Case File 10: Morning Dew

The Sounds Of Hard Metal is the tenth episode of Power Rangers EDF and the Destiny Wars

Summary
A SNAKE Agent does great battle against Raiden, while Madame Medusa and Agent Orange make their attack.

Featured Lineup: Red, Yellow, Blue, Navy, Green, Pink

Plot
James, Calvin, and Ryan deploy Will and Raiden on a US Army sanctioned mission. Raiden and Will are given a mission to find out what is happening in an Indonesian city. There have been reports of unnatural thunder and lightning strikes strikes. Raiden and Will bicker about things. Raiden still having trouble being more discreet, and Will tries to calm him down

Will's tracking device does its work in finding something though, a group of people are seen bowing down to a big pole. Raiden finds it weird, and Will is suspicious of what's goin' on. Raiden blows the cover by beaming "What is going on, What is the meaning of this?"

The people angrily growl in their language "Who is the non believer?" and begin to call for their lord. The pole begins to charge up due to lightning striking it, and the pole transforms into a man. His name is Chandra Lakhani, and he has control over Thunder. His plan to garter a match with Raiden worked. He boasts to Raiden saying he knows about his powers, and challenges him to a bout. The cult reveals themselves to be Commandos and Will and Raiden find themselves out numbered. The Two morph and begin to fight them off.

Will, after taking lessons from Calvin, now can kick commandos off and disarm them at the same time, He's still clumsy in doing so, but it works. He punches one commando so hard and knocks him out. Raiden uses his thunder bolts to shock everybody around. Soon its just Lakhani. He is impressed, but reveals himself to be more than a man, but of god level,  as the Great Python.

Raiden is not concerned, and fights, but his hubris holds him back, and Great Python conjours a Lightning laser and hits Raiden in the back, defeating him. James sees that bad stuff is going on. As Python is about to defeat him,James arrives and disarms the enemy. They escape with an ego bruised Raiden.

Back at base, they patch up Raiden who is angry at losing. He's never lost before, much less to a tiny puny Earthling like Lahkani.

Meanwhile, Lahkani delivers what he was to extract: Blood from a Xemonion. Medusa takes it and declares: "Yes, perhaps this will lead us to getting into Xemon. Petrov did some marvelous things enhancing our capabilities" She then deploys Lahkani and Agent Orange again, this time to kill Raiden

The two return and cause a scene. Rick calls the rangers and they are deployed. Lahkani takes Raiden on for a round two and it goes about the same. Ryan tries to help, but isn't much assistance. Will tries to go Fury, but can't. James fires his missile, but Lahkani strikes it down. As Calvin goes to attack Agent Orange takes him out, and begins to fight him off. Raiden, near death, sees Amaterasu again. She says "You brash boy, you run into a brick wall, and think not to climb over it"

Raiden realizes he can't be so pompous and brash, and  he is not above his situation. He looks for weakness and when he finds them he exploits them. He, Ryan, Will and James destroy Lahkani. He grows to Zord mode, but that's no issue for the rangers.

Mean while, Calvin fights Agent Orange, but is simply overpowered. However he is able to hit him off with finesse and pattern recognition. He bodyslams Agent Orange. and goes to pull his mask off, but...

Medusa appears and tackles him off. Her speed and strength throws Calvin for a loop. He throws his shield at her knocking her off balance. She remarks "Impressive Captain Roosevelt, you survived my super barrage. You are every bit the legend I heard about." Calvin replies "And you are?" She introduces herself and announces to Calvin that SNAKE is back, much to his disdain.

Debuts

 * Chandra Lakhani

Trivia

 * Comics/Movie Counterpart: Original Sin: Thor and Loki