Disclaimer: This is my first time writing of of these so I'll say this: The Power Rangers and their identities, Lord Zedd, Goldar, Bulk and Skull, the Ninja Zords, the Ninja-Mega-Falcon-Zord, the Ninja Ranger suits, Zordon and Alpha are the characters and products of Saban Entertainment and Fox Network. The Purple Ranger and her identity (Mindy), the Cyber-Hawk are the characters and products of my own creativity. I wrote (and usually write) stories (or fan-fiction)for the fun of it (and in hopes of turning them into scripts and sending them to a representative of Saban Entertainment) I am writing this disclaimer due to the fact that I've seen so many of them around (and I don't know if a disclaimer for my story is necessary); I decided to write one down because all the fan-fiction on the Internet has one. This ends the disclaimer, I hope you enjoy the story. MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS- ROARING THUNDER "ISN'T IT TOTALLY AMAZING?" SAID KAT EXCITINGLY TO HER FRIENDS AT A TABLE AT THE ANGEL GROVE JUICE BAR. "WHAT'S TOTALLY AMAZING?" ASKED TOMMY AS HE JOINED THE OTHERS AT THE SAME TABLE. "KIMBERLY'S COUSIN, MINDY, HAS BEEN ACCELERATED FROM NINTH GRADE AND INTO ELEVENTH GRADE." ANSWERED KAT. "WHAT ABOUT TENTH GRADE?" ASKED ADAM. "WHEN MINDY TOLD ME THE NEWS, I ASKED THE SAME QUESTION. SHE SAID TO ME THAT SHE FIGURED IT WOULD BE TOO SIMPLE." EXPLAINED KAT. "MINDY WILL BE IN OUR CLASS TOMORROW. I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET HER." EXCLAIMED AISHA. "YOU'LL GET YOUR CHANCE SOONER, AISHA." SAID KAT, "SHE'S HERE RIGHT NOW." "WHERE?" ASKED ROCKY. "OVER THERE, SHE'S THE ONE IN THE LOOSE PURPLE PANTS WITH A PURPLE FLOWERED SHIRT, PRACTICING MARTIAL ARTS." AS DESCRIBED BY KAT, MINDY WAS WEARING A PURPLE OUTFIT WHITE FLOWERED SHIRT. SHE HAD, LIKE HER COUSIN, BROWN HAIR; BUT UNLIKE HER COUSIN, HAD GREEN EYES AND WORE GLASSES. ROCKY AND THE OTHERS LOOKED TO WHERE KAT HAD POINTED, DOWN AT THE GYM ON THE MATS, OVERLOOKING THE JUICE-BAR. MINDY STOPPED FOR A MOMENT, DECIDING WHAT TO DO NOW THAT SHE HAD PRACTICED ALL OF HER KNOWN MOVES. SHE DECIDED ON A KATA, ONLY WHICH, TO OTHERS, MUST HAVE TAKEN FOREVER FOR HER TO PERFECT. BEGINNING WITH A DOUBLE PUNCH, MINDY BEGAN TO PERFECT THE MOVES OF A KATA UNKNOWN TO THE GROUP OF SIX WATCHING AT AMAZEMENT AT PERFECTED MOVES MINDY USED. A SMALL CROWD BEGAN TO GATHER AROUND AS MINDY CONTINUED WITH A BACK KICK AND ANOTHER DOUBLE PUNCH. NATURALLY, MINDY'S MOVES WERE FAST AND POWERFUL, ANY OPPONENT WHO COULD HAVE TAKEN HER WOULD BE DOWN IN AN INSTANT. FINALLY MINDY ENDED WITH A PERFECT JUMP TORNADO KICK, A DOUBLE PUNCH AND A SINGLE PUNCH. WHEN MINDY BOWED, THE CROWD, INCLUDING KAT AND HER FRIENDS, CHEERED AND APPLAUDED. AS MINDY WALKED OVER TO THE SIDE TO GET HER DARK PURPLE BAG, THE OTHERS CONTINUED THEIR DISCUSSION. "WOW, KAT," SAID TOMMY, AMAZED, "YOU TOLD ME KIMBERLY'S COUSIN WAS INTO MARTIAL ARTS, BUT YOU DIDN'T SAY SHE WAS THAT GOOD." "WELL..." KAT SAID. "I HAVE TO ADMIT, THOUGH," SAID TOMMY, "OUT OF ALL THE KATA'S I KNOW, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE." "MINDY CREATES HER OWN KATAS," EXPLAINED KAT, "SHE JUST TAKES A WHOLE BUNCH OF MOVES SHE KNOWS AND PUTS THEM TOGETHER TO WHAT SUITS HER." "EARTH TO ROCKY..." SAID AISHA, WAVING A HAND IN FRONT OF HIS EYES. THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CONVERSATION ROCKY HAD NEVER SAID ANYTHING, ONLY LOOKED DREAMILY AT THE AREA WHERE MINDY PERFORMED HER UNKNOWN KATA. AT THE INSTANT AISHA STOPPED WAVING HER HAND IN FRONT OF ROCKY'S EYES, ROCKY RETURNED TO REALITY. "HUH?" WAS ALL ROCKY HAD SAID, AND EVERYONE LAUGHED, BUT WAS CUT SHORT WHEN BULK AND SKULL ENTERED THE ROOM. "CHECK OUT THESE GEEKOIDS!" SAID BULK TO SKULL. "LONERS!" CRIED OUT SKULL TO AISHA AND HER FRIENDS. AT THE INSTANT SKULL SAID `LONERS!' MINDY HAD ENTERED THE ROOM AND WALKED OVER TO WHERE ALL THIS WAS OCCURRING. "DIDN'T ANYONE TEACH YOU ANY MANNERS?" ASKED MINDY TO BULK AND SKULL. "GET BACK TO YOUR CLASS, NINER." SAID BULK TO MINDY, "WE DON'T TAKE ORDERS FROM IMMATURE, STUPID, WEAK GIRLS." THAT MADE MINDY MAD, BUT SHE NEVER SHOWED IT, INSTEAD SHE SAID, "FOR YOUR INFORMATION, I'M NO LONGER IN GRADE NINE..." BULK AND SKULL LAUGHED AT THIS INFORMATION. "I WAS RECENTLY ACCELERATED TO ELEVENTH GRADE." BULK AND SKULL STOPPED LAUGHING SO SUDDENLY THAT THE ROOM BACAME SO QUIET YOU CAN HEAR A PIN DROP. BULK POINTED A FINGER AT MINDY AND STOOD WITH HIS MOUTH OPEN, THEN SAID, "IF YOU ARE IN OUR CLASS YOU ARE IN TROUBLE." MINDY HELD NO FEAR TO THIS REMARK AND SAID, "COMING FROM YOU, THAT'S NATURAL." "HUH?" SAID BULK CONFUSEDLY. "YOU MAINLY SPEND NINETY PERCENT OF YOUR TIME PICKING ON PEOPLE SMALLER THAN YOU AND GOOFING OFF IN CLASS AND THE OTHER TEN WONDERING WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON EIGHT SECONDS AGO." SAID MINDY, AFTER WHICH KAT HID A GRIN. "WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?" CHALLENGED BULK. "MY POINT IS THAT NINETY OF THE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TIME YOU SPEND IN THIS SCHOOL, YOU SPEND FIFTY PERCENT ACTING BIG, THIRTY PERCENT LISTENING TO THE TEACHERS YELL AT YOU FOR GOOFING OF IN CLASS, ONE PERCENT IN DETENTION, AND ONE PERCENT LISTENING TO BOTH YOUR PARENTS GRIEVING EVERY DAY FOR ALL THE TROUBLE YOU CAUSE IN ONE DAY." BULK AND SKULL KEPT QUIET, NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THESE BIG NUMBERS MEANT, "I THINK OUT OF ALL OF US IN THIS ROOM SEVEN PERCENT OF US WOULD RATHER PERFER YOU TO LEAVE THIS ROOM, THAT TO WHICH YOU, THE TWO PERCENT MINORITY, WOULD LIKELY OBJECT TO." SAID MINDY. "SKULL, I HAVE AN IDEA." SAID BULK TO SKULL. "WHAT BULK?" ASKED SKULL TO BULK. "LET'S LEAVE THIS ROOM." SAID BULK, AND WITH THAT, THE TWO TROUBLE-MAKERS LEFT THE ROOM YET STILL WONDERING WHAT MINDY WAS TALKING ABOUT. MINDY WALKED OVER TO KAT AND THE OTHERS SITTING OVER AT THE TABLE WHICH OUTLOOKED THE GYM. "I NEVER KNEW BULK AND SKULL DIDN'T LIKE STATISTICS. BUT ANYWAY, MINDY THESE ARE MY FRIENDS, TOMMY, BILLY, ADAM, AND ROCKY." THEY ALL SAID HI TO MINDY, AND AISHA SAID, "I NEVER KNEW YOU WERE AN EXPERT AT STATISTICS." "I'M NOT, BUT IF KAT TOLD YOU, IT'S A LOT LIKE MY KATA'S, I JUST THROW A BUNCH OF NUMBERS TOGETHER, BUT I HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY ALL ADD UP ONE HUNDRED OR ANY OTHER REASONABLE NUMBER." THE SUBJECT WAS INSTANTLY CHANGED, TOMMY SAID, "THAT KATA YOU DID WAS TOTALLY AMAZING." "THANKS, I'LL BE GLAD TO SHOW IT TO YOU SOMETIME." OFFERED MINDY. "SURE." SAID TOMMY. SUDDENLY, A BEEPING SOUND CAME FROM HIS COMMUNICATOR. "WE HAVE TO GO, WE JUST REMEMBERED THAT WE HAVE TO TALK TO OUR PARENTS ABOUT OUR REPORT CARD MARKS. IT WAS NICE METTING YOU, MINDY." SAID TOMMY AS HE AND THE OTHERS GOT UP AND LEFT. "THANKS, YOU TOO." MINDY SAID GOODBYE TO TOMMY AS HE AND THE OTHERS HEADED OFF DOWN THE HALL TO THE CORNER LEADING TO THE NEXT HALL WHERE NOBODY WOULD SEE THEM. "WE READ YOU ZORDON." SAID TOMMY INTO HIS COMMUNICATOR. "RANGERS, THERE IS TROUBLE IN DOWNTOWN ANGEL GROVE. LORD ZEDD HAS SENT ONE OF HIS MOST POWERFUL MONSTERS EVER, THE LION-TIGER. BE WARNED OF IT'S FIERY ROAR." SAID ZORDON, WISE LEADER OF THE POWER RANGERS. "WE'RE ON OUR WAY." SAID TOMMY AS HE AND THE OTHER RANGERS TELEPORTED TO DOWNTOWN ANGEL GROVE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THE MONSTER MATERIALIZED IN FRONT OF THE RANGERS, ALONG WITH A GROUP OF TENGUS. "WE NEED NINJA POWER NOW!" CRIED TOMMMY AND WITH THAT HE AND HIS FIVE FRIENDS MORPHED INTO NINJA UNIFORMS WITH THEIR ANIMAL ZORDS ON THE FRONT. THE BATTLE WAS LONG, BUT IN THE END THE SIX NINJA'S WON AGAINST THE TENGUS. AFTER THE TENGUS FLOWN OFF, THE MONSTER THEY WERE ABOUT TO FACE, LION-TIGER, A CROSS BETWEEN A FLYING LION AND A TIGER, SAID THESE WORDS TO THE SIX RANGERS, "PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM, POWER RANGERS! FOR NOBODY CAN STOP ME, LION-TIGER, WITH THE POWER OF MY FIREY ROAR!" "WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT, IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" SAID TOMMY AS HE, ADAM, KAT, BILLY, AISHA AND ROCKY MORPHED INTO THE POWER RANGERS. MEANWHILE, AT THE PARK, MINDY WAS HEADING HOME, CASUALLY FLIPPING A COIN AS SHE WALKED. MINDY WALKED UNTIL SHE CAME TO A POND THAT WAS IN THE PARK. `SO THIS IS NO WISHING WELL, BIG DEAL.' THOUGHT MINDY, AS SHE LOOK AT THE COIN THAT WAS IN HER HAND. "NO HARM'S GOING TO BE DONE..." SAID MINDY AND WITH THAT SHE THREW HER COIN LIKE A SKIPPING STONE INTO THE WATER. LITTLE DID MINDY REALIZE THAT WHEN THE COIN SUNK TO THE BOTTOM, IT LANDED ON A ROCK, OR SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE A ROCK. SUDDENLY MINDY WAS SURROUNDED BY THE GROUP OF TENGUS WHICH THE POWER RANGERS HAD DEFEATED. "GIVE IT UP, PITIFUL HUMAN." SAID ONE OF THE TENGUS. JUST THEN A JEWELED CHEST LEPT OUT OF THE WATER AND FELL ONTO THE LAND NEXT TO MINDY'S FEET. BACK AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANGEL GROVE THE POWER RANGER BEGAN TO FACE THEIR ADVERSAIRY IN A BATTLE TO THE FINISH. THE BLOWS WERE POWERFUL YET IT SEEMED LIKE THE POWER RANGERS WERE WINNING, WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, LION-TIGER BEATHED FIRE WHICH SHAPED ITSELF INTO A CAGE OF FIRE AROUND THE POWER RANGERS. THE POWER RANGERS TRIED DESPERATELY TO GET OUT OF THE CAGE, BUT NOTHING WORKED. "ZORDON, WE NEED HELP." SAID TOMMY INTO HIS COMMUNICATOR. "I'M SORRY POWER RANGERS, NOTHING CAN FREE YOU FROM LION-TIGER'S CAGE OF FIRE." THE RANGER'S ARE SHOCKED TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE FROM ZORDON. "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" ASKED PINK RANGER/KAT. "I DON'T KNOW..." ANSWERED WHITE RANGER/TOMMY IN FUSTRATION. WILL THEY GET OUT OF THE CAGE? WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS STRANGER THAT FREE'S THEM? WILL THE LION-TIGER MEET HIS MATCH? AND WHAT IS THE SECRET BETWEEN MINDY AND THE JEWELED TREASURE CHEST? FIND OUT IN THE CONCLUSION OF `ROARING THUNDER' NEXT TIME ON POWER RANGERS. END OF PART 1 MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS- ROARING THUNDER "WE CANT'S GIVE UP..." SAID AISHA/YELLOW RANGER, "THERE HAS TO BE A WAY OUT." "AISHA'S RIGHT, THERE HAS TO BE A WEAK SPOT IN THE CAGE SOMEWHERE, WE JUST GOT TO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK." SAID ADAM/BLACK RANGER. "WHAT IF THERE ISN'T A WEAKNESS IN THE CAGE?" ASKED KAT/PINK RANGER. "IF THERE ISN'T, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT LION-TIGER OUT AND HEAR HIS DEMANDS." SAID WHITE RANGER. BACK AT THE PARK, MINDY WAS STILL FACING THE TENGUS WHEN THE JEWELED TREASURE CHEST HAD COME OUT FROM THE WATER AND LANDED NEXT TO HER FEET. EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T THE RIGHT TIME, MINDY'S CURIOSITY GOT THE BETTER OF HER. AT THE INSTANT SHE TOUCHED THE LOCK, IT BROKE, AND THE CHEST OPENED. THERE BEFORE MINDY INSIDE THE TREASURE CHEST WAS NOTHING MORE THAN WHITE JEWELED SASH WITH AN ICON OF A VELOCIRAPTOR ON FRONT AND A SHEET OF PAPER BENEATH IT. MINDY TOOK UP THE SASH AND IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING MINDY EVER SAW IN HER LIFE; JEWELED WITH RUBIES, EMERALDS, DIAMONDS AND SAPPHIRES. MINDY LOOKED UP, THEN REALIZING SHE WAS IN GREAT DANGER. THE TENGUS BEGAN TO ADVANCE TOWARDS HER. "ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE UP, OR ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO TEAR YOU TO SHREDS?" ASKED THE SAME TENGU WHO HAD EARLIER ON ASKED MINDY TO GIVE UP. MINDY HAD HEARD OF THE POWER RANGERS, AND HAD REALIZED HOW MUCH THEIR MASKS LOOKED LIKE THE PREHISTORIC CREATURES OF THE PAST. MAYBE THINGS WERE BEGINNING TO CHANGE AS MINDY REALIZED SHE COULD ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO RID HERSELF OF THESE HORRIFYING TENGUS. INSTINCT TOOK CONTROL OF MINDY AS SHE TIED THE SASH AROUND HER WAIST. JUST AS MINDY WAS ABOUT TO TAKE UP THE PAPER, THE TENGUS BEGAN TO ATTACK. "WAIT, WAIT," SAID MINDY, AFTER DEFENDING HERSELF WELL FROM THE TENGUS, "COULD I AT LEAST READ WHAT THE PAPER IN THE CHEST SAYS, AS A LAST REQUEST?" "WELL, SINCE WE'RE FAIR BIRDS, SURE." SQUAWKED ONE OF THE TENGUS. THE PAPER IN THE CHEST SAYS THE FOLLOWING: TO THOSE WILLING ENOUGH TO POSSES A POWER GREATER THAN FAR, TAKE NOTE, THESE POWERS MAY NOT BE USED FOR SELF INTEREST. STOP THE EVIL THE WORLD MAY TAKE OVER FOR THE BEST, TO USE THESE POWERS, LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND SEE WHO YOU ARE. DO THE SAME TO CALL FORTH A THUNDERING HAWK OF CYBER-POWERS, THE HAWK WILL COME FORTH THROUGH THE SKY LIKE A FLAMING STAR. WITH TIME COMES SUCESS AND PEACE UPON THIS PLANET WILL ONCE BE OURS. "INTERESTING." SAID MINDY, AFTER READING THE PAPER. "WHAT DOES IT SAY?" ASKED ONE OF THE TENGUS. "I'M TOO SMART TO TELL YOU WHAT'S ON THE PAPER." ANSWERED MINDY. "WELL, IF YOU DON'T TELL, THEN WE'LL STEAL THE PAPER FROM YOU." CHALLENGED ONE OF THE TENGUS AS THEY ALL BEGAN TO ATTACK MINDY. MINDY FENDED HERSELF OF WELL AS SHE COULD, UNTIL UP TO A POINT WHEN THE BACK OF HER HEAD HIT THE TREE HARD. SUDDENLY MINDY BEGAN TO CONTROL THE SITUATION BECAUSE OF THAT INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED A FEW SECONDS AGO. ALTHOUGH DUE TO THAT INCIDENT, EVEN THOUGH WITH A SLIGHT HEADACHE, MINDY FELT ANGERED BECAUSE THESE BIRDS DARED TO HARM HER. "THAT DOES IT!" CRIED MINDY SUDDENLY, "THIS HAS GONE ON FAR ENOUGH, WARRIOR-BIRDS, PREPARE TO FALL." THE BIRDS LAUGHED CLUCKINGLY, "YOU'RE WRONG, YOU'RE THE ONE WHOSE GOING TO FALL." MINDY, NOW REALIZING HER DESTINY SAID, "I CALL FORTH FROM A HUNDRED YEARS REST, THE POWERS OF THUNDER AND CYBER COMBINED." THE SKY GREW DARK AND THE TENGUS BEGAN TO HANG TOGETHER IN A GROUP, FEARED. "IT'S TIME TO HEAR THE THUNDER ROAR!" ALL OVER THE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING SEEMED TO CLASH EVERYWHERE. AMAZINGLY, BITS OF SHIELDED ARMOUR FELL FROM THE THUNDEROUS SKY IN THE FORMS OF GLORIOUS PURPLE THUNDER. MINDY, NOW SHIELDED FROM THE TENGUS ATTACKS, NOW SAID, "CYBER-THUNDER ENGAGE!" THE BIRDS INSTANTLY SQUAWKED IN FEAR, REALIZING THEIR END WAS CLOSE. "NOW WARRIOR BIRDS, PREPARE TO FEAR THE POWERS OF THE PURPLE THUNDER RANGER." AMAZINGLY THOUGH, THE SKIES INSTANTLY RETURNED TO THE ORIGINAL COLORS OF LIGHT BLUE. AS THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE PURPLE RANGER AND THE TENGUS BEGAN, BULK AND SKULL, IN THEIR JUNIOR POLICE UNIFORMS, SUDDENLY CAME UP FROM THE SIDEWALK, NOW SEEING THE BATTLE. "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" CRIED SKULL. "YOU'RE COMING WITH US, YOU GIANT CROWS FOR AGRRIVATED ASSUALT UPON THIS HELPLESS PERSON." FINISHED BULK. "I AM AFRAID THIS SITUATION IS TOO OUT OF HAND FOR YOU GUYS." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO?" CHALLENGED BULK. "THESE WARRIOR BIRDS, TENGUS HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE YOU ON YOUR KNEES BEGGING FOR MERCY IN ONE MINUTE FLAT. TRUST ME, FOR YOUR SAFETY AND ANYONE ELSE'S, I CAN HANDLE THESE EVIL CRETAINS." ANSWERED PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "I DON'T THINK SO!" SAID BULK. BEFORE THEY COULD ADVANCE ANOTHER STEP FURTHER, THE TENGUS CONTINUED THEIR ATTACK UPON PURPLE RANGER. WITH AMAZING KICKS AND PUNCHES, PURPLE RANGER DEFEATED THE TENGUS WITHIN A MATTER OF MINUTES. "FLY BACK TO YOUR NEST, WICKED CREATURES, SO THAT I MAY NOT HAVE TO SEE YOU UNTIL ANOTHER ROUND." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. SUDDENLY, AFTER THE TENGUS TOOK OFF INTO THE SKY, MINDY HAD THIS STRANGE FEELING THAT THERE WAS TROUBLE ELSEWHERE. BUT STILL BULK AND SKULL STOOD WITH THEIR MOUTHS OPEN IN PURE SHOCK. MINDY HAD PINPOINTED THE AREA IN WHICH THERE WAS TROUBLE, THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANGEL GROVE. "YOU MAY CONTINUE WITH YOUR WORK." SAID PURPLE RANGER TO THE TWO JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY THEN TELEPORTED OUT OF THE AREA TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANGEL GROVE. AFTER SAYING, "CYBER-TRANSPORT ACTIVATE!" PURPLE RANGER/MINDY TRANSFORMED INTO A GLORIOUS ARRAYS OF PURPLE IN THE FORM OF LIGHTNING WHICH HEADED TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANGEL GROVE. MEANWHILE, THE POWER RANGERS STILL COULDN'T FIND A WAY OUT OF THE CAGE OF FIRE, NO MATTER HOW MANY IDEAS THEY TRIED. THEY WERE ABOUT READY TO ASK OF LION-TIGER'S DEMANDS WHEN SUDDENLY THE SOUND OF THUNDER ROARED AND THE PURPLE LIGHTNING CLASH APPEARED, NOW IN THE FORM OF THE PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. THE POWER RANGERS WONDERED WHO THIS MYSTERIOUS RANGER COULD BE THAT HAS COME TO THE RESCUE. "FREE THESE CAPTIVES, TIGER, OR BE PREPARED TO LOSE THIS BATTLE." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "THAT'S LION-TIGER TO YOU, UGLY. YOU BETTER BE PREPARED TO JOIN YOUR FRIENDS IN MY CAGE OF FIRE." SAID LION-TIGER, "BUT IF YOU WANT A BATTLE, THAT'S FIIIIIIIINE WITH ME!" AS HE SAID THIS, LION-TIGER BLEW OUT A FURY OF FLAMES DIRECTED AT PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. WITH AMAZEMENT, AS IF PREDICTING THIS MOVE, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY TIMED HER DODGE TO THE SIDE JUST RIGHT AND MOVED WITHOUT THE FLAMES HAVING ANY CONTACT WITH HER. THE BATTLE BEGAN AS PURPLE RANGER/MINDY RACED ALONG AND DELIVERED A POWERFUL FLURY OF KICKS AND PUNCHES, BUT LION-TIGER GAVE OUT A POWERFUL SLASH, SENDING PURPLE RANGER TO THE GROUND. "THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY, BUT WHAT?" PURPLE RANGER/MINDY ASKED HERSELF. SUDDENLY IMAGES OF THE KATA SHE PRACTICED EARLIER ON CAME INTO HER MIND. "MAYBE THAT KATA WOULD WORK." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY AS SHE GOT UP AND PERFORMED THAT KATA, ONLY TO BE COUNTER-ATTACKED WITH POWERFUL KICKS AND PUNCHES FROM LION-TIGER. FALLING TO THE GROUND, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID TO HERSELF, "THAT'S ONLY MY LATEST KATA, AND IT DIDN'T WORK... TIME TO INVENT SOMETHING NEW." JUST LIKE THAT, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY KNEW JUST WHAT KATA TO USE, SOMETHING POWERFUL WITH PLENTY OF KICKS AND PUNCHES. SUDDENLY, PURPLE RANGER'S/MINDY'S MIND WAS ONE FIRE...LION TIGER TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS MOMENT AND SNUCK BEHIND PURPLE RANGER/MINDY FOR A SNEAK ATTACK. MINDY GOT UP AND SWIFTLY BLOCKED HERSELF FROM HER OPPONENT. "NOBODY ATTEMPTS A SNEAK ATTACK BEHIND ME AND TRIES TO GET AWAY WITH IT, LION-TIGER." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. CIRCLING AROUND EACH OTHER, PURPLE RANGER PREPARED HERSELF TO DEFEAT LION-TIGER. "THIS IS GOING TO WORK..." PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID TO HERSELF, AS SECOND LATER SHE STOPPED HER CIRCULAR MOVEMENT AND NOW WAS FACED WHERE SHE COULD SEE THE POWER RANGERS, STILL IN THE CAGE OF FIRE. "BECOME THE HAWK..." PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID TO HERSELF AS SHE PUT HER ARMS OUT STRAIGHT OUT BESIDE HER AND REVIEWED ALL THE MOVES IN HER MIND FOR THE NEW KATA. THEN, OUT OF THE SKY, CAME A WONDROUS VISION OF A HAWK, LOOKING AND SOUNDING SO REAL TO THE POWER RANGERS. THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AS THE HAWK CAME FROM THE SKY, WINGS EXTENDED OUT LIKE PURPLE RANGER'S/MINDY'S ARMS THE VISION VANISHED INTO PURPLE RANGER/MINDY IN THE FORM OF A WHITE AND PURPLE MIST. WITH SUCH AMAZING SKILL AND SPEED, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY PERFOMED THE MOST AMAZING KATA THE POWER RANGERS EVER SAW. FIRST SHE DID A DOUBLE SHUTO CHOP, A DOUBLE PUNCH AND A FRONT SIDE KICK. THE LION-TIGER TRIED TO FIGHT BACK, BUT PURPLE RANGER'S/MINDY'S BLOWS WERE TOO SWIFT AND ACCURATELY AIMED. CONTINUING WITH A ROUND-HOUSE, RIGHT DOWNWARD BLOCK, DOUBLE PUNCH, AND A SINGLE PUNCH, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY IMMEDIATELY REALIZED THAT LION-TIGER WAS BEGINNING TO WEAKEN. NOW PURPLE RANGER/ MINDY FOCUSED ON THE LAST AND FINAL MOVE THAT WOULD BRING LION-TIGER TO HIS MERCY. ENDING AT LAST WITH A TORNADO-ROUNDHOUSE KICK, THE LION-TIGER FELL TO THE GROUND. UP ON LORD ZEDD'S MOON FORTESS, LORD ZEDD WAS OUTRAGED. "HOW CAN THIS BE? GOLDAR! WHO IS THIS WARRIOR IN PURPLE?" FUMED LORD ZEDD TO IS SERVENT. "...I DON'T KNOW..." RESPONDED GOLDAR. "THAT DOESN'T MATTER, WHOEVER SHE IS; GO AND FINISH HER AT ONCE!" ORDERED LORD ZEDD. BACK DOWN ON EARTH, LION-TIGER HAD FALLEN IN THE BATTLE, FINALLY LETTING OUT A PAINFUL ROAR, THE CAGE-OF FIRE FELL TO NOTHINGNESS. THE RANGERS, AMAZED BY THIS AND GLAD THEY WERE FREE RUSHED BESIDE TO WHERE THE PURPLE RANGER/MINDY WAS STANDING. "THANKS FOR SAVING US." SAID THE WHITE RANGER/TOMMY. SUDDENLY GOLDAR APPEARED, READY TO PULVERIZE THE POWER RANGERS AND THE PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "DO NOT THANK ME YET, THERE IS ONE MORE OPPONENT." SAID PURPLE RANGER TO THE OTHER POWER RANGERS. "LET'S SEE HOW STRONG YOU ARE, PURPLE RANGER, WHEN YOU FACE THE MOST POWERFUL WARRIOR IN THE WORLD." CHALLENGED GOLDAR. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY TOOK A STEP FORWARD, BUT WHITE RANGER/TOMMY SAID, "YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS, GOLDAR'S TOO POWERFUL." "I DO NOT MEAN TO ARGUE AGAINST YOU, BUT LION-TIGER WAS POWERFUL AND I DEFEATED HIM. I AM ONLY INTERESTED TO IF THIS GOLD ARMORED WARRIOR IS AS GOOD AS HE SAYS HE IS." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. THE POWER RANGERS REALIZED THAT PURPLE RANGER/MINDY HAD A POINT. "JUST BE CAREFUL." SAID RED RANGER/ROCKY. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY WALKED UP TO BATTLE AGAINST GOLDAR, WHOM SECONDS LATER DELIVERED A POWERFUL BLOW WITH HIS BATTLE SWORD. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY FENDED HERSELF AS WELL OFF AS SHE COULD, BUT NONE OF HER DEFENSES WORKED. "THIS IS NO GOOD, TIME FOR A COUNTER-ATTACK." PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID TO HERSELF. "YOUR SWORD IS MIGHTY, GOLD WARRIOR, BUT LET US FIND OUT IF YOUR SWORD CAN UNMATCH MY OWN." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "THUNDER SABRE POWER CHARGE!" WITH AMAZING SKILL PURPLE RANGER/MINDY WIELDED THE SWORD WELL AND SEND GOLDAR'S SWORD TO THE GROUND. THEN PURPLE RANGER/MINDY STRUCK HER SWORD TO THE GROUND, THE VERY POWERFUL CHARGES OF THUNDER MADE THE LAND BEFORE THE TWO TREMBLE, BUT PURPLE RANGER/MINDY USED HER AMAZING NEW FOUND POWERS OF TELEKENETICS AND WAS SURE THAT SHE DIDN'T SPRAWL UPON THE GROUND LIKE GOLDAR DID. FINALLY, GOLDAR'S BATTLE SWORD FELL INTO THE EARTH THAT WAS SPLIT BY PURPLE RANGER'S/MINDY'S THUNDER SABRE. "NO!" CRIED GOLDAR, "THIS CAN'T BE!" "LOOKS LIKE YOUR SWORD IS GONE FOR GOOD GOLD WARRIOR. NOW LET US SEE IF YOU ARE GOOD FIGHTER WITHOUT A SWORD." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. THE BATTLE WAS FIERCE, BUT IN THE END WITH A DEVASTING DOUBLE PUNCH TORNADO KICK, GOLDAR LOST THE BATTLE AND WAS ONCE AGAIN SPRAWLED UPON THE GROUND. BACK IN LORD ZEDD'S MOON FORTRESS, LORD ZED BECAME ONCE AGAIN OUTRAGED. "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT GOLD BABOON COULD HANDLE A CHILD... HOWEVER SHE IS WILL PAY DEEPLY WHEN I MAKE MY MOSTERS GROW!" SETTING HIS STAFF DIRECTLY ON A COURSE FOR EARTH AND ULTIMATELY TO WHERE THE BATTLE WAS TAKING PLACE, LORD ZEDD HAD MADE GOLDAR AND LION-TIGER (WHO HAD BEEN RECOVERING ALL THE TIME GOLDAR AND PURPLE RANGER/MINDY WERE FIGHTING IT OUT) GROW. THE POWER RANGERS RUSHED ALONG MINDY'S SIDE. "ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?" ASKED WHITE RANGER/TOMMY. "YES, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO HANDLE GOLDAR AND LION-TIGER. I WILL BE OF ASSISSTANCE IF YOU ARE IN TROUBLE." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "HOW?" ASKED PINK RANGER/KAT. SUDDENLY GOLDAR SMASHED HIS FIST TO THE GROUND, SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS SWORD. ALL THE RANGERS, INCLUDING PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SWIFTLY MOVED TO THE SIDE. "EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING TOO FAST, JUST CALL FOR ME IF YOU NEED ASSISSTANCE." SAID PURPLE RANGER. THE SIX RANGERS UNDERSTOOD AND WITH THAT CALLED FORTH THEIR NINJA ZORDS. INSTANTLY AFTER, THEY COMBINED AND FORMED THE NINJA-MEGA-FALCON-ZORD AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN LION-TIGER AND GOLDAR, AND THE NINJA-MEGA-FALCON-ZORD BEGAN. POWERFUL BLOWS CLASHED BETWEEN THE THREE OF THEM, BUT GOLDAR RELEASED WITH A POWERFUL PUNCH AND AT THE SAME TIME LION-TIGER RELEASED A POWERFUL FURY OF FLAMES. THE MEGA-NINJA-FALCON-ZORD WAS DOWN, THE RANGERS HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO. "ALL OF OUR POWER'S GONE...WEAPON'S ARE FAILING TO FUNCTION...DEFENSES ARE DOWN..." ECHOED THOUGHOUT INSIDE THE CONTROL ROOM INSIDE NINJA-MEGA-FALCON-ZORD'S HEAD. "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" ASKED PINK RANGER/KAT. "I DON'T KNOW." SAID WHITE RANGER/TOMMY. "DIDN'T PURPLE RANGER SAID THAT SHE COULD BE OF ASSISSTANCE IF WE WERE IN TROUBLE?" ASKED BLUE RANGER/BILLY. "YOU'RE RIGHT, BILLY." SAID WHITE RANGER/TOMMY TO BLUE RANGER/BILLY. "PURPLE RANGER, WE NEED YOUR HELP!" CALLED WHITE RANGER/TOMMY TO PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. ALL THIS TIME THE BATTLE WAS GOING ON, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY HAD BEEN WATCHING WHAT HAPPENING. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY NOW REALIZED THAT THE POWER RANGERS WERE IN TROUBLE AND SHE WAS READY ENOUGH TO SAVE THEM. PUTTING HER ARMS OUT TO HER SIDES, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "BY THE POWER OF THUNDER AND THE SPIRIT OF CYBER, AWAKEN FROM YOUR HUNDRED YEARS SLEEP. COMBINE AND JOIN AS ONE FOR I CALL FORTH THE HAWK OF CYBER-FORCE. CYBER-HAWK! ARISE FROM YOUR RESTING PLACE, YOU ARE NEEDED TO HELP DESTROY THIS HIDEOUS CREATION OF EVIL. ARISE CYBERHAWK! ARISE!" SUDDENLY, THE AMAZING IMAGE OF THE HAWK CAME AND TOOK TO THE SKIES AND INTO THE CLOUDS FROM PURPLE RANGER'S/MINDY'S BODY AFTER WHICH POWERFUL THURSTS OF LIGHTNING LUMINATED THE SKY WITH A BEAUTIFUL ARRAY OF PURPLE. THEN FROM THE CLOUDS CAME AN AMAZING BIRD OF PREY WHICH SEEMED MIGHTIER THAN THE FALCON ZORD. THE CYBER-HAWK FLEW WITH SUCH SPEED AND SKILL IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THE REAL THING. CYBER-HAWK SWOOPED SLIGHTY TO THE GROUND AND PURPLE RANGER/MINDY JUMPED FROM THE EDGE OF THE MOUNTAIN TO THE CYBER-HAWK'S HIDDEN COMPARTMENT LEADING TO THE COCKPIT. "ALL RIGHT CYBER-HAWK, LET US SEE IF PICTURES CAN BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. CYBER-HAWK, CYBER-SPEED BATTLE ENGAGE." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY AS THE CYBER-HAWK SPEEDED THROUGH THE SKIES AND SWOOPED DOWN ON LION-TIGER. GOING INTO AN EXCESSIVE WARP SPEED, CYBER-HAWK DID AN AMAZING BARREL ATTACK WITH THRUSTS OF LIGHTNING AIMED AT LION-TIGER. LION-TIGER FELL BUT IMMEDIATELY GOT UP AND SUCCESSFULLY SWIPED CYBER-HAWK, NEAR TO MAKING IT FALL TO THE GROUND. "CYBER-HAWK'S FALLING FAST. LEFT AND RIGHT DOUBLE WING-THRUSTERS ACTIVATED." FROM FOUR HIDDEN CONTROL PANNELS (TWO HIDDEN AT ONE WING EACH), POWEFUL CANNONS THRUSTED OUT RAGES OF FIRE. ACTING LIKE ANTI-GRAVITATIONAL FORCES, THE THRUSTERS HELD THE CYBER-HAWK IN THE SKY. "I CAN NOT BE IN THIS POSITION TOO LONG. DE-ACTIVATING RIGHT DOUBLE WING THRUSTERS." WITH THE RIGHT DOUBLE WING THRUSTERS DE-ACTIVATED, THE CYBER-HAWK BARRLED BACK INTO REGULAR POSITION. "YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT, LION-TIGER. YOU MAY NOT REALIZE THIS BUT WHEN THE HAWK FLIES, EVIL IS THE ONE TO FALL." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. SUDDENLY, AS CYBER-HAWK WAS FLYING IN, ATTEMPTING TO LIFT LION-TIGER OFF THE GROUND AND THROW HIM DOWN AGAIN, GOLDAR GRABBED THE CYBER-HAWK FROM MID-AIR AND THREW IT TOWARDS A BUILDING WHICH IT SUCCESSFULLY WAS HIT AND CRUMBLED TO TE GROUND. "POWER IS DOWN BY 5%, NOT BAD, BUT THIS IS GETTING A BIT OUT OF HAND." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "I DON'T SUPPOSE YOUR ZORD CAN TRANSFORM INTO A FIGHTING MACHINE LIKE OURS?" ASKED RED RANGER/ROCKY TO PURPLE RANGER AS LION-TIGER AND GOLDAR WAS BEATING UPON THE NINJA-MEGA-FALCON-ZORD. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY TOOK NOTICE OF THIS SITUATION AND NOW FOCUSED FULLY ON VANQUISHING THE ENEMIES. SUDDENLY, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY DETECTED FROM HER TELEPATHIC ABILITIES THAT THE POWER RANGERS WERE PEOPLE THAT SHE KNEW AND WERE CLOSE TO. JUST THEN, RAGE WHICH HAS VANISHED INTO POWERFUL DETERMINATION TO GET RID OF GOLDAR AND LION-TIGER. "THIS HAS GONE ON FAR ENOUGH! CYBER-HAWK THUNDER WARRIOR ACTION MODE ENGAGE!!" SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY AND WITH THAT THE PARTED FROM THE CYBER-HAWK WHILE THE HOOKED TALONS BECAME FEET OF SOLID STEEL AND ARMS APPEARED FROM HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS. ONE WING PARTED FROM THE OTHER AND ONE BECAME THE ARMOR AND THE OTHER BECAME THE MAGNIFICENT SHINING CAPE. THE HEAD WAS INSTANTLY TRANSFORMED BY THE PURPLE THUNDER AND BECAME THE SOLID STEEL FACE OF A WARRIOR. BOTH VILLIANS DISMALLY REMARKED AT THE AMAZING CYBER-WARRIOR, "YOUR ZORD WILL SOON BECOME NOTHING BUT SCRAP METAL." SAID GOLDAR. "AFTER WHICH I WILL BURN AND SEND TO THE RECYCLING PLANT." SAID LION-TIGER, THEN THEY BOTH BEGAN TO CHARGE TOWARDS HER. "TIME TO FIGHT FAR WITH FAIR... CYBER-SWORD ENGAGE AND POWER UP BY THE POWER OF THUNDER!" SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. SUDDENLY FROM THE SKY CAME A POWERFUL BOLT OF LIGHTNING WHICH TRANSFORMED ITSELF INTO A POWERFUL SAMURAI CYBER-SWORD. "YOU CAN'T BEAT US THAT EASY." SAID LION-TIGER AS HE AND GOLDAR GAVE OUT POWERFUL BLOWS, ALL WHICH THE CYBER-WARRIOR CONTROLLED BY PURPLE RANGER/MINDY CLEVERLY DEFENDED. CYBER-WARRIOR LET LOOSE POWERFUL PUNCHES ON THE TWO WARRIORS. LION-TIGER UNLEASHED A FURY OF FLAMES AT THE CYBER-WARRIOR BUT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THEM, CYBER-WARRIOR WALKED TOWARDS THEM, READY TO TAKE GOLDAR AND LION-TIGER DOWN. "CYBER-SWORD THUNDER BLAST NOW!" SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY AND THE POWERFUL SAMURAI CYBER-SWORD UNLEASED WITH A POWERFUL BLAST OF LIGHTNING, DESTROYING LION-TIGER. GOLDAR FOUND HIS SWORD NEARBY AND GRABBED IT. "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF GOLDAR!" WITH THAT, GOLDAR VANISHED INTO A FURY OF FLAMES WHICH TELEPORTED GOLDAR BACK TO LORD ZEDD'S FORTRESS. "I WILL BE WAITING GOLDAR, THE NEXT BATTLE WILL BE ANOTHER DOWNFALL FOR YOU AND YOUR MASTER." SAID PURPLE RANGER/ MINDY TO GOLDAR, SOMEWERE IN SPACE. MEANWHILE, ON LORD ZEDD'S MOON BASE, LORD ZEDD WAS OUTRAGED. "I DON'T BELIEVE IT! THAT PURPLE PIPSQUEAK BEAT US!!" SAID LORD ZEDD. "I WILL SEE THAT VENGENCE WILL BE YOURS, MY LORD." SAID GOLDAR. "YOU'RE ALL USELESS! ESPECIALLY YOU GOLDAR AND RITO! YOU OFFERED NO SUGGESTIONS OR NOTHING, YOU USELESS PILE OF BONES!" SAID LORD ZEDD. "MAYBE WE'LL WIN NEXT TIME, ED." SAID RITO, RITA'S BROTER. "IT'S ZEDD, YOU IDIOT! LORD ZEDD!!!" FUMED LORD ZEDD. "I'LL GET THOSE POWER RANGERS NEXT TIME AND SEE THAT THE PURPLE RANGER IS NO MORE." BACK ON EARTH, THE POWER RANGERS LEPT OUT OF THEIR NINJA-ZORDS AND PURPLE RANGER/ MINDY OUT OF THE CYBER-WARRIOR. "THANKS FOR HELPING US." SAID WHITE RANGER/TOMMY. "YOUR ZORD IS AMAZING." "YOU ARE WELCOME, I DID SAY THAT I WOULD BE OF ASSISTANCE IF YOU NEEDED HELP." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "LIKE YOUR ZORD, THE CYBER-HAWK IS SWIFT AND ACCURRATE. THE CYBER-WARRIOR IS VERY POWERFUL AND SURE, MAYBE THE CYBER-HAWK AND CYBER-WARRIOR BEING POWERED BY THE PURPLE THUNDER IS WHAT MAKES THEM BOTH SO AMAZING." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. SUDDENLY THE POWER RANGER'S COMMUNNICATOR WENT AND ALPHA ANSWERED, "POWER RANGERS TELEPORT TO THE COMMAND CENTER." "WE'RE ON OUR WAY." SAID TOMMY. "I WILL COME TOO, BUT I WILL BE JUST ONE SECOND." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. FACING THE CYBER-WARRIOR, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "CYBER-WARRIOR DIS-ENGAGE..." AFTER SAYING THIS THE GEARS SHIFTED AND THE WINGS JOINED AND MOVED BACK INTO THEIR NORMAL POSITIONS ON THE BACK OF THE CYBER-HAWK. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "CYBER-HAWK, RETURN TO THE SKIES FROM WHENCE YOU CAME. MAY THE NEXT BATTLE BE VICTORIOUS FOR BOTH OF US." MEANWHILE, DURING ALL THIS THE RANGERS HAD WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE PURPLE RANGER/MINDY TO RETURN THE CYBER-HAWK TO THE SKIES. THEIR SHOGUN ZORDS HAD, OF COURSE, RETURNED TO THEIR PLACES UNTIL THE NEXT BATTLE WHEN THEY WERE NEEDED. "OK, I AM READY." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. "ALL RIGHT THEN, GUYS." SAID TOMMY TO THE OTHER RANGERS, "POWER RANGERS, POWER UP!" ALL SIX RANGERS SAID TOGETHER, AND THEY BANDED INTO A MULTICOLORED RAINBOW AND TRAVELED THROUGH THE SKIES. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY WATCHED THEM GO THROUGH THE SKIES FOR A MINUTE, THEN SAID, "PURPLE THUNDER RANGER, CYBER-TELEPORT ACTIVATE!" A SUDDEN FLASH OF PURPLE LIGHTNING STRUCK PURPLE RANGER/MINDY AND SHE WAS TELEPORTED TO THE COMMAND CENTER WITH THE OTHER RANGERS. "WELCOME RANGERS," SAID ZORDON. "YOU HAVE DONE WELL WITH YOUR DEFEAT AGAINST LION-TIGER AND WE WILL WELCOME A NEW FRIEND, THE PURPLE RANGER." YET THROUGHOUT ALL THIS INCIDENT, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THE POWER RANGERS WERE THE FRIENDS THAT TALKED TO HER BACK AT THE JUICE BAR. NOW MORE SURE OF HERSELF, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY REALIZED THAT TO CONFIRM THAT THIS WAS TRUE, THAT ONE THING HAD TO BE DONE. "I DO NOT MEAN TO ALARM ANYONE, BUT I MAY KNOW YOUR TRUE IDENTITIES." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. THIS SHOCKED THE RANGERS, THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS WAS POSSIBLE. FROM BEHIND THEIR MASKS, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY COULD DETECT THE WORRIED, SHOCKED, AND CONCERNED LOOKS ON EACH OF THE RANGERS FACES. "TRUST AND HONESTY ARE KEYS THAT UNLOCK THE DOORS FOR HAVING FRIENDS. IN MY OWN, TRUTHFUL AND HONEST OPINION, I POSSESS THESE QUALITIES AND I WILL NEVER GO BACK ON WHAT I SAY AND TELL WHO YOU ARE. BUT BEFORE YOU TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS, I WOULD LIKE TO GUESS WHO EACH OF YOU ARE, IF YOU DO NOT MIND." SAID PURPLE RANGER. "NO, NOT AT ALL. GO RIGHT AHEAD." SAID WHITE RANGER/TOMMY. LOOKING AT EACH OF THE RANGERS, DETERMINING WHICH TO CHOOSE FIRST, MINDY FINALLY SAID, "WHITE RANGER, YOU ARE TOMMY. YOUR AMAZING MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS NEVER ONCE LEFT MY MIND. BLACK RANGER, YOU ARE ADAM, INSTINCT TO JUDGE SERIOUS SITUATIONS. PINK RANGER, YOU ARE KATHRINE, THE ACCENT YOU HAVE IS VERY WONDROUS." "BLUE RANGER, YOU ARE BILLY, WITH INTELLIGENCE THAT COMES IN HANDY IN SOME SITUATIONS. YELLOW RANGER, YOU ARE AISHA, YOUR BLOWS ARE SWIFT AND UNSTOPPABLE." FINALLY PAUSING AT THE LAST RANGER, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "RED RANGER, YOU ARE ROCKY, WITH INTELLIGENCE AND STENGTH COMBINED." NOW THAT THE GUESSING WAS OVER, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "YOU MAY TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS NOW." ALL THE RANGERS REMOVED THEIR MASKS, AMAZED THAT PURPLE RANGER/MINDY HAD GUESSED THEM ALL RIGHT. "WOW. THAT WAS AMAZING." SAID TOMMY, "HOW DID YOU GUESS US ALL RIGHT?" "I WILL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED." NOW FACING ZORDON, PURPLE RANGER/MINDY SAID, "BUT FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO REVEAL WHO I AM." "I ASSURE YOU PURPLE RANGER, THAT THE POWER RANGERS HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF HONESTY AND TRUST LIKE YOU DO AND THEY WILL NEVER GO BACK ON YOU." "I KNOW." SAID PURPLE RANGER/MINDY. PURPLE RANGER/MINDY NOW TOOK OFF HER MASK AND EVERYONE WAS SHOCKED AS WELL AS SURPRISED. "MINDY." SAID TOMMY. "WOW." SAID ADAM. "AMAZING." SAID AISHA. "YOU SURE HAD US FOOLED." SAID ROCKY. "I DIDN'T INTEND TO FOOL ANYONE." SAID MINDY. "BUT WHAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU HOW I GOT MY POWERS AND I WAS ABLE TO GUESS YOUR IDENTITIES FLAWLESSLY, WOULD BE A BIT FAR-FETCHED." "HOW FAR-FETCHED CAN IT POSSIBLY BE?" ASKED KATHRINE (KAT). "JUDGE FOR YOURSELF AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK." ANSWERED MINDY. "EARLIER ON, JUST AS I LEFT THE GYM, I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE PARK. I WAS, AT THE SAME TIME I WAS WALKING, CASULALLY FLIPPING A COIN WHEN I SEE THE POND THAT WAS IN THE PARK. THOUGH I TOOK INTO REALIZATION THAT THIS WAS NO `WISHING WELL' OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I USED MY COIN AS A SKIPPING STONE AND THREW IT VERY ACCURATELY UNTIL IT SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER." "THEN THESE TENGUS START COMING UP AND ATTACKING ME, YET FROM OUT OF NOWHERE IN THE LAKE A JEWELED CHEST COMES UP FROM OUT OF THE WATER AND LANDS RIGHT NEXT TO MY FEET. SO I TOUCH THE LOCK ON THE CHEST AND IT FALLS OFF AND INSIDE IT IS THIS SASH, WHICH I AM WEARING RIGHT NOW, AND THIS PIECE OF PAPER THAT SAYS: `TO THOSE WILLING ENOUGH TO POSSES A POWER GREATER THAN FAR,TAKE NOTE, THESE POWERS MAY NOT BE USED FOR SELF INTEREST. STOP THE EVIL THE WORLD MAY TAKE OVER FOR THE BEST, TO USE THESE POWERS, LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND SEE WHO YOU ARE. DO THE SAME TO CALL FORTH A THUNDERING HAWK OF CYBER-POWERS, THE HAWK WILL COME FORTH THROUGH THE SKY LIKE A FLAMING STAR. WITH TIME COMES SUCESS AND PEACE UPON THIS PLANET WILL ONCE BE OURS.'" "SO I PUT ON THE SASH AND READ THE PAPER, BUT THE TENGUS ATTEMPTED TO TAKE THE PAPER AWAY. THE TENGUS DIDN'T GET THE PAPER, BUT WHEN I DEFENDED MYSELF OFF WELL DURING THE TENGU ATTACK, UNTIL THE BACK OF MY HEAD HIT A TREE REALLY HARD. NOTHING WAS DAMAGED, THOUGH I HAD A SLIGHT HEADACHE, IT WAS SO SUDDEN THAT I REALIZED THAT THESE GIANT BIRDS HAD TO BE STOPPED AND THAT I HAD THE POWERS OF TELEPATHY AND MAYBE TELEKENETICS. BUT THEN I ACTIVATE THE ANCIENT POWERS OF CYBER AND THUNDER TO BECOME THE PURPLE THUNDER RANGER." "SO, AS THE PURPLE RANGER, I FENDED MYSELF OFF WELL AND THE TENGUS STOPPED THEIR ATTACKING. BUT ALL DURING THE BATTLE, BULK AND SKULL WAS THERE IN THEIR JUNIOR POLICE UNIFORMS, PROBABLY LOOKING FOR ANY SIGN OF TROUBLE. THEY TRY TO GET THE TENGUS TO COME TO THE POLICE STATION, BUT I EXPLAINED THAT THE SITUATION WAS WAY OUT OF HAND AND I HAD EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL. BULK AND SKULL GAVE UP ON THEIR ATTEMPT BUT STAYED TO WATCH THE BATTLE." "I EASILY DEFEATED THE TENGUS," CONTINUED MINDY, "BUT SENSED TROUBLE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANGEL GROVE AND TELEPORTED THERE, AND YOU THE REST OF THE STORY." THEN ENDING WITH THAT, ROCKY, ADAM, AISHA, TOMMY, BILLY AND CATHRINE WERE ALL AMAZED. SUDDENLY BLEEPS AND BLIPS FROM THE CONTROL PANEL WERE SIGNALLING A MESSAGE COMING INTO THE VIEWING GLOBE. ALPHA FINISHED BRINGING UP THE MESSAGE ONTO THE VIEWING GLOBE AND SECONDS LATER APPEARED AN RED-HEADED WOMAN WEARING A DARK PURPLE ROBE. "HELLO MINDY," GREETED THE FIGURE. "WHO ARE YOU?" ASKED MINDY IN COMPLETE AWE. "I AM ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS FROM THE PAST, YOU MAY CALL ME TARMA. I AM HERE TO GIVE YOU A MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PURPLE RANGER POWERS AND YOUR TELEPATHY-TELEKENETIC POWERS." "I DON'T GET THIS, HOW DO YOU KNOW I HAVE THE PURPLE RANGER POWERS AND TELEPATHY?" "I KNOW," ANSWRED TARMA POLITELY, "BECAUSE I ONCE DONNED THE SUIT OF THE PURPLE THUNDER RANGER. YOU SEE, MINDY, THE SUIT IS PASSED ON FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT. BEFORE OUR PLANET WAS ATTACKED BY MASTER VILE, I, ALONG WITH OTHERS, SAW THE SUIT SAFELY TO THE JEWELED CHEST THAT WAS BEFORE YOU AND WE KNEW THAT THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF EARTH WOULD NEED TO BE PROTECTED BY THE PURPLE THUNDER RANGER." "AS FOR OUR PLANET, IT IS BY MASTER VILE AND IS NO MORE. A FEW OF US, ALONG WITH MYSELF, HAVE ESCAPED BEFORE MASTER VILE DESTROYED OUR PLANET AND IS NOW LIVING ON ONE IN A FAR OFF GALAXY HE DOESN'T KNOW OF. ALSO, I KNOW OF YOUR TELEPATHIC POWERS BECAUSE ALL PEOPLE ON OUR PLANET HAVE THE ABILITY. SOON ENOUGH, WITH TIME, YOU WILL HAVE TELEKENETIC ABILITIES, LONG AS YOU PRATICE WITH YOUR POWERS, THE ABILITY TO LIFT THINGS WILL BE ENDLESS." CONTINUED TARMA. "YOU MEAN TO SAY I'M FROM ANOTHER PLANET BUT I'M RAISED ON EARTH? HOW DID YOU FIND ME?" ASKED MINDY." "IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE BUT IT'S ALL TRUE. OUR SEARCHERS FOUND THE NEXT GENERATION, YOU, BY DISCOVERING YOU HAD THE POWERS OF OUR PEOPLE WITHIN, SOON TO BE RELEASED IN THE FUTURE." ANSWERED TARMA. "KEEP YOUR POWERS A SECRET FROM THOSE YOU DON'T TRUST." SAID TARMA. THE POWER OF THUNDER AND CYBER WILL BE THERE AS LONG AS YOU USE IT TO DEFEAT EVIL ATTACKS SET UPON THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF EARTH. IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK IN THE FUTURE, CALL ME WITH YOUR TELEPATHY AND OUR MINDS WILL LINK AS I GUIDE YOU TO OUR PLANET, DESCHA. GOOD LUCK AND MAY THE THUNDER ALWAYS ROAR IN THE DISTANT SKIES." SOON AS THE IMAGE OF TARMA DISAPPEARED OFF THE SCREEN, MINDY SAID, HESITANTLY, "OK." ROCKY, AISHA, ADAM, KATHRINE, BILLY AND TOMMY LAUGHED, AFTER WHICH KAT SAID, "MINDY, THIS ISN'T LIKE YOU. YOU NEVER HESITATE." "AT A QUESTION I DON'T," ANSWERED MINDY, "BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE FROM ANOTHER PLANET, I THOUGHT I ONLY GOT MY POWERS FROM SCIENTIFIC THEORY: IF YOU HIT YOUR HEAD HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR SKULL, THEN YOU GET TELEKENETIC-TELEPATHIC POWERS." EVERYONE LAUGHED AGAIN, THIS TIME MINDY JOINED IN. "THEN AGAIN, THAT HITTING-YOUR HEAD THEORY DOES SOUND KIND OF SILLY." SAID MINDY, AFTER THEY STOPPED LAUGHING. "I WOULDN'T THINK THAT MINDY," SAID BILLY, "ONLY A VERY RARE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE GET SUCH POWERS BY HITTING THEIR HEAD." "SO," SAID TOMMY, CHANGING THE SUBJECT, "ARE YOU ON THE TEAM?" "HOW ABOUT IF YOU CALL ME IN THOSE TRICKY SITUATIONS? I KNOW A LOT ABOUT MACHINES AND CAN MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS ON THE NINJA AND SHOGUN ZORDS IF NECESSARY." "DEAL." SAID TOMMY, AFTER GLANCING AT EVERYONE'S EYES FOR A POSITIVE RESPONCE. FINALLY THEY ALL JOINED IN A CIRCLE, PUT THEIR HANDS IN THE CENTER, LAST WAS MINDY'S HAND, AND ALL CRIED OUT, "POWER RANGERS!"