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Power Rangers Unlimited Fate of Lightspeed, Pt. 1
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Just
like it began, so it begins to end. We see the vast sand dunes of the Sahara, under the intense sun hovering above. Somewhere
in this desert lies the ruins of the ancient demon tomb. Ryan has returned to the site once again, to copy down the strange
hieroglyphic symbols on the walls. The torches blaze around him as he begins to run his hands along the walls. Ryan
plucks it from the air and immediately the symbols along the walls begin to glow with an eerie green light. He palms the key
and aims the red gems towards one of the walls. A beam is cast out, forming a holographic image of a solar eclipse, then a
vast army of dead demons. “Oh no,” Ryan says. -- Captain
Mitchell, Ms. Fairweather, and the rangers are gathered in the Conference Room of the Aquabase. Mitchell flips through some
papers. “Ms. Fairweather, can you give us an update?” She
nods. “Yes sir. We are working on the Omega Megazord.” She walks over to a monitor, and footage of a Lightspeed
damage control crew working on the downed zord. “Well,”
says Carter. “Does that mean the other megazords are back online?” “For
now only the Lifeforce Megazord is operational,” Angela says. “Diabolico
and Olympius gone . . .” Joel says. “The Queen’s even madder than ever!” Suddenly
the monitor is overridden by an emergency communication from Ryan. He’s still in the tomb, shouting, “Rangers,
do you read me?” Dana’s
face lights up as she turns and rushes to the screen. “Ryan? What’s going on?” Ryan
holds up the key. “I found out the Queen’s plan! You’ve got to stop her!” “What
is it?” Carter asks. “She’s
going to resurrect all the demons from the Shadow World,” Ryan explains. “The ceremony’s going to happen—”
he stops as the torch behind him blows out, and he turns, then the screen turns to static. “Ryan?”
Dana asks. “You’ve cut out! Are you there?” She hits some buttons but nothing works. -- In
the tomb, Ryan turns around and sees Queen Bansheera lowering to the floor. “It’s going to happen, all right,”
she says. “And no one is going to stop it!” She lifts her heads and laughs as lights flash around her. Ryan covers
his face as her fingers extend outward and wrap around his body. He drops the key on the ground and begins to struggle helplessly.
With her free hand, Bansheera reaches down and picks up the key. -- Opening
Credits Roll -- Dana
lowers her head somberly and Joel sits at the table, apparently they got the signal back enough to know a little, for Chad
exclaims, “The Queen had Ryan!” “What
are we going to do?” Joel asks. Dana
turns from the screen. “No, Carter! I’ll go.” “I
can take the Mobile Armored Vehicle,” he states. “The Queen would never expect it.” “Of
course not,” Chad says. “Because it’s crazy!” “I
agree,” Captain Mitchell says. “It’s very risky.” Carter
doesn’t listen, and starts to leave the room. Dana follows. “Carter!” Carter
stops her, putting his hands on her shoulders. “Don’t worry. I’ll bring him back.” He leaves the room. -- At
the Skull Cavern palace, two batlings drag the unconscious Ryan through one of the corridors. Jinxer shows up and claps his
hands. “Well it’s good to see we’re finally making some progress!” Queen
Bansheera follows behind them and Jinxer bows to her. “Lock him up,” she orders. “And make sure he never
gets away!” They
haul him away and Jinxer says, “Good work, now get a move on!” He walks over to the Queen. “What next, your
highness?” “It’s
time to release the batlings!” she says. “I don’t want those meddling rangers interfering with my ceremony!” Jinxer
bows and turns. “Little batlings take to the wing . . . Rise up and destroy everything!” He laughs. Elsewhere
in the Aquabase, Carter is Morphed, but holding his Red Ranger helmet, as he walks down a passageway. He heads into the Transport
Bay, where he Ms. Fairweather with a few Lightspeed technicians doing some final systems checks on the Red Mobile Armored
Vehicle. Angela tells Carter, "Use Stealth Mode and you should be able to go in undetected." Carter
nods and Joel and Dana enter the room. Joel comments, “Now, if I’d known you were going to do this kinda cockamamie
thing, I’d have never taught you how to fly!” Carters
shakes his hand and they exchange a look, then Dana gives him a tight hug. “Good luck,” she whispers. “Thanks,”
he says. Soon,
the Red Mobile Armored Vehicle is lowered into the chamber. Carter engages rockets, and all systems are go. The RMAV takes
off from the raised Train Bay. He flies for a bit, then spots what he's looking for. The RMAV is set to course, Carter reports
to the base, "Target located. I'm going in!" He swoops into the grey teleportation cloud, and vanishes. Up
in Rescue Ops, Captain Mitchell talks with a few Lightspeed Cadets about a report. Suddenly, he gets a distress call from
Miss Fairweather. He answers it on one of the monitors, rather casual as he says, "Mitchell, here." Fairweather
screams into the transmission console in one of the halls, exclaiming, "Captain, batlings have invaded the Aquabase!" Down
the corridor behind her, the door to the hanger is blasted open. She turns, looks, and then flees off away from the location.
The batlings, waving their bat-blade around and screeching horribly, race down the hall after her. -- As
they remain stunned and looking at each other, the batlings swarm on them. Dana is pinned against the wall by one, while Joel
begins to shove, push and punch a few of them. The remaining cadets and techs in the galley get ran out by other batlings,
which enter the place through another door, and proceed to trash all of the tables and chairs within. The
one with the bazooka fires a charge off at one of the open door frames, just before Dana comes tumbling through it, a batling
in her grasp. She flings him off, and starts to more or less arm wrestle with another, finishing him off with a quick kick.
The batling readies, aims, and fires at Dana, but luckily she spots him in time, and shouts, "Lightspeed Rescue!” while
hitting her Rescue Morpher. The blast strikes her just at the right time, for when the smoke clears, she's standing successfully
Morphed as the Pink Lightspeed Ranger. She
begins to toss kick after kick into the overwhelmingly outnumbering horde of batlings filling the Galley. Cadets and technicians
continue to be given the run-around by the Batlings, who eventually reach a narrow passageway. It's there that one batlings
pulls out a small, bat-winged grenade. He pulls the pin, the wings twitch, and he flings it into the small hall. The explosion
sends a cadet airborne, slamming him into the wall at the end of it, screaming in agony. They
both morph,and Chad hops up and buries kick after kick into the batlings. Nearby, Joel is near the Riot Patrol, when he gets
kicked in the back by a batling. His cowboy hat falls off as he stumbles against the elevator door. Joel starts to struggle
with the Batling that hit him, as the elevator door opens, and is shown filled to capacity with demon drones. There's room
for three more, as another Batling gangs up with the other one on Joel, and they push him into the elevator. The door close,
and he's surrounded by the groping claws of a ton of Batlings. Joel manages to reach his Rescue Morpher, calling out the proper
cry, and when the doors reopen on the next level, the Green Lightspeed Ranger is the only one of them all left standing. Elsewhere,
Dana tangles with a batling. Joel ends up tangling with two, just around the corner. Suddenly, the entire base is rocked by
an instant quake. Dana and Joel are knocked to the floor by this, as are most of the batlings they were fighting. “What
was that?” Dana asks. She
enters the galley, which is in shambles, food and debris spread out everywhere. As she enters, we see outside in the hall,
the Riot Patrol's small breather coming to an end as more batlings begin to storm towards them. Dana rushes across the Galley
room and takes a look out the window, seeing the source of the base quaking outside, stomping around the sea-floor. "This
can't be happening!” Dana gasps. “That's the Lifeforce Megazord!" “What
is it doing?” Dana asks. Her
answer is sudden, as the Megazord heads over to one of the towers, and slashes its Saber into it. Dana covers her face upon
the tower's sparking, and when she opens her eyes again, she witnesses a piece of debris from that trashed tower slamming
into the one of the other pods. The stray chunk is strong enough to rock Rescue Ops, causing a console to spark and knock
a cadet to the floor. Captain
Mitchell helps him up, the guy nods that he's okay, so he leaves the man to two other cadets. Mitchell races over to one of
the main consoles, as does Ms. Fairweather, both pressing buttons as fast as they can. They bring up a display on the small
monitors overhead, of the Lifeforce Megazord slashing its Saber into the Aquabase, and of the batlings inside the cockpit.
The Captain gasps, "It's the Megazord!" "The
Batlings have taken control over it!” Angela says. “Pod Four is under attack!" Mitchell stares at the small screen,
watching silently as the Lifeforce Megazord whips its sword around, readying another attack, just as soon as the Batlings
get the hang of things. -- Elsewhere
in the Aquabase, Kelsey kicks some Batlings, while Chad kicks and flings them off. A gang of Batlings suddenly enters the
passageway and Chad yells, "There's too many of them!" He
and Kelsey flee for their lives from the demon drones, and they reach one of the side entrances to Rescue Ops. Chad hits a
switch, closing the door. The steel hatch slams shut in front of them. "That
ought to hold them!" Chad says. Kelsey
nods, and the two rush off into another area of Ops. Joel and Dana enter the room, Joel shouting, "Clear the doorway!”
as he hits emergency lock button. The steel door slams down, cutting a horde of angry Batlings off from Rescue Ops entirely.
“You okay, Dana?” he asks. "Yeah,
barely,” she says. In
Ops, Kelsey and Chad, both also Morphed but helmetless, stand next to Captain Mitchell and Ms. Fairweather. Kelsey shouts
“Everybody, hold on!" The
Lifeforce Megazord cuts its sword through the pressure of the water its submerged in, and slices along the top of the tower.
The clang against the hull and the force used causes a reverb throughout the entire Aquabase. Rescue Ops sparks like crazy
while rocking, knocking everyone against the console controls. The Lifeforce Megazord bashes another hit into the tower, chopping
a piece out of the side. Ops
sparks some more, cadets are sent flying, and Kelsey and Chad hang on for dear life as the place rocks from side to side.
The Megazord grabs the damaged tower and jars it loose from its foundation, shoving it aside, causing the vast metal structure
to topple against the rocks below. Those in Ops recover, gasping for air nervously. Captain Mitchell looks especially frightened,
and Ms. Fairweather notes what's so fearful, "Pod Four . . . is gone." -- The
batlings peek through the porthole on the door to Rescue Ops. They're unable to get in, so a couple of others bring down a
long metal battering ram. The batlings begin to slam it into the solid steel door, hit after hit, slowly denting into the
door. He
blocks her out, her voice murky and muttered as he focuses merely on his overwhelming sense of failure. Angela begins to shake
him, trying to snap him out of it, but nothing works. The four Rangers slowly approach the Captain, watching silently as Fairweather
tries in vain to bring his attention back to Earth. Fairweather
finally stands tall and gives the order for him, proclaiming, "The crew is in danger. We have got to evacuate!" Joel
and Kelsey give disgusted and confused looks, and Chad asks, "Evacuate?" “Yes,”
she says. “That Megazord has the firepower to tear this place apart! Now come on!" The
Tech and Cadets follow her lead, marching behind her as she directs them to the way out. The Rangers help with the evacuation,
with Joel personally assisting a female Cadet, likely trying to make Angela jealous. Dana
embraces her father's shoulder and tells him, "Daddy, let's go!" Captain Mitchell begins to come around, nodding his head
and looking at her. He slowly turns as she leaves, but moves no farther towards any exit. He's planning to go down with the
ship, (idiot!) -- -- Back
at Rescue Ops, Chad guides the Cadets and Technicians out of the area, demorphed now as all the rangers are for some reason.
“Let's go!” he shouts. “Move! Let's go! Come on!" Kelsey
is also pointing out that they should keep to their left as they make their way around the empty corridors. These lead to
the backdoor, essentially, connecting under the Aquabase, and out to one of the long glass tubes. The dozens and dozens of
Lightspeed Employees run for their lives through the long stretch of tunnel. Since the Connecting Tubes have glass overhead
the whole way, the fleeing employees are able to get a full view of the Lifeforce Megazord as it smashes its Saber into another
one of the towers. The
final spark of electricity surging in the windows of said tower flicker and die out. Meanwhile inside Rescue Ops, only Captain
Mitchell remains. He stands somberly in the middle of the sparking and frying room, looking around slowly at the rubble and
static-filled monitors. Not far away, Ms. Fairweather, Dana, and Joel help the last of the Lightspeed Techs, Cadets, Guards,
and Scientists exit the Aquabase safely. Kelsey
and Chad report to Fairweather. “Everyone's out of sectors two and three,” Kelsey says. “Great!”
Angela says. “That should be it!" “Let's
get out of here!” Joel says eagerly. The
five of them begin to head out the back door, when Angela stops them. "Wait! Where's Captain Mitchell?" In
Rescue Ops, Captain Mitchell stands expressionless as the base slowly crumbles around him. Angela leads the four Ranger Recruits
in, and watching as Mitchell begins to clench his fist, she asks, "Captain! What are you doing?" “Everything
i've worked so hard for . . .” he says. “Is gone." Dana
walks past her teammates and approaches her father. "That's not true, dad." She reaches up and turns his head towards her.
"You still have Ryan, and me. And Miss Fairweather, and the other Rangers count on you." Before
they can move, the Lifeforce Megazord swings its Saber around, attacking another one of the towers. Ops is shaken, and they
turn their attention upward. Outside, the Lifeforce Megazord maneuvers itself around into position, several batlings hard
at work in the cockpit. One turns and lifts its arms, prompting another, the one with the green cord attached to its neck,
to squelch and grab the control stick. The
Megazord reaches down with its left arm, and wraps its fingers around the Connecting Tube to the Aquabase. Joel and Fairweather
listen cautiously as the battering against the base continues. The Lifeforce Megazord, holding onto the tube, floats in the
water for a moment, before slamming both feet back on the ground. Dana
hurries over to one of the windows. "It's gonna hit the Connecting Tube!" Indeed
it is, as the Lifeforce Megazord readies the long glass tunnel like a piece of sausage, and chops it in half with its Saber.
It breaks off from the center dome, the one containing Rescue Ops. Its destruction causes the strongest vibrations into there
yet, knocking tons of debris all around, some of it falling on Mitchell and the rangers as they topple to the floor. Joel
covers Angela, trying to protect her as best he can. Two
or three more violent shakes to the base later, the main power supply cuts off, leaving them in Rescue Ops, lit only by the
many console lights. Joel continues holding Angela, when a large sheet of metal drops down over the last unsealed door. Chad
quickly darts across the sparking room, and hits a button on one of the upper controls. This causes the broken porthole to
seal up with a smaller metal shutter, blocking out the bazooka-batling from his next blast attempt. Chad breathes heavily, and states, "That should do it." "I
don't think so,” Joel says. “We need to clear this!" He walks over to where that sheet of metal and other debris
fell. Kelsey and Fairweather try helping him free the backdoor, but its no use. The debris won't budge, and besides, as Joel
points out, "The Connecting Tube's destroyed! We're trapped in here." Suddenly
the dome is rocked by another hit. The sound of silence following is torn apart by the creaking of glass. Dana turns and spots
one of the windows in Ops, as it begins to slowly form a large crack in it. She walks closer, as does her father, Fairweather,
and her teammates, witnessing the break in the window in terror. Tiny air bubbles are beginning to seep out of the crack on
the ocean side of the window. -- Meanwhile,
in Skull Cavern, Carter walks unmorphed through the misty rooms of the Cavern. "Where is everyone?" he asks himself. He
hides behind a pillar as he hears he sound of many batlings screeching from nearby. The batlings are there, hundreds of thousands
of them, all inside a vast arena. Several small torches are all that light the location, which Carter spies on with his eyes
wide and his jaw dropped. At the center of the arena is Queen Bansheera and Jinxer. The millions of batlings in the audience
wave their bat-blades around in cheer. Bansheera
proclaims, "The time has come to take Mariner Bay! Victory is at hand!" She presses her lengthy-fingered hand to her chest
after saying this. "Soon our glorious palace will arise from the ashes of their destruction! Nothing can stop us now!" The
batlings cheer wickedly, Bansheera laughs evilly, and Carter's attention turns to a room to the side. Inside this room, is
a large Egyptian sarcophagus, some flaming torches, a mummified demon of some kind, and many piles of human bones adorning
the top of a large coffin. This coffin sits a few feet away from Ryan, who is being held there, chained with his arms against
two low block columns. Ryan
collapses to his knees from exhaustion, and one of his batling guards forces him to stand back up. He opens his weary eyes,
just in time to see Carter come rolling onto the scene, taking both of the batlings down with a few swift hits. He snatches
the key out of the second one's hand, and proceeds to free Ryan. “Am
I glad to see you!” Ryan says in relief. “You got here just in time. The Queen's going to start the ceremony when
the solar eclipse happens.” Carter
pauses. “But that's today!" "That's
why we have to hurry,” Ryan says. Once freed, he clutches his aching arms, as he and Carter stare at the boney demon
coffin. Mist rolls off the top of its human skeleton decorated cover, sending a chill down both Rangers' spines. “We'll
figure out a way to stop her,” Carter says. “First we better get out of here." He
helps Ryan along, and they're about to escape, when Jinxer's voice is overheard nearby. "Everything is going as planned, my
queen!” Carter peeks his head around a column to see what's going on, and witnesses Queen Bansheera, her body hovering
high above a set of pillars. She
replies to her servant, "Excellent. No go! You must begin to put the stones in place!" Jinxer
obeys saying, "As you command." He then turns to the Batlings and screams, "You heard the Queen! Now move it!" The Batlings
quickly disperse at his order. Carter
looks at Ryan after this. "Follow me." Queen
Bansheera floats over into the room where Ryan was being held and finds Ryan still in the place he should be. The Queen lowers
herself to the ground with maniacal laughter, and stands in front of the boney coffin, tapping her fingertips and boasting,
"I have waited a long time for this day to arrive." She turns and walks towards Ryan, causing him to fake angrily struggling
as she says, "Imagine the destruction, as I release every horrid creature upon your pitiful Earth! What a shame you won't
be around to celebrate with us!” She laughs. Carter’s
eyes peek out through the eyeslots of one of the sarcophagus, as he views the Queen's gloating. Somehow, be it a reflexed
signal from the malfunctioning Aquabase, or simply he leaned against it, but his Rescue Morpher suddenly beeps. He jerks around
in the sarcophagus, alerting Bansheera to wonder, "What was that?" Carter's nervous fidgeting causes the Queen to realize
his location, as she taps her fingers together and approaches Carter with evil glee, noting, "We have us a visitor!" With
no way out, Carter whispers, "Now, Ryan!" Ryan,
who had been sweating Carter's discovery, grips the two chain-cuffs holding his wrists unsecured, and snaps out of them. He
then rushes over and tosses a leap kick at Queen Bansheera. She's knocked around, and when her attention is turned to Ryan,
this allows Carter opportunity to bust out of his shell and slam his feet into her backside as well, before landing perfectly
next to his teammate. Ryan and Carter look at each other, arms poised for battle, and nod. Batlings
suddenly swarm in, prompting Queen Bansheera to point out, "You're outnumbered by a million to one!" "We
won't let you get away with this!" Ryan says. "Right!"
Carter agrees, before hitting his Morpher and shouting, "Lightspeed Rescue!" He morphs. "Titanium
Power!" Ryan shouts, and he morphs into the Titanium Ranger. Bansheera orders the Batlings to get the Red and Titanium Rangers,
which they do. -- Elsewhere,
in the city of Mariner Bay, the Lightspeed damage control crew has just about completed their work on the downed Omega Megazord.
Just when the orange flag waver guy is about to pack up his things, Jinxer and some Batlings teleport down on the flatbed
truck right behind him. He's frightened, and ends picked up and chucked over the side. The batlings harass the men, smacking
them around, and even stomping one on the chest. Jinxer orders them to follow him, "Batlings, let's go!" They do so, tagging
along with the final living henchdemon, as he rushes into the head of the Omega Megazord. Inside
the cockpit of the Omega Megazord, Jinxer sits at the controls, cautiously pressing a few buttons. The batlings have taken
their seats, though aren't violently rowdy like those piloting the Lifeforce Megazord are. Jinxer is enjoying this, remarking,
"Ooo! I've wanted to fly one these since I was a kid!" -- Over
in Skull Cavern, Carter rips into as many Batlings as he can, but doesn’t use any of his vast arsenal of weapons. Eventually,
a Batling swipes him in the chest with a Bat-blade, and he winds up being pinned against a pillar by two of them. Titanium
Ranger gets bashed into the air, smashing his body against a column, knocking it down. Both
rangers are now restrained in place by batlings, prompting Queen Bansheera to fire a double discharge blast at them with her
mighty hands. Red and Titanium Ranger are blasted backwards, and dropped to the floor. They struggle to stand, but can muster
up no more strength, both lying in the mist until batlings rush over and pick them up. "You're
finished!” Bansheera says. “Mariner Bay is mine!" She points them to the viewing screen, which shows the Omega
Megazord in action in the city. “We even have control of your Zords!" "This
can't be happening!" Ryan exclaims, stunned. -- That he does, causing the Omega Megazord to slam the stone down into the streets, the
backlash from the sudden slamming causes quite a few of the citizens below to be pummeled with debris. The stone, which is
as tall as the buildings, is long, and made of rock. It's just slightly smaller than the Omega Megazord, which turns, and
slowly marches off to retrieve the second stone. The
citizens of Mariner Bay begin to panically flee down the streets, what they do best. Queen Bansheera commends her lackey,
"Jinxer, you've done it!" "Thank
you, my queen!” he replies, with his Batling copilots all giving him a round of applause. He adds, "I'm putting the
stones in place as instructed!" In
Skull Cavern, Bansheera exclaims, "Yes! Once the circle of stone is complete the ceremony will be able to begin. And no one
will have the power stop me, not even you!" She lifts her hands and fires another double douse of thunderous electricity.
One blast of energy for each of the two Rangers, knocking them clear of the batlings that were restraining them. The two rangers
are struck so hard by these attacks, that they're actually blown out of Skull Cavern, shooting off from the skullface's eye
sockets. Ryan and Carter spin around in the air, screaming, as they plummet down into the wasteland surrounding the Cavern.
-- In
Mariner Bay, the Omega Megazord caused a building to explode as it makes way for the second of the large stones. The people
run for their lives, but all the running in the world won't help them soon enough. Finally, back under the bay, the Lifeforce
Megazord continues bashing its Saber into the shattering hull of the Lightspeed Aquabase. Chad
and Kelsey rise from their places sitting on the floor as they witness something awful. Dana and Captain Mitchell are next
to each other, with Dana gasping aloud at what she sees. The crack in the window has given way to the point that Rescue Ops
is taking on water. It begins to pour slowly down the side of the wall, frying with some of the electrical circuits it rolls
over. Our helpless heroes watch as the water drips faster and faster into the Aquabase. Ms. Fairweather clutches Joel's hand
in fear, as the others rise to the feet and await the inevitable. -- TO
BE CONTINUED -- |
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