Darkness Before the Dawn

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"Vinnie, what's happening?" Zekks called as he peeked into the workshop to find Vinnie frantically typing at the large keyboard as now several sirens continued to blast through the cavern at once.

"Neutrino Particles spiking at an alarming rate. Unknown variants of Exotic Matter detected! Quantum Entanglements – "

"IN ENGLISH!" Macho interrupted from the other room.

"Something big just showed up in the canyon – and I have no idea where it came from!" Vinnie yelled as he quieted the alarms.

"Did your sensors fail to pick it up upon approach?" Zekks asked

"No, I mean it LITERALLY came out of nowhere!"

"Perhaps one of the Rangers summoned their Zord?" Macho added as he slowly entered the room, leaning on the walls for support.

"It's not a Zord!" Vinnie cried in frustration, not knowing how to explain this simply. "Though there are faint similarities, the ratio of Dark Energy and Mirror Matter coming off of it as well as the secondary tangential – ".

"IN ENGLISH!" Macho and Zekks interrupted again, this time in unison.

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As the winds continued to blast the region, the massive form continued to peak its head through the portal – two clawed arms now grabbing a firm hold of each side of the ring. Though as the monstrosity began to crawl its way out, what at first seemed like a somewhat humanoid shape was quickly betrayed by a thick serpentine body that followed .

"What in the world?" the Houndoom Ranger asked in pure disbelief at what he was seeing

"What are the odds it's friendly?" the Greninja Ranger asked optimistically before the creature let out a baleful wail. "Never mind."

"Xanatar. Tyrannox. Been a while since we've needed to summon the Zords for something" Infernape added as the creature took stock of its new surroundings.

"Speaking of which, do we even have the strength to summon them?" Mandibuzz asked.

"Guess we'll find out" Bewear offered. "It's not like we have much of a choice!"

The creature again let out an earth shaking cry; but this time it was more out of frustration. Despite its best efforts, the creature seemed stuck. It imbedded its claws into the ground as it tried to pull itself free, but the armored platting on its body began to pull and tear as it tried to wretch itself free of the portal. But it was no use.

"Looks like we're not the only ones that have seen better days" Greninja offered, again trying to offer a bit of optimism.

"If that thing's stuck, then maybe we won't need the Zords for long"

"One can hope" the Infernape Ranger replied. "But let's not drop our guard!"

They all nodded.

"Senkaku Zords, appear!"

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Another notification appeared on one of Vinnie's screens.

"Looks like the Rangers just summoned their Zords" he noted.

"Do we have any sort of visuals?" Zekks asked.

"Working on it – just need to swap over visual relays to night vision."

As Vinnie continued entering the commands on the oversized-console, the tremors from outside began to intensify as the battle began in full. A moment or so later, the frightening image appeared on screen.

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