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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[morphmasters]

Three little Zords. Interesting.

With a mighty roar, their opponent introduced himself.

"You shall submit to me, King Zod! Take THIS!"

The first new test---a spray of grenades from his mighty jaw spread everywhere, causing boundless destruction in the district. It was interrupted only when a strike from Nightgale knocked him off course. He responded by jumping right back up, uncurling into something more like an S-shape. A...snake. With feet. Its tail lashed at the gathered Zords.

[songoku]

Yeah, uh. Funny thing about letting some kid from the boondocks pilot his own giant robot: Goku didn't actually have any idea how to pilot giant robots. So mostly what he did was press random buttons and controls.

His Zord was doing an awkward version of the Dougie when King Zod's tail hit it in the face.

[appletastic]

Applejack and her little Zord happened to be underfoot, catching Goku's.

Hey! Get back up, c'mon!

She responded by hitting the controls on hers haphazardly, kicking a few boulders at Zod. Hopefully that would buy them enough time to get up.

Just what in the hay was happening? She could hardly believe she was controlling something that many times bigger, that it was attacking for her.

Little overwhelming, ain't it?

[twistingyourreality]

This is HELLA fun! Nightgale made sure to stay on the outskirts of the fight, making full use of her ranged capabilities already knowing that she wasn't a close quarters combatant.

She sent another array of plasma shots towards the behemoth that was attacking the group, following it up with a short burst of blue fire before using her stealth to hide away from battle once again. She needed to give the zord time to charge up the weapons once more which was fine by her, she preferred the hit and move method anyways. It was more her style being a sneak herself.

This is definitely an interesting turn of events, hehehe...

[songoku]

Goku managed to get the Zord sort of under control with Applejack's help, but it was still quite obvious that although he was highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, maybe he shouldn't try driving until he was older.

Like 40.

By sheer dumb luck, he found a bright glowing button and pressed it. An energy beam fired out of his Zord's mouth, in the general direction of their enemy. Progress!

[morphmasters]

What lucky shots those were! Now riddled with small holes and one bigger one, the swiss cheese-resembling Zod ambles toward them, attempting one more desperate move: a bodyslam on Gale's Zord from above. It concentrates all its attack power on that Zord, hoping to blow away the person inside.

[twistedreality]

Nightgale had been around long enough to know her strengths and weaknesses inside and out. She wasn't strong, definitely not strong enough to go one on one with something like this. But what she lacked in strength she made up for in speed and cleverness.

The bodyslam landed right on the mark, that is, it landed right on the spot where Nightgale's zord had been at. Except that the image of her zord shifted in and out now that Zod was right on her. The illusion slowly dissipates as Nightgale smirks from the safety of her cloaking field.

That ought to leave him confused long enough for the others to have a go at him.

[songoku]

By now, Goku had at least figured out how to move the Zord (sort of). So he did the only thing he knew how -- charged full-tilt at the enemy, aiming for a bodyslam of his own.

"Hey, you big ol' dummy! Take this!"