(Last time, the Rangers were nearly escaping death as the Station pulled out of the Satellite, which was self-destructing. Namrock and his cronies have escaped Cyberspace. They launched an attack by using a larger version of the Beta Guardian. GammaRanger tried everything in their arsenal to stop him. Unfortunately, it proved futile, until Laura pinpointed three spots on his body which were weakened by the Satellite's blast. The Rangers hit these three spots and destroy the Beta Guardian. Meanwhile, Eli rests comfortably within the confines of the Gammaproject Headquaters, little knowing that the one thing that can destroy the GammaRangers is attached to his ear.)
(Eli continues to sleep, while a probe in his ear begins flashing. What does it mean for the young survivor? The Rangers, still in their digital suits sans the helmets, enter the room.)
Bryan: Peter, how's Bryan?
Peter: His bodily functions are getting closer to normal.
Laura: How long until he's fully functional?
Peter: You're not going to believe this, but may be better than normal within the next hour.
Scottie: Let's leave him to rest then.
Bryan: You guys go.
Jill: What about you?
Bryan: I'll stay here with Eli, just in case he wakes up.
Eric: All right, if you say so. Besides, I'm hungry.
Scottie: You ain't the only one, dude!
(The Rangers, all agreed that they're hungry, go to the lower deck and grab a bite the G-Project Commissary. Meanwhile, Bryan walks up to the biobed where Eli is. He watches as Eli's eyes begin to flutter.)
Bryan: Eli? Are you OK?
Eli: Bryan... Cyber Brother... (cracking a smile)
(Bryan looks back at him and remembers the day that they started working together on the Namrock Probe.)
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[Six years ago]
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Eli: Are you ready to do this?
Bryan: Sure am; how about you?
Eli: Aw, c'mon, you know I'm ready.
Bryan: Let's do it... Cyber Brother.
Eli: (looking strangely at Bryan) Cyber Brother?
Bryan: Yeah! Why not? I mean, we've been friends since we were in diapers!
Eli: Oh, don't remind me! (long pause) Well, I get your point now... Cyber Brother.
Bryan: Let's go, Cyber Brother!
(Cut back to the present as Bryan continues to watch over Eli. Cut to the Digital Outpost. Namrock is in a frantic search for something.
Namrock: Keep searching! There has to be one around here somewhere! I can't utilize the energy file without a viable Betamon to use it with?
Rhexus: Maybe this? (picks up a disk)
Namrock: What is this one?
Rhexus: This particular Betamon is made from the worst qualities of all the other Betamons put together and it....
Galevan: What the hell...? All your "good" monsters LOST!
Rhexus: If you'll let me finish...
Namrock: Yes, Galevan... Let him finish.
Rhexus: Now, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, this monster has all of the best abilities of previous Betamons with one small technicality. A failsafe which will suck the power out of forces that try to destroy it.
Namrock: Now that's what I call demonic!
Chouzo: That's precisely why we named it "BetaSatan."
Namrock: How fitting. So where's the energy probe?
Rhexus: It is attached to the failsafe. As soon as I program it in, it should be ready to suck energy from the probe holder.
Namrock: Good. Let my son be the first to try it out. Activate it now.
(The probe behind Eli's ear begins to flash repeatedly, but nothing happens yet. Bryan doesn't notice it. Bryan and Eli are training in the training room.)
Scottie: Bryan? (entering the room) Koike said you were still in here. But he never told me about you lying on the ground.
Bryan: Well, I....
Eli: It's all my fault, really.
Scottie: You think you should be up and running? I mean, you just spent 12 hours in hyperbolic sleep.
Eli: Well, now that you mention it, I do have a slight headache.
Bryan: Yeah, hyperbolic sleep treatments will do that to you. A little lunch and you'll be back to normal in no time.
Eric: (walking in with the other Rangers in G-Project flight suits) How would you know about hyperbolic sleep?
Bryan: What do you think I've been doing every night in the Station since I became leader of the GammaRanger?
Amy: Oh, sleeping, eating, ordering us around... (Bryan looks oddly) I was just kidding!
Bryan: You'd better be, woman... (smirks)
(The seven head down to the commissary, while Eli points to his head as if it was in excruciating pain. Cut to the Outpost.)
Chouzo: Rhexus, nothing's happening.
Rhexus: Oh, hush. Besides, things like this take time.
Galevan: Yes, Rhexus. Time that we don't have! You either turn up the juice in this overgrown Beelzebub or else!
Rhexus: I dont' see you doing anything, you big, blue poor excuse for a Terminator-wannabe.
Galevan: Watch me, you overgrown sack of digital waste! (picks up sword and charges out of the room)
Chouzo: That's one screwed up file-type.
(Back to the commissary, the Rangers watch the news windows while eating lunch.) News window: And in other news, Watson Oppenheimer, a pioneer in the field of biocybernetics, has died in his Manhattan home at the age of 94...
Scottie: That's a shame. I was going to see his seminar after we got back to the University.
Bryan: And like knowing that he'll die soon will change your mind?
Scottie: I'm just saying is... How come lights are flashing?
Bryan: That can only mean one thing. Virus attack!
Jill: Where is it?
Laura: (activates Cyber Loader) Outside. Galevan and a whole bunch of Balzac.
Eli: You know what this means? Bryan: Yup. The Cyber Bros. are back in action!
Scottie: Cyber Bros.?
Bryan: I'll explain later, now let's go!
(The Rangers and Eli head outside to fight the Balzac. Bryan takes Galevan and pins him down.
Eric: These Balzac are still a lot stronge than we're used to!
Eli: These aren't your normal Balzac. Because they come directly from Cyberspace, that makes them stronger and more difficult to defeat.
Laura: So what do we do?
Eli: Match them move for move.
Amy: I get ya. Yellow Venus file, download! (instant transform)
Eric: Showoff! Green Mars file, download!
Jill: No, this is showing off! Grid Ranger download!
Bryan: Might as well make it unanimous. Ranger files, download!
(The other Rangers transform and fight the Balzac; this time, they have the upper hand as scores of Balzac get knocked out by their own brand of digital warfare.)
RedJupiter: Ready your arms, guys!
(They activate their Digital S-Weapons to fight the rest of the Balzac and Galevan. Meanwhile, Eli, armed with Bryan's Ranger Dagger, fights off his own hoard of Balzac. One of the Balzac sneaks into the G-Project building and injects a subsidary computer with a virus. Eli begins to weaken slightly, thus signaling Galevan that the time for defeat is at hand.)
Galevan: Come, Balzac! Our work here is done.
GreenMars: Where do you think YOU'RE going?
Galevan: Not that iit matters to you, Gamma User.
(The lot of viruses Digiwindows out as Eli begins to feel something.)
Eli: Aahhh! (graps his head and winces)
AquaMercury: Eli! What's the matter?
Eli: I don't know. It's like someone's extracting the --- yaaahhh!
BlueNeptune: Wait... What's that?
YellowVenus: Your ear is bleeping, Eli. (she takes a look as Eli drops to the ground) It looks like a plant, but for what?
(Now the Rangers are beginning to feel something.)
BlueNeptune: This is beginning to look strange (Ranger mode shuts down).
AquaMercury: Scottie? What's going on? (Ranger mode shuts down)
GridRanger: Guys? GUYS? You're shutting down!
RedJupiter: Our digital suits must be short circuiting, but how?
(Jill watches in horror as the Rangers demorph one by one.)
GridRanger: What's happened to you?
Bryan: I don't know. I feel fine, but our powers are gone.
Amy: I think Koike better examine the computers.
Bryan: Good idea.
(The Rangers head to the G-Project building. Bryan takes his key card out of his pocket and swipes it near the door.)
Bryan: Huh?
(He swipes his key card again. Nothing.)
GridRanger: Maybe I can help. (takes out her GridBuckler and blasts the doorway open)
Laura: You know you're going to have to pay for that.
GridRanger: In the words of Underdog, "I am a heroine who never fails; I can't be bothered with such details."
(The Rangers climb inside the hole that used to be the front door. Bryan drags Eli to the entrance.)
Bryan: Where's Koike?
(The team begins to shout for the lieutenant.)
Koike: Stone, thank God you're all right. The computers here have gone berserk.
Laura: We kinda figured out that when we lost our powers.
Amy: How did it happen?
GridRanger: My guess is that someone or something came in here and ... you don't suppose that this was a diversion, do you?
Amy: Suppose? No, I know!
Bryan: And Eli...
Scottie: I saw something flash behind his ear. (removes the probe).
Eric: Wait a minute, if our powers faded, how come yours didn't, Jill?
GridRanger: I don't know... Maybe the GridRanger powers aren't directly connected to the G-Project's computers.
Koike: They're not. And neither was Sei. That is why the GridRanger powers were deemed too instable.
Sei: (appearing out of nowhere) They weren't too instable for me to retain this form.
Koike: Sei.... I thought you went down with the SkyStation.
Sei: I did, but my backup files were transloaded onto the NetStation when it was built.
Eric: Is there something we can do?
Sei: There might be something I can do.
(GridRanger's GridLoader beeps.)
GridRanger: But whatever it is, it better be fast. Look.
(The Rangers huddle around Jill's GridLoader to see an image of a new Betamon.)
Laura: It's a giant devil!
GridRanger: It's called Beta Satan. Supposedly, it's an amalgamation and magnified of all the worst powers of previous monsters.
Eric: We've beaten them before, and we can beat them again!
Bryan: Yeah. We can. And we will... But then he'll just get back up again, ready for more abuse.
Amy: Yeah, and without our powers...
Laura: It's almost hopeless!
GridRanger: It gets worse... It's coming this way.
(The Rangers are left to watch as the Beta Satan becomes apparent on the horizon. Whatever they have planned, they had better do it now.)
Can the GammaRanger get their powers back? And if so, how? Also, how will Eli fare now that all of his energy is gone? Find out in part four of the Betapocalyse Now: "All Hell Breaks Loose".
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