Power Rangers: Lightning Strikes ✔️

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Final Battle?

"What's that?" asked Sam. "And how's a box going to help us with saving Amy?"

"This box is called the Cubile Animus," spoke Dean as he sat it on the counter. "This should help us bring Lucifer out of Amy and into the box,"

"That's great and all but what do we do after? We can't just keep Lucifer in our bunker," Says Sean. "He'd find a way to get out and steal the colt,"
"That's where we have to use a spell," answers Dean. "We use a specific spell, and the ground will open up, after that all we have to do is toss the box into the hole which should send Lucifer into his cage,"

"We have to be close enough to do it," said Sammy reluctantly. While the other rangers talked, Tara had arrived at Mark's room and knocked on the door.

"Go away!" Mark called out still slightly angered by a near defeat.

"Mark," says Tara. "It's me, Tara, let me in," Tara waited for a little bit until she heard shuffling coming from the other side of the door. Mark arrived at the door and pulled it open, he had been trying to stay strong, but Tara could tell he was upset. "Do you mind if I come in?" she questioned. Mark reluctantly moved aside so Tara could enter. Once inside, he closed the door and went back to his bed lost in thought.

"What is it Tara?" he asked.

"Mark is this about Amy?" questioned Tara. Mark didn't answer, "So it is about Amy,"

"I screwed up Tara," says Mark. "I should have been able to protect Amy just like I should have been able to protect Ethan,"

"You know that you couldn't have done much," says Tara. "But you did save Ethan, he would have been dead had it not been for you,"

"But now Amy was targeted," said Mark. "Why do you follow me?"

"What do you mean?" questioned Tara.

"I mean, why do you follow me as the leader? If anything, Dean is more of a leader than I am," answered Mark. "I can't seem to protect everyone,"
"You may not know it Mark, but you are probably the bravest ranger I know," she said. "You've led us through this entire mission when we were scared the first time, you took the lead and led us into battle," Tara continued. "Without you we would have lost it,"

"But" spoke Mark as he was about to say something else Tara held up her hand.

"Don't start," she said before Mark could finish his thoughts. "Right now, we've got a mission to take care of," right on cue, Sean entered the room and saw Tara and Mark talking. Sean cleared his throat to get their attention as they turned around to face their friend and teammate.

"Dean has figured out how we could defeat Lucifer," he said. With their attention grabbed, Tara and Mark left his room and made their way back downstairs at the same time the rangers looked up at the three of them coming down.

"Good," says Sam. "You're here, Dean and Sammy came up with a plan to defeat Lucifer and it involves the Cubile Animus,"

"A what?" says a confused Mark. "What's a Cubile Animus?"

"A nest of souls," says Dean immediately as he held up a box with markings on it. "This box should be strong enough to trap Lucifer then we can send him into his cage,"

"What's the plan?" asked Mark.

"Simple," says Sammy. "Six of us will distract Lucifer while one of us, mainly me, sneaks up and traps Lucifer in the box," he continued. "Once Lucifer is trapped in the box, I will say a spell and a hole should open up which will allow us to send Lucifer back to hell where he belongs,"

"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Mark. "Let's go stop a bad guy!" Meanwhile back at the abandoned building Amy, Azazel and Morgana were discussing a plan when Amy went silent and looked at her hench men.