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The Return of Lord Zedd

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The Return of Lord Zedd is the three-part season premiere of the first to third episodes of Power Rangers Squadron.

This episode featured the first appearances of Lord Zedd, the first U.S. exclusive villain in the franchise, in part I and the core Squadron Rangers morphed in the part II as well as the Thunderzords in the part III.

Synopsis[]

Rita Repulsa has been removed from power and now her master, Lord Zedd threatens the Planet 0117 with powers unlike anything ever seen before. He creates the Piperbrain monster to help him. The Power Rangers must step up their game if they hope to survive against this new enemy.

Plot[]

Part 1[]

In the distant past, in a place called Frontier Lab on an unnamed planet in the A47 Galaxy, a man in a white armored suit is preparing for a test of an arch portal which will allow him to enter a dimensional space that creates a passage into Morphin Grid. While he is full of excitement about his journey, his companion Chendil expresses concern about the proceedings. He nevertheless enters the gate and begins taking readings, amazed how much energy there is, enough to even power entire inhabited worlds. His joy is short lived however, as he senses a presence inside with him and sees a demonic shadow looking at him and approaching the arch. The demon tries to escape and the explorer cries out to Chendil to shut down the arch. She says she can't as Grid Energy is overloading the controls on her end. Realizing he has no other options, he apologizes to Chendil and detonates the grid energy, sending the demon recoiling back in pain and shutting down the arch on his end. Chendil is horrified as she has no way of bringing him back since she doesn't know how to restart the arch on her end.

584 years later, the Lab has become a clubhouse of sorts as a young woman named Orinsoth is examining the ancient research notes dictated by a computer when her brother Kartor calls her about the time for the Ascension being moved up and she needs to be there before nightfall as that is when the last group is leaving. Ori promises she will be there but is doing some last minute preparations and hangs up on him. She then removes her Master Heart and uses it to try to activate the machine that powers the arch, but it fails to work and the feedback severs some of the power couplings. Ori leaves in defeat and takes her Master Heart with her.

To a new area of ​​the Moon Palace, Mondo the Magician and Silvar head there to meet Lord Zedd, a fearsome man of exposed muscle and twisted metal who has already transformed the room into his personal Command Chamber. Mondo quickly swears loyalty to Zedd. Silvar then attempts to pledge his own loyalty, doing the same as Mondo. To prove his superiority, Zedd uses his power to create Spectoids, their new foot soliders.

At Masterforge Elepsis, Kartor is awaiting his sister as the people are evacuating from something. Vivali tells him that the previous Masterforge, Namize, had lost contact with them and had fallen. Elepsis is the last Masterforge standing and they can review the security footage of Namize later after evacuating the west quarter of the city. This is overheard by Rhian on an earpiece, who insists to her friend Phiro they need to investigate as she needs to know what happened to their friends and loved ones. They visit the home of Telosi, who is angry about the evacuation and upset his friend Xev hasn't contacted him. Rhian throws a stone at his window and tells him about the video of Namize, to which all three agree to visit Ori to see the footage.

Meanwhile, Ori has packed up and exits Frontier Lab, only to be startled by Aleia who is wondering why she is at their old childhood clubhouse. Aleia is concerned as Ori has been secretive and reclusive the past weeks, Ori hints she has seen something horrible. The rest of the group arrive and Rihan asks for Ori's help to confirm the events that until now was only vaguely stated by their elders as an emergency. Ori knows that Masterforge Halloch could not be contacted and is no longer on star charts, implying something is very wrong. Rihan wants answers as does everyone else, but before they can access the footage, the power to the lab goes out as energy is being diverted to the planet's main arch for the Ascension. Ori ask her friends to use their Master Hearts to power the computer as a backup generator. Ori explains her absence, she built the generator to try to power the Proto-Arch to see if she could get it to work. She was experimenting with Morphin Energy and her Heart to try and open the portal but failed. The computer turns on and Rihan hacks the security database, only to see in horror what happened to Namize. An unidentified alien force invaded the planet and when the inhabitants tried to evacuate, an army of demon like creatures emerged from the Namize arch and slaughtered them, with an evil shadow grinning at the massacre unfolding.

The young teens are horrified, questioning why the Morphin Masters would leave half of those people to die by shutting down the Namize Arch. Telosi is the most upset out of all of them as he saw Xev being attacked by those creatures. Rhian tries to rationalize the actions of the Masters, but Telosi reminds her that her sister is dead because of those things.

Once they all exit the Lab, they see meteors like the ones on Namize and the Master Arch is powered up for the evacuation. The five race to and reach the Arch, with Kartor berating his sister for being late. Before they can leave, a figure shoots out of the portal and crashes onto the ground. Ori wants to go help the person, thinking he is a Morphin Master. Kartor objects as they need to leave, but she manages to convince him to hold the portal open until they rescue the stranger. The five teenagers gather around the figure, whom Ori identifies as the Morphinaut, whose body is glowing and crackling with Grid energy and oddly does not have a pulse. Ori notices something odd with the Morphinaut's chest, only for all of them to be startled when he awakens and shouts: "He's Coming!". As the Morphinaut tries to stand, the massive surge of Grid energy in him causes him to scream in agony and collapse.
The teens then understand that they were ascending not just to protect themselves, but to protect the Grid and keep the evil forces out as the grinning demon shadow emerges and darkens the sky.

To be continued....

Part 2[]

Planet 0117 finds themselves in the middle of an invasion but the five teenagers are determined to stand up while protecting the Morphinaut. They find themselves helped by Whend, Phiro's dinosaur friend, who takes charge of fighting against Zedd's forces. However, she succumbs to the attacks of the invaders and finds herself transformed little by little by lava into an evil form similar to the Spectoids, joining their ranks and helping them invade this planet. Fortunately for them, the energy of the Morphinaut was able to scare away the monsters who redirected towards the arch to overload it.

Approaching the Arch, Ori receives a transmission from Kartor, informing them that he managed to enter Masterforge in time but he is forced to deactivate the Arch in order to prevent the monsters from passing through. Suddenly, the Morphinaut comes to his senses and uses his energy to destroy the enemies except for the last one who then returns to his natural state, revealing himself to be Xev, Telosi's brother.

The Morphinaut clearly explains to them that Grid Energy is the antithesis of Dark Specter and at the same time takes the opportunity to inform the teenagers that these forces were sent by Lord Zedd, Dark Specter's employee. To prevent Dark Specter from using the prototype arch that the Morphinaut had created and on which Ori was working, they then offered to share his energy in order to stabilize it. This energy then passes through the Morphin Hearts that Rhian, Phiro, Aleia, Telosi and Ori hold and brought transforming them into Squadron Rangers.

But it is then that the intrusion alert is triggered, a new disciple of Dark Specter sent by Lord Zedd called Piperbrain is responsible for attacking the inhabitants of Planet 0117 with the help of the army of monsters developed by Zedd. Rhian leads her new team to stop Lord Zedd, teleporting with the Morphinaut, to regions unknown.

To be continued....

Part 3[]

Following the news that Lord Zedd has sent a monster to attack Planet 0117 with the help of his army, the Rangers teleport to Piperbrain's last known location.

Rhian declares that they will defeat Piperbrain and watches as the team leaps forward and fights them. Piperbrain was defeated using Red Squadron Ranger's final attack, causing all other Spectoids present during the battle to disappear. Piperbrain states that the battle is not over yet as Zedd uses his magic staff and makes him grow (similar to what Rita did in the previous season). Following this, the whole team takes shelter which allows the Morphinaut to explain his theory: What if Grid Energy was the source of all life in the universes and throughout time, which would allow Dark Specter, if he reaches the Grid, to dominate all universes. But the Squadron Rangers can only rely on the powers of Grid Energy for the moment. So Ori works all night on shells to stabilize the energy diffusion and create Zords for them.

The team transforms again and goes into battle, without Ori who is busy creating their Zords, when they learn that more Spectoids have arrived. Each member of the team finds themselves overwhelmed and tired, which leads them to think that they are only there to keep them busy. Despite everything, they manage to get rid of it but Zedd has not said his last word. Piperbrain returns, enlarged, to battle. Suddenly, Orisonth arrives and thus, the Rangers are introduced to the Thunderzords - the Red Dragon Thunderzord, Green Lion Thunderzord, Blue Unicorn Thunderzord, Yellow Griffin Thunderzord, and Pink Firebird Thunderzord.

Rhian summons the Red Dragon Thunderzord which avoids Pipebrain's attacks and lets loose a stream of fire before converting to Warrior Mode, as the remaining four Rangers board the cockpit. The two giants face each other down, but Red Dragon gets the advantage and pummels Pipebrain who collapses and pretends to die. As the Zord starts to relax, Pipebrain gets up and ensnares it with a tentacle before electrocuting it. This isn't enough to take it down, as Red Dragon uses its staff to release itself and does more attacks before using its finisher to destroy Pipebrain, which restores the trophy, and gives Lord Zedd his first taste of defeat while he rages in his throne room and berates all of his minions.

After their long and tiring battles against Zedd's forces, the Rangers return to Frontier Lab. Xev congratulates his friends and his brother for everything they have done, however, the team finds themselves worried, convinced that the energy of the Grid requires a lot of power. The Morphinaut then tells them that they absolutely must succeed in repairing his proto-arch.

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Part I[]

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Part II[]

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Part III[]

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