Mayhem from Moon Palace (Power Rangers) - Softcover

Buch 9 von 14: Power Rangers

Irvine, Alex

 
9781524783815: Mayhem from Moon Palace (Power Rangers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1524783811 ISBN 13: 9781524783815
Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Get inside the mind of the Red Ranger in this brand-new adventure from the Power Rangers.

Lord Zedd, Emperor of Evil, has recently seized control by banishing Rita Repulsa from the Moon Palace. His first command to his villainous minions is to crush the leader of the Rangers, Jason Lee Scott, for good. While Billy and the team prepare for a science fair, Goldar and company pay Angel Grove High School a visit. Can the Red Ranger keep Zedd’s minions at bay, or will darkness prevail in this battle of good versus evil?

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Alex Irvine has written more than thirty books, both his own original fiction (Buyout, The Narrows, Mystery Hill, A Scattering of Jades) and licensed work for Marvel, Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Fox, Blizzard, Legendary, and other international entertainment companies. He has also written comics (Daredevil Noir, Iron Man: Rapture, Hellstorm, Son of Satan: Equinox), games, and animation. The three games he's currently writing--Marvel Avengers Alliance, Marvel War of Heroes, and Marvel PuzzleQuest--together have totaled more than 75 million players. Before leaving to write full time, he spent six years as an English professor at the University of Maine. A native of Ypsilanti, Michigan, he lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife and three children...and two dogs, a bird, a snake and a fish. You can find him on Twitter or Facebook.

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Chapter 1

Bright and early on a Saturday morning in May, four of the six teenagers who make up the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers waited in the Angel Grove High School parking lot. Jason Scott leaned casually against his car, next to his best friend, Zack Taylor. Around school, they both were known mostly as athletes, but Zack was a practical joker, too. Jason had a more thoughtful side, teaching martial arts and going out of his way to be kind and responsible. On either side of them were Kimberly Hart and Tommy Oliver. Kimberly was a gymnast, dancer, and musician, while Tommy—the newest member of the group, and a bit of an outsider in school—shared Jason and Zack’s interest in martial arts. 

They were waiting for Billy Cranston and Trini Kwan to show up with their experiment for the district science fair. It was mostly Billy’s idea, from what they understood, but Trini had pitched in, too. Sometimes she was the only other Power Ranger who could understand what Billy was talking about when he got talking about science.

Jason had parked all the way across the lot, past the football stadium, because Billy didn’t want anyone to see his experiment before he unveiled it in the gym. So they were all supposed to meet there and carry it in under a sheet.

Billy was being super secretive about the whole thing. Over the past few weeks, he hadn’t even told them what the experiment was. Now they were all dying to see it.

Billy’s customized Beetle, the Rad Bug, came rolling toward them from around the back of the stadium. He parked next to Jason’s car and got out, looking around to see if anyone was watching. There were no cars within a hundred yards.

“You didn’t fly?” Jason joked. “Would have gotten you here a lot quicker.” The Rad Bug had a ton of modifications, including the ability to fly and remote-control operation.

“No way,” Billy said. “I wish I had a way to make it invisible.” He opened the trunk. Inside sat a big
square object wrapped in a sheet. “Trini and I made a little platform to help carry it,” Billy said. “Zack, give me a hand.”

The two of them picked it up. “Man, this thing weighs a ton,” Zack said. He eyed the distance to the school.

“We can carry it in shifts,” Tommy said. “You guys start. Halfway there, Jason and I will take over.”

“That lets me and Kimberly off the hook,” Trini said.

“You had to help him already this morning,” Zack said. “You’ve done your part.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Billy asked.

“You’ve been kind of tense about this lately, Billy,” Trini said. “In case you haven’t noticed.”

“I have not been tense!” Billy said. “Have I?”

Kimberly patted him on the shoulder. “Maybe a little.”

“Well, it’s a big deal. If I win, I go on to the state finals.”

“You’ll win,” Tommy said. “There’s nobody smarter than you.”

“We’ll see,” Billy said.

At the edge of the lot, on the access road that curved around the back of the stadium, there was a maintenance shed. It held a couple of lawn mowers and the machine used to paint the lines on the football field. Jason happened to be looking that way over Zack’s shoulder, and he saw something move. At first he thought it was an animal.

No, two animals.

Wait, three . . . and they weren’t animals, at all. They were Putties!

“Guys,” Jason said. “You might want to put the experiment down.”

Zack looked over his shoulder to see what Jason saw, but he couldn’t turn far enough and still hold the experiment. He started to lower it. “Not on the ground!” Billy yelled. They put it back in the trunk.

“Putties?” Trini was already dropping into a fighting stance. “What are they doing here?”

“Maybe Lord Zedd doesn’t want Billy to win the science fair,” Zack joked.

Billy didn’t smile. “That’s really not funny.”

“Better morph, guys,” Jason said. He took a quick look around the lot. Everyone else coming to the fair was parked around the other side of the school, closer to the door. “Okay. It’s Morphin Time!”
 
 
Chapter 2

They called out their team signals in sequence:

“Dragonzord!”

“Mastodon!”

“Pterodactyl!”

“Triceratops!”

“Sabertooth Tiger!”

“Tyrannosaurus!”

As each one spoke, they morphed and became Power Rangers. Jason became the Red Ranger, Zack the Black Ranger, Trini the Yellow Ranger, Billy the Blue Ranger, Kimberly the Pink Ranger, and Tommy the Green Ranger. They joined forces to battle the Putties. 

These weren’t the old Putties that Rita Repulsa used to send after them. Lord Zedd had his own Z-Putties, stronger and smarter than Rita’s. Lord Zedd marked each with his signature Z on their chest plates, but those plates were also their weakness. A strong blow right on the Z would blow a Z-Putty apart. The problem was getting a shot at the Z. The Z-Putties didn’t make it easy. They would be a handful, even though there were only three of them.

In a flash of light, two more forms appeared on top of the shed: Rita’s minions Baboo and Squatt! Baboo squinted at the Power Rangers through his monocle. Like Squatt, he had blue skin, but there the resemblance ended. Baboo was tall and thin, bat-like in appearance and dressed all in black. Squatt looked much like a blue warthog on two legs, in metal armor with heavy fangs jutting up from his lower jaw.

“What have you got there, Rangers?” they called out. “We’ll take it!”

The Blue Ranger stepped out in front of the group. “Oh no, you won’t.” 

The rest flanked him and faced the Z-Putties. More had appeared after the first three. Now there were six, spreading out in a half circle. The Green and Pink Rangers charged out to stop the Z-Putties from surrounding the team. The Black and Yellow Rangers teamed up to cut off one of the Z-Putties from the group. They knocked it down but couldn’t get a clear shot at its Z. Billy and Kimberly tried the same with another Z-Putty, but they found themselves fighting off three Z-Putties at once. Tommy came flying in and knocked down one of the Z-Putties, giving Kimberly and Billy some breathing room.

Jason figured the other Power Rangers could handle the Z-Putties for a minute. “You guys keep at it. I’m headed after Baboo and Squatt!” he called out, running toward the shed and jumping to catch the edge of its roof. As he pulled himself up, Baboo and Squatt squealed in fear and tumbled off the other side of the roof. They bounced through the brush behind the shed and ran away. Jason would have gone after them, but there were still Z-Putties to deal with . . . and as he turned to do that, there was a shimmer of light at the edge of the parking lot, and Goldar appeared.

“Look out!” Jason called. “Goldar!”

Baboo and Squatt never fought. All they did was talk a lot and then run away. But Goldar was a different story. Huge and apelike, with black wings, he wore golden armor and wielded a long golden sword. He had always wanted to destroy the Power Rangers to please Rita Repulsa, but now that Lord...

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Verlag
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1524783811
ISBN 13 
9781524783815
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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