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Locked In

Kronos assigns Terra to trap the Rangers in the ASRS base, and off she toddles.

Cole’s working late, to the point where only he, Dr. Zero, Dr. Iris and Amanda are even in the ASRS building. The outer doors won’t open when he tries to leave, so he goes to get the master key from Dr. Zero. They get locked in the lab, and green gas begins filling the room. It knocks Cole out.

Outside, Terra bosses around the monster responsible for the gas, Stinkfly.

Cole wakes up in a room with the other humans, sealed to the inside by Dr. Iris so they won’t get gassed. The room’s too small for Cole to slip away and morph.

Outside, the other Rangers realize there’s a shield around the building. The bad guys trash the place, and Cole agonizes about whether to reveal his identity and morph or not. The Rangers try to break through the shield with the Gaia Megazord.

Inside, a Miner breaks in, providing enough distraction for Cole to morph. Dr. Zero goes for a silvery briefcase initially, but stops after Cole intervenes. The civilians try to leave, but the gas overpowers them in spite of their gas masks. Cole tries to fight Stinkfly and Terra, and the Megazord finally breaks in, only to shut down from draining its power. The Rangers join the battle, and they defeat Stinkfly both in normal and giant modes by attacking his mouth. Stinkfly growing giant-sized completely wrecks the ASRS building, but the three civilians are fine. They start planning the move to a new base. Dr. Zero retrieves the briefcase from earlier.

Extracted
Kilo shows up in the Extractor Earth Base with the result of the notes he took in Episode 2: a grey version of an Astro Ranger. He introduces himself as the Extractor Ranger.

He soon confronts the Rangers on Earth, easily defeating them and then walking away. Kilo explains that he’s an upgraded monster turned into an evil, superpowered clone of the Red Ranger. Kronos is impressed, and gathers his forces to defeat the Rangers.

The Rangers wonder what to do. Dan insists that he should handle this himself so no one else will get hurt. He heads to the quarry to meet the Extractor Ranger, only for the other Extractors to show up as well. Mason joins him and they charge into battle. To be continued…

Battle Royale
The rest of the team joins Mason and Dan in their fight, but they’re outnumbered and outgunned. The Miners separate an unmorphed Dan from the rest, and the Extractor Ranger slashes him, drawing enough blood to make the rest of the team think he’s mortally wounded. As the bad guys turn to finish the team, Dan attacks, and this time does much better, forcing Terra, the Extractor Ranger and Kronos back all by himself in spite of his wounds. Everyone channels their power through Mason to destroy the Extractor Ranger, who promises that they haven’t seen the last of him as he explodes.

Dan goes to a hospital and the Extractors to their base to recover. Kronos decides to let the Rangers celebrate for a few days before making his counterattack.

Wish Upon a Star
Everyone’s at the hospital to visit Dan. Sam’s trying to talk him into letting her be in charge while he recovers, but nobody likes that idea. The only thing they can agree on is that Dan needs to stay put and rest, and they make him promise to do so. Eventually Sam storms out after insulting most of her teammates.

Outside, she grumbles, but is distracted by a shooting star. Feeling nostalgic, she wishes that her team would take her seriously. A mysterious voice says her wish is granted, and she’s hit in the back with a dart. She collapses.

When Sam wakes up, she’s surrounded by her teammates, who are all concerned. There’s no sign of the dart or its thrower. Everyone’s so eager to please her and follow her instructions that she’s kind of weirded out. It gets stranger when a day goes by, there’s no monster, and her teammates act surprised at the suggestion that Dan is in charge, or that they’d disagree with anything she’d say. She starts to enjoy it, but feels a little bit guilty. Whenever she feels doubts, a pain in her back appears.

Some Miners do finally show up, planting bombs in the street, and Sam sets up a plan of attack, which everyone obeys. Unfortunately, it results in setting off all of the explosives, blowing up the street and injuring most of the team. Sam realizes that for once, she was the one to blame, and that what’s going on isn’t right.

<p class="MsoNormal">She wakes up with the dart in her back, causing the pain that’s been bugging her. The other Rangers are fighting Djinndart, and have been trying to shield her the whole time. Between the monster’s first death and Megazord battle, she takes the time to apologize, and is accepted (with some incredulity on Mason’s part). Dan joins them to form the Megazord, on the argument that he’s not even standing up, and they destroy Hornstag.

<p class="MsoNormal">Later, the team waits for Dan as he’s released from the hospital. Sam’s still arguing with Mason, but this time she catches herself and apologizes again. Some jokes fly around and everyone goes home.

The Other Side
<p class="MsoNormal">Flash forward to half of the moon getting blown off, and Kronos walking away from the unmorphed, dead-looking Rangers. Dr. Iris watches incredulously from the ASRS base as a heartbeat stops.

<p class="MsoNormal">Amanda introduces some of the Rangers to Jonathan, who’s joined development.

<p class="MsoNormal">Kronos explains to a frustrated Terra that they’re losing because the Rangers have the power. He’s already sent Divlego out to destroy the humans’ eardrums with loud noises. Unfortunately for them, Cole’s already tweaked the Rangers’ helmets so the noise won’t effect them, and they destroy Divlego.

<p class="MsoNormal">Another Extractor calls them up and is displeased by Kronos’s lack of progress, saying that “at this rate we’ll be kicked out of the Seekers of Heaven.” He promises to kill Kronos if he fails again. Kronos orders Kilo to send out his Kilobots.

<p class="MsoNormal">That doesn’t go very well either, and Kronos is forced to open a portal to Extractor hell and get back Divlego, some Miners and the Kilobots; they’ll be immune to death for an hour this way.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Rangers do a roll call and destroy Kilo. He walks out of the hell portal anyway, his body repaired, and rejoins Kronos.

<p class="MsoNormal">Later, Mason mentions some scary dreams he’s been having. It turns out everyone on the team has been dreaming about Dan’s fight with the Extractor Ranger, and all of them dying on the moon. They freak out. A strange figure appears nearby and says that their visions have been getting through, but the stranger hopes that “maybe they won’t die this time.” It vanishes into a time vortex as Dr. Iris arrives to collect the group.