EXT. ORION CITY – CARNIVAL GROUNDS – AFTERNOON
The monster had chosen the worst possible spot — the city carnival was full of families, games, and rides.
Parents screamed as the creature — now revealed as Rattlewrath — skipped from stall to stall, tapping civilians with its golden rattle and turning them into laughing children.
RATTLEWRATH(sing-song)Youth is wasted on the young… so let's fix that!
The Sentinels arrived in a flash of light, with Lyra clutching kid-Daiki's hand while Kael carried kid-Jett under one arm like a football.
KAELYou two stay here.
JETT (child form)(rolling eyes)Yeah, yeah. Stay safe. Don't touch anything. Heard it all before—
DAIKI (child form)But I can help—
LYRA(stern)No morphers, no Nova Skips. You help from here.
The Rangers split — weapons drawn — as Rattlewrath spun its rattle, creating a shockwave that forced them back.
BATTLE BEGINS
Kael charged first, his flaming strikes forcing Rattlewrath to leap back. Rayna flanked from the left, while Zayn fired calculated energy bursts from a distance. Lyra dashed forward in a pink streak, spinning into a roundhouse kick.
RATTLEWRATHOoh, feisty! Let's see how adorable you are at age seven!
The rattle spun again — a beam shooting straight toward Lyra — but Kael leapt in, blocking it with his blade.
KAELNot today!
CUT TO – NEARBY FOOD STALLS
Kid-Daiki and Kid-Jett crouched behind a popcorn cart.
DAIKI(peeking out)If we just sit here, we're useless.
JETTCorrection — you're useless. I'm just conserving my awesomeness.
Daiki scanned the area, then spotted a stack of helium balloons and a large bucket of syrup from a candy stand.
DAIKI(grinning)I have an idea.
BACK TO BATTLE
Rattlewrath had the Rangers pinned behind cover with sweeping rattle blasts.
Suddenly — thwack! — a sticky wad of caramel-coated popcorn smacked the monster in the side of the head.
RATTLEWRATHWhat—?!
From above, several helium balloons drifted down — only they weren't balloons. They were paint-filled water balloons, tied by Daiki and Jett, dropping from the Ferris wheel.
SPLAT! Yellow, red, and green goo covered Rattlewrath's face, blinding it.
KAEL(laughs)Guess the kids are pulling their weight after all.
ZAYNGo! While it's distracted!
FINAL STRIKE
The Rangers formed a pincer attack — Lyra swept low, Rayna's precise strikes forcing Rattlewrath to stagger, Kael slamming in with his sword while Zayn blasted the rattle clean out of its hand.
The weapon clattered to the ground — releasing a pulse that reversed all transformations. In a flash of light, the affected civilians (and Jett and Daiki) returned to their normal ages.
JETT (normal)(stretching)Okay, never turning eight again. Knees hurt less now.
DAIKI (normal)Told you I could help.
LYRA(smiling despite herself)…You did good, little brother.
KAEL(teasing)That makes me "shin-nii-san" again, huh?
DAIKI(grinning)Always.
The team regrouped as Rattlewrath exploded into fragments of dark energy, but Lyra's mind was already drifting — back to their mother, and the faint hope she was still out there.