MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS
THE BAD DREAM MACHINE
By Cathy East Dubowski
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SABAN'S MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS
THE BAD DREAM MACHINE
By Cathy East Dubowski
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PROLOGUE
Evil forces beware. Five ordinary teenagers are about to morph into--the Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers.
Their incredible powers come from Zordon, a good wizard
trapped in another dimension. Zordon has given each teenager a
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magic coin--a Power Morpher--and super strength drawn from the spirits of the dinosaurs.
When things get really tough, the Power Rangers call upon their Dinozords--giant
robots they drive into battle.
Power Rangers, dinosaur spirits, and amazing robots--together these incredible forces
protect the Earth.
So--get ready. It's morphin time!
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Chapter 1
BRIIIIIIINGG!
At last! The ear-splitting final bell rang through the halls of Angel Grove High.
School was over for the week, and the
Weather Channel had forecast a beautiful weekend ahead.
But Trini and her best friend
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Kimberly were not smiling as they met each other at their lockers.
Trini pulled her science book from her neatly organized locker and sighed quietly.
Kimberly dug through her locker's jumble of books and papers, headbands, scrunchies,
and
makeup kits. Finally she found her
science book under some old gym clothes. Then she checked her shoulder-length brown
hair in the
mirror, slammed the locker door shut, and gave the combination
lock a spin.
She made a face at her science book and quickly stuffed it into her pink backpack.
"Hey, girls, you look bummed
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out!" It was their close friend Zack. His black hi-tops squeaked on the wood floor
as he hip-
hopped down the hall with his
buddies Jason and Billy.
These five best friends were nice, normal-looking teenagers
but they shared an outrageous
secret. Whenever danger threat
ened the Earth, they changed--into the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! Together they
used their
secret powers to face the chal
lenges of fighting Evil. But this
weekend they faced a really tough challenge.
"In case you hadn't heard," Kimberly said with her hands on her hips, "there's a
huge science
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test on Monday."
Zack just grinned. "Yeah, we know all about it."
Trini and Kimberly looked at each other in amazement. They were all pretty good students.
Especially Billy--
he was a real brain. But Ms. Appleby's science
tests were awesomely tough. Even good students had to study like
crazy to do well.
"And you're not worried?" Trini asked.
"Nope," said Jason, flashing his famous smile. "Billy's got a great plan to make
sure we all pass."
Kimberly and Trini were definitely interested!
But so were Angel Grove's
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biggest troublemakers, Bulk and Skull. Bulk was a great big guy with a greasy ponytail
and a nasty
personality. He liked to push
around his skinny buddy Skull, who had dark slicked-back hair and always dressed
in black.
Today they were hiding around
the corner, eavesdropping on what their five classmates were saying.
Billy's blue eyes twinkled behind his glasses as he revealed his plan. "We were thinking
about
all of us going up to my uncle's
inn. It's up in the mountains. We can spend the whole weekend studying."
"If we work together on this,"
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said Zack, "the test will be a breeze."
"Great idea!" Kimberly and
Trini both said at once. Suddenly the weekend looked a whole lot brighter. Chattering
with excitement, the five friends began to
make plans.
Meanwhile, around the corner, Bulk felt someone tap him on the shoulder. He and Skull
spun
around as if they'd been caught
stealing. It was Mr. Caplan, principal of Angel Grove High School. He was waving
two large yellow
index cards in their faces.
"Do you boys know what these are?" Mr. Caplan asked with a tight smile.
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"Uh, early birthday cards?" Bulk guessed nervously.
"Oooh, Mr. Caplan," said Skull, shaking so hard it made his one dangly earring jingle,
"you shouldn't have."
"I didn't!" Mr. Caplan said through clenched teeth. He held the yellow cards up by
the cor
ners, as if they were smelly fish. "These are your mid-semester
grades."
"Ouch!" said Bulk.
"Yeah, ouch," Skull agreed.
"Ouch is right," the principal said with a frown. "If you two get D's on Monday's
science test,
you're going to spend every day
for the rest of the year staying
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after school. Remember, D is for Detention!"
Bulk and Skull stared, speechless, as Mr. Caplan turned and walked quickly down the
hall.
"Well," Skull mumbled finally, "at least we know where we'll be after school from
now on."
"Don't be a dweeb!" Bulk growled. Then he grinned devilishly. "I've got a plan...."
He peeked around the corner again
at Billy, Trini, Kimberly, Zack, and
Jason.
"We'll just follow those geeks this weekend," Bulk said with a snicker, "and let
them do all the work for us."
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Bulk and Skull weren't the only ones who were spying on the Power Rangers. High above
Earth,
Rita Repulsa watched them from her cold, gloomy fortress on the
moon. A nasty smile twisted
across her face as she listened to the new plan of her chief warrior,
Goldar.
"This is perfect!" Goldar cried, his red eyes glowing with excitement. "With the
Power Rangers all
sleeping in the same place, I can finally call on the Crystal of
Nightmares."
"I like the sound of that," Rita said gleefully. "But what is that, you twit?"
Goldar carefully explained how
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the Crystal of Nightmares worked. "It will let us enter the Power Rangers' dreams
and destroy
their self-confidence ...forever!"
Rita clapped her bony hands together, cackling with delight as she looked down on
Earth with her cruel dark eyes.
Goldar's plan would take the power out of the Power Rangers--for good.
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Chapter 2
At Billy's uncle's inn, birds
chirped in the cool, fresh mountain air. Deer wandered peacefully
through the woods. The warm sunlight sparkled like diamonds
on the trout-filled lake.
"This was a super-great idea," Kimberly said with a smile, "all of
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us coming here for the weekend to study together."
Billy agreed totally. "And we've already made significant progress in preparing for
the exam."
Being in the mountains was bet
ter than any of them could have imagined. Gone were all the noisy interruptions and
distractions of home. They decided there was no
better place to study science than surrounded by nature.
The five friends had been studying for hours in Zack, Billy, and Jason's room. Books
and
papers were scattered every
where. But somehow, studying together didn't seem like hard work. They asked each
other
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questions and discussed what they learned. That made the information seem real and
alive, not just facts in a book.
At last, tall, willowy Trini stood up and stretched, flipping her long black braid
over her shoul
der. "I don't know about you guys, but all this studying is making me hungry. Let's
take a break and get
something to eat."
Laughing, the friends went in search of food.
Outside, not far from the teenagers' rooms, two heads popped up out of the bushes.
It was Bulk and Skull! Bulk was
using binoculars to get a close-up
look at the inn. Skull was using
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binoculars to look up at the tree above them.
Bulk rolled his eyes. "What are you looking at, numbskull?"
"Don't move," said Skull, still looking through his binoculars. "There's a bird's
nest up there."
Bulk looked up. "Where?"
Splat!
A falling egg struck Bulk on the forehead.
"There," said Skull.
Splat!
The yolk was on Skull, too.
About an hour later, a key rattled in the lock of Billy, Zack, and Jason's room.
Slowly the door squeaked open.
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But it wasn't Billy or Zack or Jason. It wasn't Kimberly or Trini, either.
It was just two maids--a great big one and a smaller skinny one--who had supposedly
come
to do their daily cleaning. Their uniforms were all twisted and
wrinkled, as if they didn't fit quite right. And they were both defi
nitely having a bad hair day!
"A-a-a-CHOO!" the big maid sneezed. "Get that feather duster out from under my nose!
I'm allergic to dust!"
"Sorry, Bulk," said the skinny maid. He straightened Bulk's flipped wig for him and
smiled apologetically.
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"Come on, Skull," Bulk hissed. "We have to hurry. The dweebs will be back soon."
Bulk started shuffling through papers on the desk. These goody-goodies were smart,
Bulk thought,
and they knew how to study.
There must be something here that would help him ace that test on Monday. Maybe something
he
could use as a cheat sheet!
He glanced over at Skull, who was still dusting...the table, the mirror. He was actually
cleaning the room!
Bulk scowled. "Would you put that thing away--a-CHOO!--and help me here?"
Suddenly they froze. Voices!
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Someone was coming their way!
"Good work today, you guys," they heard Jason say right outside the door. "We'll
start again in the morning."
Quickly, Bulk and Skull ran to the window. But it was much too small for a big guy
like Bulk to squeeze through.
Keys jingled in the lock.
Skull shot Bulk a frantic look. The doorknob started to turn. There was only one
thing they
could do. "Quick!" Bulk said, shov
ing Skull ahead of him.
Just then the door opened.
Billy, Jason, and Zack burst in,
laughing and joking around. Everything in the room looked
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the same. Their books and papers were just where they'd left them.
"Man," said Zack, "this fresh air
is giving me energy to burn!" He turned on the radio by the bed. Lively music filled
the room. Zack
started moving to the beat.
"Hey, guys, check out this new step!"
Billy and Jason laughed as they watched Zack give new meaning
to the word dance. He mixed hip-hop, karate, and some of his own athletic moves into
what he called
Hip-Hop-Kido.
Then he kicked off his shoes and began to dance on the bed.
Zack didn't know it, but his sneakers had landed two inches
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from Bulk's nose. He and Skull were hiding under the bed! The trapped troublemakers
moaned quietly in pain every time Zack
bounced.
"Check this move out!" they heard Billy say. Billy grabbed a feather pillow from
his bed. With
a grin, he used Zack for feather
pillow target practice.
"Pillow fight!" Jason shouted and joined in. Soon feathers were flying everywhere!
Under the bed, Bulk was half choking as dust and pillow feathers swirled up around
his face.
Skull stuck his finger under Bulk's
nose, trying to keep him from sneezing. Bulk groaned--but very
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quietly. Would these guys ever go to bed?
The Power Rangers had no idea they'd been followed. And they certainly didn't know
Bulk and
Skull were trapped beneath Zack's
bed. If they had known, they would have just laughed. Bulk and Skull's troublemaking
was usually
pretty harmless.
But what Rita Repulsa was planning for the Power Rangers was no laughing matter.
Rita had sent Goldar to Earth, to a secret cave hideout in the desert. The cave was
called the
Cavern of Destruction. Now
Goldar paced the dirt floor, star-
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ing at a blue crystal ball in the center of the cold, dark hideout.
Raising his sword, Goldar cried out in his haunting, beastlike voice, "Crystal of
Nightmares! I
command you! I alone will use
your powers to destroy my enemies."
Strange blue lightning crackled from his sword to the crystal. The mysterious crystal
ball began to
glow as its evil powers awakened.
"Pleasant dreams, do-gooders!" Goldar shouted with excitement. Electricity crackled
around the
Crystal of Nightmares as it sent
its blue light streaking through the night.
Goldar laughed. "Soon your
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dreams will turn into nightmares, and your powers will be lost forever!"
Trini closed her science book and placed it on the nightstand. She yawned and pulled
the covers
up to her chin. "Good night,
Kimberly."
"Good night, Trini," Kimberly said. She turned off the light and curled up with her
pillow. "Sweet dreams."
Both girls smiled as they closed their eyes and peacefully drifted off to sleep.
A little while later, in their own room, Jason, Billy, and Zack turned out the lights
and went to
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sleep, too. They slept so soundly they didn't even hear the snores beneath Zack's
bed. Still dressed
in their maids' uniforms and wigs,
Bulk and Skull were sleeping like babies.
A blue light passed over the peaceful faces of Billy, Zack, and Jason. Frowns creased
their foreheads, and they began to stir in
their sleep.
The blue light passed over the faces of Bulk and Skull, too, as they snored beneath
Zack's bed.
In the girls' room, Trini and Kimberly began to toss and turn as their faces were
bathed in the same strange, eerie glow.
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The Crystal of Nightmares had begun to work its evil magic.
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Chapter 3
Billy broke out into a cold
sweat as he tossed and turned in his sleep. He was dreaming...
Dreaming that as the Blue Ranger, he was fighting a monster.
He called on his special powers. He struggled to use every ounce
of his intelligence, but he was
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totally powerless against the evil creature.
Zack was dreaming, too...
Dreaming that as the Black Ranger, he was surrounded by enemies. He defended himself
with superpowers and hip-hop karate moves, but somehow he
knew that he could not win.
Beneath Zack's bed, Bulk and Skull were snoring away.
Bulk was dreaming about a huge hamburger. "Burgasaurus!" he mumbled in his sleep.
Skull was dreaming about a hot dog with all the works. "Dogasaurus!" he muttered,
smacking his lips.
But as the blue light passed
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over their faces, their dreams changed. Now they were dressed as superheroes--and
ready to save the world!
Meanwhile in the girls' room, Kimberly was dreaming...
Dreaming that as the Pink Ranger, her enemies were chasing her through a tunnel with
no end, no escape.
Trini was dreaming that as the Yellow Ranger, she had lost control of all her powers,
and that
she could do nothing to stop the
monsters that were trying to destroy Angel Grove.
Jason's nightmare was perhaps the worst.
As the Red Ranger, he should
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have been able to stop Rita's newest monster. But in his dream,
no matter how hard he tried, he was losing the fight. Even worse, he knew that he
was failing his
friends when they needed him
most. The Power Rangers were about to be defeated...forever.
Then Billy, Jason, Zack, Kimberly, and Trini began to have the same dream at the
same time.
They dreamed they were in their regular school clothes,
standing in a circle of flickering lights. They looked up and saw a pale face wavering
in a column of eerie green light
--it looked as though it were underwater. It was
Zordon, Rita's enemy, the good
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wizard who had given them their powers. The Power Rangers were dreaming that they
had been
brought to his secret Command
Center.
"Power Rangers!" Zordon said in a voice full of anger and disappointment. "It has
become obvi
ous that you are no longer capa
ble of performing your duties. I have no choice but to strip you of your powers...forever!"
Suddenly, one by one, Zack, Billy, and Jason sat bolt upright in their beds, jerked
from their
nightmares. They were out of
breath and covered in sweat.
Trini and Kimberly also awoke with a start. They sat up in their
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beds, unsure of what was real and what was a dream.
Knock! Knock!
Kimberly jumped at the sound, then pulled on her robe and tiptoed over to the door.
It was
Jason, Zack, and Billy. Quickly,
she let them in.
For a moment the five friends looked at one another in silence. Each one was thinking,
What's going on?
At last Jason spoke, his voice barely a whisper. "Did you guys have the nightmare,
too?"
"Oh, no," said Kimberly as they all nodded their heads. "It was horrible!"
"Truly disturbing," said Billy.
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Then they sat down and talked about what they had dreamed.
Meanwhile, Zordon watched from his Command Center.
"I have been fearing this for a long time," Zordon said to the little robot Alpha
5, who ran the Command Center. "Goldar has called upon the evil Crystal of Nightmares
to destroy the Power
Rangers' self-confidence."
"Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!" squeaked Alpha 5. "What are we going to do?"
"We must summon them immediately," Zordon replied.
Back in the girls' room, the five teenagers--still upset by their nightmares--jumped
as their
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communicators all went off at the same time.
"Oh, no," said Kimberly, nervously twisting a corner of her pink robe. "It's Zordon!"
Zack shook his head. "Man, I'm really not ready for one of Rita's monsters right
now."
"Me neither," said Trini, hugging a pillow.
Billy pushed his glasses up on his nose. "I don't know if I'll ever be ready again."
No one wanted to be the first to answer Zordon's call.
Jason sighed. "All right, we're all scared. But we have to answer." At last he spoke
into the communicator on his wrist.
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"Zordon, this is Jason."
Zordon's voice echoed as if it were underwater. "I am aware of the terrible nightmares
you had."
The Power Rangers looked at one another, embarrassed that Zordon knew their secret
fears.
Billy finally admitted out loud what they had all been thinking. "Zordon...I'm afraid
we've completely lost confidence in our abil
ities."
"This is exactly Goldar and
Rita's plan," Zordon said. "Goldar has called upon the Crystal of Nightmares to destroy
your self-confidence. And without self-confidence, your special powers are completely
useless."
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"So that's what's going on," said Zack, shaking his head in disgust. "We're through."
"Fortunately," Zordon continued, "Alpha 5 has located the Crystal of Nightmares that
Goldar used to control your minds. You
must destroy it. That will release you from your fears."
"No way," said Kimberly. "I'm hanging up my communicator."
"I don't know if we can do it," Jason admitted.
"You can and you will," Zordon said firmly. "Believe only that and you will succeed."
Suddenly the Power Rangers could feel something happening to them. They recognized
the tin-
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gling feeling. Zordon was using his powers to transport them.
What they didn't know was--where was Zordon sending them?
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Chapter 4
Five balls of colored light--one red, one yellow, one pink, one blue, and one black--streaked
across the sky.
Moments later the lights shimmered, then turned into Jason, Trini, Kimberly, Billy,
and Zack. They were dressed in their regu-
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lar clothes--jeans and T-shirts and sneakers. They shook their heads to clear their
thoughts, then looked around.
They were somewhere that was rocky and deserted. Zack peered over a huge rock. Several
feet
away was the entrance to a cave.
And the cave was heavily guarded.
"Oh, great!" said Zack. "Putties!"
The place was swarming with Rita's Putty Patrol, mindless clay creatures Rita often
sent to fight
and try to weaken the Power
Rangers.
"The Crystal of Nightmares must be inside the cave," Billy said.
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"We don't stand a chance!" Trini said with a worried frown.
Kimberly was already walking away. "I'm getting out of here, you guys. Let me know
how it turns out."
Suddenly another group of
Putties appeared right in front of her, blocking her escape. There was no other choice.
The Power Rangers would have to stand and
fight.
The Power Rangers had been forced into combat with the Putties many times before.
Usually they beat the dull-witted
Putties because the Power Rangers were a whole lot smarter.
But today was different-
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because today the Power Rangers were different. The Crystal of Nightmares had robbed
them of their greatest weapon: their self-
confidence.
Kimberly and Zack did their best to block the Putties' kicks and punches. But in
their hearts they no longer believed they
could defeat the Putties, and so they didn't even try some of their special attack
moves.
"They've never been this strong before," cried Zack.
"Or this ugly!" added Kimberly. A handful of Putties pinned Trini and Billy to a
tree.
Trini was usually calm and brave in the face of danger. Not
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today. "Help!" she cried out with a frightened voice.
"This is most unfortunate," Billy said, ducking his head.
Jason was trying to fight off several Putties at once. Suddenly he realized he was
near the entrance to the cave.
His mind told him it was hopeless. The Power Rangers could never win. They were totally
washed up.
But then something deep inside him fought that feeling of defeat. He had to keep
trying. He just had to!
"Hang on, Rangers!" Jason shouted to his struggling friends. "I'm going for it!"
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Jason managed to slip free and duck inside the cave. Then he stopped, staring in
wonder. The
glowing Crystal of Nightmares
was as beautiful as it was evil. Jason could not take his eyes off it. Slowly he
reached his hand out
to touch it.
Suddenly Goldar stepped from the shadows. His red eyes glowed like burning coals
as he moved toward Jason. He looked stronger
and more evil than ever.
Was Jason's terrible nightmare about to come true? Was this really going to be the
end of the Power Rangers?
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Chapter 5
Jason was trapped. He was
unarmed and all alone. How could he hope to fight Rita Repulsa's greatest warrior?
Goldar was coming toward him now. Quick! Do something! an inner voice told him.
Then his eyes sparkled as he
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got an idea. Slowly Jason backed up toward the wall. "All right, you goon!" he shouted
at Goldar. "Come and get me!"
"My pleasure!" Goldar cried. He lunged for Jason with all his strength.
Jason lurched to the side, rolling across the ground.
Instead of hitting Jason, Goldar smacked headfirst into the hard wall of the cave.
For a moment he
saw stars and then stumbled to
his knees.
Jason knew he had only seconds. He ran toward the Crystal of Nightmares and struck
it with a
powerful side kick. The crystal
smashed against the wall and
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exploded in a shower of sparks.
Far off in the Command Center, Alpha 5 and Zordon watched.
"They did it!" Alpha 5 cried, spinning in circles, with lights blinking on and off.
"The Power Rangers destroyed the Crystal of
Nightmares!"
Zordon smiled proudly, as if there had never been any doubt.
Back in the cave, Jason pulled himself to his feet.
Then something strange happened. A picture filled his mind--almost like a dream,
even though he wasn't asleep.
In the vision Jason saw himself as the Red Ranger, defeating a monster. He raised
his hand in a
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sign of victory.
Outside the cave, the other Power Rangers were still surrounded by Putties. But something
strange was happening to
them, too.
Kimberly and Zack stared for a moment as a dream image filled their minds. Kimberly
saw herself
as the Pink Ranger, flipping a
Putty over her shoulder. Zack saw himself as the Black Ranger, fighting off a monster
twice his size.
Billy and Trini were still pinned against a tree. But both stared into space as dreams
filled their minds--
Billy as the Blue Ranger,
Trini as the Yellow Ranger, saving the Earth from Evil.
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The power of the Crystal of Nightmares had been destroyed. Now the Power Rangers'
minds
were filled with visions of suc
cess. What a difference it made. They faced the Putties with new self-confidence.
Kimberly and Zack advanced on the Putties that had cornered them--and sent them flying.
"Catch you later, Putties!" Kimberly shouted with a smile.
"Yeah, pasta la pizza!" Zack cracked.
Then they hurried to help Billy and Trini. Jason ran from the cave
and joined in the battle. Together they fought off the Putties with
karate, gymnastics...and the
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strength and confidence that they'd always shared.
Within minutes the Putties had vanished.
"Good work, Rangers!" Jason said.
"I believe we've regained our self-confidence," Billy said.
"All right!" Trini cried.
The Power Rangers were their old selves again.
Up on the moon, Rita Repulsa was her old self again, too--evil, cranky, and screaming
at everyone in sight!
"Why do I even bother with you?" she shrieked at Goldar.
"Those twerps smashed the Crystal of Nightmares," Goldar
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whined. "What was I supposed to do?"
Then Rita's evil eyes fell on Scorpina, another of her warriors. "I know--I'll send
Scorpina! By the
time she's finished with them, their old nightmares will seem
like sweet dreams!"
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Chapter 6
"Well, guys," Jason said as he brushed the dust from his red jeans, "we've sent those
Putties
packing. Maybe we should go
back to the inn and pack, too."
"Great idea," said Trini. "We might even have time left to study some more."
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But suddenly Goldar and Scorpina appeared, their golden armor glinting in the bright
sun. Goldar held back--
Rita wanted
this to be Scorpina's fight. But still he held his sword ready as he watched Scorpina
instantly change--
into a giant scorpion.
Her two huge pincers opened and closed, and her poisonous tail lashed wildly.
Jason stepped forward. "No more fooling around, Rangers. It's morphin time!" he cried.
The air crackled with electricity as the Power Rangers raised
their Power Morphers to the sky. Just as Zordon had taught them, they called upon
the spirits of the
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ancient dinosaurs.
"Mastodon!" cried Zack. "Pterodactyl!" cried Kimberly. "Triceratops!" cried Billy.
"Saber-toothed Tiger!" cried
Trini.
"Tyrannosaurus!" cried Jason.
In a flash, the five teenagers from Angel Grove morphed into Power Rangers!
Now they stood dressed in shining helmets and sleek jumpsuits--
five powerful protectors. Jason, the Red Ranger. Kimberly, the Pink Ranger. Zack,
the Black Ranger. Trini, the Yellow Ranger.
And Billy, the Blue Ranger.
The Power Rangers locked hands, uniting their strength.
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Then together they faced Scorpina. "Let's send her back with her tail between her
legs!" Jason shouted.
Scorpina lashed out with her powerful claws. She struck with her deadly tail. But
she couldn't compete with the Power Rangers,
and soon she went down in a heap.
Goldar looked at Scorpina lying in the dirt. He shifted his gaze to the strong and
confident Power Rangers.
With a whimper, Goldar disappeared in a flash of light.
"Sweet dreams!" the Power Rangers called after him. Then they laughed and gave each
other
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high fives.
There was no doubt about it. The Power Rangers were back!
Back at the inn, a real maid
went into one of the guest rooms to clean. She hummed to herself as she vacuumed
the room. But
when she tried to clean under one of the beds, her vacuum cleaner hit something big
and lumpy.
She pulled up the bedspread and peeked.
"EEEEEEEEK!" she cried.
Bulk and Skull scrambled out. They were half-asleep, still dressed in their maid
uniforms and wigs--
and completely cov
ered with dust. "A-a-a-CHOO!"
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Bulk sneezed so hard he blew both their wigs off.
The maid shrieked again.
Now Bulk was completely awake. Suddenly he remembered. "The test! Come on, Skull--let's
get out of here!"
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Chapter 7
On Monday, Jason, Trini, Billy, Kimberly, and Zack tackled Ms. Appleby's science
test. The extra
studying they had done really
paid off. They finished the test in record time.
The next day in science class, they found Principal Caplan at the
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front of the room.
"Ms. Appleby is ill today," he said. "I thought I'd fill in for her so
I could deliver these test results personally." Slowly, he walked up and down the
aisles, passing out
their graded science tests.
One by one, the five friends looked at their test papers.
"Congratulations," Mr. Caplan said. "You all got A's."
"All right!" Zack shouted.
"Wow," said Kimberly, smiling at her big red A--and then at her friends. "Studying
together really paid off."
Mr. Caplan had handed back all but two of the papers. He walked back to Ms. Appleby's
desk, then
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turned and glared. "You two--" he pointed to Bulk and Skull, "get up here."
Nervously, they went to the front of the room. Mr. Caplan handed them their tests.
Each was marked with a big red F.
"Hey, Bulk!" Skull cried. "The plan worked! We didn't get D's--that means no detention!"
Bulk scowled at Skull and said through clenched teeth, "You--you d-dumb skull!"
Mr. Caplan cleared his throat. "Do you know what F stands for, gentlemen?"
"Uh...fun?" Bulk guessed hopefully.
"Far out?" Skull tried.
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The principal walked to the blackboard and wrote FOREVER.
"Forever, " Mr. Caplan read. "Which is how long you're going to be staying after
school in my office."
"Uh, that was my next guess," Bulk mumbled.
Mr. Caplan erased the board with, a few angry swishes. "I'm
very disappointed in you, gentlemen," he said as he slammed the
chalky eraser down on the desk. A big cloud of chalk dust rose into Bulk's face.
The chalk dust tickled Bulk's nose. "A-a-a--"
Mr. Caplan looked puzzled. "What's the matter with him?"
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"Take cover!" Skull shouted and dived under a desk.
Bulk let out a huge sneeze. "A-aa-CHooooooo!"
Mr. Caplan's wig sailed off his bald head.
The whole class broke into laughter as the angry principal chased Bulk and Skull
out the door.
Jason, Trini, Billy, Zack, and Kimberly grinned at each other. It
had been a tough week, with two tough tests: one in science, the other in confidence.
It felt good to know that with teamwork, they'd
aced them both.
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Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! Jason, Trini, Kimberly, Zack, and Billy
are under the spell of the bad dream machine! It zaps
them of their bravery and their confidence--and fills
them with fear. Now that the Power Rangers are
afraid of their own shadows, will evil forces take
over the world?
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