Rise of the Super Demons

Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 38

Original Airdate: 11-16-2000

Last Time: Vypra Died! Oh, and some other stuff happened, but it all kind of pales in significance in comparison to the end of Vypra.

In the aquabase, the Rangers are testing Ms. Fairweather's most idiotic invention yet: a megazord that runs off the Rangers' very life force. I call it the Kamikaze Megazord. Testing goes poorly as it's apparently hard to make a giant robot fueled by the human spirit. Captain Mitchell decides to discontinue testing, what with the insane level of risk involved in perfecting the process. The Rangers, however, don't quite understand what's going on, and demand to keep on trying to make the thing work. Credits!

In the woods, Diabolico is still talking about all of the awesome vengeance he is going to have on Bansheera for killing Loki. Olympius shows up to finally put an end to their rivalry in a fight to the death. They duel for a while, and it becomes obvious that it's not exactly easy to move around in the costumes.

Olympius wins the fight and delivers Diabolico to Bansheera in chains. She puts some sort of mind control on Diabolico and sics him on Mariner Bay. The Rangers head to the site of the carnage and are confused as to why Diabolico is completely out of it. Olympius explains the situation and the Rangers start fighting both demons. Carter is able to get through to Diabolico, who starts fighting Olympius again. He also gives Carter some sort of magic key right before he's blown up by Olympius. The Rangers respond by blasting Olympius to bits with their Battilizers.

Bansheera decides to double down and makes both Olympius and Diabolico grow to giant-size, an act that also puts Diabolico under her mind control again for no real good reason. The Rangers decide to not waste time by summoning the Omega Megazord, Supertrain, and Lightspeed Solarzord immediately. It proves to be not enough, so Dana and Kelsey decide to retrieve the Lifeforce Megazord, you know, the megazord that runs on the life force of the Rangers. This proves to be wise as the Omega Megazord and Supertrain are badly damaged, and the Lightspeed Solarzord completely destroyed. Bansheera celebrates by causing a solar eclipse and giving her two giant monsters even more power.

Carter decides to stall the demons by firing at them with his blaster...which goes about as well as you'd think. But then the Lifeforce Megazord shows up and....it's a repainted Lightspeed Solarzord. Then again, the season finale is next episode, so I suppose it wouldn't make a ton of sense to make a brand new megazord that's only going to be in two and a half episodes. Carter starts draining the life energy of the Rangers to power up the new megazord, which seems stupid, but still kills both Olympius and Diabolico in one hit.

Elsewhere, the key Diabolico gave Carter flies to some ancient ruins and imprints itself on a wall. Uh...sure. Back in the evil lair, Bansheera wants another monster, but Jinxer's out, but he did plant a Batling card on the Lifeforce Megazord, which is apparently bad. Show Over!

Next Time: Season Finale!