Inside Mount Draco, Kitsune was thinking about his future, whether to continue to be the evil fox git he is, or to put his weapons away for good. There was still a hoard of Stoner Dragons under his control. “Hunt down the Fan Art Rangers, and destroy them. I couldn’t care less if you get destroyed.” He ordered. The Stoners flew out of Mount Draco. Back at the Ranger Base, Dan had come to the end of his story of what took place on board the Alligatron ship. “I sure had Truro scared.” Dan grinned. “By the way, I would like you to meet Cedric, another Serpentopian. He was held captive by the Alligatrons, and was in the same cage as me.” “Is it me, or does he look like a doctor?” asked Carly. “It’s probably because I am a doctor.” laughed Cedric, shaking her by the hand. Just then, the viewing sphere lit up. “News just in! A hoard of stone dragons are attacking the Art Museum here in Shining Hills.” called the newscaster. “Not again!” sneered Truro. “They just can’t take “no” for an answer!” Carly added. “Looks like we have to get rid of them . . . again!” sighed Liz. “Bloody Scanner!” called the rangers, as they morphed into their MK 1 suits. They then teleported to the art museum, while Dan stayed with Carlos, Cedric and Carlnados in the ZACC. He was waiting for the right moment to step in and help. Just then, Billy came through the door carrying a box of odds and ends. “What’s all that for?” enquired Cedric. “This box is full of parts to bring the consoles up to date.” Alpha explained. “Make sure you’re careful, Alpha. Some of those devices can be . . .” began Zordon. BZZZ! went a device. “Aye yai yai yai!” yelled Alpha. “ . . . shocking” finished Zordon. “Affirmative, Zordon.” replied Alpha. The Stoners, 20 in all, were causing havoc as the people of Shining Hills ran about screaming left, right and centre. Beams of grey light shot from the Stoners mouths, destroying the roof of the art gallery. Suddenly, flashes of red, pink, yellow and green hit the dragons, and they were sent crashing into the town clock. “Bloody vandals!” Truro cursed. “You have no respect for those civilians. How dare you!” nipped Carly. “Bah, get lost!” cane the scratchy, stony voice of the Stoners. “Or what?” demanded Chris Burrell. “You go home and cry like losers?” “Stoners never turn down a job.” came a blunt reply. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same old story, ain’t it. Whoosh, bang! Destroy the art gallery and get lost. Well, you’ll fail as always, you stony . . .” Truro said a rather coarse word, which I will not say. “You will regret saying that, you bunch of sour grapes!” roared the Stoners. The rangers drew their weapons. “CHARGE!” they called. “Shining Foil Boomerang!” called Truro. “Angel Bow!” called Liz. “Tonfa Blade!” called Carly. “Star Hammer!” called CB. Between them, they easily clobbered 19 of them, and soon they were down to the very last one. “Time for you to say . . .” began Truro, but suddenly, the last Stoner multiplied itself by 100. “ . . . good god!” finished Truro. The rangers started to work their way through this lot, but it was plain to see that the rangers were getting battle weary. Back at the Ranger Base, in the ZACC, the consoles had been upgraded with the equipment. “Dan, I’m detecting the other rangers are in trouble battling the Stoners.” Zordon boomed. “Carlos, Cedric and Carlnados, come with me.” Dan said, opening the door of the Tardizord. The three nagas got in. “OK, we’re on it.” Dan called. “Billy and Alpha will make sure the new consoles are at their best.” called Zordon. “Righto.” Dan replied. He shut the door, set the location to downtown Shining Hills and the Tardizord dematerialised from the ZACC, and reappeared in Shining Hills, where the battle was taking place. Once he and the nagas were out, Dan shrunk the Tardizord and put it in his pocket. Carlos and Carlnados got their sabres ready. “Bloody Scanner! Stage 2!” called Dan, and morphed up to his MK 2 suit. “Gameshow Fanatic! Blue Countdowner Ranger!” he called striking a pose. Dan gave a high pitched whistle, and everyone stopped battling. “Perfect timing! Now we can destroy you, too!” called the Stoners. “Don’t count on it!” Dan called. Carlos channelled some energy into his blade, and waited for a Stoner to come. It came, and another, and another. “ANACONDA SLASH!” called Carlos as he crossed his arms before bringing his sabre down on the three Stoners, with the force of a 90 pound squeeze of an anaconda. Carlnados had no problem slashing through twenty of the Stoners. Cedric used his Tenfold Force technique and reduced 5 stoners to gravel. Dan pointed his screwdriver at a group of Stoners. “Aqua Beam!” he called. A beam of water came gushing out of his screwdriver, which reduced them to one again. “Sugar!” it growled. “We’ll meet again!” and the Lone Stoner vanished in a puff of smoke. “Wimp” called CB. There came an alarm, and Carly could smell something. “What is it?” asked Dan. “I smell smoke!” Carly replied. “Smoke?” Truro repeated. “Oh my god, the Museum is on fire! My gallery’s in there.” He yelled. Dan regrew the Tardizord to its normal size. “Well, don’t just stand there, get in quickly!” Dan urged, and before you could say “extinguishers”, they were on board the Tardizord. It dematerialised from the exterior of the Art Gallery, and reappeared in Truro’s gallery. Luckily, the fire hadn’t reached there, yet. The rangers and the nagas quickly loaded Truro’s works into the Tardizord. Once the artwork was safe, the 8 split up.  “Truro, Carlos and Carlnados, help me fight the fire. Cedric, you go with the others and get everyone else out, before the smoke gets to them.” “OK” Cedric replied. “Come on” he said. Carly, CB, and Liz didn’t need to be told twice, and ran after Cedric, to get everyone out. Dan drew 4 water cannons and 4 sets of safety gear, which became real. It was surely going to be warm work. Within 5 minutes, Cedric, Carly, CB and Liz managed to get everyone else out. Carly looked up and saw the flames leaping from the roof. CB grabbed her arm. “Come on, or we will burn up!” “But what about those guys?” Carly asked. “They’ll be OK. They’ve been in worse scrapes before.” CB replied. A wooden beam crashed behind them, and the two rangers quickly got out. Dan, Carlos, Truro and Carlnados were bravely tackling the blaze. Dan got his morpher out. “I might be able to pull this off!” he thought. He pointed his morpher at the flames. “What are you doing, Dan?” asked Truro. “You’ll see.” Dan replied. “Spellcasting! W-A-T-E-R!” Suddenly, a flood of water filled the corridor, and with an almighty hiss, the fire subsided. “Dispell – R-W-A-T-E!” called Dan, and the huge puddle of water evaporated and everything became dry. “What was all that about?” asked Truro, taking off his safety gear. “Haven’t you seen Knightmare before?” Dan asked, rolling his eyes. Truro raised an eyebrow. “Obviously not!” Dan said to himself. “Come on then.” he said, and the 4 embarked the Tardizord, which dematerialised from the gallery, and reappeared in front of Cedric, CB, Liz and Carly. Dan, Truro, Carlos and Carlnados walked out of the Tardizord, to be greeted with tumultuous applause from the citizens of Shining Hills. When they returned to the Ranger Base, Dan and Truro found some spare clothes in a cupboard and got changed rather quickly. “That’s better.” Said Truro, contently. Zordon congratulated Dan,  Truro, Carlos and Carlnados for tackling the blaze and saving the gallery from further damage, and Cedric, Liz, Carly and CB for rescuing the citizens from inside the burning building. “At least nobody got hurt, and that’s a blessing.” Carly grinned. “Yeah, and my priceless art is safe.” added Truro. “But that wretched Stoner’s disappeared.” Dan said. “But, I believe he’ll be back to fight again.” “Quite so.” agreed CB. The rangers decided to recuperate in the Zord Hangar by having a quiet afternoon painting their zords. But, no sooner as they started to leave the ZACC, a newsflash came on the viewing globe. “There has been a heavy assault by a giant fox in downtown Shining Hills” “What? Kitzilla, again? I thought we disposed of him in space!” Liz gasped. “Apparently not.” Truro replied. “Bloody Scanner!” called the rangers, and powered up into their MK 1 suits. The Tardizord materialised on a roof on one of the buildings, and sure enough, there was Kitzilla. Truro cupped his hands over his mouth. “OI! JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!?!?” he called. “What does it look like, red ranger?” came a reply. Dan took Cedric, Carlos and Carlnados into the Tardizord and teleported to another roof, behind Kitzilla. Once they stepped out, Carlos and Carlnados placed their hand on one of Dan’s shoulders, while Dan pointed his screwdriver at Kitzilla. “Spellcasting! S-H-R-I-N-K!” called Dan. Immediately, Kitzilla shrank to his normal size. “Nice one, Dan!” called Carly and Truro. Dan grinned. “I’d thought that’d come in handy! He called back. “Good guys don’t cheat! That’s my job!” called Kitsune from beneath a convenience store. He confronted Dan, but before he could take a swipe, Dan quickly spellcasted “T-E-L-E-P-O-R-T!” Kitsune disappeared from in front of Dan, and reappeared on a café roof. “Look! There he is!” said CB, pointing to a café. Kitsune was trying to keep his balance on the roof. “What in the name of sausages is he doing on there?” Truro puzzled. “Tap Dancing?” asked Liz. “Liz, he’s not on a sink.” Carly replied. “Not that sort of tap, silly!” laughed CB. Dan and the nagas shook their heads, with a broad grin across their faces. Dan took a few steps backward and ran rapidly forward. “Alley-oop!” he called. He rose in the air, somersaulted 5 times and landed in front of Kitsune, who was still dancing. “So, you think it’s funny, eh?” asked Kitsune. Dan vehemently shook his head, trying to keep a straight face. He cleared his throat. “Well, aren’t you pathetic.” he started. “What?” growled Kitsune. “Call yourself an baddie, you don’t have any master, any minions left. Why don’t you take up drawing or origami instead.” “You little . . .” growled Kitsune. “Why don’t you just admit defeat, and get lost? Your master and Stoners have been exterminated.” “So?” demanded Kitsune. “So, it leaves me no alternative but to put an end to your evil once and for all!” “What?” Dan pulled out his sonic screwdriver and held it in the air. “Magical Plight – Sword of Light!” he called. The broadsword appeared in his right hand, with the crystal shining as blue as the sky. Dan put his screwdriver with the sword and began to spin rapidly. “What’s this?” gasped Kitsune. “What is Dan doing?” asked Carlos. “No idea.” answered Carlnados. “I think we’re about to find out.” said Cedric. 

“Ooh. Makes me dizzy just watching him spin.” said Carly, her eyes spinning like mad. Dan continued to spin faster and faster. Soon he had reached 200 miles an hour, and a multicoloured vortex took his place. “Time Vortex!” called Dan. The Vortex moved to Kitsune, who was raised up into the sky. Dan backflipped to where the nagas were standing, and looked up. Kitsune was being separated from his shadow. The shadow turned dark purple, with red eyes. “That must be his evil!” Truro said, suddenly. Dan jumped high into the air, rotated his left arm like a clock hand and held the sword in the air. The “evil” became an energy ball, and went to the top of the sword. Dan pointed the end of the sword into the sky. “Final Countdown!” he called. The ball of energy was fired into space and burnt up as it hit the next galaxy. The broadsword disappeared, and Truro, Liz, Carly and CB teleported to the Tardizord, where Dan, Cedric, Carlos and Carlnados were waiting. “Where’s Kitsune?” asked Carly. Truro looked at the café roof. “Look, there he is.” “What was that shadow?” asked Liz. “That was his evil.” Dan explained. “So he’s devoid of all evil? Now what?” asked CB. The now neutral Kitsune turned, glanced at the rangers, tilted his head to one side and disappeared. “No poofs of smoke, eh?” Truro thought. “Come on.” said Dan. “Let’s go.” The rangers and nagas entered the Tardizord, and the countdown clock sound rang out in Shining Hills as the clock struck five.