The Terran Rangers/The Spectrum Force/Sailor Moon - The Preliminaries Volume 5 by Heather Ray (warren buffett book recommendations TXT) 📕

In the Command Center, Billy slammed his fist into the console. Jocelyn touched his shoulder gently.

"Calm down, Billy," she said quietly. "Losing your cool won't help."

"I just don't understand this energy signature!" he complained, turning around in his swivel chair, "I can't figure out what it means!"

"You can't know everything! You're only human."

"But, the guys are depending on me!"

"Actually," said Amy softly. "They're depending on all of us. After all, we are the collective 'brain'

, are we not? Let me take a look at those energy readings. They may be familiar to me."

Billy moved, and allowed the blue-haired scout of Water to read the computer readouts. Her jaw dropped.

"Oh no," she whispered. "It can't be."

Billy and Jocelyn stared at Amy curiously, while the latter pulled her small, hand-held data computer from a pocket in her uniform. She began pressing buttons, and compared the data on the screen to what's on the Command Center's computer."

"It is," she thought aloud, "I don't believe it."

"WHAT?!"

cried Jocelyn in exasperation. "What is it?"

"The monster outside...its energy readings are identical to a group of beings the Sailor Scouts fought about a year ago. They were the Rainbow Crystal carriers."

"What does that mean?" asked Billy.

"The Rainbow Crystal carriers were humans who were altered by dark forces, and forced to fight us."

"So, are you saying Taurus is a human?" asked Jocelyn.

"I believe so," said Amy, "but there's only one way to be sure. I'm going to download a program I devised to calculate the physical appearance of the being underneath the swelling of dark energy. If that really is a human being, the program will show us his identity."

Billy and Jocelyn waited impatiently while Amy worked. In a few minutes, the screen began to show a rotating image of a young man. It took awhile for the image to clear up, but when it did, Billy jumped in shock.

"SKULL!!"

he yelled, "Rita and Zedd have turned Skull into a monster!"

"Who's Skull?" asked Jocelyn.

"He goes to school with us," said Billy, shaking his head in disbelief. "Now, we have to figure out how to defeat Skull without hurting him, as well as how to return him to his normal form."

"I think I know how to handle that one," said Amy, standing up. "We need to join the fight."

Billy pulled his morpher from behind his back. "Blue Ranger Power!!"

Jocelyn raised her Spectrum Stone to the sky and called "Spectrum Sync...ORANGE

!!"

The two heroes transformed into the Blue Ranger and Orange Enforcer, and all three vanished from the Command Center in streaks of navy blue, sky blue, and orange light.

In the park, the Power Rangers, Spectrum Force, and Sailor Scouts were having a horrid deal of trouble keeping the raging Taurus under control.

"He's really strong," said Tommy. "And there's something different about him."

"I know what you mean," said Rocky. "Usually, Zedd's monsters are really retarded. But this one is like some super-mutated bull, no questions asked."

Then the Blue Ranger, Orange Enforcer, and Sailor Mercury appeared. Sailor Mercury brought her palms together, creating a sphere of blue light between them.

"Mercury Bubbles...BLAST

!!" she cried, releasing the small ball. The light shattered into a infinite number of small opaque bubbles, creating a sort of smokescreen. The bull was blinded, allowing all the heroes to regroup.

"Have you figured out how to trash this thing?" asked Aisha.

"Yes," said Billy, "Lord Zedd has turned Skull into the monster you see before you."

"You're kidding," said Kim, glancing at the rampaging beast. She then turned back to Billy. "Aren't you?"

"No. I'm afraid I'm completely serious. However, this monster has been pumped up with such a vast amount of evil energy, there's no way we can heal him, until we weaken him."

"How do we weaken him without hurting him?" asked Rachel.

"We'll use the Power Blaster, and the Spectrum Force will use their Spectrum Storm."

"That's a lot of energy," said Jocelyn. "Do you think Skull can survive it all?"

"His energy readings are off the scale," said Billy, "I don't think anything less than the full power of the Ninja Megazord could really hurt him."

"Then let's do it," said Tommy. "Before he gets loose."

"Okay gang," said Rocky. "Let's bring 'em together!"

"Power Ax!" yelled Adam, throwing his ax into the air. It remained suspended.

"Power Bow!" cried Kim, tossing her bow. It attached to the front of the ax.

"Power Daggers!" cried Aisha, launching her daggers. They each attached to one end of the bow.

"Power Lance!" yelled Billy, separating the lance in the center. Each half attached to one side of the daggers.

"Power Sword!" yelled Rocky, leaping into the air and placing his sword on top of the weapon. He held it in both hands, and the other rangers joined him.

"FIRE!!"

they all cried in unison, launching a beam of rainbow light into Taurus gut. The monster screamed in pain, and fell to his knees.

"Now, guys," said Rachel, "the Spectrum Storm!"

The Spectrum Force held their weapons to the sky, and encased them in bubbles of colored light. The bubbles became opaque, and they threw the bubbles into the air simultaneously. The six bubbles joined in sky, forming a white sphere crackling with the power of the elements. The sphere sailed into the monster, and he suffered the might of all the elements at once.

"He's finally weak enough," said Sailor Mercury, scanning the monster with her VR Visor and data computer. "Go for it, Serena!"

"What?" asked Usagi in panic. "What do I do?"

"Heal him!" cried Mercury. "Use the crystal!"

Sailor Moon nodded, and lifted the golden brooch from her bow. The brooch opened revealing a shimmering gemstone about the size of a golf ball. She held the crystal high, and light beams reflected off it.

"Moon Crystal Healing...ACTIVATION

!!" she cried, allowing the energy of the crystal to weave through her own body, and into the monster. The monster roared as it was encased in a bright, purifying white light, and when the light faded, Skull lay on the green grass, unconscious.

"Is he okay?" asked Venus while Adam checked his pulse.

"He'll be fine," Adam announced. "Just give him a few minutes to rest."

"We'd better get going," said Tommy. "Our job is done."

"Tommy, you have no idea how worried we were about you!" Kim said, hugging her boyfriend warmly. Tommy gladly returned the hug. Also, Tamara happily wrapped her arms around Keith, and the other Spectrum Enforcers circled Rachel, hugging her and bombarding her with questions. The Sailor Scouts embraced in a warm group hug, welcoming back the scout of Fire.

"What happened to you guys?" asked Minako. "And where's Makoto?"

"She's in the Command Center," said Raye quietly. "She's been hurt."

"How badly?" gasped Usagi.

"Very," said Amy honestly. "But Zordon and Alpha 5 are working on her right now. Zordon assures me she'll be fine."

"Then, let's go!" said Usagi, walking over to the Power Rangers. She tapped Tommy on the shoulder and cleared her throat.

"Uh, excuse me," she said, "I hate to break up the celebration, but could we get back to the Command Center, and check up on Sailor Jupiter?"

"Right," said Tommy, letting go of Kimberly and activating his communicator, "Alpha, can you teleport all of us back?"

The Spectrum Force, Power Rangers, and Sailor Scouts appeared in the Command Center, where Sailor Jupiter stood beside