“Jason, on your left!” Zack, the black ranger shouted before dodging his own attack. “Thanks, man!” Jason, the red ranger answered as he counteracted the punch with a swift kick to take the putty down. “Are these things multiplying or is it just me?” Billy, the blue ranger asked while taking on two more putties. “I think you’re right; they just keep coming!” Tommy, the green ranger agreed before sending two more of Lord Zedd’s goons flying.

“The Power Rangers seem to be missing a few today…pink and yellow must be smarter than I thought. No matter, these four will do just fine” Lord Zedd concluded from his headquarters, watching the teenage heroes take on another wave of his endless putty army. Jason, always headstrong and tough bulldozed through nearly 5 of the minions while Billy used his smarts to lure a few more off the cliff into the lake. Tommy brought out his dagger and started slicing through them as quick as he could while Zack hit three at once with an impressive flying kick.

“We’re not even making a dent, you guys!” Jason shouted. “We’ve gotta keep going!” Tommy reminded but the seasoned fighters began to slip, taking more hits than they were landing until they found themselves surrounded by the grey goons. “This isn’t looking good” Zack added with his back against the rest of them. “We can’t just give up” Jason pointed out. “Anybody got a plan?” Billy asked but before Tommy could suggest something to save their tails, a sudden flash of light hit the rangers from above; little did they know it’d be the last thing they saw before leaving earth and Angel Grove behind.

“MMPHMMPH!!” a collective, muffled frustration sounded from inside Zedd’s layer as the four rangers struggled to break free. Each of them sat stretched out along metal tables at a slight backwards angle, their wrists locked in a set of shiny metal stocks at the top attached to the table with their ankles in identical stocks at the other end. A larger clamp around their waist kept them even more immobile and some kind of black alien tape-like substance over their mouths refused to budge or loosen up no matter how hard they tried. None of them could fully remember getting there and their suits being still on made it even more curious but their helmets were sitting on the ground, allowing Zedd to see the mixture of fear, anxiety, and anger on their young faces.

“It’s good to finally see what’s behind those helmets…I can see how scared you look” Zedd taunted as he walked into the room and stared down his captives. “MMPHMM!” they all tried to bark back, now jerking and fighting the restraints even more to prove they were still a force to be reckoned with. “You should know the devices you’re attached to are much more than they appear; they allowed me to read your minds and sift through your memories while you slept as well as analyze your bodies. I know you better than you know each other…” the menacing villain explained as the rangers became even more uneasy despite trying to keep a hard exterior.

“Tommy Oliver, the human weapon turned charming leader…Jason Lee Scott, the tough guy always looking to prove he can handle anything…Billy Cranston, the brainy boy next door still unsure of himself…and Zack Taylor, the cool guy of the group who’d rather chase a girl than do almost anything else” Zedd profiled with terrifying accuracy, proving he had indeed been inside their heads.

About this time the alien gag that’d kept the rangers quiet began to disappear from their mouths and they were all itching to let Zedd have it. “Let us go, Zedd! You can’t just kidnap us!” Tommy demanded. “Yeah, we can take you right now!” Zack challenged. “We’re taking you down, freakshow!” Jason assured. “What do you want with us? Why are we even here??” Billy questioned. “I sent my new multiplying putties to wear you down so you’d be easy to capture and I was right! You’re not nearly as tough as you think you are, rangers…especially after what I’ve discovered” Zedd explained, relishing the firm upper hand he now had on them.

“We’re tough enough to take on your ugly mug!” Zack fired back. “Oh, I’m really going to enjoy destroying you four…” Zedd answered as the black ranger felt something moving on the platform he was attached to, drawing his attention with a curious expression until a mechanical hand appeared from both sides of the table. “Woah! What are those for?!” “Let me show you!” Zedd replied before the hands moved closer to Zack and started poking into his stomach with a few fingers from each. “WoaoHOhAAohAWWhhaATtAARReEyYOoouUDDooOIINNG?!” Zack tried to figure out as he fought to avoid the unwanted attention.

“Hey! Leave him alone!” Tommy shouted with another violent jerk. “Come on and make me, green ranger” Zedd challenged before the same kind of hands emerged from the end of Tommy’s table and grabbed the heels of both boots. “Come on, get off!” Tommy struggled to combat with scrunched toes to hold on but couldn’t keep them from exposing his bare feet, nice and sweaty from wearing no socks. “Oh no…not that” Billy said under his breath as realized what was happening and he watched the hands return, each with a plastic comb. Tommy’s tan feet wiggled in the metal stocks to get away or fight them back but there was no escaping the rows of plastic teeth headed for his buttery pink soles. “….AahoHAaOHAAohnNNOOO! aHoAoAohAAOhATTUUuRrnNiiITToOooFFF!! IIImMMSSEerRRiIIoOoUuSS!!” Tommy tried to enforce as if he wasn’t already consumed with laughter.

“Just fight it, guys!” Jason encouraged. “Let’s see if you can fight it, red ranger” Zedd proposed before another pair of mechanical hands shot out from his platform. “NO! Get away from me! No! NNoOAoahoAAhAOHaAAhAA!!” Jason quickly became a bumbling mess, squirming and writhing on the table as the merciless hands dug into his wide-open armpits. They moved like human hands and knew just how to wiggle their fingers and add the right amount of pressure to tickle like crazy while keeping up with whichever way they boys’ could try to maneuver. Billy struggled and pulled his arms in hopes of slipping his hands free with mounting panic but was interrupted with a sudden shock up his legs, “AOoahOHAAohAOohOhoHNnoNNOAOHAAAohA”. Another two hands were squeezing into his legs, moving from the top of his knees all the way up his thighs, even growing in size as his legs got wider.

“When I was looking around in your pathetic human brains, I recognized a common weakness. I’m not even sure what you call such a strange thing but with a few pokes or scratches you’re barely a threat anymore. Each of you have specific spots that I discovered were more reactive than others, places you can hardly stand to be touched the wrong way…places I plan to take full advantage of” Lord Zedd explained with a sinister tone as he watched the rangers prove his point.

Zack could feel his abs beginning to burn a little like they did during a workout but he couldn’t stop laughing; the hands on his stomach were too good at their job. “WeEEERreEE TthHEeEpPooOWWEERRrRRAANnGGEErRRSS WWeEEWWWoOnnNn’TTSsSuRRrEENNDdeEERR!!” “Ha! I’ve annihilated whole armies! I think I can handle a few 18 year olds” Zedd assured before escalating their torture. Two new hands reached out from the end of the table and stole Zack’s boots before he could fight to keep them, getting a look of fresh fear from the black ranger before the hands grabbed the sides of both handsome feet to keep them still and two more extensions appeared.

“NnOOnNOO!!” Zack protested until the thin rows of tiny wire bristles slipped between the smallest toes on each row, like two drills or tools used for cleaning in small spaces. “AAoOHAA! GgEETTiIiTToOUuUTT!! OOhAohaohAaSsTToHOPPP!!” raged out of Zack as he shook in place and tried to avoid the sadistic tools pulling back and forth between his sweaty, ultra-soft toes. The hands on his stomach sped up around the same time, now kneading into the V of his belly just above his waist, once again proving Zedd knew exactly where to concentrate his efforts.

Tommy couldn’t believe how much he was struggling, grunting through his own booming laughter as he tried to suppress it but the combs were unbearable, the plastic teeth punishing his rich soles and forcing him to face how horribly ticklish they were. But the tough fighter soon had another problem to worry about when two new extensions appeared, persuading him to fight the table harder to avoid what was coming. “NnOO! TTtHiiISiIISsIINnSsAANNEE!! LLLEETTuUuSSGGOoO!” Tommy demanded as fresh panic came over him at the sight of the feathers descending toward his incredibly vulnerable body. “Hahaha! Your suffering is music to my ears!” Zedd replied just before the almost cartoonishly perfect feathers started flicking across his armpits.

“AahAhAACcOOMmEEoOnN! AOhAohaYYoOuUuCcAANNnTT!!” Tommy protested with no hope of holding his reaction back now, shocked by how effective the feathers were through his suit. They slinked along the curvature of his pits perfectly without fail while the combs started sawing up and down his bare feet for a different approach, the feather/comb combo wrecking the mighty green ranger far more than he expected.

Billy’s brilliant brain could hardly think on track for more than a few seconds with the mechanical hands squeezing up and down his legs, the hands now moving in opposite directions so while one was working on his knee the other was digging into his thigh. He tried fiddling with the stocks around his wrists in search of a weak point or latch but he’d forgotten how ticklish he was, making thinking straight impossible. “Think you can escape me do you, blue ranger? Not a chance!” Zedd proclaimed as Billy felt the wrath of the second wave like Zack and Tommy had, suddenly feeling his gloves being ripped off and his fingers being individually strapped down.

“WwhAATTTAARREEYYoOUuDdoOIInNNGG?!” Billy tried to make sense of until he felt something start dancing across his open palms. “OoAhAOhaNNooOOoWWAaAAAYY!!” Billy burst with genuine surprise, in disbelief as the feathers moved all over his hands, an unusual yet evil technique. With his attention on trying to close his hands, Billy failed to prepare himself for the mechanical hands leaving his legs and launching onto his ribs with stiff jabs up and down both sides. “AAHAANNOO! IIiTTSSTToOoMMuUuCCHH!!” Billy admitted before he could stop himself, greatly pleasing Lord Zedd.

“JJuUuSSTTTAAKkEEmMmeE!! LLLEETTtTHHeEEMmGGOOO!” Jason tried to convince as he grimaced through his demanding laughter. “Why break just you when I can crack four at one time?” Zedd pointed out as he savored the rangers’ ticklish misery and watched Jason’s frustration intensify by the minute. A sudden clamp locked across Jason’s forehead, keeping his head in place before two extensions placed a spider gag in his mouth, leaving him unable to close it. The confused red ranger laughed in suspense for a few seconds but got his answer when one of the hand extensions returned with a cotton swab and started teasing the roof of his mouth through the metal opening of the gag.

Jason’s eyes shot open with momentary horror before clenching shut to endure the sinister attack, suddenly overflowing with high-pitched, humiliating laughter. The fresh hell of his mouth being tickled soon became even worse when the hands in his meaty armpits moved to his chest, wiggling across his already stiff nipples to get him laughing even harder with inaudible demands to make it all stop, a spot the young buck didn’t even know was so sensitive.

Zedd couldn’t have been more thrilled as he watched the pesky Power Rangers roar and squeal with desperate laughter, all of them so perfectly undone by their natural weaknesses. He couldn’t believe he’d wasted so much time sending monsters after them when a few feathers and pokes was all it took to beat them. But despite how excellent his plan was working, Zedd had prepared additional torture in case this wasn’t enough, a more intimate component sure to push them to surrender.

Two new faces entered the room of Zedd’s layer, more alert then usual but still as goofy as ever. “Rangers…I believe you know these humans” Zedd announced and they all looked to see Bulk and Skull standing there under Zedd’s control. “WWhhyYYaAARREETtHhYEEhHheeERREE?!” Tommy asked as if he could help them. “They’re here to aid me in destroying you. Gentlemen, do your worst” Zedd instructed and zapped the dopey high schoolers with his staff again, this time triggering a new appetite they were eager to satisfy.

“BBuUlLkk! SSKKUUULlLL! SSnNNAApPOouUUTToOFFiIiT!!” Billy shouted as Bulk moved over to his table with a seemingly permanent grin on his chubby face. Bulk didn’t respond and instead started removing Billy’s boots, the bumbling hero too busy laughing to fight him that much. “Mhmmm…” was all Bulk said as he laid eyes on the lean bare feet, watching Billy’s savory toes wiggle in the fresh air like he was on the verge of drooling. “NNNOO! BBUULLKKKDDOONnTT!!” the blue ranger tried to interfere but couldn’t stop Bulk from getting on his knees and going to town on his helpless feet. “AAAH! AAHAHoAHANNoONNoOAAHAOHA!!” Billy erupted with newfound terror as Bulk slurped and nibbled on his velvet soles, switching back and forth from right to left like he couldn’t decide which one he liked more.

Tommy and Zack couldn’t hide the dread in their eyes at the idea of getting the same treatment; however Jason not being able to move his head that far meant he couldn’t see exactly what was happening, only able to hear Billy’s insane reaction. Skull found his spot at Jason’s table and did the same with him, stealing his boots and immediately becoming entranced by the ranger’s naked feet. “SSkKULLL LlLEAAVVEEHhiiImMAALLOoNnEE!!” Tommy shouted but the lanky 18 yr. old didn’t respond and got to his knees to feast on the sun-kissed toes. “AAAAHAAHAHAAAAHAHAAhAHA!!!” a stunned, horrified Jason let out with screaming laughter the other rangers couldn’t believe. Skull’s tongue snaked between the juicy toes and nibbled on them at the same time, moving down one row only to devour the next with the same unwavering enthusiasm for the macho ranger’s delicious feet.

“JJuUuSSTtSSTTOoOPP!! LlLEETTT BbuUlLkKAANnDSSkKUuLlLGGoOO!!” Zack yelled with the bristly drills still taking turns between his caramel toes and the hands digging into his stomach. “EEeNnoOOUuGH ZZEEDD!!” Tommy shouted as the feathers continued teasing his pits and the combs continued working over his lush feet. “HAHAHA! Don’t worry, you’ll both have your chance with my new minions and I promise they’ll always be this insatiable. Surrender to me, rangers or laugh FOREVER!”