Phantom Ranger Arc
Later, the Phantom Ranger was selected by Zordon to check out the new set of power rangers, inspect the Blue Senturion's progress and report to the Space Patrol Headquarters as a neutral third party, whether the robot police officer should be reinstated. After the Phantom Ranger witnessed the Turbo Zords’ defeat, he noticed D-Va-Tox had been escalating the battles. With him being concerned about Zordon era Zords being harassed, he decides to give rangers new zords as well. He notices D-Va-Tox’s tactics are getting more resonant with Prince Gasket’s, being more vicious.
The Phantom Ranger is actually a Power Rangers historian, he has direct access to the Morphin Grid and can see future rangers due to his connection to it. It has been implied he time traveled to the future as well, led his own team and so on. Although secretive and mysterious, there are hints that he was trained by Zordon. In his personal cockpit on his spaceship, he details, records and takes audiovisual compilation of power rangers throughout time. He is a Power Rangers fan boy and is very knowledgeable about the Morphin Grid. While fighting against D-Va-Tox, he warned her his ruby blasts are strong enough to break dimensions. If overcharged, the ruby is strong enough to summon five warriors from the demonic dimension. That gave D-Va-Tox an idea. Why did the Phantom Ranger expunged this important secrets to someone who is trying to get warriors from the demonic dimension?
According to him, there are more rangers that exist across history, dimensions and on other planets as well which was inspiring to the new team of rangers. The Phantom Ranger was shocked when he realized the Zeo rangers were trapped in the demon realm. Being a fanboy, he wants to rescue them. The Phantom Ranger has been called to fight in different fronts by Zordon from time to time, explaining his random disappearances. In time, Cassie develops a crush on him. There were jokes where the rangers thought Bulk was the Phantom Ranger for a bit, which made Cassie fawn over him but later found out this was false. Bulk felt guilty that Cassie was interested in him because she thought he was the Phantom Ranger. He revealed to Cassie which Cassie was very upset about.
Later, D-Va-Tox and General Havoc used their knowledge of the Rangers to set a trap for the Phantom Ranger, hoping to obtain the Phantom's power ruby. After kidnapping Cassie and using the Zeo crystal within the morpher to poison her, the Phantom tried to use his Ruby to revive her, but was tricked by Havoc, who posed as Cassie and stole the Ruby from him. Little did the Phantom know, the Turbo Morpher had canceled out the Zeo radiation.
Upon hearing a doppleganger taking her place, Cassie jumps into action. The team split up to find the Phantom Ranger. Cassie found the captured Phantom Ranger and calls for backup. But the communication has been disrupted thus she was forced to go solo. Cassie was faced with a dilemma, either grab the Phantom Ranger's power ruby (potential of releasing more demons) or just rescue the Phantom Ranger himself. Cassie took the high road and rescued the ranger historian, allowing them both the chance to escape. However, without his ruby, his life force was draining away and Phantom Ranger feared that he would soon perish. Sometime after his escape, Phantom Ranger retreated to the tunnels where his ship was located and collapsed just mere inches away from it, exhausted of all strength.
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