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Homecoming Woes Part Six

The fog wasn't as dense as it was before, mainly just gathering at Billy's feet as he exited the Krispy Kreme and looked around in the night, the streets illuminated by the glowing red HOT'N FRESH sign in the window. Before him was a crumpled mass of white fabric and blue hair. He considered approaching but he waited just a moment before he saw her stir.

She rose, like a creature from a lagoon in an old monster flick, the white dress filling out as she stood. She twisted her head back and glared at him, blue hair beginning to almost float in the wind. And before she moved, her mouth expanded revealing those rows of sharp teeth and that blackness in the back of her throat that was a void of nothingness. The portal to her dark dimension.

"You don't scare me anymore." Billy said defiantly, flipping his blue energy lance in his hand. His arms and legs glowed with the color of his comrades' powers. They were with him. Together they were more.

The creature, this Madame Woe, screeched with an unholy shrill sound traveling through the night air as if she were a hawk about to swoop down on a poor, unassuming field mouse. And she slashed forward, her hair moving to him like whips. He easily rolled out of the way, faster than before if possible. Another tendril of hair crept forward and gripped his wrist. But Billy found no resistance, yanking his arm forward and watching the hair snap off as if it were old and brittle. The Madame screamed and ran toward him, slashing with her long fingernails, sending sparks flying off the chest of his suit. But Billy just laughed.

"That... tickles a bit." He said, swinging his lance and knocking her back as if he was swinging a bat. She hit the brick wall behind her and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Also I have a thing about people touching me. Only my boyfriend can touch me. You're not... well... obviously." He said. She snapped her head up with another banshee-like scream, charging at him once more. It was then that he saw it clearly. That blue gemstone in the middle of her forehead. He always thought it was odd. It was just embedded there. It looked like it might be attached to a headpiece when he first saw her, but it wasn't until now that he was battling her that he realized it was a part of her. It always seemed to glow when she charged up an attack. He wondered if it was like their power coins, if it worked in similar ways. If it was the key to her powers. So as she ran screaming, he lunged forward with his lance, piercing the jewel in the center of her head with its blade.

The pieces of the jewel crumpled to the ground and the unearthly woman screamed as blackness swirled from her gaping maw. Suddenly, four shapes hit the ground in front of him.

His friends. Jason. The suddenly looked much better than he last remembered.

"Guys! I did it! I..." He started, going over to greet them. But he saw the woman rising to her feet again. But this time she was angry. Angrier at least.

"I think it's time we actually work together instead of metaphorically." He said, reaching to the diamond on his chest and unslotting the extra coins. He handed them off to the other rangers, and in a flash of light and a gust of wind they had morphed.

"You destroyed my power source. No matter. I'll make another one from the Zeo Crystal. Then I'll baptize it with your BLOOD!" She hissed, lunging forth once more. In an almost hilarious karmic reaction, a newly morphed Jason suckerpunched her in the face and she hit the wall again.

"THAT'S for interrupting my Homecoming proposal. Bitch." He said. She stood once more.

"This is getting real old." Billy frowned a bit.

"How many times ya knocked this chick out already?" Trini said from behind them.

"Three or four at least. She won't die. Maybe... we combine our powers somehow? Like we did with the Megazord or with our coins?" Billy surmised. His lance began to glow and shake and rise to the air.

"Uh... c-call your weapons?" He suggested. And soon they all had their energy weapons materialized from their gloves. Jason's sword. A bow. A pair of daggers. An axe. They all floated into the air and fell into formation with his lance, merging almost like the Megazord did, before coming back down to them in the form of some kind of cannon. It naturally came to Billy's hands since he seemed to be Woe's primary target of antagonism. And somehow, it came natural to him. The way it fit in his hand, the way he directed it. And without needing any explanation, he fired a large beam of light at his foe.

Madame Woe exploded. Like a fucking firecracker. And any parts that blew off of her disintegrated before they hit the ground. Billy's eyes went wide behind his visor and he lowered the cannon.

"That was..." Jason came up behind him and patted his shoulder.

"...Morphinominal." Billy said.