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Episode 9: Mean And Green PT2

As the hurricane like wind calmed to a gentle breeze, the loud roar that was once making the rangers go deaf disappeared, along with the ground stabilizing itself, the Rangers slowly stood back up, Alex and Nico getting help by Nick and Sonny, and stared at the entrance of the cave.

"Hahaha it's all over now powers rangers." Goldar laughed getting their attention. Goldar turned his smirk away from the cave to the rangers as majority of them braced themselves for battle whilst Nick gestured Alex to the back of the rangers for protection, all of them noticing the struggle it was for her. Every time she took a step, it look like she was about to collapse. "Goodbye power rangers we will not meet again."

Before the rangers had a chance to stop him from escaping, Goldar glowed gold and leapt from the ground, flying up towards the sky as a gold ball, returning back to the palace, his sword disappearing from the ground along with him.

"Great now what?" Justin asked, stomping his foot in the ground in frustration. The other rangers stared at one another before turning their gaze to Nick, seeing he was focusing all his attention at the cave. The rangers knew what that meant; it meant Nick was thinking of a battle strategy.

Nick turned his gaze away from the cave and placed it on the rangers, staring at them through his mask. He knew they were all waiting for his order to go in and take out the Green Ranger before he became a threat, but if he's as strong as Zordon, Alpha and Goldar claimed him or her to be then they would surely lose. What really got the Red Ranger wondering was if it's okay to retreat to the command centre and fight another day, a day they actually had a chance, or should they stay and fight now and hope the Green Ranger wasn't as strong as everyone said he or she is. He had to choose now before it's too late and whatever he did choose he had to stick with it. No, there was no choice.

"We're retreating." Nick proclaimed, shocking the rangers. Nick was never known to run from a fight, nor was he known to run off when the world was in danger, so this was pretty new to the rangers.

"What, we have to stay!" Justin cried as he made his way to the Red Ranger. "We can't let him escape and cause trouble in the city."

"Justin none of us are in any condition to fight." Nick retorted. "We can't defeat him like this."

"But there's five of us and only one of him." To say Nick was frustrated and annoyed with Justin was an understatement. All he wanted to do was bat the boy over the head and drag him to the Command Centre. But he managed to reframe himself with little help from the green clad warrior that emerged out of the cave.

"Just great." Nick sighed as the Green Ranger walked into the light so the others could see him. The other rangers stared at him, taking notice of the golden shield with a diamond shape design and the gold bands on each arm and on the ends of his gloves and boots, which bore sharp triangles instead of diamonds, but other than that he was just wearing a green version of their uniforms with a more impressive looking, dragon shaped helmet.

"That's the Green Ranger?" Sonny asked, looking dumbstruck, her body tensing at the sight of the Green Ranger.

"And he's wearing tights too." Whatever dumbfounded, terrified or shock facial expression the rangers had instantly disappeared as they turned their heads around and gave Alex their undivided attention, giving her looks saying 'are you kidding me' behind their helmets.

"Oh really what did you expect, a bathing suit?" Justin asked, irritated at his younger sibling's lack of seriousness.

"Well... He's meant to be all that and he's not." Alex commented, not at all intimated by the green warrior. "Come on he's wearing spandex and shoulder pads, when were either one of those in fashion?"

The Green Ranger stared at the other five rangers with little interest as they bickered. Reaching down to his holster and grabbing what appeared to be a black and green dagger emblazoned with the dragon symbol on the hilt, he pulled it out and brought it up to shoulder length, showing off the black and gold flute mix in with the dagger, clearly seen through the transparent metal blade encasing it.

Green energy started to form around the dagger, it's transparent blade turning into a dark shade of green as the young warrior prepare to attack. He raised his dagger over his head, a bit shocked that only the Red Ranger was paying any attention to him. "There are rules when fighting."

"MOVE!" Nick yelled as the Green Ranger swung his arm to the side, releasing a blast of green energy towards the distracted rangers. Moving quickly, Nick pushed Nico and Sonny out of the way while continuing his sprint towards Alex. Once in arms reach he wrapped his arms around her as the green energy blast rammed into his back throwing him forward, along with Alex. The two screamed, Nick because of the sudden impact and agonizing pain while Alex screamed about being airborne.

Groaning at the pain, Nick opened one of his eyes, seeing he and Alex were mere moments away from hitting the rocky ground below them. Thinking fast Nick twist their bodies around so Alex was on top of him as they landed on the jagged landscape. Grunting in displeasure as his back landed on a rather pointed rock that was sticking out of the ground, Nick yelled out in pain, flashing red, reverting back to normal as Alex landed on his chest, putting more pressure on his back.

"NICK! ALEX!" Nico yelled, turning back to his friends, panicking about their well being. Being distracted, Nico had just barely enough time to dodge another blast from the Green Ranger's dagger, swaying to the side then spinning on his heel to face the green clad warrior, watching him walk towards him as if he was just taking a walk in the park rather than a battle field.

"Rule number one, when fighting, never let your guard down." Nico shivered a bit at the cold, emotionless voice of the Green Ranger. Nico glared at the green warrior, readying his axe, about to spring into action, which he would have if he wasn't startled by the battle cry of the Blue Ranger charging towards the antihero.

Justin swung his lance down as hard and fast as he could manage, smiling smugly at the Green Ranger, thinking he had frozen in fear since he hadn't even made a single move, not even lifting a finger. Yawning, Max raised his freed hand, simply catching the lance and stopping Justin's attack with ease while holding the Blue Ranger in place as Justin pushed down on his weapon, his face going red underneath the helmet from the effort.

Nico stood there simply amazed at how the Green Ranger was able to out muscle Justin with a single hand, not moving an inch even with the Blue Ranger placing all of his strength and weight into his attack. What was even more shocking was that the Green Ranger not only kicked Justin a good few metres away, shifting his lance as the Blue Ranger let go, but also how little effort he put into his attack.

"Second rule, never drop your weapon."Max said as he walked up to Justin. Bring the Blue Ranger's lance over his shoulder, Max swung the weapon down, not bothering to hold back as he used the blades at the end of Justin's lance to slash at the blue Ranger chest. In one swift, painful moment, Justin cried out in pain before demorphing and falling into a deep sleep.

Hearing the rushing of footsteps, Max twirled around on the balls of his feet and brought up his left hand, that still held the power lance, and easily stopped the black axe in its spot. Coming to see the axe wielder, Max narrowed his glowing green eyes at his opponent. Any kindness that Max had left disappeared, being replaced by pure rage, something he was sure the black ranger felt as Nico took a hesitant step backwards.

Pushing the axe a side with the lance, Max sprang forward, sailing towards the black ranger to engage him in combat, no longer playing around. Max lashed out with his right arm as he passed the black ranger side, stopping a few feet away and posing as the Black Ranger slowly descended to the ground. Before that though, before the Black Ranger even made half way down, a green glow came to life, forming a line from his hip to his shoulder blade where the dagger had struck, blasting him backwards before falling into the jagged terrain before demorphing like the others.

Without warning, not giving him time to regain his breath, not that he needed it, a pink energy bow flew straight at him, hitting him square in the back, right into his golden shield, forcing him to stumble forward from the impact. If he wasn't mad before he was now. He was really getting annoyed with the cheap shots aimed for his back and he would be damned if he was just going to stand there and take it. He would get payback on whoever angered him.

Snapping around, the Green Ranger made tracks as he stormed over to the Pink Ranger, dagger and lance in hand in hand ready to strike down the pink hero. A primal battle cry made the Pink Ranger cover her ears, not able to take the Green Ranger's roar.

Fear overwhelming her, Sonny stood up, raised her bow and fired arrow after arrow after arrow at the Green Ranger, watching them soar through the wind and fly above the ground in a straight line, closing the gap in-between her and the ticked off Green Ranger. Her once smiling face turned into one of dread as she watch in disbelief as the green warrior either dodged or batted away the arrows with the power lance.

Seeing the Pink Ranger prepare another one, Max acted quick on his feet and threw the power lance like a javelin with all the strength he good muster, his attention focusing purely on Sonny, watching her every move, as if he'd all ready predicted her next move and waiting for an opening.

Seeing the blue lance Sonny changed her mark, pulling the string back and releasing the pink arrow, letting it collide with the Blue Ranger's weapon of choice and watched Justin's weapon being reflected by her pink arrow that disappeared once its job was taken care of, before flashing blue, returning to where ever it had came from. This however was a mistake, a mistake she'd pay the price for.

As Sonny looked back to the Green Ranger she gasped and leapt backwards, pulling on the string and preparing another arrow, only to have her weapon forcibly thrown out of her hands as the green, black and gold dagger flute sliced against her hand, letting it drop and disappear out of sight in a pink flash of light, leaving its master to defend for herself.

"Rule three, actually learn how to fight." Max stated right in front of the Pink Ranger before blasting her away with his dagger, smirking again as she demorphed.

Alex slowly got off of Nick's chest, shaking her head clear, having seen stars that she knew shouldn't be there and stared down at the brunette below her. "NICK!" She cried, somehow not gaining the attention of the Green Ranger. Checking he still had a pulse and any major injuries, Alex took her attention away from the troubled look on Nick's face and quickly scanned the area, fear coursing through her as she stared at the scene before her. Nico, Justin and Sonny down for the count and the still standing, perfectly fine Green Ranger, who at that moment was hovering over the unconscious body of one of her best friends.

With great effort and stumbling, Alex stood back up, her feeling of fear fading away, being replaced by pure anger, her determination and anger the only thing filling her to continue standing. Reaching for her morpher, Alex thrust it forward and in a blinding display of yellow light that finally got the attention of the Green Ranger, screamed at the top of her lungs. "SABRE-TOOTH TIGER!"

Max stared with bored eyes as he watched the struggling girl. Just from the way that she stood he knew there was no battle, that she was lucky to be standing, but none the less Alex managed to draw on her strength and resummon her weapons. "I don't care who you are, no one can pick on my friends but me!"

With a simple shake of the head and long winded sigh, Max raised his dagger up to his shoulder again, this time green lightning dancing around his blade as he stated. "There's one more rule." Alex watched with curious eyes at the attack that was building up along the tip of the Green Ranger blade. "And that is KNOW WHEN TO GIVE UP!" He yelled releasing the built up electricity, pointing his dagger in the direction of Alex.

The green lightning race away from the Green Ranger's dagger, closing the gap between the two warriors and hitting Alex square in the chest with great force, sending her flying back while at the same time shocking her very being. As Alex landed, she continue to roll on the jagged terrain before coming to a halt on her stomach before flashing a bright yellow right reverting back to normal.

Alex tried to push herself up again, clenching her teeth together as she placed all of her remaining strength into her hands. Her attempts failed after one more push before collapsing to the ground.

Max walked over to the downed Yellow Ranger, still holding his dagger in his hand. Stopping a foot away, Max placed his foot underneath Alex' shoulder before lifting her up slightly, raising her high enough so she'd fall onto her back, wanting to see the look on her face when he stole her life away. Kneeling down, Max raised his finger and remove the strains of hair that was covering her face while his other hand readied for the kill the second he saw the fear in her eyes. Removing the last strand away Max moved his other hand down for the kill, aiming for her throat, but strangely enough for Alex, as the Green Ranger stared into her brown orbs his hand suddenly froze only mere inches away from her throat.

WHAT!' Max's hands started to shake furiously as his face paled behind the mask at the sight of his sister, his green eyes reverting back to their usual brown. He snapped his head around to stare at the other injured rangers, not having paid enough attention to their faces when they demorphed.

Seeing the faces of Nick, Nico, Sonny and Justin, he turned back to Alex as tears started to build up in his eyes. He hadn't a clue that his siblings and friends were the power rangers, but it did make a lot of sense, like how they just dropped off the face of the Earth whenever there was a monster attack.

Before he could say anything, Max' eyes started to flash green, reverting back to normal before going back to green. This went on for a while. With one last screamed Max disappeared in a green light leaving a confused Alex behind.

"Well... that was weird." Alex said, turning her gaze upwards to the cloudless blue sky.

ZZZ

"Good the Green Ranger is a success." Rita smirk as she sat in her chair, smiling triumphantly how one of her plans had finally been completed as she watched the Green Ranger through a crystal ball she had sitting in her lap while he trained in the dark dimension.

"But my Queen, the Green Ranger was a waste of time, he couldn't even kill the rangers when they were in their weaken states." Goldar said, sitting on a chair while Finster worked on his bloody leg.

"Yes he didn't destroy them, that's because my spell hasn't taken full effect yet, and combine that with the boy's will power, I expected that would happen." Rita replied uncaringly. "Besides it still good, the rangers now know what they're up against and maybe now they'll be destroy."

"Not if he cries again." Squat replied before being slapped in the back of the head by Baboo.

"Shut up you numskull, do you have a death wish?" Baboo asked the obese monster. The two blue creatures then turned their gaze over to the old witch, shivering at the glare Rita gave the pair of them from the corner of her eyes.

"Mark my words, the rangers shall fall by the Green Ranger's hands, all we have to do is wait until the spell fully takes effect." Rita replied venomously with a roll of her eyes, returning her eyes to her Green Ranger and observing his training.

ZZZ

After teleporting to the Command Centre, the rangers lounged around, either sitting in silence or groaning at the butt whipping they just received, all sitting on the floor with their backs pressed against the control panels. None of them had any serious wounds, only a few scratches and bruises, but from how the five looked, they were obviously out for the rest of the day.

"Okay, I haven't felt this bad since that time when your father tripped over the mop and fell on me, and he's not a light weight." Sonny commented to the Russo children, rubbing her right arm.

"Yeah he kicked our butts good." Nico agreed, groaning at the pain in his left shoulder. "And that's an understatement."

"We got it guys, he won, but only by luck, next time he's going down." Justin replied cockily, springing up to his full height with confidents, staring up to the ceiling proudly. Alex rolled her eyes at her brother in annoyance, she swore he must have the biggest ego the world had ever seen.

Meanwhile, Zordon had been keeping a watchful eye on the rangers ever since they went out to battle. He had a feeling that the Green Ranger would awaken the second he sensed the dragon spirit's presence and he knew his children would get into trouble. How much trouble he was unsure of. He knew the Green Ranger will be one of the strongest and most difficult opponents they would ever have to face, but even he didn't know how truly powerful the young warrior was and he had proven to be at Nick's level.

"Justin, you shouldn't underestimate your opponents, especially this one." Zordon said, getting the attention of the power rangers. "You'll won't be able to defeat him alone."

"You shouldn't worry Zordon, he only won because of a lucky shot and let's not forget I was already tired out from facing all of those Putties beforehand." Justin replied smugly.

"Listen Justin, and this goes for the rest of you as well, you should never underestimate your opponent's abilities, for the second that you do you have already lost the battle." Alpha was quite amused as he watch majority of the rangers nod their heads in understanding to what Zordon had said, looking like children other being told off by their parents. "If you underestimate someone you will get cocky, uncaring and uninterested. If you do this they will surprise you, using your cockiness and uncaring nature to their advantage and their skill, smarts and power will go far beyond that you had first expected."

"Zordon." Nick spoke up after a few seconds of silence. "Can you tell us more about the Green Ranger?"

"Yeah like why it was split in two and half of it sealed away in the cave?" Sonny asked, turning her attention to the floating head.

"And who's in the suit?" Alex asked.

"Very well." Zordon said, starting to think where he should begin. "Over ten thousand years ago when me and Alpha had first found them, my brothers and sisters and I drew upon the power within the eight coins..."

"Eight coins?" Alex asked interrupting Zordon story. "I thought there were only six?"

"Yeah Zordon if theirs eight coins, where are the other two?" Nico asked, looking up questionably at the float blue head.

"I will get to them in a moment while I'm telling you the coins' story."

"Yeah about that how long is this story cause I've got places to go, people to see, magazines to read." Alex spoke up, almost laughing at the irritated look on Zordon face.

"We used the coins' powers to face off the forces of Darkness, either destroying them or repelling them back into the dark reaches of the universe. As we finally managed to force Master Vile out of this universe, tragedy struck. After the battle many lost their lives, including my brothers and sisters. I was all that remained of the power rangers." The Command Centre was silent for a moment, the rangers watching with sad eyes as their mentor grieved a little.

"The powers coins were known as the most powerful items in those times and three of them outweighed the others."

"Let me guess the Green Ranger coin and the other two?" Nico asked, getting a nod in response from Zordon.

"Everyone was after them, good and evil, so in an attempt to protect them I did everything I could and split the Dragon coin in two and sealed half of it in the cave, making it so no one could access the power of the coin. Once when the Dragon's chosen one is near both of the coin's halves could it be restored."

"And what about the other two?" Justin asked, with his arm over his chest supporting his right arm that was up to his chin.

"My coin is trapped with me, lost in time forever." Zordon answered. "The second coin is well protected, no one other than me and Alpha know the whereabouts of where it's hidden and even if Rita did find it she will never receive it."

"As for the identity of the Green Ranger, we are unsure." Alpha spoke up from his place behind the Rangers. "Our scanners didn't pick up on Rita or any of her monsters' signatures, nor do we have a missing report. It could be anyone."

"So what do we do now?" Sonny asked, her eyes shifting from one person to next, hoping someone had a plan.

"Return home for now and rest peacefully, Rita will not attack tonight and as for tomorrow we do not know." Zordon answered getting a few hesitant nods. It was plainly obvious none of the rangers wanted to return home, nor will they get any sleep and all because of the Green Ranger. But none the less, they followed Zordon's orders and teleported out in hope they could get at least a little rest.

ZZZ

It had been two days since the rangers had fought against the Green Ranger and lost. They were all grateful and worried that the Green Ranger hadn't made a second appearance just yet, taking up some well needed R&R. They couldn't shake the fear away though, afraid of what's going through Rita's sick and twisted mind. None the less, the rangers continued on with their lives, trying not to pay any attention to the nagging voice in the back of their minds.

Sonny was no exception; she was constantly plagued with those thoughts. As she threw in a few of her books into her locker, she rubbed her tired eyes with her free hand, her fear and worry continuing to consume her. She was so lost in thought she never noticed the arrival of the other four rangers, each one looking as bad as she did.

"Hey Sonny, rough night?" Nick asked, placing his arm up onto the closed locker beside Sonny and leaned against it, shocking the brunette out her thoughts.

"Yeah, I can't stop worrying about the Green Ranger." Sonny replied, sighing in displeasure as she closed her locker door and turned to the rest of the sleep deprived teenagers, taking a step back and slamming her back against her locker in shock. "Wow, apparently I'm not the only one."

"Well the Green Ranger did kick our butts with ease." Nico yawned, stretching his arms before letting them drop to his sides.

"And to make it worst, we only got a small taste of his true power." Nick replied, lowering his head as he thought of the battle.

"It's feels so weird fighting another ranger, I feel like I'm fighting one of us." Sonny said, fiddling around with her bag.

"At least he wears humiliating tights too, he just added a little bling to it." Alex joked, trying to lighten up the mood a little, smiling at the others as they each gave her a sadden look, bringing her mood down as well.

"So what are we going to do?" Nico asked no in particular.

"What we always do, win." Justin told them, getting the four attentions. "There's only one of him and five of us and surely we only need two of us to defeat him. It should be a piece of cake."

"Justin, remember what Zordon said, you should never underestimate your opponent." Nick reminded them, turning his attention upwards and gave each of them a quick look as he said. "Listen guys we have to prepare ourselves, we only made it through round one, of what's about to be a major battle, we can't let our guard down for a second and act like a team. We can't fool around on the frontlines anymore."

"Right." The other four rangers replied, nodding their heads in agreement. Before anyone else could say another word the school bell rang though out the halls, only getting louder with each passing second as it echoed off the walls, alarming children it's time for class.

"Well we better get to class, come on Alex, we got science." Sonny said giving the brunette a sad smile as she began to walk off, only stopping once noticing the other brunette wasn't following.

"I have a science class?" Alex asked confusedly. Sonny gave out a small laughed as she went back, grabbed her friend hand and dragged her along.

"Hope you have fun on that excursion Nick." Sonny called back as she and Alex turned the corner.

"Well, we be better head off too." Justin said making his way off to class.

"Yeah, see you later Nick." Nick waved the boys off as they went up the stairs to the second floor. Waving his goodbye he wasn't aware of the brunette that walked up behind with him love struck eyes, her smile beaming at the brunette.

"Hey Nick." Nick snapped into action as he span around on his heel, gasping in shock as he saw the familiar brunette.

"Hey Macy."Nick replied, watching her cautiously, not wanting his last experience of almost becoming a shish cabob with the hyper girl be the same as this time, thankful she didn't seem to have any pointy objects in her hands.

"You ready to go on our field trip?" She asked as she went by his side and started to drag him out front, her smile never leaving her face.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be ready to go to Mac's Sport shop, where they have all sorts of equipment that can leave bodily harm?" Nick chuckle nervously as the still smiling Macy led him outside, unsure if he'd make it through the day. It's actually quite funny how he suddenly gained an urge to fight the Green Ranger, the funny part was that he thought he had a higher chance ratio of surviving.

"Well, if you'd prefer staying here, I'm sure Stella would love some more help with her sewing class." Macy offered, stopping in the hall waiting for Nick reply. "It could be fun, you and me could get all dressed up and it'll be like a date just with Stella tagging along."

"No!" Nick interrupted the brunette in pure Terror. "Every time Stella wants to try out something she makes, she strips me down to my underwear and dress me up like a doll and then if she's not satisfied she'll take it off me and fix it while making me stay only in my underwear."

"Really?" Macy asked, imagining Nick only in his underwear, blushing at the thought. "You want to skip on the excursion and go find Stella?"

"Come on Macy, we're going to be late for the bus." Nick replied, grabbing the girl's hand and hurrying along, trying to put as much distance from him and Stella as possible, especially now that he knew Stella was working on something. Of course, Macy was more than displeased at the fact she wouldn't seeing Nick in his underwear, pouting as he dragged her away, but noticing he was holding her hand instantly brought a smile back to her face as the two walked through the school's front doors and went towards the bus surrounded by the other students.

ZZZ

In her usual spot, sitting in her chair Rita watched through the magical portal in front of her as the newest addition to her forces trained against a few several Putties, laughing every time he brought one to its knees with just a single move.

"I don't get it, why is Rita attacking the new guy?"Squat asked, from his hiding spot in the corridor behind the old witch. "Isn't he one of us?"

"Of course he is you idiot." Baboo replied, smacking his blue, overly large companion. "The Queen is testing his abilities."

"What for? He had already defeated the Power Rangers once before."

"The rangers were already weakened by the point the Green Ranger had awakened and stepped out of that cave." Baboo answered irritably. "She wants to make sure he can defeat them without anyone else help." Squat nodded his head in understanding saying.

"Oh, now I get it."

"It's more then just that." The two blue aliens squealed in surprise at the cold, emotionless voice behind them. snapping around, their faces went white as they stared at the beautiful, young women leaning against the wall in the shadows, not allowing them to see her face.

"Scorpina." The two said in horror of her presence.

"That kid, in only one day has proven time and time again what a strong will he bears. The Empress is assuring that he doesn't manage to break out of her control before sicking him on the rangers. After all we don't need another power brat in our way of conquering Earth."

ZZZ

Surrounded by fog and Putties Max, unmorphed, knelt close to the ground, eyeing the seven Putties that were circling around him, waiting for just one them to make a move, other then going around him and dancing like a loon.

Watching a putty spring into action, Max charged in. Leaping up, he raised his left knee, blocking the Putty fist while spinning in midair giving the Putty a roundhouse kick to its jaw. Not having the time to boast about his one hit KO, Max snapped around and dived for the right, landing on his hands beside the incoming Putty and spun around, lashing out with his legs before returning to his feet, but only for a second.

As Max stabilized himself, he wasted no time doing a back flip just as two putties smacked fists into one another. Landing, Max leapt forward to his previous position and twirl is body around, both his feet outstretched and spinning with his body, kicking the two Putties in the face as he went by them before landing on the ground. Eyeing the other three Putties, Max smirked as he watched them shake in fear, taking a step away from the young man.

Finally gaining the courage, the first of the remaining three Putties leapt into action, charging straight towards the young warrior, throwing a fist at the brunette's face. Max brought up his arm, whacking the fist away from his face before delivering his own fist into the Putty neck. Not finished yet, Max dropped to the foggy floor and sweep kicked the Putty off his feet.

Rising off the floor, Max ran across the room, closing the gap to the frightened Putties. Jumping off the ground, Max span his body while twisting it around, spinning in midair on his side still twirling his body around until he lashed out with his leg, kicking the first Putty to the ground with a diagonal kick, leaving a footprint on its cheek. Landing on the ground, he spun on the balls of his feet and threw a punch at the last one in the face, forcing it back and banging its head against the steel bars. Smirking as he watched it fell down just as it, along with the other six Putties, vanished in a puff of grey smoke he yelled out.

"My Queen, I'm ready and wish to face the Power Rangers."

"Very good Max, I'll shall grant you your wish." Rita voice rang out through the darkness. "This time finish off the rangers for good."

"As you wish my Queen." In a green flash Max was off, leaving the Dark Dimension and heading towards New York City, fully intending to finish off the Rangers once and for all.

ZZZ

It was peaceful at Rockefeller Centre, everyone did their own thing as they walked pass one another. Some were in groups having a good laugh while others were going off doing their own thing. It was safe to say none of them expected a green flash of light to fall from the sky and landed gracefully by the fountain revealing the new, green spandex-clad, ranger.

Everyone cheered and screamed, for once in excitement at the sight of the new ranger. The citizens ran towards the young warrior yelling on the lines of... "There's a new ranger!", "He looks so much cooler than the others.", "Can I have a picture with you!", and lastly... "There's a new Ranger how cool, how cool, HOW COOL!"

Max watched as the citizens swarmed over him, giving him little room to move, let alone breathe. He felt person after person tugging at his suit and pulling his arm up, dragging him to the right before the other person on his left dragged him to the left, making him feel like he was playing tug of war and he was the rope.

Grunting in annoyance, Max swung his arm forward, throwing the young women off and into another person. He then reached for his dagger and waved his arm upwards shooting a bolt of green lightning into an upper floor window of a large building. With the sound of shattering glass and falling debris the citizens screamed in terror, all of them run away, most of them going in circles, unsure where do go. Max couldn't help but comment how they all looked chickens with their heads cut off.

"That should get the rangers' attention." Max told himself, watching the citizens scramble in all directions in fear.

ZZZ

At that time all five of their communicators went off, alerting the teenagers of trouble. Alex, Sonny, Justin and Nico all came up with some excuse and ran out of their classes, meeting up in the halls, away from other classes and teachers. Making sure no one else was around Nico pressed the button activating his communicator.

"We reed you Zordon." Nico whispered to his watch.

"Rangers, the Green Ranger has return." Zordon said over the speaker. "He's at Rockefeller Centre, you must hurry there at once."

"What about Nick?" Sonny asked.

"He's not answering his communicator." Alpha replied. "We'll keep on trying to reach him, but you guys really need to hurry, the Green Ranger just blew apart a second story window.

"We're on it." Nico replied, turning off his communicator and giving a glance to the other three, who nodded their heads and place their arms behind their back, checking one more time for any on lookers or eavesdroppers. "It's morphin time!"

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Sabre-Tooth Tiger!"

ZZZ

Meanwhile on the bus, Nick sat in his seat by the window, his hand supporting his head up as he stared out of it, his mind wondering off. As the world passed him by through his window, thoughts of the Green Ranger flooded his mind. At the beeping sound of his communicator, both he and Macy jumped out of their seats, startled by the small contraption.

"What's the alarm for?" Macy asked, turning her gaze up to the brunette.

"Ummm... to tell me I need to go to the toilet." Nick replied, smiling nervously at the brunette.

"You need an alarm to tell you to go to the toilet?" Macy asked, snickering at what Nick had said, giving him a sceptical look.

"Oh no, it means I need to put the insulin in me, that's why I need to go to the toilets." Nick answered, embarrassed at how stupid his first excuse was.

"Oh okay, are you going to be alright until we get there?" Macy asked, her concern evident in her voice.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, it's only a little bit longer now." Nick sighed in relief, glad that Macy couldn't tell he was lying. After that moment of slight relief, Nick gazed down at his watch with worried eyes, knowing he wouldn't be able to make it on time for this one. Staring out the window Nick's one and only thought was. 'Good luck guys, if it's who I think it is that Zordon calling us up for, you're going to need it.'

ZZZ

As the rangers arrived at their destination point, they were quickly welcomed with a green energy blast, blowing all of them, along with the surrounding chairs and tables, off their feet. Jumping back up, the rangers looked over the toppled tables, chairs and debris and stared at the green warrior.

"Okay the next time we come to stop him lets duck or at least teleport a block away so we don't get zapped the second we make our entrance." Alex complained, rubbing her shoulder.

"Agreed." Sonny replied from her spot beside the Yellow Ranger.

"There will be no next time Yellow Ranger." Max called out, slowly making his way over to the four, his dragon dagger in hand. "This shall be your grave."

"Yeah, I really doubt that. Power axe!" Channelling the flow of power into his right hand, black energy formed around, taking shape into his axe. Not wasting another second Nico charged for the Green Ranger, axe over his left shoulder ready to strike.

"Let see what you can do Black Ranger." Max taunted, not at all concerned about the Black Ranger. Nico swung his axe forward, taking Max' invitation to attack. Sure his attack would struck home, Max quickly disappoints him. He raised his dagger, clenching it with both hands as the two blades collided with a resounding bang.

The two stood their ground as they tried to outmuscle the other, neither one moving an inch back as they struggle for dominance. Max grunted as he dug his feet into the ground as Nico managed to push him back a few centre metres. It was clear Nico was strong, having been able to make him budge at all, something Max had underestimated. Max channel his power into the tip of his blade, giving the dagger's transparent blade a dark green glow to it, as green sparks started to fly.

"WHAT! If you blast me now we'll both be caught in the blast." Nico told the Green Ranger, his panic clearly in his voice.

"Fool." Max chuckled. A surge of electricity travel from the dragon dagger and ran up the power axe before zapping the Black Ranger's entire being, green sparks flying off his body while leaving the Green Ranger unharmed. Nico flipped backwards from the force of the power, crashing onto a toppled table, his groans of pain the only thing telling the other rangers he was still conscious.

"Nico!" The three yelled in fright, watching the scene as if in slow motion. Not able to see his friend in pain any longer, Justin changed his gaze to the unharmed Green Ranger. His anger quickly got the better of him, his knuckles went white underneath his gloves as his fists tightened by his sides.

With a battle cry, and disregarding the girls' cries to stop, Justin charged for the green warrior, bringing his power lance to life with a blinding blue light, getting ready to strike horizontally. Max just smirked.

As the blue ranger was less than three metres away Max charged forward, leaping off the ground and sailing the last bit of distance towards the blue clad hero. Shocking the Blue Ranger, Justin went on instincts, relying on them as he quickly lashed out with his lance, hoping he could ruin any plan the Green Ranger may have.

As the lance came towards the green warrior Max flipped his body so that his feet would land on the weapon. Shifting his weight towards the Blue Ranger, Max placed his left hand on Justin's shoulder, bouncing off the power lance and flipping off Justin shoulders, twisting his body as he went while bringing down his right hand, slashing the Blue Ranger back with his Dragon Dagger.

Even with the ears piecing screams of the blue warrior and the power lance flashed blue, disappearing in its decent to the ground, Max was not finish yet. Taking a massive step forward, Max lashed out with his at dagger as he went by Justin side, throwing him forward from the force of the attack. Seeing this, an idea popped into Max head. Acting quickly, not wanting to lose his momentum, Max spun around, delivering a powerful roundhouse kick to Justin stomach. In a blink of an eye Justin flew over the fountain and crushed into the wall behind it, a crater forming from the impact with a Justin shape whole in the middle keeping the injured warrior still in the wall.

Watching the Blue Ranger demorph, Max had little time to react to the close proximately of the Yellow Ranger's daggers to his face. She just came out of nowhere, she was pretty much a bright yellow blur. Max was forced to walk or jump backwards as he dodged and blocked the constant assaults Alex brought with her daggers.

Max moved as fast as he could, just keeping up with her, noting that she was significantly faster than the other two as he went along. Max grunted under his breath in annoyance, upset with himself on how he let her slip by his defences and gain the upper hand. This was the second time he underestimated his opponent, a mistake that would possibly be his down fall if he didn't regain control.

Making up his mind on how to turn the tide, Max dodged the first dagger then block the next. Alex' daggers no longer a threat for the next couple of seconds, Max dove in, bringing his foot up to the defenceless ranger. Seeing the green warrior's leg shooting up from the ground, Alex sprang backwards, hoping to evade the kick she assumed to hit her in the gut. This was a false accusation. As Alex made it a safe distance away from his kick, she soon learnt it wasn't her gut that the green clad warrior was aiming for but her blade blaster. Kicking it out of the holster, Max seized the red weapon while it spun in midair and switched it into blade mode.

Catching the Yellow Ranger off guard, Max wasted no time to attack. In a matter of seconds Max was on top of Alex, using the dagger and blade blaster in a barrage of slashes, not giving Alex time to fully recover.

Being pushed back, Alex was amazed how fast the green villain was. Every one of his moves led to sure pain as the blades came in all sorts of angles. If it wasn't for her own daggers, blocking or deflecting his attacks, along with her speed, she would have been toast at the very beginning. Not that she still wasn't.

Noticing an opening, Max deflected one of her daggers away with the blade blaster before swinging up to block the other. Not losing a beat, Max thrust the green tinted dagger straight at Alex torso. With the force of the blow Alex soared backwards, lifting her off the ground, before crashing into the pavement.

Hearing the sound of an arrow being launched, and the whooshing sound an arrow makes as it cut through the air, Max relied on nothing but his instincts. Back flipping while twisting his body around, time seemed to slow down for him as Max watched the arrow fly by, just missing his gold and green plated chest before landing on the ground gracefully looking in the opposite direction then before hand, smirking smugly behind his helmet at the bow wielding Pink Ranger.

"Black Ranger has the power, Yellow Ranger has speed, the Blue Ranger...well, he's a lost cause, he has no skill, he has a brain but doesn't know how to work it, he's only good for a shield, at best a distraction. And then there's you, the Pink Ranger." Max said as he slowly walked up to Sonny, stopping several metres away. His smirked turned into a grin noticing how nervous the Pink Ranger got with every step he took, her grip tightening on her bow. "You're accuracy is truly amazing but still you're not much better then the Blue Ranger behind the bow."

"Well why don't I show you what I can do behind my bow." Sonny retorted with outrage, readying another arrow. Max just stood there, amused as he channelled the powers of Dragon coin into both the Dragon dagger and the Blade Blaster. As Sonny let the pink energy arrow go, Max brought the two glowing green weapons together in a cross formation and thrust it forward.

The X shaped, green energy attack and the Pink arrow quickly collided in between the two combaters. To the Pink Ranger's surprise, the Green Ranger's attack easily over powered her own and continued on its direct collision course for her. Her body frozen in place, Sonny stood in her spot as the blast hit, knocking her off her feet and landed out on the road.

ZZZ

Getting off the bus, Nick scanned the area for anything that could give him any form of privacy. He need something, anything that could hide him while finding out what was happening, but everywhere he looked there was always someone just standing around. Grunting under his breath, Nick continued his search, not noticing the brunette that was walking up behind him.

"Nick! Are you okay?" Spinning on the balls of his feet, Nick came face to face with Macy.

"Yeah I'm good, just wondering where the toilets are." He lied, the only thing coming to mind and probably his best chance of some privacy.

"Oh, they're over there." Macy replied pointing behind Nick near the sporting shop they were going to be visiting.

"Thanks a lot Macy, umm... tell the couch I'll be right in and do you mind holding my stuff for me?" Nick asked taking his bag off.

"Yeah okay." She replied, taking his bag off his hands, before thinking. "Wait don't you need your insulin?" But before he could answer he was already racing over to the toilets, not hearing her question.

Once in the men's toilets, Nick, after making sure no one else was around, pressed a button on his communicator, placing the small device that was strapped on his wrist near his mouth as he spoke clearly and softly in it.

"I'm here Zordon, what's going on?"

"Rita had send her new Green Ranger to Rockefeller Centre. The other Rangers are already there but aren't doing so well." Zordon explained hastily. "Be careful Nick, and let the power protect you."

"Don't worry Zordon, I'm on it." Turning off his communicator and throwing his arm behind his back, reaching for his morpher, Nick yelled. "IT'S MORPHIN TIME! Tyrannosaurus!"

ZZZ

Meanwhile back at Rockefeller, Nico swung his axe diagonally at the same time Alex brought her daggers in horizontally as they approached the Green Ranger on either side of him. Waiting for the opportune moment, watching the two carefully as they rushed towards him, Max back flipped out of the way, dodging what would properly be a lethal blow, a smirk on his face since the two would have little space to evade one another.

Landing gracefully on his feet, Max eyes bugged out of their sockets, watching the Yellow Ranger dive under the Black Ranger axe and roll on the behind him as the black warrior leapt towards him, finishing his swing. Thinking fast, Max dug his foot into the ground, raising his dagger and Blade Blaster, blocking the power axe once again while also sliding backwards a bit as Nico combined his strength and weight into his assault.

"This is just going to be like last time." Max smirked as he felt his energy rush into his arm. Just as his Dragon dagger started to glow green, Max lost his concentration, hearing the Black Ranger chuckle. "Are you insane?"

"No, I'm just laughing at the fact you thought this is like last time." Max blood went cold as realization strike. While focusing purely on the Black Ranger he had forgotten about the other two, active, rangers. Max quickly scanned the area, trying to find the other two rangers not expecting that one of them were right in front of his own nose.

In the blink of an eye Alex leapt over Nico's shoulder, raising several feet in the air while twirling around angling herself to strike the green warrior's back with her daggers on the way down. As he was about to dart to the right, Max stopped in his attempt, wincing in pain from the pink arrow that struck his back, giving Alex more than enough time to follow through the plan and dug her daggers into and down his Spine.

Clearly not expecting this, Max gathered up as much energy as he possibly could hold and channel it through his dagger. Spinning on the heels of his feet as he fell to his knees, Max thrust out with the Dragon dagger and let loose a powerful bolt of lightning that danced across the open air as it shot Nico, Alex and Sonny back and off their feet, the three even demorphing as they landed from the intensity of the blast.

Slowly raising to his feet, his heavy breathing the only sign of tiredness, Max looked around the four down rangers, quite proud of himself as not one of them was fit for battle.

"That took a lot more out of me than expected." Max said as he walked over to the unconscious Alex, kneeling down as he picked her head up by pulling on her hair. "But their down for the count now." Readying himself to finish off the Yellow Ranger, Max stared into the helpless face of Alex Russo. As he thrust the Dragon Dagger toward her face, something inside him snapped, his hand froze in midair, as if some invisible force had stopped his arms movement. Turning his gaze from the Yellow Ranger to his hand and back to her, he no longer saw the Yellow Ranger, no longer his enemy, he only saw the helpless look on his sister face.

Max dropped the young ranger down as he took a few steps in fear, uncertainty and sadness. As his world started to spin before his very eyes, Max screamed in pain, placing his hands on his head, shaking it back and forth as his eyes flashed green to brown and back to green, Rita's spell trying to regain control.

Max fell to all fours as he clutched his head in his hands as wave after wave of agonizing pain filled his head as the demon seed tried to retake control. The pain was so excruciating that it was amazing Max was still conscious let alone fighting back the spell. Like all good things though, it had to come to an end.

With one final scream of sorrow and pain, the spell won control. Max' eyes flashing a dark green, he tightened his grip on the Dragon dagger. Just when he was finally getting back up to his feet, Max was thrown backwards from a powerful red blast, straight in the chest. Max coughed as he skidded backwards, placing his free hand on his chest. It wasn't that the blast hurt, it was more from shock than anything else.

Looking up with hate filled eyes, Max glared at the approaching Red Ranger, noticing the blade blaster that was pointed at his head. Watching, the Green Ranger straightened up as the Red Ranger stopped in his place, switching hands with his blade blaster so it was in his left one while he summoned the power sword in right one.

"It's so good that you could come Red Ranger, I was expecting you." Max commented, trying to wait out some time to allow his shield to work.

"Sorry I'm late but you can never trust a bus to get you to its destination on time." Nick replied, giving a quick sweep of the area, his hand clenched on his weapons as his anger and hatred built up within at what the green clad villain had done to his friends.

"You took the bus?" Max asked, unsure if he heard him right. "What hero takes the bus?"

"The kind that doesn't have a drivers licence." Nick spat back.

"Then maybe you should get your learner's permit. HI-YAAA!" Max thrust his arm out with his signature weapon, releasing a blast of green energy towards the red clad hero.

"Top of my to do list, right after kicking your butt." Nick commented pushing down on the trigger of his blaster shooting a red blast that flew over the pavement, colliding with the Green Ranger's blast and creating a small explosion, causing a thick cloud of smoke around the two warriors.

Not waiting for it to clear up, both rangers charged in, clashing blades as they reached the middle. The two went at it, putting everything they had into their attacks as they traded blows, neither one wanting to calling it quits, not that Nick was anywhere close from doing that.

You would have to be a fool to walk in between these two, as their blades cut through the air around them before colliding with one another, neither paying any attention to who or what's around them, their attention only on each other. As their blades met yet again, red and green sparks flew in all directions from the impact.

Blow after blow, both stood their ground, not letting the other gain the upper hand of their fight. One filled with stubbornness, hatred and bloodlust, the other filled with determination, focus and anger, both clearly skill warriors as they swung their weapons in calculated swings, blocking or attacking one another.

Their movements were so fast, if you blink you would have miss a few as they spun on their heels, shift their weight to get into the perfect position to strike or defend, sidestep to get out of the way, even jumping to either dodge or to put more weight into their attacks, sometimes both.

It was rare when one of them actually got a hit in, most of them belonging to Nick. But the strangest thing was the Green Ranger didn't seem to be bothered by his attacks and it took several hits in the same spot before the Green Ranger became cautious of it, while just one of his attacks made Nick body scream in agony.

Managing to attack the green villain's chest again, Nick got a quick glance at his shield, noticing the faint glow around it. Now that he thought about it, it been glowing light that since he arrived. It was strange, he didn't remember it glowing like that the first time he met the Green Ranger so what was different this time, why would it glow?

Noticing they were getting to close to Nico, Nick went on the attack again, swinging his sword down and as expected the green warrior blocked it with his dagger. Putting in all his strength and weight into his assault he managed to shove the Green Ranger away. Following up his attack Nick went crazy as he swung his sword left to right, down to up, up to down and going back and forth, doing anything he could to keep the Green Ranger going backwards.

As Nick continued his assault something else came to mind. He saw Nico, Alex and Sonny's last move and his giant lightning bolt, that should have worn him out by a lot, and he was, yet he wasn't tired anymore, well as tired anyway. It didn't make sense, the only way he could do that was if he healed himself, but there was no one here to heal, nor was there anytime between when the others fought him and when he joined into the fray. Unless...

Nick stared at the shield again while dodging the green dagger before blocking and lashing out with one of his own blows. Nick's eyes shot wide open in realization, he couldn't believe it. 'The reason why it's glowing now and not last time, why he isn't as tired as before, why it takes so many hits from me before he starts being sloppy, it's the shield! It's healing him!' Nick summed up, noticing that the young warrior was about to strike again. 'I have to put everything I got into this then.'

Blocking the Dragon dagger with a horizontal guard, Nick kick off the ground and again against the Green Ranger's chest, making him stumble backwards while Nick flew several feet in the air. Aiming carefully Nick fire several blasts out of his Blade Blast, a few of them hitting their mark while the others missed, colliding with the ground.

Falling on his back, Max wasted no time rolling to his feet the second he landed. Springing back up, Max brought his dagger to his mouth, blowing into the flute part of the dagger and played a tune in response to several more blasts of red energy coming towards him. Unlike last time, when the blast collided with the golden shield on his chest, the Dragon shield glowed green for a split second before releasing a giant ball of red energy back towards Nick.

Shocked that his blast was coming back at him, Nick didn't have any time to evade once he landed, falling victim to his own attack as he flew a good few feet back, losing his grip on his weapons as they flew in different directions to him. Nick groaned as he lifted himself back up to his knees and shook his head, getting rid of the stars that still were floating over it, not truly snapping out of it until he noticed the white boots that stood only a few steps away.

"Well Red Ranger this has been fun, but I got a world to conquer, so sadly I have to end this riveting battle." Max said smugly. His confidence was truly amazing, it almost beat Justin's. Nick watched with wary eyes as the Dragon Dagger turned a dark green as Max charged up for his final attack.

Glaring up at who would most probably be his killer, something shiny in the corner of the ranger's eye caught his attention. Making sure not to give himself away Nick turned his gaze away from the dark ranger to whatever the thing was that caught his attention without the movement of his head. His heart skipped a beat realizing what it was. His last shred of hope was to reach his Power Sword before the anti-hero ranger could strike him down.

Shifting his gaze from the Green Ranger to the sword, Nick took in one more breath before springing to his feet and rushed over to where his sword lay, hoping to get to it before it was too late.

Noticing the Red Ranger direction, Max snapped into action,, swinging his arm outwards and releasing the charged up energy blast, watching it fly over the topple tables and chairs, straight for the Red Ranger's back. While still watching, Max couldn't just stand there and wait to see if his blast would hit or not, he just couldn't risk it, there was no way in hell he was going to let the Red Ranger get his sword.

Hearing the air being cut behind him and the roaring sound of a blast along with the noise of someone running on pavement behind him, Nick knew he didn't have long to reach his sword, not without getting blasted or worst, cut down by the Green Ranger who he knew was in pursuit. Being the only thought on Nick's mind, the only thing that could save him from at least one of the Green Ranger's attacks, Nick put it into action. He quickly dived to the ground, rolling over once he felt solid ground, just missing the blast of Green energy that rammed into a wall, destroying it, and stop right in front of his sword.

Having no time to spare Nicked pick up the red hilted sword, channelled as much energy as he could muster and spun around, leapt off the ground and towards the young warrior. Ducking under the Dragon Dagger, Nick pounced upwards, swinging his sword up the green warrior's torso with a blaze of red energy, throwing the already mentally and physically tired evil ranger flying backwards at a speed no human has ever reached before, his back ramming into a giant brick wall, creating a large crater.

Falling down to the ground Max fell to all fours, his breathing raged and heavy, his powers threatening to give up on him as he struggled to regain his breath. Hearing the Red Ranger's footsteps Max stared up at the young leader with a great hatred, watching him stop before him.

"Who are you? Why are you helping Rita?" Nick ordered, his deep, tough, angered voice warning the evil ranger not to take him lightly, that he wasn't up for any of his games. But none the less that warning went on deaf ears as Max started to chuckle, amused that the Red Ranger thought he would tell him anything.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Before Nick could do anything else the Green Ranger disappeared in a flash of green lights, most likely going back to Rita, his voice echoing around the red hero as the green villain left.

Thinking that he was safe, Nick took a quick glance to make sure there was no onlookers before demorphing while collapsing to the ground, landing on his butt as he wiped away the sweat that poured down his face, his breathing just as bad as the Green Ranger's. His last move took a lot out of him, more then he hoped.

Just as he feared, the Green Ranger would definitely be the rangers' biggest threat. A threat that not even Nick thought they were ready for.

Okay i hope you like that epi. When I was making Mean and Green I wanted to show how powerful Max was and I think this shows it.

Now to answer that question you sent me a while back BeMyHeroSeverus. Some of the monster are ones I made up like the Corrupteer but a few of them came from the actual show like Centiback. sorry it took so long for me to answer.

Slothkeeper, it's like your kind of reading my mind. In the 2nd season, if i ever get that far, hopefully i do, there will be seven rangers. And for all those who's reading this the white ranger hasn't came into the series yet.

Perryp, I gotta say I end up cracking up laughing reading ur review. You definitely encourage me to write the next chap.

I'm still writing Sonny It Up but I'm hoping to have it done by the end of March.

Until next time, cya guys.