//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Ninja Kidz TV: Legend of Harmony Force // by Adamverse //------------------------------// The Power Rangers teleport off Earth and past the moon; and they were noticed by the moon’s residents. Lord Zedd, Rita Replusa, Goldar and Doom watched from their balcony, the rangers flew past them and off into space. When Zedd and Rita reunited after ten thousand years apart, they made a base for themselves on the moon; much more to their liking then all the caves Rita just hid in since her return. Rita was the first one to say, “I can’t believe it. How could he let them slip away; why, he’s no better than the rest of the hired help around here.” “Oh, give it a rest.” Zedd replied. Doom then tried to calm Rita down, “Not to worry, my queen; I’m sure this is just part of his plan.” “You know Doom.” Rita began saying. “Its times like this I wish I could remember the reason why I resurrected you.” The four of them then turned to the entrance to their chamber, it opened by itself and let King Sombra into the room. The King of Monsters put on a smile as he looked around; he actually admired the decor of Zedd’s castle. Sombra stated, “Amazing; much more tasteful then my old lair.” The dark unicorn thought for a moment, “Then again, it was the underworld after all.” Zedd and Rita marched towards Sombra, demanding some answers; Rita stated, “You horn headed simpleton; the rangers have fled the planet.” She then turned to her husband, “I thought you said this guy was the king of all monsters and evil; why, he’s nothing but poor excuse for a…” Before she could finish, Sombra didn’t want to hear the end of that, so he used his horn and magic to make Rita’s mouth disappear. She shook her hands and tried to scream, but she had no mouth to do so; Goldar and Doom were secretly laughing. “Finally, someone who can shut her up.” Zedd said in relief. “You’re whining is getting very dull, my dear.” Sombra stated. The dark unicorn walked closer to the group and explained his intentions. “You two obviously need to learn what it truly means to be a dark ruler. I believe the circumstances force us to choose a new leader; and I pick…..me.” Sombra laughed at his own remark; as he walked away, Rita’s mouth returned. But now, Zedd was starting to get angry; he muttered, “Who does this horse think he’s dealing with?” Sombra had the nerves to walk up to Lord Zedd’s throne, he jumped up onto it and sat down; the king explained, “The King of all Monsters, is taking over.” “No one double crosses Lord Zedd and lives!” Zedd cried, he used his staff to blast a bolt of dark energy at Sombra; however, Sombra just used his magic to create a force field. When Zedd stopped blasting, Sombra chuckled before saying, “My turn.” Rita and Zedd had no chance of escape, Sombra used his magic to turn them both to stone; Goldar and Doom watched their masters turn from their leaders to stone statues. Sombra smiled at his fine work, he said, “Oh, I love garden décor.” After admiring the statues, he then turned to the two monsters that were left, “Now you two have a choice, you can either serve me, or join your friends.” Sombra explained as his eyes and horn started glowing. “Uh, we never liked those dingle-dorks in the first place.” Goldar replied. “You said it, they stink.” Doom followed up with. These comments made Sombra smile; Goldar then asked, “So, what are we going to do about the Power Rangers, oh my great master?” The king stood up again and replied, “Ah yes, the Power Rangers.” And that’s when something caught Sombra’s eye. Above the room, the décor was made up of statues, creatures that were half man, half bird. Sombra used his magic to blast the statues, he then levitated them to the ground; after blasting them with more magic. After a few seconds, the stone went away, and all that was left was…. Monsters bird men, flapping about and screeching like crows; Sombra approached his new minions and shouted, “Quiet!” the bird men were silent and listened to their master. “Now, my Gyruta Warriors; you will fly after the rangers, you find out where they are going, and you will tear them apart.” Sombra ordered. The Gyrutas then ran for the balcony and jumped, they then flapped their wings and began flying in the same direction of the Power Rangers; all Sombra did was laugh like the villain he was as they flew away. Meanwhile, across the galaxy, the Power Rangers had arrived at their destination. The team of heroes touched down on the planet’s surface, the last of the energy disappeared; the rangers looked at their surroundings, they were in a large forest. The trees were huge, the bushes seemed like they went on forever and the sounds coming from the distance were like nothing from Earth. “I think we’re here.” Kimberly said. Jason stepped in front of the group, he and the others didn’t notice Trini walk off; Jason explained, “We should try and find a way out of this forest, then we can start looking for this great power.” Suddenly, Trini came running back towards the group; she said, “Guys, hide; something’s coming.” The rangers did as instructed and duck into one of the bushes; they waited for the thing Trini saw to go away. Zack wanted to get a closer look at this thing; he poked his head out of the bush slightly, but when he saw what it was, he got a real shock. This creature was something he had never seen before; it was walking on for legs, and it had three heads. It was a giant tiger with a goat head sticking out of its shoulder, with a snake for a tail; the creature growled as it walked past. “What the heck is that?” Zack asked, terrified. Billy poked his head out of the bush and saw it as well, somehow, he knew what it was. “That is called a Chimera.” Tommy then asked, “How do you know?” “Am I the only one that paid attention in that class about Greek myths and monsters?” Billy replied with. When the Chimera walked away, the rangers knew it was safe to come out of hiding; Jason stepped forward and explained again, “We should get out of here before that thing comes back.” “Or before something much worse comes along.” Tommy replied with. The Power Rangers found a dirt path and began following it to, hopefully the exit; but what they didn’t know, was that from a distance, something was watching them. A humanoid figure in a cloak was watching the rangers leave; while keeping a safe distance, it followed them. Back on Earth, Sombra was ready to put his plan into motion; the king had broken into an abandoned chemicals factory, he was using it for his base of operation. But in order for him to begin his plan for world domination, as much as he hated to admit it, he would need some help. He needed to grow his Tartarus Titans in order to use them to attack this planet, but he had no way of doing that. “Taking over the world is one thing; but finding people to do it for you, that’s the killer.” Sombra explained, sighing as he said so. Doom and Goldar were there with him; Doom stepped forward and asked, “Would you like me to make a few calls?” Sombra turned to the two monsters and replied, “No need, I’m going to recruit the parents of Angel Grove.” “Uh, no offence boss; but they might find you a little freaky.” Goldar explained. “Well I suppose you’d be the expert on that.” Sombra then levitated Doom in the air to prove a point. “You forget, I’m a master of the dark mystic arts.” He then dropped Doom. The horned monster replied, “How could I forget, I never knew.” King Sombra walked along a catwalk over the vats of old chemicals, he explained his master plan, “First, I’ll turn them into zombies; and then order them to work this factory, to begin hatching my titans.” He used his magic to make two egg shaped items appear; one was black like tar, while the other was orange like lava. Goldar then asked, “How are you going to pull this off?” “By showing the parents the wonders of being wicked; with a little help from the knowledge I gained battling humans for a year.” Sombra then blasted one of the machines with his magic, the contraption then started working again; it began filling an empty vat with a strange green liquid. Sombra then blasted the cogs and wheels behind Goldar and Doom, they started spinning and the whole factory started working again. “Finally I can finish what I started six long years ago.” Sombra stated. “Little do these humans know, they’re about to help end their own world.” The King of Monsters then started laughing at his statement, the two monsters behind him began laughing as well. Until Sombra said, “Stop it, get to work.” “Yes, your royal heinous-highness.” Doom replied. The Power Rangers were wandering through the trees, hoping to find some kind of that they were going the right way; but all they could see was forest. As they kept walking, the entered a large open area; they could look up and see the sky. As the other rangers pressed on, Kimberly sat down on a rock she found to think for a second; Jason noticed this and went over to talk to her. “Hey, you okay, Kim?” he asked her. Kimberly replied, “I was just thinking about Zordon; and everything we’ve been through together.” Jason understood; he remembered the day Billy found the Power Coins, and then the next day they fought Putties for the first time, and then they met Zordon. Trying to comfort her sister, Jason explained, “Don’t worry, we’ll find this power; and then we’ll send that freak King Sombra back to the underworld where belongs. And then Zordon will rise again, and we’ll continue to be the Power Rangers, once again.” Once they were done talking, the two were ready to join the rest of the group; however, when Kimberly turned around, she screamed. The two of them ducked as a giant bird came flying towards them; it just missed them and flew over their heads. “Whoa, what was that?” they looked up again and saw more of those birds flying around; their screeching caught the attention of the other rangers as well. Trini was the first to notice that these birds looked more like men; she turned to Billy and asked, “Do you think these are more locals?” “Too early to tell.” Billy replied. It was clear that these things weren’t friendly, it was Sombra Gyruta Warriors, they’d found the rangers; when one of them caught close to the ground, it stopped flapping its wings and tackled Tommy to the ground. One of them tackled Zack; and then another one tackled Trini. All the birds were landing and attacking the rangers; they tried to fight back the best they could, but without their powers, they could fight as good. Jason managed to kick one of them off Tommy, but it didn’t stay down. A Gyruta was flying right towards Billy, but the Blue Ranger managed to jump out of the way; causing the bird to fly right into a tree. “You wanna know a funny thing about morphing?” Billy asked. “What’s that?” Tommy replied. “You don’t appreciate it until you can’t do it anym…” Before he could finish, Billy was knocked down by one of the birds; then Tommy was hit and knocked over again. The Gyrutas were grabbing the rangers and trying to hold them still so they could attack them; but the rangers were trying to fight back. Whilst trying to fight, Kimberly didn’t notice one of them flying up behind her; before any of her friends could warn her, the bird used his talon feet to grab her by her shoulders and lift her into the air. She screamed slightly as she was hoisted away; Kim called out, “Somebody help me!” But no one else could, they had their own problems; Trini shouted, “They’re too strong!” “We need our powers!” Zack cried. Kimberly was being lifted higher and higher; she shouted, “Uh, let me go, big bird!” When suddenly, something caught everything’s attention; the cloaked figure who had been following the rangers came from behind a tree and shouted, “Leave them alone!” The Gyruta then dropped Kimberly and flew towards the figure. But when the bird got close enough, the cloaked figure jumped up and over the bird; letting it crash into a bush. The figure then pulled something out of his pocket, it looked like a cell phone; he opened the device and typed in a number code. The figure then did a strange hand gesture while saying, “Magical Source, Harmony Force!” Red energy then consumed the cloak man, and encasing him in red armour; the figure then shouted his title, “Burning Heart of Chaos, Draconnequus Warrior; Defender of Equestria!” All the ranger got away from the birds, they were able to get a good look at the one the Gyrutas were all focused on now. Trini asked, “Is that a Power Ranger?” “I don’t know, but that armour looks epic.” Zack replied. Using the sword and shield in his hands, the warrior began his fight with the birds. One tried to attack him, but with one slash from his sword, the bird was knocked down; he swung his sword again and struck down three more of them. The warrior then jumped over the rest and landed behind them, he turned back to them and aimed his shield at the birds. “Chaos Blast!” he shouted, his shield opened and blast of red fire was released, blasting the Gyrutas. When it seemed like the birds had no chance at beating this thing, they did the smart thing and started flying away; the warrior ran after them, until they were too high to follow anymore. “And don’t come back!” the warrior shouted, pointing his sword at them; he then placed his sword and shield on a holder on the back of his armour The rangers approached the warrior; Tommy stepped forward and said, “That was amazing, thanks.” He reached his hand out, wanting a hand shake; but the warrior just turned to them and slapped his hand away. The warrior explained, “If you humans want to thank me; go back to Earth where you belong.” “We can’t go back.” Trini replied. “We were told there was a great power here, is it true?” Billy then asked. The warrior replied, “Yes, everything you see before you, is held together and was created by the power; and you really think you’re worthy enough to take it?” Jason then stepped forward and explained, “Trust us, we’re worthy.” Suddenly, Jason was tripped over by something and fell on his back; the warrior drew his sword and held it on Jason’s chest. “Leave Equestria, I won’t ask you again.” Things were escalating now, so Trini stepped forward and explained, “Look, we don’t want any trouble; are leader Zordon got hu…” “Zordon?” The Warrior then replied. “Did you say ‘Zordon’?” Kimberly replied, “You know Zordon?” The warrior took his sword of Jason and allowed him to get up, he then explained, “Not directly; but if I understand the legends, he began the Power Rangers. And if it weren’t for Power Rangers, I wouldn’t be on this planet; so in a small way, I owe him everything.” Zack then asked, “Who are you?” Thinking it was time, the warrior put his sword away and removed his helmet; the rangers were greeted by a human man, brown hair, blues eyes and glasses. This man explained, “I am Adam, last of the Harmony Force Power Rangers and the Draconnequus Warrior, protector of this world and the great power.” Adam then asked, “Tell me, what’s happened to Zordon?” “He was attack by this freaky unicorn, named King Sombra.” Tommy explained. Suddenly, Adam’s mood changed from curious to worried, “King Sombra is back?” “You’ve heard of him?” Zack asked. Adam replied, “Heard of him; I fought him, me and my team were the ones who defeated him. If we don’t hurry, Earth is doomed. Follow me.” Adam then lead the team of rangers through the forest to where they could make a plan; because with what lied ahead, they would need on.