Episode Guide / Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue / Strength of the Sun
Strength of the Sun
Airdate: 05/20/00
With his time running out, Diabolico
considers taking out Impus, but he stops as his troops
walk in. He calls on the two surviving monsters,
Thunderon and Falkar, and sends them once again to
destroy the Rangers.
At the Aquabase lab, Ryan overhears Ms.
Fairweather and Captain Mitchell talk about the new Max
Solarzord, and about how it is useless without a Titanium
Ranger. They are cut short when the alarms go off.
The Rangers are dispatched to battle the
two monsters, and they come to a halt when they find
Ryan, ready to join them. Captain Mitchell refuses to let
him join them.
The Rangers take the Rover to the city.
The morph and take on Thunderon and Falkar. Things are
not looking good, so they come up with a plan - to split
the monsters up.
Dana and Kelsey lure Falkar into an
abandoned building, where they blast the ceiling and
collapse rubble onto him.
Meanwhile, Carter, Chad, and Joel battle
Thunderon, but they take quite a beating with only three
of them.
The girls catch up, and everyone summons
the V-Lancers. Just as they prepare to fire, Thunderon
strikes first, and seemingly takes them all out.
The Rangers lay on the ground, but they
are revealed to only be pretending, waiting for Thunderon
to come in close for the kill.
As soon as he is close enough, they let
loose with the V-Lancers and knock him back. They quickly
follow it up with a second blast, which destroys him.
Diabolico personally launches the card
from nearby, and resurrects Thunderon into gigantic
proportions. The Rangers summon the Supertrain Megazord.
Falkar has made his way out of the
rubble, and cowardly stands on the sidelines as his ally
fights. He is busted by Diabolico, and gets a card in the
back, making him grow.
The Rangers now have both overgrown
menaces to take care of. Falkar does his famous Xena
spinning attack, and get in a few good hits to the
Supertrain Megazord, taking it down.
Ryan has had enough. He can no longer
watch this from the Aquabay, and decides that he must
morph and take the Solarzord to help them.
A sixth train bay emerges from the water,
revealing the Max Solarzord. It races along the rescue
track, and launches into the sky.
On Ms. Fairweather's command, Ryan takes
the zordto space to recharge its energy cells with solar
power.
Then it descends, and transforms into a
robot. It lands on the Supertrain Megazord's shoulders.
Ryan struggles to maintain control as the
pain from the cobra tattoo takes its toll on him.
After a few fancy fighting manuevers, he
whips out a laser blaster, and destroys both of the
monsters.
The pain made Ryan pass out, and he
recovers in the Aquabase sick bay. There, Captain
Mitchell tell his son that he is proud of what he did,
and that he would have done the same.
Diabolico is hopping mad now. His last
shot at destroying the Rangers is gone - or is it? He
holds three crystals, and promises that his monsters will
return, stronger than before.
Comments:
Max Solarzord - what is up with the
"Max"? Solarzord alone would
have sounded fine, I don't get the
"Max" part.
"Max" does have some cool moves - lots
of flips, spins, kicks and punches. Definitely
one of the more agile Zords so far.
What a shame that after all that trouble the
Rangers went through defeating these three
monsters, it looks like Diabolico will somehow be
bringing them back to life.
It was good to see the Rangers exploit the only
known weakness of the monsters - point blank
blasts at full power. Too bad Thunderon didn't
see that one coming!
