Episode Guide / Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue / Lightspeed Teamwork
Lightspeed Teamwork
Airdate: 2/19/00
Diabolico commands his monster expert
Jinxer to unleash a monster evil enough to wipe Mariner
Base off the planet.
At the Aquabase, Joel bumps into Ms.
Fairweather, and tries to impress her by showing off his
morpher.
The other Rangers arrive at the meeting
with Ms. Fairweather, where she shows them the lab, and
the new Rail Rescues. Joel has not arrived yet.
The meeting is cut short when a meteor
that crashed in Mariner Bay turns into Magmavore, who
begins destroying buildings in the city.
Joel finally arrives with flowers for Ms.
Fairweather, but is rushed into action by an annoyed
Captain Mitchell.
The team is dispatched. Everyone morphs,
and boards the new Rail Rescues.
The train bay rises from the Aquabase,
and the Rail Rescues take off and combine into the
Supertrain.
Once they reach their destination, the
train cars open to release the Lightspeed Zords.
The Rangers find some people in a burning
building. Joel tries to be a hero and save them himself,
but is screamed at by Ms. Fairweather to follow orders
and use teamwork.
He uses Aero Rescue Three to help Dana,
Kelsey, and Chad form a hydro blaster on legs, which
cools off the molten lava, allowing Carter to approach
the burning building.
Using Pyro Rescue One's ladders, Carter
and Kelsey enter the building to save the people trapped
in an elevator.
To open the elevator doors, Carter calls
on their newest weapon to help him - the Rescuebird.
The rescue was a success. Dana and Kelsey
take the people to safety, as Carter boards Pyro Rescue
One again.
Magmavore approaches, and Carter's Zord
is stuck! Joel flies by and pulls Pyro Rescue One to
safety.
The Lightspeed Megazord is formed. They
use the extending arms to grab Magmavore and hurl him
into the lava he came from, where he explodes.
Back at headquarters, Joel promises to
concentrate, become a team player, and stop goofing off.
That is, until he sees Ms. Fairweather
again. He rushes to her with the same flowers he had
bought earlier.
He charms her at first, but is shot down
when he badmouths the "expert" who told him
what to do during the mission.
Comments:
Strangely enough, the terms "Lightspeed
Zords", "Supertrain", or
"Lightspeed Megazord" were never used.
Diabolico and his demons know the location of the
Aquabase, but they can't attack it, since they
are revealed to have a weakness for water. Surely
Lightspeed knew of this weakness when choosing a
location for their headquarters.
On the evil side, Diabolico's monster
creator/supplier Jinxer was introduced, and on
the good side, Lightspeed's technology creator
was introduced, Ms. Fairweather.
It's interesting how the Lightspeed Zords don't
just fly together to form the Megazord as
previous Megazords had done, but it takes a
coordinated effort for everyone to come together,
and the Zords need to be placed into position by
some practical means - Haz and Med Rescues are
propped up by extending mechanisms, and Pyro and
Hydro Rescues are flown up by Aero Rescue. (In
the future, look for Pyro Rescue to bring itself
up with the extending arms/ladders)
