Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

Any last words?

It's morphin' time! Triceratops!

Putties, grind him into blue dust.

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Why'd you lead me here?

Was your grand plan just to die outside in the fresh sea breeze?

Oh, you brought friends.

Now it's a reunion.

Got your distress call and zipped here as fast as we could.

- Thanks, Zack. - Man, that's Rita Repulsa?

The robot look is not for her.

She'll look better on a junk heap.

Destroy them all!

- - Oh! My face!

I was having fun.

But you wanna get serious?

Come on, let's get deadly serious.

You know, I loved that face.

Just like I love all the power in my new robot body.

But I'll gladly give up some of that energy for a spell that kills.

Billy!

Trini!

No!

Goodbye, Trini Kwan.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Dark Dimension planning my revenge.

So what are we gonna tell her? Maybe their mom drowned?

No. No, Minh's too smart for that.

Well, we gotta decide something quick because school is out.

The others might need help searching the Dark Dimension.

You can't decide quick on how to tell someone the worst news of their life.

And we can't lie to her. It's gotta be the truth.

- Look, Zordon's rules-- - Zack!

Rules can be broken for a good reason.

Look, if Zordon was back like I had hoped, I'm sure he'd say that Minh needs to know.

It's always just been her and Trini.

She doesn't have anybody else.

Who's gonna take care of her now?

Our team, we've never had to deal with something like this before.

No, we have to tell her the truth.

- Otherwise, how's she gonna get closure? - Billy! She's a kid!

She's a kid, Billy. She doesn't need to know that we're Power Rangers.

She needs to know that Rita Repulsa killed her mom.

We have to tell her everything.

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Hey. You all good?

Sorry, Uncle Zack. Time flies when I'm getting my sweat on.

Okay.

We're meant to leave for the cemetery in ten minutes.

You should clean up, get ready. We don't wanna keep the others waiting.

I know.

Hey, you think they've made any headway finding Robo Rita?

- We can ask 'em when we see them. - Okay.

Wait. One more thing. Did you get the flowers?

Flowers?

- Thanks. I'll go take a quick shower... - Yes.

...order you a "World's Best Guardian" trophy...

- Yes. - ...then we can leave.

Yes.

You know, Billy always gives me a hard time whenever we're late.

Guess you can't use, "But I'm a busy congressman," as an excuse anymore.

Sorry to mess you around.

Today's not a day I've been counting down to, you know?

Yeah.

Can't believe it's been a whole year.

I know. Seems like yesterday.

- Dragonzord! - Pterodactyl!

- Triceratops! - Tyrannosaurus!

- Is it me, or did that--? - Come on.

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Before we begin, I just want to say,

unhappy anniversary, Rangers.

- That's Robo Rita, isn't it? - An ambush.

How predictable of you all to get together on this special day.

And I've been so busy preparing.

I even reforged some of my old minions.

Snizzard and Minotaur.

Rows and rows of human graves. This place is beautiful.

Soon, all of Earth will be like this.

Good. We'll start with the Rangers.

Not if we end you first.

I gotta help my team.

But I need you to stay safe, okay?

But she's the one who...

We gotta take her down. I've been training for--

Hard no. World's Best Guardian says, "Do not move."

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Zack is back... in black.

- -

- What? No "sorry I'm late"? - You'll both be sorry.

None of them even complimented my fancy new machine.

- - Snizzard, it's ready.

Nice moves.

- - But mine are better.

- -

- What the--? - Jace!

A wonderful start to my collection.

Time to finish you.

Get her! Get her!

You're the one who's finished.

- - Show him, Snizzard.

- - Gotcha!

You think you can do better against my new powers?

No chance, Pinky.

Like fish in a barrel. Bring them to me.

- Your friends are finished. - We'll see.

It's all coming together.

Hey, what kinda sick game is this?

Oh, it's quite fun. My machine is draining their energy.

Soon, they'll be lifeless husks. You can join them.

- Zack! Billy! - We can't win here!

Power down.

Minh, car, now!

Come on, come on.

You think you can just drive away?

Cowards!

End of the line.

- -

Road's closed. Your move.

- Go! - Go, go, go.

Huh?

Well-played, Cranston. Fly while you can.

Soon, every Power Ranger will be where I want them.

Much like your Trini.

It all happened so fast.

That machine that Robo Rita's building, what does it do?

Honestly? Something that uses our power made by Rita Repulsa?

That's a bad mix. And if we don't put a stop to it,

I... I don't think they're gonna make it.

Then we gotta destroy her.

-"We"? - Yeah.

This is Ranger business, not "teenage girl that has homework due" business, okay?

Wh-- She killed Mom.

This is personal.

You know how hard--

- What you don't understand is-- - Let me finish!

If Mom could do it, so can I.

This is her legacy.

I can help.

Minh, I'm really sorry, but you can't.

You're not a Ranger.

Those monsters would overpower you in a second.

And we can't risk losing you too. Look, the best thing that you can do

for everyone is to stay out of trouble and let us sort this out.

Says the guy who caused all this.

We all know that if it wasn't for you, my mom would still be here.

Oh.

That stung, huh?

Good.

Let's get to Cranston Tech. It has the scanners we need.

Let's go.

Drip by drip, their delicious Ranger powers ebb away.

Let's see how much I've stolen from them.

How disappointing.

This process is too slow.

We need as many Rangers as we can get.

I can round the lambs up for slaughter.

Not unless we can find them.

If we can get them to morph, then it'll be my time to shine.

Good thing I know exactly what draws out a Power Ranger.

No T-Rex, no Pterodactyl, no Green Dragon Power.

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.

We'll have to scan for something else if we want to find our friends.

Thanks, Alpha 9.

Oh, greetings, Zack.

If the people upstairs only knew they had the world's smartest robot