?"
Shannon asked her trustworthy friend.
"Ummm.....I have two questions. Who is Zesta and who is Gerigon?"
Tommy wondered as he asked his, sometimes confusing, girlfriend.
"Zesta is the supreme evil from Eltar, just like Zordon is from Eltar.
Because we trapped her beloved' Gerigon in a cave on the planet Phados,
she's back for the great powers that can free him. We thought we had stopped
her evil rein because we hadn't heard of her in years, but she back with
vengeance." Shannon defined, answering the two questions.
"Wait a minute. You've been to Phados, so you know Dulcea, right?"
Adam asked, being a little jumpy.
"Of course we know Dulcea. She's a guardian, too, but in her own special
way. Since she has existed from the time of the Morphing Masters she wasn't
given the option of being a Guardian Ranger with powers and all, but she
is the Guardian of the Ninjetti powers." Shannon stated to Adam and
the rest of them.
"Nevermind that. We must alert Zordon of Zesta's presence before Zesta
finds you all." Selene seriously urged.
"Too late, Selene. See, she's already found out," a sarcastic
female voice came from behind them.
Everyone turned and in the doorway, to the two rooms, was a woman with
blonde hair, streaked black. She wore a black, skin tight, dress with a
pendant in the middle of the dress. The pendant was a cat's eye, symbol
of Zesta.
"Zesta! You dare step in front of the person that destroyed your entire
force of monsters, by herself!" Shannon yapped at her.
"Did you really expect me to be scared of that? You bore me Artemis.
Who are you?" Zesta questioned, while scanning her finger over the
Zeo Rangers.
"We're the Zeo Rangers!" Tommy barked back at the blonde.
"Ah..." Zesta examined as she grabbed Tanya by the neck and held
her in a headlock, "Now if you want to ever see you pretty, little,
yellow friend again, Selene.........then you'll kindly hand over the Kartherian
coins."
"You don't know my girlfriend, do you?" Adam told her sarcastically.
As he did, Tanya elbowed Zesta in the stomach and she let go of her. "Errr........Kiros
get them!" Zesta moaned toward the sky as she doubled over in extreme
pain and vanished into a black puff of smoke.
"Some girls got it, and some girls don't," Tanya slyly said as
she blew evil dust particles' of her elbow. Everyone laughed at the comment,
but were stopped when a huge gold plated monster, who looked an awful lot
like Goldar, arrived right in front of their seven pairs of eyes.
"We'd better morph," Kat hinted.
"Right! It's morphin' time!" Tommy shouted as all the Zeo Rangers
flicked their wrists exposing their zeonizers.
"Zeo Ranger I, Pink!" Kat shouted.
"Zeo Ranger II, Yellow!" Tanya shouted.
"Zeo Ranger III, Blue!" Rocky shouted.
"Zeo Ranger VI, Green!" Adam shouted.
"Zeo Ranger V, Red!" Tommy shouted.
"Zeo Ranger IV, White!" Shannon shouted.
"Kartherian Silver Power!" Selene shouted as she held up, with
her right hand, a silver coin, with a crescent moon engraved on it, in
front of her face.
When everyone was finished morphing all the Zeo Rangers, except Shannon,
looked at Selene in awe. Her suit looked a lot like the original Power
Rangers' suits. The three diamonds, that covered her chest, were a solid
black and so were her gloves and boots. She had a crescent moon on her
helmet, that was upside down so to make a frown. The rest of her suit was
a sparkling silver.
"Zesta! You coward! Leave in the middle of a fight' that was your
motto and always will be!" Selene cried up towards the heavens.
"Enough! Let us fight to the finish!" Kiros bellowed, just like
Goldar used to.
"Are you related to Goldar in any way?" Kat snapped at the gold
plated monster.
"We'd better get outta here before HE destroys us with his ugliness!"
Rocky pointed out to the other rangers.
Selene pulled a weapon off her belt, that was a pistol that looked a lot
like a dagger. "Crescent laser!" She shouted, pointing her pistol
at the cave wall behind them.
She made a huge hole in the wall and the rangers were about to run out
of the cave when Camellia confronted them. "What are you doing here,
Camellia?" Tommy questioned the young thirteen year old.
"I've come to serve my Queen, what else," Camellia answered with
no feeling at all.
"I see there's no need to introduce you to each other. Camellia, destroy
them!" Zesta shouted from the thundering, watery, skies.
"Death Ranger Power!" Camellia shouted slowly, with a devilish
grin at Shannon.
She held up a black cat's eyes pendant to her eye and morphed into the
Death Ranger. Her suit was the same as the Zeo Rangers', but completely
different. For one, her suit was completely black, no sign of another color
on it. The cat's eye she had morphed with, was still in the same exact
spot on her helmet.
"Dark Death Sword!" Camellia shouted giving out a evil laugh.
A laugh that had tormented Shannon for years.
A black sword with a golden cat's eye on the brim of the handle, appeared
in Camellia's hands.
"I can't fight you Camellia! I've done before, but that was different,
there was no choice. Now that I have a choice, it's no!"
"Well sister, then you have made a foolish mistake, so be prepared
to die at the hand of some one you loved!" Camellia shouted at her
heart torn sister.
Camellia raised the sword ready to slash and kill her own sister. *I hate
you Mother, for all the things you have done to me, Camellia, and Caroline*
Shannon thought to herself, thinking this was her destiny to die at the
hand of her sister. But after several seconds of Camellia's sword being
risen and ready to kill, Shannon opened her eyes.
She saw Tommy's sword blocking Camellia's, a few inches above her helmet.
Tommy yelled at Camellia with the most anguished voice Shannon had ever
heard come out of him, "How dare you TRY TO KILL your own sister and
my girlfriend!!!"
Suddenly a colorful rip opened up in front of the two fighting rangers,
releasing about two dozen cogs. Rocky caught first sight of them and bellowed
over at the other rangers, who were trying to take on Kiros, "YOU
GUYS WE'VE GOT A TINY PROBLEM!!"
"YOU CALL A HERD OF COGS A TINY PROBLEM?" Kat bellowed back at
Rocky. She had, too, noticed the cogs, but she shouldn't have. She was
fighting with Kiros, up close, and Kiros grabbed her arm and somersaulted
her.
The cogs started herding themselves over to the five rangers, but then
Shannon suddenly stood up and shouted, "It's time for twilight!"
and shot her sparkling attack at the cogs, disintegrating them.
"THANKS A LOT, SHANNON!!" She heard from Rocky and saw him give
her a thumbs-up sign and suddenly she blacked out. The horrible thing was
no one could tell because her helmet was on.
* * * * *
Tommy and Camellia were fighting away, while the others took on Kiros.
Suddenly Selene fell to the ground. Kat and Tanya tried reviving her, but
nothing worked. In all the chaos, Kiros managed to run out of the cave
and Tanya caught him. "YOU GUYS. KIROS JUST RAN OUT OF THE CAVE!!"
She bellowed over to the two guys, who caught it and started running out
of the cave.
The Pink Ranger and Yellow Ranger ran after the two, after not being able
to revive Selene. When they got outside with the other two, Kiros had stopped
running and was just standing there. "I WILL get my sweet revenge
on all of you wretched Guardian Rangers....and Zeo Rangers. Kiros, grow!"
Zesta shouted from the skies as a lighting bolt hit Kiros, making him grow
to the size of the rangers' zords.
"So that's what Kiros was up to," Rocky remarked after realizing
Kiros' growth spurt.
"What's so eerie about Zesta is, she's almost like Rita Repulsa,"
Adam admitted as he looked up at Kiros.
"I know what you mean, Adam," Kat said agreeing with the Green
Ranger, "I know what you mean....."
* * * * *
Inside the cave the battle raged on as Tommy and Camellia sword fought.
Tommy backed away dropping his star sword, letting Camellia think he was
giving up. Instead he ran, he punched, and he shouted in mid air, "Zeo
V Power Kick!" and knocked the Death Ranger off her feet.
Frustrated and getting up, she pointed her sword to the air and shouted,
"Death Demon Zord!" and Camellia ran out of the cave, with Tommy
tailing her.
When Tommy and Camellia got out into the humid desert, they both saw Kiros,
in large King Kong size, and a zord with red horns coming out of it's head,
covered in black armor. "You like?" Camellia said to Tommy, pointing
at the zord, just as she jetted to her zord.
Tommy ran over to the other Zeo Rangers. "Man, we need the Super Zeo
Mega Zord to take on the both of them!" Tanya blurted out.
"And you think we didn't notice," Rocky mumbled under his breath.
"We need Super Zeo Mega Zord Power, now!" The rangers shouted,
raising their hands to the sky and sending out an energy charge.
The zord dropped from the ocean sky as the five rangers jetted inside to
the cockpit of it. "You guys where's Shannon ?" Tommy asked the
rest of the crew.
"Last time I saw her she was sitting right near where you and Camellia
were fighting." Adam told his team captain. Since knowing Tommy as
the leader, he knew if someone didn't know where any ranger on the team
was, he'd go wacky.
"What does it matter to you. Wait it does matter to you. For if Artemis
is not in pure sight, you are weak!" A voice said coming from behind
all the rangers.
They turned around and saw Zesta right there. "You're not gonna get
away with this," Kat warned her.
"Oh really, Pink Ranger. And whose going to stop me? You?" Zesta
mocked her and as a wave of her hand she blasted all the rangers out of
the cockpit and took full control over the Super Zeo Mega Zord.
The rangers landed with a thunk' on to the dry ground. They got up to see
three creatures surrounding them. One was Kiros, the other was the Death
Demon Zord, and third was the Super Zeo Mega Zord being controlled by Zesta.
"Hey! Who turned all the lights out?" Rocky joked around during
the tense moment.
"This is no time to be joking around my blue friend," the Death
Ranger threatened from her zord.
"I wouldn't be your friend, even if you were the last person on Earth.
Wait let rephrase that. I wouldn't be your friend, even if you were the
last person on the Earth and evil. Now if you were good, that'd be another
subject...." Rocky shot back to her.
"Rocky!!! Get over here!" Adam shouted back at Rocky, who now
realized, he was standing alone and the other rangers were in a football
huddle conjuring up a plan not far away.
