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After
five years in alliance with the Power Rangers, the Spices leave to take on Black
Shadow, the new Grand Monarch of evil. They
find a space colony called Arturus and protect its citizens from Black
Shadow’s attacks. A
New Evil tells that story. During
the battles, Spinal discovers that he has some sort of telepathic link with
Black Shadow, in which they are able to read each other’s thoughts and feel
each other’s emotions (“Arbin
Gordon Unplugged”). Black
Shadow uses the link to his advantage at first, but later decides that he
can’t stand it, and tries to eliminate Spinal (“Endless
Nightmare”/“Prisoner
of Fear”). However, the
Spices manage to rescue the timid skeleton warrior from the dark lord’s
clutches. When
Black Shadow freezes the Spices along with the Arturus citizens, Pico looks back
on his life, realizing how his friends have changed him (“Pico:
Past and Present”). Until then, he hadn’t realized how dark and lonely his past
was. This inspired him to save the
colony from the cold fate. Then
Black Shadow tries to trap the Spices on their ship by creating an eclipse to
cut off the solar power (“Enemy
of the Shadows”). However,
Spinal and Arbin are on the colony when the eclipse starts.
During that battle, Arbin is badly injured and eventually dies. While
Mighty Gazelle devises a plan to revive Arbin as a cyborg, Black Shadow decides
to flood Arturus with sewer water (“Mighty
Gazelle’s Mission”). Then,
tired of his link with Black Shadow, Spinal goes to the planet Aninias to seek
Canis Lupus, a powerful wizard who is quite fond of wolves (“Spinal’s
Quest”). Just
in time for Hallie’s birthday, the Spices meet Yamcha and Chiaotzu, who also
happen to be misfits (“Hallie’s
Surprise”). They offer to
join the team, but they must fight a battle with the Spices before the
membership becomes official. While
waiting for that battle, the Spices meet Vegeta, who also wants to join (“New
Challengers”). However, he
wants to take over as the leader and challenges Jenny’s position.
During the battle, Black Shadow captures Jenny, claiming to be her
father! When Vegeta rescues her,
Jenny talks him out of challenging her, and he, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu become
official Spice members. Vegeta
and Pico obviously don’t like each other, as they’re performing practical
jokes on each other (“Practical
Joke War: Pico Vs. Vegeta”). The
rivalry goes on as two more Spice candidates show up, named Jade and Jeice (“True
Colors”). One of Pico’s
practical jokes include hypnotizing Vegeta into thinking that he’s a woman (“Woman
for a Day”). Meanwhile, the
Ginyu Force arrives to try to talk Jeice into returning to them, but Jeice will
have nothing to do with them anymore. Back
home, Astronema learns of Black Shadow’s existence and sets out to join him (“The
Gathering”). The Power
Rangers follow, knowing of the danger that would create if Astronema and Black
Shadow were to join forces. Astronema
does join Black Shadow, and the Rangers are reunited with the Spices! Black Shadow and Astronema decide to be married, which spells
bad news for Jenny, because Astronema is her mother. Luckily, the Rangers and Spices manage to stop the wedding,
and Astronema flies back home. The
Rangers and Spices say goodbye again. Vowing
to pay Jenny back for spoiling the wedding, Black Shadow captures and tortures
her (“Double
Trouble”). At the same time,
the Ginyu Force uses Spinal as a hostage to get Jeice back on the team.
Yamcha saves Jenny while Jeice rejoins the Ginyus....for a few hours.
He easily outsmarts them by sneaking out at midnight.
Then Vegeta decides to avenge his
lost Saiyan race by challenging the evil Frieza, dragging a timid Spinal behind
him (“Vegeta’s
Naughty Story”). But Frieza
is much to powerful for them as well as the rest of the Spice Club.
It was up to Jenny to defeat him while she had the flu.
During that adventure, the Spices meet Dende, a Namek child.
After Frieza is defeated, the Eldest Namek, Guru, instructs Dende to
explore the universe with the Spices.
Knowing that Dende would be caught
in the battles between the Spices and Black Shadow, Pico decides to train Dende
for battle (“Educating Dende”). To
make things interesting, Hallie, Robyn, and Rachel arrange a fight between Dende
and Skitter two days later. In
between battle lessons, Dende and the other children attend Arturus Elementary
School. Dende meets a deaf little
girl named Rebecca, who takes a liking to him.
Vegeta also attends the school to learn how to read English.
Since Skitter was such a clumsy fighter, Dende was able to defeat him. Arturus
receives two new citizens, Peter Parker and Cletus Kasady (“Carnage
Forever”). Shortly after, a
monster named Carnage attacks the colony, and a new superhero arrives also.
Black Shadow decides to go out and train, and he starts by battling
Carnage when the monster attacks the elementary school.
When Carnage is defeated, Cletus is sent to the asylum. Black Shadow announces that he’ll be leaving for a while,
but he’ll be back. Even
with Black Shadow gone, there is no peace on Arturus.
The colony receives yet another new citizen, Eddie Brock (“Unnecessary
Justice”). His alter-ego is a
monster named Venom, who supposedly protects innocents from danger.
However, many people, including Jenny, misinterpret his purpose, and
Venom hates Jenny for that. Meanwhile,
the bounty hunter Captain Falcon comes after Pico, successfully capturing him.
As Jenny battles Venom, Pico escapes from Captain Falcon’s
headquarters. During the fight,
Jenny is badly injured. So much so
that Dende has to use his healing powers to save her. Another
new group of villains arrives on Arturus, Diabolico and his minions.
Luckily, they are followed by a new team of superheroes, the Lightspeed
Rescue Power Rangers (pictured above). They
meet the Spices, but there’s a little friction between the two teams at first.
Meanwhile, the Spices’ Lightstar Crystal is stolen by Garlic Jr., and
Canis Lupus goes after him to retrieve it while the Spices battle Diabolico.
Black Shadow arrives to challenge Garlic Jr. as a training exercise.
Jenny and Ruth meet a weird artist named Giovanni.
Later they find out that Giovanni is one of Diabolico’s cronies.
Vegeta attempts to kill Pico by poisoning him, but Pico transforms into a
giant snapping turtle beast as a reaction to the poison.
After Diabolico flees back to Earth, Black Shadow returns, ready to take
on the Spices. Canis Lupus
retrieves the Lightstar Crystal and returns it to the Spices, then announces
that he must go into hibernation. As
luck would have it, Black Shadow steals the Lightstar Crystal to lure the Spices
into a trap. He leads them into a dark cave, where he uses his Secret
Technique of Darkness. During the
final battle, the Lightspeed Rangers are called back to Earth.
The Spices are unable to defeat Black Shadow in the dark, so he knocks
them all unconscious. With the Spices defeated, Black Shadow attacks the elementary
school. Rebecca barely manages to
escape, but is unable to do anything. When
Black Shadow finds her, she reluctantly follows him back to his fortress to find
out what had happened to the Spices. Black
Shadow shows her that the Spices are cryogenically frozen.
Seeing the fate of her beloved Dende, Rebecca pleads with Black Shadow to
freeze her, too. As the ultimate Mr. Nice Guy, Black Shadow obliges. |