The Power Rangers series and all associated characters, settings, and events are property of Disney Entertainment. They are used here without permission. All stories on this site are not for sale and not intended for profit.

Disclaimer: Power Rangers and all its related logos are property of Disney Entertainment and/or Saban Entertainment and are being used with I am using them without permission on a non-profit basis. Any original characters belong to me.

A/N: This fic takes approximately thirty-five years after the end of PR: Dino Thunder or around fifteen years after the end of Power Rangers: SPD. Familiarity with both series is recommended but not essential.

"Almost done..." said Jay, reaching up into the console and making a couple of adjustments, he brought one hand down and reached out with it. "Could you hand me a No. 3 magnaspanner?"

"Sure," said Samantha, and after a few seconds searching, she found the requested tool and handed it to him.

Jay took it, made a small adjustment to the console above him, then slid out and stood up. "That should do it." he told his cousin, then yawned. "Let's get this over with. Didn't get much sleep last night."

"That same dream again?" asked Samantha, frowning.

"Uh-huh," confirmed Jay. "Just a voice repeated the same thing over and over again... 'Embrace your power, become all that you can be.'" He shook his head. "It'll probably make sense in time."

"Are you up to helping me install the new focusing crystal?" Samantha asked. "It's a delicate job and your hands are steadier than mine."

"No problem," said Jay, then pulled a rag out of his pocket and used it to clean off his hands. "The sooner we get main power up and running again the happier I'll be."

"Me too," agreed Samantha. "There were a couple of hairy moments during that last monster attack that I, for one, am not looking forward to reliving."

"Me neither,"

It only took them a few moments to fix the new crystal into its place in the reactor core, and then Samantha signaled Alpha � who was on monitor duty in the control center � to start the power-up sequence. The diminutive droid did so, and within thirty minutes the power readouts in both the engine room and the control center were showing full as the Mega Accelerator returned to its job of providing the base with power.

Samantha triggered the comm panel again. "Trini, how are you doing with HIMO?"

"Just a few more minutes, I've got to re-wire the external bus, and recalibrate the surge protectors ."

"Good work. Meet us at Control when you're done."

"Thanks. Will do."

The two cousins packed up their tool boxes and stored them in their racks for next time. Then they left the engine room, and headed up to the control center.

By the time they got there, Trini had also finished up and was there, along with Tony who had decided to pop in.

"Bringing HIMO online," reported Trini. "All scan-checks look normal. Primary circuit online. Peripherals booting now."

"Hammond Industries Mark One, online," reported the computer. "All systems operating within normal parameters."

"Good work, everyone," said Jay. "Let's go down to the Cyberspace, smoothies are on me."

As they were about to teleport out, a siren went off.

"Ai, ai, ai!" wailed Alpha. "Bossu and the Bateis are attacking central Reefside!"

"I guess the smoothies will have to wait," said Jay.

"Should I contact Will and Kendrix?" asked Sammy, who had relieved Trini at the main console as soon as the alert went off.

"We should be able to handle Skullface and a few Bateis between the three of us," said Jay. "I'll let you know." Sammy nodded.

Jay turned to his two fellow Rangers. "Ready?" They nodded. "Dino Thunder, Power Up!"

"Drage!"

"Griff!"

"Enhorn!"

As soon as the morphs were complete, Alpha activated the invisiportal and they teleported out.

-----

The three Rangers emerged from the invisiportal into an empty alley just off the town square. Jay could hear loud screams and the occasional explosion from the open area ahead. He ran towards the sounds with Trini and Tony following close behind.

When he reached the square, he focused in on Bossu, who was firing energy blasts a crowd of civilians who were fleeing for their lives towards the town hall. "Hey Skullface, why don't you pick on someone your own size?"

"As you wish, Red Ranger!" said Bossu, launching two energy blasts at Jay, who avoided them by leaping up into the air, using the momentum from the explosion to launch himself into a high aerial flip before slammed a hard kick into the side of the monster's head. "You'll pay for that!"

"Promises, promises," said Jay, unleashing a severing ball of flame in Bossu's direction that he barely blocked in time, before slashing brutally at the Ranger leader. Jay dodged to one side, but caught the blade on his arm, which blossomed in pain knocking him slightly off balance. Decided to change tactics, he drew one of his blasters, switching to blade form just in time to block another strike, locking blades with his larger opponent.

He risked a quick look around and saw that his two friends were doing quite well against the Bateis. Tony was using his special power rapidly strike at several of the minions at once, sometimes destroying them sometimes not, but disorientating them no end. Trini was using a slightly more conventional strategy, and while Jay was watching, managed to destroy one with a standing-kick to the chest.

A slight increase in the force being applied against him forced his attention back to his opponent. Jay slipped to one side, allowing the skeletal samurai to stagger forward. Jay used this opportunity to draw his other sidearm and combine the two in his favorite weapon.

"My turn, ugly!" he declared. "Thundermax Blaster... fire!"

The energy ball took Bossu by surprise, and he was thrown backwards, landing with a loud crunch against a wall of one of the nearby building. "I'll be back, Red Ranger!" he vowed, before disappearing, leaving a huge dent in the building's brickwork.

"I'll be waiting," promised Jay.

Once he was satisfied that the threat from Bossu was temporarily resolved, Jay returned his attention to his friends' battle against the Bateis, only to find that the last one had just been dispatched by Trini.

"Good job, guys," he said, when he joined them in the center of the square. "I managed to get the drop on Bossu, but he bailed before I could finish him."

"You'll get him one day, bro." asserted Tony.

"Agreed."

At that moment, Jay's Morpher chimed, indicating an incoming call. "Go ahead, Sammy."

"Rangers, I need you back at the Hub, immediately."

"Ready when you are, Sammy."

"You got it ."

When the three teens reappeared in the control center of The Hub, they had returned to their 'transitional' forms. All three slipped off their suits' hoods as they joined Samantha and Alpha in at the central console.

"What's up, Sammy?" asked Jay, raising his voice to be heard over the loud alarms.

"Observe the viewer, Rangers," said Samantha, pressing several keys before looking up again herself.

The holoscreen shifted to show a desert-like scene with several youths on all-terrain vehicles in the foreground. After a few seconds, a tall, crimson-robed creature with a chalk-white human face and wild black hair appeared in the background and began to play on a long wooden flute.

"That's the motocross race that Will is in today!" exclaimed Tony. "Is he alright?"

Samantha paused, then shrugged. "He was caught in Shydasha's initial attack a few moments ago," she admitted. "He's in the infirmary. Jo reports he's stable, though as far as I know she's at a loss as to how to bring him out of the charmed sleep."

"Actually, she does have one idea," said Kendrix, as she came in through the rear entrance. "Jo suggests destroying his flute, she thinks that should break the spell. But she would like a hand trying some other strategies."

"I'm on it," said Trini, heading towards the door that Kendrix had come in through.

"The rest of us should get down there and try and stop him from causing any more damage," Jay decided.

Tony nodded his agreement and he and Kendrix positioned themselves behind Jason.

"You ready?" asked Jay. "Dino Thunder, Power Up!"

"Drage!"

"Enhorn!"

"Fenix!"

"Back to action!" declared Jason.

-----

"What took you so long?!" demanded the monster when they caught up with him at the motocross park. "I thought you'd never get here!"

"In a hurry, Sleepy?" asked Jay.

"Things do, people to kill..." replied Shydasha.

"This is the end of the road for you!" declared Jay. "Let's take him, guys!"

"Not so fast!" said Shydasha. "Batei Brigade, attack!"

Half-a-dozen of the vampiric minions appeared, flanking Shydasha on both sides before running towards the three Rangers.

"We don't have time for this." said Jay, knocking one to the ground with a spinning kick. "Tony, can you handle these things?"

"I'm all over them," Tony replied.

Jay turned to Kendrix. "Shall we?"

"We shall," Kendrix agreed. "Up and over!"

Jay nodded and the couple jumped over three of the oncoming Bateis, flipping in mid-air and landing on the other side of the creatures. Clear of the obstruction, they continued forwards at a run, narrowing the distance between them and Shydasha.

"Hey, no fair!" protested the monster. "Do I have to do all the work around here?!"

Jay aimed a kick to the monster's stomach, which was blocked by the hand not holding the flute. Shydasha grasped the limb and used it as leverage to throw Jay into a nearby tree. Then he swung around and shot an energy blast through the flute at Kendrix who avoided the worst of it by flipping forward, then rolling into a crouch near Jay. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Jay assured her, climbing to his feet. "You're going down, Sleepy!"

"The only ones going down are you!" said Shydasha, and launched several blasts of energy at them in quick succession before they could react. They fell to the ground, then demorphed in a crackle of energy. "Now for the finale!" he declared, summoning a massive blast and shooting it at the couple.

But before it could reach them, a blue-white blur intercepted it. When the backlash cleared, Tony lay on the ground too, like Jay and Kendrix he wore only his ninja suit.

"Rats!" cursed Shydasha. "Well, you look exhausted, little Rangers. How about a little nap?" With that, he brought the flute to his lips and began to play.

Immediately, Jay began to feel his tenuous grip on consciousness slip into blackness. Glancing around he could see that his two team-mates were in as bad shape or worse. "Must... keep going. Can't let him win..."

Embrace your power... A voice whispered in his head.

"Embrace my power... What does it mean?" Jay asked himself. Then the answer fought through the fog of his mind. He struggled to his feet and cried. "Super Thunder Mode!"

A roar echoed in his head, and a warm feeling spread throughout his head, banishing the fog as it suited him up in his Ranger suit, adding larger shoulder pads, bat-like 'wings' between his arms and body, and a gold trim to the top of his boots. At the same time, the symbol on his chest changed to a larger triple lighting bolt and the triangular patterns on his lower arms lengthened into a series of flat spikes.

"Nice trick. But that won't save you!" declared Shydasha and unleashed another series of notes from his flute.

But this time, they had no effect, and Jay leapt into the air, firing a pair of fireballs at the monster, then using his new flying ability, he switched angle of attack and then he flew past the slightly dazed monster, disarming him at the same time.

"Hey, give that back!" screamed Shydasha.

"Not a chance, Sleepy!" said Jay. Then summoning all his strength he snapped the wooden instrument across his knee.

----

At the same time, in the Infirmary at the Hub, Will glowed briefly with the same blue-gray energy as Shydasha's energy blasts, then he sat up.

"Will, you're okay!" exclaimed Trini, as she and Jo rushed to his side.

"How do you feel, William?" asked Jo.

"I'm fine," Will told them. "What happened?"

"One of the Emperor's Avatars ambushed you at the track." Trini told him.

"Well, that's not nice," said Will, easing himself off the diagnostic bed. "I feel like a little payback."

"I really don't think..." began Jo.

"Are you with me, Red?" asked Will, completely ignoring the young doctor.

"Right behind you, Cowboy," confirmed Trini.

"Dino Thunder, Power Up!"

"Griff!"

"Harka!"

----

Just as they joined the other three Rangers on the battlefield, a portal opened in the sky and a wave of dark energy erupted from the portal, and Shydasha began to grow, within seconds he towered giant-like over the Rangers.

"Uh-oh, he's got his flute back!"

"Looks like we got here just in time," observed Will.

Jay nodded, "Good to have you back. Sammy, need the Thunder Zords, now!"

"They're on their way. I'm sending Trini's new Zord along too."

"We'll need it, Shydasha's tough!"

A massive invisiportal opened up near them, and Skidbladnir slid out of it. When the Zord came to rest, its front split down the middle and opened, exposing the inside of the vessel. Two ramps extended out from the base of the ship, and Enhornzord and Hjortizord charged down them. Seconds later, Dragezord, Griffzord and Fenixzord and the new Meikkalazord� a swordfish-like Zord � took off from the upper level and joined the charge.

"Thunderstrike Megazord formation!" ordered Jay.

Hjortizord reared back on its hind legs. The flanks separated from the sides of the Zord, allowing the torso to contract and combine the front and rear legs into a single pair of thicker legs, then the neck collapsed down, bringing the Zords head into line with the top of the two legs, forming the waist. Next, the flanks rotated and locked onto the base of the legs forming the feet. Meikkalazord's body split just behind the tail, with the tail itself folding over the back, then it docked with the Dragezord, replacing the Oinazord as the left arm. Next the combined Dragezord-Meikkalazord-Enhornzord gestalt flew towards Hjortizord, and locked on. Finally, the Fenixzord and Griffzord locked on, forming the head and wings respectively. "Thunderstrike Megazord Sword Striker, online!" declared the quintet.

"Time for your last act, Power Rangers!" said Shydasha and began to play a haunting melody on his flute. The Megazord glowed an eerie blue-gray light and staggered forward, then fell to its knees.

"Neural relays are failing. Main energizer is offline!" reported Trini. "Power reserves are dropping fast."

"Try the back-ups!" ordered Jay.

"Auxiliary circuits are not responding." reported Trini. "Power reserves at 42% and dropping."

"Can we break free?!" asked Jay.

"If we can set up a reverse harmonic, that should break the spell."

"I'm on it!" said Kendrix.

"I'll try and buy you some time," said Jay.

The Megazord staggered to its feet and lurched forward, throwing a punch at the monster with its right fist, then stabbing at it with its left. Shydasha dodged the attack, but paused in his attack for a few crucial seconds.

"I've got it!" reported Kendrix.

"Power Reserves at 31%." Trini added.

"Then let's make this quick!" said Jay. "Fenix Scream!"

A sonic pulse blasted from the Megazord's head and shattered the flute.

"There'll be no more music from him!" Jay exclaimed. The glow around the Megazord faded and it returned to a strong standing position. "Good work, Kendrix."

"No time for celebrations," Trini reminded them. "Power reserves have ceased to drop but are still extremely low."

"Let's finish him then," said Jay. "Fury Slash!"

The Megazord's shoulders glowed reddish-orange for a moment, then sent a wave of power down the left arm making the blade glow. The Megazord cut upwards and then down again, from a cross-shaped energy trail. Shydasha screamed, then fell backwards and exploded.

----

When Kendrix pulled up outside the Oliver house the next morning, there were two vehicles parked outside as usual. However, the old Rawlings' truck was there instead of Tommy's SUV. Walking up to the front door, she let herself in.

Sabrina stuck her head out of the kitchen and smiled at the dark-haired skater. "Good morning, Kendrix."

"Morning, Mrs Oliver. Are Jay and Will downstairs?"

Sabrina nodded, "I've just finished baking some muffins. Would you like one?" Kendrix and followed the older woman into the kitchen. Sabrina put several on a plate and handed it to her. "Take the rest to the boys. They've been up since dawn working on the motorcycle and they haven't eaten yet."

Kendrix nodded and walked into the living room. She activated the hidden switch and descended into the basement.

The main area, with Jay's exercise equipment and practice mats was unoccupied, so Kendrix put the tray of muffins down on a low table and followed the sound of voices round a corner to Jay's workshop.

Will's ATV was up on the elevated platform and Jay was underneath it working on the chassis with what appeared to be a welding torch.

"That should do it," said Jay. "Can you hand me the No. 12 magnaspanner?"

"Sure," said Will, getting up from his stool and moving towards the box.

Kendrix shook her head at Will, then mentally 'picked up' the tool and passed it to him.

"Morning, Beautiful."

"Hi, Handsome," said Kendrix. "Would you like some breakfast?"

Jay didn't reply for a moment, but finished his adjustments, then slid out from underneath the machine. "I'd love some."

"Your mom's finished her baking. The muffins are the main room."

"I'll finish the respray, then join you," offered Will as the couple left the workshop and headed into the main area.

After a couple of muffins each, the three teens wheeled the ATV out the rear entrance and Will put it through its paces in the woods. Half-an-hour later, he pronounced himself satisfied and set off round to the front of the house to load the ATV into his dad's truck for the trip to the racecourse and his victory over his long-time nemesis, Vicky Bradley of Blue Bay Harbor.

-----

Send review...