Power Rangers: Lightning Strikes ✔️

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Masked Hero

"Tara!" yells Colby causing Tara to briefly jump as she looked at her ring. A projector appeared before her with Colby sitting at the computer. "There's a situation, the mirror monster has trapped the rangers in different dimensions each one facing their biggest fears, you have to be quick Tara" says Colby. "The rangers need the mirror now!"

"I know I know!" exclaims Tara as she had finally stumbled across a large part of the cave. Hanging on the wall she saw the mirror of Destiny, it's golden frame glistened in the flashlight. "I found it!" hanging up on Colby, she raced over and pulled the mirror off the cave wall. When she looked into it, the mirror began to glisten and ripple. As she watched, she saw that there was a battle and fifteen rangers seven or eight of which wore a different styled uniform compared to her team. She saw explosions happen as the mirror paned over to a group of not only Lucifer's monsters and henchmen but also strange creatures that she did not recognize. Once the mirror stopped showing the scene it went back to normal. Happy that she had gotten her hands on the mirror, before she left, the mirror shrunk to the size of a hand mirror which was small enough for it to fit in her backpack. Stuffing the mirror carefully in the backpack, she left the cave but before she could head back to the swamp, she was shot at causing her to step back and block with her free hand. Standing not too far ahead of her was Sammy and a woman.

"Thank you for helping us get that mirror Pink ranger, but I think it belongs to us," says Sammy. Tara held her arms up and formed a fist with her hand.

"Really?" says Sammy. "One puny ranger can't stop me," he continued. "Dark angels! Rise!" the dark angels rose from the ground fully armed. Tara was in shock how could she fight so many enemies at once. Before she could morph, suddenly out in the corner of her eye, Tara saw a purple streak fly through the air and shoot arrows directly at the enemy briefly blinding them. The purple streak she saw landed in front of Tara and faced Sammy. The purple ranger had a sash that went across her chest and purple color surrounding the sash. The purple ranger's helmet had an owl shape on it.

"What?!" exclaims Sammy shocked. "No one said anything about a purple ranger!"

"I'll see you back at the house babe," says Meg who quickly turned into black smoke and disappeared. Before Sammy could react the purple ranger launched her attack against Sammy. Sammy, who was too stunned to even react quickly snapped out of his shock and began fighting the purple ranger. Seeing that the purple ranger needed some help, Tara joined in on the fight unmorphed destroying the dark angels. The purple ranger called on her cross bow as she shot at Sammy who couldn't believe that he was losing back tracked.

"This isn't over ranger, I'll be back!" he exclaimed and teleported away. Tara who was surprised to see a purple ranger, walked over to her.

"Thank you, but how do you know who I am?"

"Trust me Tara, I know who you are, and I also know," says the purple ranger as she turned to face Tara. "That your friends are in danger, you must get to them before it's too late," Tara nodded her head as she quickly left the cave and teleported back to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, still trapped in four dimensions, Sean, Kat, Sam, and Mark were forced to fight against their fears to break free. Sean had to think back to what he had to do when he found himself in a small, enclosed space.

"It's fine Sean," he said to himself as it felt like the walls were closing in on him. "Remember what your therapist said, take deep breaths and count to three," Sean did what he remembered and counted to three as he took deep breaths. Next he tried to focus on something else something that could help him concentrate and stay calm, he thought back to the bunker how he and his friends played video games and joked around before they had to go fight for the good of humankind. He thought back to his life before he became a ranger, sitting in front of his computer or spending time with his girlfriend until he felt something stirring inside. Suddenly the walls stopped closing in on him and they started to widen. A smile appeared on his face as he was able to stand up and a crack in the sky started to appear.

Katrina was in the same boat as Sean only she had to find a way to stop something from happening. When Katrina saw the man with the robber clothes she tried to figure out what to do before her boyfriend got killed. A thought occurred to her as she realized what she could do. The moment Sam moved the robber quickly turned as Katrina knew what was about to happen, she grabbed Sam and knocked him onto the floor at the exact moment the gun was fired. The robber missed him by nearly an inch as Katrina called the police and told them what had happened. Everything around her disappeared as a pink crack appeared in the ceiling.

"What the?" she questioned as she stood up. It wasn't just the rangers facing their fears, in the real-world Tara had arrived on the scene and was fighting against the mirror monster; she was fully morphed and was using the mirror to help fight the monster.

"Where did you get that mirror from?!" exclaimed the mirror monster as Tara struck the monster in the chest once again.

"It's called the mirror of destiny smart mouth! It shows me every single one of your weaknesses," another strike sent the monster flying. Back in the other dimension Mark found himself on a boat that was way out to see, he looked out and saw that his best friend Ethan was drowning and had to act fast. Strapping on a life vest he put his fear aside and jumped into the water.

"Don't worry Ethan! I'm coming!" says Mark as he started to swim toward his friend. Ethan was screaming for help, Mark pushed forward, he swam toward Ethan and eventually, he had grabbed his friend and started bringing him toward the boat that seemed to be floating away. Not giving up, he continued to swim to the boat bringing Ethan safely on board. Suddenly everything around, him disappeared as another crack appeared above him. Sam on the other hand had a slightly harder time trying to face his fears he was in the Amityville horror house which had killed one family and nearly killing the other they were lucky to have escaped with their lives.

"Hello?!" called Sam whose voice seemed to echo throughout the house. "Is anyone there?"

"Kill them!" said a voice as his friends appeared before them. A gun appeared in front of Sam as the voice continued to repeat. "Kill them Sam! They're nothing to you!" The gun appeared in Sam's hands, he was in shock he couldn't kill his friends or his girlfriend; the house continued to persist. Suddenly, Sam found his arm going up as he tried to fight against it. Nothing seemed to work.

"Sam!" he heard a female voice say. "Don't do it! This is just what they want you to do,"

"Who's there?!"

"Don't do it! Your will is stronger than you think!" the female voice continued to persist, and he did not recognize it. "You're a power ranger! Rangers never give in!" the unrecognizable voice sounded like a goddess, but he couldn't be sure then he realized what was happening and dropped the gun immediately.

"I won't do it!" Sam said to the house. "My friends are like my family and I won't harm my family!" he yelled. The minute he yelled he found himself teleported out of the dimension and landing along with the other rangers next to Tara who had successfully retrieved the mirror of destiny.