Coruscant, Surface
The moment Jack saw that smile, he knew things were going south. "READY!" He called.
"READY" The others yelled in unison, presenting their morphers. Asami, jumped down, firing her blaster at the child. The Replicators were banking on the idea that their bodies were immune to energy weapons, but hadn't taken into account the weapons power source being literal magic. A load of nanites splashed across the floor behind him as he looked down in confusion at the hole in his chest. Asami landing with a roll and her morpher in hand. "READY!" As the ETA-2's flew up to the window and fired in, the shots seemed to miraculously go wide, large explosions forming around the rangers.
"TEMPUS KNIGHTS, READY TO FIGHT!"
In a bright flash of their colours, they each began to change into their morphed forms.
"TEMPUS KNIGHT RED, SPIRIT OF THE FENRIR!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT BLACK, SPIRIT OF THE TANK!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT PINK, SPIRIT OF THE KHEPRI!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT YELLOW, SPIRIT OF THE ROC!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT BLUE, SPIRIT OF THE HYDRA!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT WHITE, SPIRIT OF THE SPHINX!" "TEMPUS KNIGHT GOLD, MASTER OF THE MAGISAURUS!"
Jumping in the air, the 7 struck their own unique poses
"WE ARE" They all summoned their weapons and took a step forward. "THE POWER RANGERS!" They roared in perfect unison, large plumes of smoke in their assigned colours appearing behind each Ranger, before an explosion ripped through those colours as if to puncuate their transformation.
Their transformation sequence finished, the rangers scattered as a new volley of cannonfire from the fighters ripped through the archive. Jack and Kai both charging Eight. Jack's with a sword in one hand and his blaster in the other, Kai had summoned a knights lance and a shield. While Phil, Jay and Mele attacked the fighters, a Mace in Phil's hand, Jay summoning a pair of knives and Mele a pair of Tonfa's. Asami and Michelle jumped atop the book cases, Asami drawing a large laser cannon while Michelle had a staff.
Jack attacked Eight low with the sword, going for the legs. Ducking down, he swept the sword, only for the nanites to temporarily part around the legs to allow the sword to swing effortlessly and ineffectively through the now air. But Jack had presented his back for Kai to jump and use as a stepping stone to leap off and behind Eight, rolling with his shield on the floor, before getting back up and using the momentum to thrust the lance straight into Eight's back. Eight, not being limited by such minutia as skeleton or skin, simply created a second front out of his back with the nanites running up his body from the floor, grabbing the lance mid thrust.
As the fight between Red, Gold and Eight unfolded. Jay was hit by cannon fire, flipping him onto his back, sparks flying from the hit area and him letting out a scream of pain, while Phil and Mele both jumped onto the fighters, Phil smashing the laser cannons on one side with his mace, before smashing the other side as well, only for the nanites to quickly repair and realign the cannons "HEY, THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Mele yelled, smashing the cannons with her Tonfa, before watching them be repaired just as quickly.
"Enemies tend not fight fight fair. Phil responded. He then jumped as he saw Asami take aim with her cannon and fire. The cannon hit did seem to knock a couple of the nanites off of the ETA-2s, but the rest of it remained intact, before both fighters began firing at Asami. Michelle threw herself in front of Asami, her staff twirling and a magical barrier appearing. deflecting the blasts into the ceiling and parts of it beginning to collapse
Meanwhile, Jay had finally got back to his feet and ran towards the edge of the building and jumping, both daggers out and pointed down as he drove them both through the heavy armour and into one of the wings, raking them down the side, before pulling them out. Looking down, he could see the nanites beginning to flow up the side of the building. "Um, guys, i think we've got company!" As if to puntuate that remark, he saw Jack being thrown clear across the room behind him, before Kai slid, both feet firmly on the floor, shield out in front with the Lance dug into the floor to keep him stable.
"Kid's a lot stronger than we thought!" Kai growled. "Put 'em together?!"
"PUT 'EM TOGETHER!" Jack grunted, getting back to his feet. He thrust his sword out front. "RANGERS TO ME!" At that point, Michelle twirled her staff, a pair of brilliant white chains burst from the temples floor and wrapped around Eight's wrists. He attempted to disengage the trapped nanites, but for some reason he couldn't. Some unknown factor was interfering in his ability to control the nanites. He watched helplessly as the rangers jumped together into the middle of the archives, before putting all of their weapons together into some kind of large cannon that they all held, pointed straight at him.
"TEMPUS CANNON FIRE!" They all yelled together, the weapons feeding all of their energy into the tip, before a rainbow coloured wave of energy lanced straight out and towards Eight. Eight quickly sent an order and the Eta-2's smashed through what remained of the walls from their cannonfire and straight into the oncoming path of the blast, the energy blast ripped through both, before continuing towards Eight, who quickly uploaded his consciousness back into the main hive-mind before the childs body was destroyed in the ensuing blast. The 7 Rangers celebrations were almost immediately ended by the approaching wave of revenge. walls of nanites swarming from every which way.
"Trypticon, we need to teleport out, now!" Jack yelled into his communicator. As the crashing waves of nanites came down upon them, the 7 disappeared into balls of their associated colour of light and shot up through the ceiling and back towards space.