The Rangers in full armor ran through the cavern to their exit – the 'water ceiling'. Trini told them to look up and they all saw what she did – Putties had jumped into the water above trying to get to them.
"Let's do this," Jason said to the others and they all jumped up into the water together. Working as a team they defeated the Putties in the water before shooting right out and landing onto the mountain above to find dozens of Putties waiting for them.
Jenna looked at Zack with a nod and he chuckled back, "Let's dance." Zack took Jenna's arm and spun her around before letting go. Once airborne, Jenna flipped before impacting into a group of Putties, shattering them. "Strike!" Jenna shouted out and on instinct she 'summoned' up a weapon. It was a silver handled spear with a white and red marked spearhead that glowed with an aura of blue energy.
Jenna used the weapon to slice through the Putties with ease and at one point drove the spearhead into the ground and used the handle to swing around and forcefully kick the Putties that had circled her. She heard Billy call out that this was so much better with armor and Jenna had to agree. Not just because it didn't hurt like hell anymore but because it meant they were working together as one…as a team.
It seemed like the Putties were never-ending. It reminded Jenna of that scene in Hercules where one head of the Hydra was chopped off and three more returned in its place. The others noticed the same thing.
"Guys, they just keep coming!" Jason called out as he sliced through the Putties with his red energy sword.
"There's too many of them!" Billy concurred because it felt like they were being over-taken by them.
"You guys hold them off!" Zack called out before whooping as he jumped back into the cavern's water below.
"Where's he going?!" Kimberly wanted to know. "They're going to push us off the edge and he bails?!"
"Ye of little faith," Jenna laughed as she fought and a few moments later, Zack returned with his Zord, crushing all the Putties he landed upon and fired the Zord's weapons at the others until they were all destroyed.
Jenna let out a whooping laugh when Zack got out of the Zord and ran to hug him. Zack spun her around happily as he did before setting her on her feet, saying, "I'd kiss you right now but I think your brother would punch me again."
"Damn right," Jason chuckled before shaking Zack's hand. "You hurt her, I'll kill you. After we deal with Rita."
"On that note," Billy said to the group as the face of his mask dissipated, "we're too late."
The other Rangers dissipated their masks as well and joined Billy near the edge of the cliff to see a walking, winged, gold giant walking off in the distance. "Goldar, I presume."
"That's a lot of gold," Zack stated in awe.
"We're going to protect the Crystal, right?" Trini wanted to be damn sure about that.
"Damn right," Jenna concurred.
"We're going to Angel Grove," Kimberly interjected. "Let's go get the Zords."
Jenna took a deep breath as she sat in the White T-Rex Zord. This was mildly terrifying for her and she wasn't sure how it was going to work out on her end.
Jason just knew what she was feeling and assured her, "You got this, Jen."
"And if you don't," Zack added in, "we've got you, Wheels."
Jenna chuckled lightly before muttering, "I'm so glad I'm not claustrophobic." She sat down in the seat and felt like she was in the Millennium Falcon or something. Before Jenna could even begin to attempt to figure out what to do, a…wire or something shot out from the back of the seat and connected to her armor before pulling her back. Jenna let out a bit of an 'oomph' at that then caught the pair of controllers that went straight into her hands.
"Holy sh—" Jenna began to say but Billy called out, "Language!" so she changed it to, "Holy shhh…talking mushrooms!"
"It's shitake," the rest of the Rangers corrected.
Jenna rolled her eyes, muttering, "Bite me."
Any response to that was cut off when Alpha 5 waved his arms towards the exit, shouting, "Go go, Power Rangers!"
Jason looked over towards his sister, pleading, "Don't do it!"
Jenna ignored him with a grin and instantly started to sing, "Wake me up before you," then cheered out, "Go-Go Power Rangers!"
Jason shook his head with a chuckle, "And she did it."
Zack thought it was awesome and grinned, "Damn right."
By the time the reached Angel Grove, Rita and Goldar were already tearing the place apart. Goldar was pounding into buildings, causing fires and smoke to waft thickly into the air. Citizens were running through the streets, screaming for their lives.
Kimberly flew overhead in her Pink Pterodactyl Zord and informed the others, "Rita and her Golden-Boy haven't found Krispy Kreme yet."
"Alright, Kim, Trini," Jason replied, "you hold them there. "Zack, Billy, you circle the Krispy Kreme and make sure it's safe. I'm headed straight for Goldar. You with me, Jen?"
"Hell, yeah," Jenna replied, more than determined to get a little payback against Rita for the whole dying thing.
It seemed Rita wasn't going to make things easy for them because she conjured up a hell of a lot more Putties. Jenna had an idea as she and Jason took their Zords down the Puttie filled street. "No one better make a joke about this!" Jenna whipped her Zord around and used its tail to sweep across the street, destroying the Putties in her path while Kimberly flew by and helped Jason with his.
Kimberly flew around and saw Rita entering the Krispy Kreme. "Dammit. Guys, she just found the Crystal."
"Let's move!" Jenna and Jason called out in unison then laughed because that was something they hadn't done since they were kids.
"Jason, you take him from the right, I'll get the left," Jenna planned aloud and Trini added in, "And I'm right behind you!"
When Jenna had her Zord leap on Goldar with the others, she let out a whoop. "Think we'll last the eight seconds?" Jenna joked before getting right back to business.
Goldar hit and swung at the Zords before finally getting them all of him, sending the Zords flying. Jenna screamed a bit on impact because it sent flashes of the past accidents into her mind. "I thought I was over this!" Jenna cried out, trying to find her breath.
"You got this, Wheels!" she heard Zack say and he repeated. "You got this."
Jenna got the Zord back to its feet and saw a vehicle flip over in the distance. It was a vehicle she was very familiar with. "Jason is that…"
"Dad," Jason finished for her as he walked his Zord up next to hers. They looked at each other and silently agreed. Their masks returned in place before they both left their Zords and ran like hell to get to their father.
Putties got in their way but they fought them off together before finally being able to get the rest of the way to the upside-down, burning vehicle. Jason ripped off the door and with Jenna at his side, they crouched down to look at him. Jenna held out her hand saying, "Take my hand."
But Mr Scott only kept screaming out for help, trying to get away from them.
Jason used their father's name to get his attention, "Sam, look at us." He placed his hand on Jenna's shoulder. "It's okay, you can trust us. Take her hand."
Mr Scott looked between them and felt like he could trust them, so he did. He placed his hand in the White Ranger's and let them help him out of the car.
Jenna and Jason helped their father get as far away as they could before setting him down. Mr Scott looked up at them. "We're okay. I'm okay. Go."
Jenna wanted to tell her father right then and there who they were but knew they couldn't. Maybe it was for the best that he didn't know. When she heard Billy calling out for their help, she and Jason ran back for their Zords.
"He's gonna be okay," Jason said to his sister, hoping she'd be able to handle it.
"I never want anyone in our family to drive a car ever again," Jenna replied as she leaped up into the Zord's seat.
Jason said, "Good luck with that," as he did the same.
Kimberly's Zord picked up Billy's and threw him straight through Goldar and into Rita as an energy pulse radiated out of the Zord.
Rita was thrown back down the street and when she tried to stand, she collapsed onto the ground. Goldar fell backwards, crashing into a building soon after. The Putties followed, disintegrating where they stood.
"Are you okay, Billy? Is everyone okay?" Zack wanted to make sure everyone was.
"All good," was the general consensus, so Zack said to Billy, "That was crazy brave, dude."
"Did we do it?" Kimberly asked as she flew overhead. "Did we win?"
"Is it weird if I say that it was too easy?" Jenna wanted to know and Jason was the one who answered.
"No, it's not," he replied, not liking what he was seeing because Rita and Goldar were both back on their feet. "She's back."
Goldar smashed into the ground several times and the heated debris impacted the Zords. The Rangers realized Goldar had just about dug up the Crystal and they couldn't let that happen.
"Let's go!" Jason and Jenna said in unison as they took off with their Zords to protect the Crystal. Each of them stood in front of the crater to keep the approaching Goldar away from the Crystal's crater.
Jason addressed the group. "Okay, everyone. Hold the line."
Rita walked between Goldar's leg, fuming at the current turn of events, and shouted out, "Crush them!"
"Fire!" Jenna called out a second before Jason could. Jenna and the other Rangers fired at Goldar with a hell of a lot of what their Zords had.
Goldar smashed them one by one and knocked Jason's Zord to the ground. "Jason!" Jenna cried out and lunged at Goldar with her Zord. She latched onto Goldar's arm with her Zord's mouth and let out as much fire power as she could.
Goldar retaliated by conjuring up a ball of molten gold and smashing it onto the White Zord's head.
Jenna cried out from the instant heat and lost her grip on Goldar. Her Zord fell back onto the ground where she previously stood and tried to breathe. "I officially hate gold!"
Kimberly came to their aid but Goldar did the same to her Zord as it did to Jenna's then smashed it and bent it up like a piece of origami. Goldar gripped onto the lined up Zords and pushed them back into the crater behind them.
Everyone was calling out that they were slipping and to hold the line and things of the such. But the heat was getting too much for all of them – they weren't sure how much longer they could hold out.
"No one dies alone," Jason said to the group and Billy replied with, "I'm okay with that."
Jenna looked through her window over to her brother beside her. When he turned to look at her as well she remembered something they swore when they were kids. That memory flashed in her mind and she let out a breath before saying, "Born together…"
Jason, who was thinking about the exact same thing, finished what she started. "Die together."
Jenna turned to see Zack on the other side of her and he weakly lifted his head to look back. "You got this, Wheels," he weakly said to her. "You got this." Before Jenna could say anything, Zack's head dropped in unconsciousness.
"Zack!" Jenna called out. "Don't you dare get even with me for dying! Wake up! Zack, stay with me!" This couldn't be happening, she couldn't let him go. Jenna screamed as she tried all the harder to hold the line but Goldar kept pushing them back further and further into the molten hot crater.
"Thank you for being my friends," Billy had to say that before they all fell to their deaths.
Jenna had something to say to them all as well. "Thank you for helping me feel alive again."
"Hold onto each other," Kimberly called out just before Goldar pushed them all over the edge and into the fiery pit.
The Power Rangers screamed and cried out as they fell to what they believed was their fiery deaths, but something happened – the Zords started changing. Their shape changed and they moved to one another –they connected with one another. When Jenna realized what was happening she let out a 'whoop!' because they weren't done fighting yet. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Power Rangers in their all-in-one Zord rose from the fiery pit.
The Zord wasn't different dinosaurs any longer – it stood tall as a bi-pedal Zord with a head, arms, and hands to boot. "We just had a Transformers moment, didn't we?" Jenna asked, looking at her brother who was now sitting right beside her.
"Way better than Bumblebee," Jason concurred, even more ready to take Rita down.
As far as Rita went, she stood on the ground and looked up bewildered at the sight. Not once in a million – or sixty-five million years – would she have thought this would ever happen.
"Zack, you alive…wherever you are?" Jenna had to know, she had to hear his voice.
Zack chuckled weakly. "You can't get rid of me that easily, Wheels."
"Guys, we're alive!" Billy cheered out. "We're alive and we're like one – one big Zord. Like a mama Zord. No, no, no. That sounds lame. Like – like a Megazord!"
Rita, suffice to say was pissed, so she stepped onto Goldar's hand and when brought to its chest, absorbed into it. Rita and Goldar became one to take on the Rangers' Megazord.
The Rangers pretty all said various forms of 'oh shit' before Jason said. "Let's go!" They tried to move the Zord forward but…tripped. Jenna thought it was too funny to even scream – she ended up laughing again.
Jason looked at her like she was nuts and that made Jenna said, "Oh, come on, it's funny."
Okay, Jason had to admit that so he gave her a bit of a grin before saying, "I think Kimberly needs to move our legs."
"I got an arm," Kimberly corrected and Trini added in that she was the other arm.
"I'm a leg," Zack informed the other and Billy thought that was so cool because he was a leg, too.
"We have to move together," Jason and Jenna said in unison – their Ranger-Twin bond clearly growing.
"It's like they have one mind now," Trini muttered before saying, "I'll help lift us up."
Jason and Jenna looked at each other with grins because in a way, Trini was right but they didn't bring it up yet. What didn't they bring up? – they were started to hear directed thoughts to each other. Of course, there was no time to discuss that now so they just said aloud together, "On the count of three. One, two, three!"
The Megazord and Goldar ran to each other and essentially had a boxing match before Billy said, "Oh, I wish I could punch!" and kicked Goldar back instead.
Goldar got its footing back and turned one of its arms into a golden sword.
"Hey, Wonder Twins," Zack said to Jason and Jenna. "We got anything for that?"
The twins looked at each other, quacking exchanging thoughts, before Jason said, "Yeah, remember the Pit?"
Zack and the others quickly got what he was saying. "Oh, yeah."
"Man, I hate the Pit," Billy stated, but was down for it anyway.
"Ready?" Jenna asked the group and once they were, they used Alpha's lesson. Moving all together they stepped the Megazord to the side, grabbed Goldar from the back, and fell back on bent knees smashing Goldar's head into the ground.
Once the Megazord was back on its feet, Jason said, "Kim, Trini, pull back on the arms." Jenna finished his thought from there with a pleased smirk on her face, "We've got swords."
Trini and Kimberly removed the swords from the back of the Megazord and drove them right though Goldar's chest, piercing the ground below.
Jenna winced a bit at that, thinking aloud, "We're not expected to cover all this property damage, are we?"
Zack laughed, "Hopefully they have insurance!"
All attention was turned to Rita when she exited Goldar, screaming, "Wait!" She took deep breaths before addressing the Rangers again. "You think you've won? I came for the Crystal. Others will come! What you have, it can't last! You know I'm right!"
Jason and Jenna looked at each other and allowed their thoughts to become one before speaking in unison. Their voices boomed down to Rita below. "We don't know. But for now, we need you to give your staff and your Coin to us. And we'll take you to Zordon and let him be the judge."
Rita gripped her staff and tilted her head to the side, her fury building up within. "Zordon? Judge me? Never! No matter what Zordon says, I know I am worthy!" Rita used her staff to project herself into the air, lunging for the Megazord. She screamed in fury with the intent to kill them all, but she didn't even get the chance.
"Trini, now!" Jason called out and Trini swung the Megazord's hand, hitting Rita so hard that she flew off into the outer atmosphere of the planet before entering the space beyond.
This reminded Billy of his first detention with Jason. "Jason, did you just slap her?"
"I did," Jason replied with a smile, and Jenna added in with a smile of her own, "Weird, right?"
The Rangers all laughed with relief because it was over – Rita was gone for good. Billy kept going on about the bully in detention and how Trini, Kim, and Zack wouldn't get it, but finally stopped to say, "I got it, buddy." This made them laugh all the more.
Zack looked up, even though he couldn't see Jenna, and said, "Hey, Wheels. Now that we've saved the world, think we can finally go out on that date?"
"You guys haven't gone on a date yet?" Kimberly laughed, thinking they already had.
"Name one second where we've had the time?" With Jenna's point made, she said to Zack, "I'd love to."
"Hate to interrupt, but I think we're drawing a crowd here," Trini interjected since a whole bunch of people were down below with their cameras out, taking pictures.
Because of this, Zack said in an 'I told you so' manner, "I said we'd be famous."
Jason looked at Jenna and just knew what she was dying to say, "Go ahead."
Jenna just about bounced in her seat happily before shouting out, "Wake me up before you…" and the rest of the Rangers joined in when she shouted, "Go-Go Power Rangers!"
Jenna and Jason returned to the Ship in their armor and placed their weapons in the holders where they stand around the Grid.
"You should keep them," Zordon said to the twins. "You've earned them."
Jason and Jenna answered in unison, "We'll be back for them," before taking their leave, waving goodbye as they went.
"They did it!" Alpha cheered once they were gone. "The Twin-Rangers are back!"
Zordon sounded proud when he said, "Yes, Alpha. Yes they are."
When Jenna left the Ship, she split off from Jason and went to Zack's place. She knocked on the door and held up two pizzas in her hands. "Can you believe in all the rubble, Dominoes still stood untouched. That place is going to make a killing."
Zack chuckled and let Jenna come inside. They both went into his mother's room and she smiled at the sight of them.
"Hello, Jenna! I was just telling Zack about the six warriors who saved Angel Grove." Zack's mother patted the chair beside her as Zack took his place on her bed to get on with their chess game.
"Six warriors, huh?" Jenna sounded impressed and Zack asked, "Where they good looking?"
His mother didn't answer and just move a chess piece before knocking down his King. "Checkmate." She held her hand up to Jenna for a high-five, which was received, then mussed up her son's hair. "You go, now. Have fun. Leave the pizza with me."
Jenna placed one of the pizzas on the end table before saying goodbye adding in, "You've got to teach me how to play chess so I can kick his butt, too."
"Oh, no you don't," Zack said to his mother before kissing her head goodbye. "I need to win against someone."
Zack's mom smiled at Jenna, mouthing 'Next time'. Jenna winked in reply before taking Zack's hand, heading out to meet up with the others at Billy's house.
If only the school could have been destroyed, but nope, it was back in session and there were a couple new faces – Zack and Trini. Detention wasn't going to be so bad after all anymore, nor was school for that matter, at least for Jenna. The classes rotated and she wasn't alone in them anymore – her fellow Rangers were in them as well. Even Zack started showing up again.
Jenna looked to the teacher at front who asked for attention in detention. He went through the list of names and for attendance but when he reached 'Tommy Oliver' there was no one there to answer by that name. There was, however, a green hoodie draped over a chair in the corner. Who knows, maybe it belonged to them?
Jenna didn't put too much thought into that because she heard Jason's voice in her head, saying "Catch!" so she shot up her hand to catch the paper football her threw at her. Jenna opened it up and showed it to Zack who was sitting beside her. It was a 3-D shaped lightning bolt with all their Ranger colors colored into it with Kimberly's handwriting having written on the top 'Wake me up before you…' and below the bolt, 'Go-Go Power Rangers!'
Zordon closed his eyes as he thought of his sister, Zanara. She was long dead but he often thought of her and mentally spoke to her the way they could when she was alive. This time he sent out to her, "This Ranger Team did what ours could not. They will humbly walk amongst their peers but heroes they all will be. Each of their names will be etched alongside the great Ranger teams before them. I will always owe a debt of gratitude to them all," hoping that perhaps there was some way she could hear him...
Elsewhere a teenage girl wearing a purple bandana on her head gasped awake from a nap in the backseat of her mother's car as it drove down the highway.
"Are you alright, sweetie?" her mother asked from the front seat.
The teenager pulled a Purple crystal thing from her backpack and looked at her. It was something that her father sent to her from one of his digs. His boss said it wasn't valuable so he could keep it, and thus sent to it to her.
She closed her hand around the now glowing and vibrating Purple Coin and replied, "Yeah, mom. I'm fine." While she slipped it into her pocket she asked, "How much longer till we get to Angel Grove?"
Her mother took a quick look at the clock. "A couple more hours." She then looked at her daughter in the rearview mirror and smiled. "Don't worry, Zara. You got this."
THE END