Fight!

[morphmasters]

The final claiming of Earth has begun, or so our dear villains believe. As far as they're aware, there are no Rangers left to stop the invasion. Now it's simply a matter of 'persuading' humanity to surrender. Rita and company charge in, guns blazing so to speak. Their presence is quickly felt in Angel Grove's business district, turning over statues, flipping cars, and trapping citizens until they cower together in the fountain for shelter.

Unfortunately, there's a wrench in that plan arriving. Streaks of colored light hit the sky---white, black, red, orange, yellow, pink, blue. A horde of humanoids (and one pony) stand in the center of the action, witnessing all the damage. They've been given just their morphers and some cryptic advice: rely on the Power, it will protect you.

It was time to find out just how far their power could take them. Could this Earth be saved after all?

[ooc: Thread it up! Run away, challenge baddies! I'll put up one or two threads for my own NPCing, but feel free to NPC your own monsters in your tags. The Zord battle section will be posted later, so watch this post! Villains, feel free to come down and taunt for some interaction as well.]

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The Fountain

[morphmasters]

There's a whole horde of simple gray humanoid monsters dancing around the fountain, taunting the terrified people tied to the statue of a bull in the center. Care to rescue them, Rangers?

[legacyyellow]

When there are victims involved, Trini knows where her priorities lie. As the Yellow Ranger, she makes a straight line to the fountain, calling out to the--are those putties?

"Hey! Over here guys!" She taunted her adversaries, hoping to take their attention off the poor civilians tied to the statue.

[morphitudinous]

Over the chaos of the battle, Billy doesn't quite hear the voice. He ducks, allows the putties to roll off him, and stabs with abandon. His priorities are to show the new Rangers what to do and finish this quickly, and he really doesn't want a drawn-out fight.

As he works closer to the center, he sees a familiar helmet. Naturally, he moved to stand a few feet from her and called out.

"I'll get the other half, A----"

He remembers now how serious this situation is. Probably better not to risk giving their identities away. He simply nods at the Ranger he thinks is Aisha and moves in, drawing the baddies out with a crooked finger.

[legacyyellow]

She nods, "Understood!" And leads her half of the putties away from the fountain and leading them to the street.

Typically she'd say to look both ways, but if there's any chance of incoming traffic, she'll want these suckers to ran straight into it.

With a burst of speed and lithe movement, she flips over a parked car, jumping onto its hood. With as little room as there is for her, only one putty would be able to make it up at a time, which means she can taken them down without so much as breaking a sweat.

[morphitudinous]

Billy makes quick work of his half of the group, though he gets some banging-up for his trouble. After one particularly outrageous throw over a car, he comes back swinging.

He watches the Yellow Ranger go with a little smile. One Putty attempts to climb the trunk and the other tries to attack from the side, but their attempts on her ankles are clumsy. Billy knows she can take it.

He just dodges being thrown aside---there, dispatch of them too. But that's when he notices something. Aisha's a dancer. Her movements in battle are sweeping and almost rhythmic. The Ranger in front of him is direct in battle. No less graceful, but clearly a martial artist.

Trini...?

He's energized even more to finish this battle quickly. He's grateful that anyone he knows is still alive, but he really needs to talk to Trini.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Those putties remind Yukiko of shadows. She hates the little buggers without a doubt so Putties would bother her too. But unlike the other rangers, Yukiko...doesn't call them out. Probably if she did it back home, it would be a bigger mess than expected. Instead, the red ranger snuck behind one of them and give it a good slash with her new razor fans.

Some of the people seemed to be a little surprised at the sudden appearance of some kid in spandex but nonetheless, she was here to help. Get rid of lackeys first then free the people. Sounds easy but even she doesn't know what she's doing.

[linefacingforever]

Yu isn't much better off -- when they showed up here and he called for Izanagi, he was expecting his Persona to appear, not... this. Still, it was... pretty awesome... (okay, who was he kidding, his inner fanboy was screeching in glee right now) but still a bit confusing as to how his powers had been tampered with to end up like this.

Right now though, they had more immediate concerns, such as the shadow-like putties. Izanagi's blade was a little larger and slightly more unwieldy than he was used to, but he faked knowing how to use it properly... fairly well? At least he hasn't dropped it, and the putties are proving to be an excellent place to stick it so he can readjust his grip when he needs to.

He ripped the blade out of one, pausing to glance at Yukiko. He gave her a nod, trying to offer her some of his confidence.

"Just like the TV world."

[morphmasters]

How's this for TV? A group of them move in, attempting to pick up the new Rangers and toss them in the fountain. A bit of fun first, then maybe some skewering---they huddle closer together now, trying to keep the heroes from swinging their blades so easily in the open.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Yeah, try as you might Putty but there is no way Yukiko is getting in that water. But there was something nagging in the back of her mind, almost guiding her to try something she had never done without her persona. She couldn't explain it but the girl felt a warm sensation throughout her entire body. Is this what they meant by the Power guiding them?

Yukiko put her hand on the closest foot soldier and shouted:

"Agidyne!"

Suddenly...the Putty was ablaze, startling the other ones and possibly caught on fire as well.

The Bank

[morphmasters]

Elsewhere, the little soldiers are having a field day at the bank! They carry large sackfuls of cash out, raining cash confetti in the streets and thwapping anyone who dares oppose them with heavy bags of coins.

Re: The Bank

[appletastic]

"Oh no you don't!"

Applejack responds by bucking bags of coins back at the attackers. Some of them fall, and she lets out a whoop of joy. But there's the problem of how the other monsters will react...

"Get out of here!" she yells to the passing folk in the street. Human they might be, and she's heard that she shouldn't trust them, but she doesn't like to see them get burned. For their part, they don't seem to take her seriously.

...Uh oh.

The Street

[morphmasters]

Cars are being overturned, oh no! This is the most dangerous group of all. Little gray soldiers attack cars mercilessly, some with passengers still in them. Terrified people are thrown across the street as their cars are set on fire, creating a delicious backdrop of chaos and burning money.

Re: The Street

[songoku]

Danger? Danger was Goku's middle name (okay not really), and in this instance, at least, it was clear who the bad guys were. He held his bo out in front of him in a ready stance, somersaulting onto the top of a parked car to shout at the nearest group of gray guys.

"Hey, you! Quit pickin' on people! If you're lookin' for a fight, it's right here!"

[morphmasters]

In response, the baddies simply shrugged. A group of about five decided to charge Goku, using their bodies as blunt weapons. For clay, it made surprisingly solid noises when it hit things.

Two attempted to grab Goku from each side while the others moved in.

[twistedreality]

G was sitting in the sidelines, hidden away by his clever illusions as he watched the battle unfold. He wanted to make sure he knew what was going on as well as seeing just how well these other 'chosen' fought.

Nightgale was not about to risk her neck out for weaklings, though she did have an eye on the child. He'd be the only one she'd probably go out of her way to save. Him or any other children in the line of danger that she could spot.

[songoku]

Goku broke out into a wide, excited grin; nothing like a good fight to get the blood pumping! "Nyoi-bo, extend!"

The staff in his hands grew rapidly in length, catching one of his opponents in the stomach and knocking the clay body aside. Using the bo as an impromptu pole vault, Goku quickly skipped ahead to the top of another car a short distance away, further from any bystanders that might remain on the street.

"Heh heh! Come an' get it!"

The High-End Furniture Store

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The furniture store was a flurry of violent activity, as a round dozen people ran in and out of it -- and 'people' in this case included several humanoid demons, a few stitched-together peg-legged penguins, a cat-kid, a gargoyle, a corn man, and two massive cat-beast-sort-of-things. They were emptying out the armchair section of the store, each of them hauling a seat outside with no regard for its weight.

"None of these are thrones, damn it," growled the Overlord, who had parked himself on the comfiest chair they'd brought out and was now angrily rejecting the furniture they brought out. "Isn't there anything with at least a couple of carved skulls or something?"

[appletastic]

Applejack vaulted over chair after chair, looking quite disturbed. "Don't think they sell that kind around here. Why don't you make your own?"

She kicked one hard, knocking aside a few of the smaller baddies like bowling pins.

[dragonspooker]

"ELMEKIA LANCE!"

A long bolt of yellow energy knocks one poor mook out from under his recliner before he could set it down, and the source of the blast of magic dropped in out of the air, landing in the now-grounded seat - and rather pleased at just how nice it was.

"...they're not thrones, but they are pretty nice chairs, gotta admit that."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, it is pretty comfy. Reclines pretty decently." Zetta flipped the lever on the side; the chair thumped back obligingly, sprawling his legs out.

"Uh, just checking, you guys are the heroes, and not just fervent shoppers attempting to get a deal, right?"

[appletastic]

Applejack attempted to buck a table leg at his head.

"The only deal we've made is to stop you from wreckin' this here city."

Battle on!

[morphmasters]

There's a commotion on the moon. Our baddies at the base are very, very unhappy with the tide of the battle. In some cases, there's a group of punk kids fighting them without even morphing! In others, random new Rangers have reappeared.

"I thought you killed them all," roared one voice, a great commotion occurring as a staff was thrown.

"We did!" whined two smaller voices.

"Obviously not!" was the first one's response, and lo, he was taking over this fight for himself. He broke off the head of his staff, attached a magical grenade to it, and lobbed it right out the window and toward Earth.

There's now a giant Z-shaped snake-monster walking about on two legs, biting everything that comes near its mouth and trampling countless cars.

The Rangers then each hear a message---the morphed ones hear it within their helmets, and the ones who haven't yet morphed hear a ringing of their phone or other communication device. Alpha almost yelps at them, frantic.

Rangers, call your Zords! Use their power to defeat him!

Re: Battle on!

[songoku]

By this time, Goku had managed to blunder into morphing, although he looked a little awkward, unaccustomed as he was to fighting with a helmet on.

"Hey!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Come out, Zord!"

...Luckily, his Zord wasn't too picky. A large golden ape-like machine rose up in the distance, baring its fangs in a loud roar.

[morphitudinous]

Billy followed, hollering for a 'triceratops unicorn thunderzord power!'

Yes, a very silly mouthful that is. He slid into the cockpit, the unicorn gliding into battle alongside the ape. Safe inside, Billy launched a few boulder attacks at the towering Z-monster. Good thing those torn up streets were giving him rocks to use.

You should have some kind of laser or other long range attack. Don't be afraid to use it! Billy suggested to the newer Rangers, tension running high. He hoped they could get this.

[twistedreality]

Huh, interesting... So these powers came with the addition of a giant machine? Not bad... Not bad at all... G wonders if he could use the machine at will now that he has the powers... and what kind of mischief and chaos he could brew with... wait. What did he have anyways?

Guess there's only one way to find out. What was the procedure? First morphing...

"Morph in," he said in a hushed tone, smirking as the power surged through him and his visage was replaced by that of the fox masked ranger in black with red trim. Her form also went into her Zoroark body, apparently morhphing into the ranger outfit caused her to go into her real form. She'd have to remember that next time so she can keep morphing away from others to try and keep her secret safe.

Now that she was a ranger, all she had to do was call the Zord right?

"Let's create some fun chaos Zord!" came her more natural, femenine voice and soon enough a giant fox mech made it's way towards Nightgale, to which she jumped in the cockpit with a mischievous smile.

Now this... I can get used to. Now that she was commanding her zord, Nightgale shifted it into stealth and went around back to get a suprise attack in while hidden.