Neptune's Daughter

Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 34

Original Airdate: 11-11-2000

Last Time: Olympius returned from hell just in time to get the crap kicked out of him by the Rangers.

The Rangers hit the beach again, and Chad is still thinking about that time he almost fucked a half-fish. Chad misses her, and I don't like where this is headed. Under the sea, the producers anticipate my dread, and decide to push this episode to the limit. Marina swims up to her father, Neptune, god of the seas, who announces that he's retiring and passing his duties to his daughter. Yeah, that's right, a god has decided to retire....because he's too old....even though he's immortal....and a god. You know what, fine, let's just go with it. Man, that would be an awkward situation for Chad, though, "Bring my daughter home by ten or I shall dash thee upon the rocks as I did Ajax the Lesser for his blasphemies!" Credits!

At the ziggurat o' indifference, Diabolico has decided to steal Neptune's trident. Loki points out that there was that one episode that established that demons can't go in the water, so Diabolico decides to recruit a monster that can. Jinxer observes and reports back to the still injured Olympius. Oh, good, I'd hate for this stupid subplot to be cut short.

Diabolico summons the monster of the episode, Aquafiend to steal the trident of Neptune....and he does because this version of Neptune is just too old and sleepy to stop him. This may be the most depressing vision of a Greek god in history. Neptune wakes up later and notices that the trident is missing, and summons Marina to find it. I think it's time for Neptune to be sent to an assisted-living facility. Marina wants to get Chad involved, but needs to go on land to do so, and can only survive for a short time out of the water.

Meanwhile, Chad is moping until he sees Marina walking out of the water with legs...and, more importantly for Chad's purposes, the thing between legs! Marina explains the situation: the demons are going to use the trident to drain the water from Mariner Bay so they can sack the aquabase, which will no longer have its protective water coating.

Marina leads Chad to where the monsters are using the trident, but starts feeling the effects dehydration. Chad realizes that he's got a limited timetable to retrieve the trident and still have time to take care of business, shall we say, with Marina. He dives into a nearby lake and has to fight Aquafiend for a while. Elsewhere, Vypra finds the weakened Marina.

Chad finally manages to retrieve the trident, but he and the other Rangers must now fight some Batlings. They prove to be no real obstacle, and the Rangers blow Aquafiend to bits with the Thermo Blasters. Vypra, of course, now demands that the Rangers trade the trident for Marina's life. Chad's all for giving it back until Marina reveals that Vypra could destroy the entire world with it. Showing an uncommon amount of common sense, that makes Chad reconsider, because he realizes that Marina lives in the world, and thus if the world were destroyed, then she would also die. Vypra decides to kill a bit of time by making Aquafiend grow, which somehow makes the trident grow as well. No, I don't know why either.

Chad pulls out his Mega Battle, which is still a terrible name for...anything, really, and drives Vypra off. Chad then takes Marina back to the sea while Carter and the others kill Aquafiend again with the Omega Megazord. Carter, getting frustrated by the constant need to kill his enemies twice, grabs Aquafiend by his beak and headbutts him a few times, and then finishes his dazed opponent off. This restores the water to Mariner Bay.

Later, Marina has been put in a pool of water in the aquabase, but Ms. Fairweather really has no idea how to treat a mermaid, so Marina still isn't doing too well. Then Neptune shows up in water form to retrieve his daughter and trident. Huh....wouldn't the sudden appearance of a Greek god have grave theological ramifications for the Power Rangers Universe?

Chad goes back to the beach to mope some more, and Marina once again walks up to him and explains she can't stay long. Chad wants to pursue their relationship under the sea...where Marina has a fishtail. I think Chad saw Splash one too many times as a kid. Show Over!

Next Time: Spiders!